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1. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
invective
nascent
grievous
malleable
2. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
tome
lucid
nascent
transitory
3. Frolicsome/ playful
deference
sportive
tirade
nuance
4. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
gullible
banal
intransigent
obstinate
5. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
lament
dogma
erratic
dirge
6. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
slake
listless
lavish
stratagem
7. Set fire/excite
aesthetic
kindle
bombastic
listless
8. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
naiive
prodigal
imbue
slake
9. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
gullible
ingrate
Keen
10. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
impasse
zenith
Amulet
lethargic
11. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
pajorative
vacillate
venerable
homogenous
12. Relaxation - tranquility
liberal
amalgamate
grievous
repose
13. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
philistine
esoteric
paradox
Euphemism
14. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
vacillate
crescendo
austere
15. A trace of something that once was present
tome
intractable
austere
vestige
16. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
analogous
apathy
zenith
opaque
17. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
burnish
volatile
gestation
advocate
18. Courageous; brave; valiant; valorous - audacious - intrepid
plucky
dogma
lucid
jargon
19. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
repose
stratagem
latent
20. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
connoisseur
boor
veracity
convoluted
21. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
erratic
articulate
panache
deface
22. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
gullible
malleable
tirade
itinerant
23. Old/antique/bygone/stale
tangential
Dilate
Amulet
archaic
24. Deep hole
abyss
archaic
obstinate
hegemony
25. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
pervade
erratic
Fanatical
transitory
26. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
pajorative
slake
lament
lucid
27. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
lavish
stigma
burnish
gullible
28. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
zenith
latent
vacillate
polemic
29. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
ingrate
latent
zenith
inquest
30. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
opaque
abeyance
homogenous
surly
31. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
veracity
vestige
statis
32. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
jettison
tangential
invective
disparate
33. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
arbitrary
dirge
sully
Dilate
34. Pertaining to beauty
aesthetic
ethos
eulogy
latent
35. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
repudiate
judicious
stigma
dogma
36. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
sully
placate
articulate
naiive
37. An investigation or inquiry
acme
inquest
tirade
tome
38. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
austere
vacillate
permeate
adulterate
39. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
dogmatic
catalyst
lucid
philantropy
40. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
gregarious
elegy
antagonize
repast
41. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
grievous
symbiosis
abyss
ingenuous
42. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
waver
repose
convoluted
inquest
43. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
surly
aerie
antagonize
grovel
44. Social outcast
prudence
intrepid
pariah
phalanx
45. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
naiive
permeate
abyss
sully
46. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
disparate
surly
abeyance
arbitrate
47. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
permeate
itinerant
pristine
venerable
48. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
intrepid
aerie
dilettante
arbitrate
49. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
impasse
adulterate
verbose
philistine
50. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
intrepid
convoluted
repudiate
quotidian
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