so now i'm seriously stuck after looking up every synonym i can think of

i may give up if i get to 200 guesses lol

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I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, and we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody wants us to say, is wasting our time on this Earth - C. Adichie