Tests 1 and 3

This test which with astonishing creativity I will call number 3, will differ in that I will have help eliciting words (in this case between a and e)  using a thesaurus or dictionary. Each word will be selected for interest and usability - there won't be any of those specialised words that are too obscure to ever remember to ever be of use. I will then free write using as many of them as I can.

aggregate agrarian apologia assimilate abbreviate ambivalent androgynous asymmetrical arduous
bailwick baulk  benevolent burnish
corrosive cavil couch cumbersome cross-grained conflate connivance conjugal churlish cynical
diametric diatribe didactic disputatious disparage disposition disputatious disparate
excoriate excrescence execrable effectuate effeminate estimable

The number of apples found in each of the barrels amount to an aggregate of 40. Aggregate means a combined quantity of something so the following synonyms could be considered cluster, agglomerate or accumulation.  One shouldn't be confused by aggravate which is a very different word which suggests that something has been interfered with to the annoyance or discomfort of the thing itself.  Worsen, exacerbate intensify would be used in mitigation perhaps which would lead to a more vexatious state. Vexatious: a state of enhanced irritation. Irritation could also be classified as annoyance. Annoyance might be something that irks someone to the extent that they would become irrationally angered even it the object of that irksomeness is trivial.  Trivial means something that lacks serious significance.Trivial Pursuit nothing if not a masterpiece of self-awareness-based marketing where the subjects within the quizzes and the questions, despite often containing elements of interest, were essential trivial to living a full life. No-ones was ever enhanced by knowing that banana oil was obtained from coal - though I'm sure a few trivial victories were won answering questions of similar obscurity. Obscurity is a place that someone might emerge from or disappear into if they are not or no longer occupying a high profile or public faced existence. Existence is the occupational position of something that is opposite to not being present. If in existence then it is there to be seen heard touched felt or smelt or otherwise perceived. Perceived is something that can be sensed either through the traditional senses or through something that might be termed a sixth sense where an awareness is conceived through an unrecognized sensory route.

The fatigued detective frail from overwork and fraught from the disruptions in his private life feared failure above all other things. He had hoped that following his promotion that the panegyrics foisted on him as he flew outrageously through the ranks, that his fortitude and fearlessness would not be exposed as a facade: solidified fluff rather than the tensile robustness of the verifiable truth capable of surviving the hammering rigour of an interrogation. Failure in the hot seat was not an option for him. But if these interrogators attempts to drill down through what they might view as a friable personality ready to crumble the moment added pressure was applied, his confidence could conceivably fade, evanesce or shrivel in the face of hard facts fastidiously forged in the minds these formidable persecutors who would only ease off if if they could penetrate the dubious veneer of those fictive accounts he has already tried to promote as verifiable facts rather than delusional falsehoods.