disperse to spread widely	corrupt to change from good to bad
hypocrite a person who claims to be what he is not	contentious quarrelsome, fond of arguing
contemporary modern	contrite regretful, feeling guilt
innate inborn, present at birth	deplore to regret
impartial fair, not favoring either side	vulnerable easy to injure or harm
conventional traditional, ordinary	extricate to free from difficulty
atrophy to waste away	denounce to criticize publicly
monotony a dull sameness	innovative original, new
inclination tendency, preference	endorse to support
debilitate to weaken	superficial shallow; on the surface
innocuous harmless	apathy lack of emotion or concern
novel new or different	commend to praise
ephemeral short-lived	guile trickiness; deceptiveness
esoteric understood by only a few	meager lacking in quantity or quality
taciturn quiet, untalkative	succinct brief
assuage to ease, relieve, or lessen	quiescence inactivity
obscure difficult to understand; difficult to see	ascend to move upwards
capricious tending to change one’s mind suddenly	vigor strength, energy
compatible capable of working in harmony	extol to praise highly
petulant irritable, touchy	acrimony bitterness
cultivate to grow; to improve	disparage to put down, to belittle
erratic wandering, inconsistent	beneficial helpful, good
levity excessive lightness of behavior or feeling	ameliorate to make better, to improve
deride to laugh at, make fun of cruelly	bane something that harms or destroys
anarchy disorder, absence of government control	provincial narrow-minded, unsophisticated
soluble capable of being dissolved	conspicuous obvious, readily apparent
consolidate to join together, merge	extraneous not essential, not related to
expunge to remove, erase	trifling unimportant
objective not affected by personal feeling	plausible believable, reasonable
vacillate to change one’s mind continually	steadfast firm, sure
castigate to criticize or punish severely	unwitting not aware, unintentional
amicable friendly	elucidate to make clear
revise to correct or improve	comprehensible capable of being understood
ascetic rejecting physical comforts	cryptic secret, mysterious
venerate to respect	ostentatious showy, intended to impress
bias preference, prejudice	augment to add to, increase
vivid lifelike, intense	pessimism a tendency to expect the worst
enhance to improve	munificent very generous
miser a person who saves money excessively	revere to respect, admire
pacifist a person who favors peace	incontrovertible indisputable, undeniable
alacrity eagerness, cheerful willingness	garner to get; to acquire
penury extreme poverty	peripheral on or having to do with the outer edge
proclivity tendency, leaning	recalcitrant disobedient, resisting authority
volatile highly unstable; explosive	ambiguous having more than one meaning
tolerance respect for the ways and views of others	embellish to decorate; to add fictitious details to
efface to erase; to make less noticeable	undulating moving in a wavelike manner
brusque rudely brief	plagiarism the theft of someone else’s ideas
preclude to make impossible, prevent	bungler a clumsy person
dissonance disagreement; lack of harmony	distend to expand, extend
willful ser norn	confound to confuse
predilection preference, liking	torpor inactivity
hackneyed overused, stale	invective an insulting or abusive expression
uniform identical, similar	banal unoriginal, stale
consequence result, outcome	tangible real, capable of being touched
penchant liking	stagnate to lie motionless
exasperate to anger or irritate	placate to calm the anger of
bolster to support, prop up	instigate to provoke to action
kindle to excite, stir up	emaciated starved; extremely thin
opaque impenetrable by light	fitful irregular; inconsistent
irascible short-tempered, irritable	circumspection caution
civil polite, courteous	loathe to hate, scorn
score the written form of a piece of music	morose sad, sorrowful
unprecedented never before known or experienced	mundane ordinary; commonplace
refined polite, well-bred	assiduous working devotedly and carefully
amass to pile up, collect	pulverize to demolish
fervor intense emotion	recluse one who lives alone; a hermit
retain to keep	diffident timid, lacking self-confidence
reserve a tendency to hold oneself back	extrinsic not essential; from the outside
arid dry	abet to encourage, urge on
exonerate to free from blame	adulterate to add impurities to
aggregate to collect; to bring together	prodigious immense; astonishing
rescind to repeal, cancel	derivative copied or adapted from others
insipid dull, uninteresting	engender to produce; to bring into existence
conservative traditional; opposed to change	impede to block, obstruct
impose to establish by authority	melancholy sad, depressed
turbulent violently agitated, disturbed	obtrusive obvious, highly noticeable
dispatch promptness	understate to express less strongly than appropriate
indefatigable untiring, tireless	ungainly clumsy, awkward
culpable guilty; blameworthy	jocular joking, jolly
mercurial given to quick changes of mood	nefarious evil
neologism a newly invented word	florid elaborately decorated; flowery
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