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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.
=
KEY: Collocate.
SYN: Place, locate, arrange, classify, tabulate, allocate.
ANT: Move, dislocate, distribute, dispense, disturb, disperse, confound, confuse, displace, misplace.
=
KEY: Collocation, [See COLLOCATE].
=
KEY: Colloquy.
SYN: Conference, consultation, conversation, council, confabulation.
ANT: Clamor, outcry, tumult, babel.
=
KEY: Colluctation.
SYN: Wrestling, contention, competition.
ANT: Coadjutorship, assistance, support, backing.
=
KEY: Collusion.
SYN: Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy.
ANT: Baffling, frustration, counteraction, defeat, discomfiture, discernment, betrayal, exposure, informership, traitorship.
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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.
=
KEY: Colossal, [See GIGANTIC].
=
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.
=
KEY: Comfortless, [See COMFORTABLE].
=
KEY: Comic, [See LUDICROUS].
=
KEY: Comity.
SYN: Urbanity, pleasantness, affability, blandness.
ANT: Rudeness, distantness, roughness, churlishness.
=
KEY: Command \v.\
SYN: Order, direct, instruct, charge, bid, enjoin.
ANT: Supplicate, entreat, persuade, beg, petition, suggest, represent.
=
KEY: Command \n.\ [See MANDATE].
=
KEY: Commanding, [See AUTHORITATIVE].
=
KEY: Commemorate.
SYN: Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep.
ANT: Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate.
=
KEY: Commence.
SYN: Begin, start, open, initiate, inaugurate, enter upon, set about, undertake.
ANT: Finish, terminate, conclude, consummate, complete.
=
KEY: Commend.
SYN: Praise, laud, extol, approve, recommend, encourage, applaud, eulogize.
ANT: Blame, censure, disapprove, discourage, denounce, condemn, discommend.
=
KEY: Commendation, [See APPROBATION].
=
KEY: Commensurate.
SYN: Equal, adequate, sufficient, coextensive, conterminous.
ANT: Unequal, short, scant, inadequate, insufficient, incommensurate.
=
KEY: Comment \v.\
SYN: Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain, expatiate, criticise.
ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconceive, misrepresent.
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KEY: Comment \n.\ [See OBSERVATION].
=
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.
=
KEY: Commiseration, [See PITY].
=
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.
=
KEY: Comparable.
SYN: Resembling, approximate, similar.
ANT: Dissimilar, unlike, remote, inferior.
=
KEY: Comparative.
SYN: Relatively, proportionately.
ANT: Absolutely, actually, positively, superlatively.
=
KEY: Comparison, [See LIKENESS].
=
KEY: Compartment.
SYN: Division, partition, allotment, sphere, space.
ANT: correlative, viz, anything of which it is a compartment.
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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.
=
KEY: Competent, [See ADEQUATE].
=
KEY: Competition.
SYN: Rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade.
ANT: Association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation.
=
KEY: Competitor.
SYN: Rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist.
ANT: Participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague.
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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.
=
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.
=
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.
=
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.
=
KEY: Compliant, [See SUBMISSIVE].
=
KEY: Complicated.
SYN: Confused, intricate, involved, perplexed, entangled.
ANT: Clear, simple, uninvolved, lucid, unraveled.
=
KEY: Compliment \v.\ [See PRAISE].
=
KEY: Compliment \n.\
SYN: Homage, courtesy, flattery, praise.
ANT: Insult, discourtesy, contempt.
=
KEY: Complimentary.
SYN: Commendatory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise.
ANT: Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, vituperative, defamatory.
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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.
=
KEY: Compound \v.\
SYN: Concert, mix, amalgamate, fuse.
ANT: Resolve, analyze.
=
KEY: Compound \n.\
SYN: Mixture, combination, amalgamation, junction, unification, coalescence.
ANT: Decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution.
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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.
=
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.
=
KEY: Compute.
SYN: Calculate, reckon, count, number, appraise, value, estimate, cast up, rate.
ANT: Conjecture, guess, surmise.
=
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.
=
KEY: Conceive.
SYN: Imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think, understand.
ANT: Produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive.
=
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].
=
KEY: Concert \n.\
SYN: Onion, combination, concord, harmony, agreement, association, co-operation.
ANT: Dissociation, counteraction, opposition.
=
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.
=
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.
=
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.
=
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.
=
KEY: Conduct \n.\ [See BEHAVIOR].
=
KEY: Confabulation, [See COLLOQUY].
=
KEY: Confection \n.\ [See CONCOCTION, CONDIMENT, and COMPOUND. (Used
of sweet compounds].
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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.
=
KEY: Confederate \n.\ [See COMPANION].
=
KEY: Confer.
SYN: Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give, present.
ANT: Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw.
=
KEY: Conference.
SYN: Discussion, discourse, consultation, parley, contravention, convocation, meeting.
ANT: Monologue, silence. [See CONVENTION].
=
KEY: Confess.
SYN: Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge.
ANT: Disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny.
=
KEY: Confession.
SYN: Creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession, declaration, subscription.
ANT: Heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index, renunciation, abjuration.
=
KEY: Confidant.
SYN: Confessor, adviser, confederate.
ANT: Traitor, betrayer, rival.
=
KEY: Confide.
SYN: Trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely.
ANT: Doubt, distrust, disbelieve.
=
KEY: Confidence.
SYN: Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence, reliance.
ANT: Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving.
=
KEY: Confident.
SYN: Positive, assured, sure, certain, impudent, bold, sanguine.
ANT: [See CERTAIN].
=
KEY: Confidential.
SYN: Private, secret, trustworthy, intimate.
ANT: Public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious.
=
KEY: Configuration.
SYN: Shape, outline, delineation, form, figure, conformation, contour.
ANT: Shapelessness, amorphousness, formlessness, undelineation, contortion, distortion, deformity.
=
KEY: Confine.
SYN: Immure, limit, bound, imprison, circumscribe, restrict, enclose, narrow, incarcerate, bind.
ANT: Dilate, expand, extend, widen, unfasten, liberate, loosen, disenclose.
=
KEY: Confined, [See CIRCUMSCRIBE].
=
KEY: Confirm.
SYN: Strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify.
ANT: Weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute.
=
KEY: Confirmation, [See CONFIRM].
=
KEY: Confiscate.
SYN: Seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain.
ANT: Restore, release, refund.
=
KEY: Conflagration.
SYN: Ignition, fire, combustion, arson, incendiarism.
ANT: Extinction, smoulder, quenching.
=
KEY: Conflict.
SYN: Encounter, engagement, contest, battle, fight, combat.
ANT: Reconciliation, pacification, amity, arbitration.
=
KEY: Conflicting.
SYN: Adverse, opposed, opposing, dashing, discordant, irreconcilable, contradictory.
ANT: Harmonizing, consistent, consentaneous, congruous.
=
KEY: Confluence.
SYN: Conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence.
ANT: Reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence.
=
KEY: Conform.
SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield.
ANT: Disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt.
=
KEY: Conformation \n.\ [See CONFORM and CONFIGURATION].
=
KEY: Conformity, [See CONFORMATION].
=
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.
=
KEY: Confraternity, [See COMPANY].
=
KEY: Confront.
SYN: Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace.
ANT: Rally, encourage, abet, countenance.
=
KEY: Confuse, [See CONFOUND].
=
KEY: Confusion, [See ORDER].
=
KEY: Confused.
SYN: Abashed, embarrassed, perplexed, disconcerted, disorganized, promiscuous, chaotic, complex, involved, disarranged, disordered.
ANT: Unabashed, unembarrassed, systematic, unconfused, organized, arranged.
=
KEY: Confute, [See REFUTE].
=
KEY: Congeal.
SYN: Freeze, benumb, congelate.
ANT: Thaw, relax, melt, chafe, dissolve.
=
KEY: Congenial.
SYN: Natural, concordant, consonant, grateful, sympathetic, kindred.
ANT: Unnatural, abbhorant, discordant, dissonant, disagreeable, ungrateful, antagonistic, alien, dissimilar, uncongenial.
=
KEY: Congenital.
SYN: Coeval, coetaneous, natural, inherent, innate, immanent, ingrained, incarnate, connate, ingenerate.
ANT: Unnatural, uncongenial, acquired, habitual, extraneous, artificial, adscititious, adventitious, assumed.
=
KEY: Congestion.
SYN: Congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethora.
ANT: Dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation.
=
KEY: Conglomerate, [See AGGLOMERATE].
=
KEY: Conglutinate, [See AGGLUTINATE].
=
KEY: Congratulate.
SYN: Felicitate.
ANT: [See CONDOLE].
=
KEY: Congregate, [See AGGREGATE].
=
KEY: Congregation, [See AGGREGATION].
=
KEY: Congress.
SYN: Parliament, council, conclave, assembly, synod, legislature, convention.
ANT: Cabal, conclave, mob.
=
KEY: Congruous.
SYN: Agreeing, harmonious, coherent, homogeneous, consonant, accordant.
ANT: Discordant, dissonant, incongruous, heterogeneous.
=
KEY: Conjecture \v.\
SYN: guest, divination, hypothesis, theory, notion, surmise, supposition.
ANT: Computation, calculation, inference, reckoning, proof, deduction.
=
KEY: Conjecture \n.\ [See SUPPOSE].
=
KEY: Conjoin, [See CONCATENATE].
=
KEY: Conjuncture.
SYN: Crisis, turning-point, contingency, occasion, opportunity, exigency, emergency.
ANT: Arrangement, provision, ordainment, preparation, course.
=
KEY: Conjure.
SYN: Implore, importune, crave, entreat, beseech, supplicate.
ANT: Deprecate, protest, remonstrate, expostulate.
=
KEY: Connect, [See UNITE].
=
KEY: Connection.
SYN: Junction, conjunction, union, association, concatenation, relation, affinity, relevance, intercourse, communication, kinsman, relationship, kindred.
ANT: Disconnection, disjunction, dissociation, independence, irrelevance, disunion.
=
KEY: Connive.
SYN: Wink, pretermit, pass, overlook.
ANT: Notice, visit, censure, investigate.
=
KEY: Connubial.
SYN: Conjugal, matrimonial, nuptial.
ANT: Single, celibate, illicit, adulterous.
=
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.
=
KEY: Conquest, [See CONQUER].
SYN: Victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation.
ANT: Failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture.
=
KEY: Consanguinity.
SYN: Kindred, blood, lineage.
ANT: Disconnection, dissociation.
=
KEY: Conscience.
SYN: Sense, intuition, integrity, principle.
ANT: [See PERTURB and STOICAL], license.
=
KEY: Conscientious.
SYN: Scrupulous, exact, equitable, strict, upright, highprincipled.
ANT: Unscrupulous, lax, unprincipled, reprobate, unconscientious.
=
KEY: Conscious.
SYN: Aware, cognizant, sensible.
ANT: Unaware, unconscious, insensible.
=
KEY: Consciousness.
SYN: Sense, sensation, intelligence, perception.
ANT: Insensibility, unconsciousness.
=
KEY: Conscription.
SYN: Impressment, drafting.
ANT: Enlistment, volunteering.
=
KEY: Consecrate.
SYN: Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify.
ANT: Desecrate, secularize, profane.
=
KEY: Consecration, [See CONSECRATE and DEVOTION].
=
KEY: Consecutive.
SYN: Orderly, arranged, coherent, continuous.
ANT: Disordered, undigested, incoherent, rambling, inconsequent, inconsecutive, discursive.
=
KEY: Consent.
SYN: Submit, agree, acquiesce.
ANT: resist, disagree, dissent, deline, refuse.
=
KEY: Consentaneous.
SYN: Agreeing, correspondent, consonant, congruous, [See HARMONIOUS].
=
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.
=
KEY: Consequent.
SYN: Inferred, deduced, resultant, accruing, attendant.
ANT: Assumed, conjectured, antecedent, conducive, productive, inconsequent.
=
KEY: Consequential.
SYN: Coherent, connected, nected, cogent, logical, pompous, arrogant.
ANT: Incoherent, disconnected, in, valid, illogical, inconsequential, affable, conversible, accessible, easy, humble-minded.
=
KEY: Consequently.
SYN: Accordingly, therefore, [See ACCORDING].
ANT: Irrelevantly, inconsequently.
=
KEY: Conservation.
SYN: Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation, perpetuation.
ANT: Neglect, exposure, abrogation, destruction, abolition.
=
KEY: Conservative.
SYN: Undestroyed, unsuppressed, stationary, unrepealed.
ANT: Changed, newfangled, radical, progressive, modifiable, alterable, transitional.
=
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.
=
KEY: Considerable.
SYN: Important, large, extensive.
ANT: Unimportant, trifling, inconsiderable.
=
KEY: Considerate.
SYN: Thoughtful, attentive, forbearing, unselfish, judicious, serious, prudent, circumspect, reflective, careful, cautious.
ANT: Thoughtless, inconsiderate, inattentive, rude, overbearing, selfish, injudicious, rash, careless.
=
KEY: Consideration.
SYN: Importance, suspect, consequence, motive, inducement, compensation, subsidy, remuneration.
ANT: Meanness, insignificance, unimportance.
=
KEY: Considering.
SYN: Because, regarding.
ANT: Irrespectively, independently.
=
KEY: Consign, [See ASSIGN].
=
KEY: Consignment.
SYN: Custody, commission, delegation.
ANT: Miscommitment, misconsignment.
=
KEY: Consist, [See CONSTITUTE].
=
KEY: Consistence, [See CONSISTENCY].
=
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.
=
KEY: Consistent.
SYN: Congruous, accordant, consonant, agreeing, compatible, harmonious.
ANT: Incongruous, at variance with, not agreeing with, incompatible, inharmonious.
=
KEY: Consociation, [See ASSOCIATION and COMPANY].
=
KEY: Console.
SYN: Relieve, soothe, solace, encourage, comfort, assuage.
ANT: Congratulate, felicitate, aggravate, oppress, disturb, trouble, annoy, irritate, irreconcile, dissatisfy.
=
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.
=
KEY: Consonant, [See CONGRUOUS and CONSISTENT].
=
KEY: Consort \v.\
SYN: Associate, herd, company, fraternize.
ANT: Avoid, abandon, excommunicate, blackball, banish, exclude.
=
KEY: Conspicuous.
SYN: Visible, easily seen, prominent, distinguished, manifest, eminent, famous, noted, salient, observable, noticeable, magnified.
ANT: Invisible, Inconspicuous, in, observable, noticeable, microscopic.
=
KEY: Conspiracy.
SYN: Intrigue, cabal, plot, treason, treachery, machination, coalition.
ANT: Legislation, parliament, congress, synod, \Comp.\ Conclave and
cabal.
=
KEY: Conspire.
SYN: Concur, conduce, contribute, agree, unite, hang, pull together, co-operate, league, baud.
ANT: Oppose, counteract, withstand, run counter to.
=
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.
=
KEY: Consternation.
SYN: Amazement, bewilderment, astonishment, astounding, horror, terror, dismay.
ANT: Encouragement, boldness, fearlessness, assurance, anticipation, welcome, expectation, greeting, congratulation.
=
KEY: Constituent.
SYN: Voter, returner, sender, deputer, appointer, patron, ingredient, element, component.
ANT: Representative, nominee, committee, constitution, system, whole.
=
KEY: Constitute.
SYN: Form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute.
ANT: Dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake.
=
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.
=
KEY: Constitutional.
SYN: Fundamental, legal, lawful, legitimate, natural.
ANT: Unconstitutional, illegal, Illegitimate, unnatural, unchanged.
=
KEY: Constrain, [See COERCE].
=
KEY: Construct.
SYN: Compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame.
ANT: Derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow.
=
KEY: Construction.
SYN: Composition, fabrication, explanation, rendering, erection, fabric, edifice, reading, understanding, interpretation, view.
ANT: Dislocation, dismemberment, demolition, displacement, misplacement, misconstruction, misunderstanding, misconception, misinterpretation.
=
KEY: Construe.
SYN: Parse, resolve, analyze, interpret, understand, render.
ANT: Nullify, neutralize, mystify, distort, falsify, misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, mistranslate.
=
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.
=
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.
=
KEY: Consummate \v.\
SYN: Complete, perfect, execute, finish, accomplish, conclude, seal, end.
ANT: Neglect, drop, interrupt, nullify, undo, baffle, frustrate, mar, defeat, spoil.
=
KEY: Consummate \a.\
SYN: Perfect, egregious, excellent, complete, finished.
ANT: Imperfect, rude, common, mediocre, faulty, defective, ordinary.
=
KEY: Consummation, [See CONSUMMATE and COMPLETION].
=
KEY: Consumption.
SYN: Decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease.
ANT: Growth, development, enlargement, augmentation.
=
KEY: Contact.
SYN: Touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction.
ANT: Proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance, isolation, noncontact.
=
KEY: Contagious.
SYN: Catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections.
ANT: Sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic.
=
KEY: Contain.
SYN: Hold, include, comprise, embrace, comprehend, inclose.
ANT: Drop, exclude, extrude, emit, discharge, afford, yield, produce.
=
KEY: Contaminate.
SYN: Defile, taint, corrupt, sully, befoul, soil.
ANT: Purify, cleanse, lave, clarify, sanctify, chasten.
=
KEY: Contemn.
SYN: Despise, disdain, deride, vilify, slight, disregard, scorn.
ANT: Respect, revere, venerate, regard.
=
KEY: Contemplate.
SYN: Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project.
ANT: Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon.
=
KEY: Contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].
=
KEY: Contempt, [See CONTEMN].
=
KEY: Contemptible.
SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial.
ANT: Important, grave, weighty, honorable, respectable, venerable.
=
KEY: Contemptuous, [See SUPERCILIOUS].
=
KEY: Contend.
SYN: Strive, compete, cope, dispute, vie, contest, struggle, grapple, argue, maintain, disagree, wrangle.
ANT: Resign, concede, allow, relinquish, forego, surrender, waive.
=
KEY: Content.
SYN: Full, satisfied, pleased, gratified, contented, willing, resigned.
ANT: Unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unwilling, reluctant, discontented.
=
KEY: Contented, [See CONTENT].
=
KEY: Contention, [See STRIFE].
=
KEY: Contentious, [See CONTEND and QUARRELSOME].
SYN: Litigious, perverse, wayward, splenetic, cantankerous, exceptions.
ANT: Pacific, obliging, considerate, obsequious, accommodating, easy.
=
KEY: Conterminous.
SYN: Commensurate, adjoining, contiguous, abutting.
ANT: Unequal, inconformable, adjacent, proximate, remote, inconterminous.
=
KEY: Contest \v.\ [See CONTEND].
=
KEY: Contest \n.\ [See CONTENTION].
=
KEY: context.
SYN: Tenor, treatment, texture, composition, matter.
ANT: Text, quotation, citation, passage, extract.
=
KEY: Contexture, [See TEXTURE].
=
KEY: Contiguous, [See CONTAGIOUS, ADJACENT, and CONTERMINOUS].
=
KEY: Continence.
SYN: Abstinence, selfcontrol, refrain \n.\ Chastity, sobriety, temperance.
ANT: Licentiousness, self-indulgence, incontinence, dissoluteness, intemperance.
=
KEY: Contingency, [See ACCIDENT].
=
KEY: Contingent \a.\
SYN: Dependent, incidental, resultant, co-emcient, hypothetical, uncertain, conditional.
ANT: Positive, absolute, independent, unmodified, unaffected, uncontrolled, irrespective.
=
KEY: Contingent \n.\
SYN: Contribution, subsidy, supply, succor, reinforcement, auxiliaries, donation, subscription.
ANT: Army, sum, host, campaign, fund, capital.
=
KEY: Continual. [See CONSTANT and EVERLASTING].
=
KEY: Continually.
SYN: Constantly, persistently, always, ever, perpetually, unceasingly, repeatedly, frequently, continuously.
ANT: Casually, occasionally, contingently, sometimes, rarely, fitfully, intermittently.
=
KEY: Continuation.
SYN: Sequence, continuance, continuity, duration, succession, connection, extension, prolongation, perpetuation, concatenation.
ANT: Interruption, cessation, discontinuance, break, gap.
=
KEY: Continue.
SYN: Last, persist, endure, remain, abide, stay, persevere, proceed.
ANT: Cease, fail, stop, pause, break, discontinue.
=
KEY: Continuity, [See CONTINUATION].
=
KEY: Contortion.
SYN: Twisting, writhing, wresting, distortion, deformity, convolution.
ANT: Symmetry, uniformity, shapeliness, configuration, contour.
=
KEY: Contour, [See CONFIGURATION].
=
KEY: Contraband.
SYN: Illicit, interdicted, smuggled.
ANT: Licit, uninterstated, free.
=
KEY: Contract \v.\
SYN: Abridge, abbreviate, narrow, lessen, reduce, compress, decrease, retrench, curtail, form, agree.
ANT: Expand, amplify, dilate, elongate, reverse, cancel, abandon.
=
KEY: Contract \n.\
SYN: Covenant, agreement, compact, bond, pact, stipulation, bargain.
ANT: Promise, assurance, parole.
=
KEY: Contradict.
SYN: Oppose, dissent, negative, controvert, deny, disprove, confute, refute, gainsay, contravene.
ANT: State, propound, maintain, argue, confirm, affirm, endorse.
=
KEY: Contradiction.
SYN: Repugnance, contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility.
ANT: Harmony, coincidence, concurrence, affirmation, proof, statement.
=
KEY: Contraposition.
SYN: Oppositeness, confrontment, facing.
ANT: Side, flank, collateralness.
=
KEY: Contrarious, [See CONTENTIOUS].
=
KEY: Contrary.
SYN: Opposed, opposite, repugnant, antagonistic, adverse, incompatible, inconsistent.
ANT: Agreeing, consentaneous, compatible, kindred, coincident, consistent.
=
KEY: Contrast.
SYN: Opposition, contrariety, dissimilarity.
ANT: Harmony, similarity, comparison, similitude.
=
KEY: Contribute.
SYN: Conduce, add, subscribe, give, co-operate, assist, tend, supply.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, misconduct, misapply, contravene.
=
KEY: Contribution.
SYN: Donation, oblation, offering, gift, subscription, subsidy, aid, assistance.
ANT: Withholding, retention, disallowance, misappropriation, misapplication, contravention.
=
KEY: Contrition, [See ATTRITION].
=
KEY: Contrivance, [See CONTRIVE and DEVICE].
=
KEY: Contrive.
SYN: Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert, adjust.
ANT: Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo.
=
KEY: Contriving, [See CONTRIVE].
=
KEY: Control \v.\
SYN: Check, curb, moderate, repress, guide, regulate, restrain, coerce, manage, administer, govern.
ANT: Neglect, abandon, license, berate, free, mismanage, misconduct.
=
KEY: Control \n.\ [See VERB and COMPULSION].
=
KEY: Controversy.
SYN: Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation, wrangle, bickering, question.
ANT: Agreement, unanimity, coincidence.
=
KEY: controvertible.
SYN: Questionable, dubious.
ANT: Unquestionable, incontrovertible.
=
KEY: Contumacy.
SYN: Rebelliousness, stubbornness, restiveness, waywardness, self-will, untractableness.
ANT: Submissiveness, docility, tractableness, servility, cringing, fawning, flattery.
=
KEY: Contumely.
SYN: Contemptuousness, scornfulness, arrogance, disrespect, obloquy.
ANT: Respect, regard, obligingness, accommodation, considerateness, flattery, adulation, obsequiousness, fawning.
=
KEY: Contusion.
SYN: Bruise, knock, blow.
ANT: Soothing, smoothing, stroking, caress, pat.
=
KEY: Convene.
SYN: Assemble, collect, gather, meet, congregate, call together, summon, muster, levy, convoke.
ANT: Disperse, dismiss, disband.
=
KEY: Convenient.
SYN: Handy, apt, adapted, fitted, suitable, helpful, commodious, useful, timely, seasonable, opportune.
ANT: Inconvenient, awkward, obstructive, useless, superfluous, unseasonable, untimely, inopportune.
=
KEY: Convention.
SYN: Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress, session, synod, treaty, compact.
ANT: Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word, parole.
=
KEY: Conventional.
SYN: Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social.
ANT: Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, statutable, immutable, natural, invariable.
=
KEY: Conventual.
SYN: Cœnobitual, regular, monastic.
ANT: Social, secular, laic.
=
KEY: Converge.
SYN: Tend, bear, incline, lead, coincide, conduce, contribute, meet, concentrate, coradiate.
ANT: Diverge, deviate, radiate, mix, foul, entangle.
=
KEY: Conversant.
SYN: Familiar, ae, quainted, proficient, experienced, versed, learned.
ANT: Unfamiliar, unacquainted, ignorant, unversed, unlearned, strange, inconversant.
=
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.
=
KEY: Converse \v.\
SYN: Talk, discourse, speak, chat.
ANT: Keep silent.
=
KEY: Converse \a.\
SYN: Opposite, reverse, contrary, opposed, contradictory, counter, relative, correlative.
ANT: Identical, same, one, inseparable, indistinguishable, connate, uniform, direct, primary, uninverted.
=
KEY: Conversion.
SYN: Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge.
ANT: Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity.
=
KEY: Convert \v.\
SYN: Change, alter, transmute, transform, apply, appropriate, turn.
ANT: Conserve, perpetuate, stabilitate, [See {Q1409 stereotype}?], clinch, alienate, divert, misappropriate, misapply.
=
KEY: Convertible.
SYN: Identical, commensurate, conterminous, equivalent, equipollent.
ANT: Variant, incommensurate, unequivalent, contrary, contradictory, contrariant.
=
KEY: Convey.
SYN: Take, carry, transfer, relegate, bear, transmit, consign, transport, remove.
ANT: Bring, adduce, fetch, drop, house, stow, deposit.
=
KEY: Conveyance, [See CONVEY].
=
KEY: Convict.
SYN: Sentence, condemn.
ANT: Acquit, discharge.
=
KEY: Conviction.
SYN: Assurance, persuasion, belief.
ANT: Doubt, misgiving, disbelief.
=
KEY: Convince.
SYN: Persuade, enlighten, inoculate, indoctrinate.
ANT: Misguide, mislead, misadvise, mystify, puzzle, perplex, mispersuade, unsettle.
=
KEY: Convivial.
SYN: Hospitable, social, festive, gay, festal, jovial, jolly.
ANT: Inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly, churlish, abstemious, austere, ascetic.
=
KEY: Convocate, [See CONVENE].
=
KEY: Convocation, [See CONVENTION].
=
KEY: Convoke, [See CONVENE].
=
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].
=
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.
=
KEY: Correlation.
SYN: correspondence, interrelation, interdependence, mutuality, apposition.
ANT: Contradiction, independence, [See LEARNED and RATIONAL].
=
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].
=
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.
=
KEY: Corrode.
SYN: Eat, rust, gnaw, canker, wear, crumble.
ANT: Repair, renew, furbish, consolidate.
=
KEY: Corrosion, [See CORRODE and RUST].
=
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.
=
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].
=
KEY: Counterfoil. [See BAFFLE].
=
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
\v.\ Bracket, link, conjoin, unite, splice, buckle, button, clasp, pair, yoke, connect, tie, brace.
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.