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1. Ineluctable (adj) stiff inevitable distasteful not sticky

2. Implacable (adj) obscure unlikely elusive impossible to appease

3. Laconic (adj) easy-going tearful dull terse

4. Truculence (n) fleshiness clarity laziness disposition to fight

5. Draconian (adj) extremely harsh listless chivalrous suggestive of a dragon

6. Chicanery (n) doily an herbal substitute for coffee trickery art of dressing fashionably

7. Cicatrix (n) cocoon troublemaker enigma scar

8. Cacophony (n) stone coffin disaster cancer-causing agent dissonance

9. Masticate (v) chew graduate geld leave office

10. Acrimonious (adj) athletic sour bitter proud

11. Insouciant (adj) silent insincere nonchalant insistent

12. Facile (adj) soft capable truthful glib

13. Didactic (adj) bossy intended to instruct heavy difficult to understand

14. Dulcet (adj) uncertain boring harp-like sweet-sounding

15. Emasculate (v) weaken grind to a pulp imitate measure carefully

16. Fecund (adj) fruitful decayed foul--smelling coy

17. Perspicacity (n) persistence insight patience integrity

18. Flaccid (adj) flabby lacking effervescence short effeminate

19. Sycophant (n) supplicant church official idealist parasite

20. Recalcitrant (adj) logical stubborn demanding pesky