Vocabulary from Unit 8.
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| 866819497 | allege | (v.) to assert without proof or confirmation | 0 | |
| 294666589 | arrant | (adj.) thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant | 1 | |
| 294666590 | badinage | (n.) light and playful conversation | 2 | |
| 784936354 | conciliate | (v.) to overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify; to reconcile, make consistent | 3 | |
| 784936355 | countermand | (v.) to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first | 4 | |
| 111514577 | echelon | (n.) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement | 5 | |
| 111514579 | exacerbate | (v.) to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful | 6 | |
| 111514580 | fatuous | (adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way | 7 | |
| 193066659 | irrefutable | (adj.) impossible to disprove; beyond argument | 8 | |
| 193066660 | juggernaut | (n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path | 9 | |
| 193066661 | lackadaisical | (adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted | 10 | |
| 247378717 | litany | (n.) a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitive chant; a long list | 11 | |
| 247378718 | macabre | (adj.) grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject | 12 | |
| 694371208 | paucity | (n.) an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth | 13 | |
| 694371209 | portend | (v.) to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advance warning of | 14 | |
| 694371210 | raze | (v.) to tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out | 15 | |
| 896555489 | recant | (v.) to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract | 16 | |
| 896555490 | saturate | (v.) to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully | 17 | |
| 896555491 | saturnine | (adj.) of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood | 18 | |
| 103699345 | slough | (v.) to cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as if through mud; (n.) a mire; a state of depression | 19 |
