Vocabulary 11.5

to make easier or more bearable

• loathsome

• alleviate

• belittle

• usurp

demanding of great effort

• disparage

• emphatic

• onslaught

• arduous

to speak of something as small or unimportant

• arduous

• belittle

• extricate

• loathsome

 regard or represent as being of little worth

• alleviate

• usurp

• emphatic

• disparage

done by stressing the importance of something

• emphatic

• arduous

• loathsome

• subjugation

to release from a difficulty

• extricate

• usurp

• subjugation

• belittle

offensive to the senses

• loathsome

• disparage

• emphatic

• arduous

a violent attack

• disparage

• extricate

• onslaught

• subjugation

 condition of being under control or enslaved

• subjugation

• loathsome

• alleviate

• disparage

take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force

• emphatic

• usurp

• alleviate

• subjugation