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Section 8 Word Group
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alleviate | to relieve; to make easier to endure |
| appease | to make peace with; to satisfy; to soothe |
| solace | comfort in a time of sorrow |
| remedial | providing a remedy; improving |
| mollify | to soothe; to make peaceful; to appease |
| conciliate | to placate; to reconcile; to make compatible |
| placate | to calm down; to pacify |
| ameliorate | to improve; to make or become better |
| mitigate | to alleviate; to lessen; to ease |
| allay | to reduce in severity; to alleviate |
| balm | an ointment for soothing pain; anything that soothes |
| assuage | to soothe; to ease; to lessen |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills; a cure-all |
| apprehensive | slightly fearful |
| distraught | very upset |
| anguished | very upset |
| frenzied | frantic |
| fret | to worry |
| skittish | easily frightened |
| rabid | frantic; mad; raging |
| frenetic | frantic; frenzied |
| restive | nervous; impatient |
| dither | to act nervously |
| trepidation | fear |
| lurk | to hang around in a secretive manner |
| covert | not openly known or shown; secret |
| stealthy | secretive |
| clandestine | secretive |
| furtive | secretive |
| veiled | not openly known or shown; secret |
| surreptitious | secretive |
| cabal | a secretive group of conspirators |
| ramble | to walk or talk aimlessly; to wander |
| meander | to wander aimlessly |
| vagrant | one who wanders from place to place; having no fixed course |
| itinerant | wandering; traveling |
| digress | to stray from the topic |
| discursive | digressing; rambling |
| desultory | random; disorganized; not connected with the main subject |
| veto | to reject |
| revoke | to cancel |
| nullify | to make something void; to render it invalid |
| rescind | to take back; to nullifyl to cancel; to revoke; to void |
| annul | to cancel; to make legally void |
| abrogate | revoke; repeal |
| disperse | to scatter; to distribute |
| disband | to dissolve; to scatter |
| disseminate | to spread |
| diffuse | not concentrated; to spread out; scattered |
| dissociate | to disconnect; to disunite |
| venturesome | disposed to taking risks; danger; bold |
| audacious | bold; daring; adventuresome |
| maverick | bold and untraditional |
| intrepid | bold |
| temerity | audacity; boldness; rashness |
| prosperous | wealthy |
| affluent | wealthy |
| opulent | wealthy |
| grandiose | magnificent |
| neutral | unbiased; not taking sides |
| impartial | unbiased; neutral |
| objective | unbiased |
| apathy | lack of interest or emotion |
| aloof | detached in a snobby way |
| dispassionate | unemotional; unbiased |
| callous | unfeeling; insensitive |
| stolid | not showing emotions |
| stoic | unemotional; indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| impassive | unemotional |
| precocious | prematurely developed |
| incipient | in the first stages of existence; beginning |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| inchoate | in early stages of development |
| nascent | just starting to form or grow |
Created by:
Ms.Sherrie
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