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sat
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english
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1. Protection - patronage
repartee
gestalt
temerity
aegis
2. A cave explorer
palliate
spelunker
panacea
placebo
3. Severe - exceedingly harsh
draconian
panacea
mirthful
simper
4. Occurring during the day - happens every day
penury
diurnal
toothsome
diaspora
5. A judge - one who decides
elliptical
irascible
mendacious
arbiter
6. Vanishing - happening for the briefest moment
scofflaw
petulant
abstinence
evanescent
7. To confuse - deceive
antipodal
discomfit
histrionic
bowdlerize
8. Nonchalant - lighthearted - unconcerned
onus
cachet
insouciant
encomium
9. Disgraceful and dishonorable
chicanery
ignominious
accolade
bandy
10. Fertile - productive - fruitful
rubric
recondite
sine qua non
fecund
11. To impede - restrain - hamper
fetter
calumny
sylvan
repartee
12. Having foresight
cataclysm
abrogate
prescient
phantasm
13. To quibble - to raise trivial objections
histrionic
cavil
interregnum
bathos
14. A privilege or perk that goes along with a job
supercilious
panegyric
perquisite
prowess
15. Moving from place to place
reprobate
itinerant
toothsome
officious
16. Custom - habit
bon vivant
anathema
cabal
wont
17. Sullen - gloomy - depressed
provenance
saturnine
ignominious
bilious
18. Shriveled - withered
scotch
junta
wizened
bathos
19. To settle in snugly - to hide in a secure place
maudlin
bumptious
wastrel
ensconce
20. An apparition - phantom
zaftig
nihilism
phantasm
stalwart
21. Full-figured - plump
hoary
placebo
zaftig
adumbrate
22. To put to flight - to scatter - to cause a huge defeat
supercilious
erudite
rout
implacable
23. Does not allow something to pass through - impenetrable
impervious
umbrage
bivouac
abrogate
24. Highly significant - overflowing - rich in significance
pregnant
apocryphal
petulant
phlegmatic
25. Slander - deliberate false statements
secrete
hoary
calumny
malapropism
26. To run counter to - to show something as false
belie
doff
penury
saturnine
27. To honor - to worship - to respect
ruminate
venerate
palliate
neophyte
28. To move smoothly in a wavelike manner
obsequious
undulate
adumbrate
recalcitrant
29. Deception or trickery
erudite
libidinous
chicanery
syllogism
30. Pungent - charmingly provocative
sine qua non
piquant
bowdlerize
elan
31. Gray or white with age - ancient - stale
dilettante
hoary
raffish
ensconce
32. An inferior substitute
ersatz
extirpate
oeuvre
stalwart
33. One who is continually breaking the law
clout
endemic
bandy
scofflaw
34. A language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech
surreptitious
patois
aggrieve
erudite
35. A poisonous swamp vapor - a harmful influence or atmosphere
miasma
sylvan
niggardly
adjure
36. A drunken reveler or orgy
bacchanal
officious
doggerel
husbandry
37. The period between two successive governments - a pause in a continuing series
cavil
recondite
interregnum
apostasy
38. A morally unprincipled person - a scoundrel
husbandry
privation
milieu
reprobate
39. Coming into existence - being born
noisome
habeas corpus
encomium
nascent
40. To put an end to
clout
bacchanal
scotch
protean
41. Payment - recompense
remuneration
feckless
putrefy
vitriolic
42. Award or honor - high praise
scofflaw
brook
accolade
omniscient
43. Arrogant - overbearing - condescending
dilettante
calumny
gestalt
supercilious
44. A philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands
determinism
gird
belie
sycophant
45. Next to last
penultimate
rarefied
mendacious
stalwart
46. To make better - to ease or improve
ameliorate
prescient
dichotomy
nabob
47. To glimpse - to descry - to catch sight of
espy
akimbo
garrulous
piquant
48. A mark of distinction - a quality that 'says' prestige
cachet
zaftig
malapropism
petulant
49. To stir up - to incite
zaftig
discomfit
feckless
foment
50. The breaking up of the Jewish community in the sixth century where they were exiled from Israel - any dispersion of a people with a common origin
bathos
opprobrious
acquit
diaspora
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