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1.		n. dullness; impassiveness
		dispirited
		curtail
		hummock
		stolidity

2.		adj. excessively exacting
		sinecure
		combustible
		comeuppance
		hypercritical

3.		n. striker (tongue) of a bell
		mediate
		clapper
		recant
		sportive

4.		adj. all-knowing
		interminable
		embroil
		collusion
		omniscient

5.		adj. exhausting
		aspiration
		crabbed
		grueling
		whet

6.		adj. entreating; beseeching
		import
		staccato
		suppliant
		rile

7.		adj. positive; arbitrary
		holocaust
		dogmatic
		crone
		countenance

8.		adj. easily deceived
		luminary
		gullible
		crux
		mausoleum

9.		adj. parched; dry
		disparage
		sere
		profusion
		bemused

10.		n. twistings; distortions
		endorse
		contortions
		mirth
		erroneous

11.		n. ability to foresee future happenings; prudence
		fracas
		detrimental
		foresight
		asceticism

12.		adj. festive; gay
		attest
		convivial
		quiver
		sybarite

13.		n. opening; break
		irascible
		homespun
		monastic
		rift

14.		adj. accidental; not regular or permanent
		anarchist
		casual
		squat
		categorical

15.		n. active enmity
		perpetual
		fancier
		animosity
		feign

16.		adj. fleshly
		obtuse
		circlet
		carnal
		hone

17.		n. honor; glory
		conclusive
		niggle
		kudos
		incriminate

18.		adj. having the weight of authority; dictatorial
		duress
		cataclysm
		authoritative
		sacrosanct

19.		adj. absorbing; engrossing
		rectitude
		riveting
		inequity
		detrimental

20.		n. prank; flighty conduct
		gawk
		cumbersome
		stigma
		escapade