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I think that all these words kind of means the same, but I do belive that they do not have the excact same meaning so therefore if you would please elaborate the meaning of the diffrent words.

The words are:

Fast, quick, swift, rapid.

And

Slap, punch, hit, strike, beat.

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

well, I have an interesting comparison for you to read

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fast

synonyms RAPID, SWIFT, FLEET, QUICK, SPEEDY, HASTY, EXPEDITIOUS: fast and RAPID are often interchangeable; FAST often describes moving objects or creatures and may suggest constant speedy course, flight, or procedure; RAPID may refer to actions and their rate of speed and suggest successful course <a fast runner> <a fast horse> <a fast train> <a fast worker> <a rapid approach> <a rapid gait> <rapid progress> <rapid operations> SWIFT may suggest speed or rapidity accompanied by easy facility, sure flight, brisk activity, or lack of interference and delay <flawless and chaste and swift in their machined perfection which even the airplane has never been able to rival -- Robert Payne> <so swift was Caesar that his greatest exploits were measured by days -- J.A.Froude> <the flight of his imagination is very swift; the following of it often a breathless business -- C.D.Lewis> FLEET, sometimes rather poetic or literary, may suggest nimble or graceful lightness and swiftness <the Indian bands swept over the hills on their fleet little ponies and wiped out emigrant wagon trains -- American Guide Series: Arizona> <how the fleet creature would fly before the wind -- Herman Melville> QUICK applies to lively action with alacrity or to prompt occurrence with short duration <am a quick man with my hands, and in a minute and a half I had done what I wanted to do -- G.K.Chesterton> <a quick brain for intrigue -- John Buchan> <in passing quick rather than deliberate judgment on the literature of the day -- M.R.Cohen> SPEEDY may suggest velocity or quickness along with promptness, dispatch, or haste <orders for the fastest plane, the swiftest motorboat, the speediest racing car that money and American ingenuity could produce -- Gerald Beaumont> <industries where there is a need for exceptionally speedy reinforcement -- Sir Winston Churchill> <in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to speedy and public trial -- U.S. Constitution> HASTY suggests precipitate hurried rapidity, sometimes ineffective or nervous <it had a hurried evacuated look. Many houses had that. The look of the hasty choice made of what to take along -- R.H.Newman> <we must, this time, have plans ready -- instead of waiting to do a hasty, inefficient, and ill-considered job at the last moment -- F.D.Roosevelt> EXPEDITIOUS suggests efficient rapidity <to assist me in every way in making the journey as expeditious as may be -- Elinor Wylie> <if you suggested expeditious English methods of settling accounts he would laugh at you; he does not want his accounts settled -- Norman Douglas>

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.

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Marius Hancu · Answer

You can find a similar but more compact comparison at this page from the free version of Merriam-Webster:

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fast

check the
synonyms FAST, RAPID, SWIFT, FLEET, QUICK, SPEEDY, HASTY, EXPEDITIOUS
part at the end

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