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1. pellucid: transparent, clear; also, easily understandable.

2. moribund: dying.
3. roseate: cheerful; bright; also, rose-colored.
4. conspectus: a sketch, survey, or outline of a subject.
5. missive: a written message; a letter.
6. genial: sympathetically cheerful and cheering; kindly.
7. idee fixe: a fixed idea; an obsession.
8. Pyrrhic victory: a victory achieved at great cost.
9. bucolic: rustic; pastoral.
10. crux: the essential point or feature.
11. satiety: fullness to or beyond the point of satisfaction.
12. vivify: to endue with life; to enliven.
13. slaver: to slobber; to drool.
14. beau ideal: a perfect or an idealized type or model.
15. raffish: tawdry; also, rakish.
16. impregnable: able to resist attack.
17. doyen: the senior member of a body or group.
18. sonorous: yielding sound; impressive in sound.
19. turbid: muddy; not clear; also, confused; disordered.
20. apogee: the highest point.
21. hoi polloi: the common people; the masses.
22. malodorous: having a bad odor.
23. lapidary: of or pertaining to stone cutting; also, terse or refined in expression.
24. hardscrabble: barren, marginal; also, marked by poverty.
25. enjoin: to direct or impose with authority; also, to forbid.
26. sycophant: one who seeks favor by flattery; a toady.
27. ambit: circuit or compass; also, sphere of action or influence.
28. surreptitious: done, made, or gotten by stealth; also, marked by stealth.