Group 1

Bland
Clipped
Compendious
Curt

Drab
Innocuous
Insipid
Jejune

Short/ To-the-point

Laconic
Lean
Limp
Monosyllabic

Pithy
Sententious
Succinct
Vapid

Lacking Taste

Group 2
Ameliorate
Amend
Arduous
Assuage

Convalesce
Elevate
Fatiguing
Grueling

Make, become better

Mitigate
Onerous
Operose
Palliate

Recuperate
Strenuous
Taxing
Toilsome

Difficult to accomplish, hard to endure

Group 3
Arid
Banal
Debauched
Hackneyed

Iniquitous
Licentious
Prodigal
Profligate

Recklessly Extravagant, Wasteful

Promiscuous
Prosaic
Prosy
Squandering

Stodgy
Trite
Wanton
Workaday

Not challenging, dull

Group 4
Abject
Capricious
Erratic
Fawning

Fickle
Freakish
Impulsive
Menial

Obedient to an excessive degree

Mercurial
Obsequious
Quirky
Servile

Subservient
Sycophantic
Toadyish
Wavering

Given to sudden behavior change

Group 5
Canonical
Conformist
Conservative

Contingent
Devout
Doctrinal

Happening by accident or chance

Fluky
Fortuitous
Inadvertent

Orthodox
Providential
Serendipitous

Conforming to traditional beliefs

Group 6
Alacrity
Apostate
Ardor
Avidity
Briskness

Dissident
Fervor
Gaiety
Gusto
Heretic

Lively & cheerful readiness

Iconoclast
Insurgent
Radical
Rebel
Recusant

Secessionist
Sprightliness
Verve

Someone who attacks cherished beliefs