an original model; an ideal example of a particular type of person
Archetype
100
Few things are more (salutary, unwieldy) for a young person than an occasional painful reminder that life is not a bowl of cherries.
What is salutary
200
Excessive self-indulgence, a period of decay
What is decadence?
200
An intruder, someone who is not wanted
What is an interloper.
200
a state of great excitement, to produce alcohol
What is ferment
200
Incapable of being understood
What is inscrutable
200
When I spoke to Mother about going on the spring trip to Washington, her only reply was a (nominal, noncommittal) "We'll see."
What is noncommittal
300
To draw forth, or bring out
What is elicit?
300
Immature, without experience
What is callow
300
accidental
What is inadvertent.
300
Incapable of being changed or called back
What is irrevocable.
300
I didn't expect the play to be particularly stimulating, but I never anticipated its overwhelming (equitable, soporific) power.
What is soporific
400
I enjoy science fiction movies, as they provide a short but exciting (umbrage, hiatus) from the problems of everyday life.
What is hiatus
400
A sour odor of decay , stale air, and generations of living (permeated, precipitated) every corner of the old apartment.
What is permeated.
400
I learned I would have to make a choice between my strong aversion to hard work and my equally strong (proclivity, wheedle) for expensive living.
What is proclivity
400
On its centennial, the entire country was immersed in a(n) (propensity, aura) of patriotism that was difficult to convey to outsiders.
What is aura
400
to make easy, to cause to progress faster
What is expedite
500
The newspaper account of the tragedy was quite sensational and filled with (lurid, provincial) details about the accident.
What is lurid.
500
I (surmised, infringed) that you did well on your test when you bolted through the front door as though you had just won the lottery.
What is surmised
500
Although that critic is feared for (noncommittal, vitriolic) reviews, I have learned that there is usually a sound basis for her unfavorable judgements.
What is vitriolic
500
While searching the ship's cargo, inspectors discovered a secret compartment containing (resilient, contraband) animals, including several endangered species.
What is contraband.
500
pompous or overblown language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas