vocab unit 7
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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 guant resembling a corpse |
| concoct | to prepare by combining ingredients make up (as in 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 confuse to disturb the composure of |
| grandiose | grand in an impressive or stately way marked by pompus affectation or grandeur absurdly exaggerated |
| inconsequential | trifiling unimportant |
| infraction | a breaking of a law or obligation |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer to moderate in force or intensity |
| pillage | to rob of goods by open force (as in war) plunder the act of looting booty |
| prate | to talk 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 qwe 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 | strong and sturdy brave resolute a brave strong perwon a strong supporter one who takes an uncompromisng position |
| vulnerable | open to attack capable of being wounded or damaged unprotected |
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