word groups Flashcards
respect
ecomium, eulogize, lionize, panegyric
disrespect
aspersion, calumny, excoriate, execrate, gainsay, harangue, impudent, impugn, inveigh, obloquy, ogjurgate, opprobrium, pillory, remonstrate, reprove
goodness
auspicious, condign, copasetic, munificent, seraphic
badness
anathema, egregious, invidious, libidinous, ribald, scurrilous, sordid, turpitude
true
aphoristic, axiomatic, veritable, verisimilitude, veracious, incontrovertible, ingenuous, probity, unimpeachable
false
apocryphal, blandishment, equivocate, ersatz, mendacity, perfidious, prevaricate, prevarication, specious, spurious
happy
jocular, jocund, rapture, sanguine
sad
elegiac, lugubrious, plaintive, saturnine, threnody
clear
limpid, luculent, elucidate, pellucid
unclear
abstruse, arcane, esoteric, rarefied, recondite, roiled
clean
abultion, lavation
unclean
besmear, besmirched, bespatter, maculate, sordid
generous
largess, profligate, unstinting
money grubbing
acquisitive, avaricious, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, venal
talkative
bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, turgid, voluble
nontalkative
compendious, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, taciturn