| A | B |
|---|
| allege | claim, contend |
| arrant | egregious, unmitigated |
| badinage | banter, persiflage, repartee |
| conciliate | placate, mollify, propitiate |
| countermand | recall, revoke |
| echelon | level, rank |
| exacerbate | aggravate, intensify, worsen |
| fatuous | silly, vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous |
| irrefutable | indisputable, incontrovertible, undeniable |
| juggernaut | juggernaut |
| lackadaisical | listless, indolent, indifferent, lax |
| litany | rigmarole, catalog, megillah |
| macabre | grotesque, grim, goulish |
| paucity | lack |
| portend | bode, foretell, foreshadow, suggest |
| raze | pull down, demolish, shave off |
| recant | repudiate, disavow |
| saturate | permeate, drench, flood, imbue |
| saturnine | sullen, morose |
| slough | shed, slog |
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