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Abbreviated Communication

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

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Act Quickly

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abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate

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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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Bad Mood

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

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begginer/amateur

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dilettante, fledling, 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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ascerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant

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bold

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audacious, courageous, dauntless, intrepid

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boring

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

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carousal

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

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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, simulate, vicarious

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criticise/criticism

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aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defame/defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn

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criticise/criticism (continued)

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inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate

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death, mourning

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

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denying of self

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abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate

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dictatorial

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

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difficult to understand

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

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disgusting/offensive

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

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easy to understande

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

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eccentric/dissimilar

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

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embarrass

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

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equal

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equitable, equity, tantamount

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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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family
conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
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favoring/not impartial
ardent/ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
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forgive/make amends
absolve, acquit, ameliorate, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
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funny
chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte
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gaps/openings
abatement, asperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
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generous/kind
altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
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greedy
avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
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hard-hearted
asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
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harmful
baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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harsh-sounding
cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
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hatred
abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
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healthy
beneficial, salubrious, salutary
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hesitate
dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
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hostile
antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
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innocent/inexperienced
credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
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insincere
disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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investigate
appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
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lazy/sluggish
indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
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luck
adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, portentous, propritiate, propitious, providential, serendipity, talisman
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nag
admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
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nasty
fetid, noisome, noxious
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not a straight line
askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
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overblown/wordy
bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
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pacify/satisfy
ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe
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pleasant-sounding
euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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poor
destitute, impecunious, indigent
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praise
acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
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predict
augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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prevent/obstruct
discomfit, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude, thwart
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smart/learned
astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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sorrow
disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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stubborn
implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
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terse
compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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time/order/duration
anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
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timid/timidity
crave, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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truth
candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verify
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unusual
aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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wandering
ambulatory. discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, meander, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
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weaken
adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
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wisdom
adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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withdrawal/retreat
abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde

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