WORD FAMILIES
CRITICIZE/CRITICISM or BLAME
AspersionCalumnyDefamationDiatribeGainsayInveighObloquyRemonstrateReproveVituperateBelittleCastigateCensureDenounceDisparageHarangueLambasteOpprobriumRebukeRevileBerateDecryDeride/DerisiveExcoriateImpugnObjurgatePilloryReprehendTirade RantDenigrateSlurLibelInvectiveChastiseReprimandReproofSullyVilifyTarnishChideDefileScathing
FALSEHOOD
ApocryphalDissembleErroneousFeignedPerfidySpuriousCanardDuplicityErsatzGuilePrevaricateChicaneryEquivocateFallaciousMendacious/MendacitySpecious Factitious
YOUNG/BEGINNER/AMATEUR
BurgeoningInchoateCallowIncipientEngenderNascent DilettanteNovitiateFledglingProselyteNeophyteTyro
BOLD
AudaciousCourageousDauntlessIntrepidPluckyGutsyIndomitableGallant
Changing / Not permanent
CapriciousMercurialVolatile FickleEphemeralEvanescentWhimsicalErraticQuirkyTransitoryTransient
HESITATE
DitherVacillateOscillateWaverTeeter
ACT QUICKLY
ApaceImpetuousAbruptPrecipitateHeadlong
INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED
CredulousIngenuousGullibleNaive
DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
AbstruseBemusingEsotericOpaqueReconditeCrypticInscrutableTurbidArcaneEnigmaticObscurePerplexing Arcane
EASY TO UNDERSTAND
ArticulateEvidentPellucidCogentLimpidEloquentLucid
SMART/LEARNED
AstutePerspicaciousCannyErudite SagaciousIncisiveJudicious
CAROUSAL
-drunkenly festive; sin, evil act
BacchanalianIniquityLicentiousSalaciousDepravedLibertineReprobateSordidDissipatedLibidinousRibaldTurpitude InsidiousLewdBawdyDecadentDegenerate
TRUTH
Candor/CandidIndisputableProbityVerityFealtyIndubitableSincereFranknessLegitimateVeracious
BITING
(As in wit or temperament)
-sarcastic, harsh, rough
AcerbicAsperityMordantAcidulousCausticTrenchantAcrimoniousMordacious Curmudgeon
PRAISE
AcclaimEncomiumFawnAccoladeEulogizeLaud/LaudatoryAggrandizeExtolVenerate/Veneration
HARMFUL
BalefulInimicalMinatoryBanefulInjuriousPerfidiousDeleteriousInsidiousPernicious Malicious
TIMID/TIMIDITY
CravenRecreantDiffidentTimorousPusillanimousTrepidation Apostate(deserter)
BORING
BanalInsipidPlatitudeTriteFatuousMundaneProsaicHackneyedPedestrianQuotidian
WEAKEN
AdulterateInhibitUndermineEnervateObviateVitiateExacerbateStultify
ASSIST
AbetBolsterEspouseProponentAdvocateCorroborateMainstayAncillaryCountenanceMunificentSustenance
HOSTILE
AntitheticIrascibleTruculentChurlishMalevolentVindictiveMisanthropic
STUBBORN
ImplacableIntransigentRecalcitrantUntowardInexorableObdurateRefractoryVexingIntractableObstinateRenitent
GENEROUS/KIND
AltruisticLargessPhilanthropicBeneficentMagnanimousUnstintingClementMunificent
GREEDY
AvariciousMiserlyVenalCovetousPenuriousMercenaryRapacious
TERSE
-concise, brief
CompendiousPithyCurtSuccinctLaconicTaciturn
OVERBLOWN/WORDY
BombasticGrandiloquentProlixVerboseCircumlocutionLoquaciousRhetoricGarrulousPeriphrasticTurgid
DICTATORIAL
AuthoritarianHegemonic (hegemony)TyrannicalDogmaticImperiousDespoticPeremptory
HATRED
AbhorrenceAntipathyLoathingRancorAntagonismDetestationMaliceAnathemaEnmityOdium
LAZY/SLUGGISH
IndolentLanguidPhlegmaticTorpidInertLassitudeQuiescentLackadaisicalLethargicSlothful
PACIFY/SATISFY
AmeliorateDeferPlacateSlakeAppeaseMitigatePropitiateSootheAssuageMollifySatiate
FORGIVE
AbsolveExonerateRedressAcquitExpiateVindicateExculpatePalliate
POOR
DestituteImpecuniousEsurientIndigent
FAVORING/NOT IMPARTIAL
Ardor/ArdentPartisanDoctrinaireTendentiousFervidZealot
DENYING OF SELF
AbnegateSpartanAbstainStoicAsceticTemperate
WALKING ABOUT AmbulatoryItinerantPeripatetic
INSINCERE
Disingenuous (Ingenuous=innocent/ inexperienced)OstensibleDissembleUnctuousFulsome Factitious (artificial)Bogus
PREVENT/OBSTRUCT
DiscomfitForfendInhibitEncumberHinderOccludeFetterImpede
ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR
AberrantDiscreteIconoclastAnachronismEclecticAnomalousEsoteric
FUNNY
ChortleFlippantLevityRiposteDrollGibeLudicrousSimperFacetiousJocularRaillery
SORROW
DisconsolateElegiacLugubriousPlaintiveDolefulForlornMelancholyThrenody (death/mourning)DolorLament (death/mourning)Morose
WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT
AbeyanceAbortiveDemurRemissionRetrogradeAbjureAbrogateRecantRenegeAbnegationDecampRecidivismRescind
DEATH/MOURNING
BereaveDemiseKnellMoribundWraithCadaverDolorousLament (sorrow)ObsequiesThrenody (sorrow)DefunctElegyMacabreSepulchral
COPY
CounterpartQuintessenceEmulateParadigm (archetype/prototype)SimulatedFacsimilePrecursor
EQUAL EquitableEquityTantamount
UNUSUAL
Aberration (eccentric/dissimilar)IdiosyncrasyAnomaly (eccentric/dissimilar)Iconoclast (eccentric/dissimilar)
WANDERING
DiscursiveItinerant (walking about)SojournExpatiatePeregrinationForagePeripatetic (walking about)
GAPS/OPENINGS
AbatementHiatusLullRespiteApertureInterregnumOrificeRiftFissureIntersticeRent
HEALTHY
BeneficialSalubriousSalutary Wholesome
ABBREVIATED COMMUNICATION
AbridgeCurtailTerse CompendiumSyllabusCursorySynopsis
WISE SAYING
AdageAxiomEpigramTruismAphorismBromidePlatitudeApothegmDictumSententious
FAMILY
ConjugalEndogamousProgenitorConsanguineFilialScionDistaffFratricide
CURVE/ TWIST/NOT STRAIGHT
AskanceCaromGyrateObliqueSinuousAwryCircuitousLabyrinthSerratedUndulatingCareenCircumventMeanderSidleVortex
INVESTIGATE
AppraiseDescryAscertainPeruseAssay
TIME/ORDER/DURATION
AnachronismAnteriorEonFortnightSynchronousAntecedeArchaicEphemeralMillenniumTemporalAntedateDiurnalEpochPenultimate
BAD MOOD
BiliousPetulantQuerulousDudgeonPettishUmbrageIrasciblePiqueWaspish
EMBARRASS
AbashVexMortifyChagrinGaucherie
NAG/ COMPLAIN
BadgerEnjoinHectorReproofCavilExhortMartinetBelaborHarangue (criticize)Remonstrate (criticize) BickerCurmudgeonKilljoy
PREDICT AugurHarbingerPrescientAuspicePortentousPrognosticateFeyPresageClairvoyantDivinerSoothsayerOracleBode
ForetellProphetic
LUCK
AdventitiousFortuitousPropitiousAmulet (charm)KismetPortentousProvidentialAuspiciousPropitiateTalisman (charm)
FOUL/ FILTHY/ DISGUSTING
Fetid (disgusting/offensive)Noisome (disgusting/offensive)Noxious RankSqualidPutridRebarbativeFetidOdiousInvidiousPutrid
HARSH-SOUNDING/ NOISE
AssonanceDissonantCacophonyRaucousDinStrident PandemoniumBedlam
PLEASANT-SOUNDING
EuphoniousSonorousHarmoniousMelodious Dulcet
FLATTERY
SycophantToadyFawnServileCajoleFulsome
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