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abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, sunopsis, terse
abbreviated communication
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apace, abrupt, headlong, impeutous, percipitate
act quickly
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abet, advocate, ancilllary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponendt stlwart, sustenance
assist
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bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
bad mood
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dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
beginner, ammateur
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burgeoning, callow, engender. inchoate, incipient, nascent
beginning, young
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acrebic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
biting (wit or temperament)
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audacious, courageous, dauntless
bold
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banal, fauous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitutde, prosaic, quotidian, trite
boring
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bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salcious, sordid, turnitude
carousal
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capricious, mercurial, volatile
changing quickly
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counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
copy
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aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
criticize/criticism
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bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral wraith
death/mourning
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abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
denying of self
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authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
dictatorial
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abstruse, amiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obsure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
difficult to understand
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defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
disgusting/offensive
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articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
easy to understand
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aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, iconolast, discrete, eclectic, esoteric
dissimilar/eccentric
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abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
embarrass
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equitable, equity, tantmount
equal
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apocryphal, canard, chcanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prvaricate, specious, spurious
falsehood
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conjugal, consanguine, distaff, dnogamous, filial, fractiricide, progenitor, scion
family
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ardor, ardent, dotrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
favoring/not impartial
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absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
forgive
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chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
funny
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abatement, aperture, fissure, haitus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
gaps/openings
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altruistic, beneficient, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificient, phlanthropic, unstining
generous, kind
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avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
greedy
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asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, virtriolic, vituperation
hardhearted
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baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
harmful
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cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
harsh-sounding
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abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, destestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
hatred
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beneficial, salubrious, salutary
healthy
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dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
hesitate
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antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
hostile
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credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
innocent/innexperienced
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disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
insincere
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appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
investigate
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indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
lazy, sluggish
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adventerous, amulet, auspicious, fortitude, kismet,optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
luck
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admonish, cvil, belabor, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector martinet, remonstrate, reproof
Nag
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fetic, noisome, noxious
Nasty
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askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, indulating, vortex
not a straight line
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bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
overblown/wordy
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ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth
pacify/satisfy
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euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
pleasant-sounding
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destitute, esurient, impecunious, indugent
poor
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acclaim, accolade, aggradize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
praise
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augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
predict
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dsicomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
prevent/obstruct
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astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
smart/learned
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disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
sorrow
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implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
stubborn
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compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
terse
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anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, dirurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
time/order/duration
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craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
timid, timidity
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candor, fealty, frankness, indesputable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verify
truth
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aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
unusual
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ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
walking about
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discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
wandering
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adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
weaken
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adage, aphorism, apothergm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
wisdom
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abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde,
withrrawal/retreat
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