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Abbreviated communication
abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
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
beginner/amateur
dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
beginning/young
burgeoning, callow, inchoate, incipient, nascent,
Biting (in wit or temperament)
acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious,"", asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant,
bold
audacious, courageous, dauntless
boring
banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
Carousal:
a noisy or drunken feast or social gathering; revelry.
carousal, bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
changing quickly
capricious, mercurial, volatile
copy
counterpart, emulate, facsimile, facitious, paradignm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
criticize/criticism
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
Death/Mourning
bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, doloreous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
denying of self
abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
dictatorial
dogmatic, peremptory, tyrannical
difficult to understand
abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
disgusting/offensive
defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
easy to understand
articulate, cogent, eloquent, limpid, lucid, pellucid
eccentric/dissimilar
aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, ecletic, esoteric, iconoclast
embarass
abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
equal
equitable, equity, tantamount
falsehood
apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
family
conjugal, consanguine,distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenator, scion
favoring/biased
ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
forgive
absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
funny
chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
gaps/openings
abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
generous/kind
altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
greedy
avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
hard-hearted
asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
harmful
baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
harsh sounding
cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
hatred
abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
healthy
salubrious, salutary, hesitate, dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
hostile
antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
innocent, inexperienced
credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
insincere
disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctious
investigate
appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
lazy/sluggish
indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
luck
adventitious, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
nag
admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
nasty
fetid, noisome, noxious
not a straight line
askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, bolique, sidle, sinuous,
overblown/wordy
bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid,
pacify/satisfy
ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe
pleasant-sounding
euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
poor
destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
praise
acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, ecomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
predict
augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
prevent/obstruct
discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
smart/learned
astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
sorrow
disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorm, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
stubborn
implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, reintent, untoward, vexing
terse:
1. neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language. 2. abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
time/order/ duration
anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
timid/timidity
craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
truth
candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
unusual
aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
walking about
ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
wandering
discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination,peripatetic, sojourn
weaken
enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
wisdom
adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
withdrawal, retreat
abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde