KEY: Cruel.

SYN: Savage, barbarous, pittiless, inexorable, unrelenting, ruthless, truculent, hard-hearted, harsh, unmerciful, brutal, inhuman, maleficent, malignant.

ANT: Humane, forbearing, generous, merciful, forgiving, benevolent, beneficent.

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KEY: Crumble.

SYN: Disintegrate, pulverize, triturate.

ANT: Consolidate, conglutinate, bond, amalgamate.

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KEY: Crumple, [See CRINKLE and CORRUGATE].

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