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1. cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
2. liveliness; briskness.
alacrity

We accepted the invitation with alacrity.

Synonyms:
eagerness, keenness; fervor, zeal, sprightliness, agility.
Antonyms:
apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference
unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others
altruism

syn: benevolence, charity, humanitarianism, kindness, magnanimity, philanthropy,
ant: egoism
1. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful:
2. without thought or regard; carefree; heedless:
blithe

Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
A blithe indifference to anyone's feelings.

syn: animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful
ant: heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy
1. having the same measure; of equal extent or duration.
2. corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree:
commensurate

Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.

syn: appropriate, coextensive, comparable, compatible, consistent
ant: inadequate, inappropriate, unacceptable, unfitting
a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words
conundrum

What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper.

syn: brain-teaser, closed book, enigma, mystery
1. to express earnest disapproval of.
2. to urge reasons against; protest against
deprecate

The depreciation on my car makes it worth less.

syn:cut down to size, depreciate, derogate, detract, disapprove of
ant: approve, build up, commend, compliment
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
enervate

Prolonged exposure to the sun and dehydration enervated the shipwrecked crew, leaving them almost too weak to hail the passing vessel.

syn: debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate
ant: activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven, strengthen
1. thin or slender in form, as a thread.
2. lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak:
3. thin in consistency; rare or rarefied.
4. of slight importance or significance; unsubstantial:
5. lacking in clarity; vague:
tenuous

a tenuous argument.
He holds a rather tenuous position in history.
He gave a rather tenuous account of his past life.

syn: aerial, airy, attenuated, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine
ant: healthy, significant, stable, strong, substantial, thick
not meant to be taken seriously or literally
facetious

a facetious remark.

syn: amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful
ant:formal, grave, serious, unfunny
existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute
inherent

an inherent distrust of strangers.

syn:built-in, characteristic, congenital, essential, fixed, fundamental
ant: acquired, added, external, extrinsic, incidental, learned
existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent
ubiquitous

ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.

syn:all-over, everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive, ubiquitary, universal
ant: rare, scarce
a tendency to undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism
zealot

The Baptist zealot was intolerant of others' religious views.

syn:activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac
ant:moderate
an expression of a general truth or principle, esp. an aphoristic or sententious one:
maxim

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

syn: adage, aphorism, apophthegm, axiom, belief
extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous:
nefarious

a nefarious plot.

syn: abominable, atrocious, base, corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, detestable
ant: good, honorable, respectable, virtuous, worthy
characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning. servilely compliant or deferential:
obsequious

an obsequious bow. obsequious servants.

syn: abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant
ant:arrogant, assertive, brazen, confident, presumptuous
1.a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
2.lacking in or hostile to culture.
3.smugly commonplace or conventional.
philistine

syn: barbarian, base, bawdy, boorish, brutish, cheap, churlish, common, crass
ant:civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated
bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice
rancor

syn: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, aversion
ant:kindness, love, respect, sympathy
vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous
ribald

syn:base, bawdy,devilish, earthy, lewd, licentious, indecent
ant:chaste, clean, decent
1. not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
2. lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary.
transitory

syn:impermanent, momentary, temporal, transient
ant: permanent
native or indigenous, using plain, everyday language
vernacular

a vernacular poem. a vernacular speaker.

syn:native, colloquial, common, dialectal, domesticated, idiomatic, indigenous, informal, ingrained, inherent