Synonyms

Pant means to breathe heavily and rapidly...i.e gasp....as done after running fast.

To appease means to calm or pacify someone, which is what soothe means. Appeal means to make a request, somber means gloomy, and slacker is a lazy person.

To pamper means to treat with excessive indulgence, similar to coddle. Fear and fright mean to be afraid, and lost is the opposite of being cared for.

In certain contexts, act can mean to perform or carry out, and perpetrate means to commit or carry out (often something negative). Proportion refers to a ratio, private means secluded, and prove means to demonstrate truth.

To relinquish means to voluntarily give up or let go of something, which matches the meaning of abandon. Remind means to cause to remember, foster means to promote growth, and verify means to check accuracy.

A buttress supports and strengthens, just as to fortify means to strengthen or reinforce. Fervor means intense passion, furor means an uproar, and fervent means having intense feelings.

[wearied / wanting in zest]

[excursion]

[confused & unintelligible speech]

[facetious, humorous]

[as that announcing death/funeral] 

A junta refers to a military or political group that controls a government, especially after seizing power. A sailing vessel is a ship, a philosophy is a belief system, and a nobleman is an aristocrat.

[serious misunderstanding]

[attribution especially of fault or crime]

[especially customs duty]