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KEY: Bristling.

SYN: Full, stocked, multitudinous, crowded, swarming, multifarious.

ANT: Bare, nude, scant, devoid, vacant.

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KEY: Brittle, [See FRAGILE].

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KEY: Broach.

SYN: Moot, start, launch, originate, suggest, exhibit, propound.

ANT: Reserve, secrete, seal, repress, cork, bottle.

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KEY: Broad.

SYN: Wide, extensive, expansive, ample, liberal, comprehensive, unreserved, indelicate, coarse, generic.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, confined, limited, bigoted, prejudiced, illiberal, narrow-minded, reserved, veiled, enigmatical, shrouded, shaded, refined, delicate, sketchy, specific, pointed.

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KEY: Broadcast.

SYN: Scattered abroad, dispersed, profusely, unsparingly, indiscriminately, injudiciously, extensively.

ANT: Collectedly, concentratively, sparingly, reservedly, locally, partially, discreetly, charily.

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KEY: Broil, [See AFFRAY].

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KEY: Brook.

SYN: Bear, tolerate, suffer, endure, undergo, submit to, permit.

ANT: Resist, resent, reject.

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KEY: Brotherhood.

SYN: Fraternity, association, fellowship, society, sodality.

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KEY: Brotherly.

SYN: Fraternal, kind, affectionate, tender.

ANT: Unkind, hard, harsh, unfraternal.

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KEY: Browbeat.

SYN: Intimidate, bully, overbear, cow, overawe, boycott, bulldoze.

ANT: Encourage, rally, countenance, support.

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KEY: Bruise \v.\ [See BREAK].

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KEY: Brunt.

SYN: Impulse, attack, aggression, onslaught, onset, assault, shock.

ANT: Resistance, endurance, repulsion.

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KEY: Brutal.

SYN: Savage, inhuman, rude, unfeeling, merciless, ruthless, brutish, barbarous, sensual, beastly, ignorant, stolid, dense, cruel, violent, vindictive, bloodthirsty, intemperate.

ANT: Humane, civilized, generous, intelligent, polished, chivalrous, conscientious, self-controlled.

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KEY: Brutish, [See BRUTAL].

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KEY: Bubble.

SYN: Trifle, toy, fancy, conceit, vision, dream, froth, trash.

ANT: Acquisition, prize, treasury reality, substance, verity, jewel, good, advantage.

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KEY: Bud \v.\

SYN: Sprout, blossom, bloom, germinate.

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KEY: Buffoon.

SYN: Wag, clown, jester.

ANT: Wit, genius, philosopher, pedant, visionary, dissembler, prig, enthusiast, hypocrite.

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KEY: Bugbear.

SYN: Hobgoblin, goblin, gorgon, ghoul, spirit, spook, specter, ogre, scarecrow.

ANT: [See SPECTER].

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KEY: Build, [See CONSTRUCT].

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KEY: Building.

SYN: Edifice, architecture, construction, erection, fabric, structure.

ANT: Ruin, dilapidation, dismantlement, demolition.

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KEY: Builder, [See BUILDING].

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KEY: Bulk.

SYN: Mass, whole, entirety, integrity, majority, size, magnitude, extension, body, volume, bigness, largeness, massiveness, dimension.

ANT: Tenuity, minority, dismemberment, disintegration, diminution, portion, contraction, section, atom, particle.

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KEY: Bulk, [See SIZE].

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KEY: Bulky.

SYN: Huge, unwieldy, heavy, large, ample, ponderous, burly, cumbrous, gigantic, brawny, massive.

ANT: Small, light, slight, airy, thin, delicate, nimble, attenuated, slender, sylphlike, puny, tiny.

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KEY: Bully.

SYN: swashbuckler, swaggerer, braggadocio.

ANT: [See BLUSTERER].

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KEY: Bullying, [See BLUSTERING].

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KEY: Bulwark.

SYN: Rampart, fortress, fortification, palladium, citadel, intrenchment, stronghold, parapet, bastion.

ANT: Storming, siege, investment, bombardment, cannonade, boarding.

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KEY: Bungler.

SYN: Botcher, clown, lubber, fumbler, novice.

ANT: Adept, adroit, master, artist, workman, proficient, professor.

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KEY: Buoy.

SYN: Float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer, inspire.

ANT: Sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail, betray.

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KEY: Buoyant.

SYN: Sprightly, spirited, vivacious, lively, light, floating, hopeful, cheerful, elastic, [See JOY].

ANT: Heavy, depressed, cheerless, joyless, dejected, moody, desponding.

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KEY: Burden \v.\ [See LOAD].

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KEY: Burden \n.\

SYN: Load, weight, Incubus, obstruction, oppression, grief, difficulty, affliction.

ANT: Ease, lightness, airiness, expedition, facility, acceleration, abjugation, liberation, lightheartedness, alleviation, assuagement, mitigation, consolation, disburdenment.

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KEY: Burdensome, [See TROUBLESOME and PONDEROUS].

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KEY: Burial.

SYN: Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment.

ANT: Exhumation, disinterment.

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KEY: Burke.

SYN: Stifle, shelve, strangle, smother.

ANT: Enucleate, propound, promulge, publicate, promote, foster, reanimate, eliminate, ventilate, bruit, suscitate.

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KEY: Burlesque.

SYN: Parody, travesty, satire, caricature, grotesque, droll, farcical, comic, ludicrous.

ANT: Classic, pure, severe, tragic, historic, grave, truthful.

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KEY: Burly, [See BULKY].

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KEY: Burn.

SYN: Ignite, kindle, brand, consume, cauterize, rage, glow, smoulder, blaze, flash, cremate, incinerate.

ANT: Extinguish, stifle, cool, wane, subside, glimmer, lower, pale.

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KEY: Burning, [See ARDENT].

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KEY: Burnish.

SYN: Brighten, glaze, polish, gloze, gloss.

ANT: Scratch, dull, abrade, bedim, cloud, frost, matt.

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KEY: Burst \v.\

SYN: Extravasate, displode, explode, discharge, shiver, shatter, disrupt, rend, break, split.

ANT: Cohere, hold, stand.

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KEY: Bury.

SYN: Inter, inhume, conceal, repress, suppress, obliterate, cancel, entomb, compose, hush.

ANT: Disinter, exhume, bruit, excavate, expose, resuscitate, publicate, aggravate.

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KEY: Business.

SYN: Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office, employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern.

ANT: Stagnation, leisure, inactivity.

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KEY: Bustle.

SYN: Business, activity, stir, commotion, energy, excitement, haste, hurry, eagerness, flurry.

ANT: Idleness, vacation, inactivity, Indolence, Indifference, unconcernedness, coolness, calm, stagnation, quiet, desertion.

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KEY: Busy.

SYN: Industrious, diligent, assiduous, engaged, occupied.

ANT: Idle, slothful, lazy, indolent, unoccupied.

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KEY: But.

SYN: Save, except, barring, yet, beside, excluding, still, excepting, notwithstanding.

ANT: With, including, inclusive, nevertheless, however, notwithstanding.

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KEY: Butchery, [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Buxom.

SYN: Bonny, blithe, shapely.

ANT: Lean, slender, ill-shaped.

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KEY: Buy.

SYN: Purchase, bribe, subsidize, suborn.

ANT: Sell, vend, hawk, retail.

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KEY: Buyer, [See BUY].

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KEY: Cabal.

SYN: Confederacy, conspiracy, combination, coterie, gang, faction, plot, political intrigue, junto, league.

ANT: Parliament, legislation, council, government, empire, synod.

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KEY: Cabalistic.

SYN: Mystic, symbolical, fanciful, occult.

ANT: Patent, practical, instructive, lucid, simple.

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KEY: Cabbage.

SYN: Rob, steal, filch, crib, pocket, shirk, pillage, abstract, purloin.

ANT: [See PURLOIN].

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KEY: Cachinnation.

SYN: Grin, chuckle, giggle, snigger, titter, cackle.

ANT: Longfacedness, whine, whimper.

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KEY: Cackle, [See CACHINNATION].

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KEY: Cadaverous.

SYN: Pale, exsanguineous, bloodless, hueless, pallid, ghastly, ashy.

ANT: Rosy, incarnadine, sanguine, chubby, brawny.

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KEY: Caducity.

SYN: Decline, infirmity, decrepitude, senility, decadence, transience, delicacy.

ANT: Vigor, youth, freshness, vitality, renovation, permanence.

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KEY: Cage.

SYN: Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate, cabin, crib.

ANT: Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar.

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KEY: Caitiff.

SYN: Rascal, miscreant, rogue, churl, villain, ruffian.

ANT: Worthy, gentleman, patriot, philanthropist.

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KEY: Cajole.

SYN: Tempt, lure, coat, flatter, wheedle, delude, cheat, inveigle, dupe.

ANT: Chide, rate, scold, warn.

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KEY: Calamity.

SYN: Disaster, misfortune, mishap, catastrophe, misadventure, trouble, visitation, affliction, reverse, blight.

ANT: godsend, blessing, boon.

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KEY: Calamitous.

SYN: Disastrous, illfated, fatal, unlucky, hapless, unfortunate, inauspicious, troublous, illstarred, ill-omened.

ANT: Felicitous, fortunate, auspicious, favorable, propitious, advantageous.

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KEY: Calculate.

SYN: Estimate, consider, weigh, number, count, apportion, proportion, investigate, reckon, rate, compute.

ANT: Guess, conjecture, hit, chance, risk, stake, miscalculate.

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KEY: Calculated.

SYN: Fitted, congenial, adapted, conducive.

ANT: Unfitted, unadapted, uncongenial, unconducive, adverse, unqualified, unsuited, miscalculated, ill-adapted.

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KEY: Calculating.

SYN: Wary, cautious, circumspect, sagacious, careful, farsighted, guarded.

ANT: Shortsighted, dull, obtuse, improvident, incautious, rash, careless.

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KEY: Calculation.

SYN: Estimation, consideration, balance, apportionment, investigation, reckoning, computation, anticipation, forethought, regard, circumspection, watchfulness, vigilance, caution, care.

ANT: Inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incaution, indiscretion, miscalculation, misconception, exclusion, exception, omission, carelessness, seposition.

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KEY: Calibre.

SYN: Gauge, diameter, ability, capacity, force, strength, power.

ANT: correlative, as character, mind, etc.

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KEY: callback, [See RECALL].

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KEY: Call out, [See PROCLAIM].

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KEY: Call together, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Called.

SYN: Named, designated, denominated, Determined.

ANT: Unnamed, undesignated, misnamed, misdesignated.

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KEY: Calling, [See BUSINESS].

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KEY: Callous, [See FAVORABLE].

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KEY: Calm.

SYN: Smooth, pacify, compose, allay, still, soothe, appease, assuage, quiet, tranquilize.

ANT: Stir, excite, agitate, disconcert, ruffle, lash, heat, discompose.

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KEY: Calumniate, [See SLANDER].

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KEY: Calumniator, [See BACKBITER].

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KEY: Calumnious.

SYN: Slanderous, defamatory, scurrilous, abusive.

ANT: [See ABUSIVE].

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KEY: Calumny.

SYN: Slander, defamation, detraction, libel, traducement, backbiting, opprobrium, aspersion.

ANT: Vindication, clearance, eulogy, panegyric.

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KEY: Camp.

SYN: Encamp, bivouac.

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KEY: Cancel.

SYN: Efface, blot out, annul, expunge, nullify, quash, rescind, repeal, revoke, abrogate, obliterate, discharge, erase, abolish, countervail.

ANT: Enforce, enact, re-enact, confirm, perpetuate, contract.

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KEY: Candid.

SYN: Fair, honest, open, sincere, frank, artless, impartial, plain, straightforward, aboveboard, transparent, unreserved, ingenious.

ANT: unfair, close, mysterious, reserve, shuffling, disingenuous, insincere, Jesuitical.

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KEY: Candidate.

SYN: Aspirant, petitioner, canvasser, applicant, claimant, solicitor.

ANT: Waiver, decliner, abandoner, resigner, abjurer, noncompetitor.

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KEY: Canon.

SYN: Rule, measure, regulation, test, law.

ANT: Misguidance, antinomy, Irregularity, misrule.

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KEY: Canvass \v.\

SYN: Question, Investigate, challenge, test, dispute, solicit, sift, examine, discuss, apply for, request.

ANT: Pretermit, allow, ignore, disregard, admit, pass, misexamine, misinvestigate.

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KEY: Capable, [See ABLE].

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KEY: Capability.

SYN: Cleverness, aptitude, talent, capacity, power, facility, faculty.

ANT: Dulness, inaptitude, awkwardness, difficulty.

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KEY: Capacious.

SYN: Spacious, comprehensive, voluminous, ample, accommodative, extensive, wide.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, confined, shallow, contracted, petty.

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KEY: Capacity.

SYN: Space, size, volume, tonnage, calibre, ability, faculty, compatability, cleverness, talents, magnitude, parts, competency, compressiveness, accommodation.

ANT: Narrowness, restriction, Incapacity, coarctation, contractedness.

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KEY: Capital.

SYN: Chief, excellent, important, cardinal, principal, consummate, high.

ANT: Inferior, unimportant, subordinate, minor, defective, mean.

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KEY: Capitulate.

SYN: Stipulate, yield, surrender, submit.

ANT: Resist, struggle, contend.

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KEY: Caprice, [See DRY].

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KEY: Capricious.

SYN: Wayward, uncertain, fanciful, freakish, fitful, fickle, changeful, whimsical, humorsome, inconstant, crotchety.

ANT: Firm, unchanging, inflexible, decided, unswerving, constant.

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KEY: Captious.

SYN: Carping, caviling, censorious, hypercritical, cross, fault-finding, critical, cynical, petulant, irritable, splenetic, touchy, peevish, fretful.

ANT: Appreciative, commendatory, encouraging, complimentary, approving, laudatory, flattering.

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KEY: Captivate, [See BEWITCH].

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KEY: Captivated.

SYN: Taken, charmed, smitten, fascinated, enslaved, captured, enthralled.

ANT: Free, unaffected, uninfluenced, unscathed, insensible, insensitive.

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KEY: Captivating.

SYN: Charming, bewitching, fascinating, alluring, seductive, attractive.

ANT: Hideous, loathsome, repulsive, uncaptivating, uninteresting.

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KEY: Captivity, [See THRALDOM].

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KEY: Capture \v.\ [See SEIZE].

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KEY: Capture \n.\ [See PRIZE].

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KEY: Care.

SYN: Attention, pains, anxiety, concern, trouble, circumspection, regard, solicitude, caution, prevention, custody, preservation, thrift, heed, foresight, wariness, economy, prudence.

ANT: Inattention, neglect, disregard, carelessness, indifference, temerity, remissness, improvidence, unguardedness, incaution.

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KEY: Career.

SYN: Course, success, walk, line, progress, history, way of ill passage, race.

ANT: Misproceeding, misdeportment, unsuccess, miscarriage.

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KEY: Careful, [See COMMON].

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KEY: Careless, [See COMMON].

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KEY: Caress \v.\ [See FONDLE].

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KEY: Caress \n.\

SYN: Endearment, blandishment, wheedling, fondling, stroking.

ANT: Vexation, irritation, annoyance, teasing, persecution, provocation.

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KEY: Cargo.

SYN: Freight, burden, load, consignment, merchandise, lading, goods.

ANT: Conveyance, bearer, carrier.

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KEY: Caricature.

SYN: Mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, extravagance, exaggeration, hyperbole, monstrosity, farce.

ANT: Portraiture, representation, resemblance, justice, fidelity, truthfulness.

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KEY: Carnage.

SYN: Massacre, slaughter, bloodshed, butchery.

ANT: Ransom, deliverance, quarter.

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KEY: Carnal.

SYN: Fleshly, sensual, selfindulgent, licentious, animal, coarse, base, worldly, impure, libidinous, secular.

ANT: Spiritual, ethereal, pure, selfcontrolled, temperate, exalted, refined.

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KEY: Carnival.

SYN: Revel, rout, festivity, masquerade.

ANT: Fast, mortification, lent, retirement.

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KEY: Carol.

SYN: Sing, warble, chirp, trill, whistle, chirrup, chant, hum.

ANT: Whine, croak, cry, dirge, lament.

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KEY: Carouse.

SYN: Festivity, feast, banquet, revel, debauch.

ANT: Fast, starvation, maceration, abstinence.

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KEY: Carousal.

SYN: Wassail, revel, banquet, orgies.

ANT: [See BANQUET].

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KEY: Carp.

SYN: Cavil, censure, challenge, overhaul, canvass, hypercriticise, object, catch.

ANT: Allow, concede, admit, compliment, encourage, approve, applaud, endorse, acquiesce, assent.

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KEY: Carpet, (Metaphorical).

SYN: Table, board, consideration, consultation.

ANT: Shelf, rejection, disposal, oblution.

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KEY: Carriage.

SYN: Transportation, conveyance, bearing, manner, conduct, demeanor, walk, gait, mien, behavior, deportment, vehicle.

ANT: Misconveyance, miscarriage, misconduct, misconsignment.

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KEY: Carry, [See BEAK].

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KEY: Carry on, [See TRANSACT].

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KEY: Carry through, [See COMPLETE].

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KEY: Case.

SYN: Occurrence, circumstance, contingency, event, plight, predicament, fact, subject, condition, instance.

ANT: Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture.

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KEY: Cash.

SYN: Money, specie, coin, currency, capital.

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KEY: Cast \v.\

SYN: Hurl, send down, throw, fling, pitch, impel, project, construct, mold, frame.

ANT: Raise, elevate, recover, erect, accept, approve, retain, carry, ignore, miscalculate, misprovide, break, dissipate, dismember, dislocate.

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KEY: Cast \n.\

SYN: Mould, stamp, kind, figure, form, aspect, mien, air, style, manner, character.

ANT: Malformation, deformity, abnormity.

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KEY: castaway, [See REJECT].

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KEY: Cast down, [See MELANCHOLY].

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KEY: Cast out, [See EJECT].

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KEY: Caste.

SYN: Order, class, rank, lineage, race, blood, dignity, respect.

ANT: Degradation, taboo, disrepute, abasement, reproach.

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KEY: Castigate.

SYN: Whip, flagellate, cane.

ANT: Reward, encourage, decorate, caress.

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KEY: Casual.

SYN: Accidental, occasional, incidental, contingent, unforeseen, fortuitous.

ANT: Regular, ordinary, systematic, periodic, certain, fixed, [See CASUALTY].

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KEY: Casualty.

SYN: Accident, contingency, chance, fortuity, hap, misfortune, occurrence, mischance, [See ACCIDENT].

ANT: Appointment, assignment, provision, ordinance, enactment.

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KEY: Casuistry.

SYN: Sophistry, Jesuitry, fallacy, refinement, quibble, strawsplitting.

ANT: Reason, conscience, commonsense.

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KEY: Catalogue \n.\ [See BAWL].

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KEY: Catastrophe.

SYN: Revolution, disaster, calamity, misfortune, misadventure, reverse, blow, visitation.

ANT: Blessing, victory, triumph, felicitation, achievement, ovation, success, godsend.

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KEY: Catch.

SYN: Take, seize, grip, clutch, capture, secure, ensnare, snatch, hit, arrest, comprehend, overtake, apprehend.

ANT: Lose, miss, misapprehend, escape.

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KEY: Catching, [See PESTIFEROUS].

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KEY: catechism.

SYN: Erotetics, socratics, interrogation, creed, system, compendium.

ANT: Reading, excogitation, elaboration.

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KEY: Catechumen.

SYN: Tyro, learner, pupil, novice, scholar.

ANT: Master, doctor, professor, teacher, savant.

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KEY: Categorical.

SYN: Plain, positive, declaratory, peremptory, affirmative, absolute, demonstrative, distinct.

ANT: Obscure, uncertain, ambiguous, dubious, contingent, hypothetical, hazy, oracular, enigmatical, mystical.

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KEY: Category.

SYN: State, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort, class.

ANT: Essence, truth, being.

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KEY: Causality.

SYN: Eventuality, operativeness, potentiality, effectuality, productiveness, conduciveness.

ANT: Preventiveness, retardativeness, obstructiveness, counteractivity, unproductiveness, ineffectiveness, inoperativeness, barrenness.

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KEY: Causation, [See CAUSALITY].

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KEY: Cause \v.\ [See PRODUCE].

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KEY: Cause \n.\

SYN: Source, origin, producer, agent, creator, purpose, inducement, reason, account, principle, motive, object, suit, action.

ANT: Effect, result, accomplishment, end, production, issue, preventive.

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KEY: Caustic.

SYN: Burning, mordant, pungent, irritating, biting, pointed, sarcastic, trenchant, severe.

ANT: Pointless, mild, soothing, conciliating, vapid, flat, tame.

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KEY: Caution.

SYN: [See CARE and CALCULATION].

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KEY: Cautious, [See CIRCUMSPECT].

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KEY: Cavalier \a.\ [See ARROGANT].

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KEY: Cavil, [See CARP].

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KEY: Cavity, [See OPENING].

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KEY: Caviller, [See CAVIL].

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KEY: Cease.

SYN: Intermit, stop, desist, abstain, discontinue, quit, refrain, end, pause, leave off.

ANT: Ceaseless, never-ending, everlasting, constant, incessant, [See ETERNAL].

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KEY: Ceaseless, [See CEASE].

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KEY: Cede, [See RELINQUISH].

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KEY: Celebrate, [See HONOR].

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KEY: Celebrated.

SYN: Famed, renowned, illustrious, eminent, glorious, famous, noted, distinguished, notable, exalted.

ANT: Unrenowned, obscure, undistinguished, unknown, disgraced, mean.

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KEY: Celebration.

SYN: Commemoration, solemnization, observance.

ANT: Oblivion, inobservance, obsolescence, desuetude.

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KEY: Celebrity.

SYN: Fame, honor, glory, star, reputation, distinction, renown, notability, eminence, notoriety.

ANT: Obscurity, meanness, ingloriousness, ignominy, disgrace, contempt, cipher, nobody.

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KEY: Celerity.

SYN: Rapidity, speed, haste, velocity, swiftness, quickness, fleetness, despatch.

ANT: Slowness, inertness, slaggishness, tardiness, cumbrousness.

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KEY: Celestial.

SYN: Heavenly, ethereal, atmospheric, supernal, angelic, radiant, eternal, immortal, seraphic, divine, godlike, elysian.

ANT: Earthly, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, mortal, hellish, infernal.

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KEY: Cement.

SYN: Bind, bond, unite, perpetuate, consolidate.

ANT: Detach, dissolve, dissociate, disintegrate, divorce.

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KEY: Censorious, [See CAPTIOUS].

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KEY: Censure \v.\ [See BLAME].

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KEY: Censure.

SYN: Blame, stricture, reproach, reprobate, inculpate, reprove, condemn, reprehend, chide, berate, scold, upbraid, disapproval, remonstrance, rebuke, reprimand, dispiaise.

ANT: Praise, eulogy, approbation, encouragement, commendation.

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KEY: Central.

SYN: Mediate, accessible, convenient,.

ANT: Remote, inaccessible, inconvenient.

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KEY: Centralize.

SYN: Concentrate, fix, localize, collect.

ANT: Disperse, disseminate, distribute, apportion, divide, delocalize.

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KEY: Ceremonial.

SYN: Official, ministerial, functional, pompous, imposing, sumptuous, scenic.

ANT: Ordinary, private, unimposing, unostentatious, undramatic.

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KEY: Ceremonious.

SYN: Punctilious, formal, prim, precise.

ANT: Brusque, blunt, supercilious, bluff, unceremonious.

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KEY: Ceremony.

SYN: Display, pageant, solemnity, rite, formality.

ANT: [See FASHION].

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KEY: Certain.

SYN: true, fixed, regular, established, incontrovertible, undoubtful, indubitable, infallible, unmistakable, sure, unfailing, real, actual, undeniable, positive, convinced, assured.

ANT: Uncertain, dubious, exceptional, irregular, casual, occasional, questionable, doubtful, vacillating, undecided, uncertain.

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KEY: Certainly.

SYN: Surely, positively, unquestionably.

ANT: Possibly, probably, perhaps, contingently, doubtfully, occasionally.

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KEY: Certainty.

SYN: Assurance, demonstrableness, positiveness, unquestionableness, confidence, conviction.

ANT: Dubiousness, precariousness, casualty, vicissitude, uncertainty, irregularity, hesitation, doubt, misgiving, conjecture, indecision.

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KEY: Certify.

SYN: Acknowledge, aver, attest, vouch, avow, avouch, testify, protest, declare, demonstrate, prove, evidence, inform, assure.

ANT: Disprove, disavow, misinform, misadvise.

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KEY: Cessation.

SYN: Stopping, halt, discontinuance, quiescence, suspension, intermission, lull, respite, stop, rest, abeyance, pause.

ANT: Continuance, uninterruptedness, unintermission, incessancy.

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KEY: Cession.

SYN: Concession, yielding, surrender, abandonment, relinquishment, grant.

ANT: Retention, claimance, maintenance, appropriation, usurpation, vindication, assumption.

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KEY: Chafe.

SYN: Gall, rub, vex, irritate, chagrin, tease, harass, disappoint, grieve, annoy, worry, calcitrate, re sent, resist, fret, fidget, writhe.

ANT: Soothe, smooth, coax, calm, humor, console, submit, endure, succumb, crouch, truckle.

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KEY: Chaff.

SYN: Banter, badinage, nonsense, frivolity, trash, chaffer.

ANT: Emphasis, seriousness, sense, substance, reason, argument, marrow, pith, gist.

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KEY: Chaffer.

SYN: Haggle, bargain, higgle, stickle, boggle.

ANT: Close, conclude, agree, negotiate.

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KEY: Chagrin \v.\ [See CHAFE].

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KEY: Challenge \v.\

SYN: Defy, summon, dare, question, investigate, brave, canvass.

ANT: Pass, allow, grant, concede.

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KEY: Champion \n.\

SYN: Hero, warrior, combatant, vindicator, challenger, defender, protector.

ANT: Renegade, deserter, poltroon, miscreant, traitor, coward, adversary, opponent.

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KEY: Chance \v.\ [See HAZARD].

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KEY: Chance \n.\

SYN: Accident, fortuity, hazard, haphazard, fortune, random, casualty, befoulment, luck.

ANT: Law, rule, sequence, consequence, causation, effectuation, intention, purpose, design, certainty.

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KEY: Change \v.\

SYN: Vary, alter, modify, diversify, qualify, transmute, substitute, fluctuate, shift, veer, exchange.

ANT: Conserve, retain, stabilitate, fix, clinch, stand, endure, last, hold.

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KEY: Change \n.\ [See VARIATION].

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KEY: Changeable.

SYN: [See CAPRICIOUS].

ANT: [See CHANGELESS].

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KEY: Changeful, [See CHANGEABLE].

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KEY: Changeless.

SYN: Regular, settled, steady, firm, stationary, consistent, resolute, reliable, undeviating, uniform, immutable, immovable.

ANT: Irregular, unsettled, unsteady, wavering, fluctuating, capricious, irresolute, vacillating, variable, mutable, plastic.

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KEY: Chaplet.

SYN: Garland, wreath, coronal.

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KEY: Character.

SYN: Symbol, letter, nature, type, disposition, genius, temperament, cast, estimation, repute, office, reputation, part, capacity, class, order, sort, stamp, kind, quality, species, sign, tone, mark, figure, record.

ANT: Vagueness, anonymousness, nondescription, disrepute.

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KEY: Characteristic.

SYN: Distinction, peculiarity, diagnosis, idiosyncrasy, speciality, individuality, personality, singularity.

ANT: Nondescription, abstractedness, generality, miscellany.

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KEY: Characterize.

SYN: Mark, distinguish, describe, particularize, style, designate, individualize, specify, identify.

ANT: Hint, insinuate, sketch, suggest, adumbrate.

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KEY: Charge.

SYN: Direct, enjoin, advise, admonish, arraign, inculpate, entrust, commit, load, accuse, impeach, attack, assault, impute, carry.

ANT: Clear, free, discharge, acquit, liberate.

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KEY: Chargeable.

SYN: Attributable, ascribable, imputable.

ANT: Not attributable, not ascribable, not imputable.

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KEY: Charity, [See BENEVOLENCE].

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KEY: Charitable.

SYN: Kind, benign, benevolent, beneficent, liberal, considerate, forgiving, compassionate, placable, inexacting, inextreme.

ANT: Uncharitable, unkind, harsh, selfish, churlish, illiberal, censorious, unforgiving, uncompassionate, implacable, extreme, exacting, retaliative, revengeful.

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KEY: Charlatan, [See QUACK], Charm \v.\

SYN: Bewitch, enchant, fascinate, lay, soothe, mesmerize, delight, enrapture, transport, entice, allure, entrance, captivate, subdue.

ANT: Disenchant, disillusionize, excite, rouse, disturb, annoy, Irritate, alarm, terrify, repel, disgust.

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KEY: Charm \n.\

SYN: Spell, incantation, enchantment, fascination, attraction, allurement.

ANT: Disenchantment, repulsion, fear.

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KEY: Chary.

SYN: Careful, cautions, calculating, frugal, shy, wary, sparing, slow, saving, reluctant.

ANT: Liberal, lavish, profuse, eager.

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KEY: Chase \v.\

SYN: Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute.

ANT: Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade.

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KEY: Chaste.

SYN: Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented, virtuous, incorrupt, simple, unaffected, nice.

ANT: Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated.

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KEY: Chasten.

SYN: Purify, discipline, chastise, correct, castigate, improve, spiritualize, afflict, refine.

ANT: Indulge, sensualize, brutalize, degrade, corrupt, pamper, carnalize, spoil, demoralize.

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KEY: Chat, [See BABBLE].

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KEY: Chattels.

SYN: Effects, goods, wares, movables, furniture.

ANT: Freehold.

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KEY: Chatter.

SYN: Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle.

ANT: Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation.

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KEY: Cheap.

SYN: Common, inexpensive, uncostly, mean, vile, worthless, low-priced.

ANT: Rare, costly, worthy, expensive, honorable, noble, high.

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KEY: Cheat \v.\

SYN: Overreach, fleece, silence, trick, gull, cozen, juggle, defraud, swindle, dupe, beguile, deceive, deprive, hoodwink, prevaricate, dissemble, shuffle, inveigle.

ANT: Enlighten, guide, remunerate, compensate, undeceive, disabuse.

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KEY: Cheat \n.\

SYN: Deception, fraud, imposition, trick, artifice, illusion, imposture, swindle, finesse, deceit, lie, fiction.

ANT: Troth, reality, verity, fact, certainty, genuineness, verification, honesty, authenticity.

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KEY: Check \n.\

SYN: Repulse, hindrance, set back, rebuff.

ANT: Encouragement, freedom, liberty.

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KEY: Check \v.\

SYN: Curb, restrain, stop, stay, repress, hinder, impede, inhibit, cohibit, bridle, control, obstruct.

ANT: Loose, liberate, instigate, accelerate, license, indulge, allow, abet.

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KEY: Cheer \v.\ [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Cheer \n.\

SYN: Hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality.

ANT: Dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth, inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociableness.

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KEY: Cheerful.

SYN: Lively, gay, bright, happy, bonny, merry, joyful, pleasant, buoyant, sunny, enlivening, in good spirits, sprightly, blithe, joyous.

ANT: Lifeless, dull, gloomy, unhappy, dejected, depressed, sullen, joyless, melancholy, depressing, dispiriting.

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KEY: Cheerfulness, [See CHEERFUL].

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KEY: Cheerless, [See CHEERFUL].

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KEY: Cherish.

SYN: Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage.

ANT: Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check.

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KEY: Chew.

SYN: Masticate, munch, eat.

ANT: Gorge, bolt whole.

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KEY: Chicanery.

SYN: Artifice, subtlety, sophistry, subterfuge, prevarication, shift, trickery, dodge, quibble, mystification, pettifogging, underhandedness.

ANT: Openness, candor, fairness, cogency, demonstrativeness, soundness.

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KEY: Chide.

SYN: Rate, scold, trounce, reprove, reprimand, rebuke, blame, admonish, objurgate.

ANT: Applaud, flatter, compliment.

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KEY: Chief \a.\

SYN: Chef, the head, [See CAPITAL].

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KEY: Chief \n.\ [See CHIEFTAIN].

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KEY: Chiefly, [See MAINLY].

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KEY: Chieftain.

SYN: Captain, general, chief, commander, head man, leader.

ANT: Follower, attendant, retainer, subaltern, vassal, satellite, minion, adherent.

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KEY: Childish.

SYN: Weak, silly, puerile, infantine, imbecile, foolish, trifling, paltry, trivial.

ANT: Strong, resolute, manly, wise, judicious, sagacious, chivalrous, profound, politic.

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KEY: Chimerical, [See VISIONARY].

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KEY: Chivalrous.

SYN: Courageous, generous, knightly, gallant, heroic, adventurous, valiant, spirited, handsome, high-minded.

ANT: Unhandsome, dirty, sneaking, pettifogging, scrubby, dastardly, recreant, ungenerous, ungentlemanly.

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KEY: Choice \n.\

SYN: Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative.

ANT: Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance, indifference, refuse.

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KEY: Choice \a.\

SYN: Select, exquisite, precious, dainty, cherished, valuable, excellent, rare.

ANT: Common, ordinary, Inferior, cheap, valueless, despicable, trumpery.

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KEY: Choke.

SYN: Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle.

ANT: Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit, ventilate.

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KEY: Choler, [See ANGER].

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KEY: Choleric.

SYN: Hasty, testy, impetuous, irascible.

ANT: Cool, phlegmatic, serene, placid, dispassionate, stoical.

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KEY: Choose.

SYN: Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick out.

ANT: Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore, decline.

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KEY: Chronicle \v.\

SYN: Record, register.

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KEY: Chronicle \n.\ [See ANNALS].

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KEY: Chuckle.

SYN: Grin, crow, cackle.

ANT: Cry, wail, grumble, whimper, whine.

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KEY: Churchyard.

SYN: Buryingground, burial place, cemetery, God's acre, necropolis, graveyard.

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KEY: Churlish.

SYN: Illiberal, niggardly, inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly.

ANT: Liberal, bountiful, hospitable neighborly, sociable.

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KEY: Cipher.

SYN: Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.) straw, pin, rush, molehill.

ANT: Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton, colossus, star.

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KEY: Circuit.

SYN: Tour, circumference.

ANT: Line, straightness, directness.

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KEY: Circuitous.

SYN: Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round about, sinuous, winding.

ANT: Linear, direct, straight.

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KEY: Circular.

SYN: Round, spherical.

ANT: Lineal, direct.

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KEY: Circulate.

SYN: Disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread, travel.

ANT: Suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate.

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KEY: Circumference.

SYN: Periphery, enclosure, circuit, outline, boundary.

ANT: Diameter, crossing, bisection, transection, transversion.

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KEY: Circumlocution.

SYN: Periphrasis, verbosity, inconciseness, insuccinctness, ambiguousness, anfractuosity.

ANT: Terseness, point, conciseness, succinctness, condensation, directness, plainness, simplicity, coherence.

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KEY: Circumscribe.

SYN: Define, designate, delineate, limit, enclose, confine, restrict, fence.

ANT: Expand, dilate, dissipate, disenclose, distend.

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KEY: Circumscribed.

SYN: Limited, narrow, restricted.

ANT: Limitless, ample, unconfined.

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KEY: Circumspect.

SYN: Cautious, wary, careful, heedful, attentive, prudent, watchful, scrupulous, vigilant.

ANT: Heedless, incautious, careless, reckless, invigilant, incircumspect.

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KEY: Circumstance.

SYN: Detail, feature, point, event, occurrence, incident, situation, position, fact, topic, condition, particular, specialty.

ANT: Deed, case, transaction.

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KEY: Circumstantial.

SYN: Inferential, constructive, minute, detailed, elaborate, specific.

ANT: Jocular, positive, inaccurate, loose, general.

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KEY: Circumvent.

SYN: Ensnare, entrap, outwit, diplomatize.

ANT: Force, subjugate, reduce, compel, circumvention, [See CIRCUMVENT].

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KEY: Citadel.

SYN: Fortress, castle, stronghold, acropolis.

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KEY: Cite.

SYN: Summon, call, quote, adduce, mention, name, select, refer to.

ANT: Discard, dismiss, canvass, dispute, reject, contradict, disprove, discredit, challenge.

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KEY: Citizen.

SYN: Townsman, inhabitant, burgess, subject, denizen.

ANT: Alien, foreigner, visitor, exile.

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KEY: Civic.

SYN: Municipal, corporate, urbane, oppidan.

ANT: Suburban, provincial, rural, cosmopolitan.

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KEY: Civil.

SYN: Well-mannered, political, courteous, well-bred, complaisant, affable, urbane, polite, obliging, accommodating, respectful.

ANT: Disobliging, unaccommodating, disrespectful, boorish, clownish, churlish, uncivil.

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KEY: Civilization.

SYN: Amelioration, culture, cultivation, humanization, refinement.

ANT: Demoralization, savagery, uncivilization, barbarism, rudeness, brutality.

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KEY: Claim \v.\

SYN: Demand, ask, require, insist, pretense, right, privilege, title, request, maintain.

ANT: Forego, waive, disclaim, abjure, disavow, abandon, concede, surrender, repudiate.

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KEY: Claim \n.\

SYN: Assertion, vindication, pretension, title, right, privilege, arrogation, demand.

ANT: Waiving, abjuration, disclaimer, surrender.

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KEY: Claimant.

SYN: Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant.

ANT: Relinquisher, resigner, conceder, waiver, renouncer, abjurer.

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KEY: Clamor.

SYN: Contention, contentiousness, squabble, tumult, hubbub, noise, uproar, outcry, obloquy.

ANT: Silence, acquiescence, reticence.

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KEY: Clamorous, [See NOISY].

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KEY: Clandestine.

SYN: Furtive, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, hidden, disguised, concealed, private, underhand.

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KEY: Clasp.

SYN: Grasp, connect, unite, bracket, concatenate, embrace.

ANT: Relax, sever, unclasp, disconnect, detach, exclude.

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KEY: Class, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Classical.

SYN: Pure, refined, elegant, polished, chaste, augustan.

ANT: Corrupt, debased, inelegant, harsh, barbarous, unclassical, uncouth.

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KEY: Classification, taxonomic.

SYN: Order, species, nature, character, cast, stamp, group, kind, section, sect, category, assortment, designation, description, genus.

ANT: Individuality, speciality, isolation, alienation, division, distinction, singularity, exclusion, heterogenity.

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KEY: Classify.

SYN: Arrange, systematize, adjust, rank, class, tabulate, dispose, collocate, assort.

ANT: Derange, confound, disorder, disorganize, intermix.

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KEY: Clause.

SYN: Portion, paragraph, stipulation, provision, article, condition, chapter, section, passage.

ANT: Document, instrument, muniment.

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KEY: Clean \v.\

SYN: Purify, clarify.

ANT: Pollute, befoul, bespatter, defile.

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KEY: Clean \a.\

SYN: Pure, neat, cleanly, clear, purified, cleansed, untarnished, spotless, unclogged, upright.

ANT: Impure, untidy, dirty, entangled, hampered, unclean.

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KEY: Clear \v.\

SYN: Clarify, disencumber, disentangle, disembarrass, vindicate, liberate, set free, release, exonerate, exculpate, justify, retrieve, acquit, absolve, whitewash, extricate, eliminate.

ANT: Befoul, contaminate, pollute, clog, encumber, embarrass, involve, implicate.

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KEY: Clear \a.\

SYN: Open, pure, bright, transparent, free, disencumbered, disentangled, disengaged, absolved, acquitted, serene, unclouded, evident, apparent, distinct, manifest, conspicuous, unobstructed, plain, obvious, intelligible, lucid.

ANT: Thick, muddy, foul, opaque, encumbered, entangled, condemned, convicted, turbid, dubious, indistinct, unintelligible.

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KEY: Clearly.

SYN: Plainly, obviously, distinctly, evidently, palpably, lucidly, explicitly, perspicuously.

ANT: Opaquely, indistinctly, Imperfectly, confusedly.

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KEY: Cleave.

SYN: Sunder, split, divide, adhere, rend, di?sever, stick.

ANT: Conserve, unite, splice, bond, cement, agglutinate, consolidate, separate, depart, desert, apostatize, secede.

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KEY: Clemency, [See MERCY].

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KEY: Clergyman.

SYN: Pastor, divine, parson, preacher, presbyter, minister, elder, deacon, bishop, dominie, rector, prelate, priest, monk, friar, vicar, curate.

ANT: Layman, laic, congregation, laity, flock.

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KEY: Clever.

SYN: Able, ready, talented, quick, ingenious, dexterous, adroit, expert, gifted, quick-witted, skillful, well-contrived.

ANT: Weak, dull, stupid, slow, illcontrived, doltish, uninventive, awkward, clumsy, bungling, botched.

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KEY: Climate.

SYN: Air, atmosphere, temperature, weather, clime, sky, region, sphere, latitude.

ANT: Earth, globe, world, sphere.

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KEY: Climax.

SYN: Summit, height, consummation, acme, point, head, mered, ian, culmination, zenith.

ANT: Base, floor, bathos, anticlimax, depth, gulf, nadir.

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KEY: Climb.

SYN: Ascend, mount, clamber, swarm, surmount, scale, escalade, soar, creep up, rise.

ANT: Descend, drop, fall, slip, tumble, swoop.

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KEY: Cling.

SYN: Fasten, hold, adhere, embrace, stick, cleave, hang, twine, hug.

ANT: Drop, recede, secede, apostatize, abandon, relax, forego, swerve, surrender.

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KEY: Clip.

SYN: Curtail, prune, contract, abridge.

ANT: Elongate, cherish, grow, nourish.

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KEY: Cloak.

SYN: Conceal, disguise, mask, veil, hide, cover, palliate, screen, mitigate, extenuate.

ANT: Exhibit, propound, promulge, portray, aggravate, expose, demonstrate, reveal.

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KEY: Close \a.\

SYN: Narrow, limited, restricted, condensed, packed, secret, compressed, solid, firm, compact, reserved, niggardly, shut, fast, dense.

ANT: Wide, open, ample, spacious, airy, unconfined, dispersed, rarefied, subtle, vaporous, patent, public, advertised, open-handed, liberal, frank.

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KEY: Close \v.\

SYN: Shut, conclude, stop, complete.

ANT: Open, initiate, conduct, protract.

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KEY: Clothe \v.\

SYN: Invest, robe, drape, dress, array, attire, cover.

ANT: Denude, strip, divest.

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KEY: Clothes, [See HABILIMENTS].

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KEY: Cloudy, [See MUGGY and OBSCURE].

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KEY: Clownish.

SYN: Bustic, boorish, bucolic, Boeotian, awkward, clumsy, cloddish, untutored, rude.

ANT: Polite, civil, urbane, affable, graceful, polished, refined, courtly, high-bred, intelligent, educated.

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KEY: Clumsy.

SYN: Awkward, inexpert, uncouth, maladroit, botching, bungling, unskillful, unwieldly, unhandy, ill-shaped.

ANT: Neat, workmanlike, artistic, handy, skillful, clever, expert, adroit, dexterous.

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KEY: Cluster.

SYN: Bunch, group, gathering, muster, throng.

ANT: Scattering, sprinkling, dispersion.

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KEY: Clutch \v.\

SYN: Grasp, grab, seize, catch, grip, grapple with, snatch, pounce.

ANT: Liberate, release, emancipate.

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KEY: Coagulate.

SYN: Mix, blend, fuse, coalesce, amalgamate, condense.

ANT: Rarefy, expand, dissipate, subtilize, discombine.

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KEY: Coadjutor.

SYN: Assistant, ally, cooperator, accessory, accomplice.

ANT: Opponent, counteractor, antagonist, baffler, adversary.

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KEY: Coalesce.

SYN: Harmonize, blend, mix, combine, join, unite, amalgamate, cohere.

ANT: Disagree, discomport.

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KEY: Coalition.

SYN: Combination, consentaneity, compromise, consociation, union, alliance, league, compact, amalgamation, composition, confederacy.

ANT: Dissociation, disruption, disagreement, dissentience.

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KEY: Coarse.

SYN: Common, ordinary, indelicate, vulgar, gross, unrefined, immodest, rough, rude, unpolished.

ANT: Fine, refined gentle, polished, delicate, choice.

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KEY: Coax.

SYN: Wheedle, fawn, flatter, call, ole, persuade, overcome, seduce, allure, circumvent.

ANT: Intimidate, coerce, impel, instigate, drive.

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KEY: Cobble.

SYN: Patch, botch, bungle, clout.

ANT: Repair, manipulate, finedraw.

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KEY: Cobweb.

SYN: Trifle, cipher, moonshine, prejudice, bugbear, phantasy, caprice.

ANT: Substance, verity, axiom, law, reality, perpetuity, institution, truth.

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KEY: Cockney.

SYN: Londoner, citizen, swell.

ANT: Clodhopper, bumpkin, lout.

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KEY: Coddle.

SYN: Spoil, humor, pamper, nurse, caress.

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KEY: Codger.

SYN: Gaffer, churl, curmudgeon.

ANT: Swell, fop, spendthrift, scapegrace, puppy.

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KEY: Codify.

SYN: Summarize, digest, incorporate, embody, condense.

ANT: Expunge, abrogate, annul, disembody, disincorporate, rescind.

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KEY: Coerce.

SYN: Restrain, inhibit, impel, compel, drive, counteract, check, constrain, force, confine, intimidate.

ANT: Permit, persuade, urge, instigate, encourage, liberate, induce, seduce, tempt.

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KEY: coetaneous.

SYN: Coeval, contemporary, synchronous.

ANT: Incoincident, incontemporaneous, anachronistic, asynchronous.

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KEY: Coeval, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Coexist.

SYN: Concur, comport, accompany, coalesce, coincide.

ANT: Disconcur, discomport.

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KEY: Coexistent.

SYN: Concurrent, coetaneous, contemporary, coincident, compatible, correspondent, correlative.

ANT: Discurrent, incontemporaneous, incompatible, adverse, repugnant, antagonistic.

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KEY: coextension.

SYN: Commensurateness, equality, parallelism, conterminousness.

ANT: Incommensurateness, inadequacy, inconterminousness, disparity, divergency, inequality.

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KEY: Coextensive, [See COEXTENSION].

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KEY: Cogent.

SYN: Forcible, powerful, potent, strong, persuasive, influential.

ANT: Weak, ineffectual, powerless, feeble.

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KEY: Cogitate.

SYN: Think, ruminate, reflect, meditate, brood, speculate, contemplate, ponder, muse.

ANT: Idle, maunder, dream.

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KEY: Cogitation, [See COGITATE].

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KEY: Cognizance.

SYN: Notice, observation, recognition, knowledge, experience.

ANT: Inadvertence, neglect, ignorance, inexperience, oversight, connivance.

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KEY: Cognizant.

SYN: Aware, informed.

ANT: Unaware, ignorant, uninformed.

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KEY: Cohere.

SYN: Stick, adhere, conform, unite, coalesce.

ANT: Sever, separate, disunite, disintegrate.

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KEY: Coherent.

SYN: Consecutive, consistent, complete, sensible, compact, logical, close.

ANT: Inconsecutive, rambling, disunited, inconsistent, discursive, loose, silly, illogical, aberrant.

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KEY: Cohibit.

SYN: Prevent, hinder, curb, restrain, inhibit.

ANT: Indulge, permit, incite, instigate, encourage, urge.

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KEY: Coin.

SYN: Fabricate, counterfeit, invent.

ANT: Misform, misconstrue.

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KEY: Coincide, [See AGREE].

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KEY: Coincidence.

SYN: Chance, fortuity, casualty, concurrence, correspondence, contemporaneousness, commensurateness, harmony, agreement, consent.

ANT: Design, purpose, adaptation, synchronism, anachronism, disharmony, incommensurateness, discordance, variation, difference.

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KEY: Cold, [See FRIGID].

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KEY: Collate.

SYN: Adduce, collect, compare, gather, induct, extract, cite.

ANT: Verify, identify, recognize, authenticate.

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KEY: Collateral.

SYN: Indirect, related, connected, parallel.

ANT: Direct, linear, essential, integral.

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KEY: Colleague.

SYN: Helper, companion, associate, ally, confederate, coadjutor, partner, assistant, adjutant, assessor.

ANT: co-opponent, corival, counteragent, co-antagonist, competitor, colluctator.

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KEY: Collect.

SYN: Collate, gather, glean, sum, infer, learn, congregate, assemble, convoke, convene, muster, amass, garner, accumulate.

ANT: Classify, arrange, distribute, dispose, dispense, divide, sort, deal.

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KEY: Collected.

SYN: Calm, composed, cool, attentive, self-possessed, firm, placid, serene, unmoved.

ANT: Excited, distracted, wandering, dazed, scared, bewildered.

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KEY: Collection.

SYN: Assembly, assemblage, store, gathering, collation.

ANT: Dispersion, distribution, dispensation, division, arrangement, disposal, classification.

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KEY: Collision.

SYN: Encounter, conflict, crash, opposition, impact, concussion, clash.

ANT: Interswerving, interdivergence, shave.

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KEY: Collocate.

SYN: Place, locate, arrange, classify, tabulate, allocate.

ANT: Move, dislocate, distribute, dispense, disturb, disperse, confound, confuse, displace, misplace.

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KEY: Collocation, [See COLLOCATE].

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KEY: Colloquy.

SYN: Conference, consultation, conversation, council, confabulation.

ANT: Clamor, outcry, tumult, babel.

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KEY: Colluctation.

SYN: Wrestling, contention, competition.

ANT: Coadjutorship, assistance, support, backing.

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KEY: Collusion.

SYN: Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy.

ANT: Baffling, frustration, counteraction, defeat, discomfiture, discernment, betrayal, exposure, informership, traitorship.

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KEY: Color.

SYN: Hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish.

ANT: Achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency, truthfulness.

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KEY: Colorable.

SYN: Specious, ostensible, deceptive, dressed, tinged, warped.

ANT: Genuine, candid, open, naked, transparent.

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KEY: Colossal, [See GIGANTIC].

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KEY: Combat \v.\ [See RESIST].

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KEY: Combat \n.\

SYN: Encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement, arms, battle.

ANT: Surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce, arbitration.

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KEY: Combination.

SYN: Union, association, consortment, concert, confederacy, alliance, league, coalition, cabal, synthesis, co-operation.

ANT: Division, disunion, disruption, dissolution, dispersion, analysis, opposition, resistance, non-location, removal,.

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KEY: Comely.

SYN: Seemly, graceful, elegant, shapely, suitable, fitting, handsome, decent, becoming.

ANT: Unseemly, ungraceful, inelegant, unshapely.

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KEY: Comfortable.

SYN: Snug, satisfied, pleasant, agreeable, cozy, commodious, convenient, consoled.

ANT: Uncomfortable, dissatisfied, troubled, miserable, wretched, cheerless, unhappy, disagreeable, forlorn.

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KEY: Comfortless, [See COMFORTABLE].

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KEY: Comic, [See LUDICROUS].

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KEY: Comity.

SYN: Urbanity, pleasantness, affability, blandness.

ANT: Rudeness, distantness, roughness, churlishness.

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KEY: Command \v.\

SYN: Order, direct, instruct, charge, bid, enjoin.

ANT: Supplicate, entreat, persuade, beg, petition, suggest, represent.

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KEY: Command \n.\ [See MANDATE].

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KEY: Commanding, [See AUTHORITATIVE].

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KEY: Commemorate.

SYN: Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep.

ANT: Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate.

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KEY: Commence.

SYN: Begin, start, open, initiate, inaugurate, enter upon, set about, undertake.

ANT: Finish, terminate, conclude, consummate, complete.

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KEY: Commend.

SYN: Praise, laud, extol, approve, recommend, encourage, applaud, eulogize.

ANT: Blame, censure, disapprove, discourage, denounce, condemn, discommend.

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KEY: Commendation, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Commensurate.

SYN: Equal, adequate, sufficient, coextensive, conterminous.

ANT: Unequal, short, scant, inadequate, insufficient, incommensurate.

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KEY: Comment \v.\

SYN: Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain, expatiate, criticise.

ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconceive, misrepresent.

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KEY: Comment \n.\ [See OBSERVATION].

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KEY: Commentator.

SYN: Interpreter, explainer, note-maker, scholiast, expositor, glossary, elucidator.

ANT: Mystifier, misinterpreter, puzzler, enigmatist, Oedipus.

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KEY: Commerce.

SYN: Trade, traffic, merchandize, barter, exchange, business, communication, dealing, intercourse.

ANT: Stagnation, exclusion, inactivity, interdict, embargo, dullness.

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KEY: Commiserate.

SYN: Despise, contemn, pity, compassionate, condole, sympathize.

ANT: Admire, envy, disregard, maltreat, molest, ignore, condemn.

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KEY: Commiseration, [See PITY].

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KEY: Commit.

SYN: Perpetrate, execute, confide, [See DO], relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consign.

ANT: Miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit.

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KEY: Commodious.

SYN: Ample, easy, convenient, spacious, suitable, comfortable.

ANT: Inconvenient, incommodious, narrow, ill-contrived, incommensurate, discommodious.

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KEY: Commodity.

SYN: Staple, ware, article, stock.

ANT: Drug, offal, refuse, garbage.

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KEY: Common.

SYN: Ordinary, familiar, habitual, everyday, frequent, coarse, vulgar, low, mean, universal.

ANT: Unusual, exceptional, scarce, rare, uncommon, refined, partial, infrequent, sporadic, egregious, excellent.

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KEY: Commotion.

SYN: Agitation, disturbance, tumult, excitement, turmoil, perturbation.

ANT: Quiescence, calm, subsidence, pacification, tranquillity, mitigation, appeasement, soothing, allaying, moderating.

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KEY: Communicate.

SYN: Adjoin, join, touch, reveal, disclose, divulge, promulgate, publish, attach, co-operate, unite, impart, tell, announce, declare.

ANT: Separate, disjoin, recede, stop, suppress, conceal, secrete, withhold, reserve.

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KEY: Communication, [See INTERCOURSE].

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KEY: Communion.

SYN: Participation, share, converse, agreement, partnership, comportionment, fellowship, association, intercourse.

ANT: Exclusion, deprivation, nonparticipation, disqualification, disconnection, alienation, disruption.

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KEY: Community.

SYN: Aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity, homogeneity.

ANT: Segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity.

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KEY: Commute.

SYN: Alter, mitigate, substitute, exchange, compensate, barter, equalize, balance, modify.

ANT: Misappropriation, misconvert, misappropriate, disallow, stabilitate, perpetuate, stereotype.

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KEY: Compact \n.\ [See AGREEMENT].

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KEY: Compact \a.\

SYN: Dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed, contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated, concrete.

ANT: Ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling, sparse, broadcast, dispread.

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KEY: Companion.

SYN: Associate, mate, comrade, colleague, ally, partner, accomplice, coadjutor.

ANT: Rival, toe, antagonist, adversary.

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KEY: Companionable.

SYN: Pleasant, affable, sociable, convertible, friendly, easy, agreeable, gregarious.

ANT: Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial, cold, inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary.

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KEY: Companionship.

SYN: Converse, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, friendliness, association.

ANT: Ignorance, distance, avoidance, estrangement, alienation, unfamiliarity, soitude, isolation.

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KEY: Company.

SYN: Aggregation, association, union, sodality, order, fraternity, guild, corporation, society, community, assemblage, assembly, crew, posse, gang, troop, audience, congregation, concourse.

ANT: Rivalry, opposition, disqualification, antagonism, counteragency, competition, counterassociation.

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KEY: Compare.

SYN: Assimilate, collate, parallel.

ANT: Contrast, oppose, dissociate, disconnect, pit, distinguish.

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KEY: Comparable.

SYN: Resembling, approximate, similar.

ANT: Dissimilar, unlike, remote, inferior.

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KEY: Comparative.

SYN: Relatively, proportionately.

ANT: Absolutely, actually, positively, superlatively.

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KEY: Comparison, [See LIKENESS].

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KEY: Compartment.

SYN: Division, partition, allotment, sphere, space.

ANT: correlative, viz, anything of which it is a compartment.

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KEY: Compass \n.\

SYN: Area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon.

ANT: Common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness, indefiniteness.

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KEY: Compass \v.\

SYN: Encompass, surround, enclose, environ, circumscribe, embrace, achieve, effect, effectuate, consummate, complete, circumvent.

ANT: Expand, disband, unfold, amplify, display, dismiss, liberate, discard, fail, bungle, botch, misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue.

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KEY: Compassion.

SYN: Pity, sympathy, condolence, tenderness, fellow-feeling, commiseration, pardon.

ANT: Hardheartedness, unforgiveness, cruelty, antipathy, denunciation, condemnation, vindictiveness, retaliation.

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KEY: Compassionate, [See KIND].

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KEY: Compatible.

SYN: Consistent, consentaneous, harmonious, coexistent, correspondent, congruous, accordant, agreeable, congenial, consonant.

ANT: Incompatible, impossible, insupposable, inconsistent, discordant, hostile, adverse, antagonistic, incongruous, destructive, inter-repugnant, contradictory.

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KEY: Compeer.

SYN: Equal, co-ordinate, peer, fellow, mate, compatriot, comrade.

ANT: Inferior, superior, solitary.

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KEY: Compel.

SYN: Force, oblige, drive, constrain, necessitate, make, coerce, bind.

ANT: Persuade, convince, coax, allure, egg, induce, tempt, seduce, acquit, cozen, liberate, release.

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KEY: Compendious.

SYN: Condensed, concentrated, brief, short, succinct, concise, abridged, commodious, convenient, useful, handy, comprehensive, compact.

ANT: Diffuse, vague, prolix, shapeless, cumbrous, undigested.

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KEY: Compendium, [See ABRIDGEMENT].

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KEY: Compensate.

SYN: Atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite, reward, recompense, make amends for.

ANT: Defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage.

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KEY: Compensation.

SYN: Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages.

ANT: Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage.

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KEY: Compete.

SYN: Contend, rival, cope, emulate.

ANT: Participate, share.

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KEY: Competence.

SYN: Power, adequacy, sufficiency, wealth, ability.

ANT: Incompetence, weakness, inability, insufficiency, want, poverty, impecuniosity, indigence.

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KEY: Competent, [See ADEQUATE].

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KEY: Competition.

SYN: Rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade.

ANT: Association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation.

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KEY: Competitor.

SYN: Rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist.

ANT: Participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague.

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KEY: Compilation.

SYN: Collation, composition, patchwork.

ANT: Effusion, creation.

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KEY: Complacent.

SYN: Pleased, satisfied, content, pleasant, affable, kind, mannerly, acquiescent, amiable.

ANT: Dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere, grudging.

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KEY: Complain, [See GROWL].

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KEY: Complaint.

SYN: Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance, expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease.

ANT: Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause, jubilee, health, sanity.

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KEY: Complaisant, [See POLITE].

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KEY: Complement.

SYN: Completion, fulfilment, totality, supply, counterpart, correlative.

ANT: Deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, abatement, detraction, defalcation, diminution, drawback.

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KEY: Complete \v.\ [See ACCOMPLISH].

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KEY: Complete \a.\

SYN: Full, perfect, finished, adequate, entire, consummate, total, exhaustive, thorough, accomplished.

ANT: Incomplete, partial, imperfect, unfinished, inadequate.

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KEY: Completely.

SYN: Fully, totally, altogether, wholly, perfectly, entirely, thoroughly.

ANT: Partially, incompletely, Imperfectly.

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KEY: Completion, [See TINGE].

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KEY: Complex.

SYN: Intricate, multifarious, compound, complicated, multifold, involved, deep, many-sided, abstruse, close, tangled, obscure.

ANT: Obvious, plain, simple, direct, inobscure, superficial, vague, loose, unraveled.

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KEY: Complexion.

SYN: Face, aspect, color, look, feature, appearance, character, hue, interpretation, indication.

ANT: Unindicativeness, concealment, reticence, inexpression, heart, core.

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KEY: Complexity \n.\ [See COMPLEX].

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KEY: Compliance.

SYN: Yielding, submission, obedience, acquiescence, consent, ductility, docility.

ANT: Resistance, repulsion, disobedience, refusal, noncompliance.

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KEY: Compliant, [See SUBMISSIVE].

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KEY: Complicated.

SYN: Confused, intricate, involved, perplexed, entangled.

ANT: Clear, simple, uninvolved, lucid, unraveled.

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KEY: Compliment \v.\ [See PRAISE].

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KEY: Compliment \n.\

SYN: Homage, courtesy, flattery, praise.

ANT: Insult, discourtesy, contempt.

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KEY: Complimentary.

SYN: Commendatory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise.

ANT: Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, vituperative, defamatory.

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KEY: Comply, [See YIELD].

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KEY: Component.

SYN: Ingredient, element, constituent, factor, content, rudiment.

ANT: Aggregate, sum, entirety, adventitious, compound, nonconstituent, foreign, heterogeneous.

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KEY: Comport.

SYN: Demean, conduct, carry, behove, tally, consist, harmonize, match, agree, suit, coincide.

ANT: Misdemean, misconduct, forget, vary, differ, disagree, contrast, militate.

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KEY: Compose.

SYN: Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together, constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write.

ANT: Analyze, awaken, stir, dissect, criticise, irritate, excite.

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KEY: Composed, [See COLLECTED and PLACID].

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KEY: Composition.

SYN: Compound, conformation, structure, mixture, combination, compromise, adjustment, settlement, commutation.

ANT: Analysis, segregation, examination, criticism, discussion, disturbance, aggravation, perpetuation.

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KEY: Composure.

SYN: Tranquility, sereneness, self-possession, sedateness, calm, repose.

ANT: Perturbation, restlessness, mobility, disturbance.

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KEY: Compound \v.\

SYN: Concert, mix, amalgamate, fuse.

ANT: Resolve, analyze.

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KEY: Compound \n.\

SYN: Mixture, combination, amalgamation, junction, unification, coalescence.

ANT: Decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution.

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KEY: Comprehend.

SYN: Comprise, embody, grasp, understand, conceive, apprehend, enclose, include, involve, embrace.

ANT: Exclude, except, misunderstand.

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KEY: Comprehension.

SYN: Understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension.

ANT: Misunderstanding, misconception.

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KEY: Comprehensive.

SYN: Wide, ample, general, extensive, large, broad, all, embracing, generic, significant, capacious, inclusive, compendious, pregnant.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, shallow, exclusive, adversative, exceptive.

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KEY: Compress.

SYN: Condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize, summarize.

ANT: Expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, Compression, [See COMPRESS].

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KEY: Comprise \v.\

SYN: Embrace, include, involve, contain, comprehend, imply.

ANT: Exclude, except, discard, bar, omit, reject.

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KEY: Comprobation.

SYN: Induction, co-evidence, co-testimony.

ANT: disproof, counterevidence, refutation, rejoinder, intercontrariance.

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KEY: Compromise \v.\

SYN: Arbitrate, adjust, compose, settle, endanger, implicate, involve.

ANT: Aggravate, excite, foster, perpetuate, exempt, enfranchise, disengage, extricate, exonerate.

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KEY: Compulsion \n.\

SYN: For, ce, restraint, control, coercion.

ANT: Persuasion, coaxing, alluring, Inducing.

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KEY: Compunction.

SYN: Contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow.

ANT: Satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance.

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KEY: Compute.

SYN: Calculate, reckon, count, number, appraise, value, estimate, cast up, rate.

ANT: Conjecture, guess, surmise.

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KEY: Comrade, [See COMPLEX].

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KEY: Concatenation.

SYN: Linking, connection, stringing, continuity.

ANT: Discatenation, unlinking, unchanging, severance, intermission, disconnection.

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KEY: Concave.

SYN: Hollow, scooped, pitted, excavated, retreating, alveolar.

ANT: Convex, tumular, protuberant, relievant, embossed, intumescent.

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KEY: Conceal.

SYN: Hide, secrete, disguise, keep secret, dissemble, screen, suppress.

ANT: Reveal, manifest, exhibit, avow, confess, expose, promulgate, publish, divulge.

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KEY: Concede.

SYN: Surrender, grant, allow, yield, admit, resign.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, deny, contradict, contest, claim, contend.

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KEY: Conceit.

SYN: Idea, notion, thought, affectation, vanity, abstraction, imagination, conception, whim, vagary, egotism.

ANT: Substance, reality, verity, concretion, body, fact, naturalness, simplicity, unaffectedness, humility.

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KEY: Conceited.

SYN: Egotistical, self-conceited, vain.

ANT: Self-deprecating, simple, unassuming, unaffected.

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KEY: Conceive.

SYN: Imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think, understand.

ANT: Produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive.

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KEY: Conception, [See CONCEIVE].

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KEY: Concentrate.

SYN: assemble, converge, muster, congregate, convene, draw, conglomerate, condense, localize, centralize.

ANT: Disperse, scatter, dismiss, decentralize.

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KEY: Concentration, [See CONCENTRATE].

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KEY: Concern.

SYN: Interest, regard, anxiety, matter, affair, institution, solicitude, moment, regret, sympathy, sorrow.

ANT: Indifference, disregard, carelessness, congratulation, chuckling.

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KEY: Concerning.

SYN: About, of, relating, regarding, touching, in relation to, respecting, with respect to, with regard to, with reference to, relative to.

ANT: Omitting, disregarding.

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KEY: Concert \v.\ [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Concert \n.\

SYN: Onion, combination, concord, harmony, agreement, association, co-operation.

ANT: Dissociation, counteraction, opposition.

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KEY: Concession, [See CONCEPT].

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KEY: Conciliate.

SYN: Win, gain, enlist, pacify, make friendly, reconcile, propitiate.

ANT: Lose, estrange, excommunicate, eject, alienate, irritate, displease.

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KEY: Concise.

SYN: Condensed, terse, pregnant, expressive, pointed, neat, compendious, succinct, summary, brief, short.

ANT: Diffuse, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory, rambling, discursive.

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KEY: Conclave.

SYN: Council, assembly, bureau, synod, cabinet, caucus.

ANT: Crowd, multitude, assemblage, population, throng, populace, mob, concourse.

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KEY: Conclude.

SYN: Close, terminate, complete, end, decide, finish, infer, deduce, determine, argue.

ANT: Begin, initiate, start, open, prolong, protract, perpetuate, doubt, dispute.

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KEY: Conclusion, [See CONCLUDE and TERMINATION].

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KEY: Conclusive.

SYN: Definitive, indisputable, final, positive, decisive.

ANT: Uncertain, dubious, questionable, hypothetical, supposititious, problematical, theoretical, vague, indeterminate, inconclusive.

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KEY: Concoct.

SYN: Compound, prepare, mix, hatch, brew.

ANT: Spoil, upset, disconcoct, disconcert, mar, misprepare.

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KEY: Concoction.

SYN: Brew, mixture, compound.

ANT: Crudity, rawness, ingredient.

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KEY: Concomitant.

SYN: Accompanying, attending, attendant, synchronous.

ANT: Precedent, subsequent, diverse, unconnected, independent, irrelative.

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KEY: Concord.

SYN: Harmony, accordance, agreement, peace, union, unity, unanimity, amity.

ANT: Discord, disagreement, variance, animosity.

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KEY: Concordance, [See CONCORD].

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KEY: Concourse.

SYN: Assembly, assemblage, crowd, throng, convergence, mob.

ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude.

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KEY: Concrete.

SYN: Firm, compact, consolidated, indurated, embodied, particularized.

ANT: Loose, sloppy, luteous, shifting, boggy, swampy, yielding, unresisting, abstract, generalize.

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KEY: Concur.

SYN: Approve, acquiesce, assent, coincide, meet, converge, concentrate, agree.

ANT: Diverge, radiate, disagree, dissent, part, differ.

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KEY: Concussion, [See COLLISION and COMMOTION].

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KEY: Condemn.

SYN: Blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom, sentence.

ANT: Absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve.

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KEY: Condense, [See ABRIDGE].

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KEY: Condescend.

SYN: Stoop, descend, deign, vouchsafe.

ANT: Disdain, scorn, spurn.

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KEY: Condescension \n.\ [See CONDESCEND].

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KEY: SYN:, Affability, graciousness, favor, stooping.

ANT: Haughtiness, arrogance, pride, superciliousness, disdain, scorn.

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KEY: Condign.

SYN: Deserved, merited, meet, just, adequate.

ANT: Undeserved, unmerited, scant, excessive.

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KEY: Condiment.

SYN: Sauce, pickle, preserve, seasoning.

ANT: Gall, wormwood, ashes, aloe.

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KEY: Condition.

SYN: State, case, mood, term, mode, qualification, requisite, stipulation, predicament, proviso, situation, circumstances, plight.

ANT: Relation, dependence, situation, circumstance, concession, fulfillment, adaptation.

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KEY: Conditionally.

SYN: Provisionally, relatively, provided, hypothetical, contingently.

ANT: Absolutely, unconditionally, categorically, positively.

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KEY: Condole.

SYN: Sympathize, console, commiserate.

ANT: Congratulate, exhilarate, disregard, rally, discompassionate, discommiserate.

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KEY: Condolence, [See CONDOLE].

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KEY: Condonation.

SYN: Indulgence, excuse, amnesty, pardon, forgiveness.

ANT: Expiation, satisfaction, atonement.

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KEY: Conduce.

SYN: Concur, contribute, avail, aid, tend, coincide, converge, assist, help, make for, conspire, lead, subserve.

ANT: Indispose, counteract, defeat, neutralize.

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KEY: Conducive, [See CONDUCE].

SYN: Contributive, promotive, subsidiary, causative, effective, productive.

ANT: Preventive, counteractive, contrariant, repugnant, destructive.

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KEY: Conduct \v.\

SYN: Lead, bring, carry, transfer, direct, guide, control, manage, administer.

ANT: Mislead, miscarry, mismanage, misconduct, misadminister.

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KEY: Conduct \n.\ [See BEHAVIOR].

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KEY: Confabulation, [See COLLOQUY].

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KEY: Confection \n.\ [See CONCOCTION, CONDIMENT, and COMPOUND. (Used

of sweet compounds].

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KEY: SYN:, Sweetmeat, sugarplum, cake, condiment.

ANT: [See CONDIMENT].

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KEY: Confederacy, Confederation.

SYN: Alliance, treaty, league, union, association.

ANT: Disruption, secession, disunion.

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KEY: Confederate \a.\

SYN: Leagued, allied, united, combined.

ANT: Disunited, dissolved.

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KEY: Confederate \n.\ [See COMPANION].

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KEY: Confer.

SYN: Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give, present.

ANT: Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw.

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KEY: Conference.

SYN: Discussion, discourse, consultation, parley, contravention, convocation, meeting.

ANT: Monologue, silence. [See CONVENTION].

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KEY: Confess.

SYN: Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge.

ANT: Disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny.

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KEY: Confession.

SYN: Creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession, declaration, subscription.

ANT: Heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index, renunciation, abjuration.

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KEY: Confidant.

SYN: Confessor, adviser, confederate.

ANT: Traitor, betrayer, rival.

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KEY: Confide.

SYN: Trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely.

ANT: Doubt, distrust, disbelieve.

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KEY: Confidence.

SYN: Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence, reliance.

ANT: Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving.

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KEY: Confident.

SYN: Positive, assured, sure, certain, impudent, bold, sanguine.

ANT: [See CERTAIN].

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KEY: Confidential.

SYN: Private, secret, trustworthy, intimate.

ANT: Public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious.

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KEY: Configuration.

SYN: Shape, outline, delineation, form, figure, conformation, contour.

ANT: Shapelessness, amorphousness, formlessness, undelineation, contortion, distortion, deformity.

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KEY: Confine.

SYN: Immure, limit, bound, imprison, circumscribe, restrict, enclose, narrow, incarcerate, bind.

ANT: Dilate, expand, extend, widen, unfasten, liberate, loosen, disenclose.

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KEY: Confined, [See CIRCUMSCRIBE].

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KEY: Confirm.

SYN: Strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify.

ANT: Weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute.

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KEY: Confirmation, [See CONFIRM].

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KEY: Confiscate.

SYN: Seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain.

ANT: Restore, release, refund.

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KEY: Conflagration.

SYN: Ignition, fire, combustion, arson, incendiarism.

ANT: Extinction, smoulder, quenching.

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KEY: Conflict.

SYN: Encounter, engagement, contest, battle, fight, combat.

ANT: Reconciliation, pacification, amity, arbitration.

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KEY: Conflicting.

SYN: Adverse, opposed, opposing, dashing, discordant, irreconcilable, contradictory.

ANT: Harmonizing, consistent, consentaneous, congruous.

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KEY: Confluence.

SYN: Conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence.

ANT: Reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence.

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KEY: Conform.

SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield.

ANT: Disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt.

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KEY: Conformation \n.\ [See CONFORM and CONFIGURATION].

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KEY: Conformity, [See CONFORMATION].

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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.

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KEY: Confraternity, [See COMPANY].

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KEY: Confront.

SYN: Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace.

ANT: Rally, encourage, abet, countenance.

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KEY: Confuse, [See CONFOUND].

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KEY: Confusion, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Confused.

SYN: Abashed, embarrassed, perplexed, disconcerted, disorganized, promiscuous, chaotic, complex, involved, disarranged, disordered.

ANT: Unabashed, unembarrassed, systematic, unconfused, organized, arranged.

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KEY: Confute, [See REFUTE].

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KEY: Congeal.

SYN: Freeze, benumb, congelate.

ANT: Thaw, relax, melt, chafe, dissolve.

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KEY: Congenial.

SYN: Natural, concordant, consonant, grateful, sympathetic, kindred.

ANT: Unnatural, abbhorant, discordant, dissonant, disagreeable, ungrateful, antagonistic, alien, dissimilar, uncongenial.

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KEY: Congenital.

SYN: Coeval, coetaneous, natural, inherent, innate, immanent, ingrained, incarnate, connate, ingenerate.

ANT: Unnatural, uncongenial, acquired, habitual, extraneous, artificial, adscititious, adventitious, assumed.

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KEY: Congestion.

SYN: Congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethora.

ANT: Dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation.

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KEY: Conglomerate, [See AGGLOMERATE].

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KEY: Conglutinate, [See AGGLUTINATE].

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KEY: Congratulate.

SYN: Felicitate.

ANT: [See CONDOLE].

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KEY: Congregate, [See AGGREGATE].

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KEY: Congregation, [See AGGREGATION].

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KEY: Congress.

SYN: Parliament, council, conclave, assembly, synod, legislature, convention.

ANT: Cabal, conclave, mob.

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KEY: Congruous.

SYN: Agreeing, harmonious, coherent, homogeneous, consonant, accordant.

ANT: Discordant, dissonant, incongruous, heterogeneous.

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KEY: Conjecture \v.\

SYN: guest, divination, hypothesis, theory, notion, surmise, supposition.

ANT: Computation, calculation, inference, reckoning, proof, deduction.

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KEY: Conjecture \n.\ [See SUPPOSE].

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KEY: Conjoin, [See CONCATENATE].

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KEY: Conjuncture.

SYN: Crisis, turning-point, contingency, occasion, opportunity, exigency, emergency.

ANT: Arrangement, provision, ordainment, preparation, course.

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KEY: Conjure.

SYN: Implore, importune, crave, entreat, beseech, supplicate.

ANT: Deprecate, protest, remonstrate, expostulate.

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KEY: Connect, [See UNITE].

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KEY: Connection.

SYN: Junction, conjunction, union, association, concatenation, relation, affinity, relevance, intercourse, communication, kinsman, relationship, kindred.

ANT: Disconnection, disjunction, dissociation, independence, irrelevance, disunion.

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KEY: Connive.

SYN: Wink, pretermit, pass, overlook.

ANT: Notice, visit, censure, investigate.

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KEY: Connubial.

SYN: Conjugal, matrimonial, nuptial.

ANT: Single, celibate, illicit, adulterous.

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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.

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KEY: Conquest, [See CONQUER].

SYN: Victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation.

ANT: Failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture.

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KEY: Consanguinity.

SYN: Kindred, blood, lineage.

ANT: Disconnection, dissociation.

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KEY: Conscience.

SYN: Sense, intuition, integrity, principle.

ANT: [See PERTURB and STOICAL], license.

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KEY: Conscientious.

SYN: Scrupulous, exact, equitable, strict, upright, highprincipled.

ANT: Unscrupulous, lax, unprincipled, reprobate, unconscientious.

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KEY: Conscious.

SYN: Aware, cognizant, sensible.

ANT: Unaware, unconscious, insensible.

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KEY: Consciousness.

SYN: Sense, sensation, intelligence, perception.

ANT: Insensibility, unconsciousness.

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KEY: Conscription.

SYN: Impressment, drafting.

ANT: Enlistment, volunteering.

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KEY: Consecrate.

SYN: Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify.

ANT: Desecrate, secularize, profane.

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KEY: Consecration, [See CONSECRATE and DEVOTION].

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KEY: Consecutive.

SYN: Orderly, arranged, coherent, continuous.

ANT: Disordered, undigested, incoherent, rambling, inconsequent, inconsecutive, discursive.

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KEY: Consent.

SYN: Submit, agree, acquiesce.

ANT: resist, disagree, dissent, deline, refuse.

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KEY: Consentaneous.

SYN: Agreeing, correspondent, consonant, congruous, [See HARMONIOUS].

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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.

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KEY: Consequent.

SYN: Inferred, deduced, resultant, accruing, attendant.

ANT: Assumed, conjectured, antecedent, conducive, productive, inconsequent.

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KEY: Consequential.

SYN: Coherent, connected, nected, cogent, logical, pompous, arrogant.

ANT: Incoherent, disconnected, in, valid, illogical, inconsequential, affable, conversible, accessible, easy, humble-minded.

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KEY: Consequently.

SYN: Accordingly, therefore, [See ACCORDING].

ANT: Irrelevantly, inconsequently.

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KEY: Conservation.

SYN: Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation, perpetuation.

ANT: Neglect, exposure, abrogation, destruction, abolition.

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KEY: Conservative.

SYN: Undestroyed, unsuppressed, stationary, unrepealed.

ANT: Changed, newfangled, radical, progressive, modifiable, alterable, transitional.

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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.

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KEY: Considerable.

SYN: Important, large, extensive.

ANT: Unimportant, trifling, inconsiderable.

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KEY: Considerate.

SYN: Thoughtful, attentive, forbearing, unselfish, judicious, serious, prudent, circumspect, reflective, careful, cautious.

ANT: Thoughtless, inconsiderate, inattentive, rude, overbearing, selfish, injudicious, rash, careless.

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KEY: Consideration.

SYN: Importance, suspect, consequence, motive, inducement, compensation, subsidy, remuneration.

ANT: Meanness, insignificance, unimportance.

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KEY: Considering.

SYN: Because, regarding.

ANT: Irrespectively, independently.

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KEY: Consign, [See ASSIGN].

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KEY: Consignment.

SYN: Custody, commission, delegation.

ANT: Miscommitment, misconsignment.

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KEY: Consist, [See CONSTITUTE].

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KEY: Consistence, [See CONSISTENCY].

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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.

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KEY: Consistent.

SYN: Congruous, accordant, consonant, agreeing, compatible, harmonious.

ANT: Incongruous, at variance with, not agreeing with, incompatible, inharmonious.

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KEY: Consociation, [See ASSOCIATION and COMPANY].

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KEY: Console.

SYN: Relieve, soothe, solace, encourage, comfort, assuage.

ANT: Congratulate, felicitate, aggravate, oppress, disturb, trouble, annoy, irritate, irreconcile, dissatisfy.

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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.

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KEY: Consonant, [See CONGRUOUS and CONSISTENT].

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KEY: Consort \v.\

SYN: Associate, herd, company, fraternize.

ANT: Avoid, abandon, excommunicate, blackball, banish, exclude.

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KEY: Conspicuous.

SYN: Visible, easily seen, prominent, distinguished, manifest, eminent, famous, noted, salient, observable, noticeable, magnified.

ANT: Invisible, Inconspicuous, in, observable, noticeable, microscopic.

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KEY: Conspiracy.

SYN: Intrigue, cabal, plot, treason, treachery, machination, coalition.

ANT: Legislation, parliament, congress, synod, \Comp.\ Conclave and

cabal.

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KEY: Conspire.

SYN: Concur, conduce, contribute, agree, unite, hang, pull together, co-operate, league, baud.

ANT: Oppose, counteract, withstand, run counter to.

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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.

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KEY: Consternation.

SYN: Amazement, bewilderment, astonishment, astounding, horror, terror, dismay.

ANT: Encouragement, boldness, fearlessness, assurance, anticipation, welcome, expectation, greeting, congratulation.

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KEY: Constituent.

SYN: Voter, returner, sender, deputer, appointer, patron, ingredient, element, component.

ANT: Representative, nominee, committee, constitution, system, whole.

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KEY: Constitute.

SYN: Form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute.

ANT: Dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake.

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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.

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KEY: Constitutional.

SYN: Fundamental, legal, lawful, legitimate, natural.

ANT: Unconstitutional, illegal, Illegitimate, unnatural, unchanged.

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KEY: Constrain, [See COERCE].

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KEY: Construct.

SYN: Compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame.

ANT: Derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow.

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KEY: Construction.

SYN: Composition, fabrication, explanation, rendering, erection, fabric, edifice, reading, understanding, interpretation, view.

ANT: Dislocation, dismemberment, demolition, displacement, misplacement, misconstruction, misunderstanding, misconception, misinterpretation.

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KEY: Construe.

SYN: Parse, resolve, analyze, interpret, understand, render.

ANT: Nullify, neutralize, mystify, distort, falsify, misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, mistranslate.

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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.

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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.

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KEY: Consummate \v.\

SYN: Complete, perfect, execute, finish, accomplish, conclude, seal, end.

ANT: Neglect, drop, interrupt, nullify, undo, baffle, frustrate, mar, defeat, spoil.

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KEY: Consummate \a.\

SYN: Perfect, egregious, excellent, complete, finished.

ANT: Imperfect, rude, common, mediocre, faulty, defective, ordinary.

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KEY: Consummation, [See CONSUMMATE and COMPLETION].

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KEY: Consumption.

SYN: Decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease.

ANT: Growth, development, enlargement, augmentation.

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KEY: Contact.

SYN: Touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction.

ANT: Proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance, isolation, noncontact.

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KEY: Contagious.

SYN: Catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections.

ANT: Sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic.

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KEY: Contain.

SYN: Hold, include, comprise, embrace, comprehend, inclose.

ANT: Drop, exclude, extrude, emit, discharge, afford, yield, produce.

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KEY: Contaminate.

SYN: Defile, taint, corrupt, sully, befoul, soil.

ANT: Purify, cleanse, lave, clarify, sanctify, chasten.

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KEY: Contemn.

SYN: Despise, disdain, deride, vilify, slight, disregard, scorn.

ANT: Respect, revere, venerate, regard.

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KEY: Contemplate.

SYN: Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon.

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KEY: Contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Contempt, [See CONTEMN].

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KEY: Contemptible.

SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial.

ANT: Important, grave, weighty, honorable, respectable, venerable.

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KEY: Contemptuous, [See SUPERCILIOUS].

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KEY: Contend.

SYN: Strive, compete, cope, dispute, vie, contest, struggle, grapple, argue, maintain, disagree, wrangle.

ANT: Resign, concede, allow, relinquish, forego, surrender, waive.

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KEY: Content.

SYN: Full, satisfied, pleased, gratified, contented, willing, resigned.

ANT: Unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unwilling, reluctant, discontented.

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KEY: Contented, [See CONTENT].

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KEY: Contention, [See STRIFE].

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KEY: Contentious, [See CONTEND and QUARRELSOME].

SYN: Litigious, perverse, wayward, splenetic, cantankerous, exceptions.

ANT: Pacific, obliging, considerate, obsequious, accommodating, easy.

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KEY: Conterminous.

SYN: Commensurate, adjoining, contiguous, abutting.

ANT: Unequal, inconformable, adjacent, proximate, remote, inconterminous.

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KEY: Contest \v.\ [See CONTEND].

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KEY: Contest \n.\ [See CONTENTION].

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KEY: context.

SYN: Tenor, treatment, texture, composition, matter.

ANT: Text, quotation, citation, passage, extract.

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KEY: Contexture, [See TEXTURE].

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KEY: Contiguous, [See CONTAGIOUS, ADJACENT, and CONTERMINOUS].

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KEY: Continence.

SYN: Abstinence, selfcontrol, refrain \n.\ Chastity, sobriety, temperance.

ANT: Licentiousness, self-indulgence, incontinence, dissoluteness, intemperance.

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KEY: Contingency, [See ACCIDENT].

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KEY: Contingent \a.\

SYN: Dependent, incidental, resultant, co-emcient, hypothetical, uncertain, conditional.

ANT: Positive, absolute, independent, unmodified, unaffected, uncontrolled, irrespective.

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KEY: Contingent \n.\

SYN: Contribution, subsidy, supply, succor, reinforcement, auxiliaries, donation, subscription.

ANT: Army, sum, host, campaign, fund, capital.

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KEY: Continual. [See CONSTANT and EVERLASTING].

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KEY: Continually.

SYN: Constantly, persistently, always, ever, perpetually, unceasingly, repeatedly, frequently, continuously.

ANT: Casually, occasionally, contingently, sometimes, rarely, fitfully, intermittently.

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KEY: Continuation.

SYN: Sequence, continuance, continuity, duration, succession, connection, extension, prolongation, perpetuation, concatenation.

ANT: Interruption, cessation, discontinuance, break, gap.

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KEY: Continue.

SYN: Last, persist, endure, remain, abide, stay, persevere, proceed.

ANT: Cease, fail, stop, pause, break, discontinue.

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KEY: Continuity, [See CONTINUATION].

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KEY: Contortion.

SYN: Twisting, writhing, wresting, distortion, deformity, convolution.

ANT: Symmetry, uniformity, shapeliness, configuration, contour.

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KEY: Contour, [See CONFIGURATION].

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KEY: Contraband.

SYN: Illicit, interdicted, smuggled.

ANT: Licit, uninterstated, free.

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KEY: Contract \v.\

SYN: Abridge, abbreviate, narrow, lessen, reduce, compress, decrease, retrench, curtail, form, agree.

ANT: Expand, amplify, dilate, elongate, reverse, cancel, abandon.

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KEY: Contract \n.\

SYN: Covenant, agreement, compact, bond, pact, stipulation, bargain.

ANT: Promise, assurance, parole.

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KEY: Contradict.

SYN: Oppose, dissent, negative, controvert, deny, disprove, confute, refute, gainsay, contravene.

ANT: State, propound, maintain, argue, confirm, affirm, endorse.

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KEY: Contradiction.

SYN: Repugnance, contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility.

ANT: Harmony, coincidence, concurrence, affirmation, proof, statement.

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KEY: Contraposition.

SYN: Oppositeness, confrontment, facing.

ANT: Side, flank, collateralness.

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KEY: Contrarious, [See CONTENTIOUS].

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KEY: Contrary.

SYN: Opposed, opposite, repugnant, antagonistic, adverse, incompatible, inconsistent.

ANT: Agreeing, consentaneous, compatible, kindred, coincident, consistent.

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KEY: Contrast.

SYN: Opposition, contrariety, dissimilarity.

ANT: Harmony, similarity, comparison, similitude.

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KEY: Contribute.

SYN: Conduce, add, subscribe, give, co-operate, assist, tend, supply.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, misconduct, misapply, contravene.

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KEY: Contribution.

SYN: Donation, oblation, offering, gift, subscription, subsidy, aid, assistance.

ANT: Withholding, retention, disallowance, misappropriation, misapplication, contravention.

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KEY: Contrition, [See ATTRITION].

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KEY: Contrivance, [See CONTRIVE and DEVICE].

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KEY: Contrive.

SYN: Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert, adjust.

ANT: Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo.

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KEY: Contriving, [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Control \v.\

SYN: Check, curb, moderate, repress, guide, regulate, restrain, coerce, manage, administer, govern.

ANT: Neglect, abandon, license, berate, free, mismanage, misconduct.

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KEY: Control \n.\ [See VERB and COMPULSION].

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KEY: Controversy.

SYN: Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation, wrangle, bickering, question.

ANT: Agreement, unanimity, coincidence.

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KEY: controvertible.

SYN: Questionable, dubious.

ANT: Unquestionable, incontrovertible.

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KEY: Contumacy.

SYN: Rebelliousness, stubbornness, restiveness, waywardness, self-will, untractableness.

ANT: Submissiveness, docility, tractableness, servility, cringing, fawning, flattery.

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KEY: Contumely.

SYN: Contemptuousness, scornfulness, arrogance, disrespect, obloquy.

ANT: Respect, regard, obligingness, accommodation, considerateness, flattery, adulation, obsequiousness, fawning.

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KEY: Contusion.

SYN: Bruise, knock, blow.

ANT: Soothing, smoothing, stroking, caress, pat.

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KEY: Convene.

SYN: Assemble, collect, gather, meet, congregate, call together, summon, muster, levy, convoke.

ANT: Disperse, dismiss, disband.

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KEY: Convenient.

SYN: Handy, apt, adapted, fitted, suitable, helpful, commodious, useful, timely, seasonable, opportune.

ANT: Inconvenient, awkward, obstructive, useless, superfluous, unseasonable, untimely, inopportune.

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KEY: Convention.

SYN: Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress, session, synod, treaty, compact.

ANT: Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word, parole.

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KEY: Conventional.

SYN: Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social.

ANT: Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, statutable, immutable, natural, invariable.

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KEY: Conventual.

SYN: Cœnobitual, regular, monastic.

ANT: Social, secular, laic.

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KEY: Converge.

SYN: Tend, bear, incline, lead, coincide, conduce, contribute, meet, concentrate, coradiate.

ANT: Diverge, deviate, radiate, mix, foul, entangle.

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KEY: Conversant.

SYN: Familiar, ae, quainted, proficient, experienced, versed, learned.

ANT: Unfamiliar, unacquainted, ignorant, unversed, unlearned, strange, inconversant.

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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.

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KEY: Converse \v.\

SYN: Talk, discourse, speak, chat.

ANT: Keep silent.

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KEY: Converse \a.\

SYN: Opposite, reverse, contrary, opposed, contradictory, counter, relative, correlative.

ANT: Identical, same, one, inseparable, indistinguishable, connate, uniform, direct, primary, uninverted.

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KEY: Conversion.

SYN: Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge.

ANT: Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity.

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KEY: Convert \v.\

SYN: Change, alter, transmute, transform, apply, appropriate, turn.

ANT: Conserve, perpetuate, stabilitate, [See {Q1409 stereotype}?], clinch, alienate, divert, misappropriate, misapply.

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KEY: Convertible.

SYN: Identical, commensurate, conterminous, equivalent, equipollent.

ANT: Variant, incommensurate, unequivalent, contrary, contradictory, contrariant.

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KEY: Convey.

SYN: Take, carry, transfer, relegate, bear, transmit, consign, transport, remove.

ANT: Bring, adduce, fetch, drop, house, stow, deposit.

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KEY: Conveyance, [See CONVEY].

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KEY: Convict.

SYN: Sentence, condemn.

ANT: Acquit, discharge.

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KEY: Conviction.

SYN: Assurance, persuasion, belief.

ANT: Doubt, misgiving, disbelief.

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KEY: Convince.

SYN: Persuade, enlighten, inoculate, indoctrinate.

ANT: Misguide, mislead, misadvise, mystify, puzzle, perplex, mispersuade, unsettle.

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KEY: Convivial.

SYN: Hospitable, social, festive, gay, festal, jovial, jolly.

ANT: Inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly, churlish, abstemious, austere, ascetic.

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KEY: Convocate, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Convocation, [See CONVENTION].

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KEY: Convoke, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Convolution.

SYN: Coil, involution, implication, spiral, twist, contortion.

ANT: Unravelling, explication, evolution, enucleation.

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KEY: Convoy.

SYN: Escort, guard, protection, conduct.

ANT: Loss, betrayal, capture, interception.

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KEY: Convulse.

SYN: Agitate, shake, perturb, disturb.

ANT: Soothe, collocate, compose, assuage.

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KEY: Cool \v.\

SYN: Ventilate, refrigerate, allay, damp, temper, moderate.

ANT: Warm, heat, chafe, irritate, excite, inflame.

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KEY: Cool \a.\

SYN: Cold, frigid, unimpassioned, calm, indifferent, self-possessed, deliberate, dispassioned, collected, apathetic, composed.

ANT: Warm, hot, ardent, eager.

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KEY: Coolness.

SYN: Coldness, indifference, self-possession, distance, calmness.

ANT: Heat, ardor, eagerness, passion, excitement, warmth, heartiness.

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KEY: Coop, [See CONFINE].

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KEY: Co-operate.

SYN: Assist, abet, contribute, concur, work together, help, conspire.

ANT: Thwart, oppose, counteract, rival.

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KEY: Co-operation, [See CO-OPERATE and UNION].

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KEY: Co-ordinate.

SYN: Consociate, coincident, equal, coequal, equivalent, tantamount, equipollent, interequivalent.

ANT: Extraneous, diverse, alien, unequal, unequivalent, incoordinate, disparate.

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KEY: Copartner, [See PARTNER].

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KEY: Cope.

SYN: Contend, vie, struggle, compete, strive.

ANT: Negotiate, arbitrate, compromise, surrender.

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KEY: Copious, [See ABUNDANT].

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KEY: Copy \n.\

SYN: Imitation, portraiture, facsimile, counterfeit, duplicate, image, likeness, transcript.

ANT: Original, prototype, model, example, pattern.

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KEY: Cordial.

SYN: Warm, earnest, sincere, reviving, invigorating, affectionate, hearty.

ANT: Cold, distant, formal, ceremonious.

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KEY: Core.

SYN: Heart, kernel, nucleus, centre.

ANT: Face, exterior, aspect, appearance, complexion, ostensibility, pretext.

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KEY: Corner.

SYN: Cavity, hole, nook, recess, retreat.

ANT: Coin, abutment, prominence, salience, angle, protrusion, elbow, protection, convexity.

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KEY: Cornice.

SYN: Beading, moulding, projection.

ANT: Entablature, fluting, corrugation, cavity, groove.

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KEY: Corollary.

SYN: Inference, deduction, additament, superaddition.

ANT: Problem, proposition.

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KEY: Corporal.

SYN: Bodily, fleshly, physical, material, corporeal.

ANT: Mental, moral, spiritual.

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KEY: Corps.

SYN: Body, regiment, band, squadron, troop, company.

ANT: Aggregate, army, host, force, mass, organization.

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KEY: Corpse.

SYN: Carcass, remains, dust, clay.

ANT: Soul, person, individual.

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KEY: Corpulent.

SYN: Stout, burly, fat, portly, gross, lusty, plethoric, fleshy.

ANT: Lean, thin, attenuated, slight, emaciated.

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KEY: Corpuscle.

SYN: Atom, particle, monad, jot, molecule.

ANT: mass, body, aggregate, organization, matter.

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KEY: Corpuscular, [See CORPUSCLE].

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KEY: corradiate, [See CONVERGE].

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KEY: Correct \a.\

SYN: true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right.

ANT: false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong.

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KEY: Correct \v.\

SYN: Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set right, improve.

ANT: Spare, falsify, corrupt.

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KEY: correction.

SYN: amendment, discipline, emendation, chastisement, punishment.

ANT: Deterioration, debasement, retrogradation, reward, recompense.

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KEY: Corrective.

SYN: Regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative.

ANT: Confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive.

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KEY: Correlation.

SYN: correspondence, interrelation, interdependence, mutuality, apposition.

ANT: Contradiction, independence, [See LEARNED and RATIONAL].

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KEY: Correlative, [See CORRUGATION].

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KEY: Correspond.

SYN: Match, tally, fit, answer, agree, suit, harmonize.

ANT: Vary, differ, disagree, jar, clash.

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KEY: Correspondence.

SYN: Fitness, agreement, adaptation, congruity, answerableness, match, congeniality, communication, letter, writing, despatches.

ANT: Conversation, colloquy, confabulation, reservation, withdrawal, withholding, nonintercourse, difference, repugnance.

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KEY: Correspondent \a.\ [See SUITABLE].

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KEY: Corrigible.

SYN: Amenable, docile, tractable.

ANT: Intractable, stubborn, incorrigible.

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KEY: Corroborate.

SYN: Strengthen, confirm, fortify, support.

ANT: Weaken, invalidate, shake, confute, rebut, enfeeble.

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KEY: corporation.

SYN: Confirmation, fortification, strengthening.

ANT: Counterevidence, contradiction, invalidation, shaking, refutation.

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KEY: Corrode.

SYN: Eat, rust, gnaw, canker, wear, crumble.

ANT: Repair, renew, furbish, consolidate.

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KEY: Corrosion, [See CORRODE and RUST].

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KEY: Corrosive, [See CORRODE].

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KEY: Corrugate.

SYN: Furrow, groove, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, ruffle, crease.

ANT: Plane, flatten, roll.

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KEY: Corrugation, [See CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Corrupt \v.\

SYN: Spoil, deteriorate, impair, putrefy, vitiate, demoralize, debase, defile, contaminate, pollute, deprave.

ANT: Mend, repair, purify, cleanse, correct, ameliorate, better.

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KEY: Corrupt \a.\

SYN: Defiled, polluted, vitiated, decayed, depraved, putrid, rotten, infected, tainted, profligate, contaminated.

ANT: Pure, uncorrupt, undented.

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KEY: Corruption.

SYN: Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness, defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination, putrefaction.

ANT: Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration.

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KEY: Coruscate.

SYN: Blaze, flame, flash, scintillate, glisten.

ANT: Pale, smoulder, darken, loom, lower, glimmer, gleam, glare, beam, shimmer.

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KEY: Coruscation, [See CORUSCATE].

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KEY: Cosmical.

SYN: Universal, general.

ANT: Local, topical, national, persomal.

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KEY: Cost. \v.\

SYN: Require, consume, absorb.

ANT: Bring, produce, yield, afford, fetch, return.

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KEY: Cost. \n.\

SYN: Expenditure, outlay, disbursement, payment, compensation, price, worth, expense, charge, outgoings.

ANT: Receipt, income, emolument, return, profit, perquisite, revenue.

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KEY: Costly.

SYN: Valuable, expensive, high-priced, rich, precious, sumptuous.

ANT: Valueless, cheap, low-priced, mean, worthless, beggarly, paltry.

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KEY: Costume.

SYN: Uniform, livery, robes.

ANT: Disguise, transformation, incognito.

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KEY: Cosy.

SYN: Snug, comfortable, chatty.

ANT: Bare, comfortless, cross.

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KEY: contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].

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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.

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KEY: Counsel \n.\

SYN: Advice, instruction, monition, admonition, warning, recommendation.

ANT: Misguidance, misinstruction, betrayal.

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KEY: Counsel \v.\

SYN: Advise, instruct, warn, guide, admonish.

ANT: Misguide, misinstruct, betray, counselor, [See COUNSEL].

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KEY: Count.

SYN: Compute, reckon, enumerate, estimate, number, sum, calculate.

ANT: Hazard, conjecture, guess, lump, confound.

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KEY: Countenance \v.\

SYN: Help, aid, abet, favor, sanction, patronize, support, encourage.

ANT: Oppose, confront, discourage, discountenance, browbeat.

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KEY: Countenance \n.\

SYN: Aid, abet, encourage, support.

ANT: Discountenance.

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KEY: Counter.

SYN: Opposed, contrary, against.

ANT: According, coincident.

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KEY: Counteract.

SYN: Counterinfluence, counterfoil, foil, baffle, neutralize, oppose, rival, thwart, hinder.

ANT: Aid, help, abet, promote, conserve, co-operate, subserve.

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KEY: Counterevidence.

SYN: Contradiction, confliction.

ANT: Corroboration, confirmation.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \v.\

SYN: Simulate, misrepresent, impersonate.

ANT: Expose, unmask, detect.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \n.\

SYN: Cheat, trick, juggle, fraud, artifice, fabrication, pretense, ruse, sham.

ANT: Exposure, detection, unmasking, unveiling, reality, verity, fact, truth.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \a.\ [See FALSE].

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KEY: Counterfoil. [See BAFFLE].

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KEY: Countermand, [See COMMAND].

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KEY: Counterpart.

SYN: Match, fellow, tally, brother, twin, copy.

ANT: Correlative, complement, supplement, opponent, counteragent, reverse, obverse, opposite, antithesis, contrast, contradiction.

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KEY: Counterpoise \v.\

SYN: Balance, equalize.

ANT: Over-balance, aggravate.

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KEY: Counterpoise \n.\

SYN: Makeweight, equilibrium.

ANT: Preponderance.

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KEY: Counterpressure.

SYN: Resistance, stubbornness, renitency.

ANT: Yielding, giving, resilience.

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KEY: Countervail.

SYN: Counteract, of, pose, withstand.

ANT: Aggravate, intensify, subserve.

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KEY: Countless \a.\

SYN: Innumerable, numberless, unnumbered.

ANT: Few, scant, sparse.

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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.

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KEY: Courage.

SYN: Bravery, boldness, valor, pluck, fortitude, resolution, gallantry, fearlessness, intrepidity.

ANT: Timidity, cowardice, pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardliness.

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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.

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KEY: Court \v.\

SYN: Woo, seek, affect, flatter, pursue.

ANT: Repel, abjure, disaffect, insult, avoid, shun, repudiate.

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KEY: Courteous, [See POLITE].

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KEY: Courtesy.

SYN: Politeness, urbanity, civility, affability, graciousness.

ANT: Churlishness, rudeness, arrogance, ungraciousness, incivility.

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KEY: Courtly.

SYN: Dignified, polished, refined, aristocratic, high-bred, mannerly.

ANT: Undignified, rough, unpolished, coarse, unrefined, plebeian, awkward, boorish, rustic, unmannerly.

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KEY: Covenant \n.\

SYN: Agreement, bond, stipulation, compact, contract, league, bargain.

ANT: Promise, intimation, assurance, parole, understanding.

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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.

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KEY: Covert \a.\ [See COVER and SECRET].

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KEY: Coverture.

SYN: Marriage, matrimony, wedlock.

ANT: Celibacy, virginity.

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KEY: Covet.

SYN: Long for, wish for, yearn for, hanker, desire.

ANT: Despise, dislike, undervalue, mislike.

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KEY: Covetous.

SYN: Acquisitive, avaricious, greedy, grasping, rapacious.

ANT: Unselfish, liberal, self-sacrificing, profuse, bountiful, charitable.

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KEY: Covetousness, [See COVETOUS and AVARICE].

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KEY: Cow \v.\

SYN: Frighten, abash, intimidate, oppress, brow-bent.

ANT: Countenance, rally, encourage, inspirit.

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KEY: Coward.

SYN: Craven, dastard, recreant, poltroon, renegade.

ANT: Champion, hero, daredevil, desperado.

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KEY: Cowardly, [See TIMID].

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KEY: Cower.