| 1 | a dramatic change | | _____ | sophistry |
| 2 | a fight; an uproar | | _____ | lugubrious |
| 3 | unconcerned; indifferent | | _____ | donnybrook |
| 4 | a trace of something that once existed | | _____ | truncate |
| 5 | someone who participates in a conversation | | _____ | camaraderie |
| 6 | disregarding differences between people | | _____ | desiccate |
| 7 | dark and forbidding | | _____ | cosmopolitan |
| 8 | a deliberately misleading argument or statement | | _____ | vestige |
| 9 | unlimited power; boundless authority | | _____ | interminable |
| 10 | a chant to cause magic | | _____ | equanimity |
| 11 | worldly; sophisticated | | _____ | nonchalant |
| 12 | abundant | | _____ | carte blanche |
| 13 | technical names in science | | _____ | contemptuous |
| 14 | robber or bandit | | _____ | vernacular |
| 15 | scornful | | _____ | zealous |
| 16 | rapport and goodwill | | _____ | procrustean |
| 17 | fragile; easy to break | | _____ | interlocutor |
| 18 | any long, repetitive, or dull recital | | _____ | rife |
| 19 | a suspension of activity; an authorized delay | | _____ | moratorium |
| 20 | fervent; fanatical | | _____ | litany |
| 21 | to dry out; to remove moisture | | _____ | ubiquitous |
| 22 | causing mental or physical pain | | _____ | nomenclature |
| 23 | full; abundant | | _____ | wrenching |
| 24 | tiresome and long; seemingly endless | | _____ | metamorphosis |
| 25 | suitable for cultivation of land | | _____ | brigand |
| 26 | mournful; gloomy | | _____ | replete |
| 27 | to shorten | | _____ | frangible |
| 28 | occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent | | _____ | stygian |
| 29 | everyday language | | _____ | incantation |
| 30 | composure; calmness | | _____ | arable |