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Austere
s) forbidding rigorous puritanical ascetic unadorned
A)mild induldgent luxurious flamboyant
beneficent
s) humanitariag magnanimous charitable
a) selfish cruel harmful deleterious
cadaverous
s) corpselike wasted haggard emaciated ghastly
A) robust portly rosy the picture of health
crass
s) crude vulgar tasteless oafish obtuse
a) refined elegant tasteful polished brilliant
debase
s) cheapen corrupt demean depreciate
a) elevate uplift improve enhance
mitigate
s) lessen alleviate
a) exacerbate aggravate
prate
s) chatter prattle plavar
punctilious
s) precise scrupulous
a) careless lax perfunctory
redoubtable
s) awesome formidable august
a) laughable risible contemptible
restitution
compensation reimbursement redress restoration
stalwart
s) sturdy stout intrepid valiant mainstay
a) weak infirm irresolute vacillating
acrimonious
s) biting caustic rancorous hostile peevish
a) gentle warm mild friendly cordial
corpulent
s) overweight heavy obese stout portly
a) slender lean spare gaunt emaciated
dissipate
s)disperse strew diffuse waste
a) gather collect conserve husband
expurgate
s) purge sensor bowlderize
gauntlet
dare provocation trial punishment
hypothetical
s) assumed supposed conjecturul
a) actual real tested substantiated
ignoble
s) inferior unworthy sordid
a) admirable lofty noble
impugn
s) challenge deny dispute query question
a) confirm prove verify validate
intemperate
s) excessive extreme unrestrained inordinate
a)moderate restrained cool and collected
odium
s)abhorrance opprobium shame ignominy
a) esteem admiration approbation
perfidy
s) duplicity treason
relegate
s) transfer consign demote exile
a) promote elevate advance recall
squeamish
s) nauseated queasy delicate oversensitive priggish
subservient
s) secondary servile obsequious useful
a) primary principal bossy domineering
susceptible
s) vulnerable receptive impressioble
a) resistant immune
abate
s) diminish
a) intensify magnify wax
adulation
s) adoration idolization
a) ridicule derision scorn odium
anathema
a)malediction imprecation abomination
a)benediction blessing
astute
s) shrewd acute sagacious judicious wily
a) obtise doltish dumb
avarice
greed cupidity rapacity acquisitiveness
culpable
s) guilty delinquent peccant blameworthy
a) blameless innocent laudable meritorious
egregious
s) glaring flagrant blatant
a) unnoticeable paltry piddling
equivocate
s) palter, hedge, talk out of both sides of ones mouth
evanescent
s) ephemeral transient transitory
a) everlasting immortal imperishable
nebulous
s) vague murky opaque indeterminate
a) definite distinct
novice
s)neophyte tyro trainee apprentice
pretentious
s) inflated (done for show) ostentatious affected
a)unassuming unaggected modest
slovenly
s)unkept slatternly slipshod lax
a) neat tidy meticulous
torpid
s)sluggish lethargic otiose languid
a) energetic dynamic vigorous