Navigating Austere Realities: Beneficent Solutions for a Crass World

Vocabulary Unit 7 Level F

Austere • (adj.) • stern, plain, ascetic, subdued

Beneficent • (adj.) • humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

Cadaverous • (adj.) • pale, gaunt, corpselike

Concoct • (v.) • to devise, invent, fabricate

Crass • (adj.) • crude, vulgar, tasteless, obtuse

Debase • (v.) • to degrade, adulterate, cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate

Desecrate • (v.) • to commit sacrilege upon; to defile, violate

Disconcert • (v.) • to confuse; to disturb the composure of; to upset

Grandiose • (adj.) • pompous, absurdly exaggerated, bombastic, highfalutin

Inconsequential • (adj.) • trivial, paltry

Infraction • (n.) • violation, transgression

Mitigate • (v.) • to moderate in force or intensity; to alleviate, diminish

Pillage • (v./n.) • to plunder or the act of looting; booty

Prate • (v./n.) • to chatter, prattler, palaver

Punctilious • (adj.) • precise, scrupulous, fussy

Redoubtable • (adj.) • inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent, august

Reprove • (v.) • to scold, rebuke, chide, chastise, upbraid, reproach

Restitution • (n.) • compensation, reimbursement, redress, restoration

Stalwart • (adj./n.) • strong, brave, resolute, stout, intrepid, valiant; brave person, mainstay

Vulnerable • (adj.) • exposed, unguarded