sadlier oxford level f 7-9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Austere | severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor |
| beneficent | performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benifits, doing good |
| cadaverous | pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse |
| concoct | to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate |
| crass | coarse, unfeeling; stupid |
| debase | to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate |
| desecrate | to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute |
| disconcert | to disturb the composure of |
| grandiose | grant in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated |
| inconsequential | trifling, unimportant |
| infraction | a breaking of a law or obligation |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity |
| pillage | (v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty |
| prate | to take a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion |
| punctilious | very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety |
| redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent |
| reprove | to find fault with scold, rebuke |
| restitution | the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position making good on a loss or damage |
| stalwart | (adj.) strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; (n.) a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position |
| vulnerable | open to attack capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected |
| acrimonious | adj; stinging, bitter in temper or tone |
| bovine | adj; resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive |
| consternation | noun; dismay, confusion |
| corpulent | adj; fat; having a large, bulky body |
| disavow | verb; to deny responsibility for or connection with |
| dispassionate | adj; impartial; free from emotion |
| dissension | noun; disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| dissipate | verb; to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; |
| expurgate | verb; to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; |
| gauntlet | noun; an armored or protective glove; a challange to combat |
| hypothetical | adj; based on an assumption or guess; used as a tentative idea to direct an investigate |
| ignoble | adj; mean, low, base |
| impugn | verb; to call into question, to attack as false |
| intemperate | adj; immoderate; lacking in self-control |
| odium | noun; hatred, contempt; |
| perfidy | noun; faithlessness, treachery |
| relegate | verb; to place in a lower position; to banish; surrender |
| squeamish | adj; inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; |
| subservient | adj; subordinate in capacity or role; serving to promote some end; submissively obedient |
| susceptible | adj; open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |
| abate | to make less in amount, degree, ect.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit |
| adulation | praise or flattery that is excessive |
| anathema | an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation |
| astute | shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom |
| avarice | a greedy desire, particularly for wealth |
| culpable | deserving blame, worthy of condemnation |
| dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone |
| egregious | conspicuous, standing out from the mass |
| equivocate | to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous |
| evanescent | vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy |
| irresolute | unable to make up one's mind, hesitating |
| nebulous | cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct |
| novice | one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience |
| penury | extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency |
| pretentious | done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably; making demands on one's skill or abilities, ambitious |
| recapitulate | to review a series of facts; to sum up |
| resuscitate | to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence |
| slovenly | untidy, dirty, careless |
| supposition | something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence |
| torpid | inactive, sluggish, dull |
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