Part 14

= KEY: Rage \n.\ SYN: Fury, rabidity, choler, indignation, frenzy, auger, ire, dudgeon, mania, passion, madness, ferocity. ANT: Reason, moderation, gentleness, temperateness, calmness, quiescence, mitigation, assuagement, tranquillity, mildness, softness. = KEY: Rage \v.\ SYN: Rave, storm, fume, be furious, be violent. ANT: Be calm, be composed, be peaceful. = KEY: Raging. SYN: Vehement, violent, impetuous, infuriate, furious. = KEY: Rail \v.\ SYN: Censure, scold, bluster, scoff, chide, objurgate, [See CENSURE]. = KEY: Raillery, [See BANTER]. = KEY: Raiment. SYN: Clothing, vestments, garb, apparel, dress, attire, vesture, garments. ANT: Rags, nudity, nakedness. = KEY: Raise. SYN: Lift, heave, elevate, exalt, advance, promote, heighten, enhance, awaken, rouse, excite, call forth, cultivate, rear, produce, collect, summon, erect, originate, propagate. ANT: Lay, cast, depress, degrade, retard, dishonor, lower, depreciate, lull, compose, quiet, calm, blight, destroy, disperse, disband, stifle, hush, silence, neutralize, confute. = KEY: Rake. SYN: Libertine, roue, debauchee, [See {[XXX]?}]. = KEY: Rakish. SYN: Licentious, dissolute, wanton, lewd, loose, [See BOUNDLESS]. = KEY: Rally \v.\ \t.\ and \i.\ SYN: Recall, reunite, inspirit, assemble, congregate, animate, recover, reassure. ANT: Demoralize, disperse, disband. = KEY: Rally \v.\ SYN: Banter, satirize, chaff, taunt, mock, deride, ridicule, joke, twit. ANT: Compliment, flatter, panegyrize, eulogize. = KEY: Ramble \v.\ SYN: Rove, roam, wander, range, stroll, saunter, stray. ANT: Course, speed, hasten, drive, run. = KEY: Ramble \n.\ SYN: Jaunt, tour, wandering, strolling, excursion. = KEY: Ramification. SYN: Branching, branch, offshoot, division, divergence, subdivision. ANT: Line, trunk, stem, bole, course, thread, sequence, continuity, prosecution, rectilinearity, indivergence, indivision, non-ramification. = KEY: Rampant. SYN: Unbridled, uncontrolled, wanton, headstrong, luxuriant, furious, rank, violent, licentious, vehement. ANT: Demure, self-restrained, restrained, self-controlled, disciplined, curbed. = KEY: Rampart. SYN: Bulwark, fortification, security, wall, defence, embankment, mound, mole, outwork, breastwork. ANT: Nonfortification, defencelessness, exposure, insecurity, vulnerability. = KEY: Rancid. SYN: Sour, tainted, rank, olid, reasty, frowzy, fetid, musty. ANT: Sweet, pure, untainted, fresh, fragrant. = KEY: Rancor. SYN: Ill-blood, spite, grudge, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, enmity, antipathy, vindictiveness, malevolence. ANT: Good-feeling, friendliness, kindliness, forgiveness, geniality, sympathy, congeniality, unvindictiveness. = KEY: Random. SYN: Haphazard, stray, chance, wild, aimless, purposeless, unpremeditated, casual, vague, accidental. ANT: Steady, aimed, intended, regular, controlled, purposed, intentional, deliberate, designed, normal, systematic. = KEY: Range \v.\ SYN: Rank, dispose, class, place, order, collocate, file, concatenate, ramble, stroll, rove. ANT: Disturb, disconnect, disorder, derange, intermit, disconnect, remain, be stationary. = KEY: Range \n.\ [See ORDER and RANK]. = KEY: Rank \n.\ SYN: Row, line, tier, order, degree, grade, dignity. ANT: Disconnection, disorder, incontinuity, solution, intermission, hiatus, plebeianism, meanness, commonalty. = KEY: Rank \a.\ SYN: Luxuriant, exuberant, extreme, excessive, rampant. = KEY: Rankle. SYN: Fester, smoulder, burn, irritate, gall, disquiet. ANT: Heal, cool, close, calm, quiet, compose. = KEY: Ransack. SYN: Rummage, rifle, explore, pillage, ravage, overhaul. ANT: skim, survey, reconnoitre. = KEY: Ransom. SYN: Redeem, release, indemnify, emancipate, free, liberate, unfetter, redeem. ANT: Prosecute, indict, fine, mulct, forfeit, damnify. = KEY: Rant. SYN: Bombast, rhodomontade, flummery, declamation, raving, boasting. ANT: Reason, argument, eloquence, logic, rhetoric. = KEY: Rapacious. SYN: Greedy, ravenous, voracious, predaceous, avaricious, grasping, extortionate. ANT: Bountiful, liberal, contented, frugal. = KEY: Rapid. SYN: Quick, swift, speedy, accelerated, flying. ANT: Slow, tardy, retarded, cumbrous, lazy. = KEY: Rapidity. SYN: Quickness, swiftness, speed, velocity, celerity, dispatch. ANT: Slowness, tardiness, cumbrousness, delay. = KEY: Rapture. SYN: ecstasy, transport, bliss, ravishment, delight. ANT: Agony, torture, pain, tedium, ennui, irksomeness. = KEY: Hare. SYN: Scarce, choice, infrequent, excellent, few, exceptional, sparse, unusual, singular, uncommon, incomparable, extraordinary, unique, dispersed, valuable, precious, thin, volatile. ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, numerous, mean, ordinary, usual, regular, crowded, dense, vulgar, worthless, cheap, valueless. = KEY: Rarefy. SYN: Expand, lighten, attenuate, sublimate. ANT: Solidify, condense, thicken. = KEY: Rascal. SYN: Rogue, scoundrel, vagabond, scamp, villain, knave. ANT: Gentleman. = KEY: Rash. SYN: Headstrong, audacious, hasty, precipitate, reckless, foolhardy, careless, adventurous, thoughtless, indiscreet, venturesome, overventuresome, incautious, unwary, heedless. ANT: Wary, cautious, calculating, discreet, unventuresome, dubitating, hesitating, reluctant, timid. = KEY: Rashness. SYN: Hastiness, precipitancy, recklessness, venturesomeness, temerity, precipitation, indiscretion. ANT: Slowness, carefulness, cautiousness, discretion. = KEY: Rate \n.\ SYN: Tax, impost, assessment, duty, standard, allowance, ratio, quota, worth, price, value, [See PRICE]. = KEY: Rate \v.\ SYN: Compute, calculate, estimate, value, scold, abuse, appraise, [See APPRAISE], [See COMPUTE and ABUSE]. = KEY: Rather than. SYN: Sooner than, in preference to. = KEY: Ratify. SYN: Sanction, seal, confirm, endorse, secure, approve, validity, establish, substantiate, settle. ANT: Negative, reject, repudiate, disaffirm, invalidate, abrogate, annul, nullify,. = KEY: Ratification. SYN: Confirmation, Substantiation, establishment, corroboration. ANT: Negation, disaffirmation, abrogation, nullifying. = KEY: Rational. SYN: Sane, sound, intelligent, reasoning, reasonable, judicious, sober, sensible, probable, equitable, moderate, fair. ANT: Insane, unsound, weak, silly, unintelligent, absurd, injudicious, fanciful, extravagant, preposterous, unreasoning, unreasonable, irrational, exorbitant. = KEY: Ravage \n.\ SYN: Devastation, desolation, waste, pillage, plunder, sack, ruin, spoil. ANT: Sparing, conserving, preserving. = KEY: Ravage \v.\ SYN: Spoil, devastate, despoil, destroy, desolate, ransack, waste, ruin, overrun, plunder. ANT: Spare, conserve, preserve, indemnify. = KEY: Rave. SYN: Wander, drivel, rant. ANT: Converse, reason, discourse. = KEY: Ravel. SYN: Separate, undo, untwist, unwind, disentangle. ANT: Entangle, complicate, conglomerate, contuse. = KEY: Ravenous. SYN: Voracious, hungry, gluttonous, rapacious, omnivorous. ANT: Listless, inappetent, fastidious, dainty, nice. = KEY: Raving. SYN: Delirious, furious, violent, mad, distracted, frantic. ANT: Calm, collected, reasonable, sensible. = KEY: Ravish. SYN: Entrance, transport, enchant, enrapture, charm, violate, outrage, deflour, debauch, [See DEBAUCH]. = KEY: Raw. SYN: Uncooked, unprepared, unfinished, unripe, crude, unseasoned, inexperienced, fresh, green, unpractised, untried, bare, bald, exposed, galled, chill, bleak, piercing. ANT: Cooked, dressed, prepared, finished, ripe, mature, mellow, seasoned, experienced, expert, adept, habituated, familiar, practised, trained, tried, covered, healed, balmy, genial. = KEY: Raze. SYN: Demolish, level, prostrate, overthrow, dismantle, subvert, reduce, ruin, destroy, debase. ANT: Raise, erect, build, rear, repair, restore. = KEY: Reach. SYN: Extend, thrust, stretch, obtain, arrive at, attain, gain, grasp, penetrate, strain, aim. ANT: Fail, stop, cease, revert, rebate, miss, drop. = KEY: React. SYN: Recoil, result, counteract, rebound. ANT: Act, influence, strike, impress. = KEY: Read. SYN: Peruse, interpret, decipher, unravel, discover, recognize, learn. ANT: Misread, misinterpret, overlook, misobserve. = KEY: Readiness. SYN: Promptness, preparedness, aptness, alacrity, knack, willingness, [See ALACRITY]. = KEY: Ready. SYN: Prompt, alert, expeditions, speedy, unhesitating, dexterous, apt, skilful, handy, expert, facile, easy, opportune, fitted, prepared, disposed, willing, free, cheerful, compliant, responsive, quick. ANT: Unready, tardy, slow, hesitating, reluctant, dubitating, awkward, unhandy, clumsy, remote, inaccessible, unavailable, inopportune, ununited, unfitted, unprepared, indisposed, unwilling, constrained, grudging, unaccommodating, incompliant, irresponsive. = KEY: Real. SYN: Actual, veritable, existent, authentic, legitimate, true, genuine, developed. ANT: Fictitious, imaginary, unreal, nonexistent, untrue, false, artificial, spurious, counterfeit, factitious, adulterated, assumed, pretended, potential, possible. = KEY: Reality. SYN: Verity, substance, truth, existence, genuineness, substantiality. ANT: Fiction, falsehood, untruth, hypothesis, supposition, image, fancy, shadow, figment, fabrication, insubstantiality, emptiness, hollowness, chimera, unreality. = KEY: Realize. SYN: Substantiate, effectuate, accomplish, exhibit, produce, acquire, gain, reap, make, verify, conceive. ANT: Lose, miss, invalidate, dissipate, misrepresent, falsify, neutralize, misconceive. = KEY: Really. SYN: Veritably, truly, indeed, unquestionably. ANT: Questionably, possibly, perhaps, falsely, untruly, fictitiously. = KEY: Realm. SYN: Kingdom, province, state, empire, dominion, country, [See EMPIRE]. = KEY: Reap. SYN: Gather, obtain, receive, get, acquire, realize, derive, gain. ANT: Scatter, squander, dissipate, waste, lose. = KEY: Rear \n.\ SYN: Back, end, tail. ANT: Van, front, face. = KEY: Rear \v.\ SYN: Raise, elevate, breed, discipline, erect, train, educate, instruct, foster, establish, construct, lift. ANT: Stifle, extinguish, kill, depress, subvert, demolish, destroy. = KEY: Reason \n.\ SYN: Ground, account, cause, explanation, motive, proof, apology, understanding, reasoning, rationality, right, propriety, justice, order, object, sake, purpose. ANT: Pretext, pretence, misinterpretation, falsification, misconception, disproof, unreasonableness, absurdity, fallacy, irrationality, wrong, unreason, impropriety, unfairness, folly, aimlessness, unaccountableness. = KEY: Reason \v.\ SYN: Debate, discuss, argue, infer, deduce, conclude, [See ARGUE]. = KEY: Reasonable, [See RATIONAL]. = KEY: Reassure. SYN: Rally, restore, encourage, inspirit, animate, countenance. ANT: Discourage, cow, brow-bent, intimidate, discountenance. = KEY: Rebel \n.\ SYN: Revolter, insurgent, traitor. ANT: Supporter, adherent. = KEY: Rebel \v.\ [See REVOLT]. = KEY: Rebound \n.\ SYN: Reaction, ricochet, reverberation, recoil, resilience. ANT: Impression, impact, collision, percussion. = KEY: Rebound \v.\ SYN: Recoil, spring back, reverberate, [See REVERBERATE]. = KEY: Rebuff \v.\ SYN: Rebuke, repel, repulse, check, snub, oppose, [See REPEL]. = KEY: Rebuff \n.\ SYN: Rebuke, discouragement, repulsion, check. ANT: Welcome, acceptance, encouragement. = KEY: Rebuke. SYN: Reprove, chide, rebuff, reprimand, censure. ANT: Approve, encourage, eulogize, applaud, incite. = KEY: Rebut. SYN: Meet, retort, annul, confute. ANT: Accept, sanction, recognize, confirm. = KEY: Recal. SYN: Restore, reassemble, revoke, supersede, recollect, callback, remember, cancel. ANT: Relegate, dismiss, dispense, delegate, appoint, commission, forget. = KEY: Recant. SYN: Retract, unsay, recal, revoke, abjure, renounce. ANT: Propound, profess, assert, declare, enunciate, vindicate, maintain, hold, retain. = KEY: Recapitulate. SYN: Summarize, rehearse, enumerate, recite, repeat. ANT: State, deliver, propound. = KEY: Recede. SYN: Retire, withdraw, retreat, retrograde, return, ebb. ANT: Approach, advance, flow, proceed. = KEY: Receipt \n.\ SYN: Acknowledgment, reception, voucher. = KEY: Receive. SYN: Take, accept, admit, hold, entertain, assent to. ANT: Give, impart, afford, reject, discharge, emit. = KEY: Received. SYN: Accepted, current, ordinary, common. ANT: Rejected, exceptional, unusual, uncommon. = KEY: Recent. SYN: Late, new, fresh, novel, modern, new-fangled. ANT: Ancient, antiquated, primitive, archaic. = KEY: Receptacle. SYN: Repository, lodgment, recipient, magazine, store, case, berth. ANT: Carrier, carriage, conveyance, discharger, consigner. = KEY: Reception. SYN: Admission, admittance, acceptance, acceptation, entertainment. ANT: Denial, protest, repudiation, rejection, nonacceptance, dismissal, discardment, renunciation, abjuration. = KEY: Recess. SYN: Cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation, holiday. ANT: Promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime. = KEY: Reciprocal. SYN: Alternate, interchanged, mutual, Interchangeable, reflexive. ANT: One-sided, unreciprocated, unreturned. = KEY: Reciprocation. SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocity. ANT: Non-interchange. = KEY: Recital. SYN: Recitation, repetition, rehearsal, relation, description, account, statement, narrative, [See ACCOUNT]. = KEY: Recite. SYN: Narrate, recapitulate, say by heart, repeat, rehearse, quote, speak, tell, recount, enumerate. ANT: Misquote, misdeliver, misrecount, misrenumerate, misrepresent. = KEY: Reckless. SYN: Careless, heedless, incautious, foolhardy, thoughtless, rash, overventuresome, regardless, inconsiderate, improvident. ANT: careful, heedful, cautious, timid, chary, thoughtful, calculating, provident, considerate, wary, circumspect. = KEY: Reckon. SYN: Compute, calculate, count, regard, estimate, value, account, consider, argue, infer, judge. ANT: Miscompute, miscalculate, misestimate, misreckon. = KEY: Reckoning. SYN: Computation, account, score, bill, charges. = KEY: Reclaim. SYN: Reform, recal, recover, regain, rescue, restore, amend, convert, better. ANT: Vitiate, corrupt, sterilize, worsen. = KEY: Reclaimable. SYN: Recoverable, amendable, corrigible, convertible, improvable, cultivable, redeemable. ANT: Irrecoverable, incorrigible, unimprovable, reprobate, desperate, hopeless, irredeemable. = KEY: Recline. SYN: Lean, slope, rest, lie, repose. ANT: Erect, raise, rise, stand. = KEY: Recluse. SYN: Shut, sequestered, retired, apart, solitary, conventual, regular, dissocial. ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, social, secular, unsequestered, convivial, companionable. = KEY: Recognition. SYN: Recollection, remembrance, memory, confession, avowal, acknowledgment, [See MEMORY]. = KEY: Recognize. SYN: Identify, acknowledge, concede, know again, avow, own, allow. ANT: Ignore, overlook, misobserve, repudiate, disavow, disown, disallow, Recoil, [See REBOUND]. = KEY: Recollect. SYN: Recover, recal, remember, bethink, bring to mind, call up, think of. ANT: Forget, lose. = KEY: Recommend. SYN: Commend, confide, praise, applaud, approve, advise. ANT: Discommend, disapprove, warn, dissuade. = KEY: Recompense. SYN: Requite, remunerate, reward, indemnify, satisfy, repay, reimburse, compensate. ANT: Damnify, injure, misrequite, dissatisfy. = KEY: Recompense \n.\ SYN: Reward, indemnification, satisfaction, remuneration, amends, [See SATISFACTION]. = KEY: Reconcilable. SYN: Congruous, harmonious, compatible, consistent, forgiving. ANT: Incongruous, antagonistic, inconsistent, incompatible, irreconcilable, inexcusable, unforgiving. = KEY: Reconcile. SYN: Unite, conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, adapt, suit, reunite. ANT: Separate, sever, dissever, estrange, disharmonize, derange, alienate. = KEY: Recondite. SYN: Deep, hidden, abstruse, profound, concealed, remote. ANT: Superficial, obvious, self-evident, patent, familiar, trite. = KEY: Record \v.\ SYN: Register, enter, note, chronicle. ANT: Obliviate, silentiate, suppress. = KEY: Record \n.\ SYN: Registry, entry, enrolment, list, index, catalogue, register, schedule, roll, scroll, enumeration, inventory, muniment, instrument, archive, memorandum, remembrance. ANT: Obliteration, oblivion, nonregistration, desuetude, obsolescence, immemoriality, disremembrance. = KEY: Record. SYN: Archives, annals, chronicles, proceedings, [See ANNALS]. = KEY: Recount. SYN: Rehearse, recite, narrate, detail, enumerate, specify. ANT: Falsify, misrecite, misnarrate, misenumerate, misrehearse. = KEY: Recourse. SYN: Reference, aid, application, betaking, refuge. ANT: Avoidance, independence, omission, abstinence, dispensation, disuse. = KEY: Recover. SYN: Regain, repossess, resume, retrieve, recruit, heal, cure, revive, restore, reanimate, save. ANT: Lose, forfeit, miss, sacrifice, deteriorate, impair, decay, decline, relapse. = KEY: Recovery. SYN: Repossession, regaining, reinstatement, vindication, renovation, restitution, re-establishment, retrieval, rectification, replacement, reanimation, resuscitation, revival, redemption. ANT: Loss, forfeiture, privation, deprival, sacrifice, abandonment, relapse, retrogression, decay, declension, incurableness, ruin. = KEY: Recreant. SYN: Apostate, traitorous, dastardly, craven, false, cowardly, unfaithful, renegade, base, recusant. ANT: Staunch, true, faithful, chivalrous, knightly, gallant, loyal, redoubtable. = KEY: Recreation. SYN: Refreshment, cheer, reanimation, amusement, diversion, revival, holiday, sport, pastime, relaxation. ANT: Weariness, toil, lassitude, labor, fatigue, employment, assiduity, work. = KEY: Recriminate. SYN: Retort, return an accusation, [See RETORT]. = KEY: Recrimination. SYN: Retort, counter-imputation, countercharge, counteraccusation. ANT: Acquiescence, acceptance, confession, silence, assent, avowal. = KEY: Recruit. SYN: Repair, refresh, renew, restore, recover, recreate, invigorate, revive, reinforce. ANT: Waste, lose, impair, relapse, decay, decline, [See RECOVER]. = KEY: Rectify. SYN: Straighten, correct, a need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate, rearrange, remodel. ANT: Pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort. = KEY: Rectilinear. SYN: Straight, undeviating, right-lined, point-blank. ANT: Curvilinear, deflexed, winding, tortuous, curved, serpentine. = KEY: Rectitude. SYN: Straightforwardness, uprightness, conscientiousness, integrity, right, uprightness, incorruptness. ANT: Obliquity, perverseness, crookedness, tortuousness, wrong, underhandedness, iniquity, immorality, impropriety, depravity, corruption. = KEY: Recumbent. SYN: Lying, leaning, trailing, reclining, prostrate, reposing, horizontal. ANT: Vertical, erect, uninclined, standing. = KEY: Recur. SYN: Return, come back, be repeated, run in the mind, revert, resort, have recourse, [See RETURN]. = KEY: Recurrent. SYN: Returning, periodic, frequent, repeated, reiterated, intermittent. ANT: Momentary, continuous, unbroken, unintermitted, solitary, transitory, evanescent. = KEY: Recusant, [See RECREANT], which, however, has a more unfavourable, [See SENSE]. = KEY: Redeem. SYN: Repurchase, regain, retrieve, make amends for, recompense, ransom, liberate, rescue, recover, satisfy, fulfil, discharge. ANT: Pledge, lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, sacrifice. = KEY: Redeemable. SYN: Retrievable, recoverable, reservable. ANT: Irretrievable, irrecoverable, irredeemable. = KEY: Redemption. SYN: Repurchase, retrieval, ransom, rescue, recovery, satisfaction, fulfilment, discharge, expiation, compensation, atonement, salvation, indemnification. ANT: Forfeiture, abandonment, loss, deprivation, sacrifice, betrayal, damnification. = KEY: Redolence. SYN: Perfume, savor, scent, odor. ANT: Fetor, stink, ill-savor. = KEY: Redolent, [See FRAGRANT]. = KEY: Redouble. SYN: Augment, multiply, intensify, reiterate. ANT: Diminish, slacken, weaken, reduce, abate. = KEY: Redound (followed by the \prep.\ to. SYN:, Add, result, issue, tend, accrue, contribute, lead, incline, conduce. ANT: Fail, miss, swerve, nullify, defeat, disappoint, frustrate, injure. = KEY: Redress. SYN: Right, order, revise, amend, rectify, remedy, repair. ANT: Aggravate, impair, wrong, worsen, intensify, establish, confirm, reiterate, sanction, deepen, perpetuate. = KEY: Reduce. SYN: Lessen, diminish, curtail, attenuate, impoverish, narrow, contract, weaken, impair, subdue, subjugate, bring, refer, subject, classify, convert. ANT: Enlarge, magnify, increase, augment, produce, extend, amplify, broaden, expand, renovate, invigorate, restore, repair, liberate, free, except, dissociate, transform. = KEY: Reduction. SYN: Diminution, contraction, decrease, abatement, [See ABRIDGMENT]. = KEY: Redundant. SYN: Superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, overflowing, luxuriant. ANT: Requisite, defective, necessary. = KEY: Re-echo. SYN: Resound, reverberate, repeat, [See REVERBERATE]. = KEY: Reel. SYN: Totter, stagger, falter. ANT: Stand firm, stand steady. = KEY: Re-establish. SYN: Reinstate, restore, refix, renew, confirm again, [See REINSTATE]. = KEY: Refer. SYN: Attribute, associate, assign, advert, connect, relate, point, belong, allude, apply, appeal. ANT: Disconnect, dissociate, misapply, misappertain, alienate, misbeseem, disresemble. = KEY: Referable. SYN: Ascribable, attributable, owing, imputable. ANT: Not referable, not attributable. = KEY: Referee. SYN: Umpire, arbitrator. ANT: Litigant, opponent, adversary. = KEY: Reference. SYN: Relation, regard, intimation, allusion, [See RELATION]. = KEY: Refined. SYN: Courtly, polished, accomplished, genteel, [See POLITE]. = KEY: Refinement. SYN: Clarification, purification, filtration, sublimation, polish, elegance, cultivation, civilization, subtilty, finesse, sophistry. ANT: Turbidity, grossness, foulness, coarseness, impurity, unrefinement, rudeness, inelegance, boorishness, broadness, bluntness, unsophisticatedness. = KEY: Refit. SYN: Repair, rearrange, readjust, reprovide, reinstate, reorganize. ANT: Relegate, disuse, discard, disorganize, dismantle. = KEY: Reflect. SYN: Return, image, mirror, exhibit, consider, think, cogitate, meditate, contemplate, ponder, muse, ruminate, heed, advert, animadvert. ANT: Divert, dissipate, idle, dream, wander, rove, stargaze, woolgather, connive, disregard, overlook. = KEY: Reflection. SYN: Reflecting, meditation, thought, cogitation, [See THOUGHT]. = KEY: Refix. SYN: Return, ebb, redound. ANT: Flow, flux, stream. = KEY: Reform. SYN: Amend, ameliorate, correct, rectify, better, reclaim, regenerate, remodel, reconstitute, reorganize, improve. ANT: Corrupt, vitiate, worsen, deteriorate, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, impair, deform, stereotype. = KEY: Reformation. SYN: Amendment, reform, improvement, correction, [See CORRECTION]. = KEY: Refraction. SYN: Disradiation, obliquity. ANT: Incidence, rectilinearity, nonrefraction. = KEY: Refractory. SYN: Perverse, contumacious, stubborn, unruly, obstinate, unmanageable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant. ANT: Obedient, docile, amenable, manageable. = KEY: Refragable. SYN: Refutable, weak, questionable, deniable, fallacious. ANT: Irrefragable, sound, indisputable, unquestionable, undeniable. = KEY: Refrain. SYN: Forbear, hold, abstain, keep, restrain, withhold, desist from. ANT: Indulge, venture, continue, persist. = KEY: Refresh. SYN: Cool, refrigerate, in, vigorate, revive, reanimate, renovate, recreate, renew, restore, cheer, freshen, brace. ANT: Heat, oppress, weary, burden, afflict, annoy, tire, fatigue, exhaust, debilitate, enervate, relax. = KEY: Refreshment. SYN: Relief, invigoration, regalement, entertainment, food, nourishment, [See RELIEF]. = KEY: Refuge. SYN: Protection, shelter, harbor, asylum, retreat, covert, hospitality, sanctuary, hiding-place. ANT: exposure, inhospitableness, peril, pitfall, snare, Scylla, Charybdis. = KEY: Refund. SYN: Repay, return, restore, pay back, reimburse. ANT: Appropriate, withhold, divert, misapply, embezzle, alienate, misappropriate, expend, misspend. = KEY: Refuse \v.\ SYN: Deny, withhold, reject, decline, repudiate. ANT: Grant, afford, yield, concede, acquiesce. = KEY: Refuse \n.\ SYN: Offal, scum, dregs, sediment, recrement, sweepings, trash, offscourings, debris, remains, dross. ANT: Cream, pickings, firstfruits, flower, prime. = KEY: Refute. SYN: Negative, disprove, neutralize, controvert, repel, confute. ANT: Prove, confirm, establish. = KEY: Refutable, [See REFRAGABLE]. = KEY: Regain. SYN: Recover, react, reprocure, reobtain, retrieve, repossess. ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit. = KEY: Regal \a.\ SYN: Kingly, royal, splendid, imperial, magnificent, princely. ANT: Beggarly, miserly, mean, shabby. = KEY: Regale. SYN: Feast, entertain, gratify, delight, refresh. ANT: Starve, stint, tantalize. = KEY: Regard \v.\ SYN: Behold, view, contemplate, esteem, consider, deem, affect, respect, reverence, revere, value, conceive, heed, notice, mind. ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, despise, dislike, contemn, hate, loathe, misconsider, misconceive, misestimate, misjudge. = KEY: Regarding. SYN: Touching, concerning, respecting, with respect to, about, in relation to, in reference to. ANT: Barring, disregarding, omitting. = KEY: Regardless \a.\ SYN: Heedless, inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, inattentive, unobservant, disregarding, indifferent, despising. ANT: Careful, considerate, regardful, attentive, prudent, cautious, circumspect, scrupulous, mindful. = KEY: Regards. SYN: Compliments, respects, commendations. = KEY: Regenerate. SYN: Reproduce, renovate, resuscitate, revive, revivify, restore, reintegrate. ANT: Waste, corrupt, vitiate, deteriorate, degenerate. = KEY: Region. SYN: Country, clime, territory, district, tract of land, portion, part. = KEY: Register, [See BAWL]. = KEY: Regression. SYN: Retreat, return, retrogradation, retrogression, retirement. ANT: Advancement, progression, aggression, procession. = KEY: Regret \v.\ SYN: Grieve, lament, repent, miss, desiderate, deplore. ANT: Welcome, hail, approve, abandon, abjure, forget, disregard. = KEY: Regret \n.\ SYN: Sorrow, grief, concern, remorse, lamentation, repentance, [See GRIEF]. = KEY: Regular. SYN: Customary, normal, ordinary, orderly, stated, recurrent, periodical, systematic, methodic, established, recognized, formal, symmetrical, certain. ANT: Unusual, exceptional, abnormal, capricious, rare, irregular, disordered, fitful, unsymmetrical, variable, eccentric, erratic, uncertain. = KEY: Regulate. SYN: Methodize, organize, rale, govern, [See ARRANGE and ORGANIZE]. = KEY: Regulation. SYN: Rule, law, adjustment, disposal, method, government, order, control, arrangement. ANT: Misrule, disorder, anarchy, misgovernment, maladministration, disarrangement, nonregulation, caprice, license, insubjection, uncontrol. = KEY: Rehabilitate. SYN: Reinstate, reempower, recapacitate, requalify. ANT: Denude, divest, disempower, Incapacitate, disqualify, strip, deprive. = KEY: Rehearsal \n.\ SYN: Repetition, recital, narrative, [See ACCOUNT, \n.\]. = KEY: Rehearse. SYN: Repeat, recite, narrate, recount, relate, tell, recapitulate, recount, detail. ANT: Misrepent, misrecite, misrecount, misrelate, misrepresent, misdetail. = KEY: Reign. SYN: Rule, govern, prevail, command. ANT: Obey, submit. = KEY: Reimburse. SYN: Refund, repay, indemnify, satisfy. ANT: Embezzle, appropriate, misapply, alienate, damnify, defraud. = KEY: Rein. SYN: Curb, bridle, restrain, moderate, control, govern, check, hold. ANT: Indulge, loose, vent, discharge, humor. = KEY: Reinforce, [See RECRUIT]. = KEY: Reinstate. SYN: Rehabilitate, restore, reinstil, replace, reinvest. ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest. = KEY: Reinvest, [See REINSTATE]. = KEY: Reiterate. SYN: Repeat, re-express, re-enunciate, renew, reproduce. ANT: Cancel, withdraw, reverse, retract. = KEY: Reject. SYN: Repel, renounce, throw by, castaway, repudiate, decline, discard, refuse, exclude. ANT: Hail, welcome, accept, appropriate, choose, select, admit. = KEY: Rejoice. SYN: Delight, glory, exult, joy, triumph, gladden, delight, revel, be glad, cheer, please, enliven, gratify. ANT: Mourn, grieve, lament, weep, sorrow, repent, trouble, afflict, oppress, weary, depress, disappoint, burden, darken, distress, pain, sadden, vex, annoy. = KEY: Rejoinder. SYN: Retort, replication, reply, answer, rebutter, parry. ANT: Sally, banter, rallying, sarcasm, attack, hit. = KEY: Rekindle. SYN: Reignite, resuscitate, reinspire, fan, refocillate, reinforce. ANT: Stifle, extinguish, smother, suppress, damp, quench. = KEY: Relapse \v.\ SYN: Retrogress, recede, deteriorate. ANT: Recover, amend, progress, advance, improve. = KEY: Relapse \n.\ SYN: Falling back, retrogression, returning to a former state (especially a bad state). ANT: Recovery, return, improvement. = KEY: Relate. SYN: Tell, recite, narrate, recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe. ANT: Misrecite, misrecount, misrepresent, misreport, falsify, pervert, distort, misrelate. = KEY: Related. SYN: Kindred, cognate, akin, allied, connected. ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, not allied. = KEY: Relation. SYN: reference, aspect, connection, narration, proportion, bearing, affinity, homogeneity, association, relevancy, pertinency, fitness, harmony, ratio, relative, agreement, kinsman, kindred, appurtenancy. ANT: Irrelation, disconnection, dissociation, irrelevancy, impertinency, disproportion, Disproportion, unfitness, unsuitableness, heterogeneity, disharmony, disagreement, alien. = KEY: Relative. SYN: Referring to, not absolute. ANT: Absolute. = KEY: Relatives. SYN: Relations, kinsfolk, kindred, kinsmen, [See KIN]. = KEY: Relax. SYN: Slacken, loosen, remit, abate, mitigate, release, unbend, relent, divert, recreate, rest, enervate, Unstring. ANT: Tighten, increase, intensify, stretch, bend, brace, invigorate, redouble, grow, heighten, strengthen. = KEY: Relaxation, [See RELAX]. = KEY: Relay. SYN: Reinforcement, recruitment, refreshment, supply, relief. ANT: Exhaustion, consumption. = KEY: Release \v.\ SYN: Free, loose, liberate, discharge, quit, acquit, exempt, extricate, disengage, indemnify. ANT: Bind, constrain, confine, shackle, fetter, yoke. = KEY: Release \n.\ SYN: Liberation, discharge, freedom, [See BONDAGE]. = KEY: Relegate. SYN: Remove, transfer, banish, transport, exile, deport, despatch. ANT: Recal, locate, reinstate. = KEY: Relent. SYN: Yield, relax, soften. ANT: Persist, harden. = KEY: Relentless. SYN: Cruel, inexorable, unyielding, remorseless, unmerciful, truculent. ANT: Yielding, humane, feeling, clement, merciful, compassionate. = KEY: Relevancy, [See RELEVANT]. = KEY: Relevant. SYN: Appropriate, pertinent, apt, applicable, bearing. ANT: Inappropriate, impertinent, irrelevant. = KEY: Reliance. SYN: Confidence, trust, dependence, assurance. ANT: Distrust, misgiving, suspicion, diffidence. = KEY: Relief. SYN: Succor, support, release, extrication, alleviation, mitigation, aid, holp, assistance, remedy, redress, exemption, deliverance, refreshment, comfort. ANT: Oppression, aggravation, intensification, burdensomeness, trouble, exhaustion, weariness, discomfort. = KEY: Relieve. SYN: Help, succor, [See ALLEVIATE]. = KEY: Religion. SYN: Faith, creed, theology, belief, profession, piety, sanctity, godliness, holiness. ANT: Unbelief, irreligion, godlessness, atheism, impiety, sacrilege, scoffing, blasphemy, scepticism, profanity, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism, formalism, reprobation. = KEY: Religious. SYN: Pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred. ANT: Impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane. = KEY: Relinquish. SYN: Resign, leave, quit, forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, give up, lay aside, cede, forego, repudiate, surrender, discontinue. ANT: frieze, retain, assume, enforce, vindicate, assert, maintain, prosecute, defend, continue. = KEY: Relish \v.\ SYN: Like, approve, enjoy, appreciate. ANT: Repudiate, nauseate, reject, abominate, loathe. = KEY: Relish \n.\ SYN: Zest, recommendation, enhancement, flavor, savor, gusto, taste, appetite, piquancy, sapidity. ANT: Drawback, disfavor, disrecommendation, nauseousness, disrelish, insipidity, unsavoriness. = KEY: Relucent \a.\ SYN: Bright, shining, gleaming, glittering, flashing, lum nous, radiant, crystalline, pellucid, effulgent. ANT: Dull, opaque, rayless, leaden, dark. = KEY: Reluctance. SYN: Aversion, repugnance, unwillingness, dislike, regret, misgiving. ANT: Desire, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity, welcome, forwardness, eagerness. = KEY: Reluctant. SYN: Averse, unwilling, disinclined, loth, backward. ANT: Willing, inclined, eager, forward. = KEY: Rely, [See ENCIRCLE]. = KEY: Remain. SYN: Stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last, endure, accrue, survive. ANT: Fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass. = KEY: Remainder. SYN: Rest, residue, remnant, balance, surplus, leavings, relics, difference. ANT: Expenditure, loss, outgoings, issue, waste. = KEY: Remark. SYN: Observe, note, heed, comment, assert, say, notice. ANT: Misobserve, disregard, overlook, miss. = KEY: Remarkable. SYN: Observable, noticeable, extraordinary, unusual, rare, striking, noteworthy, notable, distinguished, famous, peculiar, prominent, singular. ANT: Unremarkable, unnoticeable, ordinary, mean, commonplace, everyday, undistinguished. = KEY: Remediable. SYN: Curable, rectifiable, removable. ANT: Incurable, irremediable, remediless, desperate, hopeless, unalterable. = KEY: Remedial. SYN: Sanatory, sanative, alterative, ameliorative, mitigating, corrective, curative, healing, restorative, salubrious. ANT: Noxious, hurtful, exaggerative, confirmative, morbific, deleterious, inducive, provocative. = KEY: Remedy. SYN: Cure, restorative, counteraction, reparation, redress, relief, help, specific. ANT: Evil, disease, hurt, infection, plague, ill, impairment, deterioration, aggravation, provocation. = KEY: Remember. SYN: Recollect, recall, retain, bear in mind, mind. ANT: Forget, obliviate, disregard, overlook. = KEY: Remembrance. SYN: Recollection, memory, memorial, token, souvenir, memento, reminiscence. ANT: Forgetfulness, oblivion. = KEY: Reminiscence. SYN: Remnant, relic, trace, savor, leavings. ANT: Prognostic, indication, suggestion, warning, announcement, reministration. = KEY: Remiss. SYN: Slack, careless, negligent, i attentive, wanting, flow, slothful, idle, lax, dilatory, tardy, remissful. ANT: Energetic, careful, attentive, active, assiduous, alert, painstaking, diligent, strict. = KEY: Remissful, [See REMISS]. = KEY: Remit. SYN: Relax, pardon, absolve, forego, discontinue, surrender, forgive, resign. ANT: Increase, intensity, enforce, exact. = KEY: Remittent. SYN: Periodic, recurrent. ANT: Chronic, continuous, constant. = KEY: Remnant, [See REMAINDER]. = KEY: Remonstrate. SYN: Expostulate, rebel, protest, recalcitrate, object, admonish. ANT: Acquiesce, submit, coincide,. = KEY: Remorse. SYN: Compunction, anguish, self-condemnation, penitence, sting of conscience. ANT: Complacency, self-approval, self-congratulation. = KEY: Remorseless. SYN: Cruel, truculent, inexorable, ruthless, pitiless, unrelenting, merciless, implacable. ANT: Mild, humane, gentle, feeling, compunctious, lenient, remorseful, self-condemning, regretful, compassionate. = KEY: Remote. SYN: Distant, indirect, unconnected, unrelated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, separate, contingent. ANT: Near, close, direct, connected, related, homogeneous, immediate, proximate, essential, present, pressing, urgent, actual. = KEY: Remove. SYN: Displace, separate, abstract, transport, carry, transfer, eject, oust, dislodge, suppress, migrate, depart. ANT: Restore, conserve, stabilitate, perpetuate, establish, reinstate, reinstall, instal, fix, fasten, stay, remain, dwell, abide, stand. = KEY: Remunerate. SYN: Reward, recompense, satisfy, compensate, repay, requite, reimburse. ANT: Defraud, misrequite, misrepay, dissatisfy, damnify. = KEY: Remuneration. SYN: Payment, compensation, recompense, reward, [See SATISFACTION]. = KEY: Rend. SYN: Tear, lacerate, divide, separate, split, disintegrate, disunite, rive, tear asunder. ANT: Repair, place, patch, conserve, unite, perpetuate, continuate. = KEY: Render. SYN: Give, present, return, restore, give up apportion, assign, surrender, pay, requite, deliver. ANT: Keep, retain, withhold, appropriate, alienate, misapportion, misappropriate, misrequite. = KEY: Renegade. SYN: Apostate, traitor, deserter, heretic, betrayer, backslider, vagabond, turncoat, recreant. ANT: Supporter, adherent, defender, bigot, zealot, dogmatist, fanatic. = KEY: Renew. SYN: Recreate, restore, refresh, renovate, rejuvenate, furbish, recommence, repeat, reiterate, reissue, regenerate, reform, transform. ANT: Impair, wear, deteriorate, vitiate, exhaust, discontinue, corrupt, weaken, defile, deprave. = KEY: Renitent. SYN: Resistent, elastic, resilient, reluctant, stubborn, tough, counteractive. ANT: Yielding, lentous, flexible, docile, pliant. = KEY: Renounce. SYN: Reject, abjure, disclaim, disown, forego, disavow, deny, quit, resign, abandon, recant, relinquish, repudiate. ANT: Acknowledge, recognize, claim, maintain, assert, propound, own, vindicate, avow, profess, hold, retain, defend. = KEY: Renovate, [See RENEW]. = KEY: Renown. SYN: Fame, distinction, note, notability, eminence, celebrity, glory, reputation, lustre, honor. ANT: Disgrace, meanness, ignobleness, degradation, taint, stain, brand, discredit, dishonor, disrepute. = KEY: Renowned. SYN: Famous, celebrated, wonderful, illustrious, [See FAMOUS]. = KEY: Rent. SYN: Laceration, rupture, fissure, divulsion, schism, solution. ANT: Suture, junction, union, continuity, integrity, reparation, redintegration, reunion, consolidation. = KEY: Renunciation. SYN: Rejection, repudiation, abjuration, abnegation, abandonment, cession, surrender, [See CESSION]. = KEY: Reorganize. SYN: Rearrange, reconstitute, reassemble. ANT: Dissolve, disband, dissipate, disperse, derange, dismember, disintegrate. = KEY: Repair. SYN: Restore, recover, mend, retrieve, relit. ANT: Impair, waste, wear, deteriorate, injure. = KEY: Reparable. SYN: Recoverable, curable, retrievable. ANT: Irreparable, incurable, irretrievable. = KEY: Reparation. SYN: Restoration, repair, restitution, compensation, satisfaction, amends, indemnification, atonement. ANT: Injury, Impairment, deterioration, waste, wear, defective, damnification. = KEY: Repay. SYN: Remunerate, reimburse, recompense, reward, retaliate, requite, {[r]?}, fund. ANT: Defraud, misappropriate, embezzle, waste, alienate, extort, confiscate, exact. = KEY: Repeal, \v.\ (From Lat. \reappellare\, to call back.) SYN: Abolish, revoke, rescind, cancel, annul, recal, abrogate, reverse, discontinue, rescind, make void. ANT: Continue, establish, pass, institute, sanction, enact, perpetuate, confirm. = KEY: Repeal \n.\ SYN: Abrogation, rescission, revocation, annulment. ANT: Continuance, establishment, perpetuation. = KEY: Repeat. SYN: Reiterate, iterate, renew, cite, quote, relate, rehearse, recapitulate, reproduce. ANT: Discontinues, drop, discard, abandon, ignore, suppress, misrepeat, misquote, misrecite, misrepresent, misinterpret, misconvey. = KEY: Repeatedly. SYN: Frequently again and again, often. ANT: Seldom, rarely. = KEY: Repel. SYN: Repulse, reject, refuse, deter, resist, check. ANT: Promote, propel, welcome, advance, accept, encourage, further. = KEY: Repent. SYN: Grieve, regret, sorrow, rue, repine, deplore, lament. ANT: Rejoice, persist. = KEY: Repentance. SYN: Penitence, contrition, compunction, regret, remorse, borrow, self-reproach, selfcondemnation. ANT: Impenitence, obduracy, recusancy, hardness, reparation, selfapproval. = KEY: Repercussion. SYN: Recoil, reverberation, ricochet, rebound. ANT: Impact, stroke, shock, collision, contact. = KEY: Repetition. SYN: Iteration, reiteration, dwelling upon, diffuseness, verbosity, relation, [See RELATION]. = KEY: Repine. SYN: Murmur, grumble, complain. ANT: Acquiesce, submit, smile, rejoice. = KEY: Replace. SYN: Restore, supply, substitute, reinstate, rearrange, re-establish. ANT: Move, abstract, withdraw, remove, damage, deprive. = KEY: Replenish. SYN: Fill, refill, resupply, stock, satisfy, furnish, enrich. ANT: Waste, empty, exhaust, reduce, drain, impoverish. = KEY: Replete, [See EMPTY]. = KEY: Repletion. SYN: Fulness, abundance, amplitude, superabundance, overfulness. ANT: Exhaustion, emptiness, want, inanition. = KEY: Reply \v.\ SYN: Replicate, answer, respond, rejoin. ANT: Ignore, drop, pretermit, pass, disregard. = KEY: Reply \n.\ SYN: Answer, rejoinder, response, replication. ANT: Pass by, ignoring. = KEY: Report \v.\ SYN: Announce, relate, tell, circulate, notify, narrate, recite, describe, detail, communicate, declare. ANT: Silence, hush, suppress, misreport, misrepresent, miarelate, falsify. = KEY: Report \n.\ SYN: tidings, announce, ment, relation, narration, recital, description, communication, declaration, news, rumor, fame, repute, noise, reverberation. ANT: Silence, suppression, misannouncement, fabrication, noiselessness. = KEY: Repose \v.\ SYN: Lie, recline, couch rest, settle, abide, stay, acquiesce, lodge, lace, deposit. ANT: Rise, stand, {[vo]?}, wander, flit, flutter, remove, transfer. = KEY: Repose \n.\ SYN: lest, quiet, stillness, reclination, tranquillity, calmness, peaceful, {[ess]?}, {[ea ]?}, [See {[ ]?}], {[eace]?}, quiescence. ANT: Movement, disquiet, unrest, agitation, restlessness, disturbance, commotion, tumult, distraction, uneasiness. = KEY: Reprehend. SYN: Blame chide, reprove, censure, reprimand. ANT: praise, laud, eulogize, sanction, approve. = KEY: Reprehensible. SYN: Blamable, blame, culpable, censurable, reproachable, reprovable, objectionable. ANT: Laudable, praiseworthy, irreproachach, it, irreprovable, unexceptionable, innocent, unobjectionable. = KEY: Represent. SYN: Portray, delineate, reproduce exhibit, personate, state, indicate, embody, enact, illustrate, denote, play, dramatize, resemble. ANT: Misportray, misdelineate, distort, falsify, caricature, misrepresent. = KEY: Representative. SYN: Likeness, personation, semblance, exhibition, [See LIKENESS]. = KEY: Representative \n.\ SYN: Agent, commissioner, proxy, deputy, substitute, embodiment, personation, delegate, vicar, vicegerent, principal, sovereign, Constituency. ANT: Autocrat, dictator. = KEY: Representative \a.\ SYN: Figurative, symbolical, delegated to others, [See FIGURATIVE and REPRESENT]. = KEY: Repress. SYN: Crush, quell, subdue, check, restrain, curb, overpower, mitigate, damp, calm, control. ANT: Raise, rouse, excite, agitate, aggravate, foment, intensify, foster, encourage, stimulate, incite, fan. = KEY: Reprieve \n.\ SYN: Respite, acquittal, suspension, delay, interval, pardon, amnesty, intermission. ANT: Condemnation, conviction, reprisal, retribution. = KEY: Reprimand, [See REPREHEND]. = KEY: Reprisal. SYN: Retaliation, retribution, self-compensation, self-indemnification. ANT: Condonation, grace, remission, reprieve. = KEY: Reproach \v.\ SYN: Blame, censure, taunt, rebuke, upbraid, reprobate, reprove. ANT: Laud, praise, approve, commend. = KEY: Reproach \n.\ [See APPROBATION]. = KEY: Reprobate \v.\ SYN: Condemn, denounce. ANT: Sanction, commend, approve. = KEY: Reprobate \a.\ SYN: Abandoned, castaway, irredeemable, lost. ANT: Hopeful, redeemable, salvable, recoverable. = KEY: Reprobate \n.\ SYN: Castaway, villain, ruffian, miscreant, scapegrace, scalawag. ANT: Example, pattern, mirror, model, paragon. = KEY: Reproduce. SYN: Generate, propagate, imitate, exhibit, represent, copy. ANT: Stifle, extinguish, exterminate, misrepresent, misportray. = KEY: Reproduction \n.\ [See REPRODUCE]. = KEY: Reprovable. SYN: Censurable, reprehensible, [See CULPABLE]. = KEY: Reprove, [See RAPID]. = KEY: Repudiate. SYN: Disavow, disown, discard, castoff, abjure, renounce, disclaim, divorce. ANT: Avow, own, vindicate, assert, retain, vaunt, claim, profess, recognize, acknowledge, accept. = KEY: Repugnant. SYN: Hostile, antagonistic, averse, reluctant, unwilling, irreconcilable, incompatible, inimical, adverse, contradictory, loath, heterogeneous. ANT: Friendly, coincident, harmonious, compatible, willing, consistent, homogeneous, congruous. = KEY: Repulsive. SYN: Forbidding, deterrent, ungenial, odious, ugly, unattractive, disagreeable, revolting. ANT: Charming, agreeable, attract, ive, winning, captivating, fascinating, alluring, seductive, pleasant. = KEY: Reputable. SYN: Respectable, creditable, honorable, estimable. ANT: Unrespectable, discreditable, dishonorable, disgraceful, disreputable. = KEY: Request \v.\ SYN: Ask, desire, beg, entreat, beseech, petition, supplicate, solicit, demand. ANT: Command, order, insist, direct, dictate, enjoin, require, demand, exact. = KEY: Request \n.\ [See PETITION]. = KEY: Require. SYN: Demand, claim, exact, insist upon, [See REQUEST], [See ANT.]. = KEY: Requital, [See SATISFACTION]. = KEY: Requite. SYN: Repay, reward, compensate, recompense, remunerate, satisfy, retaliate, punish, avenge, revenge. ANT: Misrequite, defraud, condone, absolve, pardon. = KEY: Rescind. SYN: Revoke, repeal, annul, cancel, recal, reverse, abrogate. ANT: Perpetuate, enforce, maintain, re-enact. = KEY: Rescue \v.\ SYN: Retake, recover, recapture, liberate, extricate, save, deliver, preserve. ANT: endanger, imperil, betray, surrender, abandon, expose. = KEY: Rescue \n.\ [See SALVATION]. = KEY: Research. SYN: Investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, learning, lore, discovery, elaboration, elimination. ANT: Ignorance, superficiality, sciolism, misinvestigation, shallowness, oversight, inobservance. = KEY: Resemblance. SYN: Likeness, similarity, similitude, semblance, representation, portrait, reflection, image. ANT: Unlikeness, dissimilarity, disresemblance, difference, contrariety. = KEY: Resent. SYN: Repel, resist, rebel, recalcitrate, take ill. ANT: Acquiesce, submit, condone, pardon, overlook. = KEY: Resentful. SYN: Choleric, malicious, vindictive, intolerant, insubmissive. ANT: Meek, mild, placable, tolerant, forgiving, submissive. = KEY: Resentment. SYN: Anger, ire, indignation, animosity. ANT: Calmness, acquiescence, toleration, mildness, endurance, forgiveness. = KEY: Reserve. SYN: Reservation, retention, limitation, withholding, appropriation, coyness, shyness, backwardness, secretiveness, taciturnity, modesty, restraint, constraint. ANT: Abandonment, nonreservation, surrender, absoluteness, openness, frankness, forwardness, pertness, unrestraint, undisguise, transparency, shamelessness indiscretion. = KEY: Reserved. SYN: Backwardness, cold, silent, cautious, unsociable, sly, bashful, [See FRIGID and SLY]. = KEY: Reside, [See ABIDE]. = KEY: Residence. SYN: stay, sojourn, occupation, abode, pernoctation, dwelling, location. ANT: Migration, travel, locomotion, absenteeism, nonresidence, alibi. = KEY: Resident \a.\ SYN: Abiding, dwelling, residing, inhabiting. ANT: Migrating, moving. = KEY: Resident \n.\ SYN: Occupant, dweller, tenant, sojourner, inhabitant. ANT: Stranger, foreigner, visitor. = KEY: Residue, [See REMAINDER]. = KEY: Resign. SYN: Surrender, abandon, return, withdraw, abdicate, submit, leave, relinquish, forego, renounce. ANT: Retain, claim, appropriate, vindicate, grasp. = KEY: Resignation. SYN: Surrender, relinquishment, forsaking, abandonment, abdication, renunciation, submission, acquiescence, patience, endurance. ANT: Retention, claim, appropriation, vindication, grasp, resistance, rebellion, murmur, dissatisfaction, discontent, contumacy, contention, protestation, remonstrance. = KEY: Resist. SYN: Withstand, oppose, hinder, check, thwart, rebuff, stem, combat. ANT: Encourage, promote, aid, advance, help, succor, acquiesce, submit, suffer, allow, tolerate, permit. = KEY: Resistance. SYN: Opposition, hindrance, [See CHECK]. = KEY: Resistible. SYN: Weak, refutable, nugatory, trifling, childish, worthless. ANT: Overpowering, irresistible, irrefragable, resistless, overwhelming, conclusive. = KEY: Resolute. SYN: Determined, decided, steadfast, fixed, steady, constant, persevering, stout, pertinacious, energetic, dogged, stout-hearted, inflexible, undaunted, undeviating, unflinching. ANT: unenergetic, fitful, vacillating, irresolute, dubious, shillyshally, capricious, variable, ductile, undetermined, undecided, weak. = KEY: Resolution. SYN: Separation, decomposition, analysis, unravelling, disentanglement, disintegration, conversion, firmness, &c, [See [As under RESOLUTE]. ANT: Aggregation, composition, union, amalgamation, integrity, totality, incorporation, synthesis, collocation, conservation, entanglement, confusion, conglomeration. = KEY: Resolve, [See DECIDE]. = KEY: Resonant. SYN: Resounding, sonorous, musical, metallic, vibratory, acoustic, shrill, loud, sharp, vocal, ringing. ANT: Mute, silent, dead, dumb, muffled, wooden, voiceless, stifled, nonresonant. = KEY: Resort \v.\ SYN: Repair, fly, retire, retreat. ANT: Shun, ignore, avoid, discard. = KEY: Resort \n.\ SYN: Assembly, betaking, repairing, haunt, frequentation, employment, recourse. ANT: Shunning, avoidance, forsaking, abandonment, desertion. = KEY: Resound. SYN: Ring, reverberate, echo, re-echo, respond. ANT: Whisper, murmur, breathe, mutter, {[hum]?}. = KEY: Resource, Resources. SYN: Material, means, productions, supplies, expedients, contrivance, wealth, riches, device. ANT: Destitution, barrenness, inanition, exhaustion, lack, drain, nonplus, poverty, sterility. = KEY: Respect \v.\ SYN: Notice, regard, honor, prefer, venerate, esteem. ANT: Overlook, disregard, dishonor, despise, contemn. = KEY: Respect \n.\ SYN: Reference, i elation, regard, honor, deference. ANT: Irrelativeness, disregard, contempt, dishonor, insult, contumely, disrespect. = KEY: Respectable \a.\ SYN: Worthy, good, considerable, laudable. ANT: Unworthy, bad, unrespectable, mean, inconsiderable. = KEY: Respective. SYN: relative, appertaining. ANT: Absolute, irrespective. = KEY: Respite, [See REPRIEVE]. = KEY: Resplendent. SYN: Brilliant, gorgeous, luminous, glittering, flashing, burnished. ANT: Dead, dull, lustreless, sombre. = KEY: Respond. SYN: Answer, reply, rejoin, correspond, tally, accord, meet, suit. ANT: Propound, disagree, disaccord, jar, differ. = KEY: Response, [See ANSWER]. = KEY: Responsible, [See ACCOUNTABLE]. = KEY: Responsive. SYN: Answering, correspondent, echoing, sympathetic, obedient. ANT: Alien, unsympathetic, strange, irresponsive. = KEY: Rest \n.\ SYN: Quiet, repose, cessation, tranquillity, peace, security, pause, interval, intermission. ANT: Tumult, commotion, agitation, disquiet, unrest, insecurity, continuity, uninterruptedness, progression, restlessness. = KEY: Restitution. SYN: Restoration, return, indemnification, reparation, compensation, amends. ANT: Fraud, deprivation, wrong, robbery, abstraction, injury. = KEY: Restive. SYN: Stubborn, obstinate, uneasy, balky, recalcitrant. ANT: Docile, manageable, tractable. = KEY: Restless. SYN: Unquiet, uneasy, disturbed, sleepless, agitated, roving, incessant, tossing. ANT: Calm, quiet, reposing, still, motionless. = KEY: Restoration. SYN: Recovery, replacement, renewal, renovation, redintegration, re-establishment, return, revival, restitution, reparation, compensation, amends. ANT: Loss, lapse, forfeiture, displacement, deterioration, impairment, deprivation, abandonment, departure, injury, waste, abstraction, seizure, wrong. = KEY: Restorative. SYN: Compensatory, remedial, reparatory, invigorating. ANT: Exhaustive, debilitating, wasting, consumptive. = KEY: Restore. SYN: Return, replace, refund, repay, reinstate, re-establish, renew, repair, recover, heal, cure, refresh. ANT: Abstract, remove, displace, appropriate, alienate, deprive, impair, wound, injure, dilapidate, shatter. = KEY: Restrain. SYN: Check, repress, hinder, limit, confine, restrict, withhold, curb, coerce, prohibit, narrow, circumscribe, reduce. ANT: Promote, advance, urge, incite, aid, liberate, indulge, loose, vent, amplify, enlarge, expand, extend. = KEY: Restraint, [See CHECK \n.\]. = KEY: Restrict, [See RESTRAIN]. = KEY: Result \v.\ SYN: Terminate, end, ensue, eventuate. ANT: Originate, arise, precede, spring, commence, start, begin. = KEY: Result \n.\ SYN: Termination, end, issue, effect, consequence, product, fruit, outcome, upshot, development, conclusion, remainder. ANT: Beginning, commencement, initiative, cause, rise, spring, origin, operation, causation, tendency, production, antecedent, premonition, prognostic, indication. = KEY: Resume. SYN: Recommence, renew, return, begin again. ANT: Drop, discontinue, intermit, interrupt. = KEY: Resumption, [See RESUME]. = KEY: Resurrection. SYN: Rising, renovation, resuscitation, regeneration. ANT: Death, burial, interment, {[ex]?}, tinction. = KEY: Resuscitate. SYN: Revive, re-excite, reanimate, reinvigorate, revivify. ANT: Extinguish, lay, prostrate, quench. = KEY: Retain. SYN: Keep, hold, restrain. ANT: Abandon, forfeit, surrender. = KEY: Retaliate. SYN: Avenge, retort, repay, requite. ANT: Pardon, condone, forgive. = KEY: Retaliation. SYN: Revenge, repayment, retribution, requital, reprisals, reciprocation. ANT: Pardon, condonation, forgiveness, r mission. = KEY: Retard. SYN: Clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer. ANT: Accelerate, expedite, promote. = KEY: Retentive. SYN: Preservative, close, tenacious, mindful. ANT: Loose, leaky, oblivious. = KEY: Reticence. SYN: Reserve, silentness, refrain, repressiveness. ANT: Unreserve, abandon, garrulity, freedom. = KEY: Reticent. SYN: Silent, taciturn, voiceless, still, re-. = KEY: Retinue. SYN: Retainers, attendant, suite, pomp, followers, tail, satellites, escort, cortege. ANT: Nonattendance, unstateliness, solitariness. = KEY: Retire. SYN: Withdraw, retreat, depart, secede, shrink, repair. ANT: Approach, advance. = KEY: Retirement. SYN: Solitude, privacy, departure, seclusion, recess, concavity, retreat. ANT: Publicity, approach, advance, prominence, protrusion, convexity. = KEY: Retort \n.\ SYN: Rejoinder, replicable, repartee, reciprocation, retaliation, reply, answer. ANT: Concession, confession, acquiescence, acceptance. = KEY: Retort \v.\ [See REPLY and RETALIATE]. = KEY: Retract. SYN: Withdraw, recal, revoke, unsay, disavow, recant, abjure, renounce. ANT: Reiterate, repeat. = KEY: Retreat \v.\ [See RETIRE]. = KEY: Retreat \n.\ SYN: Retirement, departure, withdrawal, seclusion, solitude, privacy, asylum, shelter, refuge, recess, [See RETIRE]. = KEY: Retrench. SYN: Reduce, abbreviate, diminish, limit, contract, curtail, lessen, economize. ANT: Enlarge, increase, extend, expand, multiply, amplify, augment. = KEY: Retrenchment \n.\ SYN: curtailment, diminution, reduction. ANT: Enlargement, expansion, extension. = KEY: Retribution. SYN: Penalty, repayment, reward, compensation, punishment, visitation. ANT: Condonation, remission, pardon, reprieve, non-retribution, sparing. = KEY: Retrievable. SYN: Recoverable, redeemable, hopeful, salvable, reformable, amendable. ANT: Hopeless, desperate, irredeemable, irrecoverable, reprobate, lost, irreformable, unamendable. = KEY: Retrieve. SYN: Recover, regain, rescue, repair, restore. ANT: Lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, impair, deteriorate. = KEY: Retrogression. SYN: Retreat, retirement, decline, relapse. ANT: Advance, progress, improvement, amelioration. = KEY: Retrospect. SYN: Review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration. ANT: Prognostication, anticipation, speculation, forecasting, prophecy, prospect. = KEY: Return. SYN: Recur, revert, reappear, come back, repay, requite, recompense, retaliate, render, restore, yield, produce, give back, repay. ANT: Depart, remove, vanish, disappear, retain, appropriate, misappropriate, alienate, withhold. = KEY: Reveal. SYN: Unveil, disclose, show, communicate, divulge, discover, expose, unearth, make known. ANT: Hide, obscure, conceal, suppress, cover, cloak. = KEY: Revel. SYN: Carouse, feast, banquet, luxuriate, wallow. ANT: Fast, abstain, nauseate. = KEY: Revelation. SYN: Discovery, disclosure, divine communication, apocalypse. ANT: Concealing, veiling, shrouding, keeping back. = KEY: Revelry. SYN: Carousal, noisy, festivity, feast, orgies, wassail. ANT: Fast, abstinence. = KEY: Revenge \n.\ SYN: Retaliation, vengeance, retribution, requital. ANT: Condonation, pardon, compassion, remission. = KEY: Revenge \v.\ [See RETIREMENT]. = KEY: Revengeful. SYN: Vindictive, unforgiving, uncompassionate, spiteful, resentful. ANT: Unvindictive, forgiving, compassionate, unresentful, generous, chivalrous. = KEY: Revenue. SYN: Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment. ANT: Outgoings, expenditure, waste, deductions, exhaustion, expense, impoverishment. = KEY: Reverberate. SYN: Echo, recoil, reflect, revert, resound. ANT: Strike, impinge, beat. = KEY: Reverberation, [See ECHO]. = KEY: Reverence. SYN: Honor, awe, veneration, adoration, deference, devotion, respect, worship, homage. ANT: Dishonor, contempt, slight, irreverent, contumely, contumacy. = KEY: Reverie. SYN: Dream, daydream, trance, vision, phantasy, ideality, woolgathering, wandering, musing. ANT: Study, attention, diligence, application. = KEY: Reverse \v.\ SYN: Invert, derange, upset, overturn, subvert, annul, counterchange. ANT: Order, arrange, place, collocate, range. = KEY: Reverse \n.\ SYN: Inversion, derangement, counterchange, counterposition, opposition, contrariety, contradiction, alteration, change, mutation, rear, back, evolution, counterexhibition. ANT: Version, arrangement, sequence, order, collocation, position, perpetuation, continuance, stability, identity, uniformity, regularity, obverse, front. = KEY: Reversible. SYN: Changeable, exchangeable, counterchangeable, alterable, mutable, revocable, discretional. ANT: Perpetual, unalterable, unchangeable, irreversible, absolute, undiscretional. = KEY: Revert. SYN: Return, refer, accrue, reaccrue, recur. ANT: Depart, escheat, ignore, drop, dismiss, discard. = KEY: Review \v.\ SYN: Reconsider, revise, examine, survey, inspect. ANT: Discard, dismiss, overlook, skim, disregard, misexamine. = KEY: Review \n.\ SYN: Resurvey, retrospect, reconsideration, revisal, re-examination, critique, criticism. = KEY: Revile. SYN: Reproach, asperse, upbraid, malign, slander, calumniate, vilify, abuse, blaspheme. ANT: Flatter, compliment, eulogize, panegyrize, laud, extol. = KEY: Revise. SYN: Alter, amend, re-examine, [See ECHO]. = KEY: Revive. SYN: Reanimate, revivify, resucitate, refresh, reassure, recover, awake, live. ANT: Extinguish, kill, depress, exhaust, discourage, droop, fade, wither, decline, die. = KEY: Revivify, [See REVIEW]. = KEY: Revocable, [See REVIVE]. = KEY: Revoke. SYN: Recal, withdraw, cancel, annul, rescind, repeal, declare void. ANT: Sanction, enact, perpetuate, enforce, reiterate, renew. = KEY: Revolt \v.\ int. SYN: Rebel, struggle, kick, resist, rise, recalcitrate. ANT: Acquiesce, obey, submit. = KEY: Revolt \n.\ SYN: Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny. ANT: Submission, acquiescence, loyalty. = KEY: Revolting. SYN: Shocking, repulsive, disgusting, offensive, horrible, hideous, abhorrent. ANT: Attractive, genial, pleasing, charming, captivating. = KEY: Revolution. SYN: Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt, reconstitution, emeute. ANT: Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation, perpetuation, suppression. = KEY: Revolve. SYN: Contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel, rotate, circulate. ANT: Discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider. = KEY: Revulsion \n.\ SYN: Revolution, abhorrence, estrangement, antagonism. ANT: Coincidence, harmony, acquiescence, sympathy, reconcilement, familiarity, reciprocity. = KEY: Reward \v.\ SYN: Compensate, honor, decorate, remunerate, pay, recompense. ANT: Punish, misrequite. = KEY: Rhetorical. SYN: Declamatory, persuasive, oratorical, lively, animated, spirited. ANT: logical, calm, cool, deliberate. = KEY: Rich. SYN: Wealthy, opulent, affluent, abundant, generous, productive, copious, fertile, fruitful, valuable, costly, high-flavored, luscious, oleaginous, vivid, deep, bright, superb, gorgeous. ANT: Poor, impoverished, impecunious, needy, indigent, reduced, exhausted, unproductive, scanty, niggardly, barren, sterile, unfruitful, valueless, tasteless, watery, pale, beggarly, nude, bald, cold. = KEY: Riches. SYN: Wealth, opulence, affluence, wealthiness, richness, plenty, abundance, treasure, possessions. ANT: Poverty, pauperism, impecuniosity, neediness, indigence, destitution, necessity, lack, privation, beggary, insolvency. = KEY: Riddance. SYN: Quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape. ANT: Entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance. = KEY: Riddle. SYN: Puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, problem, paradox. ANT: Solution, explanation, statement, proposition, axiom. = KEY: Ridicule \n.\ SYN: Derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery, irony, satire, sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect. ANT: Veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage. = KEY: Ridicule \v.\ SYN: Lampoon, deride, mock at, laugh at, jeer, [See REVOKE and REVERSIBLE]. = KEY: Ridiculous. SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, droll, contemptible, preposterous, absurd, grotesque, trifling, trivial. ANT: Serious, grave, important, weighty, considerable, venerable, imposing, majestic. = KEY: Rifle \v.\ [See RANSACK]. = KEY: Right \n.\ SYN: Rectitude, correctness, straightness, integrity, justice, truth, propriety, fitness, suitableness, claim, power, privilege. ANT: Wrong, incorrectness, perverseness, crookedness, disintegrity, injustice, falsehood, impropriety, unfitness, usurpation, encroachment, force, violence. = KEY: Right \a.\ SYN: Straight, upright, direct, lawful, correct, exact, just, fair, fit, proper, suitable, equitable. ANT: Crooked, indirect, wrong, unlawful, inexact, unjust, unfair, unfit, improper, unsuitable. = KEY: Righteous. SYN: Upright, just, godly, virtuous, uncorrupt, rightful, equitable, truthful, conscientious. ANT: Unrighteous, perverse, evil, unjust, ungodly, vicious, corrupt, wrongful, false, unconscientious, unprincipled, unjustifiable, abandoned, profligate, dishonorable, unfair. = KEY: Righteousness \n.\ [See PIETY and HONESTY]. = KEY: Rigid. SYN: Stiff, unpliant, unflexible, stubborn, tough, stark, staunch, unswerving, exact, unbending, undeviating, austere. ANT: Pliant, docile, flexible, variable, mild, lenient, inexact, yielding, inconstant, inconsistent. = KEY: Rigor \n.\ [See RIGID and ASPERITY]. = KEY: Rill. SYN: Streamlet, brook, brooklet, creek, rivulet. ANT: River, large stream. = KEY: Kind. SYN: Skin, peel, bark, husk. ANT: Kernel, meat, wood, pulp, fruit. = KEY: Riot. SYN: Noise, uproar, tumult, fray, outbreak, mutiny, row, revel, disturbance, turbulence. ANT: Peace, pacification, sobriety, quiescence, orderliness. = KEY: Ripe. SYN: Perfect, developed, full, matured, seasoned, ready, prepared, mellow, mature, advanced, consummate. ANT: Raw, crude, Immature, imperfect, undeveloped, blighted, unseasoned, sour, unready, unfit, unprepared, unmellowed, green, withered. = KEY: Rise \v.\ SYN: Ascend, mount, float, soar, grow, arise, tower, slope, appear, emerge, spring, originate, extend, expand, swell, increase, excel, prosper, climb. ANT: Descend, decline, sink, drop, diminish, fall, subside, crouch, nestle, dip, set, wane, vanish, disappear, terminate, end, debouch, contract, decrease, fail. = KEY: Rise \n.\ SYN: Spring, fountain head, source, [See RIGID and ASPERITY]. = KEY: Risible. SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, [See RIDICULOUS]. = KEY: Risk \n.\ SYN: Hazard, danger, peril, exposure, jeopardy. ANT: Safety, security, insurance, protection, prophylactic. = KEY: Risk \v.\ SYN: Hazard, peril, jeopard, venture, stake, [See HAZARD]. = KEY: Rite. SYN: Form, custom, ceremony, observance, usage, celebration. ANT: Inobservance, disuse, obsoleteness, nonobservance, noncelebration, desuetude. = KEY: Rival \n.\ SYN: Antagonist, competitor, cosuitor. ANT: Adherent, supporter, comrade, coadjutor, neutral. = KEY: Rival \v.\ SYN: Emulate, challenge, equal, contend, strive, compete. ANT: Succumb, surrender, yield, promote, reverence, retire, defer. = KEY: Road. SYN: Public way, highway, route, thoroughfare, course, pathway, path. = KEY: Roam. SYN: Wander, rove, range, stroll, ramble, stray, saunter. ANT: Hurry, speed, fly, hasten, press. = KEY: Roar. SYN: Howl, vociferate, peal, yell, boom, resound, [See BAWL]. = KEY: Rob. SYN: Plunder, deprive, denude, strip, pillage, defraud, cheat, impoverish. ANT: Compensate, endow, enrich, invest, indemnify. = KEY: Robber. SYN: Thief, depredator, plunderer, freebooter, brigand, pirate, highwayman, footpad. ANT: Guard, escort, protector. = KEY: Robbery. SYN: Theft, larceny, pillage, plundering, depredation, spoliation. ANT: Guarding, protecting, indemnifying, compensating, enriching. = KEY: Robe. SYN: Invest, clothe, deck, drape, array. ANT: Divest, disrobe, unclothe, denude, strip. = KEY: Robust. SYN: Strong, lusty, brawny, able-bodied, sturdy, sinewy, muscular, hale, hearty, vigorous, sound, iron. ANT: Weak, frail, puny, fragile, weakly, delicate, sickly. = KEY: Rogue. SYN: Vagabond, scamp, rascal, villain, cheat, swindler, sharper. ANT: True-penny, gentleman. = KEY: Roguery. SYN: Trickery, cheating, chicanery, swindling, vagabondism, mischief, fraud, knavery. ANT: Honesty, integrity, honor, uprightness, conscientiousness. = KEY: Roll \v.\ SYN: Revolve, wheel, rotate, turn over and over, rock, trundle wallow. = KEY: Roll \n.\ [See RECORD]. = KEY: Rollicking. SYN: Roystering, frolicsome, hoydenish, blustering. ANT: Staid, sedate, demure. = KEY: Romance. SYN: Fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade, balderdash. ANT: History, narrative, truth, fact. = KEY: Romantic. SYN: Fabulous, rhapsodical, wild, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, sentimental. ANT: Historical, literal, truthful, unromantic, unvarnished, unadorned. = KEY: Room. SYN: Space, ground, compass, extent, locality, opportunity, capability, occasion, margin, capacity, admission. ANT: Restriction, limitation, confinement, incapability, exclusion, neutralization. = KEY: Roomy, [See SPACIOUS]. = KEY: Root. SYN: Radix, radicle, stem, origin, source, spring, rise, commencement, parent. ANT: Branch, ramification, outcome, product, issue, progeny. = KEY: Rooted. SYN: Fixed, established, grounded, based, inveterate, domiciled, naturalized, installed. ANT: Unestablished, insecure, uncertain, wavering, unsettled, oscillating, dubious, precarious, superficial, specious, propped, bolstered, shored. = KEY: Rot. SYN: Putrefaction, corruption, putrescence, mouldiness, mildew, decay. ANT: Integrity, wholesomeness, soundness, vigor, preservation, purity, healthiness, sweetness. = KEY: Rotation. SYN: Turn, series, order, succession, revolution, course, reversion, recurrence. ANT: Simultaneity, perpetuity, constancy, non-intermittence, contemporaneousness. = KEY: Rotten, [See PUTRID]. = KEY: Rotundity. SYN: Roundness, convexity, circularity, sphericity, globosity, prominence, protuberance, intumescence. ANT: Concavity, flatness, angularity. = KEY: Rough. SYN: Uneven, harsh, bristly, scabrous, rugged, knotty, unpolished, boisterous, tempestuous, stormy, coarse, craggy, gruff, crude, severe, shaggy, disordered, unrefined, uncourteous, rude, unshaped, churlish, blunt. ANT: Even, smooth, level, polished, glabrous, glossy, glassy, silky, sleek, velvety, calm, tranquil, refined, courteous, courtly, shapely, shaped, finished, oily, specious. = KEY: Round. SYN: Circular, globular, spherical, entire, complete, rotund, smooth, plump. ANT: Flat, angular, concave. = KEY: Roundabout, [See CIRCUITOUS]. = KEY: Rouse. SYN: Wake, excite, agitate, startle, surprise. ANT: Compose, allay, calm, soothe, quiet, repress, Rout, [See CIRCUITOUS]. = KEY: Route. SYN: Way, course, passage, march, path, track, direction. = KEY: Routine. SYN: Round, course, succession, order, rule, custom, system, sequence, gradation, rotation, stereotype, prescription, tenor, uniformity, method, settlement, regulation. ANT: Casualty, chance, lottery, fortune, impulse, interest, individuality, merit, spontaneity, alterableness, margin, deviation, modification. = KEY: Rove, [See ROAM]. = KEY: Row \n.\ SYN: Series, order, rank, sequence, continuation, continuity, file, string, concatenation, thread. ANT: Dissociation, disconnection, rupture, intermission, hiatus, solution, failure, gap, discontinuance, dissolution, inconsequence, derangement, deviation, flexion, deflexion, irregularity, sinuosity, flexuosity. = KEY: Row \n.\ [See RIOT]. = KEY: Royal, [See REGAL]. = KEY: Rubbish. SYN: debris, waste matter, fragments, litter, dross, refuse, lion sense, trash. ANT: [met.] see Cream and Nonsense. = KEY: Rubicund. SYN: Ruddy, flushed, red, sanguine, blushing. ANT: Pale, wan, pallid, exsanguineous. = KEY: Ruddy, [See RUBICUND]. = KEY: Rude. SYN: Impertinent, rough, uneven, shapeless, unfashioned, artless, unpolished, uncouth, inelegant, rustic, coarse, vulgar, clownish, raw, unskilful, untaught, illiterate, ignorant, uncivil, saucy, impolite, impudent, insolent, surly, {[currifb]?}, churlish, brutal, uncivilized, barbarous, savage, violent, tumultuous, turbulent, Impetuous, boisterous, harsh, inclement, severe, Insulting, grotesque, barbaric, archaic. ANT: Modest, bashful, civil, courteous, ceremonious, deferential, smooth, even, artistic, polished, fashioned, courtly, elegant, high-wrought, polite, accommodating, considerate, refined, gentle, peaceful, culm, genial, balmy, halcyonic, serene, placid, modern, modish, fashionable. = KEY: Rudiment. SYN: Principle, begin, ning, germ, seed, embryo, element, nucleus, initiation, commencement. ANT: Perfection, completion, development, expansion, organization, fruit, maturity, consummation, product, issue. = KEY: Rudimental, [See ELEMENTARY]. = KEY: Rue, [See REPENT]. = KEY: Ruffle. SYN: Wrinkle, roughen, dis, compose, disturb, agitate, disorder, derange, disarrange, confute, excite. ANT: Smooth, allay, equalize, compose, quiet, arrange, conciliate. = KEY: Ruffian. SYN: Villain, cutthroat, brutal fellow, bully. = KEY: Rugged. SYN: Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficult. ANT: Even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine, finished, soft, mild, courtly, courteous, [See {[caitubtroka %]?}]. = KEY: Ruin. SYN: Fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse, desolation, downfall, perdition, subversion, decay, decadence, prostration, dilapidation, disorganization. ANT: Rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery, stabilisation, conservation, regeneration, revivification, reparation, renascence, organization, construction. = KEY: Ruinous, [See PERNICIOUS]. = KEY: Rule \n.\ SYN: Regulation, law, precept, principle, maxim, practice, guide, canon, order, method, direction, authority, control, mastery, government, decision, determination, habit. ANT: Irregularity, nonconformity, exception, deviation, eccentricity. = KEY: Rule \v.\ SYN: Govern, manage, control, direct, command, dominate, [See CONTROL and GOVERN]. = KEY: Ruling. SYN: Governing, reigning, controlling, masterful, predominant, regulating, prevalent. ANT: Obeying, yielding, subservient. = KEY: Ruminate. SYN: Muse, meditate, ponder, think, reflect, cogitate, brood. ANT: Unbend, relax, idle, gape, woolgather. = KEY: Rumor. SYN: Report, repute, hearsay, publication, bruit. ANT: Authentication, verification, proof, evidence, notoriety. = KEY: Rumple. SYN: Ruffle, wrinkle, crease, crumple, pucker, corrugate, derange, roughen. ANT: Smooth, flatten, arrange. = KEY: Run. SYN: Course, go, speed, hasten, hurry, fly, rush, escape, retreat, pass, proceed, flow, ooze, leak, melt, fuse, confuse, blend, extend, reach, work, operate, traverse, tend, incline. ANT: Walk, saunter, lounge, drag, stay, stop, halt, hobble, resist, hold, stanch, stand, fail, drop, expire, disincline, hesitate. = KEY: Rupture. SYN: Breaking, bursting, tearing, laceration, partition, disruption, breach, dissolution, fracture, break, severance, disseverance, discerption, disorganization, separation, dilaceration, dismemberment. ANT: Union, uniting, healing, fusion, amalgamation, coalition, suture, junction, reunion. = KEY: Rural. SYN: Countrified, rustic, agricultural, bucolic, verdant, sylvan, grassy, arcadian, pastoral. ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic. = KEY: Rush. SYN: Speed, course, dash, sweep, hurry, stream, roll, charge, drive, fly, burst. ANT: March, saunter, lag, retreat, bait, hesitate. = KEY: Rust \n.\ SYN: Corrosion, crust, dross, indolence, inactivity, decay, canker, inaction. ANT: Polish, attrition, use, action, operation, activity, exercise, industry. = KEY: Rustic \n.\ SYN: Clown, boor, clod, go, leuc, booby. ANT: Beau, savant, dandy, man of, the wond. = KEY: Rustic \a.\ SYN: Rural, agricultural, bucolic, nomadic, sylvan, verdant, pastoral, rude, awkward, unpolished, clownish, clumsy, rough, coarse, plain, unsophisticated, simple, artless, primitive. ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic, fashionable, modish, elegant, sophisticated, refined, courtly, polished. = KEY: Rusticity. SYN: Rudeness, clownishness, boorishness, coarseness, simplicity, artlessness. ANT: Courtliness, refinement, polish, gentility, urbanity. = KEY: Rustle. SYN: Quiver, whisper, susurration, murmur, sighing. ANT: Hubbub, blast, din, racket, crashing. = KEY: Ruthless. SYN: Unpitying, unrelenting, truculent, unsparing. ANT: Tender, regretful, lenient, compassionate, forbearing, long-suffering. = KEY: Rutilant. SYN: Igneous, flammiferous, flaming, blazing, coruscant, meteoric, flashing, scintillant. ANT: Glowing, incandescent, gleaming. = KEY: Sable. SYN: Dark, black, sombre, ebon. ANT: Bright, light, white, ivory. = KEY: Sacerdotal. SYN: Priestly, hierarchical, clerical. ANT: Laic, congregational. = KEY: Sack. SYN: Plunder, pillage, ravage, waste, spoil. ANT: Spare, indemnify, protect, preserve. = KEY: Sacred. SYN: Holy, divine, hallowed, consecrated, religious, inviolable. ANT: Unholy, common, profane, unconsecrated. = KEY: Sacrifice \v.\ SYN: Offer, immolate, destroy, surrender, forego. ANT: Reserve, retain, appropriate, withhold. = KEY: Sacrifice \n.\ SYN: Offering, oblation, immolation, surrender, destruction, atonement, propitiation, appeasement, expiation. ANT: Reservation, appropriation, retention, salvation, rescue, offence, transgression. = KEY: Sad. SYN: Heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnine. ANT: Light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe. = KEY: Saddle. SYN: Impose, burden, load, shackle, clog, charge, encumber. ANT: Rid, relieve, exonerate, disburden, liberate, disencumber. = KEY: Safe. SYN: Secure, unendangered, secured, sure, protected, impregnable, trustworthy, certain. ANT: Insecure, imperilled, dangerous, Hazardous, exposed. = KEY: Safeguard. SYN: Security, protection, [See SABLE]. = KEY: Sagacious. SYN: Intelligent, discriminating, acute, wise, prudent, foreseeing, shrewd, penetrating, sapient. ANT: Dull, obtuse, unintelligent, stolid, undiscerning. = KEY: Sage. SYN: Philosopher, savant, literate. ANT: Fool, Imbecile, Colt, blockhead. = KEY: Sailor. SYN: Seaman, mariner, navigator, seafarer, tar. ANT: Landsman. = KEY: Saintly. SYN: Pure, holy, spiritual, heavenly-minded, pious, godly. ANT: Impious impure, unholy, unspiritual, ungodly, carnal, foul, worldly, earthly-minded, sinful. = KEY: Sake. SYN: Account, behalf, purpose, end, regard, reason, cause, [See DEFENSE]. = KEY: Salient. SYN: Projecting, springing, jutting, abutting, prominent, conspicuous, important, noteworthy. ANT: Retreating, retiring, returning, rebated, unimportant, minor, inconsiderable, subordinate. = KEY: Sally. SYN: Burst, start, issue. ANT: Retire, retreat, withdraw. = KEY: Salubrious, [See BEHALF]. = KEY: Salubrity. SYN: Healthiness, healthfulness, wholesomeness, salutarines. ANT: Unwholesomeness, unhealthily, insalubrity. = KEY: Salutary, [See HEALTHY]. = KEY: Salutation, [See WHOLESOME]. = KEY: Salute. SYN: Hall, compliment, accost, welcome, greet. ANT: Ignore, insult, pass, disregard, dishonor, scorn, affront. = KEY: Salvation. SYN: Preservation, saving, redemption, rescue, deliverance. ANT: Destruction, perdition, damnation. = KEY: Salve. SYN: Heal, cure, mollify, redress, remedy, mend, relieve. ANT: Wound, hurt, irritate, injure, aggravate, scarify. = KEY: Same. SYN: Identical, selfsame, similar, corresponding. ANT: Other, different. = KEY: Sameness, [See WELCOME]. = KEY: Sample. SYN: Specimen, pattern, illustration, case, exemplification, scantling. ANT: Exception, deviation, abnormity, monstrosity, variety, nondescript, hybrid, nonsuch. = KEY: Sanative, [See IDENTITY]. = KEY: Sanatory. SYN: Curative, sanative, remedial, therapeutic, hygienic, sanitary. ANT: Morbific, pestilential, noxious, unwholesome, pernicious. = KEY: Sanctification. SYN: Justification, absolution, consecration, holiness. = KEY: Sanctify. SYN: Consecrate, hallow, celebrate, purify, justify, sanction, ratify. ANT: Desecrate, profane, misobserve, pollute, disannul. = KEY: Sanction \n.\ SYN: Rectification, authorization, authority, countenance, support, seal, allowance. ANT: Nullification, disallowance, discountenance, prohibition. = KEY: Sanction \v.\ SYN: Authorize, countenance, confirm, ratify, [See SANATORY and HEALTHFUL]. = KEY: Sanctity. SYN: Holiness, sacredness, godliness, piety, solemnity. ANT: Unholiness, profaneness, ungodliness, impiety, secularly. = KEY: Sanctuary. SYN: Shrine, {[adytumasy % asyurn]?}, asyurn, refuge, security, protection, inviolability. ANT: Pitfall, trap, snare, betrayal, violation, extradition. = KEY: Sanguinary. SYN: Bloody, truculent, bloodthirsty, murderous. ANT: Lenient, moderate, chivalrous, generous, sparing, forbearing. = KEY: Sanguine. SYN: Warm, ardent, lively, animated, hopeful, confident, trustful. ANT: Cold, frigid, desponding, distrustful, croaking, misgiving, suspicious, cautious, unventuresome, timid, anxious, diffident, solicitous. = KEY: Sanitary, [See APPROVE]. = KEY: Sanity. SYN: Rationality, soundness, reasonableness, lucidity, wisdom. ANT: Insanity, madness, lunacy, derangement, alienation, dementation, hallucination, folly. = KEY: Sapid. SYN: Tasty, relishing, savory, piquant, palatable, toothsome, delicious. ANT: Dry, flavorless, distasteful, nauseous. = KEY: Sapidity. SYN: Sapidness, savoriness, taste, {[eavor]?}. ANT: Savorless, tasteless, insipid, vapid. = KEY: Sapient. SYN: Sage, sagacious, knowing, wise, discerning. ANT: foolish, undiscerning, blind, stolid. = KEY: Sarcasm. SYN: Gibe, chaff, irony, jeer, satire, ridicule, taunt, sardonicism. ANT: Eulogy, compliment, panegyric, eulogium. = KEY: Sarcastic. SYN: Satirical, ironical, taunting, severe, [See SANATORY]. = KEY: Satanic. SYN: Fiendish, devilish, infernal. ANT: Angelic, seraphic, heavenly. = KEY: Sate. SYN: Satiate, glut, surfeit. ANT: Stint, starve. = KEY: Satellite. SYN: Attendant, follower, subordinate, shadow, associate, hanger-on, second. ANT: Leader, principal. = KEY: Satiate. SYN: Gorge, cloy, satisfy fully, [See SATIRICAL]. = KEY: Satire. SYN: Invective, sarcasm, burlesque, lampoon, pasquinade, irony, ridicule. ANT: Eulogy, panegyric, laudation. = KEY: Satirical. SYN: Cutting, poignant sarcastic, bitter, ironical, invective. ANT: Complimentary, flattering, laudatory, panegyric, eulogistic. = KEY: Satisfaction. SYN: Contentment, content, complacency, pleasure, recompense, compensation, amends, remuneration, indemnification, atonement. ANT: Discontent, grievance, dissatisfaction, pain, vexation, annoyance, injury, wrong, fraud, robbery, obligation, demand, claim, damnification, transgression, offence. = KEY: Satisfy. SYN: Satiate, content, sate, please, fill, gratify, suffice, recompense, compensate, remunerate, indemnify, assure, convince, meet, fulfil. ANT: Stint, starve, deprive, dissatisfy, tantalize, half-satisfy, annoy, displease, defraud, deprive, injure, cheat, shake, disown, repudiate, stagger, pore, embarrass, puzzle. = KEY: Saturate. SYN: Soak, impregnate, infuse, steep, sate. ANT: Wring, drain, exsiccate, dry, divert, empty, deprive, disimpregnate. = KEY: Saturnine. SYN: Dull, heavy, grave, phlegmatic, gloomy, leaden, sombre. ANT: Jovial, gay, light-hearted, joyous, bright, merry. = KEY: Saucy. SYN: Pert, forward, flippant, impudent, insolent, disrespectful. ANT: Deferential, civil, respectful, fair-spoken, glozing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, servile, snivelling, slavish. = KEY: Saunter. SYN: Roam, loiter, linger, stroll, wander, lag, dawdle, lounge, linger. ANT: Speed, course, press, hasten, drive, push, scramble. = KEY: Savage. SYN: Ferocious, ferine, wild, uncultivated, untamed, untaught, uncivilized, unpolished, rude, brutish, brutal, heathenish, barbarous, cruel, fierce, inhuman, truculent, pitiless, merciless, murderous, violent, malevolent. ANT: Mild, docile, domesticated, tame, tractable, meek, timid, shrinking, cultivated, tamed, taught, civilized, educated, refined, Christianized, polished, humane, generous, chivalrous, merciful, clement, forbearing, courtly, subdued, self-controlled. = KEY: Save. SYN: Preserve, rescue, secure, reserve, spare, hinder, obviate, prevent, snatch, catch, economize, husband. ANT: Lose, betray, abandon, destroy, surrender, impose, facilitate, promote, induce, occasion, cause, miss, expose, imperil, endanger, risk, waste, lavish. = KEY: Saving, [see FRUGAL]. = KEY: Savior. SYN: Redeemer, JESUS CHRIST, Mediator, Messiah, The Anointed, The Word. = KEY: Savory, [See SAPID]. = KEY: Say. SYN: Utter, tell, speak, pronounce, declare, assert, allege, affirm, repeat, rehearse, recite, judge. ANT: Suppress, secrete, silentiate, repress, misdeclare, misrecite, misdeliver, missay, misjudge, mispronounce. = KEY: Saying. SYN: Assertion, maxim, saw, dictum, declaration, speech, byword, proverb, aphorism, apothegm. ANT: Dissertation, disquisition, essay, ratiocination, rigmarole, yarn, circumlocution. = KEY: Scale. SYN: Layer, lamina, flake. = KEY: Scandal. SYN: Offence, reproach, disgrace, defamation, libel, shame, infamy, detraction, slander, calumny, opprobrium. ANT: Eulogy, fame, honor, respect, credit. = KEY: Scandalize. SYN: Disgrace, disgust, shock, offend, defame, reproach. ANT: Honor, [See REPROACH]. = KEY: Scant. SYN: Short, insufficient, mean, niggardly, stingy, narrow, limited, chary, sparing. ANT: Full, ample, liberal, generous, bountiful, unmeasured. = KEY: Scanty, [See REPROACH]. = KEY: Scantling, [See SCANT]. = KEY: Scar \n.\ SYN: Cicatrix, blemish, disfigurement, mark, seam, spot, reproach. ANT: Obliteration, effacement. = KEY: Scarce. SYN: Rare, infrequent, unabundant, unique, uncommon, unusual, singular, precious, choice, few, wanting, sparse. ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, valueless, thick, plentiful. = KEY: Scarcity. SYN: Deficiency, lack, infrequency, want, dearth, rarity. ANT: Plenty, abundance, frequency. = KEY: Scare. SYN: Terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt. ANT: Reassure, encourage, entice, allure. = KEY: Scarify. SYN: Cut, scratch, incise, Irritate, torment. ANT: Heal, salve, soothe, mollify, assuage. = KEY: Scatheless. SYN: Unhurt, unscathed, uninjured, undamaged, whole, sound. ANT: Wounded, injured, damaged. = KEY: Scatter. SYN: Strew, sprinkle, disperse, spread, broadcast, dissipate, disseminate, propagate, squander. ANT: Collect, accumulate, heap, gather, save, husband. = KEY: Scene. SYN: Spectacle, show, exhibition, [See SAMPLE]. = KEY: Scent. SYN: Odor, perfume, {[tmeU]?}, [See {[PAOEAKT]?}]. = KEY: Sceptic. SYN: Doubter, infidel, un believer, deist. ANT: Believer. = KEY: Scepticism. SYN: Doubt, unbelief, infidelity, incredulity. ANT: Faith, belief, credulity. = KEY: Scheme. SYN: Plan, project, design, contrivance, purpose, draft, proposal, device, plot, theory, intrigue, machination. ANT: Miscontrivance, bungle, misarrangement, blunder. = KEY: Schism. SYN: Division, separation, disruption, secession, diversity, sectarianism, breach, dissent, discord. ANT: Unity, integrity, catholicity, communion. = KEY: Scholar. SYN: Pupil, learner, disciple, student, schoolman, scientist, savant, gownsman, linguist. ANT: Master, teacher, preceptor, professor, ignoramus, dunce. = KEY: Scholarship. SYN: Lore, learning, erudition, attainments, culture, [See LEARNING]. = KEY: Science. SYN: Knowledge, Information, skill, experience, expertness, comprehension, understanding, investigation, truth. ANT: Ignorance, inexperience, Unfamiliarity, incomprehension, error, fallacy, empiricism, smattering, sciolism. = KEY: Scientific. SYN: Philosophical, according to general principles, or laws. ANT: Unscientific. = KEY: Sciolism. SYN: Shallowness, superficialness, smattering, imperfect knowledge. ANT: Depth, profundity, profoundness. = KEY: Scion. SYN: Slip, offshoot, cadet, branch, child. ANT: Stem, stock, parent, root. = KEY: Scoff. SYN: Sneer, mock, jibe, jeer, contemn, scout, deride, ridicule. ANT: Compliment, salute, respect, honor. = KEY: Scold. SYN: Chide, rail, reprimand, reprove, brawl, rebuke, abuse. ANT: Praise, encourage, compliment, laud, flatter. = KEY: Scope. SYN: Aim, object, mark, end, design, purpose, intention, drift, room, occasion, opportunity, liberty. ANT: Avoidance, nonintention, pretermission, inadvertence, accident, aimlessness, deviation. = KEY: Scorn \v.\ SYN: Contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout. ANT: Honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute. = KEY: Scorn \n.\ SYN: Mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium, [See LEARNING]. = KEY: Scoundrel. SYN: Villain, vagabond, knave, swindler, miscreant, reprobate. ANT: Man of honor, gentleman. = KEY: Scour. SYN: Purge, cleanse, rinse, scrub. ANT: Soil, begrime, besmear, foul, pollute, {[aefile]?}, dirt. = KEY: Scourge. SYN: Punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation. ANT: Blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction. = KEY: Scourings. SYN: Offal, dregs, lees, offscourings, refuse, dross, scum. ANT: Cream, elite, pickings, bloom, flower. = KEY: Scout \v.\ [See SCORN]. = KEY: Scowl. SYN: Frown, discountenance, browbeat, lower, glower. ANT: Smile, encourage, countenance. = KEY: Scraggy. SYN: Jagged, lean, bony, uneven, gaunt, skinny, raw, angular. ANT: Plump, fat, round, rounded. = KEY: Scramble \v.\ SYN: Struggle, hurry, bustle. ANT: Lag, dawdle, loiter, saunter. = KEY: Scramble \n.\ SYN: Hurry, bustle, struggle, confusion, turmoil, ferment, commotion, bear-garden, babel, vortex. ANT: Order, orderliness, arrangement, leisureliness, method, uniformity. = KEY: Scrap. SYN: Scantling, piece, morsel, fragment, atom, bit, portion. ANT: Whole, integrity, mass, lump. = KEY: Scrape \v.\ SYN: Grate, abrade, confricate, rasp, scratch, mark, groove. ANT: Lubricate, polish, levigate, dig, indent, wound. = KEY: Scratch \v.\ [See SCORN]. = KEY: Scream. SYN: Screech, shriek, yell. = KEY: Screen \v.\ SYN: Shelter, protect, defend, hide, palliate, mitigate, curtain, cloak, defend, harbor, fence, ward, shade. ANT: Open, expose, surrender, betray, aggravate, exaggerate, prosecute. = KEY: Scriptural. SYN: Biblical, orthodox, revealed, inspired. ANT: Profane, unrevealed, unorthodox, unbiblical, unscriptural. = KEY: Scruple \n.\ SYN: Misgiving, doubt, hesitation, qualm, reluctance, question. ANT: recklessness, unscrupulousness, confidence, assurance, self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-complacency. = KEY: Scruple \v.\ [See SCRAPE]. = KEY: Scrupulous. SYN: Conscientious, dubious, diffident, punctilious, exact, cautious, nice, precise, reluctant. ANT: reckless, unscrupulous, unhesitating, confident, self-satisfied, self-complacent, eager. = KEY: Scrutinize. SYN: Examine, probe, search into, sift, [See EXAMINE]. = KEY: Scrutiny. SYN: Search, investigation, sifting, inspection. ANT: Oversight, misobservation, disregard, connivance. = KEY: Sculpture. SYN: Statuary, carving, plastic work, carved art. = KEY: Scurrilous. SYN: Opprobrious, foul-mouthed, obscene, offensive, reproachful, [See ABUSIVE]. = KEY: Scurrility. SYN: Buffoonery, derision, {[ecomng]?}, mockery, jeering, abuse. ANT: Deference, eulogium, flattery, compliment. = KEY: Sea. SYN: Ocean, deep, main. ANT: Shore, land. = KEY: Seal. SYN: Close, fasten, confirm, sanction, ratify. ANT: Unseal, unclose, open, annul, cancel, abrogate, disratify, disaffirm, contravene. = KEY: Search \v.\ SYN: Inspect, explore, scrutinize, seek, investigate, inquire. ANT: Pretermit, disregard, abandon, misinvestigate. = KEY: Search \n.\ SYN: Exploration, pursuit, quest, inquiry, [See ABUSIVE]. = KEY: Season. SYN: Period, time, conjuncture, while, occasion, opportunity, suitableness, timeliness. ANT: Untimeliness, unsuitableness, contretemps, unseasonableness. = KEY: Seasonable. SYN: Convenient, fit, grateful, welcome, timely, suitable, periodical, normal, opportune. ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, untimely, unsuitable, unexpected, abnormal, inopportune, unseasonable. = KEY: Secede. SYN: Withdraw, retire, recede, separate, dissent, segregate. ANT: Adhere, accord, concur, conform, unite, amalgamate. = KEY: Secession. SYN: Separation, withdrawal. ANT: Union, adherence. = KEY: Secluded. SYN: Retired, retreating, hidden, withdrawn, secret, private, sequestered, shaded. ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, open. = KEY: Seclusion. SYN: Retirement, privacy, retreat, solitude, secrecy, [See SCRUTINY]. = KEY: Secondary. SYN: Subordinate, inferior, minor, unimportant, resultant, induced. ANT: Primary, leading, Important, prominent. = KEY: Secrecy, [See SOLITUDE]. = KEY: Secret. SYN: Hidden, concealed, secluded, retired, unseen, unknown, private, obscure, recondite, latent, covert, clandestine, privy, unrevealed, mysterious, underdosed. ANT: Open, public, unconcealed, known, notorious, unreserved, disclosed. = KEY: Secrete. SYN: Hide, conceal. ANT: Expose, publish, manifest, exhibit, disclose. = KEY: Sectarian. SYN: Party, schismatical, narrow, bigoted, exclusive, denominational, divisional, intolerant. ANT: Broad, catholic, comprehensive, tolerant, latitudinarian, indifferent, universal. = KEY: Secular. SYN: Worldly, profane, civil, unmonastic, temporal, laic. ANT: Regular, religious, monastic, spiritual, clerical. = KEY: Secure \a.\ SYN: Safe, easy, fixed, sheltered, fast, sure, certain, confident, unanxious, careless, protected, ensured. ANT: Anxious, distrustful, suspicious, careful, unsafe, insecure, precarious, hazardous. = KEY: Secure \v.\ SYN: Fasten, guard, protect, assure, ensure, close, enclose, detain, arrest. ANT: Loosen, betray, surrender, expose, imperil, endanger, open, liberate, free. = KEY: Security. SYN: Pledge, guarantee, warranty, protection, safeguard, pawn, deposit, bond, defence, guard, shelter, safety, certainty, ease, assurance, carelessness, confidence. ANT: Parole, word, understanding, honor, defencelessness, exposure, danger, peril, insecurity, uncertainty, care, anxiety, precariousness. = KEY: Sedate. SYN: Sober, demure, serious, calm, thoughtful, grave, settled, composed, unimpassioned, serene, passive, quiet. ANT: Flighty, frolicsome, indiscreet, unsedate, ruffled, agitated, disturbed. = KEY: Sedative. SYN: Allaying, tranquillizing, composing, soothing, demulcent, palliative, assuasive, lenient, anodyne, hypnotic. ANT: Disturbing, exciting, irritant. = KEY: Sedentary. SYN: Close, assiduous, studious. ANT: Active, free, erratic, locomotive. = KEY: Sediment. SYN: Settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate. ANT: Elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration. = KEY: Sedition. SYN: Secession, insurrection, rising, outbreak, treason, tumult, riot, rebellion, revolt, mutiny, insubordination. ANT: Union, allegiance, fealty, pacification, appeasement, quiet, orderliness, subordination, obedience. = KEY: Seditious. SYN: Insurgent, rebellious, tumultuous, turbulent, factious, mutinous. ANT: Loyal, quiet, peaceable. = KEY: Seduce. SYN: Tempt, entice, allure, overpersuade, mislead, inveigle, decoy, corrupt, deprave, lead astray, attract. ANT: Force, compel, overpower. = KEY: Seducing. SYN: Alluring, enticing, seductive, attractive. ANT: Repellent, repulsive, abhorrent, forbidding. = KEY: Sedulous. SYN: Assiduous, diligent, industrious, laborious, painstaking, persevering, close, unremitting, indefatigable, constant. ANT: Indiligent, idle, unpersevering, inattentive, distracted, wandering, inconstant. = KEY: See. SYN: Perceive, behold, descry, discern, look, view, conceive, distinguish, understand, comprehend, attend, beware, visit, experience. ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, misconceive, misunderstand, ignore. = KEY: Seed. SYN: Spring, origin, cause, germ, embryo, root. ANT: Issue, result, birth, product, development, offspring, fruit. = KEY: Seek. SYN: Search, inquire, pursue, solicit, endeavor, attempt, strive, investigate, trace, prosecute, follow, court, affect. ANT: Ignore, disregard, avoid, shun, elude, pretermit, discard, abandon, relinquish, drop. = KEY: Seem. SYN: Look, appear. ANT: Belie, misrepresent, differ. = KEY: Seemly. SYN: Becoming, fit, suitable, proper, appropriate, convenient, decent, congruous, meet, decorous. ANT: Unbecoming, unfit, unsuitable, improper, inappropriate, inconvenient, indecent, incongruous, unmeet, indecorous. = KEY: Segment. SYN: Section, part, portion, limb, member. ANT: Whole, totality, integrity, compound. = KEY: Segregate. SYN: Separate, select, part, secede, localize, exclude. ANT: Unite, confound, fuse, amalgamate, mix, collect, gather, congregate. = KEY: Seize. SYN: Catch, grasp, clutch, snatch, apprehend, arrest, hold, grip, grapple, hook, take, capture. ANT: Loose, dismiss, liberate, abandon, drop, unhand, unhook, unfasten. = KEY: Seldom. SYN: Rarely, infrequently, occasionally, inconstantly, hardly ever. ANT: Commonly, frequently, uniformly, systematically, habitually, regularly, often, invariably. = KEY: Select \v.\ SYN: Cull, pick choose, segregate, elect, prefer. ANT: Lump, confound, sweep. = KEY: Select \a.\ SYN: Choice, picked, fine, prime, chosen, selected, excellent. ANT: Haphazard, common, average, unselect, coarse, ordinary. = KEY: Selection. SYN: Choice, option, election, excerption, gathering, preoption, segregation, adoption, preference. ANT: Rejection, repudiation, refusal, exclusion, postponement. = KEY: Self-conceit. SYN: Self-esteem, egotism, [See SECLUSION]. = KEY: Self-willed. SYN: Wilful, headstrong, stubborn, [See OBSTINATE]. = KEY: Selfish. SYN: Egotistical, self-minded, self-indulgent, self-worshipful, worldly, illiberal, ungenerous, narrowminded, mercenary, greedy. ANT: Disinterested, generous, unselfish, handsome, liberal, high-minded, self-denying, magnanimous, patriotic, public-spirited, considerate, accommodating. = KEY: Sell. SYN: Vend, retail, hawk, dispose of. ANT: Give, bestow, present. = KEY: Semblance. SYN: Seeming, appearance, form, show, likeness, mien, aspect, bearing, similitude. ANT: Unlikeness, disparity, difference, contrariety, dissimilitude. = KEY: Seminary. SYN: Nursery, garden, seed-plot, academy, college, school, propaganda. ANT: Waste, wilderness. = KEY: Send. SYN: Despatch, transmit, impel, cast, bestow, grant. ANT: Detain, withhold, arrest, withdraw, deny, recal. = KEY: Send back. SYN: Relegate, remand, transfer. = KEY: Senile. SYN: Aged, imbecile, doting. ANT: Juvenile, vigorous, virile, manly. = KEY: Seniority. SYN: Eldership, priority, superiority. ANT: Juniority, inferiority, posteriority, subordination. = KEY: Sensation. SYN: Affection, apprehension, sentiment, feeling, perception, surprise, impression. ANT: Apathy, insensibility, nonperception, unsurprise. = KEY: Sense. SYN: Perception, sensation, feeling, apprehension, recognition, understanding, discernment, appreciation, sentiment, view, opinion, judgment, reason, consciousness, notion, meaning, import, signification, purport, significance, soundness, sagacity, wisdom. ANT: Non-perception, insensibility, misapprehension, misunderstanding, stolidity, nonappreciation, misconception, unsoundness, folly, nonsense, misinterpretation. = KEY: Senseless. SYN: Nonsensical, unmeaning, stupid, brainless, unconscious, foolish, silly, objectless, absurd. ANT: Sensible, significant, wise, practical. = KEY: Sensibility. SYN: Susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitiveness. ANT: Insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness. = KEY: Sensible. SYN: Tangible, palpable, perceptible, visible, appreciable, judicious, sound, conscious, aware. ANT: Intangible, impalpable, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insensible, unconscious, unaware. = KEY: Sensitive. SYN: Sentient, perceptive, impressible, easily affected. ANT: Unimpressible, not easily affected. = KEY: Sensual. SYN: Carnal, fleshly, animal, voluptuous, lewd. ANT: Spiritual, intellectual, selfdenying, abstinent, abstemious, continent, ethereal, ascetic. = KEY: Sensuous. SYN: Material, esthetic, embodied, representative, symbolical. ANT: Abstract, conceptional, imageless, contemplative, intellectual, unembodied, unsymbolical, immaterial, pictureless, formless. = KEY: Sentence. SYN: Judgment, decree, decision, doom, phrase, passage, [See OBSTINATE]. = KEY: Sententious. SYN: Pithy, pregnant, thoughtful, axiomatic, antithetical, pointed, nervous, didactic. ANT: Dull, dry, inane, vapid, point, less, jejune, trashy, bald, watery, prosy. = KEY: Sentient. SYN: Feeling, percipient, conscious, intelligent, cognizant. ANT: Insentient, insensate, mindless, unconscious, unintelligent, nonpercipient, incognizant. = KEY: Sentiment. SYN: Thought, feeling, notion, opinion, maxim, susceptibility, emotion, apprehension, impression, conviction. ANT: Vacuity, ignorance, nonsense, crudity, bugbear, conjecture, assumption, impression, hypothesis, preconception, prejudice. = KEY: Sentimental. SYN: Didactic, moral, instructive, romantic. ANT: Undidactic, unsentimental, matter-of-fact, unpoetical, prosaic. = KEY: Sentinel. SYN: Watch, guardian, guard, keeper, warden, sentry, watchman, patrol, vedette, {[i]?}. ANT: Traitor, decoy. = KEY: Separable. SYN: Dissoluble, removable, movable, distinguishable, accidental, divisible. ANT: Indissoluble, irremovable, permanent, immovable, indistinguishable, essential, inseparable, indivisible. = KEY: Separate \v.\ SYN: Part, never, disjoin, disunite, divorce, tear, rend, remove, disintegrate, detach, disconnect, divide, dissipate, scatter, segregate, diverge. ANT: Unite, fasten, tie, conjoin, wed, link, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, incorporate, connect, fuse, confound, mass, herd, congregate, convene, gather, collect, meet, converge. = KEY: Separate \a.\ SYN: Disunited, disjoined, disconnected, unconnected, detached, severed, different. ANT: Connected, conjoined, united, alike. = KEY: Separation. SYN: Disunion, disjunction, disconnection, disengagement, dissociation, [See JUDGMENT]. = KEY: Sepulchral. SYN: Hollow, deathlike, ghastly, infernal, gloomy. ANT: Genial, healthful, cheerful, vital, lively, sunny. = KEY: Sepulture. SYN: Burial, interment, humation. ANT: Exhumation, disinterment. = KEY: Sequacious. SYN: Pliant, ductile, obsequious, traditional, servile, unoriginal, unimaginative. ANT: Independent, refractory, selfwilled, self-opinionated, original, originative, imaginative. = KEY: Sequel. SYN: Event, result, consequence, conclusion, [See EVENT]. = KEY: Sequence. SYN: Following, order, succession, series, consequence, progression, continuity, posteriority. ANT: Precedence, anteriority, priority, disorder, disconnection, inconsequence, irregularity, solution, intermission. = KEY: Sequestered. SYN: Retired, withdrawn, private, hidden, unfrequented, secluded. ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, unsecluded, unsequestered. = KEY: Seraphic. SYN: Angelic, heavenly, blissful, pure, rapturous, holy, ethereal. ANT: Fiendish, hellish, devilish, demoniacal, infernal. = KEY: Serene. SYN: Clear, calm, unruffled, undisturbed, halcyonic. ANT: Turbid, stormy, agitated, tempestuous, ruffled. = KEY: Serf. SYN: Slave, servant, villain, laborer. ANT: Lord, baron, squire, proprietor, noble, landowner, liege, liegelord. = KEY: Series. SYN: Order, course, sequence, succession, train, rotation, [See EVENT]. = KEY: Serious. SYN: Grave, thoughtful, careful, earnest, solemn, important, weighty. ANT: Volatile, gay, thoughtless, careless, joking, jocose, insignificant, unimportant, trifling, trivial, light. = KEY: Serpentine. SYN: Winding, meandering, tortuous, anfractuous, undulating, sinuous, anguilliform, vermicular, coiled. ANT: Straight, unbending, unwinding, rectilinear. = KEY: Servant. SYN: Retainer, domestic, attendant, minister, maid, abigail, handmaid. ANT: Lord, master, mistress, employer. = KEY: Serve. SYN: Obey, minister, subserve, help, work for, forward, attend, suffice for, assist, benefit, answer, promote, tend, accommodate. ANT: Command, disobey, thwart, oppose, resist, counteract, contradict, neutralize, baffle, retard, obstruct. = KEY: Service. SYN: Labor, employment, advantage, use, utility, benefit, [See ADVANTAGE]. = KEY: Serviceable. SYN: Useful, benetidal, advantageous, profitable, sound, well-conditioned. ANT: Useless, profitless, ill-conditioned, unserviceable, unsound. = KEY: Servile. SYN: Obsequious, cringing, sequacious, menial, sneaking, low, abject. ANT: Independent, fractions, refractory, recalcitrant, dogged, stubborn, defiant, rebellious. = KEY: Servility. SYN: Slavery, bondage, slavishness, baseness, meanness, fawning, sycophancy, [See ADVANTAGE]. = KEY: Servitude. SYN: Service, subordination, obedience, ministry, submission. ANT: Mastery, lordship, command, dictation, sway, rule, government. = KEY: Set \v. t.\ SYN: Seat, place, locate, situate, settle, fix, build, rest, establish, ground, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, strengthen, determine, appoint, assign, cast, risk, wager, surround, bedeck, garnish, stud. ANT: Remove, disestablish, lift, raise, transfer, uproot, eradicate, unfix, disperse, discard, unsettle, demolish, destroy, weaken, loosen, detach, misarrange, misdetermine, denude, divest. = KEY: Set \v. i.\ SYN: Sink, settle, subside, decline, compose, consolidate, harden. ANT: Rise, ascend, soar, mount, stir, agitate, loosen, run, soften, melt, mollify, fuse, flow. = KEY: Set \a.\ SYN: Fixed, established, firm, determined, regular, formal, [See FIRM]. = KEY: Settle. SYN: Fix, establish, regulate, arrange, compose, adjust, determine, decide, adjudicate, quiet, allay, still, Milk, fall, subside, lower, calm, acquiesce, abate, agree. ANT: Remove, disestablish, misregulate, derange, discompose, aggravate, disorder, disturb, confuse, misdetermine, misarrange, misplace, unsettle, rise, ascend, move, disagree, increase, heighten. = KEY: Settlement. SYN: Subsidence, dregs, residuum, precipitation, colonization, location, colony. ANT: Excitement, perturbation, turbidity, fluctuation. = KEY: Sever. SYN: Separate, divide, disjoin, distinguish, part, discommunicate, sunder, disengage, detach, break, except, disconnect. ANT: Unite, conjoin, confound, confuse, amalgamate, associate, include, connect. = KEY: Several. SYN: Separate, distinct, diverse, sundry, divers, various, different. ANT: One, same, identical, indistinguishable, inseparable, united, total, integral. = KEY: Severe. SYN: Serious, austere, stern, grave, strict, harsh, rigid, rigorous, sharp, afflictive, distressing, violent, extreme, exact, critical, censorious, caustic, sarcastic, cutting, keen, bitter, cruel. ANT: Gay, smiling, cheerful, relaxed, jocose, jocund, joyous, mild, genial, indulgent, light, trivial, tri-fling, inconsiderable, inexact, loose, uncritical, lenient, inextreme, moderate, kind, considerate, feeling, tender, gentle. = KEY: Shabby. SYN: Ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, [See FIRM]. = KEY: Shackle \n.\ SYN: Fetter, gype, chain, obstruction, embarrassment. ANT: Aid, assistance, subsidiary, help. = KEY: Shackle \v.\ SYN: Fetter, bind, chain, hamper, harness, impede, [See CONTEMPTIBLE and PALTRY]. = KEY: Shade \n.\ SYN: Shadow, adumbration, umbrage, darkness, [See FETTER], obscurity, seclusion, protection, shelter, screen, oscuro, minuteness, touch, degree. ANT: Illumination, light, daylight, sunshine, brightness, radiance, glare, chiaro, amount, largeness, considerableness, quantity, publicity, defencelessness, exposure. = KEY: Shade \v.\ SYN: Shelter, screen, obscure, darken, cloud, [See {[gombreuc-^]?}]. ANT: Illuminate, brighten, make light. = KEY: Shadow. SYN: Umbration, reflection, image, sham, unsubstantiality, immaterial, phantom, attendant. ANT: Body, substance, materiality, form, principal. = KEY: Shadowy. SYN: Dim, cloudy, obscure, dark, murky, gloomy, mysterious, [See JUST and HONEST]. = KEY: Shake. SYN: Agitate, weaken, oscillate, totter, convulse, loosen, tremble, jar, quiver, shiver. ANT: Secure, fix, fasten, strengthen, stabilitate, confirm, stand. = KEY: Shallow. SYN: Shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound. ANT: Deep, profound. = KEY: Sham. SYN: Phantom, ghost, delusion, illusion, mockery, shadow, pretence, counterfeit, unreality. ANT: Substance, reality, verity, substantiality, truth. = KEY: Shame \n.\ SYN: Abashment, humiliation, modesty, shamefacedness, decency, decorum, reproach, dishonor, ignominy, contempt, degradation, discredit, dispraise. ANT: Shamelessness, Barefacedness, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, impropriety, honor, glory, exaltation, renown, credit. = KEY: Shame \v.\ SYN: Abash, humiliate, fill with shame, disgrace, [See OBSCURE]. = KEY: Shameful. SYN: Disgraceful, degrading, scandalous, outrageous, dishonorable, indecent, unbecoming, [See ABASH]. = KEY: Shameless. SYN: Vicious, sinful, immodest, indelicate, unblushing, brazen, audacious, bold-faced, impudent, cool, [See BECOMING]. = KEY: Shape \v.\ SYN: Form, mould, figure, adapt, delineate, adjust, contrive, create, execute, make. ANT: Pervert, distort, misadapt, misdelineate, derange, discompose, misconstrue, misproduce, caricature. = KEY: Shape \n.\ SYN: Figure, form, outline, mould, fashion, pattern, cast, model, [See FIGURE and MODEL]. = KEY: Shapeless. SYN: Amorphous, unformed, formless, chaotic, shadowy, undefined, monstrous, misshaped, ugly, unsymmetrical, rude, uncouth, grotesque. ANT: Comely, shaped, formed, shapely, compact, trim, neat, well-defined, handsome, symmetrical. = KEY: Shapely, [See SHAPELESS]. = KEY: Share \n.\ SYN: Portion, apportionment, lot, division, participation, allowance, quota, contingent, allotment. ANT: Whole, mass, aggregate, entirety. = KEY: Share \v.\ SYN: Divide, distribute, portion out, [See DIVIDE]. = KEY: Sharp. SYN: Thin, fine, keen, shrewd, discerning, clever, sarcastic, acute, pointed, aculeated, penetrating, pungent, acid, shrill, piercing, afflictive, distressing, harsh, severe, cutting, eager, active, ardent, sore, hard, animated, spirited. ANT: Thick, blunt, dull, obtuse, knobbed, rounded, bluff, mellow, bass, hollow, deep, light, trifling, trivial, mild, gentle, soft, tender, lenient, sluggish, inactive, indifferent, careless, spiritless, tame. = KEY: Shatter. SYN: Split, dissipate, disrupt, derange, break in pieces, rend, demolish, shiver, dismember, disintegrate. ANT: Construct, organize, collocate, fabricate, compose, rear, constitute. = KEY: Shed. SYN: Emit, diffuse, cast, drop, scatter, spill, pour, throw off. ANT: Absorb, collect, assume, retain. = KEY: Sheer. SYN: Pure, mere, unmixed, unqualified, unmitigated, absolute, simple, unadulterated. ANT: Mixed, qualified, adulterated, modified, partial. = KEY: Shelter \v.\ SYN: Shield, conceal, cover, protect, screen. ANT: Expose, surrender, betray, imperil, endanger. = KEY: Shelter \n.\ SYN: Refuge, cover, harbor, asylum, retreat, shield, security, sanctuary, [See DIVIDE]. = KEY: Shelve. SYN: Dismiss, discard, swamp, stifle, shift. ANT: Start, prosecute, pursue, revive, agitate. = KEY: Shield, [See SHELTER]. = KEY: Shift \v.\ SYN: Change, alter, transfer, shelve, displace, remove. ANT: Fix, fasten, locate, insert, pitch, plant, place. = KEY: Shift \n.\ SYN: Contrivance, expedient, substitute, pretext, motive, change, evasion, device, artifice, resource, transference. ANT: Miscontrivance, fixity, steadiness, retention, location, permanence. = KEY: Shiftless. SYN: Thriftless, improvident, imprudent, wasteful, prodigal. ANT: Provident, prudent, careful, [See SHELTER]. = KEY: Shine. SYN: Beam, brighten, gleam, give, light, glow, sparkle, glitter, {[re' ate]?}, glisten, excel. ANT: Fade, wane, loom, glimmer, gleam, fail. = KEY: Shiver \v.\ \t.\, [See PRODIGAL]. = KEY: Shiver \v.\ \i.\. SYN: Quake, tremble, vibrate, quiver, shudder. ANT: Hang, stand, stiffen, steady, rigidity. = KEY: Shock. SYN: Surprise, disgust, offend, dismay, astound, appall, horrify, shame. ANT: Gratify, please, delight, amuse, entify. = KEY: Shocking. SYN: Sad, horrible, disgraceful, hateful, revolting, abominable, loathsome, foul. ANT: Pleasing, honorable, charming, delightful, creditable, exemplary, attractive, alluring, enticing. = KEY: Shore. SYN: Coast, bench, strand. ANT: Ocean, sea, main, deep. = KEY: Short. SYN: Brief, limited, scanty, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, deficient, defective, imperfect, incomplete, soon, near, narrow, weak, incomprehensive, inextensive, less, abrupt, blunt, concise, condensed. ANT: Lon, [See {[(]?}], protracted, extended, unlimited, plentiful, ample, abundant, adequate, sufficient, exuberant, liberal, large, copious, complete, distant, deferred, wide, strong, comprehensive, extensive, exceeding, bland, courteous, unabrupt, expanded, diffuse. = KEY: Shorten. SYN: Curtail, lessen, abridge, [See {[?]?}]. = KEY: Shout \n.\ SYN: Exclamation, uproar, clamor, vociferation. ANT: Sibilation, hissing, reticence, silence, hush. = KEY: Shout \v.\ SYN: Cry out, exclaim, vociferate, {[yeH]?}, halloo, hollo, holla. ANT: Be silent, speak low, speak in a natural tone. = KEY: Show \v.\ SYN: Exhibit, present, demonstrate, unfold, reveal, teach, inform, conduct, manifest, evince, evidence, prove, explain. ANT: Conceal, suppress, hide, withhold, obscure, mystify, wrap, misdemonstrate, misdeclare, contradict, refute, deny, disprove, misinterpret, falsify, misexplain. = KEY: Show \n.\ SYN: Appearance, exhibition, demonstration, parade, pomp, semblance, likeness, pretext, profession, pretence, illusion. ANT: Nonappearance, disappearance, concealment, suppression, secret, disguise, dissimilarity, unlikeness, genuineness, reality, sincerity, substance. = KEY: Showy. SYN: Gay, gaudy, high-colored, gorgeous, flashy, tinsel. ANT: Inconspicuous, unnoticeable, quiet, subdued. = KEY: Shred. SYN: Strip, fragment, ras, tatter, oddment, scrap, paring, chip. ANT: Fold, mass, piece, entirety, integrity, whole. = KEY: Shrew. SYN: Vixen, scold, virago, termagant. ANT: Angel, dove. = KEY: Shrewd. SYN: Sagacious, penetrating, astute, discriminating, intelligent, discerning, acute. ANT: Stolid, undiscerning, unsagacious, stupid, dull. = KEY: Shrill. SYN: Sharp, piercing, acute, high pitched. ANT: Low, deep, base, hollow, murmuring, rumbling. = KEY: Shrink. SYN: Contract, shrivel, withdraw, retire, recoil, revolt. ANT: Stretch, expand, dilate, venture, dare. = KEY: Shrivel. SYN: Contract, dry up, wither, wrinkle, corrugate, decrease. ANT: expand, flatten, develop, unfold, spread, dilate. = KEY: Shroud. SYN: Cover, {[hfHe]?}, veil, obscure, darken, palliate, envelop, shelter. ANT: Expose, reveal, {[nnvefl]?}, elucidate, discover, uncover. = KEY: Shuffle. SYN: Confuse, interchange, shift, intershift, intermix, derange, agitate, evade, prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, cavil, sophisticate, mystify, palter, dissemble. ANT: Deal, distribute, order, arrange, compose, confess, propound, declare, explain, elucidate, reveal. = KEY: Shun. SYN: Avoid, escape, discard, eschew, keep clear of, elude. ANT: Court, seek, affect. = KEY: Shut. SYN: Close, contract, confine, preclude, bar, fasten. ANT: Open, expand, unclose, unbar, unfasten. = KEY: Shy. SYN: Timid, reserved, modest, bashful, Suspicion, shrinking, chary. ANT: Bold, brazen-faced, impudent, audacious, reckless. = KEY: Sibilation. SYN: Hissing, outcry, disfavor. ANT: Acclamation, cheers, popularity. = KEY: Sick. SYN: Diseased, ill, disordered, distempered, indisposed, weak, riling, feeble, morbid, nauseated, disgusted, corrupt, impaired, valetudinarian. ANT: Whole, well, healthy, sound, robust, strong, well-conditioned, salubrious. = KEY: Sickly. SYN: Weak, diseased, disordered, ailing, feeble, pining, droop, ing, morbid, unhealthy, vitiated, delicate, tainted, valetudinary. ANT: Strong, healthy, vigorous, flourishing, salubrious, sound, robust. = KEY: Sickness. SYN: Indisposition, illness, disease. ANT: Health, soundness. = KEY: Side. SYN: Margin, edge, verge, border, laterality, face, aspect, plane, party, interest, cause, policy, behalf. ANT: Centre, body, core, interior, essence, neutrality, disconnection, severance, secession, opposition. = KEY: Sidereal. SYN: Astral, heavenly, starry, celestial. ANT: terrestrial, terrene, earthly. = KEY: Sift. SYN: Screen, analyze, scrutinize, robe, examine critically, investigate, winnow, sort. ANT: Confound, fuse, confuse, amalgamate, conglomerate, compound. = KEY: Sight. SYN: Seeing, perception, view, vision, visibility, spectacle, show, inspection, examination, representation, appearance. ANT: Nonperception, invisibility, blindness, obscuration, disappearance, oversight, nonappearance, undiscernment. = KEY: Sign. SYN: Token, indication, proof, memorial, expression, symbol, emblem, prefiguration, badge, type, premonition, symptom, prognostic, mark, wonder, presage, signal. ANT: Misindication, misrepresentation, misleader. = KEY: Signal. SYN: Eminent, conspicuous, remarkable, extraordinary, notable, memorable, illustrious, important, saline, distinguished. ANT: Ordinary, common, unnoticeable, mediocre, unmemorable, unimportant. = KEY: Signalize. SYN: Distinguish, exalt, glorify, dignify, immortalize, celerate. ANT: Disgrace, dishonor, discredit. = KEY: Significant. SYN: Expressive, momentous, suggestive, indicative, forcible, weighty, symbolical, telling, speaking. ANT: Inexpressive, meaningless, expressionless, unindicative, mute. = KEY: Signify. SYN: Portend, purport, prognosticate, mean, represent, indicate, communicate, denote, betoken, declare, utter, forebode, presage. ANT: Conceal, suppress, misindicate, misdenote, nullify, refute, neutralize, preclude. = KEY: Silence \n.\ SYN: Taciturnity, stillness, calm, peace, hush, muteness, secrecy, oblivion. ANT: Garrulity, loquacity, talkativeness, chatter, noise, brawl, clamor, clatter, din, Babel, tumult, agitation, restlessness, storm, unrest, roar, bruit, reverberation, resonance, commotion, cackling, proclamation, publicity, fame, rumor, remembrance, repute, celebrity. = KEY: Silence \v.\ SYN: Still, stifle, hush, allay, quiet, calm, [See ABRIDGE]. = KEY: Silent. SYN: Still, taciturn, speechless, dormant, quiet, noiseless. ANT: Noisy, loquacious, garrulous. = KEY: Silly, Germ, selig. SYN: Simple, foolish, weak, shallow, witless, unwise, indiscreet, imprudent, absurd. ANT: Sagacious, intelligent, astute, wise, deep, discreet, prudent, sound, rational. = KEY: Similar. SYN: Correspondent, resembling, alike, common, homogeneous, concordant, harmonious, congruous. ANT: Different, unlike, dissimilar, alien, heterogeneous, discordant, incongruous. = KEY: Similitude. SYN: Likeness, resemblance, comparison, similarity, [See LIKENESS]. = KEY: Simple. SYN: Single, incomplex, uncompounded, unblended, isolated, pure, unmixed, mere, absolute, plain, unadorned, unartificial, artless, sincere, undesigning, single-minded, unaffected, sickly, weak, unsophisticated, humble, homely, lowly, elementary, ultimate, primal, rudimentary. ANT: Double, complex, compounded, blended, mixed, fused, multiform, multigenerous, various, compound, articulated, subdivided, organized, connected, modified, complicated, elaborate, artificial, artful, designing, insincere, double-minded, affected, self-conscious, sagacious, sophisticated, great, eminent, illustrious, complete, developed, perfect. = KEY: Simplicity. SYN: artlessness, sincerity, plainness, frankness. ANT: Artfulness, insincerity, guile, deceit. = KEY: Simplify. SYN: Facilitate, disencumber, elucidate. ANT: Embarrass, complicate, encumber, obscure. = KEY: Simulate. SYN: Feign, counterfeit, pretend, impersonate, assume. ANT: Disresemble, discard, misrepresent, mis-exhibit, misbeseem. = KEY: Simultaneous. SYN: Synchronous, concomitant, concurrent. ANT: Inconcurrent, separate, apart, Intermittent, periodic. = KEY: Sin. SYN: Transgression, iniquity, unrighteousness, ungodliness, wickedness, evil, impurity, crime, wrongdoing, ungodliness. ANT: Sinlessness, obedience, holiness, righteousness, purity, godliness, goodness. = KEY: Sincere. SYN: Pure, unmixed, genuine, unadulterated, hearty, honest, unaffected, unvarnished, candid, cordial, frank, unfeigned, true. ANT: Impure, adulterated, dishonest, insincere, hypocritical, feigned, pretended, false. = KEY: Sinful, [See WICKED]. = KEY: Single. SYN: One, unique, only, individual, sole, solitary, separate, uncombined, unmarried, uncompounded. ANT: Plural, many, collective, united, numerous, frequent, married. = KEY: Singular. SYN: Single, individual, unique, eminent, extraordinary, conspicuous, consummate, unusual, uncommon, odd, whimsical, quaint, peculiar, unexampled, unprecedented, solitary, sole, eccentric, fantastic, exceptional, particular, remarkable, curious, queer. ANT: Common, frequent, numerous, ordinary, usual, unnoticeable, everyday, customary, general, regular. = KEY: Sinister. SYN: Unlucky, inauspicious, ill-omened, portentous, disastrous, unfavorable, wrong, unfair, underhanded, evil, foul, dishonest, dishonorable, forbidding, repulsive, lowering. ANT: Lucky, fortunate, propitious, auspicious, favorable, right, fair, open, honest, honorable, attractive, winning, engaging, assuring, frank. = KEY: Sink. SYN: Fall, descend, drop, subside, penetrate, soak, droop, decline, weary, flag, decay, decrease, diminish, abate, lower, immerse, submerge, depress, degrade, drown, reduce, attenuate, suppress. ANT: Rise, ascend, soar, swell, Increase, flourish, revive, float, heighten, promote, exalt, enhance, rescue, foster, encourage, perpetuate, promulgate, divulge. = KEY: Sinuous. SYN: Coiled, convolute, undulating, curved, serpentine, winding, tortuous, anfractuous, waving, flexuous. ANT: Uncoiled, rectilinear, uninflected. = KEY: Situation. SYN: Locality, position, topography, state, seat, post, place, condition, residence, aspect, footing, office, birth, plight, predicament, standing. ANT: Non-situation, non-location, absence, nonassignment, unfixedness, displacement, dislodgment. = KEY: Size. SYN: Greatness, magnitude, largeness, extent, dimension, bulk, extent, bigness. ANT: Smallness, littleness, tenuity, minuteness. = KEY: Sketch \n.\ SYN: Outline, draught, skeleton, delineation, [See WICKED]. = KEY: Sketch \v.\ SYN: Outline, draw, depict, portray, paint, delineate, [See OUTLINE]. = KEY: Skilful. SYN: Expert, clever, dexterous, apt, well-versed, adroit, [See DELINEATE]. = KEY: Skill. SYN: Expertness, aptitude, [See ABILITY]. = KEY: Skim. SYN: Brush, glide, graze, touch. ANT: Enter, penetrate. = KEY: Skirt. SYN: border, trim, confine, bound, surround, encircle. ANT: Penetrate, enter, interpenetrate. = KEY: Skulk. SYN: Hide, sneak, cower, lurk, abscond, slink. ANT: Appear, issue, parade, show. = KEY: Slack. SYN: Loose, weak, remiss, backward, indiligent, slow, remiss, tardy, lax. ANT: Tight, tense, strong, active, prompt, diligent, alert, quick, eager. = KEY: Slacken. SYN: Loosen, abate, withhold, remit, languish, flag, moderate. ANT: Tighten, increase, freshen. = KEY: Slander. SYN: Asperse, defame, calumniate, vilify, abuse, scandalize, traduce, belittle, blacken. ANT: Praise, laud, honor, vindicate, defend, panegyrize, eulogize, shield, commend. = KEY: Slaughter \n.\ [See CARNAGE]. = KEY: Slave. SYN: Bondman, thrall, vassal, drudge, [See CARNAGE]. = KEY: Slavery \n.\ [See BONDAGE]. = KEY: Slavish. SYN: Servile, drudging, {[merual]?}, mean, base, abject. ANT: Independent, free, voluntary. = KEY: Slay, [See BONDAGE]. = KEY: Slick. SYN: Glossy, velvety, satin, silken, shiny, smooth. ANT: Bough, hairy, hirsute, bristly. = KEY: Sleep \v.\ SYN: Slumber, doze, drowse, snooze, repose. ANT: Be awake. = KEY: Sleepy. SYN: Slumberous, somnolent, drowsy, sluggish, lazy. ANT: Wakeful, vigilant, alert, awake, active. = KEY: Slender. SYN: Thin, narrow, slight, slim, small, trivial, spare, inadequate, fragile, feeble, flimsy, meagre, inconsiderable, superficial. ANT: Stout, thick, broad, robust, massive, considerable, ample, deep. = KEY: Slight \a.\ [See SLENDER]. = KEY: Slight \v.\ SYN: Disregard, disdain, acorn, overlook, disparage. ANT: Regard, respect, notice, observe. = KEY: Slight \n.\ SYN: Neglect, contempt, scorn, disregard. ANT: Respect, regard, honor, [See SLENDER], [See {[811in]?}]. = KEY: Slimy. SYN: Sticky, viscous, viscid, glutinous, [See SLENDER]. = KEY: Slink, [See SLUNK]. = KEY: Slippery. SYN: Smooth, glassy, lubricated, insecure, perilous, unsafe, unstable, shifty, elusive, shuffling, unprincipled, deceptive, evasive, untrustworthy, uncertain. ANT: Rough, firm, unslippery, secure, safe, stable, solid, trustworthy. = KEY: Slough. SYN: Mire, difficulty, despond. ANT: Footing, standpoint. = KEY: Slovenly. SYN: Loose, negligent, disorderly, untidy, unclean, sluttish, slatternly. ANT: Trim, neat, careful, orderly, tidy, precise. = KEY: Slow. SYN: Sluggish, inactive, Inert, lazy, unready, tardy, late, gradual, tedious, dull, dilatory, lingering, slack. ANT: Active, quick, fast, rapid, alert, ready, prompt, early, sudden, Immediate. = KEY: Sluggard. SYN: Idler, drone, lazybones, laggard, [See SLUNK]. = KEY: Sluggish. SYN: Slow, inert, indolent, phlegmatic, slothful, Iazy. ANT: Active, quick, nervous, laborious. = KEY: Sly. SYN: Cunning, subtle, crafty, artful, wily, underhanded, astute, stealthy. ANT: Open, frank, artless, undesigning. = KEY: Small. SYN: Little, diminutive, slight, minute, feeble, trivial, insignificant, paltry, narrow, mean, weak, slender, fine, inferior. ANT: Great, large, big, considerable, bulky, extensive, ample, spacious, stout, strong, important, broad, liberal. = KEY: Smart. SYN: Keen, pungent, piercing, quick, vigorous, sharp, severe, active, clever, brilliant, vivacious, witty, ready, spruce, brisk, fresh, dressy, showy. ANT: Dull, heavy, aching, slow, inactive, stupid, sluggish, unready, slow-minded, unwitty, dowdy, shabby, clownish. = KEY: Smear. SYN: Daub, plaster, spatter, tarnish, besmear, coat, begrime, varnish, incrust. ANT: Abrade, levigate, polish, scour, scrape. = KEY: Smell, [See PERFUME]. = KEY: Smite. SYN: Strike, beat, buffet, chastise, blast, afflict, kill, slay, punish, surprise, captivate. ANT: Soothe, smooth, caress, relieve, console, repel, alienate. = KEY: Smoke \n.\ SYN: Fumigation, fumes, vapor, insubstantiality, nothingness, moonshine, triviality, trifle. ANT: Substance, reality, realization, moment, importance. = KEY: Smoke \v.\ SYN: Reek, fume, steam. = KEY: Smooth \a.\ SYN: Even, plain, level, flat, polished, glossy, sleek, soft, unruffled, unobstructed, bland, oily, suave. ANT: Uneven, rough, rugged, abrupt, precipitous, unpolished, harsh, blunt. = KEY: Smooth \v.\ SYN: Flatten, level, ease, soften, calm, allay, mitigate, [See CALM]. = KEY: Smolder. SYN: Reek, simmer, seethe, ferment, work. ANT: Burst, blaze. = KEY: Smother. SYN: Suffocate, stifle, repress, gag, conceal, suppress, choke, strangle, allay, swallow. ANT: Fan, ventilate, foster, cherish, nurture, publish, promulgate, divulge, spread, excite, vent. = KEY: Snare \n.\ SYN: Net, trap, gin, noose, device, springe. = KEY: Snarling. SYN: Cross, crabbed, peevish, cynical, snappish, [See CALM]. = KEY: Snatch. SYN: Twitch, pluck, pull, catch, grasp, gripe, clutch. ANT: Unclutch, restore, unhand, release. = KEY: Sneak. SYN: Slink, skulk, steal away, lurk, cringe, crouch, truckle, [See CROSS]. = KEY: Sneer. SYN: Scoff, gibe, jeer, taunt, disparagement, contempt, scorn, superciliousness, disdain. ANT: Compliment, eulogy, commendation, deference. = KEY: Snub. SYN: Mortify, check, rebuke, reprimand, [See CRINGE and SKULK]. = KEY: Snug. SYN: Close, housed, compressed, compact, comfortable, sheltered. ANT: Exposed, loose, disordered, incompact, uncomfortable, bare, shivering. = KEY: Soak. SYN: Wet, steep, drench, macerate, moisten, submerge. ANT: Dry, air, wring, exsiccate, aridify, bleach. = KEY: Soar. SYN: Rise, mount, tower, aspire, ascend, uprise. ANT: Drop, sink, descend, alight. = KEY: Sober. SYN: Temperate, unintoxicated, cool, dispassionate, reasonable, culm, self-possessed, sound, unexcited, serious, grave, sedate, steady, abstemious, moderate. ANT: Intemperate, drunk, intoxicated, heated, excited, impassioned, {[{[unr<*aonnWp]?}, {[unr<*aonnWp agitated, furious, passionate, extravagant, extreme, exorbitant, immoderate, flighty, erratic, eccentric. = KEY: Sobriety. SYN: Soberness, temperance, abstemiousness. ANT: Intemperance. = KEY: Sociable. SYN: Companionable, genial, social, convertible, friendly, accessible, gregarious. ANT: Unsociable, uncompanionable, unconversable, ungenial, in friendly, Inaccessible, re iring, morose, solitary, uncommunicative. = KEY: Social. SYN: Collective, political, gregarious, [See REBUKE and MORTIFY]. ANT: Individual, solitary, personal. = KEY: Society. SYN: community, {[pobiy]?}, association, collection, companionship, fellowship, connection, participation, company, sociality, communion, intercourse, sodality. ANT: Individuality, personality, segregation, separation, solitariness, missociality, privacy, dissociation, disconnection. = KEY: Soft. SYN: Yielding, pressible, impressible, smooth, delicate, fine, sleek, glossy, mild, gentle, balmy, kind, feeling, flexible, effeminate, luxurious, unmanly, tender, irresolute, undecided. ANT: Hard, tough, stubborn, unyielding, rigid, unimpressible, rough, coarse, harsh, abrupt, ungentle, rigorous, cutting, severe, unkind, unfeeling, sharp, inflexible, stern, austere, ascetic, self-denying, resolute, determined. = KEY: Soften. SYN: Mollify, palliate, compose, mitigate, assuage, dulcify, lenity, yield, macerate, humanize, abate, moderate. ANT: Harden, indurate, aggravate, excite, infuriate, consolidate. = KEY: Soil. SYN: Stain, tarnish, begrime, befoul, contaminate. ANT: Purify, bleach, cleanse, absterge. = KEY: Sojourn. SYN: Rest, [See SOCIABLE], reside, tarry, lodge, halt, stay, quarter. ANT: Migrate, move, Wonder, depart, travel, journey. = KEY: Solace. SYN: Consolation, comfort, alleviation, relief, sympathy. ANT: Affliction, war, bitterment,. = KEY: Vole. SYN: Single, solitary, only, individual, exclusive, by one's self, Alone, one, singular. ANT: Plural, numerous, combined, collective. = KEY: Solemn. SYN: Sacred, formal, devotional, reverential, ritual, ceremonial, impressive, religious, grave, serious. ANT: Profane, undevotional, secular, light, gay, trivial, unceremonial, informal, unsolemn. = KEY: Solemnity. SYN: Celebration, rite, office, ceremony, function, pomp, parade, seriousness, pomposity, gravity, sacredness, awe, sanctity, impressiveness, imposingness. ANT: Noncelebration, secularity, simplicity, triviality, gaiety, profanity, desecration, unimpressiveness, meanness, tawdriness, vulgarity, unimposingness. = KEY: Solicit. SYN: Entreat, beg, urge, pray, ask, crave, implore, importune. ANT: Demand, require, exact, claim. = KEY: Solicitous. SYN: Desirous, anxious, apprehensive, uneasy, careful, concerned, [See {rb' '<}?]. = KEY: Solicitude. SYN: Anxiety, concern, trouble, carefulness, uneasiness, care. ANT: Indifference, unconcern, carelessness, ease. = KEY: Solid. SYN: Hard, firm, compact, resistant, dense, substantial, weighty, strong, valid, just, sound, impenetrable, stable, cubic. ANT: Soft, hollow, yielding, frail, brittle, flimsy, elastic, resilient, malleable, impressible, fluid, liquid, frivolous, light, trifling, weak, invalid, unsound, fallacious, weakly. = KEY: Solitary. SYN: Sole, single, only, lone, lonely, private, remote, retired, sequestered, desolate, uninhabited, desert, [See ANXIOUS]. = KEY: Solitude. SYN: Loneliness, remoteness, seclusion, retirement, isolation, wildness, desertion, barrenness, wilderness, privacy. ANT: Publicity, populousness, society, frequentedness, intercourse, resort, meeting, reunion, throng, crowd. = KEY: Soluble. SYN: Separable, discerptible, divisible, dissoluble. ANT: Indivisible, inseparable, indiscerptible, insoluble, indissoluble. = KEY: Solution. SYN: Separation, discerption, disruption, breach, discontinuance, disconnection, disentanglement, elucidation, explanation, key, answer, resolution, disintegration. ANT: Union, combination, amalgamation, continuity, connection, {[con]?}, junction, entanglement, complication, confusion, mystification, obscurity, integration. = KEY: Solve. SYN: Explain, resolve, unfold, work out, clear up, [See EXPLAIN]. = KEY: Sombre. SYN: Dull, grave, gloomy, dark, murky, cloudy, funereal, sable, mournful, dusky, pensive, melancholy. ANT: Bright, gay, sunny, joyous. = KEY: Somnolent. SYN: Sleepy, drowsy, dozy, dreamy. ANT: Wakeful, vigilant, alert. = KEY: Song. SYN: Poem, lay, ballad, strain, ditty, carol, anthem, epic, lyric. = KEY: Sonorous. SYN: Resonant, {[louc'audible]?}, louc'audible audible, ringing, clear, trumpetlike, high-sounding. ANT: Mute, muffled, dumb, soft weak, inaudible, confused, powerless. = KEY: Soon. SYN: Shortly, quickly, promptly, before long, early. ANT: Late, slowly, tardily. = KEY: Soothe. SYN: Soften, assuage, allay, compose, mollify, tranquillize, pacify, lull, mitigate, flatter, appease, relieve. ANT: Rouse, excite, irritate, ruffle, exasperate, exacerbate, agitate, infuriate, aggravate, annoy, dissatisfy. = KEY: Sophism. SYN: Fallacy, quibble, paralogism. ANT: Truth, argument, reason, logic, syllogism. = KEY: Sophisticate. SYN: Artificialize, demoralize, debase, corrupt, vitiate, spoil, pervert. ANT: Naturalize, simplify, purify, train, Improve, correct, refine, reform. = KEY: Sophistry, [See EXPLAIN]. = KEY: Soporific. SYN: Somniferous, narcotic, anodyne, opiate. ANT: Antisoporific, antinarcotic. = KEY: Sorcery. SYN: Magic, enchantment, witchcraft, divination, glamour, possession. ANT: Disenchantment, exorcism, exsufflation, dispossessing. = KEY: Sordid. SYN: Dirty, filthy, foul, gross, vile, base, mean, avaricious, covetous, selfish, venal, niggardly, beggarly, closefisted, hidebound, greedy. ANT: Pure, liberal, generous, unselfish, honorable, uncovetous, openhanded, high-minded, profuse, lavish, prodigal, extravagant, overliberal. = KEY: Sore \a.\ SYN: Painful, irritated, susceptible, excoriated, raw, scarified, ulcerous, grievous, afflictive, heavy, burdensome. ANT: Painless, sound, whole, healthful, healed, unbroken, unscarified, light, trivial, unburdensome, pleasant, untroublesome, grateful. = KEY: Sore \n.\ SYN: Pustule, abscess, ulcer. = KEY: Sorrow. SYN: Affliction, grief, sadness, trouble, regret, distress, mental pain, ruth, mourning. ANT: Joy, gladness, rejoicing. = KEY: Sorry. SYN: Grieved, pained, hurt, afflicted, woe-begone, doleful, downhearted, mortified, vexed, dejected, poor, mean, vile, shabby, worthless. ANT: Glad, rejoiced, delighted, pleased, gratified, fine, choice, handsome. = KEY: Sort. SYN: Kind, species, nature, class, order, character, rank, manner, quality, condition, description, designation, genus. ANT: non-description, solitariness, uniqueness, nonclassification, heterogeneity. = KEY: Soul. SYN: Spirit, vital principle, life, reason, intellect, vitality, fire, leader, inspirer, energy, courage, fervor, affection, feeling, being, person, {[innu]?}. ANT: Soullessness, irrationality, unintellectuality, deadness, unfeelingness, spiritlessness, coldness, mind-issues, nonentity, nullity. = KEY: Sound \n.\ SYN: Resonance, audibility, noise, report. ANT: Silence, stillness, muteness, voicelessness, abmutescence. = KEY: Sound \a.\ SYN: Entire, unbroken, whole, perfect, unhurt, well-grounded, uninjured, unimpaired, healthy, firm, strong, vigorous, weighty, solid, irrefragable, irrefutable, thorough, valid, wholesome, correct, substantial. ANT: Partial, broken, injured, Impaired, unhealthy, unsound, weak, frail, fragile, light, trivial, unfounded, hollow, fallacious, imperfect, unwholesome, incorrect, unsubstantial, invalid,. = KEY: Sound \v.\ SYN: Probe, gauge, investigate. ANT: Overlook, disregard, misexamine, misinvestigate. = KEY: Sour. SYN: Tart, rancid, coagulated, turned, harsh, crabbed, austere, morose, pungent, crusty, acid, churlish, bitter, acetous, acrimonious, peevish. ANT: Sweet, wholesome, untainted, mellow, genial, kindly. = KEY: Source. SYN: Rise, origin, spring, fount, fountain, cause, commencement, beginning. ANT: Mouth, debouchure, termination, end, exit, issue, result, effect. = KEY: Sovereign. SYN: Paramount, supreme, primary, chief, certain, efficacious, principal, predominant, superior, imperial, regal. ANT: Inferior, ministerial, subservient, subordinate, subject, secondary, weak, uncertain, inefficient, inefficacious. = KEY: Sow \v.\ SYN: Scatter, disseminate, plant, strew, [See SCATTER]. = KEY: Space. SYN: Extension, room, interval, boundlessness, immeasurableness, illimitableness, distance, measure, quantity, intervenience, interspace. ANT: Limitation, inextension, restriction, coarctation, confinement, proximity, scantiness, contiguity, uninterruptedness, continuity. = KEY: Spacious. SYN: Ample, extensive, broad, vast, capacious, large, wide, roomy, expansive. ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, cramped, confined, inextensive. = KEY: Spare \v.\ SYN: Save, afford, grant, reserve, do without, husband, economize, retain, store, grudge, discard, omit, forbear, withhold, refrain, abstain. ANT: Spend, squander, waste, lavish, scatter, expend, pour, indulge, vent. = KEY: Spare \a.\ SYN: Scanty, unplentiful, inabundant, meagre, economical, frugal, stinted, restricted, parsimonious, niggardly, chary, superfluous, disposable, available, lean, thin, ill-conditioned. ANT: Ample, plentiful, abundant, profuse, liberal, unrestricted, generous, bountiful, unsparing, unstinted, unbounded, available, well-conditioned. = KEY: Sparing, [See SCATTER]. = KEY: Sparkle. SYN: Scintillate, flash, glisten, glitter, gleam, shine, bubble, radiate, coruscate, effervesce. ANT: Smoulder, wane, stagnate, expire. = KEY: Sparse. SYN: Scattered, sprinkled, few, scanty, thin, meagre, innumerous. ANT: Dense, multitudinous, numerous, frequented, thick, crowded, populous. = KEY: Spatter. SYN: Besprinkle, besmear. = KEY: Speak. SYN: Converse, discourse, talk, utter, pronounce, say, express, accost, address, tell, [See FRUGAL]. = KEY: Special. SYN: Particular, specific, peculiar, appropriate, proper, distinctive, extraordinary, especial, exceptional. ANT: General, universal, common, generic. = KEY: Species, [See SORT]. = KEY: Specify. SYN: Particularize, individualize, indicate, designate, detail, determine, state, enumerate, mention. ANT: Generalize, classify, amalgamate, confound. = KEY: Specimen. SYN: Sample, mode, pattern, model, illustration, instance, type, exemplar. ANT: Anomaly, exception, nondescript, monster, freak, misillustration. = KEY: Specious. SYN: Plausible, showy, ostensible, colorable, fair-spoken. ANT: Inadmissible, self-contradictory, absurd, unreasonable. = KEY: Speck \a.\ SYN: Blemish, mite, bit, spot, particle, [See SORT]. = KEY: Spectacle. SYN: Sight, exhibition, display, parade, demonstration, picture, scene, representation, gazingstock, show, pageant, flourish. ANT: Nondemonstration, noncelebration. = KEY: Spectator. SYN: Observer, witness, beholder, gazer, looker-on, bystander, [See BLEMISH and MASS]. = KEY: Spectral. SYN: Ghostly, ghastly, cadaverous, shadowy, visionary, illusionary. ANT: Bodily, substantial, corporal, fleshly, palpable. = KEY: Spectre. SYN: Apparition, ghost, shade, shadow, spirit, larva. ANT: Body, substance, flesh, personality. = KEY: Speculate. SYN: Consider, meditate, theorize, cogitate, [See COGITATE]. = KEY: Speculation. SYN: Contemplation, consideration, weighing, thought, theory, scheme, hypothesis, view, conjecture. ANT: Realization, proof, fact, verification, certainty. = KEY: Speech. SYN: Address, oration, harangue, discourse, [See COGITATE]. = KEY: Speed. SYN: Despatch, expedite, accelerate, urge, hasten, hurry, press. ANT: Retard, delay, postpone, obstruct, drag, loiter, dawdle, linger, lag, stay. = KEY: Speedy. SYN: Early, quick, rapid, fast, accelerated, prompt, nimble, swift, fleet. ANT: Late, slow, dragging, loitering, lingering, tardy, sluggish. = KEY: Spend. SYN: Bestow, waste, exhaust, squander, expend, lay out, consume, disburse, lavish. ANT: Retain, save, hoard, accumulate, husband, economize. = KEY: Sphere. SYN: Globe, ball, region, realm, circuit, orb, department, vocation, rank, standing, order, [See HARANGUE]. = KEY: Spirit. SYN: Air, breath, life, soul, vital force, essential quality, essence, immateriality, intelligence, disembodiment, spectre, apparition, ghost, energy, ardor, enthusiasm, activity, earnestness, courage, zeal, disposition, temper, principle, motive, distillation. ANT: Substance, body, corporeity, materiality, flesh, organization, frame, embodiment, spiritlessness, listlessness, soullessness, lifelessness, torpor, deadness, timidity, dejection, slowness, sluggishness. = KEY: Spirited. SYN: Animated, lively, vivacious, ardent, buoyant, sprightly, courageous. ANT: Dull, dispirited, depressed, cowardly. = KEY: Spiritual. SYN: Divine, religions, holy, ghostly, ethical, immaterial, incorporeal, intellectual. ANT: Carnal, fleshly, unspiritual, gross, material, sensuous. = KEY: Spite. SYN: Malice, malevolence, grudge, pique, hatred, Ill-will, vindictiveness, rancor, spleen. ANT: good will, benevolence, kindliness. = KEY: Spiteful. SYN: Malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, ill-natured, evilminded. ANT: Kind, benevolent, good-natured. = KEY: Spleen. SYN: Anger, [See VOCATION], annoyance, rancor, hypochondria, melancholy, irascibility, gall, vexation, ill-humor. ANT: Kindliness, benevolence, gratification, mirth, cheerfulness, geniality, high-spirits, gratulation, pacification. = KEY: Splendid. SYN: Brilliant, showy, magnificent, sumptuous, gorgeous, glorious, pompous, imposing, illustrious, superb, famous, heroic, grand, signal. ANT: Dull, obscure, tame, somber, poor, beggardly, unimposing, ordinary, ineffective, inglorious. = KEY: Split. SYN: Divide, separate, rive, cleave, crack, splinter, burst, rend, sunder, disagree, secede, disunite. ANT: Cohere, unite, amalgamate, coalesce, conform, agree, splice, consolidate, integrate. = KEY: Spoil. SYN: Plunder, strip, rob, devastate, pillage, denude, corrupt, vitiate, mar, deteriorate. ANT: Invest, enrich, endow, replenish, renovate, improve, better, ameliorate, rectify, preserve. = KEY: Spontaneous. SYN: Voluntary, self-generated, self-originated, self-evolved, willing, unbidden, gratuitous. ANT: Involuntary, imposed, compulsionary, unwilling, necessitated, coercive. = KEY: Sport. SYN: Play, frolic, wantonness, joke, diversion, merriment, gaiety, fun, amusement, recreation, game, pastime. ANT: Work, seriousness, business, earnestness. = KEY: Spot \n.\ SYN: Stain, blot, blemish, locality, site, place, [See BLEMISH]. = KEY: Spotless, [See BLEMISH]. = KEY: Spread. SYN: Extend, stretch, expand, open, unfurl, divulge, propagate, publish, disperse, diffuse, overlay, distribute, scatter, circulate, disseminate, ramify. ANT: Contract, furl, gather, fold, close, shut, secrete, suppress, confine, restrict, repress, hush, conceal, recal, collect, stagnate, concentrate, localize. = KEY: Sprightly. SYN: Blithe, lively, gay, vivacious, alert, agile, brisk, animated. ANT: Sombre, dull, lifeless, sluggish, inanimate, heavy. = KEY: Spring \n.\ SYN: Origin, source, fountain, beginning, rise, [See PURE]. = KEY: Spring \v.\ SYN: Leap, bound, jump, start, emerge, issue, proceed, originate, rise, emanate, germinate, burst, flow. ANT: Settle, alight, land, drop, arrive, issue, eventuate, end, terminate, debouch, disembogue. = KEY: Sprite. SYN: Spirit, specter, ghost, shade, fairy, elf, [See OPINION]. = KEY: Sprout \n.\ SYN: Bud, germ, shoot, twig, stem, scion, [See GHOST]. = KEY: Sprout \v.\ SYN: Shoot, germinate, spring, vegetate, bud. ANT: Blight, wither, decay. = KEY: Spruce. SYN: Neat, finical, trim, smug, tidy, smart, foppish, dandified, jaunty. ANT: Slovenly, untidy, untrim, disorderly. = KEY: Spur. SYN: Incite, goad, Instigate, impel, urge, stimulate. ANT: Rein, inhibit, hold, discourage, deter, dissuade, restrain, temper, moderate. = KEY: Spurious. SYN: Counterfeit, false, not genuine, unauthentic, forged, adulterate, ungenuine, bastard, supposititious, groundless, ascititious. ANT: true, genuine, veritable, unadulterated, legitimate, authentic. = KEY: Spurn, [See REJECT]. = KEY: Spy \v.\ SYN: See, espy, discern, discover, explore, view, inspect. ANT: Miss, overlook, misexplore, misobserve. = KEY: Spy \n.\ SYN: Emissary, detective, scout. ANT: Sentinel, watchman, warder, patrol. = KEY: Squalid. SYN: Foul, dirty, untended, filthy, nasty, unclean, mucky, poverty-stricken. ANT: Wholesome, cleanly, tended, trim, tidy. = KEY: Squander. SYN: Waste, dissipate, spend wastefully. ANT: Save, conserve, be frugal. = KEY: Stab. SYN: Pierce, transfix, thrust. = KEY: Stable. SYN: firm, established, secure, steady, constant, unwavering, durable, stanch, permanent, firmly fixed, solid, steadfast, steady, lasting, perpetual. ANT: Infirm, tottering, weak, insecure, precarious, inconstant, wavering, frail, transient, ephemeral, evanescent, unstable. = KEY: Stagnant. SYN: Motionless, currentless, tideless, unflowing, uncirculating, still, dull, torpid, lifeless, quiescent. ANT: Brisk, flowing, circulating, rapid, lively, agitated, seething, effervescent, restless. = KEY: Staid. SYN: Grave, demure, steady, sober, sedate. ANT: Unsteady, flighty, indiscreet, wanton, unsedate, erratic, eccentric, agitated, discomposed, ruffled. = KEY: Stain \n.\ SYN: Color, dye, tinge, discoloration, blemish, blot, stigma, slur, shame, taint [See BLEMISH]. = KEY: Stain \v.\ SYN: Dye, color, tinge, slur, shame, paint, blot, soil, sully, discolor, tarnish, taint, disgrace, dishonor, befoul, blemish, stigmatize. ANT: Purify, wash, cleanse, absolve, ornament, decorate, emblazon, signalize, honor. = KEY: Stale. SYN: Vapid, tasteless, threadbare, commonplace, hackneyed. ANT: Fresh, [See VAPID]. = KEY: Stalk. SYN: Stride, promenade, parade, pace, march. ANT: Sneak, crawl, grovel, creep. = KEY: Stalwart. SYN: Powerful, able-bodied, strong, robust, resolute, brave. ANT: Weak, timorous, irresolute. = KEY: Stammer. SYN: Stutter, hesitate, falter. ANT: Speak clearly, speak unhesitatingly. = KEY: Stamp \n.\ SYN: Genus, kind, description, make, mark, impression, imprint, print, brand, cast, mould, character, type. ANT: Heterogeneity, non-description, formlessness. = KEY: Stanch. SYN: Firm, steady, constant, faithful, unswerving, reliable, sincere, trusty, zealous, fast, sound, steadfast. ANT: Untrustworthy, vacillating, unsound, unsteady, unreliable, treacherous, precarious. = KEY: Stand. SYN: Rest, remain, stop, be, exist, keep one's ground, insist, depend, await, consist, hold, continue, endure, pause, halt. ANT: Progress, move, proceed, advance, fall, fail, yield, succumb, drop, lie, vanish, fade, run, depart. = KEY: Standard. SYN: Measure, gauge, criterion, test, rule, exemplar, banner, flag, type, model, scale, plummet, trutination. ANT: Mismeasurement, misrule, misadjustment, miscomparison, inconformity, misfit, incommensurateness, non-criterion. = KEY: Standing \n.\ SYN: Status, position, ground, duration, continuance, footing, standpoint, foundation. ANT: Baselessness, evanescence, insecurity, precariousness. = KEY: Standing \a.\ SYN: Established, lasting, be. = KEY: Start. SYN: Set out, initiate, begin, set on foot, rouse. ANT: Carry on, end, complete. = KEY: Startle, [See FIRM]. = KEY: Starved. SYN: Lean, thin, meagre, attenuated, famished, hungry, emaciated, ill-fed, ill-conditioned. ANT: Fat, plump, well-conditioned, well-fed. = KEY: State \n.\ SYN: Position, condition, situation, circumstances, plight, predicament, case, province, [See AFFRIGHT]. = KEY: State \v.\ SYN: Say, declare, propound, aver, set forth, narrate, specify,