Vocabulary Review

to relieve, make more bearable

• alleviate

• bellicose

• droll

• alacrity

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

• antithesis

• disparage

• edict

• alleviate

warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome

• bellicose

• droll

• alacrity

• appall

to belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue

• disparage

• edict

• alleviate

• bellicose

to clarify, explain

• elucidate

• antithesis

• disparage

• edict

in high spirits, jubilant; extremely pleased

• elated

• august

• clandestine

• abjure

yielding to the wishes or demands of others

• indulgent

• elated

• august

• compunction

ascribe

• address

• write

• read

• attribute

• forward

humdrum

• military

• demanding

• stimulating

• peaceful

• dull

not giving in; stubborn; inflexible

• obstinate
• ambiguous
• negligible
• sedentary