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1. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
fallow
deface
Amulet
prodigal
2. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
aesthetic
frugality
aerie
placate
3. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
grovel
lucid
transitory
itinerant
4. To expand like a woman in labor
lucid
Keen
Dilate
eloquent
5. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
pristine
abyss
gregarious
convoluted
6. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
fallow
phalanx
lucid
venerable
7. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
terrestrial
inquest
Euphemism
lucid
8. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
monotony
intractable
leery
meticulous
9. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
leery
hyperbole
verbose
10. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
bombastic
deference
grovel
Dilate
11. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
gestation
tirade
judicious
12. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
axiom
slake
unconscionable
ambiguous
13. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
knell
leery
venerable
demagogue
14. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
opaque
ingrate
bombastic
unequivocal
15. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
itinerant
intractable
vestige
16. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
paradox
polemic
venerable
slake
17. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
judicious
transitory
lavish
unconscionable
18. Set fire/excite
tangential
eloquent
kindle
eulogy
19. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
coalesce
gregarious
dirge
statis
20. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
permeate
intrepid
discern
jargon
21. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
obstinate
hermetic
abeyance
dirge
22. Flamboyant/verve/dash
erratic
fallow
ingenuous
panache
23. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
ingrate
hegemony
impervious
advocate
24. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
audacious
enigma
plucky
pariah
25. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
rustic
elegy
vacillate
acme
26. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
alleviate
dither
invective
tirade
27. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
pervade
Fanatical
tirade
heterogeneous
28. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
Euphemism
axiom
enigma
gullible
29. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
Euphemism
philantropy
statis
dogma
30. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
gullible
Fanatical
heterogeneous
pervade
31. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
nascent
convoluted
polemic
wraith
32. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
boor
stigma
philistine
proliferate
33. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
zenith
audacious
connoisseur
pajorative
34. Pertaining to beauty
abstain
aesthetic
phalanx
pajorative
35. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
audacious
explicit
statis
archaic
36. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
enigma
crescendo
burnish
symbiosis
37. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
stigma
posit
Keen
frugality
38. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
impervious
symbiosis
Amulet
volatile
39. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
judicious
overwrought
coalesce
40. Funeral bell/ omen of death
frugality
prudence
knell
larceny
41. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
prudence
sentient
verbose
pristine
42. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
waver
monotony
lament
esoteric
43. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
latent
stigma
abeyance
grievous
44. Excess
convoluted
plethora
hermetic
grovel
45. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
insurrection
kindle
deface
surly
46. Suggest - propose an explanation
posit
lucid
imbue
nuance
47. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
overwrought
Euphemism
plucky
debutante
48. To perceive or recognize
ingrate
alleviate
ingratiate
discern
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
abeyance
insurrection
imbue
50. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
sentient
impasse
explicit
overwrought
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