To commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure

Amalgam, blend, coalescence, combinatioon

To make less pure by mixing with a less valuable metal

Majestic, venerable

Inspiring awe and reverence, imposing and magnificient

BENT

He had a naturally artistic bent

Bring up, announce, begin to talk about

To bring up for discussion or debate

Synonyms: introduce, raise, moot

BROOK

We will brook no further argument

The principal would brook no disagreement during the school meeting

CARDINAL (ADJECTIVE)

Just as the athlete was well on his way to victory, he made the cardinal error of looking back, lost his balance, and fell.

Major, as in cardinal sin

Fundamental, most important

CHAUVINIST

The attitude that men must be obeyed since they are inherently superior to women is common among male chauvinists

Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which she or he belongs

A blindly devoted patriot

Synonyms: biased, colored, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudicial, prepossessed, tendentious

COLOR

Yellow journalism colored the truth

ESSAY

The newlo born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps 

EXACT

Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price

FELL (VERB)

The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees

FELL (ADJECTIVE)

Fell beasts surrounded the explorers

FLAG (VERB)

Think about a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits

FORD (VERB)

Because of the recent torrential rains, the cowboys were unable to ford the swollen river

To cross a body of water by wading

Synonyms: traverse, wade

A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide

To steady, guide, or secure with a rope, cord, or cable.

INTIMATE

Are you intimating that I can not be trusted?

LUMBER

The bear lumbered towards the garbage, drooling at the prospect of the Big Mac leftovers he smelled

To move slowly and awkwardly

To move heavily and clumsily

Synonyms: galumph, hulk, lurch, stumble

LIST (VERB)

The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind 

MEET (ADJECTIVE)

It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame

MILK (VERB)

I milked the position for all it was worth

To exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of

To obtain money or benefits from in order to achieve personal gains

Pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps.

To lessen the force of, weaken, as by euphemism

NICE (ADJECTIVE)

He made a nice distinction between the two cases

OBTAIN (ADJECTIVE)

Those standards no longer obtain

PIED (ADJECTIVE)

The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat

PINE

PLUCKY

The plucky young nurse dove into the foxhole, determined to help the wounded soldier

Corageous, spunky

Synonyms: brave, bold, gutsay

Able to be molded, altered, or bent

Synonyms: adaptable, ductile, malleable, pliant

PRIZE

The information was prized from him

RAIL

American progressives railed against the railroad barons

Torn, past of rend

To separate into parts with force or sudden violence

QUALIFY

Let me qualify that statement

To limit

To modify, restrict, limit

SAP (VERB)

That race sapped my strenght

SAP (ADJECTIVE)

Don't be a sap!

SINGULAR

He was singularly well-suited for the job

SCURVY

He was a scurvy old reprobate

WAG

Croucho Marx was a well-known wag

WAFFLE

His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind

TENDER

He tendered his resignation

To profer or offer

A formal offer

TABLE

They tabled the motion and will consider it again later

To remove from consideration

To postpone consideration