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Abbreviated Communication
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abridge - shorten
compendium - summary cursory - hasty curtail - reduce in extent or quality syllabus - outline synopsis - summary terse - abrupt |
ab
com cur cur syl syn ter |
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Bad Mood
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bilious - nausea
dudgeon - resentment irascible - easily angered pettish - petulant petulant - easily angered |
bil
dud ira pet pet |
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Bad Mood (2)
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pique - resentment
querulous - complaining umbrage - annoyance waspish - anger |
piq
que umb was |
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Bold
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audacious - bold in social situations
courageous - brave dauntless - not afraid |
Aud
cou dau |
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Boring
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Banal - boring
fatuous - pointless hackneyed - lacking significance insipid- lacking flavor mundane - dull |
Ban
Fat hac ins mun |
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Boring (2)
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Pedestrian - Lacking imagination
Platitude - obvious statement prosaic - prose (lacking poetic beauty) quotidian - ordinary trite - little importance |
ped
pla pro quo tri |
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Act Quickly
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abrupt - quick
apace - quickly headlong - rush impetuous - without thought precipitate - happen suddenly |
abr
apa hea imp pre |
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Beginner
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dilettante - amateur
fledgling - underdeveloped neophyte - new to a skill novitiate - novice proselyte - convert in religion tyro - beginner |
dil
fle neo nov pro ty |
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Young/Beginning
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burgeoning - flourish
callow - inexperienced engender - give rise to inchoate - rudimentary incipient - initial stage nascent - coming to existence |
bur
cal eng inch inc nas |
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Carousal (Unprincipled)
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Bacchanalian - drunken
debauchery - indulgence in sensual pleasures depraved - wicked dissipated - overindulging (sen. pleasures) iniquity - immoral |
Bach
deb dep dis ini |
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Carousal (Unprincipled) 2
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Libertine - w/o moral principles sexually
rake - promiscuous libidinous - lustful licentious - lewd reprobate - unprincipled |
Lib
ra lib lic rep |
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Carousal 3
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ribald - referring to sexual matters in rude way
salacious - treating sexual matters in an indecent way sordid - morally ignoble turpitude - wickedness |
rib
sal sor tur |
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Assist
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abet - assist to do wrong
Advocate - representative ancillary - support bolster - support corroborate - confirm countenance - support |
ab
adv anc bols corr count |
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Assist 2
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espouse - adopt
mainstay - a thing on which something else is based munificent - generous proponent - advocate stalwart - reliable sustenance - assist |
esp
main mun pro stal sust |
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Biting (in wit or temperance)
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acerbic - harsh in tone
acidulous - sour acrimonious - bitter asperity - harsh in tone caustic - bitter mordacious - biting sarcasm mordant - biting trenchant - incisive in expression |
acer
acid acri asp cau mord tren |
