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Annex
- (v) to add, attach; to incorporate (n) an attachment or addition
- SYN: join, acquire, appropriate, procure
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Cleave
- (v) to cut or split open; to cling to
- SYN: sever, halve, sunder, adhere, clasp
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Cordial
- (adj) in a friendly manner, hearty; cherry (n) a liqueur
- SYN: hospitable, affable, warm, convivial
- ANT: gruff, unfriendly, unsociable
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Cornerstone
- (n) the starting point of a building; a fundamental principle or element
- SYN: foundation, base, underpinning, support
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Debacle
- (n) an overwhelming defeat, rout; a complete collapse or failure
- SYN: disaster, fiasco, calamityant: success, triumph, victory, coup
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Devitalize
- (v) to make weak or lifeless
- SYN: enfeeble, sap, enervateant: enliven, stimulate, energize, excite
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Embroil
- (v) to involve in a conflict or difficulty; to throw into confusion
- SYN: entangled, ensnarlant: disentangle, separate, disconnect
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Exonerate
- (v) to clear from a charge or accusation
- SYN: absolve, acquit, vindicate, exculpate
- ANT: implicate, incriminate, inculpate
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Glib
- (adj) ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless; insincere
- SYN: superficial, pat, oily, unctuous, facile
- ANT: halting, tongue-tied, speechless, awkward
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Haphazard
- (adj) by chance, not planned, lacking order
- SYN: random, accidental, slapdash
- ANT: deliberate, purposeful, orderly, meticulous
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Improvise
- (v) to compose or perform without preparation: to construct from available materials
- SYN: ad-lib, play it by ear, wing it, extemporize
- ANT: plan, rehearse, practice, prepare
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Incite
- (v) to rouse, stir up, urge on
- SYN: spur, kindle, provoke, instigate, prompt
- ANT: check, curb, impede, restrain, smother
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Influx
- (n) a coming in, inflow
- SYN: in-pouring, inrush, invasion
- ANT: outpouring, exodus, departure
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Pallor
- (n) an extreme or unnatural paleness
- SYN: wanness, lividness, bloodlessness
- ANT: flush, blush, rosiness, bloom
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Pedigree
- (n) a list of ancestors, family tree; the history or origins of something
- SYN: lineage, ancestry, genealogy
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Precipitous
- (adj) very steep
- SYN: sheer, abrupt, sharp
- ANT: gradual, shallow, graded, incremental
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Profuse
- (adj) very abundant; given or flowing freely
- SYN: extravagant, lavish, bounteous, plenteous
- ANT: sparse, scanty, meager, insufficient
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Reconcile
- (v) to restore to friendship; to settle; to resign (oneself)
- SYN: unite, conciliate, mend fences
- ANT: antagonize, alienate, drive a wedge between
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Shackle
- (v) to put into chains(n) a chain, fetter
- SYN: manacle, enslave; handcuffs, bonds, irons
- ANT: free, unfetter, emancipate, liberate
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Threadbare
- (adj) shabby, old and worn
- SYN: frayed, seedy, ragged, shopworn, trite
- ANT: luxurious, plush, costly, sumptuous
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