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1. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
gullible
monotony
luminous
lament
2. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
placate
prudence
imbue
rustic
3. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
imbue
articulate
austere
invective
4. To perceive or recognize
wraith
discern
articulate
convoluted
5. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
elegy
naiive
boor
eulogy
6. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
jettison
latent
arbitrate
meticulous
7. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
wily
antagonize
philantropy
coalesce
8. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
articulate
jargon
repose
pajorative
9. Self contradictory
axiom
paradox
prodigal
ethos
10. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
obstinate
banal
liberal
Amulet
11. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
itinerant
audacious
fallow
12. Set fire/excite
larceny
kindle
eloquent
esoteric
13. Excess
philantropy
chaos
plethora
veracity
14. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
intransigent
impervious
heterogeneous
convoluted
15. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
dirge
heterogeneous
axiom
lucid
16. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
pervade
leery
kindle
dogma
17. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
wraith
sentient
lament
belfry
18. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
verbose
rhetoric
articulate
grovel
19. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
surly
lethargic
naiive
analogous
20. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
hegemony
gullible
aerie
dirge
21. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
deface
prodigal
affected
imbue
22. Suggest - propose an explanation
posit
latent
Dilate
tirade
23. No variation; tediously the same in sound
waver
monotony
Euphemism
whimsical
24. Turmoil/disorder
plethora
disparate
chaos
explicit
25. To expand like a woman in labor
plethora
amalgamate
articulate
Dilate
26. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
alleviate
tirade
philantropy
polemic
27. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
rustic
symbiosis
affected
surly
28. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
demagogue
prudence
phalanx
dilettante
29. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
symbiosis
slake
dither
proliferate
30. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
Euphemism
ethos
sully
demagogue
31. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
Amulet
prodigal
meticulous
32. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
rustic
stratagem
zeal
hermetic
33. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
hermetic
verbose
intrepid
larceny
34. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
erratic
terrestrial
repose
antagonize
35. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
bombastic
alleviate
judicious
convoluted
36. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
quotidian
insurrection
antagonize
grievous
37. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
pariah
abeyance
unconscionable
coalesce
38. Old/antique/bygone/stale
verbose
crescendo
archaic
adulterate
39. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
tome
waver
latent
ethos
40. To polish
stratagem
burnish
apathy
invective
41. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
adulterate
philantropy
intractable
zenith
42. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
larceny
tome
tangential
meticulous
43. Growing in number quickly/spawn
proliferate
hermetic
frugality
placate
44. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
whimsical
deface
frugality
alleviate
45. Plastic/phony/pretentious
affected
elegy
impasse
stratagem
46. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
philantropy
assail
esoteric
Dilate
47. Effective writing or speaking
Fanatical
zeal
rhetoric
amalgamate
48. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
rhetoric
prodigal
connoisseur
posit
49. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
Fanatical
esoteric
liberal
boor
50. 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 ...
crescendo
connoisseur
lucid
aerie
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