3
introductory(adjective, beginning)
3
likely(adjective, advance, view, success, perhaps)
3
minor
3
original(adjective, beginning)
3
primal(adjective, beginning)
3
pullulating(adjective, lush, luxuriant, promising, rising)
3
sappy(adjective, youth)
3
starting(verb, adjective, beginning)
3
up-and-coming(adjective, advance, view, success, promising)
3
youthful(adjective, new, lush, luxuriant, young)
2
buttoning
2
commencing(verb, adjective, beginning)
2
crescent(rising, mounting, upward)
2
development
2
emergent(adjective, rising, initial, mounting, upward)
2
fundamental
2
gemmation(noun, expansion)
2
genesis(noun, adjective, beginning)
2
hatching(verb, adjective, beginning)
2
inceptive
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