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A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms

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Title: A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms

Author: Samuel Fallows


        
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS ***

A COMPLETE DICTIONARY
OF
SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS,

OR

SYNONYMS AND WORDS OF OPPOSITE MEANING.

1898

THE RT. REV. SAMUEL FALLOWS, A.M., B.D.


DIGITISED AND RESET BY STEVE WOOD 2016
OCR, EDITS & EXTENSIVE but not EXHAUSTIVE OCR-CORRECTIONS,
LAYOUT for JUST THE SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS (NOT THE APPENDICES).

V2

Wishing to have an extensive list of Synonyms and Antonyms for another
project, I settled on Fallows’ amazing publication. However, I could
not find an OCR text which was clear of the many OCR-scan errors. I
did my own OCR, which joined many of the line-end hyphenated words
automatically, but which still resulted in a very large number of
nearly identical (to other OCR scans) errors. This is probably not
the fault of the OCR software, but rather of the quality of the 19th
Century source type and ink, which tended to be far from crisp. The
software was not entirely perfect though and it would often invert
n and u, or render either of those letters as ii, and render i as l
(lower case L). R and K were regularly mixed, so ROCK could be rendered
as KOCR – if it managed to get the circular letters correct. Just one
example of variation is to be found in the rendering of the coded
abbreviation for SYNONYM, ‘SYN.’ It might be rendered with a period,
comma, both or none; and some of these variations were recorded:  \
BTH \ 2vN. \ 8 vs. \ BYN, \ KYN. \ PYN. \ RYN. \ SIN, \ Srn. \ STIC.
\ STK. \ STN. \ STN., \ STW. \ SVN  \ SXN. \ SY.V. \ SY:. \ SYH. \
SYK. \ SYN, \ Syn, \ SYN. \ SYN. \ SYN.  \ SYS,. \ SYS. \ SYW. \ SYX\.
and \ YX\. ! I know! Grrr!

Anyhow, with lots of rekeying, lots of rules to fix as many as
aberrations as possible, and employing a personal digital dictionary
of over 600,000 words, I checked many of the fragments and verified
that the OCR scanner had done very well, in fact. Those fragments which
eventually could not be distinguished by eye or logic were left ‘as
is’ and bracketed thus: {[unreadable]?}. When replaced into the text
in their correct sequence, some of those could be deduced from their
context, but I will leave that for the next editor (possibly you, dear
reader.) The dictionary is not perfect or complete, and it did not
distinguish n-Grams which are clearly adequate language. Having
corrected many broken words, I re-sorted them back into original order,
added ‘KEY:’ to the principal, and pasted the lot to the Word Processor
(below) for study, uploading and further corrections.

I did, in fact, Google several scores of unrecognised but
right-looking words and found many were accurate though out of common
use in today’s English. Victorian English vocab was quite extensive.
Did Fallows do a dictionary of word meanings (I wish)?
•	Serendip Clip, Nowra, NSW, Australia, February 2016.


Update August, 2022: This is NOT a replication of the book. It is
highly reformatted, apparently to create a parsable file for data
input. Many corrections have been made, but there are still a large
number of bad words, formatting errors, and mismatched internal
references.

Additional note: '\' (backslash) indicates italics.




FALLOWS’


[Some unrecognised fragments or words are bracketed thus: {[huh]?}.
More work required.]


KEY: Aback.
SYN: Backwards, rearwards, aft, abaft, astern, behind, back.
ANT: Onwards, forwards, ahead, before, afront, beyond, afore.
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KEY: Abandon.
SYN: Leave, forsake, desert, renounce, cease, relinquish,
discontinue, castoff, resign, retire, quit, forego, forswear,
depart from, vacate, surrender, abjure, repudiate.
ANT: Pursue, prosecute, undertake, seek, court, cherish, favor,
protect, claim, maintain, defend, advocate, retain, support, uphold,
occupy, haunt, hold, assert, vindicate, keep.
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KEY: Abandoned.
SYN: Profligate, wicked, vicious, unprincipled, reprobate,
incorrigible, sinful, graceless, demoralized, dissolute, depraved,
bad, licentious, corrupt.
ANT: Virtuous, conscientious, correct, upright, worthy, righteous,
self-controlled, high-principled, steady, good.
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KEY: Abase.
SYN: Degrade, disgrace, bring low, reduce, humble, demean, stoop,
humiliate, depress, lower, sink, dishonor.
ANT: Promote, exalt, honor, raise, elevate, dignify, aggrandize.
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KEY: Abasement.
SYN: Degradation, depression, disgrace, humiliation, abjection,
dishonor, shame.
ANT: Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity,
aggrandizement.
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KEY: Abash.
SYN: Confound, confuse, discompose, bewilder, daunt, cow, humble,
disconcert, dishearten, motility, shame, humiliate.
ANT: Countenance, cheer, uphold, encourage, rally, inspirit, animate,
incite, embolden, abet, buoy.
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KEY: Abate.
SYN: Terminate, remove, suppress, lower, reduce, mitigate, diminish,
moderate, lessen, subside, decrease.
ANT: Prolong, continue, revive, develop, increase, aggravate,
magnify, brew, ferment, rage, extend, enlarge, amplify, raise,
enhance.
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KEY: Abbreviate.
SYN: Shorten, reduce, abridge, contract, curtail, epitomize,
condense, prune, compress.
ANT: Lengthen, prolong, extend, enlarge, produce, elongate, amplify,
expand, dilate.
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KEY: Abbreviation.
SYN: Abridgment, reduction, contraction, curtailment, abstract,
summary, epitome, condensation, compression.
ANT: Elongation, prolongation, extension, production, amplification,
enlargement, expansion, dilation, expatiation, explication,
dilution.
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KEY: Abderite.
SYN: Cynic, sardonic, derisive, sarcastic, jocular, flippant,
nonchalant, sportive, sprightful, buoyant.
ANT: Lachrymose, plaintive, maundering, querimonious, plaintive,
dolesome, lackadaisical, grumbling, croaking, lugubrious.
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KEY: Abdicate.
SYN: Abandon, relinquish, resign, surrender, vacate.
ANT: Retain, maintain, claim, occupy, assert, grasp, seize, usurp.
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KEY: Abdomen.
SYN: Belly, paunch.
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KEY: Abduction.
SYN: Abstraction, subtraction, deprivation, ablution, rape, seizure,
appropriation.
ANT: Addition, adduction, replacement, restitution, restoration,
surrender, reinstatement.
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KEY: Aberrant.
SYN: Erratic, devious, divergent, incontinuous, desultory,
disconnected, wandering, idiotic, inconsistent, inconsecutive,
abnormal, exceptional.
ANT: Continuous, rectilineal, true, consistent, uniform, consecutive,
normal, natural, faithful, regular.
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KEY: Aberration.
SYN: Wandering, divergence, deviation, desultoriness, rambling,
disconnectedness, hallucination, inconsecutiveness, idiocy,
insanity, exception, abnormity.
ANT: Uniformity, consecutiveness, continuity, connectedness,
principle, law, order, type, norm, project, line, tenor, progression,
rectilinearity, regularity.
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KEY: Abet.
SYN: Aid, support, promote, countenance, uphold, assist, instigate,
encourage, incite, advocate, sanction, subsidize, embolden.
ANT: Thwart, contradict, obstruct, oppose, baffle, confound,
discourage, disapprove, disconcert, counteract, deter, dissuade,
frustrate, impede, denounce, expose.
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KEY: Abettor.
SYN: Supporter, advocate, instigator, promoter, assistant, companion,
accomplice, ally, encourager, associate, adviser, confederate,
'participes criminis', coadjutor, accessary, helper.
ANT: Opponent, counteracter, foe, adversary, detector, baffler,
antagonist, disconcerter, dissuader, rival.
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KEY: Abeyance.
SYN: Suspension, reservation, dormancy, expectation, intermission.
ANT: Revival, renewal, operation, resuscitation, action, enjoyment,
possession, exercise, force.
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KEY: Abhor.
SYN: Hate, abominate, detest, loathe, despise, dislike, eschew,
nauseate.
ANT: Love, admire, enjoy, approve, affect, covet, relish, crave,
desire.
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KEY: Abide.
SYN: Dwell, stay, inhabit, continue, rest, tarry, lodge, reside, live,
wait, sojourn, remain, expect, endure, tolerate, anticipate,
confront, await, bear, face, watch.
ANT: Deport, migrate, move, journey, proceed, resist, mislike,
forefend, avoid, shun, reject, abandon, forfeit.
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KEY: Ability.
SYN: Power, cleverness, faculty, skill, capacity, talent, expertness,
aptitude, dexterity, efficiency, competency, qualification.
ANT: Weakness, incapacity, imbecility, inability, unreadiness,
maladroitness.
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KEY: Abject.
SYN: Degraded, outcast, miserable, vile, pitiable, worthless,
despicable, groveling, fawning, squalid, base-minded, slavish,
beggarly, servile, cringing, low, wretched, sordid.
ANT: Honorable, dignified, eminent, exalted, esteemed, worthy,
venerable, noble, princely, illustrious, independent,
self-assertive, self-reliant, vain, arrogant, insolent, haughty.
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KEY: Abjure.
SYN: Renounce, deny, apostatize, discard, recant, disclaim, disavow,
repudiate, revoke, retract, disown.
ANT: Profess, assert, demand, vindicate, claim, cherish, advocate,
retain, acknowledge, appropriate, hug.
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KEY: Able.
SYN: Strong, powerful, clever, skillful, talented, capable, fitted,
efficient, effective, learned, gifted, masterly, telling, nervous,
vigorous.
ANT: Weak, inefficient, unskillful, silly, stupid, incapable,
ineffective, unqualified.
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KEY: Ablution.
SYN: Washing, purification, cleansing, abstersion, defecation.
ANT: Pollution, soilure, defilement, dirt, contamination, taint,
stain.
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KEY: Abnegation.
SYN: Denial, disallowance, renunciation, abjuration, stint,
abstinence.
ANT: Assertion, vindication, claim, indulgence, concession, license.
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KEY: Abnormal.
SYN: Irregular, erratic, peculiar, unusual, exceptional, monstrous,
aberrant, devious, divergent, eccentric, strange.
ANT: Typical, normal, regular, ordinary, usual, natural, customary,
illustrative.
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KEY: Aboard.
SYN: Afloat.
ANT: Ashore.
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KEY: Abode.
SYN: Home, stay, placate, residence, domicile, habitation, lodging,
berth, quarters: with the idea of permanence.
ANT: Halt, perch, tent, bivouac, caravansary: with the idea of
transience.
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KEY: Abolish.
SYN: Destroy, eradicate, invalidate, make void, obliterate,
extirpate, abrogate, annul, subvert, cancel, revoke, quash, nullify,
overthrow, annihilate, supersede, suppress, expunge.
ANT: Support, sustain, cherish, promote, continue, confirm, restore,
repair, revive, reinstate, enact, institute, re-enact.
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KEY: Abominable.
SYN: Abhorrent, foul, accursed, detestable, hateful, horrible,
loathsome, odious, offensive, execrable, nauseous, impure.
ANT: Delectable, desirable, admirable, enjoyable, lovable, charming,
delightful, grateful, pure.
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KEY: Abominate.
SYN: Abhor, loathe, detest, execrate, hate.
ANT: Desire, like, long for, love.
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KEY: Abomination.
SYN: Loathing, detestation, hatred, abhorrence, plague, nuisance,
evil, annoyance, infliction, curse.
ANT: Love, affection, desire, enjoyment, longing, acquisition,
gratification, blessing, treat, delight, benefit.
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KEY: Aboriginal.
SYN: Primordial, primeval, pristine, autochthonic, immemorial,
indigenous, native, original.
ANT: Subsequent, adventitious, imported, exotic, immigrant, recent,
upstart, modern, late, novel, fresh.
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KEY: Abortion.
SYN: Failure, miscarriage, misadventure, downfall, mishap,
misproduction, defect, frustration, blunder, mess.
ANT: Success, consummation, completion, achievement, realization,
perfection, exploit, feat, development.
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KEY: Abound.
SYN: Stream, swell, flow, increase, overflow, superabound, luxuriate,
teem, swarm, flourish, prevail, be plentiful, wanton, revel,
multiply.
ANT: Fall, waste, dry, lack, wane, evaporate, drain, die, decay,
vanish, lessen, decrease.
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KEY: About.
SYN: Almost, with respect to, near, nearly, touching, concerning,
surrounding, relative to, relating to, in relation to, approximately,
touching, roughly, generally.
ANT: Afar, away or afar from, precisely, exactly.
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KEY: Above-named.
SYN: Above-mentioned, above-described, above-cited, named above,
aforesaid, mentioned above.
ANT: Named below, described below.
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KEY: Above.
SYN: Over, beyond, exceeding.
ANT: Below, within, beneath.
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KEY: Abreast.
SYN: Beside, alongside.
ANT: Ahead, astern.
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KEY: Abridge.
SYN: Abbreviate, diminish, shorten, lessen, curtail, restrict,
contract, condense, epitomize, compress.
ANT: Amplify, expand, spread out.
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KEY: Abridgment.
SYN: Abstract, abbreviation, contraction, summary, synopsis, epitome,
compendium, analysis, outline, digest.
ANT: Amplification, expatiation, expansion, disquisition, dilution,
comment, annotation, exposition, paraphrase.
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KEY: Abroach.
SYN: Aflow, afloat, abroad, revealed.
ANT: Close, fast, tight, secret, reserved.
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KEY: Abroad.
SYN: Far, away, apart, dispersed, aloof, adrift, about, distracted,
confused.
ANT: Near, close, housed, collected, fast.
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KEY: Abrogate.
SYN: Abolish, cancel, set aside, annul, repeal, expunge, rescind.
ANT: Enact, re-enact, confirm, enforce, continue, revive.
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KEY: Abrogation.
SYN: Abolition, repeal, discontinuance, disestablishment.
ANT: Institution, establishment, enactment, confirmation,
continuance, sanction.
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KEY: Abrupt.
SYN: Sudden, steep, precipitous, craggy, coarse, curt, blunt, violent,
harsh, unceremonious, rugged, rough.
ANT: Undulating, easy, gliding, polished, smooth, blending,
courteous.
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KEY: Abscond.
SYN: Decamp, bolt, depart, disappear, steal away, run off, hide,
withdraw, retreat.
ANT: Show, emerge, appear.
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KEY: Absence.
SYN: Want, departure, Inattention, nonexistence, failure, separation,
lack, nonappearance, distraction.
ANT: Presence, supply, appearance, existence, manifestation,
evidence, attention, immanence, inherency, consideration.
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KEY: Absent \a.\
SYN: Not present, gone away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless,
listless, preoccupied.
ANT: Present, in this place, here, attentive.
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KEY: Absent.
SYN: Keep away, depart, withdraw.
ANT: Be present, stay, remain, [See ABSCOND].
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KEY: Absolute.
SYN: Perfect, complete, unconditional, irrelative, irrespective,
supreme, despotic, autocratic, certain, authoritative, unqualified,
unequivocal, irresponsible, arbitrary.
ANT: Imperfect, incomplete, conditional, conditioned, contingent,
relative, dependent, constitutional, dubious, accountable,
responsible.
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KEY: Absolve.
SYN: Acquit, release, exonerate, liberate, exempt, discharge,
exculpate, pardon, forgive, free, clear.
ANT: Charge, accuse, compel, bind, obligate, convict, condemn,
inculpate, impeach, oblige.
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KEY: Absonant.
SYN: Dissonant, discordant, contrariant, repugnant, inconsonant,
inharmonious, incompatible, inappropriate, impertinent.
ANT: Consonant, agreeable, consistent, harmonious, compatible,
appropriate, pertinent, congruous, suitable, proper.
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KEY: Absorb.
SYN: Swallow, drown, consume, imbibe, engross, drink in, suck up,
engulf, monopolize, exhaust.
ANT: Eject, emit, exude, disgorge, dissipate, distract, distil,
disperse.
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KEY: Abstain.
SYN: Refrain, forbear, refuse, demur, avoid, cease, stop, keep back,
desist, discontinue, withhold, scruple.
ANT: Indulge, exceed, reveal, wanton.
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KEY: Abstemious.
SYN: Abstinent, moderate, self-denying, sober, temperate, sparing,
frugal.
ANT: Sensual, self-indulgent, gluttonous, greedy, intemperate.
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KEY: Absterge.
SYN: Wipe, cleanse, purify, sponge, scour, scrub.
ANT: Foul, bespatter, contaminate, bedaub, soil, pollute, begrime.
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KEY: Abstersive.
SYN: Scouring, purifying, detergent, cathartic.
ANT: Contaminative, offensive, corruptive.
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KEY: Abstinent.
SYN: Temperate, abstemious, continent, sober, self-denying, austere.
ANT: Self-indulgent, sensual, intemperate, epicurean, dissipated,
incontinent, debauched.
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KEY: Abstract \v.\
SYN: Separate, detach, part, eliminate, draw away, remove, take away,
appropriate, purloin, steal, thieve, draw from.
ANT: Add, unite, conjoin, adduce, impose, restore, surrender, return,
Abstract \n.\ [See ABRIDGMENT].
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KEY: Abstraction.
SYN: Separation, parloining, removal, appropriation,
generalization, classification, reverie, absorption, inattention,
absence.
ANT: Addition, conjunction, union, adduction, importation,
restoration, restitution, individualization, enumeration, analysis,
specification, observation, attention, Abstracted, [See
ABSTRACT and ABSTRACTION].
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KEY: Abstruse.
SYN: Hidden, recondite, difficult, profound, deep, curious, obscure,
mystical, occult, hard, dark.
ANT: Patent, popular, superficial, simple, obvious, trite,
intelligible, lucid, plain, easy, manifest, clear.
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KEY: Absurd.
SYN: Irrational, ridiculous, monstrous, senseless, asinine, stupid,
chimerical, unreasonable, preposterous, silly, nonsensical,
foolish.
ANT: Sensible, rational, reasonable, consistent, sound, substantial,
logical, wise, sagacious, reflective, philosophical.
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KEY: Abundance.
SYN: Plenty, largeness, copiousness, sufficiency, plentitude,
exuberance, ampleness, profusion, luxuriance, wealth.
ANT: Rarity, scarcity, paucity, deficiency, scantiness, dearth,
failure, poverty.
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KEY: Abundant.
SYN: Plentiful, copious, plenteous, large, ample, overflowing,
teeming, full, lavish, luxuriant, bountiful, abounding, profuse,
liberal, rich.
ANT: Rare, scarce, scant, deficient, short, insufficient, niggardly,
sparing, dry, drained, exhausted, impoverished.
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KEY: Abuse \v.\
SYN: Injure, damage, spoil, maltreat, treat-all, ill-use, ill-treat,
retile, scandalize, disparage, reproach, upbraid, asperse, malign,
slander, vituperate, prostitute, defame, pervert, misuse, misemploy,
vilify.
ANT: Tend, protect, conserve, consider, regard, shield, cherish,
praise, extol, laud, vindicate, panegyrize, respect.
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KEY: Abuse \n.\
SYN: Mistreatment, invective, ill-treatment, opprobrium, scurrility,
vituperation, ribaldry, obloquy, reproach, insolence, misusage,
ill-usage.
ANT: Good-usage, good-treatment, kindness, praise, deference,
respect.
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KEY: Abusive.
SYN: Insulting, insolent, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful,
vituperative, rude, denunciatory, scurrilous.
ANT: Respectful, kind, panegyrical, laudatory, attentive.
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KEY: Abut.
SYN: Extend, project, impinge, approximate.
ANT: Recurve, retreat, diverge, return, recede.
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KEY: Abyss.
SYN: Gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth.
ANT: Surface, cavity, depression, indentation.
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KEY: Academical.
SYN: Collegiate, classical, learned.
ANT: Illiterate, uncollegiate.
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KEY: Academy.
SYN: School, seminary, college, university, educational,
establishment, institute.
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KEY: Accede.
SYN: Assent, consent, acquiesce, comply with, accept, concur,
approve, coincide.
ANT: Dissent, decline, withdraw, refuse, protest, demur.
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KEY: Accelerate.
SYN: Hasten, urge, expedite, quicken, speed, urge on, press forward,
hurry, promote, dispatch, facilitate.
ANT: Delay, obstruct, impede, clog, retard, hinder, shackle, drag.
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KEY: Accent.
SYN: Stress, rhythm, pulsation, beat, emphasis.
ANT: Smoothness, inaccentuation, monotony, equableness, babble,
flow.
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KEY: Accept.
SYN: Welcome, hail, admit, recognize, avow, acknowledge, take,
accede to, receive, assent to.
ANT: Refuse, decline, reject, disown, disavow, ignore, repudiate.
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KEY: Acceptable.
SYN: Grateful, pleasant, welcome, agreeable, pleasure, seasonable,
gratifying.
ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant.
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KEY: Acceptation.
SYN: Meaning, significant, signification.
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KEY: Access.
SYN: Approach, admit, course entrance, avenue, admittance, mod way,
passage, road.
ANT: Exit, egress, departure, exclusion, repulse.
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KEY: Accessible.
SYN: Affable, approachable, easy, conversible.
ANT: Distant, cold, difficult, unapproachable.
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KEY: Accession.
SYN: Arrival, addition, increase, influx, augmentation,
reinforcement, enlargement, extension.
ANT: Departure, abandonment, resignation, retirement, diminution,
decrease, efflux, ebb, drain, subsidence.
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KEY: Accessary, [See ACCESSORY].
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KEY: Accessory \a.\
SYN: Assistant, additive, additional, auxiliary, supplementary,
conducive.
ANT: Essential, inherent, immanent, incorporate, superfluous,
irrelevant, malapropos, obstructive, cumbersome.
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KEY: Accessory \n.\
SYN: Accomplice, associate, abettor, ally, colleague, confederate,
helper.
ANT: Foe, antagonist, adversary, rival.
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KEY: Accident.
SYN: Chance, fortuity, disaster, incident, adventure, casualty,
hazard, contingency, calamity, misadventure, mishap.
ANT: Law, purpose, appointment, ordainment, provision, preparation.
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KEY: Acclamation.
SYN: Applause, homage, gratulation, salutation, joy, commendation,
plaudit, hosannas, cheer, shouting, exultation, triumph, approval.
ANT: Obloquy, censure, execration, contumely, outcry, sibilation,
denunciation.
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KEY: Acclivity.
SYN: Ascent, rise, incline.
ANT: Declivity, descent.
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KEY: Accommodate.
SYN: Convenience, oblige, adapt, supply, reconcile, suit, fit, adjust,
furnish, serve, harmonize.
ANT: Inconvenience, disoblige, disturb, misfit, incommode, deprive,
aggravate.
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KEY: Accommodating.
SYN: Kind, unselfish, obliging, polite, yielding, conciliatory.
ANT: Disobliging, selfish, churlish, rude, imperious, dictatorial,
exacting, inconsiderate, unaccommodating.
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KEY: Accompany.
SYN: Follow, consort, attend, join, coexist, escort, convoy.
ANT: Desert, abandon, leave, avoid, eschew, quit, discard.
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KEY: Accomplish.
SYN: Execute, perfect, perform, fulfil, [See DO], carry out, attain,
realize, consummate, achieve, finish, complete.
ANT: Fail of, frustrate, defeat, disconcert, destroy, baffle, mar,
spoil.
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KEY: Accomplice.
SYN: Abettor, confederate, accessory, ally, associate, partner,
colleague, coadjutor, assistant, 'particips criminit'.
ANT: Rival, foe, adversary, antagonist.
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KEY: Accord.
SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, tally, answer, comport, consist,
conform, grant, concede, surrender, allow.
ANT: Disagree, differ, misfit, miscomport, misconform, withhold,
deny, refuse.
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KEY: Accordingly.
SYN: Agreeably, suitably, conformably, hence, consequently.
ANT: [See AGREEABLY].
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KEY: Accordant.
SYN: Compatible, consonant, harmonious, consistent, consenting,
acquiescent.
ANT: [See COMPATIBLE].
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KEY: Accost.
SYN: Address, salute, invoke, hail, greet, stop, apostrophize,
speak to, call to.
ANT: Shun, avoid, elude, pass, ignore.
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KEY: Account \n.\
SYN: Narration, report, rehearsal, story, statement, narrative,
recital, relation, description, motive, value, importance, advantage,
ground, reason, profit.
ANT: Silence, suppression, project, misannouncement, of no account,
attempt, without value, deed, project.
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KEY: Account \v.\
SYN: Deem, esteem, consider, regard, hold, judge, rate, estimate,
value, reckon, explain, solve.
ANT: Disesteem, misestimate, mystify, understate, undervalue,
perplex, darken.
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KEY: Accountable.
SYN: Responsible, liable, amenable, punishable, answerable, accredited,
delegated, subordinate.
ANT: Autocratic, Independent, irresponsible, absolute, supreme,
despotic.
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KEY: Accoutre.
SYN: Adorn, fit out, equip, furnish, dress, furnish with arms.
ANT: [See ADORN].
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KEY: Accredit.
SYN: Believe, trust, entrust, delegate, depute, commission,
authorize.
ANT: Disbelieve, distrust, suspect, recall, supersede, discard,
dismiss.
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KEY: Accredited.
SYN: Authorized, commissioned, acknowledged, confidential, trusted.
ANT: Unauthorized, unacknowledged, distrusted.
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KEY: Accumulate.
SYN: Collect, gamer, grow, mass, heap, store, bring together, hoard,
gather, agglomerate, husband, augment, amass, increase.
ANT: Dissipate, disperse, diminish, scatter, expend, waste.
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KEY: Accumulation.
SYN: Heap, collection, store, mass, aggregation, hoard, pile.
ANT: Segregation, separation, unit, individual.
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KEY: Accuracy.
SYN: Exactness, correctness, strictness, precision, exactitude,
nicety, fidelity.
ANT: Inexactness, looseness, slovenliness, incorrectness.
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KEY: Accurate.
SYN: Careful, exact, faithful, precise, correct, close, truthful,
strict, just, actual, nice.
ANT: Careless, inexact, faulty, incorrect, inaccurate, loose,
defective.
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KEY: Accusation.
SYN: Charge, indictment, imputation, impeachment, arraignment.
ANT: Acquittal, absolution, vindication, discharge.
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KEY: Accuse.
SYN: Charge, incriminate, impeach, arraign, tax, taunt, censure, cite,
summon, criminate.
ANT: Defend, vindicate, discharge, acquit, absolve, condone, pardon,
exonerate, release.
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KEY: Accustom.
SYN: Habituate, familiarize, form, inure, train, reconcile.
ANT: Disaccustom, dishabituate, estrange, wean, alienate.
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KEY: Ace.
SYN: Unit, atom, point, title, jot, item.
ANT: Numbers, quantity, bulk, gum, mass, collection, aggregate,
total.
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KEY: Acerbity.
SYN: Harshness, acridity, tartness, acidity, bitterness, acrimony,
crabbedness, moroseness, sourness, roughness.
ANT: Sweetness, mildness, softness, mellowness, gentleness,
amiableness.
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KEY: Ache \n.\
SYN: Pain, suffering, smart, anguish, pang.
ANT: [See PAIN].
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KEY: Achieve.
SYN: Accomplish, [See DO], gain, perform, execute, effect, fulfil,
finish, attain, win.
ANT: [See DO].
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KEY: Achievement.
SYN: Exploit, feat, attainment, accomplishment, performance.
ANT: [See ATTAIN and ATTAINMENT].
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KEY: Articular.
SYN: Spinous, sagittate, prickly, thorny, sharp-pointed, hastate,
bristly.
ANT: Obtuse, blunt, abrupt.
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KEY: Acid.
SYN: Sharp, acidulous, acetous, vinegarish.
ANT: Mellow, luscious, mealy, rich.
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KEY: Acknowledge.
SYN: Avow, admit, recognize, own, accept, profess, endorse, grant,
concede, concern.
ANT: Disavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate, ignore, deny.
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KEY: Acknowledged.
SYN: Agreed, settled, understood, decided, customary.
ANT: Not agreed, undecided, unsettled, not customary.
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KEY: Acme.
SYN: Summit, zenith, climax, apex, pitch, culmination, meridian.
ANT: Base, floor, ground, foundation, nadir, depth, depression, foot,
root.
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KEY: Acquaint.
SYN: Advertise, inform, impart, make known, divulge, teach, notify,
apprise, advise, tell.
ANT: Misinform, deceive, delude, mislead, misguide, hoodwink.
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KEY: Acquaintance.
SYN: Knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionship.
ANT: Ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience. It has also the colloquial
meaning of a person with whom one is acquainted.
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KEY: Acquiesce.
SYN: Assent, concur, repose, agree, yield, be resigned, comply.
ANT: Dissent, demur, object.
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KEY: Acquire.
SYN: Gain, earn, procure, obtain, get, realize, win, reap.
ANT: Lose, forfeit, surrender, miss, forego.
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KEY: Acquirement.
SYN: Knowledge, at, entertainment, accomplishment, learning,
erudition, acquisition.
ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius.
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KEY: Acquit.
SYN: Discharge, exonerate, absolve, exculpate, release, dismiss,
liberate, pardon,.
ANT: Charge, accuse, impeach, constrain, implicate, bind, compel,
condemn, oblige, sentence.
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KEY: Acquittance.
SYN: Release, receipt, discharge.
ANT: Bond, claim, charge, obligation.
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KEY: Acrid.
SYN: Harsh, sour.
ANT: Mellow, sweet, luscious.
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KEY: Acrimonious.
SYN: Sharp, biting, stinging, pungent, acrid, ill-natured,
sarcastic.
ANT: Smooth, sweet, pleasant, goodnatured, bland.
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KEY: Acrimony.
SYN: Sharpness, bitterness, sourness, causticity, acerbity, asperity,
tartness, ill-feeling, hostility, animosity.
ANT: Smoothness, courtesy, mildness, blandness, pleasantness,
friendship, amiability.
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KEY: Across.
SYN: Athwart, against, transversely. Transverseness to a line of
movement becomes opposition.
ANT: Lengthwise, along, concurrently, parallel.
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KEY: Act. \v.\ [See DO].
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KEY: Act \n.\
SYN: Deed, performance, action, movement, proceeding, exercise,
operation, play.
ANT: Inaction, rest, repose, cessation, suspension, quiet,
immobility, inertia, quiescence.
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KEY: Action. [See ACT].
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KEY: Active.
SYN: Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert,
dexterous, supple, wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent.
ANT: Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy.
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KEY: Activity.
SYN: Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness,
alertness, celerity, rapidity.
ANT: Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness,
heaviness, sluggishness, lassitude.
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KEY: Actor.
SYN: Doer, worker, agent, performer, principal, player, tragedian,
comedian.
ANT: [See AGENT].
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KEY: Actual.
SYN: Developed, positive, unquestionable, demonstrable, certain,
real, authentic.
ANT: Potential, undeveloped, hypothetical, supposition, possible,
virtual, theoretical, fabulous, fictitious, unreal.
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KEY: Actually.
SYN: Verity, truly, decidedly, assuredly, positively.
ANT: Potentially, hypothetically, theoretically.
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KEY: Actuate.
SYN: Urge, instigate, stir, induce, influence, incline, dispose,
incite, impel, prompt, drive.
ANT: Deter, discourage, retard, inhibit, hinder, prevent, impede,
dissuade.
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KEY: Acuity.
SYN: Pointedness, acylation, acumination.
ANT: Bluntness, hebetude, obtuseness.
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KEY: Aculeated.
SYN: Armed, spinous, acuminated, punctuous.
ANT: Unarmed, blunt, obtuse, stingless, pointless.
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KEY: acumen.
SYN: Point, penetrativeness, sharpness, discernment, talent,
sagacity.
ANT: Bluntness, obtuseness, stupidity, dulness, indiscernment,
hebetude.
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KEY: Acute.
SYN: Pointed, penetrating, sagacious, perspicacious, keen, astute,
piercing, sharp, shrewd, keen-sighted, severe, distressing.
ANT: Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, undiscerning, heavy, chronic,
stolid.
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KEY: Acutely.
SYN: Sharply, deeply, painfully, poignantly, intensely.
ANT: Bluntly, obtusely, stupidly, stolidly, pleasantly.
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KEY: Adage.
SYN: Maxim, saying, motto, saw, apothegm, aphorism, byword, proverb,
dictum.
ANT: Discourse, disquisition, yarn, harangue.
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KEY: Adapt.
SYN: Fit, accommodate, suit, adjust, conform, admeasure, harmonize,
attune.
ANT: Misfit, misconform, misapply.
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KEY: Adaptation.
SYN: Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity,
coincidence.
ANT: Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit,
malformation, mismeasurement.
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KEY: Add.
SYN: Adduce, adjoin, increase, extend, enlarge, sum up, cast up,
subjoin, amplify, annex.
ANT: Deduct, subtract, dissever, abstract.
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KEY: Addendum.
SYN: Acquisition, improvement, supplement, complement, desideratum,
concomitant, annexation, appendage.
ANT: Surplusage, detriment, deterioration, detraction, drawback.
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KEY: Addicted.
SYN: Given, accustomed, prone, inclined, disposed, habituated.
ANT: Unaddicted, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, averse,
free.
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KEY: additament.
SYN: Adjunct, annexation, supplement, addition, acquisition,
increase, augmentation, accession.
ANT: Deduction, detraction, drawback, decrement, deterioration.
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KEY: Addition.
SYN: Accession, enlargement, increase, extension, accretion,
appendage.
ANT: [See ADDITAMENT].
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KEY: Address \n.\
SYN: Tact, manners.
ANT: Awkwardness, unmannerliness.
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KEY: Address \v.\
SYN: Accost, greet, salute, approach, apostrophize, appeal, hail,
woo, court.
ANT: Elude, avoid, shun, ignore, pass.
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KEY: Adduce.
SYN: Allege, apply, cite, advance, offer, introduce, produce, add,
import, name, mention, quote.
ANT: Retract, except, withdraw, deduct, deduce, suppress.
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KEY: Adept.
SYN: Expert, adroit, handy, master, performer, professor, artist.
ANT: Awkward, clumsy, inexpert, tyro, novice, lubber, blunderer.
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KEY: Adequate.
SYN: Equal, sufficient, fit, satisfactory, full, competent, capable,
able.
ANT: Unequal, insufficient, incompetent, inadequate.
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KEY: Adhere.
SYN: Stick, cohere, cleave, hold, attach, unite, fix, join, cling.
ANT: Disunite, part, separate, divide, secede, sunder, sever.
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KEY: Adherence.
SYN: Adhesion, attachment, devotion, fidelity, cleaving to,
constancy, endearment.
ANT: Separation, disunion, unfaithfulness, desertion, treachery.
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KEY: Adherent.
SYN: Follower, supporter.
ANT: Denial, protestation, negation, contradiction, rejection.
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KEY: Admit.
SYN: Receive, pase, permit, accept, grant, concede, allow,
acknowledge, confess, own, avow, suffer.
ANT: Exclude, debar, disallow, reject, deny, discharge, dismiss,
eject, extrude, repudiate, disavow, disown.
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KEY: Admittance.
SYN: Introduction, entrance, pass, permit, passport, privilege,
acceptance, welcome, reception.
ANT: Exclusion, denial, ejection, prohibition, bar, hindrance,
rejection, repudiation.
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KEY: Admonish.
SYN: Remind, forewarn, advise, warn, dissuade, caution, counsel,
reprove, censure, rebuke.
ANT: Encourage, instigate, abet, incite, urge, applaud, countenance.
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KEY: Admonition.
SYN: Warning, advice, counsel, caution, reproof.
ANT: Applauding, encouraging, inciting, urging, countenancing.
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KEY: Ado.
SYN: Hubbub, commotion, fuse, excitement.
ANT: Calm, composure, quiet, orderliness, staidness, tranquillity.
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KEY: Adopt.
SYN: Assume, select, affiliate, take, elect, arrogate, choose,
endorse, avow, appropriate.
ANT: Reject, decline, repudiate, disavow, discard, renounce, abandon,
disown, disclaim.
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KEY: Adore.
SYN: Admire, hallow, glorify, praise, venerate, reverence, worship,
idolize.
ANT: Abhor, despise, disesteem, abominate, execrate, blaspheme.
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KEY: Adorn.
SYN: Beautify, bedeck, ornament, decorate, embellish, deck, garnish,
gild, enrich.
ANT: Mar, spoil, deform, deface, disfigure, impoverish, denude,
despoil, strip, bare, disembellish.
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KEY: Adrift.
SYN: Loose, afloat, agog, abroad, abroach, distracted, disordered.
ANT: 'fait victorious', tight, right, lashed, moored, secure,
collected, composed.
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KEY: Adroit.
SYN: Handy, skillful, dexterous, expert, proficient, clever.
ANT: Awkward, clumsy, unskillful, inexpert, lubberly.
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KEY: Adscititious.
SYN: Adventitious, superfluous, redundant, alien, artificial,
spurious, smuggled.
ANT: Essential, necessary, veritable, regular, ingenerate, ingrained,
congenital, fundamental, genuine, inherent, proper.
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KEY: Adulation.
SYN: Flattery, compliment, sycophancy, courtship, incense, praise,
blandishment, fawning, cringing.
ANT: Detraction, obloquy, defamation, calumny, traducement, sarcasm,
ridicule, satire, bespatterment.
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KEY: Adult.
SYN: Man, woman.
ANT: Youth, stripling, boy, child, infant.
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KEY: Adulterate.
SYN: Debase, corrupt, deteriorate, vitiate, contaminate.
ANT: Make pure, genuine, undeteriorate.
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KEY: Adulterated.
SYN: Impure, ingenuine, spurious, concocted, mixed, falsified,
deteriorated, garbled, vitiated.
ANT: Pure, genuine, original, unmixed, unadulterated, undeteriorated,
sound.
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KEY: Adumbration.
SYN: Shadow, foreshadowing, presage, prognostic, delineation,
premonition, hint, sketch, prototype, suggestion.
ANT: Body, substance, fulfillment, realization, substantiation,
antitype.
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KEY: Advance \v.\
SYN: Propel, elevate, promote, further, lend, propagate, progress,
increase, prosper, rise.
ANT: Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw, recall, depress, degrade,
suppress, oppose, retreat, decrease.
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KEY: Advancement, [See ADVANCE].
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KEY: Advantage.
SYN: Gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good,
avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition.
ANT: Loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority,
obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback.
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KEY: Advent.
SYN: Approach, arrival, accession, coming.
ANT: Departure, exit, exodus, retirement, relinquishment, quittance.
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KEY: Adventitious.
SYN: Extrinsic, redundant, superfluous, adscititious irregular,
casual, imported.
ANT: Regular, proper, pertinent, essential, appropriate, necessary,
Intrinsic.
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KEY: Adventure.
SYN: Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise,
casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance.
ANT: Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course.
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KEY: Adventurous.
SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant,
fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous.
ANT: Timid, unenterprising, inadventurous, cowardly, nervous,
hesitating, cautious.
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KEY: Adversary.
SYN: Antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant.
ANT: Accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally,
accomplice.
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KEY: Adverse.
SYN: Opposed to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious,
opposite, conflicting, contrary, unfavorable.
ANT: Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky.
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KEY: Adversity.
SYN: Ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress,
unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow.
ANT: Good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement.
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KEY: Advert to.
SYN: Refer to, allude to, notice, remark, glance at, regard,
touch upon, hint at.
ANT: Ignore, pass, drop, omit, overlook.
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KEY: Advertent.
SYN: Attentive, regardful, mindful, watchful, thoughtful, observant,
considerate.
ANT: Inattentive, inadvertent, casual, thoughtless, heedless,
inobservant, inconsiderate.
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KEY: Advertise.
SYN: Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim,
promulge.
ANT: Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead,
misinform.
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KEY: Advice, [See ADVISE].
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KEY: Advise.
SYN: Admonish, warn, deliberate, counsel, persuade, urge, prompt,
instigate, incite, instruct, acquaint, inform.
ANT: Dissuade, deter, expostulate, remonstrate, prohibit,
inhibit, restrain.
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KEY: Advisable.
SYN: Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent,
beneficial, profitable.
ANT: inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable,
unprofitable.
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KEY: Advocate \n.\
SYN: Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter,
countenancer, defender, maintainer.
ANT: Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner,
gainsayer.
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KEY: Advocate \v.\ [See NOUN.]
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KEY: Afar.
SYN: Abroad, away, aloof.
ANT: Near, at home, close.
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KEY: affable.
SYN: Courteous, accessible, condescending, conversible, gracious,
sociable, gentle, complaisant, urbane, polite, easy, approachable.
ANT: Exclusive, discourteous, distant, inaccessible, unapproachable,
inconversible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious.
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KEY: Affair.
SYN: Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction.
ANT: Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance.
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KEY: Affect.
SYN: Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern,
interest, feign, pretend.
ANT: Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate.
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KEY: Affectation.
SYN: Pretence, artifice, hypocrisy, assumption, simulation,
mannerism, euphuism, airs.
ANT: Genuineness, naturalness, un affectedness, simplicity,
artlessness.
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KEY: affectibility.
SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility,
excitability, irritability, nervousness.
ANT: Insensibility, insensateness, hebetude, unimpressibleness,
callousness.
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KEY: Affection.
SYN: Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor,
feeling, love, desire, propensity.
ANT: Insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection,
repulsion.
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KEY: Affiance.
SYN: Homage, trust, confidence, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith,
plighting.
ANT: Unfealty, disloyalty, treason, suspicion, Infidelity,
falseness.
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KEY: Affiliate.
SYN: Annex, graft, incorporate, unite, adopt, inoculate.
ANT: Dismember, disannex, disaffiliate, sever, transplant, separate,
disjoin, disunite.
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KEY: Affiliation, [See AFFILIATE].
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KEY: Affinity.
SYN: Relationship, relation, kindred, conformity, connection,
alliance, similarity, analogy, homogeneity, harmony,
correlativeness, sympathy, interdependence, interconnection,
intercommunity.
ANT: Dissimilarity, discordance, disconnection, independence,
antagonism, antipathy, repugnance, interrepulsiveness.
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KEY: Affirm.
SYN: Assert, swear, testify, tell, aver, propound, asseverate, depose,
state, declare, endorse, maintain.
ANT: Deny, dispute, doubt, demur, negative, contradict, gainsay,
oppugn, impugn, oppose.
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KEY: Affix.
SYN: Attach, annex, subjoin, adjoin, connect, fasten, unite, append.
ANT: Detach, disunite, separate, remove, disengage, unfasten.
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KEY: Affliction.
SYN: Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow.
ANT: Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more (or,
positively:), boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure.
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KEY: Affluence.
SYN: Abundance, plenty, wealth, riches, opulence.
ANT: Want, scarcity, penury, indigence, poverty, impecuniosity,
straitness, lack.
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KEY: Afflux.
SYN: Accession, importation, augmentation, increase, addition,
influx.
ANT: Decrease, detriment, detraction, diminution, exhaustion,
failure, ebb.
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KEY: Afford.
SYN: Produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart,
administer, extend.
ANT: Withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge.
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KEY: Affranchise.
SYN: Free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, qualify, open.
ANT: Enthral, enslave, subjugate, disfranchise, disqualify, close.
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KEY: Affray.
SYN: Broil, tumult, brawl, melee, fracas, disturbance, uproar,
quarrel, strife, wrangle, altercation.
ANT: Order, tranquillity, pacification, dispersion, quelling.
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KEY: Affright.
SYN: Startle, astonish, terrify, alarm, dismay, cow, frighten, scare.
ANT: Encourage, embolden, reassure.
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KEY: Affront.
SYN: Outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong,
offence, Indignity.
ANT: Homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment.
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KEY: Afire.
SYN: Ablaze, alight, burning, ignited.
ANT: Out, extinguished, quenched.
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KEY: Afloat.
SYN: Adrift, abroad, at sea, abroach, loose, distracted, dazed.
ANT: Ashore, snug, tight, close, fast, collected, concentrated.
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KEY: Afoot.
SYN: Working, launched, afloat, agoing, inaugurated, started,
instituted, established.
ANT: Uncommenced, Incomplete, projected, proposed, contemplated,
designed.
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KEY: Afore.
SYN: Precedent, antecedent, foregoing, ahead, afront, before, beyond,
sooner.
ANT: Behind, following, subsequently, after, astern, aback,
rearwards.
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KEY: Aforesaid.
SYN: Above-mentioned, stated, forenamed, foregoing, preceding,
forementioned.
ANT: Following, subjoined, aftercited, forthcoming.
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KEY: Afraid.
SYN: Fearful, apprehensive, timid, timorous, cowardly, fainthearted,
cautious, careful, frightened, alarmed, terrified, suspicious,
distrustful, anxious.
ANT: Fearless, inapprehensive, unsolicitous, easy, indifferent,
secure, confident, bold, hopeful, eager, reckless, audacious,
venturesome.
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KEY: Afresh.
SYN: Anew, again, frequently, repeatedly, intermittently.
ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently,
connectedly.
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KEY: Aft, [See ABAFT].
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KEY: After.
SYN: Behind, following, succeeding.
ANT: Afore, before, Introducing, preceding.
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KEY: Again.
SYN: Anew, afresh, repeatedly, frequently.
ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently,
once.
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KEY: Against.
SYN: Over, opposite, abutting, opposing, resisting, despite, across,
athwart, counter.
ANT: With, for, accompanying, aiding, suiting, promoting.
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KEY: Agape.
SYN: Astare, agog, astonished, curious, inquisitive, entertained,
amused, eager.
ANT: Incurious, listless, lukewarm, absent.
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KEY: Age.
SYN: Period, generation, era, epoch, date, century, antiquity,
senility, eldership, seniority.
ANT: Youth, infancy, boyhood, childhood, moment, instant.
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KEY: Aged.
SYN: Old, ancient, antiquated, elderly, senile, patriarchal,
primeval, time-honored, olden.
ANT: Juvenile, youthful, young, upstart, recent, fresh.
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KEY: Agency, [See AGENT].
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KEY: Agent.
SYN: Doer, performer, actor, force, means, instrument, influence,
cause, promoter, operator.
ANT: Counteragent, counteractor, counteraction, opponent,
neutralizer.
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KEY: Agglomerate.
SYN: Accumulate, conglomerate, lump, agglutinate, entangle, heap,
confuse, amalgamate.
ANT: Scatter, dissipate, sift, separate, disentangle, disject,
divide, disunite, part, unravel, detach, difference.
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KEY: Aggrandize.
SYN: Promote, dignify, exalt, ennoble, enrich, advance, augment,
make great, magnify, elevate, signalize.
ANT: Depress, degrade, enfeeble, Impoverish, debase, humiliate,
lower, abase, disgrace, dishonor.
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KEY: Aggravate.
SYN: Exasperate, provoke, wound, heighten, intensify, irritate,
make worse, increase, enhance embitter, magnify.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, diminish, palliate, neutralize,
soften, lessen, alleviate, attenuate, mitigate.
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KEY: Aggregate, Aggregation.
SYN: Sum, result, total, mass, whole, totality, collection, amount,
collation, combination.
ANT: Dissipation, dispersion, separation, division, segregation,
disunion, individual, unit, element, ingredient, item.
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KEY: Aggression.
SYN: Invasion, attack, offence, onslaught, encroachment, assault,
provocation, incursion.
ANT: Resistance, retaliation, repulsion, withdrawal, retreat,
evacuation, accession, acceptance, qualification.
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KEY: Aggrieve.
SYN: Wound, trouble, annoy, hurt, vex, disappoint, molest, maltreat,
grieve, afflict, injure, wrong.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, console, satisfy, compensate.
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KEY: Aghast.
SYN: Affrighted, astonished, astare, dumbfounded, bewildered,
horror-struck.
ANT: Cool, fearless, unaffected, unmoved, indifferent, unexcited,
unalarmed.
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KEY: Agile.
SYN: Nimble, active, fleet, brisk, alert, featly, lithe, prompt,
ready, quick, supple, nimble, swift, sprightly.
ANT: Slow, heavy, awkward, inert, clumsy, bulky, ponderous,
elephantine.
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KEY: Agitate.
SYN: Disturb, trouble, excite, ruffle, stir, fluster, oscillate,
instigate, convulse, shake.
ANT: Calm, compose, allay, pacify, smooth, It is sometimes used of
argumentative consideration, as, to agitate a question.
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KEY: ????
SYN: Start, moot, ventilate, propound.
ANT: Solve, settle, determine.
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KEY: Ago.
SYN: Past, gone, since.
ANT: Coming, future, hence, hereafter.
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KEY: Agog.
SYN: Abroad, abroach, astir, adrift, agoing.
ANT: Asleep, indifferent, incurious, somnolent, heedless,
collected, cool.
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KEY: Agony.
SYN: Pain, torture, torment, distress, woe, throe, suffering, pang,
excruciation.
ANT: Assuagement, comfort, peace, ease, relief, gratification,
enjoyment, rapture, ecstasy, composure.
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KEY: Agree.
SYN: Suit, tally, accord, fit, harmonize, combine, assent, concur,
acquiesce, admit, consent, conform, consort, comport, coincide.
ANT: Differ, disagree, revolt, protest, decline, refuse, dissent,
demur.
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KEY: Agreeable.
SYN: Obliging, pleasant, accommodating, grateful, acceptable,
welcome, suitable, consistent, consonant, amiable, gratifying,
pleasing, good-natured, complaisant.
ANT: Disobliging, unpleasant, unaccommodating, disagreeable,
obnoxious, ungrateful, unwelcome, unacceptable, offensive.
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KEY: Agreeably.
SYN: Suitably, conformably, consistently, accordingly, pleasantly,
acceptably, gratefully.
ANT: Unsuitably, inconsistently, impertinently, inappropriately,
inharmoniously, unbefittingly, unpleasantly.
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KEY: Agreement.
SYN: Contract, compact, bond, concord, concurrence, conformity,
harmony, unison, consonance, bargain, covenant, obligation,
undertaking, treaty.
ANT: (As without legal force or bond). Understanding, promise,
parole.
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KEY: Agriculture.
SYN: Cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage.
ANT: Sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture.
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KEY: Aground.
SYN: Strained, ashore.
ANT: Afloat, off.
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KEY: Ahead.
SYN: Forward, afore, afront, onwards.
ANT: abaft, astern, behind, aback, aft.
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KEY: Aid.
SYN: Help, assist, succour, support, befriend, co-operate,
contribute favor, foster, protect, abet, encourage, instigate,
subsidize.
ANT: Oppose, resist, counteract, discourage, thwart, withstand,
confront, deter, baffle.
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KEY: Ailment.
SYN: Complaint, sickness, illness, disease.
ANT: Recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor,
salubriousness.
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KEY: Aim \n.\
SYN: Tendency, intent, aspiration, bent, drift, object, scope, goal,
purpose, mark, end, design, intention.
ANT: Shunning, disregarding, disaffecting, overlooking, avoiding.
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KEY: Aim \v.\
SYN: Seek, level, propose, design, affect, intend, mean, purpose.
ANT: Shun, disregard, disaffect, ignore, overlook, avoid.
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KEY: Airy.
SYN: Light, ethereal, spiritual, joyous, sprightly, lively, animated,
frolicsome, fairy-like.
ANT: Dull, inert, stony, ponderous, plow, heavy, cheerless, sullen,
dolesome, lugubrious, leaden, wooden.
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KEY: Akin.
SYN: Related, agnate, cognate, homogeneous, similar, consanguineous,
congenial, allied, sympathetic.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, foreign, alien, heterogeneous,
uncongenial, hostile, unallied, antagonistic, unsympathetic,
dissimilar.
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KEY: Alacrity.
SYN: Quickness, readiness, briskness, activity, cheerfulness,
compliance, willingness, promptitude.
ANT: Slowness, reluctance, repugnance.
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KEY: Alarm \n.\
SYN: Apprehension, fright, fear, timidity, consternation, tocsin,
war-cry, war-note, reveille, dread, affright, disquietude,
dismay.
ANT: Confidence, security, quiet.
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KEY: Alarm \v.\
SYN: Warn, wake, terrify, intimidate, frighten.
ANT: Compose, embolden, reassure, rally.
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KEY: Alarming.
SYN: Terrible, fearful, frightful, portentous, ominous, threatening.
ANT: Soothing, assuring, encouraging, inviting, propitious, hopeful,
alluring, enticing, attractive.
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KEY: Alert.
SYN: Active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready,
wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively.
ANT: Slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish,
inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy.
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KEY: Alien.
SYN: Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant,
impertinent.
ANT: Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane,
akin, apropos, naturalized.
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KEY: Alienate.
SYN: Estrange, abalienate, transfer, wean, disaffect, convey.
ANT: Conciliate, retain, endear, entail, bind, secure.
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KEY: Alienation.
SYN: Insanity, aberration, hallucination, derangement, imbecility.
ANT: Sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality.
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KEY: Alight.
SYN: Perch, drop, descend, dismount.
ANT: Mount, ascend, spring, soar, start.
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KEY: Alike.
SYN: Resembling, similar, together, twin-fellow, analogous,
identical, equal, equivalent, same, homogeneous, akin, equally.
ANT: Unlike, heterogeneous, apart, dissimilar, variously,
differently, unequally.
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KEY: Aliment.
SYN: Food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision,
meat, sustenance, nourishment.
ANT: Poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion.
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KEY: Alive.
SYN: Quick, living, breathing, warm, lively, vivacious, alert,
existing, existent, safe, subsisting, active, brisk, animated.
ANT: Dead, departed, cold, lifeless, defunct, inanimate, dispirited,
du.
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KEY: All.
SYN: Whole, complete, entire, total, every, integral, perfect, full.
ANT: [(preceding)], Some, part.
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KEY: Allay.
SYN: soothe, alleviate, repress, mitigate, quiet, moderate, appease,
compose, soften, pacify, mollify, assuage, tranquilize, palliate,
culm.
ANT: Excite, rouse, aggravate, stir, kindle, fan, impassion, provoke,
incite.
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KEY: Allege.
SYN: Declare, affirm, assert, asseverate, depose, plead, cite, quote,
assign, advance, maintain, say.
ANT: Contradict, gainsay, refute, deny, disprove, neutralize, quash,
repel.
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KEY: Allegiance.
SYN: Subjection, obedience, loyalty, fealty, homage.
ANT: Disloyalty, rebellion, resistance, disaffection,
malcontentment, treason.
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KEY: Allegory.
SYN: Parable, metaphor, fable, illustration, image.
ANT: History, fact, narrative.
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KEY: Alleviate.
SYN: Lighten, lessen, assuage, mitigate, soothe, moderate, relieve,
remit, diminish.
ANT: Aggravate, enhance, increase, embitter, augment.
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KEY: Alliance.
SYN: Compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership,
league, combination, coalition, confederation, friendship, relation,
relationship.
ANT: Disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism,
separation, estrangement, hostility.
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KEY: Allot.
SYN: Assign, grant, award, give, apportion, deal, dispense, parcel,
distribute, divide, mete out, portion out.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, retain, appropriate, resume, misapportion,
misdeal.
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KEY: Allotment.
SYN: Piece, assignment, parcel, award, apportionment.
ANT: Misappropriation, seizure, encroachment.
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KEY: Allow.
SYN: Concede, apportion, allot, assign, afford, tolerate, authorize,
grant, remit, recognize, acknowledge, avow, confess, admit, permit,
suffer, sanction, yield.
ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, refuse, deny, disallow, repudiate,
protest, Withstand, resist, disapprove, reject.
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KEY: Allowance, [See ALLOW].
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KEY: Alloy.
SYN: Admixture, deterioration, adulteration, drawback, diminution,
decrement, impairment, debasement, depreciation, disparagement.
ANT: Purity, genuineness, enhancement, integrity.
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KEY: Alloyed.
SYN: Mixed, deteriorated, impaired, diminished, adulterated.
ANT: Pure, absolute, perfect, complete, genuine, unmixed, unimpaired,
undeteriorated, undiminished, unadulterated, enhanced.
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KEY: Allude.
SYN: Point, indicate, suggest, hint, signify, insinuate, refer, imply,
intimate.
ANT: Specify, demonstrate, declare, mention, state.
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KEY: Allure.
SYN: Entice, seduce, attract, tempt, decoy, inveigle, wheedle, lure,
cajole.
ANT: Alarm, deter, terrify, scare, warn.
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KEY: Allurement, [See ALLURE].
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KEY: Allusion.
SYN: Reference, insinuation.
ANT: Specification, demonstration, mention.
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KEY: Ally.
SYN: Friend, companion, supporter, aider, abetter, accomplice,
assistant, confederate, helper, associate, accessory, colleague,
coadjutor.
ANT: Foe, enemy, opponent, adversary, baffler, counteractor,
antagonist.
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KEY: Aloof.
SYN: Apart, away, separately.
ANT: Close, near, together.
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KEY: Aloud.
SYN: Audibly, loudly, clamorously, sonorously, vociferously,
obstreperously.
ANT: Softly, silently, inaudibly, suppressedly.
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KEY: Alter.
SYN: Substitute, change, vary, modify, exchange, diversify, remodel.
ANT: Retain, perpetuate, conserve, stereotype, arrest, solidify,
stabilitate.
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KEY: Alterable.
SYN: Variable, mutable, changeable, movable, revocable.
ANT: Invariable, immutable, fixed, unchangeable, permanent,
perpetual, unalterable, immovable.
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KEY: Alteration.
SYN: Variation, difference, diversification, shifting, modification,
change, permutation, mutation, mutability.
ANT: Retention, perpetuation, conservation, changelessness,
identity, stabilisation, fixity, permanence.
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KEY: Altercation.
SYN: Dispute, wrangle, contentious, quarrel, dissension, commotion,
variance, disturbance, affray, controversy, brawl.
ANT: Unanimity, concord, compromise, agreement, reconciliation,
consonance, conversation, harmony.
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KEY: Alternative.
SYN: Choice, resource, opinion.
ANT: Compulsion, quandary, necessity, fix.
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KEY: Altiloquence.
SYN: Bombast, inflatedness, turgidity, euphuism, magniloquence.
ANT: Plain-spokenness, vernacular, mother tongue.
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KEY: Altitude.
SYN: Height, tallness, verticality, ascent, loftiness, eminence,
elevation.
ANT: Lowness, depression, descent, declination, depth.
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KEY: Altogether.
SYN: Collectively, combined, in one, totally, entirely, wholly,
fully, completely, utterly, thoroughly.
ANT: Separately, individually, partially.
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KEY: Amalgamate.
SYN: Fuse, commix, mix, compound, unite, consolidate, incorporate.
ANT: Separate, disintegrate, decompose, disunite, dissipate, detach,
disperse, analyze.
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KEY: Amalgamation, [See AMALGAMATE].
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KEY: amass.
SYN: Collect, accumulate, aggregate, heap, gather, store up, hoard,
pile up.
ANT: Divide, dissipate, waste, scatter, disperse, parcel, portion,
spend.
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KEY: Amazement.
SYN: astonishment, awe, wonder, bewilderment, surprise,
stupefication, marvel.
ANT: Expectation, preparation, anticipation, familiarity, calmness,
composure, coolness, self-possession.
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KEY: Amazing.
SYN: Astounding, astonishing, bewildering, marvellous, prodigious,
miraculous, vast, portentous, ominous, striking, wonderful,
surprising, astounding, extraordinary.
ANT: Common, ordinary, familiar, trivial, commonplace, customary,
frequent, usual.
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KEY: Ambagious.
SYN: Tortuous, indirect, anfractuous, circumlocutory, circuitous,
periphrastic, ambiguous, unintelligible, pointless, disjointed.
ANT: Simple, straightforward, plain, direct, obvious, intelligible,
lucid, condensed, pointed, terse, pungent, telling.
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KEY: Ambiguous.
SYN: Equivocal, vague, doubtful, enigmatical, uncertain, obscure,
unintelligible, perplexing, indistinct, dubious.
ANT: Univocal, obvious, plain, clear, unambiguous, indisputable,
necessary, unmistakable, unequivocal, lucid.
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KEY: Ambition.
SYN: Aspiration, emulation, appetition.
ANT: Indifference, inappetency, contentment, moderation.
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KEY: Ameliorate.
SYN: Improve, raise, better, advantage, promote, advance, amend,
rectify, meliorate.
ANT: Debase, depress, deteriorate, injure, impair, vitiate, spoil,
mar.
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KEY: Amenable.
SYN: Liable, dependent, responsible, answerable, accountable,
subject, pliant, impressible, ductile, docile.
ANT: Independent, autocratic, unamenable, irresponsible, refractory,
obstinate.
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KEY: Amend.
SYN: Improve, mend, repair, correct, rectify, better, ameliorate,
reform.
ANT: Deteriorate, degenerate, neglect, aggravate, tarnish, blemish,
spoil, corrupt, vitiate, impair, mar.
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KEY: Amends.
SYN: compensation, satisfaction, acknowledgment, atonement,
expiation, recompense, indemnity, remuneration, apology, reparation,
restitution.
ANT: Insult, fault, offense, injury.
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KEY: Amenity.
SYN: Pleasantness, mildness, blandness, graciousness, gentility,
compliableness, courtesy, obligingness.
ANT: Unpleasantness, moroseness, harshness, austerity, roughness,
ungraciousness, bearishness, rigor, asperity, angularity,
discourtesy.
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KEY: Amerce.
SYN: Find, bind, mulct, condemn.
ANT: Remit, acquit, absolve, indemnify, release.
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KEY: Amiable.
SYN: Lovable, good, kind, benevolent, charitable, delectable,
engaging, fascinating, agreeable, lovely, pleading, charming,
attractive.
ANT: Churlish, disagreeable, hateful, abominable, ill-natured,
ill-conditioned, unamiable.
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KEY: Amicable.
SYN: Friendly, propitious, favorable, kind, cordial, neighborly,
sociable.
ANT: Unfriendly, unpropitious, unfavorable, unkind, cold, distant,
antagonistic, hostile, adverse.
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KEY: Amidst.
SYN: Between, among, betwixt.
ANT: Outside, without, beyond.
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KEY: Amiss.
SYN: Wrong, untrue, wide, bad, false, defective, short, inappropriate,
inopportune, injudicious, untimely, abortive.
ANT: Right, true, good, complete, effective, successful,
satisfactory, consummate, expedient, appropriate, opportune.
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KEY: amity.
SYN: Friendliness, peace, sociableness, good will.
ANT: Coolness, distance, indifference, hostility, opposition,
acrimony, antagonism, asperity, hatred, dislike, repugnance,
unfriendliness.
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KEY: Among, [See AMIDST].
SYN: Pardon, acquittal, remission, condonation, oblivion,
dispensation, absolution.
ANT: Penalty, retaliation, punishment, retribution, requital,
visitation, infliction, exaction, trial, account.
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KEY: Amorphous.
SYN: Shapeless, unarranged, unformed, incompact, inchoate,
incomplete, unordered, floating, unmoulded, natant, discurrent.
ANT: systematized, arranged, compact, finished, shapely,
crystallized, de-, stereotyped, moulded.
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KEY: Amount \v.\
SYN: Reach, rise, come, attain, extend.
ANT: Fall, recede, relapse, decline, fail.
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KEY: Amount \n.\
SYN: Total, aggregate, sum, whole, quantity, totality, equality.
ANT: Failure, decrease, deficiency, portion, instalment, deficit,
insufficiency.
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KEY: Ample.
SYN: Large, bountiful, liberal, copious, spacious, roomy, diffusive,
full, complete, sufficient, plentiful, abundant,.
ANT: Narrow, niggardly, insufficient, stingy, scant, mean, stint,
bare.
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KEY: Amplification, [See AMPLIFY].
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KEY: Amplify.
SYN: Enrich, enlarge, increase, augment, multiply, dilate, develop,
swell, expatiate, expand, discuss, unfold, extend.
ANT: Retrench, amputate, curtail, condense, abbreviate, epitomize,
gath, er, collect, sum.
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KEY: Amplitude, [See AMPLE].
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KEY: Amputate.
SYN: Prune, lop, curtail, clip, remove.
ANT: Extend, enlarge, augment, elongate, amplify, t rain, trail,
develop, pra duce.
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KEY: Analogy.
SYN: Relation, resemblance, proportion, similarity, similitude,
coincidence, affinity, comparison, parity.
ANT: Disproportion, dissimilarity, disharmony, irrelativeness,
heterogeneousness, incongruity, inaffinity.
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KEY: Analysis.
SYN: Dissection, separation, anatomy, segregation, decomposition,
resolution, partition.
ANT: Composition, synthesis, aggregation, combination, coalition,
amalgamation, coherence.
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KEY: Anarchy.
SYN: Disorder, tumult, rebellion, riot, misgovernment,
insubordination.
ANT: Order, subjection, government, organization, control, law.
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KEY: Anatomy.
SYN: Dissection, division, segregation, analysis, resolution,
dismemberment.
ANT: Synthesis, collocation, organization, union, construction,
structure, form, body.
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KEY: Ancient.
SYN: Old, antiquated, oldfashioned, antique, obsolete, old-time,
aged, primeval, primordial, immemorial, time-honored.
ANT: New, young, modern, juvenile, upstart, fresh, parvenu.
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KEY: Ancillary.
SYN: Assistant, subservient, promotive, auxiliary, accessory,
conducive, available, useful, applicable.
ANT: insubservient, redundant, inappropriate, irrelevant, alien,
inoperative, unconducive, adverse, counteractive, obstructive,
impertinent, preventive.
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KEY: Anew.
SYN: afresh, again, repeatedly.
ANT: Of old, continuously, uninterruptedly.
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KEY: anfractuosity.
SYN: Tortuousness, ambiguousness, angularity, ambiguity,
circumlocution, disjointedness.
ANT: Straightforwardness, directness.
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KEY: Angelic.
SYN: Pure, ethereal, spiritual, lovely, heavenly, seraphic,
rapturous, divine.
ANT: Foul, hideous, demoniacal, diabolical, hellish, fiendish.
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KEY: Anger \n.\
SYN: Ire, incentment, vexation, grudge, pique, exasperation,
indignation, enmity, displeasure, irritation, passion, spleen, gall,
resentment, rage, animosity, fury, choler, wrath.
ANT: Peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, appeasement, forgiveness,
goodwill, patience, forbearance, reconciliation, conciliatoriness,
mildness.
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KEY: Anger \v.\
SYN: Enrage, vex, kindle, fret, ruffle, chafe, infuriate, exasperate,
provoke, irritate, incense, wound, inflame, imbitter.
ANT: To appease, compose, forbear, allay, soothe, calm, conciliate,
heal.
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KEY: Angry.
SYN: Wrathful, irate, resentful, ireful, incensed, furious,
irascible, choleric, moody, nettled, touchy, sullen, piqued, excited,
provoked, raging, chafed, hasty, hot, exasperated, indignant,
passionate.
ANT: Peaceful, forgiving, forbearing, calm, good-tempered,
unresentful.
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KEY: Anguish.
SYN: Pain, pang, wound, sorrow, distress, grief, discomfort, torture,
excruciation, agony, torment.
ANT: Ease, pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy, rapture, relief, solace,
comfort, assuagement.
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KEY: Animadversion.
SYN: Rebuke, disapproval, censure, blame.
ANT: Praise, approval, encouragement, eulogy.
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KEY: Animate.
SYN: Enliven, Inspirit, instigate, quicken, exhilarate, embolden,
rouse, revivify, cheer, gladden, stir, prompt, incite, stimulate.
ANT: Dishearten, deter, cow, stifle, depress, damp, deaden,
discourage.
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KEY: Animated.
SYN: Boused, excited, inspirited, exhilarated, enlivened, vivacious,
stirred, lively, brisk, enlivening, inspiring, spirited.
ANT: Sluggish, indolent, indifferent, dull, languid, flat, tame.
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KEY: Animation.
SYN: Life, vivacity, liveliness, airlines, cheerfulness, briskness,
alacrity, buoyancy, spirit, exhilaration, sprightliness,
promptitude, alertness, activity.
ANT: Expiration, spiritlessness, dulness, dolefulness, deadness,
stolidity, inertness.
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KEY: Animosity.
SYN: Hatred, antipathy, dissention, aversion, acrimony, feud, strife,
rancor, antagonism, bitterness, acerbity, hostility, enmity, malice,
anger, malevolence, ill-will, malignity, feeling against.
ANT: Congeniality, companionship, friendship, sympathy,
fellow-feeling, unanimity, harmony, concord, regard, alliance,
kindliness.
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KEY: Annals.
SYN: Chronicles, memorials, records, registers, history, archives.
ANT: Tradition, legend, romance, lays.
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KEY: Annex.
SYN: Add, attach, fasten, affix, subjoin, append, connect, unite.
ANT: Withdraw, detach, disconnect, separate, disengage, disunite,
remove.
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KEY: Annihilate.
SYN: Abolish, destroy, bring to nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify,
exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface.
ANT: Keep, conserve, preserve, foster, tend, protest, cherish,
develope, stabilitate, augment, cultivate, perpetuate.
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KEY: Annotation.
SYN: Explanation, criticism, remark, note, commentary, elucidation,
observation, comment.
ANT: Statement, assertion, proposition, narrative, text.
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KEY: Announce.
SYN: Declare, propound, give notice, enunciate, advertise, publish,
report, notify, make known, give out, reveal, herald, proclaim,
intimate, promulgate.
ANT: Conceal, suppress, hush, stifle, withhold, shroud, bury,
burke.
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KEY: Annoy.
SYN: Tease, vex, irritate, disturb, affront, molest, pain, disquiet,
incommode, tantalize, bother, weary, inconvenience, plague,
discommode, harass, chafe, trouble.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, appease, regard, quiet, accommodate, study,
tend, foster, cherish, smooth, gratify.
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KEY: Annoyance.
SYN: Trouble, discomfort, vexation, worry, nuisance, bother,
uneasiness, plague, bore.
ANT: Joy, gladness, gratification, delight, ease, pleasure.
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KEY: Annul.
SYN: Cancel, obliterate, make void, quash, nullify, revoke, rescind,
destroy, set aside, abrogate, extinguish, abolish, repeal.
ANT: Foster, protect, conserve, confirm, maintain, enact, re-enact,
institute, establish.
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KEY: Anomalous.
SYN: Irregular, abnormal, exceptional, unusual, eccentric.
ANT: Regular, normal, usual, ordinary, common, wonted, in the order of
things.
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KEY: Anomaly.
SYN: Irregularity, abnormity, exception, informality, peculiarity,
eccentricity.
ANT: Conformity, regularity, illustration, conformance,
exemplification, specimen.
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KEY: Anon.
SYN: Soon, shortly, presently.
ANT: Hereafter.
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KEY: Anonymous.
SYN: Nameless, unattested, authorless, unidentified,
unauthenticated.
ANT: Authenticated, attested, identified, authorized, verified,
signed.
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KEY: Answer.
SYN: Reply, response, counter-argument, confutation, acceptance,
(as of a challenge), tally, counterpart, solution, vindication,
apology, exculpation, defense, rejoinder, repartee, retort.
ANT: Challenge, question, defiance, summons, interrogation, query.
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KEY: Answerable.
SYN: Liable, amenable, accountable, responsible, correspondent,
agreeing.
ANT: Independent, unanswerable, irresponsible, different,
unsuitable, disagreeing, dissimilar.
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KEY: Antagonism.
SYN: Hostility, opposition, animosity, enmity.
ANT: Amity, alliance, association.
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KEY: Antagonist.
SYN: Adversary, opponent, rival, competitor, foe, enemy.
ANT: Aider, abettor, accomplice, accessory, ally.
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KEY: Antagonistic.
SYN: Adverse, opposing, inimical, hostile, repugnant, contrary.
ANT: Favoring, aiding, harmonious, friendly, agreeable to.
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KEY: Antecedence.
SYN: Anteriority, priority, precursorship, premonition,
Introduction, preparation, pre-existence.
ANT: Posteriority, subsequence, succession, sequel, supervention,
consequence.
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KEY: Antecedent, [See ANTERIOR].
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KEY: Anterior.
SYN: Prior, foregoing, antecedent, previous, precursive, precedent,
earlier, Introductory, preliminary, former.
ANT: Posterior, later, subsequent, consequent, succeeding.
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KEY: Anticipate.
SYN: Forestall, prejudge, expect, foretaste, apprehend, prevent,
prearrange, prepare, prejudge, meet, obviate, intercept, forecast.
ANT: Remember, recollect, remedy, recall, undo, cure, misapprehend.
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KEY: Anticipation.
SYN: Prevention, expectation, forestallment, awaiting,
preoccupation, preconception, foresight, forethought, foretaste,
prelibation, preclusion, pregustation, antepast, forecast,
provision.
ANT: Surprise, unpreparedness, Un-expectedness, inexpectation,
actual enjoyment, non-expectation, realization, consummation.
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KEY: Antipathy.
SYN: Repugnance, dislike, hatred, detestation, contrariety, aversion,
distaste, uncongeniality, antagonism, hostility, opposition,
abhorrence.
ANT: Sympathy, kindliness, congeniality, fellow-feeling, affinity,
harmony.
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KEY: Antiquated.
SYN: By-gone, quaint, old-fashioned, obsolete.
ANT: Fashionable, modish, stylish, modern.
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KEY: Antique.
SYN: Archaic, ancient, ancestral.
ANT: Modern, recent, new-fangled.
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KEY: Antithesis.
SYN: Contrast, opposition, contradiction, antagonism.
ANT: Identity, sameness, convertibility, coincidence, coalescence.
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KEY: Anxiety.
SYN: Care, trouble, eagerness, disquiet, apprehension, carefulness,
diffidence, solicitude, misgiving.
ANT: Carelessness, ease, confidence, contentment, acquiescence,
contentedness, apathy, light-heartedness, nonchalance.
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KEY: Anxious.
SYN: Solicitous, careful, uneasy, concerned, restless, watchful,
disturbed, unquiet.
ANT: Without care, careless, inert, ease, unconcerned, calm,
composed.
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KEY: Apace.
SYN: Rapidly, fast, astride, eagerly, ahead, expeditiously,
speedily.
ANT: Slowly, imperceptibly, leisurely, creepingly, crawlingly,
sluggishly, tardily.
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KEY: Apart.
SYN: Aloof, away, separately, secret, asunder, privately, aside,
secretly, separate.
ANT: Close, together, united, along with, hand ill hand.
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KEY: Apartment.
SYN: Room, chamber, hall, lodging, berth.
ANT: Resident, dweller, lodger, occupant, inmate, tenant,
housebuilding.
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KEY: Apathy.
SYN: Indifference, insensibility, unfeelingness in company,
insusceptibility, unconcern, sluggishness, hebetude.
ANT: Anxiety, care, eagerness, interestedness, sensibility,
susceptibility, sensitiveness, irritability, curiosity.
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KEY: Apathetic.
SYN: Unfeeling, stoical, cold, frigid, indifferent, impassive,
insensible, insensitive.
ANT: Anxious, careful, sympathetic, sensitive, susceptible.
=
KEY: Ape \v.\
SYN: Mimic, imitate, simulate, personate, represent.
ANT: Not to imitate, vary, modify, change.
=
KEY: Aperture.
SYN: Opening, gap, chasm, fissure, cleft.
ANT: Closure, blocking up, seclusion, imperviousness, blank wall,
shutting up.
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KEY: Apex, [See ACME].
=
KEY: Aphorism.
SYN: Adage, apothegm, maxim, saying, precept, rule, proverb.
ANT: Lecture, exhortation, dissertation, disquisition.
=
KEY: Apiece.
SYN: Distributively, individually, separately, severally,
analytically.
ANT: Collectively, together, accumulatively, indiscriminately,
confusedly, synthetically.
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KEY: Apocalypse.
SYN: Revelation, manifestation, unveiling, exhibition, divestment,
exposure, disclosure.
ANT: Concealment, suppression, obscuration, veiling, shrouding,
eclipse, envelopment.
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KEY: Apocryphal.
SYN: Obscure, doubtful, unauthorized, unauthentic, spurious,
legendary, uncertain, unauthenticated, unverified.
ANT: Palpable, accepted, authorized, authentic, genuine, current,
undisputed, verified, attested.
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KEY: Apologue.
SYN: Fable, fiction, parable.
ANT: Precept, history, narrative.
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KEY: Apology.
SYN: Defense, justification, plea, exculpation, excuse, vindication,
acknowledgment, confession.
ANT: Charge, imputation, impeachment, offense, incrimination, injury,
accusation, wrong, insult.
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KEY: Apostate, [See FEATURE].
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KEY: Apothegm.
SYN: Proverb, adage, dictum, maxim, saw, saying.
ANT: (As not so condensed), Exhortation, sermon, discourse,
disquisition.
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KEY: Appal.
SYN: Affright, alarm, terrify, scare, daunt, cow, shock, frighten,
discouraged, dishearten, horrify, dismay, astound.
ANT: Encourage, rally, assure, embolden, reassure.
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KEY: Apparel.
SYN: Clothes, robes, vesture, vestments, raiment, garniture,
habiliments, habit, dress, clothing, caparison, trappings, housings.
ANT: Nudity, disinvestiture, deshabille, tatters, rags.
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KEY: Apparent.
SYN: Obvious, plain, conspicuous, manifest, appearing, unmistakable,
clear, probable, seeming, presumable, likely, patent, ostensible,
visible, evident, indubitable, notorious, certain.
ANT: Uncertain, dubious, inapparent, minute, unobservable,
improbable, insupposable, hidden, real.
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KEY: Appeal.
SYN: Accost, address, apostrophize, invite, cite, invoke, urge, refer,
call upon, entreat, request, resort.
ANT: Deprecate, repudiate, protest, disavow, disclaim, defy, abjure.
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KEY: Appearance.
SYN: Advent, coming, arrival, presence, apparition, aspect,
Manifestatlon, probability, likeness, exhibition, mien, manner,
semblance, air, show, look, pretense, likelihood, presumption.
ANT: Departure, disappearance, unlikelihood, non-appearance,
concealment, evanition.
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KEY: Appease.
SYN: Pacify, assuage, mitigate, conciliate, propitiate,
moderate, satisfy, stay, allay, quiet, soften, calm, compose, soothe,
hush, cool, tranquilize.
ANT: Excite, provoke, aggravate, exasperate, inflame, embitter,
incense, intensify, stimulate, kindle.
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KEY: Appellation.
SYN: Name, patronymic, cognomen, style, description, designation,
title, denomination, term.
ANT: Namelessness, non-description, anonymousness.
=
KEY: Append.
SYN: Affix, supplement, subjoin, attach.
ANT: Separate, disengage, disconnect, detach.
=
KEY: Appendage.
SYN: Addition, annexation, adjunct, supplement.
ANT: Subtraction, separation, amalgamation, disconnection,
detachment, disjunction, division, incorporation.
=
KEY: Appended.
SYN: Added, joined, affixed, subjoined, attached, appended,
additional, concomitant.
ANT: Detracted, disconnected, separated, disjoined, divided.
=
KEY: Appendix, [See APPENDAGE].
=
KEY: Appertaining, [See CONCERNING].
=
KEY: Appetite.
SYN: Passion, desire, propensity, proclivity, inclination,
propension, appetency, want, craving, disposition, tendency,
proneness.
ANT: Repugnance, aversion, antipathy, loathing, indifference,
apathy.
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KEY: Applaud.
SYN: Laud, praise, extol, approve, eulogize, commend, cry up, magnify,
encourage, cheer.
ANT: Disapprove, denounce, decry, censure, execrate.
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KEY: Applause.
SYN: Praise, plaudit, laudation, encomium, commendation, approbation,
acclamation, approval, eulogy, acclaim.
ANT: Obloquy, condemnation, denunciation, dissatisfaction, contempt,
censure, blame, vituperation, sibilation.
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KEY: Appliance.
SYN: Contrivance, mechanism, arrangement, means, agency.
ANT: Spontaneity, growth, production, evolution, development.
=
KEY: Applicable.
SYN: Available, ancilla, ry, convenient, useful, pertinent,
conducive, appropriate.
ANT: Useless, unavailable, inconducive, inapplicable, irrelevant.
=
KEY: Application, [See DILIGENCE].
=
KEY: Apply.
SYN: Adduce, use, employ, allot, dedicate, devote, exercise,
apportion, direct, engage.
ANT: Disuse, divorce, discard, supersede, alienate, remove, misapply,
misdirect, divert, misappropriate, misemploy.
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KEY: Appoint.
SYN: Fix, determine, instal, allot, order, prescribe, institute,
employ, apportion, apply, designate, assign, intrust, invest, ordain,
arrange.
ANT: Reverse, cancel, recall, withdraw, reserve, withhold, retain,
undo, suspend, disarrange, disappoint.
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KEY: Apportion.
SYN: Assign, deal, allot, grant, share, divide, dispense, administer,
distribute, appoint.
ANT: Reserve, retain, refuse, withhold, assume, resume, cancel,
divert, suspend, reapportion, reappoint.
=
KEY: Apportionment, [See APPORTION].
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KEY: Apposite.
SYN: Suitable, appropriate, befitting, fitting, timely, congruous,
consistent, pertinent, seasonable, relevant, fit, meet, adapted,
apropos.
ANT: Untimely, irrelevant, impertinent, unfitting, mistimed,
misplaced, misspoken, inappropriate, misjudged.
=
KEY: Appraise.
SYN: Value, survey, estimate, price.
ANT: Undervalue, discard, condemn, brand, misappreciate,
misestimate.
=
KEY: Appreciate.
SYN: Esteem, recognize, acknowledge, respect, value, prize, regard,
reckon, estimate.
ANT: Undervalue, misconceive, misjudge, ignore, misappreciate.
=
KEY: Apprehend.
SYN: Comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest,
fancy, dread, imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjecture.
ANT: Ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend,
misanticipate.
=
KEY: Apprehension, [See APPREHEND].
=
KEY: Apprise.
SYN: Tell, inform, disclose, publish, advise, advertise, communicate,
enlighten, acquaint.
ANT: Hoodwink, mystify, deceive, mislead.
=
KEY: Apprize, [See APPRISE].
=
KEY: Approach.
SYN: Access, avenue, entrance, adit, vestibule, arrival,
approximation, advent, Bearing, admission, appropinquation,
admittance, mode, path, way, advance, similarity.
ANT: Exit, egress, debouchure, outlet, departure, recession,
distance, diversity, disparity.
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KEY: Approbation.
SYN: Approval, satisfaction, praise, encouragement, confirmation,
assent, consent, permission, commendation, concurrence, acceptance.
ANT: Disapproval, censure, blame, dissatisfaction, discouragement,
repudiation, protest, denial, refusal, disclaimer, disavowal,
disparity, dissimilarity.
=
KEY: Approval, [See APPROBATION].
=
KEY: Approve.
SYN: Like, comment, sanction, praise, support, second, promote,
encourage, authorize.
ANT: Disapprove, dislike, censure, blame, disown, disavow.
=
KEY: Appropriate, [See FIT].
=
KEY: Approximate.
SYN: Approach, resemble, border, abut, near, trench.
ANT: Separate, differ, vary, recede, diverge, deviate.
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KEY: Appurtenant.
SYN: Belonging, connected, appropriate, appended, homogeneous,
attached, co-ordinate, concomitant.
ANT: Unconnected, disconnected, Inappropriate, detached, isolated,
incongruous, unallied, unrelated, independent, heterogeneous.
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KEY: Apt.
SYN: Fit, apposite, clever, meet, liable, becoming, appropriate,
ready, fitting, suitable, pertinent, qualified, prompt, adapted,
likely.
ANT: Unfitted, ill-timed, awkward, unlikely, inapt.
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KEY: Aptitude.
SYN: Fitness, liability, susceptibility, suitableness, readiness,
quickness, cleverness, proneness, tendency.
ANT: Unfitness, unsuitableness, insusceptibility, slowness,
stupidity, unreadiness, awkwardness.
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KEY: Arbiter.
SYN: Arbitrator, judge, umpire, moderator, director, referee,
adjudicator.
ANT: Appellant, claimant, disputant, litigant.
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KEY: Arbitrary.
SYN: Tyrannical, harsh, dictatorial, imperious, bearing, overbearing,
selfish, absolute, irresponsible, tyrannous, domineering,
peremptory.
ANT: Mild, modest, lenient, considerate, obliging, limited,
equitable, constitutional.
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KEY: Arbitrate.
SYN: Settle, adjust, compose, decide, determine, accommodate,
adjudicate.
ANT: Dispute, claim, appeal, misdetermine, litigate, contend,
misjudge.
=
KEY: Archaic, [See ANCIENT].
=
KEY: Architect.
SYN: Constructor, contriver, designer, builder, surveyor, agent.
ANT: Workman carrying out plans, destroyer, extinguisher.
=
KEY: Ardent.
SYN: Longing, passionate, aspiring, warm, eager, fervent,
excited, fiery, glowing, zealous, fervid, fierce, keen, vehement, hot,
affectionate, impassioned, burning, heated.
ANT: Cool, cold, indifferent, dispassioned, apathetic, passionless,
unimpassioned, phlegmatic, platonic.
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KEY: Ardor, [See ARDENT].
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KEY: Arduous.
SYN: Difficult, hard, lofty, onerous, laborious, steep, precipitous.
ANT: Easy, practicable, unlaborious, light, trivial.
=
KEY: Argue.
SYN: Discuss, debate, prove, question, evidence, establish, imply,
sift, dispute, persuade, controvert, contend, demonstrate, reason.
ANT: Dictate, assert, propound, command.
=
KEY: Argument.
SYN: Reasoning, controversy, evidence, discussion, topic, dispute.
ANT: Assertion, assumption, without proof or evidence.
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KEY: Arid.
SYN: Dry, parched, sterile, unproductive.
ANT: Moist, dewy, watered, fertile, luxuriant, exuberant, verdant,
blooming, productive.
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KEY: Aright.
SYN: Right, well, rightly, correctly, truly, properly, uprightly,
unexceptionably, justly, suitably, appropriately.
ANT: Wrongly, awry, incorrectly, improperly, defectively,
erroneously.
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KEY: Arm \v.\
SYN: Equip, gird, accoutre, array.
ANT: Disarm, ungird, divest, disarray.
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KEY: Army.
SYN: Troops, soldiery, legion, soldiers, military, phalanx, host,
multitude.
ANT: Fewness, a small number, Individual, paucity, single person.
=
KEY: Aromatic, [See FRAGRANCE].
=
KEY: Around.
SYN: About, environing, encircling.
ANT: Within, amid, among.
=
KEY: Arouse.
SYN: Stir, excite, disturb, animate, wake up, stimulate, alarm,
provoke, cheer.
ANT: Allay, assuage, mitigate, pacify, compose, moderate, still,
quiet.
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KEY: Arraign.
SYN: Summon, accuse, censure, indict, charge, impeach.
ANT: Acquit, condone, discharge, release.
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KEY: Arrange.
SYN: Order, put In order, group, array, place, adjust, range, locate,
dispose, assort, deal, sort, parcel, classify.
ANT: Derange, disarrange, confuse, disturb, disperse, jumble,
disorder, Arrangement, [See ORDER].
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KEY: Arrant.
SYN: Notorious, consummate, atrocious, vile, flagrant, veritable,
unqualified, utter, infamous, emphatic.
ANT: Suspicious, slight, mitigated, likely.
=
KEY: Array \v.\
SYN: Vest, deck, equip, decorate, rank, adorn, dress, accoutre,
invest, attire, place, arrange, draw up, marshal, set in order,
dispose.
ANT: Disarray, disarrange, confuse, jumble, divest, denude, strip.
=
KEY: Array \n.\ Arrangement, order, disposition, sight, exhibition,
show, parade.
ANT: Disarray, disorder, confusion, confusedness, jumble.
=
KEY: Arrest \v.\
SYN: Seize, take, stop, capture, withhold, restrain, hold, detain,
apprehend.
ANT: Release, dismiss, liberate, free, discharge, expedite.
=
KEY: Arrival, [See ARRIVE].
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KEY: Arrive.
SYN: Reach, attain, come to, enter, get to, land.
ANT: Embark, depart, start.
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KEY: Arrogance.
SYN: Haughtiness, contemptuousness, overbearingness, hauteur,
browbeating, loftiness, self-conceit, stateliness, vainglory,
insolence, self-importance, assumption, discourtesy.
ANT: bashfulness, servility, considerateness, deference, courtesy,
modesty, shyness, diffidence, politeness.
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KEY: Arrogate.
SYN: Claim, assume, vindicate, assert, demand.
ANT: Forego, waive, resign, surrender, abandon, disclaim.
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KEY: Art.
SYN: Science, literature, aptitude, readiness, adroitness, skill,
dexterity, cunning, deceit, duplicity, tactics, profession, artifice,
management, trade, business, calling.
ANT: Inaptitude, maladroitness, candor, openness, frankness,
mismanagement.
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KEY: Artful.
SYN: Cunning, designing, maneuvering, sharp, knowing, subtle, sly,
crafty, wily, shrewd.
ANT: Simple, undesigning, artless, open, innocent, unsophisticated.
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KEY: Artifice.
SYN: manoeuvre, cheat, wile, contrivance, craft, trick, fraud,
machination, punning, imposture, stratagem.
ANT: Fairness, candor, simplicity, openness.
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KEY: Artificial.
SYN: Invented, fabricated, fictitious, constructed, manufactured,
pretended, simulated, false, assumed, concocted, contrived,
deceptive, artful, affected, unnatural, constrained.
ANT: Natural, inartificial, genuine, spontaneous, transparent,
artless, unaffected, [See ARTFUL].
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KEY: Artless, [See ARTFUL].
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KEY: Ascend.
SYN: Rise, mount, soar, surmount, go up, climb, tower, scale.
ANT: Fall, descend, sink.
=
KEY: Ascendancy.
SYN: Superiority, advantage, mastery, control, influence, supremacy,
sway, domination, authority.
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KEY: Ascertain.
SYN: Prove, verify, find out, discover, confirm, detect, determine,
learn, discern.
ANT: Guess, conjecture, surmise, suppose, presume.
=
KEY: Ascribe.
SYN: Assign, attribute, impute, refer, render, allege, charge.
ANT: Deny, refuse, exclude, dissociate, disconnect, dissever.
=
KEY: Askant.
SYN: Away, askew, asquint, obliquely, aslant.
ANT: Straightforwards, forwards, rectilinearly, ahead, straight.
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KEY: Aspect.
SYN: Front, face, phase, side, appearance, presentation, exhibition,
exposure, feature, view, air, mien, deportment, countenance, bearing,
complexion, sight.
ANT: Back, obverse, rear.
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KEY: Asperity.
SYN: Acerbity, harshness, acrimony, bitterness, sharpness, tartness,
sourness, roughness, moroseness, severity, crabbedness.
ANT: Mildness, softness, sweetness, gentleness, pleasantness,
smoothness.
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KEY: Asperse.
SYN: Slander, calumniate, bespatter, befoul, defy, attack, defame,
vilify, traduce, scandalize, malign, detract from, blacken, tarnish,
befoul, backbite.
ANT: Clear, defend, eulogize, vindicate, shelter, shield, praise,
laud, extol, uphold.
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KEY: Aspiration.
SYN: Longing, desire, aim, wish, craving, ambition, endeavor, hope,
appetition, effort, eagerness.
ANT: Apathy, indifference, aimlessness, lulness, inertia,
callousness, carelessness, aversion, avoidance, rejection,
repudiation.
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KEY: Assail, [See ASSAULT].
=
KEY: Assault.
SYN: Onset, attack, aggression, onslaught.
ANT: Defense, resistance, repulsion, retaliation, undermining,
sapping, stratagem.
=
KEY: Assay.
SYN: Test, endeavor, prove, try.
ANT: Survey, conjecture, guess, scan.
=
KEY: Assemble.
SYN: Gather, collect, congregate, amass, muster, call together,
convoke, convene.
ANT: Scatter, disperse, go away, dismiss.
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KEY: Assembly.
SYN: Meeting, concourse, assemblage, multitude, group, synod,
conclave, conference, convocation, unison, company, congregation,
collection, crowd, gathering, convention, aggregate.
ANT: Dispersion, dissipation, disunion, disruption.
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KEY: Assent \n.\
SYN: Coincidence, agreement, concert, acknowledgment, consent,
acquiescence, approval, concurrence, approbation, compliance.
ANT: Dissent, disagreement, difference, disavowal, repudiation,
declension, disclaimer, protest.
=
KEY: Assent \v.\ [See CONCEDE].
=
KEY: Assert.
SYN: Asseverate, declare, pronounce, depose, maintain, statement,
avow, avouch, affirm, allege, protest, claim.
ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, waive, abandon.
=
KEY: Assets.
SYN: goods, proceeds, possessions, effects, property.
ANT: Debts, liabilities.
=
KEY: Asseverate, [See ASSERT].
=
KEY: Assiduity.
SYN: Attention, perseverance, pains, patience, exertion, labor,
application, effort, politeness, constancy, sedulousness,
diligence.
ANT: Indolence, remissness, inattention, desultoriness,
inconstancy.
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KEY: Assiduous, [See ASSIDUITY].
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KEY: Assign.
SYN: Attribute, apportion, allege, refer, specify, consign, intrust,
commit, point out, allot to, adduce, advance, appoint, convey.
ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, retain, refuse, disconnect,
dissociate.
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KEY: Assimilate.
SYN: Compare, liken, match, engross, identify, incorporate, absorb,
appropriate.
ANT: Separate, segregate, part, contrast, reject.
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KEY: Assist.
SYN: Help, succor, aid, support, relieve, befriend, second,
co-operate with, back, benefit, further.
ANT: Hinder, resist, oppose, antagonize, counteract, clog, prevent.
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KEY: Assistance.
SYN: Help, aid, countenance, support, abettance, protection,
maintenance, coadjutorship.
ANT: Resistance, obstruction, opposition, counteraction, antagonism,
drawback, clog, preventive.
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KEY: Assistant.
SYN: Helper, aider, attendant, coadjutor, auxiliary, ally, associate,
contributor, partner, confederate.
ANT: Hinderer, opposer, rival, foe, antagonist.
=
KEY: Associate.
SYN: Companion, friend, ally, coadjutor, consort, helpmate, comrade,
partner.
ANT: Rival, alien, foe, antagonist.
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KEY: Association.
SYN: Union, connection, conjunction, contortment, companionship,
alliance, familiarity, community, membership, society, company,
denomination, partnership, fellowship, fraternity, friendship.
ANT: Disunion, disconnection, estrangement, separation, severance,
independence, avoidance, disruption, dismemberment, solitude,
individuality.
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KEY: Assorted.
SYN: Separated, chosen, selected, clarified.
ANT: Mingled, mixed, confused, unclassified, jumbled, heaped up.
=
KEY: Assortment.
SYN: Collection, disposition, distribution, class, quantity,
selection, stock, miscellany, lot, variety.
ANT: Misarrangement, disarrangement, displacement,
misplacement.
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KEY: Assuage.
SYN: Mitigate, soothe, console, soften, moderate, pacify, lenify,
allay, ease, alleviate, abate, diminish, lessen, compose, appease,
calm, tranquillize.
ANT: Exasperate, excite, increase, stimulate, incite, provoke,
inflame, embitter, aggravate.
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KEY: Assuagement, [See ASSUAGE].
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KEY: Assume.
SYN: Take, appropriate, arrogate, wear, exhibit, postulate, suppose,
presume, usurp, claim, pretend, feign, affect.
ANT: Waive, allow, doff, render, surrender, concede, grant,
demonstrate, abandon, argue, prove.
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KEY: Assumption.
SYN: Arrogance, boldness, impudence, self-confidence, selfreliance,
effrontery, presumption, conviction, certainty, self-assertion.
ANT: Distrust, timidity, bashfulness, misgiving, self-distrust,
consternation, dismay, alarm.
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KEY: Assure.
SYN: Advise, advertise, promise, inform, rally, console,
encourage, countenance, aid, support, convince, uphold, certify.
ANT: Misinform, misadvise, mislead, deceive, discomfit, disconceit,
deter, discourage, warn, dissuade, unsettle, intimidate.
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KEY: Assurance.
SYN: Arrogance, impudence, boldness, self-confidence, selfreliance,
promise, assertion, presumption, effrontery, self-assertion.
ANT: Distrust, timidity, bashfulness, self-distrust, consternation.
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KEY: Astonish.
SYN: Startle, surprise, confound, amaze, astound, fill with wonder,
stupefy, alarm, terrify, electrify, scare, dumbfounder.
ANT: Rally, encourage, assure, embolden.
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KEY: Astonished.
SYN: Amazed, astounded, overwhelmed, dumbfounded, thunderstruck.
ANT: Calm, tranquil, assured, bold, undisturbed.
=
KEY: Astonishing.
SYN: Amazing, wondrous, surprising, wonderful, striking, marvelous.
ANT: Foreseen, unamazed, common, astonished at nothing, ordinary,
natural, usual, everyday, trite.
=
KEY: Astonishment.
SYN: Wonder, surprise, marvel, amazement, admiration, awe,
bewilderment, stupefaction, fascination.
ANT: Expectance, expectation, anticipation, foreseeing,
absence of wonder, awe, etc.
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KEY: Astray.
SYN: Loose, abroad, missing, about, at large, wrong, erring,
wandering.
ANT: Right, close, at home, safe.
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KEY: Astute.
SYN: Crafty, shrewd, knowing, sharp, discriminating, sagacious,
penetrating, acute, discerning, keen.
ANT: Dull, unobserving, undiscriminating, stolid, asinine, anserine,
blind.
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KEY: Asunder.
SYN: Separate, apart, disunited, divided, in twain.
ANT: In one, close, united, together.
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KEY: Athletic.
SYN: Strong, vigorous, powerful, stalwart, brawny, muscular,
ablebodied, lusty, sinewy, robust.
ANT: Weak, puny, effeminate, nerveless, strengthless, unbraced.
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KEY: Atom.
SYN: Molecule, particle, mote, speck, scrap, bit.
ANT: Mass, whole, aggregate, lump.
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KEY: Atonement.
SYN: Reconciliation, expiation, compensation, preparation,
satisfaction, recompense.
ANT: Alienation, separation, enmity, estrangement, division, offense,
transgression.
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KEY: Atrocious.
SYN: Monstrous, nefarious, wicked, outrageous, villainous, enormous,
shameful, heinous, cruel, flagrant, facinorous, flagitious.
ANT: Laudable, noble, honorable, generous, humane, admirable,
chivalrous.
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KEY: Attach.
SYN: Fasten, apply, append, add, fix, subjoin, annex, unite,
conciliate, tie, connect, conjoin, attract, win, bind.
ANT: Unfasten, Ioose, disunite, untie, disconnect, detach, alienate,
estrange, repel.
=
KEY: Attachment, [See ATTACH].
=
KEY: Attack. \v.\
SYN: Assail, assault, invade, encounter, charge, besiege, impugn,
contravene.
ANT: Defend, resist, repel, protest, withstand on one's own part, or
for another, support, aid, shield, uphold, vindicate, shelter.
=
KEY: Attack. \n.\
SYN: Invasion, assault, onset, aggression, onslaught.
ANT: Defense, resistance, repulse, protection, aid, vindication,
support, maintenance, shelter.
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KEY: Attain.
SYN: Reach, extend, master, arrive at, compass, earn, win, achieve,
accomplish, get, obtain, acquire, gain, secure, grasp.
ANT: Lose, fail, forfeit, miss, abandon, resign.
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KEY: Attainment.
SYN: Information, acquirements, accomplishments.
ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius.
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KEY: Attemper.
SYN: Moderate, subdue, compound, commingle, adapt, adjust, harmonize,
modify, blend, attune, mix, mold, work, medicate, amalgamate,
accommodate.
ANT: Discompose, confuse, spoil, aggravate, mar.
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KEY: Attempt.
SYN: Try, endeavor, strive, undertake, seek, essay, attack, violate,
force.
ANT: Disregard, abandon, pretermit, dismiss, neglect, shun, drop.
=
KEY: Attempt \n.\ [See EFFORT].
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KEY: Attend.
SYN: Listen, heed, notice, observe, wait on, serve, mind, watch,
accompany, consort, follow, imply, involve.
ANT: Wander, disregard, leave, forsake, abandon, desert, exclude,
neutralize.
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KEY: Attention.
SYN: Observation, notice, regard, watchfulness, heed, consideration,
circumspection, study, vigilance, care.
ANT: Disregard, inadvertence, remission, indifference, carelessness,
abstraction, distraction, absence.
=
KEY: Attentive, [See OBSERVANT].
=
KEY: Attenuate.
SYN: Educe, elongate, reduce, fine-drawn, narrow, contract, diminish,
compress.
ANT: Broaden, increase, expand, dilate, swell, enlarge, develop,
amplify.
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KEY: Attest.
SYN: Vouch, aver, assert, certify, witness, vouch for, affirm,
testify, evidence, support, confirm, suggest, prove, involve,
demonstrate, establish, imply, bespeak.
ANT: Deny, controvert, contradict, contravene, disprove,
disestablish, exclude, neutralize, upset, oppugn, refute.
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KEY: Attestation, [See EVIDENCE].
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KEY: Attire.
SYN: Robes, garments, clothing, vestments, habiliment, habit,
raiment, clothes, garb, apparel, accoutrement, livery, uniform,
costume.
ANT: Nudity, divestment, exposure, denudation, bareness, disarray,
dishabille, tatters, rags, patches, shreds.
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KEY: Attitude.
SYN: Posture, position, situation, standing, composition,
collocation, aspect, pose, lie.
ANT: Evolution, exercise, bearing, deportment, movement,
gesticulation, manoeuvre, gesture.
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KEY: Attract.
SYN: Influence, induce, dispose, incline, tempt, prompt, allure,
charm, fascinate, invite, entice.
ANT: Repel, deter, indispose, disincline, estrange, alienate.
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KEY: Attraction.
SYN: Inducement, influence, adduction, inclination, disposition,
charm, beauty, allurement.
ANT: Repulsion, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, deformity,
repugnance.
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KEY: Attractive.
SYN: Winning, alluring, tempting, inviting, engaging, captivating,
fascinating, enticing, interesting, charming, pleasant, beautiful,
agreeable.
ANT: Unattractive, repugnant, repulsive, uninteresting,
disagreeable, unpleasant, deformed, ugly, deterrent, loathsome,
forbidding.
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KEY: Attribute \v.\
SYN: Refer, assign, associate, apply, ascribe, charge, impute,
connect.
ANT: Divorce, disconnect, dissociate, dissever.
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KEY: Attribute \n.\
SYN: Property, quality, characteristic, attainment, sign, mark,
indication, manifestation.
ANT: correlative, viz, Essence, nature, substance, etc, or,
spuriously, affectation, misnomer, semblance, assumption, mask,
veil.
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KEY: Attrition.
SYN: Sorrow, repentance, affliction, penitence, compunction, remorse,
self-reproach.
ANT: Impenitence, callousness, obduracy, reprobation,
relentlessness.
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KEY: Attune.
SYN: Temper, attemper, harmonize, adjust, accommodate.
ANT: Unstring, disharmonize, disarrange, discompose, dislocate,
disturb, disconcert.
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KEY: Audacious.
SYN: Insolent, adventurous, venturesome, presumptuous, valiant, rash,
bold, daring, reckless, enterprising.
ANT: Timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome,
unenterprising.
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KEY: Audacity.
SYN: Boldness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, hardihood.
ANT: Caution, self-preservation, timidity, calculation, forethought,
foresight, diffidence, inadventurousness.
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KEY: Audience.
SYN: Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception,
interview.
ANT: Soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe.
=
KEY: Augment, [See ENLARGE].
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KEY: Augmentation.
SYN: Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply,
enhancement, addition, acquisition, improvement.
ANT: Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal,
reservation, expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration,
impoverishment, reduction, curtailment.
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KEY: Augury.
SYN: Prophecy, prediction, divination, conjecture, omen,
prognostication.
ANT: Experience, science, observation.
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KEY: August \a.\
SYN: Majestic, dignified, stately, noble, pompous, imposing, grand,
solemn, exalted.
ANT: Mean, undignified, unimposing, common, vulgar, despicable,
paltry, unnoticeable, beggarly, commonplace.
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KEY: auspicious.
SYN: Propitious, lucky, favorable, encouraging, satisfactory,
successful, hopeful, promising, happy, golden, fortunate, opportune,
prosperous.
ANT: Unpropitious, unfavorable, discouraging, unsatisfactory,
inauspicious, unpromising, abortive, hopeless.
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KEY: Austere.
SYN: Hard, rigid, stern, severe, morose, unrelenting, unyielding,
strict, rigorous, harsh, sour, relentless.
ANT: Mild, affable, kindly, tender, feeling, bland, indulgent,
genial.
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KEY: Authentic.
SYN: Genuine, veritable, reliable, real, original, trustworthy, not
spurious, true, legitimate, certain, accepted, current, received.
ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded,
rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous,
fictitious.
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KEY: Authenticate.
SYN: Confirm, settle, establish, verify, substantiate, identify.
ANT: Contravene, disprove, disestablish, refute, upset.
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KEY: Author.
SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause,
constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer,
perpetrator, doer.
ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser.
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KEY: Authoritative.
SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent,
dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic,
commanding.
ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite,
vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient,
persuasive.
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KEY: Authority.
SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness,
conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction,
jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway,
sufferance, supremacy, dominion.
ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness,
inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong.
=
KEY: Authorize, [See EMPOWER].
=
KEY: Autocracy, [See AUTOCRATIC].
=
KEY: Autocratic.
SYN: Independent, arbitrary, despotic, irresponsible, absolute.
ANT: Dependent, subordinate, re sponsible, constitutional, limited.
=
KEY: Auxiliary.
SYN: Helpful, abetting, aiding, accessory, promotive, conducive,
assistant, ancillary, assisting, subsidiary, helping.
ANT: Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous,
obstructive, retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome.
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KEY: Avail \v.\
SYN: Suffice, hold, stand, endure, answer, tell, profit, help,
benefit, advantage, service, use, utility.
ANT: Fail, fall, disappoint, betray.
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KEY: Avail.
SYN: Profit, help, benefit, advantage, use, utility, service.
ANT: Disadvantage, hindrance, helplessness.
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KEY: Available.
SYN: Useful, appropriable, convertible, attainable, handy, conducive,
applicable, procurable, advantage, helpful, profitable, suitable,
serviceable.
ANT: Useless, inappropriate, inapplicable, unprocurable,
inconducive, irrelevant, Inoperative, unavailable.
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KEY: Avarice.
SYN: Greed, cupidity, rapacity, penuriousness, niggardliness,
miserliness, stinginess, covetousness, acquisitiveness, griping,
greediness.
ANT: Large-heartedness, unselfishness, liberality, bountifulness,
profuseness, squander, prodigality, extravagance, waste.
=
KEY: Avaricious, [See LIBERAL].
=
KEY: Avenge.
SYN: Vindicate, right, visit, retaliate.
ANT: Waive, don, forego, condone, remit, forgive, overlook.
=
KEY: Avenue.
SYN: Approach, adit, access, entrance.
ANT: Exit, egress.
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KEY: Aver.
SYN: Assert, asseverate, affirm, depose, avouch, protest, oblige,
declare.
ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, disavow, disclaim, repudiate,
gainsay, oppugn.
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KEY: Average.
SYN: Mean, medium, middle, mediocre.
ANT: Extreme, excess, defect, perfectness, perfection.
=
KEY: Averse.
SYN: Hostile, disinclined, indisposed, repugnant, backward,
unwilling, reluctant, loath.
ANT: Ready, disposed, eager, prone, inclined, desirous.
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KEY: Aversion.
SYN: Hatred, dislike, distaste, repugnance, uncongeniality,
abhorrence, antipathy.
ANT: Love, desire, affection, liking, congeniality, sympathy, ardor,
eagerness, avidity.
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KEY: Avidity.
SYN: Cupidity, avarice, desire, greed, longing, rapacity, eagerness.
ANT: Coldness, indifference, apathy, insensibility, antipathy,
nausea, aversion, repugnance, loathing.
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KEY: Avocation.
SYN: Profession, calling, lot, employment, vocation, occupation,
business, pursuit, line.
ANT: Holiday, leisure, idleness, self-abandonment, misemployment.
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KEY: Avoid.
SYN: Quit, shun, abandon, desert, forsake, relinquish, fly, eschew,
elude, dodge, escape, shirk.
ANT: Seek, court, approach, accost, address, affect.
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KEY: Avouch.
SYN: Aver, protest, declare, propound, asseverate, profess.
ANT: Deny, contradict, oppose, oppugn, contravene, controvert,
gainsay.
=
KEY: Avow, [See AVOUCH].
=
KEY: Awaken, [See BOUSE].
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KEY: Award.
SYN: Assign, apportion, attribute, accord, grant, distribute, divide,
allot, give, determine, decree, order, adjudge.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, withdraw, retain, misappropriate,
misapportion.
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KEY: Aware.
SYN: Conscious, sensible, informed, certified, assured, known,
apprised, cognizant.
ANT: Unconscious, insensible, ignorant, unaware, uninformed.
=
KEY: Away.
SYN: Far, afar, separate, detached, loose, abroad.
ANT: Close, near.
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KEY: Awe.
SYN: Fear, dread, veneration, reverence.
ANT: Fearlessness, contempt, disrespect, familiarity, irreverence.
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KEY: Awful.
SYN: Fearful, direful, appalling, terrible, alarming, dreadful,
horrible, solemn, portentous, horrific.
ANT: Inocuous, informidable, unimposing, unastonishing, commonplace,
unnoticeable, unalarming, alluring.
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KEY: Awhile.
SYN: Briefly, little.
ANT: Ever, always, forever, ever, more.
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KEY: Awkward.
SYN: Ungainly, clownish, clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, uncouth, rough,
boorish, bungling, gawky.
ANT: Neat, clever, dexterous, skilful, adroit, handy.
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KEY: Awry.
SYN: Crooked, aslant, askew, atwist, bent, carved, distorted, twisted,
wrong.
ANT: Right, straight, true, direct.
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KEY: Axiom.
SYN: Self-evident truth, aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim.
ANT: Nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness.
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KEY: Azure \a.\
SYN: Blue, cerulean, sky blue, bluish, blue-colored.
ANT: Orange, ochreous, orange-colored, orange-flame.
=
KEY: Babble \v.\
SYN: Prate, prattle, dribble, chatter, gabble, twaddle, blab, cackle.
ANT: Enunciate, vociferate, hush, suppress.
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KEY: Babbler.
SYN: Blab, chatterbox, gossip, tattler, telltale.
ANT: Confident, confessor.
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KEY: Babbling.
SYN: Prating, blabbing, talkativeness, tattling, cackling, gossip,
loquacity, garrulity.
ANT: Reticence, reserve, secretiveness, closeness, refrain,
incommunicativeness, taciturnity.
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KEY: Babel.
SYN: Hubbub, confusion, clamor, jargon, din, discord, clang.
ANT: Elocution, articulation, monotony, distinctness,
consecutiveness, intonation, enunciation, unisonousness.
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KEY: Backbiter.
SYN: Detractor, traducer, calumniator, slanderer, cynic, maligner,
defamer.
ANT: Vindicator, upholder, palliator, advocate, mitigator, defender,
befriender.
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KEY: Backslider.
SYN: Renegade, abjurer, recreant, apostate.
ANT: Professor, confessor, adherent, zealot, bigot.
=
KEY: Backsliding, [See BACKSLIDER].
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KEY: Backwardness.
SYN: Reluctance, slowness, shyness, hesitation, unwillingness,
repugnance.
ANT: Forwardness, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity.
=
KEY: Backward, [See BACKWARDNESS].
=
KEY: Bad, [See GOOD].
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KEY: Baffle.
SYN: Frustrate, counteract, estop, disconcert, elude, mock,
thwart, confound, defeat, perplex, restrain, upset, foil, mar, balk,
neutralize, dodge, counterfoil.
ANT: Point, aid, abet, enforce, promote, assist, advance, encourage.
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KEY: Bait.
SYN: Morsel, snare, decoy, enticement, allurement, inducement.
ANT: Warning, scarecrow, dissuasive, deterrent, prohibition,
intimidation, threat.
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KEY: Balance.
SYN: Weigh, poise, pit, et, counterpoise, counteract, neutralize,
equalize, estimate, redress, adjust.
ANT: Upset, tilt, cant, subvert, mispoise, overbalance.
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KEY: Balderdash.
SYN: Gasconade, flummery, rhodomontade, bombast, fustian, froth.
ANT: Sense, wisdom, logic, reason, sobriety, truthfulness.
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KEY: Balk.
SYN: Estop, bar, thwart, frustrate, foil, stop, prevent, hinder,
neutralize, nullify, mar, counteract, disappoint, defeat, baffle.
ANT: Aid, abet, promote, advance, encourage, instigate.
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KEY: Balmy, [See AROMATIC].
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KEY: Bandy.
SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocate, cross, pass.
ANT: Quash, silence, drop, burke, close, stifle, extinguish.
=
KEY: Baneful, [See PERNICIOUS].
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KEY: Banish.
SYN: Expel, abandon, dispel, eject, extrude, exclude, relegate,
expatriate, repudiate, disclaim.
ANT: Cherish, foster, protect, consider, encourage, locate, retain,
entertain, domiciliate, domesticate, harbor.
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KEY: Banishment.
SYN: Outlawry, ostracism, expatriation, expulsion, persecution.
ANT: Remaining, cherishing, fostering, retaining.
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KEY: Banquet.
SYN: Feast, festivity, treat, entertainment, festival, carousal,
carouse, regalement, cheer.
ANT: Fast, abstinence, starvation.
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KEY: Banter.
SYN: Badinage, chaff, mockery, derision, ridicule, irony, jeering,
raillery.
ANT: Discussion, discourse, argument.
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KEY: Barbarous.
SYN: Rude, strange, uncivilized, brutal, cruel, ferocious, inhuman,
merciless, outlandish, savage, uncouth, atrocious, flagitious,
unfettered, nefarious, gross.
ANT: Polite, civilized, refined, humane, urbane.
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KEY: Barely, [See HARDLY].
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KEY: Bargain.
SYN: Transaction, negotiation, business, profit, speculation,
higgling, gain, hawking, chaffer, haggling.
ANT: Loss, misprofit.
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KEY: Barren, [See STERILE].
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KEY: Base \a.\
SYN: Vile, dishonorable, low, sordid, ignoble, worthiest, mean,
infamous, shameful, grovelling, disingenuous, disesteemed, cheap,
corrupt, deep.
ANT: Lofty, exalted, refined, noble, esteemed, honored, valued, pure,
correct, shrill.
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KEY: Baseless, [See GROUNDLESS].
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KEY: Bashful.
SYN: Modest, diffident, shy, retiring, reserved.
ANT: Bold, impudent, forward, unreserved, pert, conceited,
ostentatious, egotistic.
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KEY: Bask.
SYN: Luxuriate, repose, lounge, dally.
ANT: Stir, work, toil, slave, drudge, labor.
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KEY: Baste.
SYN: Buffet, cudgel, pound, beat.
ANT: Soothe, tickle, caress, stroke.
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KEY: Battle.
SYN: Fight, conflict, contest, combat, engagement, encounter,
action.
ANT: Peace, truce, pacification, arbitrament, council, mediation.
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KEY: Bauble.
SYN: Toy, trifle, plaything, knicknack, gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaw.
ANT: Valuable, possession, acquisition, gera, ornament, decoration,
jewel.
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KEY: Basis, [See FOUNDATION].
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KEY: Bawl.
SYN: Shout, vociferate, halloo, roar, bellow.
ANT: Whisper, mutter, babble, mumble.
=
KEY: Bays.
SYN: Laurels, trophy, success, prize, premium, achievement, victory,
triumph.
ANT: Failure, defeat, disgrace, stigma, brand.
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KEY: Beach.
SYN: Shore, coast, strand, seacoast, seaboard, seashore.
ANT: Sea, ocean, deep, main.
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KEY: Beaming.
SYN: Shining, gleaming, bright, radiant, beautiful, transparent,
translucid.
ANT: Dull, opaque, dingy, beamless, wan, matt.
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KEY: Bear.
SYN: Carry, lift, transport, convey, maintain, uphold, suffer,
undergo, support, tolerate, waft, yield, sustain, hold, harbor,
entertain, fill, enact, endure, admit, produce, generate.
ANT: Drop, refuse, decline, resign, expel, eject, resist, repel,
protest, resent, reject.
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KEY: Bearing.
SYN: Behavior, deportment, manner, aspect, carriage, mien, demeanour,
port, conduct, inclination, position, appearance, direction, course.
ANT: Misbehaviour, jurisdirection, misobservation.
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KEY: Beastly, [See BRUTAL].
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KEY: Beat.
SYN: Strike, pound, batter, surpass, thrash, cudgel, overcome, defeat,
conquer, worst, whack, belabor, vanquish.
ANT: Defend, protect, shield, fall, shelter, surrender, stroke,
caress, pat.
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KEY: Beatitude.
SYN: Blessedness, bliss, beatification.
ANT: Misery, pain, suffering, punishment.
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KEY: Beautiful, [See BEAUTY, and HANDSOME].
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KEY: Beautify.
SYN: Decorate, adorn, ornament, deck.
ANT: Deform, spoil, mar, stain, deface, disfigure, befoul, soil,
denude, bare, strip.
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KEY: Beauty.
SYN: Loveliness, grace, fairness, seemliness, comeliness,
picturesqueness, exquisiteness, adornment, embellishment.
ANT: Foulness, ugliness, deformity, hideousness, bareness,
unattractiveness.
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KEY: Because.
SYN: Owing, consequently, accordingly.
ANT: Irrespectively, independently, inconsequently, unconnectedly.
=
KEY: Beck.
SYN: Nod, sign, signal, symbol, token, indication, authority, orders,
instruction, subserviency, influence, call, command, control,
mandate.
ANT: Independence, insubservience.
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KEY: Become.
SYN: Befit, grace, beseem, behove.
ANT: Misbeseem, misfit, misbecome, disgrace.
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KEY: Becoming.
SYN: Beseeming, neat, fit, proper, decorous, comely, seemly,
befitting, graceful, decent, suitable, improving.
ANT: Unbeseeming, unseemly, uncomely, unbecoming, unbefitting,
ungraceful, indecent, unsuitable, unimproving, derogatory.
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KEY: Bedaub.
SYN: Bespatter, befoul, discolor, mar, disfigure, deface, besmear,
spoil, soil, stain.
ANT: Cleanse, absterge, purify, embellish, whiten, decorate,
beautify.
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KEY: Bedeck, [See DECK].
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KEY: Bedizen.
SYN: Tawdry, betinselled, gaudy, flashy, bespangled.
ANT: Adorned, robed, decorated, beautified.
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KEY: Befall.
SYN: Happen, occur, betide, fall, supervene, bechance.
ANT: Miss, pass, spare, pretermit.
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KEY: Befitting.
SYN: Fitting, decent, becoming, suitable, appropriate, proper,
consistent, expedient, desirable.
ANT: Obligatory, compulsory, unbefitting, indecent, unbecoming,
unsuitable, inappropriate, incompatible, inexpedient, improper.
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KEY: Befool.
SYN: Deceive, cheat, mystify, bamboozle, ensnare, hoodwink, mislead.
ANT: Guide, enlighten, advise, undeceive, lead.
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KEY: Before.
SYN: Precedently, anteriorly, antecedently.
ANT: After, afterwards, subsequently, posteriorly, later, behind.
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KEY: Befriend.
SYN: Assist, countenance, support, advocate, promote, protect,
defend.
ANT: Oppose, di?countenanced, withstand, thwart, decry, defame,
oppress, annoy.
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KEY: Beg.
SYN: Ask, request, entreat, supplicate, beseech, implore, pray,
petition, crave.
ANT: Insist, exact, extort, require, demand.
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KEY: Beggar.
SYN: Mendicant, petitioner, suitor, suppliant, applicant.
ANT: Exactor, extortioner.
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KEY: Beggarly, Miserable, poor, stinted, wretched, niggardly, stingy,
scant, illiberal.
ANT: Noble, princely, stately, prodigal, sumptuous, liberal, profuse,
gorgeous, magnificent.
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KEY: Beggary.
SYN: Want, penury, destitution, indigence, mendicancy.
ANT: Affluence, riches, abundance, plenty.
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KEY: Begin.
SYN: Initiate, commence, prepare, start, originate, arise,
inaugurate.
ANT: Achieve, complete, terminate, conclude, consummate, finish,
close, end.
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KEY: Beginner.
SYN: Tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, pupil.
ANT: Adept, expert, master, authority.
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KEY: Beginning.
SYN: Commencement, start, origin, rise, initiation, preparation,
preface, prelude, inauguration, inception, threshold, opening,
source, outset, foundation.
ANT: End, close, termination, conclusion, consummation, completion.
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KEY: Beguile, [See BEFOOL].
=
KEY: Behalf.
SYN: Side, interest, advantage, aid, bestead.
ANT: [See BESTEAD].
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KEY: Behavior.
SYN: Conduct, bearing, demeanor, proceeding, comportment, action,
manner, deportment.
ANT: Misdemeanor, misbehavior, misconduct.
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KEY: Behest.
SYN: Injunction, command, instruction, mandate, commission,
requirement, trust.
ANT: Option, liberty, non-interference, discretion.
=
KEY: Behind, [See BEFORE].
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KEY: Behold.
SYN: Look, discern, regard, view, descry, look upon, gaze,
contemplate, observe, see, scan, survey.
ANT: Overlook, disregard, ignore, miss, blink, wink, connive.
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KEY: Beholden.
SYN: Bound, obliged, indebted, thankful, grateful.
ANT: Unindebted, unobliged, unbound, unthankful, ungrateful.
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KEY: Beholder.
SYN: Spectator, observer, bystander, witness, looker-on.
ANT: [See BEHOLD].
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KEY: Belief.
SYN: Assent, faith, trust, credence, avowal, assurance, admission,
conviction, opinion, permission, creed, reliance, concession,
confidence.
ANT: Dissent, unbelief, distrust, denial, misgiving, disavowal,
rejection, disbelief.
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KEY: Bellicose.
SYN: Quarrelsome, pugnacious, belligerent, irascible, contentious.
ANT: Peaceful, peaceable, unquarrelsome, pacific, unwarlike,
unexcitable, good-tempered, genial.
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KEY: Belligerent.
SYN: Contending, engaging, fighting, opposed, adverse, rival,
conflicting, antagonist, assailant, hostile.
ANT: Neutral, pacific, peaceful, nonbelligerent, appeased,
reconciled.
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KEY: Bellow, [See BAWL].
=
KEY: Belonging.
SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, cognate, congenial,
obligatory, accompanying.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, Irrelevant, impertinent, alien,
uncongenial, discretional, optional, uninvolved, unimplied,
independent.
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KEY: Belong to.
SYN: Pertain to, appertain to, regard, relate to.
ANT: Not to belong to, not to appertain to, not to relate to.
=
KEY: Beloved.
SYN: Cared for, cherished, loved.
ANT: Hated, loathed.
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KEY: Below.
SYN: Under, beneath, adown, underneath.
ANT: Above, over, aloft.
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KEY: Bend.
SYN: Curve, deviate, incline, tend, swerve, diverge, mold, persuade,
influence, bias, dispose, direct, lower, subordinate to, lean,
deflect, bow, condescend, yield, stoop, submit.
ANT: Proceed, continue, extend, advance, stand, stiffen, break, crush,
resist.
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KEY: Beneath.
SYN: Below, underneath, under, adown.
ANT: Above, over, overhead, aloft.
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KEY: Benediction.
SYN: Blessing, commendation, approval, benison, gratitude,
thankfulness, thanksgiving.
ANT: Curse, malediction, disapproval, censure, obloquy, execration,
ingratitude.
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KEY: Benefaction.
SYN: Grant, gratuity, boon, donation, aims, present, gift, endowment,
bequest, favor, presentation.
ANT: Deprivation, reservation, disfavor, presumption, confiscation,
disendowment.
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KEY: Benefactor.
SYN: Friend, supporter, contributor, upholder, well-wisher, favorer,
well-doer, patron.
ANT: Foe, opponent, disfavorer, antagonist, rival, backfriend,
oppressor.
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KEY: Beneficial.
SYN: Profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious.
ANT: Prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental.
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KEY: Beneficent.
SYN: Bountiful, benevolent, benignant.
ANT: Hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal,
oppressive, cruel.
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KEY: Benefit.
SYN: Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage,
profit, favor, blessing.
ANT: Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity,
bereavement, injury, privation.
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KEY: Benevolence.
SYN: Kindness, goodwill, charity, philanthropy, kindliness,
kind-heartedness, benignity, beneficence, liberality.
ANT: Unkindness, harshness, barbarity, niggardliness, maleficence,
malignity, illiberality, ill-will, churlishness.
=
KEY: Benevolent, [See BENEFICIENT].
=
KEY: Benignant, [See BENEFICIENT].
=
KEY: Benison, [See BENEDICTION].
=
KEY: Bent.
SYN: Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition,
intention, prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning.
ANT: Indisposition, aversion.
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KEY: Bequeath.
SYN: Give, grant, leave by will, devise, will, bestow, impart, demise,
leave \n.\ Legacy, inheritance.
ANT: Withhold, alienate \n.\ Disinheritance, transference,
abalienation, dispossession.
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KEY: Bereave.
SYN: Rob, deprive, divest, dispossess, impoverish, reduce, spoil,
strip.
ANT: Replenish, compensate, reinstate, satisfy, enrich, benefit.
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KEY: Bereavement.
SYN: Destitution, affliction, deprivation, loss.
ANT: Gift, blessing, donation, benefaction, compensation, reparation,
restoration, reinstatement, substitution, restitution, consolation.
ANT: [See [BENEFACTION and BENEFIT].
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KEY: Bereft.
SYN: Robbed, deprived, destitute, denied, spoiled.
ANT: Endowed, enriched, compensated, consoled, possessed.
=
KEY: Beseech.
SYN: Entreat, pray, solicit, ask, implore, crave, request, supplicate,
petition, beg.
ANT: Insist, demand, exact, intimidate, command, coerce.
=
KEY: Beseem.
SYN: Befit, suit, belong, appertain.
ANT: Unbeseem, disgrace.
=
KEY: Beseeming.
SYN: Befitting, belonging, suitable, appertaining, consistent,
compatible, requisite, decent, graceful.
ANT: Unbefitting, unseemly, unsuitable, improper, indecent,
ungraceful.
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KEY: Bound.
SYN: Hem, surround, environ, encircle, besiege, beleaguer,
embarrass.
ANT: Liberate, abandon.
=
KEY: Beside.
SYN: Close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together,
moreover.
ANT: Separate, apart, inclusively.
=
KEY: Besiege.
SYN: Beset, beleaguer, sit, invest.
ANT: Abandon, (Phrase, “Raise the siege”).
=
KEY: Besmear, [See BEDAUB].
=
KEY: Besotted.
SYN: Intoxicated, steeped, stupefied, drunk, drenched, doltish,
gross, prejudiced.
ANT: Sober, temperate, clear, unbiased, unprejudiced, enlightened,
refined.
=
KEY: Bespatter.
SYN: Besprinkle, befoul, bedaub, revile, vilify, asperse.
ANT: Absterge, sponge, cleanse, purify, vindicate, defend, clear.
=
KEY: Bespeak.
SYN: Betoken, foreorder, forestall, provide, prearrange, indicate,
evidence.
ANT: Belie, resign, countermand.
=
KEY: Bestead \v.\
SYN: Convenience, serve, uphold, assist, accommodate, benefit.
ANT: Thwart, damage, incommode, oppose, injure.
=
KEY: Bestead \n.\
SYN: Interest, behalf, advantage, benefit, part, side.
ANT: Injury, disadvantage, opposition, detriment, damage.
=
KEY: Bestir. Commonly used reflexively for, to stir one's self, [See
STIR].
=
KEY: Bestir \n.\ [See STIR].
=
KEY: Bestow.
SYN: Confer, give, present, award, accord, grant.
ANT: Withhold, withdraw, reserve, alienate, transfer, appropriate,
usurp, seize.
=
KEY: Better \v.\
SYN: Meliorate, improve, amend, emend, ameliorate, rectify, reform.
ANT: Make worse.
=
KEY: Betide.
SYN: Befall, occur, happen.
ANT: [See BEFALL].
=
KEY: Betimes.
SYN: Early, beforehand, preparedly, readily.
ANT: Behindhand, slowly, sluggishly, belatedly.
=
KEY: Betoken.
SYN: Teach, indicate, proclaim, presage, augur, portend, foreshow,
signify, forebode, evidence, declare, manifest, involve, imply.
ANT: Misindicate, mislead, misdeclare, misteach, belie, mask, hide.
=
KEY: Betray.
SYN: Deceive, delude, dupe, circumvent, ensnare, dishonor, manifest,
indicate, reveal.
ANT: Protect, preserve, guard, conserve, foster, cherish, fence,
conceal, cover, suppress.
=
KEY: Between, Betwixt, [See AMIDST].
=
KEY: Bevy \n.\
SYN: Assembly, parterre, galaxy, constellation, nock.
ANT: Gang, crew, herd, mob.
=
KEY: Bewail.
SYN: Lament, deplore, rue, bemoan, sorrow, grieve, mourn for.
ANT: Exult, hail, rejoice, welcome, greet.
=
KEY: Beware.
SYN: Care, refrain, consider, heed, look, fear, avoid.
ANT: Ignore, overlook, neglect, incur, brave, dare.
=
KEY: Bewilder.
SYN: Daze, dazzle, confound, mystify, puzzle, embarrass, astonish,
perplex, confuse, mislead.
ANT: Guide, inform, lead, instruct, enlighten, edify.
=
KEY: Bewildered, [See CONFUSED].
=
KEY: Bewitch.
SYN: Enchant, fascinate, charm, captivate, entrance.
ANT: Exorcise, disillusionize, disenchant.
=
KEY: Beyond.
SYN: Over, further, past, more.
ANT: Here, close, near, hither, less, short.
=
KEY: Bias, [See BENT].
=
KEY: Bicker.
SYN: Wrangle, quarrel, jar, dispute, contend.
ANT: Chat, gossip, converse, agree.
=
KEY: Bickering.
SYN: Wrangling, disputing, contention, strife, altercation, dispute.
ANT: Conversing, chatting, agreeing.
=
KEY: Bid.
SYN: Tell, request, instruct, direct, order, proffer, charge, command,
propose, offer.
ANT: Forbid, deter, prohibit, restrain.
=
KEY: Bide.
SYN: Wait, remain, tarry, stay, await, expect, anticipate, continue,
bear, abide, endure.
ANT: Quit, depart, migrate, move, resist, resent, repel, abjure,
protest, rebel.
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KEY: Big.
SYN: Large, great, wide, huge, bulky, proud, arrogant, pompous, fat,
massive, gross.
ANT: Little, small, narrow, minute, slight, lean, affable, easy,
unaffected.
=
KEY: Bigoted.
SYN: Prejudiced, intolerant, narrow-minded, blindly devoted,
onesided, confined.
ANT: Unprejudiced, open-minded, large-minded, broad, comprehensive,
liberal.
=
KEY: Bigotry.
SYN: Prejudice, Pharisaism, obstinacy, credulity, fanaticism,
intolerance, superstition.
ANT: Liberality, charity, enlightenment, toleration, eclecticism,
latitudinarianism.
=
KEY: Bill.
SYN: Account, reckoning, score, charges, jaw, mandible, beak.
=
KEY: Bind.
SYN: Fetter, engage, tie, fasten, secure, lace, twine, oblige, compel,
restrict, restrain, secure.
ANT: Untie, loose, unfasten, acquit, free, liberate.
=
KEY: Binding.
SYN: Restrictive, obligatory, restraining, stringent, styptic,
costive, astringent.
ANT: Loosening, opening, enlarging, distending.
=
KEY: Birth.
SYN: Parentage, extraction, nativity, family, race, origin, source,
rise, lineage, nobility.
ANT: Death, extinction, plebeianism.
=
KEY: Bit.
SYN: Morsel, piece, fragment, part.
ANT: Mass, whole.
=
KEY: Biting.
SYN: Pungent, censorious, piercing, gnawing, sarcastic, sardonic,
trenchant.
ANT: Pleasant, genial, soothing, complacent, flattering.
=
KEY: Bitter.
SYN: Harsh, sour, sharp, tart, acrimonious, sarcastic, severe, sad,
afflictive, intense, stinging, pungent, acrid, cutting.
ANT: Sweet, mellow, pleasant, affable, kindly, genial, light,
mitigated, trivial.
=
KEY: Bitterness, [See ANTIPATHY].
=
KEY: Blacken.
SYN: Bespatter, befoul, bedaub, defame, decry, calumniate, dishonor,
asperse, traduce, vilify, slander, malign.
ANT: Vindicate, clear, eulogize.
=
KEY: Blackguard.
SYN: Scoundrel, rascal, rapscallion, blackleg, villain.
ANT: Gentleman.
=
KEY: Blame.
SYN: Censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise,
disapprove, condemn, reprehend, reprobate, reprove.
ANT: Acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve.
=
KEY: Blamable, [See BLAMELESS].
=
KEY: Blameless.
SYN: Pure, innocent, irresponsible.
ANT: Criminated, implicated, answerable, blameworthy, faulty, guilty,
blamable.
=
KEY: Blanch.
SYN: Bleach, whiten.
ANT: Darken, color, obfuscate.
=
KEY: Bland.
SYN: Soft, mild, gentle, complaisant, courteous, affable, gracious,
tender, benign.
ANT: Harsh, abrupt, rough.
=
KEY: Blandiloquence.
SYN: Glossiness, blarney, humbug, flattery, speciousness, adulation.
ANT: Bluntness, roughness, abruptness.
=
KEY: Blandishment.
SYN: Coaxing, flattery, wheedling, fawning, cajolery.
ANT: Roughness, bluntness, unmannerliness.
=
KEY: Blank.
SYN: Bleak, bare, utter, unmitigated, broad.
ANT: Modified, qualified, mitigated.
=
KEY: Blasphemy.
SYN: Swearing, profaneness, impiety.
ANT: Reverence, veneration, godliness.
=
KEY: Blast \v.\
SYN: Blight, shrivel, destroy, wither.
ANT: Restore, expand, swell.
=
KEY: Blast \n.\
SYN: Breeze, efflation, explosion, blight, burst, blaze, frustration,
destruction, squall, gale, tempest, hurricane, affiliation.
ANT: Zephyr, gentle breeze, neutralization.
=
KEY: Blatant.
SYN: Noisy, bellowing, vociferous, clamorous, braying.
ANT: Quiet, low-toned, gentle.
=
KEY: Blaze, [See BLAST].
=
KEY: Blazon.
SYN: Notify, signalize, publicate, adventure, circulate, propagate,
disseminate.
ANT: Cover, conceal, hide, suppress, hush, palliate, shroud, bury.
=
KEY: Bleach.
SYN: Whiten, blanch.
ANT: Darken, blacken, soil, [See BLANCH].
=
KEY: Bleak.
SYN: Blank, bare, open, cold, exposed, stormy, nipping.
ANT: Warm, sheltered, verdant, luxuriant, zephyrous, balmy,
halcyonic.
=
KEY: Blemish.
SYN: Spot, blur, blot, flaw, speck, fault, imperfection, stain, daub,
tarnish, defacement, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace,
dishonor, defect.
ANT: Purity, unsulliedness, honor, intactness.
=
KEY: Blench.
SYN: Start, shy, shudder, recoil, shrink.
ANT: Encounter, dare, venture, face, stand.
=
KEY: Blend.
SYN: Mix, harmonize, unite, combine, fuse, merge, amalgamate, mingle,
commingle, coalesce.
ANT: Run, separate, divide, dissociate, confound.
=
KEY: Bless.
SYN: Felicitate, endow, enrich, gladden, rejoice, cheer, thank.
ANT: Deprive, sadden, impoverish, ignore, curse, anathematize.
=
KEY: Blessedness, [See JOY].
=
KEY: Blessing.
SYN: Felicitation, benediction, endowment, donation, gift, gratitude,
thankfulness, thanks, benefit.
ANT: Impoverishment, deprivation, bereavement, malediction,
thanklessness, obliviousness, catastrophe, disaster, calamity,
detriment, curse, damn.
=
KEY: Blight, [See BLAST].
=
KEY: Blind.
SYN: Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant,
prejudiced, uninformed, unconscious, unaware.
ANT: Farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating,
clearsighted, pure-minded, aware, conscious.
=
KEY: Blink.
SYN: Wink, ignore, connive, overlook.
ANT: Notice, visit, note, mark.
=
KEY: Bliss.
SYN: Blessedness, joy, ecstasy, rapture.
ANT: Condemnation, accursedness, suffering, misery, woe.
=
KEY: Blithe.
SYN: Light, merry, joyous, happy, bright, elastic, gladsome, bonny,
vivacious, lively, cheerful, blithesome, gay.
ANT: Heavy, dull, dejected, sullen.
=
KEY: Block.
SYN: Stop, arrest, fill, obstruct.
ANT: Free, liberate, open, pave.
=
KEY: Blockhead.
SYN: Dolt, dunderhead, jolterhead, dunce, ninny, numskull, dullard,
simpleton, booby, loggerhead, ignoramus.
ANT: Sage, adept, luminary, schoolman, philosopher, savant.
=
KEY: Bloodshed.
SYN: Slaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery.
=
KEY: Bloodthirsty.
SYN: Gory, bloody, murderous, inhuman, cruel, ruthless, savage.
ANT: Humane, kind, merciful.
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KEY: Bloom.
SYN: Blossom, bud, flower, sprout, germinate, beauty, freshness,
delicacy.
ANT: Decay, decadence, coarseness, blight, blast, harshness,
roughness, toughness, superannuation, cadaverousness, ghastliness.
=
KEY: Blooming.
SYN: Flourishing, fair, flowering, blossoming, young, beautiful.
ANT: Fading, waning, blighted, old, blasted, paralyzed,
superannuated, unsightly, deformed.
=
KEY: Blot \v.\
SYN: Obscure, tarnish, spoil, sully, spot, discolor, pollute,
obliterate, erase, blur, stain, blotch, smear, smutch.
ANT: Elucidate, clear, absterge, perpetuate, cleanse, manifest,
conserve.
=
KEY: Blot out.
SYN: Erase, efface, cancel, expunge, wipe out, obliterate, destroy.
ANT: Restore, replace.
=
KEY: Blotch, [See BLOT].
=
KEY: Blow.
SYN: Puff, blast, breath, stroke, infliction, wound, disappointment,
affliction, knock, shock, calamity, misfortune.
ANT: Assuagement, consolation, relief, comfort, blessing, sparing.
=
KEY: Bluff.
SYN: Bare, open, bold, abrupt, frank, plain-spoken, blunt, surly,
rude, blustering, swaggering, brusque, hectoring, coarse,
discourteous, rough, bullying.
ANT: Undulating, inclined, inabrupt, courteous, polished, reserved.
=
KEY: Blunder.
SYN: Error, mistake, misunderstanding, fault, oversight, inaccuracy,
delusion, slip.
ANT: Accuracy, truthfulness, exactness, correctness, faultlessness,
ratification, atonement, foresight, prevention, hit, success,
achievement, correction.
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KEY: Blunt \a.\
SYN: Dull, obtuse, pointless, edgeless, insensitive, bluff, coarse,
impolite, plain-mannered, uncivil, rude.
ANT: Sharp, keen, pointed, acute, aculeated, sensitive, polished,
bland, eloquent, courteous, reserved.
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KEY: Blunt \v.\
SYN: To subdue, repress, tranquilize, discourage, ossify, numb,
harden.
ANT: Quicken, sharpen, instigate, suscitate, stimulate, animate,
excite, vitalize.
=
KEY: Blur, [See BLEMISH].
=
KEY: Blush.
SYN: Bloom, color, carnation, complexion, aspect, shame, confusion,
guiltiness, self-reproach.
ANT: Innocence, purity, guiltlessness, unconsciousness, boldness,
effrontery.
=
KEY: Bluster.
SYN: Storm, rage, puff, insult, blow, swagger, fume, brag.
ANT: [See BRAG].
=
KEY: Blustering, [See BLUFF].
=
KEY: Boast \v.\
SYN: Vaunt, brag, swagger, swell, bluster, vapor, triumph, glory.
ANT: [See BRAG].
=
KEY: Boasting, [See OSTENTATION].
=
KEY: Bode.
SYN: Foretell, betoken, foreshadow, presage, predict, prophesy,
promise, forebode, herald, announce, prognosticate, portend, augur.
ANT: Relate, record, narrate, remember.
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KEY: Bodily.
SYN: Collectively, wholly, summarily, unitedly, compactedly,
together, corporeal, fleshy, material, physical.
ANT: Piecemeal, partially, ghostly, fragmentarily, gradually,
spiritual.
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KEY: Body.
SYN: Substance, mass, whole, substantiality, collectiveness,
assemblage, collection, matter, association, organization.
ANT: Spirit, soul, individual.
=
KEY: Boggle.
SYN: Halt, hesitate, dubitate, falter, blunder, blotch, botch, spoil,
mar.
ANT: Encounter, face, advance, refine, clear, work, perfect, complete,
beautify.
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KEY: Boll.
SYN: bubble, effervesce, rage, explode, fume.
ANT: Calm, subside, recover, cool.
=
KEY: Boisterous.
SYN: Loud, violent, unrestrained, tempestuous, stormy, uncontrolled,
intemperate.
ANT: Peaceful, calm, serene, selfpossessed.
=
KEY: Bold.
SYN: Courageous, fearless, adventurous, brave, self-confident,
forward, intrepid, dauntless, valiant, daring, audacious, lion-hearted,
doughty.
ANT: Timid, fearful, inadventurous, shy, bashful, retiring.
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KEY: Bolster.
SYN: Support, prop, help, aid, sustain, subsidize, patch, tinker, buoy.
ANT: Depress, dispirit, relax.
=
KEY: Bombast.
SYN: Rhodomontade, braggadocio, gasconade, bluster, inflatedness,
pomposity, exaggerativeness, fustian.
ANT: Truthfulness, moderation, refrain, veracity, modesty,
temperateness, humility.
=
KEY: Bombastic, [See OSTENTATION].
=
KEY: Bond.
SYN: Tie, fastening, chain, association, manacle, fetter, compact,
obligation, security.
ANT: Freedom, option, discretion, honor, parole.
=
KEY: Bondage.
SYN: Servitude, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration,
subjection, serfdom, thraldom, captivity, slavery.
ANT: Freedom, liberty, independence, manumission, liberation.
=
KEY: Bondsman.
SYN: Slave, serf, prisoner, captive, vassal.
ANT: Freeman, yeoman, gentleman, lord, master.
=
KEY: Bonny.
SYN: Fair, pretty, pleasant, lively, cheerful, shapely, buxom.
ANT: Dull, unseemly, ill-favored, deformed.
=
KEY: Bonus.
SYN: Premium, douceur, boon, benefit.
ANT: Fine, penalty, mulct, amercement, discount.
=
KEY: Booby.
SYN: Idiot, dunce, numskull.
ANT: Wiseacre, solon, oracle.
=
KEY: booklist.
SYN: Studious, erudite, pedantic, learned.
ANT: Unbookish, unstudious, inerudite, unlearned, ignorant,
uneducated.
=
KEY: Boorish, [See CLOWNISH].
=
KEY: Bootless.
SYN: Useless, profitless, unavailing, abortive.
ANT: Useful, profitable, availing, effective, effectual.
=
KEY: Booty.
SYN: Plunder, blackmail, loot, spoils, prey, pillage.
ANT: Restitution, fine, confiscation, forfeiture, amercement,
penalty.
=
KEY: Border.
SYN: Limit, boundary, brink, rim, verge, brim, edge, edging, band,
hem, enclosure, confine.
ANT: Land, tract, interior, substance, space, centre.
=
KEY: Border on.
SYN: Be contiguous to, be adjacent to, conterminous with,
adjoin, adjacent to.
ANT: Remote from, away from.
=
KEY: Bore.
SYN: Perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate.
ANT: Please, gratify, delight.
=
KEY: Bosom.
SYN: Breast, hollow, valley, deep, bed, centre, heart, mind, soul,
will.
ANT: Surface, exterior, manner, deportment, demeanor.
=
KEY: Botch.
SYN: Patch, cobble, blunder, clump, disconcert, spoil, jumble, mess,
bungle, mar, blacksmith.
ANT: Fine-draw, trim, harmonize, mend, beautify, embroider,
manipulate, handle, manage.
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KEY: Both.
SYN: Twain.
ANT: Neither.
=
KEY: Bother.
SYN: Fuse, worry, pester, excitement, stir, plague, vex, annoy, tease,
confusion, vexation, flurry, trouble.
ANT: Calm, composure, orderliness, peace, quiet.
=
KEY: Bottom.
SYN: Deep, profound, floor, groundwork, depth, ground, foot.
ANT: Top, summit, apex, crown, brow, surface.
=
KEY: Bound \n.\
SYN: Limit, boundary, inclosure, confine, border.
ANT: [See BORDER].
=
KEY: Bound \v.\
SYN: Confine, limit, circumscribe, terminate, restrict, restrain.
ANT: Enlarge, open, extend, spread out.
=
KEY: Bound \v.\
SYN: To leap, jump, frisk, spring, skip.
ANT: Hobble, limp, crawl, creep, shamble.
=
KEY: Boundary, [See BOUND].
=
KEY: Boundless.
SYN: Unbounded, immeasurable, infinite, unlimited, illimitable,
unmeasurable.
ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, circumscribed.
=
KEY: Bountiful, [See LIBERAL].
=
KEY: Bounty.
SYN: Liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation,
gift, generosity, charity, benignity.
ANT: Illiberality, closeness, hardy, hardness, churlishness,
stinginess, niggardliness.
=
KEY: Bower.
SYN: Shady recess, arbor, retreat, alcove.
ANT: Open place.
=
KEY: Brae.
SYN: Boast, vaunt, swagger, bully.
ANT: Cringe, whine, whimper.
=
KEY: Braggart, [See BRAG].
=
KEY: Braid.
SYN: Bind, tie, weave, plait.
ANT: Unbind, dishevel.
=
KEY: Branch.
SYN: Member, bifurcation, bough, limb, offspring, shoot, spray, sprig,
twig, ramification, offshoot, relative, scion.
ANT: Trunk, stock, stem, race, family, house.
=
KEY: Brand \v.\
SYN: denounce, stigmatize, disgrace, mark.
ANT: Distinguish, honor, decorate.
=
KEY: Brand \n.\
SYN: Disgrace, stigma, infamy, mark.
ANT: Decoration, badge, distinction, honor.
=
KEY: Brandish.
SYN: Flourish, fence, agitate, wield, whisk, shake, wave.
ANT: Stay, arrest, suspend.
=
KEY: Bravado.
SYN: Boasting, bragging, vaunting, bluster.
ANT: [See OSTENTATION].
=
KEY: Brave, [See GALLANT].
=
KEY: Brawl.
SYN: Wrangle, broil, scold, roar, shout, vociferate.
ANT: Whisper, softness, mellowness, melodiousness, intonation.
=
KEY: Brawny.
SYN: Muscular, powerful, strong, athletic, sinewy, herculean, robust,
stout.
ANT: Lean, weak, fragile, delicate, effeminate, feeble.
=
KEY: Bray.
SYN: Pound, bruise, beat, pulverize.
ANT: Compact, compound, amalgamate, conglomerate.
=
KEY: Breach.
SYN: Rupture, divulsion, gap, quarrel, violation, nonperformance.
ANT: Integrity, conservation, healing, reconciliation,
inviolateness, fulfillment.
=
KEY: Break.
SYN: Fracture, rupture, shatter, shiver, destroy, tame, curb,
demolish, tear asunder, rend, burst, sever, smash, split, subdue,
violate, infringe.
ANT: Heal, piece, conjoin, protect, conserve, encourage, rally,
observe, obey.
=
KEY: Breast, [See BOSOM].
=
KEY: Breath.
SYN: Respiration, inspiration, expiration,
inhalation, exhalation, /Met./ Life.
ANT: To latter, Cessation, passing, departure, perishing, dying,
death.
=
KEY: Breathe, [See BREATH].
=
KEY: Breathless.
SYN: Exhausted, eager, absorbed, fascinated, attentive, bewildered,
astounded.
ANT: Cool, calm, collected, unexcited, fresh, indifferent,
inattentive, unastonished.
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KEY: Breed \v.\
SYN: Generate, procreate, engender, propagate, produce, beget, hatch,
nourish, train, instruct, evolve, cause.
ANT: Destroy, eradicate, extinguish, extirpate, stifle.
=
KEY: Breed \n.\ [See LINEAGE].
=
KEY: Breeding.
SYN: Nurture, education, training, discipline, instruction, manners,
air, demeanor, decorum.
ANT: ill-manners, ill-training, illbehavior, ignorance.
=
KEY: Brevity.
SYN: Shortness, closeness, conciseness, succinctness, terseness,
compendiousness, pointedness, abbreviation, abridgment.
ANT: Length, protraction, elongation, extension, prolixity,
diffusiveness, [See IDENTITY], tediousness.
=
KEY: Drew.
SYN: Concoct, compound, mix, hatch, prepare, season, threaten, impend,
increase, collect, form, gather, grow.
ANT: Pass, disperse, break, spoil, miscompound, mar.
=
KEY: Bridle.
SYN: Curb, restrain, govern, control, master, moderate, compress.
ANT: Loosen, liberate, relax, vent, discharge.
=
KEY: Brief, [See SHORT].
=
KEY: Bright.
SYN: Shining, brilliant, burnished, luminous, lucid, sparkling,
limpid, clever, happy, witty, joyous, cheerful, radiant.
ANT: Opaque, dull, dead, muddy, stupid, slow, sullen, dejected,
cheerless, joyless, imbecile.
=
KEY: Brilliant.
SYN: Flashing, radiant, shining, lustrous, glorious, luminous,
effulgent, beaming, sparkling.
ANT: [See BRIGHT].
=
KEY: Bring.
SYN: Fetch, procure, convey, carry, bear, adduce, import, produce,
cause, induce.
ANT: Export, remove, abstract, subtract, prevent, exclude, debar,
transport.
=
KEY: Brisk.
SYN: Quick, lively, vivacious, active, alert, nimble, sprightly,
spirited, animated, prompt, effervescent.
ANT: Slow, heavy, dull, inactive, [See in-^k)lent], sluggish,
unenergetic, stagnant.
=
KEY: Bristling.
SYN: Full, stocked, multitudinous, crowded, swarming, multifarious.
ANT: Bare, nude, scant, devoid, vacant.
=
KEY: Brittle, [See FRAGILE].
=
KEY: Broach.
SYN: Moot, start, launch, originate, suggest, exhibit, propound.
ANT: Reserve, secrete, seal, repress, cork, bottle.
=
KEY: Broad.
SYN: Wide, extensive, expansive, ample, liberal, comprehensive,
unreserved, indelicate, coarse, generic.
ANT: Narrow, restricted, confined, limited, bigoted, prejudiced,
illiberal, narrow-minded, reserved, veiled, enigmatical, shrouded,
shaded, refined, delicate, sketchy, specific, pointed.
=
KEY: Broadcast.
SYN: Scattered abroad, dispersed, profusely, unsparingly,
indiscriminately, injudiciously, extensively.
ANT: Collectedly, concentratively, sparingly, reservedly, locally,
partially, discreetly, charily.
=
KEY: Broil, [See AFFRAY].
=
KEY: Brook.
SYN: Bear, tolerate, suffer, endure, undergo, submit to, permit.
ANT: Resist, resent, reject.
=
KEY: Brotherhood.
SYN: Fraternity, association, fellowship, society, sodality.
=
KEY: Brotherly.
SYN: Fraternal, kind, affectionate, tender.
ANT: Unkind, hard, harsh, unfraternal.
=
KEY: Browbeat.
SYN: Intimidate, bully, overbear, cow, overawe, boycott, bulldoze.
ANT: Encourage, rally, countenance, support.
=
KEY: Bruise \v.\ [See BREAK].
=
KEY: Brunt.
SYN: Impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock.
ANT: Resistance, endurance, repulsion.
=
KEY: Brutal.
SYN: Savage, inhuman, rude, unfeeling, merciless, ruthless, brutish,
barbarous, sensual, beastly, ignorant, stolid, dense, cruel, violent,
vindictive, bloodthirsty, intemperate.
ANT: Humane, civilized, generous, intelligent, polished, chivalrous,
conscientious, self-controlled.
=
KEY: Brutish, [See BRUTAL].
=
KEY: Bubble.
SYN: Trifle, toy, fancy, conceit, vision, dream, froth, trash.
ANT: Acquisition, prize, treasury reality, substance, verity, jewel,
good, advantage.
=
KEY: Bud \v.\
SYN: Sprout, blossom, bloom, germinate.
=
KEY: Buffoon.
SYN: Wag, clown, jester.
ANT: Wit, genius, philosopher, pedant, visionary, dissembler, prig,
enthusiast, hypocrite.
=
KEY: Bugbear.
SYN: Hobgoblin, goblin, gorgon, ghoul, spirit, spook, specter, ogre,
scarecrow.
ANT: [See SPECTER].
=
KEY: Build, [See CONSTRUCT].
=
KEY: Building.
SYN: Edifice, architecture, construction, erection, fabric,
structure.
ANT: Ruin, dilapidation, dismantlement, demolition.
=
KEY: Builder, [See BUILDING].
=
KEY: Bulk.
SYN: Mass, whole, entirety, integrity, majority, size, magnitude,
extension, body, volume, bigness, largeness, massiveness, dimension.
ANT: Tenuity, minority, dismemberment, disintegration, diminution,
portion, contraction, section, atom, particle.
=
KEY: Bulk, [See SIZE].
=
KEY: Bulky.
SYN: Huge, unwieldy, heavy, large, ample, ponderous, burly, cumbrous,
gigantic, brawny, massive.
ANT: Small, light, slight, airy, thin, delicate, nimble, attenuated,
slender, sylphlike, puny, tiny.
=
KEY: Bully.
SYN: swashbuckler, swaggerer, braggadocio.
ANT: [See BLUSTERER].
=
KEY: Bullying, [See BLUSTERING].
=
KEY: Bulwark.
SYN: Rampart, fortress, fortification, palladium, citadel,
intrenchment, stronghold, parapet, bastion.
ANT: Storming, siege, investment, bombardment, cannonade, boarding.
=
KEY: Bungler.
SYN: Botcher, clown, lubber, fumbler, novice.
ANT: Adept, adroit, master, artist, workman, proficient, professor.
=
KEY: Buoy.
SYN: Float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer,
inspire.
ANT: Sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail,
betray.
=
KEY: Buoyant.
SYN: Sprightly, spirited, vivacious, lively, light, floating,
hopeful, cheerful, elastic, [See JOY].
ANT: Heavy, depressed, cheerless, joyless, dejected, moody,
desponding.
=
KEY: Burden \v.\ [See LOAD].
=
KEY: Burden \n.\
SYN: Load, weight, Incubus, obstruction, oppression, grief,
difficulty, affliction.
ANT: Ease, lightness, airiness, expedition, facility, acceleration,
abjugation, liberation, lightheartedness, alleviation, assuagement,
mitigation, consolation, disburdenment.
=
KEY: Burdensome, [See TROUBLESOME and PONDEROUS].
=
KEY: Burial.
SYN: Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment.
ANT: Exhumation, disinterment.
=
KEY: Burke.
SYN: Stifle, shelve, strangle, smother.
ANT: Enucleate, propound, promulge, publicate, promote, foster,
reanimate, eliminate, ventilate, bruit, suscitate.
=
KEY: Burlesque.
SYN: Parody, travesty, satire, caricature, grotesque, droll,
farcical, comic, ludicrous.
ANT: Classic, pure, severe, tragic, historic, grave, truthful.
=
KEY: Burly, [See BULKY].
=
KEY: Burn.
SYN: Ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder,
blaze, flash, cremate, incinerate.
ANT: Extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale.
=
KEY: Burning, [See ARDENT].
=
KEY: Burnish.
SYN: Brighten, glaze, polish, gloze, gloss.
ANT: Scratch, dull, abrade, bedim, cloud, frost, matt.
=
KEY: Burst \v.\
SYN: Extravasate, displode, explode, discharge, shiver, shatter,
disrupt, rend, break, split.
ANT: Cohere, hold, stand.
=
KEY: Bury.
SYN: Inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel,
entomb, compose, hush.
ANT: Disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate,
publicate, aggravate.
=
KEY: Business.
SYN: Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling,
office, employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern.
ANT: Stagnation, leisure, inactivity.
=
KEY: Bustle.
SYN: Business, activity, stir, commotion, energy, excitement, haste,
hurry, eagerness, flurry.
ANT: Idleness, vacation, inactivity, Indolence, Indifference,
unconcernedness, coolness, calm, stagnation, quiet, desertion.
=
KEY: Busy.
SYN: Industrious, diligent, assiduous, engaged, occupied.
ANT: Idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, unoccupied.
=
KEY: But.
SYN: Save, except, barring, yet, beside, excluding, still, excepting,
notwithstanding.
ANT: With, including, inclusive, nevertheless, however,
notwithstanding.
=
KEY: Butchery, [See CARNAGE].
=
KEY: Buxom.
SYN: Bonny, blithe, shapely.
ANT: Lean, slender, ill-shaped.
=
KEY: Buy.
SYN: Purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn.
ANT: Sell, vend, hawk, retail.
=
KEY: Buyer, [See BUY].
=
KEY: Cabal.
SYN: Confederacy, conspiracy, combination, coterie, gang, faction,
plot, political intrigue, junto, league.
ANT: Parliament, legislation, council, government, empire, synod.
=
KEY: Cabalistic.
SYN: Mystic, symbolical, fanciful, occult.
ANT: Patent, practical, instructive, lucid, simple.
=
KEY: Cabbage.
SYN: Rob, steal, filch, crib, pocket, shirk, pillage, abstract,
purloin.
ANT: [See PURLOIN].
=
KEY: Cachinnation.
SYN: Grin, chuckle, giggle, snigger, titter, cackle.
ANT: Longfacedness, whine, whimper.
=
KEY: Cackle, [See CACHINNATION].
=
KEY: Cadaverous.
SYN: Pale, exsanguineous, bloodless, hueless, pallid, ghastly, ashy.
ANT: Rosy, incarnadine, sanguine, chubby, brawny.
=
KEY: Caducity.
SYN: Decline, infirmity, decrepitude, senility, decadence,
transience, delicacy.
ANT: Vigor, youth, freshness, vitality, renovation, permanence.
=
KEY: Cage.
SYN: Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib.
ANT: Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar.
=
KEY: Caitiff.
SYN: Rascal, miscreant, rogue, churl, villain, ruffian.
ANT: Worthy, gentleman, patriot, philanthropist.
=
KEY: Cajole.
SYN: Tempt, lure, coat, flatter, wheedle, delude, cheat, inveigle,
dupe.
ANT: Chide, rate, scold, warn.
=
KEY: Calamity.
SYN: Disaster, misfortune, mishap, catastrophe, misadventure,
trouble, visitation, affliction, reverse, blight.
ANT: godsend, blessing, boon.
=
KEY: Calamitous.
SYN: Disastrous, illfated, fatal, unlucky, hapless, unfortunate,
inauspicious, troublous, illstarred, ill-omened.
ANT: Felicitous, fortunate, auspicious, favorable, propitious,
advantageous.
=
KEY: Calculate.
SYN: Estimate, consider, weigh, number, count, apportion, proportion,
investigate, reckon, rate, compute.
ANT: Guess, conjecture, hit, chance, risk, stake, miscalculate.
=
KEY: Calculated.
SYN: Fitted, congenial, adapted, conducive.
ANT: Unfitted, unadapted, uncongenial, unconducive, adverse,
unqualified, unsuited, miscalculated, ill-adapted.
=
KEY: Calculating.
SYN: Wary, cautious, circumspect, sagacious, careful, farsighted,
guarded.
ANT: Shortsighted, dull, obtuse, improvident, incautious, rash,
careless.
=
KEY: Calculation.
SYN: Estimation, consideration, balance, apportionment,
investigation, reckoning, computation, anticipation, forethought,
regard, circumspection, watchfulness, vigilance, caution, care.
ANT: Inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incaution, indiscretion,
miscalculation, misconception, exclusion, exception, omission,
carelessness, seposition.
=
KEY: Calibre.
SYN: Gauge, diameter, ability, capacity, force, strength, power.
ANT: correlative, as character, mind, etc.
=
KEY: callback, [See RECALL].
=
KEY: Call out, [See PROCLAIM].
=
KEY: Call together, [See CONVENE].
=
KEY: Called.
SYN: Named, designated, denominated, Determined.
ANT: Unnamed, undesignated, misnamed, misdesignated.
=
KEY: Calling, [See BUSINESS].
=
KEY: Callous, [See FAVORABLE].
=
KEY: Calm.
SYN: Smooth, pacify, compose, allay, still, soothe, appease, assuage,
quiet, tranquilize.
ANT: Stir, excite, agitate, disconcert, ruffle, lash, heat,
discompose.
=
KEY: Calumniate, [See SLANDER].
=
KEY: Calumniator, [See BACKBITER].
=
KEY: Calumnious.
SYN: Slanderous, defamatory, scurrilous, abusive.
ANT: [See ABUSIVE].
=
KEY: Calumny.
SYN: Slander, defamation, detraction, libel, traducement, backbiting,
opprobrium, aspersion.
ANT: Vindication, clearance, eulogy, panegyric.
=
KEY: Camp.
SYN: Encamp, bivouac.
=
KEY: Cancel.
SYN: Efface, blot out, annul, expunge, nullify, quash, rescind,
repeal, revoke, abrogate, obliterate, discharge, erase, abolish,
countervail.
ANT: Enforce, enact, re-enact, confirm, perpetuate, contract.
=
KEY: Candid.
SYN: Fair, honest, open, sincere, frank, artless, impartial, plain,
straightforward, aboveboard, transparent, unreserved, ingenious.
ANT: unfair, close, mysterious, reserve, shuffling, disingenuous,
insincere, Jesuitical.
=
KEY: Candidate.
SYN: Aspirant, petitioner, canvasser, applicant, claimant,
solicitor.
ANT: Waiver, decliner, abandoner, resigner, abjurer, noncompetitor.
=
KEY: Canon.
SYN: Rule, measure, regulation, test, law.
ANT: Misguidance, antinomy, Irregularity, misrule.
=
KEY: Canvass \v.\
SYN: Question, Investigate, challenge, test, dispute, solicit, sift,
examine, discuss, apply for, request.
ANT: Pretermit, allow, ignore, disregard, admit, pass, misexamine,
misinvestigate.
=
KEY: Capable, [See ABLE].
=
KEY: Capability.
SYN: Cleverness, aptitude, talent, capacity, power, facility,
faculty.
ANT: Dulness, inaptitude, awkwardness, difficulty.
=
KEY: Capacious.
SYN: Spacious, comprehensive, voluminous, ample, accommodative,
extensive, wide.
ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, shallow, contracted,
petty.
=
KEY: Capacity.
SYN: Space, size, volume, tonnage, calibre, ability, faculty,
compatability, cleverness, talents, magnitude, parts, competency,
compressiveness, accommodation.
ANT: Narrowness, restriction, Incapacity, coarctation,
contractedness.
=
KEY: Capital.
SYN: Chief, excellent, important, cardinal, principal, consummate,
high.
ANT: Inferior, unimportant, subordinate, minor, defective, mean.
=
KEY: Capitulate.
SYN: Stipulate, yield, surrender, submit.
ANT: Resist, struggle, contend.
=
KEY: Caprice, [See DRY].
=
KEY: Capricious.
SYN: Wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle,
changeful, whimsical, humorsome, inconstant, crotchety.
ANT: Firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant.
=
KEY: Captious.
SYN: Carping, caviling, censorious, hypercritical, cross,
fault-finding, critical, cynical, petulant, irritable, splenetic,
touchy, peevish, fretful.
ANT: Appreciative, commendatory, encouraging, complimentary,
approving, laudatory, flattering.
=
KEY: Captivate, [See BEWITCH].
=
KEY: Captivated.
SYN: Taken, charmed, smitten, fascinated, enslaved, captured,
enthralled.
ANT: Free, unaffected, uninfluenced, unscathed, insensible,
insensitive.
=
KEY: Captivating.
SYN: Charming, bewitching, fascinating, alluring, seductive,
attractive.
ANT: Hideous, loathsome, repulsive, uncaptivating, uninteresting.
=
KEY: Captivity, [See THRALDOM].
=
KEY: Capture \v.\ [See SEIZE].
=
KEY: Capture \n.\ [See PRIZE].
=
KEY: Care.
SYN: Attention, pains, anxiety, concern, trouble, circumspection,
regard, solicitude, caution, prevention, custody, preservation,
thrift, heed, foresight, wariness, economy, prudence.
ANT: Inattention, neglect, disregard, carelessness, indifference,
temerity, remissness, improvidence, unguardedness, incaution.
=
KEY: Career.
SYN: Course, success, walk, line, progress, history,
way of ill passage, race.
ANT: Misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage.
=
KEY: Careful, [See COMMON].
=
KEY: Careless, [See COMMON].
=
KEY: Caress \v.\ [See FONDLE].
=
KEY: Caress \n.\
SYN: Endearment, blandishment, wheedling, fondling, stroking.
ANT: Vexation, irritation, annoyance, teasing, persecution,
provocation.
=
KEY: Cargo.
SYN: Freight, burden, load, consignment, merchandise, lading, goods.
ANT: Conveyance, bearer, carrier.
=
KEY: Caricature.
SYN: Mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, extravagance,
exaggeration, hyperbole, monstrosity, farce.
ANT: Portraiture, representation, resemblance, justice, fidelity,
truthfulness.
=
KEY: Carnage.
SYN: Massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery.
ANT: Ransom, deliverance, quarter.
=
KEY: Carnal.
SYN: Fleshly, sensual, selfindulgent, licentious, animal, coarse,
base, worldly, impure, libidinous, secular.
ANT: Spiritual, ethereal, pure, selfcontrolled, temperate, exalted,
refined.
=
KEY: Carnival.
SYN: Revel, rout, festivity, masquerade.
ANT: Fast, mortification, lent, retirement.
=
KEY: Carol.
SYN: Sing, warble, chirp, trill, whistle, chirrup, chant, hum.
ANT: Whine, croak, cry, dirge, lament.
=
KEY: Carouse.
SYN: Festivity, feast, banquet, revel, debauch.
ANT: Fast, starvation, maceration, abstinence.
=
KEY: Carousal.
SYN: Wassail, revel, banquet, orgies.
ANT: [See BANQUET].
=
KEY: Carp.
SYN: Cavil, censure, challenge, overhaul, canvass, hypercriticise,
object, catch.
ANT: Allow, concede, admit, compliment, encourage, approve, applaud,
endorse, acquiesce, assent.
=
KEY: Carpet, (Metaphorical).
SYN: Table, board, consideration, consultation.
ANT: Shelf, rejection, disposal, oblution.
=
KEY: Carriage.
SYN: Transportation, conveyance, bearing, manner, conduct, demeanor,
walk, gait, mien, behavior, deportment, vehicle.
ANT: Misconveyance, miscarriage, misconduct, misconsignment.
=
KEY: Carry, [See BEAK].
=
KEY: Carry on, [See TRANSACT].
=
KEY: Carry through, [See COMPLETE].
=
KEY: Case.
SYN: Occurrence, circumstance, contingency, event, plight,
predicament, fact, subject, condition, instance.
ANT: Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture.
=
KEY: Cash.
SYN: Money, specie, coin, currency, capital.
=
KEY: Cast \v.\
SYN: Hurl, send down, throw, fling, pitch, impel, project, construct,
mold, frame.
ANT: Raise, elevate, recover, erect, accept, approve, retain, carry,
ignore, miscalculate, misprovide, break, dissipate, dismember,
dislocate.
=
KEY: Cast \n.\
SYN: Mould, stamp, kind, figure, form, aspect, mien, air, style,
manner, character.
ANT: Malformation, deformity, abnormity.
=
KEY: castaway, [See REJECT].
=
KEY: Cast down, [See MELANCHOLY].
=
KEY: Cast out, [See EJECT].
=
KEY: Caste.
SYN: Order, class, rank, lineage, race, blood, dignity, respect.
ANT: Degradation, taboo, disrepute, abasement, reproach.
=
KEY: Castigate.
SYN: Whip, flagellate, cane.
ANT: Reward, encourage, decorate, caress.
=
KEY: Casual.
SYN: Accidental, occasional, incidental, contingent, unforeseen,
fortuitous.
ANT: Regular, ordinary, systematic, periodic, certain, fixed, [See
CASUALTY].
=
KEY: Casualty.
SYN: Accident, contingency, chance, fortuity, hap, misfortune,
occurrence, mischance, [See ACCIDENT].
ANT: Appointment, assignment, provision, ordinance, enactment.
=
KEY: Casuistry.
SYN: Sophistry, Jesuitry, fallacy, refinement, quibble,
strawsplitting.
ANT: Reason, conscience, commonsense.
=
KEY: Catalogue \n.\ [See BAWL].
=
KEY: Catastrophe.
SYN: Revolution, disaster, calamity, misfortune, misadventure,
reverse, blow, visitation.
ANT: Blessing, victory, triumph, felicitation, achievement, ovation,
success, godsend.
=
KEY: Catch.
SYN: Take, seize, grip, clutch, capture, secure, ensnare, snatch, hit,
arrest, comprehend, overtake, apprehend.
ANT: Lose, miss, misapprehend, escape.
=
KEY: Catching, [See PESTIFEROUS].
=
KEY: catechism.
SYN: Erotetics, socratics, interrogation, creed, system, compendium.
ANT: Reading, excogitation, elaboration.
=
KEY: Catechumen.
SYN: Tyro, learner, pupil, novice, scholar.
ANT: Master, doctor, professor, teacher, savant.
=
KEY: Categorical.
SYN: Plain, positive, declaratory, peremptory, affirmative, absolute,
demonstrative, distinct.
ANT: Obscure, uncertain, ambiguous, dubious, contingent,
hypothetical, hazy, oracular, enigmatical, mystical.
=
KEY: Category.
SYN: State, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort,
class.
ANT: Essence, truth, being.
=
KEY: Causality.
SYN: Eventuality, operativeness, potentiality, effectuality,
productiveness, conduciveness.
ANT: Preventiveness, retardativeness, obstructiveness,
counteractivity, unproductiveness, ineffectiveness,
inoperativeness, barrenness.
=
KEY: Causation, [See CAUSALITY].
=
KEY: Cause \v.\ [See PRODUCE].
=
KEY: Cause \n.\
SYN: Source, origin, producer, agent, creator, purpose, inducement,
reason, account, principle, motive, object, suit, action.
ANT: Effect, result, accomplishment, end, production, issue,
preventive.
=
KEY: Caustic.
SYN: Burning, mordant, pungent, irritating, biting, pointed,
sarcastic, trenchant, severe.
ANT: Pointless, mild, soothing, conciliating, vapid, flat, tame.
=
KEY: Caution.
SYN: [See CARE and CALCULATION].
=
KEY: Cautious, [See CIRCUMSPECT].
=
KEY: Cavalier \a.\ [See ARROGANT].
=
KEY: Cavil, [See CARP].
=
KEY: Cavity, [See OPENING].
=
KEY: Caviller, [See CAVIL].
=
KEY: Cease.
SYN: Intermit, stop, desist, abstain, discontinue, quit, refrain, end,
pause, leave off.
ANT: Ceaseless, never-ending, everlasting, constant, incessant, [See
ETERNAL].
=
KEY: Ceaseless, [See CEASE].
=
KEY: Cede, [See RELINQUISH].
=
KEY: Celebrate, [See HONOR].
=
KEY: Celebrated.
SYN: Famed, renowned, illustrious, eminent, glorious, famous, noted,
distinguished, notable, exalted.
ANT: Unrenowned, obscure, undistinguished, unknown, disgraced, mean.
=
KEY: Celebration.
SYN: Commemoration, solemnization, observance.
ANT: Oblivion, inobservance, obsolescence, desuetude.
=
KEY: Celebrity.
SYN: Fame, honor, glory, star, reputation, distinction, renown,
notability, eminence, notoriety.
ANT: Obscurity, meanness, ingloriousness, ignominy, disgrace,
contempt, cipher, nobody.
=
KEY: Celerity.
SYN: Rapidity, speed, haste, velocity, swiftness, quickness,
fleetness, despatch.
ANT: Slowness, inertness, slaggishness, tardiness, cumbrousness.
=
KEY: Celestial.
SYN: Heavenly, ethereal, atmospheric, supernal, angelic, radiant,
eternal, immortal, seraphic, divine, godlike, elysian.
ANT: Earthly, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, mortal,
hellish, infernal.
=
KEY: Cement.
SYN: Bind, bond, unite, perpetuate, consolidate.
ANT: Detach, dissolve, dissociate, disintegrate, divorce.
=
KEY: Censorious, [See CAPTIOUS].
=
KEY: Censure \v.\ [See BLAME].
=
KEY: Censure.
SYN: Blame, stricture, reproach, reprobate, inculpate, reprove,
condemn, reprehend, chide, berate, scold, upbraid, disapproval,
remonstrance, rebuke, reprimand, dispiaise.
ANT: Praise, eulogy, approbation, encouragement, commendation.
=
KEY: Central.
SYN: Mediate, accessible, convenient,.
ANT: Remote, inaccessible, inconvenient.
=
KEY: Centralize.
SYN: Concentrate, fix, localize, collect.
ANT: Disperse, disseminate, distribute, apportion, divide,
delocalize.
=
KEY: Ceremonial.
SYN: Official, ministerial, functional, pompous, imposing, sumptuous,
scenic.
ANT: Ordinary, private, unimposing, unostentatious, undramatic.
=
KEY: Ceremonious.
SYN: Punctilious, formal, prim, precise.
ANT: Brusque, blunt, supercilious, bluff, unceremonious.
=
KEY: Ceremony.
SYN: Display, pageant, solemnity, rite, formality.
ANT: [See FASHION].
=
KEY: Certain.
SYN: true, fixed, regular, established, incontrovertible, undoubtful,
indubitable, infallible, unmistakable, sure, unfailing, real, actual,
undeniable, positive, convinced, assured.
ANT: Uncertain, dubious, exceptional, irregular, casual, occasional,
questionable, doubtful, vacillating, undecided, uncertain.
=
KEY: Certainly.
SYN: Surely, positively, unquestionably.
ANT: Possibly, probably, perhaps, contingently, doubtfully,
occasionally.
=
KEY: Certainty.
SYN: Assurance, demonstrableness, positiveness, unquestionableness,
confidence, conviction.
ANT: Dubiousness, precariousness, casualty, vicissitude,
uncertainty, irregularity, hesitation, doubt, misgiving, conjecture,
indecision.
=
KEY: Certify.
SYN: Acknowledge, aver, attest, vouch, avow, avouch, testify, protest,
declare, demonstrate, prove, evidence, inform, assure.
ANT: Disprove, disavow, misinform, misadvise.
=
KEY: Cessation.
SYN: Stopping, halt, discontinuance, quiescence, suspension,
intermission, lull, respite, stop, rest, abeyance, pause.
ANT: Continuance, uninterruptedness, unintermission, incessancy.
=
KEY: Cession.
SYN: Concession, yielding, surrender, abandonment, relinquishment,
grant.
ANT: Retention, claimance, maintenance, appropriation, usurpation,
vindication, assumption.
=
KEY: Chafe.
SYN: Gall, rub, vex, irritate, chagrin, tease, harass, disappoint,
grieve, annoy, worry, calcitrate, re sent, resist, fret, fidget,
writhe.
ANT: Soothe, smooth, coax, calm, humor, console, submit, endure,
succumb, crouch, truckle.
=
KEY: Chaff.
SYN: Banter, badinage, nonsense, frivolity, trash, chaffer.
ANT: Emphasis, seriousness, sense, substance, reason, argument,
marrow, pith, gist.
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KEY: Chaffer.
SYN: Haggle, bargain, higgle, stickle, boggle.
ANT: Close, conclude, agree, negotiate.
=
KEY: Chagrin \v.\ [See CHAFE].
=
KEY: Challenge \v.\
SYN: Defy, summon, dare, question, investigate, brave, canvass.
ANT: Pass, allow, grant, concede.
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KEY: Champion \n.\
SYN: Hero, warrior, combatant, vindicator, challenger, defender,
protector.
ANT: Renegade, deserter, poltroon, miscreant, traitor, coward,
adversary, opponent.
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KEY: Chance \v.\ [See HAZARD].
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KEY: Chance \n.\
SYN: Accident, fortuity, hazard, haphazard, fortune, random,
casualty, befoulment, luck.
ANT: Law, rule, sequence, consequence, causation, effectuation,
intention, purpose, design, certainty.
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KEY: Change \v.\
SYN: Vary, alter, modify, diversify, qualify, transmute, substitute,
fluctuate, shift, veer, exchange.
ANT: Conserve, retain, stabilitate, fix, clinch, stand, endure, last,
hold.
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KEY: Change \n.\ [See VARIATION].
=
KEY: Changeable.
SYN: [See CAPRICIOUS].
ANT: [See CHANGELESS].
=
KEY: Changeful, [See CHANGEABLE].
=
KEY: Changeless.
SYN: Regular, settled, steady, firm, stationary, consistent,
resolute, reliable, undeviating, uniform, immutable, immovable.
ANT: Irregular, unsettled, unsteady, wavering, fluctuating,
capricious, irresolute, vacillating, variable, mutable, plastic.
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KEY: Chaplet.
SYN: Garland, wreath, coronal.
=
KEY: Character.
SYN: Symbol, letter, nature, type, disposition, genius, temperament,
cast, estimation, repute, office, reputation, part, capacity, class,
order, sort, stamp, kind, quality, species, sign, tone, mark, figure,
record.
ANT: Vagueness, anonymousness, nondescription, disrepute.
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KEY: Characteristic.
SYN: Distinction, peculiarity, diagnosis, idiosyncrasy, speciality,
individuality, personality, singularity.
ANT: Nondescription, abstractedness, generality, miscellany.
=
KEY: Characterize.
SYN: Mark, distinguish, describe, particularize, style, designate,
individualize, specify, identify.
ANT: Hint, insinuate, sketch, suggest, adumbrate.
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KEY: Charge.
SYN: Direct, enjoin, advise, admonish, arraign, inculpate, entrust,
commit, load, accuse, impeach, attack, assault, impute, carry.
ANT: Clear, free, discharge, acquit, liberate.
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KEY: Chargeable.
SYN: Attributable, ascribable, imputable.
ANT: Not attributable, not ascribable, not imputable.
=
KEY: Charity, [See BENEVOLENCE].
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KEY: Charitable.
SYN: Kind, benign, benevolent, beneficent, liberal, considerate,
forgiving, compassionate, placable, inexacting, inextreme.
ANT: Uncharitable, unkind, harsh, selfish, churlish, illiberal,
censorious, unforgiving, uncompassionate, implacable, extreme,
exacting, retaliative, revengeful.
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KEY: Charlatan, [See QUACK], Charm \v.\
SYN: Bewitch, enchant, fascinate, lay, soothe, mesmerize, delight,
enrapture, transport, entice, allure, entrance, captivate, subdue.
ANT: Disenchant, disillusionize, excite, rouse, disturb, annoy,
Irritate, alarm, terrify, repel, disgust.
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KEY: Charm \n.\
SYN: Spell, incantation, enchantment, fascination, attraction,
allurement.
ANT: Disenchantment, repulsion, fear.
=
KEY: Chary.
SYN: Careful, cautions, calculating, frugal, shy, wary, sparing, slow,
saving, reluctant.
ANT: Liberal, lavish, profuse, eager.
=
KEY: Chase \v.\
SYN: Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute.
ANT: Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade.
=
KEY: Chaste.
SYN: Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented,
virtuous, incorrupt, simple, unaffected, nice.
ANT: Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated.
=
KEY: Chasten.
SYN: Purify, discipline, chastise, correct, castigate, improve,
spiritualize, afflict, refine.
ANT: Indulge, sensualize, brutalize, degrade, corrupt, pamper,
carnalize, spoil, demoralize.
=
KEY: Chat, [See BABBLE].
=
KEY: Chattels.
SYN: Effects, goods, wares, movables, furniture.
ANT: Freehold.
=
KEY: Chatter.
SYN: Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle.
ANT: Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation.
=
KEY: Cheap.
SYN: Common, inexpensive, uncostly, mean, vile, worthless,
low-priced.
ANT: Rare, costly, worthy, expensive, honorable, noble, high.
=
KEY: Cheat \v.\
SYN: Overreach, fleece, silence, trick, gull, cozen, juggle, defraud,
swindle, dupe, beguile, deceive, deprive, hoodwink, prevaricate,
dissemble, shuffle, inveigle.
ANT: Enlighten, guide, remunerate, compensate, undeceive, disabuse.
=
KEY: Cheat \n.\
SYN: Deception, fraud, imposition, trick, artifice, illusion,
imposture, swindle, finesse, deceit, lie, fiction.
ANT: Troth, reality, verity, fact, certainty, genuineness,
verification, honesty, authenticity.
=
KEY: Check \n.\
SYN: Repulse, hindrance, set back, rebuff.
ANT: Encouragement, freedom, liberty.
=
KEY: Check \v.\
SYN: Curb, restrain, stop, stay, repress, hinder, impede, inhibit,
cohibit, bridle, control, obstruct.
ANT: Loose, liberate, instigate, accelerate, license, indulge, allow,
abet.
=
KEY: Cheer \v.\ [See ENCOURAGE].
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KEY: Cheer \n.\
SYN: Hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality.
ANT: Dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth,
inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociableness.
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KEY: Cheerful.
SYN: Lively, gay, bright, happy, bonny, merry, joyful, pleasant,
buoyant, sunny, enlivening, in good spirits, sprightly, blithe, joyous.
ANT: Lifeless, dull, gloomy, unhappy, dejected, depressed, sullen,
joyless, melancholy, depressing, dispiriting.
=
KEY: Cheerfulness, [See CHEERFUL].
=
KEY: Cheerless, [See CHEERFUL].
=
KEY: Cherish.
SYN: Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect,
entertain, value, encourage.
ANT: Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check.
=
KEY: Chew.
SYN: Masticate, munch, eat.
ANT: Gorge, bolt whole.
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KEY: Chicanery.
SYN: Artifice, subtlety, sophistry, subterfuge, prevarication, shift,
trickery, dodge, quibble, mystification, pettifogging,
underhandedness.
ANT: Openness, candor, fairness, cogency, demonstrativeness,
soundness.
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KEY: Chide.
SYN: Rate, scold, trounce, reprove, reprimand, rebuke, blame,
admonish, objurgate.
ANT: Applaud, flatter, compliment.
=
KEY: Chief \a.\
SYN: Chef, the head, [See CAPITAL].
=
KEY: Chief \n.\ [See CHIEFTAIN].
=
KEY: Chiefly, [See MAINLY].
=
KEY: Chieftain.
SYN: Captain, general, chief, commander, head man, leader.
ANT: Follower, attendant, retainer, subaltern, vassal, satellite,
minion, adherent.
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KEY: Childish.
SYN: Weak, silly, puerile, infantine, imbecile, foolish, trifling,
paltry, trivial.
ANT: Strong, resolute, manly, wise, judicious, sagacious, chivalrous,
profound, politic.
=
KEY: Chimerical, [See VISIONARY].
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KEY: Chivalrous.
SYN: Courageous, generous, knightly, gallant, heroic, adventurous,
valiant, spirited, handsome, high-minded.
ANT: Unhandsome, dirty, sneaking, pettifogging, scrubby, dastardly,
recreant, ungenerous, ungentlemanly.
=
KEY: Choice \n.\
SYN: Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative.
ANT: Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance,
indifference, refuse.
=
KEY: Choice \a.\
SYN: Select, exquisite, precious, dainty, cherished, valuable,
excellent, rare.
ANT: Common, ordinary, Inferior, cheap, valueless, despicable,
trumpery.
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KEY: Choke.
SYN: Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle.
ANT: Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate,
moot, bruit, ventilate.
=
KEY: Choler, [See ANGER].
=
KEY: Choleric.
SYN: Hasty, testy, impetuous, irascible.
ANT: Cool, phlegmatic, serene, placid, dispassionate, stoical.
=
KEY: Choose.
SYN: Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick out.
ANT: Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore,
decline.
=
KEY: Chronicle \v.\
SYN: Record, register.
=
KEY: Chronicle \n.\ [See ANNALS].
=
KEY: Chuckle.
SYN: Grin, crow, cackle.
ANT: Cry, wail, grumble, whimper, whine.
=
KEY: Churchyard.
SYN: Buryingground, burial place, cemetery, God's acre, necropolis,
graveyard.
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KEY: Churlish.
SYN: Illiberal, niggardly, inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly.
ANT: Liberal, bountiful, hospitable neighborly, sociable.
=
KEY: Cipher.
SYN: Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.) straw, pin, rush,
molehill.
ANT: Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton,
colossus, star.
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KEY: Circuit.
SYN: Tour, circumference.
ANT: Line, straightness, directness.
=
KEY: Circuitous.
SYN: Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round about, sinuous,
winding.
ANT: Linear, direct, straight.
=
KEY: Circular.
SYN: Round, spherical.
ANT: Lineal, direct.
=
KEY: Circulate.
SYN: Disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread,
travel.
ANT: Suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate.
=
KEY: Circumference.
SYN: Periphery, enclosure, circuit, outline, boundary.
ANT: Diameter, crossing, bisection, transection, transversion.
=
KEY: Circumlocution.
SYN: Periphrasis, verbosity, inconciseness, insuccinctness,
ambiguousness, anfractuosity.
ANT: Terseness, point, conciseness, succinctness, condensation,
directness, plainness, simplicity, coherence.
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KEY: Circumscribe.
SYN: Define, designate, delineate, limit, enclose, confine, restrict,
fence.
ANT: Expand, dilate, dissipate, disenclose, distend.
=
KEY: Circumscribed.
SYN: Limited, narrow, restricted.
ANT: Limitless, ample, unconfined.
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KEY: Circumspect.
SYN: Cautious, wary, careful, heedful, attentive, prudent, watchful,
scrupulous, vigilant.
ANT: Heedless, incautious, careless, reckless, invigilant,
incircumspect.
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KEY: Circumstance.
SYN: Detail, feature, point, event, occurrence, incident, situation,
position, fact, topic, condition, particular, specialty.
ANT: Deed, case, transaction.
=
KEY: Circumstantial.
SYN: Inferential, constructive, minute, detailed, elaborate,
specific.
ANT: Jocular, positive, inaccurate, loose, general.
=
KEY: Circumvent.
SYN: Ensnare, entrap, outwit, diplomatize.
ANT: Force, subjugate, reduce, compel, circumvention, [See
CIRCUMVENT].
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KEY: Citadel.
SYN: Fortress, castle, stronghold, acropolis.
=
KEY: Cite.
SYN: Summon, call, quote, adduce, mention, name, select, refer to.
ANT: Discard, dismiss, canvass, dispute, reject, contradict,
disprove, discredit, challenge.
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KEY: Citizen.
SYN: Townsman, inhabitant, burgess, subject, denizen.
ANT: Alien, foreigner, visitor, exile.
=
KEY: Civic.
SYN: Municipal, corporate, urbane, oppidan.
ANT: Suburban, provincial, rural, cosmopolitan.
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KEY: Civil.
SYN: Well-mannered, political, courteous, well-bred, complaisant,
affable, urbane, polite, obliging, accommodating, respectful.
ANT: Disobliging, unaccommodating, disrespectful, boorish, clownish,
churlish, uncivil.
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KEY: Civilization.
SYN: Amelioration, culture, cultivation, humanization, refinement.
ANT: Demoralization, savagery, uncivilization, barbarism, rudeness,
brutality.
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KEY: Claim \v.\
SYN: Demand, ask, require, insist, pretense, right, privilege, title,
request, maintain.
ANT: Forego, waive, disclaim, abjure, disavow, abandon, concede,
surrender, repudiate.
=
KEY: Claim \n.\
SYN: Assertion, vindication, pretension, title, right, privilege,
arrogation, demand.
ANT: Waiving, abjuration, disclaimer, surrender.
=
KEY: Claimant.
SYN: Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant.
ANT: Relinquisher, resigner, conceder, waiver, renouncer, abjurer.
=
KEY: Clamor.
SYN: Contention, contentiousness, squabble, tumult, hubbub, noise,
uproar, outcry, obloquy.
ANT: Silence, acquiescence, reticence.
=
KEY: Clamorous, [See NOISY].
=
KEY: Clandestine.
SYN: Furtive, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, hidden,
disguised, concealed, private, underhand.
=
KEY: Clasp.
SYN: Grasp, connect, unite, bracket, concatenate, embrace.
ANT: Relax, sever, unclasp, disconnect, detach, exclude.
=
KEY: Class, [See ORDER].
=
KEY: Classical.
SYN: Pure, refined, elegant, polished, chaste, augustan.
ANT: Corrupt, debased, inelegant, harsh, barbarous, unclassical,
uncouth.
=
KEY: Classification, taxonomic.
SYN: Order, species, nature, character, cast, stamp, group, kind,
section, sect, category, assortment, designation, description,
genus.
ANT: Individuality, speciality, isolation, alienation, division,
distinction, singularity, exclusion, heterogenity.
=
KEY: Classify.
SYN: Arrange, systematize, adjust, rank, class, tabulate, dispose,
collocate, assort.
ANT: Derange, confound, disorder, disorganize, intermix.
=
KEY: Clause.
SYN: Portion, paragraph, stipulation, provision, article, condition,
chapter, section, passage.
ANT: Document, instrument, muniment.
=
KEY: Clean \v.\
SYN: Purify, clarify.
ANT: Pollute, befoul, bespatter, defile.
=
KEY: Clean \a.\
SYN: Pure, neat, cleanly, clear, purified, cleansed, untarnished,
spotless, unclogged, upright.
ANT: Impure, untidy, dirty, entangled, hampered, unclean.
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KEY: Clear \v.\
SYN: Clarify, disencumber, disentangle, disembarrass, vindicate,
liberate, set free, release, exonerate, exculpate, justify, retrieve,
acquit, absolve, whitewash, extricate, eliminate.
ANT: Befoul, contaminate, pollute, clog, encumber, embarrass,
involve, implicate.
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KEY: Clear \a.\
SYN: Open, pure, bright, transparent, free, disencumbered,
disentangled, disengaged, absolved, acquitted, serene, unclouded,
evident, apparent, distinct, manifest, conspicuous, unobstructed,
plain, obvious, intelligible, lucid.
ANT: Thick, muddy, foul, opaque, encumbered, entangled, condemned,
convicted, turbid, dubious, indistinct, unintelligible.
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KEY: Clearly.
SYN: Plainly, obviously, distinctly, evidently, palpably, lucidly,
explicitly, perspicuously.
ANT: Opaquely, indistinctly, Imperfectly, confusedly.
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KEY: Cleave.
SYN: Sunder, split, divide, adhere, rend, di?sever, stick.
ANT: Conserve, unite, splice, bond, cement, agglutinate, consolidate,
separate, depart, desert, apostatize, secede.
=
KEY: Clemency, [See MERCY].
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KEY: Clergyman.
SYN: Pastor, divine, parson, preacher, presbyter, minister, elder,
deacon, bishop, dominie, rector, prelate, priest, monk, friar, vicar,
curate.
ANT: Layman, laic, congregation, laity, flock.
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KEY: Clever.
SYN: Able, ready, talented, quick, ingenious, dexterous, adroit,
expert, gifted, quick-witted, skillful, well-contrived.
ANT: Weak, dull, stupid, slow, illcontrived, doltish, uninventive,
awkward, clumsy, bungling, botched.
=
KEY: Climate.
SYN: Air, atmosphere, temperature, weather, clime, sky, region,
sphere, latitude.
ANT: Earth, globe, world, sphere.
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KEY: Climax.
SYN: Summit, height, consummation, acme, point, head, mered, ian,
culmination, zenith.
ANT: Base, floor, bathos, anticlimax, depth, gulf, nadir.
=
KEY: Climb.
SYN: Ascend, mount, clamber, swarm, surmount, scale, escalade, soar,
creep up, rise.
ANT: Descend, drop, fall, slip, tumble, swoop.
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KEY: Cling.
SYN: Fasten, hold, adhere, embrace, stick, cleave, hang, twine, hug.
ANT: Drop, recede, secede, apostatize, abandon, relax, forego, swerve,
surrender.
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KEY: Clip.
SYN: Curtail, prune, contract, abridge.
ANT: Elongate, cherish, grow, nourish.
=
KEY: Cloak.
SYN: Conceal, disguise, mask, veil, hide, cover, palliate, screen,
mitigate, extenuate.
ANT: Exhibit, propound, promulge, portray, aggravate, expose,
demonstrate, reveal.
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KEY: Close \a.\
SYN: Narrow, limited, restricted, condensed, packed, secret,
compressed, solid, firm, compact, reserved, niggardly, shut, fast,
dense.
ANT: Wide, open, ample, spacious, airy, unconfined, dispersed,
rarefied, subtle, vaporous, patent, public, advertised, open-handed,
liberal, frank.
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KEY: Close \v.\
SYN: Shut, conclude, stop, complete.
ANT: Open, initiate, conduct, protract.
=
KEY: Clothe \v.\
SYN: Invest, robe, drape, dress, array, attire, cover.
ANT: Denude, strip, divest.
=
KEY: Clothes, [See HABILIMENTS].
=
KEY: Cloudy, [See MUGGY and OBSCURE].
=
KEY: Clownish.
SYN: Bustic, boorish, bucolic, Boeotian, awkward, clumsy, cloddish,
untutored, rude.
ANT: Polite, civil, urbane, affable, graceful, polished, refined,
courtly, high-bred, intelligent, educated.
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KEY: Clumsy.
SYN: Awkward, inexpert, uncouth, maladroit, botching, bungling,
unskillful, unwieldly, unhandy, ill-shaped.
ANT: Neat, workmanlike, artistic, handy, skillful, clever, expert,
adroit, dexterous.
=
KEY: Cluster.
SYN: Bunch, group, gathering, muster, throng.
ANT: Scattering, sprinkling, dispersion.
=
KEY: Clutch \v.\
SYN: Grasp, grab, seize, catch, grip, grapple with, snatch, pounce.
ANT: Liberate, release, emancipate.
=
KEY: Coagulate.
SYN: Mix, blend, fuse, coalesce, amalgamate, condense.
ANT: Rarefy, expand, dissipate, subtilize, discombine.
=
KEY: Coadjutor.
SYN: Assistant, ally, cooperator, accessory, accomplice.
ANT: Opponent, counteractor, antagonist, baffler, adversary.
=
KEY: Coalesce.
SYN: Harmonize, blend, mix, combine, join, unite, amalgamate, cohere.
ANT: Disagree, discomport.
=
KEY: Coalition.
SYN: Combination, consentaneity, compromise, consociation, union,
alliance, league, compact, amalgamation, composition, confederacy.
ANT: Dissociation, disruption, disagreement, dissentience.
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KEY: Coarse.
SYN: Common, ordinary, indelicate, vulgar, gross, unrefined,
immodest, rough, rude, unpolished.
ANT: Fine, refined gentle, polished, delicate, choice.
=
KEY: Coax.
SYN: Wheedle, fawn, flatter, call, ole, persuade, overcome, seduce,
allure, circumvent.
ANT: Intimidate, coerce, impel, instigate, drive.
=
KEY: Cobble.
SYN: Patch, botch, bungle, clout.
ANT: Repair, manipulate, finedraw.
=
KEY: Cobweb.
SYN: Trifle, cipher, moonshine, prejudice, bugbear, phantasy,
caprice.
ANT: Substance, verity, axiom, law, reality, perpetuity, institution,
truth.
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KEY: Cockney.
SYN: Londoner, citizen, swell.
ANT: Clodhopper, bumpkin, lout.
=
KEY: Coddle.
SYN: Spoil, humor, pamper, nurse, caress.
=
KEY: Codger.
SYN: Gaffer, churl, curmudgeon.
ANT: Swell, fop, spendthrift, scapegrace, puppy.
=
KEY: Codify.
SYN: Summarize, digest, incorporate, embody, condense.
ANT: Expunge, abrogate, annul, disembody, disincorporate, rescind.
=
KEY: Coerce.
SYN: Restrain, inhibit, impel, compel, drive, counteract, check,
constrain, force, confine, intimidate.
ANT: Permit, persuade, urge, instigate, encourage, liberate, induce,
seduce, tempt.
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KEY: coetaneous.
SYN: Coeval, contemporary, synchronous.
ANT: Incoincident, incontemporaneous, anachronistic, asynchronous.
=
KEY: Coeval, [See COETANEOUS].
=
KEY: Coexist.
SYN: Concur, comport, accompany, coalesce, coincide.
ANT: Disconcur, discomport.
=
KEY: Coexistent.
SYN: Concurrent, coetaneous, contemporary, coincident, compatible,
correspondent, correlative.
ANT: Discurrent, incontemporaneous, incompatible, adverse,
repugnant, antagonistic.
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KEY: coextension.
SYN: Commensurateness, equality, parallelism, conterminousness.
ANT: Incommensurateness, inadequacy, inconterminousness, disparity,
divergency, inequality.
=
KEY: Coextensive, [See COEXTENSION].
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KEY: Cogent.
SYN: Forcible, powerful, potent, strong, persuasive, influential.
ANT: Weak, ineffectual, powerless, feeble.
=
KEY: Cogitate.
SYN: Think, ruminate, reflect, meditate, brood, speculate,
contemplate, ponder, muse.
ANT: Idle, maunder, dream.
=
KEY: Cogitation, [See COGITATE].
=
KEY: Cognizance.
SYN: Notice, observation, recognition, knowledge, experience.
ANT: Inadvertence, neglect, ignorance, inexperience, oversight,
connivance.
=
KEY: Cognizant.
SYN: Aware, informed.
ANT: Unaware, ignorant, uninformed.
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KEY: Cohere.
SYN: Stick, adhere, conform, unite, coalesce.
ANT: Sever, separate, disunite, disintegrate.
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KEY: Coherent.
SYN: Consecutive, consistent, complete, sensible, compact, logical,
close.
ANT: Inconsecutive, rambling, disunited, inconsistent, discursive,
loose, silly, illogical, aberrant.
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KEY: Cohibit.
SYN: Prevent, hinder, curb, restrain, inhibit.
ANT: Indulge, permit, incite, instigate, encourage, urge.
=
KEY: Coin.
SYN: Fabricate, counterfeit, invent.
ANT: Misform, misconstrue.
=
KEY: Coincide, [See AGREE].
=
KEY: Coincidence.
SYN: Chance, fortuity, casualty, concurrence, correspondence,
contemporaneousness, commensurateness, harmony, agreement, consent.
ANT: Design, purpose, adaptation, synchronism, anachronism,
disharmony, incommensurateness, discordance, variation, difference.
=
KEY: Cold, [See FRIGID].
=
KEY: Collate.
SYN: Adduce, collect, compare, gather, induct, extract, cite.
ANT: Verify, identify, recognize, authenticate.
=
KEY: Collateral.
SYN: Indirect, related, connected, parallel.
ANT: Direct, linear, essential, integral.
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KEY: Colleague.
SYN: Helper, companion, associate, ally, confederate, coadjutor,
partner, assistant, adjutant, assessor.
ANT: co-opponent, corival, counteragent, co-antagonist, competitor,
colluctator.
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KEY: Collect.
SYN: Collate, gather, glean, sum, infer, learn, congregate, assemble,
convoke, convene, muster, amass, garner, accumulate.
ANT: Classify, arrange, distribute, dispose, dispense, divide, sort,
deal.
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KEY: Collected.
SYN: Calm, composed, cool, attentive, self-possessed, firm, placid,
serene, unmoved.
ANT: Excited, distracted, wandering, dazed, scared, bewildered.
=
KEY: Collection.
SYN: Assembly, assemblage, store, gathering, collation.
ANT: Dispersion, distribution, dispensation, division, arrangement,
disposal, classification.
=
KEY: Collision.
SYN: Encounter, conflict, crash, opposition, impact, concussion,
clash.
ANT: Interswerving, interdivergence, shave.
=
KEY: Collocate.
SYN: Place, locate, arrange, classify, tabulate, allocate.
ANT: Move, dislocate, distribute, dispense, disturb, disperse,
confound, confuse, displace, misplace.
=
KEY: Collocation, [See COLLOCATE].
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KEY: Colloquy.
SYN: Conference, consultation, conversation, council,
confabulation.
ANT: Clamor, outcry, tumult, babel.
=
KEY: Colluctation.
SYN: Wrestling, contention, competition.
ANT: Coadjutorship, assistance, support, backing.
=
KEY: Collusion.
SYN: Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy.
ANT: Baffling, frustration, counteraction, defeat, discomfiture,
discernment, betrayal, exposure, informership, traitorship.
=
KEY: Color.
SYN: Hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling,
falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish.
ANT: Achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness,
transparency, truthfulness.
=
KEY: Colorable.
SYN: Specious, ostensible, deceptive, dressed, tinged, warped.
ANT: Genuine, candid, open, naked, transparent.
=
KEY: Colossal, [See GIGANTIC].
=
KEY: Combat \v.\ [See RESIST].
=
KEY: Combat \n.\
SYN: Encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement,
arms, battle.
ANT: Surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce,
arbitration.
=
KEY: Combination.
SYN: Union, association, consortment, concert, confederacy, alliance,
league, coalition, cabal, synthesis, co-operation.
ANT: Division, disunion, disruption, dissolution, dispersion,
analysis, opposition, resistance, non-location, removal,.
=
KEY: Comely.
SYN: Seemly, graceful, elegant, shapely, suitable, fitting, handsome,
decent, becoming.
ANT: Unseemly, ungraceful, inelegant, unshapely.
=
KEY: Comfortable.
SYN: Snug, satisfied, pleasant, agreeable, cozy, commodious,
convenient, consoled.
ANT: Uncomfortable, dissatisfied, troubled, miserable, wretched,
cheerless, unhappy, disagreeable, forlorn.
=
KEY: Comfortless, [See COMFORTABLE].
=
KEY: Comic, [See LUDICROUS].
=
KEY: Comity.
SYN: Urbanity, pleasantness, affability, blandness.
ANT: Rudeness, distantness, roughness, churlishness.
=
KEY: Command \v.\
SYN: Order, direct, instruct, charge, bid, enjoin.
ANT: Supplicate, entreat, persuade, beg, petition, suggest,
represent.
=
KEY: Command \n.\ [See MANDATE].
=
KEY: Commanding, [See AUTHORITATIVE].
=
KEY: Commemorate.
SYN: Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep.
ANT: Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate.
=
KEY: Commence.
SYN: Begin, start, open, initiate, inaugurate, enter upon, set about,
undertake.
ANT: Finish, terminate, conclude, consummate, complete.
=
KEY: Commend.
SYN: Praise, laud, extol, approve, recommend, encourage, applaud,
eulogize.
ANT: Blame, censure, disapprove, discourage, denounce, condemn,
discommend.
=
KEY: Commendation, [See APPROBATION].
=
KEY: Commensurate.
SYN: Equal, adequate, sufficient, coextensive, conterminous.
ANT: Unequal, short, scant, inadequate, insufficient,
incommensurate.
=
KEY: Comment \v.\
SYN: Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain,
expatiate, criticise.
ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend,
misconceive, misrepresent.
=
KEY: Comment \n.\ [See OBSERVATION].
=
KEY: Commentator.
SYN: Interpreter, explainer, note-maker, scholiast, expositor,
glossary, elucidator.
ANT: Mystifier, misinterpreter, puzzler, enigmatist, Oedipus.
=
KEY: Commerce.
SYN: Trade, traffic, merchandize, barter, exchange, business,
communication, dealing, intercourse.
ANT: Stagnation, exclusion, inactivity, interdict, embargo,
dullness.
=
KEY: Commiserate.
SYN: Despise, contemn, pity, compassionate, condole, sympathize.
ANT: Admire, envy, disregard, maltreat, molest, ignore, condemn.
=
KEY: Commiseration, [See PITY].
=
KEY: Commit.
SYN: Perpetrate, execute, confide, [See DO], relegate, intrust,
assign, allocate, consign.
ANT: Miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit.
=
KEY: Commodious.
SYN: Ample, easy, convenient, spacious, suitable, comfortable.
ANT: Inconvenient, incommodious, narrow, ill-contrived,
incommensurate, discommodious.
=
KEY: Commodity.
SYN: Staple, ware, article, stock.
ANT: Drug, offal, refuse, garbage.
=
KEY: Common.
SYN: Ordinary, familiar, habitual, everyday, frequent, coarse,
vulgar, low, mean, universal.
ANT: Unusual, exceptional, scarce, rare, uncommon, refined, partial,
infrequent, sporadic, egregious, excellent.
=
KEY: Commotion.
SYN: Agitation, disturbance, tumult, excitement, turmoil,
perturbation.
ANT: Quiescence, calm, subsidence, pacification, tranquillity,
mitigation, appeasement, soothing, allaying, moderating.
=
KEY: Communicate.
SYN: Adjoin, join, touch, reveal, disclose, divulge, promulgate,
publish, attach, co-operate, unite, impart, tell, announce, declare.
ANT: Separate, disjoin, recede, stop, suppress, conceal, secrete,
withhold, reserve.
=
KEY: Communication, [See INTERCOURSE].
=
KEY: Communion.
SYN: Participation, share, converse, agreement, partnership,
comportionment, fellowship, association, intercourse.
ANT: Exclusion, deprivation, nonparticipation, disqualification,
disconnection, alienation, disruption.
=
KEY: Community.
SYN: Aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society,
sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity,
nationality, similarity, homogeneity.
ANT: Segregation, secession, independence, dissociation,
disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement,
dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity.
=
KEY: Commute.
SYN: Alter, mitigate, substitute, exchange, compensate, barter,
equalize, balance, modify.
ANT: Misappropriation, misconvert, misappropriate, disallow,
stabilitate, perpetuate, stereotype.
=
KEY: Compact \n.\ [See AGREEMENT].
=
KEY: Compact \a.\
SYN: Dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed,
contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated,
concrete.
ANT: Ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling,
sparse, broadcast, dispread.
=
KEY: Companion.
SYN: Associate, mate, comrade, colleague, ally, partner, accomplice,
coadjutor.
ANT: Rival, toe, antagonist, adversary.
=
KEY: Companionable.
SYN: Pleasant, affable, sociable, convertible, friendly, easy,
agreeable, gregarious.
ANT: Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial,
cold, inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary.
=
KEY: Companionship.
SYN: Converse, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, friendliness,
association.
ANT: Ignorance, distance, avoidance, estrangement, alienation,
unfamiliarity, soitude, isolation.
=
KEY: Company.
SYN: Aggregation, association, union, sodality, order, fraternity,
guild, corporation, society, community, assemblage, assembly, crew,
posse, gang, troop, audience, congregation, concourse.
ANT: Rivalry, opposition, disqualification, antagonism,
counteragency, competition, counterassociation.
=
KEY: Compare.
SYN: Assimilate, collate, parallel.
ANT: Contrast, oppose, dissociate, disconnect, pit, distinguish.
=
KEY: Comparable.
SYN: Resembling, approximate, similar.
ANT: Dissimilar, unlike, remote, inferior.
=
KEY: Comparative.
SYN: Relatively, proportionately.
ANT: Absolutely, actually, positively, superlatively.
=
KEY: Comparison, [See LIKENESS].
=
KEY: Compartment.
SYN: Division, partition, allotment, sphere, space.
ANT: correlative, viz, anything of which it is a compartment.
=
KEY: Compass \n.\
SYN: Area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon.
ANT: Common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness,
indefiniteness.
=
KEY: Compass \v.\
SYN: Encompass, surround, enclose, environ, circumscribe, embrace,
achieve, effect, effectuate, consummate, complete, circumvent.
ANT: Expand, disband, unfold, amplify, display, dismiss, liberate,
discard, fail, bungle, botch, misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue.
=
KEY: Compassion.
SYN: Pity, sympathy, condolence, tenderness, fellow-feeling,
commiseration, pardon.
ANT: Hardheartedness, unforgiveness, cruelty, antipathy,
denunciation, condemnation, vindictiveness, retaliation.
=
KEY: Compassionate, [See KIND].
=
KEY: Compatible.
SYN: Consistent, consentaneous, harmonious, coexistent,
correspondent, congruous, accordant, agreeable, congenial,
consonant.
ANT: Incompatible, impossible, insupposable, inconsistent,
discordant, hostile, adverse, antagonistic, incongruous,
destructive, inter-repugnant, contradictory.
=
KEY: Compeer.
SYN: Equal, co-ordinate, peer, fellow, mate, compatriot, comrade.
ANT: Inferior, superior, solitary.
=
KEY: Compel.
SYN: Force, oblige, drive, constrain, necessitate, make, coerce,
bind.
ANT: Persuade, convince, coax, allure, egg, induce, tempt, seduce,
acquit, cozen, liberate, release.
=
KEY: Compendious.
SYN: Condensed, concentrated, brief, short, succinct, concise,
abridged, commodious, convenient, useful, handy, comprehensive,
compact.
ANT: Diffuse, vague, prolix, shapeless, cumbrous, undigested.
=
KEY: Compendium, [See ABRIDGEMENT].
=
KEY: Compensate.
SYN: Atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite,
reward, recompense, make amends for.
ANT: Defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage.
=
KEY: Compensation.
SYN: Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration,
restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification,
amercement, damages.
ANT: Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation,
fraudulence, damage.
=
KEY: Compete.
SYN: Contend, rival, cope, emulate.
ANT: Participate, share.
=
KEY: Competence.
SYN: Power, adequacy, sufficiency, wealth, ability.
ANT: Incompetence, weakness, inability, insufficiency, want, poverty,
impecuniosity, indigence.
=
KEY: Competent, [See ADEQUATE].
=
KEY: Competition.
SYN: Rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade.
ANT: Association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock,
copartnership, confederation.
=
KEY: Competitor.
SYN: Rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist.
ANT: Participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague.
=
KEY: Compilation.
SYN: Collation, composition, patchwork.
ANT: Effusion, creation.
=
KEY: Complacent.
SYN: Pleased, satisfied, content, pleasant, affable, kind, mannerly,
acquiescent, amiable.
ANT: Dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere,
grudging.
=
KEY: Complain, [See GROWL].
=
KEY: Complaint.
SYN: Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance,
remonstrance, expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease.
ANT: Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon,
benefit, applause, jubilee, health, sanity.
=
KEY: Complaisant, [See POLITE].
=
KEY: Complement.
SYN: Completion, fulfilment, totality, supply, counterpart,
correlative.
ANT: Deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, abatement, detraction,
defalcation, diminution, drawback.
=
KEY: Complete \v.\ [See ACCOMPLISH].
=
KEY: Complete \a.\
SYN: Full, perfect, finished, adequate, entire, consummate, total,
exhaustive, thorough, accomplished.
ANT: Incomplete, partial, imperfect, unfinished, inadequate.
=
KEY: Completely.
SYN: Fully, totally, altogether, wholly, perfectly, entirely,
thoroughly.
ANT: Partially, incompletely, Imperfectly.
=
KEY: Completion, [See TINGE].
=
KEY: Complex.
SYN: Intricate, multifarious, compound, complicated, multifold,
involved, deep, many-sided, abstruse, close, tangled, obscure.
ANT: Obvious, plain, simple, direct, inobscure, superficial, vague,
loose, unraveled.
=
KEY: Complexion.
SYN: Face, aspect, color, look, feature, appearance, character, hue,
interpretation, indication.
ANT: Unindicativeness, concealment, reticence, inexpression, heart,
core.
=
KEY: Complexity \n.\ [See COMPLEX].
=
KEY: Compliance.
SYN: Yielding, submission, obedience, acquiescence, consent,
ductility, docility.
ANT: Resistance, repulsion, disobedience, refusal, noncompliance.
=
KEY: Compliant, [See SUBMISSIVE].
=
KEY: Complicated.
SYN: Confused, intricate, involved, perplexed, entangled.
ANT: Clear, simple, uninvolved, lucid, unraveled.
=
KEY: Compliment \v.\ [See PRAISE].
=
KEY: Compliment \n.\
SYN: Homage, courtesy, flattery, praise.
ANT: Insult, discourtesy, contempt.
=
KEY: Complimentary.
SYN: Commendatory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic,
lavish of praise.
ANT: Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory,
reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, vituperative, defamatory.
=
KEY: Comply, [See YIELD].
=
KEY: Component.
SYN: Ingredient, element, constituent, factor, content, rudiment.
ANT: Aggregate, sum, entirety, adventitious, compound,
nonconstituent, foreign, heterogeneous.
=
KEY: Comport.
SYN: Demean, conduct, carry, behove, tally, consist, harmonize, match,
agree, suit, coincide.
ANT: Misdemean, misconduct, forget, vary, differ, disagree, contrast,
militate.
=
KEY: Compose.
SYN: Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together,
constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust,
write.
ANT: Analyze, awaken, stir, dissect, criticise, irritate, excite.
=
KEY: Composed, [See COLLECTED and PLACID].
=
KEY: Composition.
SYN: Compound, conformation, structure, mixture, combination,
compromise, adjustment, settlement, commutation.
ANT: Analysis, segregation, examination, criticism, discussion,
disturbance, aggravation, perpetuation.
=
KEY: Composure.
SYN: Tranquility, sereneness, self-possession, sedateness, calm,
repose.
ANT: Perturbation, restlessness, mobility, disturbance.
=
KEY: Compound \v.\
SYN: Concert, mix, amalgamate, fuse.
ANT: Resolve, analyze.
=
KEY: Compound \n.\
SYN: Mixture, combination, amalgamation, junction, unification,
coalescence.
ANT: Decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution.
=
KEY: Comprehend.
SYN: Comprise, embody, grasp, understand, conceive, apprehend,
enclose, include, involve, embrace.
ANT: Exclude, except, misunderstand.
=
KEY: Comprehension.
SYN: Understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension.
ANT: Misunderstanding, misconception.
=
KEY: Comprehensive.
SYN: Wide, ample, general, extensive, large, broad, all, embracing,
generic, significant, capacious, inclusive, compendious, pregnant.
ANT: Narrow, restricted, shallow, exclusive, adversative, exceptive.
=
KEY: Compress.
SYN: Condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize,
summarize.
ANT: Expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, Compression, [See
COMPRESS].
=
KEY: Comprise \v.\
SYN: Embrace, include, involve, contain, comprehend, imply.
ANT: Exclude, except, discard, bar, omit, reject.
=
KEY: Comprobation.
SYN: Induction, co-evidence, co-testimony.
ANT: disproof, counterevidence, refutation, rejoinder,
intercontrariance.
=
KEY: Compromise \v.\
SYN: Arbitrate, adjust, compose, settle, endanger, implicate,
involve.
ANT: Aggravate, excite, foster, perpetuate, exempt, enfranchise,
disengage, extricate, exonerate.
=
KEY: Compulsion \n.\
SYN: For, ce, restraint, control, coercion.
ANT: Persuasion, coaxing, alluring, Inducing.
=
KEY: Compunction.
SYN: Contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow.
ANT: Satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance.
=
KEY: Compute.
SYN: Calculate, reckon, count, number, appraise, value, estimate,
cast up, rate.
ANT: Conjecture, guess, surmise.
=
KEY: Comrade, [See COMPLEX].
=
KEY: Concatenation.
SYN: Linking, connection, stringing, continuity.
ANT: Discatenation, unlinking, unchanging, severance, intermission,
disconnection.
=
KEY: Concave.
SYN: Hollow, scooped, pitted, excavated, retreating, alveolar.
ANT: Convex, tumular, protuberant, relievant, embossed, intumescent.
=
KEY: Conceal.
SYN: Hide, secrete, disguise, keep secret, dissemble, screen,
suppress.
ANT: Reveal, manifest, exhibit, avow, confess, expose,
promulgate, publish, divulge.
=
KEY: Concede.
SYN: Surrender, grant, allow, yield, admit, resign.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, deny, contradict, contest, claim, contend.
=
KEY: Conceit.
SYN: Idea, notion, thought, affectation, vanity, abstraction,
imagination, conception, whim, vagary, egotism.
ANT: Substance, reality, verity, concretion, body, fact, naturalness,
simplicity, unaffectedness, humility.
=
KEY: Conceited.
SYN: Egotistical, self-conceited, vain.
ANT: Self-deprecating, simple, unassuming, unaffected.
=
KEY: Conceive.
SYN: Imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think,
understand.
ANT: Produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive.
=
KEY: Conception, [See CONCEIVE].
=
KEY: Concentrate.
SYN: assemble, converge, muster, congregate, convene, draw,
conglomerate, condense, localize, centralize.
ANT: Disperse, scatter, dismiss, decentralize.
=
KEY: Concentration, [See CONCENTRATE].
=
KEY: Concern.
SYN: Interest, regard, anxiety, matter, affair, institution,
solicitude, moment, regret, sympathy, sorrow.
ANT: Indifference, disregard, carelessness, congratulation,
chuckling.
=
KEY: Concerning.
SYN: About, of, relating, regarding, touching, in relation to,
respecting, with respect to, with regard to, with reference to,
relative to.
ANT: Omitting, disregarding.
=
KEY: Concert \v.\ [See CONTRIVE].
=
KEY: Concert \n.\
SYN: Onion, combination, concord, harmony, agreement, association,
co-operation.
ANT: Dissociation, counteraction, opposition.
=
KEY: Concession, [See CONCEPT].
=
KEY: Conciliate.
SYN: Win, gain, enlist, pacify, make friendly, reconcile,
propitiate.
ANT: Lose, estrange, excommunicate, eject, alienate, irritate,
displease.
=
KEY: Concise.
SYN: Condensed, terse, pregnant, expressive, pointed, neat,
compendious, succinct, summary, brief, short.
ANT: Diffuse, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory, rambling, discursive.
=
KEY: Conclave.
SYN: Council, assembly, bureau, synod, cabinet, caucus.
ANT: Crowd, multitude, assemblage, population, throng, populace, mob,
concourse.
=
KEY: Conclude.
SYN: Close, terminate, complete, end, decide, finish, infer, deduce,
determine, argue.
ANT: Begin, initiate, start, open, prolong, protract, perpetuate,
doubt, dispute.
=
KEY: Conclusion, [See CONCLUDE and TERMINATION].
=
KEY: Conclusive.
SYN: Definitive, indisputable, final, positive, decisive.
ANT: Uncertain, dubious, questionable, hypothetical, supposititious,
problematical, theoretical, vague, indeterminate, inconclusive.
=
KEY: Concoct.
SYN: Compound, prepare, mix, hatch, brew.
ANT: Spoil, upset, disconcoct, disconcert, mar, misprepare.
=
KEY: Concoction.
SYN: Brew, mixture, compound.
ANT: Crudity, rawness, ingredient.
=
KEY: Concomitant.
SYN: Accompanying, attending, attendant, synchronous.
ANT: Precedent, subsequent, diverse, unconnected, independent,
irrelative.
=
KEY: Concord.
SYN: Harmony, accordance, agreement, peace, union, unity, unanimity,
amity.
ANT: Discord, disagreement, variance, animosity.
=
KEY: Concordance, [See CONCORD].
=
KEY: Concourse.
SYN: Assembly, assemblage, crowd, throng, convergence, mob.
ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude.
=
KEY: Concrete.
SYN: Firm, compact, consolidated, indurated, embodied,
particularized.
ANT: Loose, sloppy, luteous, shifting, boggy, swampy, yielding,
unresisting, abstract, generalize.
=
KEY: Concur.
SYN: Approve, acquiesce, assent, coincide, meet, converge,
concentrate, agree.
ANT: Diverge, radiate, disagree, dissent, part, differ.
=
KEY: Concussion, [See COLLISION and COMMOTION].
=
KEY: Condemn.
SYN: Blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom,
sentence.
ANT: Absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve.
=
KEY: Condense, [See ABRIDGE].
=
KEY: Condescend.
SYN: Stoop, descend, deign, vouchsafe.
ANT: Disdain, scorn, spurn.
=
KEY: Condescension \n.\ [See CONDESCEND].
=
KEY: SYN:, Affability, graciousness, favor, stooping.
ANT: Haughtiness, arrogance, pride, superciliousness, disdain,
scorn.
=
KEY: Condign.
SYN: Deserved, merited, meet, just, adequate.
ANT: Undeserved, unmerited, scant, excessive.
=
KEY: Condiment.
SYN: Sauce, pickle, preserve, seasoning.
ANT: Gall, wormwood, ashes, aloe.
=
KEY: Condition.
SYN: State, case, mood, term, mode, qualification, requisite,
stipulation, predicament, proviso, situation, circumstances,
plight.
ANT: Relation, dependence, situation, circumstance, concession,
fulfillment, adaptation.
=
KEY: Conditionally.
SYN: Provisionally, relatively, provided, hypothetical,
contingently.
ANT: Absolutely, unconditionally, categorically, positively.
=
KEY: Condole.
SYN: Sympathize, console, commiserate.
ANT: Congratulate, exhilarate, disregard, rally, discompassionate,
discommiserate.
=
KEY: Condolence, [See CONDOLE].
=
KEY: Condonation.
SYN: Indulgence, excuse, amnesty, pardon, forgiveness.
ANT: Expiation, satisfaction, atonement.
=
KEY: Conduce.
SYN: Concur, contribute, avail, aid, tend, coincide, converge, assist,
help, make for, conspire, lead, subserve.
ANT: Indispose, counteract, defeat, neutralize.
=
KEY: Conducive, [See CONDUCE].
SYN: Contributive, promotive, subsidiary, causative, effective,
productive.
ANT: Preventive, counteractive, contrariant, repugnant,
destructive.
=
KEY: Conduct \v.\
SYN: Lead, bring, carry, transfer, direct, guide, control, manage,
administer.
ANT: Mislead, miscarry, mismanage, misconduct, misadminister.
=
KEY: Conduct \n.\ [See BEHAVIOR].
=
KEY: Confabulation, [See COLLOQUY].
=
KEY: Confection \n.\ [See CONCOCTION, CONDIMENT, and COMPOUND. (Used
of sweet compounds].
=
KEY: SYN:, Sweetmeat, sugarplum, cake, condiment.
ANT: [See CONDIMENT].
=
KEY: Confederacy, Confederation.
SYN: Alliance, treaty, league, union, association.
ANT: Disruption, secession, disunion.
=
KEY: Confederate \a.\
SYN: Leagued, allied, united, combined.
ANT: Disunited, dissolved.
=
KEY: Confederate \n.\ [See COMPANION].
=
KEY: Confer.
SYN: Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give,
present.
ANT: Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw.
=
KEY: Conference.
SYN: Discussion, discourse, consultation, parley, contravention,
convocation, meeting.
ANT: Monologue, silence. [See CONVENTION].
=
KEY: Confess.
SYN: Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge.
ANT: Disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny.
=
KEY: Confession.
SYN: Creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession,
declaration, subscription.
ANT: Heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index,
renunciation, abjuration.
=
KEY: Confidant.
SYN: Confessor, adviser, confederate.
ANT: Traitor, betrayer, rival.
=
KEY: Confide.
SYN: Trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely.
ANT: Doubt, distrust, disbelieve.
=
KEY: Confidence.
SYN: Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence,
reliance.
ANT: Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving.
=
KEY: Confident.
SYN: Positive, assured, sure, certain, impudent, bold, sanguine.
ANT: [See CERTAIN].
=
KEY: Confidential.
SYN: Private, secret, trustworthy, intimate.
ANT: Public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious.
=
KEY: Configuration.
SYN: Shape, outline, delineation, form, figure

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