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- procrustean
collapse - of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him related words >
- dour,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- purist,
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- dour,
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- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
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- rockbound,
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- straitlaced,
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- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- able-bodied,
- athletic,
- brawny,
- broad-shouldered,
- burly,
- dour,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- muscular,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sinewy,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- thewy,
- thickset,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- well-built,
- well-knit,
- well-set,
- well-set-up,
- wiry
- ironclad
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- a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor
- inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"
- sheathed in iron plates for protection related words >
- armed cap-a-pie,
- armor-plated,
- armored,
- constant,
- dour,
- firm,
- fixed,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impliable,
- in armor,
- in complete steel,
- in harness,
- inalterable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- invariable,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironhanded,
- loricate,
- loricated,
- mailclad,
- mailed,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- panoplied,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unmodifiable,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- corrugated,
- cragged,
- craggy,
- crinkled,
- crumpled,
- dour,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- gravelly,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- jagged,
- jaggy,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- ragged,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rocky,
- rugged,
- rugose,
- rugous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scragged,
- scraggly,
- scraggy,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- snagged,
- snaggled,
- snaggy,
- stiff,
- stony,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- wrinkled
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- astringent,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- binding,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- caustic,
- confining,
- cutting,
- demanding,
- double-edged,
- dour,
- draconian,
- drawing,
- edged,
- escharotic,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- fierce,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- incisive,
- inclement,
- ironhanded,
- keen,
- meticulous,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- rigorist,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scathing,
- severe,
- sharp,
- stabbing,
- stern,
- stinging,
- strict,
- strident,
- tart,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- ungentle,
- unsparing,
- vehement,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vitriolic
- uncompromising
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- not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty" related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- cast-iron,
- dour,
- firm,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hard-line,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- single-minded,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompliant,
- ungiving,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- fundamentalist
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- a supporter of fundamentalism
- of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism related words >
- Orthodox Jew,
- Sabbatarian,
- Sunni Muslim,
- bigoted,
- bitter-ender,
- canonist,
- conservative,
- creedbound,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- evangelical,
- firm,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old liner,
- orthodox,
- orthodox Christian,
- orthodoxist,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- right,
- right-winger,
- rightist,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- textualist,
- textuary,
- the orthodox,
- tory,
- true believer,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- asperous,
- bound,
- corrugated,
- cragged,
- craggy,
- crinkled,
- crumpled,
- dour,
- fettered,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- gravelly,
- hampered,
- handcuffed,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- in bonds,
- in chains,
- in irons,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- jagged,
- jaggy,
- manacled,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- ragged,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- rocky,
- rugged,
- rugose,
- rugous,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scabrous,
- scragged,
- scraggly,
- scraggy,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- shackled,
- snagged,
- snaggled,
- snaggy,
- stiff,
- stony,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strapped,
- stubborn,
- tethered,
- tied,
- tied down,
- tied up,
- trammeled,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- uneven,
- unrelenting,
- unsmooth,
- unyielding,
- wrinkled
- puritan
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- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
- a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Grundy,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bhikshu,
- bigoted,
- bluenose,
- dervish,
- disapproving,
- dour,
- fakir,
- fanatic,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- fundamentalist,
- goody-goody,
- hard,
- hard-line,
- hard-nosed,
- hermit,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intolerant,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- mendicant,
- mid-Victorian,
- moralistic,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow-minded,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old maid,
- orthodox,
- pietist,
- pietistic,
- prig,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- proper,
- prude,
- prudish,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- religionist,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sannyasi,
- severe,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- uptight,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- zealot
- Sabbatarian,
- bigoted,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- evangelical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exquisite,
- fastidious,
- firm,
- formalistic,
- fundamentalist,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- muscle-bound,
- namby-pamby,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orderly,
- orthodox,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- particular,
- pedantic,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- procrustean,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- simpering,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- puritanical
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- of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Quakerish,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- abstinent,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bigoted,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- demure,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- eremitic,
- evangelical,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- mendicant,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old-maidish,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sanctimonious,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- self-denying,
- sensitive,
- smug,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- wedded to poverty
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- bowelless,
- cast-iron,
- certain,
- cruel,
- dog-eat-dog,
- dogged,
- dour,
- fated,
- fateful,
- firm,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- harsh,
- heartless,
- hidebound,
- immobile,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inclement,
- indefeasible,
- inelastic,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- inevasible,
- inevitable,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- merciless,
- muscle-bound,
- necessary,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- pitiless,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- remorseless,
- resistless,
- resolute,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- ruthless,
- single-minded,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- sure,
- sure as death,
- sure as fate,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unavoidable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- uncompromising,
- uncontrollable,
- undeflectable,
- unfeeling,
- unforgiving,
- ungiving,
- unmerciful,
- unmoved,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unpreventable,
- unrelenting,
- unremorseful,
- unstoppable,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- unyielding,
- without mercy
- Quakerish,
- Sabbatarian,
- Victorian,
- authoritarian,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- censorious,
- closed,
- constricted,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- demure,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- evangelical,
- fanatical,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- genteel,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- illiberal,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- insular,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- libertine,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mid-Victorian,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old-maidish,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- parochial,
- petty,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- prig,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prissy,
- procrustean,
- provincial,
- prudish,
- purblind,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sanctimonious,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smug,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncompromising,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- hidebound
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- stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded related words >
- Quakerish,
- Sabbatarian,
- Victorian,
- authoritarian,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- censorious,
- closed,
- conservative,
- constricted,
- conventional,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- demure,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- evangelical,
- fanatical,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hyperorthodox,
- illiberal,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- insular,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- little,
- little-minded,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mid-Victorian,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old-maidish,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- parochial,
- petty,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- provincial,
- prudish,
- purblind,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- reactionary,
- relentless,
- restricted,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sanctimonious,
- shortsighted,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smug,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncompromising,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- dour
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- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie related words >
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- astringent,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- beetle-browed,
- black,
- black-browed,
- bleak,
- cast-iron,
- cheerless,
- cold,
- crabbed,
- dark,
- dejected,
- demanding,
- dismal,
- dreary,
- dumpish,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- firm,
- flinty,
- forbidding,
- frowning,
- fundamentalist,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- grim,
- grum,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hard-nosed,
- hardy,
- harsh,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inclement,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- lowering,
- melancholy,
- meticulous,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mumpish,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- rough,
- rugged,
- saturnine,
- scowling,
- severe,
- sour,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- tough,
- ugly,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- ungiving,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unsparing,
- unyielding
- orthodox
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- adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church related words >
- Christian,
- Orthodox Jew,
- Sunni Muslim,
- accepted,
- accordant,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- anal,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- being done,
- bourgeois,
- button-down,
- canonical,
- canonist,
- comme il faut,
- common,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformable,
- conformist,
- conservative,
- conventional,
- correct,
- corresponding,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- die-hard,
- doctrinal,
- dour,
- established,
- evangelical,
- faithful,
- firm,
- fogyish,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- harmonious,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- kosher,
- literal,
- meet,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- of the faith,
- official,
- old-line,
- ordinary,
- orthodox Christian,
- orthodoxical,
- orthodoxist,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- popular,
- precisianistic,
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- resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade";
- incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"
- incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" related words >
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- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield related words >
- adamant,
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- adherent,
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- balking,
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- patient,
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- set,
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- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
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- stiff,
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- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stringy,
- strong,
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- strongheaded,
- stunt,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tacky,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tough,
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- unabating,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflexible,
- unflinching,
- ungiving,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unlimber,
- unmalleable,
- unnodding,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
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- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- untractable,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- wayward,
- weariless,
- willful,
- wiry
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