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Changing quickly

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Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile

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Bold

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Audacious
Courageous
Dauntless

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Hesitate

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Dither
Vacillate
Oscillate
Waver
Teeter
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Act quickly

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Abrupt
Impetuous
Apace
Precipitate
Headlong
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Innocent/inexperienced

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Credulous
Gullible
Ingenuous
Naive
Novitiate 
Tyro
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Difficult to understand

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Abstruse
Bemusing
Esoteric
Opaque
Recondite
Ambiguous
Cryptic
Inscrutable 
Paradoxical
Turbid
Arcane
Enigmatic
Obscure
Perplexing
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Easy to understand

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Articulate
Evident
Pellucid
Cogent
Limpid
Eloquent
Lucid
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Smart/learned

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Astute
Perspicacious
Canny
Erudite

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Criticise/criticism

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Aspersion 
belittle berate 
calumny castigate 
decry defame/defamation denounce deride/derisive diatribe disparage excoriate 
gainsay 
harangue 
impugn inveigh 
lambaste 
obloquy objurgate opprobrium 
pillory 
rebuke remonstrate reprehend reprove revile 
tirade 
vituperate
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Carousel

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Bacchanalian 
Depraved dissipated
Iniquity
Libertine libidinous licentious
Reprobate ribald 
Salacious sordid 
Turpitude
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Truth

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Candour/candid 
Fealty frankness
Indisputable indubitable 
Legitimate
Probity
Sincere
Veracious verity
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Falsehood

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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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Biting (as in of wit or temperament)

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Acerbic acidulous acrimonious asperity
Caustic
Mordant mordacious
Trenchant

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Praise

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Acclaim accolade aggrandize 
Encomium eulogise extol
Fawn 
Laud/laudatory
Venerate
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Harmful

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Baleful baneful 
Deleterious
Inimical injurious insidious 
Minatory
Perfidious pernicious
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Timid/timidity

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Craven
Diffident
Pusillanimous
Recreant
Timorous
Trepidation
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Boring

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Banal
Fatuous
Hackneyed
Insipid
Mundane
Pedestrian
Platitude 
Prosaic
Quotidian
Trite
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Weaken

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Adulterated
Enervate exacerbate
Inhibit
Obviate
Stultify
Undermine
Vitiate
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Assist

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Abet advocate ancillary
Bolster
Corroborate countenance 
Espouse
Mainstay munificent 
Proponent
Stalwart sustenance
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Hostile

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Antithetic
Churlish
Curmudgeon
Irascible
Malevolent
Misanthropic
Truculent
Vindictive
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Stubborn

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Implacable
Inexorable
Intractable
Intransigent 
Obdurate 
Obstinate
Recalcitrant
Refractory
Renitent
Untoward
Vexing
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Beginning/young

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Burgeoning
Callow
Engender
Inchoate 
Incipient
Nascent
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Generous/kind

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Altruistic
Beneficent
Clement
Largess
Magnanimous 
Munificent
Philanthrophic
Unstinting
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Greedy

A 
Avaricious
Covetous
Mercenary
Miserly
Penurious
Rapacious
Venal
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Terse

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Compendious
Curt
Laconic
Pithy
Succinct
Taciturn
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Overblown/wordy

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Bombastic
Circumlocution
Garrulous
Grandiloquent
Loquacious 
Periphrastic
Prolix
Rhetoric
Turgid
Verbose
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Dictatorial

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Authoritarian
Despotic
Dogmatic
Hegemonic
Hegemony
Imperious
Peremptory
Tyrannical
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Hatred

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Abhorrence
Anathema
Antagonism
Antipathy
Detestation
Enmity
Loathing
Malice
Odium
Rancor
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Beginner/amateur

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Dilettante
Fledgling
Neophyte
Novitiate
Proselyte
Tyro
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Lazy/sluggish

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Indolent Inert Lackadaisical
Languid Lassitude Lethargic
Phlegmatic Quiescent Slothful
Torpid

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Pacify/satisfy

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Ameliorate Appease Assuage
Defer Mitigate Mollify
Placate Propitiate Satiate
Slake

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Forgive

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Absolve Acquit Exculpate
Exonerate Expiate Palliate
Redress Vindicate

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Poor

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Destitute
Ensuring
Impecunious
Indigent

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Favouring/not impartial

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Ardent/ardour
Doctrinaire
Fervid
Partisan
Tendentious 
Zealot
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Denying of self

A 
Abnegate
Abstain
Ascetic
Spartan
Stoic
Temperate
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Walking about

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Ambulatory
Itinerant
Meander
Peripatetic

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