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KEY: Merciful.

SYN: Compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind.

ANT: Pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorable, [See KIND].

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KEY: Mercy.

SYN: Compassion, clemency, forgiveness, forbearance, grace, benefit, gift, pity, leniency, tenderness.

ANT: Exaction, harshness, cruelty, vengeance, unpityingness, unforgiveness.

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KEY: Mere.