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1. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
zeal
symbiosis
verbose
prudence
2. Truthfulness
malleable
dirge
veracity
repose
3. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
repast
Dilate
stigma
pervade
4. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
erratic
monotony
tangential
dilettante
5. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
tome
repudiate
catalyst
ingenuous
6. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
enigma
dilettante
unconscionable
articulate
7. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
ethos
leery
waver
abeyance
8. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
gestation
tangential
lucid
Keen
9. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
grovel
nascent
impervious
volatile
10. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
naiive
judicious
knell
posit
11. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
monotony
deface
philantropy
dogma
12. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
lucid
burnish
intrepid
gestation
13. Growing in number quickly/spawn
proliferate
statis
gullible
nascent
14. To attack or assault - beset
Fanatical
assail
venerable
dogma
15. Commute/replace/superceded
Euphemism
supplant
transitory
repast
16. To choose not to do something
surly
inundate
supplant
abstain
17. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
Fanatical
banal
invective
repudiate
18. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
Amulet
grievous
sully
phalanx
19. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
audacious
pristine
gestation
dither
20. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
hermetic
wraith
polemic
monotony
21. Frolicsome/ playful
embellish
discern
sportive
transitory
22. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
prodigal
sportive
Fanatical
chaos
23. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
jargon
Fanatical
lucid
burnish
24. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
grovel
malleable
boor
deface
25. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
arbitrary
debutante
transitory
Keen
26. Excess
arbitrary
innocuous
plethora
pungent
27. Tolerant - broad-minded
debutante
catalyst
liberal
intractable
28. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
disparate
philantropy
amalgamate
wily
29. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
permeate
coalesce
esoteric
unconscionable
30. Funeral bell/ omen of death
lament
knell
innocuous
frugality
31. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
surly
discern
proliferate
gullible
32. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
prodigal
dogmatic
ambiguous
Keen
33. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
disparate
zenith
dirge
dogma
34. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
insurrection
stratagem
abeyance
grievous
35. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
waver
latent
judicious
pristine
36. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
itinerant
gregarious
articulate
Euphemism
37. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
larceny
ingrate
panache
intransigent
38. Altruism/ charity
boor
austere
philantropy
hyperbole
39. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
fallow
invective
convoluted
intransigent
40. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
insurrection
overwrought
crescendo
tirade
41. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
assail
jettison
advocate
fallow
42. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
prodigal
malleable
latent
intractable
43. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
stratagem
repast
sully
frugality
44. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
austere
axiom
posit
grovel
45. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
impasse
liberal
philistine
sully
46. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
ethos
explicit
tome
hermetic
47. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
zenith
fallow
intractable
malleable
48. Temporary; lasting a brief time
transitory
malleable
axiom
assail
49. 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 ...
lucid
banal
intractable
archaic
50. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
wily
lethargic
volatile
ambiguous
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