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Vocab Unit 14

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ALACRITY

  • A cheerful readiness, brisk and eager action
  • Promptness , willingness
  • Reluctance, unwillingness
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ALLEVIATE

  • To relieve, make more bearable
  • Lessen, allay
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ANTITHESIS

  • The direct opposite, a sharp contrast
  • Contrary, antipode
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APPALL

  • To fill with dismay or horror
  • Shock, stupefy
  • Please, cheer, gladden
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BELLICOSE

  • Warlike in manner, quarrelsome
  • Aggressive, combative
  • Amicable, peaceable
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DISPARAGE

  • To belittle, speak lightly of, undervalue
  • Degrade, decry, run down
  • Praise, extol
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DISSONANT

  • Not in harmony, disagreeing at odds
  • Grating, unmelodious
  • Harmonious, euphonious
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DROLL

  • Amusingly odd
  • Comical, humorous
  • Humorless, solemn
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EDICT

  • An order issued by someone in authority
  • Command, decree
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ELUCIDATE

  • To clarify, explain
  • Interpret, expound
  • Obscure, becloud
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LAUD

  • To praise
  • Hail, extol, glorify
  • Criticize, censure
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LOLL

  • Act in a lazy manner, lounge, recline
  • Loaf, loiter, sag
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LOQUACIOUS

  • Talkative, wordy, fond of talking
  • Gossipy, voluble
  • Silent, reticent
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MAGNANIMOUS

  • Generous in forgiving, above small meanness
  • Unselfish, charitable
  • Petty, selfish
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MANDATORY

  • Required, obligatory
  • Compulsory, requisite
  • Optional, voluntary
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NONDESCRIPT

  • Ordinary, not outstanding
  • Plain, unremarkable
  • Vivid, remarkable
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PHLEGMATIC

  • Slow moving, sluggish, unemotional
  • Lethargic, indolent
  • Emotional, sensitive
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RESCIND

  • To repeal, cancel
  • Withdraw, retract
  • Affirm, endorse
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VIVACIOUS

  • Lively, sprightly, full of energy
  • Spirited, animated
  • Dull, spiritless
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WHET

  • To sharpen, put an edge on, to make keen or eager
  • Hone, excite
  • Blunt, deaden
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