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  • 71curtain — Synonyms and related words: Z, abatis, act, act drop, advanced work, afterpiece, apodosis, apply to, asbestos, asbestos board, awning, backdrop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, barbed wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier …

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  • 72deterrent — Synonyms and related words: admonishing, admonitory, alarming, awing, bar, block, blockade, bottleneck, catch, cautionary, cautioning, check, chill, chilling, cold water, cordon, curtain, damp, damper, daunting, determent, deterring, difficulty,… …

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  • 73difficulty — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, abstruseness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agreement to disagree, altercation, annoyance, arduousness, asperity, bad news, bedevilment, beef, bickering, blight, block,… …

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  • 74drawback — Synonyms and related words: abatement, agio, allowance, bank discount, blemish, block, blockade, bottleneck, breakage, bug, cash discount, catch, chain discount, charge off, concession, cordon, crack, curtain, cut, damage, deduction, defect,… …

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  • 75fly in the ointment — Synonyms and related words: abomination, atrocity, bad, bane, befoulment, blemish, blight, block, blockade, bottleneck, bug, catch, cordon, corruption, crack, crying evil, curtain, damage, defect, defection, deficiency, defilement, despoliation,… …

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  • 76hang up — Synonyms and related words: adjourn, afterthought, bind, block, blockade, blockage, blow up, bog down, bottleneck, bureaucratic delay, buzz, call, call up, catch, come to nothing, complex, compulsion, continue, cordon, curtain, decelerate, defer …

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  • 77hazard — Synonyms and related words: accident, adventure, ante, ante up, assume, attempt, back, bechance, befall, bet, bet on, betide, bingo, block, blockade, book, bottleneck, brave, breakers ahead, calculated risk, call, card games, cardhouse, casualty …

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  • 78hitch — Synonyms and related words: acute pain, amble, arrange a match, articulate, attach, barge, batten, batten down, bed, bed down, bite, block, blockade, bob, bolt, boring pain, bottleneck, bowl along, break, bridle, brush, buckle, bundle, butt,… …

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  • 79hurdle — Synonyms and related words: Highland fling, and jump, bar, barrier, block, blockade, bottleneck, bounce, bound, broad jump, buck, buckjump, capriole, catch, check, clear, complication, conquer, cordon, curtain, curvet, demivolt, determent,… …

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  • 80joker — Synonyms and related words: Adamite, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, ace, actor, artful dodge, artifice, astonishment, bad boy, bag of tricks, bamboozler, banana, bastard, befuddler, beguiler, being, best …

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