a cheerful readiness; brisk and eager action

 Syn: Promptness, willingness, dispatch, celerity

 Ant: reluctance, unwillingness, hesitancy

to relieve, make more bearable

 Syn: Lessen, lighten, ally, mitigate, assuage

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

 Syn: Contrary, antipode

To fill with dismay or horror

 Syn: shock, stun, stupefy, horrify

 Ant: Please, cheer, gladden, elate, exhilerate

warlike in manner or temperamentt; quarrelsome

 Syn: Aggressive, combative, belligerent

 Ant: Amicable, peaceable, conciliatory, pacific

To belittle, speak slightingly of; to undervalue

 Syn: Degrade, decry, run down, underrate

 Ant: Praise, extol, laud, plug

Not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds

 Syn: Grating, strident, unmelodious, irreconcilable

 Ant: Harmonious, agreeing, euphonious

Amusingly odd

 Syn: Comical, humorous, whimsical, zany

 Ant: Humorless, solemn, dour

An order issued by someone in authority

 Syn: Command, decree, proclamation

To clarify, explain

 Syn: Interpret, expound, explicate

 Ant: Obscure, becloud, muddy, obfuscate

To Praise

 Syn: Hail, extol, glorify, exalt

 Ant: criticize, censure, belittle, disparge

To act in a lazy manner; to lounge; to recline, droop

 Syn: Loaf, loiter, sag, dangle

Talkative, wordy; fond of talking

 Syn: Gossipy, voluble, garrulous, long-winded

 Ant: Silent, reticent, closemouthed, terse, taciturn

Generous in forgiving, aove small meanness

 Syn: Unselfish, charitable, noble, bighearted

 Ant: Petty, selfish, unforgiving, spiteful

Required, obligatory

 Syn: Compulsory, requisite, imperative

 Ant: Optional, voluntary, discretionary

Ordinary, not outstanding; not easily classified

 Syn: Plain, unremarkable, unimpressive

 Ant: Distinctive, remarkable, vivid, prepossessing

Slow-Moving, sluggish; unemotional

 Syn: Lethargic, indolent, torpid, stolid, impassive

 Ant: Emotional, sensitive, thin-skinned, excitable

To repeal, cancel

 Syn: Withdraw, revoke, retract, annul, abrogate

 Ant: Affirm, endorse, uphold, ratify

Lively, springhtlyfull of energy

 Syn: Spirited, animated, ebullient

 Ant: Dull, spiritless, listless, indolent, languid

To sharpen, put an edge on; to make keen or eager

 Syn: Hone, excite, stimulate

 Ant: Dull, blunt, deaden, stifle, dampen