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1
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Abbreviated communication

A
abridge
compendium
cursory
curtail
syllabus
synopsis
terse
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Act Quickly

A
abrupt
apace
headlong
impetuous
precipitate
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Assist

A
abet
advocate
ancillary
bolster
corroborate
countenance
espouse
mainstay
munificient
proponent
stalwart
sustenance
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Bad Mood

A
bilious
dudgeon
irascible
pettish
petulant
pique
querulous
umbrage
waspish
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Beginner/Amateur

A
dilettante
fledgling
neophyte
novitiate
proseltye
tyro
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Beginning/Young

A
burgeoning
callow
engender
inchoate
incipient
nascent
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Biting

A
aceribc
acidulous
acrimonious
asperity
caustic
mordacious
mordant
trenchant
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Bold

A

Audacious
courageous
dauntless

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Boring

A
banal
fatuous
hackneyed
insipid
mundane
pedestrian
platitude
prosaic
quotidian
trite
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Carousal

A
bacchanalian
debauchery
depraved
dissipated
iniquity
libertine
libidinous
licentious
reporbate
ribald
salacious
sordid
turpitude
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Changing quickly

A

capricious
mercurial
volatile

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Copy

A
Counterpart
emulate
facsimilie
factitious
paradigm
precursor
quintessence
simulate
vicarious
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Criticize

A
aspersion
belittle
berate
calumny
castigate
decry
defame/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

A
bereave
cadaver
defunct
demise
dolorous
elegy
knell
lament
macabre
moribund
obsequies
sepulchral
wraith
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Denying of Self

A
abnegate
abstain
ascetic
spartin
stoic
temperate
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Dictatorial

A
authoritarian
despotic
dogmatic
hegemonic
imperious
peremptory
tyrannical
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Difficult to understand

A
abstruse
ambiguous
arcane
bemusing
cryptic
enigmatic
esoteric
inscrutable
obscure
opaque
parodoxical
perplexing
recondite
turbid
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Disgusting/offensive

A
defile
fetid
invidious
noisome
odious
putrid
rebarbative
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Easy to Understand

A
articulate
cogent
eloquent
evident
limpid
lucid
pellucid
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Eccentric/Dissimilar

A
abberrant
anachronism
anomalous
discrete
eclectic
esoteric
iconoclast
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Embarrass

A
abash
chagrin
compunction
contrition
diffidence
expiate
foible
gaucherie
rue
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Equal

A

equitable
equity
tantamount

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Falsehood

A
apocryphal
canard
chicanery
dissemble
duplicity
equivocate
erroneous
ersatz
fallacious
feigned
guile
mendacious
perfidy
prevaricate
specious
spurious
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Family

A
conjugal
consanguine
distaff
endogamous
filial
fratricide
progenitor
scion
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25
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favoring/not impartial

A
ardor
doctrinaire
fervid
partisan
tendentious
zealot
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Forgive/Make Amends

A
absolve
acquit
exculpate
exonerate
expiate
palliate
redress
vindicate
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Funny

A
chortle
droll
facetious
flippant
give
jocular
levity
ludicrous
raillery
riposte
simper
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Gaps/openings

A
abatement
aperture
fissure
hiatus
interregnum
interstice
lull
orifice
rent
respite
rift
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Generious/kind

A
altruistic
beneficent
clement
largess
magnanimous
munificent
philanthropic
unstinting
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Greedy

A
avaricious
covetous
mercenary
miserly
penurious
rapacious
venal
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Hard-hearted

A
asperity
baleful
dour
fell
malevolent
mordant
sardonic
scathing
truculent
vitriolic
vituperation
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Harmful

A
baleful
baneful
deleterious
inimical
injurious
insidious
minatory
perfidious
pernicious
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Harsh-sounding

A
cacophony 
din
dissonant
raucous
strident
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Hatred

A
abhorrence
anathema
antagonism
antipathy
detestation
enmity
loathing
malice
odium
rancor
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Healthy

A

beneficial
salubrious
salutory

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Hesitate

A
dither
oscillate
teeter
vacillate
waver
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Hostile

A
antithetic
churlish
curmudgeon
irascible
malevolent
misanthropic
truculent
vindictive
38
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Innocent/inexperience

A
credulous
gullible
ingenuous
naive
novitiate
tyro
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Insincere

A
disingenuous
dissemble
fulsome
ostensible
unctuous
40
Q

Investigate

A
appraise
ascertain
assay
descry
peruse
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Lazy/sluggish

A
indolent
inert
lackadaisical
languid
lassitude
lethargic
phlegmatic
quiescent
slothful
torpid
42
Q

luck

A
adventitious
amulet
auspicious
fortuitous
kismet
optimum
portentous
propitiate
propitious
providential
serendipity
talisman
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Q

Nag

A
admonish
belabor
cavil
enjoin
exhort
harangue
hector
martinet
remonstrate
reproof
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Nasty

A

fetid
noisome
noxious

45
Q

Not a straight line

A
askance
awry
careen
carom
circuitious
circumvent
gyrate
labyrinth
meander
oblique
serrated
sidle
sinuous
undulating
vortex
46
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Overblown/wordy

A
bombastic
circumlocution
garrulous
grandiloquent
loquacious
periphrastic
prolix
rhetoric
turgid
verbose
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Pacify/Satisfy

A
ameliorate
appease
assuage
defer
mitigate
mollify
placate
propitiate
satiate
slake
soothe
48
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Pleasent-sounding

A

euphonious
harmonious
melodious
sonorous

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Poor

A
desitute
penury
esurient
impecunious
indigent
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Praise

A
acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud
venerate
51
Q

Predict

A
augur
auspice
fey
harbinger
portentous
presage
prescient
prognosticate
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Prevent/Obstruct

A
discomfit
encumber
fetter
forfend
forbear
hinder
impeded
inhibit
occlude
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Smart/Learned

A

astute
canny
erudite
perspicacious

54
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Sorrow

A
disconsolate
doleful
dolor
elegiac
forlom
lament
lugubrious
melancholy
morose
plaintive
threnodoy
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Stubborn

A
obdurate
implacable
inexorable
intractable
intransigent
obstinate
recalcitrant
refractory
renitent
untoward
vexing
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Terse

A
compendious
curt
laconic
pithy
succinct
taciturn
57
Q

Time/Order/Duration

A
anachronism
antecede
antedate
anterior
archaic
diurnal
eon
ephemeral
epoch
fortnight
millennium
penultimate
synchronous
temporal
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Timid

A
craven
diffident
pusillanimous
recreant
timorous
trepidation
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Truth

A
candor
fealty
frankness
indisputable
indubitable
legitimate
probity
sincere
veracious
verity
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unusual

A

aberration
anomaly
iconoclast
idiosyncrasy

61
Q

Walking about

A

ambulatory
itinerant
meander
peripatetic

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Wandering

A
discursive
expatiate
forage
itinerant
peregrination
peripatetic
sojourn
63
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Weaken

A
adulterate
enervate
exacerbate
inhibit
obviate
stultify
undermine
vitiate
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Q

Wisdom

A
adage
aphorism
apothegm
axiom
bromide
dictum
epigram
platitude
sententious
truism
65
Q

Withdrawal/Retreat

A
abeyance
abjure
abnegation
abortive
abrogate
decamp
demur
recant
recidivism
remission
renege
rescind
retrograde