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Acuity has to do with sharpness and smartness.

Someone who is adroit is clever and skillful.

Someone with alacrity shows cheerful willingness and eager behavior

If your favorite but perpetually losing team picks up a couple of new players and the result is suddenly an unbeatable combo, that's alchemy — any seemingly magical act involving the combining of elements into something new.

NW_Allay can be related to the word Alleviate, which means to lessen something, for example to alleviate someone’s sorrow. Allay is commonly used with human feeling like fear, suspicion, doubt etc. as these cannot be totally removed, they can only be lessened or decreased in intensity.

When choosing between ambiguous and ambivalent, consider whether you are describing something that is unclear or vague: that's ambiguous. If it's a fluctuation in attitude or feeling, that's ambivalent

Something ambiguous is unclear or vague, like the end of a short story that leaves you scratching your head. But if you're ambivalent about something, you can take it or leave it

An ambulatory surgery is the kind of procedure where the patient walks in and walks out. Ambulatory means able to walk, or related to walking.

Any time there's amelioration, something negative is becoming more positive.

NW_Blatant nearly always describes something that is obvious or offensive. It is different from the word flagrant, which describes the extremity and shock of something offensive. If someone states or does something blatantly, it is done brazenly and obviously, without trying to hide anything.
Most of my actions are Blatant.

blighted tomato plant , blighted city

NW_Some animals have those spiky and stiff bristles and some people make themselves as stiff as those bristles because they do not know a better way.Bristle can be learnt easily by associating the word with the hair that brush your teeth on the toothbrush. Bristles of the toothbrush clean your teeth, so that you can keep the cavities away.

NW_BULWARK can be remembered as a BULL WALL. Just like a strong bull acts as a wall for defence, so is the meaning of the word.
Defense is the key When you are under Pressure. Build a Bulwark/Fortress for your own good.

To cajole someone is to persuade them by using insincere compliments or promises. If you say "Please, pretty-please, I'll be your best friend," when asking for a stick of gum, you are cajoling the gum holder.

Candor usually means the quality of being open, honest, and sincere. If someone tells you they think you are dumb, you might reply with, "While I appreciate your candor, I don't think we need to be friends anymore."

Some synonyms are cranky, bad-tempered, irritable, irascible.

Because capitulate relates to the military, and Romans were all about their military, Latin has a lot to say about this word. In Latin, caput means head, capitulum little head. Think with this word how, at the end of a battle, someone bows their head in defeat, and often that is when heads roll.

People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping.

NW_Just equate Debility to De+ability, that is someone who does not have the ability to work, in other words a ‘WEAK PERSON’.

a defunct magazine

If something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.

he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday

To demur is to show reluctance or to hesitate, like not quite getting in the car when someone opens the door, but demure isalways an adjective describing a modest, reserved, or shy person, and sounds like the mew of a tiny kitten.

The verb deplore is used to express strong disapproval of something. If you really, really hate the way your mom makes meatloaf, then it's safe to say you deplore it.

abstain,cease .. It's often used as part of a legal order called a "cease and desist," which forces an action to come to a halt.

hopeless ..Unable to care for himself, let alone run, he became despondent, even suicidal.

surrounded by .. ensconce on the chair

It’s understandable if you get exasperated, or really frustrated

If your teacher gives an explanation of a difficult text you are reading, she is giving you an exegesis on it. An exegesis is a critical look at a text

exemplary behavior

Something expedient is helpful to you. If you vote your friend in for student body president just because you know she’ll hook you up — that’s an expedient choice. But expeditious is speedy, like your expeditious exit from the voting booth because you know didn’t do the right thing

ignominious defeat.

lachrymose eyes

To languish is to become pitiful or weak because you're sick, in love, or stuck somewhere. A prisoner might languish in jail, longing for her freedom.

grand larceny - big theft , petty larceny - stealling small things

If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish-gray" or "slate-colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea.

ridiculous

A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool. When an economy or a government fails, the situation is often described as a maelstrom.

Magnates are often larger than life characters. Donald Trump, he of the hair, is a classic real estate magnate.

Obstreperous means boisterous, noisy, aggressive, defiant. You’ve probably seen an obstreperous child in the grocery store, pulling away from her mother, screaming at the top of her lungs.

avoid

If something is odious it's hateful. If you become a historian of slavery, you'll learn all the details of that odious trade.

Ominous, and the related word omen both come from the 16th century Latin word ōmen "foreboding." However, unlike omen, which is a sign of something good or bad to come, ominous always describes something unpleasant or threatening.

To be omniscient is to know everything. This often refers to a special power of God

Opulent is a word that you will hear a lot around rich people looking to show off. "Remember the opulent buffet at Carrie’s sweet sixteen?

pretentious, flamboyant, and gaudy

Say your favorite soap star gets killed off in episode 12. If you sob uncontrollably, tear at your hair, and refuse to leave the couch for a week, most would say your response was overwrought — in other words, a bit much

alleviate .. palliate pain

@PK : There is a plethora of lame excuses you give everytime.

very heavy to move .

To pontificate is to talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner. To pontificate properly, you need to be a know-it-all with very strong opinions and the urge to share them...“The new professor always pontificates”

To demur is to show reluctance or to hesitate, like not quite getting in the car when someone opens the door, but demure isalways an adjective describing a modest, reserved, or shy person, and sounds like the mew of a tiny kitten.

The black crows slowly circling the front entrance to your office building at 6:00 am may have a portentous quality, meaning it seems like they’re an omen indicating something bad will happen.

Grab for the adjective precarious when something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse. Are you totally broke and the people you owe money to keep calling? You're in a precarious financial situation!

Precepts are little life lessons that are usually passed down to children by authority figures such as parents, teachers, or religious figures.

A sharp, steep drop — whether it's in a stock price, a roller coaster, or a star's popularity — could be described as a precipitous one.

To preclude something is to prevent it from happening.

If you're engaged to get married, but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have got yourself in quite a predicament. A predicament is a difficult, confusing, and unpleasant situation.

Preeminent scholars or universities or craftsmen are the best at what they do and are well known because of it

Repudiate can be easily learnt while associating the word to a situation in the movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. In the movie when Snape kills Dumbeldore, former rejected/repudiated the authority of the latter.
It can also be confused with the word refudiate, as repudiate and refudiate means to reject something or to refuse to acknowledge something.

Someone or something that is resplendent has great beauty and is a pleasure to behold.

Don’t confuse reticent with reluctant, which means unwilling.

rife with oppurtunities

The word ‘Ruminate’ can be thought of as ‘roaming at’. Therefore something that is roaming around the mind and therefore this can be related to the meaning of the word ‘ruminate’ which menas to go over something again and again in the mind.

Movie bank robbers always seem to pull some kind of ruse, a deceptive trick

If you comment on something at a deeper level, you are making a sagacious observation

salacious lips

There are savants who are wise and learned, and then there are idiot savants, who are brilliant in very specific areas, but not in others

NW_Relate terse to turtle. Turtles have short legs. But then they can travel long distances with their short legs. Similarly, when you give a terse response or make a terse statement, you can express much in a few words and be brief and clear.

A villain's worst nightmare is the superhero who always seems to thwart his efforts, preventing him from carrying out his plans to take over the world.

But timorous is a specific kind of fearfulness — the kind that strikes people before giving a speech, or walking into a crowded place where people are socializing.

After a huge Thanksgiving meal, my family members fall into a torpor; no one can even pick up the TV remote."

If your little brother quietly obeys your instructions and waits for you at the food court while you and your friends wander around the mall, he's probably a tractable child, meaning he's obedient, flexible, and responds well to directions.

A transgression is something that is against a command or law. Whether you are cheating on a test, or cheating on a spouse, you are committing transgressions that are not easily forgiven.

When plain old "fear" isn't enough to get across a deep feeling of dread about something on the horizon, use the more formal word trepidation.

Something that is trivial is not important or significant, such as the trivial details you shared with me about your trip to the post office this morning

depravity ...If you are guilty of turpitude, you should be ashamed of yourself.