  In this paper, we study the role of degree mixing in the naming game. It is
found that consensus can be accelerated on disassortative networks. We provide
a qualitative explanation of this phenomenon based on clusters statistics.
Compared with assortative mixing, disassortative mixing can promote the merging
of different clusters, thus resulting in a shorter convergence time. Other
quantities, including the evolutions of the success rate, the number of total
words and the number of different words, are also studied.

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