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1. Bucolic - rural
hyperbole
acme
symbiosis
rustic
2. Book - usually large and academic
gullible
invective
tome
crescendo
3. Sociable; fond of the company of others
gregarious
deference
grovel
judicious
4. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
audacious
lavish
grovel
gestation
5. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
embellish
ambiguous
dither
wily
6. Growing in number quickly/spawn
statis
proliferate
nascent
ingrate
7. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
burnish
aerie
embellish
audacious
8. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
embellish
arbitrary
ethos
listless
9. Rebellion - mutiny
whimsical
waver
volatile
insurrection
10. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
unequivocal
whimsical
philistine
banal
11. To perceive or recognize
arbitrate
frugality
discern
unequivocal
12. Turmoil/disorder
wily
dirge
chaos
lucid
13. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
latent
deface
abeyance
slake
14. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
whimsical
frugality
intrepid
meticulous
15. Flamboyant/verve/dash
lethargic
overwrought
repose
panache
16. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
connoisseur
listless
repudiate
hermetic
17. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
permeate
aerie
lethargic
nuance
18. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
posit
malleable
arbitrate
dogmatic
19. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
meticulous
repast
latent
deface
20. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
rhetoric
kindle
gullible
pungent
21. Funeral bell/ omen of death
knell
abeyance
prudence
listless
22. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
whimsical
pungent
statis
supplant
23. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
supplant
arbitrary
panache
listless
24. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
rhetoric
erratic
zeal
phalanx
25. Mark of disgrace
stigma
dirge
fallow
terrestrial
26. Caution/thrift/widom
prudence
dirge
sully
ethos
27. Deep hole
abyss
acme
fallow
archaic
28. Influence or domination over
tome
slake
abstain
hegemony
29. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
unequivocal
Fanatical
placate
lavish
30. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
abyss
itinerant
prodigal
tangential
31. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
amalgamate
placate
homogenous
pajorative
32. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
volatile
embellish
crescendo
tangential
33. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
affected
ingratiate
dirge
34. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
jargon
itinerant
surly
dilettante
35. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
gestation
liberal
statis
sentient
36. Make impure/debase
adulterate
inundate
tangential
abyss
37. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
listless
placate
axiom
pajorative
38. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
impasse
Keen
eulogy
analogous
39. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
pervade
bombastic
belfry
debutante
40. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
sully
aerie
fallow
intrepid
41. Clever - deceptive
luminous
sentient
wily
hermetic
42. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
advocate
dilettante
heterogeneous
austere
43. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
posit
dogma
hegemony
44. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
sportive
malleable
verbose
homogenous
45. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
enigma
intractable
volatile
invective
46. Theft of property
monotony
boor
explicit
larceny
47. Plastic/phony/pretentious
affected
supplant
pristine
veracity
48. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
deface
repudiate
alleviate
eulogy
49. To choose not to do something
quotidian
alleviate
articulate
abstain
50. A trace of something that once was present
lavish
impervious
venerable
vestige
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