Vocab #8

Paradox

seemingly self-contradictory statement, condition, or person

Admonish

warn, advise, or criticize to correct a fault (verb)

Penitent

feeling sorry and willing to atone or make up for sin or wrong doing (adj)

Accolade

high praise, award, honor (noun)

Nonchalant

casually unconcerned (adj)

Banal

ordinary, uninteresting, fretful (adj)

Iridescent

showing rainbow-like colors (adj)

Cajole

persuade by flattery, promises, pleasant or misleading words (verb)

Urbane

sophisticated, smooth, polite, polished in manner (adj)

Stymie

block, hinder, frustrate (verb)

Recede

move backward; slope or slant backward (verb)

Secede

withdraw formally from membership, especially from a political or religious association (verb)

Intercede

ask or plead for another; help settle a dispute or bring about an agreement between differing parties (verb)

Concede

grant or admit as true or right; yield, give up (verb)

Precedent

something said or done earlier that serves as an example or justification (noun)

antonyms of admonish

commend, acclaim, extol

antonyms of penitent

impenitent, unrepentant, unregenerate, remorseless

antonym of accolade

censure

antonyms of nonchalant

perturbed, agitated, disconcerted, fretful, apprehensive

antonyms of banal

innovative, provacative, novel, unique

Antonyms of Iridescent

lackluster, drab

antonyms of cajole

extort, coerce

antonyms of urbane

gauche, uncouth, boorish