1. • noun - any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
   • adj - accomplished rapidly and without delay
   • adj - hurried and brief
   • adj - moving quickly and lightly
   • adj - apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
   • adj - performed with little or no delay
   • adj - easily aroused or excited
   • adv - with little or no delay
2. • Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy.
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   • Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen.
   • Reacting immediately and sharply: a quick temper.
   • Occurring or achieved in a relatively brief period of time: a quick rise through the ranks.
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   • Tending to react hastily: quick to find fault.
   • Archaic.
   • Alive.
   • Pregnant.
   • Sensitive or raw exposed flesh, as under the fingernails.
   • The most personal and sensitive aspect of the emotions.
   • The living: the quick and the dead.
   • Quickly; promptly.
3. • adj - acting or capable of acting with speed
   • n - a sensitive area of flesh

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