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love - like
much - many
child - kid
large - big
deal - sale
companion - partner
trash - junk
above - over
specify - designate
capitulate: cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender: the patriots had to capitulate to the enemy forces.
assail: make a concerted or violent attack on: the Scots army assailed Edward's army from the rear.
arcane: understood by few; mysterious or secret: modern math and its arcane notation.

s: fall - drop
a: old - new
a: yes - no
a: come - go
s: fly - soar
a: active - passive
a: dangerous - safe
a: distant - near
a: narrow - broad
a: separate - unite
a: normal - extraordinary
protracted: prolonged

s: spade - shovel
s: done - finished
s: beg - implore
implore: beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something
recant: say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical (somehow I thought this meant the same as regale)

s: lax - negligent
s: quash - defeat
quash: reject or void, especially by legal procedure: his conviction was quashed on appeal.

s: minor - trivial
s: drab - lackluster
s: related - pertinent
s: annoying - obnoxious
facile: (especially of a theory or argument) appearing neat and comprehensive only by ignoring the true complexities of an issue; superficial.

s: incipient - capricious
incipient: in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop: he could feel incipient anger building up | an incipient black eye
galling: annoying; humiliating: the loss was particularly galling.
chromatic: of, relating to, or produced by color.
capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior: a capricious and often brutal administration | a capricious climate.

a: foul - fair
a: compensate - extortion
a: acquiesce - resist
acquiesce: accept something reluctantly but without protest: Sara acquiesced in his decision.
inept: having or showing no skill; clumsy: the inept handling of the threat.
irascible: having or showing a tendency to be easily angered: an irascible man.

a: adamant - vacillant?
adamant: refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind: he is adamant that he is not going to resign.
vacillant: possessing or showing courage or determination: she made a valiant effort to hold her anger in check | a valiant warrior.

a: alienate - reunite
a: avulse - suture
avulse: the action of pulling or tearing away.
suture: stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture: the small incision was sutured.
aver: state or assert to be the case: [ with clause ] : he averred that he was innocent of the allegations | [ with direct speech ] : “You're the most beautiful girl in the world,” he averred.

a: catalyst - prevention?
catalyst: a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change.
nadir: the lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization: they had reached the nadir of their sufferings.

a: amorphous - definite
allay: diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry): the report attempted to educate the public and allay fears.
inimical: tending to obstruct or harm: actions inimical to our interests.

a: aggrieved - buoyant
aggrieved: feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated: they were aggrieved at the outcome | she did not see herself as the aggrieved party.
recalcitrant: having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline: a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds.

a: apologist - critic
s: widow - dowager
s: omen - harbinger
s: querulous - fractious
querolous: complaining in a petulant or whining manner: she became querulous and demanding.
fugacioius: tending to disappear; fleeting: she was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth.
vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging: tuneful but vapid musical comedies.
fractious: (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome: they fight and squabble like fractious children.
extemporeaneous: spoken or done without preparation: an extemporaneous speech.

s: hightail - abscond
hightail: move or travel fast: I cut my trip short and hightailed it home.
abscond: leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft: she absconded with the remaining thousand dollars.
perturb: 1 make (someone) anxious or unsettled: they were perturbed by her capricious behavior | [ with obj. and clause ] : they were perturbed that the bank had begun switching some of its problem loans.
surmise: suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it: he surmised that something must be wrong | [ with direct speech ] : “I don't think they're locals,” she surmised.

s: gargantuan - titanic
a: avarice - generosity
avarice: extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

a: alacrity - sluggishness
alacrity: brisk and cheerful readiness: she accepted the invitation with alacrity.

a: altruism - egoism
noisome: having an extremely offensive smell: noisome vapors from the smoldering waste.

a: affinity - antipathy
antipathy: a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion: his fundamental antipathy to capitalism | a thinly disguised mutual antipathy.

a: baneful - blighted?
baneful: a cause of great distress or annoyance: the bane of the decorator is the long, narrow hall | the depressions that were the the bane of her existence.
blighted: a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts: the vines suffered blight and disease | potato blight.
jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial: their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions.
inveigle: persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery: we cannot inveigle him into putting pen to paper.
salubrious: health-giving; healthy: salubrious weather.

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