Vocab Unit 14
Published on Nov 27, 2015
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ALACRITY
- (N.) - a cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action
- S- promptness, willingness, dispatch, celerity
- A- reluctance, unwillingness, hesitancy
ALLEVIATE
- (V.) to relieve, make more bearable
- S- lessen, lighten, allay, mitigate, assuage
ANTITHESIS
- (N.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
- S- contrary, amtipode
APPALL
- (V.) to fill with dismay or horror
- S- shock, stun, stupefy, horrify
- A- please, cheer, gladden, elate, exhilarate
BELLICOSE
- (Adj.) warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome
- S- aggressive, combative, belligerent
- A- amicable, peaceable, conciliatory, pacific
DISPARAGE
- (V.) to belittle, speak slightly of; to undervalue
- S- degrade, decry, run down, underrate
- A- praise, extol, laud, plug
DISSONANT
- (Adj.) not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds
- S- grating, strident, unmelodious, irreconcilable
- A- harmonious, agreeing, euphonious
DROLL
- (Adj.) amusingly odd
- S- comical, humorous, whimsical, zany
- A- humorless, solemn, dour
EDICT
- (N.) an order issued by someone in authority
- S- Command, decree, proclamation
ELUCIDATE
- (V.) to clarify, explain
- S- interpret, expound, explicate
- A- obscure, beclound, muddy, obfuscate
LAUD
- (V.) to praise
- S- hail, extol, glorify, exalt
- A- criticize, censure, belittle, disparage
LOLL
- (V.) to act in a laxy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop
- S- loaf, loiter, sag, dangle
LOQUACIOUS
- (Adj.) talkative, wordy; fond of talking
- S- gossipy, voluble, garrulous, long winded
- A- silent, reticent, closemouthed, terse, taciturn
MAGNANIMOUS
- (Adj.) generous in forgiving, above small meanness
- S- unselfishness, charitable, noble, bighearted
- A- petty, selfish, unforgiving, spiteful
MANDATORY
- (Adj.) required, obligatory
- S- compulsory, requisite, imperative
- A- optional, voluntary, discretionary
NONDESCRIPT
- (Adj.) ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified
- S- plain, remarkable, unimpressive
- A- distinctive, remarkable, vivid, prepossessing
PHEGMATIC
- (Adj.) slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional
- S- lethargic, indolent, torpid, stolid, impassive
- A- emotional, sensitive, thin-skinned, excitable
RESCIND
- (V.) to repeal, cancel
- S- withdraw, revoke, retract, annul, abrogate
- A- affirm, endorse, uphold, ratify
VIVACIOUS
- (Adj.) lively, sprightly, full of energy
- S- spitired, animated, ebullient
- A- dull, spiritless, listless, indolent, languid
WHET
- (V.) to sharpen, put an edge on, to make keen or eager
- S- hone, excite, stimulate
- A- dull, blunt, deaden, stifle, dampen
