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1. leap, jump, bound, vault, hop, skip.

2. appear, come into view, uprise, come to light; come up, crop up, Inf. pop up, Inf. come out of nowhere.

3. recoil, rebound, resile, bound or bounce back, snap back, fly back, kick back, kick.

4. shoot, dart, fly, start.

5. begin, start, commence, come into being, come into existence; arise, rise, dawn, see the light of day, take birth.

6. originate, proceed, emerge, emanate, issue, flow, effuse, stream forth; grow, develop, evolve, wax; sprout, burgeon, shoot up; break out, burst forth.

7. derive, come from, stem from, grow out of, descend from, result from, issue from, be the effect of.

8. bend, warp, buckle; contort, twist, crook, wrench.

9. split, crack, part, come apart, come undone, come unstuck, come unglued; fracture, rupture, open up, fly open or apart.

10.(all suddenly or without warning) disclose, reveal, divulge, bring out; pop, surprise [s.o.] with.

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11. leap, jump, bound, vault, hop, skip.

12. resilience, resiliency, elasticity, tensility, flexibility; buoyancy, springiness; give, snap, stretch, stretch-iness, stretchability.

13. split, crack, fissure, rent, separation, cleft; bend, warp, buckling.

14. fount, fountain, fountainhead, Archaic. font; well, wellhead, headwater, headspring, springhead.

15. source, origin, provenience, provenance, root; starting point, square one, base, foundation, fundamental, rudiment, ground; wellspring, mainspring.

16. bloom, blossom, flower; youth, prime, prime of life.

17. coil, spiral, helix, volute, gyre, spire.

18. springtime, springtide, Maytime, Maytide, Eastertide, seedtime.