tentative poke
breath, brush, caress, contact, feel, feeling, flick, glance, graze, kiss, lap, lick, light touch, rub, stroke,
extensive study - application, contemplation, drill, exercise, grind, grinding, inspection, lucubration, perusal, practice, reading, review, study, subject
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high-principled - Christian, blameless, clean, creditable, decent, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, good, high-minded, honest, honourable, immaculate, inviolate,
precursor - advance guard, agent, airhead, alterer, ancestor, ancestors, announcer, antecedence, antecedent, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, avant-garde,
bitters - brew, gin, spirits, whiskey
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annulus - areola, aureole, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, discus, disk, garland, glory,
foulness - baseness, bestiality, brutality, caries, carrion, contrariety, decay, decomposition, degradation, depravity, devilry, dirt, dry rot, emetic, enormity,
fibroid - capillary, fibrous, flossy, funicular, hairlike, hairy, silky, stringy, threadlike, wiry
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disease - affection, affliction, ailment, bane, blight, bug, bugbear, burden, calamity, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, contaminate, crushing burden,
baulkiness - bigotry, determination, dogmatism, fanaticism, intolerance, perseverance, pertinacity, stubbornness, tenacity
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game fish - cetacean, dolphin, fish, fry, kipper, marine animal, plankton, porpoise, salmon, sea serpent, shark, sponge, whale
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