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The following words are word pairs:
antipathy, aversion
apropos, felicitous
assuage, mollify
attenuate, enervate
belligerent, pugnacious
equanimity, sangfroid
eradicate, expunge
garish, tawdry
ostracize, pariah
propitious, auspicious
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- Sangfroidmeans composure, especially in dangerous or difficult
circumstances; equanimity. - To attenuatemeans to weaken; to reduce in force, value, or degree;
enervate. It also means to make thin or slender. - Antipathyis a strong aversionor dislike.
- Aproposmeans appropriate to the situation, suitable to what is
being said or done; felicitous. - Belligerentmeans hostile and aggressive, showing an eagerness to
fight; pugnacious. - Pugnaciousmeans contentious, quarrelsome, eager to fight;
belligerent. - A pariah(noun) is an outcast, a rejected, and despised person;
someone who has been ostracized(verb). - To mollifyis to soothe the anger of, calm, assuage; to lessen in
intensity; or to soften, make less rigid. - To eradicatemeans to root out and utterly destroy, to annihilate; to
expunge. - To ostracize(verb) is to reject, to cast out from a group or from
society; someone who has been ostracized is a pariah(noun).