FCP Vocabulary 10A

to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value

• cavil

• attenuate

• decimate

• rebuff

with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval

• obtusely

• penitently

• askance

• sporadically

to do without, abstain from, give up

• reconnoiter

• forgo

• rebuff

• inure

a weak point, failing, minor flaw

• penitent

• shambles

• foible

• charlatan

full or loaded with

• fraught

• sporadic

• obsequious

• obtuse

a pretender, imposer, or quack

• charlatan

• rebuff

• penitent

• foible

to find fault in a petty way, carp

• rebuff

• cavil

• decimate

• inure

to kill or destroy a large part of

• oscillate

• decimate

• inure

• reconnoiter

gentle, kind

• peremptory

• penitent

• luminous

• benign

Synonym: decimate by disease or famine

• frightened

• amused

• devastated

• entertained