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
harmful
inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, pernicious
healthful
curative, salubrious, salutary, tonic
soothing
propitiate, slake
agitating
acerbate, bestir
cowardly
craven, dastardly, diffident, pusillanimous, poltroon, recreant, timorous
bold
effrontery, impertinent, impudent, temerity
stubborn
froward, implacable, inexorable, intransigent, obdurate, pertinacious, refractory, renitent, untoward
yielding
amenable, deferential, ductile, pliant
growing
accrete
insincere
blandish, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
sincere
artless, credulous, guileless, ingenuous
weak
enervated, enfeebled, stultified, vitiated
strong
puissant, sinewy, tenacious
hostile
antithetical, bellicose, churlish, irascible, inimical, truculent
hate
abominate, anathema, odium, rancor, repugnance
beginner
callow, inchoate, incipient, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
expert
doyen, maven, swell
bossy
dogmatic, despotic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory
lacky
abject, fawning, lickspittle, obsequious, toady, truckler, sycophant
lazy
indolent, languid, lassitude, phlegmatic, quiescent, torpid
forgive
absolve, condone, exculpate, expiate, redress, remit
poor
beggard, esurient, impecunious, indigent, penurious, strapped
bias
doctrinaire, jaundiced, tendentious, zealot
walking
itinerant, perambulate, peripatetic
blocking
encumber, fetter, forfend, obviate, occlude
nonconformist
aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, bohemian, heterodox