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Below are three groups of clues. Within each group, the answers share a common characteristic. The groups also share a common characteristic. Solving any one group should make it much easier to solve the others.

Group A

  1. Trend toward fervor
  2. Packing a teddy bear for your first sleepover
  3. Aborigine traditional dress
  4. Tongue-twister
  5. Predilection toward deities
  6. One who hugs programmers
  7. Forgiveness for killing someone
  8. Uncertainty about rainforests
  9. A lie about involvement in a crime
  10. Predisposition toward rage

Group B

  1. Tantrum play-by-play
  2. Advocation for cremation
  3. Flawed point of view
  4. Declaration of independence
  5. Plan for improved air quality
  6. Investigator-in-training
  7. Plan for a new waste-treatment facility
  8. Gemstone perplexity
  9. Careful look into the sudden change in leadership
  10. Act of getting covered for eventualities

Group C

  1. Limitation put on a photograph
  2. Discouraged group of firefighters
  3. Document exempting human traffickers
  4. Less-than-brilliant hue
  5. Religious ceremonies of young ladies
  6. Very accurate gadget
  7. Expressing a poem non-vocally
  8. Well-ploughed section of a field
  9. Intelligent choice for private air travel
  10. Item in the Munitions Hall of Fame
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    $\begingroup$ Here are a few: c1='picture stricture', c4='duller color', c6='precise device'; a few more questionable ones: c3=? 'papers slavers', c5=? 'rites sprites', c8=? 'bright flight' $\endgroup$
    – Dave
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 22:35
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    $\begingroup$ C7: Terse verse? C9: Smarter charter. $\endgroup$
    – Gordon K
    Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 23:27
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    $\begingroup$ 2 blue crew; 3 slaver waiver; 5 festal vestals; 7 mime a rhyme $\endgroup$
    – Hugh
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 0:26
  • $\begingroup$ At first I thought B was much the same as C and saw 8 youth sleuth. But B2 fire sale; 3 false perspective; 5 breath control; and B8 Ruby cube seem more promising. $\endgroup$
    – Hugh
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 0:44
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    $\begingroup$ i think C5 = masses of lassess $\endgroup$
    – AZGreenTea
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 5:41

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This is what I've done and gathered from the comments (wiki)

Group A
1. Trend toward fervor                                | ✓ intensity propensity
2. Packing a teddy for your first sleepover           | ✓ separation preparation  
3. Aborigine traditional dress                        | ✓ Australia Regalia
4. Tongue-twister                                     | ✓ elocution convolution
5. Predilection toward deities                        | ✓ divinity affinity
6. One who hugs programmers                           | ✓ developer enveloper
7. Forgiveness for killing someone                    | ✓ execution absolution
8. Uncertainty about rainforests                      | ✓ humidity timidity
9. A lie about involvement in a crime                 | ✓ complicity duplicity -or- perpetration fabrication
10. Predisposition toward rage                        | ✓ lividity proclivity

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Group B 
1. Tantrum play-by-play                               | ✓ conniption description
2. Advocation for cremation                           | ✓ interment determent
3. Flawed point of view                               | ✓ defective perspective
4. Declaration of independence                        | ✓ secession expression
5. Plan for improved air quality                      | ✓ pollution solution
6. Investigator-in-training                           | ✓ prospective detective
7. Plan for a new waste-treatment facility            | ✓ disposal proposal
8. Gemstone perplexity                                | ✓ corundum conundrum -or- jewelry foolery
9. Careful look into the sudden change in leadership  | ✓ mutiny scrutiny
10. Act of getting covered for eventualities          | ✓ insurance procurance

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Group C     
1. Limitation put on a photograph                     | ✓ picture stricture
2. Discouraged group of firefighters                  | ✓ dismayed brigade
3. Document exempting human traffickers               | ✓ slaver waiver 
4. Less-than-brilliant hue                            | ✓ duller colour 
5. Religious ceremonies of young ladies               | ✓ lasses' masses
6. Very accurate gadget                               | ✓ precise device    
7. Expressing a poem non-vocally                      | ✓ miming rhyming
8. Well-ploughed section of a field                   | ✓ thorough furrow   
9. Intelligent choice for private air travel          | ✓ smarter charter   
10. Item in the Munitions Hall of Fame                | ✓ displayed grenade
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  • $\begingroup$ Maybe it has something to do with the number of rhyming syllables or just syllables.. $\endgroup$
    – Raystafarian
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 16:17
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    $\begingroup$ c5: lasses' masses? $\endgroup$
    – Dennis Meng
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 17:01
  • $\begingroup$ It's a wiki, please feel free to jump in and add things as you see fit! $\endgroup$
    – Raystafarian
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 17:35
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    $\begingroup$ Looks like in group A, the words have 4 syllables each, in B 3 syllables, and in C 2 syllables $\endgroup$
    – orp
    Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 20:34
  • $\begingroup$ How is proclivity something that happens after death (as per the hint)? I can't seem to find any definition on that. I didn't put lividity proclivity because it didn't match the hint... $\endgroup$
    – orp
    Commented Dec 3, 2015 at 13:55

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