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Dead Slow Quite The Contrary Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "QUICK" which means:
- noun
- • Any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) adverb
- • With little or no delay adjective satellite
- • Accomplished rapidly and without delay
- • Hurried and brief
- • Moving quickly and lightly
- • Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
- • Performed with little or no delay
- • Easily aroused or excited verb
- • To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
- • To quicken. adjective
- • Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- • Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- • Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- • Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- • Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- • Alive, living.
- • Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- • Of water: flowing.
- • Burning, flammable, fiery.
- • Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- • (of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
An example sentence would be:
- • "He is a quick runner."
- • "She has a quick wit."
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