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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
Ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
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Forgive
Absolve, acquit, exculpate,exonerate,expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
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Funny
Chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
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Gaps/openings
Abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
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Generous/kind
Altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
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Greedy
Avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
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Hard-heated
Asperity, baleful, four, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic,scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
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Harmful
Baleful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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Harsh-sounding
Cacophony, din,dissonant, raucous, strident
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Hatred
Abhorrence, anatagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
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Healthy
Beneficial, salubrious, salutary
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Hesitate
Dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
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Hostile
Antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
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Innocent/inexperienced
Credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
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Insincere
Disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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Investigate
Appraise, ascertain, assay, descry. Peruse
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Lazy/sluggish
Indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
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Luck
Adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous,propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
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Nag
Admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
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Nasty
Fetid, noisome, noxious
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Not a straight line
Askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
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Overblown/wordy
Bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
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Pacify/satisfy
Ameliorate,appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe
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Pleasant-sounding
Euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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Poor
Destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
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Praise
Acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
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Predict
Augur, auspice, fey, harbinger,portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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Prevent/obstruct
Discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit,occlude
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Smart/learned
Astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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Sorrow
Disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn,lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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Stubborn
Implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
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Terse
Compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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Time/order/duration
Anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
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Timid/timidity
Craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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Truth
Candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
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Unusual
Aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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Walking about
Ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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Wandering
Discursive,expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
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Weaken
Adulterate,enervate,exacerbate, inhibit,obviate, stultify, undermine,vitiate
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Wisdom
Adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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Withdrawal/retreat
Abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde

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