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1. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
inundate
abeyance
malleable
ingenuous
2. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
embellish
hermetic
crescendo
posit
3. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
impervious
liberal
philistine
embellish
4. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
homogenous
boor
discern
esoteric
5. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
plucky
pervade
tome
ingratiate
6. Tolerant - broad-minded
aesthetic
waver
liberal
arbitrate
7. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
prodigal
dogma
heterogeneous
8. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
surly
crescendo
waver
plucky
9. Caution/thrift/widom
aerie
meticulous
symbiosis
prudence
10. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
gestation
leery
repudiate
elegy
11. Deep hole
pajorative
judicious
abyss
stigma
12. Self contradictory
venerable
paradox
convoluted
advocate
13. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
jettison
naiive
philantropy
monotony
14. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
Euphemism
quotidian
surly
15. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
intrepid
liberal
slake
axiom
16. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
gregarious
archaic
abeyance
analogous
17. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
deface
listless
dither
phalanx
18. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
obstinate
stratagem
antagonize
dogma
19. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
Fanatical
judicious
zenith
frugality
20. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
rhetoric
polemic
heterogeneous
waver
21. To perceive or recognize
impervious
discern
dirge
larceny
22. Truthfulness
veracity
paradox
impervious
tirade
23. To polish
deface
volatile
larceny
burnish
24. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
lavish
chaos
ethos
unequivocal
25. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
axiom
pajorative
intractable
26. Commute/replace/superceded
tome
archaic
judicious
supplant
27. Mark of disgrace
catalyst
deface
larceny
stigma
28. Easily aroused
volatile
nascent
pariah
deference
29. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
malleable
hermetic
disparate
heterogeneous
30. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
terrestrial
debutante
proliferate
31. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
posit
transitory
fallow
stratagem
32. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
explicit
innocuous
apathy
luminous
33. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
repudiate
dirge
rhetoric
34. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
philantropy
symbiosis
nuance
meticulous
35. Turmoil/disorder
deface
pajorative
invective
chaos
36. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
insurrection
banal
repudiate
coalesce
37. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
symbiosis
jargon
gestation
dirge
38. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
obstinate
placate
larceny
demagogue
39. Bucolic - rural
statis
unconscionable
rustic
dilettante
40. To choose not to do something
naiive
terrestrial
intransigent
abstain
41. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
arbitrary
grievous
opaque
panache
42. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
eloquent
vacillate
deference
sportive
43. Clever - deceptive
austere
affected
wily
erratic
44. An investigation or inquiry
disparate
inquest
articulate
symbiosis
45. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
lucid
latent
hermetic
pajorative
46. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
debutante
statis
hermetic
opaque
47. Theft of property
larceny
knell
venerable
placate
48. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
debutante
austere
ambiguous
quotidian
49. Relaxation - tranquility
pungent
elegy
permeate
repose
50. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
prodigal
lavish
unconscionable
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