"120 Words..." (11th) List 2

strong and sharp, as a taste or smell

• auspicious

• brazen

• acrid

• nebulous

make better

• ameliorate

• portend

• disparage

• intimate

indicating favorable circumstances and good luck

• circumspect

• fastidious

• auspicious

• empirical

unrestrained by convention or propriety

• acrid

• nebulous

• brazen

• fastidious

careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk

• dearth

• scintillating

• guile

• circumspect

an insufficient quantity or number

• guile

• pretext

• dearth

• goad

express a negative opinion of

• disparage

• portend

• goad

• ameliorate

pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

• rapacious

• dogmatic

• nebulous

• scintillating

derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

• acrid

• rapacious

• empirical

• scintillating

giving careful attention to detail

• acrid

• fastidious

• auspicious

• rapacious