ANT: Mar, spoil, frustrate.

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KEY: Crucial.

SYN: Searching, probing, severe, discriminating, sharp, critical, piercing.

ANT: Superficial, indifferent, mild, uncritical, lenient, lax.

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KEY: Crude.

SYN: Raw, undigested, unconsidered, half-studied, harsh, unshaped, unchastened, unfinished, unrefined, ill-prepared.

ANT: Well-prepared, well-digested, well-considered, well-studied, ripe, well-adapted, well-proportioned, well-expressed, classical, finished, refined, artistic, elaborate, highlywrought.

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