- acclelerate: to speed up; quicken - slow down
- bystander: one who looks on or observes; observer - active participant
- canvass: to go over in detail or dicuss; survey
- casual: happening by chance or on an irregular basis; accidental - intentional
- downtrodden: treated unfairly and cruelly; mistreated - liberated
- entice: to attract; lure - repel
- erode: to wear away gradually; corrode - nurture
- flounder: to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way; struggle
- graphic: lifelike or vivid; colorful - boring
- gruesome: horrible; hideous - appealing
- melancholy: sad or sadness; depressed - happy
- ordeal: a difficult or painful expirience; hardship - pleasure
- parch: to make dry and thirsty; dry up - soak
- persist: to continue steadily in a course of action; keep at it - give up
- puny: of less than normal strength or size; undersized - gigantic
- quiblbe: to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or rasing minor objections; cavil
- ratify: to approve or confirm; endorse - cancel
- regal: royal or fit for a king; majestic - servile
- stifle: to smoother or prevent from breathing; strangle - nurture
- vital: necessary to life; fundamental - unnecessary