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1. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
pristine
imbue
dirge
frugality
2. Easily aroused
assail
vestige
volatile
archaic
3. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
eulogy
paradox
pungent
pristine
4. To polish
burnish
lucid
plethora
grievous
5. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
malleable
axiom
slake
pervade
6. Suffused with light: luminous - clear to the understanding: intelligible - sane. Ex - His ... history of this grim subject is scrupulously accurate - so far as I am able to judge ...
invective
elegy
Keen
lucid
7. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
listless
pervade
kindle
enigma
8. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
obstinate
lucid
banal
monotony
9. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
heterogeneous
placate
connoisseur
hermetic
10. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
venerable
intrepid
quotidian
axiom
11. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
burnish
opaque
ingenuous
liberal
12. Theft of property
statis
larceny
vacillate
lavish
13. Sociable; fond of the company of others
gregarious
esoteric
inundate
jargon
14. Mark of disgrace
dilettante
intractable
verbose
stigma
15. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
sentient
lucid
phalanx
burnish
16. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
ethos
dirge
imbue
pajorative
17. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
gullible
sentient
eulogy
opaque
18. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
dogma
fallow
overwrought
19. A trace of something that once was present
invective
leery
vestige
archaic
20. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
crescendo
connoisseur
antagonize
grievous
21. Funeral bell/ omen of death
ingratiate
knell
ingrate
repose
22. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
apathy
sentient
intrepid
repudiate
23. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
prodigal
hermetic
ingenuous
liberal
24. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
pariah
deference
tome
intractable
25. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
pristine
philistine
abeyance
sentient
26. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
demagogue
intractable
naiive
proliferate
27. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
ingratiate
dirge
ingrate
nascent
28. Brilliant/glowing
luminous
kindle
judicious
nascent
29. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
frugality
advocate
jargon
nuance
30. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
veracity
repose
convoluted
lethargic
31. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
adulterate
wraith
embellish
leery
32. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
philistine
sentient
analogous
bombastic
33. Bucolic - rural
symbiosis
Amulet
rustic
gregarious
34. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
rhetoric
symbiosis
lethargic
catalyst
35. Pertaining to beauty
plucky
affected
aesthetic
coalesce
36. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
jargon
wraith
terrestrial
opaque
37. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
wily
dirge
permeate
ambiguous
38. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
analogous
dirge
pariah
prudence
39. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
opaque
apathy
Amulet
malleable
40. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
connoisseur
venerable
austere
41. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
posit
waver
frugality
invective
42. Commute/replace/superceded
pungent
aesthetic
supplant
hermetic
43. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
liberal
Amulet
hegemony
gullible
44. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
transitory
grievous
Euphemism
placate
45. Self contradictory
paradox
luminous
repast
archaic
46. Caution/thrift/widom
pajorative
prudence
panache
Fanatical
47. Influence or domination over
hegemony
homogenous
ambiguous
liberal
48. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
antagonize
jargon
lucid
sportive
49. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
acme
rhetoric
panache
eulogy
50. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
waver
judicious
archaic
terrestrial
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