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Critical Words 004

1: Someone who dislikes people in general: ravenous
prattle
impecunious
misanthrope
2: Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing: munificent
terrestrial
obdurate
incontrovertible
3: The trait of seeming ill at ease: discourse
disquiet
distend
indolent
4: Free of guilt; not subject to blame: jocular
irreproachable
emend
meander
5: Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation: colloquial
acrid
polemical
voluble
6: A violent denunciation: torpor
tirade
trepidation
truncate
7: Too sacred to be uttered: corrode
corrugated
ineffable
confluence
8: (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified: arable
incidental
mosaic
viable
9: The deliberate act of wasting time instead of working: mercurial
vaporize
trifling
quell
10: Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality: indefatigable
paucity
coalesce
fathom