Vocabulary Unit 14
Published on Dec 09, 2015
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Alacrity
- (n.) A cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action.
- Synonyms: promptness, willingness, dispatch, celerity
- Antonyms: reluctance, unwillingness, hesitancy
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Alleviate
- (V.) to relieve, make more bearable
- Synonyms: lessen, lighten, allay, mitigate, assuge
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Antithesis
- (N.) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
- Synonyms: comtrary, antipode
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Appall
- (V.) to fill with dismay or horror
- Synonyms: shock, stun, stupefy, horrify
- Antonyms: please, cheer, gladden, elate, exhilarate
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Bellicose
- (Adj.) warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome
- Synonyms: agressive, combative, belligerent
- Antonyms: amicable, peaceable, conciliatory, pacific
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Disparage
- (V.) to belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue
- Synonyms: degrade, decry, run down, underrate
- Antonyms: praise, extol, laud, plug
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Dissonant
- (Adj.) not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds
- Synonyms: grating, strident, unmelodious, irreconcilable
- Antonyms: harmonious, agreeing, euphonious
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Droll
- (Adj.) amusingly odd
- Synonyms: comical, humerous, whimsical, zany
- Antonyms: humorless, solemn, dour
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Edict
- (N.) an order issued by someone in authority
- Synonyms: command, decreee, proclamation
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Elucidate
- (V.) to clarify, explain
- Synonyms: interpret, expound, explicate
- Antonyms: obscure, becloud, muddy, obfuscate
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Laud
- (V.) to praise
- Synonyms: hail, extol, glorify, exalt
- Antonyms: criticize, censure, belittle, disparage
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Loll
- (V.) to act in a lazy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop
- Synonyms: loaf, loiter, sag, dangle
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Loquacious
- (Adj.) talkative, wordy; fond of talking
- Synonyms: gossipy, volunle, garrulous, long-winded
- Antonyms: silent, reticent, closemouthed, terse, taciturn
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Magnanimous
- (Adj.) generous in forgiving, above small meanness
- Synonyms: unselfish, charitable, noble, bighearted
- Antonyms: petty, selfish, unforgiving, spiteful
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Mandatory
- (Adj.) requires, obligatory
- Synonyms: compulsory, requisite, imperative
- Antonyms: optional, voluntary, discretionary
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Phlegmatic
- (Adj.) slow-moving, sluggish, unemotional
- Synonyms: lethargic, indolent, torpid, stolid, impassive
- Antonyms: emotional Sensitive, thin-skilled, excitable
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Rescind
- (V.) to repael, cancel
- Synonyms: withdraw, revoke, retrepact, annul, abrogate
- Antonyms: affirm, endorse, uphold , ratify
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Vivacious
- (Adj.) lively, sprightly, full of energy
- Synonyms: spirited, animated, ebullient
- Antonyms: dull, spiritless, listless, indolent, languid
