Part 6

ANT: Loose, sloppy, luteous, shifting, boggy, swampy, yielding, unresisting, abstract, generalize. = KEY: Concur. SYN: Approve, acquiesce, assent, coincide, meet, converge, concentrate, agree. ANT: Diverge, radiate, disagree, dissent, part, differ. = KEY: Concussion, [See COLLISION and COMMOTION]. = KEY: Condemn. SYN: Blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom, sentence. ANT: Absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve. = KEY: Condense, [See ABRIDGE]. = KEY: Condescend. SYN: Stoop, descend, deign, vouchsafe. ANT: Disdain, scorn, spurn. = KEY: Condescension \n.\ [See CONDESCEND]. = KEY: SYN:, Affability, graciousness, favor, stooping. ANT: Haughtiness, arrogance, pride, superciliousness, disdain, scorn. = KEY: Condign. SYN: Deserved, merited, meet, just, adequate. ANT: Undeserved, unmerited, scant, excessive. = KEY: Condiment. SYN: Sauce, pickle, preserve, seasoning. ANT: Gall, wormwood, ashes, aloe. = KEY: Condition. SYN: State, case, mood, term, mode, qualification, requisite, stipulation, predicament, proviso, situation, circumstances, plight. ANT: Relation, dependence, situation, circumstance, concession, fulfillment, adaptation. = KEY: Conditionally. SYN: Provisionally, relatively, provided, hypothetical, contingently. ANT: Absolutely, unconditionally, categorically, positively. = KEY: Condole. SYN: Sympathize, console, commiserate. ANT: Congratulate, exhilarate, disregard, rally, discompassionate, discommiserate. = KEY: Condolence, [See CONDOLE]. = KEY: Condonation. SYN: Indulgence, excuse, amnesty, pardon, forgiveness. ANT: Expiation, satisfaction, atonement. = KEY: Conduce. SYN: Concur, contribute, avail, aid, tend, coincide, converge, assist, help, make for, conspire, lead, subserve. ANT: Indispose, counteract, defeat, neutralize. = KEY: Conducive, [See CONDUCE]. SYN: Contributive, promotive, subsidiary, causative, effective, productive. ANT: Preventive, counteractive, contrariant, repugnant, destructive. = KEY: Conduct \v.\ SYN: Lead, bring, carry, transfer, direct, guide, control, manage, administer. ANT: Mislead, miscarry, mismanage, misconduct, misadminister. = KEY: Conduct \n.\ [See BEHAVIOR]. = KEY: Confabulation, [See COLLOQUY]. = KEY: Confection \n.\ [See CONCOCTION, CONDIMENT, and COMPOUND. (Used of sweet compounds]. = KEY: SYN:, Sweetmeat, sugarplum, cake, condiment. ANT: [See CONDIMENT]. = KEY: Confederacy, Confederation. SYN: Alliance, treaty, league, union, association. ANT: Disruption, secession, disunion. = KEY: Confederate \a.\ SYN: Leagued, allied, united, combined. ANT: Disunited, dissolved. = KEY: Confederate \n.\ [See COMPANION]. = KEY: Confer. SYN: Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give, present. ANT: Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw. = KEY: Conference. SYN: Discussion, discourse, consultation, parley, contravention, convocation, meeting. ANT: Monologue, silence. [See CONVENTION]. = KEY: Confess. SYN: Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge. ANT: Disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny. = KEY: Confession. SYN: Creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession, declaration, subscription. ANT: Heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index, renunciation, abjuration. = KEY: Confidant. SYN: Confessor, adviser, confederate. ANT: Traitor, betrayer, rival. = KEY: Confide. SYN: Trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely. ANT: Doubt, distrust, disbelieve. = KEY: Confidence. SYN: Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence, reliance. ANT: Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving. = KEY: Confident. SYN: Positive, assured, sure, certain, impudent, bold, sanguine. ANT: [See CERTAIN]. = KEY: Confidential. SYN: Private, secret, trustworthy, intimate. ANT: Public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious. = KEY: Configuration. SYN: Shape, outline, delineation, form, figure, conformation, contour. ANT: Shapelessness, amorphousness, formlessness, undelineation, contortion, distortion, deformity. = KEY: Confine. SYN: Immure, limit, bound, imprison, circumscribe, restrict, enclose, narrow, incarcerate, bind. ANT: Dilate, expand, extend, widen, unfasten, liberate, loosen, disenclose. = KEY: Confined, [See CIRCUMSCRIBE]. = KEY: Confirm. SYN: Strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify. ANT: Weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute. = KEY: Confirmation, [See CONFIRM]. = KEY: Confiscate. SYN: Seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain. ANT: Restore, release, refund. = KEY: Conflagration. SYN: Ignition, fire, combustion, arson, incendiarism. ANT: Extinction, smoulder, quenching. = KEY: Conflict. SYN: Encounter, engagement, contest, battle, fight, combat. ANT: Reconciliation, pacification, amity, arbitration. = KEY: Conflicting. SYN: Adverse, opposed, opposing, dashing, discordant, irreconcilable, contradictory. ANT: Harmonizing, consistent, consentaneous, congruous. = KEY: Confluence. SYN: Conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence. ANT: Reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence. = KEY: Conform. SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield. ANT: Disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt. = KEY: Conformation \n.\ [See CONFORM and CONFIGURATION]. = KEY: Conformity, [See CONFORMATION]. = KEY: Confound. SYN: Confuse, disorder, trouble, disarrange, intermix, abash, astound, mystify, obscure, stupefy, disconcert, mix, blend, intermingle, perplex, discompose. ANT: Arrange, classify, order, allocate, distribute, dispense, unravel, enucleate, eliminate, elucidate, rally, enlighten. = KEY: Confraternity, [See COMPANY]. = KEY: Confront. SYN: Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace. ANT: Rally, encourage, abet, countenance. = KEY: Confuse, [See CONFOUND]. = KEY: Confusion, [See ORDER]. = KEY: Confused. SYN: Abashed, embarrassed, perplexed, disconcerted, disorganized, promiscuous, chaotic, complex, involved, disarranged, disordered. ANT: Unabashed, unembarrassed, systematic, unconfused, organized, arranged. = KEY: Confute, [See REFUTE]. = KEY: Congeal. SYN: Freeze, benumb, congelate. ANT: Thaw, relax, melt, chafe, dissolve. = KEY: Congenial. SYN: Natural, concordant, consonant, grateful, sympathetic, kindred. ANT: Unnatural, abbhorant, discordant, dissonant, disagreeable, ungrateful, antagonistic, alien, dissimilar, uncongenial. = KEY: Congenital. SYN: Coeval, coetaneous, natural, inherent, innate, immanent, ingrained, incarnate, connate, ingenerate. ANT: Unnatural, uncongenial, acquired, habitual, extraneous, artificial, adscititious, adventitious, assumed. = KEY: Congestion. SYN: Congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethora. ANT: Dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation. = KEY: Conglomerate, [See AGGLOMERATE]. = KEY: Conglutinate, [See AGGLUTINATE]. = KEY: Congratulate. SYN: Felicitate. ANT: [See CONDOLE]. = KEY: Congregate, [See AGGREGATE]. = KEY: Congregation, [See AGGREGATION]. = KEY: Congress. SYN: Parliament, council, conclave, assembly, synod, legislature, convention. ANT: Cabal, conclave, mob. = KEY: Congruous. SYN: Agreeing, harmonious, coherent, homogeneous, consonant, accordant. ANT: Discordant, dissonant, incongruous, heterogeneous. = KEY: Conjecture \v.\ SYN: guest, divination, hypothesis, theory, notion, surmise, supposition. ANT: Computation, calculation, inference, reckoning, proof, deduction. = KEY: Conjecture \n.\ [See SUPPOSE]. = KEY: Conjoin, [See CONCATENATE]. = KEY: Conjuncture. SYN: Crisis, turning-point, contingency, occasion, opportunity, exigency, emergency. ANT: Arrangement, provision, ordainment, preparation, course. = KEY: Conjure. SYN: Implore, importune, crave, entreat, beseech, supplicate. ANT: Deprecate, protest, remonstrate, expostulate. = KEY: Connect, [See UNITE]. = KEY: Connection. SYN: Junction, conjunction, union, association, concatenation, relation, affinity, relevance, intercourse, communication, kinsman, relationship, kindred. ANT: Disconnection, disjunction, dissociation, independence, irrelevance, disunion. = KEY: Connive. SYN: Wink, pretermit, pass, overlook. ANT: Notice, visit, censure, investigate. = KEY: Connubial. SYN: Conjugal, matrimonial, nuptial. ANT: Single, celibate, illicit, adulterous. = KEY: Conquer. SYN: Subdue, vanquish, surmount, overcome, overpower, overthrow, defeat, crush, master, subjugate, prevail over. ANT: Fail, fall, retreat, succumb, fly, submit, surrender, lose, forfeit, sacrifice, resign, cede. = KEY: Conquest, [See CONQUER]. SYN: Victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation. ANT: Failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture. = KEY: Consanguinity. SYN: Kindred, blood, lineage. ANT: Disconnection, dissociation. = KEY: Conscience. SYN: Sense, intuition, integrity, principle. ANT: [See PERTURB and STOICAL], license. = KEY: Conscientious. SYN: Scrupulous, exact, equitable, strict, upright, highprincipled. ANT: Unscrupulous, lax, unprincipled, reprobate, unconscientious. = KEY: Conscious. SYN: Aware, cognizant, sensible. ANT: Unaware, unconscious, insensible. = KEY: Consciousness. SYN: Sense, sensation, intelligence, perception. ANT: Insensibility, unconsciousness. = KEY: Conscription. SYN: Impressment, drafting. ANT: Enlistment, volunteering. = KEY: Consecrate. SYN: Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify. ANT: Desecrate, secularize, profane. = KEY: Consecration, [See CONSECRATE and DEVOTION]. = KEY: Consecutive. SYN: Orderly, arranged, coherent, continuous. ANT: Disordered, undigested, incoherent, rambling, inconsequent, inconsecutive, discursive. = KEY: Consent. SYN: Submit, agree, acquiesce. ANT: resist, disagree, dissent, deline, refuse. = KEY: Consentaneous. SYN: Agreeing, correspondent, consonant, congruous, [See HARMONIOUS]. = KEY: Consequence. SYN: Effect, issue, result, inference, coherence, deduction, conclusion, outcome, importance, note, moment, dignity. ANT: Cause, causation, antecedence, premise, origin, datum, postulate, axiom, unimportance, insignificance, inconsequence, inconsecutiveness, irrelevance, meanness, paltriness. = KEY: Consequent. SYN: Inferred, deduced, resultant, accruing, attendant. ANT: Assumed, conjectured, antecedent, conducive, productive, inconsequent. = KEY: Consequential. SYN: Coherent, connected, nected, cogent, logical, pompous, arrogant. ANT: Incoherent, disconnected, in, valid, illogical, inconsequential, affable, conversible, accessible, easy, humble-minded. = KEY: Consequently. SYN: Accordingly, therefore, [See ACCORDING]. ANT: Irrelevantly, inconsequently. = KEY: Conservation. SYN: Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation, perpetuation. ANT: Neglect, exposure, abrogation, destruction, abolition. = KEY: Conservative. SYN: Undestroyed, unsuppressed, stationary, unrepealed. ANT: Changed, newfangled, radical, progressive, modifiable, alterable, transitional. = KEY: Consider. SYN: Attend, revolve, meditate, think, reflect, investigate, regard, observe, judge, opine, infer, deduce, weigh, cogitate, deliberate, ponder, deem. ANT: Disregard, ignore, pretermit, despise, guess, conjecture, hazard. = KEY: Considerable. SYN: Important, large, extensive. ANT: Unimportant, trifling, inconsiderable. = KEY: Considerate. SYN: Thoughtful, attentive, forbearing, unselfish, judicious, serious, prudent, circumspect, reflective, careful, cautious. ANT: Thoughtless, inconsiderate, inattentive, rude, overbearing, selfish, injudicious, rash, careless. = KEY: Consideration. SYN: Importance, suspect, consequence, motive, inducement, compensation, subsidy, remuneration. ANT: Meanness, insignificance, unimportance. = KEY: Considering. SYN: Because, regarding. ANT: Irrespectively, independently. = KEY: Consign, [See ASSIGN]. = KEY: Consignment. SYN: Custody, commission, delegation. ANT: Miscommitment, misconsignment. = KEY: Consist, [See CONSTITUTE]. = KEY: Consistence, [See CONSISTENCY]. = KEY: Consistency. SYN: Consistence, congruity, composition, substance, material, amalgamation, compound, mass, density, solidity, closeness, compactness, coherence, uniformity, harmony, analogy, proportion. ANT: Volatility, vaporousness, subtility, tenuity, sublimation, incoherence, inconsistency, incongruity, disproportion, contrariety, contradiction. = KEY: Consistent. SYN: Congruous, accordant, consonant, agreeing, compatible, harmonious. ANT: Incongruous, at variance with, not agreeing with, incompatible, inharmonious. = KEY: Consociation, [See ASSOCIATION and COMPANY]. = KEY: Console. SYN: Relieve, soothe, solace, encourage, comfort, assuage. ANT: Congratulate, felicitate, aggravate, oppress, disturb, trouble, annoy, irritate, irreconcile, dissatisfy. = KEY: Consolidate. SYN: Condense, incorporate, conglutinate, cement, solder, bond, weld, thicken, strengthen, fuse. ANT: Weaken, dissipate, disunite, dismember, disintegrate, colliquate, dissolve, melt, vaporize, sublimate, attenuate, triturate, pulverize. = KEY: Consonant, [See CONGRUOUS and CONSISTENT]. = KEY: Consort \v.\ SYN: Associate, herd, company, fraternize. ANT: Avoid, abandon, excommunicate, blackball, banish, exclude. = KEY: Conspicuous. SYN: Visible, easily seen, prominent, distinguished, manifest, eminent, famous, noted, salient, observable, noticeable, magnified. ANT: Invisible, Inconspicuous, in, observable, noticeable, microscopic. = KEY: Conspiracy. SYN: Intrigue, cabal, plot, treason, treachery, machination, coalition. ANT: Legislation, parliament, congress, synod, \Comp.\ Conclave and cabal. = KEY: Conspire. SYN: Concur, conduce, contribute, agree, unite, hang, pull together, co-operate, league, baud. ANT: Oppose, counteract, withstand, run counter to. = KEY: Constant. SYN: Uniform, regular, invariable, perpetual, continuous, firm, fixed, steady, immutable, faithful, true, trustworthy. ANT: Irregular, exceptional, variable, casual, accidental, incidental, broken, interrupted, inconstant, fickle, untrustworthy, faithless, treacherous, false. = KEY: Consternation. SYN: Amazement, bewilderment, astonishment, astounding, horror, terror, dismay. ANT: Encouragement, boldness, fearlessness, assurance, anticipation, welcome, expectation, greeting, congratulation. = KEY: Constituent. SYN: Voter, returner, sender, deputer, appointer, patron, ingredient, element, component. ANT: Representative, nominee, committee, constitution, system, whole. = KEY: Constitute. SYN: Form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute. ANT: Dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake. = KEY: Constitution. SYN: Temperament, frame, temper, character, habit, nature, government, polity, state, consistence, composition, substance, organization, structure, regulation, law. ANT: Accident, habituation, modification, Interference, anarchy, despotism, tyranny, rebellion, revolution, dissipation, disorganization, demolition, destruction. = KEY: Constitutional. SYN: Fundamental, legal, lawful, legitimate, natural. ANT: Unconstitutional, illegal, Illegitimate, unnatural, unchanged. = KEY: Constrain, [See COERCE]. = KEY: Construct. SYN: Compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame. ANT: Derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow. = KEY: Construction. SYN: Composition, fabrication, explanation, rendering, erection, fabric, edifice, reading, understanding, interpretation, view. ANT: Dislocation, dismemberment, demolition, displacement, misplacement, misconstruction, misunderstanding, misconception, misinterpretation. = KEY: Construe. SYN: Parse, resolve, analyze, interpret, understand, render. ANT: Nullify, neutralize, mystify, distort, falsify, misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, mistranslate. = KEY: Consult. SYN: Interrogate, canvass, question, deliberate, confer, advise with, regard, consider, ask advice of, care for, promote. ANT: Resolve, explain, expound, direct, instruct, dictate, counteract, contravene. = KEY: Consume. SYN: Use, appropriate, burn, oat up, devour, spend, squander, assimilate, occupy, absorb, employ, utilize, waste, destroy, spoil, ravage, expend, pine, wither, decay. ANT: Reject, supersede, disuse, discard. = KEY: Consummate \v.\ SYN: Complete, perfect, execute, finish, accomplish, conclude, seal, end. ANT: Neglect, drop, interrupt, nullify, undo, baffle, frustrate, mar, defeat, spoil. = KEY: Consummate \a.\ SYN: Perfect, egregious, excellent, complete, finished. ANT: Imperfect, rude, common, mediocre, faulty, defective, ordinary. = KEY: Consummation, [See CONSUMMATE and COMPLETION]. = KEY: Consumption. SYN: Decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease. ANT: Growth, development, enlargement, augmentation. = KEY: Contact. SYN: Touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction. ANT: Proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance, isolation, noncontact. = KEY: Contagious. SYN: Catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections. ANT: Sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic. = KEY: Contain. SYN: Hold, include, comprise, embrace, comprehend, inclose. ANT: Drop, exclude, extrude, emit, discharge, afford, yield, produce. = KEY: Contaminate. SYN: Defile, taint, corrupt, sully, befoul, soil. ANT: Purify, cleanse, lave, clarify, sanctify, chasten. = KEY: Contemn. SYN: Despise, disdain, deride, vilify, slight, disregard, scorn. ANT: Respect, revere, venerate, regard. = KEY: Contemplate. SYN: Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project. ANT: Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon. = KEY: Contemporary, [See COETANEOUS]. = KEY: Contempt, [See CONTEMN]. = KEY: Contemptible. SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial. ANT: Important, grave, weighty, honorable, respectable, venerable. = KEY: Contemptuous, [See SUPERCILIOUS]. = KEY: Contend. SYN: Strive, compete, cope, dispute, vie, contest, struggle, grapple, argue, maintain, disagree, wrangle. ANT: Resign, concede, allow, relinquish, forego, surrender, waive. = KEY: Content. SYN: Full, satisfied, pleased, gratified, contented, willing, resigned. ANT: Unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unwilling, reluctant, discontented. = KEY: Contented, [See CONTENT]. = KEY: Contention, [See STRIFE]. = KEY: Contentious, [See CONTEND and QUARRELSOME]. SYN: Litigious, perverse, wayward, splenetic, cantankerous, exceptions. ANT: Pacific, obliging, considerate, obsequious, accommodating, easy. = KEY: Conterminous. SYN: Commensurate, adjoining, contiguous, abutting. ANT: Unequal, inconformable, adjacent, proximate, remote, inconterminous. = KEY: Contest \v.\ [See CONTEND]. = KEY: Contest \n.\ [See CONTENTION]. = KEY: context. SYN: Tenor, treatment, texture, composition, matter. ANT: Text, quotation, citation, passage, extract. = KEY: Contexture, [See TEXTURE]. = KEY: Contiguous, [See CONTAGIOUS, ADJACENT, and CONTERMINOUS]. = KEY: Continence. SYN: Abstinence, selfcontrol, refrain \n.\ Chastity, sobriety, temperance. ANT: Licentiousness, self-indulgence, incontinence, dissoluteness, intemperance. = KEY: Contingency, [See ACCIDENT]. = KEY: Contingent \a.\ SYN: Dependent, incidental, resultant, co-emcient, hypothetical, uncertain, conditional. ANT: Positive, absolute, independent, unmodified, unaffected, uncontrolled, irrespective. = KEY: Contingent \n.\ SYN: Contribution, subsidy, supply, succor, reinforcement, auxiliaries, donation, subscription. ANT: Army, sum, host, campaign, fund, capital. = KEY: Continual. [See CONSTANT and EVERLASTING]. = KEY: Continually. SYN: Constantly, persistently, always, ever, perpetually, unceasingly, repeatedly, frequently, continuously. ANT: Casually, occasionally, contingently, sometimes, rarely, fitfully, intermittently. = KEY: Continuation. SYN: Sequence, continuance, continuity, duration, succession, connection, extension, prolongation, perpetuation, concatenation. ANT: Interruption, cessation, discontinuance, break, gap. = KEY: Continue. SYN: Last, persist, endure, remain, abide, stay, persevere, proceed. ANT: Cease, fail, stop, pause, break, discontinue. = KEY: Continuity, [See CONTINUATION]. = KEY: Contortion. SYN: Twisting, writhing, wresting, distortion, deformity, convolution. ANT: Symmetry, uniformity, shapeliness, configuration, contour. = KEY: Contour, [See CONFIGURATION]. = KEY: Contraband. SYN: Illicit, interdicted, smuggled. ANT: Licit, uninterstated, free. = KEY: Contract \v.\ SYN: Abridge, abbreviate, narrow, lessen, reduce, compress, decrease, retrench, curtail, form, agree. ANT: Expand, amplify, dilate, elongate, reverse, cancel, abandon. = KEY: Contract \n.\ SYN: Covenant, agreement, compact, bond, pact, stipulation, bargain. ANT: Promise, assurance, parole. = KEY: Contradict. SYN: Oppose, dissent, negative, controvert, deny, disprove, confute, refute, gainsay, contravene. ANT: State, propound, maintain, argue, confirm, affirm, endorse. = KEY: Contradiction. SYN: Repugnance, contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility. ANT: Harmony, coincidence, concurrence, affirmation, proof, statement. = KEY: Contraposition. SYN: Oppositeness, confrontment, facing. ANT: Side, flank, collateralness. = KEY: Contrarious, [See CONTENTIOUS]. = KEY: Contrary. SYN: Opposed, opposite, repugnant, antagonistic, adverse, incompatible, inconsistent. ANT: Agreeing, consentaneous, compatible, kindred, coincident, consistent. = KEY: Contrast. SYN: Opposition, contrariety, dissimilarity. ANT: Harmony, similarity, comparison, similitude. = KEY: Contribute. SYN: Conduce, add, subscribe, give, co-operate, assist, tend, supply. ANT: Refuse, withhold, misconduct, misapply, contravene. = KEY: Contribution. SYN: Donation, oblation, offering, gift, subscription, subsidy, aid, assistance. ANT: Withholding, retention, disallowance, misappropriation, misapplication, contravention. = KEY: Contrition, [See ATTRITION]. = KEY: Contrivance, [See CONTRIVE and DEVICE]. = KEY: Contrive. SYN: Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert, adjust. ANT: Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo. = KEY: Contriving, [See CONTRIVE]. = KEY: Control \v.\ SYN: Check, curb, moderate, repress, guide, regulate, restrain, coerce, manage, administer, govern. ANT: Neglect, abandon, license, berate, free, mismanage, misconduct. = KEY: Control \n.\ [See VERB and COMPULSION]. = KEY: Controversy. SYN: Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation, wrangle, bickering, question. ANT: Agreement, unanimity, coincidence. = KEY: controvertible. SYN: Questionable, dubious. ANT: Unquestionable, incontrovertible. = KEY: Contumacy. SYN: Rebelliousness, stubbornness, restiveness, waywardness, self-will, untractableness. ANT: Submissiveness, docility, tractableness, servility, cringing, fawning, flattery. = KEY: Contumely. SYN: Contemptuousness, scornfulness, arrogance, disrespect, obloquy. ANT: Respect, regard, obligingness, accommodation, considerateness, flattery, adulation, obsequiousness, fawning. = KEY: Contusion. SYN: Bruise, knock, blow. ANT: Soothing, smoothing, stroking, caress, pat. = KEY: Convene. SYN: Assemble, collect, gather, meet, congregate, call together, summon, muster, levy, convoke. ANT: Disperse, dismiss, disband. = KEY: Convenient. SYN: Handy, apt, adapted, fitted, suitable, helpful, commodious, useful, timely, seasonable, opportune. ANT: Inconvenient, awkward, obstructive, useless, superfluous, unseasonable, untimely, inopportune. = KEY: Convention. SYN: Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress, session, synod, treaty, compact. ANT: Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word, parole. = KEY: Conventional. SYN: Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social. ANT: Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, statutable, immutable, natural, invariable. = KEY: Conventual. SYN: Cœnobitual, regular, monastic. ANT: Social, secular, laic. = KEY: Converge. SYN: Tend, bear, incline, lead, coincide, conduce, contribute, meet, concentrate, coradiate. ANT: Diverge, deviate, radiate, mix, foul, entangle. = KEY: Conversant. SYN: Familiar, ae, quainted, proficient, experienced, versed, learned. ANT: Unfamiliar, unacquainted, ignorant, unversed, unlearned, strange, inconversant. = KEY: Conversation. SYN: Converse, dialogue, talk, conference, colloquy, confabulation, chat. ANT: Speech, oration, harangue, babel, jabber, babble, prattle, dribble, mutter, soliloquy, apostrophe, monologue, interpellation, interruption, silence, taciturnity. = KEY: Converse \v.\ SYN: Talk, discourse, speak, chat. ANT: Keep silent. = KEY: Converse \a.\ SYN: Opposite, reverse, contrary, opposed, contradictory, counter, relative, correlative. ANT: Identical, same, one, inseparable, indistinguishable, connate, uniform, direct, primary, uninverted. = KEY: Conversion. SYN: Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge. ANT: Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity. = KEY: Convert \v.\ SYN: Change, alter, transmute, transform, apply, appropriate, turn. ANT: Conserve, perpetuate, stabilitate, [See {Q1409 stereotype}?], clinch, alienate, divert, misappropriate, misapply. = KEY: Convertible. SYN: Identical, commensurate, conterminous, equivalent, equipollent. ANT: Variant, incommensurate, unequivalent, contrary, contradictory, contrariant. = KEY: Convey. SYN: Take, carry, transfer, relegate, bear, transmit, consign, transport, remove. ANT: Bring, adduce, fetch, drop, house, stow, deposit. = KEY: Conveyance, [See CONVEY]. = KEY: Convict. SYN: Sentence, condemn. ANT: Acquit, discharge. = KEY: Conviction. SYN: Assurance, persuasion, belief. ANT: Doubt, misgiving, disbelief. = KEY: Convince. SYN: Persuade, enlighten, inoculate, indoctrinate. ANT: Misguide, mislead, misadvise, mystify, puzzle, perplex, mispersuade, unsettle. = KEY: Convivial. SYN: Hospitable, social, festive, gay, festal, jovial, jolly. ANT: Inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly, churlish, abstemious, austere, ascetic. = KEY: Convocate, [See CONVENE]. = KEY: Convocation, [See CONVENTION]. = KEY: Convoke, [See CONVENE]. = KEY: Convolution. SYN: Coil, involution, implication, spiral, twist, contortion. ANT: Unravelling, explication, evolution, enucleation. = KEY: Convoy. SYN: Escort, guard, protection, conduct. ANT: Loss, betrayal, capture, interception. = KEY: Convulse. SYN: Agitate, shake, perturb, disturb. ANT: Soothe, collocate, compose, assuage. = KEY: Cool \v.\ SYN: Ventilate, refrigerate, allay, damp, temper, moderate. ANT: Warm, heat, chafe, irritate, excite, inflame. = KEY: Cool \a.\ SYN: Cold, frigid, unimpassioned, calm, indifferent, self-possessed, deliberate, dispassioned, collected, apathetic, composed. ANT: Warm, hot, ardent, eager. = KEY: Coolness. SYN: Coldness, indifference, self-possession, distance, calmness. ANT: Heat, ardor, eagerness, passion, excitement, warmth, heartiness. = KEY: Coop, [See CONFINE]. = KEY: Co-operate. SYN: Assist, abet, contribute, concur, work together, help, conspire. ANT: Thwart, oppose, counteract, rival. = KEY: Co-operation, [See CO-OPERATE and UNION]. = KEY: Co-ordinate. SYN: Consociate, coincident, equal, coequal, equivalent, tantamount, equipollent, interequivalent. ANT: Extraneous, diverse, alien, unequal, unequivalent, incoordinate, disparate. = KEY: Copartner, [See PARTNER]. = KEY: Cope. SYN: Contend, vie, struggle, compete, strive. ANT: Negotiate, arbitrate, compromise, surrender. = KEY: Copious, [See ABUNDANT]. = KEY: Copy \n.\ SYN: Imitation, portraiture, facsimile, counterfeit, duplicate, image, likeness, transcript. ANT: Original, prototype, model, example, pattern. = KEY: Cordial. SYN: Warm, earnest, sincere, reviving, invigorating, affectionate, hearty. ANT: Cold, distant, formal, ceremonious. = KEY: Core. SYN: Heart, kernel, nucleus, centre. ANT: Face, exterior, aspect, appearance, complexion, ostensibility, pretext. = KEY: Corner. SYN: Cavity, hole, nook, recess, retreat. ANT: Coin, abutment, prominence, salience, angle, protrusion, elbow, protection, convexity. = KEY: Cornice. SYN: Beading, moulding, projection. ANT: Entablature, fluting, corrugation, cavity, groove. = KEY: Corollary. SYN: Inference, deduction, additament, superaddition. ANT: Problem, proposition. = KEY: Corporal. SYN: Bodily, fleshly, physical, material, corporeal. ANT: Mental, moral, spiritual. = KEY: Corps. SYN: Body, regiment, band, squadron, troop, company. ANT: Aggregate, army, host, force, mass, organization. = KEY: Corpse. SYN: Carcass, remains, dust, clay. ANT: Soul, person, individual. = KEY: Corpulent. SYN: Stout, burly, fat, portly, gross, lusty, plethoric, fleshy. ANT: Lean, thin, attenuated, slight, emaciated. = KEY: Corpuscle. SYN: Atom, particle, monad, jot, molecule. ANT: mass, body, aggregate, organization, matter. = KEY: Corpuscular, [See CORPUSCLE]. = KEY: corradiate, [See CONVERGE]. = KEY: Correct \a.\ SYN: true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right. ANT: false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong. = KEY: Correct \v.\ SYN: Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set right, improve. ANT: Spare, falsify, corrupt. = KEY: correction. SYN: amendment, discipline, emendation, chastisement, punishment. ANT: Deterioration, debasement, retrogradation, reward, recompense. = KEY: Corrective. SYN: Regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative. ANT: Confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive. = KEY: Correlation. SYN: correspondence, interrelation, interdependence, mutuality, apposition. ANT: Contradiction, independence, [See LEARNED and RATIONAL]. = KEY: Correlative, [See CORRUGATION]. = KEY: Correspond. SYN: Match, tally, fit, answer, agree, suit, harmonize. ANT: Vary, differ, disagree, jar, clash. = KEY: Correspondence. SYN: Fitness, agreement, adaptation, congruity, answerableness, match, congeniality, communication, letter, writing, despatches. ANT: Conversation, colloquy, confabulation, reservation, withdrawal, withholding, nonintercourse, difference, repugnance. = KEY: Correspondent \a.\ [See SUITABLE]. = KEY: Corrigible. SYN: Amenable, docile, tractable. ANT: Intractable, stubborn, incorrigible. = KEY: Corroborate. SYN: Strengthen, confirm, fortify, support. ANT: Weaken, invalidate, shake, confute, rebut, enfeeble. = KEY: corporation. SYN: Confirmation, fortification, strengthening. ANT: Counterevidence, contradiction, invalidation, shaking, refutation. = KEY: Corrode. SYN: Eat, rust, gnaw, canker, wear, crumble. ANT: Repair, renew, furbish, consolidate. = KEY: Corrosion, [See CORRODE and RUST]. = KEY: Corrosive, [See CORRODE]. = KEY: Corrugate. SYN: Furrow, groove, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, ruffle, crease. ANT: Plane, flatten, roll. = KEY: Corrugation, [See CORRUGATE]. = KEY: Corrupt \v.\ SYN: Spoil, deteriorate, impair, putrefy, vitiate, demoralize, debase, defile, contaminate, pollute, deprave. ANT: Mend, repair, purify, cleanse, correct, ameliorate, better. = KEY: Corrupt \a.\ SYN: Defiled, polluted, vitiated, decayed, depraved, putrid, rotten, infected, tainted, profligate, contaminated. ANT: Pure, uncorrupt, undented. = KEY: Corruption. SYN: Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness, defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination, putrefaction. ANT: Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration. = KEY: Coruscate. SYN: Blaze, flame, flash, scintillate, glisten. ANT: Pale, smoulder, darken, loom, lower, glimmer, gleam, glare, beam, shimmer. = KEY: Coruscation, [See CORUSCATE]. = KEY: Cosmical. SYN: Universal, general. ANT: Local, topical, national, persomal. = KEY: Cost. \v.\ SYN: Require, consume, absorb. ANT: Bring, produce, yield, afford, fetch, return. = KEY: Cost. \n.\ SYN: Expenditure, outlay, disbursement, payment, compensation, price, worth, expense, charge, outgoings. ANT: Receipt, income, emolument, return, profit, perquisite, revenue. = KEY: Costly. SYN: Valuable, expensive, high-priced, rich, precious, sumptuous. ANT: Valueless, cheap, low-priced, mean, worthless, beggarly, paltry. = KEY: Costume. SYN: Uniform, livery, robes. ANT: Disguise, transformation, incognito. = KEY: Cosy. SYN: Snug, comfortable, chatty. ANT: Bare, comfortless, cross. = KEY: contemporary, [See COETANEOUS]. = KEY: Council. SYN: Cabinet, bureau, chamber, consultation, conclave, parliament, congress, synod, company, assembly, meeting, conference, convention, convocation. ANT: League, conspiracy, cabal, intrigue, mob, multitude, crowd. = KEY: Counsel \n.\ SYN: Advice, instruction, monition, admonition, warning, recommendation. ANT: Misguidance, misinstruction, betrayal. = KEY: Counsel \v.\ SYN: Advise, instruct, warn, guide, admonish. ANT: Misguide, misinstruct, betray, counselor, [See COUNSEL]. = KEY: Count. SYN: Compute, reckon, enumerate, estimate, number, sum, calculate. ANT: Hazard, conjecture, guess, lump, confound. = KEY: Countenance \v.\ SYN: Help, aid, abet, favor, sanction, patronize, support, encourage. ANT: Oppose, confront, discourage, discountenance, browbeat. = KEY: Countenance \n.\ SYN: Aid, abet, encourage, support. ANT: Discountenance. = KEY: Counter. SYN: Opposed, contrary, against. ANT: According, coincident. = KEY: Counteract. SYN: Counterinfluence, counterfoil, foil, baffle, neutralize, oppose, rival, thwart, hinder. ANT: Aid, help, abet, promote, conserve, co-operate, subserve. = KEY: Counterevidence. SYN: Contradiction, confliction. ANT: Corroboration, confirmation. = KEY: Counterfeit. \v.\ SYN: Simulate, misrepresent, impersonate. ANT: Expose, unmask, detect. = KEY: Counterfeit. \n.\ SYN: Cheat, trick, juggle, fraud, artifice, fabrication, pretense, ruse, sham. ANT: Exposure, detection, unmasking, unveiling, reality, verity, fact, truth. = KEY: Counterfeit. \a.\ [See FALSE]. = KEY: Counterfoil. [See BAFFLE]. = KEY: Countermand, [See COMMAND]. = KEY: Counterpart. SYN: Match, fellow, tally, brother, twin, copy. ANT: Correlative, complement, supplement, opponent, counteragent, reverse, obverse, opposite, antithesis, contrast, contradiction. = KEY: Counterpoise \v.\ SYN: Balance, equalize. ANT: Over-balance, aggravate. = KEY: Counterpoise \n.\ SYN: Makeweight, equilibrium. ANT: Preponderance. = KEY: Counterpressure. SYN: Resistance, stubbornness, renitency. ANT: Yielding, giving, resilience. = KEY: Countervail. SYN: Counteract, of, pose, withstand. ANT: Aggravate, intensify, subserve. = KEY: Countless \a.\ SYN: Innumerable, numberless, unnumbered. ANT: Few, scant, sparse. = KEY: Countryman. SYN: Rustic, clown, boor, compatriot, swain, yeoman, bus, bandman, farmer, agriculturist, laborer, peasant, fellow-countryman, fellow-subject, fellowcitizen, subject, citizen, inhabitant, native. ANT: Oppidan, townsman, cockney, foreigner, alien, stranger, Couple \v.\ Bracket, link, conjoin, unite, splice, buckle, button, clasp, pair, yoke, connect, tie, brace. ANT: Loose, part, isolate, separate, detach, divorce, uncouple, unclasp, untie. = KEY: Courage. SYN: Bravery, boldness, valor, pluck, fortitude, resolution, gallantry, fearlessness, intrepidity. ANT: Timidity, cowardice, pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardliness. = KEY: Course. SYN: Order, sequence, continuity, direction, progress, line, way, mode, race, career, road, route, series, passage, succession, round, manner, plan, conduct, method. ANT: Disorder, discussion, solution, interruption, deviation, hindrance, error, conjecture, hazard, speculation, caprice. = KEY: Court \v.\ SYN: Woo, seek, affect, flatter, pursue. ANT: Repel, abjure, disaffect, insult, avoid, shun, repudiate. = KEY: Courteous, [See POLITE]. = KEY: Courtesy. SYN: Politeness, urbanity, civility, affability, graciousness. ANT: Churlishness, rudeness, arrogance, ungraciousness, incivility. = KEY: Courtly. SYN: Dignified, polished, refined, aristocratic, high-bred, mannerly. ANT: Undignified, rough, unpolished, coarse, unrefined, plebeian, awkward, boorish, rustic, unmannerly. = KEY: Covenant \n.\ SYN: Agreement, bond, stipulation, compact, contract, league, bargain. ANT: Promise, intimation, assurance, parole, understanding. = KEY: Cover \v.\ SYN: Hide, conceal, cloak, screen, secrete, protect, meet, secure, overspread, clothe, shield, shelter, cover. ANT: Expose, reveal, betray, exhibit, produce, mis-suffice. = KEY: Covert \a.\ [See COVER and SECRET]. = KEY: Coverture. SYN: Marriage, matrimony, wedlock. ANT: Celibacy, virginity. = KEY: Covet. SYN: Long for, wish for, yearn for, hanker, desire. ANT: Despise, dislike, undervalue, mislike. = KEY: Covetous. SYN: Acquisitive, avaricious, greedy, grasping, rapacious. ANT: Unselfish, liberal, self-sacrificing, profuse, bountiful, charitable. = KEY: Covetousness, [See COVETOUS and AVARICE]. = KEY: Cow \v.\ SYN: Frighten, abash, intimidate, oppress, brow-bent. ANT: Countenance, rally, encourage, inspirit. = KEY: Coward. SYN: Craven, dastard, recreant, poltroon, renegade. ANT: Champion, hero, daredevil, desperado. = KEY: Cowardly, [See TIMID]. = KEY: Cower. SYN: Shrink, stoop, crouch. ANT: Rise, stand, dare, face, confront. = KEY: Coxcomb. SYN: Fop, dandy, puppy, prig, pedant. ANT: Genius, savant, authority, celebrity, philosopher, sage. = KEY: Coxcombical. SYN: Vain, affected, conceited, dandified, pedantic, priggish. ANT: Unaffected, unconceited, sensible. = KEY: Coy. SYN: Shy, reserved, bashful, shrinking, retreating, modest. ANT: Bold, forward, rompish, hoydenish. = KEY: Cozen. SYN: Circumvent, wheedle, swindle, gull, cheat, dupe, overreach, coax, seduce, deceive. ANT: Enlighten, undeceive, disabuse. = KEY: Crabbed. SYN: Sour, morose, crossgrained, petulant, churlish, irritable, crusty. ANT: Pleasant, open, easy, genial, conversable, warm, cordial, heart. = KEY: Crack \t.\. SYN: Split, break, splinter, chip, snap. ANT: Mend, repair, unite, piece, splice. = KEY: Cracked. SYN: Crazy, flighty, queer, deranged, creaky, touched, cranky, chinky. ANT: Sound, sensible, clear-headed, shrewd, strong-minded, sane. = KEY: Craft. SYN: Art, artifice, cunning, guile, stratagem, manoeuvre, wiliness, trickery, duplicity, chicanery, intrigue, underhandedness, dodge. ANT: Openness, fairness, candor, honesty, frankness, sincerity, artlessness, ingenuousness, straightforwardness. = KEY: Crafty, [See CRAFTY]. = KEY: Cram. SYN: Stuff, choke, squeeze, ram, pack, gorge. ANT: Disgorge, vent, discharge, unload, unpack, eviscerate, empty, eliminate. = KEY: Cramp \v.\ SYN: Bind, narrow, restrict, confine, clog, hamper, fetter, cripple. ANT: Free, liberate, loose, relieve, extricate, enlarge, widen, expand, ease, unfetter. = KEY: Cranky. SYN: Crotchety, queer, [See CRACKED]. = KEY: Crapulence. SYN: Surfeit, headache, dissipation, debauchery, excess, muddiness. ANT: Temperance, sobriety, clearness, freshness. = KEY: Crash \n.\ SYN: Jar, clang, clash, resonance. ANT: Murmur, whisper, babble, rumbling, reverberation, din. = KEY: Crassitude. SYN: Density, thickness, corpulence, obesity, burliness, brawniness, animalism, pinguitude, lumpishness, besottedness. ANT: Tenuity, spareness, slightness, agility, activity, spirituality, intellectuality. = KEY: Crave. SYN: Intreat, implore, beg, ask, beseech, supplicate, cry. ANT: Demand, insist, require, seize. = KEY: Craven, [See COWARD]. = KEY: Crazy. SYN: Idiotic, broken-down, mad, crazed, crack-brained, lunatic, demented, daft, insane, aberrant. ANT: Sound, robust, vigorous, unimpaired. = KEY: Cream. SYN: Marrow, pith, gist, acme. ANT: Refuse, offal, dregs, dross, garbage. = KEY: Crease, [See CORRUGATE]. = KEY: Create. SYN: Form, produce, make, compose, constitute, beget, engender, generate, fashion, originate, educe, invent, imagine, cause. ANT: Annihilate, destroy, demolish. = KEY: Creature. SYN: Being, animal, thing, body, brute. ANT: Chimera, ghost, bugbear. = KEY: Credence. SYN: Belief, faith, trust, credit, confidence. ANT: Disbelief, distrust, denial. = KEY: Credential, or Credentials. SYN: Missive, diploma, title, testament, seal, warrant, letter, vouchers, certificates, testimonials. ANT: Self-license, Belt-constitution, self-appointment, autocracy. = KEY: Credible. SYN: Probable, likely, trustworthy. ANT: Improbable, incredible, unlikely, untrustworthy. = KEY: Credit \n.\ SYN: Belief, trustworthiness, reputation, security, honor, praise, merit, confidence, faith. ANT: Disbelief, distrust, untrustworthiness, shame, insecurity, disgrace, censure. = KEY: Creditor. SYN: Claimant, lender, mortgagee. ANT: Debtor, borrower, mortgagor. = KEY: Credulity. SYN: Gullibility, simplicity, acceptativeness, openmouthedness. ANT: Incredulity, scepticism, suspiciousness, shrewdness. = KEY: Creed. SYN: Belief, catechism, articles, confession, subscription. ANT: Protest, abjuration, recantation, retractation, disbelief, nonsubscription. = KEY: Crest. SYN: Top, summit, apex, bead, crown. ANT: Base, foot, bottom, sole. = KEY: Crestfallen. SYN: Castdown, humiliated, abashed. ANT: Inspirited, elated, confident. = KEY: Crew. SYN: Complement, company, gang, herd, set, miscellany, horde, swarm, band. ANT: Supercargo, bevy, galaxy, constellation, picking, cream, elite. = KEY: Crime. SYN: Offense, misdeed, wrong, misdemeanor, felony, enormity. ANT: Good deed, well-doing, duty, obligation, exploit, achievement. = KEY: Criminal. SYN: Illegal, felonious, vicious, culpable, wrong, iniquitous, sinful, immoral, guilty, nefarious, flagitious. ANT: Lawful, virtuous, right, jury innocent, moral, meritorious, creditable, honorable, praiseworthy, laudable. = KEY: Criminality, [See CRIMINAL and GUILT]. = KEY: Criminate. SYN: Charge, implicate, accuse, impeach, arraign. ANT: Acquit, extricate, absolve. = KEY: Crimp \v.\ [See CORRUGATE]. = KEY: Crimp \a.\ SYN: Brittle, friable, crisp. ANT: Tough, stubborn, viscous, pasty, lentous. = KEY: crimple, [See CRUMPLE]. = KEY: Cringe. SYN: Crouch, bend, bow, fawn, grabble, grub. ANT: Face, confront, defy, dare. = KEY: Crinkle, [See CRIMPLE]. = KEY: Cripple. SYN: Weaken, impair, curtail, cramp, disable. ANT: Strengthen, renovate, augment, liberate, free, ease, enlarge, expedite. = KEY: Criterion. SYN: Test, touchstone, proof, standard, measure. ANT: Eye, glance, intention, conjecture, scan. = KEY: Critic. SYN: Judge, censor, arbiter, savant. ANT: Author, writer, performer, artist. = KEY: Critical. SYN: Nice, delicate, exact, fastidious, discriminating, censorious, accurate, dubious, precarious, ticklish, crucial, important, momentous, hazardous. ANT: Inexact, popular, loose, easy, undiscriminating, safe, determined, decided, settled, retrieved, redressed. = KEY: Criticise. SYN: Examine, scan, perpend, analyze, discuss, anatomize, animadvert. ANT: Slur, survey, overlook, skim. = KEY: Criticism. SYN: Stricture, censure, animadversion. ANT: Approval, praise, [See APPROBATION]. = KEY: Croak. SYN: Complain, murmur, grumble. ANT: Crow, whistle, sing, chirp, chuckle, cackle, rejoice. = KEY: Crone. SYN: Hag, witch, beldame. ANT: Lass, damsel, maiden, belle. = KEY: Crony. SYN: Ally, chum, mate. ANT: Foe, rival, backfriend. = KEY: Crooked. SYN: Bent, incurved, angular, deformed, bowed, disfigured, turned, curved, awry, anfractuous, tortuous, underhanded. ANT: Straight, linear, direct, honest, straightforward. = KEY: Crop \v.\ SYN: Hew, reap, reduce, shave, shorten, curtail. ANT: Elongate, grow, foster, raise, trail, train. = KEY: Crop \n.\ SYN: Reaping, harvest, ingathering. ANT: Produce, yield, abundance, growth, fruit. = KEY: Cross. SYN: Ill-tempered, fretful, illhumored, crusty, peevish, pettish, snarling, snappish, spleeny, splenetic, petulant, fractious. ANT: Amiable, good-tempered, goodhumored, blithesome, genial. = KEY: Cross-grained. SYN: Perverse, wayward, peevish, morose, cantankerous, ill-conditioned. ANT: Genial, pleasant, agreeable, jolly, obliging, accommodating. = KEY: Crotchety, [See CAPRICIOUS]. = KEY: Crouch, [See CRINGE and COWER]. = KEY: Crow \v.\ To make a noise like a cock. Used metaphorically. SYN: Exult, rejoice, cackle, chuckle, boast. ANT: Whine, howl, grumble, croak, cry, whimper. = KEY: Crowd. SYN: Throng, mob, swarm, pack, herd. ANT: Cream, elite, bevy, galaxy, constellation, cabinet. = KEY: Crown \n.\ SYN: Top, crest, summit, head, brow, apex. ANT: Basement, base, bottom, floor, pavement, pedestal, foundation, foot, sole. = KEY: Crown. SYN: Complete, consummate, seal, conclude. ANT: Mar, spoil, frustrate. = KEY: Crucial. SYN: Searching, probing, severe, discriminating, sharp, critical, piercing. ANT: Superficial, indifferent, mild, uncritical, lenient, lax. = KEY: Crude. SYN: Raw, undigested, unconsidered, half-studied, harsh, unshaped, unchastened, unfinished, unrefined, ill-prepared. ANT: Well-prepared, well-digested, well-considered, well-studied, ripe, well-adapted, well-proportioned, well-expressed, classical, finished, refined, artistic, elaborate, highlywrought. = KEY: Cruel. SYN: Savage, barbarous, pittiless, inexorable, unrelenting, ruthless, truculent, hard-hearted, harsh, unmerciful, brutal, inhuman, maleficent, malignant. ANT: Humane, forbearing, generous, merciful, forgiving, benevolent, beneficent. = KEY: Crumble. SYN: Disintegrate, pulverize, triturate. ANT: Consolidate, conglutinate, bond, amalgamate. = KEY: Crumple, [See CRINKLE and CORRUGATE]. = KEY: Crush \v.\ SYN: Pulverize, triturate, pound, bray, crumble, overpower, demolish. ANT: Consolidate, compact, cake, solidify, compress, amalgamate, upraise, stabilitate, aggrandize. = KEY: Crusty, [See CALM]. = KEY: Cudgel \v.\ SYN: Pound, bruise, buffet, batter. ANT: Stroke, pat, clap, tickle. = KEY: Cuff \v.\ SYN: Slap, box, smack, punch, pummel, hustle, buffet. ANT: Cudgel, flagellate, thrash, cane, strap, lash, whip. = KEY: Cull. SYN: Bunch, gather, pick, collect. ANT: Scatter, drop, throw, disseminate. = KEY: Culmination. SYN: Consummation, zenith, acme, meridian, apex, success, completion. ANT: Fall, descent, decline, failure, downfall, degradation, defeat, abortion. = KEY: Culpability, [See CULPABLE and GUILT]. = KEY: Culpable. SYN: Blamable, blameworthy, censurable, guilty. ANT: Blameless, innocent, excusable, laudable, praisworthy. = KEY: Culprit. SYN: Offender, criminal, delinquent, malefactor. ANT: Example, pattern, model, hero, saint. = KEY: Cultivate. SYN: Promote, foster, study, improve, fertilize, till, advance, refine, improve, civilize, nourish, cherish. ANT: Neglect, desert, abandon, stifle, prevent, discourage, abolish, blight, blast, paralyze, eradicate, extirpate, uproot. = KEY: Cumber. SYN: Clog, impede, oppress, load, incommode, obstruct. ANT: Liberate, expedite, alleviate, extricate, lighten, relieve, support, free, rid. = KEY: Cunning, [See CRAFT]. = KEY: Cupidity \n.\ SYN: Avarice, acquisitiveness, covetousness, stinginess. ANT: Prodigality, extravagance, liberality. = KEY: Curb \v.\ SYN: Restrain, cohibit, hold, repress, check, moderate. ANT: Indulge, liberate, release, emancipate, loose, urge, free, incite, instigate, impel. = KEY: Curdle. SYN: Coagulate, condense, thicken. ANT: Colliquify, diffuse, circulate. = KEY: Cure \n.\ SYN: Remedy, alleviation, restorative, heal-all, amelioration, reinstatement, restoration, renovation, convalescence. ANT: Aggravation, confirmation, complaint, disease, ailment, inoculation, contagion, corruption. = KEY: Cure \v.\ [See HEAL]. = KEY: Curiosity. SYN: Inquisitiveness, interest, wonder, marvel, interrogativeness, rarity, phenomenon, celebrity, oddity, lion. ANT: Indifference, heedlessness, disregard, abstraction, absence, weed, drug, dirt, cipher, bagatelle, song. = KEY: Curious. SYN: Inquiring, inquisitive, scrutinizing, prying, meddling, singular, searching, interrogative, peeping, peering, rare, unique, odd, recondite. ANT: Indifferent, uninquiring, incurious, uninterested, trite, common, superficial. = KEY: Curmudgeon. SYN: Miscreant, wretch, rascal, churl, ill-conditioned fellow. ANT: Trump, good fellow, brick. = KEY: Currency. SYN: Circulation, vogue, publicity, prevalence. ANT: Suppression, repression, recall, stagnation, rejection, disbelief, withdrawal. = KEY: Current. SYN: Running, prevalent, ordinary, present, popular, general, floating, exoteric, vulgar. ANT: Rejected, obsolete, exploded, confined, private, secret, esoteric. = KEY: Curse. \n.\ SYN: Malediction, execration, imprecation, denunciation, anathema, bane, blight. ANT: Blessing, benediction, joy, crown, glory. = KEY: Curse. \v.\ SYN: Execrate. ANT: Bless. = KEY: Cursory. SYN: Rapid, hasty, desultory, careless, superficial, slight, summary. ANT: Searching, minute, elaborate, profound. = KEY: Curtail. [See ABBREVIATE]. = KEY: Curve \v.\ SYN: Incurve, bend, inflex, falcate, arcuate. ANT: Straighten, unbend, rectilineate. = KEY: Curve \n.\ SYN: Incurvation, flexion, deflexion. ANT: Rigidity, inelasticity, inflexibility, rectilinearity. = KEY: Custody. SYN: Keeping, guardianship, conservation, care. ANT: Neglect, betrayal, exposure, abandonment, desertion, liberation, jeopardy, discharge. = KEY: Custom. SYN: Manner, habit, use, usage, fashion, practice, prescription. ANT: Law, regulation, dictate, command, rule, disuse, nonobservance, desuetude. = KEY: Cut \v.\ SYN: Sever, slice, sunder, cleave, shear, carve, chop, gash, avoid, elude. ANT: Unite, splice, accost, approach, court, address, salute. = KEY: Cutting. SYN: Sharp, biting, mordant, trenchant, piercing, bitter, sarcastic, provoking, stinging, sardonic, exasperating, satirical, severe, disappointing, cruel. ANT: Mild, conciliatory, complimentary, soothing, flattering, indulgent, consoling, gratifying. = KEY: Cynical. SYN: Sarcastic, snarling, snappish, sneering, cross-grained, currish, carping. ANT: Genial, lenient, complaisant, urbane. = KEY: Dabble. SYN: Meddle, mix, trifle, skim. ANT: Study, elaborate, investigate, delve, dig, fathom, gauge. = KEY: Daft. SYN: Silly, innocent, idiotic, lunatic, light-headed, cracked. ANT: Sane, sound, sensible, practical, rational, shrewd, deft, mealy-mouthed, delicious, toothsome, delicate, fastidious. = KEY: Dainty. SYN: Choice, rare, refined, tasty, exquisite, luxurious, epicurean. ANT: Common, coarse, unrelishing, nasty, dirty, omnivorous, greedy, gluttonous. = KEY: Dally. SYN: Trifle, play, wanton, sport, fondle, delay, procrastinate, dawdle. ANT: Toil, labor, work, study, fag, stir, bustle, hasten. = KEY: Damage. SYN: Injury, hurt, loss, mischief, detriment, impairment. ANT: Compensation, recovery, reinstatement, advantage, benefit, reparation, blessing. = KEY: Damnable, [See EXECRABLE]. = KEY: Damp. SYN: Cool, blunt, dishearten, quench, slack, moderate, humid, wet, moist, discourage, discountenance, repress. ANT: Urge, inflame, incite, fan, excite. = KEY: Danger. SYN: Peril, hazard, risk, jeopardy, insecurity, venture. ANT: Security, custody, defense, safety, premunition, precaution. = KEY: Dapper. SYN: Spruce, neat, natty, smart. ANT: Slovenly, awkward, unwieldy, untidy. = KEY: Dare. SYN: Venture, face, brave, hazard, risk, defy, challenge. ANT: Shrink, shun, dread, cower. = KEY: Daring. SYN: Adventurous, dashing, bold, courageous, venturesome, dauntless, foolhardy, fearless, brave, intrepid, valorous. ANT: Cautious, timid, inadventurous. = KEY: Dark. SYN: Black, dusky, sable, swarthy, opaque, obscure, enigmatical, recondite, abstruse, unintelligible, blind, ignorant, besotted, benighted, dim, shadowy, inexplicable, secret, mysterious, hidden, murky, nebulous, cheerless, dismal, dim, gloomy, sombre, joyless, mournful, sorrowful. ANT: White, fair, light, radiant, bright, lucid, crystalline, transparent, brilliant, plain, intelligible, enlightened, glaring, dazzling, illumined, festive, luminous. = KEY: Darling. SYN: Pet, love, sweet, pretty, dear, favorite, delight. ANT: Antipathy, abomination, horror. = KEY: Dash. SYN: Burl, cast, throw, subvert, detrude, drive, rush, send, fly, speed, dart, scatter, strike, course. ANT: Raise, reinstate, erect, creep, crawl, lag, hobble. = KEY: Dashing. SYN: Adventurous, showy, brave. ANT: Shrinking, dowdy, timid. = KEY: Dastard, [See COWARD]. = KEY: Data. SYN: Facts, grounds, basis, axioms, postulates. ANT: Conjecture, assumption, problem, proposition, inference, deduction. = KEY: Date, [See TIME]. = KEY: Daub, [See BEDAUB]. = KEY: Daunt. SYN: Terrify, scare, frighten, cow, dishearten, appall, intimidate, confront. ANT: Countenance, encourage, rally, inspirit. = KEY: Dauntless. SYN: Valiant, gallant, fearless, lion-hearted, intrepid. ANT: Cautious, cowardly, timid. = KEY: Dawdle. SYN: Lag, dally, idle. ANT: Haste, speed, dash, rush, work, fag. = KEY: Dawn. SYN: Gleam, begin, appear, rise, open, break. ANT: Wane, set, sink, close, depart. = KEY: Dazzle. SYN: Daze, bewilder, confuse. ANT: Enlighten, illumine. = KEY: Dead. SYN: Defunct, deceased, departed, gone, inanimate, lifeless, insensible, heavy, unconscious, dull, spiritless, cheerless, deserted, torpid, still. ANT: Vital, living, animate, vivacious, susceptible, alive, joyous, stirring, thronged, bustling. = KEY: Deaden. SYN: Benumb, paralyze, blunt, damp, subdue. ANT: Sharpen, quicken, enliven. = KEY: Deadly. SYN: Mortal, fatal, malignant, baleful, pernicious, noxious, venomous, destructive, baneful, implacable. ANT: Vital, life-giving, healthful, wholesome, nutritious. = KEY: deadness. SYN: Torpor, flatness, faintness, heaviness. ANT: Quickness, vitality, life, vivacity. = KEY: Deaf. SYN: Surd, hard of hearing, disinclined, averse, inexorable, insensible, rumbling, inaudible, heedless, dead. ANT: Acute, listening, disposed, interested, attentive, willing, susceptible, sensible, alive. = KEY: Deal. SYN: Bargain, chaffer, trade, dispense, market, communicate, negotiate, traffic. ANT: Hold, close, stop, fail. = KEY: Dealing. SYN: Intercourse, communication, trade, traffic, negotiation, commerce, practice. ANT: Lack, failure, closing, bankruptcy, stagnation, withdrawal, noncommunication. = KEY: Dear. SYN: High-priced, costly, expensive, beloved, precious, loved. ANT: Cheap, inexpensive, misliked, vile. = KEY: Dearth, [See ABUNDANCE]. = KEY: Death. SYN: Departure, demise, decease, dissolution, mortality, fall, failure, termination, cessation, expiration, release, exit. ANT: Birth, rise, life, growth, vigor, animation, spirit, activity, operation, action, commencement, vitality, auspices, inauguration. = KEY: Deathless. SYN: Undying, immortal, unfading, everlasting. ANT: Mortal, ephemeral, fragile, fugitive, momentary, transient, fleeting. = KEY: Debar. SYN: Exclude, stop, thwart, obstruct, hinder, prevent, deter, deprive, disqualify, deny, prohibit, preclude. ANT: Inclose, embrace, admit, permit, aid, allow, indulge, qualify, entitle. = KEY: Debase. SYN: Degrade, lower, depress, deprave, deteriorate, corrupt, alloy, impair, disgrace, humble. ANT: Raise, enhance, exalt, honor, promote, ameliorate, purify, improve. = KEY: Debased, [See DEBASE]. = KEY: Debate. SYN: Contend, dispute, argue, moot, controvert, contest, wrangle, discuss, deliberate, question, ventilate. ANT: Yield, concede, surrender, admit, allow. = KEY: Debatable. SYN: Dubious, doubtful, inestimable, uncertain, problematical, floating, unsettled, disputable. ANT: Certain, sure, unquestionable, Indisputable, self-evident, incontestable. = KEY: Debauch, Debauchery \n.\ SYN: Riot, revel, excess, orgies, gluttony. ANT: Meal, moderation, frugality, asceticism, abstinence, fast, maceration. = KEY: Debauch \v.\ SYN: Seduce, corrupt, ravish, violate, pollute, defile, vitiate. ANT: Purify, enlighten, ameliorate, elevate, make better. = KEY: Debility. SYN: Weakness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, incapacity, imbecility, enervation, lassitude, languor. ANT: Strength, vigor, robustness, energy, tone, nerve, muscularity. = KEY: Debt. SYN: Debit, liability, default, obligation, claim, score, something due. ANT: Liquidation, assets, credit, trust, grace, favor, obligation, accommodation, gift, gratuity. = KEY: Debtor, [See CREDITOR]. = KEY: Decadence, [See DECAY]. = KEY: Decamp. SYN: Start, fly, bolt, abscond. ANT: Appear, answer, show. = KEY: Decay \v.\ SYN: Decline, wane, sink, dwindle, rot, wither, perish, waste, ebb, decrease. ANT: Rise, grow, increase, flourish, luxuriate, vegetate, expand, enlarge. = KEY: Decay \n.\ SYN: Declension, waning, sinking, wasting, decrease, corruption, decadence, putrefaction, rottenness, dry rot, consumption, decline. ANT: Rise, growth, birth, increase, fertility, exuberance, luxuriance, prosperity. = KEY: Decayed. SYN: Rotten, corrupt, unsound, decomposed, declined, faded, sunk, unprosperous, impoverished, wasted away. ANT: Sound, wholesome, healthful, fresh, prosperous, flourishing, wealthy. = KEY: Decease, [See DEATH]. = KEY: Deceit. SYN: Cheat, imposition, trick, fraud, deception, double dealing, delusion, circumvention, guile, bewilderment, treachery, sham, insidiousness, indirection, duplicity, cunning, artifice. ANT: Enlightenment, instruction, guidance, reality, verily, Fair-dealing, honesty, openness. = KEY: Deceitful. SYN: Deceptive, delusive, fraudulent, fallacious. ANT: Open, fair, honest, truthful, veracious. = KEY: Deceive. SYN: Trick, cheat, beguile, delude, gull, dupe, take in, over reach, mislead, betray, ensnare, entrap, circumvent. ANT: Enlighten, advise, illumine, guide, disabuse, undeceive, deliver. = KEY: Decency. SYN: Modesty, propriety, [See DECORUM]. = KEY: Deceiver, [See DECEIVE]. = KEY: Decent, [See ABASH]. = KEY: Deception, [See DECEIT]. = KEY: Deride. SYN: Determine, fix, settle, adjudicate, terminate, resolve. ANT: Waver, raise, moot, drop, doubt, waive, suspend, misjudge, misdetermine. = KEY: Decided. SYN: Determined, ruled, resolute, firm, unwavering. ANT: Undecided, unsettled, irresolute, vacillating. = KEY: Deciduous, [See EPHEMERAL]. = KEY: Decipher. SYN: Bead, spell, interpret, solve, unravel, explain, unfold. ANT: Cipher, symbolize, empuzzle, mystify, enigmatize. = KEY: Decision. SYN: Determination, conclusion, sentence, judgment, resolution, firmness. ANT: Irresoluteness, vagueness, indecision, uncertainty, unsettlement. = KEY: Decisive, [See CONCLUSIVE]. = KEY: Deck, [See ADORN]. = KEY: Declaim. SYN: Harangue, recite, apostrophize, speak, debate, inveigh. ANT: Bead, study, compose, elaborate. = KEY: Declamation. SYN: Oratory, elocution, harangue, effusion, debate. ANT: Stammering, titubancy, hesitation, tardiloquence. = KEY: Declamatory. SYN: Loud, noisy, incoherent, discursive, loose, inconsecutive, grandiloquent, rhetorical, high-sounding. ANT: Close, connected, logical, studied, exact, quiet, consecutive. = KEY: Declaration. SYN: Avowal, exhibition, manifestation, statement, ordinance, assertion, affirmation, profession. ANT: Denial, concealment, suppression, Declare, [See ANNOUNCE]. = KEY: Declension. SYN: Decay, decadence, degeneration, deterioration, fall. ANT: Bise, improvement, advancement, culmination. = KEY: Decline, [See DECLENSION and ACCEPT]. = KEY: Declivity. SYN: Descent, fall, slope, incline, devexity. ANT: Ascent, rise, verticality. = KEY: Decoction. SYN: Concoction, dish, compound, plate, platter, mess, extract. ANT: Crudity, infusion, rawness, greenness, maceration. = KEY: Decompose. SYN: Analyze, segregate, individualize, resolve, dissolve. ANT: Compound, concoct, mix, organize, compose. = KEY: Decomposition, [See DECOMPOSE]. = KEY: Decorate, [See ADORN], Decorum. SYN: Seemliness, propriety, dignity, order, decency, good manners, good behavior, modesty. ANT: Unseemliness, impropriety, disturbance, disorder. = KEY: Decoy. SYN: Allure, entice, ensnare, entrap, seduce, mislead, inveigle, lure, tempt. ANT: Guide, instruct, warn, conduct, disabuse, extricate. = KEY: Decrease \v.\ SYN: Diminish, lessen, subside, abate, lower, decline, retrench, curtail, reduce, wane. ANT: Increase, grow, amplify, expand, augment, extend, enlarge. = KEY: Decree. SYN: Decision, determination, mandate, law, edict, manifesto, rule, verdict, order, judgment, ordinance, proclamation. ANT: Cue, hint, suggestion, intimation, request. = KEY: Decrement, [See AUGMENTATION]. = KEY: Decrepit. SYN: Infirm, weak, crippled, superannuated, effete, broken-down, enfeebled, tottering, aged. ANT: Strong, robust, agile, youthful, active. = KEY: Decrepitude, [See DECREPIT]. = KEY: Decry. SYN: Depreciate, traduce, vituperate, disparage, defame, vilify, derogate, detract, censure, abase, denounce. ANT: Extol, laud, praise, eulogize, panegyrize. = KEY: Dedicate. SYN: Devote, consecrate, offer, set, apportion, assign, apply, separate, hallow, set apart. ANT: Alienate, misapply, desecrate, misappropriate, misconvert, misuse. = KEY: Deduce. SYN: Draw, Infer, conclude, gather. ANT: State, premise, hazard, conjecture, guess, induce, anticipate, foresee, predict, induct. = KEY: Deductible, [See DEDUCE]. = KEY: Deduct. SYN: Subtract, bate, remove. ANT: Add, annex, subjoin. = KEY: Deduction. SYN: Conclusion, inference, abatement. ANT: [See CONCLUSION]. = KEY: Deed. SYN: Act, action, commission, achievement, perpetration, instrument, document, muniment, exploit, feat. ANT: Omission, failure, abortion, false-witness, innocence, cancelling, disproof, invalidation, retractation, impossibility, nonperformance, recall, reversion, undoing. = KEY: Deem. SYN: Judge, estimate, consider, believe, think, suppose, conceive. ANT: Misjudge, misestimate, mis-consider. = KEY: Deep. SYN: Profound, subterranean, submerged, designing, abstruse, recondite, learned, low, sagacious, penetrating, thick, obscure, mysterious, occult, Intense, heartfelt. ANT: Shallow, superficial, artless, undesigning, familiar, commonplace. = KEY: Deeply, [See DEEP]. = KEY: Deface. SYN: Mar, spoil, injure, disfigure, deform, damage, mutilate, destroy. ANT: Decorate, adorn, embellish. = KEY: Defalcation. SYN: Failure, nonpayment, arrears, deficit. ANT: Payment, acquittal, balance, satisfaction, assets. = KEY: Defame, [See DECRY]. = KEY: Detainer, [See DEFAME]. = KEY: Default. SYN: Lapse, forfeit, omission, defect, delinquency, absence, want, failure. ANT: Maintenance, appearance, plea, satisfaction, forthcoming, supply, presence. = KEY: Defaulter. SYN: Debtor, insolvent, bankrupt. ANT: Defrayer, liquidator. = KEY: Defeat \n.\ SYN: Frustration, overthrow, discomfiture. ANT: Victory, triumph, success. = KEY: Defeat \v.\ SYN: Conquer, overcome, worst, beat, baffle, rout, overthrow, vanquish, frustrate, foil. ANT: Secure, promote, insure, speed, advance, establish, aid. = KEY: Defect. SYN: Shortcoming, omission, fault, imperfection, flaw, blemish, want. ANT: Supply, sufficiency, emendation, compensation, virtue, ornament, complement. = KEY: Defection. SYN: Failure, dereliction, abandonment, relinquishment, desertion. ANT: Substitution, supply, superabundance, adherence. = KEY: Defective. SYN: Faulty, imperfect, insufficient, deficient, wanting, short. ANT: Correct, complete, sufficient, full, ample, abundant, satisfactory. = KEY: Defense. SYN: Resistance, protection, vindication, plea, justification, excuse, rampart, bulwark, apology, shelter, guard. ANT: Abandonment, surrender, betrayal, exposure. = KEY: Defenseless. SYN: Unsheltered, exposed, unguarded, unprotected, unarmed. ANT: Sheltered, guarded, fortified, defended, protected, armed. = KEY: Defendant. SYN: Accused, prisoner. ANT: Prosecutor, accuser, plaintiff. = KEY: Defensible. SYN: Vindicable, justifiable, tenable. ANT: Unjustifiable, untenable, unwarrantable, indefensible. = KEY: Defer. SYN: Delay, postpone, waive, adjourn, prorogue, put off, retard, procrastinate, protract, hinder, prolong. ANT: Expedite, hasten, quicken, press, urge, hurry, overdrive, despatch. = KEY: Deference. SYN: Respect, consideration, condescension, contention, regard, honor, veneration, submission, reverence, obedience, homage, allegiance. ANT: Disrespect, contumely, contumacy, disregard, slight, impudence, disobedience, non-allegiance, defiance, attention. = KEY: Defiance, [See DEFERENCE]. = KEY: Deficiency. SYN: Want, imperfection, lack, shortcoming. ANT: Fullness, abundance. = KEY: Deficient, [See DEFECTIVE]. = KEY: Defile, [See CONTAMINATE]. = KEY: Define. SYN: Mark out, limit, designate, specify, eliminate, elucidate, explain, fix, settle, determine, bound. ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misstate, misconceive, misconstrue, misdefine. = KEY: Definite. SYN: Clear, specified, determined, definitive, restricted, specific, certain, ascertained, precise, exact, fixed, limited, bounded, positive. ANT: Vague, unspecified, undetermined, indefinite, obscure, confused, intermingled. = KEY: Definition. SYN: Determination, limitation, specification, restriction. ANT: Confusion, vagueness, acceptation, description, explanation, misconception, misstatement. = KEY: Deflect. SYN: Turn, deviate, diverge, swerve, divert, recurve. ANT: Continue, proceed, straighten, unbend, prolong, produce. = KEY: Deflection. SYN: Deviation, divergence, alienation, swerving, incurvation, curvity, falcation. ANT: Straightness, directness, rectilinearity, inflexibility, prolongation, prosecution, undeviatingness. = KEY: deform, [See ADORN]. = KEY: Deformity. SYN: Ugliness, disfigurement, hideousness, abnormity, monstrosity. ANT: Grace, beauty, decoration, ornament. = KEY: Defraud, [See CHEAT]. = KEY: Defray. SYN: Meet, liquidate, pay, settle, bear, discharge, quit. ANT: Dishonor, repudiate, dissatisfy, misappropriate, embezzle. = KEY: Defrayment. SYN: Payment, quittance, liquidation, compensation, discharge. ANT: Nonpayment, failure, insolvency, appropriation, misappropriation, embezzlement, repudiation. = KEY: Defy. SYN: Scorn, challenge, provoke, despite, brave, [See DARE]. = KEY: Degenerate. SYN: deteriorate, grow worse, retrograde. ANT: Recover, improve, mend, advance. = KEY: Deglutition. SYN: Swallowing, gorging, gluttony, absorption. ANT: disgorgement, vomit. = KEY: Degradation, [See DEBASE]. = KEY: Degrade, [See DEBASE]. = KEY: Degree. SYN: Grade, rank, stage, step, extent, measure, mark, rate, position, quality, class, station, range, quantity, amount, limit, order. ANT: Space, mass, magnitude, size, numbers. = KEY: Doliortatlon, [See DISSUADE]. = KEY: Deign, [See CONDESCEND]. = KEY: Dejected. SYN: Dispirited, gloomy, melancholy, desponding, depressed, downcast, low-spirited. ANT: Elated, inspirited, blithe, gay, cheerful. = KEY: Dejection, [See DEJECTED]. = KEY: Delay \v.\ [See DEFER]. = KEY: Delectable. SYN: Pleasant, amiable, agreeable, enjoyable. ANT: Unpleasant, unamiable, disagreeably, unenjoyable,. = KEY: Delegate. SYN: Appoint, depute, commission. ANT: Recall, supersede, relegate, discommission. = KEY: Deleterious. SYN: Destructive, noxious, injurious, poisonous, pernicious. ANT: Wholesome, nutritious, esculent, conservative, beneficial. = KEY: Deliberate \v.\ SYN: Consider, meditate, consult, weigh, reflect, ponder, debate, perpend. ANT: Shelve, burke, discard, hazard, chance, risk. = KEY: Deliberate \a.\ SYN: Grave, purposed, intentional, designed, determined, resolute, earnest, unbiased, unprejudiced. ANT: Playful, jocose, facetious, irresolute, unresolved, undetermined, dubious, compulsory, suggested, dictated, instigated, biased, prejudiced. = KEY: Deliberation, [See DELIBERATE and COOL]. = KEY: Deliberately, [See DELIBERATE]. = KEY: Delicacy. SYN: Nicety, dainty, mor, sel, refinement, tact, softness, luxury, modesty, scruple, sensitiveness, fragility. ANT: Coarseness, rudeness, rawness, muchness, indelicacy, commons, necessaries, fare, physic, vigor, robustness. = KEY: Delicate, [See DELICACY and COARSE]. = KEY: Delicious. SYN: Exquisite, luxurious, delightful, dainty, choice. ANT: Coarse, common, unsavory, unpalatable, nauseous, loathsome. = KEY: Delight. SYN: Enjoyment, pleasure, happiness, transport, ecstasy, joy, gratification, gladness, rapture, bliss. ANT: Pain, suffering, sorrow, trouble, misery, displeasure, dissatisfaction, disappointment, discomfort, dejection, depression, distress, melancholy, discontent. = KEY: Delightful, [See DELIGHT]. = KEY: Delineate. SYN: Describe, figure, sketch, portray, depict, draw, represent, paint. ANT: Misrepresent, caricature, exaggerate, misportray. = KEY: Delinquency. SYN: Crime, offense, guilt, culpability, criminality. ANT: Innocence, blamelessness. = KEY: Delinquent. SYN: Criminal, culprit, offender. ANT: Worthy, paragon, pattern. = KEY: Delitescence. SYN: Concealment, hiding, skulking, shirking. ANT: Appearance, publicity, forwardness, self-presentation, openness. = KEY: Deliver. SYN: Liberate, free, save, utter, set free, surrender, yield, transmit, concede, give up, rescue, pronounce, hand, give, entrust, consign. ANT: Confine, capture, suppress, retain, betray, withdraw, assume, appropriate, misdeliver. = KEY: Delude, [See DECEIVE]. = KEY: Deluge. SYN: Inundation, rush, flood, redundance. ANT: Mist, moisture, dearth, drought, aridity, subsidence, exsiccation. = KEY: Delusion, [See DECEIT]. = KEY: Delve. SYN: Dig, penetrate, dive, investigate, search. ANT: Scratch, rake, slur, dabble, dally, skim. = KEY: Demand. SYN: Claim, require, ask for, call for, insist. ANT: Disclaim, waive, forego, petition, request, supplicate. = KEY: Demarcation. SYN: Definition, {[connguration]?}, outline, sketch, delineation, bounding, inclosure, plan, limitation. ANT: indefiniteness, openness, space, waste, plain, void. = KEY: Demean, [See BEHAVE and CONDESCEND]. = KEY: Demerit, [See MERIT and FAULT]. = KEY: Demesne, [See DOMAIN]. = KEY: Demise \v.\ [See BEQUEATH]. = KEY: Demise \n.\ [See DEATH]. = KEY: Democratic. SYN: Popular, leveling, radical, subversive, unlicensed, unarculca, destructive, republican. ANT: Regal, imperial, aristocratic, oligarchical, constitutional, conservative, tyrannical, despotic, autocratic. = KEY: Demolish, [See DESTROY]. = KEY: Demoniacal. SYN: Fiendish, hell, Ish, diabolical. ANT: Angelical, seraphic, heavenly. = KEY: Demonstrate. SYN: Prove, show, exhibit, manifest, evince, illustrate. ANT: Disprove, conceal, misdemonstrate-strafe, misexemplify. = KEY: Demoralize, [See DISHEARTEN]. = KEY: Demulcent. SYN: Soothing, softening, allaying, lenitive. ANT: Irritating, chafing, blistering. = KEY: Demur. SYN: Dubitate, hesitate, halt, pause, doubt, scruple, object. ANT: Approve, acquiesce, agree, assent, consent. = KEY: Demure. SYN: Sedate, staid, grave, modest, downcast, sober, dispassionate, prudish, discreet. ANT: Lively, vivacious, facetious, wanton, wild, noisy, boisterous, rompish, hoydenish, indiscreet. = KEY: Denial, [See DENT]. = KEY: Denizen. SYN: Citizen, subject, inhabitant, sojourner, dweller, freedman. ANT: Foreigner, alien, stranger, exile, traveler. = KEY: Denominate. SYN: Name, call, designate, specify, denote, style, title. ANT: Misname, miscall, describe, delineate, suggest. = KEY: Denomination. SYN: Name, designation, description, kind, class, order, appellation. ANT: Non-description, misnomer. = KEY: Denote, [See DENOMINATE]. = KEY: Denounce. SYN: Reprobate, decry, proscribe, brand, stigmatize, vituperate, defame. ANT: Applaud, eulogize, vindicate, panegyrize, uphold. = KEY: Dense. SYN: Slow, thick, stupid, stolid, solid, stout, compact, consolidated, condensed, close, thickset. ANT: Quick, clever, intelligent, rare, rarefied, uncompacted, sparse. = KEY: Dent. SYN: Indentation, notch, cavity. ANT: Tumor, protuberance, button, knob, tooth. = KEY: Denticulated. SYN: Notched, crenellated, indented. ANT: Toothed, serrated. = KEY: Denticulation, [See DENTICULATED]. = KEY: Denude. SYN: Strip, divest, bare, spoil. ANT: Invest, drape, decorate, enrich, ornament. = KEY: Denunciation, [See DENOUNCE]. = KEY: Deny. SYN: Refuse, reject, withhold, negative, contradict, gainsay, disclaim, disavow, disown, oppose. ANT: Grant, accept, concede, admit, affirm, confirm, afford, yield, indulge. = KEY: Depart. SYN: Leave, quit, [See CONTROL and GOVERN], decamp, start, sally, retire, withdraw, abandon, remove, vanish. ANT: Stay, cling, remain, come, arrive, alight, Used also for die. = KEY: Departed, [See DEPART and DEFUNCT]. = KEY: Department. SYN: Section, division, portion, function, office, branch, province, line. ANT: Institution, establishment, art, science, literature, service, state, whole, organization, community, society, body. = KEY: Dependence, [See DEPENDENT and RELIANCE]. = KEY: Dependent. SYN: Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative. ANT: Independent, irrelative, irrespective, absolute, free. = KEY: Depict. SYN: Portray, color, paint, draw, delineate. ANT: Misrepresent, exaggerate, deform, caricature. = KEY: Deplorable. SYN: Lamentable, miserable, pitiable, sad, calamitous, disastrous. ANT: Welcome, glad, acceptable, felicitous, beneficial, joyous. = KEY: Deplore. SYN: Regret, lament, moorn, bewail, bemoan. ANT: Welcome, hail. = KEY: Depopulate. SYN: Waste, dispeople, desert, {[coandon]?}, unpeople. ANT: Occupy, tenant, colonize, inhabit, settle, replenish, stock, fill. = KEY: Deportation. SYN: Arrival, importation, placement, reconsignment. ANT: Exportation, emigration, displacement. = KEY: Deportment. SYN: Behavior, carriage, movement, demeanor, character, conduct. ANT: Misbehavior, misdeportment. = KEY: Depose, [See ENTHRONE]. = KEY: Deprave, [See DEBASE]. = KEY: Deprecate. SYN: Disavow, disclaim, expostulate, intercede. ANT: Beg, supplicate, ask, entreat, request, imprecate, invoke. = KEY: Depreciate, [See DISPARAGE]. = KEY: Depredation. SYN: Havoc, robbery, spoliation, plunder, trespass, invasion, encroachment. ANT: Pilfering, perquisite, abstraction, pocketing, restitution, compensation. = KEY: Depredator, [See DEPREDATION]. = KEY: Depress, [See ELEVATE]. = KEY: Depression. SYN: Lowering, degradation, debasement, dejection, discouragement, hollow, valley, dip. ANT: Raising, elevation, exaltation, promotion, preferment, amelioration, encouragement, rallying, rising, eminence, mound, prominence. = KEY: Deprive. SYN: Strip, bereave, despoil, rob, divest, dispossess, abridge, depose, prevent, hinder. ANT: Invest, endow, compensate, enrich, supply, present, reinstate, indemnify. = KEY: Depute. SYN: Appoint, commission, charge, entrust, delegate, authorize, accredit, constitute. ANT: Recall, discard, dismiss, discommission, supersede. = KEY: Deputy. SYN: Vicegerent, lieutenant, representative, agent, commissioner, legate, envoy, delegate, proxy, substitute. ANT: Principal, master, chief, governor, sovereign, ruler, head. = KEY: Derange, [See ARRANGE]. = KEY: Derangement, [See ABERRATION]. = KEY: Dereliction. SYN: Abandonment, failure, shortcoming, desertion, relinquishment, neglect. ANT: Performance, observance, adherence, attention. = KEY: Deride, [See DERISION]. = KEY: Derision. SYN: Scorn, contempt, mockery, irony, sarcasm, contumely, disrespect. ANT: Respect, regard, admiration, reverence. = KEY: Derisive. SYN: Scornful, contemptuous, disrespectful. ANT: Respectful, deferential, reverential. = KEY: Derivation. SYN: Origin, source, descent, beginning, cause, etymology, root, spring, analysis. ANT: Result, issue, formation, application, use. = KEY: Derive. SYN: Deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve. ANT: Misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace. = KEY: Derogate. SYN: Detract, disparage, depreciate, decry, deteriorate. ANT: Esteem, value, laud, enhance, extol, exaggerate, overestimate, overvalue. = KEY: Derogation, [See DEROGATE]. = KEY: Descant. SYN: Dissert, discuss, expatiate, enlarge, talk, dwell, amplify. ANT: Condense, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, confine, clip, delineate. = KEY: Descend, [See ASCEND]. = KEY: Descendant. SYN: Offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage. ANT: Author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin. = KEY: Descent, [See DESCEND]. = KEY: Describe. SYN: Draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict, represent, relate, narrate, recount. ANT: Confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort. = KEY: Description, [See DENOMINATION]. = KEY: Descry. SYN: Discern, recognize, discover, distinguish, espy, detect, observe, mark, perceive. ANT: Miss, overlook, misobserve. = KEY: Desecrate. SYN: Profane, secularize, misuse, abuse, prostitute, pollute. ANT: Use, employ, devote, dedicate, consecrate, solemnize, sanctify, purify, reconcile. = KEY: Desert \n.\ SYN: Wild, waste, wilderness, solitude, void. ANT: Inclosure, field, pasture, garden, oasis. = KEY: Desert, [See ABANDON]. = KEY: Deserter. SYN: Renegade, run, away, recanter, abjurer, apostate, traitor, forsaker. ANT: Adherent, supporter, ally, befriender, disciple, bigot, slave. = KEY: Deserve. SYN: Merit, earn, justify, win. ANT: Forfeit, misdeserve, lose. = KEY: Desiderate. SYN: Desire, want, need, require. ANT: Disregard, forget, supersede, discard. = KEY: Desideratum. SYN: Requisite, complement, essential, want. ANT: Surplusage, superfluity, in, cumbrance, drawback. = KEY: Design \v.\ SYN: Contemplate, purpose, intend, plan, prepare, project. ANT: Hit, risk, guess, conjecture, chance, fluke, misconceive, miscontrive. = KEY: Design \n.\ SYN: Contemplation, pur pose, intention, plan, preparation draft, delineation, sketch, drawing, artifice, cunning, artfulness, guile, contrivance, intent, project, scheme. ANT: Execution, performance, result, issue, construction, structure, candor, fairness, openness, artlessness, sincerity, simplicity, change, incident. = KEY: Designate, [See DENOMINATE]. = KEY: Designation, [See DESIGNATE]. = KEY: Designed, [See DESIGN]. SYN: Intended, prepared, purposed, adapted, calculated, planned, contrived, intentional. ANT: Fortuitous, casual, accidental, miscalculated, miscontrived, unintended. = KEY: Designing, [See DESIGN and ARTFUL]. = KEY: Desinence. SYN: Termination, conclusion, cessation, discontinuance, cadence, period, finality. ANT: Origination, initiation, inauguration, continuance, progression, commencement, inception. = KEY: Desirable. SYN: Expedient, advisable, valuable, acceptable, proper, judicious, beneficial, profitable, good, enviable, delightful. ANT: Undesirable, unadvisable, inexpedient, objectionable, improper, injudicious, unprofitable, evil. = KEY: Desire \n.\ SYN: Longing, affection, propension, craving, concupiscence, appetency. ANT: Loathing, hate, repugnance, disgust, aversion, abomination, horror. = KEY: Desire, [See COVET]. = KEY: Desist. SYN: Cease, stop, discontinue, drop, abstain, forbear, leave off. ANT: Continue, proceed, persist, persevere. = KEY: Desolate \a.\ SYN: Bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, comfortless, deserted, uninhabited, desert, wild, waste, bare, bleak, lonely. ANT: Cheered, cheerful, consoled, attended, cultivated, sheltered, fertile, luxuriant, animated, lively, gay, frequented. = KEY: Desolate \v.\ SYN: Waste, spoil, sack, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, depopulate. ANT: People, colonize, plant, develop, fertilize, cultivate, enrich, enliven. = KEY: Desolation, [See DESOLATE]. = KEY: Despair \n.\ SYN: Hopelessness, despondency, desperation. ANT: Hopefulness, elation, anticipation, hilarity, confidence, sanguineness, expectation. = KEY: Despair \v.\ SYN: Despond, faint. ANT: Hope, trust, confide, rely, presume, rally. = KEY: Desperate. SYN: Wild, daring, audacious, determined, reckless, abandoned, rash, furious, frantic, despairing, regardless, mad, desponding, hapless, inextricable, irremediable. ANT: Cool, calm, cautious, timid, shy, irresolute, remediable, hopeful, promising, propitious. = KEY: Despicable, [See CONTEMPTIBLE]. = KEY: Despise, [See DESPICABLE and CONTEMN]. = KEY: Despite, prep. SYN: Notwithstanding, opposing, resisting. ANT: concurrently, consentaneously, {[ai]?}, ling, abetting. = KEY: Despite \n.\ [See DESPITE, prep. and SPITE]. = KEY: Despoil. SYN: Strip, denude, ravage, devastate, rob, havoc, spoliate. ANT: Decorate, adorn, embellish, enrich, reinstate, rehabilitate. = KEY: Respond, [See DESPAIR]. = KEY: Despot. SYN: Tyrant, autocrat. ANT: Slave, subject. = KEY: Despotic. SYN: Autocratic, domineering, arbitrary, arrogant, imperious, self-willed, irresponsible, absolute, cruel, tyrannical. ANT: Limited, constitutional, humane, merciful. = KEY: Destine. SYN: Purpose, intend, design, doom, ordain, devote. ANT: alienate?, divorce, misapply, divert. = KEY: Destination. SYN: Purpose, intention, design, consignment, object, end, fate, doom, arrival, application, use, scope, appointment, point, location, goal, aim. ANT: Operation, tendency, exercise, action, movement, design, initiation, project, effort. = KEY: Destiny. SYN: Fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end. ANT: Will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill. = KEY: Destitute, [See DEPRIVE and NEEDY]. = KEY: Destroy. SYN: Demolish, annihilate, subvert, ruin, overthrow, undo, waste, consume. ANT: restore, reinstate, repair, fabricate, make, construct, create. = KEY: Destructive. SYN: detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversive. ANT: Wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative. = KEY: Desuetude. SYN: Disuse, obsoleteness, non-observance. ANT: Use, vogue, custom, practice, observance, exercise, operation, permanence, perpetuation. = KEY: Desultory. SYN: Rambling, discursive, loose, unmethodical, superficial, unsettled, erratic, inexact, spasmodic, fitful, freakish, aberrant, unsystematic, cursory, roving, hasty, slight. ANT: Settled, consecutive, earnest, serious, persevering, continuous, methodical, exact, diligent, untiring, recurrent, periodical, systematic. = KEY: Detach, [See ATTACH]. = KEY: Detail \v.\ SYN: Particularize, enumerate, recount, individualize, sift, analyze, specify. ANT: Generalize, condense, conglomerate, gather, sketch, suggest abstract, classify, amalgamate. = KEY: Detail \n.\ SYN: Element, component, particular, specialty, point. ANT: Account, statement, recital, totality, representation. = KEY: Detain. SYN: Stay, keep, arrest, check, withhold, delay, restrain, embargo, stop. ANT: Liberate, expedite, accelerate, dismiss, loose, disembargo. = KEY: Detect. SYN: Discover, descry, unmask, expose. ANT: Miss, lose, misobserve, ignore, connive. = KEY: Detention. SYN: Retention, retaining, hindrance. ANT: Relinquishment, abandonment, letting go. = KEY: Deter. SYN: Warn, stop, dissuade, disincline, indispose, dispirit, hinder, prevent, discourage, dishearten, terrify, scare. ANT: Encourage, incite, provoke, move, allure, prompt, tempt, seduce, persuade. = KEY: Deterge, [See ABSTERGE]. = KEY: Deteriorate, [See AMELIORATE]. = KEY: Determinate, [See DEFINITE]. = KEY: Determination, [See DEFINITION and DECISION]. = KEY: Determine, [See DEFINE and DECIDE]. = KEY: detortion, [See DETERGE]. = KEY: Detest, [See ABOMINATE]. = KEY: Detestable, [See DETEST and ABOMINABLE]. = KEY: Dethrone. SYN: Uncrown, depose. ANT: Anoint, enthrone, crown. = KEY: Dethronement, [See DETHRONE]. = KEY: Detonate. SYN: Explode, pop. ANT: Smoulder, hang, puff. = KEY: detortion. SYN: Wresting, violation, twisting, distortion, perversion, decurvity, devexity, recurvation. ANT: Direction, aim, rectilinearity, rectification. = KEY: Detract. SYN: Lessen, deteriorate, depreciate, disparage, defame, decry, derogate, calumniate, scandalize, vilify, diminish. ANT: Augment, enhance, raise, increase. = KEY: Detraction. SYN: Diminution, deterioration, depreciation, slander, backbiting, derogation. ANT: Augmentation, improvement, enhancement, eulogy, compliment, flattery. = KEY: Detractor. SYN: Slanderer, cynic, backbiter. ANT: Flatterer, sycophant, eulogist. = KEY: Detriment. SYN: Loss, harm, hurt, injury, deterioration, impairment, disadvantage, prejudice, damage, inconvenience. ANT: Enhancement, improvement, remedy, reinstatement, repair, augmentation. = KEY: Detrimental. SYN: Injurious, hurtful, pernicious. ANT: Beneficial, profitable, augmentative. = KEY: Detrude, [See DASH]. = KEY: Detruncation. SYN: Lopping, disramification, pollarding, dismemberment, discorporation, amputation, stripping. ANT: Training, trailing, grafting, inoculation, luxuriance. = KEY: Develop. SYN: Educe, enucleate, eliminate, enunciate, lay open, disclose, unravel, unfold, clear, amplify, expand, enlarge. ANT: Envelope, wrap, obscure, mystify, conceal, narrow, restrict, contract, condense, compress, involve. = KEY: Development. SYN: Outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud. ANT: Cause, origin, source, principal. = KEY: devexity, [See DETORTION]. = KEY: Deviate. SYN: Digress, wander, swerve, deflect, err, sway, depart, divaricate, diverge. ANT: Continue, advance. = KEY: Device. SYN: Artifice, expedient, design, plan, stratagem, project, symbol, emblem, show, invention, contrivance, cognizance. ANT: Fair-dealing, openness, miscontrivance, abortion, fortune, luck, hazard, hit, incognito. = KEY: Devil. SYN: Satan, lucifer, fiend, archfiend, foul fiend, demon. ANT: Archangel, angel, seraph, cherub. = KEY: devilish, [See ANGELIC]. = KEY: Devious. SYN: Tortuous, circuitous, untracked, trackless, pathless, ambagious, roundabout, distorted. ANT: Direct, plain, trodden, frequented, straightforward. = KEY: Devise. SYN: Contrive, plan, maneuvre, concert, manage. ANT: Miscontrive, mismanage. = KEY: Devoid. SYN: Void, wanting, destitute, unendowed, unprovided. ANT: Furnished, supplied, replete, provided, gifted. = KEY: Devolve upon. SYN: Impose, place, charge, commission, depute, accrue, attach, befall, fall. ANT: Deprive, withhold, recall, cancel, alienate, miss, pretermit, pass, lapse, skip. = KEY: Devote, [See DEDICATE]. = KEY: Devoted. SYN: Attached, fond, absorbed, consecrated, ardent, loving, dedicated, given, abandoned. ANT: Alienated, estranged, averse. = KEY: Devotion. SYN: Piety, devoutness, religiousness, dedication, self-abandonment, consecration, ardor, self-surrender, self-sacrifice, love, attachment. ANT: Impiety, profanity, selfishness, aversion, alienation, antipathy, indifference, apathy. = KEY: Devour. SYN: Eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb. ANT: Disgorge, vomit. = KEY: Devout. SYN: religious, pious, godly, saintly, holy, prayerful. ANT: Irreligious, impious, profane, unholy. = KEY: Devoutless. ANT: [See DEVOTION]. = KEY: Dexterity, [See ABILITY]. = KEY: Dexterous, [See AWKWARD]. = KEY: Diabolical, [See DEVILISH]. = KEY: Diadem. SYN: Crown, coronet, coronal, chaplet, wreath, fillet, tiara, circlet. ANT: Liberty-cap, foolscap, daisy-chain. = KEY: Diagnostic. SYN: Symptom, indication, feature, sign, cue. ANT: Development, crisis, formation, consummation, head, deception, illusion, misindication. = KEY: Dialect. SYN: Provincialism, accent, idiom, tongue, language, speech, phraseology. = KEY: Dialectic. SYN: Rhetorical, logical, argumentative. ANT: Conversational, colloquial, commonplace. = KEY: Dialogue. SYN: Tete-a-tete, conversation, discourse, colloquy, confabulation. ANT: Monologue, oration, soliloquy, apostrophe. = KEY: Dictate. SYN: Prompt, suggest, enjoin, order, direct, {[pre--crit)e]?}, pre--crit)e, decree, instruct, propose, command. ANT: Follow, repeat, obey, echo, answer. = KEY: Dictation. SYN: Imperative, imperious, domineering, arbitrary. ANT: Condescending, affable, indulgent, modest, unassuming, suppliant, supplicatory, precatory, persuasive, insinuating. = KEY: Dictatorial, [See DICTATE and ARBITRARY]. = KEY: Diction. SYN: Style, expression, rhetoric, phraseology, language, grammar. ANT: Solecism, provincialism, mispronunciation. = KEY: Dictionary. SYN: Lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, glossary. = KEY: Didactic. SYN: Instructive, directive, moral. ANT: Unsound, misinstructive, erroneous, pernicious, misleading. = KEY: Die. SYN: Expire, depart, perish, decline, decease, disappear, wither, languish, wane, sink, fade, decay, cease. ANT: Begin, originate, rise, live, {[develoftel]?}, develoftel grow, strengthen, flourish, luxuriate, vegetate. = KEY: Diet. SYN: Food, victuals, nourishment, viands, nutriment, sustenance, fare, cheer, regimen. ANT: Starvation, fasting, abstinence, gluttony, omnivorousness. = KEY: Differ. SYN: Vary, dissent, be unlike, disagree, dispute, contend. ANT: Agree, assent, [See ASSENT]. = KEY: Difference. SYN: Separation, destruction, dissimilarity, unlikeness, disagreement, dissonance, discord, contrariety, dissent, distinction, dissimilitude, estrangement, variety. ANT: Community, consociation, condonation, similarity, likeness, agreement, sympathy, consonance, harmony, consentaneousness, reconciliation, uniformity, identity. = KEY: Differentiate. SYN: Particularize, individualize, distinguish, identify, verify, specify, segregate, disseminate, fuse, lump, mass. ANT: Generalize, classify, confound, amalgamate, confuse. = KEY: Differentiation \n.\ [See DIFFERENTIATE]. = KEY: Difficult. SYN: Hard, intricate, Involved, perplexing, enigmatical, obscure, trying, arduous, troublesome, up hill, unmanageable, unamenable, reserved, opposed. ANT: Easy, plain, straight, pimple, lucid, categorical, tractable, amenable, unreserved, favorable. = KEY: Difficulty, [See DIFFICULT]. = KEY: Diffident, [See MODEST]. = KEY: Diffuse. SYN: Discursive, prolix, verbose, diluted, copious. ANT: Laconic, epigrammatic, terse, condensed. = KEY: Dig, [See DELVE]. = KEY: Digest \v.\ SYN: Sort, arrange, dispose, order, classify, study, ponder, consider, prepare, assimilate, incorporate, convert, methodise, tabulate. ANT: Displace, confound, complicate, derange, disorder, discompose, eject, refuse, reject, disturb. = KEY: Dignified. SYN: Exalted, stately, noble, grand, august, lofty, pompous, honored, elevated. ANT: [See LOFTY]. = KEY: Dignify. SYN: Aggrandize, elevate, invest, adorn, exalt, advance, promote, honor. ANT: Degrade, disinvest, humiliate, disgrace. = KEY: Digress, [See DEVIATE]. = KEY: laceratlon, [See LACERATION]. = KEY: Dilapidation. SYN: Ruin, decay, disintegration, downfall, crumbling, demolition, dismantlement. ANT: Solidity, reparation, integrity, soundness, construction, fabric, structure. = KEY: Dilate. SYN: Stretch, widen, expand, swell, distend, enlarge, descant, expatiate. ANT: Narrow, contract, restrict, constrict, particularize, dissect, anatomize, concentrate, epitomize, condense. = KEY: Dilatory. SYN: Tardy, procrastinating, slow, loitering, behindhand, lagging, dawdling. ANT: Quick, prompt, beforehand, vigilant, eager, alert, hasty, precipitate, rash, ardent. = KEY: Dilemma. SYN: Fix, hobble, quandary, doubt, difficulty, scrape. ANT: Extrication, rebutment, freedom, advantage, superiority, escape, solution, retort. = KEY: Diligence. SYN: Care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry. ANT: Indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness, inertness, idleness. = KEY: Dim, [See OBSCURE]. = KEY: Dimension. SYN: Measurement, size, configuration, delineation, mass, bulk, extent. ANT: Mismeasurement, segment. = KEY: Dimidiate. SYN: Halve, bisect. ANT: Unite, integrate. = KEY: Diminish. SYN: Lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate, retrench. ANT: Increase, enlarge, expand, extend, amplify, magnify. = KEY: Diminutive, [See DIMINISH and SMALL]. = KEY: Dimness, [See DIM and OBSCURE]. = KEY: Din. SYN: Racket, clamor, rattle, resononce, clangor, reverberation. ANT: Crash, report, burst, explosion, pop, bang. = KEY: Dingy. SYN: Dull, dusky, rusty, bedimmed, soiled, tarnished, dimly, dim, colorless, obscure, dead, soon, {[=-tj]?}. ANT: Bright, burnished, flossy, highcolored, radiant, luminous, gleaming, lustrous. = KEY: Dint. SYN: Agency, instrumentality, force, power, emcacy. ANT: Weakness, inoperativeness, inefficacy, uselessness, helplessness, opposition, counterforce. = KEY: Dip, [See IMMERSE]. = KEY: Dip \n.\ SYN: Declination, depression, devexity, slope. ANT: Elevation, ascent, acclivity, gradient. = KEY: Diplomacy. SYN: Embassy, ministry, ambassadorship, representation, tact, contrivance, management, negotiation, outwitting, circumvention. ANT: Cancel, recall, conge, miscontrivance, mismanagement, maladministration, overvaulting, selfentanglement, selfdefeat, selfstultification. = KEY: Diplomatic. SYN: Judicious, knowing, wise, prudent, well-contrived, clever, astute, politic, discreet, well-planned, well-conceived, sagacious, well-managed. ANT: Injudicious, bungling, stultifying, ill-managed, undiplomatic. = KEY: Dire, [See DREADFUL]. = KEY: Direct, [See INSTRUCT]. = KEY: Direct, [See STRAIGHT]. = KEY: Direction. SYN: Course, tendency, inclination, line, control, command, bearing, superscription, order, address. ANT: Misdirection, deviation, mis-control, misinstruction, aberration. = KEY: Directly. SYN: Straightly, straightway, immediately, undeviatingly, at once, promptly, quickly, instantly. ANT: Indirectly, by-and-by, interveniently. = KEY: Director. SYN: Ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide. ANT: Body, company, institution, concern, subordinate, follower. = KEY: Dirge. SYN: Requiem, lament, threnody, elegy, wake, coronach. ANT: Anthem, 'The Deum', Jubilate. = KEY: Dirt. SYN: Foulness, dung, filth, uncleanness, meanness, sordidness. ANT: Cleanness, purity, ablution, integrity. = KEY: Dirty, [See DIRT and NASTY]. = KEY: Disability. SYN: Disqualification, impotency, unfitness, incapacity, forfeiture, incompetency. ANT: Qualification, recommendation, fitness, deserving, merit. = KEY: Disabled, [See DISABILITY]. = KEY: Disabuse. SYN: Undeceive, inform, correct, enlighten, rectify. ANT: Deceive, mislead, prejudice, prepossess, hoodwink, inveigle, stultify, bamboozle. = KEY: Disadvantage, [See ADVANTAGE]. = KEY: Disaffection, [See AFFECTION]. = KEY: Disagreeable, [See AGREEABLE], Disagreement, [See QUARREL]. = KEY: Disallow, [See ALLOW]. = KEY: Disannul, [See ANNUL]. = KEY: Disappear, [See VANISH]. = KEY: Disappoint. SYN: Betray, deceive, frustrate, baffle, delude, vex, mortify, defeat, foil. ANT: Realize, justify, verify, fulfil, encourage, satisfy, gratify. = KEY: Disapprobation, [See APPROBATION]. = KEY: Disarm, [See ARM]. = KEY: Disarrange, [See ABRIDGMENT]. = KEY: Disarray, [See ARRAY]. = KEY: Disaster, [See CALAMITY], Disavow, [See ACKNOWLEDGE], Disband, [See MUSTER]. = KEY: Disbelief, [See BELIEF]. = KEY: Disburden, [See BURDEN]. = KEY: Disburse, [See EXPEND]. = KEY: Discern. SYN: Descry, observe, recognize, see, distinguish, discover, behold, penetrate, discriminate, differentiate, separate, perceive. ANT: Overlook, confound, misdiscern. = KEY: Discernible. SYN: Visible, conspicuous, manifest, palpable, apparent, plain, perceptible, evident. ANT: Invisible, inconspicuous, obscure, indiscernible, impalpable, microscopic, minute. = KEY: Discernment. SYN: Discrimination, farsightedness, clearsightedness, penetration, observation, sagacity, judgment. ANT: Heedlessness, blindness, inobservance, shortsightedness, dullness, density, hebetude. = KEY: Discharge. SYN: Liberate, empty, dismiss, acquit, release, free, execute, perform, send away. ANT: Confine, charge, detain. = KEY: Disciple. SYN: Follower, student, believer, votary. ANT: Master, teacher, leader, professor. = KEY: Disciplinarian. SYN: Martinet, tight hand. ANT: Sloven, kingdog. = KEY: Discipline. SYN: Order, strictness, training, government, instruction, drilling, control, coercion, punishment, organization. ANT: Disorder, confusion, rebellion, mutiny, encouragement, reward, disorganization. = KEY: Disclaim, [See CLAIM]. = KEY: Disclose. SYN: Discover, reveal, confess, detect, divulge, make known, promulgate. ANT: Cover, conceal, lock, suppress. = KEY: Discolor. SYN: Daub, stain, taint, dis, figure. ANT: Paint, color, embellish, tin's decorate, illuminate. = KEY: Discomfit, [See DISCONCERT]. = KEY: Discomfort. SYN: Disquiet, vexation, annoyance, trouble, unpleasantness, disagreeableness. ANT: Comfort, ease, pleasantness, agreeableness. = KEY: Discommendation, [See COMMENDATION]. = KEY: Discompose, [See DERANGE]. = KEY: Disconcert. SYN: Abash, confuse, confound, upset, baffle, derange, discompose, thwart, disturb, defeat, fret, interrupt, vex, ruffle, disorder, unsettle, frustrate, discomfit, [See {[i\ST]?}], Encourage, rally, countenance, aid, concert, concoct, arrange, order, prepare, scheme, contrive, hatch, design. = KEY: Disconcerted, [See DISCONCERT]. = KEY: disconformity, [See CONFORMITY]. = KEY: discongruity, [See CONGRUOUS]. = KEY: Disconnect, Disconnected, Disconnection, [See CONNECTION]. = KEY: Disconsolate. SYN: Sad, forlorn, melancholy, inconsolable, brokenhearted, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, woful. ANT: Joyous, cheerful, merry, happy, gay, jovial, gladsome, blithe. = KEY: Discontent, [See CONTENT]. = KEY: Discontented, [See CONTENTED]. = KEY: Discontinuance, [See CONTINUANCE]. = KEY: Discontinuity, [See CONTINUATION]. = KEY: Discord, [See CONCORD]. = KEY: Discordance, [See ACCORD]. = KEY: Discountenance, [See COUNTENANCE]. = KEY: Disenthrone, [See ENTHRONE]. = KEY: Discourage, [See ENCOURAGE]. = KEY: Discouragement, [See ENCOURAGE]. = KEY: Discourse, [See CONVERSATION]. = KEY: Discourtesy, [See COURTESY]. = KEY: Discover. SYN: Find, invent, descry, disclose, unearth, ferret out, ascertain, discern, make known, detect, betray, indicate, manifest. ANT: Conceal, suppress, repress, miss, lose, overlook, mask, cover, screen. = KEY: Discredit, [See CREDIT]. = KEY: Discreditable, [See DISREPUTABLE]. = KEY: Discreet. SYN: Discerning, wise, prudent, circumspect, cautious, wary, regulative, sensible, judicious. ANT: Undiscerning, blind, foolish, imprudent, indiscreet, unrestrained, reckless, injudicious, silly. = KEY: Discrepancy. SYN: Dissonance, disharmony, discord, contrariety, disagreement, difference, variation. ANT: Consonance, harmony, accordance, agreement, correspondence. = KEY: Discretion, [See DISCREET]. = KEY: Discretional. SYN: Optional. ANT: Compulsory, obligatory. = KEY: Discrimination. SYN: Penetration, sagacity, acuteness, nicety, shrewdness, judgment, discernment, insight, distinction. ANT: Dullness, confusedness, indiscriminateness, shortsightedness, hebetude, indiscernment. = KEY: Discursive, [See CONSECUTIVE]. = KEY: Discuss. SYN: Debate, argue, sift canvass, examine. ANT: Mystify, confound, obscure. = KEY: Disdain \n.\ SYN: Contempt, {[sooru]?}, haughtiness, disregard, superciliousness. ANT: Respect, reverence, admiration, respectfulness, considerateness, humility. = KEY: Disdain \v.\ [See SCORN]. = KEY: Disdainful, [See DISDAIN]. = KEY: Disease. SYN: Complaint, disorder, illness, indisposition, distemper, ailment, malady, sickness. ANT: Health, convalescence, sanity, salubrity. = KEY: Disembody, [See EMBODY]. = KEY: disenable, [See ENABLE]. = KEY: Disenchant, [See ENCHANT]. = KEY: Disencumber, [See ENCUMBER]. = KEY: Disengage, [See ENGAGE], Disentangle, [See ENTANGLE]. = KEY: Disentitled, [See ENTITLE]. = KEY: Disesteem, [See ESTEEM]. = KEY: Disfavor, [See FAVOR]. = KEY: Disfigure, [See ADORN]. = KEY: Disfranchise, [See ENFRANCHISE]. = KEY: Disgorge, [See GORGE]. = KEY: Disgrace \v.\ [See DISHONOR]. = KEY: Disgrace \n.\ [See HONOR]. = KEY: Disguise, [See GUISE]. = KEY: Disguised, [See GUISE]. = KEY: Disgust. SYN: Nausea, loathing, abomination, aversion, dislike, repugnance, abhorrence, distaste. ANT: Desire, liking, partiality, predilection, relish, fondness, longing, avidity. = KEY: Dishearten, [See ENCOURAGE]. = KEY: Dishevel. SYN: Disorder, entangle, disarrange. ANT: Tire, dress, plait, bind, weave, braid. = KEY: Dishonest, [See FALLIBLE]. = KEY: Dishonor \n.\ [See HONOR]. = KEY: Dishonorable, [See HONORABLE]. = KEY: Disincline, [See INCLINE]. = KEY: Disinfect, [See INFECT]. = KEY: Disingenuous, [See INGENUOUS]. = KEY: Disinherit, [See INHERIT and DISOWN]. = KEY: Disintegrate, [See INTEGRATE]. = KEY: Disinter, [See INTER]. = KEY: Disinterested, [See INTERESTED and SELFISH]. = KEY: Disenthral, [See ENTHRAL]. = KEY: Disjoin, [See JOIN]. = KEY: Dislike, [See LEARNED]. = KEY: Dislocate, [See LOCATE]. = KEY: Dislodge, [See LODGE]. = KEY: Disloyal, [See LOYAL]. = KEY: Dismal, [Lat. /dies malus/, evil day.] SYN: Dreary, ominous, foreboding, lonesome, cheerless, gloomy, sad, depressed, lugubrious, funereal, sorrowful, melancholy, tragic, blank. ANT: Gay, propitious, promising, cheerful, lively, elated, joyous, laughable, ridiculous, comic. = KEY: Dismantle. SYN: Disrobe, divest, denude, despoil, disarm, strip. ANT: Kobe, invest, drape, adorn, arrange, equip, endue. = KEY: Dismay \v.\ SYN: Affright, astonish, terrify, dishearten, daunt, scare, frighten, appall. ANT: Encourage, rally, inspirit, assure, allure. = KEY: Dismay \n.\ [See TERROR]. = KEY: Dismember. SYN: Disintegrate, disincorporate, detruncate. ANT: Integrate, incorporate, organize, engraft, reorganize. = KEY: Dismiss. SYN: Banish, discard, abandon, cashier, send off, divest, discharge. ANT: Retain, detain, keep, maintain. = KEY: Dismount. SYN: Alight, descend. ANT: Mount, start. = KEY: Disobey, [See OBEY]. = KEY: Disoblige, [See OBLIGE]. = KEY: Disorder, [See ORDER]. = KEY: Disorderly, [See ORDERLY]. = KEY: Disorganize, [See ORGANIZE], Disown, [See OWN]. = KEY: Disparage. SYN: Depreciate, decry, undervalue, derogate, lower, detract, underestimate. ANT: Extol, laud, panegyrize, overestimate, exaggerate. = KEY: Disparate. SYN: Unequal, different, ill-assorted, ill-matched. ANT: Equal, co-ordinate, {[well-ai]?}, sorted, well-matched. = KEY: dispassion, [See PASSION]. = KEY: Dispatch. SYN: Expedite, send, accelerate, hasten, execute, conclude, Used also in the sense of kill. ANT: Retard, detain, obstruct, impede. = KEY: Dispel. SYN: Disperse, scatter, dissipate, drive away, dismiss. ANT: Collect, recall, summon, convene, congregate, conglomerate, mass, accumulate. = KEY: Dispensation. SYN: Economy, dealing, revelation, distribution, arrangement, visitation, exemption, immunity, privilege, abandonment, dismissal, disuse, indulgence. ANT: Reservation, injunction, prohibition, enforcement, retention, restriction. = KEY: Dispeople, [See PEOPLE]. = KEY: Disperse. SYN: Dispel, scatter, disseminate, separate, break up, spread abroad, deal out, distribute, dissipate. ANT: Collect, summon, recall, gather, concentrate, meet. = KEY: Dispirit, [See ENCOURAGE]. = KEY: Displace, [See PLACE]. = KEY: Displant, [See PLANT]. = KEY: Display. SYN: Show, exhibit, unfold, evidence, evince, flaunt, vault, expose, ostentation, spread out, parade. ANT: Hide, conceal, dissemble, simulate, suppress, wrap, cloke. = KEY: Displease, [See PLEASE]. = KEY: Displeasure, [See INTERPRETATION]. = KEY: Disport, [See SPORT]. = KEY: Dispose, [See ABRIDGMENT], [See INCLINE]. = KEY: Disposition, [See DISPOSE, ARRANGE, and CHARACTER]. = KEY: Dispossess, [See POSSESS]. = KEY: Dispraise, [See PRAISE]. = KEY: Dispread, [See SPREAD]. = KEY: Disprize, [See PRIZE]. = KEY: Disproof, [See PROOF]. = KEY: Disprove, [See PROVE]. = KEY: Disproportion, [See PROPORTION]. = KEY: Disputant. SYN: Litigant, competitor, claimant. ANT: Partner, auxiliary, advocate. = KEY: Disputatious. SYN: Litigious, argumentative, cantankerous, quarrelsome, querulous. ANT: Conciliatory, unquarrelsome, inquerulous. = KEY: Dispute. SYN: Argue, question, canvass, contest, contend, challenge, debate, controvert, controversy, difference, gainsay, impugn, quarrel, altercation. ANT: Waive, concede, allow, forego. = KEY: Disqualify, [See QUALIFY]. = KEY: Disquiet, [See QUIET]. = KEY: Disquietude. SYN: Anxiety, solicitude, uneasiness, embarrassment, apprehension, agitation, disturbance, commotion, dissatisfaction. ANT: Peace, pacification, assurance, calmness, confidence, contentment, acquiescence. = KEY: Disquisition. SYN: Essay, treatise, discussion, dissertation. ANT: Effusion, tirade, diatribe, rhodomontade, blarney. = KEY: Disregard, [See REGARD]. = KEY: Disrelish, [See RELISH]. = KEY: Disreputable, [See REPUTABLE]. = KEY: Disrespect, [See RESPECT]. = KEY: Disrobe, [See DISMANTLE]. = KEY: Disruption. SYN: Disintegration, discord, dissension, a breaking up, separation, alienation, hostility. ANT: Union, amalgamation, reconciliation. = KEY: Dissatisfaction, [See SATISFACTION]. = KEY: Dissect. SYN: Take to pieces, anatomize, scrutinize, investigate. ANT: Grasp, comprehend, slur, skim, unite, integrate, organize, compound, collocate, conjoin, confound. = KEY: Dissemble. SYN: Disguise, conceal, repress, smother, restrain, cloke. ANT: Exhibit, manifest, protrude, vaunt, pretend, simulate, feign, assume, expose, profess, proclaim. = KEY: Dissembler. SYN: Feigner, hypocrite, disguiser, suppressor, concealer. ANT: Exhibitor, vaunter, pretender, simulator. = KEY: Disseminate. SYN: Spread, propagate, preach, proclaim, publish, promulgate, scatter, circulate. ANT: Repress, suppress, stifle, discountenance, extirpate, eradicate. = KEY: Dissent, [See ASSENT and CONSENT]. = KEY: Dissertation, [See DEPREDATION]. = KEY: Disservice, [See SERVICE]. = KEY: Dissever, [See SEVER]. = KEY: Dissidence, [See AGREE] = KEY: Dissilience. SYN: Avoidance, repulsion, aversion, dislike, interrepugnance, antipathy. ANT: Approach, attraction, appetency, desire, affection, sympathy, interest. = KEY: Dissimilar, [See SIMILAR]. = KEY: Dissimilitude, [See SIMILITUDE]. = KEY: Dissipate, [See SQUANDER]. = KEY: Dissociate, [See ASSOCIATION and SEVER]. = KEY: Dissolute. SYN: Abandoned, profligate, loose, licentious, wanton, vicious. ANT: Upright, conscientious, strict, self-controlled, correct. = KEY: Dissoluteness, [See DISSOLUTE]. = KEY: Dissolution, [See DECOMPOSITION]. = KEY: Dissolve, [See MELT and CONSOLIDATE]. = KEY: Dissonance, [See CONSONANCE]. = KEY: Dissuade, [See PERSUADE]. = KEY: Distance. SYN: Interval, removal, separation, interspace, remoteness, absence, space, length. ANT: Proximity, nearness, adjacency, contiguity, neighborhood, propinquity, contact, presence. = KEY: Distant. SYN: Far, remote, aloof, apart, asunder, separate, indistinct, obscure. ANT: Close, near, adjacent, contiguous. = KEY: Distaste, [See TASTE]. = KEY: Distasteful, [See TASTE]. = KEY: Distemper. SYN: Disorder, disease, ailment. ANT: Health, sanity, vigor, convalescence. = KEY: Distend, [See DILATE]. = KEY: Distil. SYN: Drop, emanate, drip, percolate. ANT: Absorb, condense, retain, suck, hold. = KEY: Distinct. SYN: Separate, independent, unconnected, detached, disjoined, unlike, definite, obvious, different, dissimilar, clear, conspicuous, plain, perspicuous. ANT: United, consolidated, conjoined, one, obscure, dim, confused, indistinct. = KEY: Distinction. SYN: Difference, separation, dignity, eminence. ANT: Unity, identity, debasement, insignificance, degradation. = KEY: Distinctness. SYN: Clearness, plainness, conspicuousness, perspicuity. ANT: Confusion, indistinctness, laziness. = KEY: Distinguish. SYN: Discern, descry, perceive, characterize, make famous, know, discriminate, see, discover, separate, divide, dissimilate, differentiate. ANT: Miss, overlook, confound, confuse. = KEY: Distinguished. SYN: Illustrious, noted, celebrated, conspicuous, eminent, marked, famous. ANT: Obscure, inconspicuous, hidden, not famous. = KEY: Distinguishable, [See DISTINGUISH]. = KEY: Distortion, [See DETORTION and PERVERSION]. = KEY: Distract. SYN: Divide, dissipate, dissever, disconcert, discompose, perplex, bewilder, convulse, madden, disturb. ANT: Unite, fix, concentrate, collect, compose. = KEY: Distraction. SYN: Inattention, madness, absence. ANT: Attention, composure. = KEY: Distress \v.\ SYN: Harass, embarrass, trouble, grieve, annoy, vex, mortify, pain, disturb, afflict, worry. ANT: Soothe, compose, please, gratify, gladden, console, elate, comfort. = KEY: Distress \n.\ [See AFFLICTION and TROUBLE]. = KEY: Distribute, [See DISPENSE]. = KEY: District, [See CIRCUIT and REGION]. = KEY: Distrust, [See ENCIRCLE]. = KEY: Disturb. SYN: Derange, discompose, disorder, discommode, plague, confuse, rouse, agitate, annoy, trouble, interrupt, incommode, worry, vex, molest, disquiet. ANT: Order, collocate, arrange, pacify, soothe, quiet, compose, leave. = KEY: Disunion, [See UNION]. = KEY: Disuse, [See USE and DESUETUDE]. = KEY: Divarication. SYN: Deviation, divergence, digression, diversion. ANT: Continuity, rectilinearity, directness, prolongation. = KEY: Diversion. SYN: Detour, divergence, deviation, recreation, amusement, pastime, sport, enjoyment. ANT: Continuity, directness, procedure, business, task, work, study, labor, avocation. = KEY: Diversify. SYN: Vary, alter, change modify, variegate. ANT: Conserve, prosecute, stabilitate, settle, fix, stereotype, crystallize, arrest. = KEY: Diversity. SYN: Difference, dissimilarity, variation, multiformity, heterogeneousness, dissonance. ANT: Similarity, identity, unifomity, homogeneousness, co-ordination, coincidence, consonance. = KEY: Divert. SYN: Alter, change, deflect, alienate, delight, please, gratify, entertain, amuse. ANT: Continue, prosecute, prolong, produce, restrict, confine, pain, annoy. = KEY: Divest. SYN: Disruanate, denude, strip, disrobe, unclothe, disencumber, deprive. ANT: Clothe, robe, invest, shroud, envelop, encumber, indue. = KEY: Divide. SYN: Separate, dissect, bisect, portio, part, divorce, segregate, sever, sunder, deal out, disunite, keep apart, part among, allot, distribute, multiply. ANT: Unite, collocate, classify, convene, congregate, conglomerate, conglutinate, commingle, join, consociate, co-ordinate. = KEY: Divination. SYN: Prediction, sorcery, magic, witchcraft, augury, omens. ANT: Instruction, information, investigation, study, learning. = KEY: Division, [See DIVIDE], [See SEPARATE]. = KEY: Divorce \v.\ SYN: Separate, disconnect, dissever, divert, alienate. ANT: Conjoin, unite, connect, apply, reconcile, reunite. = KEY: Divorce \n.\ Verb. = KEY: Divulge, [See CONCEAL]. = KEY: Do. SYN: Work, act, accomplish, execute, achieve, transact, finish, enact, perform, produce, complete. ANT: Undo, mar, neglect, omit. = KEY: Docile. SYN: Compliant, amenable, easily managed, yielding, gentle, quiet, pliant, tractable, teachable, tame. ANT: Intractable, stubborn, obstinate, self-willed, dogged. = KEY: Dock. SYN: Curtail, lop, abbreviate, prune. ANT: Grow, elongate, nourish, [See {p*Ot long}?], train, coax. = KEY: Docked, [See DOCK]. = KEY: Doctrinal. SYN: Didactic, catechetical, theological. ANT: Practical, operative. = KEY: Doctrine. SYN: Tenet, article, belief, creed, dogma, teaching, precept, principle. ANT: Practice, operation, duty, conduct, action. = KEY: Dodge \v.\ [See BAFFLE]. = KEY: Dodge \n.\ [See ARTIFICE]. = KEY: Doer. SYN: Agent, actor, performer, originator, perpetrator, maker. ANT: Undoer, preventer, hinderer, baffler, neutralizes marrer. = KEY: Dogged. SYN: Obstinate, morose, sullen, impracticable, prejudiced. ANT: Docile, genial, agreeable, conciliatory, easy, indulgent, liberal, complaisant. = KEY: Dogma, [See DOCTRINE]. = KEY: Dogmatic. SYN: Doctrinal, theological, imperious, dictatorial, authoritative, arrogant, magisterial, self-opinionated, positive. ANT: Practical, active, moderate, mode, diffident, vacillating. = KEY: Doleful. SYN: Dolorous, rueful, melancholy, piteous, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, dismal. ANT: Merry, joyful, gay, blithe, beaming. = KEY: Dolt. SYN: Numskull, ignoramus, dullard, ass. ANT: Savant, genius, philosopher, scholar, luminary. = KEY: Dollish. SYN: Stolid, jolterheaded, thick-skulled. ANT: Quick, sharp, acute, longheaded. = KEY: Domain. SYN: Estate, lordship, territory, inclosure. ANT: Waste, wilderness, wild. = KEY: Domestic. SYN: Domiciliary, private. ANT: Foreign, public. = KEY: Domestication. SYN: Settlement, colonization, localization, taming. ANT: Dissettlement, displacement, dislodgment, ejection, deportation, exile, dispeoplement. = KEY: Domicile. SYN: Residence, abode, settlement, home. ANT: Estrangement, migration, homelessness, houselessness, wilderness, wild, world. = KEY: Domiciliary, [See DOMICILE]. = KEY: Dominance. SYN: Lordship, mastery, superiority, preponderance, prevalence. ANT: Inferiority, subjection, serve, tude, weakness, inprevalence, minority. = KEY: Dominant, [See DOMINANCE]. = KEY: Domination, [See DOMINANCE]. = KEY: Domineer. SYN: Lord, tyrannize, assume, usurp. ANT: Submit, succumb, defer, yield, bow, patronize. = KEY: Domineering, [See ARROGANT]. = KEY: Dominion. SYN: Power, authority, rule, tyranny, despotism, government, control, empire, sway, realm, territory, jurisdiction. ANT: Weakness, submission, subjugation, Inferiority, servitude. = KEY: Doll. SYN: Assume, wear. ANT: Doff, cast. = KEY: Donation, [See PRESENTATION and GIFT]. = KEY: Doom. SYN: Judgment, fate, sentence, verdict, condemnation, lot, destiny. ANT: Liberation, respite, escape, pardon, acquittal, approval. = KEY: Dormant. SYN: Sleeping, slumbering, latent, undeveloped, quiescent, inert. ANT: Vigilant, wakeful, active, operative, developed, energetic. = KEY: Dotage. SYN: Imbecility, senility, fatuity, dementedness. ANT: Intelligence, acuteness, judgment, penetration, vigor. = KEY: Doubt \n.\ SYN: Dubiousness, dubitation, scruple, hesitation, suspense, distrust, suspicion, perplexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, difficulty, indecision. ANT: Certainty, clearness, precision, determination, decision, conviction, satisfaction. = KEY: Doubt \v.\ SYN: Dubitate, hesitate, vacillate, waver, demur. ANT: Decide, determine, resolve, assent. = KEY: Doubtful, [See DOUBT and EQUIVOCAL]. = KEY: Doubtless. SYN: Certainly, clearly, precisely, indisputably. ANT: Perhaps, probably, possibly. = KEY: Doughty. SYN: Redoubted, redoubtable. ANT: Craven, puny. = KEY: Dowdy. SYN: Dull, shabby, common, plain, homely, dingy, scrubby. ANT: Stylish, dressy, gay, modish, gorgeous, dandified, tawdry. = KEY: Downfall, [See FALL]. = KEY: Downright, [See ABSOLUTE]. = KEY: Downwards. SYN: Below, beneath, adown. ANT: Upwards, aloft. = KEY: trail \n.\ SYN: Copy, transfer, transcript, sketch, abstract, order, check. ANT: Original, deed, cash. = KEY: Draft \v.\ SYN: Draw, drain, exhaust. ANT: Supply, replenish, import. = KEY: Drag. SYN: Draw, pull, haul, bring. ANT: Carry, convey, push, propel, raise, heave. = KEY: Drain \v.\ SYN: Draw, strain, drip, percolate, drop, exhaust, empty, dry. ANT: Replenish, fill, supply, pour, moisten, drown, inundate, drench, swill. = KEY: Draught. SYN: Drink, traction, breeze, check. ANT: Drought, burden, non-ventilation, deposit. = KEY: Draw. SYN: Drag, pull, attract, induce, haul, entice, inhale, sketch, delineate, describe. ANT: Push, carry, propel, throw, repel, drive, compel, impel, thrust. = KEY: Drawback, [See DETRIMENT]. = KEY: Drawl \v.\ SYN: Drag, lag, drone. ANT: Gabble, rattle, prattle. = KEY: Dread \n.\ SYN: Fear, shuddering, terror, horror, alarm, intimidation, apprehension. ANT: Courage, confidence, welcome, assurance. = KEY: Dreadful. SYN: Fearful, shocking, monstrous, dire, terrible, frightful, terrific, horrible, alarming, awful. ANT: Encouraging, inspiriting, assuring, promising, hopeful. = KEY: Dream \n.\ SYN: Trance, vision, fancy, reverie, hallucination, romance. ANT: Fact, reality, substance, verify, realization. = KEY: Dreamy. SYN: Fanciful, visionary, speculative, abstracted, absent, foggy. ANT: Collected, earnest, attentive, awake, active, energetic, practical. = KEY: Dreary, [See DISMAL]. = KEY: Dregs. SYN: Refuse, sediment, offal, lees, offscouring, dross, trash. ANT: Cream, flower, pink, pickings, sample. = KEY: Drench. SYN: Wash, inundate, soak, saturate, steep, shower, drown. ANT: Drain, strain, sponge, mop, dry, exsiccate. = KEY: Drenched, [See DRENCH]. = KEY: Dress. SYN: Garniture, preparation, arrangement, clothing, habiliments, accoutrements, vestments, uniform, raiment, apparel, attire, clothes, array, garments, livery, costume, garb, investiture. ANT: Nudity, disorder, disarrangement, undress, deshabille. = KEY: Driblet. SYN: Drop, dole, instalment, scrap, morsel, bit, particle. ANT: Total, whole, aggregate, mass. = KEY: Drift. SYN: Tendency, direction, motion, tenor, meaning, purport, object, intention, purpose, scope, aim, result, issue, {[inierence]?}, conclusion, end, course. ANT: Aimlessness, pointlessness, vagueness, unmeaningness, indefiniteness, confusedness, aberrancy. = KEY: Drill. SYN: Teach, exercise, instruct, train, ordinate, discipline. ANT: Confuse, disarrange, disorder, misinstruct, miseducate, dishabituate. = KEY: Drink. SYN: Imbibe, swallow, quaff, absorb, drain, draught. ANT: Disgorge, replenish, pour, exude, water, moisten. = KEY: Drip. SYN: Drop, ooze, percolate. ANT: Imbibe, swallow, absorb, suck, dry, retain, hold. = KEY: Drive, [See DRAW]. = KEY: Drivel. SYN: Fatuity, nonsense, trifling, snivel, babble. ANT: Soundness, coherence, substance, solidity. = KEY: Driveller. SYN: Idiot, babbler, dotard. ANT: Speaker, debater, logician, orator. = KEY: Droll. SYN: Whimsical, comical, odd, queer, amusing, laughable, funny, comic, fantastic, farcical. ANT: Sad, lamentable, tragic, lugubrious, funereal. = KEY: Drollery. SYN: Fun, whimsicality, comicality, trickery, buffoonery, facetiousness, pleasantry. ANT: Gravity, dismally, ruefulness, priggishness, starch, lugubriousness. = KEY: Drone, [See BRAWL]. = KEY: Droop. SYN: Sink, flag, decline, pine, languish, drop, bend, incurve, fade. ANT: Revive, flourish, luxuriate, prosper, rally, raise. = KEY: Drop. SYN: Ooze, emanate, distil, percolate, fall, decline, descend, faint, droop. ANT: Evaporate, rally, rise, soar, ascend, recover. = KEY: Dross, [See CREAM]. = KEY: Drought. SYN: Dryness, aridity, parching, thirst. ANT: Moisture, refreshment, dew, deluge, slaking, quenching, watering, irrigation, Drown. SYN: Sink, immerse, swamp, overwhelm, engulf, deluge, inundate, submerge. ANT: Dry, drain, expose, air, ventilate. = KEY: Drowsy. SYN: Heavy, drooping, sleepy, dozy, comatose, torpid, stupid, somnolent. ANT: Light, vigilant, alert, awake. = KEY: Drudge \v.\ SYN: Slave, labor, plod. ANT: Bask, luxuriate, hit off, play, dally. = KEY: Drug, [See CIPHER]. = KEY: Dry \v.\ SYN: Drain, parch. ANT: Drench, moisten, wet. = KEY: Dry. SYN: Arid, parched, moistureless, juiceless, barren, tame, sarcastic, vapid, lifeless, dull, tedious, uninteresting, monotonous. ANT: Moist, fresh, juicy, lively, entertaining. = KEY: Dubious, [See EQUIVOCAL]. = KEY: Ductile. SYN: Malleable, extensible, tractile, extensile, tractable, docile, irresolute. ANT: Inelastic, inflexible, tough, obdurate, resolute, firm, obstinate. = KEY: Dudgeon. SYN: Indignation, spleen, resentment, umbrage. ANT: Complacency, contentment, serenity, satisfaction. = KEY: Dr. SYN: Owing, attributable, just, fair, proper, suitable, becoming, tit, owed, appropriate, obligatory. ANT: Irrelative, unattributable, independent, undue, unfair, improper, extravagant, deficient. = KEY: Dulcet. SYN: Sweet, soothing, melodious, soft, warbling, euphonious. ANT: Harsh, grating, discordant, noisy, clamorous, dissonant, rancorous, cacophonous. = KEY: Dulcify, [See SWEETEN]. = KEY: Dulcorate, [See DULCIFY]. = KEY: Dull. SYN: Stupid, stolid, doltish, insensible, callous, heavy, gloomy, dismal, cloudy, turbid, opaque, dowdy, sluggish, sad, tiresome, commonplace, dead. ANT: Sharp, clever, lively, animated, sensible, cheerful, exhilarating, brightness, transparent, brilliant, burnished. = KEY: dullard, [See BLOCKHEAD]. = KEY: Dumb. SYN: Inarticulate, mute, silent, still. ANT: Clatter, tumult, uproar. = KEY: Dumbfounded, [See ASTONISH]. = KEY: Dunce \n.\ [See BLOCKHEAD]. = KEY: Dupe, [See CHEAT]. = KEY: Duplicity, [See ARTFUL]. = KEY: Durable. SYN: Lasting, permanent, stable, persistent, abiding, constant, continuing. ANT: Evanescent, transient, impermanent, unstable. = KEY: Durance. SYN: Confinement, incarceration, imprisonment. ANT: Liberty, largeness. = KEY: Duration. SYN: Period, continuance, term, space, protraction, prolongation. ANT: Momentariness, instantaneousness, infinity, eternity. = KEY: Dutiful. SYN: Obedient, submissive, respectful, docile, deferential, duteous. ANT: Disobedient, intractable, rebellious, undutiful. = KEY: Duty. SYN: Obligation, part, business, responsibility, allegiance, function, once, province, calling, trust, commission, service. ANT: Freedom, exemption, immunity, license, dispensation, desertion, dereliction. = KEY: Dwarf. SYN: Lower, stunt, depress. ANT: Heighten, elevate, raise. = KEY: Dwarf \n.\ SYN: Pigmy, {[imp]?}, abortion, puck. ANT: Giant, monster, Hercules. = KEY: Dwell. SYN: Stop, stay, rest, inhabit, sojourn, lodge, linger, tarry, live, reside, abide. ANT: Move, travel, hasten, speed, migrate, wander, depart, flit, roam. = KEY: Dweller, [See DWELL and DENIZEN]. = KEY: Dwelling, [See ABODE]. = KEY: Dwindle. SYN: Pine, waste, diminish, decrease, fall off, decline, melt. ANT: Expand, enlarge, increase, grow, flourish, augment, develop. = KEY: Early. SYN: Soon, betimes, forward, shortly, quickly, ere long, anon, matutinal, beforehand. ANT: Late, tardily, backward, vespertinal, belated. = KEY: Earn. SYN: Merit, acquire, achieve, obtain, win, gain, deserve, realize. ANT: Forfeit, forego, waste, lose, spend, squander. = KEY: Earnest. SYN: Eager, serious, intent, determined, strenuous, solemn, grave, warm, fervent, intense, ardent. ANT: Indifferent, idle, playful, desultory, irresolute, unearnest, sportive, jesting, flippant. = KEY: Ease. SYN: Enjoyment, comfort, rest, repose, tranquility, refreshment, relief, quiet, contentment, satisfaction, {[favx'lity]?}, readiness. ANT: Trouble, annoyance, vexation, disquiet, difficulty, awkwardness. = KEY: Easy. SYN: Quiet, comfortable, manageable, indulgent, facile, lenient, unconstrained, gentle, not difficult, unconcerned, self-possessed. ANT: Uneasy, disturbed, uncomfortable, difficult, unmanageable, hard, exacting, anxious, awkward, embarrassed. = KEY: Ebb. SYN: Retire, recede, decrease, sick, decline, decay, wane. ANT: Flow, increase, abound, swell. = KEY: Ebriety. SYN: Soberness, freshness, temperance. ANT: Inebriety, intoxication, crapulence. = KEY: Ebullition. SYN: Boiling, effervescence, outburst, paroxysm, eruption. ANT: Refrigeration, cooling, subsidence, composure. = KEY: Eccentric. SYN: Peculiar, singular, idiosyncratic, flighty, aberrant, anomalous, wayward, strange, irregular, abnormal, odd, whimsical, erratic. ANT: Regular, ordinary, customary, normal, common, usual, unnoticeable, unremarkable. = KEY: Echo. SYN: Reverberation, resonance, repetition, imitation, answer. ANT: Sound, voice, original, question, proposition, statement, opinion. = KEY: Eclectic. SYN: Exceptive, selective, broad. ANT: Narrow, prejudiced, petty, partial, intolerant, biased, warped, dogmatic. = KEY: Eclipse \n.\ SYN: Failure, obscuration, overshadowing, shading, diminution, outshining, outdoing, outrivalling. ANT: Illumination, effulgence, reappearance, brightness, lustre, renown, re-illumination, re-effulgence, foil. = KEY: Eclipse \v.\ SYN: Obscure, outdo, outshine, overshadow, outvie, outrival, darken, shade, overcast, dim, cloud. ANT: Recommend, brighten, illustrate, enhance, heighten. = KEY: Economy. SYN: Administration, dispensation, management, rule, arrangement, distribution, husbanding. ANT: Maladministration, waste, misrule, mismanagement, disorder, prodigality. = KEY: Economize. SYN: Husband, develop, utilize. ANT: Waste, misuse, sacrifice. = KEY: Ecstasy. SYN: Rapture, inspiration, fervor, frenzy, transport, emotion, joy, delight, enthusiasm, happiness. ANT: Indifference, coolness, dulness, weariness, tedium, bore, fidget, misery. = KEY: Ecumenical. SYN: Universal, catholic. ANT: Partial, national, private, local, domestic. = KEY: Edible. SYN: Esculent, wholesome, culinary, eatable. ANT: Noxious, poisonous, uneatable, deleterious. = KEY: Edifice. SYN: Structure, building, tenement, fabric. ANT: Ruin, heap, demolition, dismantlement. = KEY: Edify. SYN: Enlighten, instruct, improve. ANT: Misguide, mislead, misinform. = KEY: Educate. SYN: Instruct, nurture, discipline, train, teach, develop, ground, school, initiate. ANT: Miseducate, misinstruct, misnurture. = KEY: Educe. SYN: Draw, eliminate, produce, elicit. ANT: Adduce, apply, insert, deposit, bestow. = KEY: Efface. SYN: Erase, obliterate, eradicate, destroy, blot out, cancel, expunge. ANT: restore, revive, delineate, Imprint, portray. = KEY: Effect \v.\ SYN: Produce, cause, complete, achieve, accomplish, fulfil, realize, execute, consummate. ANT: Prevent, obviate, frustrate, mar. = KEY: Effect \n.\ SYN: Result, consequence, issue, pi, Goods, chattels, property, movables, commodities. ANT: Origin, cause. = KEY: Effective. SYN: Powerful, conducive, operative, cogent, telling, able, potent, talented, efficacious, efficient, serviceable, effectual. ANT: Weak, ineffective, inconducive, inoperative, futile, nugatory. = KEY: Effectuate. SYN: Produce, ensure, secure, stabilitate, compass, complete, establish. ANT: Prevent, hinder, nullify, defeat, nip, blight, strangle, stifle, abolish. = KEY: Effeminate. SYN: Feminine, delicate, womanly, womanish, timorous, feeble, mild mannered, soft, unmanly, weak, enervated, emasculated. ANT: Manly, robust, vigorous, virile, hardy. = KEY: Effervesce. SYN: Boil, bubble, foam, mantle, froth, ferment, sparkle, explode, bluster. ANT: Subside, bear, brook, digest, acquiesce, refrain, flatten. = KEY: Effete. SYN: Worn, exhausted, barren, decrepit. ANT: Productive, vigorous, fertile, prolific, exuberant. = KEY: Efficacy. SYN: Efficiency, competency, virtue, agency, capability, usefulness, energy, productiveness, effectiveness. ANT: Inefficiency, inutility, ineffectiveness. = KEY: Efficiency, [See EFFICACY]. = KEY: Efficient, [See EFFECTIVE]. = KEY: Effigy. SYN: Statue, figure, representation, image. ANT: Caricature, misrepresentation, distortion, daub. = KEY: Efflorescence. SYN: Budding, luxuriance, outburst, crystallization, granulation. ANT: Nudity, bareness, denudation, deflorescence, absorption, desiccation. = KEY: Effluence. SYN: Outpouring, emission, discharge, abundance, overflow. ANT: Refluence, infusion, absorbtion, retention, exhaustion. = KEY: Effluvium. SYN: Exhalation, emanation, malaria, miasma, stink. ANT: Ventilation, scent, disinfectant, zephyr, balm. = KEY: Effort. SYN: Trial, attempt, endeavor, exertion. ANT: Failure, misadventure, unsuccess, frustration, futility, inactivity, ease, facility, spontaneity. = KEY: Effrontery. SYN: Barefacedness, impudence, brass. ANT: Modesty, timidity, bashfulness, coyness. = KEY: Effulgence. SYN: Splendor, lustre, brilliancy, luminosity. ANT: Darkness, obscuration, tenebrosity. = KEY: Effuse. SYN: Copious, effluent, abundant. ANT: Try, scanty, sparing, {[jejune]?}. = KEY: Effusion. SYN: Pouring, discharge, emission, effluence, oration, speech, address. ANT: infusion, refluence, absorption, essay, document, instrument, reading. = KEY: Egotism. SYN: Conceit, vanity, selfassertion, self-conceit, self-praise, self-exaltation, conceitedness. ANT: considerateness, deference, self-abnegation. = KEY: Egregious. SYN: Remarkable, peculiar, excellent, consummate. ANT: Ordinary, commonplace, every, day, mediocre. = KEY: Egress. SYN: Exit, departure, sally, outlet. ANT: Adit, inlet, approach, avenue, entrance. = KEY: Either. SYN: Whichever. ANT: Neither (ne being the negative prefix). = KEY: Ejaculate, [See EJACULATION]. = KEY: Ejaculation. SYN: Exclamation, utterance, cry. ANT: Obmutescence, silence, speechlessness, dumbfoundedness, oration, speech, drawl. = KEY: Eject. SYN: Cast, throw, discharge, dislodge, emit, thrust out, oust, cast out, expel, extrude, evert. ANT: Accept, receive, retain, house, store, lodge, accommodate, admit, welcome, introduce, inject. = KEY: Ejection, [See EJECT]. = KEY: Eke. SYN: Help, increase, augment, raise. ANT: Stop, diminish, stint, withhold, drain, exhaust. = KEY: Elaborate. SYN: Execute, forge, prepare, concoct, mature. ANT: Misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue, hit, conjecture, guess, extemporize, chance. = KEY: Elapse. SYN: Pass, slip, lapse, glide away, intervene. ANT: Wait, abide, hold, continue, halt, endure. = KEY: Elastic. SYN: Ductile, extensile, alterable, resilient, modifiable, flexible, buoyant, springy. ANT: Tough, unchangeable, rigid, inflexible, inelastic, crystallized, dull, inert. = KEY: Elated. SYN: Cheered, joyed, inspirited, overjoyed, proud, inflated. ANT: Depressed, dispirited, disappointed, abashed, confounded, humiliated, disconcerted, dejected. = KEY: Elder. SYN: Senior, father. ANT: Junior, son. = KEY: Elect \a.\ SYN: Elite, choice, accepted, chosen. ANT: Rejected, reprobate. = KEY: Elected, [See ELECTION]. = KEY: Election. SYN: Choice, acceptance, selection, preference. ANT: Postponement, rejection, reprobation. = KEY: Electrify. SYN: Astonish, astound, appall, thrill, amaze, dumbfounder. ANT: Soothe, compose, cairn, mesmerize. = KEY: Elegance. SYN: Beauty, grace, refinement, symmetry, gracefulness, taste. ANT: Deformity, awkwardness, inelegance, disproportion, ungracefulness, coarseness, rudeness. = KEY: Elegant. SYN: Graceful, lovely, well formed, well made, symmetrical, accomplished, polished, refined, handsome. ANT: Inelegant, deformed, unsymmetrical, ill-proportioned, ungraceful, coarse, rude. = KEY: Elegy. SYN: Dirge, threnody, lament, jeremiad. ANT: {[Pseannent]?}, jubilee. = KEY: Element. SYN: Component, part, atom. ANT: Whole, total, mass, aggregate. = KEY: Elementary. SYN: Physical, material, natural, elementary, primary, rudimental, simple, inchoate, compo, constituent, ultimate. ANT: Immaterial, incorporeal, inpalpable, compound, collective, aggregate, developed, organized. = KEY: Elevate. SYN: Raise, dignify, ennoble. ANT: Lower, degrade, depress, humble, demean, debase. = KEY: Elevation. SYN: Height, rise, raising, altitude, loftiness, tallness, improvement, amelioration, refinement, superiority, eminence. ANT: Depth, fall, decline, depression, shortness, stuntedness, deterioration, debasement, degradation, inferiority. = KEY: Elicit. SYN: Draw, evoke, educe, eliminate, enucleate, express, extract, worm, evolve. ANT: Insert, implant, introduce, inoculate, insinuate, infuse, instil, incorporate, suggest, extort. = KEY: Eligible. SYN: Capable, suitable, worthy, desirable, preferable, choice, prime. ANT: Undesirable, worthless, unprofitable, ordinary, indifferent, ineligible. = KEY: Eliminate. SYN: Cast out, exclude, eject, reject, elucidate, explain, enucleate, segregate. ANT: Mystify, obscure, involve, smuggle, foi?t, import, confound. = KEY: Elision. SYN: Omission, ejection, excerption, abridgment, ellipse. ANT: Insertion, introduction, implantation, augmentation, elongation, inoculation. = KEY: Elliptical. SYN: Suggestive, latent, pregnant, significant, allusive, subauditive. ANT: Categorical, full, expository, explanatory, declaratory, enunciative. = KEY: Elocution. SYN: Oratory, declamation, eloquence. ANT: Reading, lection, balbutiation. = KEY: Elongation. SYN: Production, extension. ANT: Apocope, curtailment. = KEY: Eloquence, [See ELOCUTION]. = KEY: Elucidate. SYN: Explain, clear, [See {[11]?}], lustrate, make plain, expound. ANT: Mystify, obscure, confuse. = KEY: Elude. SYN: Escape, avoid, baffle, shun, eschew, evade, parry, fence, mock, frustrate. ANT: Encounter, meet, confront, court, dare, defy. = KEY: Elusory. SYN: Slippery, intangible, indetainable, fugitive, shadowy, unsubstantial. ANT: Persistent, stable, solid. = KEY: Emaciation. SYN: Leanness, attenuation, wasting. ANT: Fatness, obesity, corpulence. = KEY: Emanate. SYN: Originate, flow, spring, rise, proceed, issue. ANT: Terminate, culminate, end, evene, issue, arrive, eventuate. = KEY: Emanation, [See EMANATE]. = KEY: Emancipate. SYN: Liberate, enfranchise, rescue. ANT: Enthrall, subjugate, enslave, bind, disqualify. = KEY: Embalm. SYN: Conserve, preserve, treasure, store, enshrine, consecrate. ANT: Expose, desecrate, abandon, vulgarize. = KEY: Embargo. SYN: Restraint, detention, prohibition, stoppage. ANT: Permit, permission, discharge, liberation, dismissal, conge. = KEY: Embark. SYN: Launch, euler, start. ANT: Arrive, anchor, land. = KEY: Embarrass. SYN: Entangle, misconcert, trouble, perplex, contuse, hamper, clog, distress, puzzle, encumber. ANT: Extricate, liberate, expedite, facilitate, accelerate, assist, disencumber. = KEY: Embellish, [See ADORN]. = KEY: Embezzle. SYN: Appropriate, confuse, falsify, peculate, misappropriate. ANT: Square, balance, clear. = KEY: Embitter. SYN: Aggravate, molest. ANT: Alleviate, soothe, sweeten. = KEY: Emblazon, [See BLAZON]. = KEY: Emblem. SYN: Device, cognizance, sign, token, symbol, representation, type, badge, mark. ANT: Disguise, decoy, incognito, domino, blind, ruse. = KEY: Embody. SYN: Express, methodize, systematize, codify, incorporate, aggregate, integrate, compact, introduce, enlist, combine. ANT: Eliminate, segregate, analyze, dissipate, disintegrate, dismember, colliquats, disband, disembody. = KEY: Embolden, [See ENCOURAGE]. = KEY: Embosomed. SYN: Concealed, enfolded, wrapt, enveloped, surrounded, begirt, encircled. ANT: Exposed, unfolded, open, unencircled. = KEY: Embrace. SYN: Clasp, comprehend, include, hug, comprise, contain, close, embody, incorporate. ANT: Exclude, reject, except. = KEY: Embroider. SYN: Emboss, enrich, emblazon, embellish. ANT: Botch, patch, cobble, darn. = KEY: Embroil. SYN: Implicate, commingle, entangle (in quarrel), disturb, distract, trouble. ANT: Extricate, separate, remove, arrange, compose, pacify. = KEY: Embryo. SYN: Germ, nucleus, rudiment, origin. ANT: Development, shape, completion, maturity. = KEY: Emendation. SYN: Correction, amendment, rectification, reformation. ANT: Error, defect, incorrectness, fault, corruption. = KEY: Emerge. SYN: Escape, issue, evene, appear. ANT: Enter, incur, retreat, recede, abscond. = KEY: Emergency. SYN: Crisis, conjunction, {[ture]?}, pitch, embarrassment, strait, necessity, exigency, casualty, difficulty. ANT: rescue, deliverance, solution, subsidence, provision, anticipation, arrangement. = KEY: Emersion, [See IMMERSION]. = KEY: Emigration. SYN: Exodus, colonization, flit. ANT: Abode, sojourn, settlement, stay, domiciliation, immigration. = KEY: Eminence, [See HEIGHT]. = KEY: Eminent, [See HIGH]. = KEY: Eminently, [See HIGHLY]. = KEY: Emission, [See DISCHARGE]. = KEY: Emollient. SYN: Softening, laxative, balsamic. ANT: Astringent, irritant, galling. = KEY: Emolument, [See PROFIT]. = KEY: Emotion. SYN: Passion, feeling, excitement, agitation, perturbation, trepidation, tremor. ANT: Indifference, insensibility, impassiveness, imperturbability, stoicism. = KEY: Emphatic. SYN: Earnest, forcible, strong, energetic, impressive, positive, important, special, egregious, consummate. ANT: Mild, unemphatic, cool, unimpassioned, unimportant, ordinary, unnoticeable, commonplace. = KEY: Empierce, [See PIERCE]. = KEY: Empire. SYN: Dominion, sovereignty, rule, sway, kingdom, realm. ANT: Independence, insurrection, anarchy. = KEY: Empirical. SYN: Experimental, tentative, {[quackif-h]?}. ANT: Scientific, regular, inductive, uniform, constant. = KEY: Employ. SYN: reapply, economize, occupy, engage, engross. ANT: Discard, dismiss, misuse, misemploy. = KEY: Empower. SYN: Enable, commission, encourage, qualify, delegate, warrant, sanction, direct, authorize. ANT: Hinder, prevent, discourage, disable, disqualify. = KEY: Empty. SYN: Vacant, void, clear, unencumbered, unobstructed, unoccupied, waste, uninhabited, unfrequented, devoid, vacuous, destitute, unulled, unfurnished, untenanted, evacuated, deficient, weak, Billy, idle, senseless. ANT: Full, occupied, encumbered, obstructed, cultivated, colonized, inhabited, informed, well-instructed, experienced, sensible, significant, forcible, important, substantial. = KEY: Emulate. SYN: Rival, vie, compete, aspire. ANT: Disaffect, shun, forego, abandon, despise, contemn, waive. = KEY: Enable. SYN: Empower, strengthen, qualify. ANT: Disqualify, hinder, disable. = KEY: Enact, [See ACT and ABROGATE]. = KEY: Enamor. SYN: Captivate, fascinate, enslave, charm, endear, bewitch, enchain. ANT: Repel, disgust, estrange, disenchant, horrify. = KEY: Encamp. SYN: Settle, pitch, quarter, bivouac. ANT: March, decamp, retire, retreat. = KEY: Enchain. SYN: Bind, fetter, manacle, enslave. ANT: Loose, liberate, extricate, disenthrall, manumit. = KEY: Enchant, [See ENAMOR]. = KEY: Encircle. SYN: Surround, environ, inti, hem, circumscribe, compass, embrace, gird, engird, hem in, beset, encompass. ANT: Disenclose, disencircle, disencompass. = KEY: Enclose. SYN: Shut, encircle, environ, include, circumscribe, envelop, wrap, afforest. ANT: Open, disclose, exclude, bare, disencircle, expose, develop, disafforest, disenclose. = KEY: Enclosure. SYN: Fence, ring, limit, boundary, park, close, circle, field, precinct. ANT: Space, common, waste, wild, desert, wilderness, void. = KEY: Encomium. SYN: Panegyric, laudation, praise, compliment, commendation, eulogy. ANT: Vituperation, vilification, obloquy, taunt, invective. = KEY: Encompass, [See ENCIRCLE]. = KEY: Encounter. SYN: Meet, confront, face, withstand, attack, assault, combat, engagement. ANT: Elude, avoid, escape, miss, boo. = KEY: Encourage. SYN: Embolden, rally, enhearten, cheer, incite, stimulate, foster, cherish, promote, urge, impel, advance, countenance, forward, reassure, animate, inspirit, prompt, abet. ANT: Deter, discourage, dissuade, dispirit. = KEY: Encroach. SYN: Invade, trespass, intrude, transgress, infringe. ANT: Respect, recognize, observe. = KEY: Encrust. SYN: Coat, line, plaster, face. ANT: Expose, abrade, scrape. = KEY: Encrustation. SYN: Plaster, coating, lining, integument. ANT: Abrasion, exfoliation, peeling. = KEY: Encumber. SYN: Oppress, obstruct, clog, impede. ANT: Disencumber, free, disburden. = KEY: End, [See TERMINATION]. = KEY: Endanger. SYN: Imperil, expose, peril, jeopardize, hazard, risk. ANT: Cover, defend, protect, shield, screen. = KEY: Endear. SYN: Attach, conciliate, gain. ANT: Estrange, alienate, embitter. = KEY: Endearment, [See BLANDISHMENT]. = KEY: Endeavor, [See ATTEMPT]. = KEY: Endless. SYN: Interminable, illimitable, unending, unceasing, boundless, deathless, imperishable, everlasting, perpetual, eternal, infinite. ANT: Terminable, limited, temporary, brief, transient, periodic, ephemeral, fugitive, finite. = KEY: Endow. SYN: Present, enrich, furnish, qualify, adorn, invest, supply, clothe, endue. ANT: Denude, spoliate, strip, disendow, deprive, divest. = KEY: Endowment. SYN: Gift, provision, benefit, benefaction, talent, capacity, attainment, qualification. ANT: Impoverishment, spoliation, disendowment, incapacity, poverty, lack. = KEY: Endue, [See CLOTHE and ENDOW]. = KEY: Endure, [See LAST and TOLERATE]. = KEY: Enemy, [See FRIEND]. = KEY: Energy, [See ACTIVITY]. = KEY: Enervate. SYN: Weaken, enfeeble, unnerve, deteriorate, debilitate, relax, unstring, unhinge. ANT: Strengthen, brace, invigorate, harden, nerve. = KEY: Enfeeble, [See ENERVATE]. = KEY: Enfold. SYN: Wrap, envelop, enclose, embrace, comprise. ANT: Unwrap, develop, disclose. = KEY: Enforce. SYN: Urge, compel, require, exact, exert, strain. ANT: Relax, waive, forego, remit, abandon. = KEY: Enfranchise. SYN: Liberate, qualify, [See FRANCHISE]. ANT: Disfranchise, disqualify. = KEY: Engage. SYN: Promise, undertake, vouch, employ, occupy, hire, gain, attract, enlist, stipulate, pledge, agree, buy, adopt, involve. ANT: Decline, refuse, withdraw, dismiss, discard, extricate, disengage. = KEY: Engaged. SYN: Occupied, employed, selected, intent, chosen, affianced, betrothed. ANT: Free, unemployed, disengaged, unaffianced. = KEY: Engagement. (For military sense, see BATTLE.) SYN: Promise, pledge, agreement. ANT: Release from engagement, release, liberation. = KEY: Engaging. SYN: Attractive, interesting, winning. ANT: Unattractive, uninteresting, repultiive. = KEY: Engender. SYN: Generate, produce, create, breed, propagate. ANT: Stifle, destroy, extinguish, neutralize, blight, prevent. = KEY: Engird, [See GIRD]. = KEY: Engorge, [See GORGE]. = KEY: Engrave. SYN: Print, imprint, sculpture, stereotype. ANT: Obliterate, erase, levigate. = KEY: Engross, [See ABSORB]. = KEY: Engulf, [See ABSORB]. = KEY: Enhance, [See DEPRECIATE]. = KEY: Enigmatical. SYN: Puzzling, perplexing, obscure, mystic. ANT: Lucid, explanatory, plain, selfevident. = KEY: Enjoin. SYN: Impress, {[com]?}, mand, commission, direct, order, ordain, admonish, appoint, oblige, prescribe. ANT: Recall, dispense, remit, absolve, release, exonerate, dissuade. = KEY: Enjoy. SYN: Like, relish, possess. ANT: Dislike, disrelish, suffer, loathe, [See {[XXX]?}], forfeit, lose, tolerate, endure. = KEY: Enkindle, [See KINDLE]. = KEY: Enlarge. SYN: Amplify, expand, augment, broaden, swell, stretch out, extend, stretch, dilate, increase. ANT: Narrow, lessen, contract, restrict, diminish, curtail, reduce. = KEY: Enlighten. SYN: Illumine, edify, instruct, illuminate, inform, teach. ANT: Mislead, darken, confound, obscure, mystify, perplex. = KEY: Enlightened, [See ENLIGHTEN and WISE]. = KEY: Enlist. SYN: Enter, register, enroll, incorporate, embody. ANT: Withdraw, erase, expunge, dismiss, disband, disembody. = KEY: Enliven. SYN: Wake, cheer, vivify, quicken, invigorate, exhilarate, rouse, inspirit, {[amuie]?}, excite, animate. ANT: Oppress, depress, stupefy, weary, tire, paralyze, deaden. = KEY: Enmity. SYN: Discord, hate, hostility, malevolence, maliciousness, aversion, malignity, ill-feeling, animosity, opposition, bitterness, acrimony, asperity. ANT: Friendship, love, affection, esteem, friendliness, cordiality. = KEY: Ennoble. SYN: Exalt, dignify, elevate, ameliorate, aggrandize. ANT: Debase, degrade, deprave, deteriorate, depress. = KEY: Enormity. SYN: Atrocity, perpetration, abomination, sin. ANT: Innocence, guiltlessness, clean hands, clear conscience. = KEY: Enormous. SYN: Huge, immense, gigantic, colossal, elephantine, vast, gross, monstrous, prodigious. ANT: Diminutive, insignificant, trivial, venial, average, ordinary, regular. = KEY: Enough. SYN: Sufficient, ample, plenty, abundance. ANT: Bare, scant, insufficient, inadequate, short. = KEY: Enrage. SYN: Provoke, incite, madden, incense, excite, aggravate, irritate, inflame, embitter, infuriate, exasperate. ANT: Soothe, conciliate, pacify, tame, mollify, allay, quiet. = KEY: Enrapture. SYN: Beatify, entrance, enchant, fascinate, bewitch, captivate, transport, charm, attract, ravish. ANT: Disgust, nauseate, torture, horrify, torment. = KEY: Enrich. SYN: Aggrandize, endow, store, augment, fertilize, decorate, enhance. ANT: Impoverish, reduce, rob, beggar, fleece, denude, disfigure. = KEY: Enrobe. SYN: Drape, invest. ANT: Disrobe, divest. = KEY: Enroll, [See ENLIST]. = KEY: Enrollment, [See ENROLL]. = KEY: Ensconce, [See HIDE]. = KEY: Enshrine. SYN: Consecrate, treasure, embalm, cherish. ANT: Expose, desecrate, forget. = KEY: Enslave. SYN: Captivate, charm, subjugate, enthrall. ANT: repel, disgust, alienate, estrange, liberate, manumit, disenthrall. = KEY: Ensue. SYN: Follow, accrue, supervise, befall. ANT: Precede, threaten, premonish, forewarn. = KEY: Ensure. SYN: Fix, determine, secure, {[eeal]?}. ANT: Imperil, hazard, jeopardize, forfeit. = KEY: Entail. SYN: Bequeath, leave, devolve, demise, involve, necessitate, induce. ANT: Alienate, supersede, nullify, prevent, obviate. = KEY: Entangle. SYN: Knot, mat, entrap, ensnare, ravel, implicate, involve, perplex, embarrass, inveigle, compromise. ANT: Disentangle, unravel, extricate. = KEY: Enter. SYN: Invade, penetrate. ANT: Issue, depart, leave, quit, vacate. = KEY: Enterprise, [See ADVENTURE]. = KEY: Enterprising. SYN: Active, bold, daring, adventurous, speculative, dashing, venturesome. ANT: Inactive, timid, inadventurous, cautious. = KEY: Entertain. SYN: Harbor, maintain, conceive, foster, receive, recreate, amuse. ANT: Eject, exclude, deny, debar, annoy, weary, bore, tire. = KEY: Enthrall, [See ENSLAVE]. = KEY: Enthrone. SYN: Crown, install. ANT: Depose, dethrone, debase, degrade. = KEY: Enthusiasm. SYN: Excitement, frenzy, sensation, inspiration, transport, rapture, warmth, fervor, fervency, zeal, ardor, vehemence, passion, devotion. ANT: Coldness, callousness, indifference, disaffection, repugnance, alienation, contempt. = KEY: Enthusiastic, [See ENTHUSIASM]. = KEY: Entice. SYN: Allure, seduce, lure, tempt, attract, decoy. ANT: Deter, warn, hinder, repel. = KEY: Enticing, [See ENTICE]. = KEY: Entire. SYN: Whole, complete, unimpaired, total, perfect, all, full, solid, integral, undiminished. ANT: Partial, broken, impaired, incomplete. = KEY: Entirely, [See ENTIRE]. = KEY: Entitle. SYN: Qualify, empower, tit, enable, name, style, denominate, designate, characterize. ANT: Disqualify, disentitle, disable, not designate, not characterize. = KEY: Entity. SYN: Existence, being. ANT: Nonentity, chimera. = KEY: Entomb. SYN: Bury, inter, inhume. ANT: Disinter, exhume. = KEY: Entrammel. SYN: Entangle, impede, obstruct, hamper, decoy, entrap. ANT: Disentangle, liberate, extricate, expedite, disentrammel, disenthrall. = KEY: Entrance \n.\ SYN: Introduction, opening, entry, inlet, porch, admission, penetration, avenue, portal, ingress, adit. ANT: Exit, egress, departure, debouchure. = KEY: Entrance \v.\ [See ENRAPTURE]. = KEY: Entrap, [See ENTRAMMEL]. = KEY: Entreat \v.\ SYN: Implore, obsecrate, beg, beseech, importune, crave, solicit, supplicate, pray, ask, urge, petition. ANT: Command, insist, bid, enjoin. = KEY: Entry. SYN: Entrance, initiation, beginning, record, note, minute, register, memorandum. ANT: Conclusion, quittance, disposal, blank, omission, falsification, misentry, misrecord. = KEY: Entwine. SYN: Lace, convolve, interlace, weave. ANT: Disentwine, dissever. = KEY: Enumerate. SYN: Specify, name, number, recount, detail, reckon, compute, calculate, call over. ANT: Confound, Miscount, misreckon. = KEY: Enunciate. SYN: State, propound, pronounce, syllable. ANT: Mutter, babble, balbutiate, stammer. = KEY: Envelop, [See DEVELOP]. SYN: Wrap, enfold, encase, environ, inwrap, enclose, cover. ANT: Unwrap, develop, reveal, expose, unfold, extract. = KEY: Envelope \n.\ [See ENVENOM], [See POISON]. = KEY: Environ. SYN: Surround, hem, in-close, encircle, enfold. ANT: Disinclose, disenfold. = KEY: Envy. SYN: Grudging, jealousy, suspicion. = KEY: Ephemeral. SYN: Transient, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, momentary. ANT: Abiding, persistent, permanent, perpetual, eternal, perennial, immortal. = KEY: Epigrammatic. SYN: Pointed, terse, graphic, concise, laconic. ANT: Diffuse, circumlocutory, pointless. = KEY: Epitome, [See ABBREVIATION]. = KEY: Equable. SYN: Uniform, regular, proportionate, even, smooth, easy. ANT: Irregular, desultory, vari able, fitful, disjointed, uneasy. = KEY: Equal. SYN: Uniform, commensurate, co-ordinate, adequate, alike, equivalent, even, equable, sufficient, impartial, co-extensive, smooth. ANT: [See INEQUAL], incommensurate, inco-ordinate, inadequate, disparate, variable. = KEY: Equality, [See EQUAL]. = KEY: Equanimity. SYN: Calmness, composure, tranquillity, collectedness, even-mindedness. ANT: Restlessness, disquiet, perturbation, impatience. = KEY: Equip. SYN: Accoutre, garnish, invest, prepare, furnish, arrange. ANT: Divest, dismantle, denude, despoil, derange. = KEY: Equipage. SYN: Accoutrements, trappings, furniture, habiliments, apparatus, carriage, attendance, retinue. ANT: Dismantlement, unstateliness. = KEY: Equipment, [See EQUIP]. = KEY: Equipoise, [See BALANCE]. = KEY: Equipollent, [See EQUIVALENT]. = KEY: Equiponderant, [See EQUIPOISE]. ANT: [See EQUIVALENT]. = KEY: Equitable. SYN: Fair, just, proportionate, impartial, upright, proper, reasonable, even-handed, honest. ANT: Unfair, unjust, disproportionate, partial. = KEY: Equity, [See EQUITABLE]. = KEY: Equivalence, [See EQUIVALENT]. = KEY: Equivalent. SYN: Equiponderant, equipollent. ANT: Unequal, unequivalent. = KEY: Equivocal. SYN: Dubious, ambiguous, doubtful, double-sided. ANT: Univocal, plain, direct, clear. = KEY: Eradicate. SYN: Extirpate, abolish, extinguish, exterminate, excise, uproot, destroy, root out. ANT: Implant, import, instil, foster, propagate, cherish, encourage. = KEY: Eradication, [See ERADICATE]. = KEY: Erase. SYN: Obliterate, efface, expunge, blot, cancel. ANT: Mark, write, delineate. = KEY: Erasure, [See ERASE]. = KEY: Erect. SYN: Elevate, raise, establish, plant, uplift, construct, build, found, institute, set up. ANT: Lower, supplant, subvert, der press, remove, destroy, demolish. = KEY: Erection, [See ERECT]. = KEY: Erode, [See COURAGE]. = KEY: Err. SYN: Deviate, wander, mistake, blunder, misjudge, stumble, stray, go astray, misapprehend. ANT: Succeed, prosper, correct, rectify. = KEY: Errand. SYN: Message, commission, mission, delegation, charge. ANT: Misdelivery, misannouncement. = KEY: Erratic. SYN: Desultory, aberrant, abnormal, flighty, changeful, capricious. ANT: Regular, normal, methodical, calculable, unalterable, steady, undeviate. = KEY: Erring. SYN: Misguided, misled, sinful, wandering. ANT: Virtuous, good, upright. = KEY: Error. SYN: Fault, mistake, blunder, falsity, deception, fallacy, untruth, hallucination. ANT: Correction, correctness, truth, accuracy, soundness, rectification. = KEY: Erudition. SYN: Learning, lore, letters, scholarship. ANT: Illiterateness, duncedom, sciolism. = KEY: Eruption. SYN: Outburst, explosion, discharge, eruptation, exumation. ANT: Absorption, engulfing, engrossment, swallowing, irruption, inburst, devourment. = KEY: Escape. SYN: Elude, decamp, abscond, fly, flee, evade, avoid. ANT: Incur, confront, encounter, meet, suffer. = KEY: Escheat, [See CHEAT]. = KEY: Eschew, [See AVOID]. = KEY: Escort, [See CONVOY]. = KEY: Esculent, [See EDIBLE]. = KEY: Esoteric. SYN: Private, special, exacter, advanced. ANT: Public, popular, rudimentary, exoteric. = KEY: Especial, [See SPECIAL]. = KEY: Espousal, [See MARRIAGE]. = KEY: Espy, [See SPY]. = KEY: Essay \v.\ [See ASSAY]. = KEY: Essay \n.\ [See ASSAY and DISQUISITION]. = KEY: Essence. SYN: Being, life, entity, nature, substance. ANT: Accident, property, additament, garb, clothing, surroundings. = KEY: Essential. SYN: Innate, inherent, requisite, necessary, vital, immanent, indispensable, leading, accidental, qualitative, quantitative, promotive, regulative, induced, imported, adventitious, ascititious, redundant, superfluous. = KEY: Establish. SYN: Plant, fir, settle, found, demonstrate, organize, confirm, institute, prove, substantiate. ANT: Suppliant, unsettle, break-up, disestablish, misstate, confute, refute upset, subvert, presume, suppose, guess, conjecture, surmise. = KEY: Established, [See ESTABLISH]. = KEY: Estate. SYN: Lands, fortune, property, possessions, demesne, order, rank, condition, freehold, domain. ANT: State, community, country, waste, chattels, goods, effects. = KEY: Esteem. SYN: Price, value, consider, deem, judge, believe, estimate, think, regard, affect, appreciate, revere, honor, respect, admire, venerate, prize, love, like. ANT: Disregard, disconsider, disaffect, dislike, undervalue, underrate, decry, depreciate. = KEY: Estimable. SYN: Amiable, delectable, worthy, good, meritorious, deserving, lovable, praiseworthy. ANT: Unamiable, {[iiidelec]?}, iiidelec table, unworthy, bad. = KEY: Estimate, [See ESTEEM]. = KEY: estimator, [See ESTEEM]. = KEY: Estrange, [See ALIENATE]. = KEY: Esurient, [See STARVED]. = KEY: Eternal. SYN: Infinite, endless, everlasting, deathless, imperishable, never-dying, ceaseless, everliving, perpetual, undying, unceasing. ANT: Ephemeral, transient, temporal, fleeting, evanescent, sublunary. = KEY: Etiquette. SYN: Manners, breeding, fashion, conventionality. ANT: boorishness, rudeness, misobservance, singularity, nonconformance. = KEY: Eulogy, [See PRAISE]. = KEY: Euphonious. SYN: Musical, mellifluous, silvery, sweet-toned. ANT: Harsh, dissonant, discordant. = KEY: Euphuism. SYN: Affectation, pedantry, purism, highflying, finicality, factitiousness. ANT: Simplicity, rusticity, bluntness, naturalness, mother tongue, vernacular. = KEY: euphuistic, [See EUPHUISM]. = KEY: Evacuate. SYN: Void, abandon, desert. ANT: Occupy, seize, fill, hold. = KEY: Evade, [See ELUDE]. = KEY: Evanescent, [See EPHEMERAL]. = KEY: Evaporate. SYN: Melt, colliquute, liquefy, vaporize, disappear, dissolve, exhale, distil. ANT: Consolidate, compact, solidify, Indurate, crystallize. = KEY: Evaporation, [See EVAPORATE]. = KEY: Evasion. SYN: Prevarication, shuffle, fencing, sheet, subterfuge, quibble, equivocation. ANT: Answer, counterargument, grappling. = KEY: Even. SYN: Level, smooth, uniform, equable, plain, flush, well-balanced, equal. ANT: Inclined, abrupt, rugged, variable, uneven. = KEY: Event. SYN: Occurrence, circumstance, episode, adventure, issue, accident, result, fact, incident. ANT: Cause, antecedent, operation, inducement, contribution, convergence, predisposition, tendency. = KEY: Eventful. SYN: Remarkable, memorable, signal, important, marked, noted, critical, stirring, notable. ANT: Ordinary, unmarked, unimportant, eventless, uninteresting, characterless, trivial. = KEY: Ever. SYN: Always, continually, forever, eternally, constantly, incessantly. ANT: Never. = KEY: Everlasting. SYN: Infinite, endless, [See ETERNAL]. = KEY: Eversion. SYN: Evolution, Explication. ANT: Inversion, Involution, implication. = KEY: Every. SYN: [See AIL]. ANT: None. = KEY: Evict. SYN: Dispossess, eject. ANT: Reinstate, admit, settle, locate, lodge. = KEY: Eviction, [See EVICT]. = KEY: Evidence. SYN: Manifestation, attraction, averment, testimony, deposition, declaration, appearance, sign, token, proof, indication, exemplification, illustration. ANT: Surmise, conjecture, counterevidence, disproof, refutation, concealment, suppression, misindication, fallacy. = KEY: Evident. SYN: Plum, visible, conspicuous, manifest, indisputable, obvious, clear, palpable, incontrovertible. ANT: Doubtful, obscure, questionable, uncertain, dubious. = KEY: Evil. SYN: [See {[111]?}], noxious, deleterious, wrong, bad, mischievous, hurtful, sinful, unhappy, adverse, unpropitious, wicked, corrupt, harmful, unfair, notorious, miserable, sorrowful. ANT: Wholesome, beneficial, right, virtuous, holy, pure, happy, fortunate, felicitous, joyous, welcome, grateful, good. = KEY: Evince. SYN: Exhibit, evidence, show, prove, manifest, demonstrate. ANT: Suppress, disprove, negative, conceal. = KEY: Eviscerate. SYN: Disembowel, draw. ANT: Stuff, cram, pad. = KEY: Evoke. SYN: Excite, educe, provoke, elicit, produce, eliminate, extract, summon, call out. ANT: Allay, stifle, stop, silence, prevent, seal. = KEY: Evolution, [See ALTITUDE]. = KEY: Exacerbate, [See EXASPERATE]. = KEY: Exact, [See ACCURATE]. = KEY: Exactly. SYN: Precisely, accurately, correspondently. ANT: Loosely, inadequately, incorrectly, differently, otherwise. = KEY: Exaggerate. SYN: Amplify, enlarge, heighten, magnify, overstate, overdraw, strain, overpaint, overestimate. ANT: Disparage, attenuate, palliate, understate, underestimate, lenity, mitigate, soften, qualify, modify. = KEY: Exalt, [See ELEVATE]. = KEY: Exalted, [See EXALT]. = KEY: Examine. SYN: Weigh, ponder, investigate, perpend, test, scrutinize, criticize, prove, study, discuss, inquire, search, {[ovvjrua-il]?}, explore, inspect. ANT: Discard, conjecture, gnew, slur, misconsider, misinvestigate. = KEY: Examination, [See INQUIRY]. = KEY: Example. SYN: Sample, specimen, pattern, model, copy, illustration, in, stance, issue, development. ANT: Stock material, substantial, law, rule, character, principle, system, quality, case. = KEY: Exanimate, [See INANIMATE]. = KEY: Exasperate, [See AGGRAVATE]. = KEY: Excavate. SYN: Dig, hollow, trench, discover, deserter. ANT: Bury, fill level, conceal, inter, inhume. = KEY: Exceed, [See SURPASS]. = KEY: Exceeding, [See EXCEED]. = KEY: Exceedingly, [See EXCEED], [See SURPASS]. = KEY: Excellence, [See EXCEL]. = KEY: Except, prep. SYN: Excepting, saving, without, unless, exclusive of. = KEY: Except \v.\ SYN: Exclude, save, bar, {[*egre!]?}, ate, negative. ANT: Count, include, reckon, state, classify, propound, affirm, admit. = KEY: Exception. SYN: Qualification, separation, exclusion. ANT: Statement, rule, class, proposition. = KEY: Exceptionable. SYN: Objectionable, undesirable. ANT: Unobjectionable, desirable, unexceptionable, exemplary. = KEY: Exceptional. SYN: Rare, peculiar, uncommon, irregular, unusual, abnormal. ANT: Common, regular, normal, usual, ordinary. = KEY: Exceptions, [See CONTENTIOUS]. = KEY: Excess. SYN: Advance, increase, abundance, redundancy, superfluity, extravagance, surplus, debauchery, intemperance. ANT: Deficiency, failure, shortcoming, insufficiency, temperance, sobriety. = KEY: Excessive. SYN: Enormous, undue, exorbitant, overmuch, superabundant, superfluous, unreasonable, immoderate, inordinate, extravagant. ANT: Insufficient, scant, inadequate. = KEY: Exchange, [See CHANGE]. = KEY: Excision, [See ERADICATION]. = KEY: Excitability. SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, irascibility, irritability. ANT: Immobility, imperturbability, Insensitiveness-composure-hebetude. = KEY: Excitation, [See ROUSE]. = KEY: Excite. SYN: [See ALLAY]. = KEY: Exclaim, [See EJACULATE]. = KEY: Exclude, [See ADMIT]. = KEY: Exclusive, [See EXCLUDE and COMPREHENSIVE]. = KEY: Excogitation. \n.\ A complete cogitation. (/q.v./) SYN: Elaboration, deduction. ANT: Guess, surmise. = KEY: Excommunicate. SYN: Exclude, banish, bar, eject, blackball. ANT: Admit, readmit, inaugurate, enroll. = KEY: Excrescence. SYN: Superfluity, redundancy, imposthume, tumor. ANT: Eradication, extirpation, excision, levigation, exsection. = KEY: Excruciate. SYN: Agonize, torture, torment, rack. ANT: Soothe, please, tranquilize. = KEY: Excruciating, [See EXCRUCIATE]. = KEY: Exculpate. SYN: Defend, vindicate, exonerate, acquit, release. ANT: Charge, inculpate, Implicate. = KEY: Excursion. SYN: Trip, ramble, tour, journey, jaunt. = KEY: Excursive, [See DISCURSIVE]. = KEY: Excusable. SYN: Justifiable, venal, pardonable. ANT: Inexcusable, unpardonable. = KEY: Excuse. SYN: Exculpate, absolve, pardon, forgive, overlook, condone, i emit, indulge, justify, vindicate, defend, acquit, mitigate, extenuate, release, exempt, exonerate. ANT: Charge, inculpate, condemn, sentence, exact, strain, accuse. = KEY: Execrable. SYN: Detestable, loathsome, accursed, cursed, villainous, diabolical, hateful, abominable, {[danjiable]?}. ANT: Desirable, eligible, respectable, laudable. = KEY: Execrate, [See ABOMINATE]. = KEY: Execration. SYN: Curse, imprecation, denunciation, anathema, detestation, malediction. ANT: [See BENEDICTION]. = KEY: Execute, [See CONSUMMATE]. = KEY: Exemplary. SYN: Laudable, praiseworthy, conspicuous, honorable, wary, meritorious, worthy, excellent. ANT: Detestable, objectionable, exceptionable. = KEY: Exemplify. SYN: Illustrate, manifest, embody, exhibit, represent. ANT: Betray, falsify, misrepresent, belie. = KEY: Exempt. SYN: Free, irresponsible, unamenable, clear, liberated, privileged, absolved. ANT: Subject, responsible, liable, amenable. = KEY: Exemption. SYN: Freedom, immunity, dispensation, privilege, license. ANT: Liability, amenableness, subjection, responsibility. = KEY: Exercise \v.\ SYN: Practise, train, cultivate, develop. ANT: Rest, ease, disuse, respite, relax, recreate. = KEY: Exercise. SYN: Exertion, use, practice, application, training, employment, drill. ANT: Rest, ease, relaxation, recreation. = KEY: Exertion. SYN: Effort, labor, toil. ANT: Relaxation, recreation, rest. = KEY: Exhalation. SYN: Mist, damp, effluvium. ANT: Absorption, exsiccation, inhalation. = KEY: Exhale. SYN: Emit, give out, breathe out, evaporate. ANT: Inhale, breathe in, Inspire, contain. = KEY: Exhaust. SYN: Empty, spend, consume, debilitate, waste, void, drain, weaken, weary. ANT: Fill, replenish, augment, invigorate, refresh. = KEY: Exhaustion, [See EXHAUST]. = KEY: Exhibit. SYN: Show, manifest, evidence, evince, betray, demonstrate, illustrate. ANT: Suppress, conceal, secrete, mask, hide. = KEY: Exhibition. SYN: Representation, sight, [See PAGEANT]. = KEY: Exhilarate. SYN: Gladden, rejoice, inspirit, elate. ANT: Depress, dispirit, unnerve, unhinge. = KEY: Exhort. SYN: Urge, advise, counsel, enjoin, incite, animate. ANT: Deprecate, dissuade, warn, remonstrate. = KEY: Exhume, [See INTER]. = KEY: Exigency. SYN: Urgency, pressure, emergency, conjuncture, crisis. ANT: Provision, preparation, supply, rule, course. = KEY: Exile \v.\ SYN: Banish, relegate. ANT: Welcome, reinstate, domesticate, domiciliate. = KEY: Exile \n.\ [See BANISHMENT]. = KEY: Existence. SYN: Being, entity, creature. ANT: Nonentity, non-existence, chimera. = KEY: Exit, [See APPROACH and EGRESS]. = KEY: Exonerate, [See EXCULPATE]. = KEY: Exorbitant, [See EXCESSIVE]. = KEY: Exoteric, [See ESOTERIC]. = KEY: Exotic, [See FOREIGN]. = KEY: Expand. SYN: Swell, dilate, spread, extend, open, diffuse, develop, unfold, enlarge, amplify. ANT: Contract, curtail, attenuate, restrict, condense. = KEY: Expanse. SYN: Vast, void, space, breadth. ANT: Limit, enclosure, confine, bound. = KEY: Expatiate. SYN: Amplify, enlarge, dilate. ANT: Contract, condense, epitomize, summarize. = KEY: Expatriate, [See BANISH]. = KEY: Expect. SYN: Anticipate, await, forecast, forebode, wait for, rely on, look for, foresee. ANT: Welcome, hail, recognize, greet, realize. = KEY: Expectation. SYN: Expectancy, trust, confluence, [See HOPE]. = KEY: Expediency. SYN: Utility, advantage, interest. ANT: Inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment. = KEY: Expedient, [See EXPEDIENCY]. = KEY: Expedite, [See ACCELERATE]. = KEY: Expedition. SYN: Haste, speed, despatch. ANT: Delay, tardiness, procrastination. = KEY: Expel, [See EJECT]. = KEY: Expend. SYN: Spend, disburse, lay out, waste, consume, use. ANT: Save, husband, economize. = KEY: Expense. SYN: Price, cost, charge, payment, expenditure, outlay. ANT: Income, profit, receipt. = KEY: Expensive. SYN: Costly, valuable, rich, high-priced, dear, extravagant. ANT: Cheap, worthless, poor, economical. = KEY: Experience \v.\ SYN: Try, feel, undergo, encounter, endure. ANT: Evade, escape, miss, lose. = KEY: Experience \n.\ SYN: Experiment, trial, test, proof, habit, knowledge. ANT: [See TRIAL]. = KEY: Experienced. SYN: Skilled, practiced, familiar, accustomed, conversant. ANT: Inexperienced, strange, unpracticed. = KEY: Experiment. SYN: Trial, illustration, test, exemplification. ANT: Conjecture, assumption, hypothesis. = KEY: Expert, [See CLEVER]. = KEY: Expiate, [See ATONEMENT]. = KEY: Expire, [See DIE and TERMINATE]. = KEY: Explain. SYN: Expound, teach, illustrate, clear up, interpret, elucidate, decipher. ANT: Mystify, obscure, darken, bewilder, misinterpret. = KEY: Explanation. SYN: Exposition, explication, interpretation, sense, description. ANT: Mystification, obscuration, confusion, misinterpretation. = KEY: Explanatory, [See EXPLAIN]. = KEY: Explication, [See EXPLANATION]. = KEY: Explicit SYN: Plain, detailed, inobscure, declaratory, categorical, stated, distinctly stated, express, definite, determinate. ANT: Implicit, implied, hinted, suggestive, obscure. = KEY: Explode, [See BURST]. = KEY: Exploit, [See ACHIEVEMENT]. = KEY: Explore, [See EXAMINE]. = KEY: Explosion, [See EXPLODE]. = KEY: Exponent. SYN: Interpreter, propounder, advocate, representative. ANT: System, opinion, creed, principle. = KEY: Export. SYN: Ship, produce. ANT: Import, consume, expose, [See CONCEAL]. = KEY: Exposed. SYN: Unprotected, unguarded, laagered, defenseless. ANT: Guarded, defended, protected. = KEY: Exposition, [See EXPONENT and EXPLANATION]. = KEY: Expositor, [See EXPONENT]. = KEY: Expository, [See EXPLANATORY]. = KEY: Expostulate. SYN: Object, remonstrate. ANT: Coincide, abet. = KEY: Expound, [See EXPLAIN]. = KEY: Express \v.\ SYN: [See ENUNCIATE and STATE]. = KEY: Express \a.\ SYN: Specific, pointed, direct. ANT: General, vague, leisurely. = KEY: Expression. SYN: Countenance, look, indication, {[phrae % term]?}. ANT: Face, features, lineament, falsification, misstatement, solecism, enigma, suppression, Expulsion, [See EXPEL]. = KEY: Expunge. SYN: Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, blot out. ANT: Write, delineate, mark, trace. = KEY: Expurgation, [See ABSTERGE]. = KEY: Exquisite. SYN: Choice, rare, refined, delicate, perfect, matchless, intense, consummate, delicious. ANT: Common, coarse, ordinary. = KEY: Exquisitely, [See EXQUISITE]. = KEY: Exsufflation. SYN: Ebullition, eruption, eructation. ANT: Absorption, inhalation, disgorgement, deglutition. = KEY: Exsuscitate, SusciTATE. = KEY: Extant. SYN: Existent, surviving, current, forthcoming, present. ANT: Defunct, lost, obsolete, past. = KEY: Extempore. SYN: Offhand, unpremeditated. ANT: Studied, prepared, premeditated. = KEY: Extend. SYN: Prolong, stretch, expand, enlarge, increase, augment, reach, spread, amplify, avail, apply. ANT: Curtail, contract, restrict, narrow, limit, recur, return, miss, fail. = KEY: Extensile, [See EXTEND and DUCTILE]. = KEY: Extension, [See EXTEND and SPACE]. = KEY: Extensive, [See RECORD]. = KEY: Extent. SYN: Degree, distance, quantity, space, size. ANT: Diminution, restriction, limitation. = KEY: Extenuate. SYN: Mitigate, qualify, palliate. ANT: Aggravate, heighten, enhance. = KEY: Exterior. SYN: Outside, surface, face, aspect, phase. ANT: Interior, heart, core. = KEY: Exterior \a.\ SYN: Outer, outward, external, on the outside, foreign. ANT: Inner, inward, internal, domestic. = KEY: Exterminate, [See EXTERMINATION]. = KEY: Extermination. SYN: Eradication, extirpation, abolition, destruction. ANT: Settlement, replenishment, augmentation, colonization, population, propagation, increase. = KEY: External. SYN: Outer, exterior, apparent, manifest, superficial, visible, palpable. ANT: Inner, internal, inapparent, hidden, inmost, intestine. = KEY: Extinction. SYN: Destruction, stifling, suffocation, death, cessation, annihilation, obsolescence. ANT: Origination, inception, planting, birth, fife, course, operation, action, exercise, prosperity, continuance, survival. = KEY: Extinguish. SYN: Abolish, destroy, extirpate, eradicate, kill, quench, annihilate, put out. ANT: Implant, replenish, cherish, promote, invigorate, propagate, establish, confirm, secure. = KEY: Extirpate, [See ERADICATE]. = KEY: Extol, [See PRAISE]. = KEY: Extort. SYN: Wring, despoil, fleece, exact, express, squeeze out, wrench, wrest, extract. ANT: Coax, wheedle, cajole, cheat. = KEY: Extortionate. SYN: Hard, closefisted, severe, rigorous, exorbitant, preposterous, monstrous, exacting. ANT: Liberal, indulgent, bountiful, reasonable, fair, moderate. = KEY: Extract. SYN: Draw, educe, elicit, cite, excerpt, select, take out, gather, quote, collect, extol. ANT: Replace, insert, restore, impose, incorporate, reinsert. = KEY: Extraneous. SYN: Extrinsic, external, foreign, outside, alien, unconnected, unrelated, ascititious, adventitious. ANT: Intrinsic, internal, vital, connected, essential. = KEY: Extraordinary. SYN: Unwonted, uncommon, peculiar, unusual, unprecedented, wonderful, marvelous, prodigious, monstrous, remarkable, strange, preposterous. ANT: Wonted, common, usual, ordinary, frequent, unremarkable, unimportant. = KEY: Extravagance. SYN: Waste, wastefulness, prodigality, profusion. ANT: Carefulness, [See ECONOMY]. = KEY: Extravagant. SYN: Wild, monstrous, preposterous, absurd, prodigal, wasteful, reckless, excessive, lavish, profuse, abnormal. ANT: Sound, sober, consistent, rational, fair, economical, frugal, careful, regular, usual. = KEY: Extreme. SYN: Terminal, final, remote, utmost, farthest, {[ln*t]?}, extravagant, immoderate, most violent, distant, ultimate. ANT: Initial, primal, moderate, judicious. = KEY: Extremity. SYN: End, termination, close, conclusion. ANT: Beginning, commencement, opening, origin, body, centre, bulk. = KEY: Extricate, [See INVOLVE]. = KEY: Intrinsic, [See EXTRANEOUS]. = KEY: Extrude. SYN: Thrust out, eject, expel. ANT: Intrude, insert, introduce. = KEY: Exuberant, [See ABUNDANT]. = KEY: Exudation. SYN: Ooze, drip, percolation. ANT: Absorption, aridity, parching. = KEY: Exude, [See EXUDATION]. = KEY: Exult, [See EXULTANT]. = KEY: Exultant. SYN: Rejoicing, elated, jubilant, joyous, triumphant. ANT: Mournful, depressed, dispirited. = KEY: Exultation. SYN: Transport, delight, triumph, joy, ecstasy. ANT: Mourning, depression. = KEY: Fable. SYN: Apologue, fiction, parable, allegory, romance, invention, fabrication, untruth, novel, falsehood. ANT: History, narrative, fact. = KEY: Fabric. SYN: Work, construction, edifice, tissue, structure, web, texture. ANT: Destruction, dismantlement, demolition, fragment, wreck, tatters, ruin, rags, shreds. = KEY: Fabricate. SYN: Construct, make, form, forge, invent, falsify, manufacture, produce, frame, devise, coin, misrepresent. ANT: Demolish, tear, spoil, lacerate, dismember, destroy, narrate, copy, represent, portray, repeat. = KEY: Fabulous. SYN: Fictitious, incredible, feigned, imaginary, pretended, false, monstrous. ANT: Actual, real, historic, authentic, reasonable, fair, true. = KEY: Face, [See ASPECT]. = KEY: Facetious. SYN: Witty, funny, humorous, jocular, waggish, playful, droll, jocose. ANT: Heavy, matter-of-fact, dull, grave, serious, lugubrious, sombre, saturnine. = KEY: Facile. SYN: Docile, tractable, manageable, indulgent, weak, irresolute, easy, affable, flexible, characterless, pliable. ANT: Sturdy, obstinate, determined, resolute, pig-headed, crusty, inflexible, self-willed, independent, self-reliant. = KEY: Facilitate, [See FACILE and EXPEDITE]. = KEY: Facility. SYN: Ease, address, readiness, quickness, adroitness, dexterity, pliancy. ANT: Labor, effort, awkwardness, difficulty. = KEY: Facinorous, [See ATROCIOUS]. = KEY: Fact. SYN: Truth, deed, occurrence, certainty, circumstance, event, reality. ANT: Fiction, supposition, falsehood, unreality, lie, delusion, chimera, invention, romance. = KEY: Faction, [See CABAL]. = KEY: Factious. SYN: Oppositions, exceptions, litigious, crusty, malcontent, adversative. ANT: Agreeable, genial, complaisant, amenable, loyal, public-spirited, harmonious, co-operative, auxiliary, sympathetic. = KEY: Factitious. SYN: Artificial, affected, euphuistic, conventional, cramped, finical, ascititious, spurious. ANT: Natural, unaffected, genial, truthful, genuine, pure. = KEY: Faculty, [See CAPABILITY]. = KEY: Facundity, [See ELOQUENCE]. = KEY: Fade. SYN: Fall, fail, decline, sink, droop, dwindle, vanish, change, pale, bleach, set, etiolate. ANT: rise, increase, grow, bloom, flourish, abide, stand, last, endure. = KEY: Fading, Faded \v.\ [See FADE]. = KEY: Fag. SYN: Work, toil, slave, drudge. ANT: Bask, idle, lounge, dawdle, strike. = KEY: Fail. SYN: Fall, miss, miscarry, fall short, trip, lose. ANT: Succeed, exceed, surpass, excel, achieve, abound, yield. = KEY: Fain \adj.\ and \adv.\ [See GLAD and GLADLY]. = KEY: Faint. SYN: Weak, languid, fatigued, unenergetic, timid, irresolute, feeble, exhausted, half-hearted, obscure, dim, pale, faded, inconspicuous. ANT: Strong, vigorous, energetic, fresh, daring, resolute, prominent, marked, conspicuous, glaring. = KEY: Fair. SYN: Open, clear, spotless, unspotted, untarnished, reasonable, unblemished, serene, beautiful, just, honorable, equitable, impartial. ANT: Lowering, dull, foul, disfigured, ugly, unfair, dishonorable, fraudulent. = KEY: Fairly, [See FAIR]. = KEY: Fairness, [See FAIR]. = KEY: Faith, [See BELIEF]. = KEY: Faithful. SYN: true, firm, attached, loyal, accurate, close, consistent, correspondent, exact, equivalent, staunch, incorruptible. ANT: false, fickle, capricious, wavering, inaccurate, untrue, faithless, inexact. = KEY: Falcation, Falciform, [See CURVE]. = KEY: Fall. SYN: Drop, descend, droop, decline, gravitate, sink, lapse. ANT: rise, ascend, soar, mount, recover, climb. = KEY: Fallacy. SYN: Sophistry, error, blunder, misconception, bugbear, fiction, delusion, chimera. ANT: Truth, verity, fact, logic, argument, soundness, proof, postulate, axiom. = KEY: Fallible. SYN: Erring, uncertain, ignorant, weak. ANT: Infallible, certain, omniscient, unerring. = KEY: Fallow. SYN: Quiescent, idle, uncultivated, unproductive, untilled. ANT: Cultivated, worked, tilled, sown, productive, operative, prolific, fruitful. = KEY: false. SYN: Untrue, erroneous, fallacious, sophistical, spurious, deceptive, fabrication, counterfeit, mendacious, sham, mock, bogus, unfaithful, fib, falsity, fiction, dishonorable, faithless. ANT: true, correct, sound, conclusive, authentic, real, genuine, candid, honorable, faithful. = KEY: Falsehood. SYN: Untruth, error, fallacy, sophistry, deception, forgery, lie, cheat. ANT: Truth, correctness, verity, fact, authenticity, genuineness, honesty, honor, reality. = KEY: Falsify. SYN: Mistake, misinterpret, misrepresent, belie, betray, garble, cook. ANT: Verify, correct, rectify, certify, beck, justify, exhibit, publicate, expose, declare. = KEY: faulter. SYN: Halt, hesitate, hobble, slip, dubitate, stammer, demur, waver, flinch, vacillate. ANT: Proceed, run, speed, flow, discourse, determine, persevere, resolve, career. = KEY: Fame. SYN: report, rumor, bruit, news, tidings, renown, glory, honor, laurels, celebrity, reputation, credit. ANT: Silence, suppression, hush, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute. = KEY: Familiar. SYN: Household, common, free, frank, affable, everyday, well-acquainted, accustomed, conversant, intimate. ANT: Uncommon, rare, strange, extraordinary, unaccustomed, unacquainted, new, inconversant, unfamiliar. = KEY: Family, [See FAMILIAR]. = KEY: Famous. SYN: Renowned, glorious, celebrated, illustrious, far-famed. ANT: Unknown, obscure, unsung, inglorious. = KEY: Fail, [See ALLAY]. = KEY: Fanatic. SYN: Enthusiast, bigot, visionary, zealot. ANT: Skeptic, unbeliever, cynic. = KEY: Fanatical, [See FANATICISM]. = KEY: Fanaticism. SYN: Frenzy, enthusiasm, superstition, bigotry. ANT: Indifference, latitudinarianism, disbelief, profanity, disregard, skepticism, coldness, cynicism. = KEY: Fanciful. SYN: Grotesque, chimerical, unreal, imaginary, quaint, eccentric, freakish, humorsome, erroneous, capricious, whimsical, erratic, absurd, fitful. ANT: Natural, literal, regular, real, sober, ordinary, truthful, accurate, correct, orderly, calculable. = KEY: Fancy. SYN: Thought, belief, idea, supposition, imagination, caprice, notion, conceit, vagary, inclination, whim, humor, predilection, desire. ANT: Object, subject, fact, reality, order, law, truth, system, verity, aversion, horror, Fantastic, [See FANCIFUL]. = KEY: Fantasy, [See FANCY]. = KEY: Far, [See DISTANT]. = KEY: Farcical. SYN: Ludicrous, comic, funny, nonsensical, droll, pantomimic. ANT: Grave, serious, solemn, dismal, tragical, funereal, ghastly. = KEY: Fare \v.\ SYN: Do, live, feed, subsist, speed. ANT: Toil, fast, fail, droop, sink, drop, faint, halt, falter. = KEY: Fare \n.\ SYN: Provision, passage, money. ANT: Starvation, famine, abstinence, pauperism, mendicity. = KEY: Fascinate, [See BEWITCH]. = KEY: Fascination, [See FASCINATE]. = KEY: Fashion. SYN: Form, shape, guise, style, appearance, character, figure, mould, mode, custom, practice, usage, manner, way, ceremony. ANT: Person, work, dress, speech, formlessness, shapelessness, derangement, eccentricity, strangeness, outlandishness. = KEY: Fast. SYN: Firm, secure, fixed, constant, steadfast, stable, unyielding, Unswerving, rapid, accelerated, wild, reckless, dissipated, pay. ANT: Loose, insecure, slow, tardy, steady, sober, virtuous. = KEY: Fasten. SYN: Secure, hold, compact, tie, bind, join, unite, affix, annex, grapple, attach, fix. ANT: Undo, loose, sever, relax, detach, remove, unfasten. = KEY: Fastidious. SYN: Critical, overnice, overrefined, censorious, punctillious,