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Act quickly

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Abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate

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Abbreviated Communication

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Abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis,terse

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Assist

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Abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance

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Bad mood

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Bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish

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Beginner/amateur

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Dilettante,fledgling,neophyte,novitiate, prosecute, tyro

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Beginning/young

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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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Bold

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Audacious, courageous, dauntless,

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Boring

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Banal,fatuous,hackneyed,insipid,mundane, pedestrian, platitude,prosaic,quotidian, trite

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Carousel

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Bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude

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Changing quickly

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Capricious, mercurial, volatile

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Copy

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Counterpart, emulate, facsimile, fictitious,paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious

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Criticize/criticism

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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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Death/mourning

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Bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith

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Denying of self

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Abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate

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Dictatorial

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Authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical

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Difficult to understand

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Abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid

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Disgusting/offensive

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Defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative

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Easy to understand

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Articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid

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Eccentric/dissimilar

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Aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast,

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Embarrass

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Abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue

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Equal

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Equitable, equity, tantamount

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Falsehood

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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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Family

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Conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion

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Favoring/not impartial

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Ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot

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Forgive

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Absolve, acquit, exculpate,exonerate,expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate

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Funny

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Chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper

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Gaps/openings

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Abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift

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Generous/kind

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Altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting

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Greedy

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Avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal

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Hard-heated

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Asperity, baleful, four, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic,scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation

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Harmful

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Baleful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious

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Harsh-sounding

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Cacophony, din,dissonant, raucous, strident

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Hatred

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Abhorrence, anatagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor

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Healthy

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Beneficial, salubrious, salutary

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Hesitate

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Dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver

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Hostile

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Antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive

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Innocent/inexperienced

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Credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro

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Insincere

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Disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous

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Investigate

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Appraise, ascertain, assay, descry. Peruse

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Lazy/sluggish

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Indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid

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Luck

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Adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous,propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman

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Nag

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Admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof

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Nasty

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Fetid, noisome, noxious

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Not a straight line

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Askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex

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Overblown/wordy

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Bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose

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Pacify/satisfy

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Ameliorate,appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe

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Pleasant-sounding

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Euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous

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Poor

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Destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent

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Praise

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Acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration

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Predict

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Augur, auspice, fey, harbinger,portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate

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Prevent/obstruct

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Discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit,occlude

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Smart/learned

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Astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious

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Sorrow

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Disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn,lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody

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Stubborn

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Implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing

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Terse

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Compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn

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Time/order/duration

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Anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal

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Timid/timidity

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Craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation

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Truth

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Candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity

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Unusual

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Aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy

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Walking about

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Ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic

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Wandering

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Discursive,expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn

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Weaken

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Adulterate,enervate,exacerbate, inhibit,obviate, stultify, undermine,vitiate

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Wisdom

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Adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism

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Withdrawal/retreat

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Abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde

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