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A situation or condition that is abysmal is extremely bad or of wretched quality.

The acme of something is its highest point of achievement or excellence.

When you are adept at something, you are very good, skillful, or talented at it.

Someone who is adroit is skillful and clever, especially in thought, behavior, or action.

The apex of anything, such as an organization or system, is its highest part or most important position.

When something attenuates, it lessens in size or intensity; it becomes thin or weakened.

A bravura performance, such as of a highly technical work for the violin, is done with consummate skill.

A clarion call is a stirring, emotional, and strong appeal to people to take action on something.

If someone shows consummate skill at doing something, that person’s skill is very great or almost perfect in every way.

If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.

A decadent person has low moral standards and is more interested in pleasure than serious matters.

A deft movement or action is made quickly and with skill.

A diminution of something is a reduction in the size, number, or importance of it.

If you describe a person, group, or civilization as effete, you mean it is weak, exhausted, powerless, unproductive, and/or corrupt.

Something is flaccid when it is unpleasantly soft and weak, hangs limply, or lacks vigor and energy.

If something is formidable, it is impressive in size, power, or skill; therefore, it can make you feel frightened, alarmed, or in awe because it is so powerful or difficult to deal with.

If something is your forte, you are very good at it or know a lot about it.

A garbled message or speech is confusing and not understandable, often because it is spoken in a hurry or is communicated with lots of accompanying noise.

If you describe someone’s appearance or behavior as impeccable, you mean that it is perfect and therefore impossible to criticize.

Someone, such as a performer or athlete, is inimitable when they are so good or unique in their talent that it is unlikely anyone else can be their equal.

An irreproachable person is very honest and so morally upright that their behavior cannot be criticized.

A languid person is slow, relaxed, and shows little energy or interest in doing anything.

When you are listless, you lack energy and interest and are unwilling to exert any effort.

Something is mawkish when it is overly sentimental and silly in an embarrassing way.

If you mitigate something that causes harm, you reduce the harmful or painful effects of it.

Something is nondescript when its appearance is ordinary, dull, and not at all interesting or attractive.

If something plummets, it falls down from a high position very quickly; for example, a piano can plummet from a window, and a stock value can plummet during a market crash.

Something is quintessential when it is a perfect example of its type.

When you have been remiss, you have been careless because you did not do something that you should have done.

If you say that something, such as an event or a message, resonates with you, you mean that it has an emotional effect or a special meaning for you that is significant.

A scintillating conversation, speech, or performance is brilliantly clever, interesting, and lively.

A sonorous sound is pleasantly full, strong, and rich.

A stentorian voice is extremely loud and strong.

Something that is turbid, such as water, is muddy or cloudy because it has lots of small pieces of matter or dirt in it.

Something or someone that is unprepossessing is not impressive or is unattractive.

A virtuoso is someone who is very skillful at something, especially playing a musical instrument.

If something—such as power, influence, or feeling—wanes, it gradually becomes weaker or less important, often so much so that it eventually disappears.

The zenith of something is its highest, most powerful, or most successful point.