S - W

Question 1

Smart / learned (4)

Answer 1

Astute
Canny
Erudite
Perspicacious

Question 2

Sorrow (12)

Answer 2

Disconsolate
Doleful
Color
Elegiac
Forlorn
Lament
Lugubrious
Melancholy
Morose
Plaintive
Threnody

Question 3

Stubborn (11)

Answer 3

Implacable
Inexorable
Intractable
Intransigent
Obdurate
Obstinate
Recalcitrant
Refractory
Renitent
Untoward
Vexing

Question 4

Terse (6)

Answer 4

Compendious
Curt
Laconic
Pithy
Succinct
Taciturn

Question 5

Time / order / duration (14)

Answer 5

Anachronism
Antecede
Antedate
Anterior
Archaic
Diurnal
Eon
Ephemeral
Epoch
Fortnight
Millennium
Penultimate
Synchronous
Temporal

Question 6

Timid / timidity (6)

Answer 6

Craven
Diffident
Pusillanimous
Recreant
Timorous
Trepidation

Question 7

Truth (9)

Answer 7

Candor / candid
Fealty
Frankness
Indisputable
Indubitable
Legitimate
Probity
Sincere
Veracious
Verity

Question 8

Unusual (4)

Answer 8

Aberration
Anomaly
Iconoclast
Idiosyncrasy

Question 9

Wandering (9)

Answer 9

Ambulatory
Discursive
Expatiate
Forage
Itinerant
Meander
Peregrination
Peripatetic
Sojourn

Question 10

Weaken (8)

Answer 10

Adulterate
Enervate
Exacerbate
Inhibit
Obviate
Stultify
Undermine
Vitiate

Question 11

Wisdom (10)

Answer 11

Adage
Aphorism
Apothegm
Axiom
Bromide
Dictum
Epigram
Platitude
Sententious
Truism

Question 12

Withdrawal / retreat (13)

Answer 12

Abeyance
Abjure
Abnegation
Abortive
Abrogate
Decamp
Demur
Recant
Recidivism
Remission
Renege
Rescind
Retrograde