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| incipient(adjective, beginning) | |
| influential(adjective, causative) | |
| initial(adjective, beginning) | |
| introductory(adjective, beginning) | |
| inventive(adjective, original, fundamental, novel, unique) | |
| nascent(adjective, pure, beginning) | |
| prime(adjective, pure) | |
| productive(original, fundamental, novel, unique, ingenious) | |
| seminal(adjective, fundamental, novel, unique, innovative) | |
| soft(susceptible, supple, influential, lithe, gullible) | |
| causal(adjective, fundamental, novel, unique, innovative) | |
| causative(adjective, fundamental, novel, unique, resourceful) | |
| elemental(adjective, pure) | |
| basic(adjective, pure) | |
| beginning(adjective, beginning) | |
| budding(adjective, beginning) | |
| decisive | |
| developmental(adjective, influential, impressionable) | |
| embryonic(adjective, beginning) | |
| fetal(adjective, beginning) |
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