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07/17/2013

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Term
"Abbreviated Communication" - 7
Definition
abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
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"Act Quickly" - 5
Definition
abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
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"Assist" - 12
Definition
abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
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"Bad Mood" - 9
Definition
bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
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"Beginner/Amateur" - 6
Definition
dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
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"Beginning/Young" - 6
Definition
burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
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"Biting (in wit/temperament)" - 8
Definition
acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
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"Bold" - 3
Definition
audacious, courageous, dauntless
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"Boring" - 10
Definition
banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
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"Carousal/Boisterous/Immodest" - 13
Definition
bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
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"Changing Quickly" - 3
Definition
capricious, mercurial, volatile
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"Copy" - 9
Definition
counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
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"Criticize/Criticism" - 28
Definition
aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
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"Death/ Mourning" - 13
Definition
bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
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"Denying of Self" - 6
Definition
abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
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"Dictatorial" - 7
Definition
authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic/hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
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"Difficult to Understand" - 14
Definition
abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic,enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
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"Disgusting/Offensive" - 7
Definition
defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
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"Easy to Understand" - 7
Definition
articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
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"Eccentric/Dissimilar" - 7
Definition
aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast
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"Embarrass" - 9
Definition
abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
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"Equal"- 3
Definition
equitable, equity, tantamount
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"Falsehood" - 16
Definition
apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious,
Term
"Family" - 8
Definition
conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
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"Favoring/Not Impartial" - 6
Definition
ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
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"Forgive" - 8
Definition
absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
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"Funny" - 11
Definition
chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
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"Gaps/Openings" - 11
Definition
abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
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"Generous/Giving - 8
Definition
altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
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"Greedy" - 7
Definition
avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
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"Hard-hearted" - 11
Definition
asperity, baleful, dour, fell malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
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"Harmful" - 9
Definition
baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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"Harsh-sounding" - 5
Definition
cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
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"Hatred" - 10
Definition
abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
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"Healthy" - 3
Definition
beneficial, salubrious, salutary
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"Hesitate" - 5
Definition
dither, oscillate, teeter vacillate, waver
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"Hostile" - 8
Definition
antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
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"Innocent/Inexperienced" - 6
Definition
credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
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"Insincere" - 5
Definition
disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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"Investigate" - 5
Definition
appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
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"Lazy/Sluggish" - 10
Definition
indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
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"Luck" - 11
Definition
adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
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"Nag" - 10
Definition
admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
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"Nasty" - 3
Definition
fetid, noisome, noxious
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"Not a Straight Line" - 15
Definition
askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
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"Overblown/Wordy" - 10
Definition
bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, urgid, verbose
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"Pacify/Satisfy" - 10
Definition
ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe
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"Pleasant-sounding" - 4
Definition
euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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"Poor" - 4
Definition
destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
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"Praise" - 9
Definition
acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud, laudatory, venerate, veneration
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"Predict" - 8
Definition
augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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"Prevent/Obstruct" - 8
Definition
discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
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"Smart/Learned" - 4
Definition
astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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"Sorrow" - 11
Definition
disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lamen, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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"Stubborn" - 11
Definition
implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
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"Terse/Lacking Words" - 6
Definition
compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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"Time/Order/Duration" - 14
Definition
anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
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"Timid/Timidity" - 6
Definition
craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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"Truth" - 10
Definition
candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
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"Unusual" - 4
Definition
aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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"Walking About" - 3
Definition
ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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"Wandering" - 7
Definition
discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
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"Weaken" - 8
Definition
adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
Term
"Wisdom" - 10
Definition
adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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"Withdrawal/Retreat" - 13
Definition
abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde
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