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Vocabulary Unit 14--Level E
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alacrity | a cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action (syn) promptness, willingness, dispatch, celerity (ant) reluctance, unwillingness, hesitancy |
alleviate | to relieve, make more bearable (syn) lessen, lighten, allay, mitigate, assuage |
antithesis | the direct opposite; a sharp contrast (syn) contrary, antipode |
appall | to fill with dismay or horror (syn) shock, stun, stupefy, horrify (ant) please, cheer, gladden, elate, exhilerate |
bellicose | warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome (syn) aggressive, combative, belligerent (ant) amicable, peaceable, concilliatory, pacific |
disparage | to belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue (syn) degrade, decry, run down, underrate (ant) praise, extol, laud. plug |
dissonant | not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds (syn) grating, strident, unmelodious, irreconcilable (ant) harmonious, agreeing, euphonious |
droll | amusingly odd (syn) comical, humorous, whimsical, zany (ant) humorless, solemn, dour |
edict | an order issued by someone in authority (syn) command, decree, proclamation |
elucidate | to clarify; explain (syn) interpret, exound, explicate (ant) abscure, becloud, muddy, obfuscate |
laud | to praise (syn) hail, extol, glorify, exalt (ant) criticize, censure, belittle, disparage |
loll | act in a lazy manner, lounge; to recline, droop (syn) loaf, loiter, sag, dangle |
loquacious | talkative, wordy, fond of talking (syn) gossipy, voluble, garrulous, long winded (ant) silent, reticent, closemouthed, terse, taciturn |
magnanimous | generous in forgiving, above small meanness (syn) unselfish, charitable, noble, bighearted (ant) petty, selfish, unforgiving, spiteful |
mandatory | required, obligatory (syn) compulsory, requisite, imperative (ant) optional, voluntary, discretionary |
nondescript | ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified (syn) plain, unremarkable, unimpressive (ant) distinctive, remarkable, vivid, prepossessing |
phlegmatic | slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional (syn) lethargic, indolent, torpid, stolid, impassive (ant) emotional, sensitive, thin skinned, excitable |
rescind | to repeal; cancel (syn) withdraw, revoke, retract, annul, abrogate (ant) affirm, endorse, uphold, ratify |
vivacious | lively, sprightly, full of energy (syn) spirited, animated, ebullient (ant) dull, spiritless, listless, indolent, languid |
whet | to sharped; make keen or eager (syn) hone, excite, stimulate (ant) dull, blunt, deaden, stifle, dampen |
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