Part 3

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ANT: Peace, truce, pacification, arbitrament, council, mediation. = KEY: Bauble. SYN: Toy, trifle, plaything, knicknack, gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaw. ANT: Valuable, possession, acquisition, gera, ornament, decoration, jewel. = KEY: Basis, [See FOUNDATION]. = KEY: Bawl. SYN: Shout, vociferate, halloo, roar, bellow. ANT: Whisper, mutter, babble, mumble. = KEY: Bays. SYN: Laurels, trophy, success, prize, premium, achievement, victory, triumph. ANT: Failure, defeat, disgrace, stigma, brand. = KEY: Beach. SYN: Shore, coast, strand, seacoast, seaboard, seashore. ANT: Sea, ocean, deep, main. = KEY: Beaming. SYN: Shining, gleaming, bright, radiant, beautiful, transparent, translucid. ANT: Dull, opaque, dingy, beamless, wan, matt. = KEY: Bear. SYN: Carry, lift, transport, convey, maintain, uphold, suffer, undergo, support, tolerate, waft, yield, sustain, hold, harbor, entertain, fill, enact, endure, admit, produce, generate. ANT: Drop, refuse, decline, resign, expel, eject, resist, repel, protest, resent, reject. = KEY: Bearing. SYN: Behavior, deportment, manner, aspect, carriage, mien, demeanour, port, conduct, inclination, position, appearance, direction, course. ANT: Misbehaviour, jurisdirection, misobservation. = KEY: Beastly, [See BRUTAL]. = KEY: Beat. SYN: Strike, pound, batter, surpass, thrash, cudgel, overcome, defeat, conquer, worst, whack, belabor, vanquish. ANT: Defend, protect, shield, fall, shelter, surrender, stroke, caress, pat. = KEY: Beatitude. SYN: Blessedness, bliss, beatification. ANT: Misery, pain, suffering, punishment. = KEY: Beautiful, [See BEAUTY, and HANDSOME]. = KEY: Beautify. SYN: Decorate, adorn, ornament, deck. ANT: Deform, spoil, mar, stain, deface, disfigure, befoul, soil, denude, bare, strip. = KEY: Beauty. SYN: Loveliness, grace, fairness, seemliness, comeliness, picturesqueness, exquisiteness, adornment, embellishment. ANT: Foulness, ugliness, deformity, hideousness, bareness, unattractiveness. = KEY: Because. SYN: Owing, consequently, accordingly. ANT: Irrespectively, independently, inconsequently, unconnectedly. = KEY: Beck. SYN: Nod, sign, signal, symbol, token, indication, authority, orders, instruction, subserviency, influence, call, command, control, mandate. ANT: Independence, insubservience. = KEY: Become. SYN: Befit, grace, beseem, behove. ANT: Misbeseem, misfit, misbecome, disgrace. = KEY: Becoming. SYN: Beseeming, neat, fit, proper, decorous, comely, seemly, befitting, graceful, decent, suitable, improving. ANT: Unbeseeming, unseemly, uncomely, unbecoming, unbefitting, ungraceful, indecent, unsuitable, unimproving, derogatory. = KEY: Bedaub. SYN: Bespatter, befoul, discolor, mar, disfigure, deface, besmear, spoil, soil, stain. ANT: Cleanse, absterge, purify, embellish, whiten, decorate, beautify. = KEY: Bedeck, [See DECK]. = KEY: Bedizen. SYN: Tawdry, betinselled, gaudy, flashy, bespangled. ANT: Adorned, robed, decorated, beautified. = KEY: Befall. SYN: Happen, occur, betide, fall, supervene, bechance. ANT: Miss, pass, spare, pretermit. = KEY: Befitting. SYN: Fitting, decent, becoming, suitable, appropriate, proper, consistent, expedient, desirable. ANT: Obligatory, compulsory, unbefitting, indecent, unbecoming, unsuitable, inappropriate, incompatible, inexpedient, improper. = KEY: Befool. SYN: Deceive, cheat, mystify, bamboozle, ensnare, hoodwink, mislead. ANT: Guide, enlighten, advise, undeceive, lead. = KEY: Before. SYN: Precedently, anteriorly, antecedently. ANT: After, afterwards, subsequently, posteriorly, later, behind. = KEY: Befriend. SYN: Assist, countenance, support, advocate, promote, protect, defend. ANT: Oppose, di?countenanced, withstand, thwart, decry, defame, oppress, annoy. = KEY: Beg. SYN: Ask, request, entreat, supplicate, beseech, implore, pray, petition, crave. ANT: Insist, exact, extort, require, demand. = KEY: Beggar. SYN: Mendicant, petitioner, suitor, suppliant, applicant. ANT: Exactor, extortioner. = KEY: Beggarly, Miserable, poor, stinted, wretched, niggardly, stingy, scant, illiberal. ANT: Noble, princely, stately, prodigal, sumptuous, liberal, profuse, gorgeous, magnificent. = KEY: Beggary. SYN: Want, penury, destitution, indigence, mendicancy. ANT: Affluence, riches, abundance, plenty. = KEY: Begin. SYN: Initiate, commence, prepare, start, originate, arise, inaugurate. ANT: Achieve, complete, terminate, conclude, consummate, finish, close, end. = KEY: Beginner. SYN: Tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, pupil. ANT: Adept, expert, master, authority. = KEY: Beginning. SYN: Commencement, start, origin, rise, initiation, preparation, preface, prelude, inauguration, inception, threshold, opening, source, outset, foundation. ANT: End, close, termination, conclusion, consummation, completion. = KEY: Beguile, [See BEFOOL]. = KEY: Behalf. SYN: Side, interest, advantage, aid, bestead. ANT: [See BESTEAD]. = KEY: Behavior. SYN: Conduct, bearing, demeanor, proceeding, comportment, action, manner, deportment. ANT: Misdemeanor, misbehavior, misconduct. = KEY: Behest. SYN: Injunction, command, instruction, mandate, commission, requirement, trust. ANT: Option, liberty, non-interference, discretion. = KEY: Behind, [See BEFORE]. = KEY: Behold. SYN: Look, discern, regard, view, descry, look upon, gaze, contemplate, observe, see, scan, survey. ANT: Overlook, disregard, ignore, miss, blink, wink, connive. = KEY: Beholden. SYN: Bound, obliged, indebted, thankful, grateful. ANT: Unindebted, unobliged, unbound, unthankful, ungrateful. = KEY: Beholder. SYN: Spectator, observer, bystander, witness, looker-on. ANT: [See BEHOLD]. = KEY: Belief. SYN: Assent, faith, trust, credence, avowal, assurance, admission, conviction, opinion, permission, creed, reliance, concession, confidence. ANT: Dissent, unbelief, distrust, denial, misgiving, disavowal, rejection, disbelief. = KEY: Bellicose. SYN: Quarrelsome, pugnacious, belligerent, irascible, contentious. ANT: Peaceful, peaceable, unquarrelsome, pacific, unwarlike, unexcitable, good-tempered, genial. = KEY: Belligerent. SYN: Contending, engaging, fighting, opposed, adverse, rival, conflicting, antagonist, assailant, hostile. ANT: Neutral, pacific, peaceful, nonbelligerent, appeased, reconciled. = KEY: Bellow, [See BAWL]. = KEY: Belonging. SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, cognate, congenial, obligatory, accompanying. ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, Irrelevant, impertinent, alien, uncongenial, discretional, optional, uninvolved, unimplied, independent. = KEY: Belong to. SYN: Pertain to, appertain to, regard, relate to. ANT: Not to belong to, not to appertain to, not to relate to. = KEY: Beloved. SYN: Cared for, cherished, loved. ANT: Hated, loathed. = KEY: Below. SYN: Under, beneath, adown, underneath. ANT: Above, over, aloft. = KEY: Bend. SYN: Curve, deviate, incline, tend, swerve, diverge, mold, persuade, influence, bias, dispose, direct, lower, subordinate to, lean, deflect, bow, condescend, yield, stoop, submit. ANT: Proceed, continue, extend, advance, stand, stiffen, break, crush, resist. = KEY: Beneath. SYN: Below, underneath, under, adown. ANT: Above, over, overhead, aloft. = KEY: Benediction. SYN: Blessing, commendation, approval, benison, gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving. ANT: Curse, malediction, disapproval, censure, obloquy, execration, ingratitude. = KEY: Benefaction. SYN: Grant, gratuity, boon, donation, aims, present, gift, endowment, bequest, favor, presentation. ANT: Deprivation, reservation, disfavor, presumption, confiscation, disendowment. = KEY: Benefactor. SYN: Friend, supporter, contributor, upholder, well-wisher, favorer, well-doer, patron. ANT: Foe, opponent, disfavorer, antagonist, rival, backfriend, oppressor. = KEY: Beneficial. SYN: Profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious. ANT: Prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental. = KEY: Beneficent. SYN: Bountiful, benevolent, benignant. ANT: Hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal, oppressive, cruel. = KEY: Benefit. SYN: Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing. ANT: Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury, privation. = KEY: Benevolence. SYN: Kindness, goodwill, charity, philanthropy, kindliness, kind-heartedness, benignity, beneficence, liberality. ANT: Unkindness, harshness, barbarity, niggardliness, maleficence, malignity, illiberality, ill-will, churlishness. = KEY: Benevolent, [See BENEFICIENT]. = KEY: Benignant, [See BENEFICIENT]. = KEY: Benison, [See BENEDICTION]. = KEY: Bent. SYN: Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition, intention, prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning. ANT: Indisposition, aversion. = KEY: Bequeath. SYN: Give, grant, leave by will, devise, will, bestow, impart, demise, leave \n.\ Legacy, inheritance. ANT: Withhold, alienate \n.\ Disinheritance, transference, abalienation, dispossession. = KEY: Bereave. SYN: Rob, deprive, divest, dispossess, impoverish, reduce, spoil, strip. ANT: Replenish, compensate, reinstate, satisfy, enrich, benefit. = KEY: Bereavement. SYN: Destitution, affliction, deprivation, loss. ANT: Gift, blessing, donation, benefaction, compensation, reparation, restoration, reinstatement, substitution, restitution, consolation. ANT: [See [BENEFACTION and BENEFIT]. = KEY: Bereft. SYN: Robbed, deprived, destitute, denied, spoiled. ANT: Endowed, enriched, compensated, consoled, possessed. = KEY: Beseech. SYN: Entreat, pray, solicit, ask, implore, crave, request, supplicate, petition, beg. ANT: Insist, demand, exact, intimidate, command, coerce. = KEY: Beseem. SYN: Befit, suit, belong, appertain. ANT: Unbeseem, disgrace. = KEY: Beseeming. SYN: Befitting, belonging, suitable, appertaining, consistent, compatible, requisite, decent, graceful. ANT: Unbefitting, unseemly, unsuitable, improper, indecent, ungraceful. = KEY: Bound. SYN: Hem, surround, environ, encircle, besiege, beleaguer, embarrass. ANT: Liberate, abandon. = KEY: Beside. SYN: Close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together, moreover. ANT: Separate, apart, inclusively. = KEY: Besiege. SYN: Beset, beleaguer, sit, invest. ANT: Abandon, (Phrase, “Raise the siege”). = KEY: Besmear, [See BEDAUB]. = KEY: Besotted. SYN: Intoxicated, steeped, stupefied, drunk, drenched, doltish, gross, prejudiced. ANT: Sober, temperate, clear, unbiased, unprejudiced, enlightened, refined. = KEY: Bespatter. SYN: Besprinkle, befoul, bedaub, revile, vilify, asperse. ANT: Absterge, sponge, cleanse, purify, vindicate, defend, clear. = KEY: Bespeak. SYN: Betoken, foreorder, forestall, provide, prearrange, indicate, evidence. ANT: Belie, resign, countermand. = KEY: Bestead \v.\ SYN: Convenience, serve, uphold, assist, accommodate, benefit. ANT: Thwart, damage, incommode, oppose, injure. = KEY: Bestead \n.\ SYN: Interest, behalf, advantage, benefit, part, side. ANT: Injury, disadvantage, opposition, detriment, damage. = KEY: Bestir. Commonly used reflexively for, to stir one's self, [See STIR]. = KEY: Bestir \n.\ [See STIR]. = KEY: Bestow. SYN: Confer, give, present, award, accord, grant. ANT: Withhold, withdraw, reserve, alienate, transfer, appropriate, usurp, seize. = KEY: Better \v.\ SYN: Meliorate, improve, amend, emend, ameliorate, rectify, reform. ANT: Make worse. = KEY: Betide. SYN: Befall, occur, happen. ANT: [See BEFALL]. = KEY: Betimes. SYN: Early, beforehand, preparedly, readily. ANT: Behindhand, slowly, sluggishly, belatedly. = KEY: Betoken. SYN: Teach, indicate, proclaim, presage, augur, portend, foreshow, signify, forebode, evidence, declare, manifest, involve, imply. ANT: Misindicate, mislead, misdeclare, misteach, belie, mask, hide. = KEY: Betray. SYN: Deceive, delude, dupe, circumvent, ensnare, dishonor, manifest, indicate, reveal. ANT: Protect, preserve, guard, conserve, foster, cherish, fence, conceal, cover, suppress. = KEY: Between, Betwixt, [See AMIDST]. = KEY: Bevy \n.\ SYN: Assembly, parterre, galaxy, constellation, nock. ANT: Gang, crew, herd, mob. = KEY: Bewail. SYN: Lament, deplore, rue, bemoan, sorrow, grieve, mourn for. ANT: Exult, hail, rejoice, welcome, greet. = KEY: Beware. SYN: Care, refrain, consider, heed, look, fear, avoid. ANT: Ignore, overlook, neglect, incur, brave, dare. = KEY: Bewilder. SYN: Daze, dazzle, confound, mystify, puzzle, embarrass, astonish, perplex, confuse, mislead. ANT: Guide, inform, lead, instruct, enlighten, edify. = KEY: Bewildered, [See CONFUSED]. = KEY: Bewitch. SYN: Enchant, fascinate, charm, captivate, entrance. ANT: Exorcise, disillusionize, disenchant. = KEY: Beyond. SYN: Over, further, past, more. ANT: Here, close, near, hither, less, short. = KEY: Bias, [See BENT]. = KEY: Bicker. SYN: Wrangle, quarrel, jar, dispute, contend. ANT: Chat, gossip, converse, agree. = KEY: Bickering. SYN: Wrangling, disputing, contention, strife, altercation, dispute. ANT: Conversing, chatting, agreeing. = KEY: Bid. SYN: Tell, request, instruct, direct, order, proffer, charge, command, propose, offer. ANT: Forbid, deter, prohibit, restrain. = KEY: Bide. SYN: Wait, remain, tarry, stay, await, expect, anticipate, continue, bear, abide, endure. ANT: Quit, depart, migrate, move, resist, resent, repel, abjure, protest, rebel. = KEY: Big. SYN: Large, great, wide, huge, bulky, proud, arrogant, pompous, fat, massive, gross. ANT: Little, small, narrow, minute, slight, lean, affable, easy, unaffected. = KEY: Bigoted. SYN: Prejudiced, intolerant, narrow-minded, blindly devoted, onesided, confined. ANT: Unprejudiced, open-minded, large-minded, broad, comprehensive, liberal. = KEY: Bigotry. SYN: Prejudice, Pharisaism, obstinacy, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance, superstition. ANT: Liberality, charity, enlightenment, toleration, eclecticism, latitudinarianism. = KEY: Bill. SYN: Account, reckoning, score, charges, jaw, mandible, beak. = KEY: Bind. SYN: Fetter, engage, tie, fasten, secure, lace, twine, oblige, compel, restrict, restrain, secure. ANT: Untie, loose, unfasten, acquit, free, liberate. = KEY: Binding. SYN: Restrictive, obligatory, restraining, stringent, styptic, costive, astringent. ANT: Loosening, opening, enlarging, distending. = KEY: Birth. SYN: Parentage, extraction, nativity, family, race, origin, source, rise, lineage, nobility. ANT: Death, extinction, plebeianism. = KEY: Bit. SYN: Morsel, piece, fragment, part. ANT: Mass, whole. = KEY: Biting. SYN: Pungent, censorious, piercing, gnawing, sarcastic, sardonic, trenchant. ANT: Pleasant, genial, soothing, complacent, flattering. = KEY: Bitter. SYN: Harsh, sour, sharp, tart, acrimonious, sarcastic, severe, sad, afflictive, intense, stinging, pungent, acrid, cutting. ANT: Sweet, mellow, pleasant, affable, kindly, genial, light, mitigated, trivial. = KEY: Bitterness, [See ANTIPATHY]. = KEY: Blacken. SYN: Bespatter, befoul, bedaub, defame, decry, calumniate, dishonor, asperse, traduce, vilify, slander, malign. ANT: Vindicate, clear, eulogize. = KEY: Blackguard. SYN: Scoundrel, rascal, rapscallion, blackleg, villain. ANT: Gentleman. = KEY: Blame. SYN: Censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise, disapprove, condemn, reprehend, reprobate, reprove. ANT: Acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve. = KEY: Blamable, [See BLAMELESS]. = KEY: Blameless. SYN: Pure, innocent, irresponsible. ANT: Criminated, implicated, answerable, blameworthy, faulty, guilty, blamable. = KEY: Blanch. SYN: Bleach, whiten. ANT: Darken, color, obfuscate. = KEY: Bland. SYN: Soft, mild, gentle, complaisant, courteous, affable, gracious, tender, benign. ANT: Harsh, abrupt, rough. = KEY: Blandiloquence. SYN: Glossiness, blarney, humbug, flattery, speciousness, adulation. ANT: Bluntness, roughness, abruptness. = KEY: Blandishment. SYN: Coaxing, flattery, wheedling, fawning, cajolery. ANT: Roughness, bluntness, unmannerliness. = KEY: Blank. SYN: Bleak, bare, utter, unmitigated, broad. ANT: Modified, qualified, mitigated. = KEY: Blasphemy. SYN: Swearing, profaneness, impiety. ANT: Reverence, veneration, godliness. = KEY: Blast \v.\ SYN: Blight, shrivel, destroy, wither. ANT: Restore, expand, swell. = KEY: Blast \n.\ SYN: Breeze, efflation, explosion, blight, burst, blaze, frustration, destruction, squall, gale, tempest, hurricane, affiliation. ANT: Zephyr, gentle breeze, neutralization. = KEY: Blatant. SYN: Noisy, bellowing, vociferous, clamorous, braying. ANT: Quiet, low-toned, gentle. = KEY: Blaze, [See BLAST]. = KEY: Blazon. SYN: Notify, signalize, publicate, adventure, circulate, propagate, disseminate. ANT: Cover, conceal, hide, suppress, hush, palliate, shroud, bury. = KEY: Bleach. SYN: Whiten, blanch. ANT: Darken, blacken, soil, [See BLANCH]. = KEY: Bleak. SYN: Blank, bare, open, cold, exposed, stormy, nipping. ANT: Warm, sheltered, verdant, luxuriant, zephyrous, balmy, halcyonic. = KEY: Blemish. SYN: Spot, blur, blot, flaw, speck, fault, imperfection, stain, daub, tarnish, defacement, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, defect. ANT: Purity, unsulliedness, honor, intactness. = KEY: Blench. SYN: Start, shy, shudder, recoil, shrink. ANT: Encounter, dare, venture, face, stand. = KEY: Blend. SYN: Mix, harmonize, unite, combine, fuse, merge, amalgamate, mingle, commingle, coalesce. ANT: Run, separate, divide, dissociate, confound. = KEY: Bless. SYN: Felicitate, endow, enrich, gladden, rejoice, cheer, thank. ANT: Deprive, sadden, impoverish, ignore, curse, anathematize. = KEY: Blessedness, [See JOY]. = KEY: Blessing. SYN: Felicitation, benediction, endowment, donation, gift, gratitude, thankfulness, thanks, benefit. ANT: Impoverishment, deprivation, bereavement, malediction, thanklessness, obliviousness, catastrophe, disaster, calamity, detriment, curse, damn. = KEY: Blight, [See BLAST]. = KEY: Blind. SYN: Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant, prejudiced, uninformed, unconscious, unaware. ANT: Farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating, clearsighted, pure-minded, aware, conscious. = KEY: Blink. SYN: Wink, ignore, connive, overlook. ANT: Notice, visit, note, mark. = KEY: Bliss. SYN: Blessedness, joy, ecstasy, rapture. ANT: Condemnation, accursedness, suffering, misery, woe. = KEY: Blithe. SYN: Light, merry, joyous, happy, bright, elastic, gladsome, bonny, vivacious, lively, cheerful, blithesome, gay. ANT: Heavy, dull, dejected, sullen. = KEY: Block. SYN: Stop, arrest, fill, obstruct. ANT: Free, liberate, open, pave. = KEY: Blockhead. SYN: Dolt, dunderhead, jolterhead, dunce, ninny, numskull, dullard, simpleton, booby, loggerhead, ignoramus. ANT: Sage, adept, luminary, schoolman, philosopher, savant. = KEY: Bloodshed. SYN: Slaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery. = KEY: Bloodthirsty. SYN: Gory, bloody, murderous, inhuman, cruel, ruthless, savage. ANT: Humane, kind, merciful. = KEY: Bloom. SYN: Blossom, bud, flower, sprout, germinate, beauty, freshness, delicacy. ANT: Decay, decadence, coarseness, blight, blast, harshness, roughness, toughness, superannuation, cadaverousness, ghastliness. = KEY: Blooming. SYN: Flourishing, fair, flowering, blossoming, young, beautiful. ANT: Fading, waning, blighted, old, blasted, paralyzed, superannuated, unsightly, deformed. = KEY: Blot \v.\ SYN: Obscure, tarnish, spoil, sully, spot, discolor, pollute, obliterate, erase, blur, stain, blotch, smear, smutch. ANT: Elucidate, clear, absterge, perpetuate, cleanse, manifest, conserve. = KEY: Blot out. SYN: Erase, efface, cancel, expunge, wipe out, obliterate, destroy. ANT: Restore, replace. = KEY: Blotch, [See BLOT]. = KEY: Blow. SYN: Puff, blast, breath, stroke, infliction, wound, disappointment, affliction, knock, shock, calamity, misfortune. ANT: Assuagement, consolation, relief, comfort, blessing, sparing. = KEY: Bluff. SYN: Bare, open, bold, abrupt, frank, plain-spoken, blunt, surly, rude, blustering, swaggering, brusque, hectoring, coarse, discourteous, rough, bullying. ANT: Undulating, inclined, inabrupt, courteous, polished, reserved. = KEY: Blunder. SYN: Error, mistake, misunderstanding, fault, oversight, inaccuracy, delusion, slip. ANT: Accuracy, truthfulness, exactness, correctness, faultlessness, ratification, atonement, foresight, prevention, hit, success, achievement, correction. = KEY: Blunt \a.\ SYN: Dull, obtuse, pointless, edgeless, insensitive, bluff, coarse, impolite, plain-mannered, uncivil, rude. ANT: Sharp, keen, pointed, acute, aculeated, sensitive, polished, bland, eloquent, courteous, reserved. = KEY: Blunt \v.\ SYN: To subdue, repress, tranquilize, discourage, ossify, numb, harden. ANT: Quicken, sharpen, instigate, suscitate, stimulate, animate, excite, vitalize. = KEY: Blur, [See BLEMISH]. = KEY: Blush. SYN: Bloom, color, carnation, complexion, aspect, shame, confusion, guiltiness, self-reproach. ANT: Innocence, purity, guiltlessness, unconsciousness, boldness, effrontery. = KEY: Bluster. SYN: Storm, rage, puff, insult, blow, swagger, fume, brag. ANT: [See BRAG]. = KEY: Blustering, [See BLUFF]. = KEY: Boast \v.\ SYN: Vaunt, brag, swagger, swell, bluster, vapor, triumph, glory. ANT: [See BRAG]. = KEY: Boasting, [See OSTENTATION]. = KEY: Bode. SYN: Foretell, betoken, foreshadow, presage, predict, prophesy, promise, forebode, herald, announce, prognosticate, portend, augur. ANT: Relate, record, narrate, remember. = KEY: Bodily. SYN: Collectively, wholly, summarily, unitedly, compactedly, together, corporeal, fleshy, material, physical. ANT: Piecemeal, partially, ghostly, fragmentarily, gradually, spiritual. = KEY: Body. SYN: Substance, mass, whole, substantiality, collectiveness, assemblage, collection, matter, association, organization. ANT: Spirit, soul, individual. = KEY: Boggle. SYN: Halt, hesitate, dubitate, falter, blunder, blotch, botch, spoil, mar. ANT: Encounter, face, advance, refine, clear, work, perfect, complete, beautify. = KEY: Boll. SYN: bubble, effervesce, rage, explode, fume. ANT: Calm, subside, recover, cool. = KEY: Boisterous. SYN: Loud, violent, unrestrained, tempestuous, stormy, uncontrolled, intemperate. ANT: Peaceful, calm, serene, selfpossessed. = KEY: Bold. SYN: Courageous, fearless, adventurous, brave, self-confident, forward, intrepid, dauntless, valiant, daring, audacious, lion-hearted, doughty. ANT: Timid, fearful, inadventurous, shy, bashful, retiring. = KEY: Bolster. SYN: Support, prop, help, aid, sustain, subsidize, patch, tinker, buoy. ANT: Depress, dispirit, relax. = KEY: Bombast. SYN: Rhodomontade, braggadocio, gasconade, bluster, inflatedness, pomposity, exaggerativeness, fustian. ANT: Truthfulness, moderation, refrain, veracity, modesty, temperateness, humility. = KEY: Bombastic, [See OSTENTATION]. = KEY: Bond. SYN: Tie, fastening, chain, association, manacle, fetter, compact, obligation, security. ANT: Freedom, option, discretion, honor, parole. = KEY: Bondage. SYN: Servitude, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, subjection, serfdom, thraldom, captivity, slavery. ANT: Freedom, liberty, independence, manumission, liberation. = KEY: Bondsman. SYN: Slave, serf, prisoner, captive, vassal. ANT: Freeman, yeoman, gentleman, lord, master. = KEY: Bonny. SYN: Fair, pretty, pleasant, lively, cheerful, shapely, buxom. ANT: Dull, unseemly, ill-favored, deformed. = KEY: Bonus. SYN: Premium, douceur, boon, benefit. ANT: Fine, penalty, mulct, amercement, discount. = KEY: Booby. SYN: Idiot, dunce, numskull. ANT: Wiseacre, solon, oracle. = KEY: booklist. SYN: Studious, erudite, pedantic, learned. ANT: Unbookish, unstudious, inerudite, unlearned, ignorant, uneducated. = KEY: Boorish, [See CLOWNISH]. = KEY: Bootless. SYN: Useless, profitless, unavailing, abortive. ANT: Useful, profitable, availing, effective, effectual. = KEY: Booty. SYN: Plunder, blackmail, loot, spoils, prey, pillage. ANT: Restitution, fine, confiscation, forfeiture, amercement, penalty. = KEY: Border. SYN: Limit, boundary, brink, rim, verge, brim, edge, edging, band, hem, enclosure, confine. ANT: Land, tract, interior, substance, space, centre. = KEY: Border on. SYN: Be contiguous to, be adjacent to, conterminous with, adjoin, adjacent to. ANT: Remote from, away from. = KEY: Bore. SYN: Perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate. ANT: Please, gratify, delight. = KEY: Bosom. SYN: Breast, hollow, valley, deep, bed, centre, heart, mind, soul, will. ANT: Surface, exterior, manner, deportment, demeanor. = KEY: Botch. SYN: Patch, cobble, blunder, clump, disconcert, spoil, jumble, mess, bungle, mar, blacksmith. ANT: Fine-draw, trim, harmonize, mend, beautify, embroider, manipulate, handle, manage. = KEY: Both. SYN: Twain. ANT: Neither. = KEY: Bother. SYN: Fuse, worry, pester, excitement, stir, plague, vex, annoy, tease, confusion, vexation, flurry, trouble. ANT: Calm, composure, orderliness, peace, quiet. = KEY: Bottom. SYN: Deep, profound, floor, groundwork, depth, ground, foot. ANT: Top, summit, apex, crown, brow, surface. = KEY: Bound \n.\ SYN: Limit, boundary, inclosure, confine, border. ANT: [See BORDER]. = KEY: Bound \v.\ SYN: Confine, limit, circumscribe, terminate, restrict, restrain. ANT: Enlarge, open, extend, spread out. = KEY: Bound \v.\ SYN: To leap, jump, frisk, spring, skip. ANT: Hobble, limp, crawl, creep, shamble. = KEY: Boundary, [See BOUND]. = KEY: Boundless. SYN: Unbounded, immeasurable, infinite, unlimited, illimitable, unmeasurable. ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, circumscribed. = KEY: Bountiful, [See LIBERAL]. = KEY: Bounty. SYN: Liberality, bounteousness, benevolence, munificence, donation, gift, generosity, charity, benignity. ANT: Illiberality, closeness, hardy, hardness, churlishness, stinginess, niggardliness. = KEY: Bower. SYN: Shady recess, arbor, retreat, alcove. ANT: Open place. = KEY: Brae. SYN: Boast, vaunt, swagger, bully. ANT: Cringe, whine, whimper. = KEY: Braggart, [See BRAG]. = KEY: Braid. SYN: Bind, tie, weave, plait. ANT: Unbind, dishevel. = KEY: Branch. SYN: Member, bifurcation, bough, limb, offspring, shoot, spray, sprig, twig, ramification, offshoot, relative, scion. ANT: Trunk, stock, stem, race, family, house. = KEY: Brand \v.\ SYN: denounce, stigmatize, disgrace, mark. ANT: Distinguish, honor, decorate. = KEY: Brand \n.\ SYN: Disgrace, stigma, infamy, mark. ANT: Decoration, badge, distinction, honor. = KEY: Brandish. SYN: Flourish, fence, agitate, wield, whisk, shake, wave. ANT: Stay, arrest, suspend. = KEY: Bravado. SYN: Boasting, bragging, vaunting, bluster. ANT: [See OSTENTATION]. = KEY: Brave, [See GALLANT]. = KEY: Brawl. SYN: Wrangle, broil, scold, roar, shout, vociferate. ANT: Whisper, softness, mellowness, melodiousness, intonation. = KEY: Brawny. SYN: Muscular, powerful, strong, athletic, sinewy, herculean, robust, stout. ANT: Lean, weak, fragile, delicate, effeminate, feeble. = KEY: Bray. SYN: Pound, bruise, beat, pulverize. ANT: Compact, compound, amalgamate, conglomerate. = KEY: Breach. SYN: Rupture, divulsion, gap, quarrel, violation, nonperformance. ANT: Integrity, conservation, healing, reconciliation, inviolateness, fulfillment. = KEY: Break. SYN: Fracture, rupture, shatter, shiver, destroy, tame, curb, demolish, tear asunder, rend, burst, sever, smash, split, subdue, violate, infringe. ANT: Heal, piece, conjoin, protect, conserve, encourage, rally, observe, obey. = KEY: Breast, [See BOSOM]. = KEY: Breath. SYN: Respiration, inspiration, expiration, inhalation, exhalation, /Met./ Life. ANT: To latter, Cessation, passing, departure, perishing, dying, death. = KEY: Breathe, [See BREATH]. = KEY: Breathless. SYN: Exhausted, eager, absorbed, fascinated, attentive, bewildered, astounded. ANT: Cool, calm, collected, unexcited, fresh, indifferent, inattentive, unastonished. = KEY: Breed \v.\ SYN: Generate, procreate, engender, propagate, produce, beget, hatch, nourish, train, instruct, evolve, cause. ANT: Destroy, eradicate, extinguish, extirpate, stifle. = KEY: Breed \n.\ [See LINEAGE]. = KEY: Breeding. SYN: Nurture, education, training, discipline, instruction, manners, air, demeanor, decorum. ANT: ill-manners, ill-training, illbehavior, ignorance. = KEY: Brevity. SYN: Shortness, closeness, conciseness, succinctness, terseness, compendiousness, pointedness, abbreviation, abridgment. ANT: Length, protraction, elongation, extension, prolixity, diffusiveness, [See IDENTITY], tediousness. = KEY: Drew. SYN: Concoct, compound, mix, hatch, prepare, season, threaten, impend, increase, collect, form, gather, grow. ANT: Pass, disperse, break, spoil, miscompound, mar. = KEY: Bridle. SYN: Curb, restrain, govern, control, master, moderate, compress. ANT: Loosen, liberate, relax, vent, discharge. = KEY: Brief, [See SHORT]. = KEY: Bright. SYN: Shining, brilliant, burnished, luminous, lucid, sparkling, limpid, clever, happy, witty, joyous, cheerful, radiant. ANT: Opaque, dull, dead, muddy, stupid, slow, sullen, dejected, cheerless, joyless, imbecile. = KEY: Brilliant. SYN: Flashing, radiant, shining, lustrous, glorious, luminous, effulgent, beaming, sparkling. ANT: [See BRIGHT]. = KEY: Bring. SYN: Fetch, procure, convey, carry, bear, adduce, import, produce, cause, induce. ANT: Export, remove, abstract, subtract, prevent, exclude, debar, transport. = KEY: Brisk. SYN: Quick, lively, vivacious, active, alert, nimble, sprightly, spirited, animated, prompt, effervescent. ANT: Slow, heavy, dull, inactive, [See in-^k)lent], sluggish, unenergetic, stagnant. = KEY: Bristling. SYN: Full, stocked, multitudinous, crowded, swarming, multifarious. ANT: Bare, nude, scant, devoid, vacant. = KEY: Brittle, [See FRAGILE]. = KEY: Broach. SYN: Moot, start, launch, originate, suggest, exhibit, propound. ANT: Reserve, secrete, seal, repress, cork, bottle. = KEY: Broad. SYN: Wide, extensive, expansive, ample, liberal, comprehensive, unreserved, indelicate, coarse, generic. ANT: Narrow, restricted, confined, limited, bigoted, prejudiced, illiberal, narrow-minded, reserved, veiled, enigmatical, shrouded, shaded, refined, delicate, sketchy, specific, pointed. = KEY: Broadcast. SYN: Scattered abroad, dispersed, profusely, unsparingly, indiscriminately, injudiciously, extensively. ANT: Collectedly, concentratively, sparingly, reservedly, locally,

## partially, discreetly, charily.