Part 12

ANT: Whole, completeness, entirety, integrity, totality, mass bulk, body, compound, transaction, affair. = KEY: Part \v.\ [See SEPARATE]. = KEY: Partake. SYN: Share, participate, accept, derive. ANT: Forfeit, relinquish, forego, cede, yield, afford. = KEY: Partial. SYN: Restricted, local, peculiar, specific, favoring, inequitable, unfair, biased, particular. ANT: Unrestricted, total, universal, general, impartial, equitable, just, fair, unbiased. = KEY: Partiality. SYN: Preponderance, fondness, relish, love. ANT: Indifference, impartiality, apathy. = KEY: Partially, [See PARTLY]. = KEY: Participate. SYN: Share, join in, have a share, [See PARTAKE]. = KEY: Particle. SYN: Bit, grain, jot, mite, tittle, atom, [See ATOM]. = KEY: Particular \a.\ SYN: Local, specific, subordinate, detailed, partial, special, fastidious, minute, scrupulous, careful, accurate, exact, circumstantial, precise, delicate, nice. ANT: Universal, general, unspecial, comprehensive, unscrupulous, uncareful, inaccurate, inexact, rough, coarse, indiscriminate, undisiluminating. = KEY: Particular \n.\ SYN: Detail, point, feature. ANT: Whole, subject, case. = KEY: Particularly. SYN: Specially, chiefly, in particular, especially, distinctly, [See MAINLY]. = KEY: Parting. SYN: Separation, detachment, division, disruption. ANT: Union, attachment, cleaving together. = KEY: Partisan. SYN: Adherent, follower, party man, henchman, clansman, supporter, disciple, [See ADHERENT]. = KEY: Partition. SYN: Barrier, division, enclosure, compartment, interspace, separation, distribution, allotment, screen. ANT: Non-partition, non-distinction, nonseparation, inclusion, comprehension, combination, amalgamation, incorporation, coalition, union, concatenation, generalization, collection. = KEY: Partly. SYN: In part, somewhat, In some degree, to some extent, in a measure, not wholly, partially. ANT: Altogether, in whole, entirely, to the full extent, completely. = KEY: Partner. SYN: Associate, sharer, participator, colleague, coadjutor, confederate, accomplice, partaker, companion, spouse. ANT: Rival, alien, competitor, opponent, counter-age at. = KEY: Partnership. SYN: Union, connection, company, firm, joint interest, co-operation, society, house, [See CONNECTION]. = KEY: Pacts. SYN: [See CONTROL and GOVERN], move, proceed, go by, slip away, glide, shapelessness, [See ELAPSE]. = KEY: Passable. SYN: Traversable, navigable, penetrable, admissible, tolerable, ordinary. ANT: Impassable, impervious, impenetrable, inadmissible, excellent. = KEY: Passage. SYN: Journey, thoroughfare, road, course, avenue, route, channel, clause, phrase, sentence, paragraph. ANT: Chapter, book, [See COURSE]. = KEY: Passible. SYN: Susceptible, sensible, sensitive, impressible. ANT: Insusceptible, insensitive, impassible. = KEY: Passion. SYN: Emotion, desire, ardor, vehemence, lust, auger, animation, excitement, warmth, feeling. ANT: Coolness, indifference, apathy, coldness, frigidity, iciness. = KEY: Passionate, [See ANGRY and HASTY]. = KEY: Passive. SYN: Inactive, inert, quiescent, unresisting, unquestioning, negative, enduring, patient. ANT: Active, alert, resistant, positive, unsubmissive, malcontent, vehement, impatient. = KEY: Pass over. SYN: Omit, overlook, [See OVERLOOK]. = KEY: Past. SYN: Spent, gone by, elapsed, departed, late. ANT: Present, unspent. = KEY: Pastime. SYN: Recreation, entertainment, amusement, diversion, play, sport. ANT: Business, study, labor, task, occupation, work. = KEY: Patch. SYN: Botch, bungle, cobble, clout, piece. ANT: Fine-draw, embroider. = KEY: Patent. SYN: obvious, evident, indisputable, plain, [See INT], Dubious, ambiguous, questionable. = KEY: Paternal. SYN: Fatherly, careful, tender, hereditary. ANT: Unfatherly, careless, rough, harsh, [See HEREDITARY]. = KEY: Path. SYN: Footpath, pathway, road, track, course, route, method. = KEY: Pathetic. SYN: Affecting, moving, emotional, tender, melting, tender. ANT: Ludicrous, unimpassioned, farcical, unaffecting. = KEY: Patience. SYN: Endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance. ANT: Resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience. = KEY: Pathless. SYN: Trackless, Untrodden. ANT: Trodden, frequented. = KEY: Patient. SYN: Resigned, unrepining, enduring. ANT: Impatient, [See PASSIVE]. = KEY: Patrician. SYN: Noble, senator, aristocratic. ANT: Plebeian, churl. = KEY: Patrimony. SYN: Inheritance, heritage. = KEY: Patronize \v.\ SYN: Countenance, befriend, favor, support, help. ANT: Oppress, depress, oppose, withstand, disfavor, discountenance. = KEY: Pattern. SYN: Model, sample, archetype, exemplar, specimen, shape, precedent, mould, design, plan. ANT: Monstrosity, caricature, perversion, misrepresentation. = KEY: Paucity. SYN: Rarity, scantity, fewness, deficiency, lack, [See DEFICIENCY]. ANT: Frequency, quantity, number, abundance. = KEY: Pauperism, [See BEGGARY and MENDICITY]. = KEY: Pause \n.\ SYN: Stop, cessation, suspension, halt, intermission, rest. ANT: Continuance, advancement, perseverance. = KEY: Pause \v.\ SYN: Cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist. ANT: Continue, proceed, advance, persist, persevere. = KEY: Pave. SYN: Prepare, facilitate, smooth, expedite, adapt, fit, mature, arrange, dispose, qualify. ANT: Obstruct, indispose, disqualify. = KEY: Pawn. SYN: Pledge, impignorate. ANT: Ransom, redeem. = KEY: Pay \n.\ SYN: Wages, salary, stipend, recompense, payment, [See SPUR and UBOE]. = KEY: Pay \v.\ SYN: Compensate, remunerate, satisfy, discharge, expend, disburse, requite, liquidate. ANT: Deprive, defraud, exact, dissatisfy, hoard, retain, invest, fund. = KEY: Payment, [See PAY, \n.\]. = KEY: Peace. SYN: Quiet, tranquillity, calm, repose, pacification, order, calmness, reconciliation, harmony, concord. ANT: Noise, disturbance, tumult, agitation, hostility, disorder, embroilment, war, discord, variance, strife. = KEY: Peaceable. SYN: unwarlike, inoffensive, quiet, peaceful, innocuous, mild, unquarrelsome, serene, placid. ANT: Pugnacious, warlike, litigious, quarrelsome, savage, fierce, hostile, violent, bellicose, restless. = KEY: Peasant. SYN: Countryman, hind, clown, laborer, villager, swain, rustic. ANT: Citizen, cockney, townsman. = KEY: Peccability. SYN: Frailty, sinfulness. ANT: Impeccability, perfection. = KEY: Peccable. SYN: Frail, sinful. ANT: Impeccable, perfect, incorrupt. = KEY: Peccant. SYN: Morbid, corrupt, criminal, offensive, objectionable, vicious, erring, guilty, transgressing. ANT: Pure, incorrupt, wholesome. = KEY: Peculator. SYN: Defaulter, delinquent, thief, embezzler, [See DEFAULTER and ROBBER]. = KEY: Peculiar. SYN: Private, personal, characteristic, exceptional, exclusive, special, specific, particular, unusual, singular, uncommon, strange. ANT: Public, common, general, universal, unspecial, ordinary. = KEY: Peculiarity. SYN: Speciality, individuality, distinctiveness, idiosyncrasy. ANT: Generality, universality, community, uniformity, homology, homogeneity, conaturality. = KEY: Pedantic. SYN: Pedagogical, priggish. ANT: Unaffected, slipshod. = KEY: Pedigree. SYN: Descent, parentage, genealogy, lineage, [See BIRTH and LINEAGE]. = KEY: Pedler. SYN: Huckster, hawker, shopman, trader. = KEY: Peer \n.\ SYN: Mate, equal, compeer. ANT: One unequal in rank, state, or condition. = KEY: Peer \v.\ SYN: Peep, pry, look narrowly. = KEY: Peerless. SYN: Matchless, paramount, unique, unequaled. ANT: Mediocre, commonplace, ordinary. = KEY: Peevish. SYN: Fretful, querulous, petulant, testy, captious, waspish, splenetic, ill-natured, irascible. ANT: Genial, complaisant, insensate, inquerulous, easy, good-natured, good-tempered. = KEY: Pelf. SYN: Lucre, mammon. ANT: Reward, compensation, wage. = KEY: Pellucid. SYN: Translucent, limpid, crystalline, vitreous. ANT: Opaque, semiopaque, luteous, turbid. = KEY: Penal. SYN: Retributive, coercive, visitatorial, castigatory, inflictive, corrective, punitive. ANT: Remunerative, reparatory, decorative, honorary. = KEY: Penalty. SYN: Pain, punishment, forfeiture, price, fare, retribution, amercement. ANT: Guerdon, wages, reward, premium, prize, douceur, sop, bribe, honorarium, compensation, remuneration. = KEY: Pendent. SYN: Pendulous, hanging, suspended, drooping, projecting. ANT: Supporting, sustaining, supported. = KEY: Penetrate. SYN: Pierce, enter, enter into, reach, permeate, make one's way, disclose, fathom, [See PIERCE]. = KEY: Penetrable. SYN: Pervious, permeable. ANT: Impervious, impermeable. = KEY: Penetration. SYN: Discernment, observation, sagacity, acuteness, discrimination, insight, sharpness. ANT: Indiscernment, dulness, indiscrimination, stolidity, hebetude, shortsightedness, shallowness, obtuseness. = KEY: Penitence. SYN: Repentance, contrition, sorrow, remorse. ANT: Congratulation, self-approval, obduracy, hardheartedness. = KEY: Penitent, [See PENITENTIAL]. = KEY: Penitential. SYN: Wailing, mournful, dirgeful, sorrowful, contrite, penitent. ANT: Impenitent, hard-hearted, obdurate. = KEY: Pensive. SYN: Meditative, ruminating, thoughtful, musing, reflective, impressed, melancholy, sober, dejected. ANT: Vacant, joyous, unreflecting, careless, thoughtless, unmeditative, incogitant, unreflective. = KEY: Penurious. SYN: Niggardly, parsimonious, avaricious, griping, miserly, closefisted, sordid, stingy. ANT: Liberal, open-handed, bountiful. = KEY: Penury. SYN: Wart, privation, poverty, indigence, impecuniosity, destitution, beggary. ANT: Competence, wealth, affluence, pecuniosity. = KEY: People. SYN: Nation, community, populace, mob, crowd, vulgar, herd, mass, persons, inhabitants, commonalty, fellow-creatures, tribe, race. ANT: Aristocracy, nobility, government, ruler, oligarchy. = KEY: Perceivable. SYN: Cognizable, appreciable, perceptible, sensible, distinguishable. ANT: Incognizable, inappreciable, imperceptible, insensible, indistinguishable. = KEY: Perceive. SYN: Discern, distinguish, descry, observe, feel, touch, see, recognize, understand, know. ANT: Miss, misobserve, overlook, misunderstand, misconceive, misperceive. = KEY: Perceptible, [See PERCEIVABLE]. = KEY: Perception. SYN: Cognizance, apprehension, sight, understanding, discernment. ANT: Incognizance, ignorance, imperception, misapprehension, misunderstanding. = KEY: Perceptive. SYN: Cognitive, apprehensive, sensitive, percipient. ANT: Reflective, reminiscent, insensible, impercipient, inobservant, inapprehensive, insensitive. = KEY: Percipient, [See PERCEPTIVE]. = KEY: Percolate. SYN: Strain, niter, exude, ooze. ANT: Absorb, retain, [See OOZE]. = KEY: Percussion. SYN: Collision, shock, encounter, crash. ANT: Graze, touch, recoil, rebound, repercussion, reverberation. = KEY: Perdition. SYN: Destruction, ruin, loss, demolition. ANT: Restoration, recovery, renovation, rescue, salvation. = KEY: Peregrination. SYN: Wandering, travel, perambulation, perennation. ANT: Domiciliation, residence. = KEY: Peremptory. SYN: Decisive, express, absolute, authoritative, arbitrary, dogmatical, imperious, despotic, positive. ANT: Suggestive, entreative, mild, postulatory, hortatory. = KEY: Perennial. SYN: Perpetual, unceasing, unfailing, ceaseless, incessant, constant, permanent, unintermittent, continual, undying. ANT: Periodical, occasional, intermittent, failing, deficient, uncertain. = KEY: Perfect. SYN: Consummate, complete, full, indeficient, immaculate, absolute, faultless, impeccable, infallible, unblemished, blameless, unexceptionable, mature, ripe. ANT: Incomplete, meagre, faulty, scant, short, deficient, defective, imperfect, peccable, fallible, blemished, marred, spoilt. = KEY: Perfection. SYN: Perfectness, completion, consummation, wholeness, excellency. ANT: Imperfection, incompletion, imperfectness. = KEY: Perfectly. SYN: Fully, wholly, entirely, completely, totally, exactly, accurately. ANT: Imperfectly, incompletely, partially, inaccurately. = KEY: Perfidious. SYN: false, treacherous, faithless, traitorous, deceptive, disloyal, insidious. ANT: true, staunch, faithful. = KEY: Perforate. SYN: Bored, pierced, drilled. ANT: Unpierced, imperforate. = KEY: Perform. SYN: Accomplish, [See DO], act, transact, achieve, execute, discharge, fulfil, effect, complete, consummate, enact. ANT: Miss, mar, misperform, misexecute, botch, misenact, misconduct, spoil. = KEY: Performance. SYN: Accomplishment, act, execution, deed, exploit, work, achievement, enterprise, operation, [See ACHIEVEMENT and DEED]. = KEY: Perfume. SYN: Odor, scent, fragrance, redolence, aroma, smell, incense. ANT: Fetor, stench, stink. = KEY: Perfunctory. SYN: Uninterested, routine, mechanical, careless, slovenly. ANT: Interested, zealous, spirited, animated, ardent, assiduous, careful. = KEY: Perhaps. SYN: Possibly, peradventure, perchance, may be. ANT: Certainly, inevitably. = KEY: Peril. SYN: Danger, risk, hazard, jeopardy, insecurity, uncertainty, unsafety, venture. ANT: Security, safety, certainty. = KEY: Perilous. SYN: Hazardous, dangerous. ANT: Safe, secure, certain. = KEY: Period. SYN: Time, date, epoch, era, age, duration, continuance, limit, bound, end, conclusion, determination. ANT: Eternity, datelessness, immemoriality, infinity, perpetuity, illimitability, endlessness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness. = KEY: Periodical. SYN: Stated, recurrent, regular, systematic, calculable. ANT: Indeterminate, eccentric, irregular, incalculable, spasmodic, fitful. = KEY: Perish. SYN: Decay, waste away, be ruined, be destroyed, die, expire, fade away, [See DECAY]. = KEY: Perishable. SYN: Frail, evanescent, fragile, destructible, fleeting, transient, ephemeral, impermanent. ANT: Enduring, lasting, indestructible, imperishable, persistent, perpetual, permanent, Permanent, [See PERISHABLE]. = KEY: Permeable. SYN: Penetrable, pervadible, percolable. ANT: Impenetrable, impermeable. = KEY: Permeate, [See PERMEABLE]. = KEY: Permissable. SYN: Allowable, sufferable, lawful. ANT: Unallowable, insufferable, unlawful. = KEY: Permission. SYN: Leave, license, dispensation, allowance, liberty, consent, sufferance, compliance, endurance. ANT: Prohibition, refusal, denial, prevention, hinderance, resistance. = KEY: Permit, [See ALLOW]. = KEY: Permutation. SYN: Interchange, transference, transposition. ANT: stabilisation, retention, fixity, sequence, order, series, succession. = KEY: Pernicious. SYN: Hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly, injurious, baneful. ANT: Beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutary. = KEY: Perpendicular. SYN: Vertical, upright, standing upright. ANT: Horizontal. = KEY: Perpetrate. SYN: Commit. ANT: Achieve, perfect. = KEY: Perpetual. SYN: Constant, unceasing, endless, eternal, everlasting, unfailing, perennial, continual, enduring, incessant, uninterrupted. ANT: Inconstant, periodic, recurrent, temporary, transient, falling, exhaustible, occasional, momentary, casual. = KEY: Perpetuate, [See PERPETUAL]. SYN: Continue, stabilitate, eternize. ANT: Discontinue, abolish, eradicate, cancel, disestablish, break. = KEY: Perpetuity. SYN: Constancy, permanence, perennity, persistence, continuity, fixity. ANT: Impermanence, transience, evanescence, discontinuance, casualty, momentariness. = KEY: Perplex. SYN: Embarrass, puzzle, entangle, involve, encumber, complicate, confuse, bewilder, mystify, harass, entangle. ANT: Clear, enlighten, explicate, disentangle, simplify, elucidate, disencumber. = KEY: Perplexity. SYN: Embarrassment, difficulty, uncertainty. ANT: Certainty, certitude, sureness, [See DILEMMA]. = KEY: Persecute. SYN: Harass, molest, annoy, worry, vex. ANT: Encourage, inspirit, abet, support. = KEY: Perserverance. SYN: Persistence, steadfastness, constancy, indefatigableness, resolution, tenacity. ANT: Inconstancy, unsteadfastness, fitfulness, caprice, irresoluteness, vacillation, wavering, indecision, variableness, levity, volatility. = KEY: Persevere. SYN: Persist, insist, continue, keep on, be steadfast, hold out, [See CONTINUE]. = KEY: Persist, [See PERSEVERE]. = KEY: Persistence, [See PERSEVERANCE and PERISHABLE]. = KEY: Person. SYN: Individual, special, peculiar, idiosyncratic. ANT: Generic, common. = KEY: Persons. SYN: Men folks, people, beings, living souls, individuals. ANT: Single persons. = KEY: Perspicacity. SYN: Acuteness, discernment, sagacity, penetration. ANT: Hebetude, dullness, stolidity, inobservance. = KEY: Perspicuous, [See LUCID and PLAIN]. = KEY: Perspicuity. SYN: Clearness, lucidity, transparency, intelligibility. ANT: Obscurity, turbidity, unintelligibility, mystification, confusedness. = KEY: Persuade. SYN: Induce, influence, incline, convince, dispose, urge, allure, incite. ANT: Deter, disincline, indispose, mispersuade, misinduce, coerce, compel. = KEY: Persuasion. SYN: Conviction, inducement, creed, belief, opinion, [See CONVICTION]. = KEY: Pert \a.\ SYN: Flippant, saucy, impudent, forward. ANT: Modest, retiring, bashful, demure, staid. = KEY: Pertain to. SYN: Belong to, relate to, appertain to, regard, concern. ANT: Be foreign to. = KEY: Pertinacious. SYN: Obstinate, persistent, wilful, dogged, persevering, determined, unyielding. ANT: Flexible, inconstant, irresolute, volatile. = KEY: Pertinacity. SYN: Obstinacy, tenaciousness, adherence, resoluteness. ANT: Irresoluteness, irresolution, indecision, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness. = KEY: Pertinent. SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, appropriate, fit, apposite, just, proper, congruous, applicable. ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, alien, inappropriate, impertinent, incongruous, discordant, repugnant, Perturb, [See AGITATE]. = KEY: Pervade. SYN: Permeate, fill, saturate, color, tinge, fill, diffuse. ANT: Touch, affect. = KEY: Perverse. SYN: Froward, untoward, stubborn, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, intractable, crochety. ANT: Docile, ductile, amenable, governable, complacent, accommodating, pleasant, obliging. = KEY: Perversion. SYN: Abuse, misrepresentation, distortion, corruption, misinterpretation, caricature, sophistry. ANT: Use, conservation, representation, right, truth, portraiture, manifestation, explanation, interpretation, reason, correction, authentication, verification. = KEY: Pervert. SYN: Twist, distort, corrupt, falsify, misrepresent, [See REPRESENT and TWIST]. = KEY: Pervious. SYN: Penetrable, traversable, explorable. ANT: Impenetrable, impervious, impregnable, inexplorable. = KEY: Pest. SYN: Plague, nuisance, curse, annoyance, blight, bone, scourge. ANT: Benefit, blessing, acquisition. = KEY: Pester. SYN: Plague, worry, vex, harass, disquiet, annoy, tease, torment, chafe, harry, badger, incommode, gall. ANT: Treat, regale, amuse, refresh, gratify, soothe. = KEY: Pestiferous. SYN: Insalubrious, pestilential, deleterious, mephitic, virulent, mortiferous, infectious, contagious, catching, lethal, morbific. ANT: {[(ifiiiiil]?}, salubrious, balmy, salutiferous, sanitary, innocuous, remedial, wholesome, nutritive, pure, sanative, disinfectant. = KEY: Pestilential. SYN: Noxious, ruinous, deadly, deleterious, mischievous, [See PESTIFEROUS]. = KEY: Pet \n.\ SYN: Darling, fondling, favorite, cosset, jewel, minion, idol. ANT: Horror, bugbear, aversion, scarecrow. = KEY: Pet \v.\ [See FONDLE]. = KEY: Petition. SYN: Supplication, entreaty, craving, application, appeal, salutation, prayer, request, instance. ANT: Deprecation, expostulation, protect, command, injunction, claim, demand, requirement, exaction, dictation. = KEY: Petrify. SYN: Astound, electrify, dismay, horrify, appal, stun, stupefy, dumbfounder. ANT: Reassure, tranquillize. = KEY: Pettish. SYN: Petulant, testy, peevish, waspish, querulous. ANT: Easy, jovial, good-humored, genial. = KEY: Petty. SYN: Small, mean, paltry, ignoble, trifling, narrow, trivial, contemptible. ANT: Large, large-hearted, noble, generous, chivalrous, magnificent, liberal, broad. = KEY: Petulant, [See PEEVISH]. = KEY: Phantasm. SYN: Chimera, phantasma, phantom, specter, illusion, delusion, unreality, phantasy, bugbear, vision, dream, hallucination, shadow. ANT: Reality, truth, fact, substance, verity, Phantom, [See PHANTASM]. = KEY: Pharisaical. SYN: Sanctimonious, formal, ceremonious, precision. ANT: Sincere, guileless, genuine, godly, unpharasaical. = KEY: Philanthropic. SYN: Humane, large-hearted, public-spirited, charitable, kind. ANT: Selfish, cynical, egotistical, morose, misanthropic. = KEY: Philanthropy. SYN: Humanity, love of mankind, good will to all men, general, benevolence,. ANT: Misanthropy, hatred of men. = KEY: Philosopher. SYN: Doctor, savant, teacher, master, schoolman. ANT: Ignoramus, sciolist, freshman, tyro, greenhorn, fool, booby, dunce. = KEY: Philosophical. SYN: Wise, sound, conclusive, scientific, accurate, enlightened, rational, calm, unprejudiced. ANT: Unsound, crude, vague, loose, inaccurate, popular, unscientific, sciolistic, unphilosophical. = KEY: Phlegmatic. SYN: Sluggish, cold, apathetical, dull, frigid, cold-blooded, unfeeling. ANT: Quick, lively, warm-blooded, susceptible. = KEY: Phrensy. SYN: Madness, insanity, delirium, mania, raving, hallucination, afflatus, inspiration. ANT: Sanity, sobriety, rationality, lucidity. = KEY: Physical. SYN: Natural, material, visible, tangible, substantial, corporeal. ANT: Mental, moral, intellectual, spiritual, immaterial, invisible, intangible, unsubstantial, supernatural, hyperphysical. = KEY: Pick. SYN: Choose, cull, select, gather, pluck, eliminate, enucleate, extract, glean. ANT: Reject, discard, repudiate, relegate, bunch, grasp, clutch. = KEY: Pictorial. SYN: Illustrated, picturesque, artistic, imaginative, graphic. ANT: Plain, unembellished, unadorned. = KEY: Picture \n.\ SYN: Likeness, resemblance, drawing, painting, representation, image, engraving. ANT: Original. = KEY: Picture \v.\ SYN: Delineate, draw, paint, represent, [See REPRESENT]. = KEY: Picturesque. SYN: Comely, seemly, graceful, scenic, artistic, pictorial, graphic. ANT: Unseemly, uncouth, rude, unpicturesque, beautiless, flat, tame, monotonous, dead. = KEY: Pierce. SYN: Perforate, bore, drill, penetrate, excite, affect, rouse, touch, move, enter, stab, transfix. ANT: Deaden, quiet, blunt, scott, allay, lull, compose. = KEY: Piercing. SYN: Penetrating, perforating, sharp, keen, acute, thrilling, [See ACUTE]. = KEY: Piety. SYN: Religion, devotion, godliness, holiness, grace, reverence, sanctity. ANT: Irreligion, impiety, ungodliness, sinfulness, profanity, hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness, phariseeism. = KEY: Pile. SYN: Heap, accumulate, gather, store, stuck, amass, collect. ANT: Demolish, dissipate, squander, scatter, separate, disperse, deal, distribute. = KEY: Pilfer. SYN: Abstract, peculate, filch, purloin, smuggle, cabbage, steal, thieve. ANT: Pillage, ransack, plunder, rifle, spoil. = KEY: Pillage, [See PILFER]. = KEY: Pillar. SYN: Column, shaft, post, support. = KEY: Pilot \v.\ SYN: Steer, guide, direct, conduct, lead, convoy, escort, [See CONDUCT]. = KEY: Pimple. SYN: Pustule, blotch, eruption. = KEY: Pinch, [See EMERGENCY]. = KEY: Pinch \v.\ SYN: Squeeze, grip, press, compress, nip, distress, [See GRIPE]. = KEY: Pine \v.\ SYN: Waste away, droop, fade, wither, decline, decay, sink, [See LANGUISH]. = KEY: Pious. SYN: Devout, saintly, holy, religious, godly, [See DEVOUT]. = KEY: Piquant. SYN: Pungent, sharp, lively, racy, severe, biting, cutting, smart, stimulating, keen, stinging, tart. ANT: Tame, dull, flat, characterless, insipid. = KEY: Pique. SYN: Grudge, offence, umbrage, spite, resentment (slight), wounded pride, [See GRUDGE]. = KEY: Pirate. SYN: Corsair, searobber, buccaneer, freebooter, sea rover. = KEY: Pit. SYN: Hollow, gulf, trench, excavation, [See ABYSS]. = KEY: Pitch. SYN: Throw, fling, cast, hurl, [See FUNG]. = KEY: Piteous. SYN: Sad, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, distressing, doleful, pitiable, mournful, woful, affecting, sorrowful. ANT: Joyous, enviable, comfortable, pleasant, desirable, delectable. = KEY: Pith. SYN: Kernel, marrow, gist, substance, essence, cream, root. ANT: Surplusage, surroundings, dressing, verbiage. = KEY: Pithy. SYN: Terse, laconic, pregnant, expressive, nervous. ANT: Weak, characterless, diluted, pointless, flat, vapid. = KEY: Pitiable, [See PITEOUS]. = KEY: Pitiful, [See PITILESS]. = KEY: Pitiless. SYN: Merciless, unsparing, inexorable, cruel. ANT: Pitiful, tender, merciful, compassionate, lenient, indulgent, [See {[^]?}]. = KEY: Pittance. SYN: Dole, driblet, drop, drain, scantling. ANT: Exuberance, abundance, profusion, lavishment. = KEY: Pity. SYN: Mercy, compassion, tenderness, commiseration, ruth, sympathy, condolence. ANT: Cruelty, hardheartedness, relentlessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness. = KEY: Placard. SYN: Handbill, poster, bin, broadside. = KEY: Place. SYN: Locate, assign, fix, establish, settle, attribute, situate. ANT: Disturb, remove, unsettle, disarrange, disestablish, misplace, misattribute, misassign, uproot, transplant, extirpate, eradicate, transport. = KEY: Placid. SYN: Calm, quiet, serene, composed, gentle, unruffled, still, halcyonic, unexcited, imperturbable, passionless. ANT: Rough, troubled, unquiet, discomposed, agitated, ruffled, disturbed, irritated, stormy, excited, Impassioned. = KEY: Plain. SYN: Level, even, flat, smooth, open, clear, unencumbered, unobstructed, uninterrupted, manifest, evident, obvious, unmistakable, simple, easy, natural, unaffected, homely, unsophisticated, open, unvarnished, unembellished, unreserved, artless. ANT: Uneven, undulating, rugged, rough, abrupt, broken, confused, encumbered, obstructed, interrupted, questionable, uncertain, dubious, ambiguous, enigmatical, hard, abstruse, affected, fair, beautiful, sophisticated, artful, varnished, embellished. = KEY: Plaintive. SYN: Mournful, sorrowful, sad, doleful, melancholy, wailing, touching, moaning. ANT: Joyous, exultant, glad, jubilant, cheerful, cheering, gladdening. = KEY: Plan \n.\ Design, drawing, sketch, draft, scheme, groundplot, project, contrivance, stratagem, device, [See DESIGN], Plan \v.\ Contrive, devise, sketch out, design, hatch, [See CONTRIVE]. = KEY: Plant. SYN: Set, insert, settle, establish, introduce, stock, fix, place. ANT: Remove, extract, eradicate, extirpate, disestablish, transport, denude, transplant, displace. = KEY: Plaster. SYN: Palliate, patch, ramp, tinker, cobble, bolster. ANT: Expose, repair, restore, renovate, redintegrate. = KEY: Plastic. SYN: Ductile, pliant, yielding, malleable, tractile, flexible. ANT: Stubborn, unyielding, inert, unmalleable, inflexible, intractile. = KEY: Platitude. SYN: Commonplace, generality, truism, triviality. ANT: Sophism, laconism, enigma, dictum, oracle. = KEY: Platonic. SYN: Cold, intellectual, unsensual, mental, philosophical. ANT: Ardent, animal, sensual, passionate, sexual. = KEY: Plaudit, [See APPLAUSE]. = KEY: Plausible. SYN: Specious, superficial, passable, unctuous, fair-spoken, pretentious, ostensible, right, apparently, colorable, feasible. ANT: Genuine, sterling, transparent, unmistakable, profound. = KEY: Play \n.\ SYN: Sport, pastime, amusement, diversion, recreation, gambol, frolic, opportunity, scope, room, [See PASTIME and SPORT]. = KEY: Playful. SYN: Lively, sportive, jocund, frolicsome, gay, vivacious, sprightly, [See LIVELY]. = KEY: Plea. SYN: Excuse, vindication, justification, ground, defence, apology, entreaty. ANT: Charge, accusation, impeachment, action. = KEY: Pleasant. SYN: Grateful, agreeable, acceptable, pleasurable, desirable, gratifying, cheerful, enlivening, sportive, delicious, delectable, jocular, satisfactory, exquisite, merry. ANT: Unpleasant, ungrateful, disagreeable, obnoxious, unacceptable, offensive, unlively, lugubrious, dull, ill-humored. = KEY: Please. SYN: Delight, content, gladden, fascinate, [See GRATIFY]. = KEY: Pleasing, [See AGREEABLE]. = KEY: Pleasure. SYN: Enjoyment, gratification, sensuality, self-indulgence, voluptuousness, choice, preference, vill, inclination, purpose, determination, favor, satisfaction, indulgent. ANT: Pain, suffering, affliction, trouble, asceticism, self-denial, abstinence, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, denial, refusal. = KEY: Plebeian. SYN: Low, vulgar, lowborn, lowbred, coarse, ignoble. ANT: Patrician, noble, aristocratic, refined, highborn, high-bred. = KEY: Pledge \n.\ SYN: Security, guarantee, warrant, hostage, surety, pawn, earnest. ANT: Word, promise, assurance, parole. = KEY: Pledge \v.\ SYN: Pawn, hypothecate. ANT: Redeem. = KEY: Plenary. SYN: Full, abundant, complete, entire, unreserved, unstinted, unrestricted. ANT: Partial, incomplete, restricted, reserved, contingent, temporary. = KEY: Plenitude. SYN: Fulness, copiousness, repletion, abundance, amplitude, exuberance, largeness, liberality, height, maximum, richness, completeness. ANT: Scantiness, Insufficiency, restriction, partiality, stint, narrowness, poverty, incompleteness, reserve, minimum. = KEY: Plentiful, [See ABUNDANT]. = KEY: Plenty. SYN: Enough, sufficiency, full supply, profusion, copiousness, [See PLENITUDE]. = KEY: Pleonastic. SYN: Redundant, superfluous, surplus, inconcise. ANT: Requisite, necessary, essential, terse, concise, succinct. = KEY: Pliable. SYN: Flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliant. ANT: Stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable. = KEY: Pliant, [See PLIABLE]. = KEY: Plight \n.\ SYN: Situation, condition, predicament, difficulty, dilemma, [See DILEMMA]. = KEY: Plight \v.\ SYN: Vow, pledge. = KEY: Plodding. SYN: Painstaking, industrious, persevering, laborious, studious. ANT: Indiligent, unindustrious, distracted, inattentive, impatient, unpersevering, flighty, fitful. = KEY: Plot \n.\ SYN: Scheme, plan, stratagem, combination, conspiracy, machination, [See SCHEME]. = KEY: Plot \v.\ SYN: Devise, concoct, conspire, contrive, frame, batch, [See CONSPIRE and DEVISE]. = KEY: Pluck, [See COURAGE]. = KEY: Pluck up. SYN: Eradicate, root out, exterminate, [See ERADICATE]. = KEY: Plump. SYN: Well-conditioned, wellrounded, chubby, strapping, bouncing, fleshy, brawny, full, fat, round, massive, portly. ANT: Ill-conditioned, lean, emaciated, scraggy, weazen, macilent, lank, rawboned, shrivelled, flaccid, tabid. = KEY: Plunder, [See PILLAGE]. = KEY: Plunge. SYN: Dip, dive, douse, duck, submerge, immerse, precipitate, sink, overwhelm, thrust under, pitch headlong. ANT: Emerge, issue, soar, raise, extricate, rescue. = KEY: Plurality. SYN: Multitude, multitudinousness, number, numerousness, profusion, host, legion, collection. ANT: Unity, singularity, oneness, solitude, individuality, singleness, isolation. = KEY: Ply. SYN: Work, urge, practice, exercise, apply steadily, [See URGE]. = KEY: Poet. SYN: Bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, author of poems. = KEY: Poetical. SYN: Metrical, rythmic, versified, lyric, rhyming, imaginative, creative, romantic, fictitious, dreamy, flighty. ANT: Unmetrical, unrythmical, prosaic, unpoetical, unversified, unimaginative, commonplace, historical, mathematical, logical, matter-of-fact, veracious, sober. = KEY: Poignant. SYN: Stinging, sharp, keen, penetrating, severe, biting, intense, piercing, [See KEEN]. = KEY: Point \v.\ SYN: Aim, level, direct, show, indicate, [See INDICATE]. = KEY: Point \n.\ SYN: Apex, top, summit, sharp end, aim, purpose, subject matter, object, [See ACME]. = KEY: Pointed. SYN: Peaked, keen, sharp, marked, severe, telling, [See KEEN]. = KEY: Pointless \a.\ SYN: Vague, vapid, aimless, inexpressive, feeble. ANT: Close, sharp, telling, pregnant, significant, expressive, forcible, epigrammatic. = KEY: Poise, [See BALANCE]. = KEY: Poison. SYN: Vitiate, taint, infect, envenom, pollute. ANT: Purify, disinfect, depurate. = KEY: Poisonous. SYN: Venomous, infect ant, vicious, corruptive, vitiative, noxious, baneful, malignant, morbific, peccant, virulent, pestiferous, mephitic, deleterious. ANT: Wholesome, genial, beneficial, sanative, invigorative, healthful, innoxious, restorative, remedial, hygeian. = KEY: Policy. SYN: Plan, device, system, prudence, management, cunning, [See DEVICE]. = KEY: Polish. SYN: Burnish, furbish, levigate, brighten, refine, make glossy. ANT: Abrade, scratch. = KEY: Polite. SYN: Elegant, refined, wellbred, courteous, obliging, complaisant, civil, courtly, polished, genteel, accomplished. ANT: Awkward, rude, uncouth, illbred, discourteous, boorish, clownish, disobliging. = KEY: Politeness. SYN: Courtesy, refinement, good breeding, courteousness, urbanity, civility, gentility, [See COURTESY]. = KEY: Politic. SYN: Prudent, wise, sagacious, provident, diplomatic, judicious, cunning, wary, well devised, discreet. ANT: Imprudent, unwise, improvident, undiplomatic, impolitic. = KEY: Pollute. SYN: Befoul, taint, poison, corrupt, tarnish, stain, contaminate, soil, vitiate, deprave. ANT: Purify, clarify, disinfect, filter. = KEY: Poltroon. SYN: Scoundrel, coward, hound, skulk, dastard. ANT: Hero, philanthropist, gentleman, benefactor, model, example. = KEY: Pommel. SYN: Beat, thump, baste, thrash, strike, cudgel. ANT: Smooth, caress, pat, stroke. = KEY: Pomp. SYN: Ostentation, magnificence, parade, ceremony, show, display, gorgeousness, grandeur, splendor, pageantry, publicity. ANT: Quiet, retirement, simplicity, unceremoniousness, unadornment, privacy, plainness. = KEY: Pompous. SYN: Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, Inflated, pretentious, coxcombical, assuming. ANT: Unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded. = KEY: Ponder. SYN: Think over, meditate on, weigh, consider, cogitate, deliberate, ruminate, reflect, amuse, study, resolve, [See CONSIDER]. = KEY: Ponderable. SYN: Appreciable, determinable, palpable. ANT: Inappreciable, indeterminable, impalpable, imponderable. = KEY: Ponderous, Weighty, bulky, massive, burdensome, heavy, onerous. ANT: Light, trifling, airy, volatile, subtle. = KEY: Poor. SYN: Indigent, moneyless, impecunious, penniless, weak, meagre, insufficient, deficient, faulty, unsatisfactory, inconsiderable, thin, scanty, bald. ANT: Rich, wealthy, copious, affluent, abundant, liberal, large, ample, moneyed, sufficient, satisfactory, considerable. = KEY: Popular. SYN: Common, current, vulgar, public, general, received, favorite, beloved, prevailing, approved, widespread, liked. ANT: Exclusive, restricted, scientific, esoteric, unpopular, odious, detested. = KEY: Populous. SYN: Crowded, dense, swarming, thronged. ANT: Deserted, thin, scanty, unfrequented, unoccupied, uninhabited. = KEY: Porch. SYN: Portico, vestibule, [See ENTRANCE]. = KEY: Porous. SYN: Foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable. ANT: Impervious, impermeable, impercolable. = KEY: Port. SYN: Haven, harbor, mien, bearing, demeanor, carriage, deportment, air, [See DEPORTMENT and MIEN]. = KEY: Portable. SYN: Movable, {[haLdy]?}, manageable, light. ANT: Ponderous, immovable, awkward, unmanageable, unhandy. = KEY: Portal. SYN: Gate, entrance, gateway, [See ENTRANCE]. = KEY: Portend. SYN: Indicate, threaten, prognosticate, forbode, augur, presage, herald, foreshow, betoken. ANT: Contradict, negative, preclude, forefend, nullify, contravene, avert. = KEY: Portentous. SYN: Indicative, suggestive, threatening, prophetic, predictive, ominous, premonitory. ANT: Auspicious, hopeful, cheering, assuring, animating, encouraging, joyous. = KEY: Portion, [See PART]. = KEY: Portly. SYN: Dignified, burly, imposing, stately, corpulent, stout, plump. ANT: Undignified, unimposing, mean. = KEY: Portray. SYN: Draw, delineate, represent, depict, describe, sketch, paint. ANT: Misrepresent, caricature, misportray. = KEY: Pose. SYN: Puzzle, perplex, bewilder, dumbfounder, mystify, embarrass, daze, confound. ANT: Enlighten, unmystify, indoctrinate, initiate. = KEY: Position, [See SITUATION]. = KEY: Positive. SYN: real, actual, substantial, absolute, independent, unconditional, unequivocal, explicit, fixed, settled, definitive, indisputable, decisive, express, enacted, assured, confident, direct, dogmatic, overbearing, dogmatical. ANT: Negative, insubstantial, unreal, fictitious, imaginary, relative, contingent, dependent, conditional, implied, dubious, questionable, moral, uncertain, doubtful, indirect, occasional, suspicious. = KEY: Possess. SYN: Occupy, enjoy, have, hold, entertain, own. ANT: Abandon, renounce, abjure, surrender, lose, forfeit, resign. = KEY: Possession. SYN: Holding, ownership, tenure, occupation. ANT: Abandoning, renouncing, resigning, surrendering. = KEY: Possible. SYN: Practicable, feasible, likely, potential. ANT: Impracticable, impossible. = KEY: Possibly. SYN: Perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe, [See PERHAPS]. = KEY: port, [See SITUATION]. = KEY: Posterior. SYN: Later, subsequent. ANT: Earlier, precedent, antecedent, prior. = KEY: Posterity. SYN: Futurity. ANT: Ancestry. = KEY: Postpone. SYN: Defer, delay, prorogue, procrastinate. ANT: Expedite, despatch, accelerate. = KEY: Postulate. SYN: Assume, presuppose. ANT: Prove, elaborate, exemplify, argue. = KEY: Posture, [See SITUATION]. = KEY: Potent. SYN: Powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energetic. ANT: Weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative. = KEY: Potential. SYN: Possible, implicit, undeveloped, germinative, immanent, virtual. ANT: Actual, explicit, developed, objective, real, express. = KEY: Pound. SYN: Imprison, cage, coop. ANT: Discharge, liberate, release. = KEY: Pound. SYN: Beat, bruise, pulverize, triturate. ANT: Soothe, stroke, amalgamate, compound. = KEY: Poverty. SYN: Want, need, indigence, destitution, [See WANT]. = KEY: Power. SYN: Faculty, capacity, capability, potentiality, ability, strength, force, might, energy, susceptibility, influence, dominion, sway, command, government, agency, authority, rule, jurisdiction, effectiveness. ANT: Incapacity, incapability, impotence, inability, weakness, imbecility, inertness, insusceptibility, subjection, power lessness, obedience, subservience, ineffectiveness. = KEY: Powerful. SYN: Strong, potent, puissant, masterful, mighty, [See STRONG]. = KEY: Practicable. SYN: Possible, feasible, usable. ANT: Impossible, impracticable, unusable. = KEY: Practical. SYN: Useful, serviceable, skilled, trained, [See CUSTOM]. = KEY: Practically. SYN: Really, actually, substantially, in fact, in effect, [See ACTUALLY]. = KEY: Practice \n.\ SYN: Usage, habit, exercise, experience, exercitation, action, custom, manner, performance. ANT: Disuse, dishabituation, Inexperience, theory, speculation, nonperformance. = KEY: Practise \v.\ SYN: Perform, exercise, deal in, carry on, [See PERFORM]. = KEY: Practised. SYN: Trained, experienced, proficient, accomplished, [See PROFICIENT \a.\]. = KEY: Pragmatical. SYN: Over-busy, fussy, consequential, officious, meddlesome. ANT: Reserved, uninterfering, distant, unconcerned, inobtrusive, unmeddlesome, inofficious. = KEY: Praise \v.\ SYN: Eulogize, laud, commend, honor, glorify, compliment, celebrate, puff, extol, applaud, panegyrize. ANT: Blame, censure, discommend, reprove. = KEY: Praise, [See APPROBATION]. = KEY: Praiseworthy. SYN: commendable, laudable, meritorious, honorable, worthy. ANT: Blameable, censureable, reprehensible. = KEY: Prank. SYN: Caper, antic, capricious, action, frolic, trick, gambol, escapade, freak, [See FROLIC]. = KEY: Prate. SYN: Babble, prattle, chat, chatter, tattle, gossip, [See BABBLE]. = KEY: Pray. SYN: Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, solicit, supplicate, adjure, invoke, crave, [See BESEECH]. = KEY: Prayer. SYN: Petition, supplication, entreaty, orison, benediction, suit, request, [See BENEDICTION]. = KEY: Preamble. SYN: Preface, introduction, exordium, opening, introductory, part. ANT: Close, termination, peroration, finale, conclusion. = KEY: Precarious. SYN: Hazardous, peril, ous, uncertain, riskful, unassured, insecure, dubious, doubtful. ANT: Assured, certain, systematic, safe, immutable. = KEY: Precaution. SYN: Forethought, provision, premunition, anticipation, prearrangement, care, providence. ANT: Carelessness, thoughtlessness, improvidence. = KEY: Precede. SYN: Lead, introduce, herald, go before, usher, head. ANT: Succeed, follow. = KEY: Precedence. SYN: Superiority, lead, priority, preference, antecedence, supremacy, pre-eminence. ANT: Inferiority, sequence, subordination, posteriority. = KEY: Precedent. SYN: Anterior, prior, earlier. ANT: Subsequent, posterior, Inter. = KEY: Precedent \n.\ SYN: Instance, example, authority, warrant, antecedent, pattern. ANT: Prohibition, diswarrant, disallowance. = KEY: Preceding. SYN: Precedent, former, foregoing, prior, previous, antecedent, anterior, [See ANTERIOR]. = KEY: Precept. SYN: Rule, maxim, injunction, commandment, doctrine, direction, law, mandate, principle, instruction, command, order. ANT: Suggestion, prompting, instigation, impulse. = KEY: Preceptor. SYN: Master, teacher, pedagogue, tutor, instructor, schoolmaster. ANT: Pupil, learner, scholar, student. = KEY: Precinct, Precincts. SYN: Purlieus, environs, limit, bounds, boundary, confine, district. ANT: Heart, centre, nucleus. = KEY: Precious. SYN: Dear, valuable, costly, cherished, treasured, beloved, estimable, of great value. ANT: Cheap, valueless, worthless, unvalued, disesteemed, unappreciated, vile. = KEY: Precipice. SYN: Cliff, crag, steep descent, headlong, steep, [See ABYSS]. = KEY: Precipitate, [See RASH]. = KEY: Precipitous. SYN: Steep, headlong, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular, beetling, rash, dangerous. ANT: Shallow, graduated, inclined, undulating. = KEY: Precise. SYN: Definite, exact, nice, pointed, accurate, correct, particular, formal, explicit, scrupulous, terse, punctilious, ceremonious, formal. ANT: Indefinite, vague, inexact, rough, inaccurate, loose, circumlocutory, ambagious, tortuous, informal, unceremonious. = KEY: Precision. SYN: Exactness, nicety, preciseness, accuracy, [See ACCURACY]. = KEY: Preclude. SYN: Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder. ANT: Admit, promote, further, advance. = KEY: Precocious. SYN: Premature, predeveloped, overforward. ANT: Tardy, backward, slow-growing, crude. = KEY: Precognition. SYN: Foresight, foreknowledge. ANT: Reflection, recollection. = KEY: Preconception. SYN: Forethought, anticipation, fore-understanding. ANT: Copy, portraiture, observation, vision, representation, delineation. = KEY: Preconcerted. SYN: Prearranged, concocted, prepared, premeditated. ANT: Extemporized, unprepared, unconcocted, unpremeditated. = KEY: Precursor. SYN: Forerunner, harbinger, herald, pioneer, advance-guard, cause. ANT: Follower, consequent, result, effect, event. = KEY: Precursory. SYN: Prevenient, antecedent, introductory, prefatory, initiatory, prior, premonitory, prognosticative. ANT: Subsequent, consequent, posterior, entailed, supervenient, eventual. = KEY: Predaceous. SYN: Ravenous, rapacious, carnivorous. ANT: Innocuous, herbivorous, graminivorous. = KEY: Predatory. SYN: Pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous. ANT: Guarding, keeping, watching, protecting, [See RAPACIOUS]. = KEY: Predecessor. SYN: Ancestor, forerunner, elder. ANT: Posterity, junior, successor. = KEY: Predestination. SYN: Foreordainment, foredoom, necessity, fate, election, preordination, predetermination. ANT: Freewill, freedom, volition, choice, spontaneity. = KEY: Predicament. SYN: Difficulty, try, ing position, state, condition, dilemma, situation, [See DILEMMA]. = KEY: Predicate \v.\ SYN: Assert, aver, affirm, declare, [See ASSERT]. = KEY: Predict. SYN: Prophesy, foretell, forecast, prognosticate, forebode, foreshadow, [See FORETELL]. = KEY: Prediction. SYN: Prophecy, prognostication, vaticination, foreannouncement, premonstration, foretelling, forebodement, presage, augury, foreshowing. ANT: Narration, relation, history, account, report. = KEY: Predilection. SYN: Prepossession, preference, leaning, liking, fondness, bias, inclination, predisposition, tendency, prejudice, partiality. ANT: Prejudice, aversion, indisposition, antipathy, disinclination, apathy. = KEY: Predisposition, [See PREDILECTION]. = KEY: Predominance. SYN: Prevalence, superiority, ascendancy, rule. ANT: Inferiority, subjection, minority, paucity. = KEY: Predominant. SYN: Prevailing, ascendant, prevalent, superior, overruling, [See SUPERIOR]. = KEY: Pre-eminent. SYN: Paramount, predominant, egregious, consummate, prevailing. ANT: Subordinate, inferior, minor, secondary. = KEY: Preface. SYN: Introduction, proem, prelude, prologue, preamble, premiss. ANT: Peroration, sequel, appendix, epilogue, postscript. = KEY: Prefatory. SYN: Introductory, preclusive, initiative, preliminary, antecedent, prevenient, proemial. ANT: Subsequent, concluding, terminal, perorational. = KEY: Prefer. SYN: Choose, elect, select, fancy, promote, advance, further. ANT: Reject, postpone, defer, withhold, degrade, depress. = KEY: Preferment. SYN: Dignity, promotion, benefice, advancement, exaltation. ANT: Degradation, deprivation, suspension. = KEY: Prefiguration. SYN: Type, adumbration. ANT: Antitype, fulfillment. = KEY: Prefix. SYN: Preface. ANT: Append, subjoin, suffix, supplement, add. = KEY: Pregnant. SYN: Procreant, generative, prolific, teeming, significant, fraught, fruitful, replete, with child, enceinte. ANT: Sterile, unproductive, barren, void, meaningless. = KEY: Pregnable. SYN: Weak, exposed, expugnable, defenceless. ANT: Impregnable, inexpugnable. = KEY: Prejudice. SYN: Prepossession, prejudgment, predisposition, bias, unfairness, injury, harm, impairment, detriment, partiality, disadvantage, damage. ANT: Judgment, fairness, impartiality, advantage. = KEY: prejudicial. SYN: Harmful, hurtful, injurious, disadvantageous, [See HARMLESS]. = KEY: Preliminary. SYN: Previous, proemial, precursive, prelusory, antecedent, preparatory. ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following. = KEY: Prelude. SYN: Introduction, preparation, preface, proem, {[preli*ion]?}, overture, [See PREFACE]. ANT: Sequel, conclusion. = KEY: Premature. SYN: Hasty, crude, unauthenticated, untimely, precocious, precipitate, too early, rash, unseasonable. ANT: Ripe, timely, seasonable, opportune. = KEY: Premeditate. SYN: Plan, propose, plot, prearrange, prepare, precompose, preconcert. ANT: Extemporize, hazard. = KEY: Premeditation. SYN: Forethought, deliberation. ANT: Without forethought, without deliberation. = KEY: Premise. SYN: Announce, forestate, preface. ANT: Add, append, infer, gather, supplement, subjoin. = KEY: Premises. SYN: Antecedent, ground. ANT: Consequent, inference, deduction, conclusion. = KEY: Premium. SYN: Reward, guerdon, encouragement, douceur, enhancement, bribe, recompense, bonus, prize, bounty. ANT: Penalty, fine, amercement, mulct, forfeit, depreciation. = KEY: Preordain. SYN: Foreordain, predetermine, foredoom, predestine. = KEY: Preparation. SYN: Provision, making ready. ANT: Without preparation, without, provision. = KEY: Preparatory, [See PRELIMINARY]. = KEY: Prepare. SYN: Fit, adapt, qualify, ad, just, provide, arrange, order, lay, plan, equip, furnish, make ready. ANT: Misfit, misadapt, misprovide, derange, disarrange, demolish, subvert, disconcert. = KEY: Preponderant. SYN: Outweighing, overcoming, superior, [See SUPERIOR]. = KEY: Preponderate. SYN: Predominate, prevail, overbalance, outweigh, outbalance. ANT: Fail, sink, succumb. = KEY: Prepossessing. SYN: attractive, alluring, charming, winning, taking, engaging. ANT: Repulsive, unattractive, sinister. = KEY: Preposterous. SYN: Monstrous, exorbitant, unreasonable, absurd, irrational, foolish, ridiculous. ANT: Just, due, fair, reasonable, moderate, right, judicious, orderly, sound. = KEY: Prerogative. SYN: Eight, privilege, immunity. ANT: Disqualification, disfranchisement. = KEY: Presage \n.\ SYN: Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition. ANT: fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization. = KEY: Presage \v.\ SYN: Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend, threaten, augur, [See PORTEND]. = KEY: Prescribe. SYN: Enjoin, order, impose, recommend, indicate, decree, dictate. ANT: Inhibition, prohibit, discountenance, discommend. = KEY: Prescription. SYN: Direction, order, recipe, usage, custom, [See CUSTOM]. = KEY: Presence. SYN: Nearness, influence, intercourse, closeness. ANT: Remoteness, absence, separation, distance. = KEY: Present \a.\ SYN: At hand, existing, not absent, nigh, instant, immediate, current, [See ABSENT]. = KEY: Present \n.\ SYN: Donation, gift, offering, grant, benefaction, [See BENEFACTION]. = KEY: Present \v.\ SYN: Give, offer, bestow, introduce, exhibit, confer upon, [See BESTOW]. = KEY: Presentation. SYN: Introduction, exhibition, offer, delivery, gift, donation, bestowal, grant, endowment. ANT: Withdrawal, removal, concealment, suppression, retention, withholding, refusal, nonpresentation. = KEY: Presentiment. SYN: Foreboding, foretaste, forethought, prescience, forecast, anticipation. ANT: Surprise, inexpectancy, miscalculation. = KEY: Presently. SYN: Shortly, soon, immediately, directly, [See DIRECTLY]. = KEY: Preservation. SYN: Safety, security, conservation, integrity, protection, nurture, guardianship, care. ANT: Abandonment, exposure, peril, insecurity, [See IMPAIRMENT], infringement, injury, damage. = KEY: Preserve. SYN: Defend, guard, save, keep safe, uphold, protect, maintain, rescue, spare, [See PROTECT]. = KEY: Preside. SYN: Manage, superintend, direct, control, govern, [See MANAGE]. = KEY: President. SYN: Chairman, moderator, principal, superintendent. ANT: Member, subordinate, constituent, corporation, society, ward, institution. = KEY: Press \v.\ SYN: Urge, crowd, compel, force, squeeze, crush, compress, express, constrain, hurry, instigate, inculcate, impress, throng, encroach, lean, weigh, harass. ANT: Relax, inhibit, persuade, entice, allure, solicit, touch, skim, graze, free, liberate, ease, avoid, relieve. = KEY: Pressing. SYN: Urgent compulsory, importunate. ANT: Unimportant, slight, trivial, light. = KEY: Pressure \n.\ SYN: Exigency, urgency, constraining, hurry, influence, [See EXISTENCE]. = KEY: Presume. SYN: Suppose, anticipate, apprehend, venture, take for granted, conjecture, believe, deem. ANT: Infer, deduce, prove, argue, retire, withdraw, hesitate, distrust. = KEY: Presumption. SYN: Anticipation, supposition, hypothesis, probability, assumption, understanding, condition, concession, forwardness, arrogance, audacity, boldness. ANT: Proof, deduction, inference, demonstration, verification, fact, certainty, modesty, diffidence, backwardness, bashfulness, hesitation. = KEY: Presumptive. SYN: Probable, antecedent. ANT: Demonstrative, established. = KEY: Presumptuous. SYN: Presuming, bold, overconfident, forward, rashly confident, arrogant, bold, rash, irreverent, wilful, foolhardy, [See RASH]. = KEY: Presuppose. SYN: Presume, assume, postulate, surmise. ANT: Prove, establish, infer, deduce, argue, demonstrate. = KEY: Pretence. SYN: Excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show, pretension. ANT: Verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness, veritableness, actuality, fact. = KEY: Pretend. SYN: Feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect, profess. ANT: Verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute. = KEY: Pretention. SYN: Claim, show, pretence, demand, profession, alleged right, [See PRETENCE and CLAIM]. = KEY: Pretext, [See PRETENCE]. = KEY: Pretty \a.\ SYN: Handsome, attractive, neat, trim, tasteful, pleasing, beautiful, fine, comely, [See ATTRACTIVE and HANDSOME]. = KEY: Pretty, adv. SYN: Moderately, tolerably. = KEY: Prevail. SYN: Predominate, overcome, obtain, succeed, be in force, induce, persuade, [See CONQUER]. = KEY: Prevailing. SYN: Controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common. ANT: Mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless. = KEY: Prevalence. SYN: Custom, power, influence, operation, extension, predominance, superiority, influence, efficacy, preponderance. ANT: Disuse, desuetude, obsoleteness, decay, evanescence, disappearance, mitigation, subordination, collapse, abandonment, abolition, diminution, subsidence, subjection. = KEY: Prevaricate. SYN: Shuffle, quibble, equivocate, palter, sophisticate, evade. ANT: Affirm, asseverate, maintain, reiterate. = KEY: Prevenient. SYN: Preliminary, prefatory, antecedent, initiatory, introductory. ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following, attending. = KEY: Prevent. SYN: Hinder, obstruct, bar, neutralize, nullify, thwart, intercept, anticipate, forefend, frustrate, obviate, checkmate. ANT: Promote, aid, facilitate, expedite, encourage, advance, accelerate, induce, cause, produce. = KEY: Prevention. SYN: Obstruction, stoppage, interruption, hinderance. ANT: Help, aid, succor, acceleration. = KEY: Previous. SYN: Antecedent, prior, preceding, anterior, foregoing, former, earlier. ANT: Subsequent, posterior, succeeding, following, later. = KEY: Prey. SYN: Spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot. ANT: Earnings, hues, rights. = KEY: Price. SYN: Cost, figure, charge, expense, compensation, value, appraisement, worth. ANT: Donation, discount, allowance, remittance, abatement. = KEY: Priceless. SYN: Inestimable, invaluable, precious. ANT: Cheap, valueless. = KEY: Pride. SYN: Loftiness, haughtiness, lordliness, self-exaltation, arrogance, conceit, vainglory. ANT: Lowliness, meekness, modesty, self-distrust. = KEY: Priggish. SYN: Coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceited. ANT: Plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered. = KEY: Prim. SYN: Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious, unbending, priggish. ANT: Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive. = KEY: Primary. SYN: First, original, earliest, elementary, chief, principal, important, leading, primitive, pristine. ANT: Secondary, subordinate, posterior, unimportant, inferior, subsequent, later, [See PRINCIPAL]. = KEY: Prime \n.\ SYN: Zenith, culmination, perfection, dawn, spring, cream, flower. ANT: Decadence, wane, evening, refuse, winter, decay. = KEY: Prime \a.\ SYN: Excellent, superexcellent, first-rate, perfect, consummate. ANT: Inferior, impaired, waning, deteriorated, ordinary, second-rate, defective. = KEY: Primeval. SYN: Archaic, primordial, indigenous, autochthonic, aboriginal, pristine. ANT: Subsequent, recent, modern, imported, adventitious. = KEY: Primitive. SYN: Old-fashioned, primeval, quaint, simple, unsophisticated, archaic, pristine. ANT: Modern, new-fangled, sophisticated, modish. = KEY: Primordial, [See PRIMEVAL]. = KEY: Princely. SYN: Imperial, munificent, magnificent, superb, august, regal, royal, supreme. ANT: Beggarly, mean, niggardly, poverty-struck. = KEY: Principal. SYN: Highest, first, main, leading, chief, primary, foremost, pre-eminent, prominent. ANT: Inferior, subordinate, secondary, supplemental, subject, auxiliary, minor. = KEY: Principle. SYN: Source, origin, motive, cause, energy, substance, element, power, faculty, truth, tenet, law, doctrine, axiom, maxim, postulate, rule. ANT: Exhibition, manifestation, application, development, issue, exercise, operation, formation, action. = KEY: Prior. SYN: Preceding, previous, former, antecedent, precedent, earlier, anterior, foregoing, [See POSTERIOR]. = KEY: Prismatic. SYN: Iridescent, opalescent, polychromatous. ANT: Achromatic, colorless. = KEY: Pristine, [See PRIMEVAL and PRIMITIVE]. = KEY: Privacy. SYN: Retirement, secrecy, solitude, seclusion, retreat, concealment. ANT: Publicity, currency, notoriety, exposure. = KEY: Private. SYN: Special, peculiar, individual, secret, not public, retired, privy. ANT: General, public, open, unconcealed. = KEY: Privation. SYN: Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement, hardship, want. ANT: Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution, presence, compensation, recovery, privilege. = KEY: Privilege. SYN: Prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage, claim, exemption. ANT: Disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition, inhibition. = KEY: Privy. SYN: Secret, clandestine, cognizant, acquainted with. ANT: Open, unsealed, not acquainted with, not cognizant of, [See PRIVATE]. = KEY: Prize \n.\ SYN: Booty, spoil, plunder, prey, forage, trophy, laurels, guerdon, premium, honors, ovation, palm. ANT: Loss, forfeiture, fine, penalty, amercement, sacrifice, disappointment, failure, brand, stigma, infamy, mulct. = KEY: Prize \v.\ [See VALUE]. = KEY: Probability. SYN: Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance. ANT: Unliklihood, improbability, impossibility, inconceivableness. = KEY: Probable. SYN: Likely, presumable, credible, reasonable. ANT: Unlikely, unreasonable, incredible. = KEY: Probation. SYN: Essay, examination, test, trial, experiment, proof, criterion, touchstone, ordeal, verification. ANT: License, [See DIMINISH and SMALL], nonprobation. = KEY: Probe. SYN: Prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore. ANT: Skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss. = KEY: Probity. SYN: Soundness, virtue, integrity, honesty, uprightness, rectitude, principle, conscientiousness. ANT: Dishonesty, disintegrity, unsoundness, vice, unconscientiousness, roguery, rascality. = KEY: Problematical. SYN: Dubious, questionable, uncertain, doubtful. ANT: Evident, obvious, self-evident, certain, demonstrable. = KEY: Procedure. SYN: Proceeding, act, progress, course of conduct, process, [See ACT]. = KEY: Proceed. SYN: Move, pass, advance, progress, continue, issue, emanate, flow, arise. ANT: Recede, deviate, retreat, stand, stop, stay, desist, discontinue, retire. = KEY: Proceeding. SYN: Step, measure, transaction, performance, procedure, conduct, behavior, action, process. ANT: Abandonment, desistence, deviation, discontinuance, inaction. = KEY: Proceeds. SYN: Receipts, produce, returns, avail, profits, income, [See INCOME]. = KEY: Procession. SYN: Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue. ANT: Rabble, herd, rush, disorder, mob, confusion, rout. = KEY: Proclaim. SYN: Announce, publish, promulgate, declare, enunciate, advertise, call out, report, utter. ANT: Repress, conceal, silentiate, obliviate, secrete. = KEY: Proclamation. SYN: Announcement, edict, decree, notice, ordinance, [See DECREE]. = KEY: Proclivity. SYN: Tendency, propensity, bias, gravitation, disposition, inclination, proneness. ANT: Aversion, disinclination, indisposition. = KEY: Procrastinate, [See DEFER]. = KEY: Procrastination. SYN: Dilatoriness, delay. ANT: Timeliness, punctuality, promptitude, alacrity. = KEY: Procure. SYN: Acquire, provide, gain, get, contrive, effect, reap, win, earn, bring about. ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit, misprovide, miscontrive. = KEY: Prodigal. SYN: Lavish, profuse, extravagant, reckless, wasteful, squandering, improvident. ANT: Frugal, saving, hoarding, economical, niggardly, miserly, close, closefisted. = KEY: productions. SYN: Marvellous, portentous, wonderful, astounding, enormous, monstrous, amazing, surprising, remarkable, extraordinary, huge, vast. ANT: Ordinary, commonplace, everyday, usual, familiar, moderate. = KEY: Prodigy. SYN: Wonder, marvel, portent, monster, miracle, [See MONSTER]. = KEY: Produce. SYN: Exhibit, bear, furbish, afford, cause, create, originate, yield, extend, prolong, lengthen. ANT: Withdraw, retain, stifle, withhold, neutralize, destroy, annihilate, curtail, shorten, contract, reduce. = KEY: Produce \n.\ SYN: Product, yield, fruit, profit, effect, consequence, result, amount, [See RESULT]. = KEY: Product. SYN: Fruit, result, issue, consequence, effect, emanation, work. ANT: Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action, tendency, law. = KEY: Production. SYN: Origination, evolution, formation, genesis, product, [See CAUSE]. = KEY: Productive. SYN: Fruitful, prolific, fertile, efficient, causative. ANT: Unfruitful, barren, sterile, unproductive, inefficient, effete. = KEY: Proemial, [See PREFATORY]. = KEY: Profane \a.\ SYN: Unconsecrated, secular, temporal, unsanctified, unholy, irreligious, irreverent, ungodly, wicked, godless, impious, blasphemous. ANT: Holy, consecrated, sacred, spiritual, sanctified, reverent, religious, godly, pious, devout. = KEY: Profane \v.\ SYN: Defile, pollute, desecrate, abuse, [See CONTAMINATE and POLLUTE]. = KEY: Profess. SYN: Declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay claim to. ANT: Conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure. = KEY: Profession. SYN: Avowal, declaration, business, occupation, trade, calling, vocation, [See DECLARATION]. = KEY: Proffer. SYN: Offer, propose, tender, volunteer. ANT: Withhold, detain. = KEY: Proficiency. SYN: Success, advancement, progress, improvement, forwardness, dexterity. ANT: Failure, backwardness, unsuccess, tardiness, relapse. = KEY: Proficient \n.\ SYN: Adept, master, expert. ANT: Tyro, novice, ignoramus, dunce. = KEY: Proficient \a.\ SYN: Expert, clever, practised, skilled, trained, versed, advanced, conversant, skilful, competent, well qualified. ANT: backward, ignorant, unskilled, inconversant, ill-versed, awkward, clumsy. = KEY: Profit. SYN: Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit service, use, improvement. ANT: Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste. = KEY: Profitable. SYN: Gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful, productive, remunerative, lucrative. ANT: Unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental, unbeneficial, unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerative. = KEY: Profitless, [See PROFITABLE]. = KEY: Profligacy. SYN: Shamelessness, dissoluteness, depravity, reprobation. ANT: Virtue, probity, integrity, principle, conscientiousness. = KEY: Profligate. SYN: Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless, [See ABANDONED]. = KEY: Profound. SYN: Deep, fathomless, abysmal, penetrating, intimate, solemn, abstruse, recondite, philosophical, strong, vivid, intense, deepseated. ANT: Shallow, superficial, commonplace. = KEY: Profuse. SYN: Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive. ANT: Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish, poor. = KEY: Profusion. SYN: Copiousness, prodigality, abundance, exuberance, extravagance, multitude, mass, heap, load, flood, wealth. ANT: Scarcity, economy, poverty, parsimony, drain, dole, driblet, pittance. = KEY: Progeny. SYN: Offspring, young, issue, scion, offshoot, descendants, posterity, race. ANT: Stock, parentage, ancestry. = KEY: Prognostic. SYN: Sign, indication, symptom, premonition, harbinger, token, presage, signal. ANT: Result, reminder, memorial, record, register, misindication, mistaken. = KEY: Prognosticate. SYN: Foretell, presage, predict, forebode, foretoken, augur, portend, indicate, betoken. ANT: Record, register, recal, remember, note, rehearse. = KEY: Programme. SYN: Advertisement, notice, plan, catalogue. ANT: Review, rehearsal, repetition, resume, analysis, precis. = KEY: Progress \n.\ SYN: Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey, proficiency, speed, growth. ANT: Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure, relapse. = KEY: Progress \v.\ [See ADVANCE]. = KEY: Progression. SYN: Series, gradation, rate. ANT: Inversion, diminution. = KEY: Prohibit. SYN: Forbid, interdict, debar, hinder, check, prevent, disallow, inhibit. ANT: Permit, grant, allow, sanction. = KEY: Prohibition. SYN: Interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance. ANT: Allowance, permission. = KEY: Project \v.\ SYN: Throw, cast, hurl, propel, shoot, discharge, propound, intend, forecast, jut, extend, reach, bulge, stand out. ANT: Recal, withdraw, draw, retract, pull, attract, rebound, recoil, adduce, revert, rebate. = KEY: Project \n.\ SYN: Plan, purpose, design, scheme, contrivance, device. ANT: Hazard, chance, venture. = KEY: Projectile. SYN: Missile. ANT: Weapon, sidearms, handarms. = KEY: Projection. SYN: Protuberance, prominence, convexity, propulsion, emission. ANT: Recess, cavity, concavity, return, indentation, hollow, attraction, recoil, rebound, ricochet, reaction. = KEY: Prolific, [See PRODUCTION]. = KEY: Prolix. SYN: Diffuse, lengthy, tedious, circumlocutory, prosaic, verbose, minute, toilsome, wordy. ANT: Condensed, terse, epigrammatic, curt, brief, laconic. = KEY: Prolong. SYN: Lengthen, extend, protract, continue, delay, retard. ANT: Curtail, shorten, contract, discontinue. = KEY: Prominent. SYN: Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous, eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctive. ANT: Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn, inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable, subordinate. = KEY: Promiscuous. SYN: Mingled, [See {[cooFRO]?}], undistinguished, unselected, unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual, disorderly, unordered. ANT: Sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved, as sorted, exclusive, nice. = KEY: Promise \v.\ [(DEF: to engage by word of mouth, as distinguished from a bond)]. SYN: Engage, assure. ANT: Covenant, pledge, stipulate. = KEY: Promise \n.\ SYN: Engagement, assurance, word, pledge, [See ASSURANCE]. = KEY: Promontory. SYN: Headland, jutland, cape. ANT: Bay, cove, recess. = KEY: Promote. SYN: Aid, further, advance, excite, exalt, raise, elevate, prefer. ANT: Discourage, repress, hinder, check, allay, depress, degrade, dishonor. = KEY: Promotion. SYN: Furtherance, advancement, encouragement, preferment, elevation. ANT: Hinderance, obstruction, impediment, retardation. = KEY: Prompt. SYN: Ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt, unhesitating. ANT: Unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive. = KEY: Promptitude. SYN: Readiness, promptness, quickness, alertness, alacrity,