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1. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
kindle
unconscionable
Euphemism
larceny
2. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
hyperbole
knell
alleviate
lament
3. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
lucid
advocate
rustic
abeyance
4. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
gullible
coalesce
jettison
belfry
5. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
ethos
unequivocal
dirge
Amulet
6. Effective writing or speaking
rhetoric
adulterate
banal
alleviate
7. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
acme
latent
aesthetic
imbue
8. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
heterogeneous
symbiosis
posit
leery
9. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
quotidian
apathy
disparate
ethos
10. Growing in number quickly/spawn
proliferate
latent
affected
judicious
11. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
veracity
deference
chaos
philistine
12. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
arbitrate
statis
pajorative
Dilate
13. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
latent
dilettante
intransigent
innocuous
14. To choose not to do something
deference
unconscionable
abstain
prodigal
15. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
gregarious
impervious
heterogeneous
luminous
16. To attack or assault - beset
dither
assail
homogenous
connoisseur
17. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
embellish
sentient
nascent
intrepid
18. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
crescendo
invective
veracity
impervious
19. Frolicsome/ playful
larceny
sportive
impervious
opaque
20. Bucolic - rural
unequivocal
deference
lucid
rustic
21. Old/antique/bygone/stale
archaic
heterogeneous
bombastic
impervious
22. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
knell
deference
lavish
analogous
23. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
transitory
banal
latent
gullible
24. Perceptive/sharp
pervade
pristine
vestige
Keen
25. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
Euphemism
repast
disparate
prudence
26. An investigation or inquiry
inquest
Keen
dogma
embellish
27. 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
symbiosis
rustic
unconscionable
28. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
invective
posit
abeyance
homogenous
29. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
eloquent
catalyst
bombastic
impasse
30. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
dogma
phalanx
supplant
grovel
31. Brilliant/glowing
obstinate
antagonize
eloquent
luminous
32. Make impure/debase
polemic
heterogeneous
adulterate
sentient
33. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
alleviate
pungent
impervious
imbue
34. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
dirge
lethargic
deference
esoteric
35. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
gestation
repast
meticulous
leery
36. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
dirge
veracity
lethargic
antagonize
37. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
larceny
convoluted
gregarious
veracity
38. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
pariah
catalyst
repose
analogous
39. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
austere
permeate
listless
vestige
40. Caution/thrift/widom
meticulous
prudence
lavish
aerie
41. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
debutante
repudiate
placate
enigma
42. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
abstain
waver
analogous
belfry
43. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
jargon
dogma
lethargic
larceny
44. To expand like a woman in labor
Dilate
waver
unconscionable
vacillate
45. Respected because of age
frugality
dogmatic
ingratiate
venerable
46. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
opaque
latent
axiom
Keen
47. To polish
advocate
slake
embellish
burnish
48. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
grovel
placate
intrepid
ingrate
49. Theft of property
lucid
veracity
explicit
larceny
50. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
fallow
ambiguous
tangential
boor
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