Vocab 14
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ALACRITY
- A cheerful readiness
- Syn : promptness, willingness
- Ant : reluctance, unwillingness
ALLEVIATE
- To relieve, make more bearable
- Syn : lessen, allay, mitigate
APPALL
- To fill with dismay or horror
- Syn : shock, stupefy, horrify
- Ant : please, cheer, gladden
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BELLICOSE
- Warlike in manner or temperament
- Syn : aggressive, combative, belligerent
- Ant : amicable, peaceable, pacific
DISPARAGE
- To belittle , speak slightingly of
- Syn : degrade, decry, run down
- Ant : praise, extol, laud, plug
DISSONANT
- No in harmony, disagreeing.
- Syn : grating, unmelodious
- Ant : harmonious, agreeing
DROLL
- Amusingly odd
- Syn : comical, humorous
- Ant : humorless, solemn
EDICT
- An order issued by someone in authority
- Syn : command, decree, prclamation
ELUCIDATE
- To clarify, explain
- Syn : interpret, expound, explicate
- Ant : obscure, becloud, muddy
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LAUD
- To praise
- Syn : hail, extol, glorify
- Ant : criticize, censure, belittle
LOQUACIOUS
- Talkative, wordy, fond of talking
- Syn : gossipy, voluble, garrulous
- Ant : silent, reticent, closemouthed
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MAGNANIMOUS
- Generous in forgiving, above small meanness
- Syn : unselfish, charitable
- Ant : petty, selfish, unforgiving
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MANDATORY
- Required, obligatory
- Syn : compulsory, requisite
- Ant : optional, voluntary, discretionary
NONDESCRIPT
- Ordinary, not outstanding
- Syn : plain, unremarkable
- Ant : remarkable, vivid
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PHLEGMATIC
- Slow-moving, sluggish
- Syn : lethargic, indolent
- Ant : emotional, sensitive
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RESCIND
- To repeal, cancel
- Syn : withdraw, retract, annul
- Ant : affirm, endorse, uphold
VIVACIOUS
- Lively, sprightly, full of energy
- Syn : spirited, animated
- Ant : dull, spiritless, listless
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WHET
- To sharpen, put an edge on, to make keen or eager
- Syn : hone, excite, stimulate
- Ant : blunt, deaden, dampen
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