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absolutely
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- absolutely completely totally utterly entirely thoroughly wholly
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absurd
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- absurd preposterous
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accidentally
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- accidentally Unintentionally inadvertently unwittingly
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accuse
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- accuse impute
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achievement
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- achievement accomplishment attainment
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achievement
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- Achievement accomplishment attainment fulfillment realization
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acquire
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- acquire pursue
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actions
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- actions measures
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activities
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- Activities practices
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acute
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- acute critical severe intense rampant pervasive dominant
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advance
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- advance breakthrough
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advantage
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- Advantage benefit merit asset
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advice
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- Advice guidance counseling
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advocates
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- Advocates proponents exponents champions preachers
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affairs
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- affairs matters businesses concerns
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affected
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- Affected influenced
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affluent/wealthy
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- affluent/wealthy Well-to-do/well-heeled
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against
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- Against at odds with /versus/ be pitted against/ be set against/ at variance/ at loggerheads/ at daggers drawn/ in conflict
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agree
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- agree assent consent
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aims
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- Aims sets out
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aims
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- Aims goals purposes objectives
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alarming
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- alarming terrifying horrifying harrowing appalling daunting intimidating +(prospect)
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all
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- all the more/ a fortriori
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almost
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- almost well nigh
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always
- always invariably
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always
- always constantly invariably
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ambitious
- ambitious enterprising adventurous
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amuse
- Amuse entertain divert
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anyway
- anyway besides
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apparently
- Apparently ostensibly
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appraise
- Appraise assess
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arguable
- Arguable moot point
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argument
- Argument discussion
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arrogant
- Arrogant conceited
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artistic
- artistic aesthetic
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ask
- Ask inquire
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aspects
- aspects respects
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assessment
- assessment appraisal
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asset
- asset commodity
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assumption
- Assumption supposition hypothesis
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astounding
- astounding stupendous/staggering/mind boggling
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attack
- Attack wages wars with
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attack
- attack wage wars with
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attraction
- Attraction appeal
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authority
- authority expert holder of power
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ban
- ban Prohibit proscribe
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banned
- Banned proscribed forbidden disallowed prohibited outlawed
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banned
- banned proscribed
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basic
- basic rudimentary
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be
- Be afflicted with/ be plagued with
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begin
- Begin set out on
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beginner
- Beginner tyro novice neophyte dilettante
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beginning
- Beginning outset onset (-)
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benefit
- Benefit sake
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benevolent
- benevolent munificent ~beneficent (attitude)
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better
- better preferable preferred
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better
- Better improve ameliorate
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biased
- Biased tendentious
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booming
- booming thriving flourishing burgeoning budding sprouting prospering
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briefly
- Briefly tersely
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brilliantly
- brilliantly dazzlingly
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calmly
- calmly quietly cooly
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camp
- Camp faction
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car
- car automobile
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career
- career profession
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careful
- Careful meticulous
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careful
- careful meticulous
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carefully
- carefully meticulously painstakingly
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cautious
- Cautious circumspect
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ceaselessly
- Ceaselessly incessantly perpetually unceasingly endlessly
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censor
- censor expurgate
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censure
- censure castigate chastise
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certain
- certain to do sth./ bound to do sth
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certainly
- Certainly unavoidably inevitably
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chaotic
- Chaotic tumultuous
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characteristics
- characteristics attributes
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cheat
- Cheat bilk
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chief
- Chief foremost (foremost functions)
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children
- Children offspring youngsters
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choose
- choose opt for
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circumstances
- Circumstances situations conditions
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class
- Class stratum
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classless
- classless egalitarian
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clearly
- Clearly definitely apparently evidently
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cluster
- Cluster aggregation
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coexistence
- Coexistence cohabitation
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colonization
- Colonization settlement
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comforts
- comforts amenities
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comical
- comical farcical
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coming
- coming arrival
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comment
- Comment remark
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compete
- Compete contest contend vie
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complained
- complained bemoaned
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complete
- Complete failure fiasco
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complete
- Complete destruction annihilation
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completely
- completely utterly
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condition
- condition stipulation provision requirement
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confirm
- Confirm corroborate substantiate
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cons
- Cons drawbacks
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consider
- consider deem
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consisted
- Consisted composed made up comprised contained
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consistent
- consistent compatible congruent congruous corresponding uniform
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contemplate
- Contemplate envision envisage
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convene
- Convene convoke summon
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creates
- Creates breeds
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credit
- Credit ascribe
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critic
- critic detractor
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cry
- Cry tear weep sob
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curious
- Curious inquisitive
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daily
- daily Everyday quotidian ordinary diurnal
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dated
- dated outmoded
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death
- death demise
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decide
- decide determine
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decrease
- decrease diminish purge oust
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decrepit
- decrepit ramshackle dilapidated run-down
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deep
- deep profound
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deep
- Deep profound
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define
- define specify
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demanding
- Demanding exigent pressing
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depends
- depends on hinges on
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deprive
- deprive divest mulct
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deprive
- deprive rob mulct bereave divest denude
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despite
- despite in spite of/ for all / notwithstanding/ regardless of/ irrespective of
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despite
- despite notwithstanding/ for all/ regardless of/ irrespective of
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determination
- determination resolution
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die
- die expire lapse
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differences
- differences disputes problems
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dirty
- Dirty filthy
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disagree
- disagree dissent
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discipline
- discipline Field of studies
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discouragements
- Discouragements disincentives deterrents
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disgraceful
- disgraceful outrageous
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disrupt
- disrupt interfere with
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does
- Does it best/ does it utmost
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during
- during amid
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eager
- eager impatient
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easily
- Easily lightly
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eliminate
- eliminate dispose off
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eliminated
- eliminated removed
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encourage
- encourage foster promote
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encouraged
- encouraged urged prompted
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end
- end terminate
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enlightening
- enlightening uplifting edifying
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enormously
- enormously immensely tremendously substantially considerably significantly appreciably/to an appreciable extent/ exponentially infinitely dramatically
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entertaining
- entertaining diverting
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entice
- Entice inveigle
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equate
- equate associate
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error
- Error mistake blunder
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especially
- especially In particular/ Particularly/ specifically
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eternal
- eternal perpetual constant
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events
- Events incidents occurrences happennings
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eventually
- eventually in due course/ sooner or later/ when the time is ripe
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everybody
- everybody every Tom, Dick, and Harry
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everywhere
- Everywhere ubiquitously universally
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exact
- exact opposite antithesis
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excellent
- Excellent wonderful superb miraculous fabulous magnificent splendid
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exclude
- exclude bar
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expect
- Expect anticipate look forward to
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express
- express utter give voice to
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extend
- extend prolong
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extremists
- extremists fanatics fiends zealots enthusiasts devotees
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facility
- facility ability skill capability skill faculty aptitude knack flair (for)
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fades
- fades gradually disappears
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fake
- Fake mannered
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false
- False inaccurate mistaken erroneous fallacious
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fancy
- fancy florid
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far
- Far distantly
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fashion
- Fashion vogue
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fear
- fear dread
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fight
- fight clash
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fighting
- fighting struggling battling
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finer
- Finer points/ subtleties
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flourish
- flourish thrive
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fond
- Fond enamor
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food
- Food cuisine
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food
- food cuisine
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foremost
- Foremost preeminent principal main major chief (aim of education)
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former
- Former erstwhile
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formidable
- formidable redoubtable
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fortunate
- Fortunate felicitous
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found
- found acquire
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free
- Free liberate emancipate manumit
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freedom
- Freedom carte blanche
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friendship
- Friendship goodwill
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frightening
- frightening disquieting alarming shocking
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funny
- Funny hilarious
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future
- future prospect opportunities career ladders
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future
- Future generations/ posterity/ descendants
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future
- future prospective
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gap
- Gap rift ( that last for decades)
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general
- general sweeping
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generously
- generously unsparingly
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get
- get obtain secure acquire
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girls
- girls / those made of sugar and spice and everything nice
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going
- going departure
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good
- Good promising
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grammatical
- grammatical syntactical
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great
- great celebrated/prodigious/monumental/fine
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great
- great celebrated
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great
- Great ultimate
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greed
- Greed avarice cupidity
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greedy
- Greedy acquisitive materialistic mercenary avaricious rapacious object-oriented
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greedy
- greedy rapacious
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grim
- Grim harsh severe dreadful terrible
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handsome
- Handsome adonis
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handwriting
- Handwriting penmanship
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harmful
- harmful deleterious
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harshly
- harshly unsparingly
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have
- have possess own be blessed with be endowed with enjoy boast
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heal
- heal alleviate/ease/relieve
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hierarchy
- hierarchy pecking order (ranking order)
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hope
- hope ambition aspiration
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hopelessness
- Hopelessness despair desperation
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hospital
- hospital infirmary
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however
- however no matter how
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idea
- idea notion
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idealistic
- Idealistic quixotic
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if
- If provided that providing that
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if/
- if/ on condition that/ providing that / provided that
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ignore
- Ignore overlook dismiss laugh off shrug off Reject spurn
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ignored
- Ignored disregarded overlooked
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ignored
- ignored spurned/snubbed/kept at arm's length /disregarded
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illusion
- illusion mere casuistry
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implant
- Implant inculcate
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implies
- implies suggests insinuates intimates
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important
- important vital crucial essencial
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important
- important preeminent
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imposed
- imposed enforced on
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impossible
- impossible Unthinkable /out of the question/ undesirable/ inconceivable/ ridiculous ludicrous absurd preposterous
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improve
- Improve enhance
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improves
- improves ameliorates
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improving
- improving enhancing
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incentives
- Incentives impetus encouragements
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increasing
- Increasing augmenting
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increasingly
- increasingly more and more
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inevitably
- inevitably unavoidably certainly inescapably
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inform
- Inform apprise
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inhabitants
- Inhabitants residents
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injustice
- Injustice iniquity
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innate
- innate inborn inherent
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instinct
- instinct intuition
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intensely
- Intensely frantically desperately vehemently vigorously
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international
- International cosmopolitan
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intrinsically
- intrinsically per se
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introduction
- introduction preamble preliminaries
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irrelevant
- irrelevant immaterial/extraneous
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issues
- Issues controversial subjects
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just
- just only simply merely /nothing more than/ exclusively/ entirely
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justly
- justly rightfully fairly
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labeled
- Labeled identified
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leadership
- leadership initiative
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legacy
- Legacy heritage bequest
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lengthy
- Lengthy prolonged
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lessened
- lessened alleviated relieved
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lifespan
- lifespan life expectancy life expectation
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limit
- Limit restrict
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limit
- Limit delimit
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limited
- limited circumscribed
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living
- Living livelihood
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lofty
- Lofty rarefied sublime
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lost
- lost was deprived of
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lover
- Lover paramours
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make
- Make render
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malicious
- Malicious calumnious (lie)
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mankind
- mankind humanity
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means
- means signifies
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measured
- measured gauged assess evaluate estimate
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measured
- measured gauged
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mercilessly
- mercilessly inexorably/relentlessly
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merit
- merit virtue worth
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miniature
- Miniature lilliputian diminutive minuscule midget
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mocking
- Mocking satirical
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moderate
- Moderate modest
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modern
- modern contemporary
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monarch
- monarch potentate
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money
- Money moolah
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money
- Money moolah (mammon= very negative meaning of wealth)
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moral
- moral ethical
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move
- move maneuver
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mundane,
- mundane, terrestrial issues
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nationalist
- nationalist jingoist hawkish
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native
- Native uncultured
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natives
- natives local people
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necessary
- Necessary essential indispensable
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negatively
- negatively seriously unfavorably adversely perniciously
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new
- new novel
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new
- new novel
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nobility
- Nobility gentility aristocracy
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nonsense
- nonsense prattle/drivel/baloney/balderdash
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nothing
- Nothing less than/ nothing short of / definitely
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obey
- Obey abide by conform to comply with
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objectionable
- objectionable exceptionable
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obsolescent
- obsolescent (adj, becoming obsolete) obsolete (adj) antiquated outdated outmoded old-fashioned
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obstacle
- obstacle barrier hindrance
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offer
- Offer tender proffer
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old
- old primitive
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old
- old superannuated
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old
- Old hoary
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once
- Once formally
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only
- Only nothing more than
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only
- Only nothing more than merely
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only
- Only solely
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opinions
- opinions views
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oppose
- Oppose don’t see eye to eye with
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otherwise
- otherwise differently
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otherwise
- Otherwise in other circumstances
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overcome
- Overcome surmount vanquish
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overcome
- overcome break through penetrate surmount
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overcome
- overcome surmount
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pace
- pace stride
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pacifist
- Pacifist cosmopolite
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pain
- Pain anguish
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patrons
- patrons clients customers
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peerless
- peerless nonpareil
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perhaps
- Perhaps maybe possibly conceivably
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perks
- perks Fringe benefits
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personnel
- Personnel staff
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perspective
- Perspective outlook
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perversion
- Perversion deviation deviance
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picked
- picked out singled out
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pillage
- pillage loot plunder
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please
- please gratify
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polite
- Polite refined civilized
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pompous
- Pompous bombastic pretentious
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poor
- Poor pauper
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poor
- Poor impoverished indigent penurious
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possible
- possible feasible
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possible
- Possible feasible
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power
- power faculty knack flair
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powerful
- powerful strong/effective potent
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pragmatic
- Pragmatic utilitarian
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precautionary
- precautionary preventive
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prejudices
- Prejudices preconceptions
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pretends
- Pretends makes believe
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privilege
- privilege prerogative
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profitable
- profitable lucrative/remunerative
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progress
- progress headway
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progression
- progression course
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progression
- progression course
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prominent
- prominent important famous outstanding eminent
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properties
- Properties belongings effects
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pros
- pros merits
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prosperous
- Prosperous prosperity
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protest
- protest outcry
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provide
- Provide equip supply furnish
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quality
- quality attribute/trait
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quality
- Quality trait attribute
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randomly
- randomly arbitrarily
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ready
- Ready prepare poised
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really
- really literally
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reasonable
- reasonable rational sensible
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recognized
- recognized acknowledged spotted detected accepted
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recruit
- Recruit enlist
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redress
- Redress right rectify remedy
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reestablished
- reestablished reconstructed rebuilt
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regret
- Regret rue
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release
- release relief liberation from suffering
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relentless
- Relentless inexorable
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rely
- rely on hinge on
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remain
- remain stay/ continue to be
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remedy
- Remedy redress (financial redress)
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remember
- remember bear in mind
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removed
- removed eliminated got rid of
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replacement
- replacement substitute
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represent
- represent stand for
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required
- required constrained
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requirement
- Requirement prerequisite
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reserve
- reserve set aside
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residents
- residents inhabitants
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resistance
- resistance defiance
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resolute
- resolute determined
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respond
- respond react
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responsible
- responsible accountable
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rest
- Rest remainder
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restore
- Restore recover readjust
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restrain
- Restrain inhibit
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restraint
- Restraint inhibition
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reversed
- reversed overturned
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revive
- revive revitalize bring round resuscitate (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation)
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rich
- Rich well-heeled comfortably-off
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rich
- Rich affluent opulent luxurious
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ridiculous
- ridiculous ludicrous
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riot
- riot vandalism
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romantic
- Romantic amorous
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rude
- Rude surly
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run
- run operated managed
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sad
- Sad doleful
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said
- said dictate decreed
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salaries
- Salaries wages
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scold
- Scold upbraid
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sell
- Sell vend
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severity
- Severity asperity
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share
- Share have in common
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shocking
- Shocking appalling alarming atrocious outrageous
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show
- Show exhibit
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significant
- significant notable outstanding prominent meaningful
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sinful
- Sinful wicked nefarious
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skilled
- skilled proficient
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sociable
- sociable Gregarious
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solve
- solve resolve settle reconcile
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solve
- solve resolve reconcile
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specify
- Specify stipulate
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spotless
- Spotless immaculate
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spread
- Spread promote propagate (the idea that sent.)
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stares
- stares gazes
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start
- start initiate
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start
- Start initiate
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stick
- stick to cling to attach to
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sticky
- sticky viscous adhesive
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stocks
- stocks estates investments holdings
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stories
- stories accounts
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story
- Story fable tale
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story
- Story anecdote
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strict
- strict precise
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strong
- Strong potent mighty effective powerful
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sudden
- sudden spontaneous
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suffering
- Suffering affliction
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suitable
- suitable expedient
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summary
- Summary precis abstract recapitulation compendium (concise but complete)
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superficial
- superficial cosmetic
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supernatural
- Supernatural preternatural uncanny
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support
- Support recommend champion advocate
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surely
- Surely certainly definitely doubtlessly undoubtedly indubitably
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surprised
- Surprised taken aback
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suspicious
- Suspicious wary leery of
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syllabus
- syllabus Course of studies curriculum
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system
- System network
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tactics
- Tactics strategies techniques
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talent
- talent knack/flair for
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taught
- Taught trained
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teacher
- Teacher pedagouge
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teachers
- teachers educators
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teaching
- teaching pedagogy
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teenagers
- teenagers Young people youths juveniles adolescents
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teenagers
- Teenagers adolescents
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tempting
- Tempting attractive alluring enticing drawing
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tendency
- Tendency proclivity predilection propensity penchant inclination
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tension
- tension strain stress
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through
- Through via
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tolerate
- tolerate brook
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tolerate
- Tolerate stand put up with brook
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too
- Too excessively overly remarkably very exceptionally highly awfully unduly particularly profoundly certainly/ to boot
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tools
- tools Device equipment(no s) instrument appliance(s) apparatus /gadgets and gizmos
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topic
- Topic issue subject
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tourism
- tourism tourist trade / tourist travel
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tourist
- tourist sightseer
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traditionally
- traditionally conventionally customarily proverbially
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true
- true bona fide
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twisting
- Twisting tortuous
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ugly
- ugly hideous ghastly
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ugly
- Ugly hideous ghastly
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ultimate
- Ultimate supreme consummate
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unbalanced
- Unbalanced disproportionately lopsided
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unchangeable
- unchangeable immutable
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unchangeable
- unchangeable immutable
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uncompromising
- uncompromising intransigent
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under
- under pressure under duress
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understand
- Understand appreciate
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undoubtedly
- undoubtedly indubitably
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uneducated
- uneducated illiterate
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unerring
- Unerring infallible
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unimportant
- unimportant immaterial inconsequential
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unique
- Unique distinctive characteristic
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uniquely
- uniquely singularly
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uniquely
- Uniquely singularly distinctively peculiarly
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unjust
- Unjust unreasonable morally wrong unconscionable unscrupulous unprincipled
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unlucky
- unlucky hapless unfortunate
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unnecessary
- unnecessary gratuitous uncalled for wanton
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upset
- Upset disturb
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useful
- Useful practical
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useful
- useful practical functional
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very
- Very worst nadir
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very
- Very exceedingly greatly highly extremely profoundly intensely, grossly(-)
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vulgar
- Vulgar ribald
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walk
- walk amble
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wander
- wander off digress
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war
- war warfare hostilities
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war
- war hostilities
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waste
- waste squander
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waste
- Waste squander
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way
- Way manner mode fashion
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ways
- ways means methods approaches
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weak
- weak infirm frail fragile flabby flaccid
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when
- when by the time
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while
- while whereas
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wicked
- Wicked iniquitous
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widely
- widely believed reputed rumored
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wife
- Wife spouse/ his better half/ her worse half
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wild
- wild random haphazard
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wonder
- wonder at marvel at
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wonder
- Wonder marvel
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worldly
- Worldly terrestrial
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worsen
- Worsen aggravate
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worsens
- worsens exacerbate aggravate
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worshipped
- worshipped idolized revered
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writes
- writes about pens about
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writes
- writes pens composes
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wrong
- wrong fallacious/erroneous
