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absolutely
- absolutely completely totally utterly entirely thoroughly wholly
absurd
- absurd preposterous
accidentally
- accidentally Unintentionally inadvertently unwittingly
accuse
- accuse impute
achievement
- achievement accomplishment attainment
achievement
- Achievement accomplishment attainment fulfillment realization
acquire
- acquire pursue
actions
- actions measures
activities
- Activities practices
acute
- acute critical severe intense rampant pervasive dominant
advance
- advance breakthrough
advantage
- Advantage benefit merit asset
advice
- Advice guidance counseling
advocates
- Advocates proponents exponents champions preachers
affairs
- affairs matters businesses concerns
affected
- Affected influenced
affluent/wealthy
- affluent/wealthy Well-to-do/well-heeled
against
- Against at odds with /versus/ be pitted against/ be set against/ at variance/ at loggerheads/ at daggers drawn/ in conflict
agree
- agree assent consent
aims
- Aims sets out
aims
- Aims goals purposes objectives
alarming
- alarming terrifying horrifying harrowing appalling daunting intimidating +(prospect)
all
- all the more/ a fortriori
almost
- almost well nigh
always
- always invariably
always
- always constantly invariably
ambitious
- ambitious enterprising adventurous
amuse
- Amuse entertain divert
anyway
- anyway besides
apparently
- Apparently ostensibly
appraise
- Appraise assess
arguable
- Arguable moot point
argument
- Argument discussion
arrogant
- Arrogant conceited
artistic
- artistic aesthetic
ask
- Ask inquire
aspects
- aspects respects
assessment
- assessment appraisal
asset
- asset commodity
assumption
- Assumption supposition hypothesis
astounding
- astounding stupendous/staggering/mind boggling
attack
- Attack wages wars with
attack
- attack wage wars with
attraction
- Attraction appeal
authority
- authority expert holder of power
ban
- ban Prohibit proscribe
banned
- Banned proscribed forbidden disallowed prohibited outlawed
banned
- banned proscribed
basic
- basic rudimentary
be
- Be afflicted with/ be plagued with
begin
- Begin set out on
beginner
- Beginner tyro novice neophyte dilettante
beginning
- Beginning outset onset (-)
benefit
- Benefit sake
benevolent
- benevolent munificent ~beneficent (attitude)
better
- better preferable preferred
better
- Better improve ameliorate
biased
- Biased tendentious
booming
- booming thriving flourishing burgeoning budding sprouting prospering
briefly
- Briefly tersely
brilliantly
- brilliantly dazzlingly
calmly
- calmly quietly cooly
camp
- Camp faction
car
- car automobile
career
- career profession
careful
- Careful meticulous
careful
- careful meticulous
carefully
- carefully meticulously painstakingly
cautious
- Cautious circumspect
ceaselessly
- Ceaselessly incessantly perpetually unceasingly endlessly
censor
- censor expurgate
censure
- censure castigate chastise
certain
- certain to do sth./ bound to do sth
certainly
- Certainly unavoidably inevitably
chaotic
- Chaotic tumultuous
characteristics
- characteristics attributes
cheat
- Cheat bilk
chief
- Chief foremost (foremost functions)
children
- Children offspring youngsters
choose
- choose opt for
circumstances
- Circumstances situations conditions
class
- Class stratum
classless
- classless egalitarian
clearly
- Clearly definitely apparently evidently
cluster
- Cluster aggregation
coexistence
- Coexistence cohabitation
colonization
- Colonization settlement
comforts
- comforts amenities
comical
- comical farcical
coming
- coming arrival
comment
- Comment remark
compete
- Compete contest contend vie
complained
- complained bemoaned
complete
- Complete failure fiasco
complete
- Complete destruction annihilation
completely
- completely utterly
condition
- condition stipulation provision requirement
confirm
- Confirm corroborate substantiate
cons
- Cons drawbacks
consider
- consider deem
consisted
- Consisted composed made up comprised contained
consistent
- consistent compatible congruent congruous corresponding uniform
contemplate
- Contemplate envision envisage
convene
- Convene convoke summon
creates
- Creates breeds
credit
- Credit ascribe
critic
- critic detractor
cry
- Cry tear weep sob
curious
- Curious inquisitive
daily
- daily Everyday quotidian ordinary diurnal
dated
- dated outmoded
death
- death demise
decide
- decide determine
decrease
- decrease diminish purge oust
decrepit
- decrepit ramshackle dilapidated run-down
deep
- deep profound
deep
- Deep profound
define
- define specify
demanding
- Demanding exigent pressing
depends
- depends on hinges on
deprive
- deprive divest mulct
deprive
- deprive rob mulct bereave divest denude
despite
- despite in spite of/ for all / notwithstanding/ regardless of/ irrespective of
despite
- despite notwithstanding/ for all/ regardless of/ irrespective of
determination
- determination resolution
die
- die expire lapse
differences
- differences disputes problems
dirty
- Dirty filthy
disagree
- disagree dissent
discipline
- discipline Field of studies
discouragements
- Discouragements disincentives deterrents
disgraceful
- disgraceful outrageous
disrupt
- disrupt interfere with
does
- Does it best/ does it utmost
during
- during amid
eager
- eager impatient
easily
- Easily lightly
eliminate
- eliminate dispose off
eliminated
- eliminated removed
encourage
- encourage foster promote
encouraged
- encouraged urged prompted
end
- end terminate
enlightening
- enlightening uplifting edifying
enormously
- enormously immensely tremendously substantially considerably significantly appreciably/to an appreciable extent/ exponentially infinitely dramatically
entertaining
- entertaining diverting
entice
- Entice inveigle
equate
- equate associate
error
- Error mistake blunder
especially
- especially In particular/ Particularly/ specifically
eternal
- eternal perpetual constant
events
- Events incidents occurrences happennings
eventually
- eventually in due course/ sooner or later/ when the time is ripe
everybody
- everybody every Tom, Dick, and Harry
everywhere
- Everywhere ubiquitously universally
exact
- exact opposite antithesis
excellent
- Excellent wonderful superb miraculous fabulous magnificent splendid
exclude
- exclude bar
expect
- Expect anticipate look forward to
express
- express utter give voice to
extend
- extend prolong
extremists
- extremists fanatics fiends zealots enthusiasts devotees
facility
- facility ability skill capability skill faculty aptitude knack flair (for)
fades
- fades gradually disappears
fake
- Fake mannered
false
- False inaccurate mistaken erroneous fallacious
fancy
- fancy florid
far
- Far distantly
fashion
- Fashion vogue
fear
- fear dread
fight
- fight clash
fighting
- fighting struggling battling
finer
- Finer points/ subtleties
flourish
- flourish thrive
fond
- Fond enamor
food
- Food cuisine
food
- food cuisine
foremost
- Foremost preeminent principal main major chief (aim of education)
former
- Former erstwhile
formidable
- formidable redoubtable
fortunate
- Fortunate felicitous
found
- found acquire
free
- Free liberate emancipate manumit
freedom
- Freedom carte blanche
friendship
- Friendship goodwill
frightening
- frightening disquieting alarming shocking
funny
- Funny hilarious
future
- future prospect opportunities career ladders
future
- Future generations/ posterity/ descendants
future
- future prospective
gap
- Gap rift ( that last for decades)
general
- general sweeping
generously
- generously unsparingly
get
- get obtain secure acquire
girls
- girls / those made of sugar and spice and everything nice
going
- going departure
good
- Good promising
grammatical
- grammatical syntactical
great
- great celebrated/prodigious/monumental/fine
great
- great celebrated