Ch 8 Book g Sadlier Oxford
Terms
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- allege
- v. to assert without proof or confirmation
- arrant
- adj. thouroughgoing, shameless, blatant
- badinage
- light and playful conversation
- conciliate
- to overcome the distrust of, win over
- countermand
- to change 1 order to its opposite countercommand
- echelon
- mimillitary formation, steplike formation or arrangement
- exacerbate
- v. to make more violent, severe bitter, painful
- fatuous
- stupid or foolish
- irrefutable
- can't be proven wrong
- juggernaut
- massive and inescapable force or object which crushes whatever is in its path
- lackadasaisical
- lacking spirit or interest
- litany
- prayer of appeals to God
- macabre
- grisley gruesome
- paucity
- scarcity, scant
- portend
- to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen, to give advance warning of
- raze
- to tear down, destroy completely to cut or scrape away
- recant
- renounce or retract a belief or something else
- saturate
- to fill to capacity
- slough
- to cast off
- saturnine
- cold or sluggish in mood