A COMPLETE DICTIONARY
OF
Synonyms and Antonyms,
OR
SYNONYMS AND WORDS OF OPPOSITE MEANING.

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 19^th 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: {missing}

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.

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KEY: Ape \v.\

SYN: Mimic, imitate, simulate, personate, represent.

ANT: Not to imitate, vary, modify, change.

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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].

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KEY: Aphorism.

SYN: Adage, apothegm, maxim, saying, precept, rule, proverb.

ANT: Lecture, exhortation, dissertation, disquisition.

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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.

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KEY: Append.

SYN: Affix, supplement, subjoin, attach.

ANT: Separate, disengage, disconnect, detach.

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KEY: Appendage.

SYN: Addition, annexation, adjunct, supplement.

ANT: Subtraction, separation, amalgamation, disconnection, detachment, disjunction, division, incorporation.

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KEY: Appended.

SYN: Added, joined, affixed, subjoined, attached, appended, additional, concomitant.

ANT: Detracted, disconnected, separated, disjoined, divided.

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KEY: Appendix, [See APPENDAGE].

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KEY: Appertaining, [See CONCERNING].

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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.

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KEY: Applicable.

SYN: Available, ancilla, ry, convenient, useful, pertinent, conducive, appropriate.

ANT: Useless, unavailable, inconducive, inapplicable, irrelevant.

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KEY: Application, [See DILIGENCE].

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Appraise.

SYN: Value, survey, estimate, price.

ANT: Undervalue, discard, condemn, brand, misappreciate, misestimate.

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KEY: Appreciate.

SYN: Esteem, recognize, acknowledge, respect, value, prize, regard, reckon, estimate.

ANT: Undervalue, misconceive, misjudge, ignore, misappreciate.

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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.

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KEY: Apprehension, [See APPREHEND].

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KEY: Apprise.

SYN: Tell, inform, disclose, publish, advise, advertise, communicate, enlighten, acquaint.

ANT: Hoodwink, mystify, deceive, mislead.

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KEY: Apprize, [See APPRISE].

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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.

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KEY: Approval, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Approve.

SYN: Like, comment, sanction, praise, support, second, promote, encourage, authorize.

ANT: Disapprove, dislike, censure, blame, disown, disavow.

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KEY: Appropriate, [See FIT].

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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.

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KEY: Archaic, [See ANCIENT].

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KEY: Architect.

SYN: Constructor, contriver, designer, builder, surveyor, agent.

ANT: Workman carrying out plans, destroyer, extinguisher.

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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.

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KEY: Argue.

SYN: Discuss, debate, prove, question, evidence, establish, imply, sift, dispute, persuade, controvert, contend, demonstrate, reason.

ANT: Dictate, assert, propound, command.

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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.

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KEY: Aromatic, [See FRAGRANCE].

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KEY: Around.

SYN: About, environing, encircling.

ANT: Within, amid, among.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Array \n.\ Arrangement, order, disposition, sight, exhibition, show, parade.

ANT: Disarray, disorder, confusion, confusedness, jumble.

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KEY: Arrest \v.\

SYN: Seize, take, stop, capture, withhold, restrain, hold, detain, apprehend.

ANT: Release, dismiss, liberate, free, discharge, expedite.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Ascribe.

SYN: Assign, attribute, impute, refer, render, allege, charge.

ANT: Deny, refuse, exclude, dissociate, disconnect, dissever.

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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].

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KEY: Assault.

SYN: Onset, attack, aggression, onslaught.

ANT: Defense, resistance, repulsion, retaliation, undermining, sapping, stratagem.

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KEY: Assay.

SYN: Test, endeavor, prove, try.

ANT: Survey, conjecture, guess, scan.

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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.

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KEY: Assent \v.\ [See CONCEDE].

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KEY: Assert.

SYN: Asseverate, declare, pronounce, depose, maintain, statement, avow, avouch, affirm, allege, protest, claim.

ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, waive, abandon.

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KEY: Assets.

SYN: goods, proceeds, possessions, effects, property.

ANT: Debts, liabilities.

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KEY: Asseverate, [See ASSERT].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Astonishing.

SYN: Amazing, wondrous, surprising, wonderful, striking, marvelous.

ANT: Foreseen, unamazed, common, astonished at nothing, ordinary, natural, usual, everyday, trite.

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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.

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KEY: Attachment, [See ATTACH].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Attentive, [See OBSERVANT].

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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.

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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

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.

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KEY: Authorize, [See EMPOWER].

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KEY: Autocracy, [See AUTOCRATIC].

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KEY: Autocratic.

SYN: Independent, arbitrary, despotic, irresponsible, absolute.

ANT: Dependent, subordinate, re sponsible, constitutional, limited.

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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.

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KEY: Avaricious, [See LIBERAL].

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KEY: Avenge.

SYN: Vindicate, right, visit, retaliate.

ANT: Waive, don, forego, condone, remit, forgive, overlook.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Avow, [See AVOUCH].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Backsliding, [See BACKSLIDER].

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KEY: Backwardness.

SYN: Reluctance, slowness, shyness, hesitation, unwillingness, repugnance.

ANT: Forwardness, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity.

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KEY: Backward, [See BACKWARDNESS].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Benevolent, [See BENEFICIENT].

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KEY: Benignant, [See BENEFICIENT].

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KEY: Benison, [See BENEDICTION].

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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.

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KEY: Beseech.

SYN: Entreat, pray, solicit, ask, implore, crave, request, supplicate, petition, beg.

ANT: Insist, demand, exact, intimidate, command, coerce.

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KEY: Beseem.

SYN: Befit, suit, belong, appertain.

ANT: Unbeseem, disgrace.

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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.

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KEY: Beside.

SYN: Close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together, moreover.

ANT: Separate, apart, inclusively.

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KEY: Besiege.

SYN: Beset, beleaguer, sit, invest.

ANT: Abandon, (Phrase, “Raise the siege”).

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KEY: Besmear, [See BEDAUB].

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KEY: Besotted.

SYN: Intoxicated, steeped, stupefied, drunk, drenched, doltish, gross, prejudiced.

ANT: Sober, temperate, clear, unbiased, unprejudiced, enlightened, refined.

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KEY: Bespatter.

SYN: Besprinkle, befoul, bedaub, revile, vilify, asperse.

ANT: Absterge, sponge, cleanse, purify, vindicate, defend, clear.

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KEY: Bespeak.

SYN: Betoken, foreorder, forestall, provide, prearrange, indicate, evidence.

ANT: Belie, resign, countermand.

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KEY: Bestead \v.\

SYN: Convenience, serve, uphold, assist, accommodate, benefit.

ANT: Thwart, damage, incommode, oppose, injure.

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KEY: Bestead \n.\

SYN: Interest, behalf, advantage, benefit, part, side.

ANT: Injury, disadvantage, opposition, detriment, damage.

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KEY: Bestir. Commonly used reflexively for, to stir one's self, [See STIR].

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KEY: Bestir \n.\ [See STIR].

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KEY: Bestow.

SYN: Confer, give, present, award, accord, grant.

ANT: Withhold, withdraw, reserve, alienate, transfer, appropriate, usurp, seize.

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KEY: Better \v.\

SYN: Meliorate, improve, amend, emend, ameliorate, rectify, reform.

ANT: Make worse.

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KEY: Betide.

SYN: Befall, occur, happen.

ANT: [See BEFALL].

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KEY: Betimes.

SYN: Early, beforehand, preparedly, readily.

ANT: Behindhand, slowly, sluggishly, belatedly.

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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.

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KEY: Betray.

SYN: Deceive, delude, dupe, circumvent, ensnare, dishonor, manifest, indicate, reveal.

ANT: Protect, preserve, guard, conserve, foster, cherish, fence, conceal, cover, suppress.

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KEY: Between, Betwixt, [See AMIDST].

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KEY: Bevy \n.\

SYN: Assembly, parterre, galaxy, constellation, nock.

ANT: Gang, crew, herd, mob.

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KEY: Bewail.

SYN: Lament, deplore, rue, bemoan, sorrow, grieve, mourn for.

ANT: Exult, hail, rejoice, welcome, greet.

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KEY: Beware.

SYN: Care, refrain, consider, heed, look, fear, avoid.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, neglect, incur, brave, dare.

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KEY: Bewilder.

SYN: Daze, dazzle, confound, mystify, puzzle, embarrass, astonish, perplex, confuse, mislead.

ANT: Guide, inform, lead, instruct, enlighten, edify.

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KEY: Bewildered, [See CONFUSED].

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KEY: Bewitch.

SYN: Enchant, fascinate, charm, captivate, entrance.

ANT: Exorcise, disillusionize, disenchant.

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KEY: Beyond.

SYN: Over, further, past, more.

ANT: Here, close, near, hither, less, short.

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KEY: Bias, [See BENT].

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KEY: Bicker.

SYN: Wrangle, quarrel, jar, dispute, contend.

ANT: Chat, gossip, converse, agree.

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KEY: Bickering.

SYN: Wrangling, disputing, contention, strife, altercation, dispute.

ANT: Conversing, chatting, agreeing.

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KEY: Bid.

SYN: Tell, request, instruct, direct, order, proffer, charge, command, propose, offer.

ANT: Forbid, deter, prohibit, restrain.

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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.

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KEY: Bigoted.

SYN: Prejudiced, intolerant, narrow-minded, blindly devoted, onesided, confined.

ANT: Unprejudiced, open-minded, large-minded, broad, comprehensive, liberal.

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KEY: Bigotry.

SYN: Prejudice, Pharisaism, obstinacy, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance, superstition.

ANT: Liberality, charity, enlightenment, toleration, eclecticism, latitudinarianism.

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KEY: Bill.

SYN: Account, reckoning, score, charges, jaw, mandible, beak.

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KEY: Bind.

SYN: Fetter, engage, tie, fasten, secure, lace, twine, oblige, compel, restrict, restrain, secure.

ANT: Untie, loose, unfasten, acquit, free, liberate.

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KEY: Binding.

SYN: Restrictive, obligatory, restraining, stringent, styptic, costive, astringent.

ANT: Loosening, opening, enlarging, distending.

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KEY: Birth.

SYN: Parentage, extraction, nativity, family, race, origin, source, rise, lineage, nobility.

ANT: Death, extinction, plebeianism.

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KEY: Bit.

SYN: Morsel, piece, fragment, part.

ANT: Mass, whole.

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KEY: Biting.

SYN: Pungent, censorious, piercing, gnawing, sarcastic, sardonic, trenchant.

ANT: Pleasant, genial, soothing, complacent, flattering.

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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.

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KEY: Bitterness, [See ANTIPATHY].

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KEY: Blacken.

SYN: Bespatter, befoul, bedaub, defame, decry, calumniate, dishonor, asperse, traduce, vilify, slander, malign.

ANT: Vindicate, clear, eulogize.

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KEY: Blackguard.

SYN: Scoundrel, rascal, rapscallion, blackleg, villain.

ANT: Gentleman.

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KEY: Blame.

SYN: Censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise, disapprove, condemn, reprehend, reprobate, reprove.

ANT: Acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve.

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KEY: Blamable, [See BLAMELESS].

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KEY: Blameless.

SYN: Pure, innocent, irresponsible.

ANT: Criminated, implicated, answerable, blameworthy, faulty, guilty, blamable.

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KEY: Blanch.

SYN: Bleach, whiten.

ANT: Darken, color, obfuscate.

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KEY: Bland.

SYN: Soft, mild, gentle, complaisant, courteous, affable, gracious, tender, benign.

ANT: Harsh, abrupt, rough.

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KEY: Blandiloquence.

SYN: Glossiness, blarney, humbug, flattery, speciousness, adulation.

ANT: Bluntness, roughness, abruptness.

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KEY: Blandishment.

SYN: Coaxing, flattery, wheedling, fawning, cajolery.

ANT: Roughness, bluntness, unmannerliness.

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KEY: Blank.

SYN: Bleak, bare, utter, unmitigated, broad.

ANT: Modified, qualified, mitigated.

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KEY: Blasphemy.

SYN: Swearing, profaneness, impiety.

ANT: Reverence, veneration, godliness.

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KEY: Blast \v.\

SYN: Blight, shrivel, destroy, wither.

ANT: Restore, expand, swell.

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KEY: Blast \n.\

SYN: Breeze, efflation, explosion, blight, burst, blaze, frustration, destruction, squall, gale, tempest, hurricane, affiliation.

ANT: Zephyr, gentle breeze, neutralization.

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KEY: Blatant.

SYN: Noisy, bellowing, vociferous, clamorous, braying.

ANT: Quiet, low-toned, gentle.

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KEY: Blaze, [See BLAST].

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KEY: Blazon.

SYN: Notify, signalize, publicate, adventure, circulate, propagate, disseminate.

ANT: Cover, conceal, hide, suppress, hush, palliate, shroud, bury.

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KEY: Bleach.

SYN: Whiten, blanch.

ANT: Darken, blacken, soil, [See BLANCH].

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KEY: Bleak.

SYN: Blank, bare, open, cold, exposed, stormy, nipping.

ANT: Warm, sheltered, verdant, luxuriant, zephyrous, balmy, halcyonic.

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KEY: Blemish.

SYN: Spot, blur, blot, flaw, speck, fault, imperfection, stain, daub, tarnish, defacement, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, defect.

ANT: Purity, unsulliedness, honor, intactness.

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KEY: Blench.

SYN: Start, shy, shudder, recoil, shrink.

ANT: Encounter, dare, venture, face, stand.

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KEY: Blend.

SYN: Mix, harmonize, unite, combine, fuse, merge, amalgamate, mingle, commingle, coalesce.

ANT: Run, separate, divide, dissociate, confound.

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KEY: Bless.

SYN: Felicitate, endow, enrich, gladden, rejoice, cheer, thank.

ANT: Deprive, sadden, impoverish, ignore, curse, anathematize.

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KEY: Blessedness, [See JOY].

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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.

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KEY: Blight, [See BLAST].

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KEY: Blind.

SYN: Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant, prejudiced, uninformed, unconscious, unaware.

ANT: Farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating, clearsighted, pure-minded, aware, conscious.

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KEY: Blink.

SYN: Wink, ignore, connive, overlook.

ANT: Notice, visit, note, mark.

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KEY: Bliss.

SYN: Blessedness, joy, ecstasy, rapture.

ANT: Condemnation, accursedness, suffering, misery, woe.

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KEY: Blithe.

SYN: Light, merry, joyous, happy, bright, elastic, gladsome, bonny, vivacious, lively, cheerful, blithesome, gay.

ANT: Heavy, dull, dejected, sullen.

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KEY: Block.

SYN: Stop, arrest, fill, obstruct.

ANT: Free, liberate, open, pave.

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KEY: Blockhead.

SYN: Dolt, dunderhead, jolterhead, dunce, ninny, numskull, dullard, simpleton, booby, loggerhead, ignoramus.

ANT: Sage, adept, luminary, schoolman, philosopher, savant.

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KEY: Bloodshed.

SYN: Slaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery.

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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.

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KEY: Blooming.

SYN: Flourishing, fair, flowering, blossoming, young, beautiful.

ANT: Fading, waning, blighted, old, blasted, paralyzed, superannuated, unsightly, deformed.

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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.

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KEY: Blot out.

SYN: Erase, efface, cancel, expunge, wipe out, obliterate, destroy.

ANT: Restore, replace.

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KEY: Blotch, [See BLOT].

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KEY: Blow.

SYN: Puff, blast, breath, stroke, infliction, wound, disappointment, affliction, knock, shock, calamity, misfortune.

ANT: Assuagement, consolation, relief, comfort, blessing, sparing.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Blur, [See BLEMISH].

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KEY: Blush.

SYN: Bloom, color, carnation, complexion, aspect, shame, confusion, guiltiness, self-reproach.

ANT: Innocence, purity, guiltlessness, unconsciousness, boldness, effrontery.

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KEY: Bluster.

SYN: Storm, rage, puff, insult, blow, swagger, fume, brag.

ANT: [See BRAG].

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KEY: Blustering, [See BLUFF].

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KEY: Boast \v.\

SYN: Vaunt, brag, swagger, swell, bluster, vapor, triumph, glory.

ANT: [See BRAG].

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KEY: Boasting, [See OSTENTATION].

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Boisterous.

SYN: Loud, violent, unrestrained, tempestuous, stormy, uncontrolled, intemperate.

ANT: Peaceful, calm, serene, selfpossessed.

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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.

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KEY: Bombast.

SYN: Rhodomontade, braggadocio, gasconade, bluster, inflatedness, pomposity, exaggerativeness, fustian.

ANT: Truthfulness, moderation, refrain, veracity, modesty, temperateness, humility.

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KEY: Bombastic, [See OSTENTATION].

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KEY: Bond.

SYN: Tie, fastening, chain, association, manacle, fetter, compact, obligation, security.

ANT: Freedom, option, discretion, honor, parole.

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KEY: Bondage.

SYN: Servitude, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, subjection, serfdom, thraldom, captivity, slavery.

ANT: Freedom, liberty, independence, manumission, liberation.

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KEY: Bondsman.

SYN: Slave, serf, prisoner, captive, vassal.

ANT: Freeman, yeoman, gentleman, lord, master.

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KEY: Bonny.

SYN: Fair, pretty, pleasant, lively, cheerful, shapely, buxom.

ANT: Dull, unseemly, ill-favored, deformed.

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KEY: Bonus.

SYN: Premium, douceur, boon, benefit.

ANT: Fine, penalty, mulct, amercement, discount.

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KEY: Booby.

SYN: Idiot, dunce, numskull.

ANT: Wiseacre, solon, oracle.

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KEY: booklist.

SYN: Studious, erudite, pedantic, learned.

ANT: Unbookish, unstudious, inerudite, unlearned, ignorant, uneducated.

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KEY: Boorish, [See CLOWNISH].

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KEY: Bootless.

SYN: Useless, profitless, unavailing, abortive.

ANT: Useful, profitable, availing, effective, effectual.

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KEY: Booty.

SYN: Plunder, blackmail, loot, spoils, prey, pillage.

ANT: Restitution, fine, confiscation, forfeiture, amercement, penalty.

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KEY: Border.

SYN: Limit, boundary, brink, rim, verge, brim, edge, edging, band, hem, enclosure, confine.

ANT: Land, tract, interior, substance, space, centre.

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KEY: Border on.

SYN: Be contiguous to, be adjacent to, conterminous with, adjoin, adjacent to.

ANT: Remote from, away from.

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KEY: Bore.

SYN: Perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate.

ANT: Please, gratify, delight.

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KEY: Bosom.

SYN: Breast, hollow, valley, deep, bed, centre, heart, mind, soul, will.

ANT: Surface, exterior, manner, deportment, demeanor.

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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.

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KEY: Bother.

SYN: Fuse, worry, pester, excitement, stir, plague, vex, annoy, tease, confusion, vexation, flurry, trouble.

ANT: Calm, composure, orderliness, peace, quiet.

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KEY: Bottom.

SYN: Deep, profound, floor, groundwork, depth, ground, foot.

ANT: Top, summit, apex, crown, brow, surface.

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KEY: Bound \n.\

SYN: Limit, boundary, inclosure, confine, border.

ANT: [See BORDER].

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KEY: Bound \v.\

SYN: Confine, limit, circumscribe, terminate, restrict, restrain.

ANT: Enlarge, open, extend, spread out.

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KEY: Bound \v.\

SYN: To leap, jump, frisk, spring, skip.

ANT: Hobble, limp, crawl, creep, shamble.

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KEY: Boundary, [See BOUND].

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KEY: Boundless.

SYN: Unbounded, immeasurable, infinite, unlimited, illimitable, unmeasurable.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, circumscribed.

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KEY: Bountiful, [See LIBERAL].

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KEY: Bounty.

SYN: Liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation, gift, generosity, charity, benignity.

ANT: Illiberality, closeness, hardy, hardness, churlishness, stinginess, niggardliness.

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KEY: Bower.

SYN: Shady recess, arbor, retreat, alcove.

ANT: Open place.

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KEY: Brae.

SYN: Boast, vaunt, swagger, bully.

ANT: Cringe, whine, whimper.

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KEY: Braggart, [See BRAG].

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KEY: Braid.

SYN: Bind, tie, weave, plait.

ANT: Unbind, dishevel.

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KEY: Branch.

SYN: Member, bifurcation, bough, limb, offspring, shoot, spray, sprig, twig, ramification, offshoot, relative, scion.

ANT: Trunk, stock, stem, race, family, house.

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KEY: Brand \v.\

SYN: denounce, stigmatize, disgrace, mark.

ANT: Distinguish, honor, decorate.

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KEY: Brand \n.\

SYN: Disgrace, stigma, infamy, mark.

ANT: Decoration, badge, distinction, honor.

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KEY: Brandish.

SYN: Flourish, fence, agitate, wield, whisk, shake, wave.

ANT: Stay, arrest, suspend.

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KEY: Bravado.

SYN: Boasting, bragging, vaunting, bluster.

ANT: [See OSTENTATION].

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KEY: Brave, [See GALLANT].

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KEY: Brawl.

SYN: Wrangle, broil, scold, roar, shout, vociferate.

ANT: Whisper, softness, mellowness, melodiousness, intonation.

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KEY: Brawny.

SYN: Muscular, powerful, strong, athletic, sinewy, herculean, robust, stout.

ANT: Lean, weak, fragile, delicate, effeminate, feeble.

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KEY: Bray.

SYN: Pound, bruise, beat, pulverize.

ANT: Compact, compound, amalgamate, conglomerate.

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KEY: Breach.

SYN: Rupture, divulsion, gap, quarrel, violation, nonperformance.

ANT: Integrity, conservation, healing, reconciliation, inviolateness, fulfillment.

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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.

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KEY: Breast, [See BOSOM].

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KEY: Breath.

SYN: Respiration, inspiration, expiration, inhalation, exhalation, /Met./ Life.

ANT: To latter, Cessation, passing, departure, perishing, dying, death.

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KEY: Breathe, [See BREATH].

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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.

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KEY: Breed \n.\ [See LINEAGE].

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KEY: Breeding.

SYN: Nurture, education, training, discipline, instruction, manners, air, demeanor, decorum.

ANT: ill-manners, ill-training, illbehavior, ignorance.

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KEY: Brevity.

SYN: Shortness, closeness, conciseness, succinctness, terseness, compendiousness, pointedness, abbreviation, abridgment.

ANT: Length, protraction, elongation, extension, prolixity, diffusiveness, [See IDENTITY], tediousness.

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KEY: Drew.

SYN: Concoct, compound, mix, hatch, prepare, season, threaten, impend, increase, collect, form, gather, grow.

ANT: Pass, disperse, break, spoil, miscompound, mar.

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KEY: Bridle.

SYN: Curb, restrain, govern, control, master, moderate, compress.

ANT: Loosen, liberate, relax, vent, discharge.

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KEY: Brief, [See SHORT].

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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.

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KEY: Brilliant.

SYN: Flashing, radiant, shining, lustrous, glorious, luminous, effulgent, beaming, sparkling.

ANT: [See BRIGHT].

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KEY: Bring.

SYN: Fetch, procure, convey, carry, bear, adduce, import, produce, cause, induce.

ANT: Export, remove, abstract, subtract, prevent, exclude, debar, transport.

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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.

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KEY: Bristling.

SYN: Full, stocked, multitudinous, crowded, swarming, multifarious.

ANT: Bare, nude, scant, devoid, vacant.

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KEY: Brittle, [See FRAGILE].

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KEY: Broach.

SYN: Moot, start, launch, originate, suggest, exhibit, propound.

ANT: Reserve, secrete, seal, repress, cork, bottle.

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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.

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KEY: Broadcast.

SYN: Scattered abroad, dispersed, profusely, unsparingly, indiscriminately, injudiciously, extensively.

ANT: Collectedly, concentratively, sparingly, reservedly, locally, partially, discreetly, charily.

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KEY: Broil, [See AFFRAY].

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KEY: Brook.

SYN: Bear, tolerate, suffer, endure, undergo, submit to, permit.

ANT: Resist, resent, reject.

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KEY: Brotherhood.

SYN: Fraternity, association, fellowship, society, sodality.

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KEY: Brotherly.

SYN: Fraternal, kind, affectionate, tender.

ANT: Unkind, hard, harsh, unfraternal.

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KEY: Browbeat.

SYN: Intimidate, bully, overbear, cow, overawe, boycott, bulldoze.

ANT: Encourage, rally, countenance, support.

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KEY: Bruise \v.\ [See BREAK].

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KEY: Brunt.

SYN: Impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock.

ANT: Resistance, endurance, repulsion.

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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.

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KEY: Brutish, [See BRUTAL].

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KEY: Bubble.

SYN: Trifle, toy, fancy, conceit, vision, dream, froth, trash.

ANT: Acquisition, prize, treasury reality, substance, verity, jewel, good, advantage.

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KEY: Bud \v.\

SYN: Sprout, blossom, bloom, germinate.

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KEY: Buffoon.

SYN: Wag, clown, jester.

ANT: Wit, genius, philosopher, pedant, visionary, dissembler, prig, enthusiast, hypocrite.

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KEY: Bugbear.

SYN: Hobgoblin, goblin, gorgon, ghoul, spirit, spook, specter, ogre, scarecrow.

ANT: [See SPECTER].

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KEY: Build, [See CONSTRUCT].

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KEY: Building.

SYN: Edifice, architecture, construction, erection, fabric, structure.

ANT: Ruin, dilapidation, dismantlement, demolition.

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KEY: Builder, [See BUILDING].

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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.

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KEY: Bulk, [See SIZE].

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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.

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KEY: Bully.

SYN: swashbuckler, swaggerer, braggadocio.

ANT: [See BLUSTERER].

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KEY: Bullying, [See BLUSTERING].

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KEY: Bulwark.

SYN: Rampart, fortress, fortification, palladium, citadel, intrenchment, stronghold, parapet, bastion.

ANT: Storming, siege, investment, bombardment, cannonade, boarding.

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KEY: Bungler.

SYN: Botcher, clown, lubber, fumbler, novice.

ANT: Adept, adroit, master, artist, workman, proficient, professor.

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KEY: Buoy.

SYN: Float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer, inspire.

ANT: Sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail, betray.

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KEY: Buoyant.

SYN: Sprightly, spirited, vivacious, lively, light, floating, hopeful, cheerful, elastic, [See JOY].

ANT: Heavy, depressed, cheerless, joyless, dejected, moody, desponding.

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KEY: Burden \v.\ [See LOAD].

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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.

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KEY: Burdensome, [See TROUBLESOME and PONDEROUS].

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KEY: Burial.

SYN: Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment.

ANT: Exhumation, disinterment.

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KEY: Burke.

SYN: Stifle, shelve, strangle, smother.

ANT: Enucleate, propound, promulge, publicate, promote, foster, reanimate, eliminate, ventilate, bruit, suscitate.

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KEY: Burlesque.

SYN: Parody, travesty, satire, caricature, grotesque, droll, farcical, comic, ludicrous.

ANT: Classic, pure, severe, tragic, historic, grave, truthful.

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KEY: Burly, [See BULKY].

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KEY: Burn.

SYN: Ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder, blaze, flash, cremate, incinerate.

ANT: Extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale.

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KEY: Burning, [See ARDENT].

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KEY: Burnish.

SYN: Brighten, glaze, polish, gloze, gloss.

ANT: Scratch, dull, abrade, bedim, cloud, frost, matt.

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KEY: Burst \v.\

SYN: Extravasate, displode, explode, discharge, shiver, shatter, disrupt, rend, break, split.

ANT: Cohere, hold, stand.

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KEY: Bury.

SYN: Inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel, entomb, compose, hush.

ANT: Disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate, publicate, aggravate.

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KEY: Business.

SYN: Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office, employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern.

ANT: Stagnation, leisure, inactivity.

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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.

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KEY: Busy.

SYN: Industrious, diligent, assiduous, engaged, occupied.

ANT: Idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, unoccupied.

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KEY: But.

SYN: Save, except, barring, yet, beside, excluding, still, excepting, notwithstanding.

ANT: With, including, inclusive, nevertheless, however, notwithstanding.

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KEY: Butchery, [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Buxom.

SYN: Bonny, blithe, shapely.

ANT: Lean, slender, ill-shaped.

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KEY: Buy.

SYN: Purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn.

ANT: Sell, vend, hawk, retail.

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KEY: Buyer, [See BUY].

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KEY: Cabal.

SYN: Confederacy, conspiracy, combination, coterie, gang, faction, plot, political intrigue, junto, league.

ANT: Parliament, legislation, council, government, empire, synod.

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KEY: Cabalistic.

SYN: Mystic, symbolical, fanciful, occult.

ANT: Patent, practical, instructive, lucid, simple.

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KEY: Cabbage.

SYN: Rob, steal, filch, crib, pocket, shirk, pillage, abstract, purloin.

ANT: [See PURLOIN].

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KEY: Cachinnation.

SYN: Grin, chuckle, giggle, snigger, titter, cackle.

ANT: Longfacedness, whine, whimper.

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KEY: Cackle, [See CACHINNATION].

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KEY: Cadaverous.

SYN: Pale, exsanguineous, bloodless, hueless, pallid, ghastly, ashy.

ANT: Rosy, incarnadine, sanguine, chubby, brawny.

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KEY: Caducity.

SYN: Decline, infirmity, decrepitude, senility, decadence, transience, delicacy.

ANT: Vigor, youth, freshness, vitality, renovation, permanence.

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KEY: Cage.

SYN: Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib.

ANT: Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar.

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KEY: Caitiff.

SYN: Rascal, miscreant, rogue, churl, villain, ruffian.

ANT: Worthy, gentleman, patriot, philanthropist.

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KEY: Cajole.

SYN: Tempt, lure, coat, flatter, wheedle, delude, cheat, inveigle, dupe.

ANT: Chide, rate, scold, warn.

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KEY: Calamity.

SYN: Disaster, misfortune, mishap, catastrophe, misadventure, trouble, visitation, affliction, reverse, blight.

ANT: godsend, blessing, boon.

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KEY: Calamitous.

SYN: Disastrous, illfated, fatal, unlucky, hapless, unfortunate, inauspicious, troublous, illstarred, ill-omened.

ANT: Felicitous, fortunate, auspicious, favorable, propitious, advantageous.

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KEY: Calculate.

SYN: Estimate, consider, weigh, number, count, apportion, proportion, investigate, reckon, rate, compute.

ANT: Guess, conjecture, hit, chance, risk, stake, miscalculate.

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KEY: Calculated.

SYN: Fitted, congenial, adapted, conducive.

ANT: Unfitted, unadapted, uncongenial, unconducive, adverse, unqualified, unsuited, miscalculated, ill-adapted.

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KEY: Calculating.

SYN: Wary, cautious, circumspect, sagacious, careful, farsighted, guarded.

ANT: Shortsighted, dull, obtuse, improvident, incautious, rash, careless.

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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.

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KEY: Calibre.

SYN: Gauge, diameter, ability, capacity, force, strength, power.

ANT: correlative, as character, mind, etc.

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KEY: callback, [See RECALL].

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KEY: Call out, [See PROCLAIM].

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KEY: Call together, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Called.

SYN: Named, designated, denominated, Determined.

ANT: Unnamed, undesignated, misnamed, misdesignated.

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KEY: Calling, [See BUSINESS].

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KEY: Callous, [See FAVORABLE].

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KEY: Calm.

SYN: Smooth, pacify, compose, allay, still, soothe, appease, assuage, quiet, tranquilize.

ANT: Stir, excite, agitate, disconcert, ruffle, lash, heat, discompose.

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KEY: Calumniate, [See SLANDER].

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KEY: Calumniator, [See BACKBITER].

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KEY: Calumnious.

SYN: Slanderous, defamatory, scurrilous, abusive.

ANT: [See ABUSIVE].

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KEY: Calumny.

SYN: Slander, defamation, detraction, libel, traducement, backbiting, opprobrium, aspersion.

ANT: Vindication, clearance, eulogy, panegyric.

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KEY: Camp.

SYN: Encamp, bivouac.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Candidate.

SYN: Aspirant, petitioner, canvasser, applicant, claimant, solicitor.

ANT: Waiver, decliner, abandoner, resigner, abjurer, noncompetitor.

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KEY: Canon.

SYN: Rule, measure, regulation, test, law.

ANT: Misguidance, antinomy, Irregularity, misrule.

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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.

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KEY: Capable, [See ABLE].

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KEY: Capability.

SYN: Cleverness, aptitude, talent, capacity, power, facility, faculty.

ANT: Dulness, inaptitude, awkwardness, difficulty.

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KEY: Capacious.

SYN: Spacious, comprehensive, voluminous, ample, accommodative, extensive, wide.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, shallow, contracted, petty.

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KEY: Capacity.

SYN: Space, size, volume, tonnage, calibre, ability, faculty, compatability, cleverness, talents, magnitude, parts, competency, compressiveness, accommodation.

ANT: Narrowness, restriction, Incapacity, coarctation, contractedness.

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KEY: Capital.

SYN: Chief, excellent, important, cardinal, principal, consummate, high.

ANT: Inferior, unimportant, subordinate, minor, defective, mean.

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KEY: Capitulate.

SYN: Stipulate, yield, surrender, submit.

ANT: Resist, struggle, contend.

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KEY: Caprice, [See DRY].

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KEY: Capricious.

SYN: Wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle, changeful, whimsical, humorsome, inconstant, crotchety.

ANT: Firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant.

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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.

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KEY: Captivate, [See BEWITCH].

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KEY: Captivated.

SYN: Taken, charmed, smitten, fascinated, enslaved, captured, enthralled.

ANT: Free, unaffected, uninfluenced, unscathed, insensible, insensitive.

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KEY: Captivating.

SYN: Charming, bewitching, fascinating, alluring, seductive, attractive.

ANT: Hideous, loathsome, repulsive, uncaptivating, uninteresting.

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KEY: Captivity, [See THRALDOM].

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KEY: Capture \v.\ [See SEIZE].

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KEY: Capture \n.\ [See PRIZE].

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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.

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KEY: Career.

SYN: Course, success, walk, line, progress, history, way of ill passage, race.

ANT: Misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage.

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KEY: Careful, [See COMMON].

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KEY: Careless, [See COMMON].

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KEY: Caress \v.\ [See FONDLE].

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KEY: Caress \n.\

SYN: Endearment, blandishment, wheedling, fondling, stroking.

ANT: Vexation, irritation, annoyance, teasing, persecution, provocation.

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KEY: Cargo.

SYN: Freight, burden, load, consignment, merchandise, lading, goods.

ANT: Conveyance, bearer, carrier.

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KEY: Caricature.

SYN: Mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, extravagance, exaggeration, hyperbole, monstrosity, farce.

ANT: Portraiture, representation, resemblance, justice, fidelity, truthfulness.

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KEY: Carnage.

SYN: Massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery.

ANT: Ransom, deliverance, quarter.

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KEY: Carnal.

SYN: Fleshly, sensual, selfindulgent, licentious, animal, coarse, base, worldly, impure, libidinous, secular.

ANT: Spiritual, ethereal, pure, selfcontrolled, temperate, exalted, refined.

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KEY: Carnival.

SYN: Revel, rout, festivity, masquerade.

ANT: Fast, mortification, lent, retirement.

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KEY: Carol.

SYN: Sing, warble, chirp, trill, whistle, chirrup, chant, hum.

ANT: Whine, croak, cry, dirge, lament.

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KEY: Carouse.

SYN: Festivity, feast, banquet, revel, debauch.

ANT: Fast, starvation, maceration, abstinence.

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KEY: Carousal.

SYN: Wassail, revel, banquet, orgies.

ANT: [See BANQUET].

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KEY: Carp.

SYN: Cavil, censure, challenge, overhaul, canvass, hypercriticise, object, catch.

ANT: Allow, concede, admit, compliment, encourage, approve, applaud, endorse, acquiesce, assent.

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KEY: Carpet, (Metaphorical).

SYN: Table, board, consideration, consultation.

ANT: Shelf, rejection, disposal, oblution.

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KEY: Carriage.

SYN: Transportation, conveyance, bearing, manner, conduct, demeanor, walk, gait, mien, behavior, deportment, vehicle.

ANT: Misconveyance, miscarriage, misconduct, misconsignment.

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KEY: Carry, [See BEAK].

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KEY: Carry on, [See TRANSACT].

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KEY: Carry through, [See COMPLETE].

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KEY: Case.

SYN: Occurrence, circumstance, contingency, event, plight, predicament, fact, subject, condition, instance.

ANT: Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture.

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KEY: Cash.

SYN: Money, specie, coin, currency, capital.

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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.

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KEY: Cast \n.\

SYN: Mould, stamp, kind, figure, form, aspect, mien, air, style, manner, character.

ANT: Malformation, deformity, abnormity.

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KEY: castaway, [See REJECT].

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KEY: Cast down, [See MELANCHOLY].

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KEY: Cast out, [See EJECT].

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KEY: Caste.

SYN: Order, class, rank, lineage, race, blood, dignity, respect.

ANT: Degradation, taboo, disrepute, abasement, reproach.

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KEY: Castigate.

SYN: Whip, flagellate, cane.

ANT: Reward, encourage, decorate, caress.

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KEY: Casual.

SYN: Accidental, occasional, incidental, contingent, unforeseen, fortuitous.

ANT: Regular, ordinary, systematic, periodic, certain, fixed, [See CASUALTY].

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KEY: Casualty.

SYN: Accident, contingency, chance, fortuity, hap, misfortune, occurrence, mischance, [See ACCIDENT].

ANT: Appointment, assignment, provision, ordinance, enactment.

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KEY: Casuistry.

SYN: Sophistry, Jesuitry, fallacy, refinement, quibble, strawsplitting.

ANT: Reason, conscience, commonsense.

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KEY: Catalogue \n.\ [See BAWL].

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KEY: Catastrophe.

SYN: Revolution, disaster, calamity, misfortune, misadventure, reverse, blow, visitation.

ANT: Blessing, victory, triumph, felicitation, achievement, ovation, success, godsend.

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KEY: Catch.

SYN: Take, seize, grip, clutch, capture, secure, ensnare, snatch, hit, arrest, comprehend, overtake, apprehend.

ANT: Lose, miss, misapprehend, escape.

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KEY: Catching, [See PESTIFEROUS].

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KEY: catechism.

SYN: Erotetics, socratics, interrogation, creed, system, compendium.

ANT: Reading, excogitation, elaboration.

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KEY: Catechumen.

SYN: Tyro, learner, pupil, novice, scholar.

ANT: Master, doctor, professor, teacher, savant.

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KEY: Categorical.

SYN: Plain, positive, declaratory, peremptory, affirmative, absolute, demonstrative, distinct.

ANT: Obscure, uncertain, ambiguous, dubious, contingent, hypothetical, hazy, oracular, enigmatical, mystical.

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KEY: Category.

SYN: State, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort, class.

ANT: Essence, truth, being.

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KEY: Causality.

SYN: Eventuality, operativeness, potentiality, effectuality, productiveness, conduciveness.

ANT: Preventiveness, retardativeness, obstructiveness, counteractivity, unproductiveness, ineffectiveness, inoperativeness, barrenness.

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KEY: Causation, [See CAUSALITY].

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KEY: Cause \v.\ [See PRODUCE].

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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.

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KEY: Caustic.

SYN: Burning, mordant, pungent, irritating, biting, pointed, sarcastic, trenchant, severe.

ANT: Pointless, mild, soothing, conciliating, vapid, flat, tame.

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KEY: Caution.

SYN: [See CARE and CALCULATION].

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KEY: Cautious, [See CIRCUMSPECT].

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KEY: Cavalier \a.\ [See ARROGANT].

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KEY: Cavil, [See CARP].

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KEY: Cavity, [See OPENING].

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KEY: Caviller, [See CAVIL].

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KEY: Cease.

SYN: Intermit, stop, desist, abstain, discontinue, quit, refrain, end, pause, leave off.

ANT: Ceaseless, never-ending, everlasting, constant, incessant, [See ETERNAL].

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KEY: Ceaseless, [See CEASE].

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KEY: Cede, [See RELINQUISH].

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KEY: Celebrate, [See HONOR].

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KEY: Celebrated.

SYN: Famed, renowned, illustrious, eminent, glorious, famous, noted, distinguished, notable, exalted.

ANT: Unrenowned, obscure, undistinguished, unknown, disgraced, mean.

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KEY: Celebration.

SYN: Commemoration, solemnization, observance.

ANT: Oblivion, inobservance, obsolescence, desuetude.

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KEY: Celebrity.

SYN: Fame, honor, glory, star, reputation, distinction, renown, notability, eminence, notoriety.

ANT: Obscurity, meanness, ingloriousness, ignominy, disgrace, contempt, cipher, nobody.

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KEY: Celerity.

SYN: Rapidity, speed, haste, velocity, swiftness, quickness, fleetness, despatch.

ANT: Slowness, inertness, slaggishness, tardiness, cumbrousness.

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KEY: Celestial.

SYN: Heavenly, ethereal, atmospheric, supernal, angelic, radiant, eternal, immortal, seraphic, divine, godlike, elysian.

ANT: Earthly, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, mortal, hellish, infernal.

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KEY: Cement.

SYN: Bind, bond, unite, perpetuate, consolidate.

ANT: Detach, dissolve, dissociate, disintegrate, divorce.

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KEY: Censorious, [See CAPTIOUS].

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KEY: Censure \v.\ [See BLAME].

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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.

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KEY: Central.

SYN: Mediate, accessible, convenient,.

ANT: Remote, inaccessible, inconvenient.

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KEY: Centralize.

SYN: Concentrate, fix, localize, collect.

ANT: Disperse, disseminate, distribute, apportion, divide, delocalize.

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KEY: Ceremonial.

SYN: Official, ministerial, functional, pompous, imposing, sumptuous, scenic.

ANT: Ordinary, private, unimposing, unostentatious, undramatic.

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KEY: Ceremonious.

SYN: Punctilious, formal, prim, precise.

ANT: Brusque, blunt, supercilious, bluff, unceremonious.

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KEY: Ceremony.

SYN: Display, pageant, solemnity, rite, formality.

ANT: [See FASHION].

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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.

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KEY: Certainly.

SYN: Surely, positively, unquestionably.

ANT: Possibly, probably, perhaps, contingently, doubtfully, occasionally.

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KEY: Certainty.

SYN: Assurance, demonstrableness, positiveness, unquestionableness, confidence, conviction.

ANT: Dubiousness, precariousness, casualty, vicissitude, uncertainty, irregularity, hesitation, doubt, misgiving, conjecture, indecision.

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KEY: Certify.

SYN: Acknowledge, aver, attest, vouch, avow, avouch, testify, protest, declare, demonstrate, prove, evidence, inform, assure.

ANT: Disprove, disavow, misinform, misadvise.

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KEY: Cessation.

SYN: Stopping, halt, discontinuance, quiescence, suspension, intermission, lull, respite, stop, rest, abeyance, pause.

ANT: Continuance, uninterruptedness, unintermission, incessancy.

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KEY: Cession.

SYN: Concession, yielding, surrender, abandonment, relinquishment, grant.

ANT: Retention, claimance, maintenance, appropriation, usurpation, vindication, assumption.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Chagrin \v.\ [See CHAFE].

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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].

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KEY: Changeable.

SYN: [See CAPRICIOUS].

ANT: [See CHANGELESS].

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KEY: Changeful, [See CHANGEABLE].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Chary.

SYN: Careful, cautions, calculating, frugal, shy, wary, sparing, slow, saving, reluctant.

ANT: Liberal, lavish, profuse, eager.

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KEY: Chase \v.\

SYN: Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute.

ANT: Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade.

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KEY: Chaste.

SYN: Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented, virtuous, incorrupt, simple, unaffected, nice.

ANT: Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated.

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KEY: Chasten.

SYN: Purify, discipline, chastise, correct, castigate, improve, spiritualize, afflict, refine.

ANT: Indulge, sensualize, brutalize, degrade, corrupt, pamper, carnalize, spoil, demoralize.

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KEY: Chat, [See BABBLE].

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KEY: Chattels.

SYN: Effects, goods, wares, movables, furniture.

ANT: Freehold.

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KEY: Chatter.

SYN: Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle.

ANT: Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation.

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KEY: Cheap.

SYN: Common, inexpensive, uncostly, mean, vile, worthless, low-priced.

ANT: Rare, costly, worthy, expensive, honorable, noble, high.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Check \n.\

SYN: Repulse, hindrance, set back, rebuff.

ANT: Encouragement, freedom, liberty.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Cheerfulness, [See CHEERFUL].

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KEY: Cheerless, [See CHEERFUL].

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KEY: Cherish.

SYN: Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage.

ANT: Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check.

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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.

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KEY: Chief \a.\

SYN: Chef, the head, [See CAPITAL].

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KEY: Chief \n.\ [See CHIEFTAIN].

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KEY: Chiefly, [See MAINLY].

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Choice \n.\

SYN: Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative.

ANT: Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance, indifference, refuse.

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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.

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KEY: Choler, [See ANGER].

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KEY: Choleric.

SYN: Hasty, testy, impetuous, irascible.

ANT: Cool, phlegmatic, serene, placid, dispassionate, stoical.

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KEY: Choose.

SYN: Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick out.

ANT: Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore, decline.

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KEY: Chronicle \v.\

SYN: Record, register.

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KEY: Chronicle \n.\ [See ANNALS].

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KEY: Chuckle.

SYN: Grin, crow, cackle.

ANT: Cry, wail, grumble, whimper, whine.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Circuitous.

SYN: Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round about, sinuous, winding.

ANT: Linear, direct, straight.

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KEY: Circular.

SYN: Round, spherical.

ANT: Lineal, direct.

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KEY: Circulate.

SYN: Disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread, travel.

ANT: Suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate.

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KEY: Circumference.

SYN: Periphery, enclosure, circuit, outline, boundary.

ANT: Diameter, crossing, bisection, transection, transversion.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Circumstantial.

SYN: Inferential, constructive, minute, detailed, elaborate, specific.

ANT: Jocular, positive, inaccurate, loose, general.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Claim \n.\

SYN: Assertion, vindication, pretension, title, right, privilege, arrogation, demand.

ANT: Waiving, abjuration, disclaimer, surrender.

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KEY: Claimant.

SYN: Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant.

ANT: Relinquisher, resigner, conceder, waiver, renouncer, abjurer.

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KEY: Clamor.

SYN: Contention, contentiousness, squabble, tumult, hubbub, noise, uproar, outcry, obloquy.

ANT: Silence, acquiescence, reticence.

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KEY: Clamorous, [See NOISY].

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KEY: Clandestine.

SYN: Furtive, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, hidden, disguised, concealed, private, underhand.

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KEY: Clasp.

SYN: Grasp, connect, unite, bracket, concatenate, embrace.

ANT: Relax, sever, unclasp, disconnect, detach, exclude.

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KEY: Class, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Classical.

SYN: Pure, refined, elegant, polished, chaste, augustan.

ANT: Corrupt, debased, inelegant, harsh, barbarous, unclassical, uncouth.

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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.

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KEY: Classify.

SYN: Arrange, systematize, adjust, rank, class, tabulate, dispose, collocate, assort.

ANT: Derange, confound, disorder, disorganize, intermix.

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KEY: Clause.

SYN: Portion, paragraph, stipulation, provision, article, condition, chapter, section, passage.

ANT: Document, instrument, muniment.

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KEY: Clean \v.\

SYN: Purify, clarify.

ANT: Pollute, befoul, bespatter, defile.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Clothe \v.\

SYN: Invest, robe, drape, dress, array, attire, cover.

ANT: Denude, strip, divest.

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KEY: Clothes, [See HABILIMENTS].

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KEY: Cloudy, [See MUGGY and OBSCURE].

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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.

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KEY: Cluster.

SYN: Bunch, group, gathering, muster, throng.

ANT: Scattering, sprinkling, dispersion.

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KEY: Clutch \v.\

SYN: Grasp, grab, seize, catch, grip, grapple with, snatch, pounce.

ANT: Liberate, release, emancipate.

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KEY: Coagulate.

SYN: Mix, blend, fuse, coalesce, amalgamate, condense.

ANT: Rarefy, expand, dissipate, subtilize, discombine.

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KEY: Coadjutor.

SYN: Assistant, ally, cooperator, accessory, accomplice.

ANT: Opponent, counteractor, antagonist, baffler, adversary.

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KEY: Coalesce.

SYN: Harmonize, blend, mix, combine, join, unite, amalgamate, cohere.

ANT: Disagree, discomport.

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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.

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KEY: Coax.

SYN: Wheedle, fawn, flatter, call, ole, persuade, overcome, seduce, allure, circumvent.

ANT: Intimidate, coerce, impel, instigate, drive.

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KEY: Cobble.

SYN: Patch, botch, bungle, clout.

ANT: Repair, manipulate, finedraw.

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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.

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KEY: Coddle.

SYN: Spoil, humor, pamper, nurse, caress.

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KEY: Codger.

SYN: Gaffer, churl, curmudgeon.

ANT: Swell, fop, spendthrift, scapegrace, puppy.

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KEY: Codify.

SYN: Summarize, digest, incorporate, embody, condense.

ANT: Expunge, abrogate, annul, disembody, disincorporate, rescind.

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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.

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KEY: Coeval, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Coexist.

SYN: Concur, comport, accompany, coalesce, coincide.

ANT: Disconcur, discomport.

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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.

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KEY: Coextensive, [See COEXTENSION].

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KEY: Cogent.

SYN: Forcible, powerful, potent, strong, persuasive, influential.

ANT: Weak, ineffectual, powerless, feeble.

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KEY: Cogitate.

SYN: Think, ruminate, reflect, meditate, brood, speculate, contemplate, ponder, muse.

ANT: Idle, maunder, dream.

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KEY: Cogitation, [See COGITATE].

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KEY: Cognizance.

SYN: Notice, observation, recognition, knowledge, experience.

ANT: Inadvertence, neglect, ignorance, inexperience, oversight, connivance.

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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.

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KEY: Coin.

SYN: Fabricate, counterfeit, invent.

ANT: Misform, misconstrue.

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KEY: Coincide, [See AGREE].

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KEY: Coincidence.

SYN: Chance, fortuity, casualty, concurrence, correspondence, contemporaneousness, commensurateness, harmony, agreement, consent.

ANT: Design, purpose, adaptation, synchronism, anachronism, disharmony, incommensurateness, discordance, variation, difference.

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KEY: Cold, [See FRIGID].

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KEY: Collate.

SYN: Adduce, collect, compare, gather, induct, extract, cite.

ANT: Verify, identify, recognize, authenticate.

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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.

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KEY: Collection.

SYN: Assembly, assemblage, store, gathering, collation.

ANT: Dispersion, distribution, dispensation, division, arrangement, disposal, classification.

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KEY: Collision.

SYN: Encounter, conflict, crash, opposition, impact, concussion, clash.

ANT: Interswerving, interdivergence, shave.

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KEY: Collocate.

SYN: Place, locate, arrange, classify, tabulate, allocate.

ANT: Move, dislocate, distribute, dispense, disturb, disperse, confound, confuse, displace, misplace.

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KEY: Collocation, [See COLLOCATE].

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KEY: Colloquy.

SYN: Conference, consultation, conversation, council, confabulation.

ANT: Clamor, outcry, tumult, babel.

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KEY: Colluctation.

SYN: Wrestling, contention, competition.

ANT: Coadjutorship, assistance, support, backing.

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KEY: Collusion.

SYN: Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy.

ANT: Baffling, frustration, counteraction, defeat, discomfiture, discernment, betrayal, exposure, informership, traitorship.

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KEY: Color.

SYN: Hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish.

ANT: Achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency, truthfulness.

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KEY: Colorable.

SYN: Specious, ostensible, deceptive, dressed, tinged, warped.

ANT: Genuine, candid, open, naked, transparent.

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KEY: Colossal, [See GIGANTIC].

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KEY: Combat \v.\ [See RESIST].

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KEY: Combat \n.\

SYN: Encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement, arms, battle.

ANT: Surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce, arbitration.

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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,.

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KEY: Comely.

SYN: Seemly, graceful, elegant, shapely, suitable, fitting, handsome, decent, becoming.

ANT: Unseemly, ungraceful, inelegant, unshapely.

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KEY: Comfortable.

SYN: Snug, satisfied, pleasant, agreeable, cozy, commodious, convenient, consoled.

ANT: Uncomfortable, dissatisfied, troubled, miserable, wretched, cheerless, unhappy, disagreeable, forlorn.

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KEY: Comfortless, [See COMFORTABLE].

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KEY: Comic, [See LUDICROUS].

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KEY: Comity.

SYN: Urbanity, pleasantness, affability, blandness.

ANT: Rudeness, distantness, roughness, churlishness.

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KEY: Command \v.\

SYN: Order, direct, instruct, charge, bid, enjoin.

ANT: Supplicate, entreat, persuade, beg, petition, suggest, represent.

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KEY: Command \n.\ [See MANDATE].

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KEY: Commanding, [See AUTHORITATIVE].

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KEY: Commemorate.

SYN: Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep.

ANT: Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate.

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KEY: Commence.

SYN: Begin, start, open, initiate, inaugurate, enter upon, set about, undertake.

ANT: Finish, terminate, conclude, consummate, complete.

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KEY: Commend.

SYN: Praise, laud, extol, approve, recommend, encourage, applaud, eulogize.

ANT: Blame, censure, disapprove, discourage, denounce, condemn, discommend.

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KEY: Commendation, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Commensurate.

SYN: Equal, adequate, sufficient, coextensive, conterminous.

ANT: Unequal, short, scant, inadequate, insufficient, incommensurate.

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KEY: Comment \v.\

SYN: Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain, expatiate, criticise.

ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconceive, misrepresent.

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KEY: Comment \n.\ [See OBSERVATION].

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KEY: Commentator.

SYN: Interpreter, explainer, note-maker, scholiast, expositor, glossary, elucidator.

ANT: Mystifier, misinterpreter, puzzler, enigmatist, Oedipus.

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KEY: Commerce.

SYN: Trade, traffic, merchandize, barter, exchange, business, communication, dealing, intercourse.

ANT: Stagnation, exclusion, inactivity, interdict, embargo, dullness.

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KEY: Commiserate.

SYN: Despise, contemn, pity, compassionate, condole, sympathize.

ANT: Admire, envy, disregard, maltreat, molest, ignore, condemn.

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KEY: Commiseration, [See PITY].

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KEY: Commit.

SYN: Perpetrate, execute, confide, [See DO], relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consign.

ANT: Miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit.

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KEY: Commodious.

SYN: Ample, easy, convenient, spacious, suitable, comfortable.

ANT: Inconvenient, incommodious, narrow, ill-contrived, incommensurate, discommodious.

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KEY: Commodity.

SYN: Staple, ware, article, stock.

ANT: Drug, offal, refuse, garbage.

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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.

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KEY: Commotion.

SYN: Agitation, disturbance, tumult, excitement, turmoil, perturbation.

ANT: Quiescence, calm, subsidence, pacification, tranquillity, mitigation, appeasement, soothing, allaying, moderating.

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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.

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KEY: Communication, [See INTERCOURSE].

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KEY: Communion.

SYN: Participation, share, converse, agreement, partnership, comportionment, fellowship, association, intercourse.

ANT: Exclusion, deprivation, nonparticipation, disqualification, disconnection, alienation, disruption.

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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.

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KEY: Commute.

SYN: Alter, mitigate, substitute, exchange, compensate, barter, equalize, balance, modify.

ANT: Misappropriation, misconvert, misappropriate, disallow, stabilitate, perpetuate, stereotype.

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KEY: Compact \n.\ [See AGREEMENT].

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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.

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KEY: Companion.

SYN: Associate, mate, comrade, colleague, ally, partner, accomplice, coadjutor.

ANT: Rival, toe, antagonist, adversary.

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KEY: Companionable.

SYN: Pleasant, affable, sociable, convertible, friendly, easy, agreeable, gregarious.

ANT: Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial, cold, inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary.

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KEY: Companionship.

SYN: Converse, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, friendliness, association.

ANT: Ignorance, distance, avoidance, estrangement, alienation, unfamiliarity, soitude, isolation.

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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.

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KEY: Compare.

SYN: Assimilate, collate, parallel.

ANT: Contrast, oppose, dissociate, disconnect, pit, distinguish.

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KEY: Comparable.

SYN: Resembling, approximate, similar.

ANT: Dissimilar, unlike, remote, inferior.

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KEY: Comparative.

SYN: Relatively, proportionately.

ANT: Absolutely, actually, positively, superlatively.

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KEY: Comparison, [See LIKENESS].

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KEY: Compartment.

SYN: Division, partition, allotment, sphere, space.

ANT: correlative, viz, anything of which it is a compartment.

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KEY: Compass \n.\

SYN: Area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon.

ANT: Common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness, indefiniteness.

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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.

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KEY: Compassion.

SYN: Pity, sympathy, condolence, tenderness, fellow-feeling, commiseration, pardon.

ANT: Hardheartedness, unforgiveness, cruelty, antipathy, denunciation, condemnation, vindictiveness, retaliation.

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KEY: Compassionate, [See KIND].

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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.

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KEY: Compeer.

SYN: Equal, co-ordinate, peer, fellow, mate, compatriot, comrade.

ANT: Inferior, superior, solitary.

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KEY: Compel.

SYN: Force, oblige, drive, constrain, necessitate, make, coerce, bind.

ANT: Persuade, convince, coax, allure, egg, induce, tempt, seduce, acquit, cozen, liberate, release.

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KEY: Compendious.

SYN: Condensed, concentrated, brief, short, succinct, concise, abridged, commodious, convenient, useful, handy, comprehensive, compact.

ANT: Diffuse, vague, prolix, shapeless, cumbrous, undigested.

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KEY: Compendium, [See ABRIDGEMENT].

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KEY: Compensate.

SYN: Atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite, reward, recompense, make amends for.

ANT: Defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage.

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KEY: Compensation.

SYN: Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages.

ANT: Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage.

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KEY: Compete.

SYN: Contend, rival, cope, emulate.

ANT: Participate, share.

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KEY: Competence.

SYN: Power, adequacy, sufficiency, wealth, ability.

ANT: Incompetence, weakness, inability, insufficiency, want, poverty, impecuniosity, indigence.

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KEY: Competent, [See ADEQUATE].

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KEY: Competition.

SYN: Rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade.

ANT: Association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation.

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KEY: Competitor.

SYN: Rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist.

ANT: Participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague.

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KEY: Compilation.

SYN: Collation, composition, patchwork.

ANT: Effusion, creation.

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KEY: Complacent.

SYN: Pleased, satisfied, content, pleasant, affable, kind, mannerly, acquiescent, amiable.

ANT: Dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere, grudging.

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KEY: Complain, [See GROWL].

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KEY: Complaint.

SYN: Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance, expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease.

ANT: Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause, jubilee, health, sanity.

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KEY: Complaisant, [See POLITE].

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KEY: Complement.

SYN: Completion, fulfilment, totality, supply, counterpart, correlative.

ANT: Deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, abatement, detraction, defalcation, diminution, drawback.

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KEY: Complete \v.\ [See ACCOMPLISH].

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KEY: Complete \a.\

SYN: Full, perfect, finished, adequate, entire, consummate, total, exhaustive, thorough, accomplished.

ANT: Incomplete, partial, imperfect, unfinished, inadequate.

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KEY: Completely.

SYN: Fully, totally, altogether, wholly, perfectly, entirely, thoroughly.

ANT: Partially, incompletely, Imperfectly.

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KEY: Completion, [See TINGE].

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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.

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KEY: Complexion.

SYN: Face, aspect, color, look, feature, appearance, character, hue, interpretation, indication.

ANT: Unindicativeness, concealment, reticence, inexpression, heart, core.

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KEY: Complexity \n.\ [See COMPLEX].

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KEY: Compliance.

SYN: Yielding, submission, obedience, acquiescence, consent, ductility, docility.

ANT: Resistance, repulsion, disobedience, refusal, noncompliance.

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KEY: Compliant, [See SUBMISSIVE].

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KEY: Complicated.

SYN: Confused, intricate, involved, perplexed, entangled.

ANT: Clear, simple, uninvolved, lucid, unraveled.

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KEY: Compliment \v.\ [See PRAISE].

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KEY: Compliment \n.\

SYN: Homage, courtesy, flattery, praise.

ANT: Insult, discourtesy, contempt.

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KEY: Complimentary.

SYN: Commendatory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise.

ANT: Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, vituperative, defamatory.

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KEY: Comply, [See YIELD].

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KEY: Component.

SYN: Ingredient, element, constituent, factor, content, rudiment.

ANT: Aggregate, sum, entirety, adventitious, compound, nonconstituent, foreign, heterogeneous.

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KEY: Comport.

SYN: Demean, conduct, carry, behove, tally, consist, harmonize, match, agree, suit, coincide.

ANT: Misdemean, misconduct, forget, vary, differ, disagree, contrast, militate.

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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.

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KEY: Composed, [See COLLECTED and PLACID].

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KEY: Composition.

SYN: Compound, conformation, structure, mixture, combination, compromise, adjustment, settlement, commutation.

ANT: Analysis, segregation, examination, criticism, discussion, disturbance, aggravation, perpetuation.

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KEY: Composure.

SYN: Tranquility, sereneness, self-possession, sedateness, calm, repose.

ANT: Perturbation, restlessness, mobility, disturbance.

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KEY: Compound \v.\

SYN: Concert, mix, amalgamate, fuse.

ANT: Resolve, analyze.

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KEY: Compound \n.\

SYN: Mixture, combination, amalgamation, junction, unification, coalescence.

ANT: Decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution.

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KEY: Comprehend.

SYN: Comprise, embody, grasp, understand, conceive, apprehend, enclose, include, involve, embrace.

ANT: Exclude, except, misunderstand.

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KEY: Comprehension.

SYN: Understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension.

ANT: Misunderstanding, misconception.

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KEY: Comprehensive.

SYN: Wide, ample, general, extensive, large, broad, all, embracing, generic, significant, capacious, inclusive, compendious, pregnant.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, shallow, exclusive, adversative, exceptive.

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KEY: Compress.

SYN: Condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize, summarize.

ANT: Expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, Compression, [See COMPRESS].

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KEY: Comprise \v.\

SYN: Embrace, include, involve, contain, comprehend, imply.

ANT: Exclude, except, discard, bar, omit, reject.

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KEY: Comprobation.

SYN: Induction, co-evidence, co-testimony.

ANT: disproof, counterevidence, refutation, rejoinder, intercontrariance.

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KEY: Compromise \v.\

SYN: Arbitrate, adjust, compose, settle, endanger, implicate, involve.

ANT: Aggravate, excite, foster, perpetuate, exempt, enfranchise, disengage, extricate, exonerate.

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KEY: Compulsion \n.\

SYN: For, ce, restraint, control, coercion.

ANT: Persuasion, coaxing, alluring, Inducing.

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KEY: Compunction.

SYN: Contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow.

ANT: Satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance.

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KEY: Compute.

SYN: Calculate, reckon, count, number, appraise, value, estimate, cast up, rate.

ANT: Conjecture, guess, surmise.

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KEY: Comrade, [See COMPLEX].

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KEY: Concatenation.

SYN: Linking, connection, stringing, continuity.

ANT: Discatenation, unlinking, unchanging, severance, intermission, disconnection.

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KEY: Concave.

SYN: Hollow, scooped, pitted, excavated, retreating, alveolar.

ANT: Convex, tumular, protuberant, relievant, embossed, intumescent.

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KEY: Conceal.

SYN: Hide, secrete, disguise, keep secret, dissemble, screen, suppress.

ANT: Reveal, manifest, exhibit, avow, confess, expose, promulgate, publish, divulge.

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KEY: Concede.

SYN: Surrender, grant, allow, yield, admit, resign.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, deny, contradict, contest, claim, contend.

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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.

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KEY: Conceited.

SYN: Egotistical, self-conceited, vain.

ANT: Self-deprecating, simple, unassuming, unaffected.

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KEY: Conceive.

SYN: Imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think, understand.

ANT: Produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive.

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KEY: Conception, [See CONCEIVE].

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KEY: Concentrate.

SYN: assemble, converge, muster, congregate, convene, draw, conglomerate, condense, localize, centralize.

ANT: Disperse, scatter, dismiss, decentralize.

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KEY: Concentration, [See CONCENTRATE].

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KEY: Concern.

SYN: Interest, regard, anxiety, matter, affair, institution, solicitude, moment, regret, sympathy, sorrow.

ANT: Indifference, disregard, carelessness, congratulation, chuckling.

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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.

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KEY: Concert \v.\ [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Concert \n.\

SYN: Onion, combination, concord, harmony, agreement, association, co-operation.

ANT: Dissociation, counteraction, opposition.

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KEY: Concession, [See CONCEPT].

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KEY: Conciliate.

SYN: Win, gain, enlist, pacify, make friendly, reconcile, propitiate.

ANT: Lose, estrange, excommunicate, eject, alienate, irritate, displease.

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KEY: Concise.

SYN: Condensed, terse, pregnant, expressive, pointed, neat, compendious, succinct, summary, brief, short.

ANT: Diffuse, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory, rambling, discursive.

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KEY: Conclave.

SYN: Council, assembly, bureau, synod, cabinet, caucus.

ANT: Crowd, multitude, assemblage, population, throng, populace, mob, concourse.

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KEY: Conclude.

SYN: Close, terminate, complete, end, decide, finish, infer, deduce, determine, argue.

ANT: Begin, initiate, start, open, prolong, protract, perpetuate, doubt, dispute.

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KEY: Conclusion, [See CONCLUDE and TERMINATION].

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KEY: Conclusive.

SYN: Definitive, indisputable, final, positive, decisive.

ANT: Uncertain, dubious, questionable, hypothetical, supposititious, problematical, theoretical, vague, indeterminate, inconclusive.

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KEY: Concoct.

SYN: Compound, prepare, mix, hatch, brew.

ANT: Spoil, upset, disconcoct, disconcert, mar, misprepare.

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KEY: Concoction.

SYN: Brew, mixture, compound.

ANT: Crudity, rawness, ingredient.

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KEY: Concomitant.

SYN: Accompanying, attending, attendant, synchronous.

ANT: Precedent, subsequent, diverse, unconnected, independent, irrelative.

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KEY: Concord.

SYN: Harmony, accordance, agreement, peace, union, unity, unanimity, amity.

ANT: Discord, disagreement, variance, animosity.

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KEY: Concordance, [See CONCORD].

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KEY: Concourse.

SYN: Assembly, assemblage, crowd, throng, convergence, mob.

ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude.

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KEY: Concrete.

SYN: Firm, compact, consolidated, indurated, embodied, particularized.

ANT: Loose, sloppy, luteous, shifting, boggy, swampy, yielding, unresisting, abstract, generalize.

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KEY: Concur.

SYN: Approve, acquiesce, assent, coincide, meet, converge, concentrate, agree.

ANT: Diverge, radiate, disagree, dissent, part, differ.

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KEY: Concussion, [See COLLISION and COMMOTION].

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KEY: Condemn.

SYN: Blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom, sentence.

ANT: Absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve.

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KEY: Condense, [See ABRIDGE].

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KEY: Condescend.

SYN: Stoop, descend, deign, vouchsafe.

ANT: Disdain, scorn, spurn.

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KEY: Condescension \n.\ [See CONDESCEND].

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KEY: SYN:, Affability, graciousness, favor, stooping.

ANT: Haughtiness, arrogance, pride, superciliousness, disdain, scorn.

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KEY: Condign.

SYN: Deserved, merited, meet, just, adequate.

ANT: Undeserved, unmerited, scant, excessive.

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KEY: Condiment.

SYN: Sauce, pickle, preserve, seasoning.

ANT: Gall, wormwood, ashes, aloe.

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KEY: Condition.

SYN: State, case, mood, term, mode, qualification, requisite, stipulation, predicament, proviso, situation, circumstances, plight.

ANT: Relation, dependence, situation, circumstance, concession, fulfillment, adaptation.

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KEY: Conditionally.

SYN: Provisionally, relatively, provided, hypothetical, contingently.

ANT: Absolutely, unconditionally, categorically, positively.

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KEY: Condole.

SYN: Sympathize, console, commiserate.

ANT: Congratulate, exhilarate, disregard, rally, discompassionate, discommiserate.

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KEY: Condolence, [See CONDOLE].

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KEY: Condonation.

SYN: Indulgence, excuse, amnesty, pardon, forgiveness.

ANT: Expiation, satisfaction, atonement.

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KEY: Conduce.

SYN: Concur, contribute, avail, aid, tend, coincide, converge, assist, help, make for, conspire, lead, subserve.

ANT: Indispose, counteract, defeat, neutralize.

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KEY: Conducive, [See CONDUCE].

SYN: Contributive, promotive, subsidiary, causative, effective, productive.

ANT: Preventive, counteractive, contrariant, repugnant, destructive.

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KEY: Conduct \v.\

SYN: Lead, bring, carry, transfer, direct, guide, control, manage, administer.

ANT: Mislead, miscarry, mismanage, misconduct, misadminister.

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KEY: Conduct \n.\ [See BEHAVIOR].

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KEY: Confabulation, [See COLLOQUY].

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KEY: Confection \n.\ [See CONCOCTION, CONDIMENT, and COMPOUND. (Used

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KEY: SYN:, Sweetmeat, sugarplum, cake, condiment.

ANT: [See CONDIMENT].

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KEY: Confederacy, Confederation.

SYN: Alliance, treaty, league, union, association.

ANT: Disruption, secession, disunion.

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KEY: Confederate \a.\

SYN: Leagued, allied, united, combined.

ANT: Disunited, dissolved.

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KEY: Confederate \n.\ [See COMPANION].

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KEY: Confer.

SYN: Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give, present.

ANT: Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw.

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KEY: Conference.

SYN: Discussion, discourse, consultation, parley, contravention, convocation, meeting.

ANT: Monologue, silence. [See CONVENTION].

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KEY: Confess.

SYN: Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge.

ANT: Disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny.

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KEY: Confession.

SYN: Creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession, declaration, subscription.

ANT: Heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index, renunciation, abjuration.

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KEY: Confidant.

SYN: Confessor, adviser, confederate.

ANT: Traitor, betrayer, rival.

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KEY: Confide.

SYN: Trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely.

ANT: Doubt, distrust, disbelieve.

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KEY: Confidence.

SYN: Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence, reliance.

ANT: Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving.

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KEY: Confident.

SYN: Positive, assured, sure, certain, impudent, bold, sanguine.

ANT: [See CERTAIN].

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KEY: Confidential.

SYN: Private, secret, trustworthy, intimate.

ANT: Public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious.

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KEY: Configuration.

SYN: Shape, outline, delineation, form, figure, conformation, contour.

ANT: Shapelessness, amorphousness, formlessness, undelineation, contortion, distortion, deformity.

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KEY: Confine.

SYN: Immure, limit, bound, imprison, circumscribe, restrict, enclose, narrow, incarcerate, bind.

ANT: Dilate, expand, extend, widen, unfasten, liberate, loosen, disenclose.

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KEY: Confined, [See CIRCUMSCRIBE].

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KEY: Confirm.

SYN: Strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify.

ANT: Weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute.

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KEY: Confirmation, [See CONFIRM].

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KEY: Confiscate.

SYN: Seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain.

ANT: Restore, release, refund.

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KEY: Conflagration.

SYN: Ignition, fire, combustion, arson, incendiarism.

ANT: Extinction, smoulder, quenching.

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KEY: Conflict.

SYN: Encounter, engagement, contest, battle, fight, combat.

ANT: Reconciliation, pacification, amity, arbitration.

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KEY: Conflicting.

SYN: Adverse, opposed, opposing, dashing, discordant, irreconcilable, contradictory.

ANT: Harmonizing, consistent, consentaneous, congruous.

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KEY: Confluence.

SYN: Conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence.

ANT: Reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence.

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KEY: Conform.

SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield.

ANT: Disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt.

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KEY: Conformation \n.\ [See CONFORM and CONFIGURATION].

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KEY: Conformity, [See CONFORMATION].

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KEY: Confound.

SYN: Confuse, disorder, trouble, disarrange, intermix, abash, astound, mystify, obscure, stupefy, disconcert, mix, blend, intermingle, perplex, discompose.

ANT: Arrange, classify, order, allocate, distribute, dispense, unravel, enucleate, eliminate, elucidate, rally, enlighten.

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KEY: Confraternity, [See COMPANY].

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KEY: Confront.

SYN: Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace.

ANT: Rally, encourage, abet, countenance.

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KEY: Confuse, [See CONFOUND].

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KEY: Confusion, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Confused.

SYN: Abashed, embarrassed, perplexed, disconcerted, disorganized, promiscuous, chaotic, complex, involved, disarranged, disordered.

ANT: Unabashed, unembarrassed, systematic, unconfused, organized, arranged.

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KEY: Confute, [See REFUTE].

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KEY: Congeal.

SYN: Freeze, benumb, congelate.

ANT: Thaw, relax, melt, chafe, dissolve.

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KEY: Congenial.

SYN: Natural, concordant, consonant, grateful, sympathetic, kindred.

ANT: Unnatural, abbhorant, discordant, dissonant, disagreeable, ungrateful, antagonistic, alien, dissimilar, uncongenial.

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KEY: Congenital.

SYN: Coeval, coetaneous, natural, inherent, innate, immanent, ingrained, incarnate, connate, ingenerate.

ANT: Unnatural, uncongenial, acquired, habitual, extraneous, artificial, adscititious, adventitious, assumed.

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KEY: Congestion.

SYN: Congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethora.

ANT: Dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation.

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KEY: Conglomerate, [See AGGLOMERATE].

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KEY: Conglutinate, [See AGGLUTINATE].

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KEY: Congratulate.

SYN: Felicitate.

ANT: [See CONDOLE].

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KEY: Congregate, [See AGGREGATE].

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KEY: Congregation, [See AGGREGATION].

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KEY: Congress.

SYN: Parliament, council, conclave, assembly, synod, legislature, convention.

ANT: Cabal, conclave, mob.

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KEY: Congruous.

SYN: Agreeing, harmonious, coherent, homogeneous, consonant, accordant.

ANT: Discordant, dissonant, incongruous, heterogeneous.

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KEY: Conjecture \v.\

SYN: guest, divination, hypothesis, theory, notion, surmise, supposition.

ANT: Computation, calculation, inference, reckoning, proof, deduction.

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KEY: Conjecture \n.\ [See SUPPOSE].

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KEY: Conjoin, [See CONCATENATE].

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KEY: Conjuncture.

SYN: Crisis, turning-point, contingency, occasion, opportunity, exigency, emergency.

ANT: Arrangement, provision, ordainment, preparation, course.

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KEY: Conjure.

SYN: Implore, importune, crave, entreat, beseech, supplicate.

ANT: Deprecate, protest, remonstrate, expostulate.

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KEY: Connect, [See UNITE].

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KEY: Connection.

SYN: Junction, conjunction, union, association, concatenation, relation, affinity, relevance, intercourse, communication, kinsman, relationship, kindred.

ANT: Disconnection, disjunction, dissociation, independence, irrelevance, disunion.

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KEY: Connive.

SYN: Wink, pretermit, pass, overlook.

ANT: Notice, visit, censure, investigate.

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KEY: Connubial.

SYN: Conjugal, matrimonial, nuptial.

ANT: Single, celibate, illicit, adulterous.

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KEY: Conquer.

SYN: Subdue, vanquish, surmount, overcome, overpower, overthrow, defeat, crush, master, subjugate, prevail over.

ANT: Fail, fall, retreat, succumb, fly, submit, surrender, lose, forfeit, sacrifice, resign, cede.

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KEY: Conquest, [See CONQUER].

SYN: Victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation.

ANT: Failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture.

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KEY: Consanguinity.

SYN: Kindred, blood, lineage.

ANT: Disconnection, dissociation.

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KEY: Conscience.

SYN: Sense, intuition, integrity, principle.

ANT: [See PERTURB and STOICAL], license.

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KEY: Conscientious.

SYN: Scrupulous, exact, equitable, strict, upright, highprincipled.

ANT: Unscrupulous, lax, unprincipled, reprobate, unconscientious.

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KEY: Conscious.

SYN: Aware, cognizant, sensible.

ANT: Unaware, unconscious, insensible.

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KEY: Consciousness.

SYN: Sense, sensation, intelligence, perception.

ANT: Insensibility, unconsciousness.

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KEY: Conscription.

SYN: Impressment, drafting.

ANT: Enlistment, volunteering.

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KEY: Consecrate.

SYN: Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify.

ANT: Desecrate, secularize, profane.

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KEY: Consecration, [See CONSECRATE and DEVOTION].

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KEY: Consecutive.

SYN: Orderly, arranged, coherent, continuous.

ANT: Disordered, undigested, incoherent, rambling, inconsequent, inconsecutive, discursive.

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KEY: Consent.

SYN: Submit, agree, acquiesce.

ANT: resist, disagree, dissent, deline, refuse.

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KEY: Consentaneous.

SYN: Agreeing, correspondent, consonant, congruous, [See HARMONIOUS].

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KEY: Consequence.

SYN: Effect, issue, result, inference, coherence, deduction, conclusion, outcome, importance, note, moment, dignity.

ANT: Cause, causation, antecedence, premise, origin, datum, postulate, axiom, unimportance, insignificance, inconsequence, inconsecutiveness, irrelevance, meanness, paltriness.

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KEY: Consequent.

SYN: Inferred, deduced, resultant, accruing, attendant.

ANT: Assumed, conjectured, antecedent, conducive, productive, inconsequent.

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KEY: Consequential.

SYN: Coherent, connected, nected, cogent, logical, pompous, arrogant.

ANT: Incoherent, disconnected, in, valid, illogical, inconsequential, affable, conversible, accessible, easy, humble-minded.

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KEY: Consequently.

SYN: Accordingly, therefore, [See ACCORDING].

ANT: Irrelevantly, inconsequently.

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KEY: Conservation.

SYN: Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation, perpetuation.

ANT: Neglect, exposure, abrogation, destruction, abolition.

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KEY: Conservative.

SYN: Undestroyed, unsuppressed, stationary, unrepealed.

ANT: Changed, newfangled, radical, progressive, modifiable, alterable, transitional.

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KEY: Consider.

SYN: Attend, revolve, meditate, think, reflect, investigate, regard, observe, judge, opine, infer, deduce, weigh, cogitate, deliberate, ponder, deem.

ANT: Disregard, ignore, pretermit, despise, guess, conjecture, hazard.

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KEY: Considerable.

SYN: Important, large, extensive.

ANT: Unimportant, trifling, inconsiderable.

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KEY: Considerate.

SYN: Thoughtful, attentive, forbearing, unselfish, judicious, serious, prudent, circumspect, reflective, careful, cautious.

ANT: Thoughtless, inconsiderate, inattentive, rude, overbearing, selfish, injudicious, rash, careless.

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KEY: Consideration.

SYN: Importance, suspect, consequence, motive, inducement, compensation, subsidy, remuneration.

ANT: Meanness, insignificance, unimportance.

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KEY: Considering.

SYN: Because, regarding.

ANT: Irrespectively, independently.

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KEY: Consign, [See ASSIGN].

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KEY: Consignment.

SYN: Custody, commission, delegation.

ANT: Miscommitment, misconsignment.

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KEY: Consist, [See CONSTITUTE].

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KEY: Consistence, [See CONSISTENCY].

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KEY: Consistency.

SYN: Consistence, congruity, composition, substance, material, amalgamation, compound, mass, density, solidity, closeness, compactness, coherence, uniformity, harmony, analogy, proportion.

ANT: Volatility, vaporousness, subtility, tenuity, sublimation, incoherence, inconsistency, incongruity, disproportion, contrariety, contradiction.

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KEY: Consistent.

SYN: Congruous, accordant, consonant, agreeing, compatible, harmonious.

ANT: Incongruous, at variance with, not agreeing with, incompatible, inharmonious.

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KEY: Consociation, [See ASSOCIATION and COMPANY].

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KEY: Console.

SYN: Relieve, soothe, solace, encourage, comfort, assuage.

ANT: Congratulate, felicitate, aggravate, oppress, disturb, trouble, annoy, irritate, irreconcile, dissatisfy.

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KEY: Consolidate.

SYN: Condense, incorporate, conglutinate, cement, solder, bond, weld, thicken, strengthen, fuse.

ANT: Weaken, dissipate, disunite, dismember, disintegrate, colliquate, dissolve, melt, vaporize, sublimate, attenuate, triturate, pulverize.

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KEY: Consonant, [See CONGRUOUS and CONSISTENT].

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KEY: Consort \v.\

SYN: Associate, herd, company, fraternize.

ANT: Avoid, abandon, excommunicate, blackball, banish, exclude.

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KEY: Conspicuous.

SYN: Visible, easily seen, prominent, distinguished, manifest, eminent, famous, noted, salient, observable, noticeable, magnified.

ANT: Invisible, Inconspicuous, in, observable, noticeable, microscopic.

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KEY: Conspiracy.

SYN: Intrigue, cabal, plot, treason, treachery, machination, coalition.

ANT: Legislation, parliament, congress, synod, \Comp.\ Conclave and

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KEY: Conspire.

SYN: Concur, conduce, contribute, agree, unite, hang, pull together, co-operate, league, baud.

ANT: Oppose, counteract, withstand, run counter to.

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KEY: Constant.

SYN: Uniform, regular, invariable, perpetual, continuous, firm, fixed, steady, immutable, faithful, true, trustworthy.

ANT: Irregular, exceptional, variable, casual, accidental, incidental, broken, interrupted, inconstant, fickle, untrustworthy, faithless, treacherous, false.

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KEY: Consternation.

SYN: Amazement, bewilderment, astonishment, astounding, horror, terror, dismay.

ANT: Encouragement, boldness, fearlessness, assurance, anticipation, welcome, expectation, greeting, congratulation.

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KEY: Constituent.

SYN: Voter, returner, sender, deputer, appointer, patron, ingredient, element, component.

ANT: Representative, nominee, committee, constitution, system, whole.

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KEY: Constitute.

SYN: Form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute.

ANT: Dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake.

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KEY: Constitution.

SYN: Temperament, frame, temper, character, habit, nature, government, polity, state, consistence, composition, substance, organization, structure, regulation, law.

ANT: Accident, habituation, modification, Interference, anarchy, despotism, tyranny, rebellion, revolution, dissipation, disorganization, demolition, destruction.

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KEY: Constitutional.

SYN: Fundamental, legal, lawful, legitimate, natural.

ANT: Unconstitutional, illegal, Illegitimate, unnatural, unchanged.

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KEY: Constrain, [See COERCE].

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KEY: Construct.

SYN: Compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame.

ANT: Derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow.

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KEY: Construction.

SYN: Composition, fabrication, explanation, rendering, erection, fabric, edifice, reading, understanding, interpretation, view.

ANT: Dislocation, dismemberment, demolition, displacement, misplacement, misconstruction, misunderstanding, misconception, misinterpretation.

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KEY: Construe.

SYN: Parse, resolve, analyze, interpret, understand, render.

ANT: Nullify, neutralize, mystify, distort, falsify, misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, mistranslate.

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KEY: Consult.

SYN: Interrogate, canvass, question, deliberate, confer, advise with, regard, consider, ask advice of, care for, promote.

ANT: Resolve, explain, expound, direct, instruct, dictate, counteract, contravene.

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KEY: Consume.

SYN: Use, appropriate, burn, oat up, devour, spend, squander, assimilate, occupy, absorb, employ, utilize, waste, destroy, spoil, ravage, expend, pine, wither, decay.

ANT: Reject, supersede, disuse, discard.

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KEY: Consummate \v.\

SYN: Complete, perfect, execute, finish, accomplish, conclude, seal, end.

ANT: Neglect, drop, interrupt, nullify, undo, baffle, frustrate, mar, defeat, spoil.

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KEY: Consummate \a.\

SYN: Perfect, egregious, excellent, complete, finished.

ANT: Imperfect, rude, common, mediocre, faulty, defective, ordinary.

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KEY: Consummation, [See CONSUMMATE and COMPLETION].

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KEY: Consumption.

SYN: Decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease.

ANT: Growth, development, enlargement, augmentation.

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KEY: Contact.

SYN: Touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction.

ANT: Proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance, isolation, noncontact.

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KEY: Contagious.

SYN: Catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections.

ANT: Sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic.

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KEY: Contain.

SYN: Hold, include, comprise, embrace, comprehend, inclose.

ANT: Drop, exclude, extrude, emit, discharge, afford, yield, produce.

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KEY: Contaminate.

SYN: Defile, taint, corrupt, sully, befoul, soil.

ANT: Purify, cleanse, lave, clarify, sanctify, chasten.

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KEY: Contemn.

SYN: Despise, disdain, deride, vilify, slight, disregard, scorn.

ANT: Respect, revere, venerate, regard.

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KEY: Contemplate.

SYN: Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon.

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KEY: Contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Contempt, [See CONTEMN].

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KEY: Contemptible.

SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial.

ANT: Important, grave, weighty, honorable, respectable, venerable.

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KEY: Contemptuous, [See SUPERCILIOUS].

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KEY: Contend.

SYN: Strive, compete, cope, dispute, vie, contest, struggle, grapple, argue, maintain, disagree, wrangle.

ANT: Resign, concede, allow, relinquish, forego, surrender, waive.

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KEY: Content.

SYN: Full, satisfied, pleased, gratified, contented, willing, resigned.

ANT: Unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unwilling, reluctant, discontented.

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KEY: Contented, [See CONTENT].

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KEY: Contention, [See STRIFE].

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KEY: Contentious, [See CONTEND and QUARRELSOME].

SYN: Litigious, perverse, wayward, splenetic, cantankerous, exceptions.

ANT: Pacific, obliging, considerate, obsequious, accommodating, easy.

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KEY: Conterminous.

SYN: Commensurate, adjoining, contiguous, abutting.

ANT: Unequal, inconformable, adjacent, proximate, remote, inconterminous.

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KEY: Contest \v.\ [See CONTEND].

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KEY: Contest \n.\ [See CONTENTION].

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KEY: context.

SYN: Tenor, treatment, texture, composition, matter.

ANT: Text, quotation, citation, passage, extract.

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KEY: Contexture, [See TEXTURE].

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KEY: Contiguous, [See CONTAGIOUS, ADJACENT, and CONTERMINOUS].

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KEY: Continence.

SYN: Abstinence, selfcontrol, refrain \n.\ Chastity, sobriety, temperance.

ANT: Licentiousness, self-indulgence, incontinence, dissoluteness, intemperance.

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KEY: Contingency, [See ACCIDENT].

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KEY: Contingent \a.\

SYN: Dependent, incidental, resultant, co-emcient, hypothetical, uncertain, conditional.

ANT: Positive, absolute, independent, unmodified, unaffected, uncontrolled, irrespective.

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KEY: Contingent \n.\

SYN: Contribution, subsidy, supply, succor, reinforcement, auxiliaries, donation, subscription.

ANT: Army, sum, host, campaign, fund, capital.

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KEY: Continual. [See CONSTANT and EVERLASTING].

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KEY: Continually.

SYN: Constantly, persistently, always, ever, perpetually, unceasingly, repeatedly, frequently, continuously.

ANT: Casually, occasionally, contingently, sometimes, rarely, fitfully, intermittently.

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KEY: Continuation.

SYN: Sequence, continuance, continuity, duration, succession, connection, extension, prolongation, perpetuation, concatenation.

ANT: Interruption, cessation, discontinuance, break, gap.

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KEY: Continue.

SYN: Last, persist, endure, remain, abide, stay, persevere, proceed.

ANT: Cease, fail, stop, pause, break, discontinue.

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KEY: Continuity, [See CONTINUATION].

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KEY: Contortion.

SYN: Twisting, writhing, wresting, distortion, deformity, convolution.

ANT: Symmetry, uniformity, shapeliness, configuration, contour.

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KEY: Contour, [See CONFIGURATION].

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KEY: Contraband.

SYN: Illicit, interdicted, smuggled.

ANT: Licit, uninterstated, free.

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KEY: Contract \v.\

SYN: Abridge, abbreviate, narrow, lessen, reduce, compress, decrease, retrench, curtail, form, agree.

ANT: Expand, amplify, dilate, elongate, reverse, cancel, abandon.

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KEY: Contract \n.\

SYN: Covenant, agreement, compact, bond, pact, stipulation, bargain.

ANT: Promise, assurance, parole.

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KEY: Contradict.

SYN: Oppose, dissent, negative, controvert, deny, disprove, confute, refute, gainsay, contravene.

ANT: State, propound, maintain, argue, confirm, affirm, endorse.

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KEY: Contradiction.

SYN: Repugnance, contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility.

ANT: Harmony, coincidence, concurrence, affirmation, proof, statement.

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KEY: Contraposition.

SYN: Oppositeness, confrontment, facing.

ANT: Side, flank, collateralness.

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KEY: Contrarious, [See CONTENTIOUS].

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KEY: Contrary.

SYN: Opposed, opposite, repugnant, antagonistic, adverse, incompatible, inconsistent.

ANT: Agreeing, consentaneous, compatible, kindred, coincident, consistent.

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KEY: Contrast.

SYN: Opposition, contrariety, dissimilarity.

ANT: Harmony, similarity, comparison, similitude.

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KEY: Contribute.

SYN: Conduce, add, subscribe, give, co-operate, assist, tend, supply.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, misconduct, misapply, contravene.

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KEY: Contribution.

SYN: Donation, oblation, offering, gift, subscription, subsidy, aid, assistance.

ANT: Withholding, retention, disallowance, misappropriation, misapplication, contravention.

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KEY: Contrition, [See ATTRITION].

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KEY: Contrivance, [See CONTRIVE and DEVICE].

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KEY: Contrive.

SYN: Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert, adjust.

ANT: Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo.

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KEY: Contriving, [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Control \v.\

SYN: Check, curb, moderate, repress, guide, regulate, restrain, coerce, manage, administer, govern.

ANT: Neglect, abandon, license, berate, free, mismanage, misconduct.

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KEY: Control \n.\ [See VERB and COMPULSION].

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KEY: Controversy.

SYN: Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation, wrangle, bickering, question.

ANT: Agreement, unanimity, coincidence.

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KEY: controvertible.

SYN: Questionable, dubious.

ANT: Unquestionable, incontrovertible.

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KEY: Contumacy.

SYN: Rebelliousness, stubbornness, restiveness, waywardness, self-will, untractableness.

ANT: Submissiveness, docility, tractableness, servility, cringing, fawning, flattery.

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KEY: Contumely.

SYN: Contemptuousness, scornfulness, arrogance, disrespect, obloquy.

ANT: Respect, regard, obligingness, accommodation, considerateness, flattery, adulation, obsequiousness, fawning.

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KEY: Contusion.

SYN: Bruise, knock, blow.

ANT: Soothing, smoothing, stroking, caress, pat.

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KEY: Convene.

SYN: Assemble, collect, gather, meet, congregate, call together, summon, muster, levy, convoke.

ANT: Disperse, dismiss, disband.

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KEY: Convenient.

SYN: Handy, apt, adapted, fitted, suitable, helpful, commodious, useful, timely, seasonable, opportune.

ANT: Inconvenient, awkward, obstructive, useless, superfluous, unseasonable, untimely, inopportune.

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KEY: Convention.

SYN: Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress, session, synod, treaty, compact.

ANT: Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word, parole.

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KEY: Conventional.

SYN: Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social.

ANT: Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, statutable, immutable, natural, invariable.

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KEY: Conventual.

SYN: Cœnobitual, regular, monastic.

ANT: Social, secular, laic.

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KEY: Converge.

SYN: Tend, bear, incline, lead, coincide, conduce, contribute, meet, concentrate, coradiate.

ANT: Diverge, deviate, radiate, mix, foul, entangle.

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KEY: Conversant.

SYN: Familiar, ae, quainted, proficient, experienced, versed, learned.

ANT: Unfamiliar, unacquainted, ignorant, unversed, unlearned, strange, inconversant.

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KEY: Conversation.

SYN: Converse, dialogue, talk, conference, colloquy, confabulation, chat.

ANT: Speech, oration, harangue, babel, jabber, babble, prattle, dribble, mutter, soliloquy, apostrophe, monologue, interpellation, interruption, silence, taciturnity.

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KEY: Converse \v.\

SYN: Talk, discourse, speak, chat.

ANT: Keep silent.

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KEY: Converse \a.\

SYN: Opposite, reverse, contrary, opposed, contradictory, counter, relative, correlative.

ANT: Identical, same, one, inseparable, indistinguishable, connate, uniform, direct, primary, uninverted.

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KEY: Conversion.

SYN: Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge.

ANT: Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity.

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KEY: Convert \v.\

SYN: Change, alter, transmute, transform, apply, appropriate, turn.

ANT: Conserve, perpetuate, stabilitate, [See {Q1409 stereotype}?], clinch, alienate, divert, misappropriate, misapply.

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KEY: Convertible.

SYN: Identical, commensurate, conterminous, equivalent, equipollent.

ANT: Variant, incommensurate, unequivalent, contrary, contradictory, contrariant.

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KEY: Convey.

SYN: Take, carry, transfer, relegate, bear, transmit, consign, transport, remove.

ANT: Bring, adduce, fetch, drop, house, stow, deposit.

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KEY: Conveyance, [See CONVEY].

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KEY: Convict.

SYN: Sentence, condemn.

ANT: Acquit, discharge.

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KEY: Conviction.

SYN: Assurance, persuasion, belief.

ANT: Doubt, misgiving, disbelief.

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KEY: Convince.

SYN: Persuade, enlighten, inoculate, indoctrinate.

ANT: Misguide, mislead, misadvise, mystify, puzzle, perplex, mispersuade, unsettle.

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KEY: Convivial.

SYN: Hospitable, social, festive, gay, festal, jovial, jolly.

ANT: Inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly, churlish, abstemious, austere, ascetic.

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KEY: Convocate, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Convocation, [See CONVENTION].

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KEY: Convoke, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Convolution.

SYN: Coil, involution, implication, spiral, twist, contortion.

ANT: Unravelling, explication, evolution, enucleation.

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KEY: Convoy.

SYN: Escort, guard, protection, conduct.

ANT: Loss, betrayal, capture, interception.

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KEY: Convulse.

SYN: Agitate, shake, perturb, disturb.

ANT: Soothe, collocate, compose, assuage.

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KEY: Cool \v.\

SYN: Ventilate, refrigerate, allay, damp, temper, moderate.

ANT: Warm, heat, chafe, irritate, excite, inflame.

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KEY: Cool \a.\

SYN: Cold, frigid, unimpassioned, calm, indifferent, self-possessed, deliberate, dispassioned, collected, apathetic, composed.

ANT: Warm, hot, ardent, eager.

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KEY: Coolness.

SYN: Coldness, indifference, self-possession, distance, calmness.

ANT: Heat, ardor, eagerness, passion, excitement, warmth, heartiness.

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KEY: Coop, [See CONFINE].

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KEY: Co-operate.

SYN: Assist, abet, contribute, concur, work together, help, conspire.

ANT: Thwart, oppose, counteract, rival.

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KEY: Co-operation, [See CO-OPERATE and UNION].

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KEY: Co-ordinate.

SYN: Consociate, coincident, equal, coequal, equivalent, tantamount, equipollent, interequivalent.

ANT: Extraneous, diverse, alien, unequal, unequivalent, incoordinate, disparate.

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KEY: Copartner, [See PARTNER].

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KEY: Cope.

SYN: Contend, vie, struggle, compete, strive.

ANT: Negotiate, arbitrate, compromise, surrender.

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KEY: Copious, [See ABUNDANT].

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KEY: Copy \n.\

SYN: Imitation, portraiture, facsimile, counterfeit, duplicate, image, likeness, transcript.

ANT: Original, prototype, model, example, pattern.

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KEY: Cordial.

SYN: Warm, earnest, sincere, reviving, invigorating, affectionate, hearty.

ANT: Cold, distant, formal, ceremonious.

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KEY: Core.

SYN: Heart, kernel, nucleus, centre.

ANT: Face, exterior, aspect, appearance, complexion, ostensibility, pretext.

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KEY: Corner.

SYN: Cavity, hole, nook, recess, retreat.

ANT: Coin, abutment, prominence, salience, angle, protrusion, elbow, protection, convexity.

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KEY: Cornice.

SYN: Beading, moulding, projection.

ANT: Entablature, fluting, corrugation, cavity, groove.

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KEY: Corollary.

SYN: Inference, deduction, additament, superaddition.

ANT: Problem, proposition.

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KEY: Corporal.

SYN: Bodily, fleshly, physical, material, corporeal.

ANT: Mental, moral, spiritual.

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KEY: Corps.

SYN: Body, regiment, band, squadron, troop, company.

ANT: Aggregate, army, host, force, mass, organization.

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KEY: Corpse.

SYN: Carcass, remains, dust, clay.

ANT: Soul, person, individual.

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KEY: Corpulent.

SYN: Stout, burly, fat, portly, gross, lusty, plethoric, fleshy.

ANT: Lean, thin, attenuated, slight, emaciated.

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KEY: Corpuscle.

SYN: Atom, particle, monad, jot, molecule.

ANT: mass, body, aggregate, organization, matter.

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KEY: Corpuscular, [See CORPUSCLE].

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KEY: corradiate, [See CONVERGE].

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KEY: Correct \a.\

SYN: true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right.

ANT: false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong.

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KEY: Correct \v.\

SYN: Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set right, improve.

ANT: Spare, falsify, corrupt.

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KEY: correction.

SYN: amendment, discipline, emendation, chastisement, punishment.

ANT: Deterioration, debasement, retrogradation, reward, recompense.

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KEY: Corrective.

SYN: Regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative.

ANT: Confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive.

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KEY: Correlation.

SYN: correspondence, interrelation, interdependence, mutuality, apposition.

ANT: Contradiction, independence, [See LEARNED and RATIONAL].

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KEY: Correlative, [See CORRUGATION].

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KEY: Correspond.

SYN: Match, tally, fit, answer, agree, suit, harmonize.

ANT: Vary, differ, disagree, jar, clash.

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KEY: Correspondence.

SYN: Fitness, agreement, adaptation, congruity, answerableness, match, congeniality, communication, letter, writing, despatches.

ANT: Conversation, colloquy, confabulation, reservation, withdrawal, withholding, nonintercourse, difference, repugnance.

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KEY: Correspondent \a.\ [See SUITABLE].

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KEY: Corrigible.

SYN: Amenable, docile, tractable.

ANT: Intractable, stubborn, incorrigible.

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KEY: Corroborate.

SYN: Strengthen, confirm, fortify, support.

ANT: Weaken, invalidate, shake, confute, rebut, enfeeble.

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KEY: corporation.

SYN: Confirmation, fortification, strengthening.

ANT: Counterevidence, contradiction, invalidation, shaking, refutation.

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KEY: Corrode.

SYN: Eat, rust, gnaw, canker, wear, crumble.

ANT: Repair, renew, furbish, consolidate.

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KEY: Corrosion, [See CORRODE and RUST].

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KEY: Corrosive, [See CORRODE].

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KEY: Corrugate.

SYN: Furrow, groove, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, ruffle, crease.

ANT: Plane, flatten, roll.

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KEY: Corrugation, [See CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Corrupt \v.\

SYN: Spoil, deteriorate, impair, putrefy, vitiate, demoralize, debase, defile, contaminate, pollute, deprave.

ANT: Mend, repair, purify, cleanse, correct, ameliorate, better.

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KEY: Corrupt \a.\

SYN: Defiled, polluted, vitiated, decayed, depraved, putrid, rotten, infected, tainted, profligate, contaminated.

ANT: Pure, uncorrupt, undented.

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KEY: Corruption.

SYN: Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness, defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination, putrefaction.

ANT: Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration.

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KEY: Coruscate.

SYN: Blaze, flame, flash, scintillate, glisten.

ANT: Pale, smoulder, darken, loom, lower, glimmer, gleam, glare, beam, shimmer.

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KEY: Coruscation, [See CORUSCATE].

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KEY: Cosmical.

SYN: Universal, general.

ANT: Local, topical, national, persomal.

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KEY: Cost. \v.\

SYN: Require, consume, absorb.

ANT: Bring, produce, yield, afford, fetch, return.

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KEY: Cost. \n.\

SYN: Expenditure, outlay, disbursement, payment, compensation, price, worth, expense, charge, outgoings.

ANT: Receipt, income, emolument, return, profit, perquisite, revenue.

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KEY: Costly.

SYN: Valuable, expensive, high-priced, rich, precious, sumptuous.

ANT: Valueless, cheap, low-priced, mean, worthless, beggarly, paltry.

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KEY: Costume.

SYN: Uniform, livery, robes.

ANT: Disguise, transformation, incognito.

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KEY: Cosy.

SYN: Snug, comfortable, chatty.

ANT: Bare, comfortless, cross.

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KEY: contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Council.

SYN: Cabinet, bureau, chamber, consultation, conclave, parliament, congress, synod, company, assembly, meeting, conference, convention, convocation.

ANT: League, conspiracy, cabal, intrigue, mob, multitude, crowd.

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KEY: Counsel \n.\

SYN: Advice, instruction, monition, admonition, warning, recommendation.

ANT: Misguidance, misinstruction, betrayal.

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KEY: Counsel \v.\

SYN: Advise, instruct, warn, guide, admonish.

ANT: Misguide, misinstruct, betray, counselor, [See COUNSEL].

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KEY: Count.

SYN: Compute, reckon, enumerate, estimate, number, sum, calculate.

ANT: Hazard, conjecture, guess, lump, confound.

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KEY: Countenance \v.\

SYN: Help, aid, abet, favor, sanction, patronize, support, encourage.

ANT: Oppose, confront, discourage, discountenance, browbeat.

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KEY: Countenance \n.\

SYN: Aid, abet, encourage, support.

ANT: Discountenance.

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KEY: Counter.

SYN: Opposed, contrary, against.

ANT: According, coincident.

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KEY: Counteract.

SYN: Counterinfluence, counterfoil, foil, baffle, neutralize, oppose, rival, thwart, hinder.

ANT: Aid, help, abet, promote, conserve, co-operate, subserve.

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KEY: Counterevidence.

SYN: Contradiction, confliction.

ANT: Corroboration, confirmation.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \v.\

SYN: Simulate, misrepresent, impersonate.

ANT: Expose, unmask, detect.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \n.\

SYN: Cheat, trick, juggle, fraud, artifice, fabrication, pretense, ruse, sham.

ANT: Exposure, detection, unmasking, unveiling, reality, verity, fact, truth.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \a.\ [See FALSE].

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KEY: Counterfoil. [See BAFFLE].

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KEY: Countermand, [See COMMAND].

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KEY: Counterpart.

SYN: Match, fellow, tally, brother, twin, copy.

ANT: Correlative, complement, supplement, opponent, counteragent, reverse, obverse, opposite, antithesis, contrast, contradiction.

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KEY: Counterpoise \v.\

SYN: Balance, equalize.

ANT: Over-balance, aggravate.

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KEY: Counterpoise \n.\

SYN: Makeweight, equilibrium.

ANT: Preponderance.

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KEY: Counterpressure.

SYN: Resistance, stubbornness, renitency.

ANT: Yielding, giving, resilience.

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KEY: Countervail.

SYN: Counteract, of, pose, withstand.

ANT: Aggravate, intensify, subserve.

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KEY: Countless \a.\

SYN: Innumerable, numberless, unnumbered.

ANT: Few, scant, sparse.

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KEY: Countryman.

SYN: Rustic, clown, boor, compatriot, swain, yeoman, bus, bandman, farmer, agriculturist, laborer, peasant, fellow-countryman, fellow-subject, fellowcitizen, subject, citizen, inhabitant, native.

ANT: Oppidan, townsman, cockney, foreigner, alien, stranger, Couple

ANT: Loose, part, isolate, separate, detach, divorce, uncouple, unclasp, untie.

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KEY: Courage.

SYN: Bravery, boldness, valor, pluck, fortitude, resolution, gallantry, fearlessness, intrepidity.

ANT: Timidity, cowardice, pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardliness.

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KEY: Course.

SYN: Order, sequence, continuity, direction, progress, line, way, mode, race, career, road, route, series, passage, succession, round, manner, plan, conduct, method.

ANT: Disorder, discussion, solution, interruption, deviation, hindrance, error, conjecture, hazard, speculation, caprice.

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KEY: Court \v.\

SYN: Woo, seek, affect, flatter, pursue.

ANT: Repel, abjure, disaffect, insult, avoid, shun, repudiate.

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KEY: Courteous, [See POLITE].

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KEY: Courtesy.

SYN: Politeness, urbanity, civility, affability, graciousness.

ANT: Churlishness, rudeness, arrogance, ungraciousness, incivility.

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KEY: Courtly.

SYN: Dignified, polished, refined, aristocratic, high-bred, mannerly.

ANT: Undignified, rough, unpolished, coarse, unrefined, plebeian, awkward, boorish, rustic, unmannerly.

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KEY: Covenant \n.\

SYN: Agreement, bond, stipulation, compact, contract, league, bargain.

ANT: Promise, intimation, assurance, parole, understanding.

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KEY: Cover \v.\

SYN: Hide, conceal, cloak, screen, secrete, protect, meet, secure, overspread, clothe, shield, shelter, cover.

ANT: Expose, reveal, betray, exhibit, produce, mis-suffice.

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KEY: Covert \a.\ [See COVER and SECRET].

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KEY: Coverture.

SYN: Marriage, matrimony, wedlock.

ANT: Celibacy, virginity.

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KEY: Covet.

SYN: Long for, wish for, yearn for, hanker, desire.

ANT: Despise, dislike, undervalue, mislike.

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KEY: Covetous.

SYN: Acquisitive, avaricious, greedy, grasping, rapacious.

ANT: Unselfish, liberal, self-sacrificing, profuse, bountiful, charitable.

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KEY: Covetousness, [See COVETOUS and AVARICE].

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KEY: Cow \v.\

SYN: Frighten, abash, intimidate, oppress, brow-bent.

ANT: Countenance, rally, encourage, inspirit.

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KEY: Coward.

SYN: Craven, dastard, recreant, poltroon, renegade.

ANT: Champion, hero, daredevil, desperado.

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KEY: Cowardly, [See TIMID].

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KEY: Cower.

SYN: Shrink, stoop, crouch.

ANT: Rise, stand, dare, face, confront.

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KEY: Coxcomb.

SYN: Fop, dandy, puppy, prig, pedant.

ANT: Genius, savant, authority, celebrity, philosopher, sage.

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KEY: Coxcombical.

SYN: Vain, affected, conceited, dandified, pedantic, priggish.

ANT: Unaffected, unconceited, sensible.

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KEY: Coy.

SYN: Shy, reserved, bashful, shrinking, retreating, modest.

ANT: Bold, forward, rompish, hoydenish.

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KEY: Cozen.

SYN: Circumvent, wheedle, swindle, gull, cheat, dupe, overreach, coax, seduce, deceive.

ANT: Enlighten, undeceive, disabuse.

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KEY: Crabbed.

SYN: Sour, morose, crossgrained, petulant, churlish, irritable, crusty.

ANT: Pleasant, open, easy, genial, conversable, warm, cordial, heart.

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KEY: Crack \t.\.

SYN: Split, break, splinter, chip, snap.

ANT: Mend, repair, unite, piece, splice.

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KEY: Cracked.

SYN: Crazy, flighty, queer, deranged, creaky, touched, cranky, chinky.

ANT: Sound, sensible, clear-headed, shrewd, strong-minded, sane.

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KEY: Craft.

SYN: Art, artifice, cunning, guile, stratagem, manoeuvre, wiliness, trickery, duplicity, chicanery, intrigue, underhandedness, dodge.

ANT: Openness, fairness, candor, honesty, frankness, sincerity, artlessness, ingenuousness, straightforwardness.

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KEY: Crafty, [See CRAFTY].

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KEY: Cram.

SYN: Stuff, choke, squeeze, ram, pack, gorge.

ANT: Disgorge, vent, discharge, unload, unpack, eviscerate, empty, eliminate.

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KEY: Cramp \v.\

SYN: Bind, narrow, restrict, confine, clog, hamper, fetter, cripple.

ANT: Free, liberate, loose, relieve, extricate, enlarge, widen, expand, ease, unfetter.

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KEY: Cranky.

SYN: Crotchety, queer, [See CRACKED].

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KEY: Crapulence.

SYN: Surfeit, headache, dissipation, debauchery, excess, muddiness.

ANT: Temperance, sobriety, clearness, freshness.

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KEY: Crash \n.\

SYN: Jar, clang, clash, resonance.

ANT: Murmur, whisper, babble, rumbling, reverberation, din.

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KEY: Crassitude.

SYN: Density, thickness, corpulence, obesity, burliness, brawniness, animalism, pinguitude, lumpishness, besottedness.

ANT: Tenuity, spareness, slightness, agility, activity, spirituality, intellectuality.

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KEY: Crave.

SYN: Intreat, implore, beg, ask, beseech, supplicate, cry.

ANT: Demand, insist, require, seize.

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KEY: Craven, [See COWARD].

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KEY: Crazy.

SYN: Idiotic, broken-down, mad, crazed, crack-brained, lunatic, demented, daft, insane, aberrant.

ANT: Sound, robust, vigorous, unimpaired.

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KEY: Cream.

SYN: Marrow, pith, gist, acme.

ANT: Refuse, offal, dregs, dross, garbage.

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KEY: Crease, [See CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Create.

SYN: Form, produce, make, compose, constitute, beget, engender, generate, fashion, originate, educe, invent, imagine, cause.

ANT: Annihilate, destroy, demolish.

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KEY: Creature.

SYN: Being, animal, thing, body, brute.

ANT: Chimera, ghost, bugbear.

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KEY: Credence.

SYN: Belief, faith, trust, credit, confidence.

ANT: Disbelief, distrust, denial.

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KEY: Credential, or Credentials.

SYN: Missive, diploma, title, testament, seal, warrant, letter, vouchers, certificates, testimonials.

ANT: Self-license, Belt-constitution, self-appointment, autocracy.

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KEY: Credible.

SYN: Probable, likely, trustworthy.

ANT: Improbable, incredible, unlikely, untrustworthy.

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KEY: Credit \n.\

SYN: Belief, trustworthiness, reputation, security, honor, praise, merit, confidence, faith.

ANT: Disbelief, distrust, untrustworthiness, shame, insecurity, disgrace, censure.

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KEY: Creditor.

SYN: Claimant, lender, mortgagee.

ANT: Debtor, borrower, mortgagor.

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KEY: Credulity.

SYN: Gullibility, simplicity, acceptativeness, openmouthedness.

ANT: Incredulity, scepticism, suspiciousness, shrewdness.

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KEY: Creed.

SYN: Belief, catechism, articles, confession, subscription.

ANT: Protest, abjuration, recantation, retractation, disbelief, nonsubscription.

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KEY: Crest.

SYN: Top, summit, apex, bead, crown.

ANT: Base, foot, bottom, sole.

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KEY: Crestfallen.

SYN: Castdown, humiliated, abashed.

ANT: Inspirited, elated, confident.

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KEY: Crew.

SYN: Complement, company, gang, herd, set, miscellany, horde, swarm, band.

ANT: Supercargo, bevy, galaxy, constellation, picking, cream, elite.

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KEY: Crime.

SYN: Offense, misdeed, wrong, misdemeanor, felony, enormity.

ANT: Good deed, well-doing, duty, obligation, exploit, achievement.

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KEY: Criminal.

SYN: Illegal, felonious, vicious, culpable, wrong, iniquitous, sinful, immoral, guilty, nefarious, flagitious.

ANT: Lawful, virtuous, right, jury innocent, moral, meritorious, creditable, honorable, praiseworthy, laudable.

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KEY: Criminality, [See CRIMINAL and GUILT].

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KEY: Criminate.

SYN: Charge, implicate, accuse, impeach, arraign.

ANT: Acquit, extricate, absolve.

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KEY: Crimp \v.\ [See CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Crimp \a.\

SYN: Brittle, friable, crisp.

ANT: Tough, stubborn, viscous, pasty, lentous.

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KEY: crimple, [See CRUMPLE].

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KEY: Cringe.

SYN: Crouch, bend, bow, fawn, grabble, grub.

ANT: Face, confront, defy, dare.

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KEY: Crinkle, [See CRIMPLE].

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KEY: Cripple.

SYN: Weaken, impair, curtail, cramp, disable.

ANT: Strengthen, renovate, augment, liberate, free, ease, enlarge, expedite.

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KEY: Criterion.

SYN: Test, touchstone, proof, standard, measure.

ANT: Eye, glance, intention, conjecture, scan.

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KEY: Critic.

SYN: Judge, censor, arbiter, savant.

ANT: Author, writer, performer, artist.

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KEY: Critical.

SYN: Nice, delicate, exact, fastidious, discriminating, censorious, accurate, dubious, precarious, ticklish, crucial, important, momentous, hazardous.

ANT: Inexact, popular, loose, easy, undiscriminating, safe, determined, decided, settled, retrieved, redressed.

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KEY: Criticise.

SYN: Examine, scan, perpend, analyze, discuss, anatomize, animadvert.

ANT: Slur, survey, overlook, skim.

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KEY: Criticism.

SYN: Stricture, censure, animadversion.

ANT: Approval, praise, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Croak.

SYN: Complain, murmur, grumble.

ANT: Crow, whistle, sing, chirp, chuckle, cackle, rejoice.

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KEY: Crone.

SYN: Hag, witch, beldame.

ANT: Lass, damsel, maiden, belle.

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KEY: Crony.

SYN: Ally, chum, mate.

ANT: Foe, rival, backfriend.

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KEY: Crooked.

SYN: Bent, incurved, angular, deformed, bowed, disfigured, turned, curved, awry, anfractuous, tortuous, underhanded.

ANT: Straight, linear, direct, honest, straightforward.

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KEY: Crop \v.\

SYN: Hew, reap, reduce, shave, shorten, curtail.

ANT: Elongate, grow, foster, raise, trail, train.

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KEY: Crop \n.\

SYN: Reaping, harvest, ingathering.

ANT: Produce, yield, abundance, growth, fruit.

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KEY: Cross.

SYN: Ill-tempered, fretful, illhumored, crusty, peevish, pettish, snarling, snappish, spleeny, splenetic, petulant, fractious.

ANT: Amiable, good-tempered, goodhumored, blithesome, genial.

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KEY: Cross-grained.

SYN: Perverse, wayward, peevish, morose, cantankerous, ill-conditioned.

ANT: Genial, pleasant, agreeable, jolly, obliging, accommodating.

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KEY: Crotchety, [See CAPRICIOUS].

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KEY: Crouch, [See CRINGE and COWER].

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KEY: Crow \v.\ To make a noise like a cock. Used metaphorically.

SYN: Exult, rejoice, cackle, chuckle, boast.

ANT: Whine, howl, grumble, croak, cry, whimper.

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KEY: Crowd.

SYN: Throng, mob, swarm, pack, herd.

ANT: Cream, elite, bevy, galaxy, constellation, cabinet.

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KEY: Crown \n.\

SYN: Top, crest, summit, head, brow, apex.

ANT: Basement, base, bottom, floor, pavement, pedestal, foundation, foot, sole.

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KEY: Crown.

SYN: Complete, consummate, seal, conclude.

ANT: Mar, spoil, frustrate.

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KEY: Crucial.

SYN: Searching, probing, severe, discriminating, sharp, critical, piercing.

ANT: Superficial, indifferent, mild, uncritical, lenient, lax.

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KEY: Crude.

SYN: Raw, undigested, unconsidered, half-studied, harsh, unshaped, unchastened, unfinished, unrefined, ill-prepared.

ANT: Well-prepared, well-digested, well-considered, well-studied, ripe, well-adapted, well-proportioned, well-expressed, classical, finished, refined, artistic, elaborate, highlywrought.

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KEY: Cruel.

SYN: Savage, barbarous, pittiless, inexorable, unrelenting, ruthless, truculent, hard-hearted, harsh, unmerciful, brutal, inhuman, maleficent, malignant.

ANT: Humane, forbearing, generous, merciful, forgiving, benevolent, beneficent.

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KEY: Crumble.

SYN: Disintegrate, pulverize, triturate.

ANT: Consolidate, conglutinate, bond, amalgamate.

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KEY: Crumple, [See CRINKLE and CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Crush \v.\

SYN: Pulverize, triturate, pound, bray, crumble, overpower, demolish.

ANT: Consolidate, compact, cake, solidify, compress, amalgamate, upraise, stabilitate, aggrandize.

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KEY: Crusty, [See CALM].

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KEY: Cudgel \v.\

SYN: Pound, bruise, buffet, batter.

ANT: Stroke, pat, clap, tickle.

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KEY: Cuff \v.\

SYN: Slap, box, smack, punch, pummel, hustle, buffet.

ANT: Cudgel, flagellate, thrash, cane, strap, lash, whip.

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KEY: Cull.

SYN: Bunch, gather, pick, collect.

ANT: Scatter, drop, throw, disseminate.

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KEY: Culmination.

SYN: Consummation, zenith, acme, meridian, apex, success, completion.

ANT: Fall, descent, decline, failure, downfall, degradation, defeat, abortion.

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KEY: Culpability, [See CULPABLE and GUILT].

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KEY: Culpable.

SYN: Blamable, blameworthy, censurable, guilty.

ANT: Blameless, innocent, excusable, laudable, praisworthy.

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KEY: Culprit.

SYN: Offender, criminal, delinquent, malefactor.

ANT: Example, pattern, model, hero, saint.

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KEY: Cultivate.

SYN: Promote, foster, study, improve, fertilize, till, advance, refine, improve, civilize, nourish, cherish.

ANT: Neglect, desert, abandon, stifle, prevent, discourage, abolish, blight, blast, paralyze, eradicate, extirpate, uproot.

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KEY: Cumber.

SYN: Clog, impede, oppress, load, incommode, obstruct.

ANT: Liberate, expedite, alleviate, extricate, lighten, relieve, support, free, rid.

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KEY: Cunning, [See CRAFT].

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KEY: Cupidity \n.\

SYN: Avarice, acquisitiveness, covetousness, stinginess.

ANT: Prodigality, extravagance, liberality.

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KEY: Curb \v.\

SYN: Restrain, cohibit, hold, repress, check, moderate.

ANT: Indulge, liberate, release, emancipate, loose, urge, free, incite, instigate, impel.

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KEY: Curdle.

SYN: Coagulate, condense, thicken.

ANT: Colliquify, diffuse, circulate.

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KEY: Cure \n.\

SYN: Remedy, alleviation, restorative, heal-all, amelioration, reinstatement, restoration, renovation, convalescence.

ANT: Aggravation, confirmation, complaint, disease, ailment, inoculation, contagion, corruption.

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KEY: Cure \v.\ [See HEAL].

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KEY: Curiosity.

SYN: Inquisitiveness, interest, wonder, marvel, interrogativeness, rarity, phenomenon, celebrity, oddity, lion.

ANT: Indifference, heedlessness, disregard, abstraction, absence, weed, drug, dirt, cipher, bagatelle, song.

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KEY: Curious.

SYN: Inquiring, inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, meddling, singular, searching, interrogative, peeping, peering, rare, unique, odd, recondite.

ANT: Indifferent, uninquiring, incurious, uninterested, trite, common, superficial.

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KEY: Curmudgeon.

SYN: Miscreant, wretch, rascal, churl, ill-conditioned fellow.

ANT: Trump, good fellow, brick.

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KEY: Currency.

SYN: Circulation, vogue, publicity, prevalence.

ANT: Suppression, repression, recall, stagnation, rejection, disbelief, withdrawal.

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KEY: Current.

SYN: Running, prevalent, ordinary, present, popular, general, floating, exoteric, vulgar.

ANT: Rejected, obsolete, exploded, confined, private, secret, esoteric.

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KEY: Curse. \n.\

SYN: Malediction, execration, imprecation, denunciation, anathema, bane, blight.

ANT: Blessing, benediction, joy, crown, glory.

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KEY: Curse. \v.\

SYN: Execrate.

ANT: Bless.

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KEY: Cursory.

SYN: Rapid, hasty, desultory, careless, superficial, slight, summary.

ANT: Searching, minute, elaborate, profound.

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KEY: Curtail. [See ABBREVIATE].

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KEY: Curve \v.\

SYN: Incurve, bend, inflex, falcate, arcuate.

ANT: Straighten, unbend, rectilineate.

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KEY: Curve \n.\

SYN: Incurvation, flexion, deflexion.

ANT: Rigidity, inelasticity, inflexibility, rectilinearity.

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KEY: Custody.

SYN: Keeping, guardianship, conservation, care.

ANT: Neglect, betrayal, exposure, abandonment, desertion, liberation, jeopardy, discharge.

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KEY: Custom.

SYN: Manner, habit, use, usage, fashion, practice, prescription.

ANT: Law, regulation, dictate, command, rule, disuse, nonobservance, desuetude.

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KEY: Cut \v.\

SYN: Sever, slice, sunder, cleave, shear, carve, chop, gash, avoid, elude.

ANT: Unite, splice, accost, approach, court, address, salute.

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KEY: Cutting.

SYN: Sharp, biting, mordant, trenchant, piercing, bitter, sarcastic, provoking, stinging, sardonic, exasperating, satirical, severe, disappointing, cruel.

ANT: Mild, conciliatory, complimentary, soothing, flattering, indulgent, consoling, gratifying.

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KEY: Cynical.

SYN: Sarcastic, snarling, snappish, sneering, cross-grained, currish, carping.

ANT: Genial, lenient, complaisant, urbane.

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KEY: Dabble.

SYN: Meddle, mix, trifle, skim.

ANT: Study, elaborate, investigate, delve, dig, fathom, gauge.

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KEY: Daft.

SYN: Silly, innocent, idiotic, lunatic, light-headed, cracked.

ANT: Sane, sound, sensible, practical, rational, shrewd, deft, mealy-mouthed, delicious, toothsome, delicate, fastidious.

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KEY: Dainty.

SYN: Choice, rare, refined, tasty, exquisite, luxurious, epicurean.

ANT: Common, coarse, unrelishing, nasty, dirty, omnivorous, greedy, gluttonous.

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KEY: Dally.

SYN: Trifle, play, wanton, sport, fondle, delay, procrastinate, dawdle.

ANT: Toil, labor, work, study, fag, stir, bustle, hasten.

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KEY: Damage.

SYN: Injury, hurt, loss, mischief, detriment, impairment.

ANT: Compensation, recovery, reinstatement, advantage, benefit, reparation, blessing.

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KEY: Damnable, [See EXECRABLE].

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KEY: Damp.

SYN: Cool, blunt, dishearten, quench, slack, moderate, humid, wet, moist, discourage, discountenance, repress.

ANT: Urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite.

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KEY: Danger.

SYN: Peril, hazard, risk, jeopardy, insecurity, venture.

ANT: Security, custody, defense, safety, premunition, precaution.

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KEY: Dapper.

SYN: Spruce, neat, natty, smart.

ANT: Slovenly, awkward, unwieldy, untidy.

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KEY: Dare.

SYN: Venture, face, brave, hazard, risk, defy, challenge.

ANT: Shrink, shun, dread, cower.

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KEY: Daring.

SYN: Adventurous, dashing, bold, courageous, venturesome, dauntless, foolhardy, fearless, brave, intrepid, valorous.

ANT: Cautious, timid, inadventurous.

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KEY: Dark.

SYN: Black, dusky, sable, swarthy, opaque, obscure, enigmatical, recondite, abstruse, unintelligible, blind, ignorant, besotted, benighted, dim, shadowy, inexplicable, secret, mysterious, hidden, murky, nebulous, cheerless, dismal, dim, gloomy, sombre, joyless, mournful, sorrowful.

ANT: White, fair, light, radiant, bright, lucid, crystalline, transparent, brilliant, plain, intelligible, enlightened, glaring, dazzling, illumined, festive, luminous.

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KEY: Darling.

SYN: Pet, love, sweet, pretty, dear, favorite, delight.

ANT: Antipathy, abomination, horror.

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KEY: Dash.

SYN: Burl, cast, throw, subvert, detrude, drive, rush, send, fly, speed, dart, scatter, strike, course.

ANT: Raise, reinstate, erect, creep, crawl, lag, hobble.

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KEY: Dashing.

SYN: Adventurous, showy, brave.

ANT: Shrinking, dowdy, timid.

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KEY: Dastard, [See COWARD].

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KEY: Data.

SYN: Facts, grounds, basis, axioms, postulates.

ANT: Conjecture, assumption, problem, proposition, inference, deduction.

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KEY: Date, [See TIME].

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KEY: Daub, [See BEDAUB].

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KEY: Daunt.

SYN: Terrify, scare, frighten, cow, dishearten, appall, intimidate, confront.

ANT: Countenance, encourage, rally, inspirit.

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KEY: Dauntless.

SYN: Valiant, gallant, fearless, lion-hearted, intrepid.

ANT: Cautious, cowardly, timid.

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KEY: Dawdle.

SYN: Lag, dally, idle.

ANT: Haste, speed, dash, rush, work, fag.

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KEY: Dawn.

SYN: Gleam, begin, appear, rise, open, break.

ANT: Wane, set, sink, close, depart.

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KEY: Dazzle.

SYN: Daze, bewilder, confuse.

ANT: Enlighten, illumine.

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KEY: Dead.

SYN: Defunct, deceased, departed, gone, inanimate, lifeless, insensible, heavy, unconscious, dull, spiritless, cheerless, deserted, torpid, still.

ANT: Vital, living, animate, vivacious, susceptible, alive, joyous, stirring, thronged, bustling.

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KEY: Deaden.

SYN: Benumb, paralyze, blunt, damp, subdue.

ANT: Sharpen, quicken, enliven.

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KEY: Deadly.

SYN: Mortal, fatal, malignant, baleful, pernicious, noxious, venomous, destructive, baneful, implacable.

ANT: Vital, life-giving, healthful, wholesome, nutritious.

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KEY: deadness.

SYN: Torpor, flatness, faintness, heaviness.

ANT: Quickness, vitality, life, vivacity.

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KEY: Deaf.

SYN: Surd, hard of hearing, disinclined, averse, inexorable, insensible, rumbling, inaudible, heedless, dead.

ANT: Acute, listening, disposed, interested, attentive, willing, susceptible, sensible, alive.

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KEY: Deal.

SYN: Bargain, chaffer, trade, dispense, market, communicate, negotiate, traffic.

ANT: Hold, close, stop, fail.

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KEY: Dealing.

SYN: Intercourse, communication, trade, traffic, negotiation, commerce, practice.

ANT: Lack, failure, closing, bankruptcy, stagnation, withdrawal, noncommunication.

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KEY: Dear.

SYN: High-priced, costly, expensive, beloved, precious, loved.

ANT: Cheap, inexpensive, misliked, vile.

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KEY: Dearth, [See ABUNDANCE].

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KEY: Death.

SYN: Departure, demise, decease, dissolution, mortality, fall, failure, termination, cessation, expiration, release, exit.

ANT: Birth, rise, life, growth, vigor, animation, spirit, activity, operation, action, commencement, vitality, auspices, inauguration.

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KEY: Deathless.

SYN: Undying, immortal, unfading, everlasting.

ANT: Mortal, ephemeral, fragile, fugitive, momentary, transient, fleeting.

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KEY: Debar.

SYN: Exclude, stop, thwart, obstruct, hinder, prevent, deter, deprive, disqualify, deny, prohibit, preclude.

ANT: Inclose, embrace, admit, permit, aid, allow, indulge, qualify, entitle.

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KEY: Debase.

SYN: Degrade, lower, depress, deprave, deteriorate, corrupt, alloy, impair, disgrace, humble.

ANT: Raise, enhance, exalt, honor, promote, ameliorate, purify, improve.

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KEY: Debased, [See DEBASE].

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KEY: Debate.

SYN: Contend, dispute, argue, moot, controvert, contest, wrangle, discuss, deliberate, question, ventilate.

ANT: Yield, concede, surrender, admit, allow.

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KEY: Debatable.

SYN: Dubious, doubtful, inestimable, uncertain, problematical, floating, unsettled, disputable.

ANT: Certain, sure, unquestionable, Indisputable, self-evident, incontestable.

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KEY: Debauch, Debauchery \n.\

SYN: Riot, revel, excess, orgies, gluttony.

ANT: Meal, moderation, frugality, asceticism, abstinence, fast, maceration.

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KEY: Debauch \v.\

SYN: Seduce, corrupt, ravish, violate, pollute, defile, vitiate.

ANT: Purify, enlighten, ameliorate, elevate, make better.

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KEY: Debility.

SYN: Weakness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, incapacity, imbecility, enervation, lassitude, languor.

ANT: Strength, vigor, robustness, energy, tone, nerve, muscularity.

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KEY: Debt.

SYN: Debit, liability, default, obligation, claim, score, something due.

ANT: Liquidation, assets, credit, trust, grace, favor, obligation, accommodation, gift, gratuity.

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KEY: Debtor, [See CREDITOR].

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KEY: Decadence, [See DECAY].

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KEY: Decamp.

SYN: Start, fly, bolt, abscond.

ANT: Appear, answer, show.

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KEY: Decay \v.\

SYN: Decline, wane, sink, dwindle, rot, wither, perish, waste, ebb, decrease.

ANT: Rise, grow, increase, flourish, luxuriate, vegetate, expand, enlarge.

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KEY: Decay \n.\

SYN: Declension, waning, sinking, wasting, decrease, corruption, decadence, putrefaction, rottenness, dry rot, consumption, decline.

ANT: Rise, growth, birth, increase, fertility, exuberance, luxuriance, prosperity.

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KEY: Decayed.

SYN: Rotten, corrupt, unsound, decomposed, declined, faded, sunk, unprosperous, impoverished, wasted away.

ANT: Sound, wholesome, healthful, fresh, prosperous, flourishing, wealthy.

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KEY: Decease, [See DEATH].

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KEY: Deceit.

SYN: Cheat, imposition, trick, fraud, deception, double dealing, delusion, circumvention, guile, bewilderment, treachery, sham, insidiousness, indirection, duplicity, cunning, artifice.

ANT: Enlightenment, instruction, guidance, reality, verily, Fair-dealing, honesty, openness.

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KEY: Deceitful.

SYN: Deceptive, delusive, fraudulent, fallacious.

ANT: Open, fair, honest, truthful, veracious.

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KEY: Deceive.

SYN: Trick, cheat, beguile, delude, gull, dupe, take in, over reach, mislead, betray, ensnare, entrap, circumvent.

ANT: Enlighten, advise, illumine, guide, disabuse, undeceive, deliver.

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KEY: Decency.

SYN: Modesty, propriety, [See DECORUM].

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KEY: Deceiver, [See DECEIVE].

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KEY: Decent, [See ABASH].

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KEY: Deception, [See DECEIT].

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KEY: Deride.

SYN: Determine, fix, settle, adjudicate, terminate, resolve.

ANT: Waver, raise, moot, drop, doubt, waive, suspend, misjudge, misdetermine.

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KEY: Decided.

SYN: Determined, ruled, resolute, firm, unwavering.

ANT: Undecided, unsettled, irresolute, vacillating.

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KEY: Deciduous, [See EPHEMERAL].

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KEY: Decipher.

SYN: Bead, spell, interpret, solve, unravel, explain, unfold.

ANT: Cipher, symbolize, empuzzle, mystify, enigmatize.

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KEY: Decision.

SYN: Determination, conclusion, sentence, judgment, resolution, firmness.

ANT: Irresoluteness, vagueness, indecision, uncertainty, unsettlement.

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KEY: Decisive, [See CONCLUSIVE].

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KEY: Deck, [See ADORN].

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KEY: Declaim.

SYN: Harangue, recite, apostrophize, speak, debate, inveigh.

ANT: Bead, study, compose, elaborate.

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KEY: Declamation.

SYN: Oratory, elocution, harangue, effusion, debate.

ANT: Stammering, titubancy, hesitation, tardiloquence.

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KEY: Declamatory.

SYN: Loud, noisy, incoherent, discursive, loose, inconsecutive, grandiloquent, rhetorical, high-sounding.

ANT: Close, connected, logical, studied, exact, quiet, consecutive.

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KEY: Declaration.

SYN: Avowal, exhibition, manifestation, statement, ordinance, assertion, affirmation, profession.

ANT: Denial, concealment, suppression, Declare, [See ANNOUNCE].

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KEY: Declension.

SYN: Decay, decadence, degeneration, deterioration, fall.

ANT: Bise, improvement, advancement, culmination.

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KEY: Decline, [See DECLENSION and ACCEPT].

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KEY: Declivity.

SYN: Descent, fall, slope, incline, devexity.

ANT: Ascent, rise, verticality.

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KEY: Decoction.

SYN: Concoction, dish, compound, plate, platter, mess, extract.

ANT: Crudity, infusion, rawness, greenness, maceration.

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KEY: Decompose.

SYN: Analyze, segregate, individualize, resolve, dissolve.

ANT: Compound, concoct, mix, organize, compose.

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KEY: Decomposition, [See DECOMPOSE].

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KEY: Decorate, [See ADORN], Decorum.

SYN: Seemliness, propriety, dignity, order, decency, good manners, good behavior, modesty.

ANT: Unseemliness, impropriety, disturbance, disorder.

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KEY: Decoy.

SYN: Allure, entice, ensnare, entrap, seduce, mislead, inveigle, lure, tempt.

ANT: Guide, instruct, warn, conduct, disabuse, extricate.

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KEY: Decrease \v.\

SYN: Diminish, lessen, subside, abate, lower, decline, retrench, curtail, reduce, wane.

ANT: Increase, grow, amplify, expand, augment, extend, enlarge.

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KEY: Decree.

SYN: Decision, determination, mandate, law, edict, manifesto, rule, verdict, order, judgment, ordinance, proclamation.

ANT: Cue, hint, suggestion, intimation, request.

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KEY: Decrement, [See AUGMENTATION].

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KEY: Decrepit.

SYN: Infirm, weak, crippled, superannuated, effete, broken-down, enfeebled, tottering, aged.

ANT: Strong, robust, agile, youthful, active.

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KEY: Decrepitude, [See DECREPIT].

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KEY: Decry.

SYN: Depreciate, traduce, vituperate, disparage, defame, vilify, derogate, detract, censure, abase, denounce.

ANT: Extol, laud, praise, eulogize, panegyrize.

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KEY: Dedicate.

SYN: Devote, consecrate, offer, set, apportion, assign, apply, separate, hallow, set apart.

ANT: Alienate, misapply, desecrate, misappropriate, misconvert, misuse.

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KEY: Deduce.

SYN: Draw, Infer, conclude, gather.

ANT: State, premise, hazard, conjecture, guess, induce, anticipate, foresee, predict, induct.

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KEY: Deductible, [See DEDUCE].

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KEY: Deduct.

SYN: Subtract, bate, remove.

ANT: Add, annex, subjoin.

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KEY: Deduction.

SYN: Conclusion, inference, abatement.

ANT: [See CONCLUSION].

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KEY: Deed.

SYN: Act, action, commission, achievement, perpetration, instrument, document, muniment, exploit, feat.

ANT: Omission, failure, abortion, false-witness, innocence, cancelling, disproof, invalidation, retractation, impossibility, nonperformance, recall, reversion, undoing.

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KEY: Deem.

SYN: Judge, estimate, consider, believe, think, suppose, conceive.

ANT: Misjudge, misestimate, mis-consider.

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KEY: Deep.

SYN: Profound, subterranean, submerged, designing, abstruse, recondite, learned, low, sagacious, penetrating, thick, obscure, mysterious, occult, Intense, heartfelt.

ANT: Shallow, superficial, artless, undesigning, familiar, commonplace.

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KEY: Deeply, [See DEEP].

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KEY: Deface.

SYN: Mar, spoil, injure, disfigure, deform, damage, mutilate, destroy.

ANT: Decorate, adorn, embellish.

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KEY: Defalcation.

SYN: Failure, nonpayment, arrears, deficit.

ANT: Payment, acquittal, balance, satisfaction, assets.

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KEY: Defame, [See DECRY].

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KEY: Detainer, [See DEFAME].

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KEY: Default.

SYN: Lapse, forfeit, omission, defect, delinquency, absence, want, failure.

ANT: Maintenance, appearance, plea, satisfaction, forthcoming, supply, presence.

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KEY: Defaulter.

SYN: Debtor, insolvent, bankrupt.

ANT: Defrayer, liquidator.

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KEY: Defeat \n.\

SYN: Frustration, overthrow, discomfiture.

ANT: Victory, triumph, success.

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KEY: Defeat \v.\

SYN: Conquer, overcome, worst, beat, baffle, rout, overthrow, vanquish, frustrate, foil.

ANT: Secure, promote, insure, speed, advance, establish, aid.

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KEY: Defect.

SYN: Shortcoming, omission, fault, imperfection, flaw, blemish, want.

ANT: Supply, sufficiency, emendation, compensation, virtue, ornament, complement.

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KEY: Defection.

SYN: Failure, dereliction, abandonment, relinquishment, desertion.

ANT: Substitution, supply, superabundance, adherence.

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KEY: Defective.

SYN: Faulty, imperfect, insufficient, deficient, wanting, short.

ANT: Correct, complete, sufficient, full, ample, abundant, satisfactory.

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KEY: Defense.

SYN: Resistance, protection, vindication, plea, justification, excuse, rampart, bulwark, apology, shelter, guard.

ANT: Abandonment, surrender, betrayal, exposure.

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KEY: Defenseless.

SYN: Unsheltered, exposed, unguarded, unprotected, unarmed.

ANT: Sheltered, guarded, fortified, defended, protected, armed.

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KEY: Defendant.

SYN: Accused, prisoner.

ANT: Prosecutor, accuser, plaintiff.

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KEY: Defensible.

SYN: Vindicable, justifiable, tenable.

ANT: Unjustifiable, untenable, unwarrantable, indefensible.

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KEY: Defer.

SYN: Delay, postpone, waive, adjourn, prorogue, put off, retard, procrastinate, protract, hinder, prolong.

ANT: Expedite, hasten, quicken, press, urge, hurry, overdrive, despatch.

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KEY: Deference.

SYN: Respect, consideration, condescension, contention, regard, honor, veneration, submission, reverence, obedience, homage, allegiance.

ANT: Disrespect, contumely, contumacy, disregard, slight, impudence, disobedience, non-allegiance, defiance, attention.

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KEY: Defiance, [See DEFERENCE].

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KEY: Deficiency.

SYN: Want, imperfection, lack, shortcoming.

ANT: Fullness, abundance.

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KEY: Deficient, [See DEFECTIVE].

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KEY: Defile, [See CONTAMINATE].

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KEY: Define.

SYN: Mark out, limit, designate, specify, eliminate, elucidate, explain, fix, settle, determine, bound.

ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misstate, misconceive, misconstrue, misdefine.

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KEY: Definite.

SYN: Clear, specified, determined, definitive, restricted, specific, certain, ascertained, precise, exact, fixed, limited, bounded, positive.

ANT: Vague, unspecified, undetermined, indefinite, obscure, confused, intermingled.

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KEY: Definition.

SYN: Determination, limitation, specification, restriction.

ANT: Confusion, vagueness, acceptation, description, explanation, misconception, misstatement.

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KEY: Deflect.

SYN: Turn, deviate, diverge, swerve, divert, recurve.

ANT: Continue, proceed, straighten, unbend, prolong, produce.

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KEY: Deflection.

SYN: Deviation, divergence, alienation, swerving, incurvation, curvity, falcation.

ANT: Straightness, directness, rectilinearity, inflexibility, prolongation, prosecution, undeviatingness.

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KEY: deform, [See ADORN].

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KEY: Deformity.

SYN: Ugliness, disfigurement, hideousness, abnormity, monstrosity.

ANT: Grace, beauty, decoration, ornament.

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KEY: Defraud, [See CHEAT].

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KEY: Defray.

SYN: Meet, liquidate, pay, settle, bear, discharge, quit.

ANT: Dishonor, repudiate, dissatisfy, misappropriate, embezzle.

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KEY: Defrayment.

SYN: Payment, quittance, liquidation, compensation, discharge.

ANT: Nonpayment, failure, insolvency, appropriation, misappropriation, embezzlement, repudiation.

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KEY: Defy.

SYN: Scorn, challenge, provoke, despite, brave, [See DARE].

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KEY: Degenerate.

SYN: deteriorate, grow worse, retrograde.

ANT: Recover, improve, mend, advance.

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KEY: Deglutition.

SYN: Swallowing, gorging, gluttony, absorption.

ANT: disgorgement, vomit.

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KEY: Degradation, [See DEBASE].

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KEY: Degrade, [See DEBASE].

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KEY: Degree.

SYN: Grade, rank, stage, step, extent, measure, mark, rate, position, quality, class, station, range, quantity, amount, limit, order.

ANT: Space, mass, magnitude, size, numbers.

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KEY: Doliortatlon, [See DISSUADE].

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KEY: Deign, [See CONDESCEND].

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KEY: Dejected.

SYN: Dispirited, gloomy, melancholy, desponding, depressed, downcast, low-spirited.

ANT: Elated, inspirited, blithe, gay, cheerful.

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KEY: Dejection, [See DEJECTED].

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KEY: Delay \v.\ [See DEFER].

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KEY: Delectable.

SYN: Pleasant, amiable, agreeable, enjoyable.

ANT: Unpleasant, unamiable, disagreeably, unenjoyable,.

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KEY: Delegate.

SYN: Appoint, depute, commission.

ANT: Recall, supersede, relegate, discommission.

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KEY: Deleterious.

SYN: Destructive, noxious, injurious, poisonous, pernicious.

ANT: Wholesome, nutritious, esculent, conservative, beneficial.

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KEY: Deliberate \v.\

SYN: Consider, meditate, consult, weigh, reflect, ponder, debate, perpend.

ANT: Shelve, burke, discard, hazard, chance, risk.

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KEY: Deliberate \a.\

SYN: Grave, purposed, intentional, designed, determined, resolute, earnest, unbiased, unprejudiced.

ANT: Playful, jocose, facetious, irresolute, unresolved, undetermined, dubious, compulsory, suggested, dictated, instigated, biased, prejudiced.

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KEY: Deliberation, [See DELIBERATE and COOL].

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KEY: Deliberately, [See DELIBERATE].

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KEY: Delicacy.

SYN: Nicety, dainty, mor, sel, refinement, tact, softness, luxury, modesty, scruple, sensitiveness, fragility.

ANT: Coarseness, rudeness, rawness, muchness, indelicacy, commons, necessaries, fare, physic, vigor, robustness.

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KEY: Delicate, [See DELICACY and COARSE].

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KEY: Delicious.

SYN: Exquisite, luxurious, delightful, dainty, choice.

ANT: Coarse, common, unsavory, unpalatable, nauseous, loathsome.

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KEY: Delight.

SYN: Enjoyment, pleasure, happiness, transport, ecstasy, joy, gratification, gladness, rapture, bliss.

ANT: Pain, suffering, sorrow, trouble, misery, displeasure, dissatisfaction, disappointment, discomfort, dejection, depression, distress, melancholy, discontent.

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KEY: Delightful, [See DELIGHT].

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KEY: Delineate.

SYN: Describe, figure, sketch, portray, depict, draw, represent, paint.

ANT: Misrepresent, caricature, exaggerate, misportray.

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KEY: Delinquency.

SYN: Crime, offense, guilt, culpability, criminality.

ANT: Innocence, blamelessness.

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KEY: Delinquent.

SYN: Criminal, culprit, offender.

ANT: Worthy, paragon, pattern.

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KEY: Delitescence.

SYN: Concealment, hiding, skulking, shirking.

ANT: Appearance, publicity, forwardness, self-presentation, openness.

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KEY: Deliver.

SYN: Liberate, free, save, utter, set free, surrender, yield, transmit, concede, give up, rescue, pronounce, hand, give, entrust, consign.

ANT: Confine, capture, suppress, retain, betray, withdraw, assume, appropriate, misdeliver.

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KEY: Delude, [See DECEIVE].

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KEY: Deluge.

SYN: Inundation, rush, flood, redundance.

ANT: Mist, moisture, dearth, drought, aridity, subsidence, exsiccation.

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KEY: Delusion, [See DECEIT].

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KEY: Delve.

SYN: Dig, penetrate, dive, investigate, search.

ANT: Scratch, rake, slur, dabble, dally, skim.

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KEY: Demand.

SYN: Claim, require, ask for, call for, insist.

ANT: Disclaim, waive, forego, petition, request, supplicate.

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KEY: Demarcation.

SYN: Definition, {[connguration]?}, outline, sketch, delineation, bounding, inclosure, plan, limitation.

ANT: indefiniteness, openness, space, waste, plain, void.

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KEY: Demean, [See BEHAVE and CONDESCEND].

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KEY: Demerit, [See MERIT and FAULT].

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KEY: Demesne, [See DOMAIN].

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KEY: Demise \v.\ [See BEQUEATH].

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KEY: Demise \n.\ [See DEATH].

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KEY: Democratic.

SYN: Popular, leveling, radical, subversive, unlicensed, unarculca, destructive, republican.

ANT: Regal, imperial, aristocratic, oligarchical, constitutional, conservative, tyrannical, despotic, autocratic.

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KEY: Demolish, [See DESTROY].

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KEY: Demoniacal.

SYN: Fiendish, hell, Ish, diabolical.

ANT: Angelical, seraphic, heavenly.

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KEY: Demonstrate.

SYN: Prove, show, exhibit, manifest, evince, illustrate.

ANT: Disprove, conceal, misdemonstrate-strafe, misexemplify.

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KEY: Demoralize, [See DISHEARTEN].

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KEY: Demulcent.

SYN: Soothing, softening, allaying, lenitive.

ANT: Irritating, chafing, blistering.

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KEY: Demur.

SYN: Dubitate, hesitate, halt, pause, doubt, scruple, object.

ANT: Approve, acquiesce, agree, assent, consent.

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KEY: Demure.

SYN: Sedate, staid, grave, modest, downcast, sober, dispassionate, prudish, discreet.

ANT: Lively, vivacious, facetious, wanton, wild, noisy, boisterous, rompish, hoydenish, indiscreet.

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KEY: Denial, [See DENT].

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KEY: Denizen.

SYN: Citizen, subject, inhabitant, sojourner, dweller, freedman.

ANT: Foreigner, alien, stranger, exile, traveler.

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KEY: Denominate.

SYN: Name, call, designate, specify, denote, style, title.

ANT: Misname, miscall, describe, delineate, suggest.

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KEY: Denomination.

SYN: Name, designation, description, kind, class, order, appellation.

ANT: Non-description, misnomer.

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KEY: Denote, [See DENOMINATE].

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KEY: Denounce.

SYN: Reprobate, decry, proscribe, brand, stigmatize, vituperate, defame.

ANT: Applaud, eulogize, vindicate, panegyrize, uphold.

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KEY: Dense.

SYN: Slow, thick, stupid, stolid, solid, stout, compact, consolidated, condensed, close, thickset.

ANT: Quick, clever, intelligent, rare, rarefied, uncompacted, sparse.

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KEY: Dent.

SYN: Indentation, notch, cavity.

ANT: Tumor, protuberance, button, knob, tooth.

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KEY: Denticulated.

SYN: Notched, crenellated, indented.

ANT: Toothed, serrated.

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KEY: Denticulation, [See DENTICULATED].

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KEY: Denude.

SYN: Strip, divest, bare, spoil.

ANT: Invest, drape, decorate, enrich, ornament.

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KEY: Denunciation, [See DENOUNCE].

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KEY: Deny.

SYN: Refuse, reject, withhold, negative, contradict, gainsay, disclaim, disavow, disown, oppose.

ANT: Grant, accept, concede, admit, affirm, confirm, afford, yield, indulge.

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KEY: Depart.

SYN: Leave, quit, [See CONTROL and GOVERN], decamp, start, sally, retire, withdraw, abandon, remove, vanish.

ANT: Stay, cling, remain, come, arrive, alight, Used also for die.

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KEY: Departed, [See DEPART and DEFUNCT].

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KEY: Department.

SYN: Section, division, portion, function, office, branch, province, line.

ANT: Institution, establishment, art, science, literature, service, state, whole, organization, community, society, body.

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KEY: Dependence, [See DEPENDENT and RELIANCE].

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KEY: Dependent.

SYN: Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative.

ANT: Independent, irrelative, irrespective, absolute, free.

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KEY: Depict.

SYN: Portray, color, paint, draw, delineate.

ANT: Misrepresent, exaggerate, deform, caricature.

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KEY: Deplorable.

SYN: Lamentable, miserable, pitiable, sad, calamitous, disastrous.

ANT: Welcome, glad, acceptable, felicitous, beneficial, joyous.

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KEY: Deplore.

SYN: Regret, lament, moorn, bewail, bemoan.

ANT: Welcome, hail.

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KEY: Depopulate.

SYN: Waste, dispeople, desert, {[coandon]?}, unpeople.

ANT: Occupy, tenant, colonize, inhabit, settle, replenish, stock, fill.

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KEY: Deportation.

SYN: Arrival, importation, placement, reconsignment.

ANT: Exportation, emigration, displacement.

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KEY: Deportment.

SYN: Behavior, carriage, movement, demeanor, character, conduct.

ANT: Misbehavior, misdeportment.

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KEY: Depose, [See ENTHRONE].

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KEY: Deprave, [See DEBASE].

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KEY: Deprecate.

SYN: Disavow, disclaim, expostulate, intercede.

ANT: Beg, supplicate, ask, entreat, request, imprecate, invoke.

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KEY: Depreciate, [See DISPARAGE].

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KEY: Depredation.

SYN: Havoc, robbery, spoliation, plunder, trespass, invasion, encroachment.

ANT: Pilfering, perquisite, abstraction, pocketing, restitution, compensation.

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KEY: Depredator, [See DEPREDATION].

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KEY: Depress, [See ELEVATE].

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KEY: Depression.

SYN: Lowering, degradation, debasement, dejection, discouragement, hollow, valley, dip.

ANT: Raising, elevation, exaltation, promotion, preferment, amelioration, encouragement, rallying, rising, eminence, mound, prominence.

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KEY: Deprive.

SYN: Strip, bereave, despoil, rob, divest, dispossess, abridge, depose, prevent, hinder.

ANT: Invest, endow, compensate, enrich, supply, present, reinstate, indemnify.

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KEY: Depute.

SYN: Appoint, commission, charge, entrust, delegate, authorize, accredit, constitute.

ANT: Recall, discard, dismiss, discommission, supersede.

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KEY: Deputy.

SYN: Vicegerent, lieutenant, representative, agent, commissioner, legate, envoy, delegate, proxy, substitute.

ANT: Principal, master, chief, governor, sovereign, ruler, head.

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KEY: Derange, [See ARRANGE].

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KEY: Derangement, [See ABERRATION].

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KEY: Dereliction.

SYN: Abandonment, failure, shortcoming, desertion, relinquishment, neglect.

ANT: Performance, observance, adherence, attention.

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KEY: Deride, [See DERISION].

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KEY: Derision.

SYN: Scorn, contempt, mockery, irony, sarcasm, contumely, disrespect.

ANT: Respect, regard, admiration, reverence.

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KEY: Derisive.

SYN: Scornful, contemptuous, disrespectful.

ANT: Respectful, deferential, reverential.

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KEY: Derivation.

SYN: Origin, source, descent, beginning, cause, etymology, root, spring, analysis.

ANT: Result, issue, formation, application, use.

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KEY: Derive.

SYN: Deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve.

ANT: Misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace.

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KEY: Derogate.

SYN: Detract, disparage, depreciate, decry, deteriorate.

ANT: Esteem, value, laud, enhance, extol, exaggerate, overestimate, overvalue.

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KEY: Derogation, [See DEROGATE].

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KEY: Descant.

SYN: Dissert, discuss, expatiate, enlarge, talk, dwell, amplify.

ANT: Condense, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, confine, clip, delineate.

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KEY: Descend, [See ASCEND].

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KEY: Descendant.

SYN: Offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage.

ANT: Author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin.

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KEY: Descent, [See DESCEND].

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KEY: Describe.

SYN: Draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict, represent, relate, narrate, recount.

ANT: Confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort.

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KEY: Description, [See DENOMINATION].

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KEY: Descry.

SYN: Discern, recognize, discover, distinguish, espy, detect, observe, mark, perceive.

ANT: Miss, overlook, misobserve.

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KEY: Desecrate.

SYN: Profane, secularize, misuse, abuse, prostitute, pollute.

ANT: Use, employ, devote, dedicate, consecrate, solemnize, sanctify, purify, reconcile.

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KEY: Desert \n.\

SYN: Wild, waste, wilderness, solitude, void.

ANT: Inclosure, field, pasture, garden, oasis.

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KEY: Desert, [See ABANDON].

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KEY: Deserter.

SYN: Renegade, run, away, recanter, abjurer, apostate, traitor, forsaker.

ANT: Adherent, supporter, ally, befriender, disciple, bigot, slave.

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KEY: Deserve.

SYN: Merit, earn, justify, win.

ANT: Forfeit, misdeserve, lose.

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KEY: Desiderate.

SYN: Desire, want, need, require.

ANT: Disregard, forget, supersede, discard.

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KEY: Desideratum.

SYN: Requisite, complement, essential, want.

ANT: Surplusage, superfluity, in, cumbrance, drawback.

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KEY: Design \v.\

SYN: Contemplate, purpose, intend, plan, prepare, project.

ANT: Hit, risk, guess, conjecture, chance, fluke, misconceive, miscontrive.

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KEY: Design \n.\

SYN: Contemplation, pur pose, intention, plan, preparation draft, delineation, sketch, drawing, artifice, cunning, artfulness, guile, contrivance, intent, project, scheme.

ANT: Execution, performance, result, issue, construction, structure, candor, fairness, openness, artlessness, sincerity, simplicity, change, incident.

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KEY: Designate, [See DENOMINATE].

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KEY: Designation, [See DESIGNATE].

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KEY: Designed, [See DESIGN].

SYN: Intended, prepared, purposed, adapted, calculated, planned, contrived, intentional.

ANT: Fortuitous, casual, accidental, miscalculated, miscontrived, unintended.

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KEY: Designing, [See DESIGN and ARTFUL].

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KEY: Desinence.

SYN: Termination, conclusion, cessation, discontinuance, cadence, period, finality.

ANT: Origination, initiation, inauguration, continuance, progression, commencement, inception.

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KEY: Desirable.

SYN: Expedient, advisable, valuable, acceptable, proper, judicious, beneficial, profitable, good, enviable, delightful.

ANT: Undesirable, unadvisable, inexpedient, objectionable, improper, injudicious, unprofitable, evil.

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KEY: Desire \n.\

SYN: Longing, affection, propension, craving, concupiscence, appetency.

ANT: Loathing, hate, repugnance, disgust, aversion, abomination, horror.

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KEY: Desire, [See COVET].

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KEY: Desist.

SYN: Cease, stop, discontinue, drop, abstain, forbear, leave off.

ANT: Continue, proceed, persist, persevere.

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KEY: Desolate \a.\

SYN: Bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, comfortless, deserted, uninhabited, desert, wild, waste, bare, bleak, lonely.

ANT: Cheered, cheerful, consoled, attended, cultivated, sheltered, fertile, luxuriant, animated, lively, gay, frequented.

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KEY: Desolate \v.\

SYN: Waste, spoil, sack, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, depopulate.

ANT: People, colonize, plant, develop, fertilize, cultivate, enrich, enliven.

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KEY: Desolation, [See DESOLATE].

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KEY: Despair \n.\

SYN: Hopelessness, despondency, desperation.

ANT: Hopefulness, elation, anticipation, hilarity, confidence, sanguineness, expectation.

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KEY: Despair \v.\

SYN: Despond, faint.

ANT: Hope, trust, confide, rely, presume, rally.

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KEY: Desperate.

SYN: Wild, daring, audacious, determined, reckless, abandoned, rash, furious, frantic, despairing, regardless, mad, desponding, hapless, inextricable, irremediable.

ANT: Cool, calm, cautious, timid, shy, irresolute, remediable, hopeful, promising, propitious.

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KEY: Despicable, [See CONTEMPTIBLE].

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KEY: Despise, [See DESPICABLE and CONTEMN].

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KEY: Despite, prep.

SYN: Notwithstanding, opposing, resisting.

ANT: concurrently, consentaneously, {[ai]?}, ling, abetting.

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KEY: Despite \n.\ [See DESPITE, prep. and SPITE].

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KEY: Despoil.

SYN: Strip, denude, ravage, devastate, rob, havoc, spoliate.

ANT: Decorate, adorn, embellish, enrich, reinstate, rehabilitate.

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KEY: Respond, [See DESPAIR].

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KEY: Despot.

SYN: Tyrant, autocrat.

ANT: Slave, subject.

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KEY: Despotic.

SYN: Autocratic, domineering, arbitrary, arrogant, imperious, self-willed, irresponsible, absolute, cruel, tyrannical.

ANT: Limited, constitutional, humane, merciful.

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KEY: Destine.

SYN: Purpose, intend, design, doom, ordain, devote.

ANT: alienate?, divorce, misapply, divert.

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KEY: Destination.

SYN: Purpose, intention, design, consignment, object, end, fate, doom, arrival, application, use, scope, appointment, point, location, goal, aim.

ANT: Operation, tendency, exercise, action, movement, design, initiation, project, effort.

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KEY: Destiny.

SYN: Fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end.

ANT: Will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill.

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KEY: Destitute, [See DEPRIVE and NEEDY].

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KEY: Destroy.

SYN: Demolish, annihilate, subvert, ruin, overthrow, undo, waste, consume.

ANT: restore, reinstate, repair, fabricate, make, construct, create.

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KEY: Destructive.

SYN: detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversive.

ANT: Wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative.

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KEY: Desuetude.

SYN: Disuse, obsoleteness, non-observance.

ANT: Use, vogue, custom, practice, observance, exercise, operation, permanence, perpetuation.

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KEY: Desultory.

SYN: Rambling, discursive, loose, unmethodical, superficial, unsettled, erratic, inexact, spasmodic, fitful, freakish, aberrant, unsystematic, cursory, roving, hasty, slight.

ANT: Settled, consecutive, earnest, serious, persevering, continuous, methodical, exact, diligent, untiring, recurrent, periodical, systematic.

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KEY: Detach, [See ATTACH].

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KEY: Detail \v.\

SYN: Particularize, enumerate, recount, individualize, sift, analyze, specify.

ANT: Generalize, condense, conglomerate, gather, sketch, suggest abstract, classify, amalgamate.

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KEY: Detail \n.\

SYN: Element, component, particular, specialty, point.

ANT: Account, statement, recital, totality, representation.

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KEY: Detain.

SYN: Stay, keep, arrest, check, withhold, delay, restrain, embargo, stop.

ANT: Liberate, expedite, accelerate, dismiss, loose, disembargo.

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KEY: Detect.

SYN: Discover, descry, unmask, expose.

ANT: Miss, lose, misobserve, ignore, connive.

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KEY: Detention.

SYN: Retention, retaining, hindrance.

ANT: Relinquishment, abandonment, letting go.

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KEY: Deter.

SYN: Warn, stop, dissuade, disincline, indispose, dispirit, hinder, prevent, discourage, dishearten, terrify, scare.

ANT: Encourage, incite, provoke, move, allure, prompt, tempt, seduce, persuade.

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KEY: Deterge, [See ABSTERGE].

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KEY: Deteriorate, [See AMELIORATE].

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KEY: Determinate, [See DEFINITE].

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KEY: Determination, [See DEFINITION and DECISION].

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KEY: Determine, [See DEFINE and DECIDE].

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KEY: detortion, [See DETERGE].

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KEY: Detest, [See ABOMINATE].

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KEY: Detestable, [See DETEST and ABOMINABLE].

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KEY: Dethrone.

SYN: Uncrown, depose.

ANT: Anoint, enthrone, crown.

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KEY: Dethronement, [See DETHRONE].

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KEY: Detonate.

SYN: Explode, pop.

ANT: Smoulder, hang, puff.

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KEY: detortion.

SYN: Wresting, violation, twisting, distortion, perversion, decurvity, devexity, recurvation.

ANT: Direction, aim, rectilinearity, rectification.

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KEY: Detract.

SYN: Lessen, deteriorate, depreciate, disparage, defame, decry, derogate, calumniate, scandalize, vilify, diminish.

ANT: Augment, enhance, raise, increase.

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KEY: Detraction.

SYN: Diminution, deterioration, depreciation, slander, backbiting, derogation.

ANT: Augmentation, improvement, enhancement, eulogy, compliment, flattery.

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KEY: Detractor.

SYN: Slanderer, cynic, backbiter.

ANT: Flatterer, sycophant, eulogist.

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KEY: Detriment.

SYN: Loss, harm, hurt, injury, deterioration, impairment, disadvantage, prejudice, damage, inconvenience.

ANT: Enhancement, improvement, remedy, reinstatement, repair, augmentation.

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KEY: Detrimental.

SYN: Injurious, hurtful, pernicious.

ANT: Beneficial, profitable, augmentative.

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KEY: Detrude, [See DASH].

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KEY: Detruncation.

SYN: Lopping, disramification, pollarding, dismemberment, discorporation, amputation, stripping.

ANT: Training, trailing, grafting, inoculation, luxuriance.

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KEY: Develop.

SYN: Educe, enucleate, eliminate, enunciate, lay open, disclose, unravel, unfold, clear, amplify, expand, enlarge.

ANT: Envelope, wrap, obscure, mystify, conceal, narrow, restrict, contract, condense, compress, involve.

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KEY: Development.

SYN: Outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.

ANT: Cause, origin, source, principal.

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KEY: devexity, [See DETORTION].

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KEY: Deviate.

SYN: Digress, wander, swerve, deflect, err, sway, depart, divaricate, diverge.

ANT: Continue, advance.

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KEY: Device.

SYN: Artifice, expedient, design, plan, stratagem, project, symbol, emblem, show, invention, contrivance, cognizance.

ANT: Fair-dealing, openness, miscontrivance, abortion, fortune, luck, hazard, hit, incognito.

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KEY: Devil.

SYN: Satan, lucifer, fiend, archfiend, foul fiend, demon.

ANT: Archangel, angel, seraph, cherub.

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KEY: devilish, [See ANGELIC].

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KEY: Devious.

SYN: Tortuous, circuitous, untracked, trackless, pathless, ambagious, roundabout, distorted.

ANT: Direct, plain, trodden, frequented, straightforward.

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KEY: Devise.

SYN: Contrive, plan, maneuvre, concert, manage.

ANT: Miscontrive, mismanage.

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KEY: Devoid.

SYN: Void, wanting, destitute, unendowed, unprovided.

ANT: Furnished, supplied, replete, provided, gifted.

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KEY: Devolve upon.

SYN: Impose, place, charge, commission, depute, accrue, attach, befall, fall.

ANT: Deprive, withhold, recall, cancel, alienate, miss, pretermit, pass, lapse, skip.

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KEY: Devote, [See DEDICATE].

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KEY: Devoted.

SYN: Attached, fond, absorbed, consecrated, ardent, loving, dedicated, given, abandoned.

ANT: Alienated, estranged, averse.

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KEY: Devotion.

SYN: Piety, devoutness, religiousness, dedication, self-abandonment, consecration, ardor, self-surrender, self-sacrifice, love, attachment.

ANT: Impiety, profanity, selfishness, aversion, alienation, antipathy, indifference, apathy.

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KEY: Devour.

SYN: Eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb.

ANT: Disgorge, vomit.

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KEY: Devout.

SYN: religious, pious, godly, saintly, holy, prayerful.

ANT: Irreligious, impious, profane, unholy.

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KEY: Devoutless.

ANT: [See DEVOTION].

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KEY: Dexterity, [See ABILITY].

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KEY: Dexterous, [See AWKWARD].

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KEY: Diabolical, [See DEVILISH].

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KEY: Diadem.

SYN: Crown, coronet, coronal, chaplet, wreath, fillet, tiara, circlet.

ANT: Liberty-cap, foolscap, daisy-chain.

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KEY: Diagnostic.

SYN: Symptom, indication, feature, sign, cue.

ANT: Development, crisis, formation, consummation, head, deception, illusion, misindication.

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KEY: Dialect.

SYN: Provincialism, accent, idiom, tongue, language, speech, phraseology.

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KEY: Dialectic.

SYN: Rhetorical, logical, argumentative.

ANT: Conversational, colloquial, commonplace.

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KEY: Dialogue.

SYN: Tete-a-tete, conversation, discourse, colloquy, confabulation.

ANT: Monologue, oration, soliloquy, apostrophe.

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KEY: Dictate.

SYN: Prompt, suggest, enjoin, order, direct, {[pre--crit)e]?}, pre--crit)e, decree, instruct, propose, command.

ANT: Follow, repeat, obey, echo, answer.

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KEY: Dictation.

SYN: Imperative, imperious, domineering, arbitrary.

ANT: Condescending, affable, indulgent, modest, unassuming, suppliant, supplicatory, precatory, persuasive, insinuating.

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KEY: Dictatorial, [See DICTATE and ARBITRARY].

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KEY: Diction.

SYN: Style, expression, rhetoric, phraseology, language, grammar.

ANT: Solecism, provincialism, mispronunciation.

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KEY: Dictionary.

SYN: Lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, glossary.

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KEY: Didactic.

SYN: Instructive, directive, moral.

ANT: Unsound, misinstructive, erroneous, pernicious, misleading.

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KEY: Die.

SYN: Expire, depart, perish, decline, decease, disappear, wither, languish, wane, sink, fade, decay, cease.

ANT: Begin, originate, rise, live, {[develoftel]?}, develoftel grow, strengthen, flourish, luxuriate, vegetate.

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KEY: Diet.

SYN: Food, victuals, nourishment, viands, nutriment, sustenance, fare, cheer, regimen.

ANT: Starvation, fasting, abstinence, gluttony, omnivorousness.

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KEY: Differ.

SYN: Vary, dissent, be unlike, disagree, dispute, contend.

ANT: Agree, assent, [See ASSENT].

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KEY: Difference.

SYN: Separation, destruction, dissimilarity, unlikeness, disagreement, dissonance, discord, contrariety, dissent, distinction, dissimilitude, estrangement, variety.

ANT: Community, consociation, condonation, similarity, likeness, agreement, sympathy, consonance, harmony, consentaneousness, reconciliation, uniformity, identity.

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KEY: Differentiate.

SYN: Particularize, individualize, distinguish, identify, verify, specify, segregate, disseminate, fuse, lump, mass.

ANT: Generalize, classify, confound, amalgamate, confuse.

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KEY: Differentiation \n.\ [See DIFFERENTIATE].

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KEY: Difficult.

SYN: Hard, intricate, Involved, perplexing, enigmatical, obscure, trying, arduous, troublesome, up hill, unmanageable, unamenable, reserved, opposed.

ANT: Easy, plain, straight, pimple, lucid, categorical, tractable, amenable, unreserved, favorable.

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KEY: Difficulty, [See DIFFICULT].

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KEY: Diffident, [See MODEST].

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KEY: Diffuse.

SYN: Discursive, prolix, verbose, diluted, copious.

ANT: Laconic, epigrammatic, terse, condensed.

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KEY: Dig, [See DELVE].

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KEY: Digest \v.\

SYN: Sort, arrange, dispose, order, classify, study, ponder, consider, prepare, assimilate, incorporate, convert, methodise, tabulate.

ANT: Displace, confound, complicate, derange, disorder, discompose, eject, refuse, reject, disturb.

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KEY: Dignified.

SYN: Exalted, stately, noble, grand, august, lofty, pompous, honored, elevated.

ANT: [See LOFTY].

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KEY: Dignify.

SYN: Aggrandize, elevate, invest, adorn, exalt, advance, promote, honor.

ANT: Degrade, disinvest, humiliate, disgrace.

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KEY: Digress, [See DEVIATE].

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KEY: laceratlon, [See LACERATION].

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KEY: Dilapidation.

SYN: Ruin, decay, disintegration, downfall, crumbling, demolition, dismantlement.

ANT: Solidity, reparation, integrity, soundness, construction, fabric, structure.

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KEY: Dilate.

SYN: Stretch, widen, expand, swell, distend, enlarge, descant, expatiate.

ANT: Narrow, contract, restrict, constrict, particularize, dissect, anatomize, concentrate, epitomize, condense.

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KEY: Dilatory.

SYN: Tardy, procrastinating, slow, loitering, behindhand, lagging, dawdling.

ANT: Quick, prompt, beforehand, vigilant, eager, alert, hasty, precipitate, rash, ardent.

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KEY: Dilemma.

SYN: Fix, hobble, quandary, doubt, difficulty, scrape.

ANT: Extrication, rebutment, freedom, advantage, superiority, escape, solution, retort.

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KEY: Diligence.

SYN: Care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry.

ANT: Indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness, inertness, idleness.

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KEY: Dim, [See OBSCURE].

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KEY: Dimension.

SYN: Measurement, size, configuration, delineation, mass, bulk, extent.

ANT: Mismeasurement, segment.

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KEY: Dimidiate.

SYN: Halve, bisect.

ANT: Unite, integrate.

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KEY: Diminish.

SYN: Lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate, retrench.

ANT: Increase, enlarge, expand, extend, amplify, magnify.

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KEY: Diminutive, [See DIMINISH and SMALL].

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KEY: Dimness, [See DIM and OBSCURE].

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KEY: Din.

SYN: Racket, clamor, rattle, resononce, clangor, reverberation.

ANT: Crash, report, burst, explosion, pop, bang.

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KEY: Dingy.

SYN: Dull, dusky, rusty, bedimmed, soiled, tarnished, dimly, dim, colorless, obscure, dead, soon, {[=-tj]?}.

ANT: Bright, burnished, flossy, highcolored, radiant, luminous, gleaming, lustrous.

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KEY: Dint.

SYN: Agency, instrumentality, force, power, emcacy.

ANT: Weakness, inoperativeness, inefficacy, uselessness, helplessness, opposition, counterforce.

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KEY: Dip, [See IMMERSE].

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KEY: Dip \n.\

SYN: Declination, depression, devexity, slope.

ANT: Elevation, ascent, acclivity, gradient.

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KEY: Diplomacy.

SYN: Embassy, ministry, ambassadorship, representation, tact, contrivance, management, negotiation, outwitting, circumvention.

ANT: Cancel, recall, conge, miscontrivance, mismanagement, maladministration, overvaulting, selfentanglement, selfdefeat, selfstultification.

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KEY: Diplomatic.

SYN: Judicious, knowing, wise, prudent, well-contrived, clever, astute, politic, discreet, well-planned, well-conceived, sagacious, well-managed.

ANT: Injudicious, bungling, stultifying, ill-managed, undiplomatic.

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KEY: Dire, [See DREADFUL].

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KEY: Direct, [See INSTRUCT].

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KEY: Direct, [See STRAIGHT].

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KEY: Direction.

SYN: Course, tendency, inclination, line, control, command, bearing, superscription, order, address.

ANT: Misdirection, deviation, mis-control, misinstruction, aberration.

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KEY: Directly.

SYN: Straightly, straightway, immediately, undeviatingly, at once, promptly, quickly, instantly.

ANT: Indirectly, by-and-by, interveniently.

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KEY: Director.

SYN: Ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide.

ANT: Body, company, institution, concern, subordinate, follower.

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KEY: Dirge.

SYN: Requiem, lament, threnody, elegy, wake, coronach.

ANT: Anthem, 'The Deum', Jubilate.

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KEY: Dirt.

SYN: Foulness, dung, filth, uncleanness, meanness, sordidness.

ANT: Cleanness, purity, ablution, integrity.

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KEY: Dirty, [See DIRT and NASTY].

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KEY: Disability.

SYN: Disqualification, impotency, unfitness, incapacity, forfeiture, incompetency.

ANT: Qualification, recommendation, fitness, deserving, merit.

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KEY: Disabled, [See DISABILITY].

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KEY: Disabuse.

SYN: Undeceive, inform, correct, enlighten, rectify.

ANT: Deceive, mislead, prejudice, prepossess, hoodwink, inveigle, stultify, bamboozle.

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KEY: Disadvantage, [See ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Disaffection, [See AFFECTION].

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KEY: Disagreeable, [See AGREEABLE], Disagreement, [See QUARREL].

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KEY: Disallow, [See ALLOW].

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KEY: Disannul, [See ANNUL].

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KEY: Disappear, [See VANISH].

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KEY: Disappoint.

SYN: Betray, deceive, frustrate, baffle, delude, vex, mortify, defeat, foil.

ANT: Realize, justify, verify, fulfil, encourage, satisfy, gratify.

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KEY: Disapprobation, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Disarm, [See ARM].

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KEY: Disarrange, [See ABRIDGMENT].

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KEY: Disarray, [See ARRAY].

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KEY: Disaster, [See CALAMITY], Disavow, [See ACKNOWLEDGE], Disband, [See MUSTER].

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KEY: Disbelief, [See BELIEF].

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KEY: Disburden, [See BURDEN].

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KEY: Disburse, [See EXPEND].

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KEY: Discern.

SYN: Descry, observe, recognize, see, distinguish, discover, behold, penetrate, discriminate, differentiate, separate, perceive.

ANT: Overlook, confound, misdiscern.

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KEY: Discernible.

SYN: Visible, conspicuous, manifest, palpable, apparent, plain, perceptible, evident.

ANT: Invisible, inconspicuous, obscure, indiscernible, impalpable, microscopic, minute.

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KEY: Discernment.

SYN: Discrimination, farsightedness, clearsightedness, penetration, observation, sagacity, judgment.

ANT: Heedlessness, blindness, inobservance, shortsightedness, dullness, density, hebetude.

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KEY: Discharge.

SYN: Liberate, empty, dismiss, acquit, release, free, execute, perform, send away.

ANT: Confine, charge, detain.

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KEY: Disciple.

SYN: Follower, student, believer, votary.

ANT: Master, teacher, leader, professor.

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KEY: Disciplinarian.

SYN: Martinet, tight hand.

ANT: Sloven, kingdog.

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KEY: Discipline.

SYN: Order, strictness, training, government, instruction, drilling, control, coercion, punishment, organization.

ANT: Disorder, confusion, rebellion, mutiny, encouragement, reward, disorganization.

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KEY: Disclaim, [See CLAIM].

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KEY: Disclose.

SYN: Discover, reveal, confess, detect, divulge, make known, promulgate.

ANT: Cover, conceal, lock, suppress.

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KEY: Discolor.

SYN: Daub, stain, taint, dis, figure.

ANT: Paint, color, embellish, tin's decorate, illuminate.

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KEY: Discomfit, [See DISCONCERT].

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KEY: Discomfort.

SYN: Disquiet, vexation, annoyance, trouble, unpleasantness, disagreeableness.

ANT: Comfort, ease, pleasantness, agreeableness.

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KEY: Discommendation, [See COMMENDATION].

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KEY: Discompose, [See DERANGE].

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KEY: Disconcert.

SYN: Abash, confuse, confound, upset, baffle, derange, discompose, thwart, disturb, defeat, fret, interrupt, vex, ruffle, disorder, unsettle, frustrate, discomfit, [See {[i\ST]?}], Encourage, rally, countenance, aid, concert, concoct, arrange, order, prepare, scheme, contrive, hatch, design.

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KEY: Disconcerted, [See DISCONCERT].

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KEY: disconformity, [See CONFORMITY].

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KEY: discongruity, [See CONGRUOUS].

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KEY: Disconnect, Disconnected, Disconnection, [See CONNECTION].

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KEY: Disconsolate.

SYN: Sad, forlorn, melancholy, inconsolable, brokenhearted, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, woful.

ANT: Joyous, cheerful, merry, happy, gay, jovial, gladsome, blithe.

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KEY: Discontent, [See CONTENT].

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KEY: Discontented, [See CONTENTED].

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KEY: Discontinuance, [See CONTINUANCE].

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KEY: Discontinuity, [See CONTINUATION].

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KEY: Discord, [See CONCORD].

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KEY: Discordance, [See ACCORD].

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KEY: Discountenance, [See COUNTENANCE].

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KEY: Disenthrone, [See ENTHRONE].

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KEY: Discourage, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Discouragement, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Discourse, [See CONVERSATION].

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KEY: Discourtesy, [See COURTESY].

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KEY: Discover.

SYN: Find, invent, descry, disclose, unearth, ferret out, ascertain, discern, make known, detect, betray, indicate, manifest.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, repress, miss, lose, overlook, mask, cover, screen.

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KEY: Discredit, [See CREDIT].

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KEY: Discreditable, [See DISREPUTABLE].

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KEY: Discreet.

SYN: Discerning, wise, prudent, circumspect, cautious, wary, regulative, sensible, judicious.

ANT: Undiscerning, blind, foolish, imprudent, indiscreet, unrestrained, reckless, injudicious, silly.

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KEY: Discrepancy.

SYN: Dissonance, disharmony, discord, contrariety, disagreement, difference, variation.

ANT: Consonance, harmony, accordance, agreement, correspondence.

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KEY: Discretion, [See DISCREET].

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KEY: Discretional.

SYN: Optional.

ANT: Compulsory, obligatory.

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KEY: Discrimination.

SYN: Penetration, sagacity, acuteness, nicety, shrewdness, judgment, discernment, insight, distinction.

ANT: Dullness, confusedness, indiscriminateness, shortsightedness, hebetude, indiscernment.

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KEY: Discursive, [See CONSECUTIVE].

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KEY: Discuss.

SYN: Debate, argue, sift canvass, examine.

ANT: Mystify, confound, obscure.

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KEY: Disdain \n.\

SYN: Contempt, {[sooru]?}, haughtiness, disregard, superciliousness.

ANT: Respect, reverence, admiration, respectfulness, considerateness, humility.

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KEY: Disdain \v.\ [See SCORN].

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KEY: Disdainful, [See DISDAIN].

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KEY: Disease.

SYN: Complaint, disorder, illness, indisposition, distemper, ailment, malady, sickness.

ANT: Health, convalescence, sanity, salubrity.

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KEY: Disembody, [See EMBODY].

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KEY: disenable, [See ENABLE].

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KEY: Disenchant, [See ENCHANT].

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KEY: Disencumber, [See ENCUMBER].

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KEY: Disengage, [See ENGAGE], Disentangle, [See ENTANGLE].

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KEY: Disentitled, [See ENTITLE].

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KEY: Disesteem, [See ESTEEM].

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KEY: Disfavor, [See FAVOR].

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KEY: Disfigure, [See ADORN].

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KEY: Disfranchise, [See ENFRANCHISE].

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KEY: Disgorge, [See GORGE].

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KEY: Disgrace \v.\ [See DISHONOR].

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KEY: Disgrace \n.\ [See HONOR].

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KEY: Disguise, [See GUISE].

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KEY: Disguised, [See GUISE].

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KEY: Disgust.

SYN: Nausea, loathing, abomination, aversion, dislike, repugnance, abhorrence, distaste.

ANT: Desire, liking, partiality, predilection, relish, fondness, longing, avidity.

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KEY: Dishearten, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Dishevel.

SYN: Disorder, entangle, disarrange.

ANT: Tire, dress, plait, bind, weave, braid.

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KEY: Dishonest, [See FALLIBLE].

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KEY: Dishonor \n.\ [See HONOR].

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KEY: Dishonorable, [See HONORABLE].

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KEY: Disincline, [See INCLINE].

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KEY: Disinfect, [See INFECT].

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KEY: Disingenuous, [See INGENUOUS].

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KEY: Disinherit, [See INHERIT and DISOWN].

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KEY: Disintegrate, [See INTEGRATE].

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KEY: Disinter, [See INTER].

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KEY: Disinterested, [See INTERESTED and SELFISH].

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KEY: Disenthral, [See ENTHRAL].

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KEY: Disjoin, [See JOIN].

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KEY: Dislike, [See LEARNED].

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KEY: Dislocate, [See LOCATE].

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KEY: Dislodge, [See LODGE].

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KEY: Disloyal, [See LOYAL].

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KEY: Dismal, [Lat. /dies malus/, evil day.]

SYN: Dreary, ominous, foreboding, lonesome, cheerless, gloomy, sad, depressed, lugubrious, funereal, sorrowful, melancholy, tragic, blank.

ANT: Gay, propitious, promising, cheerful, lively, elated, joyous, laughable, ridiculous, comic.

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KEY: Dismantle.

SYN: Disrobe, divest, denude, despoil, disarm, strip.

ANT: Kobe, invest, drape, adorn, arrange, equip, endue.

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KEY: Dismay \v.\

SYN: Affright, astonish, terrify, dishearten, daunt, scare, frighten, appall.

ANT: Encourage, rally, inspirit, assure, allure.

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KEY: Dismay \n.\ [See TERROR].

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KEY: Dismember.

SYN: Disintegrate, disincorporate, detruncate.

ANT: Integrate, incorporate, organize, engraft, reorganize.

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KEY: Dismiss.

SYN: Banish, discard, abandon, cashier, send off, divest, discharge.

ANT: Retain, detain, keep, maintain.

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KEY: Dismount.

SYN: Alight, descend.

ANT: Mount, start.

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KEY: Disobey, [See OBEY].

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KEY: Disoblige, [See OBLIGE].

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KEY: Disorder, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Disorderly, [See ORDERLY].

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KEY: Disorganize, [See ORGANIZE], Disown, [See OWN].

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KEY: Disparage.

SYN: Depreciate, decry, undervalue, derogate, lower, detract, underestimate.

ANT: Extol, laud, panegyrize, overestimate, exaggerate.

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KEY: Disparate.

SYN: Unequal, different, ill-assorted, ill-matched.

ANT: Equal, co-ordinate, {[well-ai]?}, sorted, well-matched.

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KEY: dispassion, [See PASSION].

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KEY: Dispatch.

SYN: Expedite, send, accelerate, hasten, execute, conclude, Used also in the sense of kill.

ANT: Retard, detain, obstruct, impede.

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KEY: Dispel.

SYN: Disperse, scatter, dissipate, drive away, dismiss.

ANT: Collect, recall, summon, convene, congregate, conglomerate, mass, accumulate.

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KEY: Dispensation.

SYN: Economy, dealing, revelation, distribution, arrangement, visitation, exemption, immunity, privilege, abandonment, dismissal, disuse, indulgence.

ANT: Reservation, injunction, prohibition, enforcement, retention, restriction.

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KEY: Dispeople, [See PEOPLE].

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KEY: Disperse.

SYN: Dispel, scatter, disseminate, separate, break up, spread abroad, deal out, distribute, dissipate.

ANT: Collect, summon, recall, gather, concentrate, meet.

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KEY: Dispirit, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Displace, [See PLACE].

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KEY: Displant, [See PLANT].

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KEY: Display.

SYN: Show, exhibit, unfold, evidence, evince, flaunt, vault, expose, ostentation, spread out, parade.

ANT: Hide, conceal, dissemble, simulate, suppress, wrap, cloke.

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KEY: Displease, [See PLEASE].

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KEY: Displeasure, [See INTERPRETATION].

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KEY: Disport, [See SPORT].

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KEY: Dispose, [See ABRIDGMENT], [See INCLINE].

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KEY: Disposition, [See DISPOSE, ARRANGE, and CHARACTER].

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KEY: Dispossess, [See POSSESS].

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KEY: Dispraise, [See PRAISE].

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KEY: Dispread, [See SPREAD].

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KEY: Disprize, [See PRIZE].

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KEY: Disproof, [See PROOF].

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KEY: Disprove, [See PROVE].

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KEY: Disproportion, [See PROPORTION].

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KEY: Disputant.

SYN: Litigant, competitor, claimant.

ANT: Partner, auxiliary, advocate.

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KEY: Disputatious.

SYN: Litigious, argumentative, cantankerous, quarrelsome, querulous.

ANT: Conciliatory, unquarrelsome, inquerulous.

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KEY: Dispute.

SYN: Argue, question, canvass, contest, contend, challenge, debate, controvert, controversy, difference, gainsay, impugn, quarrel, altercation.

ANT: Waive, concede, allow, forego.

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KEY: Disqualify, [See QUALIFY].

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KEY: Disquiet, [See QUIET].

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KEY: Disquietude.

SYN: Anxiety, solicitude, uneasiness, embarrassment, apprehension, agitation, disturbance, commotion, dissatisfaction.

ANT: Peace, pacification, assurance, calmness, confidence, contentment, acquiescence.

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KEY: Disquisition.

SYN: Essay, treatise, discussion, dissertation.

ANT: Effusion, tirade, diatribe, rhodomontade, blarney.

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KEY: Disregard, [See REGARD].

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KEY: Disrelish, [See RELISH].

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KEY: Disreputable, [See REPUTABLE].

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KEY: Disrespect, [See RESPECT].

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KEY: Disrobe, [See DISMANTLE].

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KEY: Disruption.

SYN: Disintegration, discord, dissension, a breaking up, separation, alienation, hostility.

ANT: Union, amalgamation, reconciliation.

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KEY: Dissatisfaction, [See SATISFACTION].

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KEY: Dissect.

SYN: Take to pieces, anatomize, scrutinize, investigate.

ANT: Grasp, comprehend, slur, skim, unite, integrate, organize, compound, collocate, conjoin, confound.

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KEY: Dissemble.

SYN: Disguise, conceal, repress, smother, restrain, cloke.

ANT: Exhibit, manifest, protrude, vaunt, pretend, simulate, feign, assume, expose, profess, proclaim.

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KEY: Dissembler.

SYN: Feigner, hypocrite, disguiser, suppressor, concealer.

ANT: Exhibitor, vaunter, pretender, simulator.

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KEY: Disseminate.

SYN: Spread, propagate, preach, proclaim, publish, promulgate, scatter, circulate.

ANT: Repress, suppress, stifle, discountenance, extirpate, eradicate.

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KEY: Dissent, [See ASSENT and CONSENT].

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KEY: Dissertation, [See DEPREDATION].

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KEY: Disservice, [See SERVICE].

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KEY: Dissever, [See SEVER].

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KEY: Dissidence, [See AGREE]

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KEY: Dissilience.

SYN: Avoidance, repulsion, aversion, dislike, interrepugnance, antipathy.

ANT: Approach, attraction, appetency, desire, affection, sympathy, interest.

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KEY: Dissimilar, [See SIMILAR].

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KEY: Dissimilitude, [See SIMILITUDE].

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KEY: Dissipate, [See SQUANDER].

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KEY: Dissociate, [See ASSOCIATION and SEVER].

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KEY: Dissolute.

SYN: Abandoned, profligate, loose, licentious, wanton, vicious.

ANT: Upright, conscientious, strict, self-controlled, correct.

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KEY: Dissoluteness, [See DISSOLUTE].

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KEY: Dissolution, [See DECOMPOSITION].

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KEY: Dissolve, [See MELT and CONSOLIDATE].

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KEY: Dissonance, [See CONSONANCE].

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KEY: Dissuade, [See PERSUADE].

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KEY: Distance.

SYN: Interval, removal, separation, interspace, remoteness, absence, space, length.

ANT: Proximity, nearness, adjacency, contiguity, neighborhood, propinquity, contact, presence.

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KEY: Distant.

SYN: Far, remote, aloof, apart, asunder, separate, indistinct, obscure.

ANT: Close, near, adjacent, contiguous.

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KEY: Distaste, [See TASTE].

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KEY: Distasteful, [See TASTE].

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KEY: Distemper.

SYN: Disorder, disease, ailment.

ANT: Health, sanity, vigor, convalescence.

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KEY: Distend, [See DILATE].

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KEY: Distil.

SYN: Drop, emanate, drip, percolate.

ANT: Absorb, condense, retain, suck, hold.

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KEY: Distinct.

SYN: Separate, independent, unconnected, detached, disjoined, unlike, definite, obvious, different, dissimilar, clear, conspicuous, plain, perspicuous.

ANT: United, consolidated, conjoined, one, obscure, dim, confused, indistinct.

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KEY: Distinction.

SYN: Difference, separation, dignity, eminence.

ANT: Unity, identity, debasement, insignificance, degradation.

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KEY: Distinctness.

SYN: Clearness, plainness, conspicuousness, perspicuity.

ANT: Confusion, indistinctness, laziness.

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KEY: Distinguish.

SYN: Discern, descry, perceive, characterize, make famous, know, discriminate, see, discover, separate, divide, dissimilate, differentiate.

ANT: Miss, overlook, confound, confuse.

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KEY: Distinguished.

SYN: Illustrious, noted, celebrated, conspicuous, eminent, marked, famous.

ANT: Obscure, inconspicuous, hidden, not famous.

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KEY: Distinguishable, [See DISTINGUISH].

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KEY: Distortion, [See DETORTION and PERVERSION].

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KEY: Distract.

SYN: Divide, dissipate, dissever, disconcert, discompose, perplex, bewilder, convulse, madden, disturb.

ANT: Unite, fix, concentrate, collect, compose.

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KEY: Distraction.

SYN: Inattention, madness, absence.

ANT: Attention, composure.

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KEY: Distress \v.\

SYN: Harass, embarrass, trouble, grieve, annoy, vex, mortify, pain, disturb, afflict, worry.

ANT: Soothe, compose, please, gratify, gladden, console, elate, comfort.

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KEY: Distress \n.\ [See AFFLICTION and TROUBLE].

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KEY: Distribute, [See DISPENSE].

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KEY: District, [See CIRCUIT and REGION].

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KEY: Distrust, [See ENCIRCLE].

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KEY: Disturb.

SYN: Derange, discompose, disorder, discommode, plague, confuse, rouse, agitate, annoy, trouble, interrupt, incommode, worry, vex, molest, disquiet.

ANT: Order, collocate, arrange, pacify, soothe, quiet, compose, leave.

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KEY: Disunion, [See UNION].

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KEY: Disuse, [See USE and DESUETUDE].

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KEY: Divarication.

SYN: Deviation, divergence, digression, diversion.

ANT: Continuity, rectilinearity, directness, prolongation.

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KEY: Diversion.

SYN: Detour, divergence, deviation, recreation, amusement, pastime, sport, enjoyment.

ANT: Continuity, directness, procedure, business, task, work, study, labor, avocation.

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KEY: Diversify.

SYN: Vary, alter, change modify, variegate.

ANT: Conserve, prosecute, stabilitate, settle, fix, stereotype, crystallize, arrest.

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KEY: Diversity.

SYN: Difference, dissimilarity, variation, multiformity, heterogeneousness, dissonance.

ANT: Similarity, identity, unifomity, homogeneousness, co-ordination, coincidence, consonance.

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KEY: Divert.

SYN: Alter, change, deflect, alienate, delight, please, gratify, entertain, amuse.

ANT: Continue, prosecute, prolong, produce, restrict, confine, pain, annoy.

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KEY: Divest.

SYN: Disruanate, denude, strip, disrobe, unclothe, disencumber, deprive.

ANT: Clothe, robe, invest, shroud, envelop, encumber, indue.

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KEY: Divide.

SYN: Separate, dissect, bisect, portio, part, divorce, segregate, sever, sunder, deal out, disunite, keep apart, part among, allot, distribute, multiply.

ANT: Unite, collocate, classify, convene, congregate, conglomerate, conglutinate, commingle, join, consociate, co-ordinate.

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KEY: Divination.

SYN: Prediction, sorcery, magic, witchcraft, augury, omens.

ANT: Instruction, information, investigation, study, learning.

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KEY: Division, [See DIVIDE], [See SEPARATE].

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KEY: Divorce \v.\

SYN: Separate, disconnect, dissever, divert, alienate.

ANT: Conjoin, unite, connect, apply, reconcile, reunite.

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KEY: Divorce \n.\ Verb.

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KEY: Divulge, [See CONCEAL].

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KEY: Do.

SYN: Work, act, accomplish, execute, achieve, transact, finish, enact, perform, produce, complete.

ANT: Undo, mar, neglect, omit.

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KEY: Docile.

SYN: Compliant, amenable, easily managed, yielding, gentle, quiet, pliant, tractable, teachable, tame.

ANT: Intractable, stubborn, obstinate, self-willed, dogged.

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KEY: Dock.

SYN: Curtail, lop, abbreviate, prune.