Vocabulary list 9

accept something reluctantly but without protest

• Acquiesce

• Admonish

• Alacrity

• Capitulate

warn or reprimand someone firmly

• Acquiesce

• Admonish

• Alacrity

• Capitulate

brisk and cheerful readiness

• Acquiesce

• Admonish

• Capitulate

• Alacrity

cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender

• Capitulate

• Acquiesce

• Admonish

• Alacrity

make (something) clear; explain

• Elucidate

• Innocuous

• Noxious

• Preponderance

not harmful or offensive

• Innocuous

• Noxious

• Preponderance

• Elucidate

harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant

• Noxious

• Preponderance

• Innocuous

• Elucidate

the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance

• Preponderance

• Noxious

• Innocuous

• Innocuous

so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous

• Ludicrous

• Rancor

• Severance

• Spurn

bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing

• Rancor

• Rudiment

• Severance

• Spurn