Vocabulary Unit 7

austere severe or stern in manner without adornment simple plain puritanical -------------------------------- luxurious flamboyant

beneficent performing acts of kindness or charity doing good humanitarian charitable --------------------------- selfish harmful

cadaverous pale gaunt resembling a corpse emaciated -------------------------------- robust the picture of health

concoct to prepare by combining ingredients to devise to fabricate to contrive to create

crass coarse crude tasteless vulgar -------------------------- refined elegant

debase to lower in character to degrade to cheapen to demean ---------------------------- improve enhance

desecrate to commit sacrilege upon defile violate ---------------------------- to honor to consecrate

disconcert to confuse to disturb the composure of to upset, ruffle, or perturb -------------------------------- to calm to put at ease

grandiose grand in an impressive or stately way absurdly exaggerated majestic -------------------------------- simple modest humble

inconsequential trifling unimportant trivial negligible paltry -------------------------------- crucial vital

infraction a breaking of the law or obligation violation transgression offense breach

mitigate to make milder to moderate in force or intensity to lessen to diminish -------------------------------- to aggravate to intensify

pillage to rob of goods by open force (as in war) to plunder the act of looting -------------------------------- to ravage loot

prate to talk a good deal in foolish or aimless fashion to chatter to prattle to blabber -------------------------------- to come to the point

punctilious very careful and exact attentive to etiquette or propriety precise scrupulous -------------------------------- careless negligent lax

redoubtable inspiring fear and awe eminent formidable ---------------------------- laughable contemptible

reprove to find fault with scold rebuke chastise reproach --------------------------- praise commend

restitution making good on a loss or damage compensation reimbursement restoration

stalwart strong, sturdy, brave one who takes an uncompromising position valiant ------------------------------ weak vacillating

vulnerable open to attack unprotected defenseless exposed unguarded -------------------------------- invincible protected safe, secure