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Bad mood

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Bilious.          Umbrage
Dudgeon.       Waspish
Irascible
Pettish
Petulant 
Pique
Querulous
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Act quickly

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Abrupt
Apace
Headlong
Impetuous
Precipitate
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Changing quickly

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Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile

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Equal

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Equitable
Equity
Tantamount

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Embarrass

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Abash
Chagrin
Compunction 
Contrition
Diffidence
Expiate
Foible
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Carousel

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Bacchanalian reprobate
Debauchery salacious
Depraved
Dissipated
Iniquity
Ribald
Sordid
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Denying of self

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Abnegate
Abstain
Ascetic
Spartan 
Stoic
Temperate
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Forgive

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Absolve 
Acquit
Exculpate
Exonerate
Redress
Vindicate
Palliate
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Funny

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Chortle.            Raillery
Droll.                 Simper
Facetious
Flippant
Gibe
Jocular 
Ludicrous
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Falsehood

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Apocryphal       Guile
Canard.              Specious
Chicanery
Dissemble
Duplicity
Equivocate
Erroneous
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Gaps/Openings

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Abatement   Orifice
Aperture 
Fissure
Hiatus
Interregnum 
Lull
Rent
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Generous/ kind

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Altruistic 
Beneficent
Clement
Largess
Magnanimous 
Munificent
Unstinting
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Greedy

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Avaricious
Covetous
Mercenary
Miserly
Penurious
Rapacious
Venal
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Hard-hearted

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Asperity   Scathing 
Baleful
Dour
Fell
Malevolent
Mordant
Sardonic
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Harmful

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Baleful.  Perfidious 
Baneful
Deleterious
Inimical
Injurious 
Insidious 
Minatory
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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.     Malice
Anathema.        Odium 
Antagonism.      Rancor
Antipathy
Detestation
Enmity
Loathing
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Healthy

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Beneficial     Vacillate
Salubrious.   Waver
Salutary
Hesitate
Dither
Oscillate
Teeter
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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 
Dissemeble
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.   Slothful
Inert. Torpid 
Lackadaisical 
Languid
Lassitude
Lethargic
Phlegmatic
Quiescent
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Luck

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Adventitious 
Amulet
Auspicious.   Providential
Fortuitous   Talisman
Kismet
Optimum
Portentous
Propitious
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Nag

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Admonish   Martinet 
Belabor.     Reproof
Cavil.      Remonstrate
Enjoin
Exhort
Harangue
Hector
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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. Oblique
Careen.  Sidle
Carom     Sinuous 
Circuitous
Circumvent 
Gyrate.      Vortex
Labyrinth
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Overblown/wordy

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Bombastic
Circumlocution
Garrulous 
Grandiloquent 
Prolix.           Periphrastic 
Rhetoric
Turgid
Verbose
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Pacify/satisfy

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Ameliorate.  Propitiate 
Appease.     Soothe
Assuage.     Slake
Defer
Mitigate
Mollify
Placate
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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.     Laud/laudatory
Accolade.     Venerate/veneration
Aggrandize
Encomium
Eulogize
Extol
Fawn
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Predict

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Augur
Auspice.       Prognosticate
Fey
Harbinger
Portentous
Presage
Prescient
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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.   Melancholy
Doleful.    Plaintive
Dolor.   Morose
Elegiac
Forlorn
Lament
Lugubrious
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Stubborn

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Implacable
Inexorable
Intractable
Obdurate
Recalcitrant
Refractory
Renitent.    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.  Epoch 
Anterior
Archaic 
Diurnal
Eon
Ephemeral
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Timid

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Craven
Diffident 
Pusillanimous
Recreant
Timorous
Trepidation
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Truth

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Candor/candid 
Fealty
Frankness
Indisputable.  Verity
Legitimate
Probity
Sincere
Veracious
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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.  Truism
Dictum
Epigram
Platitude
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Withdrawal / retreat

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Abeyance
Abjure 
Abnegation. Renege 
Abortive.  Rescind
Abrogate
Demur. Retrograde 
Recant
Recidivism

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