1. around — about
2. alternate — change
3. beverage — drink
4. challenge — test
5. decline — refuse
6. evade — avoid
7. feeble — weak
8. gorge — valley
9. keen — eager
10. kin — family
11. buoyancy — feeling of great happiness
12. jubilation — celebration
13. listless — not showing interest
14. monarch — sovereign head of state, king or queen
15. nonchalant — seeming unconcerned
16. obsolete — no longer produced or used
17. pardon — to forgive someone with mercy
18. quaint — comfortable, elegant, expensive
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