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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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