KEY: Tenor.
SYN: Drift, purport, Intent, course, character, sense, stamp, meaning, effect, aim, scope, direction.
ANT: unmeaningness, purposelessness, irrelevance, discursiveness, Incoherence, variance, divergence.
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KEY: Tension.
SYN: Stretch, strain, intentness, tightness, stiffness, force, tone, effort.
ANT: Looseness, relaxation, laxity, atony, slackness.
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KEY: Tentative.
SYN: Experimental, empirical, speculative.