Advanced Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms

Pend/pens = load: Puytting load on one’s mind
Other words: Pendent, pendulum, suspend, expenditure. Someone who is pensive is generally in a quiet and reflective mood as it expresses thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness. Hence, option 3 is correct.
 

Fid = faith: Breach of faith
Other words: Confident, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel, diffident

Sanguine: cheerfully optimistic or enthusiastic

Opposite is morose (<span style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" small;="">sullenly ill-humoured or<span style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" small;=""> gloomy ). 

Ab = away + omen = augury: Dislike or hate
Esteem- to regard highly or favorably; regard with respect or admiration

Fid = faith: Lacking faith in self
Other words: Confident, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel, perfidy

Caust / caut = burn: causing burning; biting remark
Other words: Holocaust, cauterize

Abjure means to abstain and espouse means to adopt or embrace. So, they are antonyms. 

Ire= anger + escent = towards: Easily angered
Other words: Irate, ire, irksome
Even-tempered -not easily ruffled, annoyed, or disturbed; calm

Munus = gift: Generous in giving
Penurious means stingy or frugal. So, they are opposites.

Bellis = fight: Ready to fight
Other words: Belligerent, rebellion
Placatory: serving, tending, or intended to placate

Loq = speak: Speaking against
Other words: Loquacious, eloquent, somniloquy.
Hence, praise is opposite in meaning.

Jure = oath: To tell a lie on oath
Other words: Conjuror, jury, abjure

Sate = satisfy
Other words: Satiate, satiety

Ced / cess = to give up
Other words: Recede, secede, recess, abscess
Annex: to attach, append, or add, especially to something larger or more important.
 

Co / com / con = together: Can put together a lot, <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">spacious <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">and <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">convenient; <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">roomy
Other words: Accommodate, common, cooperate, convocation

Pre = before + Coc = cook: Pre-cooked or matured
Other words: Concoct, decoctions

Levity means non seriousness in speech and behaviour which is similar in meaning to frivolous gaiety.

Pre = before + cur = run or move: of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory
Derivative: A word formed from another by derivation, such as electricity from electric; not original or primary.
Other words: Current, cursory, cursor, incursion, excursion. 

Plac = please: To please somebody
Other words: Placate, placid, complaisant, placebo

Front: To stand in front
Other words: Confront, affrontEffrontery means to confront someone in a negative and often derogatory manner. Hence, decorum is oppositie in meaning.

Tum = swell: Swollen or inflated
Other words: Tumour, contumacy

Placate means to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
Other words: Complacent, placid, complaisant, placebo. 

Sed = sit: Keep sitting / diligent
Other words: Sediment, sedentary, session

Lav = wash: <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">To <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">wash; <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">bathe.
Other words: Lavish, lavatory, lavender 

Decor = ornamentation
Other words: decorate

Cap = head: To put down one’s head as if in defeat
Other words: Capital, capitation, per capita, decapitate

Trac = draw: Easily managed
Other words: Contract, detract, distract, tractor, trace

Ferv = bubble: Bubbling with enthusiasm
Ardent- <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">intensely <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">devoted, <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">eager, <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">or <span style="color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" cursor:="" default;="">enthusiastic
Other words: Effervescent, fervour, fervent

Tort = twist: Twisted path
Other words: Torture, contort, retort

 Grovel means to worship in an overdone manner, usually as way of pleading and begging. Genuflecting is similar in that when someone genuflects, they get on their knees in respect and worship (i.e. The worshippers placed their heads at the feet of the idol in genuflection to show their devotion). Kowtow is similar in meaning to grovel and ligneous has to do with wood. Loathe is correct because when someone loathes something, they woud generally not grovel.