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Things dissonance often describes ("dissonance ________")
How dissonance often is described ("________ dissonance")
- purchase
- cognitive
- affective
- ironic
- melodic
- decision
- vicarious
- greater
- chromatic
- metrical
- unpleasant
- obvious
- emotive
- apparent
- harsh
- emotional
- rhythmic
- expressive
- ethical
- painful
- cultural
- less
- potential
- semantic
- decisional
- sensory
- mild
- shrill
- loud
- internal
- maximum
- ideological
- unprepared
- stylistic
- striking
- extreme
- consonance
- harmonic
- considerable
- perceptual
- occasional
- intense
- strategic
- psychological
- barbarous
- contextual
- inner
- sociocultural
- fundamental
- profound
- conceptual
- tragic
- tonal
- uncomfortable
- musical
- hideous
- unresolved
- normative
- strange
- sharp
- resultant
