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Things phlegm often describes ("phlegm ________")
How phlegm often is described ("________ phlegm")
- english
- wonderful
- acid
- hot
- tough
- colored
- purulent
- white
- loose
- profuse
- hard
- superfluous
- clear
- excess
- much
- apparent
- cold
- sweet
- viscous
- stolid
- chronic
- imperturbable
- characteristic
- more
- heavy
- natural
- wind
- stringy
- persistent
- vexatious
- bloody
- little
- black
- glassy
- bronchial
- salty
- teutonic
- yellow
- british
- northern
- melancholy
- gray
- yellowish
- dutch
- watery
- streaked
- tenacious
- usual
- excessive
- transparent
- german
- damp
- bitter
- bloodstained
- thick
- habitual
- ropy
- dry
- outward
- brown
- green
- thin
- greenish
- viscid
- proverbial
- true
- sticky
- stubborn
- accustomed
- constitutional
- happy
- native
- putrid
- turbid
- parental
- customary
- oriental
- copious
- traditional
- dark
- frothy
