Related Words for the cold war

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abrupt
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
ache
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Noun, Verb
aggression
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Noun
agrarian
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Adjective, Noun
alliance
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Noun, Verb
aloof
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Adjective, Adverb
anticipation
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Noun
antiwar
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Adjective
apartheid
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Noun, Verb
apathetic
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Adjective
arctic
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Noun, Adjective
armed
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Adjective
army
/x
Noun
attack
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
bad
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
bard
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Noun, Verb
battle
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
battlefield
/xx
Noun
battleground
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Noun
beer
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Noun, Verb
bellicose
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Adjective
belligerent
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Adjective, Noun
bellum
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Name
biological warfare
xx/xx/x
Name, Name
blast
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Noun, Verb
bleak
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Adjective, Noun
blitz
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Noun, Verb
blitzkrieg
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Noun
blizzard
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Noun, Verb
blood
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Noun, Verb
bomb
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
buffeting
x/x
Noun
campaign
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Noun, Verb
chemical warfare
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Phrase, Noun
chill
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
civil war
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Name, Name
clash
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Noun, Verb
colder
/x
Adjective, Noun
combat
/x
Noun, Verb
combatants
x/x
Noun
common cold
/x/
Phrase, Noun
conflagration
xx/x
Noun
conflict
/x
Noun, Verb
confrontation
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Noun
convulsively
x/xx
Adverb
cooler
/x
Noun
cough
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Noun, Verb
crisp
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
cruel
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
crusade
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Noun, Verb
cryogenic
/xxx
Adjective
cut
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
damper
/x
Noun
dead
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
death
/
Noun
debacle
x/x
Noun
depression
x/x
Noun
dispute
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Noun, Verb
distant
/x
Adjective
emotionless
x/xx
Adjective
encampment
x/x
Noun
engagement
x/x
Noun
era
/x
Noun
espionage
/xxx
Noun
expedition
xx/x
Noun, Verb
exposure
x/x
Noun
famine
/x
Noun
far
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
fear
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
feet
/
Noun
feud
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Noun, Verb
fever
/x
Noun, Verb
fight
/
Verb, Noun
fighter
/x
Noun
flu
/
Noun
free
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
freedom
/x
Noun
freeze
/
Noun, Verb
fresh
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
frigid
/x
Adjective
frog
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Noun, Verb
front
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
frost
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Noun, Verb
future
/x
Noun, Adjective
glacial
/x
Adjective, Noun
glossy
/x
Adjective, Noun
go to war
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Phrase, Verb
gun
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Noun, Verb
gust
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Noun, Verb
hail
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
hard
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
harsh
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
hate
/
Verb, Noun
hay
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Noun, Verb
head cold
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Phrase, Noun
heat
/
Noun, Verb
hell
/
Noun, Adverb, Verb
hibernation
xx/x
Noun
holocaust
/xx
Name, Verb
hostilities
x/xx
Noun
hot
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
humid
/x
Adjective
hypothermic
xx/x
Adjective
ice
/
Noun, Verb
impersonal
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
inactive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
inclement
x/x
Adjective
indifferent
x/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
influenza
xx/x
Noun
inhuman
x/x
Adjective
inhumane
xx/
Adjective
insensitive
x/xx
Adjective
insulation
xx/x
Noun
intense
x/
Adjective
interwar
xxx
Adjective
invasion
x/x
Noun
involuntarily
xx/xxx
Adverb
iran
x/
Name
iraq
x/
Name
isolation
xx/x
Noun
jelly
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
jerusalem
x/xx
Name
jihad
/x
Noun, Verb
johnny
/x
Name
karo
/x
Name
kill
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Verb, Noun
kitty
/x
Noun
koo
/
Name
land
/
Noun, Verb
launch
/
Noun, Verb
locker
/x
Noun
love
/
Noun, Verb
low
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
lukewarm
//
Adjective
luncheon
/x
Noun, Verb
lurch
/
Noun, Verb
martial
/x
Noun, Adjective
medicine
/xx
Noun, Verb
military
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
naval
/x
Adjective, Name
nipping
/x
Noun
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
offensive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
old
/
Adjective, Noun
pain
/
Noun, Verb
parliament
/xx
Noun
passionless
/xx
Adjective
patrol
x/
Noun, Verb
peace
/
Noun, Verb
perfect
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
persian
/x
Name, Adjective
polar
/x
Adjective, Noun
polemic
x/x
Noun, Adjective
postwar
//
Adjective
powder
/x
Noun, Verb
pows
/
Name
prewar
x/
Adjective
psychological warfare
xx/xx/x
Phrase, Noun
punishment
/xx
Noun
quail
/
Noun, Verb
quenching
/x
Noun
rainstorm
/x
Noun
rainy
/x
Adjective
raw
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
reform
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
refrigerant
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
refrigerated
x/xxx
Adjective
refrigerators
x/xxx
Noun
remedy
/xx
Noun, Verb
revolution
xx/x
Noun
revolutionary
xx/xxx
Adjective, Noun
rigid
/x
Adjective, Noun
rigorous
/xx
Adjective
rods
/
Noun
scary
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
shiver
/x
Noun, Verb
sick
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
siege
/
Noun, Verb
slimy
/x
Adjective, Noun
snappy
/x
Adjective
sneeze
/
Verb, Noun
snow
/
Noun, Verb
snowstorm
/x
Noun
sober
/x
Adjective, Verb, Noun
socialist
/xx
Adjective, Name
stale
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
state of war
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Phrase, Noun
stiff
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
stormy
/x
Adjective, Noun
strife
/
Noun
struggle
/x
Noun, Verb
sunburn
/x
Noun, Verb
take up arms
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Phrase, Verb
temperature
/xx
Noun
tepid
/x
Adjective
throats
/
Noun
toothache
//
Noun
treaty
/x
Noun, Verb
tremble
/x
Verb, Noun
trojan war
/x/
Name, Name
twice
/
Adverb
unconscious
x/x
Adjective, Noun
unenthusiastic
xxxx/x
Adjective
unheated
x/x
Adjective
unresponsive
xx/x
Adjective
vietnam
xx/
Name
violence
/xx
Noun, Verb
violent
/xx
Adjective, Verb, Noun
war of nerves
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Phrase, Noun
warfare
/x
Noun, Verb
waring
/x
Name
warlike
/x
Adjective
warlord
/x
Noun
warmer
/x
Noun
warrior
/xx
Noun
warship
/x
Noun
wartime
/x
Noun
water
/x
Noun, Verb
weather
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
wet
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
winter
/x
Noun, Verb
wintry
/x
Adjective
world war
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Phrase, Noun