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Vocabulary unit 14

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ALACRITY (N.)

  • A cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action
  • S: Promptness, willingness, dispatch, celerity
  • A: reluctance, unwillingness, hesitancy
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ALLEVIATE (V.)

  • To relieve, make more bearable
  • S: Lessen, lighten, allay, mitigate, assuage
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ANTITHESIS (N.)

  • The direct opposite, a sharp contrast
  • S: contrary, antipode
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APPALL (V.)

  • To fill with dismay or horror
  • S: Shock, stun, stupefy, horrify
  • A: Please, cheer, gladden, elate, exhilarate
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BELLICOSE (ADJ.)

  • Warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome
  • S: Aggressive, combative, belligerent
  • A: Amicable, peaceable, conciliatory, pacific
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DISPARAGE (V.)

  • To belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue
  • S: Degrade, decry, run down, underrate
  • A: Praise, extol, laud, plug
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DISSONANT (ADJ.)

  • Not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds
  • S: Grating, strident, unmelodious, irreconcilable
  • A: Harmonious, agreeing, euphonious
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DROLL (ADJ.)

  • Amusingly odd
  • S: Comical, humorous, whimsical, zany
  • A: Humorless, Solemn, Dour
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EDICT (N.)

  • An order issued by someone in authority
  • S: Command, decree, proclamation
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ELUCIDATE (V.)

  • To clarify, explain
  • S: Interpret, expound, explicate
  • A: Obscure, becloud, muddy, obfuscate
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LAUD (V.)

  • To praise
  • S: Hail, extol, glorify, exalt
  • A: Criticize, censure, belittle, disparage
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LOLL (V.)

  • To act in a lazy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop
  • S: Loaf, loiter, sag, dangle
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LOQUACIOUS (ADJ.)

  • Talkative, wordy; fond of talking
  • S: Gossipy, voluble, garrulous, long-winded
  • A: Silent, reticent closemouthed, terse, taciturn
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MAGNANIMOUS (ADJ.)

  • Generous in forgiving, above small meanness
  • S: unselfish, charitable, noble, bighearted
  • A: petty, selfish, unforgiving, spiteful
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MANDATORY (ADJ.)

  • Required, obligatory
  • S: Compulsory, requisite, imperative
  • A: Optional, voluntary, discretionary
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NONDESCRIPT (ADJ.)

  • Ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified
  • S: Plain, unremarkable, unimpressive
  • A: Distinctive, remarkable, vivid, prepossessing
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PHLEGMATIC (ADJ.)

  • Slow-moving, sluggish; Unemotional
  • S: Lethargic, indolent, torpid, stolid, impassive
  • A: emotional, sensitive, thin-skinned, excitable
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RESCIND (V.)

  • To repeal, cancel
  • S: withdraw, revoke, retract, annul, abrogate
  • A: affirm, endorse, uphold, ratify
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VIVACIOUS (ADJ.)

  • Lively, sprightly, full of energy
  • S: Spirited, animated, ebullient
  • A: Dull, spiritless, listless, indolent, languid
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WHET (V.)

  • To sharpen, put an edge on; to make keen or eager
  • S: Hone, excite, stimulate
  • A: Dull, blunt, deaden, stifle, dampen

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