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same meaning words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| HARMFUL | bareful; baneful; deleterious; inimical; injurious; insidious; minatory; perfidious; pernicious |
| HARD-HEARTED | asperity; baleful; dour; fell; malevolent; mordant; sardonic; scathing; truculent; vitriolic; vituperation |
| GREEDY | avaricious; covetous; mercenary; miserly; penurious; rapacious; venal |
| GENEROUS/KIND | altruistic; beneficent; clement; largess; magnanimous; munificent; philanthropic; unstinting |
| GAPS/OPENINGS | abatement; aperture; fissure; hiatus; interregnum; interstice; lull; orifice; rent; rift; respite |
| FUNNY | chortle; droll; factious; flippant; gibe; jocular; levity; ludicrous; raillery; riposte; simper |
| FORGIVE | absolve; acquit; exculpate; exonerate; expiate; palliate; redress; vindicate |
| ABBREVIATED COMMUNICATION | abridge; compendium; curtail; syllabus; synopsis; terse |
| FAVORING/NOT IMPARTICIAL | ardor/ardent; doctrinaire; fervid; partisan; tendentious; zealot |
| FAMILY | conjugal; consanguine; distaff; endogamous; filial; fratricide; scion; progenitor |
| FALSEHOOD | guile; mendacious/mendacity; perfidy; prevaricate; specious; spurious, apocryphal; canard; chicanery; dissemble; duplicity; equivocate; erroneous; ersatz, fallacious; feigned |
| EQUAL | equitable; equity; tantamount |
| EMBARRASS | abash; chagrin; compunction; contrition; diffidence; expiate; foible; gaucherie; rue |
| EASY TO UNDERSTAND | articulate; cogent; eloquent; evident; limpid; lucid; pellucid |
| ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR | aberrant; anachronism; anomalous; discrete; eclectic; esoteric; iconoclast |
| DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE | defile; fetid; invidious; noisome; odious; putrid; rebarbative |
| DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND | abstruse; ambiguous; arcane; bemusing; cryptic; enigmatic; esoteric; inscrutable; paradoxical; perplexing; obscure; opaque; recondite; turbid |
| DICTATORIAL | authoritarian; despotic; dogmatic; imperious; peremptory; tyrannical; hegemonic (hegemony) |
| DENYING OF SELF | abnegate; abstain, ascetic; spartan; stoic; temperate |
| DEATH/MOURNING | bereave; cadaver; defunct; demise; dolorous; elegy; lament; moribund; obsequies; sepulchral; knell; macabre; wraith |
| CRITICIZE/CRITICISM | remonstrate; reprehend; reprove; revile; tirade; vituperate |
| CRITICIZE/CRITICISM | disparage; excoriate; gainsay; harangue; impugn; inveigh; lambaste; objurgate; opprobrium; pillory; obloquy; rebuke |
| CRITICIZE/CRITICISM | aspersion; belittle; castigate; defamation; denounce; calumny; berate; decry; deride/derisive; diatribe |
| COPY | counterpart; emulate; facsimile; factitious; paradigm; precursor; quintessence; simulated; vicarious |
| CHANGING QUICKLY | capricious; mercurial; volatile |
| CAROUSAL | bacchanalian; debauchery; depraved; dissipated; iniquity; libertine; libidinous; licentious; reprobate; salacious; ribald; sordid; turpitude |
| BOLD | audacious; courageous; dauntless |
| BORING | banal; fatuous; hackneyed; insipid; mundane; pedestrian; platitude; prosaic; quotidian; trite |
| BITING (AS IN WIT OR TEMPERAMENT) | acerbic; acidulous; acrimonious; asperity; caustic; mordacious; mordant; trenchant |
| DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE | defile; fetid; invidious; noisome; odious; putrid; rebarbative |
| DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND | abstruse; ambiguous; arcane; bemusing; cryptic; enigmatic; esoteric; inscrutable; paradoxical; perplexing; obscure; opaque; recondite; turbid |
| DICTATORIAL | authoritarian; despotic; dogmatic; imperious; peremptory; tyrannical; hegemonic (hegemony) |
| DENYING OF SELF | abnegate; abstain, ascetic; spartan; stoic; temperate |
| DEATH/MOURNING | bereave; cadaver; defunct; demise; dolorous; elegy; lament; moribund; obsequies; sepulchral; knell; macabre; wraith |
| CRITICIZE/CRITICISM | remonstrate; reprehend; reprove; revile; tirade; vituperate |
| CRITICIZE/CRITICISM | disparage; excoriate; gainsay; harangue; impugn; inveigh; lambaste; objurgate; opprobrium; pillory; obloquy; rebuke |
| CRITICIZE/CRITICISM | aspersion; belittle; castigate; defamation; denounce; calumny; berate; decry; deride/derisive; diatribe |
| COPY | counterpart; emulate; facsimile; factitious; paradigm; precursor; quintessence; simulated; vicarious |
| CHANGING QUICKLY | capricious; mercurial; volatile |
| CAROUSAL | bacchanalian; debauchery; depraved; dissipated; iniquity; libertine; libidinous; licentious; reprobate; salacious; ribald; sordid; turpitude |
| BOLD | audacious; courageous; dauntless |
| BORING | banal; fatuous; hackneyed; insipid; mundane; pedestrian; platitude; prosaic; quotidian; trite |
| BITING (AS IN WIT OR TEMPERAMENT) | acerbic; acidulous; acrimonious; asperity; caustic; mordacious; mordant; trenchant |
| BEGINNING/YOUNG | burgeoning; callow; engender; inchoate; incipient; nascent |
| BEGINNER/AMATEUR | dilettante; fledgling; neophyte; novitiate; proselyte; tyro |
| ACT QUICKLY | abrupt; apace; headlong; impetuous; precipitate |
| ASSIST | abet; advocate; ancillary; bolster; corroborate; countenance; espouse; mainstay; munificent; proponent; stalwart; sustenance |
| BAD MOOD | bilious; dudgeon; irascible; pettish; petulant; pique; querulous; umbrage; waspish |
| HARSH-SOUNDING | cacophony; din; dissonant; raucous; strident |
| WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT | abeyance; abjure; abnegation; abortive; abrogate; decamp; demur; recant; recidivism; remission; renege; recind; retrograde |
| WISDOM | adage; aphorism; apothegm; axiom; bromide; dictum; epigram; platitude; sententious; truism |
| WEAKEN | adulterate; enervate; exacerbate; inhibit; obviate; stultify; undermine; vitiate |
| WANDERING | discursive; expatiate; forage; itinerant; peregrination; peripatetic; sojourn |
| WALKING ABOUT | ambulatory; itinerant; peripatetic |
| UNUSUAL | aberration; anomaly; iconoclast; idiosyncrasy |
| TRUTH | candor/candid; fealty; frankness; indisputable; indubitable; legitimate; probity; sincere; veracious; verity |
| TIMID/TIMIDITY | craven; diffident; pusillanimous; recreant; timorous; trepidation |
| TIME/ORDER/DURATION | anachronism; antecede; antedate; anterior; archaic; diurnal; eon; epoch; fortnight; millennium; synchronous; penultimate; temporal |
| TERSE | compendious; curt; laconic; pithy; succinct; taciturn |
| STUBBORN | implacable; inexorable; intractable; intransigent; obdurate; obstinate; recalcitrant; refractory; renitent; untoward; vexing |
| SORROW | disconsolate; doleful; dolor; elegiac; forlorn; lament; lugubrious; melancholy; morose; plaintive; threnody |
| SMART/LEARNED | astute; canny; erudite; perspicacious |
| PREVENT/OBSTRUCT | discomfort; encumber; fetter; forfend; hinder; impede; inhibit; occulude |
| PREDICT | augur; auspice; fey; harbinger; portentous; presage; prescient; prognosticate |
| PRAISE | acclaim; accolade; aggrandize; encomium; eulogize; extol; fawn; laud/laudatory; venerate/veneration |
| POOR | destitute; esurient; impecunious; indigent |
| PACIFY/SATISFY | ameliorate; appease; assuage; defer; mitigate; mollify; placate; propitiate; satiate; slake; soothe |
| PLEASANT-SOUNDING | euphonious; harmonious; melodious; sonorous |
| OVERBLOWN/WORDY | bombastic; circumlocution; garrulous; grandiloquent; loquacious; periphrastic; prolix; rhetoric; turgid; verbose |
| NOT A STRAIGHT LINE | askance; awry; careen; carom; circuitous; circumvent; labyrinth; oblique; sidle; gyrate; meander; serrated; sinuous; undulating; vortex |
| NASTY | fetid; noisome; noxious |
| NAG | admonish; belabor; cavil; enjoin; exhort; harangue; hector; remonstrate; reproof; martinet |
| LUCK | adventitious; amulet; auspicious; fortuitous; kismet; optimum; portentous; propitious; providential; talisman |
| LAZY/SLUGGISH | indolent; inert; lackadaisical; languid; lassitude; lethargic; phlegmatic; torpid; slothful; quiescent |
| INVESTIGATE | appraise; ascertain; assay; descry; peruse |
| INSINCERE | disingenuous; dissemble; fulsome; ostensible; unctuous |
| INNOCENT/ INEXPERIENCED | credulous; gullible; ingenuous; naive; novitiate; tyro |
| HOSTILE | antithetic; churlish; curmudgeon; irascible; malevolent; misanthropic; truculent; vindictive |
| HEALTHY | beneficial; salubrious; salutary |
| HESITATE | dither; oscillate; teeter; vacillate; waver |
| HATRED | abhorrence; anathema; antagonism; antipathy; detestation; enmity; loathing; malice; odium; rancor |
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