WORD MASTERS

VIM

• Robust energy and enthusiasim
• Ready for activity
• Crazy, full of energy
• Active of mind and body
• Antonyms: lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity
• Synonyms: pep, espirit, high energy

RECEDE

• To move or back away
• To slant backward
• To go or move backward or further from a previous position
• Synonyms: withdraw, diminish, decrease
• Antonyms: advance, approach, intensify, grow

SURLY

• Menacing or threatening in appearance
• Irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner
• Synonyms: arrogant, imperious, crabbed
• Antonyms: pleasant, delightful, beautiful

BOYCOTT

• To engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with
• To express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions
• Synonyms: avoid, prohibition, restriction, rejection, refusal
• Antonyms: support, accept, agree

WAVER

• To vacillate irresolutely between choices
• Fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction
• To weave or sway unsteadily to and fro
• Synonyms: reel, totter, quiver, flicker, falter, quaver
• Antonyms: dive, plunge

RAMSHACKLE

• Appearing ready to collapse
• Carelessly or loosely constructed
• Synonyms: rickety, run-down, neglected
• Antonyms: sound, sturdy, well-built, in-shape

SURRENDER

• Cease resistance to an enemy or component, and submit to their authoritiy
• To recede or fall back, (recede to base)
• Synonyms: fall, defeat, relent
• Antonyms: fight, victory, win

YIELD

• To surrender or to submit
• To give or render as fitting, rightfully owed, or required
• Synonyms: grant, permit, allow
• Antonyms: debt, payment

AGHAST

• Filled with horror or shock
• Synonyms: thunderstruck, in awe, stunned, shocked
• Antonyms: fearless, unafraid, brave

CONTEMPT

• The feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration
• Disregard for something that should be taken into account
• Synonyms: scorn, disdain, disrespect
• Antonyms: approval, esteem, respect, admiration

PRY

• Inquire too closely into a person’s private affair
• To look closely or curiously
• Synonyms: nosy, busybody, poke around
• Antonyms: mind one’s own business, respectful

GRUFF

• (Of a voice) rough and low pitched
• Abrupt or taciturn in manner
• Synonyms: rough, raspy, bluff, throaty
• Antonyms: pleasant, polite, cheerful, kind, happy, nice

KNOLL

• A small hill or mound
• Synonyms: hill, bank, ridge, mound, hummock, hillock
• Antonyms: decline, depression

FRAY

• (Of a fabric, rope or cord) unravel or become worn at the edge, typically through consistent rubbing
• (Of a persons mood or temper) show effects of strain
• Synonyms: unravel, wear, strain, overtax
• Antonyms: peace, accord, agreement

DEFUNCT

• No longer existing or functioning
• Synonyms: disused, unused, inoperative, non functioning, unusable
• Antonyms: alive, existent, existing, extant, living

ASYLUM

• A place where insane people are cared for
• Synonyms: mental health, mental institution, mental hospital,

FALTER

• To walk unsteadily
• To give way
• To move waveringly or hesitatingly
• Synonyms: stumble, totter, stammer, waver
• Antonyms: steady, balenced

EXTINCT

• No longer existing
• Synonyms: dead, defunct, done, expired, vanished
• Antonyms: active, dynamic, thriving

TEMPERAMENT

• A person or animal’s nature, especially permanently effects their behavior
• Synonyms: nature, character, personality, temper, mind
• Antonyms: inability

GORGE

• A narrow passage trough land; especially a steep-walled canyon, or part of a canyon
• To fill with food to capacity
• Synonyms: cram, guzzle, gulp, devour
• Antonyms: nibble, peck, pick, taste

SLOTHFUL

• Not easily aroused to action or work
• Synonyms: idle, lazy, stall, shiftless, motionless
• Antonyms: active, perky, energetic, spirited

CORPS

• A main subdivision of an armed force of the field
• A branch of a military organization assigned to a particular kind of work
• Synonyms: unit, division, troop, squad, force
• Antonyms: connection, whole, individual

PUMMEL

• Strike repeatedly with the fists
• Synonyms: batter, pound, hammer, punch, pelt, crush, lash
• Antonyms: compliment, praise, surrender

DEFIANT

• Full of or showing disposition to a challenge