vocab 14

A cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action.

• alacrity

• alleviate

• antithesis

To relieve, make more bearable

• alleviate

• appall

• bellicose

The direct opposite, sharp a contrast.

• antithesis

• disparage

• dissonant

To fill with dismay or horror.

• appall

• droll

• edict

Warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome

• bellicose

• edict

• elucidate

To belittle, speak slightly of; to undervalue

• disparage

• laud

• loll

Not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds.

• dissonant

• loquacious

• magnanimous

amusingly odd.

• droll

• mandatory

• nondescript

An order issued by someone in authority.

• edict

• phlegmatic

• rescind

To clarify, explain

• elucidate

• vivacious

• whet