This document defines a series of words related to orders, hierarchies, moods, forces, and quantities. It provides definitions for terms like "countermand" to revoke an order, "echelon" referring to levels in a hierarchy, and "lackadaisical" meaning lacking spirit or interest. Other words defined include "litany" as a repetitive prayer, "conciliate" to overcome distrust, and "saturate" to soak thoroughly.

2. Slough Portend Litany Exacerbate
Countermand Allege Recant Paucity
Arrant Badinage Lackadaisical Fatuous
Irrefutable Juggernaut Macabre Saturnine
Saturate Raze Echelon Conciliate

3. To cancel or reverse one
order or command with
another that is contrary to
the first;
- recall, revoke
COUNTERMA
ND

4. One of a series of grades in
an organization or field of
activity; hierarchy
- level, rank; a step like
formation
ECHELON

5. Lacking in spirit or interest;
halfhearted
- listless, indifferent, lax,
LAZY
LACKADAISIC
AL

6. A prayer consisting of
short appeals in a
repetitive chant;
A long list
- rigmarole, catalog
LITANY

7. To overcome the distrust
of; win over; to appease,
pacify
- to reconcile or placate
CONCILIATE

8. To assert without proof or
confirmation
- claim, content
ALLEGE

9. Stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied
way
- silly, vapid, inane
FATUOUS

10. Light and playful
conversation;
- banter, repartee
BADINAGE

11. Thoroughgoing, out-and-out;
shameless, blatant
- egregious, unmitigated
ARRANT

12. To make more violent,
severe, bitter or painful
- aggravate, intensify,
worsen
EXACERBATE

13. Impossible to disprove;
beyond argument
- indisputable, undeniable
IRREFUTABLE

14. To tear down, destroy
completely; to demolish
- pull down
RAZE

15. A massive and inescapable
force or object that
crushes whatever is in its
path
JUGGERNAU
T

16. To cast off, discard; get rid
of something
objectionable or
unnecessary; mire
- shed, slog
SLOUGH

17. To soak thoroughly, fill to
capacity; to satisfy fully
- permeate, drench, flood
SATURATE

18. An inadequate quantity;
scarcity, dearth
- lacking
PAUCITY

19. Grisly, gruesome, horrible,
distressing; having death
as a subject
- grotesque, grim, ghoulish
MACABRE

20. To indicate beforehand that
something is about to
happen; to give advance
warning of
- bode, predict, foreshadow
PORTEN
D

21. To withdraw a statement or
belief; renounce, retract
- disavow, repudiate
RECANT

22. Of a gloomy disposition,
surly;
cold or sluggish in mood
- sullen, morose
SATURNIN
E