Vocabulary Unit 8 Review

showing a lack of intelligence or thought

• arrant

• fatuous

• irrefutable

• lackadaisical

to soak thoroughly

• portend

• recant

• saturate

• slough

to state or assert something without confirmation or proof

• allege

• portend

• raze

• slough

a massive and inescapable force or object

• echelon

• juggernaut

• litany

• slough

to indicate or signify something

• portend

• recant

• saturate

• slough

to work with opposing parties with the goal of bringing them to an agreement

• allege

• conciliate

• countermand

• exacerbate

a small number of something

• arrant

• echelon

• litany

• paucity

to deny believing in something or withdraw something previously said

• badinage

• echelon

• recant

• slough

recall somebody or something sent somewhere by a previous order

• allege

• conciliate

• countermand

• saturate

Match the following words to their definitions

• slough

• to destroy or level a building completely

• echelon

• to shed something

• raze

• gruesome and horrific details of death and decay

• exacerbate

• to make an already bad or problematic situation worse

• macabre

• a level of authority or rank in an organization