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  1. aesthetic       pertaining to a sense of the beautiful; loving    beauty                                            The @ quality of ballet is not seen by all.                 
  2. bourgeois       pertaining to or belonging to the middle class                                                      The 60's radicals rejected their parents' @ values.         
  3. complacent      self-satisfied; pleased with oneself                                                                The @ man was never willing to work to improve himself.     
  4. decrepit        weakened by old age; feeble; infirm                                                                 The @ old man broke his hip when he fell.                   
  5. effervescent    bubbling and hissing; exhibiting lively behavior                                                    The bubbling, @ drink settled his stomach.                  
  6. extraneous      unrelated to the matter at hand; irrelevant;      not needed                                        The senator's @ remarks were edited out of the text.        
  7. fulsome         distastefully excessive and insincere; disgusting                                                   The employee's @ praise disgusted his co-workers.           
  8. homogeneous     consisting of similar or related elements                                                           They pureed the ingredients into one @ mixture.             
  9. inexorable      not to be moved by pleading; unyielding                                                             The march of progress often seems @.                        
  10. irascible       easily provoked to anger; quick-tempered                                                            The @ boy often fought with his brothers.                   
  11. maudlin         excessively emotional; mawkish                                                                      The @ movie was too silly to evoke true emotion.            
  12. obtuse          stupid; dense; lacking sharpness or quickness                                                       The @ student could not understand the simplest concepts.   
  13. perennial       occurring year after year or throughout the year                                                    The @ flowers lasted for many years.                        
  14. profligate      recklessly extravagant; depraved and dissolute                                                      The @ man wasted most of his paycheck.                      
  15. ravenous        hungry; famished to starvation                                                                      The traveler was @ after being without food for days.       
  16. secular         of this world and life; things other than         spiritual or religious                            @ concerns are put aside by contemplative nuns.             
  17. subservient     servile; obsequious; acting like a slave                                                            Some goods must be @ to more important goods.               
  18. tortuous        consisting of irregular bends; difficult to       follow; not straightforward                       The @ road curved around hills and through valleys.         
  19. urbane          being elegant in manner; suave                                                                      The haughty man thought himself more @ than he was.         
  20. vivacious       lively and active; full of spirit; fun-loving                                                       The @ young girl's fun-loving spirit was infectious.        
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