Vocab 14

Question 1

A cheerful readiness, bleak and eager action

Answer 1

Alacrity

Question 2

To relieve, make more bearable

Answer 2

Alleviate

Question 3

The direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Answer 3

Antithesis

Question 4

To fill with dismay or horror

Answer 4

Appall

Question 5

Warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome

Answer 5

Bellicose

Question 6

To belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue

Answer 6

Disparage

Question 7

Not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds

Answer 7

Dissonant

Question 8

Amusingly odd

Answer 8

Droll

Question 9

An order issued by someone in authority

Answer 9

Edict

Question 10

To clarify, explain

Answer 10

Elucidate

Question 11

To praise

Answer 11

Laud

Question 12

To act in a crazy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop

Answer 12

Loll

Question 13

Talkative, wordy; fond of talking

Answer 13

Loquacious

Question 14

Generous in forgiving, above small meanness

Answer 14

Magnanimous

Question 15

Required, obligatory

Answer 15

Mandatory

Question 16

Ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified

Answer 16

Nondescript

Question 17

Slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional

Answer 17

Phlegmatic

Question 18

To repeal, cancel

Answer 18

Rescind

Question 19

Lively, sprightly, full of energy

Answer 19

vivacious

Question 20

To sharpen, put an edge on; to make keen or eager

Answer 20

Whet