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  • 51strain — Synonyms and related words: Spenserian stanza, abrade, affectation, affiliation, agitation, aim, air, all overs, anacrusis, ancestry, angst, animal kingdom, animus, antistrophe, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious… …

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  • 52yield — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abdicate, abjure, accede, accept, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, acknowledge, acknowledge defeat, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, administer, admit, afford, aftermath, agree, agree provisionally,… …

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  • 53hem — hem1 noun the edge of a piece of cloth or clothing which has been turned under and sewn. verb (hems, hemming, hemmed) 1》 turn under and sew the edge of (a piece of cloth). 2》 (hem someone/thing in) surround and restrict the space or movement of… …

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  • 54duck — Synonyms and related words: Adamite, Bantam, Cornish hen, about the bush, also ran, angel, avert, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, babe, baby, baby doll, back and fill, banty, baptism, baptize, barn door fowl, barnyard fowl, bastard, beat… …

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  • 55equivocate — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, alternate, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, choplogic, deceive, dither, dodge, double talk, draw the… …

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  • 56evade — Synonyms and related words: abstain, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, bail out, beat about, beg, beg the question, bicker, bilk, blench, blink, boggle, break away, break jail, break loose, bypass, cavil, cheat, choplogic, circumvent, cop… …

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  • 57fear — Synonyms and related words: abulia, agitation, alarm, all overs, angst, anticipate, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehend, apprehension, apprehensiveness, attack of… …

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  • 58palter — Synonyms and related words: around the bush, back and fill, bargain, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, chaffer, choplogic, dicker, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, falsify, fence, fib, hedge, hem and haw, higgle …

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  • 59parry — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beat around, beat off, beg the question, bicker, block, boggle, cavil, check, choplogic, confound, confute,… …

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  • 60prevaricate — Synonyms and related words: around the bush, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beg the question, belie, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, deceive, dodge, draw the longbow, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, exaggerate, falsify,… …

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