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Terse

Abrupt, brief, to the point

Truncate

To shorten, to cut

Perspicacious/perspicacity

Showing good judgement, wise


having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Summit

Top of mountain, highest point

Circumlocutory

Using too many words where few can do to be vague

Succinct

Briefly and clearly expressed

Bucolic

Of the village, countryside, simple

Decadent/decadence

1. Overindulgent in pleasures


2. Decline in moral values

Salacious

Obscene/indecent

Concievable

Possible, imaginable, believable

Wistfullness

characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.

Innocuous

Harmless

Recompense

Reward, repayment

Perpetrate

Carry out or commit a crime

Wont

Habit ( to get up early)

Veritable

True, real, honest

Sunder/asunder

To split apart

Lissome

Thin, supple, graceful

Canny

Shrewd, good judgment

Vigilant/vigilance

Alert, alertnesa

Prime

Time of greatest sucess



Main , of first importance

Loquacious

Talkative

Buffoon

Stupid person

Circumspect/circumspection

Cautious, unwilling to take risk

Empirical

Based on experience, observation rather than theory

Licentious

Overindulgent in pleasures, unprincipled in sexual matters

Perpetuate

To keep alive, to make eternal

Desolate

Lonely, uninhabitated

Nefarious

Immoral, unethical, wicked,criminal

Paragon

Perfect example,model, ideal

Upshot

Outcome, result

Dilettante

Superficial, no real interest in arts/ any field

Connoisseur

Expert judge

Tensile

Elastic, stretched

Pliable

Flexible


Easily influenced

Canker

Harmful, destructive

Requite

Reciprocate, respond in an alike manner

Retrospect

survey or review of a past course of events or period of time

Inured

Used to, accustomed to (something unpleasant)

Viable

Realistic, achievable, feasible

Exude

Discharge


Display strongly and openly

Emanate/emit/radiate/ooze

Display strongly and openly

Depraved/depravity

Morally corrupt, wicked, pervert

Glutinuous

Sticky

Fragile

Delicate, breakable

Embryonic

Just beginner, primary stage of development

Apprentice

Newly recruited, working on low wages to get experience

Multifaceted

Versatile/multitalented

Conversant

Familiar

Noxious

Poisonous

Wreak

To inflict revenge


To cause damage

Condense

To shorten to summarise

Muster

To assemble to gather

Pastoral

Village side countryside

Verbose/verbosity

Wordy, lengthy

Articulate

To pronounce clearly


Form a joint

Curt

Brief, impolite, rude

Chary

Cautious, suspicious

Heyday

Greatest time of success

Rift

Split, break up

Acumen

Shrewdness, sharpness, ability to make good judgemnts

Spartan

Lacking luxuries

Recluse

Prefering to be alone

Unsavory

Offensive,objectinable, disagreeable

Ramification

Outcomes


Subdivisons, branches

Veteran

Experienced

Ruinous

Harmful

Tenable

Reasonable, capable of being defended against criticism

Probity


Opp. Inprobity

Honesty, uprightness

Personification/personify

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.


Embodiment

Sincere

free from pretence or deceit; proceeding from genuine feelings.



Not dishonest or hypocritical

Voluble

Talkative

Culmination

Most intense point, final point

Inane

Lack of intelligence, silly

Skeptical

Doubting, distrustful