| A | B |
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| austere | adj severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury |
| beneficent | adj performing acts of kindness or charity; charitable; doing good |
| cadaverous | adj pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse |
| concoct | v toprepare by combining ingredients, to make up (as a dish of food); to invent |
| crass | adj coarse, unfeeling, stupid |
| debase | v. to lower in character, quality, or value; to cheapen, to corrupt |
| desecrate | v to commit sacrilege upon, to profane, to violate |
| disconcert | v to confuse, to upset, to rattle |
| gradiose | adj grand in an impressive or stately way, marked by pompous affection, majestic, highfalutin |
| inconsequential | adj trifling, unimportant |
| infraction | n a breaking of a law or obligation |
| mitigate | v to make milder or softer, to lessen, to relieve |
| pilage | v to rob ofgoods by open force; to plunder |
| prate | v to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion, chatter, blab, blabber |
| punctilious | adj very careful and exact, precise, exacting |
| redoubtable | adj inspiring fear, fearsome, awesome |
| reprove | v to find fault with, scold, rebuke |
| restitution | n the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position |
| stalwart | adj strong and sturdy, brave, valiant |
| vulnerable | adj open to attack, capable of being wounded or damaged |
| vulnerable | adj. open to attack, capable of being wounded |
| stalwart==antonym | weak |
| prate--antoynm | come to the point, not waste words |
| reprove--antonym | praise, commend, laud |
| redoubtable--antonym | laughable, contemptible |
| punctilious--antonym | careless, negligent |
| mitigate--antonym | aggravate, intensify, irritate |
| inconsequential--antonym | important, essential |
| grandiose--antonym | simple,modest, unaffected |
| disconcert--antonym | relax, calm, put at ease |
| desecrate--antonym | revere, honor, venerate |
| Through most of our players were the equals of theirs, the awesome size of their ____ center filled us with apprehension. | redoubtable |
| We are, I trust,m long past the time when it was considered quite natural for newly elected officials to ____ the city treasury. | pillage |
| Though she looked rather frail, her ___ spirit made her a tireless crusader for women's rights. | stalwart |
| Our democracy, I believe, is more ____to decay from within than it is to attck from the outside. | vulnerable |
| It is hard to forgive the ____ selfishness with which they took most of the food supplies for their own use. | crass |
| Before they arrived home f the elaborate story that they hoped would excuse their being two hours late. | concocted |
| They ____ the funeral service by talking loudly. | desecrated |
| Fond remembrances of happy days of faimly life intensified rather than ___ her grief | mitigated |
| Is there any way that we can make ___ for the terrible wrong we have done them. | restitution |
| His work on behalf of the homeless was merely the latest in a long line of ____ undertakings, | beneficent |
