Synonyms Flashcards
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Act Quickly
A
Abrupt Space Headlong Impetuous Precipitate
2
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Assist
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Abet Advocate Ancillary Bolster Corroborate Countenance Espouse Mainstay Munificent Proponent Stalwart Sustenance
3
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Bad mood
A
Bilious Dudgeon Irascible Pettish Petulant Pique Querulous Umbrage Waspish
4
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Beginner/Amateur
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Dilettante Fledgling Neophyte Novitiate Proselyte Tyro
5
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Beginning/Young
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Burgeoning Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent
6
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Biting (as in wit or temperament)
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Acerbic Acidulous Acrimonious Asperity Caustic Mordacious Mordant Trenchant
7
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Bold
A
Audacious
Courageous
Dauntless
8
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Boring
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Banal Fatuous Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic Quotidian Trite
9
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Carousel
A
Bacchanalian Debauchery Depraved Dissipated Iniquity Libertine Libidinous Licentious Reprobate Ribald Salacious Sordid Turpitude
10
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Changing quickly
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Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile
11
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Copy
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Counterpart Emulate Facsimile Factitious Paradigm Precursor Quintessence Simulated vicarious
12
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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 Injury are Obloquy Opprobrium Pillory Rebuke Demonstrate Reprehend Reprove Revile Tirade Vituperative / vituperate
13
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Death / Mourning
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Bereave Cadaver Defunct Demise Solo toys Elegy Knell Lament Macabre Moribund Obsequies Sepulchral Wraith
14
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Denying of self
A
Abnegate Abstain Ascetic Spartan Stoic Temperate
15
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Dictatorial
A
Authoritarian Despotic Dogmatic Hegemonic ( hegemony) Imperious Peremptory Tyrannical
16
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Difficult to Understand
A
Abstruse Ambiguous Arcane Bemusing Cryptic Enigmatic Esoteric Inscrutable Obscure Paradoxical Perplexing Recondite Turbid
17
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Disgusting / Offensive
A
Defile Fetus Invidious Noisome Odious Putrid Rebarbative
18
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Easy to Understand
A
Articulate Cogent Eloquent Evident Limpid Lucid Pellucid
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Eccentric / Dissimilar
A
Aberrant Anachronism Anomalous Discrete Eclectic Esoteric Iconoclast
20
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Embarrass
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Abash Chagrin Compunction Contrition Diffidence Expiate Foible Gaucherie Rue
21
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Equal
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Equitable
Equity
Tantamount
22
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Falsehood
A
Apocryphal Canard Chicanery Dissemble Duplicity Equivocate Erroneous Ersatz Fallacious Feigned Guile Mendacious / mendacity Perfidy Prevaricate Specious Spurious
23
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Family
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Conjugal Consanguineous Distaff Endogenous Filial Fratricide Progenitor Scion
24
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Favoring / Not Impartial
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Ardor / ardent Doctrinaire Fervid Partisan Tendentious Zealot
25
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Forgive
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Absolve Acquit Exculpatory Exonerate Expiate Palliative Redress Vindicate
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Funny
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Chortle Droll Facetious Flippant Give Jocular Levity Ludicrous Raillery Riposte Simper
27
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Gaps / Openings
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Abatement Aperture Fissure Hiatus Interregnum Interactive Lull Orifice Rent Respite Rift