FCP Vocabulary 8A

beyond argument

• fatuous

• arrant

• irrefutable

• saturnine

light and playful conversation

• echelon

• juggernaut

• paucity

• badinage

thoroughgoing, out-and-out

• irrefutable

• arrant

• macabre

• saturnine

stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

• macabre

• fatuous

• saturnine

• lackadaisical

far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive

• picayune

• pertinacious

• garish

• inordinate

to assert without proof or confirmation

• conciliate

• raze

• allege

• slough

to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first

• raze

• slough

• countermand

• portend

Lacking in or not based on reality

• ephemeral

• inordinate

• illusory

• picayune

to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful; to aggravate, intensify, or worsen

• saturate

• slough

• portend

• exacerbate

one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity

• echelon

• paucity

• juggernaut

• litany