Group 11

　　Acrid sharp, pungent (used of smells and tastes)

　　Boorish ill-mannered

　　Cynical believing that people act only out of selfish motives

　　Epistle a letter (form of communication)

　　Heresy against orthodox opinion

　　Lance spear, spike, javelin

　　Obscure difficult to understand, partially hidden

　　Poignant deeply moving, strongly affecting the emotions

　　Respite a break, intermission

　　Terse concise, to the point

　　Group 12

　　Acrophobia fear of heights

　　Bourgeois middle class

　　Debility weakness, incapacity

　　Epistolary concerned with letters, through correspondence

　　Hiatus interruption, pause

　　Languid tired, slow

　　Obscured hidden, covered, buried

　　Poised calm, collected, self-possessed

　　Resplendent shining, glowing

　　Therapeutic medicinal, curative

　　Group 13

　　Acuity sharpness (mental or visual)

　　Braggart someone who boasts

　　Debunking exposing false claims or myths

　　Epitomized typified, characterized, personified

　　Hidebound rigid in opinions

　　Languish decay, fade away, get weaker

　　Obsequious servile, submissive

　　Polemical causing debate or argument

　　Restorative a tonic

　　Thwart prevent, frustrate

　　Group 14

　　Adamant forceful, inflexible

　　Brawny muscular

　　Decathlon an athletic competition with ten events

　　Equivocate speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth

　　Hieroglyphics picture writing; writing difficult to read; enigmatic

　　Larceny theft, robbery, stealing

　　Obsession a dominating concern

　　Ponderous weighty, slow and heavy

　　Retention preservation, withholding

　　Timorous cowardly, fearful

　　Group 15

　　Adroit skilful

　　Brevity being brief

　　Decorum dignified, decent, correct behavior (adj. Decorous)

　　Err make a mistake

　　Hinder obstruct

　　Largess generosity

　　Obsolete no longer valid

　　Pontificate speak pompously, dogmatically

　　Reticent restrained, holding something back, uncommunicative

　　Tirade stream of verbal abuse

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