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1
Q

bold (3)

A

audacious
courageous
dauntless

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2
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changing quickly (3)

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capricious
mercurial
volatile

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3
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hesitate (5)

A 
dither
oscillate
teeter
vacillate
waver
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4
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act quickly (5)

A 
abrupt
apace
headlong
impetuous
precipitate
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5
Q

innocent/inexperienced (6)

A 
credulous
gullible
ingenuous
naive
novitiate
tyro
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6
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difficult to understand (14)

A 
abstruse
ambiguous
arcane
bemusing
cryptic
enigmatic
esoteric
inscrutable
obscure
opaque
paradoxical
perplexing
recondite
turbid
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easy to understand (6)

A 
articulate
cogent
eloquent
evident
limpid
pellucid
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8
Q

smart/learned (4)

A

astute
canny
erudite
perspicacious

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9
Q

criticize/criticism (28)

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aspersion
belittle
berate
calumny
castigate
decry
defame/defamation
denounce
deride/derisive
diatribe
disparage
excoriate
gainsay
harangue
impugn
inveigh
lambaste
obloquy
objurgate
opprobrium
pillory
rebuke
remonstrate
reprehend
reprove
revile
tirade
vituperate
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carousal (11)

A 
bacchanalian
depraved
dissipated
iniquity
libertine
libidinous
licentious
reprobrate
ribald
salacious
sordid
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Q

truth (10)

A 
candor/candid
fealty
frankness
indisputable
indubitable
legitimate
probity
sincere
veracious
verity
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falsehood (17)

A 
aprocryphal
canard
chicanery
dissemble
duplicity
equivocate
erroneous
ersatz
fallacious
feigned
guile
mendacious
mendacity
perfidy
prevaricate
specious
spurious
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biting (as in wit or temperament) (8)

A 
acerbic
acidulous
acrimonious
asperity
caustic
mordant
mordacious
trenchant
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praise (9)

A 
acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud/laudatory
venerate
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harmful (9)

A 
baleful
baneful
deleterious
inimical
injurious
insidious
minatory
perfidious
pernicious
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16
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timid/timidity (6)

A 
craven
diffident
pusillanimous
recreant
timorous
trepidation
17
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boring (10)

A 
banal
fatuous
hackneyed
insipid
mundane
pedestrian
platitude
prosaic
quotidian
trite
18
Q

weaken (8)

A 
adulterate
enervate
exacerbate
inhibit
obviate
stultify
undermine
vitiate
19
Q

assist (12)

A 
abet
advocate
ancillary
bolster
corroborate
countenance
espouse
mainstay
munificent
proponent
stalwart
sustenance
20
Q

hostile (8)

A 
antithetic
churlish
curmudgeon
irascible
malevolent
misanthropic
truculent
vindictive
21
Q

stubborn (11)

A 
implacable
inexorable
intractable
intransigent
obdurate
obstinate
recalcitrant
refractory
renitent
untoward
vexing
22
Q

beginning/young (6)

A 
burgeoning
callow
engender
inchoate
incipient
nascent
23
Q

generous/kind (8)

A 
altruistic
beneficient
clement
largess
magnanimous
munificent
philanthropic
unstinting
24
Q

greedy (7)

A 
avaricious
covetous
mercenary
miserly
penurious
rapacious
venal
25
Q

terse (6)

A 
compendious
curt
laconic
pithy
succinct
taciturn
26
Q

overblown/wordy (10)

A 
bombastic
circumlocution
garrulous
grandiloquent
loquacious
periphrastic
prolix
rhetoric
turgic
verbose
27
Q

dictatorial (8)

A 
authoritarian
despotic
dogmatic
hegemonic
hegemony
imperious
peremptory
tyrannical
28
Q

hatred (10)

A 
abhorrence
anathema
antagonism
antipathy
detestation
enmity
loathing
malice
odium
rancor
29
Q

beginner/amateur (6)

A 
dilettante
fledgling
neophyte
novitiate
proselyte
tyro
30
Q

lazy/sluggish (10)

A 
indolent
inert
lackadaisical
languid
lassitude
lethargic
phlegmatic
quiescent
slothful
torpid
31
Q

pacify/satisfy (10)

A 
ameliorate
appease
assuage
defer
mitigate
mollify
placate
propitiate
satiate
slake
32
Q

forgive (8)

A 
absolve
acquit
exculpate
exonerate
expiate
palliate
redress
vindicate
33
Q

poor (4)

A

destitute
esurient
impecunious
indigent

34
Q

favoring/not impartial (6)

A 
ardent/ardor
doctrinaire
fervid
partisan
tendentious
zealot
35
Q

denying of self (6)

A 
abnegate
abstain
ascetic
spartan
stoic
temperate
36
Q

walking about (4)

A

ambulatory
itinerant
meander
peripatetic

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