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1. Seize the moment
Symbiotic
Carpe diem
Syntax
Chortle
2. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence
Acrimony
Erudite
Supercilious
Sojourn
3. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Supercilious
Forbearance
Euphemism
Levity
4. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Inchoate
E.g.
Salient
5. Peaceful - undisturbed - and happy
Capricious
Arcane
Apocryphal
Halcyon
6. More than is wanted or is sufficient
Prevaricate
Unilateral
Superfluous
Apocryphal
7. A relationship of mutual benefit or depencence
Collegial
Forbearance
Symbiotic
Arcane
8. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
Unilateral
Ethereal
Pejorative
Renege
9. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Didactic
Binary
Inane
Tautological
10. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Erudite
Avarice
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Simile
11. Displaing a lack of maturity
Euphemism
Loquacious
Renege
Puerile
12. Inclined to put off what ought to be done at once
Codicil
Pecuniary
Acerbic
Dilatory
13. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues
Sine qua non
Probity
Visceral
Collegial
14. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them
Ken
Facetious
Simile
Metaphor
15. Environment; setting
Scintilla
Hyperbole
Milieu
Consanguineous
16. Relating to money
Pernicious
Codicil
Verve
Pecuniary
17. Disparaging - belittling
Banal
Pejorative
Equivocate
Patrician
18. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Sojourn
Avarice
Nefarious
Ellipsis
19. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Halcyon
Sine qua non
Chortle
Caveat
20. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Didactic
Specious
Puerile
Ameliorate
21. Happening by chance
Codicil
Cadre
Verve
Fortuitous
22. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Sojourn
Acumen
Superfluous
23. Made up of or combining elements from varying sources
Halcyon
Loquacious
Prevaricate
Eclectic
24. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Codicil
Renege
Consanguineous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
25. Being everywhere
E.g.
Inane
Ubiquitous
Visceral
26. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
Bi-polar
Limited liability companies
NB
Reticent
27. Having only one side
Euphemism
Unilateral
Demagogue
Abrogate
28. Understood by only a few
Eclectic
Ephemeral
Arcane
Inane
29. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning
Myopic
Ethereal
Halcyon
Puerile
30. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Ameliorate
Apocryphal
Disingenuous
Indolent
31. Frivolity (not serious or sensible)
Ephemeral
Levity
Eclectic
Diction
32. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Pejorative
Tautological
Syntax
Vitiate
33. Commonplace; trivial
Logomachy
Abrogate
Banal
Sine qua non
34. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Consanguineous
Fait accompli
Caveat
Unilateral
35. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Probity
Verve
Iconoclast
Exiguous
36. Inclined to keep quiet
Concatenation
Reticent
Vilify
Renege
37. The thing speaks for itself
Pusillanimous
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Vociferous
Abrogate
38. To prevent by interception
Symbiotic
NB
Disingenuous
Obviate
39. To go back on a promise or commitment
Salient
Renege
Scintilla
Collegial
40. Id est (that is)
Syllogism
Iconoclast
i.e.
Obviate
41. Wicked in the extreme
Iconoclast
Probity
Acrimony
Nefarious
42. Extremely scanty (bare)
Exiguous
Banal
Avarice
Pusillanimous
43. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Limited liability companies
Egalitarian
Unilateral
Carpe diem
44. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Abrogate
Didactic
Puerile
Forbearance
45. Having two opposite or contradictory ideas
Ubiquitous
Bi-polar
Renege
Euphemism
46. A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by 'like' or 'as'
Simile
Capricious
Iconoclast
Acrimony
47. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Chortle
Inane
Unilateral
Syntax
48. Exempli gratia (for example)
Halcyon
Equivocate
Reticent
E.g.
49. An indispensable thing
Sine qua non
Ken
Egalitarian
Aphorism
50. Extravagant exaggeration
Didactic
Hyperbole
Logomachy
Diction
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