Focus on the goal.Voc. Unit 8 Ms. B. Wulchak
with sound effects Unit 8 Vocabulary
Allege • (Verb) • To claim without proof. • The magazine tabloid alleged that the celebrities were dating.
Arrant • (Adjective) • Shameless, blatant, complete, total • When Goofy falls down, trips, and stumbles all over the place, he looks like an arrant fool! An arrant fool !
Badinage • (Noun) • Light and playful conversation • The sailor exchanged words of badinage with the fish he just caught. “Would you like to come home for dinner?”
Conciliate • (Verb) • To mediate, pacify, reconcile, get people back together. • When she discovered the truth, her best friend tried to conciliate the pair and get them back together.
(Verb) To reverse an order or command The soldier was confused, when the general countermanded what he had ordered earlier. Countermand I don’t care what I said this morning, I’m telling you otherwise now!
Echelon • (Noun) • Rank or level in an organization; • a flight formation • He hopes to move up the ladder of business to the upper echelons where he can be manager. • The planes flew in an echelon formation.
Exacerbate • (Verb) • To aggravate, worsen. • By calling the jurors “scum bags,” Eileen Wournos only worsened and exacerbated her situation of being sentenced to death for committing serial murders.
Fatuous • (Adjective) • Stupid, inane, ludicrous • How vapid, inane, ludicrous, and fatuous of her to think her boyfriend would cheat on her.
Irrefutable • (Adjective) • Undeniable, can’t be disputed • Pete Rose’s greatness in baseball history is unquestionable and irrefutable, but he has not been inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. • Pete Rose is one of the greatest players to ever play Major League Baseball. He is the all-time leader in hits with 4256. Only 27 players have reached 3000+ hits. Rose has over FOUR THOUSAND hits. Ty Cobb is second, Hank Aaron third, Stan Musial fourth, Tris Speaker fifth, Carl Yastrzemski sixth, Cap Anson seventh, Honus Wagner eighth, Paul Molitor ninth, and Eddie Collins is tenth. That list of names is absolutely astounding. Every one of those guys is in the Hall of Fame. Do you know why? Irrefutablely awesome
Juggernaut • (Noun) • A massive inescapable force • The inescapable Juggernaut came rolling toward us as we were hiking.
Lackadaisical • (Adjective) • Lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted. • Our excitement to see the world-famous ruins was lessened by the lackadaisical attitude of the listless guide.
Litany • (Noun) • A long prayer, or a list. • The service for trapped coal miners included prayers and litanies.
Macabre • (Adjective) • Gruesome, grisly, dealing with death. • Only a macabre person would use a coffin for a bed.
Mélange- add-on • (Noun) • Mixture, potpourri, hodgepodge • The party had a mélange of different foods.
A paucity of background. Paucity • (Noun) • Inadequate quantity, scarcity, shortage. • This page has a paucity of background. • A paucity of rain leads to drought.
Portend • (Verb) • To predict, to see the future. • The gypsy pretended to portend the future.
Raze • (Verb) • Tear down, destroy, demolish • The contractor razed the previous building to build the new one.
Recant • (Verb) • Renounce, retract, take back • The expelled student wished he had been able to recant what he said to the principal.
Saturate • (Verb) • Soak thoroughly, fill to capacity • The little boy’s clothes were saturated after he jumped in the tub. • That street is saturated with fast food restaurants.
Saturnine • (Adjective) • Having a gloomy disposition; cold, and distant • The dark clouds put a saturnine outlook on my day.
Slough • (Verb) • Cast off, discard. • The snake sloughed off his skin. • We can slough off old, bad habits.
Substantive- add-on • (Adjective) • of major importance • Reading is a substantive learning tool, in order to accomplish comprehension and vocabulary.
This show was made by: Thomas John Liesen II (aka Duct-tape boy) Edited by: Victoria Ranegan 2010 & B.W.2011
