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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
percipitate
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Assist

A
abet
advocate
ancillary
bolster
corroborate
countenance
espouse
mainstay
munificent
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
proselyte
tyro
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Beginning/Young

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burgeoning 
callow
engender
inchoate
incipient
nascent
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Biting (as in wit or temperament)

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acerbic
acidulous
acrimonious
asperity
caustic
mordacious
mordant 
trenchant
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Bold

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audacious
courageous
dauntless

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Boring

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banal
fatuous
hackneyed
insipid
mundane
pedestrian
platitude 
prosaic
quotidian
trite
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Carousal

A
bacchanalian
debauchery
depraved
dissipated
iniquity
libertine
libidinous
licentious
reprobate
ribald
salacious
sordid
turnpitude
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Changing quickly

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capricious
mercurial
volatile

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Copy

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counterpart
emulate
facsimile
factitious
paradigm
precursor
quintessence
simulated
vicarious
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Criticize/Criticism

A
aspersion
belittle
berate
calumny
castigate
decry
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
spartan
stoic
temperate
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Dictatorial

A
authoritarian
despotic
dogmatic
hegemonic (hegemony)
imperious
peremptory
tyrannical
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Difficult to understand

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

A
defile
fetid
invidious
noisome
odious
putrid
rebarbative
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Criticize/Criticism

A
aspersion
belittle
berate
calumny
castigate
decry
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
spartan
stoic
temperate
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Equal

A

equitable
equity
tantamount

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Difficult to understand

A
abstruse
ambiguous
arcane
bemusing
cryptic
enigmatic
esoteric
inscrutable
obscure
opaque
paradoxical
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
aberrant
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/mendacity
perfidy
prevaricate
specious
spurious
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Family

A
conjugal
consanguine
distaff
endogamous
filial
fratricide
progenitor
scion
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Favoring/not Impartial

A
ardor/ardent
doctrinaire
fervid
partisan
tendentious
zealot
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Forgive

A
absolve
acquit
exculpate
exonerate
expiate
palliate
redress
vindicate
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Funny

A
chortle
droll
facetious
flippant
gibe
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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Generous/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
salutary

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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
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Innocent/Inexperienced

A
credulous
gullible
ingenuous
naive
novitiate
tyro
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Insincere

A
disingenuous
dissemble
fulsome
ostensible
unctuous
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Investigate

A
appraise
ascertain
assay
descry
peruse
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Lazy/Sluggish

A
indolent
inert
lackadaisical
languid
lassitude
lethargic
phlegmatic
quiescent
slothful
torpid
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Luck

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

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

A

fetid
noisome
noxious

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Not a straight line

A
askance
awry
careen
carom
circuitous
circumvent
gyrate
labyrinth
meander
oblique
serrated
sidle
sinuous
undulating
vortex
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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
54
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pleasant-sounding

A

euphonious
harmonious
melodious
sonorous

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Poor

A

destitute
esurient
ipecunious
indigent

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Praise

A
acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud/laudatory
venerate/veneration
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Predict

A
augur
auspice
fey
harbinger
portentous
presage
prescient
prognosticate