1. List 4

2. Alacrity: cheerful readiness

3. Antithesis: the direct opposite

4. Brouhaha: confused hodgepodge of sounds

5. Carnage: large scale slaughter, loss of life

6. Criterion: rule, test, standard for judgement

7. Edict: an order issued by an authority figure

8. Inception: beginning, start, earliest stage

9. Infirmity: weakness or ailement

10. Parable: short narrative designed to teach a moral lesson

11. Stricture: limitation or restriction

12. Ultimatum: final proposal or statement of conditions

13. Veneer: thin outer layer