English 11

one who forsakes his or her religion, party, cause

• s: renegade, defector, turncoat
• a: true beleiver, loayalist

a display of false or assumed courage

• s: swagger, bluster
• a: mattle, bravery, pluck

a collective or general agreement of opinion, feeling, or thinking

• s: unanimity, concord, accord, harmony
• a: dissension, discord, disagreement

to make smaller or narrower, draw together, squeeze, to stop

• s: contract, surb, restrain
• a: enlarge, dilate, expand

a division into two contradictory or mutually exclusive parts

• s: schism, division, bifurcation
• a: uniformity, oneness

highly demonstrative; unrestrained

• s: gushy, lavish
• a: restrained, reserved, muted

a feeling of happiness or weel-being, often with no objective basis

• s: elation, bliss, ecstacy, rapture
• a: melanchony, depression, gloom

charaterized by or emphasizing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violant events

s: sinister, eerie

a dead end; a position from which there is no escape

s: deadlock, standoff, stalemate

sad, mournful, or gloomy

• s: doleful, melanchony, dismal, dolorous
• a: merry, jovial, funny

transformation

s: change makeover

a aura or altitude of mystery or veneration surrounding something

s: charisma

an inference that does not follow logically from the facts

s: illogical reference, unsound conclusion

full of danger or risk

• s: hazardous, risky, dangerous
• a: safe, secure, risk-free

a minute detail of conduct, an instant of time

s: fine point, nicety

soft soggy mud or slush

• s: fen, marsh, bog, morass
• a: bedrock, solid footing, terra firma

extravagently or ramantically idealistic; visionary without regard to practical considerations

• s: fanciful, impractical
• a: realistic, down-to-earth

a person who tells stories and anecdotes with skill

s: storyteller, anecdotist

an essential or indispensable element or condition

s: necessity, requisite, desideratum

a prolonged feud, often between 2 families

s: blood feud, rivalry