- ameliorate: to make something bad or unsatisfactory better
- alacrity: brisk and cheerful readiness
- adulation: excessive admiration or praise
- abstruse: difficult to understand; obscure
- auspicious: conducive to success; favorable
- assiduous: showing great care and perseverance
- arboreal: relating to or resembling trees
- anachronistic: belonging to a period other than that being portrayed
- bombast: inflated or pretentious language
- banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
- avarice: extreme greed for wealth or material gain
- austere: severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance
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