vocab 14

A cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action.

• alacrity

• alleviate

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To relieve, make more bearable

• alleviate

• appall

• bellicose

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The direct opposite, sharp a contrast.

• antithesis

• disparage

• dissonant

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

To fill with dismay or horror.

• appall

• droll

• edict

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome

• bellicose

• edict

• elucidate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To belittle, speak slightly of; to undervalue

• disparage

• laud

• loll

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds.

• dissonant

• loquacious

• magnanimous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

amusingly odd.

• droll

• mandatory

• nondescript

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

An order issued by someone in authority.

• edict

• phlegmatic

• rescind

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

To clarify, explain

• elucidate

• vivacious

• whet

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E