| A | B |
|---|
| allege | to assert without proof or confirmation |
| arrant | thoroughgoing, out and out, shameless |
| badinage | light and playful converstation |
| conciliate | to overcome the dirtrust of, win over, to reconcile |
| countermand | to cancel or reverse one order or command |
| echelon | one of a series of levels or grades |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, severe, bitter |
| fatuous | stupid or foolish |
| irrefutable | that cannot be disproved |
| juggernaut | a massive adn inescapable force or object |
| lackadaisical | lacking spirit or interest |
| litany | aprayer consisting of short appeals to god |
| macabre | grisly, gruesome, horrible |
| melange | a mixture |
| paucity | an inadequate quantity |
| portend | to indicate before hand htat somehting is about to happen |
| raze | to tear down, destroy, shave or cut |
| recant | to withdraw a statement |
| saturate | to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity |
| saturnine | of gloomy or surly disposition, cold or sluggish |
| slough | to cast off, dicard, to get rid of somehting |
| substantive | pertaining to the essence of substance of somehting |
