Part 2

KEY: Aback. SYN: Backwards, rearwards, aft, abaft, astern, behind, back. ANT: Onwards, forwards, ahead, before, afront, beyond, afore. = KEY: Abandon. SYN: Leave, forsake, desert, renounce, cease, relinquish, discontinue, castoff, resign, retire, quit, forego, forswear, depart from, vacate, surrender, abjure, repudiate. ANT: Pursue, prosecute, undertake, seek, court, cherish, favor, protect, claim, maintain, defend, advocate, retain, support, uphold, occupy, haunt, hold, assert, vindicate, keep. = KEY: Abandoned. SYN: Profligate, wicked, vicious, unprincipled, reprobate, incorrigible, sinful, graceless, demoralized, dissolute, depraved, bad, licentious, corrupt. ANT: Virtuous, conscientious, correct, upright, worthy, righteous, self-controlled, high-principled, steady, good. = KEY: Abase. SYN: Degrade, disgrace, bring low, reduce, humble, demean, stoop, humiliate, depress, lower, sink, dishonor. ANT: Promote, exalt, honor, raise, elevate, dignify, aggrandize. = KEY: Abasement. SYN: Degradation, depression, disgrace, humiliation, abjection, dishonor, shame. ANT: Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity, aggrandizement. = KEY: Abash. SYN: Confound, confuse, discompose, bewilder, daunt, cow, humble, disconcert, dishearten, motility, shame, humiliate. ANT: Countenance, cheer, uphold, encourage, rally, inspirit, animate, incite, embolden, abet, buoy. = KEY: Abate. SYN: Terminate, remove, suppress, lower, reduce, mitigate, diminish, moderate, lessen, subside, decrease. ANT: Prolong, continue, revive, develop, increase, aggravate, magnify, brew, ferment, rage, extend, enlarge, amplify, raise, enhance. = KEY: Abbreviate. SYN: Shorten, reduce, abridge, contract, curtail, epitomize, condense, prune, compress. ANT: Lengthen, prolong, extend, enlarge, produce, elongate, amplify, expand, dilate. = KEY: Abbreviation. SYN: Abridgment, reduction, contraction, curtailment, abstract, summary, epitome, condensation, compression. ANT: Elongation, prolongation, extension, production, amplification, enlargement, expansion, dilation, expatiation, explication, dilution. = KEY: Abderite. SYN: Cynic, sardonic, derisive, sarcastic, jocular, flippant, nonchalant, sportive, sprightful, buoyant. ANT: Lachrymose, plaintive, maundering, querimonious, plaintive, dolesome, lackadaisical, grumbling, croaking, lugubrious. = KEY: Abdicate. SYN: Abandon, relinquish, resign, surrender, vacate. ANT: Retain, maintain, claim, occupy, assert, grasp, seize, usurp. = KEY: Abdomen. SYN: Belly, paunch. = KEY: Abduction. SYN: Abstraction, subtraction, deprivation, ablution, rape, seizure, appropriation. ANT: Addition, adduction, replacement, restitution, restoration, surrender, reinstatement. = KEY: Aberrant. SYN: Erratic, devious, divergent, incontinuous, desultory, disconnected, wandering, idiotic, inconsistent, inconsecutive, abnormal, exceptional. ANT: Continuous, rectilineal, true, consistent, uniform, consecutive, normal, natural, faithful, regular. = KEY: Aberration. SYN: Wandering, divergence, deviation, desultoriness, rambling, disconnectedness, hallucination, inconsecutiveness, idiocy, insanity, exception, abnormity. ANT: Uniformity, consecutiveness, continuity, connectedness, principle, law, order, type, norm, project, line, tenor, progression, rectilinearity, regularity. = KEY: Abet. SYN: Aid, support, promote, countenance, uphold, assist, instigate, encourage, incite, advocate, sanction, subsidize, embolden. ANT: Thwart, contradict, obstruct, oppose, baffle, confound, discourage, disapprove, disconcert, counteract, deter, dissuade, frustrate, impede, denounce, expose. = KEY: Abettor. SYN: Supporter, advocate, instigator, promoter, assistant, companion, accomplice, ally, encourager, associate, adviser, confederate, 'participes criminis', coadjutor, accessary, helper. ANT: Opponent, counteracter, foe, adversary, detector, baffler, antagonist, disconcerter, dissuader, rival. = KEY: Abeyance. SYN: Suspension, reservation, dormancy, expectation, intermission. ANT: Revival, renewal, operation, resuscitation, action, enjoyment, possession, exercise, force. = KEY: Abhor. SYN: Hate, abominate, detest, loathe, despise, dislike, eschew, nauseate. ANT: Love, admire, enjoy, approve, affect, covet, relish, crave, desire. = KEY: Abide. SYN: Dwell, stay, inhabit, continue, rest, tarry, lodge, reside, live, wait, sojourn, remain, expect, endure, tolerate, anticipate, confront, await, bear, face, watch. ANT: Deport, migrate, move, journey, proceed, resist, mislike, forefend, avoid, shun, reject, abandon, forfeit. = KEY: Ability. SYN: Power, cleverness, faculty, skill, capacity, talent, expertness, aptitude, dexterity, efficiency, competency, qualification. ANT: Weakness, incapacity, imbecility, inability, unreadiness, maladroitness. = KEY: Abject. SYN: Degraded, outcast, miserable, vile, pitiable, worthless, despicable, groveling, fawning, squalid, base-minded, slavish, beggarly, servile, cringing, low, wretched, sordid. ANT: Honorable, dignified, eminent, exalted, esteemed, worthy, venerable, noble, princely, illustrious, independent, self-assertive, self-reliant, vain, arrogant, insolent, haughty. = KEY: Abjure. SYN: Renounce, deny, apostatize, discard, recant, disclaim, disavow, repudiate, revoke, retract, disown. ANT: Profess, assert, demand, vindicate, claim, cherish, advocate, retain, acknowledge, appropriate, hug. = KEY: Able. SYN: Strong, powerful, clever, skillful, talented, capable, fitted, efficient, effective, learned, gifted, masterly, telling, nervous, vigorous. ANT: Weak, inefficient, unskillful, silly, stupid, incapable, ineffective, unqualified. = KEY: Ablution. SYN: Washing, purification, cleansing, abstersion, defecation. ANT: Pollution, soilure, defilement, dirt, contamination, taint, stain. = KEY: Abnegation. SYN: Denial, disallowance, renunciation, abjuration, stint, abstinence. ANT: Assertion, vindication, claim, indulgence, concession, license. = KEY: Abnormal. SYN: Irregular, erratic, peculiar, unusual, exceptional, monstrous, aberrant, devious, divergent, eccentric, strange. ANT: Typical, normal, regular, ordinary, usual, natural, customary, illustrative. = KEY: Aboard. SYN: Afloat. ANT: Ashore. = KEY: Abode. SYN: Home, stay, placate, residence, domicile, habitation, lodging, berth, quarters: with the idea of permanence. ANT: Halt, perch, tent, bivouac, caravansary: with the idea of transience. = KEY: Abolish. SYN: Destroy, eradicate, invalidate, make void, obliterate, extirpate, abrogate, annul, subvert, cancel, revoke, quash, nullify, overthrow, annihilate, supersede, suppress, expunge. ANT: Support, sustain, cherish, promote, continue, confirm, restore, repair, revive, reinstate, enact, institute, re-enact. = KEY: Abominable. SYN: Abhorrent, foul, accursed, detestable, hateful, horrible, loathsome, odious, offensive, execrable, nauseous, impure. ANT: Delectable, desirable, admirable, enjoyable, lovable, charming, delightful, grateful, pure. = KEY: Abominate. SYN: Abhor, loathe, detest, execrate, hate. ANT: Desire, like, long for, love. = KEY: Abomination. SYN: Loathing, detestation, hatred, abhorrence, plague, nuisance, evil, annoyance, infliction, curse. ANT: Love, affection, desire, enjoyment, longing, acquisition, gratification, blessing, treat, delight, benefit. = KEY: Aboriginal. SYN: Primordial, primeval, pristine, autochthonic, immemorial, indigenous, native, original. ANT: Subsequent, adventitious, imported, exotic, immigrant, recent, upstart, modern, late, novel, fresh. = KEY: Abortion. SYN: Failure, miscarriage, misadventure, downfall, mishap, misproduction, defect, frustration, blunder, mess. ANT: Success, consummation, completion, achievement, realization, perfection, exploit, feat, development. = KEY: Abound. SYN: Stream, swell, flow, increase, overflow, superabound, luxuriate, teem, swarm, flourish, prevail, be plentiful, wanton, revel, multiply. ANT: Fall, waste, dry, lack, wane, evaporate, drain, die, decay, vanish, lessen, decrease. = KEY: About. SYN: Almost, with respect to, near, nearly, touching, concerning, surrounding, relative to, relating to, in relation to, approximately, touching, roughly, generally. ANT: Afar, away or afar from, precisely, exactly. = KEY: Above-named. SYN: Above-mentioned, above-described, above-cited, named above, aforesaid, mentioned above. ANT: Named below, described below. = KEY: Above. SYN: Over, beyond, exceeding. ANT: Below, within, beneath. = KEY: Abreast. SYN: Beside, alongside. ANT: Ahead, astern. = KEY: Abridge. SYN: Abbreviate, diminish, shorten, lessen, curtail, restrict, contract, condense, epitomize, compress. ANT: Amplify, expand, spread out. = KEY: Abridgment. SYN: Abstract, abbreviation, contraction, summary, synopsis, epitome, compendium, analysis, outline, digest. ANT: Amplification, expatiation, expansion, disquisition, dilution, comment, annotation, exposition, paraphrase. = KEY: Abroach. SYN: Aflow, afloat, abroad, revealed. ANT: Close, fast, tight, secret, reserved. = KEY: Abroad. SYN: Far, away, apart, dispersed, aloof, adrift, about, distracted, confused. ANT: Near, close, housed, collected, fast. = KEY: Abrogate. SYN: Abolish, cancel, set aside, annul, repeal, expunge, rescind. ANT: Enact, re-enact, confirm, enforce, continue, revive. = KEY: Abrogation. SYN: Abolition, repeal, discontinuance, disestablishment. ANT: Institution, establishment, enactment, confirmation, continuance, sanction. = KEY: Abrupt. SYN: Sudden, steep, precipitous, craggy, coarse, curt, blunt, violent, harsh, unceremonious, rugged, rough. ANT: Undulating, easy, gliding, polished, smooth, blending, courteous. = KEY: Abscond. SYN: Decamp, bolt, depart, disappear, steal away, run off, hide, withdraw, retreat. ANT: Show, emerge, appear. = KEY: Absence. SYN: Want, departure, Inattention, nonexistence, failure, separation, lack, nonappearance, distraction. ANT: Presence, supply, appearance, existence, manifestation, evidence, attention, immanence, inherency, consideration. = KEY: Absent \a.\ SYN: Not present, gone away, elsewhere, inattentive, thoughtless, listless, preoccupied. ANT: Present, in this place, here, attentive. = KEY: Absent. SYN: Keep away, depart, withdraw. ANT: Be present, stay, remain, [See ABSCOND]. = KEY: Absolute. SYN: Perfect, complete, unconditional, irrelative, irrespective, supreme, despotic, autocratic, certain, authoritative, unqualified, unequivocal, irresponsible, arbitrary. ANT: Imperfect, incomplete, conditional, conditioned, contingent, relative, dependent, constitutional, dubious, accountable, responsible. = KEY: Absolve. SYN: Acquit, release, exonerate, liberate, exempt, discharge, exculpate, pardon, forgive, free, clear. ANT: Charge, accuse, compel, bind, obligate, convict, condemn, inculpate, impeach, oblige. = KEY: Absonant. SYN: Dissonant, discordant, contrariant, repugnant, inconsonant, inharmonious, incompatible, inappropriate, impertinent. ANT: Consonant, agreeable, consistent, harmonious, compatible, appropriate, pertinent, congruous, suitable, proper. = KEY: Absorb. SYN: Swallow, drown, consume, imbibe, engross, drink in, suck up, engulf, monopolize, exhaust. ANT: Eject, emit, exude, disgorge, dissipate, distract, distil, disperse. = KEY: Abstain. SYN: Refrain, forbear, refuse, demur, avoid, cease, stop, keep back, desist, discontinue, withhold, scruple. ANT: Indulge, exceed, reveal, wanton. = KEY: Abstemious. SYN: Abstinent, moderate, self-denying, sober, temperate, sparing, frugal. ANT: Sensual, self-indulgent, gluttonous, greedy, intemperate. = KEY: Absterge. SYN: Wipe, cleanse, purify, sponge, scour, scrub. ANT: Foul, bespatter, contaminate, bedaub, soil, pollute, begrime. = KEY: Abstersive. SYN: Scouring, purifying, detergent, cathartic. ANT: Contaminative, offensive, corruptive. = KEY: Abstinent. SYN: Temperate, abstemious, continent, sober, self-denying, austere. ANT: Self-indulgent, sensual, intemperate, epicurean, dissipated, incontinent, debauched. = KEY: Abstract \v.\ SYN: Separate, detach, part, eliminate, draw away, remove, take away, appropriate, purloin, steal, thieve, draw from. ANT: Add, unite, conjoin, adduce, impose, restore, surrender, return, Abstract \n.\ [See ABRIDGMENT]. = KEY: Abstraction. SYN: Separation, parloining, removal, appropriation, generalization, classification, reverie, absorption, inattention, absence. ANT: Addition, conjunction, union, adduction, importation, restoration, restitution, individualization, enumeration, analysis, specification, observation, attention, Abstracted, [See ABSTRACT and ABSTRACTION]. = KEY: Abstruse. SYN: Hidden, recondite, difficult, profound, deep, curious, obscure, mystical, occult, hard, dark. ANT: Patent, popular, superficial, simple, obvious, trite, intelligible, lucid, plain, easy, manifest, clear. = KEY: Absurd. SYN: Irrational, ridiculous, monstrous, senseless, asinine, stupid, chimerical, unreasonable, preposterous, silly, nonsensical, foolish. ANT: Sensible, rational, reasonable, consistent, sound, substantial, logical, wise, sagacious, reflective, philosophical. = KEY: Abundance. SYN: Plenty, largeness, copiousness, sufficiency, plentitude, exuberance, ampleness, profusion, luxuriance, wealth. ANT: Rarity, scarcity, paucity, deficiency, scantiness, dearth, failure, poverty. = KEY: Abundant. SYN: Plentiful, copious, plenteous, large, ample, overflowing, teeming, full, lavish, luxuriant, bountiful, abounding, profuse, liberal, rich. ANT: Rare, scarce, scant, deficient, short, insufficient, niggardly, sparing, dry, drained, exhausted, impoverished. = KEY: Abuse \v.\ SYN: Injure, damage, spoil, maltreat, treat-all, ill-use, ill-treat, retile, scandalize, disparage, reproach, upbraid, asperse, malign, slander, vituperate, prostitute, defame, pervert, misuse, misemploy, vilify. ANT: Tend, protect, conserve, consider, regard, shield, cherish, praise, extol, laud, vindicate, panegyrize, respect. = KEY: Abuse \n.\ SYN: Mistreatment, invective, ill-treatment, opprobrium, scurrility, vituperation, ribaldry, obloquy, reproach, insolence, misusage, ill-usage. ANT: Good-usage, good-treatment, kindness, praise, deference, respect. = KEY: Abusive. SYN: Insulting, insolent, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, vituperative, rude, denunciatory, scurrilous. ANT: Respectful, kind, panegyrical, laudatory, attentive. = KEY: Abut. SYN: Extend, project, impinge, approximate. ANT: Recurve, retreat, diverge, return, recede. = KEY: Abyss. SYN: Gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth. ANT: Surface, cavity, depression, indentation. = KEY: Academical. SYN: Collegiate, classical, learned. ANT: Illiterate, uncollegiate. = KEY: Academy. SYN: School, seminary, college, university, educational, establishment, institute. = KEY: Accede. SYN: Assent, consent, acquiesce, comply with, accept, concur, approve, coincide. ANT: Dissent, decline, withdraw, refuse, protest, demur. = KEY: Accelerate. SYN: Hasten, urge, expedite, quicken, speed, urge on, press forward, hurry, promote, dispatch, facilitate. ANT: Delay, obstruct, impede, clog, retard, hinder, shackle, drag. = KEY: Accent. SYN: Stress, rhythm, pulsation, beat, emphasis. ANT: Smoothness, inaccentuation, monotony, equableness, babble, flow. = KEY: Accept. SYN: Welcome, hail, admit, recognize, avow, acknowledge, take, accede to, receive, assent to. ANT: Refuse, decline, reject, disown, disavow, ignore, repudiate. = KEY: Acceptable. SYN: Grateful, pleasant, welcome, agreeable, pleasure, seasonable, gratifying. ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant. = KEY: Acceptation. SYN: Meaning, significant, signification. = KEY: Access. SYN: Approach, admit, course entrance, avenue, admittance, mod way, passage, road. ANT: Exit, egress, departure, exclusion, repulse. = KEY: Accessible. SYN: Affable, approachable, easy, conversible. ANT: Distant, cold, difficult, unapproachable. = KEY: Accession. SYN: Arrival, addition, increase, influx, augmentation, reinforcement, enlargement, extension. ANT: Departure, abandonment, resignation, retirement, diminution, decrease, efflux, ebb, drain, subsidence. = KEY: Accessary, [See ACCESSORY]. = KEY: Accessory \a.\ SYN: Assistant, additive, additional, auxiliary, supplementary, conducive. ANT: Essential, inherent, immanent, incorporate, superfluous, irrelevant, malapropos, obstructive, cumbersome. = KEY: Accessory \n.\ SYN: Accomplice, associate, abettor, ally, colleague, confederate, helper. ANT: Foe, antagonist, adversary, rival. = KEY: Accident. SYN: Chance, fortuity, disaster, incident, adventure, casualty, hazard, contingency, calamity, misadventure, mishap. ANT: Law, purpose, appointment, ordainment, provision, preparation. = KEY: Acclamation. SYN: Applause, homage, gratulation, salutation, joy, commendation, plaudit, hosannas, cheer, shouting, exultation, triumph, approval. ANT: Obloquy, censure, execration, contumely, outcry, sibilation, denunciation. = KEY: Acclivity. SYN: Ascent, rise, incline. ANT: Declivity, descent. = KEY: Accommodate. SYN: Convenience, oblige, adapt, supply, reconcile, suit, fit, adjust, furnish, serve, harmonize. ANT: Inconvenience, disoblige, disturb, misfit, incommode, deprive, aggravate. = KEY: Accommodating. SYN: Kind, unselfish, obliging, polite, yielding, conciliatory. ANT: Disobliging, selfish, churlish, rude, imperious, dictatorial, exacting, inconsiderate, unaccommodating. = KEY: Accompany. SYN: Follow, consort, attend, join, coexist, escort, convoy. ANT: Desert, abandon, leave, avoid, eschew, quit, discard. = KEY: Accomplish. SYN: Execute, perfect, perform, fulfil, [See DO], carry out, attain, realize, consummate, achieve, finish, complete. ANT: Fail of, frustrate, defeat, disconcert, destroy, baffle, mar, spoil. = KEY: Accomplice. SYN: Abettor, confederate, accessory, ally, associate, partner, colleague, coadjutor, assistant, 'particips criminit'. ANT: Rival, foe, adversary, antagonist. = KEY: Accord. SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, tally, answer, comport, consist, conform, grant, concede, surrender, allow. ANT: Disagree, differ, misfit, miscomport, misconform, withhold, deny, refuse. = KEY: Accordingly. SYN: Agreeably, suitably, conformably, hence, consequently. ANT: [See AGREEABLY]. = KEY: Accordant. SYN: Compatible, consonant, harmonious, consistent, consenting, acquiescent. ANT: [See COMPATIBLE]. = KEY: Accost. SYN: Address, salute, invoke, hail, greet, stop, apostrophize, speak to, call to. ANT: Shun, avoid, elude, pass, ignore. = KEY: Account \n.\ SYN: Narration, report, rehearsal, story, statement, narrative, recital, relation, description, motive, value, importance, advantage, ground, reason, profit. ANT: Silence, suppression, project, misannouncement, of no account, attempt, without value, deed, project. = KEY: Account \v.\ SYN: Deem, esteem, consider, regard, hold, judge, rate, estimate, value, reckon, explain, solve. ANT: Disesteem, misestimate, mystify, understate, undervalue, perplex, darken. = KEY: Accountable. SYN: Responsible, liable, amenable, punishable, answerable, accredited, delegated, subordinate. ANT: Autocratic, Independent, irresponsible, absolute, supreme, despotic. = KEY: Accoutre. SYN: Adorn, fit out, equip, furnish, dress, furnish with arms. ANT: [See ADORN]. = KEY: Accredit. SYN: Believe, trust, entrust, delegate, depute, commission, authorize. ANT: Disbelieve, distrust, suspect, recall, supersede, discard, dismiss. = KEY: Accredited. SYN: Authorized, commissioned, acknowledged, confidential, trusted. ANT: Unauthorized, unacknowledged, distrusted. = KEY: Accumulate. SYN: Collect, gamer, grow, mass, heap, store, bring together, hoard, gather, agglomerate, husband, augment, amass, increase. ANT: Dissipate, disperse, diminish, scatter, expend, waste. = KEY: Accumulation. SYN: Heap, collection, store, mass, aggregation, hoard, pile. ANT: Segregation, separation, unit, individual. = KEY: Accuracy. SYN: Exactness, correctness, strictness, precision, exactitude, nicety, fidelity. ANT: Inexactness, looseness, slovenliness, incorrectness. = KEY: Accurate. SYN: Careful, exact, faithful, precise, correct, close, truthful, strict, just, actual, nice. ANT: Careless, inexact, faulty, incorrect, inaccurate, loose, defective. = KEY: Accusation. SYN: Charge, indictment, imputation, impeachment, arraignment. ANT: Acquittal, absolution, vindication, discharge. = KEY: Accuse. SYN: Charge, incriminate, impeach, arraign, tax, taunt, censure, cite, summon, criminate. ANT: Defend, vindicate, discharge, acquit, absolve, condone, pardon, exonerate, release. = KEY: Accustom. SYN: Habituate, familiarize, form, inure, train, reconcile. ANT: Disaccustom, dishabituate, estrange, wean, alienate. = KEY: Ace. SYN: Unit, atom, point, title, jot, item. ANT: Numbers, quantity, bulk, gum, mass, collection, aggregate, total. = KEY: Acerbity. SYN: Harshness, acridity, tartness, acidity, bitterness, acrimony, crabbedness, moroseness, sourness, roughness. ANT: Sweetness, mildness, softness, mellowness, gentleness, amiableness. = KEY: Ache \n.\ SYN: Pain, suffering, smart, anguish, pang. ANT: [See PAIN]. = KEY: Achieve. SYN: Accomplish, [See DO], gain, perform, execute, effect, fulfil, finish, attain, win. ANT: [See DO]. = KEY: Achievement. SYN: Exploit, feat, attainment, accomplishment, performance. ANT: [See ATTAIN and ATTAINMENT]. = KEY: Articular. SYN: Spinous, sagittate, prickly, thorny, sharp-pointed, hastate, bristly. ANT: Obtuse, blunt, abrupt. = KEY: Acid. SYN: Sharp, acidulous, acetous, vinegarish. ANT: Mellow, luscious, mealy, rich. = KEY: Acknowledge. SYN: Avow, admit, recognize, own, accept, profess, endorse, grant, concede, concern. ANT: Disavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate, ignore, deny. = KEY: Acknowledged. SYN: Agreed, settled, understood, decided, customary. ANT: Not agreed, undecided, unsettled, not customary. = KEY: Acme. SYN: Summit, zenith, climax, apex, pitch, culmination, meridian. ANT: Base, floor, ground, foundation, nadir, depth, depression, foot, root. = KEY: Acquaint. SYN: Advertise, inform, impart, make known, divulge, teach, notify, apprise, advise, tell. ANT: Misinform, deceive, delude, mislead, misguide, hoodwink. = KEY: Acquaintance. SYN: Knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionship. ANT: Ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience. It has also the colloquial meaning of a person with whom one is acquainted. = KEY: Acquiesce. SYN: Assent, concur, repose, agree, yield, be resigned, comply. ANT: Dissent, demur, object. = KEY: Acquire. SYN: Gain, earn, procure, obtain, get, realize, win, reap. ANT: Lose, forfeit, surrender, miss, forego. = KEY: Acquirement. SYN: Knowledge, at, entertainment, accomplishment, learning, erudition, acquisition. ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius. = KEY: Acquit. SYN: Discharge, exonerate, absolve, exculpate, release, dismiss, liberate, pardon,. ANT: Charge, accuse, impeach, constrain, implicate, bind, compel, condemn, oblige, sentence. = KEY: Acquittance. SYN: Release, receipt, discharge. ANT: Bond, claim, charge, obligation. = KEY: Acrid. SYN: Harsh, sour. ANT: Mellow, sweet, luscious. = KEY: Acrimonious. SYN: Sharp, biting, stinging, pungent, acrid, ill-natured, sarcastic. ANT: Smooth, sweet, pleasant, goodnatured, bland. = KEY: Acrimony. SYN: Sharpness, bitterness, sourness, causticity, acerbity, asperity, tartness, ill-feeling, hostility, animosity. ANT: Smoothness, courtesy, mildness, blandness, pleasantness, friendship, amiability. = KEY: Across. SYN: Athwart, against, transversely. Transverseness to a line of movement becomes opposition. ANT: Lengthwise, along, concurrently, parallel. = KEY: Act. \v.\ [See DO]. = KEY: Act \n.\ SYN: Deed, performance, action, movement, proceeding, exercise, operation, play. ANT: Inaction, rest, repose, cessation, suspension, quiet, immobility, inertia, quiescence. = KEY: Action. [See ACT]. = KEY: Active. SYN: Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert, dexterous, supple, wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent. ANT: Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy. = KEY: Activity. SYN: Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness, alertness, celerity, rapidity. ANT: Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, heaviness, sluggishness, lassitude. = KEY: Actor. SYN: Doer, worker, agent, performer, principal, player, tragedian, comedian. ANT: [See AGENT]. = KEY: Actual. SYN: Developed, positive, unquestionable, demonstrable, certain, real, authentic. ANT: Potential, undeveloped, hypothetical, supposition, possible, virtual, theoretical, fabulous, fictitious, unreal. = KEY: Actually. SYN: Verity, truly, decidedly, assuredly, positively. ANT: Potentially, hypothetically, theoretically. = KEY: Actuate. SYN: Urge, instigate, stir, induce, influence, incline, dispose, incite, impel, prompt, drive. ANT: Deter, discourage, retard, inhibit, hinder, prevent, impede, dissuade. = KEY: Acuity. SYN: Pointedness, acylation, acumination. ANT: Bluntness, hebetude, obtuseness. = KEY: Aculeated. SYN: Armed, spinous, acuminated, punctuous. ANT: Unarmed, blunt, obtuse, stingless, pointless. = KEY: acumen. SYN: Point, penetrativeness, sharpness, discernment, talent, sagacity. ANT: Bluntness, obtuseness, stupidity, dulness, indiscernment, hebetude. = KEY: Acute. SYN: Pointed, penetrating, sagacious, perspicacious, keen, astute, piercing, sharp, shrewd, keen-sighted, severe, distressing. ANT: Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, undiscerning, heavy, chronic, stolid. = KEY: Acutely. SYN: Sharply, deeply, painfully, poignantly, intensely. ANT: Bluntly, obtusely, stupidly, stolidly, pleasantly. = KEY: Adage. SYN: Maxim, saying, motto, saw, apothegm, aphorism, byword, proverb, dictum. ANT: Discourse, disquisition, yarn, harangue. = KEY: Adapt. SYN: Fit, accommodate, suit, adjust, conform, admeasure, harmonize, attune. ANT: Misfit, misconform, misapply. = KEY: Adaptation. SYN: Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence. ANT: Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation, mismeasurement. = KEY: Add. SYN: Adduce, adjoin, increase, extend, enlarge, sum up, cast up, subjoin, amplify, annex. ANT: Deduct, subtract, dissever, abstract. = KEY: Addendum. SYN: Acquisition, improvement, supplement, complement, desideratum, concomitant, annexation, appendage. ANT: Surplusage, detriment, deterioration, detraction, drawback. = KEY: Addicted. SYN: Given, accustomed, prone, inclined, disposed, habituated. ANT: Unaddicted, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, averse, free. = KEY: additament. SYN: Adjunct, annexation, supplement, addition, acquisition, increase, augmentation, accession. ANT: Deduction, detraction, drawback, decrement, deterioration. = KEY: Addition. SYN: Accession, enlargement, increase, extension, accretion, appendage. ANT: [See ADDITAMENT]. = KEY: Address \n.\ SYN: Tact, manners. ANT: Awkwardness, unmannerliness. = KEY: Address \v.\ SYN: Accost, greet, salute, approach, apostrophize, appeal, hail, woo, court. ANT: Elude, avoid, shun, ignore, pass. = KEY: Adduce. SYN: Allege, apply, cite, advance, offer, introduce, produce, add, import, name, mention, quote. ANT: Retract, except, withdraw, deduct, deduce, suppress. = KEY: Adept. SYN: Expert, adroit, handy, master, performer, professor, artist. ANT: Awkward, clumsy, inexpert, tyro, novice, lubber, blunderer. = KEY: Adequate. SYN: Equal, sufficient, fit, satisfactory, full, competent, capable, able. ANT: Unequal, insufficient, incompetent, inadequate. = KEY: Adhere. SYN: Stick, cohere, cleave, hold, attach, unite, fix, join, cling. ANT: Disunite, part, separate, divide, secede, sunder, sever. = KEY: Adherence. SYN: Adhesion, attachment, devotion, fidelity, cleaving to, constancy, endearment. ANT: Separation, disunion, unfaithfulness, desertion, treachery. = KEY: Adherent. SYN: Follower, supporter. ANT: Denial, protestation, negation, contradiction, rejection. = KEY: Admit. SYN: Receive, pase, permit, accept, grant, concede, allow, acknowledge, confess, own, avow, suffer. ANT: Exclude, debar, disallow, reject, deny, discharge, dismiss, eject, extrude, repudiate, disavow, disown. = KEY: Admittance. SYN: Introduction, entrance, pass, permit, passport, privilege, acceptance, welcome, reception. ANT: Exclusion, denial, ejection, prohibition, bar, hindrance, rejection, repudiation. = KEY: Admonish. SYN: Remind, forewarn, advise, warn, dissuade, caution, counsel, reprove, censure, rebuke. ANT: Encourage, instigate, abet, incite, urge, applaud, countenance. = KEY: Admonition. SYN: Warning, advice, counsel, caution, reproof. ANT: Applauding, encouraging, inciting, urging, countenancing. = KEY: Ado. SYN: Hubbub, commotion, fuse, excitement. ANT: Calm, composure, quiet, orderliness, staidness, tranquillity. = KEY: Adopt. SYN: Assume, select, affiliate, take, elect, arrogate, choose, endorse, avow, appropriate. ANT: Reject, decline, repudiate, disavow, discard, renounce, abandon, disown, disclaim. = KEY: Adore. SYN: Admire, hallow, glorify, praise, venerate, reverence, worship, idolize. ANT: Abhor, despise, disesteem, abominate, execrate, blaspheme. = KEY: Adorn. SYN: Beautify, bedeck, ornament, decorate, embellish, deck, garnish, gild, enrich. ANT: Mar, spoil, deform, deface, disfigure, impoverish, denude, despoil, strip, bare, disembellish. = KEY: Adrift. SYN: Loose, afloat, agog, abroad, abroach, distracted, disordered. ANT: 'fait victorious', tight, right, lashed, moored, secure, collected, composed. = KEY: Adroit. SYN: Handy, skillful, dexterous, expert, proficient, clever. ANT: Awkward, clumsy, unskillful, inexpert, lubberly. = KEY: Adscititious. SYN: Adventitious, superfluous, redundant, alien, artificial, spurious, smuggled. ANT: Essential, necessary, veritable, regular, ingenerate, ingrained, congenital, fundamental, genuine, inherent, proper. = KEY: Adulation. SYN: Flattery, compliment, sycophancy, courtship, incense, praise, blandishment, fawning, cringing. ANT: Detraction, obloquy, defamation, calumny, traducement, sarcasm, ridicule, satire, bespatterment. = KEY: Adult. SYN: Man, woman. ANT: Youth, stripling, boy, child, infant. = KEY: Adulterate. SYN: Debase, corrupt, deteriorate, vitiate, contaminate. ANT: Make pure, genuine, undeteriorate. = KEY: Adulterated. SYN: Impure, ingenuine, spurious, concocted, mixed, falsified, deteriorated, garbled, vitiated. ANT: Pure, genuine, original, unmixed, unadulterated, undeteriorated, sound. = KEY: Adumbration. SYN: Shadow, foreshadowing, presage, prognostic, delineation, premonition, hint, sketch, prototype, suggestion. ANT: Body, substance, fulfillment, realization, substantiation, antitype. = KEY: Advance \v.\ SYN: Propel, elevate, promote, further, lend, propagate, progress, increase, prosper, rise. ANT: Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw, recall, depress, degrade, suppress, oppose, retreat, decrease. = KEY: Advancement, [See ADVANCE]. = KEY: Advantage. SYN: Gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good, avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition. ANT: Loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback. = KEY: Advent. SYN: Approach, arrival, accession, coming. ANT: Departure, exit, exodus, retirement, relinquishment, quittance. = KEY: Adventitious. SYN: Extrinsic, redundant, superfluous, adscititious irregular, casual, imported. ANT: Regular, proper, pertinent, essential, appropriate, necessary, Intrinsic. = KEY: Adventure. SYN: Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance. ANT: Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course. = KEY: Adventurous. SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant, fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous. ANT: Timid, unenterprising, inadventurous, cowardly, nervous, hesitating, cautious. = KEY: Adversary. SYN: Antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant. ANT: Accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally, accomplice. = KEY: Adverse. SYN: Opposed to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite, conflicting, contrary, unfavorable. ANT: Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky. = KEY: Adversity. SYN: Ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow. ANT: Good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement. = KEY: Advert to. SYN: Refer to, allude to, notice, remark, glance at, regard, touch upon, hint at. ANT: Ignore, pass, drop, omit, overlook. = KEY: Advertent. SYN: Attentive, regardful, mindful, watchful, thoughtful, observant, considerate. ANT: Inattentive, inadvertent, casual, thoughtless, heedless, inobservant, inconsiderate. = KEY: Advertise. SYN: Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim, promulge. ANT: Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misinform. = KEY: Advice, [See ADVISE]. = KEY: Advise. SYN: Admonish, warn, deliberate, counsel, persuade, urge, prompt, instigate, incite, instruct, acquaint, inform. ANT: Dissuade, deter, expostulate, remonstrate, prohibit, inhibit, restrain. = KEY: Advisable. SYN: Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent, beneficial, profitable. ANT: inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable, unprofitable. = KEY: Advocate \n.\ SYN: Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer, defender, maintainer. ANT: Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer. = KEY: Advocate \v.\ [See NOUN.] = KEY: Afar. SYN: Abroad, away, aloof. ANT: Near, at home, close. = KEY: affable. SYN: Courteous, accessible, condescending, conversible, gracious, sociable, gentle, complaisant, urbane, polite, easy, approachable. ANT: Exclusive, discourteous, distant, inaccessible, unapproachable, inconversible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious. = KEY: Affair. SYN: Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction. ANT: Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance. = KEY: Affect. SYN: Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern, interest, feign, pretend. ANT: Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate. = KEY: Affectation. SYN: Pretence, artifice, hypocrisy, assumption, simulation, mannerism, euphuism, airs. ANT: Genuineness, naturalness, un affectedness, simplicity, artlessness. = KEY: affectibility. SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility, excitability, irritability, nervousness. ANT: Insensibility, insensateness, hebetude, unimpressibleness, callousness. = KEY: Affection. SYN: Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity. ANT: Insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion. = KEY: Affiance. SYN: Homage, trust, confidence, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting. ANT: Unfealty, disloyalty, treason, suspicion, Infidelity, falseness. = KEY: Affiliate. SYN: Annex, graft, incorporate, unite, adopt, inoculate. ANT: Dismember, disannex, disaffiliate, sever, transplant, separate, disjoin, disunite. = KEY: Affiliation, [See AFFILIATE]. = KEY: Affinity. SYN: Relationship, relation, kindred, conformity, connection, alliance, similarity, analogy, homogeneity, harmony, correlativeness, sympathy, interdependence, interconnection, intercommunity. ANT: Dissimilarity, discordance, disconnection, independence, antagonism, antipathy, repugnance, interrepulsiveness. = KEY: Affirm. SYN: Assert, swear, testify, tell, aver, propound, asseverate, depose, state, declare, endorse, maintain. ANT: Deny, dispute, doubt, demur, negative, contradict, gainsay, oppugn, impugn, oppose. = KEY: Affix. SYN: Attach, annex, subjoin, adjoin, connect, fasten, unite, append. ANT: Detach, disunite, separate, remove, disengage, unfasten. = KEY: Affliction. SYN: Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow. ANT: Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more (or, positively:), boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure. = KEY: Affluence. SYN: Abundance, plenty, wealth, riches, opulence. ANT: Want, scarcity, penury, indigence, poverty, impecuniosity, straitness, lack. = KEY: Afflux. SYN: Accession, importation, augmentation, increase, addition, influx. ANT: Decrease, detriment, detraction, diminution, exhaustion, failure, ebb. = KEY: Afford. SYN: Produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer, extend. ANT: Withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge. = KEY: Affranchise. SYN: Free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, qualify, open. ANT: Enthral, enslave, subjugate, disfranchise, disqualify, close. = KEY: Affray. SYN: Broil, tumult, brawl, melee, fracas, disturbance, uproar, quarrel, strife, wrangle, altercation. ANT: Order, tranquillity, pacification, dispersion, quelling. = KEY: Affright. SYN: Startle, astonish, terrify, alarm, dismay, cow, frighten, scare. ANT: Encourage, embolden, reassure. = KEY: Affront. SYN: Outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, Indignity. ANT: Homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment. = KEY: Afire. SYN: Ablaze, alight, burning, ignited. ANT: Out, extinguished, quenched. = KEY: Afloat. SYN: Adrift, abroad, at sea, abroach, loose, distracted, dazed. ANT: Ashore, snug, tight, close, fast, collected, concentrated. = KEY: Afoot. SYN: Working, launched, afloat, agoing, inaugurated, started, instituted, established. ANT: Uncommenced, Incomplete, projected, proposed, contemplated, designed. = KEY: Afore. SYN: Precedent, antecedent, foregoing, ahead, afront, before, beyond, sooner. ANT: Behind, following, subsequently, after, astern, aback, rearwards. = KEY: Aforesaid. SYN: Above-mentioned, stated, forenamed, foregoing, preceding, forementioned. ANT: Following, subjoined, aftercited, forthcoming. = KEY: Afraid. SYN: Fearful, apprehensive, timid, timorous, cowardly, fainthearted, cautious, careful, frightened, alarmed, terrified, suspicious, distrustful, anxious. ANT: Fearless, inapprehensive, unsolicitous, easy, indifferent, secure, confident, bold, hopeful, eager, reckless, audacious, venturesome. = KEY: Afresh. SYN: Anew, again, frequently, repeatedly, intermittently. ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, connectedly. = KEY: Aft, [See ABAFT]. = KEY: After. SYN: Behind, following, succeeding. ANT: Afore, before, Introducing, preceding. = KEY: Again. SYN: Anew, afresh, repeatedly, frequently. ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, once. = KEY: Against. SYN: Over, opposite, abutting, opposing, resisting, despite, across, athwart, counter. ANT: With, for, accompanying, aiding, suiting, promoting. = KEY: Agape. SYN: Astare, agog, astonished, curious, inquisitive, entertained, amused, eager. ANT: Incurious, listless, lukewarm, absent. = KEY: Age. SYN: Period, generation, era, epoch, date, century, antiquity, senility, eldership, seniority. ANT: Youth, infancy, boyhood, childhood, moment, instant. = KEY: Aged. SYN: Old, ancient, antiquated, elderly, senile, patriarchal, primeval, time-honored, olden. ANT: Juvenile, youthful, young, upstart, recent, fresh. = KEY: Agency, [See AGENT]. = KEY: Agent. SYN: Doer, performer, actor, force, means, instrument, influence, cause, promoter, operator. ANT: Counteragent, counteractor, counteraction, opponent, neutralizer. = KEY: Agglomerate. SYN: Accumulate, conglomerate, lump, agglutinate, entangle, heap, confuse, amalgamate. ANT: Scatter, dissipate, sift, separate, disentangle, disject, divide, disunite, part, unravel, detach, difference. = KEY: Aggrandize. SYN: Promote, dignify, exalt, ennoble, enrich, advance, augment, make great, magnify, elevate, signalize. ANT: Depress, degrade, enfeeble, Impoverish, debase, humiliate, lower, abase, disgrace, dishonor. = KEY: Aggravate. SYN: Exasperate, provoke, wound, heighten, intensify, irritate, make worse, increase, enhance embitter, magnify. ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, diminish, palliate, neutralize, soften, lessen, alleviate, attenuate, mitigate. = KEY: Aggregate, Aggregation. SYN: Sum, result, total, mass, whole, totality, collection, amount, collation, combination. ANT: Dissipation, dispersion, separation, division, segregation, disunion, individual, unit, element, ingredient, item. = KEY: Aggression. SYN: Invasion, attack, offence, onslaught, encroachment, assault, provocation, incursion. ANT: Resistance, retaliation, repulsion, withdrawal, retreat, evacuation, accession, acceptance, qualification. = KEY: Aggrieve. SYN: Wound, trouble, annoy, hurt, vex, disappoint, molest, maltreat, grieve, afflict, injure, wrong. ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, console, satisfy, compensate. = KEY: Aghast. SYN: Affrighted, astonished, astare, dumbfounded, bewildered, horror-struck. ANT: Cool, fearless, unaffected, unmoved, indifferent, unexcited, unalarmed. = KEY: Agile. SYN: Nimble, active, fleet, brisk, alert, featly, lithe, prompt, ready, quick, supple, nimble, swift, sprightly. ANT: Slow, heavy, awkward, inert, clumsy, bulky, ponderous, elephantine. = KEY: Agitate. SYN: Disturb, trouble, excite, ruffle, stir, fluster, oscillate, instigate, convulse, shake. ANT: Calm, compose, allay, pacify, smooth, It is sometimes used of argumentative consideration, as, to agitate a question. = KEY: ???? SYN: Start, moot, ventilate, propound. ANT: Solve, settle, determine. = KEY: Ago. SYN: Past, gone, since. ANT: Coming, future, hence, hereafter. = KEY: Agog. SYN: Abroad, abroach, astir, adrift, agoing. ANT: Asleep, indifferent, incurious, somnolent, heedless, collected, cool. = KEY: Agony. SYN: Pain, torture, torment, distress, woe, throe, suffering, pang, excruciation. ANT: Assuagement, comfort, peace, ease, relief, gratification, enjoyment, rapture, ecstasy, composure. = KEY: Agree. SYN: Suit, tally, accord, fit, harmonize, combine, assent, concur, acquiesce, admit, consent, conform, consort, comport, coincide. ANT: Differ, disagree, revolt, protest, decline, refuse, dissent, demur. = KEY: Agreeable. SYN: Obliging, pleasant, accommodating, grateful, acceptable, welcome, suitable, consistent, consonant, amiable, gratifying, pleasing, good-natured, complaisant. ANT: Disobliging, unpleasant, unaccommodating, disagreeable, obnoxious, ungrateful, unwelcome, unacceptable, offensive. = KEY: Agreeably. SYN: Suitably, conformably, consistently, accordingly, pleasantly, acceptably, gratefully. ANT: Unsuitably, inconsistently, impertinently, inappropriately, inharmoniously, unbefittingly, unpleasantly. = KEY: Agreement. SYN: Contract, compact, bond, concord, concurrence, conformity, harmony, unison, consonance, bargain, covenant, obligation, undertaking, treaty. ANT: (As without legal force or bond). Understanding, promise, parole. = KEY: Agriculture. SYN: Cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage. ANT: Sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture. = KEY: Aground. SYN: Strained, ashore. ANT: Afloat, off. = KEY: Ahead. SYN: Forward, afore, afront, onwards. ANT: abaft, astern, behind, aback, aft. = KEY: Aid. SYN: Help, assist, succour, support, befriend, co-operate, contribute favor, foster, protect, abet, encourage, instigate, subsidize. ANT: Oppose, resist, counteract, discourage, thwart, withstand, confront, deter, baffle. = KEY: Ailment. SYN: Complaint, sickness, illness, disease. ANT: Recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor, salubriousness. = KEY: Aim \n.\ SYN: Tendency, intent, aspiration, bent, drift, object, scope, goal, purpose, mark, end, design, intention. ANT: Shunning, disregarding, disaffecting, overlooking, avoiding. = KEY: Aim \v.\ SYN: Seek, level, propose, design, affect, intend, mean, purpose. ANT: Shun, disregard, disaffect, ignore, overlook, avoid. = KEY: Airy. SYN: Light, ethereal, spiritual, joyous, sprightly, lively, animated, frolicsome, fairy-like. ANT: Dull, inert, stony, ponderous, plow, heavy, cheerless, sullen, dolesome, lugubrious, leaden, wooden. = KEY: Akin. SYN: Related, agnate, cognate, homogeneous, similar, consanguineous, congenial, allied, sympathetic. ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, uncongenial, hostile, unallied, antagonistic, unsympathetic, dissimilar. = KEY: Alacrity. SYN: Quickness, readiness, briskness, activity, cheerfulness, compliance, willingness, promptitude. ANT: Slowness, reluctance, repugnance. = KEY: Alarm \n.\ SYN: Apprehension, fright, fear, timidity, consternation, tocsin, war-cry, war-note, reveille, dread, affright, disquietude, dismay. ANT: Confidence, security, quiet. = KEY: Alarm \v.\ SYN: Warn, wake, terrify, intimidate, frighten. ANT: Compose, embolden, reassure, rally. = KEY: Alarming. SYN: Terrible, fearful, frightful, portentous, ominous, threatening. ANT: Soothing, assuring, encouraging, inviting, propitious, hopeful, alluring, enticing, attractive. = KEY: Alert. SYN: Active, brisk, nimble, prepared, prompt, vigilant, ready, wakeful, watchful, on the watch, lively. ANT: Slow, sleepy, lazy, absent, unready, oblivious, sluggish, inactive, unwatchful, dilatory, drowsy. = KEY: Alien. SYN: Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent. ANT: Pertinent, essential, proper, appropriate, relevant, germane, akin, apropos, naturalized. = KEY: Alienate. SYN: Estrange, abalienate, transfer, wean, disaffect, convey. ANT: Conciliate, retain, endear, entail, bind, secure. = KEY: Alienation. SYN: Insanity, aberration, hallucination, derangement, imbecility. ANT: Sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality. = KEY: Alight. SYN: Perch, drop, descend, dismount. ANT: Mount, ascend, spring, soar, start. = KEY: Alike. SYN: Resembling, similar, together, twin-fellow, analogous, identical, equal, equivalent, same, homogeneous, akin, equally. ANT: Unlike, heterogeneous, apart, dissimilar, variously, differently, unequally. = KEY: Aliment. SYN: Food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance, nourishment. ANT: Poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion. = KEY: Alive. SYN: Quick, living, breathing, warm, lively, vivacious, alert, existing, existent, safe, subsisting, active, brisk, animated. ANT: Dead, departed, cold, lifeless, defunct, inanimate, dispirited, du. = KEY: All. SYN: Whole, complete, entire, total, every, integral, perfect, full. ANT: [(preceding)], Some, part. = KEY: Allay. SYN: soothe, alleviate, repress, mitigate, quiet, moderate, appease, compose, soften, pacify, mollify, assuage, tranquilize, palliate, culm. ANT: Excite, rouse, aggravate, stir, kindle, fan, impassion, provoke, incite. = KEY: Allege. SYN: Declare, affirm, assert, asseverate, depose, plead, cite, quote, assign, advance, maintain, say. ANT: Contradict, gainsay, refute, deny, disprove, neutralize, quash, repel. = KEY: Allegiance. SYN: Subjection, obedience, loyalty, fealty, homage. ANT: Disloyalty, rebellion, resistance, disaffection, malcontentment, treason. = KEY: Allegory. SYN: Parable, metaphor, fable, illustration, image. ANT: History, fact, narrative. = KEY: Alleviate. SYN: Lighten, lessen, assuage, mitigate, soothe, moderate, relieve, remit, diminish. ANT: Aggravate, enhance, increase, embitter, augment. = KEY: Alliance. SYN: Compact, treaty, cooperation, union, connection, partnership, league, combination, coalition, confederation, friendship, relation, relationship. ANT: Disunion, enmity, divorce, discord, disruption, antagonism, separation, estrangement, hostility. = KEY: Allot. SYN: Assign, grant, award, give, apportion, deal, dispense, parcel, distribute, divide, mete out, portion out. ANT: Refuse, withhold, retain, appropriate, resume, misapportion, misdeal. = KEY: Allotment. SYN: Piece, assignment, parcel, award, apportionment. ANT: Misappropriation, seizure, encroachment. = KEY: Allow. SYN: Concede, apportion, allot, assign, afford, tolerate, authorize, grant, remit, recognize, acknowledge, avow, confess, admit, permit, suffer, sanction, yield. ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, refuse, deny, disallow, repudiate, protest, Withstand, resist, disapprove, reject. = KEY: Allowance, [See ALLOW]. = KEY: Alloy. SYN: Admixture, deterioration, adulteration, drawback, diminution, decrement, impairment, debasement, depreciation, disparagement. ANT: Purity, genuineness, enhancement, integrity. = KEY: Alloyed. SYN: Mixed, deteriorated, impaired, diminished, adulterated. ANT: Pure, absolute, perfect, complete, genuine, unmixed, unimpaired, undeteriorated, undiminished, unadulterated, enhanced. = KEY: Allude. SYN: Point, indicate, suggest, hint, signify, insinuate, refer, imply, intimate. ANT: Specify, demonstrate, declare, mention, state. = KEY: Allure. SYN: Entice, seduce, attract, tempt, decoy, inveigle, wheedle, lure, cajole. ANT: Alarm, deter, terrify, scare, warn. = KEY: Allurement, [See ALLURE]. = KEY: Allusion. SYN: Reference, insinuation. ANT: Specification, demonstration, mention. = KEY: Ally. SYN: Friend, companion, supporter, aider, abetter, accomplice, assistant, confederate, helper, associate, accessory, colleague, coadjutor. ANT: Foe, enemy, opponent, adversary, baffler, counteractor, antagonist. = KEY: Aloof. SYN: Apart, away, separately. ANT: Close, near, together. = KEY: Aloud. SYN: Audibly, loudly, clamorously, sonorously, vociferously, obstreperously. ANT: Softly, silently, inaudibly, suppressedly. = KEY: Alter. SYN: Substitute, change, vary, modify, exchange, diversify, remodel. ANT: Retain, perpetuate, conserve, stereotype, arrest, solidify, stabilitate. = KEY: Alterable. SYN: Variable, mutable, changeable, movable, revocable. ANT: Invariable, immutable, fixed, unchangeable, permanent, perpetual, unalterable, immovable. = KEY: Alteration. SYN: Variation, difference, diversification, shifting, modification, change, permutation, mutation, mutability. ANT: Retention, perpetuation, conservation, changelessness, identity, stabilisation, fixity, permanence. = KEY: Altercation. SYN: Dispute, wrangle, contentious, quarrel, dissension, commotion, variance, disturbance, affray, controversy, brawl. ANT: Unanimity, concord, compromise, agreement, reconciliation, consonance, conversation, harmony. = KEY: Alternative. SYN: Choice, resource, opinion. ANT: Compulsion, quandary, necessity, fix. = KEY: Altiloquence. SYN: Bombast, inflatedness, turgidity, euphuism, magniloquence. ANT: Plain-spokenness, vernacular, mother tongue. = KEY: Altitude. SYN: Height, tallness, verticality, ascent, loftiness, eminence, elevation. ANT: Lowness, depression, descent, declination, depth. = KEY: Altogether. SYN: Collectively, combined, in one, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, completely, utterly, thoroughly. ANT: Separately, individually, partially. = KEY: Amalgamate. SYN: Fuse, commix, mix, compound, unite, consolidate, incorporate. ANT: Separate, disintegrate, decompose, disunite, dissipate, detach, disperse, analyze. = KEY: Amalgamation, [See AMALGAMATE]. = KEY: amass. SYN: Collect, accumulate, aggregate, heap, gather, store up, hoard, pile up. ANT: Divide, dissipate, waste, scatter, disperse, parcel, portion, spend. = KEY: Amazement. SYN: astonishment, awe, wonder, bewilderment, surprise, stupefication, marvel. ANT: Expectation, preparation, anticipation, familiarity, calmness, composure, coolness, self-possession. = KEY: Amazing. SYN: Astounding, astonishing, bewildering, marvellous, prodigious, miraculous, vast, portentous, ominous, striking, wonderful, surprising, astounding, extraordinary. ANT: Common, ordinary, familiar, trivial, commonplace, customary, frequent, usual. = KEY: Ambagious. SYN: Tortuous, indirect, anfractuous, circumlocutory, circuitous, periphrastic, ambiguous, unintelligible, pointless, disjointed. ANT: Simple, straightforward, plain, direct, obvious, intelligible, lucid, condensed, pointed, terse, pungent, telling. = KEY: Ambiguous. SYN: Equivocal, vague, doubtful, enigmatical, uncertain, obscure, unintelligible, perplexing, indistinct, dubious. ANT: Univocal, obvious, plain, clear, unambiguous, indisputable, necessary, unmistakable, unequivocal, lucid. = KEY: Ambition. SYN: Aspiration, emulation, appetition. ANT: Indifference, inappetency, contentment, moderation. = KEY: Ameliorate. SYN: Improve, raise, better, advantage, promote, advance, amend, rectify, meliorate. ANT: Debase, depress, deteriorate, injure, impair, vitiate, spoil, mar. = KEY: Amenable. SYN: Liable, dependent, responsible, answerable, accountable, subject, pliant, impressible, ductile, docile. ANT: Independent, autocratic, unamenable, irresponsible, refractory, obstinate. = KEY: Amend. SYN: Improve, mend, repair, correct, rectify, better, ameliorate, reform. ANT: Deteriorate, degenerate, neglect, aggravate, tarnish, blemish, spoil, corrupt, vitiate, impair, mar. = KEY: Amends. SYN: compensation, satisfaction, acknowledgment, atonement, expiation, recompense, indemnity, remuneration, apology, reparation, restitution. ANT: Insult, fault, offense, injury. = KEY: Amenity. SYN: Pleasantness, mildness, blandness, graciousness, gentility, compliableness, courtesy, obligingness. ANT: Unpleasantness, moroseness, harshness, austerity, roughness, ungraciousness, bearishness, rigor, asperity, angularity, discourtesy. = KEY: Amerce. SYN: Find, bind, mulct, condemn. ANT: Remit, acquit, absolve, indemnify, release. = KEY: Amiable. SYN: Lovable, good, kind, benevolent, charitable, delectable, engaging, fascinating, agreeable, lovely, pleading, charming, attractive. ANT: Churlish, disagreeable, hateful, abominable, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, unamiable. = KEY: Amicable. SYN: Friendly, propitious, favorable, kind, cordial, neighborly, sociable. ANT: Unfriendly, unpropitious, unfavorable, unkind, cold, distant, antagonistic, hostile, adverse. = KEY: Amidst. SYN: Between, among, betwixt. ANT: Outside, without, beyond. = KEY: Amiss. SYN: Wrong, untrue, wide, bad, false, defective, short, inappropriate, inopportune, injudicious, untimely, abortive. ANT: Right, true, good, complete, effective, successful, satisfactory, consummate, expedient, appropriate, opportune. = KEY: amity. SYN: Friendliness, peace, sociableness, good will. ANT: Coolness, distance, indifference, hostility, opposition, acrimony, antagonism, asperity, hatred, dislike, repugnance, unfriendliness. = KEY: Among, [See AMIDST]. SYN: Pardon, acquittal, remission, condonation, oblivion, dispensation, absolution. ANT: Penalty, retaliation, punishment, retribution, requital, visitation, infliction, exaction, trial, account. = KEY: Amorphous. SYN: Shapeless, unarranged, unformed, incompact, inchoate, incomplete, unordered, floating, unmoulded, natant, discurrent. ANT: systematized, arranged, compact, finished, shapely, crystallized, de-, stereotyped, moulded. = KEY: Amount \v.\ SYN: Reach, rise, come, attain, extend. ANT: Fall, recede, relapse, decline, fail. = KEY: Amount \n.\ SYN: Total, aggregate, sum, whole, quantity, totality, equality. ANT: Failure, decrease, deficiency, portion, instalment, deficit, insufficiency. = KEY: Ample. SYN: Large, bountiful, liberal, copious, spacious, roomy, diffusive, full, complete, sufficient, plentiful, abundant,. ANT: Narrow, niggardly, insufficient, stingy, scant, mean, stint, bare. = KEY: Amplification, [See AMPLIFY]. = KEY: Amplify. SYN: Enrich, enlarge, increase, augment, multiply, dilate, develop, swell, expatiate, expand, discuss, unfold, extend. ANT: Retrench, amputate, curtail, condense, abbreviate, epitomize, gath, er, collect, sum. = KEY: Amplitude, [See AMPLE]. = KEY: Amputate. SYN: Prune, lop, curtail, clip, remove. ANT: Extend, enlarge, augment, elongate, amplify, t rain, trail, develop, pra duce. = KEY: Analogy. SYN: Relation, resemblance, proportion, similarity, similitude, coincidence, affinity, comparison, parity. ANT: Disproportion, dissimilarity, disharmony, irrelativeness, heterogeneousness, incongruity, inaffinity. = KEY: Analysis. SYN: Dissection, separation, anatomy, segregation, decomposition, resolution, partition. ANT: Composition, synthesis, aggregation, combination, coalition, amalgamation, coherence. = KEY: Anarchy. SYN: Disorder, tumult, rebellion, riot, misgovernment, insubordination. ANT: Order, subjection, government, organization, control, law. = KEY: Anatomy. SYN: Dissection, division, segregation, analysis, resolution, dismemberment. ANT: Synthesis, collocation, organization, union, construction, structure, form, body. = KEY: Ancient. SYN: Old, antiquated, oldfashioned, antique, obsolete, old-time, aged, primeval, primordial, immemorial, time-honored. ANT: New, young, modern, juvenile, upstart, fresh, parvenu. = KEY: Ancillary. SYN: Assistant, subservient, promotive, auxiliary, accessory, conducive, available, useful, applicable. ANT: insubservient, redundant, inappropriate, irrelevant, alien, inoperative, unconducive, adverse, counteractive, obstructive, impertinent, preventive. = KEY: Anew. SYN: afresh, again, repeatedly. ANT: Of old, continuously, uninterruptedly. = KEY: anfractuosity. SYN: Tortuousness, ambiguousness, angularity, ambiguity, circumlocution, disjointedness. ANT: Straightforwardness, directness. = KEY: Angelic. SYN: Pure, ethereal, spiritual, lovely, heavenly, seraphic, rapturous, divine. ANT: Foul, hideous, demoniacal, diabolical, hellish, fiendish. = KEY: Anger \n.\ SYN: Ire, incentment, vexation, grudge, pique, exasperation, indignation, enmity, displeasure, irritation, passion, spleen, gall, resentment, rage, animosity, fury, choler, wrath. ANT: Peace, peacefulness, peaceableness, appeasement, forgiveness, goodwill, patience, forbearance, reconciliation, conciliatoriness, mildness. = KEY: Anger \v.\ SYN: Enrage, vex, kindle, fret, ruffle, chafe, infuriate, exasperate, provoke, irritate, incense, wound, inflame, imbitter. ANT: To appease, compose, forbear, allay, soothe, calm, conciliate, heal. = KEY: Angry. SYN: Wrathful, irate, resentful, ireful, incensed, furious, irascible, choleric, moody, nettled, touchy, sullen, piqued, excited, provoked, raging, chafed, hasty, hot, exasperated, indignant, passionate. ANT: Peaceful, forgiving, forbearing, calm, good-tempered, unresentful. = KEY: Anguish. SYN: Pain, pang, wound, sorrow, distress, grief, discomfort, torture, excruciation, agony, torment. ANT: Ease, pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy, rapture, relief, solace, comfort, assuagement. = KEY: Animadversion. SYN: Rebuke, disapproval, censure, blame. ANT: Praise, approval, encouragement, eulogy. = KEY: Animate. SYN: Enliven, Inspirit, instigate, quicken, exhilarate, embolden, rouse, revivify, cheer, gladden, stir, prompt, incite, stimulate. ANT: Dishearten, deter, cow, stifle, depress, damp, deaden, discourage. = KEY: Animated. SYN: Boused, excited, inspirited, exhilarated, enlivened, vivacious, stirred, lively, brisk, enlivening, inspiring, spirited. ANT: Sluggish, indolent, indifferent, dull, languid, flat, tame. = KEY: Animation. SYN: Life, vivacity, liveliness, airlines, cheerfulness, briskness, alacrity, buoyancy, spirit, exhilaration, sprightliness, promptitude, alertness, activity. ANT: Expiration, spiritlessness, dulness, dolefulness, deadness, stolidity, inertness. = KEY: Animosity. SYN: Hatred, antipathy, dissention, aversion, acrimony, feud, strife, rancor, antagonism, bitterness, acerbity, hostility, enmity, malice, anger, malevolence, ill-will, malignity, feeling against. ANT: Congeniality, companionship, friendship, sympathy, fellow-feeling, unanimity, harmony, concord, regard, alliance, kindliness. = KEY: Annals. SYN: Chronicles, memorials, records, registers, history, archives. ANT: Tradition, legend, romance, lays. = KEY: Annex. SYN: Add, attach, fasten, affix, subjoin, append, connect, unite. ANT: Withdraw, detach, disconnect, separate, disengage, disunite, remove. = KEY: Annihilate. SYN: Abolish, destroy, bring to nought, uproot, eradicate, nullify, exterminate, end, extinguish, demolish, obliterate, efface. ANT: Keep, conserve, preserve, foster, tend, protest, cherish, develope, stabilitate, augment, cultivate, perpetuate. = KEY: Annotation. SYN: Explanation, criticism, remark, note, commentary, elucidation, observation, comment. ANT: Statement, assertion, proposition, narrative, text. = KEY: Announce. SYN: Declare, propound, give notice, enunciate, advertise, publish, report, notify, make known, give out, reveal, herald, proclaim, intimate, promulgate. ANT: Conceal, suppress, hush, stifle, withhold, shroud, bury, burke. = KEY: Annoy. SYN: Tease, vex, irritate, disturb, affront, molest, pain, disquiet, incommode, tantalize, bother, weary, inconvenience, plague, discommode, harass, chafe, trouble. ANT: Soothe, conciliate, appease, regard, quiet, accommodate, study, tend, foster, cherish, smooth, gratify. = KEY: Annoyance. SYN: Trouble, discomfort, vexation, worry, nuisance, bother, uneasiness, plague, bore. ANT: Joy, gladness, gratification, delight, ease, pleasure. = KEY: Annul. SYN: Cancel, obliterate, make void, quash, nullify, revoke, rescind, destroy, set aside, abrogate, extinguish, abolish, repeal. ANT: Foster, protect, conserve, confirm, maintain, enact, re-enact, institute, establish. = KEY: Anomalous. SYN: Irregular, abnormal, exceptional, unusual, eccentric. ANT: Regular, normal, usual, ordinary, common, wonted, in the order of things. = KEY: Anomaly. SYN: Irregularity, abnormity, exception, informality, peculiarity, eccentricity. ANT: Conformity, regularity, illustration, conformance, exemplification, specimen. = KEY: Anon. SYN: Soon, shortly, presently. ANT: Hereafter. = KEY: Anonymous. SYN: Nameless, unattested, authorless, unidentified, unauthenticated. ANT: Authenticated, attested, identified, authorized, verified, signed. = KEY: Answer. SYN: Reply, response, counter-argument, confutation, acceptance, (as of a challenge), tally, counterpart, solution, vindication, apology, exculpation, defense, rejoinder, repartee, retort. ANT: Challenge, question, defiance, summons, interrogation, query. = KEY: Answerable. SYN: Liable, amenable, accountable, responsible, correspondent, agreeing. ANT: Independent, unanswerable, irresponsible, different, unsuitable, disagreeing, dissimilar. = KEY: Antagonism. SYN: Hostility, opposition, animosity, enmity. ANT: Amity, alliance, association. = KEY: Antagonist. SYN: Adversary, opponent, rival, competitor, foe, enemy. ANT: Aider, abettor, accomplice, accessory, ally. = KEY: Antagonistic. SYN: Adverse, opposing, inimical, hostile, repugnant, contrary. ANT: Favoring, aiding, harmonious, friendly, agreeable to. = KEY: Antecedence. SYN: Anteriority, priority, precursorship, premonition, Introduction, preparation, pre-existence. ANT: Posteriority, subsequence, succession, sequel, supervention, consequence. = KEY: Antecedent, [See ANTERIOR]. = KEY: Anterior. SYN: Prior, foregoing, antecedent, previous, precursive, precedent, earlier, Introductory, preliminary, former. ANT: Posterior, later, subsequent, consequent, succeeding. = KEY: Anticipate. SYN: Forestall, prejudge, expect, foretaste, apprehend, prevent, prearrange, prepare, prejudge, meet, obviate, intercept, forecast. ANT: Remember, recollect, remedy, recall, undo, cure, misapprehend. = KEY: Anticipation. SYN: Prevention, expectation, forestallment, awaiting, preoccupation, preconception, foresight, forethought, foretaste, prelibation, preclusion, pregustation, antepast, forecast, provision. ANT: Surprise, unpreparedness, Un-expectedness, inexpectation, actual enjoyment, non-expectation, realization, consummation. = KEY: Antipathy. SYN: Repugnance, dislike, hatred, detestation, contrariety, aversion, distaste, uncongeniality, antagonism, hostility, opposition, abhorrence. ANT: Sympathy, kindliness, congeniality, fellow-feeling, affinity, harmony. = KEY: Antiquated. SYN: By-gone, quaint, old-fashioned, obsolete. ANT: Fashionable, modish, stylish, modern. = KEY: Antique. SYN: Archaic, ancient, ancestral. ANT: Modern, recent, new-fangled. = KEY: Antithesis. SYN: Contrast, opposition, contradiction, antagonism. ANT: Identity, sameness, convertibility, coincidence, coalescence. = KEY: Anxiety. SYN: Care, trouble, eagerness, disquiet, apprehension, carefulness, diffidence, solicitude, misgiving. ANT: Carelessness, ease, confidence, contentment, acquiescence, contentedness, apathy, light-heartedness, nonchalance. = KEY: Anxious. SYN: Solicitous, careful, uneasy, concerned, restless, watchful, disturbed, unquiet. ANT: Without care, careless, inert, ease, unconcerned, calm, composed. = KEY: Apace. SYN: Rapidly, fast, astride, eagerly, ahead, expeditiously, speedily. ANT: Slowly, imperceptibly, leisurely, creepingly, crawlingly, sluggishly, tardily. = KEY: Apart. SYN: Aloof, away, separately, secret, asunder, privately, aside, secretly, separate. ANT: Close, together, united, along with, hand ill hand. = KEY: Apartment. SYN: Room, chamber, hall, lodging, berth. ANT: Resident, dweller, lodger, occupant, inmate, tenant, housebuilding. = KEY: Apathy. SYN: Indifference, insensibility, unfeelingness in company, insusceptibility, unconcern, sluggishness, hebetude. ANT: Anxiety, care, eagerness, interestedness, sensibility, susceptibility, sensitiveness, irritability, curiosity. = KEY: Apathetic. SYN: Unfeeling, stoical, cold, frigid, indifferent, impassive, insensible, insensitive. ANT: Anxious, careful, sympathetic, sensitive, susceptible. = KEY: Ape \v.\ SYN: Mimic, imitate, simulate, personate, represent. ANT: Not to imitate, vary, modify, change. = KEY: Aperture. SYN: Opening, gap, chasm, fissure, cleft. ANT: Closure, blocking up, seclusion, imperviousness, blank wall, shutting up. = KEY: Apex, [See ACME]. = KEY: Aphorism. SYN: Adage, apothegm, maxim, saying, precept, rule, proverb. ANT: Lecture, exhortation, dissertation, disquisition. = KEY: Apiece. SYN: Distributively, individually, separately, severally, analytically. ANT: Collectively, together, accumulatively, indiscriminately, confusedly, synthetically. = KEY: Apocalypse. SYN: Revelation, manifestation, unveiling, exhibition, divestment, exposure, disclosure. ANT: Concealment, suppression, obscuration, veiling, shrouding, eclipse, envelopment. = KEY: Apocryphal. SYN: Obscure, doubtful, unauthorized, unauthentic, spurious, legendary, uncertain, unauthenticated, unverified. ANT: Palpable, accepted, authorized, authentic, genuine, current, undisputed, verified, attested. = KEY: Apologue. SYN: Fable, fiction, parable. ANT: Precept, history, narrative. = KEY: Apology. SYN: Defense, justification, plea, exculpation, excuse, vindication, acknowledgment, confession. ANT: Charge, imputation, impeachment, offense, incrimination, injury, accusation, wrong, insult. = KEY: Apostate, [See FEATURE]. = KEY: Apothegm. SYN: Proverb, adage, dictum, maxim, saw, saying. ANT: (As not so condensed), Exhortation, sermon, discourse, disquisition. = KEY: Appal. SYN: Affright, alarm, terrify, scare, daunt, cow, shock, frighten, discouraged, dishearten, horrify, dismay, astound. ANT: Encourage, rally, assure, embolden, reassure. = KEY: Apparel. SYN: Clothes, robes, vesture, vestments, raiment, garniture, habiliments, habit, dress, clothing, caparison, trappings, housings. ANT: Nudity, disinvestiture, deshabille, tatters, rags. = KEY: Apparent. SYN: Obvious, plain, conspicuous, manifest, appearing, unmistakable, clear, probable, seeming, presumable, likely, patent, ostensible, visible, evident, indubitable, notorious, certain. ANT: Uncertain, dubious, inapparent, minute, unobservable, improbable, insupposable, hidden, real. = KEY: Appeal. SYN: Accost, address, apostrophize, invite, cite, invoke, urge, refer, call upon, entreat, request, resort. ANT: Deprecate, repudiate, protest, disavow, disclaim, defy, abjure. = KEY: Appearance. SYN: Advent, coming, arrival, presence, apparition, aspect, Manifestatlon, probability, likeness, exhibition, mien, manner, semblance, air, show, look, pretense, likelihood, presumption. ANT: Departure, disappearance, unlikelihood, non-appearance, concealment, evanition. = KEY: Appease. SYN: Pacify, assuage, mitigate, conciliate, propitiate, moderate, satisfy, stay, allay, quiet, soften, calm, compose, soothe, hush, cool, tranquilize. ANT: Excite, provoke, aggravate, exasperate, inflame, embitter, incense, intensify, stimulate, kindle. = KEY: Appellation. SYN: Name, patronymic, cognomen, style, description, designation, title, denomination, term. ANT: Namelessness, non-description, anonymousness. = KEY: Append. SYN: Affix, supplement, subjoin, attach. ANT: Separate, disengage, disconnect, detach. = KEY: Appendage. SYN: Addition, annexation, adjunct, supplement. ANT: Subtraction, separation, amalgamation, disconnection, detachment, disjunction, division, incorporation. = KEY: Appended. SYN: Added, joined, affixed, subjoined, attached, appended, additional, concomitant. ANT: Detracted, disconnected, separated, disjoined, divided. = KEY: Appendix, [See APPENDAGE]. = KEY: Appertaining, [See CONCERNING]. = KEY: Appetite. SYN: Passion, desire, propensity, proclivity, inclination, propension, appetency, want, craving, disposition, tendency, proneness. ANT: Repugnance, aversion, antipathy, loathing, indifference, apathy. = KEY: Applaud. SYN: Laud, praise, extol, approve, eulogize, commend, cry up, magnify, encourage, cheer. ANT: Disapprove, denounce, decry, censure, execrate. = KEY: Applause. SYN: Praise, plaudit, laudation, encomium, commendation, approbation, acclamation, approval, eulogy, acclaim. ANT: Obloquy, condemnation, denunciation, dissatisfaction, contempt, censure, blame, vituperation, sibilation. = KEY: Appliance. SYN: Contrivance, mechanism, arrangement, means, agency. ANT: Spontaneity, growth, production, evolution, development. = KEY: Applicable. SYN: Available, ancilla, ry, convenient, useful, pertinent, conducive, appropriate. ANT: Useless, unavailable, inconducive, inapplicable, irrelevant. = KEY: Application, [See DILIGENCE]. = KEY: Apply. SYN: Adduce, use, employ, allot, dedicate, devote, exercise, apportion, direct, engage. ANT: Disuse, divorce, discard, supersede, alienate, remove, misapply, misdirect, divert, misappropriate, misemploy. = KEY: Appoint. SYN: Fix, determine, instal, allot, order, prescribe, institute, employ, apportion, apply, designate, assign, intrust, invest, ordain, arrange. ANT: Reverse, cancel, recall, withdraw, reserve, withhold, retain, undo, suspend, disarrange, disappoint. = KEY: Apportion. SYN: Assign, deal, allot, grant, share, divide, dispense, administer, distribute, appoint. ANT: Reserve, retain, refuse, withhold, assume, resume, cancel, divert, suspend, reapportion, reappoint. = KEY: Apportionment, [See APPORTION]. = KEY: Apposite. SYN: Suitable, appropriate, befitting, fitting, timely, congruous, consistent, pertinent, seasonable, relevant, fit, meet, adapted, apropos. ANT: Untimely, irrelevant, impertinent, unfitting, mistimed, misplaced, misspoken, inappropriate, misjudged. = KEY: Appraise. SYN: Value, survey, estimate, price. ANT: Undervalue, discard, condemn, brand, misappreciate, misestimate. = KEY: Appreciate. SYN: Esteem, recognize, acknowledge, respect, value, prize, regard, reckon, estimate. ANT: Undervalue, misconceive, misjudge, ignore, misappreciate. = KEY: Apprehend. SYN: Comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest, fancy, dread, imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjecture. ANT: Ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend, misanticipate. = KEY: Apprehension, [See APPREHEND]. = KEY: Apprise. SYN: Tell, inform, disclose, publish, advise, advertise, communicate, enlighten, acquaint. ANT: Hoodwink, mystify, deceive, mislead. = KEY: Apprize, [See APPRISE]. = KEY: Approach. SYN: Access, avenue, entrance, adit, vestibule, arrival, approximation, advent, Bearing, admission, appropinquation, admittance, mode, path, way, advance, similarity. ANT: Exit, egress, debouchure, outlet, departure, recession, distance, diversity, disparity. = KEY: Approbation. SYN: Approval, satisfaction, praise, encouragement, confirmation, assent, consent, permission, commendation, concurrence, acceptance. ANT: Disapproval, censure, blame, dissatisfaction, discouragement, repudiation, protest, denial, refusal, disclaimer, disavowal, disparity, dissimilarity. = KEY: Approval, [See APPROBATION]. = KEY: Approve. SYN: Like, comment, sanction, praise, support, second, promote, encourage, authorize. ANT: Disapprove, dislike, censure, blame, disown, disavow. = KEY: Appropriate, [See FIT]. = KEY: Approximate. SYN: Approach, resemble, border, abut, near, trench. ANT: Separate, differ, vary, recede, diverge, deviate. = KEY: Appurtenant. SYN: Belonging, connected, appropriate, appended, homogeneous, attached, co-ordinate, concomitant. ANT: Unconnected, disconnected, Inappropriate, detached, isolated, incongruous, unallied, unrelated, independent, heterogeneous. = KEY: Apt. SYN: Fit, apposite, clever, meet, liable, becoming, appropriate, ready, fitting, suitable, pertinent, qualified, prompt, adapted, likely. ANT: Unfitted, ill-timed, awkward, unlikely, inapt. = KEY: Aptitude. SYN: Fitness, liability, susceptibility, suitableness, readiness, quickness, cleverness, proneness, tendency. ANT: Unfitness, unsuitableness, insusceptibility, slowness, stupidity, unreadiness, awkwardness. = KEY: Arbiter. SYN: Arbitrator, judge, umpire, moderator, director, referee, adjudicator. ANT: Appellant, claimant, disputant, litigant. = KEY: Arbitrary. SYN: Tyrannical, harsh, dictatorial, imperious, bearing, overbearing, selfish, absolute, irresponsible, tyrannous, domineering, peremptory. ANT: Mild, modest, lenient, considerate, obliging, limited, equitable, constitutional. = KEY: Arbitrate. SYN: Settle, adjust, compose, decide, determine, accommodate, adjudicate. ANT: Dispute, claim, appeal, misdetermine, litigate, contend, misjudge. = KEY: Archaic, [See ANCIENT]. = KEY: Architect. SYN: Constructor, contriver, designer, builder, surveyor, agent. ANT: Workman carrying out plans, destroyer, extinguisher. = KEY: Ardent. SYN: Longing, passionate, aspiring, warm, eager, fervent, excited, fiery, glowing, zealous, fervid, fierce, keen, vehement, hot, affectionate, impassioned, burning, heated. ANT: Cool, cold, indifferent, dispassioned, apathetic, passionless, unimpassioned, phlegmatic, platonic. = KEY: Ardor, [See ARDENT]. = KEY: Arduous. SYN: Difficult, hard, lofty, onerous, laborious, steep, precipitous. ANT: Easy, practicable, unlaborious, light, trivial. = KEY: Argue. SYN: Discuss, debate, prove, question, evidence, establish, imply, sift, dispute, persuade, controvert, contend, demonstrate, reason. ANT: Dictate, assert, propound, command. = KEY: Argument. SYN: Reasoning, controversy, evidence, discussion, topic, dispute. ANT: Assertion, assumption, without proof or evidence. = KEY: Arid. SYN: Dry, parched, sterile, unproductive. ANT: Moist, dewy, watered, fertile, luxuriant, exuberant, verdant, blooming, productive. = KEY: Aright. SYN: Right, well, rightly, correctly, truly, properly, uprightly, unexceptionably, justly, suitably, appropriately. ANT: Wrongly, awry, incorrectly, improperly, defectively, erroneously. = KEY: Arm \v.\ SYN: Equip, gird, accoutre, array. ANT: Disarm, ungird, divest, disarray. = KEY: Army. SYN: Troops, soldiery, legion, soldiers, military, phalanx, host, multitude. ANT: Fewness, a small number, Individual, paucity, single person. = KEY: Aromatic, [See FRAGRANCE]. = KEY: Around. SYN: About, environing, encircling. ANT: Within, amid, among. = KEY: Arouse. SYN: Stir, excite, disturb, animate, wake up, stimulate, alarm, provoke, cheer. ANT: Allay, assuage, mitigate, pacify, compose, moderate, still, quiet. = KEY: Arraign. SYN: Summon, accuse, censure, indict, charge, impeach. ANT: Acquit, condone, discharge, release. = KEY: Arrange. SYN: Order, put In order, group, array, place, adjust, range, locate, dispose, assort, deal, sort, parcel, classify. ANT: Derange, disarrange, confuse, disturb, disperse, jumble, disorder, Arrangement, [See ORDER]. = KEY: Arrant. SYN: Notorious, consummate, atrocious, vile, flagrant, veritable, unqualified, utter, infamous, emphatic. ANT: Suspicious, slight, mitigated, likely. = KEY: Array \v.\ SYN: Vest, deck, equip, decorate, rank, adorn, dress, accoutre, invest, attire, place, arrange, draw up, marshal, set in order, dispose. ANT: Disarray, disarrange, confuse, jumble, divest, denude, strip. = KEY: Array \n.\ Arrangement, order, disposition, sight, exhibition, show, parade. ANT: Disarray, disorder, confusion, confusedness, jumble. = KEY: Arrest \v.\ SYN: Seize, take, stop, capture, withhold, restrain, hold, detain, apprehend. ANT: Release, dismiss, liberate, free, discharge, expedite. = KEY: Arrival, [See ARRIVE]. = KEY: Arrive. SYN: Reach, attain, come to, enter, get to, land. ANT: Embark, depart, start. = KEY: Arrogance. SYN: Haughtiness, contemptuousness, overbearingness, hauteur, browbeating, loftiness, self-conceit, stateliness, vainglory, insolence, self-importance, assumption, discourtesy. ANT: bashfulness, servility, considerateness, deference, courtesy, modesty, shyness, diffidence, politeness. = KEY: Arrogate. SYN: Claim, assume, vindicate, assert, demand. ANT: Forego, waive, resign, surrender, abandon, disclaim. = KEY: Art. SYN: Science, literature, aptitude, readiness, adroitness, skill, dexterity, cunning, deceit, duplicity, tactics, profession, artifice, management, trade, business, calling. ANT: Inaptitude, maladroitness, candor, openness, frankness, mismanagement. = KEY: Artful. SYN: Cunning, designing, maneuvering, sharp, knowing, subtle, sly, crafty, wily, shrewd. ANT: Simple, undesigning, artless, open, innocent, unsophisticated. = KEY: Artifice. SYN: manoeuvre, cheat, wile, contrivance, craft, trick, fraud, machination, punning, imposture, stratagem. ANT: Fairness, candor, simplicity, openness. = KEY: Artificial. SYN: Invented, fabricated, fictitious, constructed, manufactured, pretended, simulated, false, assumed, concocted, contrived, deceptive, artful, affected, unnatural, constrained. ANT: Natural, inartificial, genuine, spontaneous, transparent, artless, unaffected, [See ARTFUL]. = KEY: Artless, [See ARTFUL]. = KEY: Ascend. SYN: Rise, mount, soar, surmount, go up, climb, tower, scale. ANT: Fall, descend, sink. = KEY: Ascendancy. SYN: Superiority, advantage, mastery, control, influence, supremacy, sway, domination, authority. = KEY: Ascertain. SYN: Prove, verify, find out, discover, confirm, detect, determine, learn, discern. ANT: Guess, conjecture, surmise, suppose, presume. = KEY: Ascribe. SYN: Assign, attribute, impute, refer, render, allege, charge. ANT: Deny, refuse, exclude, dissociate, disconnect, dissever. = KEY: Askant. SYN: Away, askew, asquint, obliquely, aslant. ANT: Straightforwards, forwards, rectilinearly, ahead, straight. = KEY: Aspect. SYN: Front, face, phase, side, appearance, presentation, exhibition, exposure, feature, view, air, mien, deportment, countenance, bearing, complexion, sight. ANT: Back, obverse, rear. = KEY: Asperity. SYN: Acerbity, harshness, acrimony, bitterness, sharpness, tartness, sourness, roughness, moroseness, severity, crabbedness. ANT: Mildness, softness, sweetness, gentleness, pleasantness, smoothness. = KEY: Asperse. SYN: Slander, calumniate, bespatter, befoul, defy, attack, defame, vilify, traduce, scandalize, malign, detract from, blacken, tarnish, befoul, backbite. ANT: Clear, defend, eulogize, vindicate, shelter, shield, praise, laud, extol, uphold. = KEY: Aspiration. SYN: Longing, desire, aim, wish, craving, ambition, endeavor, hope, appetition, effort, eagerness. ANT: Apathy, indifference, aimlessness, lulness, inertia, callousness, carelessness, aversion, avoidance, rejection, repudiation. = KEY: Assail, [See ASSAULT]. = KEY: Assault. SYN: Onset, attack, aggression, onslaught. ANT: Defense, resistance, repulsion, retaliation, undermining, sapping, stratagem. = KEY: Assay. SYN: Test, endeavor, prove, try. ANT: Survey, conjecture, guess, scan. = KEY: Assemble. SYN: Gather, collect, congregate, amass, muster, call together, convoke, convene. ANT: Scatter, disperse, go away, dismiss. = KEY: Assembly. SYN: Meeting, concourse, assemblage, multitude, group, synod, conclave, conference, convocation, unison, company, congregation, collection, crowd, gathering, convention, aggregate. ANT: Dispersion, dissipation, disunion, disruption. = KEY: Assent \n.\ SYN: Coincidence, agreement, concert, acknowledgment, consent, acquiescence, approval, concurrence, approbation, compliance. ANT: Dissent, disagreement, difference, disavowal, repudiation, declension, disclaimer, protest. = KEY: Assent \v.\ [See CONCEDE]. = KEY: Assert. SYN: Asseverate, declare, pronounce, depose, maintain, statement, avow, avouch, affirm, allege, protest, claim. ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, waive, abandon. = KEY: Assets. SYN: goods, proceeds, possessions, effects, property. ANT: Debts, liabilities. = KEY: Asseverate, [See ASSERT]. = KEY: Assiduity. SYN: Attention, perseverance, pains, patience, exertion, labor, application, effort, politeness, constancy, sedulousness, diligence. ANT: Indolence, remissness, inattention, desultoriness, inconstancy. = KEY: Assiduous, [See ASSIDUITY]. = KEY: Assign. SYN: Attribute, apportion, allege, refer, specify, consign, intrust, commit, point out, allot to, adduce, advance, appoint, convey. ANT: Withhold, withdraw, resume, retain, refuse, disconnect, dissociate. = KEY: Assimilate. SYN: Compare, liken, match, engross, identify, incorporate, absorb, appropriate. ANT: Separate, segregate, part, contrast, reject. = KEY: Assist. SYN: Help, succor, aid, support, relieve, befriend, second, co-operate with, back, benefit, further. ANT: Hinder, resist, oppose, antagonize, counteract, clog, prevent. = KEY: Assistance. SYN: Help, aid, countenance, support, abettance, protection, maintenance, coadjutorship. ANT: Resistance, obstruction, opposition, counteraction, antagonism, drawback, clog, preventive. = KEY: Assistant. SYN: Helper, aider, attendant, coadjutor, auxiliary, ally, associate, contributor, partner, confederate. ANT: Hinderer, opposer, rival, foe, antagonist. = KEY: Associate. SYN: Companion, friend, ally, coadjutor, consort, helpmate, comrade, partner. ANT: Rival, alien, foe, antagonist. = KEY: Association. SYN: Union, connection, conjunction, contortment, companionship, alliance, familiarity, community, membership, society, company, denomination, partnership, fellowship, fraternity, friendship. ANT: Disunion, disconnection, estrangement, separation, severance, independence, avoidance, disruption, dismemberment, solitude, individuality. = KEY: Assorted. SYN: Separated, chosen, selected, clarified. ANT: Mingled, mixed, confused, unclassified, jumbled, heaped up. = KEY: Assortment. SYN: Collection, disposition, distribution, class, quantity, selection, stock, miscellany, lot, variety. ANT: Misarrangement, disarrangement, displacement, misplacement. = KEY: Assuage. SYN: Mitigate, soothe, console, soften, moderate, pacify, lenify, allay, ease, alleviate, abate, diminish, lessen, compose, appease, calm, tranquillize. ANT: Exasperate, excite, increase, stimulate, incite, provoke, inflame, embitter, aggravate. = KEY: Assuagement, [See ASSUAGE]. = KEY: Assume. SYN: Take, appropriate, arrogate, wear, exhibit, postulate, suppose, presume, usurp, claim, pretend, feign, affect. ANT: Waive, allow, doff, render, surrender, concede, grant, demonstrate, abandon, argue, prove. = KEY: Assumption. SYN: Arrogance, boldness, impudence, self-confidence, selfreliance, effrontery, presumption, conviction, certainty, self-assertion. ANT: Distrust, timidity, bashfulness, misgiving, self-distrust, consternation, dismay, alarm. = KEY: Assure. SYN: Advise, advertise, promise, inform, rally, console, encourage, countenance, aid, support, convince, uphold, certify. ANT: Misinform, misadvise, mislead, deceive, discomfit, disconceit, deter, discourage, warn, dissuade, unsettle, intimidate. = KEY: Assurance. SYN: Arrogance, impudence, boldness, self-confidence, selfreliance, promise, assertion, presumption, effrontery, self-assertion. ANT: Distrust, timidity, bashfulness, self-distrust, consternation. = KEY: Astonish. SYN: Startle, surprise, confound, amaze, astound, fill with wonder, stupefy, alarm, terrify, electrify, scare, dumbfounder. ANT: Rally, encourage, assure, embolden. = KEY: Astonished. SYN: Amazed, astounded, overwhelmed, dumbfounded, thunderstruck. ANT: Calm, tranquil, assured, bold, undisturbed. = KEY: Astonishing. SYN: Amazing, wondrous, surprising, wonderful, striking, marvelous. ANT: Foreseen, unamazed, common, astonished at nothing, ordinary, natural, usual, everyday, trite. = KEY: Astonishment. SYN: Wonder, surprise, marvel, amazement, admiration, awe, bewilderment, stupefaction, fascination. ANT: Expectance, expectation, anticipation, foreseeing, absence of wonder, awe, etc. = KEY: Astray. SYN: Loose, abroad, missing, about, at large, wrong, erring, wandering. ANT: Right, close, at home, safe. = KEY: Astute. SYN: Crafty, shrewd, knowing, sharp, discriminating, sagacious, penetrating, acute, discerning, keen. ANT: Dull, unobserving, undiscriminating, stolid, asinine, anserine, blind. = KEY: Asunder. SYN: Separate, apart, disunited, divided, in twain. ANT: In one, close, united, together. = KEY: Athletic. SYN: Strong, vigorous, powerful, stalwart, brawny, muscular, ablebodied, lusty, sinewy, robust. ANT: Weak, puny, effeminate, nerveless, strengthless, unbraced. = KEY: Atom. SYN: Molecule, particle, mote, speck, scrap, bit. ANT: Mass, whole, aggregate, lump. = KEY: Atonement. SYN: Reconciliation, expiation, compensation, preparation, satisfaction, recompense. ANT: Alienation, separation, enmity, estrangement, division, offense, transgression. = KEY: Atrocious. SYN: Monstrous, nefarious, wicked, outrageous, villainous, enormous, shameful, heinous, cruel, flagrant, facinorous, flagitious. ANT: Laudable, noble, honorable, generous, humane, admirable, chivalrous. = KEY: Attach. SYN: Fasten, apply, append, add, fix, subjoin, annex, unite, conciliate, tie, connect, conjoin, attract, win, bind. ANT: Unfasten, Ioose, disunite, untie, disconnect, detach, alienate, estrange, repel. = KEY: Attachment, [See ATTACH]. = KEY: Attack. \v.\ SYN: Assail, assault, invade, encounter, charge, besiege, impugn, contravene. ANT: Defend, resist, repel, protest, withstand on one's own part, or for another, support, aid, shield, uphold, vindicate, shelter. = KEY: Attack. \n.\ SYN: Invasion, assault, onset, aggression, onslaught. ANT: Defense, resistance, repulse, protection, aid, vindication, support, maintenance, shelter. = KEY: Attain. SYN: Reach, extend, master, arrive at, compass, earn, win, achieve, accomplish, get, obtain, acquire, gain, secure, grasp. ANT: Lose, fail, forfeit, miss, abandon, resign. = KEY: Attainment. SYN: Information, acquirements, accomplishments. ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius. = KEY: Attemper. SYN: Moderate, subdue, compound, commingle, adapt, adjust, harmonize, modify, blend, attune, mix, mold, work, medicate, amalgamate, accommodate. ANT: Discompose, confuse, spoil, aggravate, mar. = KEY: Attempt. SYN: Try, endeavor, strive, undertake, seek, essay, attack, violate, force. ANT: Disregard, abandon, pretermit, dismiss, neglect, shun, drop. = KEY: Attempt \n.\ [See EFFORT]. = KEY: Attend. SYN: Listen, heed, notice, observe, wait on, serve, mind, watch, accompany, consort, follow, imply, involve. ANT: Wander, disregard, leave, forsake, abandon, desert, exclude, neutralize. = KEY: Attention. SYN: Observation, notice, regard, watchfulness, heed, consideration, circumspection, study, vigilance, care. ANT: Disregard, inadvertence, remission, indifference, carelessness, abstraction, distraction, absence. = KEY: Attentive, [See OBSERVANT]. = KEY: Attenuate. SYN: Educe, elongate, reduce, fine-drawn, narrow, contract, diminish, compress. ANT: Broaden, increase, expand, dilate, swell, enlarge, develop, amplify. = KEY: Attest. SYN: Vouch, aver, assert, certify, witness, vouch for, affirm, testify, evidence, support, confirm, suggest, prove, involve, demonstrate, establish, imply, bespeak. ANT: Deny, controvert, contradict, contravene, disprove, disestablish, exclude, neutralize, upset, oppugn, refute. = KEY: Attestation, [See EVIDENCE]. = KEY: Attire. SYN: Robes, garments, clothing, vestments, habiliment, habit, raiment, clothes, garb, apparel, accoutrement, livery, uniform, costume. ANT: Nudity, divestment, exposure, denudation, bareness, disarray, dishabille, tatters, rags, patches, shreds. = KEY: Attitude. SYN: Posture, position, situation, standing, composition, collocation, aspect, pose, lie. ANT: Evolution, exercise, bearing, deportment, movement, gesticulation, manoeuvre, gesture. = KEY: Attract. SYN: Influence, induce, dispose, incline, tempt, prompt, allure, charm, fascinate, invite, entice. ANT: Repel, deter, indispose, disincline, estrange, alienate. = KEY: Attraction. SYN: Inducement, influence, adduction, inclination, disposition, charm, beauty, allurement. ANT: Repulsion, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, deformity, repugnance. = KEY: Attractive. SYN: Winning, alluring, tempting, inviting, engaging, captivating, fascinating, enticing, interesting, charming, pleasant, beautiful, agreeable. ANT: Unattractive, repugnant, repulsive, uninteresting, disagreeable, unpleasant, deformed, ugly, deterrent, loathsome, forbidding. = KEY: Attribute \v.\ SYN: Refer, assign, associate, apply, ascribe, charge, impute, connect. ANT: Divorce, disconnect, dissociate, dissever. = KEY: Attribute \n.\ SYN: Property, quality, characteristic, attainment, sign, mark, indication, manifestation. ANT: correlative, viz, Essence, nature, substance, etc, or, spuriously, affectation, misnomer, semblance, assumption, mask, veil. = KEY: Attrition. SYN: Sorrow, repentance, affliction, penitence, compunction, remorse, self-reproach. ANT: Impenitence, callousness, obduracy, reprobation, relentlessness. = KEY: Attune. SYN: Temper, attemper, harmonize, adjust, accommodate. ANT: Unstring, disharmonize, disarrange, discompose, dislocate, disturb, disconcert. = KEY: Audacious. SYN: Insolent, adventurous, venturesome, presumptuous, valiant, rash, bold, daring, reckless, enterprising. ANT: Timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome, unenterprising. = KEY: Audacity. SYN: Boldness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, hardihood. ANT: Caution, self-preservation, timidity, calculation, forethought, foresight, diffidence, inadventurousness. = KEY: Audience. SYN: Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception, interview. ANT: Soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe. = KEY: Augment, [See ENLARGE]. = KEY: Augmentation. SYN: Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply, enhancement, addition, acquisition, improvement. ANT: Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal, reservation, expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration, impoverishment, reduction, curtailment. = KEY: Augury. SYN: Prophecy, prediction, divination, conjecture, omen, prognostication. ANT: Experience, science, observation. = KEY: August \a.\ SYN: Majestic, dignified, stately, noble, pompous, imposing, grand, solemn, exalted. ANT: Mean, undignified, unimposing, common, vulgar, despicable, paltry, unnoticeable, beggarly, commonplace. = KEY: auspicious. SYN: Propitious, lucky, favorable, encouraging, satisfactory, successful, hopeful, promising, happy, golden, fortunate, opportune, prosperous. ANT: Unpropitious, unfavorable, discouraging, unsatisfactory, inauspicious, unpromising, abortive, hopeless. = KEY: Austere. SYN: Hard, rigid, stern, severe, morose, unrelenting, unyielding, strict, rigorous, harsh, sour, relentless. ANT: Mild, affable, kindly, tender, feeling, bland, indulgent, genial. = KEY: Authentic. SYN: Genuine, veritable, reliable, real, original, trustworthy, not spurious, true, legitimate, certain, accepted, current, received. ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded, rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous, fictitious. = KEY: Authenticate. SYN: Confirm, settle, establish, verify, substantiate, identify. ANT: Contravene, disprove, disestablish, refute, upset. = KEY: Author. SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause, constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer, perpetrator, doer. ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser. = KEY: Authoritative. SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent, dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic, commanding. ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient, persuasive. = KEY: Authority. SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness, conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction, jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway, sufferance, supremacy, dominion. ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness, inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong. = KEY: Authorize, [See EMPOWER]. = KEY: Autocracy, [See AUTOCRATIC]. = KEY: Autocratic. SYN: Independent, arbitrary, despotic, irresponsible, absolute. ANT: Dependent, subordinate, re sponsible, constitutional, limited. = KEY: Auxiliary. SYN: Helpful, abetting, aiding, accessory, promotive, conducive, assistant, ancillary, assisting, subsidiary, helping. ANT: Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous, obstructive, retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome. = KEY: Avail \v.\ SYN: Suffice, hold, stand, endure, answer, tell, profit, help, benefit, advantage, service, use, utility. ANT: Fail, fall, disappoint, betray. = KEY: Avail. SYN: Profit, help, benefit, advantage, use, utility, service. ANT: Disadvantage, hindrance, helplessness. = KEY: Available. SYN: Useful, appropriable, convertible, attainable, handy, conducive, applicable, procurable, advantage, helpful, profitable, suitable, serviceable. ANT: Useless, inappropriate, inapplicable, unprocurable, inconducive, irrelevant, Inoperative, unavailable. = KEY: Avarice. SYN: Greed, cupidity, rapacity, penuriousness, niggardliness, miserliness, stinginess, covetousness, acquisitiveness, griping, greediness. ANT: Large-heartedness, unselfishness, liberality, bountifulness, profuseness, squander, prodigality, extravagance, waste. = KEY: Avaricious, [See LIBERAL]. = KEY: Avenge. SYN: Vindicate, right, visit, retaliate. ANT: Waive, don, forego, condone, remit, forgive, overlook. = KEY: Avenue. SYN: Approach, adit, access, entrance. ANT: Exit, egress. = KEY: Aver. SYN: Assert, asseverate, affirm, depose, avouch, protest, oblige, declare. ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, disavow, disclaim, repudiate, gainsay, oppugn. = KEY: Average. SYN: Mean, medium, middle, mediocre. ANT: Extreme, excess, defect, perfectness, perfection. = KEY: Averse. SYN: Hostile, disinclined, indisposed, repugnant, backward, unwilling, reluctant, loath. ANT: Ready, disposed, eager, prone, inclined, desirous. = KEY: Aversion. SYN: Hatred, dislike, distaste, repugnance, uncongeniality, abhorrence, antipathy. ANT: Love, desire, affection, liking, congeniality, sympathy, ardor, eagerness, avidity. = KEY: Avidity. SYN: Cupidity, avarice, desire, greed, longing, rapacity, eagerness. ANT: Coldness, indifference, apathy, insensibility, antipathy, nausea, aversion, repugnance, loathing. = KEY: Avocation. SYN: Profession, calling, lot, employment, vocation, occupation, business, pursuit, line. ANT: Holiday, leisure, idleness, self-abandonment, misemployment. = KEY: Avoid. SYN: Quit, shun, abandon, desert, forsake, relinquish, fly, eschew, elude, dodge, escape, shirk. ANT: Seek, court, approach, accost, address, affect. = KEY: Avouch. SYN: Aver, protest, declare, propound, asseverate, profess. ANT: Deny, contradict, oppose, oppugn, contravene, controvert, gainsay. = KEY: Avow, [See AVOUCH]. = KEY: Awaken, [See BOUSE]. = KEY: Award. SYN: Assign, apportion, attribute, accord, grant, distribute, divide, allot, give, determine, decree, order, adjudge. ANT: Refuse, withhold, withdraw, retain, misappropriate, misapportion. = KEY: Aware. SYN: Conscious, sensible, informed, certified, assured, known, apprised, cognizant. ANT: Unconscious, insensible, ignorant, unaware, uninformed. = KEY: Away. SYN: Far, afar, separate, detached, loose, abroad. ANT: Close, near. = KEY: Awe. SYN: Fear, dread, veneration, reverence. ANT: Fearlessness, contempt, disrespect, familiarity, irreverence. = KEY: Awful. SYN: Fearful, direful, appalling, terrible, alarming, dreadful, horrible, solemn, portentous, horrific. ANT: Inocuous, informidable, unimposing, unastonishing, commonplace, unnoticeable, unalarming, alluring. = KEY: Awhile. SYN: Briefly, little. ANT: Ever, always, forever, ever, more. = KEY: Awkward. SYN: Ungainly, clownish, clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, uncouth, rough, boorish, bungling, gawky. ANT: Neat, clever, dexterous, skilful, adroit, handy. = KEY: Awry. SYN: Crooked, aslant, askew, atwist, bent, carved, distorted, twisted, wrong. ANT: Right, straight, true, direct. = KEY: Axiom. SYN: Self-evident truth, aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim. ANT: Nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness. = KEY: Azure \a.\ SYN: Blue, cerulean, sky blue, bluish, blue-colored. ANT: Orange, ochreous, orange-colored, orange-flame. = KEY: Babble \v.\ SYN: Prate, prattle, dribble, chatter, gabble, twaddle, blab, cackle. ANT: Enunciate, vociferate, hush, suppress. = KEY: Babbler. SYN: Blab, chatterbox, gossip, tattler, telltale. ANT: Confident, confessor. = KEY: Babbling. SYN: Prating, blabbing, talkativeness, tattling, cackling, gossip, loquacity, garrulity. ANT: Reticence, reserve, secretiveness, closeness, refrain, incommunicativeness, taciturnity. = KEY: Babel. SYN: Hubbub, confusion, clamor, jargon, din, discord, clang. ANT: Elocution, articulation, monotony, distinctness, consecutiveness, intonation, enunciation, unisonousness. = KEY: Backbiter. SYN: Detractor, traducer, calumniator, slanderer, cynic, maligner, defamer. ANT: Vindicator, upholder, palliator, advocate, mitigator, defender, befriender. = KEY: Backslider. SYN: Renegade, abjurer, recreant, apostate. ANT: Professor, confessor, adherent, zealot, bigot. = KEY: Backsliding, [See BACKSLIDER]. = KEY: Backwardness. SYN: Reluctance, slowness, shyness, hesitation, unwillingness, repugnance. ANT: Forwardness, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity. = KEY: Backward, [See BACKWARDNESS]. = KEY: Bad, [See GOOD]. = KEY: Baffle. SYN: Frustrate, counteract, estop, disconcert, elude, mock, thwart, confound, defeat, perplex, restrain, upset, foil, mar, balk, neutralize, dodge, counterfoil. ANT: Point, aid, abet, enforce, promote, assist, advance, encourage. = KEY: Bait. SYN: Morsel, snare, decoy, enticement, allurement, inducement. ANT: Warning, scarecrow, dissuasive, deterrent, prohibition, intimidation, threat. = KEY: Balance. SYN: Weigh, poise, pit, et, counterpoise, counteract, neutralize, equalize, estimate, redress, adjust. ANT: Upset, tilt, cant, subvert, mispoise, overbalance. = KEY: Balderdash. SYN: Gasconade, flummery, rhodomontade, bombast, fustian, froth. ANT: Sense, wisdom, logic, reason, sobriety, truthfulness. = KEY: Balk. SYN: Estop, bar, thwart, frustrate, foil, stop, prevent, hinder, neutralize, nullify, mar, counteract, disappoint, defeat, baffle. ANT: Aid, abet, promote, advance, encourage, instigate. = KEY: Balmy, [See AROMATIC]. = KEY: Bandy. SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocate, cross, pass. ANT: Quash, silence, drop, burke, close, stifle, extinguish. = KEY: Baneful, [See PERNICIOUS]. = KEY: Banish. SYN: Expel, abandon, dispel, eject, extrude, exclude, relegate, expatriate, repudiate, disclaim. ANT: Cherish, foster, protect, consider, encourage, locate, retain, entertain, domiciliate, domesticate, harbor. = KEY: Banishment. SYN: Outlawry, ostracism, expatriation, expulsion, persecution. ANT: Remaining, cherishing, fostering, retaining. = KEY: Banquet. SYN: Feast, festivity, treat, entertainment, festival, carousal, carouse, regalement, cheer. ANT: Fast, abstinence, starvation. = KEY: Banter. SYN: Badinage, chaff, mockery, derision, ridicule, irony, jeering, raillery. ANT: Discussion, discourse, argument. = KEY: Barbarous. SYN: Rude, strange, uncivilized, brutal, cruel, ferocious, inhuman, merciless, outlandish, savage, uncouth, atrocious, flagitious, unfettered, nefarious, gross. ANT: Polite, civilized, refined, humane, urbane. = KEY: Barely, [See HARDLY]. = KEY: Bargain. SYN: Transaction, negotiation, business, profit, speculation, higgling, gain, hawking, chaffer, haggling. ANT: Loss, misprofit. = KEY: Barren, [See STERILE]. = KEY: Base \a.\ SYN: Vile, dishonorable, low, sordid, ignoble, worthiest, mean, infamous, shameful, grovelling, disingenuous, disesteemed, cheap, corrupt, deep. ANT: Lofty, exalted, refined, noble, esteemed, honored, valued, pure, correct, shrill. = KEY: Baseless, [See GROUNDLESS]. = KEY: Bashful. SYN: Modest, diffident, shy, retiring, reserved. ANT: Bold, impudent, forward, unreserved, pert, conceited, ostentatious, egotistic. = KEY: Bask. SYN: Luxuriate, repose, lounge, dally. ANT: Stir, work, toil, slave, drudge, labor. = KEY: Baste. SYN: Buffet, cudgel, pound, beat. ANT: Soothe, tickle, caress, stroke. = KEY: Battle. SYN: Fight, conflict, contest, combat, engagement, encounter,