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Hint	Answer	% Correct
without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic	Austere	100%
Lowest point, often used to refer to point of great despair or adversity	Nadir	100%
to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide	Abscond	50%
Very excited, eager, curious, anticipating	Agog	50%
eager and enthusiastic willingness	Alacrity	50%
uncertainty; having 'mixed' feelings, often due to the desire to do conflicting things	Ambivalence	50%
something that calms or soothes pain, or weakened or bland OR not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so.	Anodyne	50%
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period	Antediluvian	50%
of questionable authenticity	apocryphal	50%
an expression of approval or praise	Approbation	50%
strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort	Arduous	50%
practicing great self-denial	ascetic	50%
to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify	Assuage	50%
lacking originality, clichéd or boring	Banal	50%
pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas	Bombastic	50%
following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards	Canonical	50%
inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable	Capricious	50%
restricted or limited	Circumscribed	50%
involving or likely to cause controversy	Contentious	50%
complex or complicated	Convoluted	50%
the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things	Cybernetics	50%
the boundary of a specific area	Demarcation	50%
the outcome of a complex sequence of events	Denouement	50%
express contempt for; ridicule- to laugh at someone in a way that shows they think you are stupid	Deride	50%
shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved	Diffident	50%
to undeceive; to set right	Disabuse	50%
conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound	Discordant	50%
to free from burdens, to extricate	Disencumber	50%
selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas	Eclectic	50%
extreme boldness; presumptuousness	Effrontery	50%
Procreate, to cause to exist or develop, produce- to make happen	Engenderment	50%
dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy	Ennui	50%
Hidden Away	Ensconce	50%
Short-lived, fleeting	Ephemeral	50%
Substitute Product, inferior quality, Walmart version	Ersatz	50%
very learned; scholarly	Erudite	50%
weakened or sickly	Etiolated	50%
agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, harmony	Euphony	50%
of very poor quality or condition	Excreable	50%
exonerate; to clear of blame	Exculpate	50%
A means of achieving a particular end, as in a situation requiring haste or caution.	Expediency	50%
still existing; not exterminated, destroyed, or lost	Extant	50%
full of trivial conversation	Garrulous	50%
a very light or delicate material-like a veil	Gossamer	50%
Long, Aggressive or vehement speech; tirade or rant	Harrangue	50%
extremely painful (including emotionally)	Harrowing	50%
accuse or blame, to incriminate or charge with crime	Inculpate	50%
impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"	Ineluctable	50%
artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication	Ingenuous	50%
(adj.) harmless, inoffensive; insignificant	Innocuous	50%
Lacking interest or vigor, vapid, boring or dull	Insipid	50%
A group that fights against the gov.	Insurgencies	50%
offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment	Invidious	50%
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity, lacking interest or significance	jejune	50%
brief and to the point	Laconic	50%
to praise highly	Laud	50%
Talkative, fond of talking	Loquacious	50%
associated with war and the armed forces	Martial	50%
excessively sentimental; emotional and tearful	Maudlin	50%
Disliking humankind and avoiding human society	Misanthropic	50%
vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form	Nebulous	50%
perplexed/ surprised/ confused in a way that that makes you unsure how to react.	Nonplussed	50%
Worthless	Nugatory	50%
Stubborn, refusing to change one's opinion	Obdurate	50%
scarcity; lack	Paucity	50%
clear, easily understood	Pellucid	50%
having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way	Pernicious	50%
A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence	Perogative	50%
Person lacking culture or hostile towards the arts	Philistine	50%
loud and resounding	Plangent	50%
a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something	Polemic	50%
concerned with practical matters	Pragmatic	50%
Fabrication	Prevarication	50%
wastefully extravagant; lavishly or generously abundant; (n.) one who is wasteful and self-indulgent	Prodigal	50%
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe	Prodigious	50%
bearing in abundance especially offspring	prolific	50%
the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs	Propriety	50%
childish; immature	Puertile	50%
lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution	pusillanimous	50%
exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical	Quixotic	50%
everyday; commonplace, repetitive	Quotidian	50%
necessary for relief or supply	Requisite	50%
impatient, uneasy, or restless, stubborn	Restive	50%
of or relating to the stars or constellation	Sidereal	50%
sleep-inducing	Soporific	50%
Seemingly logistically true or plausible but actually wrong	Specious	50%
insisted; to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement- think court	Stipulated	50%
thwarted; stumped; blocked	Stymied	50%
habitually reserved and uncommunicative	Taciturn	50%
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger	tempestuous	50%
beginner; novice	Tyro	50%
courteous and refined in manner	Urbane	50%
indecisive, to waver between options	Vacillate	50%
Regard with great respect, to look up to	Venerate	50%
deviating from the norm	Aberrant	0%
daring and fearless; recklessly bold	Audacious	0%
taken as given; possessing self-evident truth	Axiomatic	0%
to criticize severely; to officially rebuke	Censure	0%
trickery or subterfuge	Chicanery	0%
fundamentally distinct or dissimilar	Disparate	0%
to weaken; to reduce in vitality	Enervate	0%
to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent	Equivocate	0%
urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention	Exigent	0%
improvised; done without preparation	Extemporaneous	0%
to loudly attack or denounce	Fulminate	0%
to drink, absorb	Imbibement	0%
accustomed to accepting something undesirable	Inured	0%
easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts	Irascible	0%
the study of games and other forms of play	Ludology	0%
the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. forgiving	Magnanimity	0%
coming into being; in early developmental stages	Nascent	0%
(adj.) dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; characteristic of prose, not poetic	Prosaic	0%
the property characteristic of old age	Senescence	0%
the property of being out of date and not current	Superannuation	0%

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