adjective

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Good / Busy

Url

throngs - A large, densely packed crowd.

Throngs of people went to the Woodstock music festival in 1969.

noun

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Bad / Pain

Url

burden - something you carry or withstand with much difficulty.

Financial debt can be a huge burden on families.

adjective

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Bad / Disgusting

grungy - Grimy; dirty

The grungy room required a lot of cleaning before it could be used by anybody.

noun

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Bad / Confused

dilemma - A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones

Life is filed with dilemmas, often leading to no good outcome.

adjective

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Bad / Unfriendly

Url

intrusive - Interfering with someone's privacy or personal space.

The constant notifications on his phone felt intrusive while he was trying to focus.

verb

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Bad / Hostile

mock - To tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner

While the professor wrote the math formula on the board, one of the students mocked him behind his back as the other students laughed.

adjective

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Bad / Powerless

docile - Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

The lion tamer was so talented that any lion near him acted completely docile.

verb

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Other / Sound

stammer - To speak with sudden involuntary pauses and with a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words

Once he realized he was speaking to a large crowd, Quentin nervously stammered his way through his speech.

adjective

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Bad / Uncomfortable

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swollen - Enlarged beyond normal size, often due to injury, infection, or inflammation.

Her eyes were swollen from crying all night.

adjective

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Bad / Delay

stagnate - Cease developing; become inactive or dull

The stagnating economy had left workers nervous about keeping their jobs.

verb

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Bad / Dishonest

hoodwink - To deceive or trick someone.

The con man surveyed the crowd in order to find someone to hoodwink.

adjective

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Bad / Aggressive

Url

autocratic - Demanding total obedience and control, often in a domineering way.

The king ran his government in an autocratic manner, refusing to take advice or hear feedback from anybody else.