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(n.) abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, analysis, apercu, brief, capitulation, case, compendium, condensation, conspectus, core, digest, epitome, essence, extract, inventory, nutshell*, outline, pandect, prospectus, précis, recap*, recapitulation, reduction, rehash*, report, resume, review, roundup, run-through, rundown, sense, skeleton*, sketch, substance, summand, summing-up*, survey, syllabus, synopsis, version, wrap-up*
(adj.)arbitrary, boiled down*, breviloquent, brief, compact, compacted, compendiary, compendious, condensed, cursory, curt, hasty, laconic, perfunctory, pithy*, recapped, rehashed, run-down, run-through, short, succinct, terse |
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Haste (n.)/Hasten(v.) Overly eager speed (n.) Act quickly/Act or move at high speed v.) |
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(n.) alacrity, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurly-burly*, hurriedness, hurry, hustle, hustling, impatience, impetuosity, incautiousness, nimbleness, pace, precipitancy, precipitateness, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, swiftness, urgency, velocity
(v.) accelerate, advance, bolt, bound, burn, bustle, clip*, cover ground*, dash, dispatch, expedite, express, flee, fly, fog, gallop, get cracking*, goad, haste, hie, hotfoot it, hurry up, hustle, leap, make haste, make tracks*, move quickly, pace, plunge, precipitate, press, push, quicken, race, run, rush, scamper, scoot, scurry, scuttle, skedaddle, skip, speed, sprint, spurt, step up*, take wing*, tear, trot, urge, whip around
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abet advocate ancillary bolster corroborate countenance espouse mainstay munificient proponent stalwart sustenance |
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bilious dudgeon irascible pettish pique querulous umbrage waspish |
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| aperture, arroyo, blank, break, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, clove, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, discontinuity, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void |
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Taciturn (adj.) Uncommunicative |
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| aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up*, close, close-mouthed*, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried up, dumb, dummied up, garbo, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped*, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
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Truth (n.) Truthful (adj.) |
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(n.) accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel*, gospel truth*, honest truth*, infallibility, inside track*, law, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth*, nitty-gritty*, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, straight dope, trueness, truism, truthfulness, validity, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story* candor, constancy, dedication, devotion, dutifulness, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, frankness, honesty, indubitable, integrity, openness, probity, realism, revelation, sincerity, uprightness, veridicality (adj.) accurate, believable, boy scout, candid, correct, exact, factual, faithful, forthright, frank, guileless, ingenuous, just, kosher*, legit*, literal, open, outspoken, plain-spoken, precise, real, realistic, reliable, righteous, scrupulous, sincere, square, straight, straightforward, true, true blue, trustworthy, truth-telling, turkey, unfeigned, unreserved, veracious, veritable, white |
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| adage, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, axiom, byword, daffodil, dictum, epigram, gnome, motto, precept, proverb, saw, statement, truism |
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| banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, commonplace, corn, counterword, familiar tune, high camp, motto, old saw, old song, old story, platitude, potboiler, prosaism, proverb, rubber stamp, saw, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stale saying, stereotype, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism |
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| astute, aware, calculating, careful, clever, cogitative, contemplative, crafty, cunning, discerning, discreet, educated, enlightened, erudite, experienced, foresighted, grasping, informed, insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, prudent, rational, reasonable, reflective, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sensing, sharp, shrewd, smart, sophic, sound, tactful, taught, thoughtful, understanding, wary, well-informed, witty |
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| ambulant, itinerant, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, roving, vagabond, vagrant |
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| afraid, ambivalent, apprehensive, badgered, bashful, browbeaten, bullied, capricious, cold-footed, cowardly, cowed, cowering, coy, daunted, demure, diffident, faint-hearted, fearful, feeble, frightened, gentle, humble, intimidated, irresolute, mild, milk-toast, modest, mousy, nervous, pusillanimous, rabbity, retiring, shaky, shrinking, shy, soft, spineless, spiritless, submissive, timid, timorous, trembling, unassertive, unassured, unnerved, vacillating, wavering, weak, yellow* |
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| aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity |
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| allay, alleviate, appease, calm, compose, conciliate, ease, fill, lessen, lighten, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quench, quiet, relieve, sate, satisfy, soften, still, surfeit, sweeten, temper, tranquilize |
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| bewilderment, cliffhanger, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, mystification, parable, perplexity, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, question, question mark, riddle, secret, sticker, stickler, stumper, teaser, twister |
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| ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibological, borderline, disreputable, dubious, evasive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, mixed feelings, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, puzzling, questionable, suspect, suspicious, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, undecided, unexplicit, unintelligible, vague |
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| brainy, cultivated, cultured, educated, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly, scholastic, studious, well-read, wise to, wised up |
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fervid (enthusiastic, excited) |
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| animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, fiery, glowing, heartfelt, hearty, impassioned, intense, passionate, perfervid, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous |
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| apprehensible, clear, clear-cut, comprehendible, comprehensible, crystal clear, distinct, evident, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unblurred, understandable |
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| blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless, misty, muddied, muddy, murky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, nubilous, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid |
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| appease, assuage, calm, cheer, comfort, conciliate, cool, fix up, humor, make nice, mollify, pacify, propitiate, reconcile, satisfy, soothe, sweeten, tranquilize |
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| accelerate, advance, bring on, cast, discharge, dispatch, expedite, fling, further, hasten, hurl, hurry, launch, let fly, press, push forward, quicken, send forth, speed up, throw, trigger |
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| dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, wanton |
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| alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion, diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise, fanaticism, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, hop, hustle, inclination, initiative, intensity, intentness, keenness, mania, passion, perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, yen, zest |
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| abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, forbear, forgo, give up, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, withhold |
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| attenuated, blended, contaminated, corrupt, defiled, degraded, depreciated, deteriorated, devalued, diluted, dissolved, impaired, mixed, polluted, tainted, thinned, vitiated, watered down, weakened |
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| aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, indifference, insensibility, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, stoicism, unconcern, unresponsiveness |
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| adventurous, aweless, ballsy, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky*, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty*, intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome |
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| arbitrary, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, fanciful, fantasmo, fickle, fitful, flighty, freakish, higgledy-piggledy, humorsome, impulsive, inconstant, lubricious, mercurial, moody, mutable, notional, odd, queer, quirky, temperamental, ticklish, unpredictable, unreasonable, unstable, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, whimsical |
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| approve, authenticate, bear out, certify, check on, check out, check up, declare true, document, double check, endorse, establish, give nod*, justify, okay, prove, ratify, rubber-stamp*, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, validate, verify |
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| anhydrate, dehydrate, deplete, devitalize, divest, drain, dry, dry up, evaporate, exsiccate, parch, sear, shrivel, wither, wizen |
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| arouse, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, develop, excite, father, foment, generate, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, lead to, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, sire, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up |
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| brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, passing, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring, volatile |
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| believing, bite, born yesterday, credulous, easy, easy mark*, eat up, fall for, fleeceable, foolish, go for, green*, innocent, kid oneself, lap up, mark*, naive, patsy, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, swallow, swallow whole, taken in*, trustful, tumble for, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed |
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| akin, alike, analogous, cognate, comparable, consistent, homologous, identical, kindred, like, uniform, unvarying |
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| breviloquent, brief, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, pithy, sententious, succinct, terse |
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| commendable, creditable, deserving, estimable, excellent, gnarly, keen, mean, meritable, meritorious, nasty, neato, not bad, of note, pink, praisable, praiseworthy, slick, stellar, terrific, thankworthy, worthy |
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| babbling, blathering, chattering, chatty, flapping, fluent, gabby*, garrulous, gossipy, jabbering, long-winded*, loose-lipped*, motormouth*, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble, wordy, yacking* |
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| abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, check, come together, cool*, cool it, dull, ease, extenuate, lessen, lighten, meet halfway*, moderate, modify, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, reduce, relieve, remit, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tone down, tranquilize, weaken |
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| abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting*, learned, nitpicking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, precise, priggish*, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
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| businesslike, commonsensical, down-to-earth, efficient, extensional, hard, hard-boiled*, hardheaded*, logical, matter-of-fact, philistine, practical, realistic, sober, unidealistic, utilitarian |
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| accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
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| be indecisive, be irresolute, change, change mind, dither, fence-straddle*, fluctuate, hedge, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, pussyfoot around*, reel, rock, seesaw*, shilly-shally*, stagger, straddle, sway, swing, waffle, waver, whiffle*, yo-yo* |
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airy, buoyant, capricious, changeableness, effervescent, elastic, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, expansive, fickle, fleeting, flighty, flippant, frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, gaseous, gay, giddy, impermanent, imponderable, inconsistent, inconstant, light, lively, lubricious, mercurial, momentary, playful, resilient, short-lived, sprightly, subtle, temperamental, ticklish, transient, transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vaporous, variable, whimsical |
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| advance, advise, argue for, back, bless, bolster, boost*, brace up*, build up, campaign for, champion, countenance, defend, encourage, favor, further, go for, go with, hold with, justify, plead for, plug*, plump for*, press for, promote, propose, push, recommend, root for*, say so*, side, speak for, spread around*, stump for*, support, thump for, tout, uphold, urge, vindicate |
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| abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, avoidance, bad blood*, contrariety, dislike, dispathy, distaste, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, loathing, no use, opposition, rancor, repellency, repugnance, repulsion |
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| aid, assist, bear up, boost, brace, buck up, bulwark, buoy, buttress, carry, cushion, help, hold up, maintain, pick up, reinforce, shore up, stay, strengthen, support, sustain, uphold |
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| babble, babel, bang, bedlam, bellow, bewailing, blare, blast, boisterousness, boom, buzz, cacophony, caterwauling, clamor, clang, clatter, commotion, crash, cry, detonation, din, discord, disquiet, disquietude, drumming, eruption, explosion, fanfare, fireworks, fracas*, fuss*, hoo-ha*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, jangle, lamentation, outcry, pandemonium, peal, racket, ring, roar, row, shot, shouting, sonance, squawk, stridency, talk, thud, tumult, turbulence, uproar, uproariousness, yamp, yelling, yelp |
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| banter, chaff, contemn, detract, disdain, disparage, dump on*, flout, gibe, jeer, jolly, kid, knock, laugh at, lout, mock, pan, pooh-pooh*, put-down, quiz, rag*, rally, razz*, rib*, ridicule, roast*, scoff, scorn, slam, sneer, taunt, twit |
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| antagonism, conflict, contention, controversy, difference, disaccord, discord, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissidence, incongruity, inconsistency, strife, variance |
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| bush, castrate, debilitate, devitalize, disable, emasculate, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, prostrate, sap, unman, unnerve, unstring, wash out, weaken, wear, wear out, weary |
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| acclaim, acclamation, accolade, adulation, applause, citation, commendation, compliment, encomium, exaltation, glorification, laudation, paean, panegyric, plaudit, salutation, tribute |
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| Chatty Cathy, babbling, blabbermouth*, chattering, chatty, effusive, flap jaw*, gabby, gassy, glib, gossiping, gushing, long-winded*, loose-lipped*, loose-tongued*, loquacious, motormouth*, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy, verbose, voluble, windy*, wordy, yaky |
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| artless, candid, childlike, frank, green*, guileless, innocent, mark, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, talk turkey, trustful, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, uncool, undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front* |
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| apathetic, blah*, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant, draggy*, drippy, drowsy, dull, enervated, heavy, idle, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, laid back, languid, languorous, listless, moony*, nebbish, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, sleepyhead*, slothful, slow, sluggish, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stretchy, stupefied, stupid, supine, torpid, wimpy* |
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| adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, go-with-the-flow*, governable, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, submissive, supple, tractable, tractile, transformable, workable, yielding |
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| cynic, doubter, egoist, egotist, hater, isolate, loner, misanthropist, misogynist, recluse, skeptic |
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| adamant, bullhead*, callous, cold fish*, dogged, firm, fixed, hang tough, hard, hard-boiled*, hard-hearted*, hard-nosed*, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable, indurate, inexorable, inflexible, iron*, mean, mulish*, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed, relentless, rigid, stiff-necked*, thick-skinned*, tough, unbending, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncooperative, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible, unrelenting, unshakable, unsympathetic, unyielding |
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| affectation, array, boast, boasting, brag, braggadocio*, bragging, bravado, demonstration, display, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front*, flamboyance, flash*, flaunting, flourish, fuss, garishness, grandstand play*, magnificence, pageant, pageantry, parade, parading, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, pretending, pretension, pretentiousness, put on, shine*, show, showboat, showiness, showing off*, showoff*, spectacle, splendor, splurge, swagger*, swaggering, swank*, vainglory, vaunt*, vaunting*, window-dressing |
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| absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, catch 22, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, puzzle, reverse |
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| altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, big-hearted, bountiful, charitable, contributing, donating, eleemosynary, generous, good, gracious, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kind, kind-hearted, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, patriotic, public-spirited |
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| belie, cavil, con, distort, dodge, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, fib, garble, hedge, invent, jive*, lie*, misrepresent, palter, phony up*, put on*, quibble, shift, shuffle, stretch, tergiversate |
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| admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, be in awe of, cherish, deify, esteem, exalt, hallow, hold in awe, honor, idolize, look up to*, love, put on a pedestal*, regard, respect, reverence, think highly of, treasure, value, worship |
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| be irresolute, change, deliberate, dilly-dally*, dither, falter, flicker, fluctuate, halt, hedge, hesitate, oscillate, palter, pause, pussyfoot around*, quiver, reel, seesaw*, shake, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, tremble, trim, undulate, vacillate, vary, waffle, wave, weave, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo* |
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| allay, cool, decline, decrease, die away, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, lay back*, lessen, let up, mellow out*, moderate, quell, recede, reduce, slack off, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, taper, taper off, unlax*, wane, weaken |
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| beat it*, blow, bolt*, break, breeze, cut out, decamp, disappear, dog it*, duck out, escape, fade*, fade away, flee, get, go AWOL*, go south*, hightail*, jump*, lam, leave, make off, make scarce*, powder, pull out, quit, run away, run off, scram*, skedaddle*, skip, skip out*, slip away, sneak away, split*, steal away, take off*, vamoose* |
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| abysm, chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void |
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| artful, artistic, creative, esthetic, gorgeous, inventive |
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| acclaim, applaud, augment, ballyhoo, beef up*, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, enlarge, ennoble, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up*, honor, hype, increase, intensify, jack up*, jump, magnify, multiply, parlay, praise |
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