1. An assembly of listeners — audience
2. Being unable to pay one’s debts — bankrupt
3. One who wastes one’s money on luxury — extravagant
4. A list of books or other articles — catalogue
5. Resulting in death — fatal
6. That which is no longer in use — obsolete
7. Subject to death — mortal
8. A cure of all diseases — panacea
9. One who is made to suffer for another — scapegoat
10. Performing work without pay — honorary
11. Government run by an absolute ruler — dictatorship
12. Not possible to express — inexpressible
13. Beyond correction or reform — incorrigible
14. One who makes a scientific study of language — linguist
15. One who eats human flesh — canniba
16. Of or from all parts of the world — cosmopolitan
17. One who knows many languages — polyglot
18. One who has no belief in the existence of God — atheist
19. Without the name of the author — anonymous
20. Happening at the same time — simultaneously
21. Spoken or done without any previous preparation — extempore
22. All of one mind — unanimous
23. A place where clothes are kept — wardrobe
24. Happening, done, published, etc. after a person has died — posthumous
25. The life history of a person written by himself — autobiography
26. The life history of a person written by another — biography
27. A child whose parents are dead — orphan
28. One who takes a dark view of things — pessimist
29. One who takes a bright view of things — optimist
30. A government run by the representatives of the people — democracy
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