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The following words are word pairs:
ambivalent, irresolute
ephemeral, transient
garrulous, loquacious
inchoate, nascent
irk, vex
mitigate, palliate
noisome, noxious
rapacious, voracious
sordid, squalid
stoical, stolid
Across
- To vexmeans to annoy or irritate; irk.
- Stoicalmeans seemingly unaffected by pleasure or pain; indifferent
or impassive. A stoical person, like a stolidperson, would not show
emotion. - Garrulousmeans talkative, chatty; loquacious.
- Rapaciousmeans excessively greedy and grasping, voracious.
- Irresolutemeans feeling or showing uncertainty; hesitant,
indecisive, or ambivalent. - Sordidmeans dirty, wretched, squalid; it can also mean morally
degraded. - Transientmeans lasting only a very short time; fleeting, transitory,
brief; ephemeral. - To palliatemeans to make something less intense or severe, to
mitigateor alleviate; to put a positive spin on. It can also mean to
provide relief from pain or from symptoms of a disease. - Noisomemeans offensive, foul, especially in odor; harmful or
noxious. - To mitigateis to make less intense or severe; to moderate the force
or intensity of something; alleviate, palliate.
Down
- Noxiousmeans unpleasant and harmful; unwholesome, noisome.
- Loquaciousmeans talkative; garrulous.
- Ambivalentmeans having mixed or conflicting feelings about
something; uncertain, irresolute. - Squalidmeans filthy, wretched; morally repulsive, sordid.