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| insanity, dementia, derangement, lunacy, madness, mania, rage |
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| foreshadow, forerun, harbinger, herald, prefigure |
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| : fervent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming |
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| something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement —often used in plural |
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| : critical, carping, caviling (or cavilling), faultfinding, hypercritical, judgmental, overcritical, rejective |
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| breach, break, violate, fracture, infringe, offend, traduce, transgress |
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| blamable, censurable, blameworthy, reprehensible, reproachable |
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| ascertain, find, detect, determine, dig out, dig up, discover, dredge (up), ferret (out), find out, get, hit |
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| clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, explain, explicate, expound, get across |
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| fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel, |
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| deodorize, excuse, explain away, palliate, gloss (over), gloze (over), whitewash |
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| essential, indispensable, necessary, needed, needful, required |
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| : descent, foray, raid, inroad, invasion, irruption |
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| dead, flat, flavorless, savorless, tasteless, unsavory |
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| not violated or profaned; especially : pure |
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| beaming, bedazzling, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent |
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| block, choke, clot, congest, dam, gum (up), jam, obstruct, clog, plug (up), stop (up), stuff |
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| appreciable, apprehensible, detectable, discernible (also discernable), distinguishable, perceptible, sensible |
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| unimaginative, pedestrian |
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| aching, agonized, anguished, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolesome, dolorous |
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| character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness |
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| drag (out), draw out, elongate, lengthen, outstretch, prolong, extend, stretch |
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| repose : leaning, resting |
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| bogus, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, counterfeit, unauthentic |
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| implied, implicit, unexpressed, unspoken, unvoiced, wordless |
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| balance, dither, falter, halt, hang back, scruple, shilly-shally, stagger, teeter, hesitate, waver, wobble (also wabble) |
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| drift, glide, hang, hover, poise, ride, sail, swim, float |
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