Vocabulary and Synonyms

Reluctant means feeling or showing hesitation or unwillingness. Unwilling is a direct synonym.

Rectify means correcting i.e. improving. Amend is changing/ revising, and is not as appropriate as improve...emending meaning correcting would have been correct.

The hot-headed customers create scenes by shouting and other aggressive behaviour.

The relationship is synonym pairs. Turpitude (wickedness) is a synonym for Depravity. Courage is a synonym for Fortitude.

The relationship is a verb and its associated concept. To malinger is to feign illness. To flatter is to show appreciation (or to offer praise).

The relationship is antonymous: to implicate is to involve in a crime, while to exculpate is to clear of blame. Similarly, to complicate is to make something difficult, while to simplify is to make it easier.

The relationship is tool to user. An auger is a tool used by a carpenter, and a scalpel is a tool used by a surgeon.

The relationship is action to the quality required to perform it. To outfox someone requires cunning; to outstrip someone requires speed.

The words are antonymous with each other

The word 'lupine' is derived from the Latin word 'lupinus', meaning 'of or like a wolf'.

Lurid means presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, often implying something offensive, gruesome, or unpleasantly bright.

Lustrous means having a gentle sheen or soft glow; it is synonymous with shining or radiant.

To macerate means to soften or break something down by soaking it in a liquid.

Machiavellian refers to being cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics or in advancing one's career.

Magnanimous means very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself.