| A | B |
|---|
| alacrity | cheerful readiness; willingness |
| alleviate | to relieve; lessen; assuage |
| antithesis | direct opposite; contrary |
| appall | fill with dismay or horror; shock |
| bellicose | warlike; quarrelsome; aggressive |
| disparage | to belittle; to undervalue; degrade |
| dissonant | not in harmony; disagreeing; unmelodious |
| droll | amusingly odd; comical; zany |
| edict | order issued by someone in authority; decree |
| elucidate | to clarify; explain; interpret |
| laud | to praise; exalt; extol |
| loll | to act in a lazy manner; droop; loaf; dangle |
| loquacious | talkative; wordy; garrulous |
| magnanimous | generous in forgiving; noble; big-hearted |
| mandatory | required; obligatory; imperative |
| nondescript | ordinary; not easily classified; unremarkable |
| phlegmatic | slow-miving; unemotional; stolid |
| rescind | to repeal; cancel; annul; abrogate |
| vivacious | lively; sprightly; ebullient |
| whet | to sharpen; to make keen or eager; stimulate |
