Sadlier Level E Vocabulary Unit 14

talkative, wordy

• loquacious
• elucidate
• bellicose
• vivacious

cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action

• rescind
• mandatory
• loquacious
• alacrity

to relieve, make more bearable

• mandatory
• appall
• alleviate
• edict

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

• laud
• antithesis
• magnanimous
• rescind

to fill with dismay or horror

• appall
• antithesis
• phlegmatic
• whet

warlike, quarrelsome

• antithesis
• edict
• bellicose
• laud

to belittle, to undervalue

• dissonant
• disparage
• droll
• rescind

not in harmony; disagreeing

• droll
• alacrity
• loquacious
• dissonant

amusingly odd, humorous

• edict
• droll
• loll
• magnanimous

an order issued by someone in authority

• mandatory
• nondescript
• edict
• alleviate