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unusual
aberrant, anomalous, deviant, eccentric, heteroclite,
conventional, customary, habitual, sanctioned, typic, acclaim, approbate, exalt, extol, panegyrize,
abhor, contemn, detest, execrate, loathe, admonish, castigate, denigrate, reprove, vituperate,
artifice, chicanery, craftiness, duplicity, guile, courtesy, delicacy, discretion, finesse, subtlety,
bellicose, belligerent, contentious, pugnacious, truculent, forthright, reputable, scrupulous,
unfeigned, veracious, apprehensive, craven, pusillanimous, timorous, tremulous
Valued
cherished, dear, esteemed, prized, regarded, comely, exquisite,
fair, pulchritudinous, resplendent, appalling, grotesque, hideous, horrid, foul, cagey, covert,
cryptic, enigmatic, furtive, mundane, pedestrian, plebeian, prosaic, quotidian, ascetic, austere,
exacting, forbidding, rigorous, blithe, buoyant, enthused, jocose, sanguine, detached,
disinterested, impartial, indifferent, objective, blandishment, fawning, ingratiation,
obsequiousness, sycophancy, alacrity,
School Related
academic, didactic, donnish, pedagogic, scholastic, circuitous,
labyrinthine, serpentine, tortuous, vermiculate, crestfallen, daunted, dismayed, dispirited,
downcast, cavalier, conceited, haughty, pompous, supercilious, complacent, egotistical,
narcissistic, smug, vainglorious, blustering, bombastic, fustian, orotund, pontifical, appease,
assuage, mollify, placate, propitiate, hypnotic, sedating, somnolent, soporific, tranquilizing,
dashing, debonair, gallant,
Abundant
ample, copious, liberal, plenteous, replete, apathetic, lukewarm,
perfunctory, spiritless, tepid, aboriginal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous, primitive, asperse,
besmirch, calumniate, disparage, traduce, abase, abash, humiliate, humble, mortify, authenticate,
certify, corroborate, substantiate, validate, buffoon, deride, jape, parody, scoff, bamboozle, cajole,
finagle, inveigle, wheedle, cull, extract, glean, pluck, winnow, baffle, befuddle, confound, obfuscate,
perplex
Explain
elucidate, enlighten, explicate, expound, illuminate, alter,
metamorphose, mutate, transmogrify, transubstantiate, allege, denounce, implicate, inculpate,
indict, circulate, disseminate, proliferate, promulgate, propagate, fluctuate, oscillate, undulate,
vacillate, waver, balk, demur, dither, falter, flounder, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle,
fiasco, benefaction, boon, fortune, serendipity, windfall, fecund, feracious, generative, procreant,
uberous, ambrosial, succulent, sumptuous, scrumptious, toothsome
Healthy
hale, hardy, robust, sturdy, vigorous, ethereal, empyreal,
ineffable, nameless, transcendent, affable, amiable, cordial, genial, obliging, aromatic, fragrant,
heady, redolent, tumaceous, fetid, mephitic, miasmic, odoriferous, pungent, cloying, fulsome,
nauseating, oleaginous, unctuous, allude, connote, insinuate, intimate, purport, abjure, abnegate,
disavow, eschew, forsake, dismal, dreary, gloomy, melancholic, morose, concise, laconic, pithy,
succinct, terse
Harmful
deleterious, insalutary, internecine, malignant, pernicious,
authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannical, canny, circumspect, judicious, prudent,
sagacious, capricious, fickle, mercurial, vagarious, whimsical, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate,
excite, irritate, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, mitigate, pacify, abiding, immutable, invariable,
perennial, perpetual, inconsequent, negligible, niggling, picayune, trifling, impish, mischievous,
puckish, rascally, vexing, aeon, epoch, era, interim, interval
Romantic
chivalrous, dreamy, fanciful, idyllic, quixotic, axiomatic,
canonical, categorical, dogmatic, doctrinaire, feasible, pragmatic, rational, serviceable,
utilitarian, choleric, fractious, irascible, peevish, surly, bashful, demure, diffident, meek,
sheepish, agrarian, arcadian, bucolic, pastoral, rustic, affluent, opulent, pecunious, prosperous,
upscale, boisterous, clamorous, obstreperous, tumultuous, vociferous, inconspicuous, muted,
subdued, unassuming, unobtrusive, advantageous, auspicious, felicitous, opportune, propitious
Tired
bleary, enervated, exhausted, sapped, wearied, ecstatic, elated,
euphoric, jubilant, rhapsodic, adoration, beatification, glorification, reverence, veneration,
farrago, gallimaufry, jumble, mishmash, muddle, hodgepodge, medley, melange, pastiche,
patchwork, alienation, fissure, rift, rupture, schism, dearth, deprivation, paucity, sparsity, want,
abjection, destitution, exiguity, penury, privation, hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary,
wholesome, consecrated, hallowed, sacramental, sacrosanct, sanctified
Questionable
ambiguous, apocryphal, dubious, equivocal, inconclusive,
atrocious, barbarous, demoniac, sadistic, spiteful, feral, fierce, rampant, savage, undomesticated,
adamant, contumacious, intractable, obdurate, recalcitrant, avarice, covetousness, cupidity,
rapacity, voracity, indolent, lackadaisical, lethargic, phlegmatic, torpid, adept, adroit, deft,
dexterous, proficient, dulcet, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluous, melodic, dormant, fallow,
latent, quiescent, stagnant, amorphous, inchoate, indeterminate, nebulous, vague
Talk badly about
decry, defame, malign, revile, vilify, absolve, acquit,
exculpate, exonerate, vindicate, archetype, epitome, exemplar, paragon, prototype, bolster,
bulwark, buttress, reinforce, uphold, encumber, hamper, impede, preclude, thwart, forebode,
imperil, jeopardize, portend, presage, chancy, dicey, perilous, precarious, treacherous ,
conscientious, fastidious, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, bedraggled, dilapidated,
disheveled, slovenly, unkempt, chic, genteel, modish, natty, rakish
Act like
ape, emulate, imitate, replicate, simulate, artless, callow,
credulous, ingenuous, jejune, conspicuous, manifest, ostensible, overt, patent, astute, incisive,
penetrating, perspicacious, trenchant, accolade, eminence, kudos, prestige, renown, cognizance,
consciousness, perception, sensibility, sentience, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, ornate, ostentatious,
annihilate, decimate, obliterate, quell, vanquish, circumvent, elude, evade, shirk, skirt,
aggrandize, brandish, flaunt, gloat, tout
Fake
ersatz, feigned, meretricious, specious, spurious, partial,
partisan, prejudiced, sectarian, tendentious, chaste, immaculate, irreproachable, pristine,
unsullied, malevolent, minatory, nefarious, ominous, sinister, abstruse, arcane, cabalistic,
esoteric, recondite, chaotic, desultory, erratic, haphazard, indiscriminate, brooding, petulant,
saturnine, sullen, sulky, candid, earnest, echt, frank, genuine, antagonistic, antipodal, antithetical,
paradoxical, polar, clandestine, insidious, slinking, stealthy, surreptitious
Burdensome
arduous, cumbersome, laborious, ponderous, onerous, acme,
apex, apogee, pinnacle, zenith, depression, nadir, nethermost, perigee, trough, audacious, brazen,
depraved, reprobate, wanton, discontinuous, fitful, intermittent, periodic, sporadic, omnipresent,
pervasive, preponderance, ubiquitous, universal, bereft, desolate, devoid, vacuous, vapid,
atrophy, decomposition, mortification, putrefaction, senescence, clairvoyant, oracular, prescient,
prophetic, sibylline, animate, edify, exhilarate, galvanize, invigorate
Perfect
consummate, impeccable, matchless, sublime, superb,
frivolity, gaiety, levity, mirth, whimsy, contemplative, introspective, pensive, reflective,
ruminative, amoral, dissolute, perfidious, unscrupulous, venal, imbroglio, impasse, plight,
quagmire, quandary, ardent, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, zealous, dallying, dawdling, dilatory,
laggard, tarrying, flippant, glib, impertinent, irreverent, insolent, acerbic, acrimonious,
astringent, caustic, vitriolic, delirious, febrile, frantic, frenzied, pyretic
