Part 4

= KEY: Broil, [See AFFRAY]. = KEY: Brook. SYN: Bear, tolerate, suffer, endure, undergo, submit to, permit. ANT: Resist, resent, reject. = KEY: Brotherhood. SYN: Fraternity, association, fellowship, society, sodality. = KEY: Brotherly. SYN: Fraternal, kind, affectionate, tender. ANT: Unkind, hard, harsh, unfraternal. = KEY: Browbeat. SYN: Intimidate, bully, overbear, cow, overawe, boycott, bulldoze. ANT: Encourage, rally, countenance, support. = KEY: Bruise \v.\ [See BREAK]. = KEY: Brunt. SYN: Impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock. ANT: Resistance, endurance, repulsion. = KEY: Brutal. SYN: Savage, inhuman, rude, unfeeling, merciless, ruthless, brutish, barbarous, sensual, beastly, ignorant, stolid, dense, cruel, violent, vindictive, bloodthirsty, intemperate. ANT: Humane, civilized, generous, intelligent, polished, chivalrous, conscientious, self-controlled. = KEY: Brutish, [See BRUTAL]. = KEY: Bubble. SYN: Trifle, toy, fancy, conceit, vision, dream, froth, trash. ANT: Acquisition, prize, treasury reality, substance, verity, jewel, good, advantage. = KEY: Bud \v.\ SYN: Sprout, blossom, bloom, germinate. = KEY: Buffoon. SYN: Wag, clown, jester. ANT: Wit, genius, philosopher, pedant, visionary, dissembler, prig, enthusiast, hypocrite. = KEY: Bugbear. SYN: Hobgoblin, goblin, gorgon, ghoul, spirit, spook, specter, ogre, scarecrow. ANT: [See SPECTER]. = KEY: Build, [See CONSTRUCT]. = KEY: Building. SYN: Edifice, architecture, construction, erection, fabric, structure. ANT: Ruin, dilapidation, dismantlement, demolition. = KEY: Builder, [See BUILDING]. = KEY: Bulk. SYN: Mass, whole, entirety, integrity, majority, size, magnitude, extension, body, volume, bigness, largeness, massiveness, dimension. ANT: Tenuity, minority, dismemberment, disintegration, diminution, portion, contraction, section, atom, particle. = KEY: Bulk, [See SIZE]. = KEY: Bulky. SYN: Huge, unwieldy, heavy, large, ample, ponderous, burly, cumbrous, gigantic, brawny, massive. ANT: Small, light, slight, airy, thin, delicate, nimble, attenuated, slender, sylphlike, puny, tiny. = KEY: Bully. SYN: swashbuckler, swaggerer, braggadocio. ANT: [See BLUSTERER]. = KEY: Bullying, [See BLUSTERING]. = KEY: Bulwark. SYN: Rampart, fortress, fortification, palladium, citadel, intrenchment, stronghold, parapet, bastion. ANT: Storming, siege, investment, bombardment, cannonade, boarding. = KEY: Bungler. SYN: Botcher, clown, lubber, fumbler, novice. ANT: Adept, adroit, master, artist, workman, proficient, professor. = KEY: Buoy. SYN: Float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer, inspire. ANT: Sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail, betray. = KEY: Buoyant. SYN: Sprightly, spirited, vivacious, lively, light, floating, hopeful, cheerful, elastic, [See JOY]. ANT: Heavy, depressed, cheerless, joyless, dejected, moody, desponding. = KEY: Burden \v.\ [See LOAD]. = KEY: Burden \n.\ SYN: Load, weight, Incubus, obstruction, oppression, grief, difficulty, affliction. ANT: Ease, lightness, airiness, expedition, facility, acceleration, abjugation, liberation, lightheartedness, alleviation, assuagement, mitigation, consolation, disburdenment. = KEY: Burdensome, [See TROUBLESOME and PONDEROUS]. = KEY: Burial. SYN: Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment. ANT: Exhumation, disinterment. = KEY: Burke. SYN: Stifle, shelve, strangle, smother. ANT: Enucleate, propound, promulge, publicate, promote, foster, reanimate, eliminate, ventilate, bruit, suscitate. = KEY: Burlesque. SYN: Parody, travesty, satire, caricature, grotesque, droll, farcical, comic, ludicrous. ANT: Classic, pure, severe, tragic, historic, grave, truthful. = KEY: Burly, [See BULKY]. = KEY: Burn. SYN: Ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder, blaze, flash, cremate, incinerate. ANT: Extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale. = KEY: Burning, [See ARDENT]. = KEY: Burnish. SYN: Brighten, glaze, polish, gloze, gloss. ANT: Scratch, dull, abrade, bedim, cloud, frost, matt. = KEY: Burst \v.\ SYN: Extravasate, displode, explode, discharge, shiver, shatter, disrupt, rend, break, split. ANT: Cohere, hold, stand. = KEY: Bury. SYN: Inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel, entomb, compose, hush. ANT: Disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate, publicate, aggravate. = KEY: Business. SYN: Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office, employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern. ANT: Stagnation, leisure, inactivity. = KEY: Bustle. SYN: Business, activity, stir, commotion, energy, excitement, haste, hurry, eagerness, flurry. ANT: Idleness, vacation, inactivity, Indolence, Indifference, unconcernedness, coolness, calm, stagnation, quiet, desertion. = KEY: Busy. SYN: Industrious, diligent, assiduous, engaged, occupied. ANT: Idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, unoccupied. = KEY: But. SYN: Save, except, barring, yet, beside, excluding, still, excepting, notwithstanding. ANT: With, including, inclusive, nevertheless, however, notwithstanding. = KEY: Butchery, [See CARNAGE]. = KEY: Buxom. SYN: Bonny, blithe, shapely. ANT: Lean, slender, ill-shaped. = KEY: Buy. SYN: Purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn. ANT: Sell, vend, hawk, retail. = KEY: Buyer, [See BUY]. = KEY: Cabal. SYN: Confederacy, conspiracy, combination, coterie, gang, faction, plot, political intrigue, junto, league. ANT: Parliament, legislation, council, government, empire, synod. = KEY: Cabalistic. SYN: Mystic, symbolical, fanciful, occult. ANT: Patent, practical, instructive, lucid, simple. = KEY: Cabbage. SYN: Rob, steal, filch, crib, pocket, shirk, pillage, abstract, purloin. ANT: [See PURLOIN]. = KEY: Cachinnation. SYN: Grin, chuckle, giggle, snigger, titter, cackle. ANT: Longfacedness, whine, whimper. = KEY: Cackle, [See CACHINNATION]. = KEY: Cadaverous. SYN: Pale, exsanguineous, bloodless, hueless, pallid, ghastly, ashy. ANT: Rosy, incarnadine, sanguine, chubby, brawny. = KEY: Caducity. SYN: Decline, infirmity, decrepitude, senility, decadence, transience, delicacy. ANT: Vigor, youth, freshness, vitality, renovation, permanence. = KEY: Cage. SYN: Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib. ANT: Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar. = KEY: Caitiff. SYN: Rascal, miscreant, rogue, churl, villain, ruffian. ANT: Worthy, gentleman, patriot, philanthropist. = KEY: Cajole. SYN: Tempt, lure, coat, flatter, wheedle, delude, cheat, inveigle, dupe. ANT: Chide, rate, scold, warn. = KEY: Calamity. SYN: Disaster, misfortune, mishap, catastrophe, misadventure, trouble, visitation, affliction, reverse, blight. ANT: godsend, blessing, boon. = KEY: Calamitous. SYN: Disastrous, illfated, fatal, unlucky, hapless, unfortunate, inauspicious, troublous, illstarred, ill-omened. ANT: Felicitous, fortunate, auspicious, favorable, propitious, advantageous. = KEY: Calculate. SYN: Estimate, consider, weigh, number, count, apportion, proportion, investigate, reckon, rate, compute. ANT: Guess, conjecture, hit, chance, risk, stake, miscalculate. = KEY: Calculated. SYN: Fitted, congenial, adapted, conducive. ANT: Unfitted, unadapted, uncongenial, unconducive, adverse, unqualified, unsuited, miscalculated, ill-adapted. = KEY: Calculating. SYN: Wary, cautious, circumspect, sagacious, careful, farsighted, guarded. ANT: Shortsighted, dull, obtuse, improvident, incautious, rash, careless. = KEY: Calculation. SYN: Estimation, consideration, balance, apportionment, investigation, reckoning, computation, anticipation, forethought, regard, circumspection, watchfulness, vigilance, caution, care. ANT: Inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incaution, indiscretion, miscalculation, misconception, exclusion, exception, omission, carelessness, seposition. = KEY: Calibre. SYN: Gauge, diameter, ability, capacity, force, strength, power. ANT: correlative, as character, mind, etc. = KEY: callback, [See RECALL]. = KEY: Call out, [See PROCLAIM]. = KEY: Call together, [See CONVENE]. = KEY: Called. SYN: Named, designated, denominated, Determined. ANT: Unnamed, undesignated, misnamed, misdesignated. = KEY: Calling, [See BUSINESS]. = KEY: Callous, [See FAVORABLE]. = KEY: Calm. SYN: Smooth, pacify, compose, allay, still, soothe, appease, assuage, quiet, tranquilize. ANT: Stir, excite, agitate, disconcert, ruffle, lash, heat, discompose. = KEY: Calumniate, [See SLANDER]. = KEY: Calumniator, [See BACKBITER]. = KEY: Calumnious. SYN: Slanderous, defamatory, scurrilous, abusive. ANT: [See ABUSIVE]. = KEY: Calumny. SYN: Slander, defamation, detraction, libel, traducement, backbiting, opprobrium, aspersion. ANT: Vindication, clearance, eulogy, panegyric. = KEY: Camp. SYN: Encamp, bivouac. = KEY: Cancel. SYN: Efface, blot out, annul, expunge, nullify, quash, rescind, repeal, revoke, abrogate, obliterate, discharge, erase, abolish, countervail. ANT: Enforce, enact, re-enact, confirm, perpetuate, contract. = KEY: Candid. SYN: Fair, honest, open, sincere, frank, artless, impartial, plain, straightforward, aboveboard, transparent, unreserved, ingenious. ANT: unfair, close, mysterious, reserve, shuffling, disingenuous, insincere, Jesuitical. = KEY: Candidate. SYN: Aspirant, petitioner, canvasser, applicant, claimant, solicitor. ANT: Waiver, decliner, abandoner, resigner, abjurer, noncompetitor. = KEY: Canon. SYN: Rule, measure, regulation, test, law. ANT: Misguidance, antinomy, Irregularity, misrule. = KEY: Canvass \v.\ SYN: Question, Investigate, challenge, test, dispute, solicit, sift, examine, discuss, apply for, request. ANT: Pretermit, allow, ignore, disregard, admit, pass, misexamine, misinvestigate. = KEY: Capable, [See ABLE]. = KEY: Capability. SYN: Cleverness, aptitude, talent, capacity, power, facility, faculty. ANT: Dulness, inaptitude, awkwardness, difficulty. = KEY: Capacious. SYN: Spacious, comprehensive, voluminous, ample, accommodative, extensive, wide. ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, shallow, contracted, petty. = KEY: Capacity. SYN: Space, size, volume, tonnage, calibre, ability, faculty, compatability, cleverness, talents, magnitude, parts, competency, compressiveness, accommodation. ANT: Narrowness, restriction, Incapacity, coarctation, contractedness. = KEY: Capital. SYN: Chief, excellent, important, cardinal, principal, consummate, high. ANT: Inferior, unimportant, subordinate, minor, defective, mean. = KEY: Capitulate. SYN: Stipulate, yield, surrender, submit. ANT: Resist, struggle, contend. = KEY: Caprice, [See DRY]. = KEY: Capricious. SYN: Wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle, changeful, whimsical, humorsome, inconstant, crotchety. ANT: Firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant. = KEY: Captious. SYN: Carping, caviling, censorious, hypercritical, cross, fault-finding, critical, cynical, petulant, irritable, splenetic, touchy, peevish, fretful. ANT: Appreciative, commendatory, encouraging, complimentary, approving, laudatory, flattering. = KEY: Captivate, [See BEWITCH]. = KEY: Captivated. SYN: Taken, charmed, smitten, fascinated, enslaved, captured, enthralled. ANT: Free, unaffected, uninfluenced, unscathed, insensible, insensitive. = KEY: Captivating. SYN: Charming, bewitching, fascinating, alluring, seductive, attractive. ANT: Hideous, loathsome, repulsive, uncaptivating, uninteresting. = KEY: Captivity, [See THRALDOM]. = KEY: Capture \v.\ [See SEIZE]. = KEY: Capture \n.\ [See PRIZE]. = KEY: Care. SYN: Attention, pains, anxiety, concern, trouble, circumspection, regard, solicitude, caution, prevention, custody, preservation, thrift, heed, foresight, wariness, economy, prudence. ANT: Inattention, neglect, disregard, carelessness, indifference, temerity, remissness, improvidence, unguardedness, incaution. = KEY: Career. SYN: Course, success, walk, line, progress, history, way of ill passage, race. ANT: Misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage. = KEY: Careful, [See COMMON]. = KEY: Careless, [See COMMON]. = KEY: Caress \v.\ [See FONDLE]. = KEY: Caress \n.\ SYN: Endearment, blandishment, wheedling, fondling, stroking. ANT: Vexation, irritation, annoyance, teasing, persecution, provocation. = KEY: Cargo. SYN: Freight, burden, load, consignment, merchandise, lading, goods. ANT: Conveyance, bearer, carrier. = KEY: Caricature. SYN: Mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, extravagance, exaggeration, hyperbole, monstrosity, farce. ANT: Portraiture, representation, resemblance, justice, fidelity, truthfulness. = KEY: Carnage. SYN: Massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery. ANT: Ransom, deliverance, quarter. = KEY: Carnal. SYN: Fleshly, sensual, selfindulgent, licentious, animal, coarse, base, worldly, impure, libidinous, secular. ANT: Spiritual, ethereal, pure, selfcontrolled, temperate, exalted, refined. = KEY: Carnival. SYN: Revel, rout, festivity, masquerade. ANT: Fast, mortification, lent, retirement. = KEY: Carol. SYN: Sing, warble, chirp, trill, whistle, chirrup, chant, hum. ANT: Whine, croak, cry, dirge, lament. = KEY: Carouse. SYN: Festivity, feast, banquet, revel, debauch. ANT: Fast, starvation, maceration, abstinence. = KEY: Carousal. SYN: Wassail, revel, banquet, orgies. ANT: [See BANQUET]. = KEY: Carp. SYN: Cavil, censure, challenge, overhaul, canvass, hypercriticise, object, catch. ANT: Allow, concede, admit, compliment, encourage, approve, applaud, endorse, acquiesce, assent. = KEY: Carpet, (Metaphorical). SYN: Table, board, consideration, consultation. ANT: Shelf, rejection, disposal, oblution. = KEY: Carriage. SYN: Transportation, conveyance, bearing, manner, conduct, demeanor, walk, gait, mien, behavior, deportment, vehicle. ANT: Misconveyance, miscarriage, misconduct, misconsignment. = KEY: Carry, [See BEAK]. = KEY: Carry on, [See TRANSACT]. = KEY: Carry through, [See COMPLETE]. = KEY: Case. SYN: Occurrence, circumstance, contingency, event, plight, predicament, fact, subject, condition, instance. ANT: Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture. = KEY: Cash. SYN: Money, specie, coin, currency, capital. = KEY: Cast \v.\ SYN: Hurl, send down, throw, fling, pitch, impel, project, construct, mold, frame. ANT: Raise, elevate, recover, erect, accept, approve, retain, carry, ignore, miscalculate, misprovide, break, dissipate, dismember, dislocate. = KEY: Cast \n.\ SYN: Mould, stamp, kind, figure, form, aspect, mien, air, style, manner, character. ANT: Malformation, deformity, abnormity. = KEY: castaway, [See REJECT]. = KEY: Cast down, [See MELANCHOLY]. = KEY: Cast out, [See EJECT]. = KEY: Caste. SYN: Order, class, rank, lineage, race, blood, dignity, respect. ANT: Degradation, taboo, disrepute, abasement, reproach. = KEY: Castigate. SYN: Whip, flagellate, cane. ANT: Reward, encourage, decorate, caress. = KEY: Casual. SYN: Accidental, occasional, incidental, contingent, unforeseen, fortuitous. ANT: Regular, ordinary, systematic, periodic, certain, fixed, [See CASUALTY]. = KEY: Casualty. SYN: Accident, contingency, chance, fortuity, hap, misfortune, occurrence, mischance, [See ACCIDENT]. ANT: Appointment, assignment, provision, ordinance, enactment. = KEY: Casuistry. SYN: Sophistry, Jesuitry, fallacy, refinement, quibble, strawsplitting. ANT: Reason, conscience, commonsense. = KEY: Catalogue \n.\ [See BAWL]. = KEY: Catastrophe. SYN: Revolution, disaster, calamity, misfortune, misadventure, reverse, blow, visitation. ANT: Blessing, victory, triumph, felicitation, achievement, ovation, success, godsend. = KEY: Catch. SYN: Take, seize, grip, clutch, capture, secure, ensnare, snatch, hit, arrest, comprehend, overtake, apprehend. ANT: Lose, miss, misapprehend, escape. = KEY: Catching, [See PESTIFEROUS]. = KEY: catechism. SYN: Erotetics, socratics, interrogation, creed, system, compendium. ANT: Reading, excogitation, elaboration. = KEY: Catechumen. SYN: Tyro, learner, pupil, novice, scholar. ANT: Master, doctor, professor, teacher, savant. = KEY: Categorical. SYN: Plain, positive, declaratory, peremptory, affirmative, absolute, demonstrative, distinct. ANT: Obscure, uncertain, ambiguous, dubious, contingent, hypothetical, hazy, oracular, enigmatical, mystical. = KEY: Category. SYN: State, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort, class. ANT: Essence, truth, being. = KEY: Causality. SYN: Eventuality, operativeness, potentiality, effectuality, productiveness, conduciveness. ANT: Preventiveness, retardativeness, obstructiveness, counteractivity, unproductiveness, ineffectiveness, inoperativeness, barrenness. = KEY: Causation, [See CAUSALITY]. = KEY: Cause \v.\ [See PRODUCE]. = KEY: Cause \n.\ SYN: Source, origin, producer, agent, creator, purpose, inducement, reason, account, principle, motive, object, suit, action. ANT: Effect, result, accomplishment, end, production, issue, preventive. = KEY: Caustic. SYN: Burning, mordant, pungent, irritating, biting, pointed, sarcastic, trenchant, severe. ANT: Pointless, mild, soothing, conciliating, vapid, flat, tame. = KEY: Caution. SYN: [See CARE and CALCULATION]. = KEY: Cautious, [See CIRCUMSPECT]. = KEY: Cavalier \a.\ [See ARROGANT]. = KEY: Cavil, [See CARP]. = KEY: Cavity, [See OPENING]. = KEY: Caviller, [See CAVIL]. = KEY: Cease. SYN: Intermit, stop, desist, abstain, discontinue, quit, refrain, end, pause, leave off. ANT: Ceaseless, never-ending, everlasting, constant, incessant, [See ETERNAL]. = KEY: Ceaseless, [See CEASE]. = KEY: Cede, [See RELINQUISH]. = KEY: Celebrate, [See HONOR]. = KEY: Celebrated. SYN: Famed, renowned, illustrious, eminent, glorious, famous, noted, distinguished, notable, exalted. ANT: Unrenowned, obscure, undistinguished, unknown, disgraced, mean. = KEY: Celebration. SYN: Commemoration, solemnization, observance. ANT: Oblivion, inobservance, obsolescence, desuetude. = KEY: Celebrity. SYN: Fame, honor, glory, star, reputation, distinction, renown, notability, eminence, notoriety. ANT: Obscurity, meanness, ingloriousness, ignominy, disgrace, contempt, cipher, nobody. = KEY: Celerity. SYN: Rapidity, speed, haste, velocity, swiftness, quickness, fleetness, despatch. ANT: Slowness, inertness, slaggishness, tardiness, cumbrousness. = KEY: Celestial. SYN: Heavenly, ethereal, atmospheric, supernal, angelic, radiant, eternal, immortal, seraphic, divine, godlike, elysian. ANT: Earthly, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, mortal, hellish, infernal. = KEY: Cement. SYN: Bind, bond, unite, perpetuate, consolidate. ANT: Detach, dissolve, dissociate, disintegrate, divorce. = KEY: Censorious, [See CAPTIOUS]. = KEY: Censure \v.\ [See BLAME]. = KEY: Censure. SYN: Blame, stricture, reproach, reprobate, inculpate, reprove, condemn, reprehend, chide, berate, scold, upbraid, disapproval, remonstrance, rebuke, reprimand, dispiaise. ANT: Praise, eulogy, approbation, encouragement, commendation. = KEY: Central. SYN: Mediate, accessible, convenient,. ANT: Remote, inaccessible, inconvenient. = KEY: Centralize. SYN: Concentrate, fix, localize, collect. ANT: Disperse, disseminate, distribute, apportion, divide, delocalize. = KEY: Ceremonial. SYN: Official, ministerial, functional, pompous, imposing, sumptuous, scenic. ANT: Ordinary, private, unimposing, unostentatious, undramatic. = KEY: Ceremonious. SYN: Punctilious, formal, prim, precise. ANT: Brusque, blunt, supercilious, bluff, unceremonious. = KEY: Ceremony. SYN: Display, pageant, solemnity, rite, formality. ANT: [See FASHION]. = KEY: Certain. SYN: true, fixed, regular, established, incontrovertible, undoubtful, indubitable, infallible, unmistakable, sure, unfailing, real, actual, undeniable, positive, convinced, assured. ANT: Uncertain, dubious, exceptional, irregular, casual, occasional, questionable, doubtful, vacillating, undecided, uncertain. = KEY: Certainly. SYN: Surely, positively, unquestionably. ANT: Possibly, probably, perhaps, contingently, doubtfully, occasionally. = KEY: Certainty. SYN: Assurance, demonstrableness, positiveness, unquestionableness, confidence, conviction. ANT: Dubiousness, precariousness, casualty, vicissitude, uncertainty, irregularity, hesitation, doubt, misgiving, conjecture, indecision. = KEY: Certify. SYN: Acknowledge, aver, attest, vouch, avow, avouch, testify, protest, declare, demonstrate, prove, evidence, inform, assure. ANT: Disprove, disavow, misinform, misadvise. = KEY: Cessation. SYN: Stopping, halt, discontinuance, quiescence, suspension, intermission, lull, respite, stop, rest, abeyance, pause. ANT: Continuance, uninterruptedness, unintermission, incessancy. = KEY: Cession. SYN: Concession, yielding, surrender, abandonment, relinquishment, grant. ANT: Retention, claimance, maintenance, appropriation, usurpation, vindication, assumption. = KEY: Chafe. SYN: Gall, rub, vex, irritate, chagrin, tease, harass, disappoint, grieve, annoy, worry, calcitrate, re sent, resist, fret, fidget, writhe. ANT: Soothe, smooth, coax, calm, humor, console, submit, endure, succumb, crouch, truckle. = KEY: Chaff. SYN: Banter, badinage, nonsense, frivolity, trash, chaffer. ANT: Emphasis, seriousness, sense, substance, reason, argument, marrow, pith, gist. = KEY: Chaffer. SYN: Haggle, bargain, higgle, stickle, boggle. ANT: Close, conclude, agree, negotiate. = KEY: Chagrin \v.\ [See CHAFE]. = KEY: Challenge \v.\ SYN: Defy, summon, dare, question, investigate, brave, canvass. ANT: Pass, allow, grant, concede. = KEY: Champion \n.\ SYN: Hero, warrior, combatant, vindicator, challenger, defender, protector. ANT: Renegade, deserter, poltroon, miscreant, traitor, coward, adversary, opponent. = KEY: Chance \v.\ [See HAZARD]. = KEY: Chance \n.\ SYN: Accident, fortuity, hazard, haphazard, fortune, random, casualty, befoulment, luck. ANT: Law, rule, sequence, consequence, causation, effectuation, intention, purpose, design, certainty. = KEY: Change \v.\ SYN: Vary, alter, modify, diversify, qualify, transmute, substitute, fluctuate, shift, veer, exchange. ANT: Conserve, retain, stabilitate, fix, clinch, stand, endure, last, hold. = KEY: Change \n.\ [See VARIATION]. = KEY: Changeable. SYN: [See CAPRICIOUS]. ANT: [See CHANGELESS]. = KEY: Changeful, [See CHANGEABLE]. = KEY: Changeless. SYN: Regular, settled, steady, firm, stationary, consistent, resolute, reliable, undeviating, uniform, immutable, immovable. ANT: Irregular, unsettled, unsteady, wavering, fluctuating, capricious, irresolute, vacillating, variable, mutable, plastic. = KEY: Chaplet. SYN: Garland, wreath, coronal. = KEY: Character. SYN: Symbol, letter, nature, type, disposition, genius, temperament, cast, estimation, repute, office, reputation, part, capacity, class, order, sort, stamp, kind, quality, species, sign, tone, mark, figure, record. ANT: Vagueness, anonymousness, nondescription, disrepute. = KEY: Characteristic. SYN: Distinction, peculiarity, diagnosis, idiosyncrasy, speciality, individuality, personality, singularity. ANT: Nondescription, abstractedness, generality, miscellany. = KEY: Characterize. SYN: Mark, distinguish, describe, particularize, style, designate, individualize, specify, identify. ANT: Hint, insinuate, sketch, suggest, adumbrate. = KEY: Charge. SYN: Direct, enjoin, advise, admonish, arraign, inculpate, entrust, commit, load, accuse, impeach, attack, assault, impute, carry. ANT: Clear, free, discharge, acquit, liberate. = KEY: Chargeable. SYN: Attributable, ascribable, imputable. ANT: Not attributable, not ascribable, not imputable. = KEY: Charity, [See BENEVOLENCE]. = KEY: Charitable. SYN: Kind, benign, benevolent, beneficent, liberal, considerate, forgiving, compassionate, placable, inexacting, inextreme. ANT: Uncharitable, unkind, harsh, selfish, churlish, illiberal, censorious, unforgiving, uncompassionate, implacable, extreme, exacting, retaliative, revengeful. = KEY: Charlatan, [See QUACK], Charm \v.\ SYN: Bewitch, enchant, fascinate, lay, soothe, mesmerize, delight, enrapture, transport, entice, allure, entrance, captivate, subdue. ANT: Disenchant, disillusionize, excite, rouse, disturb, annoy, Irritate, alarm, terrify, repel, disgust. = KEY: Charm \n.\ SYN: Spell, incantation, enchantment, fascination, attraction, allurement. ANT: Disenchantment, repulsion, fear. = KEY: Chary. SYN: Careful, cautions, calculating, frugal, shy, wary, sparing, slow, saving, reluctant. ANT: Liberal, lavish, profuse, eager. = KEY: Chase \v.\ SYN: Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute. ANT: Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade. = KEY: Chaste. SYN: Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented, virtuous, incorrupt, simple, unaffected, nice. ANT: Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated. = KEY: Chasten. SYN: Purify, discipline, chastise, correct, castigate, improve, spiritualize, afflict, refine. ANT: Indulge, sensualize, brutalize, degrade, corrupt, pamper, carnalize, spoil, demoralize. = KEY: Chat, [See BABBLE]. = KEY: Chattels. SYN: Effects, goods, wares, movables, furniture. ANT: Freehold. = KEY: Chatter. SYN: Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle. ANT: Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation. = KEY: Cheap. SYN: Common, inexpensive, uncostly, mean, vile, worthless, low-priced. ANT: Rare, costly, worthy, expensive, honorable, noble, high. = KEY: Cheat \v.\ SYN: Overreach, fleece, silence, trick, gull, cozen, juggle, defraud, swindle, dupe, beguile, deceive, deprive, hoodwink, prevaricate, dissemble, shuffle, inveigle. ANT: Enlighten, guide, remunerate, compensate, undeceive, disabuse. = KEY: Cheat \n.\ SYN: Deception, fraud, imposition, trick, artifice, illusion, imposture, swindle, finesse, deceit, lie, fiction. ANT: Troth, reality, verity, fact, certainty, genuineness, verification, honesty, authenticity. = KEY: Check \n.\ SYN: Repulse, hindrance, set back, rebuff. ANT: Encouragement, freedom, liberty. = KEY: Check \v.\ SYN: Curb, restrain, stop, stay, repress, hinder, impede, inhibit, cohibit, bridle, control, obstruct. ANT: Loose, liberate, instigate, accelerate, license, indulge, allow, abet. = KEY: Cheer \v.\ [See ENCOURAGE]. = KEY: Cheer \n.\ SYN: Hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality. ANT: Dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth, inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociableness. = KEY: Cheerful. SYN: Lively, gay, bright, happy, bonny, merry, joyful, pleasant, buoyant, sunny, enlivening, in good spirits, sprightly, blithe, joyous. ANT: Lifeless, dull, gloomy, unhappy, dejected, depressed, sullen, joyless, melancholy, depressing, dispiriting. = KEY: Cheerfulness, [See CHEERFUL]. = KEY: Cheerless, [See CHEERFUL]. = KEY: Cherish. SYN: Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage. ANT: Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check. = KEY: Chew. SYN: Masticate, munch, eat. ANT: Gorge, bolt whole. = KEY: Chicanery. SYN: Artifice, subtlety, sophistry, subterfuge, prevarication, shift, trickery, dodge, quibble, mystification, pettifogging, underhandedness. ANT: Openness, candor, fairness, cogency, demonstrativeness, soundness. = KEY: Chide. SYN: Rate, scold, trounce, reprove, reprimand, rebuke, blame, admonish, objurgate. ANT: Applaud, flatter, compliment. = KEY: Chief \a.\ SYN: Chef, the head, [See CAPITAL]. = KEY: Chief \n.\ [See CHIEFTAIN]. = KEY: Chiefly, [See MAINLY]. = KEY: Chieftain. SYN: Captain, general, chief, commander, head man, leader. ANT: Follower, attendant, retainer, subaltern, vassal, satellite, minion, adherent. = KEY: Childish. SYN: Weak, silly, puerile, infantine, imbecile, foolish, trifling, paltry, trivial. ANT: Strong, resolute, manly, wise, judicious, sagacious, chivalrous, profound, politic. = KEY: Chimerical, [See VISIONARY]. = KEY: Chivalrous. SYN: Courageous, generous, knightly, gallant, heroic, adventurous, valiant, spirited, handsome, high-minded. ANT: Unhandsome, dirty, sneaking, pettifogging, scrubby, dastardly, recreant, ungenerous, ungentlemanly. = KEY: Choice \n.\ SYN: Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative. ANT: Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance, indifference, refuse. = KEY: Choice \a.\ SYN: Select, exquisite, precious, dainty, cherished, valuable, excellent, rare. ANT: Common, ordinary, Inferior, cheap, valueless, despicable, trumpery. = KEY: Choke. SYN: Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle. ANT: Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit, ventilate. = KEY: Choler, [See ANGER]. = KEY: Choleric. SYN: Hasty, testy, impetuous, irascible. ANT: Cool, phlegmatic, serene, placid, dispassionate, stoical. = KEY: Choose. SYN: Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick out. ANT: Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore, decline. = KEY: Chronicle \v.\ SYN: Record, register. = KEY: Chronicle \n.\ [See ANNALS]. = KEY: Chuckle. SYN: Grin, crow, cackle. ANT: Cry, wail, grumble, whimper, whine. = KEY: Churchyard. SYN: Buryingground, burial place, cemetery, God's acre, necropolis, graveyard. = KEY: Churlish. SYN: Illiberal, niggardly, inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly. ANT: Liberal, bountiful, hospitable neighborly, sociable. = KEY: Cipher. SYN: Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.) straw, pin, rush, molehill. ANT: Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton, colossus, star. = KEY: Circuit. SYN: Tour, circumference. ANT: Line, straightness, directness. = KEY: Circuitous. SYN: Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round about, sinuous, winding. ANT: Linear, direct, straight. = KEY: Circular. SYN: Round, spherical. ANT: Lineal, direct. = KEY: Circulate. SYN: Disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread, travel. ANT: Suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate. = KEY: Circumference. SYN: Periphery, enclosure, circuit, outline, boundary. ANT: Diameter, crossing, bisection, transection, transversion. = KEY: Circumlocution. SYN: Periphrasis, verbosity, inconciseness, insuccinctness, ambiguousness, anfractuosity. ANT: Terseness, point, conciseness, succinctness, condensation, directness, plainness, simplicity, coherence. = KEY: Circumscribe. SYN: Define, designate, delineate, limit, enclose, confine, restrict, fence. ANT: Expand, dilate, dissipate, disenclose, distend. = KEY: Circumscribed. SYN: Limited, narrow, restricted. ANT: Limitless, ample, unconfined. = KEY: Circumspect. SYN: Cautious, wary, careful, heedful, attentive, prudent, watchful, scrupulous, vigilant. ANT: Heedless, incautious, careless, reckless, invigilant, incircumspect. = KEY: Circumstance. SYN: Detail, feature, point, event, occurrence, incident, situation, position, fact, topic, condition, particular, specialty. ANT: Deed, case, transaction. = KEY: Circumstantial. SYN: Inferential, constructive, minute, detailed, elaborate, specific. ANT: Jocular, positive, inaccurate, loose, general. = KEY: Circumvent. SYN: Ensnare, entrap, outwit, diplomatize. ANT: Force, subjugate, reduce, compel, circumvention, [See CIRCUMVENT]. = KEY: Citadel. SYN: Fortress, castle, stronghold, acropolis. = KEY: Cite. SYN: Summon, call, quote, adduce, mention, name, select, refer to. ANT: Discard, dismiss, canvass, dispute, reject, contradict, disprove, discredit, challenge. = KEY: Citizen. SYN: Townsman, inhabitant, burgess, subject, denizen. ANT: Alien, foreigner, visitor, exile. = KEY: Civic. SYN: Municipal, corporate, urbane, oppidan. ANT: Suburban, provincial, rural, cosmopolitan. = KEY: Civil. SYN: Well-mannered, political, courteous, well-bred, complaisant, affable, urbane, polite, obliging, accommodating, respectful. ANT: Disobliging, unaccommodating, disrespectful, boorish, clownish, churlish, uncivil. = KEY: Civilization. SYN: Amelioration, culture, cultivation, humanization, refinement. ANT: Demoralization, savagery, uncivilization, barbarism, rudeness, brutality. = KEY: Claim \v.\ SYN: Demand, ask, require, insist, pretense, right, privilege, title, request, maintain. ANT: Forego, waive, disclaim, abjure, disavow, abandon, concede, surrender, repudiate. = KEY: Claim \n.\ SYN: Assertion, vindication, pretension, title, right, privilege, arrogation, demand. ANT: Waiving, abjuration, disclaimer, surrender. = KEY: Claimant. SYN: Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant. ANT: Relinquisher, resigner, conceder, waiver, renouncer, abjurer. = KEY: Clamor. SYN: Contention, contentiousness, squabble, tumult, hubbub, noise, uproar, outcry, obloquy. ANT: Silence, acquiescence, reticence. = KEY: Clamorous, [See NOISY]. = KEY: Clandestine. SYN: Furtive, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, hidden, disguised, concealed, private, underhand. = KEY: Clasp. SYN: Grasp, connect, unite, bracket, concatenate, embrace. ANT: Relax, sever, unclasp, disconnect, detach, exclude. = KEY: Class, [See ORDER]. = KEY: Classical. SYN: Pure, refined, elegant, polished, chaste, augustan. ANT: Corrupt, debased, inelegant, harsh, barbarous, unclassical, uncouth. = KEY: Classification, taxonomic. SYN: Order, species, nature, character, cast, stamp, group, kind, section, sect, category, assortment, designation, description, genus. ANT: Individuality, speciality, isolation, alienation, division, distinction, singularity, exclusion, heterogenity. = KEY: Classify. SYN: Arrange, systematize, adjust, rank, class, tabulate, dispose, collocate, assort. ANT: Derange, confound, disorder, disorganize, intermix. = KEY: Clause. SYN: Portion, paragraph, stipulation, provision, article, condition, chapter, section, passage. ANT: Document, instrument, muniment. = KEY: Clean \v.\ SYN: Purify, clarify. ANT: Pollute, befoul, bespatter, defile. = KEY: Clean \a.\ SYN: Pure, neat, cleanly, clear, purified, cleansed, untarnished, spotless, unclogged, upright. ANT: Impure, untidy, dirty, entangled, hampered, unclean. = KEY: Clear \v.\ SYN: Clarify, disencumber, disentangle, disembarrass, vindicate, liberate, set free, release, exonerate, exculpate, justify, retrieve, acquit, absolve, whitewash, extricate, eliminate. ANT: Befoul, contaminate, pollute, clog, encumber, embarrass, involve, implicate. = KEY: Clear \a.\ SYN: Open, pure, bright, transparent, free, disencumbered, disentangled, disengaged, absolved, acquitted, serene, unclouded, evident, apparent, distinct, manifest, conspicuous, unobstructed, plain, obvious, intelligible, lucid. ANT: Thick, muddy, foul, opaque, encumbered, entangled, condemned, convicted, turbid, dubious, indistinct, unintelligible. = KEY: Clearly. SYN: Plainly, obviously, distinctly, evidently, palpably, lucidly, explicitly, perspicuously. ANT: Opaquely, indistinctly, Imperfectly, confusedly. = KEY: Cleave. SYN: Sunder, split, divide, adhere, rend, di?sever, stick. ANT: Conserve, unite, splice, bond, cement, agglutinate, consolidate, separate, depart, desert, apostatize, secede. = KEY: Clemency, [See MERCY]. = KEY: Clergyman. SYN: Pastor, divine, parson, preacher, presbyter, minister, elder, deacon, bishop, dominie, rector, prelate, priest, monk, friar, vicar, curate. ANT: Layman, laic, congregation, laity, flock. = KEY: Clever. SYN: Able, ready, talented, quick, ingenious, dexterous, adroit, expert, gifted, quick-witted, skillful, well-contrived. ANT: Weak, dull, stupid, slow, illcontrived, doltish, uninventive, awkward, clumsy, bungling, botched. = KEY: Climate. SYN: Air, atmosphere, temperature, weather, clime, sky, region, sphere, latitude. ANT: Earth, globe, world, sphere. = KEY: Climax. SYN: Summit, height, consummation, acme, point, head, mered, ian, culmination, zenith. ANT: Base, floor, bathos, anticlimax, depth, gulf, nadir. = KEY: Climb. SYN: Ascend, mount, clamber, swarm, surmount, scale, escalade, soar, creep up, rise. ANT: Descend, drop, fall, slip, tumble, swoop. = KEY: Cling. SYN: Fasten, hold, adhere, embrace, stick, cleave, hang, twine, hug. ANT: Drop, recede, secede, apostatize, abandon, relax, forego, swerve, surrender. = KEY: Clip. SYN: Curtail, prune, contract, abridge. ANT: Elongate, cherish, grow, nourish. = KEY: Cloak. SYN: Conceal, disguise, mask, veil, hide, cover, palliate, screen, mitigate, extenuate. ANT: Exhibit, propound, promulge, portray, aggravate, expose, demonstrate, reveal. = KEY: Close \a.\ SYN: Narrow, limited, restricted, condensed, packed, secret, compressed, solid, firm, compact, reserved, niggardly, shut, fast, dense. ANT: Wide, open, ample, spacious, airy, unconfined, dispersed, rarefied, subtle, vaporous, patent, public, advertised, open-handed, liberal, frank. = KEY: Close \v.\ SYN: Shut, conclude, stop, complete. ANT: Open, initiate, conduct, protract. = KEY: Clothe \v.\ SYN: Invest, robe, drape, dress, array, attire, cover. ANT: Denude, strip, divest. = KEY: Clothes, [See HABILIMENTS]. = KEY: Cloudy, [See MUGGY and OBSCURE]. = KEY: Clownish. SYN: Bustic, boorish, bucolic, Boeotian, awkward, clumsy, cloddish, untutored, rude. ANT: Polite, civil, urbane, affable, graceful, polished, refined, courtly, high-bred, intelligent, educated. = KEY: Clumsy. SYN: Awkward, inexpert, uncouth, maladroit, botching, bungling, unskillful, unwieldly, unhandy, ill-shaped. ANT: Neat, workmanlike, artistic, handy, skillful, clever, expert, adroit, dexterous. = KEY: Cluster. SYN: Bunch, group, gathering, muster, throng. ANT: Scattering, sprinkling, dispersion. = KEY: Clutch \v.\ SYN: Grasp, grab, seize, catch, grip, grapple with, snatch, pounce. ANT: Liberate, release, emancipate. = KEY: Coagulate. SYN: Mix, blend, fuse, coalesce, amalgamate, condense. ANT: Rarefy, expand, dissipate, subtilize, discombine. = KEY: Coadjutor. SYN: Assistant, ally, cooperator, accessory, accomplice. ANT: Opponent, counteractor, antagonist, baffler, adversary. = KEY: Coalesce. SYN: Harmonize, blend, mix, combine, join, unite, amalgamate, cohere. ANT: Disagree, discomport. = KEY: Coalition. SYN: Combination, consentaneity, compromise, consociation, union, alliance, league, compact, amalgamation, composition, confederacy. ANT: Dissociation, disruption, disagreement, dissentience. = KEY: Coarse. SYN: Common, ordinary, indelicate, vulgar, gross, unrefined, immodest, rough, rude, unpolished. ANT: Fine, refined gentle, polished, delicate, choice. = KEY: Coax. SYN: Wheedle, fawn, flatter, call, ole, persuade, overcome, seduce, allure, circumvent. ANT: Intimidate, coerce, impel, instigate, drive. = KEY: Cobble. SYN: Patch, botch, bungle, clout. ANT: Repair, manipulate, finedraw. = KEY: Cobweb. SYN: Trifle, cipher, moonshine, prejudice, bugbear, phantasy, caprice. ANT: Substance, verity, axiom, law, reality, perpetuity, institution, truth. = KEY: Cockney. SYN: Londoner, citizen, swell. ANT: Clodhopper, bumpkin, lout. = KEY: Coddle. SYN: Spoil, humor, pamper, nurse, caress. = KEY: Codger. SYN: Gaffer, churl, curmudgeon. ANT: Swell, fop, spendthrift, scapegrace, puppy. = KEY: Codify. SYN: Summarize, digest, incorporate, embody, condense. ANT: Expunge, abrogate, annul, disembody, disincorporate, rescind. = KEY: Coerce. SYN: Restrain, inhibit, impel, compel, drive, counteract, check, constrain, force, confine, intimidate. ANT: Permit, persuade, urge, instigate, encourage, liberate, induce, seduce, tempt. = KEY: coetaneous. SYN: Coeval, contemporary, synchronous. ANT: Incoincident, incontemporaneous, anachronistic, asynchronous. = KEY: Coeval, [See COETANEOUS]. = KEY: Coexist. SYN: Concur, comport, accompany, coalesce, coincide. ANT: Disconcur, discomport. = KEY: Coexistent. SYN: Concurrent, coetaneous, contemporary, coincident, compatible, correspondent, correlative. ANT: Discurrent, incontemporaneous, incompatible, adverse, repugnant, antagonistic. = KEY: coextension. SYN: Commensurateness, equality, parallelism, conterminousness. ANT: Incommensurateness, inadequacy, inconterminousness, disparity, divergency, inequality. = KEY: Coextensive, [See COEXTENSION]. = KEY: Cogent. SYN: Forcible, powerful, potent, strong, persuasive, influential. ANT: Weak, ineffectual, powerless, feeble. = KEY: Cogitate. SYN: Think, ruminate, reflect, meditate, brood, speculate, contemplate, ponder, muse. ANT: Idle, maunder, dream. = KEY: Cogitation, [See COGITATE]. = KEY: Cognizance. SYN: Notice, observation, recognition, knowledge, experience. ANT: Inadvertence, neglect, ignorance, inexperience, oversight, connivance. = KEY: Cognizant. SYN: Aware, informed. ANT: Unaware, ignorant, uninformed. = KEY: Cohere. SYN: Stick, adhere, conform, unite, coalesce. ANT: Sever, separate, disunite, disintegrate. = KEY: Coherent. SYN: Consecutive, consistent, complete, sensible, compact, logical, close. ANT: Inconsecutive, rambling, disunited, inconsistent, discursive, loose, silly, illogical, aberrant. = KEY: Cohibit. SYN: Prevent, hinder, curb, restrain, inhibit. ANT: Indulge, permit, incite, instigate, encourage, urge. = KEY: Coin. SYN: Fabricate, counterfeit, invent. ANT: Misform, misconstrue. = KEY: Coincide, [See AGREE]. = KEY: Coincidence. SYN: Chance, fortuity, casualty, concurrence, correspondence, contemporaneousness, commensurateness, harmony, agreement, consent. ANT: Design, purpose, adaptation, synchronism, anachronism, disharmony, incommensurateness, discordance, variation, difference. = KEY: Cold, [See FRIGID]. = KEY: Collate. SYN: Adduce, collect, compare, gather, induct, extract, cite. ANT: Verify, identify, recognize, authenticate. = KEY: Collateral. SYN: Indirect, related, connected, parallel. ANT: Direct, linear, essential, integral. = KEY: Colleague. SYN: Helper, companion, associate, ally, confederate, coadjutor, partner, assistant, adjutant, assessor. ANT: co-opponent, corival, counteragent, co-antagonist, competitor, colluctator. = KEY: Collect. SYN: Collate, gather, glean, sum, infer, learn, congregate, assemble, convoke, convene, muster, amass, garner, accumulate. ANT: Classify, arrange, distribute, dispose, dispense, divide, sort, deal. = KEY: Collected. SYN: Calm, composed, cool, attentive, self-possessed, firm, placid, serene, unmoved. ANT: Excited, distracted, wandering, dazed, scared, bewildered. = KEY: Collection. SYN: Assembly, assemblage, store, gathering, collation. ANT: Dispersion, distribution, dispensation, division, arrangement, disposal, classification. = KEY: Collision. SYN: Encounter, conflict, crash, opposition, impact, concussion, clash. ANT: Interswerving, interdivergence, shave. = KEY: Collocate. SYN: Place, locate, arrange, classify, tabulate, allocate. ANT: Move, dislocate, distribute, dispense, disturb, disperse, confound, confuse, displace, misplace. = KEY: Collocation, [See COLLOCATE]. = KEY: Colloquy. SYN: Conference, consultation, conversation, council, confabulation. ANT: Clamor, outcry, tumult, babel. = KEY: Colluctation. SYN: Wrestling, contention, competition. ANT: Coadjutorship, assistance, support, backing. = KEY: Collusion. SYN: Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy. ANT: Baffling, frustration, counteraction, defeat, discomfiture, discernment, betrayal, exposure, informership, traitorship. = KEY: Color. SYN: Hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish. ANT: Achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency, truthfulness. = KEY: Colorable. SYN: Specious, ostensible, deceptive, dressed, tinged, warped. ANT: Genuine, candid, open, naked, transparent. = KEY: Colossal, [See GIGANTIC]. = KEY: Combat \v.\ [See RESIST]. = KEY: Combat \n.\ SYN: Encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement, arms, battle. ANT: Surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce, arbitration. = KEY: Combination. SYN: Union, association, consortment, concert, confederacy, alliance, league, coalition, cabal, synthesis, co-operation. ANT: Division, disunion, disruption, dissolution, dispersion, analysis, opposition, resistance, non-location, removal,. = KEY: Comely. SYN: Seemly, graceful, elegant, shapely, suitable, fitting, handsome, decent, becoming. ANT: Unseemly, ungraceful, inelegant, unshapely. = KEY: Comfortable. SYN: Snug, satisfied, pleasant, agreeable, cozy, commodious, convenient, consoled. ANT: Uncomfortable, dissatisfied, troubled, miserable, wretched, cheerless, unhappy, disagreeable, forlorn. = KEY: Comfortless, [See COMFORTABLE]. = KEY: Comic, [See LUDICROUS]. = KEY: Comity. SYN: Urbanity, pleasantness, affability, blandness. ANT: Rudeness, distantness, roughness, churlishness. = KEY: Command \v.\ SYN: Order, direct, instruct, charge, bid, enjoin. ANT: Supplicate, entreat, persuade, beg, petition, suggest, represent. = KEY: Command \n.\ [See MANDATE]. = KEY: Commanding, [See AUTHORITATIVE]. = KEY: Commemorate. SYN: Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep. ANT: Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate. = KEY: Commence. SYN: Begin, start, open, initiate, inaugurate, enter upon, set about, undertake. ANT: Finish, terminate, conclude, consummate, complete. = KEY: Commend. SYN: Praise, laud, extol, approve, recommend, encourage, applaud, eulogize. ANT: Blame, censure, disapprove, discourage, denounce, condemn, discommend. = KEY: Commendation, [See APPROBATION]. = KEY: Commensurate. SYN: Equal, adequate, sufficient, coextensive, conterminous. ANT: Unequal, short, scant, inadequate, insufficient, incommensurate. = KEY: Comment \v.\ SYN: Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain, expatiate, criticise. ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconceive, misrepresent. = KEY: Comment \n.\ [See OBSERVATION]. = KEY: Commentator. SYN: Interpreter, explainer, note-maker, scholiast, expositor, glossary, elucidator. ANT: Mystifier, misinterpreter, puzzler, enigmatist, Oedipus. = KEY: Commerce. SYN: Trade, traffic, merchandize, barter, exchange, business, communication, dealing, intercourse. ANT: Stagnation, exclusion, inactivity, interdict, embargo, dullness. = KEY: Commiserate. SYN: Despise, contemn, pity, compassionate, condole, sympathize. ANT: Admire, envy, disregard, maltreat, molest, ignore, condemn. = KEY: Commiseration, [See PITY]. = KEY: Commit. SYN: Perpetrate, execute, confide, [See DO], relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consign. ANT: Miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit. = KEY: Commodious. SYN: Ample, easy, convenient, spacious, suitable, comfortable. ANT: Inconvenient, incommodious, narrow, ill-contrived, incommensurate, discommodious. = KEY: Commodity. SYN: Staple, ware, article, stock. ANT: Drug, offal, refuse, garbage. = KEY: Common. SYN: Ordinary, familiar, habitual, everyday, frequent, coarse, vulgar, low, mean, universal. ANT: Unusual, exceptional, scarce, rare, uncommon, refined, partial, infrequent, sporadic, egregious, excellent. = KEY: Commotion. SYN: Agitation, disturbance, tumult, excitement, turmoil, perturbation. ANT: Quiescence, calm, subsidence, pacification, tranquillity, mitigation, appeasement, soothing, allaying, moderating. = KEY: Communicate. SYN: Adjoin, join, touch, reveal, disclose, divulge, promulgate, publish, attach, co-operate, unite, impart, tell, announce, declare. ANT: Separate, disjoin, recede, stop, suppress, conceal, secrete, withhold, reserve. = KEY: Communication, [See INTERCOURSE]. = KEY: Communion. SYN: Participation, share, converse, agreement, partnership, comportionment, fellowship, association, intercourse. ANT: Exclusion, deprivation, nonparticipation, disqualification, disconnection, alienation, disruption. = KEY: Community. SYN: Aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity, homogeneity. ANT: Segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity. = KEY: Commute. SYN: Alter, mitigate, substitute, exchange, compensate, barter, equalize, balance, modify. ANT: Misappropriation, misconvert, misappropriate, disallow, stabilitate, perpetuate, stereotype. = KEY: Compact \n.\ [See AGREEMENT]. = KEY: Compact \a.\ SYN: Dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed, contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated, concrete. ANT: Ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling, sparse, broadcast, dispread. = KEY: Companion. SYN: Associate, mate, comrade, colleague, ally, partner, accomplice, coadjutor. ANT: Rival, toe, antagonist, adversary. = KEY: Companionable. SYN: Pleasant, affable, sociable, convertible, friendly, easy, agreeable, gregarious. ANT: Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial, cold, inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary. = KEY: Companionship. SYN: Converse, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, friendliness, association. ANT: Ignorance, distance, avoidance, estrangement, alienation, unfamiliarity, soitude, isolation. = KEY: Company. SYN: Aggregation, association, union, sodality, order, fraternity, guild, corporation, society, community, assemblage, assembly, crew, posse, gang, troop, audience, congregation, concourse. ANT: Rivalry, opposition, disqualification, antagonism, counteragency, competition, counterassociation. = KEY: Compare. SYN: Assimilate, collate, parallel. ANT: Contrast, oppose, dissociate, disconnect, pit, distinguish. = KEY: Comparable. SYN: Resembling, approximate, similar. ANT: Dissimilar, unlike, remote, inferior. = KEY: Comparative. SYN: Relatively, proportionately. ANT: Absolutely, actually, positively, superlatively. = KEY: Comparison, [See LIKENESS]. = KEY: Compartment. SYN: Division, partition, allotment, sphere, space. ANT: correlative, viz, anything of which it is a compartment. = KEY: Compass \n.\ SYN: Area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon. ANT: Common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness, indefiniteness. = KEY: Compass \v.\ SYN: Encompass, surround, enclose, environ, circumscribe, embrace, achieve, effect, effectuate, consummate, complete, circumvent. ANT: Expand, disband, unfold, amplify, display, dismiss, liberate, discard, fail, bungle, botch, misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue. = KEY: Compassion. SYN: Pity, sympathy, condolence, tenderness, fellow-feeling, commiseration, pardon. ANT: Hardheartedness, unforgiveness, cruelty, antipathy, denunciation, condemnation, vindictiveness, retaliation. = KEY: Compassionate, [See KIND]. = KEY: Compatible. SYN: Consistent, consentaneous, harmonious, coexistent, correspondent, congruous, accordant, agreeable, congenial, consonant. ANT: Incompatible, impossible, insupposable, inconsistent, discordant, hostile, adverse, antagonistic, incongruous, destructive, inter-repugnant, contradictory. = KEY: Compeer. SYN: Equal, co-ordinate, peer, fellow, mate, compatriot, comrade. ANT: Inferior, superior, solitary. = KEY: Compel. SYN: Force, oblige, drive, constrain, necessitate, make, coerce, bind. ANT: Persuade, convince, coax, allure, egg, induce, tempt, seduce, acquit, cozen, liberate, release. = KEY: Compendious. SYN: Condensed, concentrated, brief, short, succinct, concise, abridged, commodious, convenient, useful, handy, comprehensive, compact. ANT: Diffuse, vague, prolix, shapeless, cumbrous, undigested. = KEY: Compendium, [See ABRIDGEMENT]. = KEY: Compensate. SYN: Atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite, reward, recompense, make amends for. ANT: Defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage. = KEY: Compensation. SYN: Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages. ANT: Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage. = KEY: Compete. SYN: Contend, rival, cope, emulate. ANT: Participate, share. = KEY: Competence. SYN: Power, adequacy, sufficiency, wealth, ability. ANT: Incompetence, weakness, inability, insufficiency, want, poverty, impecuniosity, indigence. = KEY: Competent, [See ADEQUATE]. = KEY: Competition. SYN: Rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade. ANT: Association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation. = KEY: Competitor. SYN: Rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist. ANT: Participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague. = KEY: Compilation. SYN: Collation, composition, patchwork. ANT: Effusion, creation. = KEY: Complacent. SYN: Pleased, satisfied, content, pleasant, affable, kind, mannerly, acquiescent, amiable. ANT: Dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere, grudging. = KEY: Complain, [See GROWL]. = KEY: Complaint. SYN: Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance, expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease. ANT: Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause, jubilee, health, sanity. = KEY: Complaisant, [See POLITE]. = KEY: Complement. SYN: Completion, fulfilment, totality, supply, counterpart, correlative. ANT: Deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, abatement, detraction, defalcation, diminution, drawback. = KEY: Complete \v.\ [See ACCOMPLISH]. = KEY: Complete \a.\ SYN: Full, perfect, finished, adequate, entire, consummate, total, exhaustive, thorough, accomplished. ANT: Incomplete, partial, imperfect, unfinished, inadequate. = KEY: Completely. SYN: Fully, totally, altogether, wholly, perfectly, entirely, thoroughly. ANT: Partially, incompletely, Imperfectly. = KEY: Completion, [See TINGE]. = KEY: Complex. SYN: Intricate, multifarious, compound, complicated, multifold, involved, deep, many-sided, abstruse, close, tangled, obscure. ANT: Obvious, plain, simple, direct, inobscure, superficial, vague, loose, unraveled. = KEY: Complexion. SYN: Face, aspect, color, look, feature, appearance, character, hue, interpretation, indication. ANT: Unindicativeness, concealment, reticence, inexpression, heart, core. = KEY: Complexity \n.\ [See COMPLEX]. = KEY: Compliance. SYN: Yielding, submission, obedience, acquiescence, consent, ductility, docility. ANT: Resistance, repulsion, disobedience, refusal, noncompliance. = KEY: Compliant, [See SUBMISSIVE]. = KEY: Complicated. SYN: Confused, intricate, involved, perplexed, entangled. ANT: Clear, simple, uninvolved, lucid, unraveled. = KEY: Compliment \v.\ [See PRAISE]. = KEY: Compliment \n.\ SYN: Homage, courtesy, flattery, praise. ANT: Insult, discourtesy, contempt. = KEY: Complimentary. SYN: Commendatory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise. ANT: Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, vituperative, defamatory. = KEY: Comply, [See YIELD]. = KEY: Component. SYN: Ingredient, element, constituent, factor, content, rudiment. ANT: Aggregate, sum, entirety, adventitious, compound, nonconstituent, foreign, heterogeneous. = KEY: Comport. SYN: Demean, conduct, carry, behove, tally, consist, harmonize, match, agree, suit, coincide. ANT: Misdemean, misconduct, forget, vary, differ, disagree, contrast, militate. = KEY: Compose. SYN: Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together, constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write. ANT: Analyze, awaken, stir, dissect, criticise, irritate, excite. = KEY: Composed, [See COLLECTED and PLACID]. = KEY: Composition. SYN: Compound, conformation, structure, mixture, combination, compromise, adjustment, settlement, commutation. ANT: Analysis, segregation, examination, criticism, discussion, disturbance, aggravation, perpetuation. = KEY: Composure. SYN: Tranquility, sereneness, self-possession, sedateness, calm, repose. ANT: Perturbation, restlessness, mobility, disturbance. = KEY: Compound \v.\ SYN: Concert, mix, amalgamate, fuse. ANT: Resolve, analyze. = KEY: Compound \n.\ SYN: Mixture, combination, amalgamation, junction, unification, coalescence. ANT: Decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution. = KEY: Comprehend. SYN: Comprise, embody, grasp, understand, conceive, apprehend, enclose, include, involve, embrace. ANT: Exclude, except, misunderstand. = KEY: Comprehension. SYN: Understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension. ANT: Misunderstanding, misconception. = KEY: Comprehensive. SYN: Wide, ample, general, extensive, large, broad, all, embracing, generic, significant, capacious, inclusive, compendious, pregnant. ANT: Narrow, restricted, shallow, exclusive, adversative, exceptive. = KEY: Compress. SYN: Condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize, summarize. ANT: Expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, Compression, [See COMPRESS]. = KEY: Comprise \v.\ SYN: Embrace, include, involve, contain, comprehend, imply. ANT: Exclude, except, discard, bar, omit, reject. = KEY: Comprobation. SYN: Induction, co-evidence, co-testimony. ANT: disproof, counterevidence, refutation, rejoinder, intercontrariance. = KEY: Compromise \v.\ SYN: Arbitrate, adjust, compose, settle, endanger, implicate, involve. ANT: Aggravate, excite, foster, perpetuate, exempt, enfranchise, disengage, extricate, exonerate. = KEY: Compulsion \n.\ SYN: For, ce, restraint, control, coercion. ANT: Persuasion, coaxing, alluring, Inducing. = KEY: Compunction. SYN: Contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow. ANT: Satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance. = KEY: Compute. SYN: Calculate, reckon, count, number, appraise, value, estimate, cast up, rate. ANT: Conjecture, guess, surmise. = KEY: Comrade, [See COMPLEX]. = KEY: Concatenation. SYN: Linking, connection, stringing, continuity. ANT: Discatenation, unlinking, unchanging, severance, intermission, disconnection. = KEY: Concave. SYN: Hollow, scooped, pitted, excavated, retreating, alveolar. ANT: Convex, tumular, protuberant, relievant, embossed, intumescent. = KEY: Conceal. SYN: Hide, secrete, disguise, keep secret, dissemble, screen, suppress. ANT: Reveal, manifest, exhibit, avow, confess, expose, promulgate, publish, divulge. = KEY: Concede. SYN: Surrender, grant, allow, yield, admit, resign. ANT: Refuse, withhold, deny, contradict, contest, claim, contend. = KEY: Conceit. SYN: Idea, notion, thought, affectation, vanity, abstraction, imagination, conception, whim, vagary, egotism. ANT: Substance, reality, verity, concretion, body, fact, naturalness, simplicity, unaffectedness, humility. = KEY: Conceited. SYN: Egotistical, self-conceited, vain. ANT: Self-deprecating, simple, unassuming, unaffected. = KEY: Conceive. SYN: Imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think, understand. ANT: Produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive. = KEY: Conception, [See CONCEIVE]. = KEY: Concentrate. SYN: assemble, converge, muster, congregate, convene, draw, conglomerate, condense, localize, centralize. ANT: Disperse, scatter, dismiss, decentralize. = KEY: Concentration, [See CONCENTRATE]. = KEY: Concern. SYN: Interest, regard, anxiety, matter, affair, institution, solicitude, moment, regret, sympathy, sorrow. ANT: Indifference, disregard, carelessness, congratulation, chuckling. = KEY: Concerning. SYN: About, of, relating, regarding, touching, in relation to, respecting, with respect to, with regard to, with reference to, relative to. ANT: Omitting, disregarding. = KEY: Concert \v.\ [See CONTRIVE]. = KEY: Concert \n.\ SYN: Onion, combination, concord, harmony, agreement, association, co-operation. ANT: Dissociation, counteraction, opposition. = KEY: Concession, [See CONCEPT]. = KEY: Conciliate. SYN: Win, gain, enlist, pacify, make friendly, reconcile, propitiate. ANT: Lose, estrange, excommunicate, eject, alienate, irritate, displease. = KEY: Concise. SYN: Condensed, terse, pregnant, expressive, pointed, neat, compendious, succinct, summary, brief, short. ANT: Diffuse, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory, rambling, discursive. = KEY: Conclave. SYN: Council, assembly, bureau, synod, cabinet, caucus. ANT: Crowd, multitude, assemblage, population, throng, populace, mob, concourse. = KEY: Conclude. SYN: Close, terminate, complete, end, decide, finish, infer, deduce, determine, argue. ANT: Begin, initiate, start, open, prolong, protract, perpetuate, doubt, dispute. = KEY: Conclusion, [See CONCLUDE and TERMINATION]. = KEY: Conclusive. SYN: Definitive, indisputable, final, positive, decisive. ANT: Uncertain, dubious, questionable, hypothetical, supposititious, problematical, theoretical, vague, indeterminate, inconclusive. = KEY: Concoct. SYN: Compound, prepare, mix, hatch, brew. ANT: Spoil, upset, disconcoct, disconcert, mar, misprepare. = KEY: Concoction. SYN: Brew, mixture, compound. ANT: Crudity, rawness, ingredient. = KEY: Concomitant. SYN: Accompanying, attending, attendant, synchronous. ANT: Precedent, subsequent, diverse, unconnected, independent, irrelative. = KEY: Concord. SYN: Harmony, accordance, agreement, peace, union, unity, unanimity, amity. ANT: Discord, disagreement, variance, animosity. = KEY: Concordance, [See CONCORD]. = KEY: Concourse. SYN: Assembly, assemblage, crowd, throng, convergence, mob. ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude. = KEY: Concrete. SYN: Firm, compact, consolidated, indurated, embodied,