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
spurious, true, legitimate, certain, accepted, current, received.
ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded, rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous, fictitious.
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KEY: Authenticate.
SYN: Confirm, settle, establish, verify, substantiate, identify.
ANT: Contravene, disprove, disestablish, refute, upset.
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KEY: Author.
SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause, constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer, perpetrator, doer.
ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser.
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KEY: Authoritative.
SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent, dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic, commanding.
ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient, persuasive.
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KEY: Authority.
SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness, conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction, jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway, sufferance, supremacy, dominion.
ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness, inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong.
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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.