BETTER WORDS for these words............PLEASE?

Question

In place of these, tell me words which are uncommon and more difficult to make my vocabulary strong. Don't just write check the dictionary, please.
1. tackle
2. pensive
3. apprentice
4. aerial
5. marine
6. alert
7. lustrous
8. prevail
9. infavorable
10. suppression

Answer 1

1. tackle - undertake, take on, confront, attack, aggress
2. pensive - brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, wistful
3. apprentice - train, prepare
4. aerial - aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal
5. marine - nautical, maritime aquatic
6. alert - argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, conscious, intelligent, sleepless, perched, perked
7. lustrous - bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny, glistening, glossy,sheeny
8. prevail - predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail, hold, obtain, persist, die hard, run, endure, triumph, persuade, sway
9. unfavorable - admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving, adverse, harmful, inauspicious, untoward, disapproving, discriminatory, invidious, hostile
10. suppression - censorship, repression, containment, control, restraint, inhibition, defeat, destruction, overthrow, clampdown, dominance, overpowering, snuffing out, subdual, withholding, cover-up, concealment, censorship, veil of secrecy, wraps, conspiracy of silence, squashing, silencing

Answer 2

1. undertake
2. thoughtful
3. learner (although apprentice is a more uncommon word)
4. ? (can't think of any)
5. water
6. aware
7. shining
8. exist
9. detrimental
10. oppression

Your original words are better though.

Answer 3

For most of those you would need to know the specific connotation of the word you are using, but I always like the word protegee instead of apprentice. Otherwise i vote Thesaurus.com.

Answer 4

1. demolish (this is obviously figurative)
2. sagacious
3. padowan
4. airborne
5. aqueous
6. vigilant
7. gleaming
8. triumph
9. calamitous
10. tyranny

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

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