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1. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
esoteric
latent
sportive
waver
2. Commute/replace/superceded
axiom
belfry
audacious
supplant
3. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
prudence
Dilate
veracity
eloquent
4. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
knell
hermetic
phalanx
hyperbole
5. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
tirade
hyperbole
rustic
zenith
6. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
vestige
pungent
frugality
pariah
7. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
repudiate
knell
frugality
intransigent
8. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
tangential
axiom
naiive
waver
9. Coalesce - fuse
assail
wily
hermetic
amalgamate
10. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
vestige
transitory
unconscionable
11. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
articulate
volatile
convoluted
antagonize
12. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
veracity
ingratiate
connoisseur
hermetic
13. Caution/thrift/widom
sentient
prudence
knell
opaque
14. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
abyss
nascent
dirge
embellish
15. Truthfulness
nuance
audacious
liberal
veracity
16. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
dilettante
ingenuous
overwrought
elegy
17. Funeral bell/ omen of death
dither
chaos
knell
symbiosis
18. No variation; tediously the same in sound
dirge
monotony
transitory
posit
19. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
luminous
symbiosis
abstain
arbitrate
20. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
alleviate
lethargic
pervade
lucid
21. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
inundate
proliferate
dogmatic
obstinate
22. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
axiom
plucky
dilettante
antagonize
23. Set fire/excite
kindle
verbose
esoteric
ingenuous
24. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
inquest
acme
obstinate
arbitrary
25. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
tome
dogmatic
slake
rustic
26. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
judicious
placate
eulogy
crescendo
27. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
heterogeneous
assail
eulogy
knell
28. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
dirge
malleable
leery
Amulet
29. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
axiom
aesthetic
eloquent
venerable
30. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
listless
boor
innocuous
volatile
31. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
leery
dirge
tirade
32. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
fallow
tirade
proliferate
listless
33. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
dirge
heterogeneous
connoisseur
nascent
34. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
apathy
eulogy
zenith
convoluted
35. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
archaic
boor
larceny
ingratiate
36. Excess
gestation
pajorative
stigma
plethora
37. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
deference
imbue
verbose
itinerant
38. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
ethos
pervade
phalanx
ingenuous
39. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
plethora
Keen
esoteric
articulate
40. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
inundate
imbue
placate
pariah
41. Book - usually large and academic
austere
dirge
nuance
tome
42. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
symbiosis
dilettante
enigma
impervious
43. Frolicsome/ playful
abeyance
hermetic
lethargic
sportive
44. Theft of property
nascent
larceny
esoteric
lucid
45. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
overwrought
lucid
imbue
lament
46. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
unequivocal
explicit
dither
whimsical
47. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
obstinate
stigma
ambiguous
repudiate
48. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
repast
lavish
surly
dirge
49. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
symbiosis
fallow
arbitrate
dilettante
50. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
posit
dirge
phalanx
statis
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