Assortment and Mess

Assortment

Assortment noun - An unorganized collection or mixture of various things.

Usage example: an assortment of nails at the bottom of my tool box

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Mess and assortment are semantically related. in mixture topic. In some cases you can use "Mess" instead a noun "Assortment".

Nearby Words: assorted, assort, assorting

Mess noun - A state in which everything is out of order.

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Assortment and mess are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assortment" instead a noun "Mess".

Nearby Words: messy, messed, messing

nice	nice assortment	nice mess
usual	usual assortment	usual mess
right	right assortment	right mess
complete	complete assortment	complete mess
Other adjectives: entire, massive, large, huge, terrible, major, general, ridiculous, disjointed, different, bigger.

It got worse in S3, in which Djaq (whose Twofer Token Minority status was at least alleviated by a likeable personality and a plausible backstory for her assortment of skills) is written out and replaced by Kate, whose characterization was a mess of Double Standards.

Source: Positive Discrimination
In The Unexpected Love Life of Dusk Shine, Pinkie Pie decides to gather an assortment of completely random items to stop the parasprites with, reasoning that she cannot fail (as that would derail the plot from its tenuous grasp on canon) and she wants to see how the author handles the mess.

Source: Noodle Implements

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