KEY: Stick \v.\
SYN: Hold, adhere, cleave, [See ADHERE].
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KEY: Stiff.
SYN: Unbending, inflexible, rigid, unyielding, unpliant, stroux, stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, constrained, affected, starched, formal, ceremonious, difficult.
ANT: Pliant, flexible, flaccid, yielding, easy, unaffected, genial, affable, unceremonious.
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KEY: Stifle.
SYN: Choke, suffocate, smother, throttle, quench, repress, suppress, extinguish, burke.
ANT: Ventilate, discuss, promulgate, propound.