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ALACRITY
- (noun) a cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action syn: promptness, willingness, dispatch, celerity ant: reluctance, unwillingness, hesitancy
ALLEVIATE
- (verb) to relieve, make more bearable syn: lesson, lighten, allay, mitigate, assuage
ANTITHESIS
- (noun) the direct opposite, a sharp contrast syn: contrary, antipode
APALL
- (verb) to fill with dismay or horror syn: shock, stun, stupefy, horrify ant: please, cheer, gladden, elate, exhilarate
BELLICOSE
- (adjective) warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome syn: aggressive, combative, belligerent ant: amicable, peaceable, conciliatory, pacific
DISPARAGE
- (verb) to belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue syn: degrade, decry, run down, underrate ant: praise, extol, laud, plug
DISSNONANT
- (adjective) not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds syn: grating, strident, unmelodious, irreconcilable
DROLL
- (adjective) amusingly odd syn: comical, humorous, whimsical, zany ant: humorless, solemn, dour
EDICT
- (noun) an order issued by someone in authority syn: command, decree, proclamation
ELUCIDATE
- (verb) to clarify, explain syn: interpret, expound, explicate ant: obscure, becloud, muddy, obfuscate
LAUD
- (verb) to praise syn: hail, extol, glorify, exalt ant: criticize, censure, belittle, disparage
LOLL
- (verb) to act in a lazy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop syn: loaf, loiter, sag, dangle
LOQUACIOUS
- (adjective) talkative, wordy; fond of talking syn: gossipy, voluble, garrulous, long-winded ant: silent, reticent, closemouthed, terse, taciturn
MAGNANIMOUS
- (adjective) 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
- (adjective) ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified syn: plain, unremarkable, unimpressive ant: distinctive, remarkable, vivid, prepossessing
PHLEGMATIC
- adjective) slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional syn: lethargic, indolent, torpid, stolid, impassive ant: emotional, sensitive, thin-skinned, excitable
RESCIND
- (verb) to repeal, cancel syn: withdraw, revoke, retract, annul, abrogate ant: affirm, endorse, uphold, ratify
VIVACIOUS
- (adjective) lively, sprightly, full of energy syn: spirited, animated, ebullient ant: dull, spiritless, listless, indolent, languid
WHET
- (verb) to sharpen, put an edge on; to make keen or eager syn: hone, excite, stimulate ant: dull, blunt, deaden, stifle, dampen
