Set 17

excessive adoration or admiration

• adulation
• exacerbate
• frank
• implacable

cheerful willingness

• alacrity
• rigorous
• copious
• tenable

to support or hold up

• bolster
• alacrity
• adulation
• frank

to attract or hold the interest of

• captivate
• frank
• languid
• bolster

large in quantity or number

• copious
• frank
• rigorous
• bolster

to denounce as faulty or worthless

• decry
• captivate
• rigorous
• languid

lack of harmony

• discord
• superfluous
• alacrity
• skeptical

learned or scholarly

• erudite
• exacerbate
• implacable
• decry

to increase in severity

• exacerbate
• rationale
• novelty
• alacrity

direct in speech

• frank
• ostentatious
• discord
• captivate