accelerate

v

to speed up cause to move faster to bring about more quickly

s          step up quicken hasten

a             slow down retard decelerate

bystander

n

one who looks on or observes a person present but not taking part

s    observer spectator onlooker

a         active participant

canvass

v

to go through an area in order to procure votes sales or opinions to go over in detail to discuss

s      poll survey solicit

downtrodden

adj

treated unfairly and cruley opressed

s            mistreated ground underfoot

a          uplifred liberated

casual

adj

happening by chance or on an irregular basis showing little concern informal

s      accidentla haphazard offhand

a        formal serious premeditated intentional

entice

v

to attract tempt

s  lure beguile

a       nauseate sicken revolt repel

erode

v

to wear away gradually eat away

s        corrode abrade

a        nurture promote encourage

flounder

v

to thrash about in a clusmy or ineffectinve way

s        wallow struggle

graphic

adj

life like vivid relating to the pictorial arts

s       lively colorful descriptive

a      dull boring unrealistic colorless

gruesome

adj

horrible revolting ghastly

s        gory hideous grisly

a          pleasant delightful appealing

melancholy

adj

n

sad gloomy unhappy

sadness gloominess

s:    adj:   depressed dejected       n: dejection depresion

a:   adj:   merry happy cheerful      n: joy elation

ordeal

n

a difficult or painful experience a trial

s       test hardship

a       pleasure cinch

parch

v

to make dry and thirsty to shrivel with heat

s           dry up dehydrate desiccate

a          soak drench sturate waterlog

persist

v

to continue steadily in a course of action refuse to stop or be changed to last remain

s    persevere keep at it endure

a        give up discontinue

puny

adj

of less than normal strength or size of no importance

s       undersized pint sized small weak

a          robust brawny mammoth gigantic

quibble

v

n

(v)to ervade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minot objections (n)a petty objection

s:   v:   nitpick split hairs cavil   n:   squabble

ratify

v

to approve give formal approval to confirm

s        endorse sanction uphold

a     cancel repeal annul veto

regal

adj

royal king like fir for a king

s      majestic stately princely  august

a         lowly humble abject servile      

stifle

v

to smother prevent from breathing to hold back or choke off

s     strangle suppress snuff

a        nurture promote encourage

vital

adj

having life necessary to life essential key crucial

s         indispensable fundamental

a       nonessential uneccessary