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Things substance often describes ("substance ________")
How substance often is described ("________ substance")
- organic
- essential
- soluble
- original
- single
- solid
- simple
- granular
- white
- toxic
- insoluble
- infinite
- hard
- oily
- spiritual
- resinous
- foreign
- real
- immaterial
- waxy
- universal
- latter
- unknown
- active
- nervous
- yellow
- elastic
- particular
- metallic
- medullary
- chemical
- liquid
- gray
- peculiar
- cerebral
- muscular
- transparent
- opaque
- thick
- dry
- brown
- green
- eternal
- sticky
- cellular
- intellectual
- controlled
- like
- inert
- extended
- intercellular
- hazardous
- poisonous
- volatile
- divine
- pure
- homogeneous
- cortical
- very
- gelatinous
- grey
- soft
- crystalline
- complex
- amorphous
- perforated
- corporeal
