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| Abbreviated communication |
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| Abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse |
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| abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate |
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| abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espuse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance |
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| bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish |
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| dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro |
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| burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent |
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| Biting (as in wit or temperament) |
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| acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant |
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| audacious, courageous, dauntless |
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| banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite |
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| bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude |
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| capricious, mercurial, volatile |
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| counterpart, emlate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious |
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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 |
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| bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, morbund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith |
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| Abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate |
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| authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical |
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| abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, crytic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplxing, recondite, turbid |
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| defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative |
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| articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast |
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| Abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue |
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| Equitable, equity, tantamount |
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| apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious |
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| conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion |
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| Ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot |
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| absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate |
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| chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper |
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| abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift |
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| altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting |
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| avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacioius, venal |
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| asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation |
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| baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious |
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| cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident |
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| abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor |
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| beneficial, salubrious, salutary, hestiate, dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver |
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| antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive |
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| credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro |
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| disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous |
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| appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse |
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| indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid |
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| Adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propoitious, providential, talisman |
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| Admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof |
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| Askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex |
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| Bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose |
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| Ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe |
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| euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous |
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| destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent |
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| acclaim, accolate, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration |
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| augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate |
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| discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude |
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| astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious |
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| disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody |
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| implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing |
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| compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn |
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| anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal |
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| craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation |
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| Candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity |
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| aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy |
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| ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic |
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| discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn |
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| Adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate |
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| Adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism |
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| abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde |
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