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"Abbreviated Communication" - 7 |
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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, espouse, 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 (in wit/temperament)" - 8 |
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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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"Carousal/Boisterous/Immodest" - 13 |
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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, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious |
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"Criticize/Criticism" - 28 |
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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, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith |
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abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate |
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authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic/hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical |
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"Difficult to Understand" - 14 |
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abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic,enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid |
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"Disgusting/Offensive" - 7 |
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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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"Eccentric/Dissimilar" - 7 |
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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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"Favoring/Not Impartial" - 6 |
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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, rapacious, 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 |
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dither, oscillate, teeter vacillate, waver |
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antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive |
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"Innocent/Inexperienced" - 6 |
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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, propitious, providential, talisman |
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admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof |
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"Not a Straight Line" - 15 |
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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, urgid, 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, accolade, 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, lamen, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody |
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implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing |
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"Terse/Lacking Words" - 6 |
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compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn |
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"Time/Order/Duration" - 14 |
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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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"Withdrawal/Retreat" - 13 |
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abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde |
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