- alacrity: a cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action
- alleviate: to relieve, make more bearable
- antithesis: the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
- appall: to fill with dismay or horror
- bellicose: warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome
- disparage: to belittle,speak slightingly of, to undervalue
- dissonant: not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds
- droll: amusingly odd
- edict: an order issued by someone in authority
- elucidate: to clarify, explain
- laud: to praise
- loll: to act in a lazy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop
- loquacious: talkative, wordy; fond of talking
- magnanimous: generous in forgiving, above small meaness
- mandatory: required, obligatory
- nondescript: ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified
- phlegmatic: slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional
- rescind: to repeal, cancel
- vivacious: lively, sprightly, full of energy
- whet: to sharpen, put an edge on; to make keen or eager
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