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english
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1. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
imbue
pariah
tirade
leery
2. Social outcast
placate
rhetoric
pariah
prudence
3. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
liberal
veracity
obstinate
invective
4. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
phalanx
lucid
pervade
hermetic
5. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
dilettante
grovel
lavish
phalanx
6. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
stratagem
nascent
meticulous
philistine
7. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
embellish
listless
gullible
supplant
8. Frolicsome/ playful
zenith
acme
sportive
leery
9. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
insurrection
waver
embellish
dirge
10. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
articulate
embellish
unconscionable
homogenous
11. Plastic/phony/pretentious
vestige
paradox
ingrate
affected
12. Book - usually large and academic
grievous
belfry
tome
itinerant
13. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
overwrought
vacillate
deference
prodigal
14. Respected because of age
volatile
venerable
dirge
ingrate
15. Set fire/excite
symbiosis
phalanx
abstain
kindle
16. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
dirge
intractable
innocuous
verbose
17. Flamboyant/verve/dash
advocate
overwrought
Fanatical
panache
18. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
catalyst
wraith
plucky
19. Old/antique/bygone/stale
unconscionable
ingrate
archaic
dither
20. Truthfulness
lavish
veracity
quotidian
overwrought
21. Coalesce - fuse
amalgamate
ingrate
heterogeneous
philantropy
22. Growing in number quickly/spawn
proliferate
ambiguous
transitory
veracity
23. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
dogma
meticulous
ambiguous
dither
24. Deep hole
hermetic
abyss
connoisseur
listless
25. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
nascent
ingenuous
monotony
Euphemism
26. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
dogmatic
statis
naiive
meticulous
27. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
demagogue
monotony
alleviate
amalgamate
28. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
itinerant
waver
proliferate
boor
29. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
invective
gestation
kindle
30. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
posit
prodigal
ingratiate
tirade
31. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
convoluted
gullible
frugality
affected
32. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
banal
coalesce
supplant
bombastic
33. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
vacillate
ingratiate
leery
34. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
abeyance
itinerant
vestige
impervious
35. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
eloquent
phalanx
polemic
hermetic
36. Funeral bell/ omen of death
rhetoric
knell
rustic
Keen
37. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
supplant
lucid
slake
whimsical
38. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
pajorative
debutante
bombastic
wraith
39. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
antagonize
sully
debutante
placate
40. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
discern
esoteric
elegy
luminous
41. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
symbiosis
jettison
dogma
eulogy
42. No variation; tediously the same in sound
monotony
repudiate
intrepid
paradox
43. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
intrepid
permeate
grievous
repast
44. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
acme
philantropy
zeal
45. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
ingenuous
larceny
adulterate
prudence
46. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
jargon
symbiosis
boor
luminous
47. Commute/replace/superceded
burnish
supplant
panache
placate
48. Perceptive/sharp
inquest
homogenous
Keen
aerie
49. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
sentient
stigma
Fanatical
ingrate
50. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
dilettante
repose
tangential
statis