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abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate

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Act Quickly

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abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse

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Abbreviated Communication

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abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance

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Assist

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bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish

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Bad Mood

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dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro

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Beginner/Amateur

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burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent

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Beginning/Young

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acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant

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Biting (as in wit or temperament)

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audacious, courageous, dauntless

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Bold

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banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite

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Boring

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bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude

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Carousal

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capricious, mercurial, volatile

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Change Quickly

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counterpart, emulate, facsimile, fictitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious

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Copy

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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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Criticize/Criticism

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bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith

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Death/Mourning

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abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate

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Dying of Self

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authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic/hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical

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Dictatorial

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abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid

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Difficult to Understand

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defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative

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Disgusting/Offensive

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articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid

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Easy to Understand

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aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast

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Eccentric/Dissimilar

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abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue

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Embarrass

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equitable, equity, tantamount

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Equal

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apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious

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Falsehood

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conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion

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Family

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ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
Favoring/Not Impartial
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absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
Forgive
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chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
Funny
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abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
Gaps/Openings
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altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
Generous/Kind
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avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
Greedy
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asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
Hard-hearted
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baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
Harmful
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cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
Harsh-sounding
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abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
Hatred
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beneficial, salubrious, salutary
Healthy
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dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
Hesitate
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antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
Hostile
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credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
Innocent/Inexperienced
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disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
Insincere
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appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
Investigate
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indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
Lazy/Sluggish
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adventurous, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
Luck
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admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
Nag
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fetid, noisome, noxious
Nasty
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askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
Not s Straight Line
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bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
Overblown/Wordy
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ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe
Pacify/Satisfy
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euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
Pleasant-sounding
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destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
Poor
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acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
Praise
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augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
Predict
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discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
Prevent/Obstruct
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astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
Smart/Learned
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disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
Sorrow
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implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
Stubborn
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compendium, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
Terse
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anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
Time/Order/Duration
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craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
Timid/Timidity
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candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
Truth
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aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
Unusual
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ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
Walking About
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discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
Wandering
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adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
Weaken
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adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
Wisdom
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abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde
Withdrawal/Retreat

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