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1
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Abbreviated communication (7)

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  • abridge
  • compendium
  • cursory
  • curtail
  • syllabus
  • synopsis
  • terse
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Act Quickly (5)

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  • abrupt
  • apace
  • headlong
  • impetuous
  • precipitate
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Assist (12)

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  • abet
  • advocate
  • ancillary
  • bilster
  • corroborate
  • countenance
  • espouse
  • mainstay
  • munificent
  • proponent
  • stalwart
  • sustenance
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Bad Mood (9)

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  • bilious
  • dudgeon
  • irascible
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • pique
  • querulous
  • umbrage
  • waspish
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Beginner/Amateur (6)

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  • dilettante
  • fledging
  • neophyte
  • novitiate
  • proselyte
  • tyro
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Beginning/ Young (6)

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  • burgeoning
  • callow
  • engender
  • inchoate
  • incipient
  • nascent
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Biting (as in wit or temperament) (8)

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  • acerbic
  • acidulous
  • acrimonious
  • asperity
  • caustic
  • mordacious
  • mordant
  • trenchant
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Bold (3)

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  • audacious
  • courageous
  • dauntless
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Boring (9)

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  • banal
  • hackneyed
  • insipid
  • mundane
  • pedestrian
  • platitude
  • prosaic
  • quotidian
  • trite
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Carousal (a noisy or drunken feast or social gathering) (13)

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  • bacchanalian
  • debauchery
  • depraved
  • dissipated
  • iniquity
  • libertine
  • libidinous
  • licentious
  • reprobate
  • ribald
  • salacious
  • sordid
  • turpitude
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Changing Quickly (3)

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  • capricious
  • mercurial
  • volatile
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Copy (8)

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  • counterpart
  • emulate
  • facsimile
  • factitious
  • paradigm
  • precursor
  • simulate
  • vicarious
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Criticize/Criticism (25)

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  • aspersion
  • calumny
  • castigate
  • decry
  • denounce
  • deride/derisive
  • diatribe
  • disparage
  • excoriate
  • gainsay
  • harangue
  • impugn
  • inveigh
  • lambaste
  • objurgate
  • obloquy
  • opprobrium
  • pillory
  • rebuje
  • remonstrate
  • reprehend
  • reprove
  • revile
  • tirade
  • vituperate
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Death/Mourning (12)

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  • bereave
  • cadaver
  • defunct
  • demise
  • dolorous
  • elegy
  • knelle
  • macabre
  • moribund
  • obsequies
  • sepulchral
  • wraith
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Denying of self (6)

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  • agnegate
  • abstain
  • ascetic
  • spartan
  • stoic
  • temperate
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Dictatorial (7)

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  • authoritarian
  • despotic
  • dogmatic
  • hegemonic/hegemony
  • imperious
  • peremptory
  • tyrannical
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Difficult to understand (14)

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  • abstruse
  • ambiguous
  • arcane
  • bemusing
  • cryptic
  • enigmatic
  • esoteric
  • inscrutable
  • obscure
  • opaque
  • paradoxical
  • perplexing
  • recondite
  • turbid
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Disgusting/Offensive (7)

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  • defile
  • fetid
  • invidious
  • noisome
  • odious
  • putrid
  • rebarbative
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Easy to understand (7)

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  • articulate
  • cogent
  • eloquent
  • evident
  • limpid
  • lucid
  • pellucid
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Eccentric (unconventional/strange)/Dissimilar (7)

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  • aberrant
  • anachronism
  • anomalous
  • discrete
  • eclectic
  • esoteric
  • iconoclast
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Embarrass (9)

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  • abash
  • chagrin
  • compunction
  • contrition
  • diffidence
  • expiate
  • foible
  • gaucherie
  • rue
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Equal (3)

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  • equitable
  • equity
  • tantamount
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Falsehood (16)

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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 (10)

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  • conjugal
  • consanguine
  • distaff
  • endogamous
  • filial
  • fraternal
  • fratricide
  • progenitor
  • scion
  • sorority
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Favoring/Not Impartial (6)

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  • ardent/ardor
  • doctrinaire
  • fervid
  • partisan
  • tendentious
  • zealot
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Forgive/Make Amends (8)

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  • absolve
  • acquit
  • exculpate
  • exonerate
  • expiate
  • palliate
  • redress
  • vindicate
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Funny (11)

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  • chortle
  • droll
  • facetious
  • flippant
  • gibe
  • jocular
  • levity
  • ludicrous
  • raillery
  • riposte
  • simper
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Gaps/Opening (11)

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  • abatement
  • aperture
  • fissure
  • hiatus
  • interregnum
  • interstice
  • lull
  • orifice
  • rent
  • respite
  • rift
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Generous/Kind (8)

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  • altruistic
  • beneficent
  • clement
  • largess
  • magnanimous
  • munificent
  • philanthropic
  • unstinting
30
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Greedy (7)

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  • avaricious
  • covetous
  • mercenary
  • miserly
  • penurious
  • rapacious
  • venal
31
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Hard-hearted (11)

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  • asperity
  • baleful
  • dour
  • fell
  • malevolent
  • mordant
  • sardonic
  • scathing
  • truculent
  • vitriolic
  • vituperation
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Harmful (9)

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  • baleful
  • baneful
  • deleterious
  • inimical
  • injurious
  • insidious
  • minatory
  • perfidious
  • pernicious
33
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Harsh-sounding (5)

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  • cacophony
  • din
  • dissonant
  • raucous
  • strident
34
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Hatred (10)

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  • abhorrence
  • anathema
  • antagonism
  • antipathy
  • detestation
  • enmity
  • loathing
  • malice
  • odium
  • rancor
35
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Healthy (3)

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  • beneficial
  • salubrious
  • salutary
36
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Hesitate (5)

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  • dither
  • oscillate
  • teeter
  • vacillate
  • waver
37
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Hostile (8)

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  • antithetic
  • churlish
  • curmudgeon
  • irascible
  • malevolent
  • misanthropic
  • truculent
  • vindictive
38
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Innocent/Inexperienced (6)

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  • credulous
  • gullible
  • ingenuous
  • naive
  • novitiate
  • tyro
39
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Insincere (5)

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  • disingenuous
  • dissemble
  • fulsome
  • ostensible
  • unctuous
40
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Investigate (5)

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  • appraise
  • ascertain
  • assay
  • descry
  • peruse
41
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Lazy/Sluggish (10)

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  • indolent
  • inert
  • lackadaisical
  • languid
  • lassitude
  • lethargic
  • phlegmatic
  • quiescent
  • slothful
  • torpid
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Luck (10)

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  • amulet
  • auspicious
  • fortuitous
  • kismet
  • optimum
  • portentous
  • propitious
  • providential
  • serendipity
  • talisman
43
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Nag (10)

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  • admonish
  • belabor
  • cavil
  • enjoin
  • exhort
  • harangue
  • hector
  • martinet
  • remonstrate
  • reproof
44
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Nasty (3)

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  • fetid
  • noisome
  • noxious
45
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Not a straight line (15)

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  • askance
  • awry
  • careen
  • carom
  • circuitous
  • circumvent
  • gyrate
  • labyrinth
  • meander
  • oblique
  • serrated
  • sidle
  • sinuous
  • undulating
  • vortex
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Overblown/wordy (10)

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  • bombastic
  • circumlocution
  • garrulous
  • grandiloquent
  • loquacious
  • periphrastic
  • prolix
  • rhetoric
  • turgid
  • verbose
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Pacify/satisfy (11)

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  • ameliorate
  • appease
  • assuage
  • defer
  • mitigate
  • mollify
  • placate
  • propitiate
  • satiate
  • slake
  • soothe
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Pleasant-soothing (4)

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  • euphonious
  • harmonious
  • melodious
  • sonorous
49
Q

Poor (4)

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  • destitute
  • esurient
  • impecunious
  • indigent
50
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Praise (9)

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  • acclaim
  • accolade
  • aggrandize
  • encomium
  • eulogize
  • extol
  • fawn
  • laud/laudatory
  • venerate/veneration
51
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Predict (9)

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  • augur
  • auspice
  • fey
  • harbinger
  • portentous
  • precursor
  • presage
  • prescient
  • prognosticate
52
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Prevent/Obstruct (8)

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  • discomfit
  • encumber
  • fetter
  • forfend
  • hinder
  • impede
  • inhibit
  • occlude
53
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Smart/Learned (4)

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  • astute
  • canny
  • erudite
  • perspicacious
54
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Sorrow (11)

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  • disconsolate
  • doleful
  • dolor
  • elegiac
  • forlorn
  • lament
  • lugubrious
  • melancholy
  • morose
  • plaintive
  • threnody
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Stubborn (11)

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  • implacable
  • inexorable
  • intractable
  • intransigent
  • obdurate
  • obstinate
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • renitent
  • untoward
  • vexing
56
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Terse (6)

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  • compendious
  • curt
  • laconic
  • pithy
  • succinct
  • taciturn
57
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Time/Order/Duration (14)

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  • anachronism
  • antecede
  • antedate
  • anterior
  • archaic
  • diurnal
  • eon
  • ephemeral
  • epoch
  • fortnight
  • millennium
  • penultimate
  • synchronous
  • temporal
58
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Timid/timidity (6)

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  • craven
  • diffident
  • pusillanimous
  • recreant
  • timorous
  • trepidation
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Truth (10)

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  • candor/candid
  • fealty
  • frankness
  • indisputable
  • indubitable
  • legitimate
  • probity
  • sincere
  • veracious
  • verity
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Unusual (4)

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  • aberration
  • anomaly
  • iconoclast
  • idiosyncrasy
61
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Walking about (4)

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  • ambulatory
  • itinerant
  • meander
  • peripatetic
62
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Wandering (7)

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  • discursive
  • expatiate
  • forage
  • itinerant
  • peregrination
  • peripatetic
  • sojourn
63
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Weaken (8)

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  • adulterate
  • enervate
  • exacerbate
  • inhibit
  • obviate
  • stultify
  • undermine
  • vitiate
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Wisdom (10)

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  • adage
  • aphorism
  • apothegm
  • axiom
  • bromide
  • dictum
  • epigram
  • platitude
  • sententious
  • truism
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Withdrawal/Retreat (13)

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  • abeyance
  • abjure
  • abnegation
  • abortive
  • abrogate
  • decamp
  • demure
  • recant
  • recidivism
  • remission
  • renege
  • rescind
  • retrograde

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