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1
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To make greater, richer, more powerful

A

Aggrandize

2
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Lacking freshness or originally; commonplace, ordinary

A

Banal

3
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Trickery, especially in legal dealing; the use of subterfuge or trickery in debate

A

Chicanery

4
Q

To indicate

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Denote

5
Q

One who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk of profit or loss

A

Entrepreneur

6
Q

An inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefore worshiped

A

Fetish

7
Q

Hatefully bad or wicked; abominable

A

Heinous

8
Q

Thinking deeply or seriously, often or sad or melancholy things

A

Pensive

9
Q

To evoke resentment in

A

Pique

10
Q

Expressing sorrow; mournful

A

Plaintive

11
Q

Forceful and effective; keen; penetrating

A

Trenchant

12
Q

Green with growing plants or grass; green in color

A

Verdant

13
Q

To exaggerate

A

Aggrandize

14
Q

Anything irrationally reverenced; obsession

A

Fetish

15
Q

To arouse

A

Pique

16
Q

Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated

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Verdant

17
Q

Mis-1

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Badly, wrongly

18
Q

Mis-2

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Hater, hatred

19
Q

Trans-

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(Tra) across

20
Q

Un-

A

Not

21
Q

Struggle, contest

A

AGON

22
Q

To fall, to befall, to happen

A

CAD, CAS, CID

23
Q

To say

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DIC, DICT

24
Q

To bear; to carry

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FER

25
Q

To swear

A

JUR

26
Q

Death

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MORT

27
Q

All

A

OMNI

28
Q

To hang, to weigh, to pay

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PEND, PENS

29
Q

Pertaining to

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-ac, -yer

30
Q

One who

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-Ian

31
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Result of

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-men