Synonym: NEFARIOUS practices

Synonym: a VERDANT landscape

Synonym: a FECKLESS assistant

Synonym: a UTOPIAN community

Antonym: with UNWONTED haste

Antonym: DECRY our efforts

Antonym: a PIQUANT charm

Antonym: EXHUME the remains

Antonym: give CREDENCE to the answer

Capable of being held or defended

Habitually silent or quiet

Invidious

Refusing to cooperate, irreconcilable

The ambitious noblemen will put the young king under house arrest and ___ royal privileges to themselves.

Most beginning writers try to ___ a great writer and later develop their own individual styles.

The purpose of military ___remains the same whether cavalry or helicopters are used: to learn as much as possible about the enemy.

I don't object to the inclusion of personal stories in a serious lecture, but they should at the very least be ___ to the subject.

How can we "meet them halfway" when they are so ___ in their opposition to what we propose to do?

When the temperature outside dropped suddenly, the water in the ditch __ into a mass of icy sludge.

Some of the episodes in the television series were wonderfully fresh and original; others were just plain ___.

To avoid, shun, keep away from

Carping

Acquisitive means able to get and retain ideas or information.

What means commonplace, trite or hackneyed