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ANT: Easy, jovial, good-humored, genial.

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KEY: Petty.

SYN: Small, mean, paltry, ignoble, trifling, narrow, trivial, contemptible.

ANT: Large, large-hearted, noble, generous, chivalrous, magnificent, liberal, broad.

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KEY: Petulant, [See PEEVISH].

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KEY: Phantasm.

SYN: Chimera, phantasma, phantom, specter, illusion, delusion, unreality, phantasy, bugbear, vision, dream, hallucination, shadow.

ANT: Reality, truth, fact, substance, verity, Phantom, [See PHANTASM].

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KEY: Pharisaical.

SYN: Sanctimonious, formal, ceremonious, precision.

ANT: Sincere, guileless, genuine, godly, unpharasaical.

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KEY: Philanthropic.

SYN: Humane, large-hearted, public-spirited, charitable, kind.

ANT: Selfish, cynical, egotistical, morose, misanthropic.

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KEY: Philanthropy.

SYN: Humanity, love of mankind, good will to all men, general, benevolence,.

ANT: Misanthropy, hatred of men.

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KEY: Philosopher.

SYN: Doctor, savant, teacher, master, schoolman.

ANT: Ignoramus, sciolist, freshman, tyro, greenhorn, fool, booby, dunce.

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KEY: Philosophical.

SYN: Wise, sound, conclusive, scientific, accurate, enlightened, rational, calm, unprejudiced.

ANT: Unsound, crude, vague, loose, inaccurate, popular, unscientific, sciolistic, unphilosophical.

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KEY: Phlegmatic.

SYN: Sluggish, cold, apathetical, dull, frigid, cold-blooded, unfeeling.

ANT: Quick, lively, warm-blooded, susceptible.

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KEY: Phrensy.

SYN: Madness, insanity, delirium, mania, raving, hallucination, afflatus, inspiration.

ANT: Sanity, sobriety, rationality, lucidity.

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KEY: Physical.

SYN: Natural, material, visible, tangible, substantial, corporeal.

ANT: Mental, moral, intellectual, spiritual, immaterial, invisible, intangible, unsubstantial, supernatural, hyperphysical.

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KEY: Pick.

SYN: Choose, cull, select, gather, pluck, eliminate, enucleate, extract, glean.

ANT: Reject, discard, repudiate, relegate, bunch, grasp, clutch.

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KEY: Pictorial.

SYN: Illustrated, picturesque, artistic, imaginative, graphic.

ANT: Plain, unembellished, unadorned.

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KEY: Picture \n.\

SYN: Likeness, resemblance, drawing, painting, representation, image, engraving.

ANT: Original.

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KEY: Picture \v.\

SYN: Delineate, draw, paint, represent, [See REPRESENT].

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KEY: Picturesque.

SYN: Comely, seemly, graceful, scenic, artistic, pictorial, graphic.

ANT: Unseemly, uncouth, rude, unpicturesque, beautiless, flat, tame, monotonous, dead.

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KEY: Pierce.

SYN: Perforate, bore, drill, penetrate, excite, affect, rouse, touch, move, enter, stab, transfix.

ANT: Deaden, quiet, blunt, scott, allay, lull, compose.

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KEY: Piercing.

SYN: Penetrating, perforating, sharp, keen, acute, thrilling, [See ACUTE].

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KEY: Piety.

SYN: Religion, devotion, godliness, holiness, grace, reverence, sanctity.

ANT: Irreligion, impiety, ungodliness, sinfulness, profanity, hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness, phariseeism.

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KEY: Pile.

SYN: Heap, accumulate, gather, store, stuck, amass, collect.

ANT: Demolish, dissipate, squander, scatter, separate, disperse, deal, distribute.

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KEY: Pilfer.

SYN: Abstract, peculate, filch, purloin, smuggle, cabbage, steal, thieve.

ANT: Pillage, ransack, plunder, rifle, spoil.

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KEY: Pillage, [See PILFER].

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KEY: Pillar.

SYN: Column, shaft, post, support.

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KEY: Pilot \v.\

SYN: Steer, guide, direct, conduct, lead, convoy, escort, [See CONDUCT].

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KEY: Pimple.

SYN: Pustule, blotch, eruption.

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KEY: Pinch, [See EMERGENCY].

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KEY: Pinch \v.\

SYN: Squeeze, grip, press, compress, nip, distress, [See GRIPE].

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KEY: Pine \v.\

SYN: Waste away, droop, fade, wither, decline, decay, sink, [See LANGUISH].

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KEY: Pious.

SYN: Devout, saintly, holy, religious, godly, [See DEVOUT].

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KEY: Piquant.

SYN: Pungent, sharp, lively, racy, severe, biting, cutting, smart, stimulating, keen, stinging, tart.

ANT: Tame, dull, flat, characterless, insipid.

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KEY: Pique.

SYN: Grudge, offence, umbrage, spite, resentment (slight), wounded pride, [See GRUDGE].

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KEY: Pirate.

SYN: Corsair, searobber, buccaneer, freebooter, sea rover.

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KEY: Pit.

SYN: Hollow, gulf, trench, excavation, [See ABYSS].

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KEY: Pitch.

SYN: Throw, fling, cast, hurl, [See FUNG].

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KEY: Piteous.

SYN: Sad, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, distressing, doleful, pitiable, mournful, woful, affecting, sorrowful.

ANT: Joyous, enviable, comfortable, pleasant, desirable, delectable.

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KEY: Pith.

SYN: Kernel, marrow, gist, substance, essence, cream, root.

ANT: Surplusage, surroundings, dressing, verbiage.

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KEY: Pithy.

SYN: Terse, laconic, pregnant, expressive, nervous.

ANT: Weak, characterless, diluted, pointless, flat, vapid.

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KEY: Pitiable, [See PITEOUS].

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KEY: Pitiful, [See PITILESS].

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KEY: Pitiless.

SYN: Merciless, unsparing, inexorable, cruel.

ANT: Pitiful, tender, merciful, compassionate, lenient, indulgent, [See {[^]?}].

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KEY: Pittance.

SYN: Dole, driblet, drop, drain, scantling.

ANT: Exuberance, abundance, profusion, lavishment.

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KEY: Pity.

SYN: Mercy, compassion, tenderness, commiseration, ruth, sympathy, condolence.

ANT: Cruelty, hardheartedness, relentlessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness.

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KEY: Placard.

SYN: Handbill, poster, bin, broadside.

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KEY: Place.

SYN: Locate, assign, fix, establish, settle, attribute, situate.

ANT: Disturb, remove, unsettle, disarrange, disestablish, misplace, misattribute, misassign, uproot, transplant, extirpate, eradicate, transport.

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KEY: Placid.

SYN: Calm, quiet, serene, composed, gentle, unruffled, still, halcyonic, unexcited, imperturbable, passionless.

ANT: Rough, troubled, unquiet, discomposed, agitated, ruffled, disturbed, irritated, stormy, excited, Impassioned.

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KEY: Plain.

SYN: Level, even, flat, smooth, open, clear, unencumbered, unobstructed, uninterrupted, manifest, evident, obvious, unmistakable, simple, easy, natural, unaffected, homely, unsophisticated, open, unvarnished, unembellished, unreserved, artless.

ANT: Uneven, undulating, rugged, rough, abrupt, broken, confused, encumbered, obstructed, interrupted, questionable, uncertain, dubious, ambiguous, enigmatical, hard, abstruse, affected, fair, beautiful, sophisticated, artful, varnished, embellished.

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KEY: Plaintive.

SYN: Mournful, sorrowful, sad, doleful, melancholy, wailing, touching, moaning.

ANT: Joyous, exultant, glad, jubilant, cheerful, cheering, gladdening.

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KEY: Plan \n.\ Design, drawing, sketch, draft, scheme, groundplot, project, contrivance, stratagem, device, [See DESIGN], Plan \v.\

Contrive, devise, sketch out, design, hatch, [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Plant.

SYN: Set, insert, settle, establish, introduce, stock, fix, place.

ANT: Remove, extract, eradicate, extirpate, disestablish, transport, denude, transplant, displace.

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KEY: Plaster.

SYN: Palliate, patch, ramp, tinker, cobble, bolster.

ANT: Expose, repair, restore, renovate, redintegrate.

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KEY: Plastic.

SYN: Ductile, pliant, yielding, malleable, tractile, flexible.

ANT: Stubborn, unyielding, inert, unmalleable, inflexible, intractile.

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KEY: Platitude.

SYN: Commonplace, generality, truism, triviality.

ANT: Sophism, laconism, enigma, dictum, oracle.

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KEY: Platonic.

SYN: Cold, intellectual, unsensual, mental, philosophical.

ANT: Ardent, animal, sensual, passionate, sexual.

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KEY: Plaudit, [See APPLAUSE].

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KEY: Plausible.

SYN: Specious, superficial, passable, unctuous, fair-spoken, pretentious, ostensible, right, apparently, colorable, feasible.

ANT: Genuine, sterling, transparent, unmistakable, profound.

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KEY: Play \n.\

SYN: Sport, pastime, amusement, diversion, recreation, gambol, frolic, opportunity, scope, room, [See PASTIME and SPORT].

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KEY: Playful.

SYN: Lively, sportive, jocund, frolicsome, gay, vivacious, sprightly, [See LIVELY].

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KEY: Plea.

SYN: Excuse, vindication, justification, ground, defence, apology, entreaty.

ANT: Charge, accusation, impeachment, action.

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KEY: Pleasant.

SYN: Grateful, agreeable, acceptable, pleasurable, desirable, gratifying, cheerful, enlivening, sportive, delicious, delectable, jocular, satisfactory, exquisite, merry.

ANT: Unpleasant, ungrateful, disagreeable, obnoxious, unacceptable, offensive, unlively, lugubrious, dull, ill-humored.

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KEY: Please.

SYN: Delight, content, gladden, fascinate, [See GRATIFY].

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KEY: Pleasing, [See AGREEABLE].

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KEY: Pleasure.

SYN: Enjoyment, gratification, sensuality, self-indulgence, voluptuousness, choice, preference, vill, inclination, purpose, determination, favor, satisfaction, indulgent.

ANT: Pain, suffering, affliction, trouble, asceticism, self-denial, abstinence, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, denial, refusal.

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KEY: Plebeian.

SYN: Low, vulgar, lowborn, lowbred, coarse, ignoble.

ANT: Patrician, noble, aristocratic, refined, highborn, high-bred.

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KEY: Pledge \n.\

SYN: Security, guarantee, warrant, hostage, surety, pawn, earnest.

ANT: Word, promise, assurance, parole.

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KEY: Pledge \v.\

SYN: Pawn, hypothecate.

ANT: Redeem.

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KEY: Plenary.

SYN: Full, abundant, complete, entire, unreserved, unstinted, unrestricted.

ANT: Partial, incomplete, restricted, reserved, contingent, temporary.

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KEY: Plenitude.

SYN: Fulness, copiousness, repletion, abundance, amplitude, exuberance, largeness, liberality, height, maximum, richness, completeness.

ANT: Scantiness, Insufficiency, restriction, partiality, stint, narrowness, poverty, incompleteness, reserve, minimum.

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KEY: Plentiful, [See ABUNDANT].

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KEY: Plenty.

SYN: Enough, sufficiency, full supply, profusion, copiousness, [See PLENITUDE].

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KEY: Pleonastic.

SYN: Redundant, superfluous, surplus, inconcise.

ANT: Requisite, necessary, essential, terse, concise, succinct.

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KEY: Pliable.

SYN: Flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliant.

ANT: Stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable.

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KEY: Pliant, [See PLIABLE].

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KEY: Plight \n.\

SYN: Situation, condition, predicament, difficulty, dilemma, [See DILEMMA].

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KEY: Plight \v.\

SYN: Vow, pledge.

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KEY: Plodding.

SYN: Painstaking, industrious, persevering, laborious, studious.

ANT: Indiligent, unindustrious, distracted, inattentive, impatient, unpersevering, flighty, fitful.

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KEY: Plot \n.\

SYN: Scheme, plan, stratagem, combination, conspiracy, machination, [See SCHEME].

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KEY: Plot \v.\

SYN: Devise, concoct, conspire, contrive, frame, batch, [See CONSPIRE and DEVISE].

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KEY: Pluck, [See COURAGE].

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KEY: Pluck up.

SYN: Eradicate, root out, exterminate, [See ERADICATE].

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KEY: Plump.

SYN: Well-conditioned, wellrounded, chubby, strapping, bouncing, fleshy, brawny, full, fat, round, massive, portly.

ANT: Ill-conditioned, lean, emaciated, scraggy, weazen, macilent, lank, rawboned, shrivelled, flaccid, tabid.

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KEY: Plunder, [See PILLAGE].

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KEY: Plunge.

SYN: Dip, dive, douse, duck, submerge, immerse, precipitate, sink, overwhelm, thrust under, pitch headlong.

ANT: Emerge, issue, soar, raise, extricate, rescue.

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KEY: Plurality.

SYN: Multitude, multitudinousness, number, numerousness, profusion, host, legion, collection.

ANT: Unity, singularity, oneness, solitude, individuality, singleness, isolation.

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KEY: Ply.

SYN: Work, urge, practice, exercise, apply steadily, [See URGE].

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KEY: Poet.

SYN: Bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, author of poems.

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KEY: Poetical.

SYN: Metrical, rythmic, versified, lyric, rhyming, imaginative, creative, romantic, fictitious, dreamy, flighty.

ANT: Unmetrical, unrythmical, prosaic, unpoetical, unversified, unimaginative, commonplace, historical, mathematical, logical, matter-of-fact, veracious, sober.

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KEY: Poignant.

SYN: Stinging, sharp, keen, penetrating, severe, biting, intense, piercing, [See KEEN].

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KEY: Point \v.\

SYN: Aim, level, direct, show, indicate, [See INDICATE].

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KEY: Point \n.\

SYN: Apex, top, summit, sharp end, aim, purpose, subject matter, object, [See ACME].

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KEY: Pointed.

SYN: Peaked, keen, sharp, marked, severe, telling, [See KEEN].

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KEY: Pointless \a.\

SYN: Vague, vapid, aimless, inexpressive, feeble.

ANT: Close, sharp, telling, pregnant, significant, expressive, forcible, epigrammatic.

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KEY: Poise, [See BALANCE].

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KEY: Poison.

SYN: Vitiate, taint, infect, envenom, pollute.

ANT: Purify, disinfect, depurate.

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KEY: Poisonous.

SYN: Venomous, infect ant, vicious, corruptive, vitiative, noxious, baneful, malignant, morbific, peccant, virulent, pestiferous, mephitic, deleterious.

ANT: Wholesome, genial, beneficial, sanative, invigorative, healthful, innoxious, restorative, remedial, hygeian.

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KEY: Policy.

SYN: Plan, device, system, prudence, management, cunning, [See DEVICE].

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KEY: Polish.

SYN: Burnish, furbish, levigate, brighten, refine, make glossy.

ANT: Abrade, scratch.

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KEY: Polite.

SYN: Elegant, refined, wellbred, courteous, obliging, complaisant, civil, courtly, polished, genteel, accomplished.

ANT: Awkward, rude, uncouth, illbred, discourteous, boorish, clownish, disobliging.

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KEY: Politeness.

SYN: Courtesy, refinement, good breeding, courteousness, urbanity, civility, gentility, [See COURTESY].

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KEY: Politic.

SYN: Prudent, wise, sagacious, provident, diplomatic, judicious, cunning, wary, well devised, discreet.

ANT: Imprudent, unwise, improvident, undiplomatic, impolitic.

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KEY: Pollute.

SYN: Befoul, taint, poison, corrupt, tarnish, stain, contaminate, soil, vitiate, deprave.

ANT: Purify, clarify, disinfect, filter.

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KEY: Poltroon.

SYN: Scoundrel, coward, hound, skulk, dastard.

ANT: Hero, philanthropist, gentleman, benefactor, model, example.

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KEY: Pommel.

SYN: Beat, thump, baste, thrash, strike, cudgel.

ANT: Smooth, caress, pat, stroke.

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KEY: Pomp.

SYN: Ostentation, magnificence, parade, ceremony, show, display, gorgeousness, grandeur, splendor, pageantry, publicity.

ANT: Quiet, retirement, simplicity, unceremoniousness, unadornment, privacy, plainness.

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KEY: Pompous.

SYN: Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, Inflated, pretentious, coxcombical, assuming.

ANT: Unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded.

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KEY: Ponder.

SYN: Think over, meditate on, weigh, consider, cogitate, deliberate, ruminate, reflect, amuse, study, resolve, [See CONSIDER].

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KEY: Ponderable.

SYN: Appreciable, determinable, palpable.

ANT: Inappreciable, indeterminable, impalpable, imponderable.

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KEY: Ponderous, Weighty, bulky, massive, burdensome, heavy, onerous.

ANT: Light, trifling, airy, volatile, subtle.

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KEY: Poor.

SYN: Indigent, moneyless, impecunious, penniless, weak, meagre, insufficient, deficient, faulty, unsatisfactory, inconsiderable, thin, scanty, bald.

ANT: Rich, wealthy, copious, affluent, abundant, liberal, large, ample, moneyed, sufficient, satisfactory, considerable.

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KEY: Popular.

SYN: Common, current, vulgar, public, general, received, favorite, beloved, prevailing, approved, widespread, liked.

ANT: Exclusive, restricted, scientific, esoteric, unpopular, odious, detested.

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KEY: Populous.

SYN: Crowded, dense, swarming, thronged.

ANT: Deserted, thin, scanty, unfrequented, unoccupied, uninhabited.

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KEY: Porch.

SYN: Portico, vestibule, [See ENTRANCE].

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KEY: Porous.

SYN: Foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable.

ANT: Impervious, impermeable, impercolable.

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KEY: Port.

SYN: Haven, harbor, mien, bearing, demeanor, carriage, deportment, air, [See DEPORTMENT and MIEN].

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KEY: Portable.

SYN: Movable, {[haLdy]?}, manageable, light.

ANT: Ponderous, immovable, awkward, unmanageable, unhandy.

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KEY: Portal.

SYN: Gate, entrance, gateway, [See ENTRANCE].

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KEY: Portend.

SYN: Indicate, threaten, prognosticate, forbode, augur, presage, herald, foreshow, betoken.

ANT: Contradict, negative, preclude, forefend, nullify, contravene, avert.

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KEY: Portentous.

SYN: Indicative, suggestive, threatening, prophetic, predictive, ominous, premonitory.

ANT: Auspicious, hopeful, cheering, assuring, animating, encouraging, joyous.

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KEY: Portion, [See PART].

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KEY: Portly.

SYN: Dignified, burly, imposing, stately, corpulent, stout, plump.

ANT: Undignified, unimposing, mean.

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KEY: Portray.

SYN: Draw, delineate, represent, depict, describe, sketch, paint.

ANT: Misrepresent, caricature, misportray.

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KEY: Pose.

SYN: Puzzle, perplex, bewilder, dumbfounder, mystify, embarrass, daze, confound.

ANT: Enlighten, unmystify, indoctrinate, initiate.

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KEY: Position, [See SITUATION].

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KEY: Positive.

SYN: real, actual, substantial, absolute, independent, unconditional, unequivocal, explicit, fixed, settled, definitive, indisputable, decisive, express, enacted, assured, confident, direct, dogmatic, overbearing, dogmatical.

ANT: Negative, insubstantial, unreal, fictitious, imaginary, relative, contingent, dependent, conditional, implied, dubious, questionable, moral, uncertain, doubtful, indirect, occasional, suspicious.

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KEY: Possess.

SYN: Occupy, enjoy, have, hold, entertain, own.

ANT: Abandon, renounce, abjure, surrender, lose, forfeit, resign.

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KEY: Possession.

SYN: Holding, ownership, tenure, occupation.

ANT: Abandoning, renouncing, resigning, surrendering.

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KEY: Possible.

SYN: Practicable, feasible, likely, potential.

ANT: Impracticable, impossible.

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KEY: Possibly.

SYN: Perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe, [See PERHAPS].

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KEY: port, [See SITUATION].

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KEY: Posterior.

SYN: Later, subsequent.

ANT: Earlier, precedent, antecedent, prior.

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KEY: Posterity.

SYN: Futurity.

ANT: Ancestry.

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KEY: Postpone.

SYN: Defer, delay, prorogue, procrastinate.

ANT: Expedite, despatch, accelerate.

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KEY: Postulate.

SYN: Assume, presuppose.

ANT: Prove, elaborate, exemplify, argue.

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KEY: Posture, [See SITUATION].

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KEY: Potent.

SYN: Powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energetic.

ANT: Weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative.

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KEY: Potential.

SYN: Possible, implicit, undeveloped, germinative, immanent, virtual.

ANT: Actual, explicit, developed, objective, real, express.

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KEY: Pound.

SYN: Imprison, cage, coop.

ANT: Discharge, liberate, release.

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KEY: Pound.

SYN: Beat, bruise, pulverize, triturate.

ANT: Soothe, stroke, amalgamate, compound.

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KEY: Poverty.

SYN: Want, need, indigence, destitution, [See WANT].

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KEY: Power.

SYN: Faculty, capacity, capability, potentiality, ability, strength, force, might, energy, susceptibility, influence, dominion, sway, command, government, agency, authority, rule, jurisdiction, effectiveness.

ANT: Incapacity, incapability, impotence, inability, weakness, imbecility, inertness, insusceptibility, subjection, power lessness, obedience, subservience, ineffectiveness.

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KEY: Powerful.

SYN: Strong, potent, puissant, masterful, mighty, [See STRONG].

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KEY: Practicable.

SYN: Possible, feasible, usable.

ANT: Impossible, impracticable, unusable.

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KEY: Practical.

SYN: Useful, serviceable, skilled, trained, [See CUSTOM].

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KEY: Practically.

SYN: Really, actually, substantially, in fact, in effect, [See ACTUALLY].

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KEY: Practice \n.\

SYN: Usage, habit, exercise, experience, exercitation, action, custom, manner, performance.

ANT: Disuse, dishabituation, Inexperience, theory, speculation, nonperformance.

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KEY: Practise \v.\

SYN: Perform, exercise, deal in, carry on, [See PERFORM].

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KEY: Practised.

SYN: Trained, experienced, proficient, accomplished, [See PROFICIENT \a.\].

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KEY: Pragmatical.

SYN: Over-busy, fussy, consequential, officious, meddlesome.

ANT: Reserved, uninterfering, distant, unconcerned, inobtrusive, unmeddlesome, inofficious.

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KEY: Praise \v.\

SYN: Eulogize, laud, commend, honor, glorify, compliment, celebrate, puff, extol, applaud, panegyrize.

ANT: Blame, censure, discommend, reprove.

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KEY: Praise, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Praiseworthy.

SYN: commendable, laudable, meritorious, honorable, worthy.

ANT: Blameable, censureable, reprehensible.

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KEY: Prank.

SYN: Caper, antic, capricious, action, frolic, trick, gambol, escapade, freak, [See FROLIC].

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KEY: Prate.

SYN: Babble, prattle, chat, chatter, tattle, gossip, [See BABBLE].

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KEY: Pray.

SYN: Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, solicit, supplicate, adjure, invoke, crave, [See BESEECH].

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KEY: Prayer.

SYN: Petition, supplication, entreaty, orison, benediction, suit, request, [See BENEDICTION].

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KEY: Preamble.

SYN: Preface, introduction, exordium, opening, introductory, part.

ANT: Close, termination, peroration, finale, conclusion.

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KEY: Precarious.

SYN: Hazardous, peril, ous, uncertain, riskful, unassured, insecure, dubious, doubtful.

ANT: Assured, certain, systematic, safe, immutable.

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KEY: Precaution.

SYN: Forethought, provision, premunition, anticipation, prearrangement, care, providence.

ANT: Carelessness, thoughtlessness, improvidence.

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KEY: Precede.

SYN: Lead, introduce, herald, go before, usher, head.

ANT: Succeed, follow.

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KEY: Precedence.

SYN: Superiority, lead, priority, preference, antecedence, supremacy, pre-eminence.

ANT: Inferiority, sequence, subordination, posteriority.

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KEY: Precedent.

SYN: Anterior, prior, earlier.

ANT: Subsequent, posterior, Inter.

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KEY: Precedent \n.\

SYN: Instance, example, authority, warrant, antecedent, pattern.

ANT: Prohibition, diswarrant, disallowance.

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KEY: Preceding.

SYN: Precedent, former, foregoing, prior, previous, antecedent, anterior, [See ANTERIOR].

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KEY: Precept.

SYN: Rule, maxim, injunction, commandment, doctrine, direction, law, mandate, principle, instruction, command, order.

ANT: Suggestion, prompting, instigation, impulse.

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KEY: Preceptor.

SYN: Master, teacher, pedagogue, tutor, instructor, schoolmaster.

ANT: Pupil, learner, scholar, student.

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KEY: Precinct, Precincts.

SYN: Purlieus, environs, limit, bounds, boundary, confine, district.

ANT: Heart, centre, nucleus.

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KEY: Precious.

SYN: Dear, valuable, costly, cherished, treasured, beloved, estimable, of great value.

ANT: Cheap, valueless, worthless, unvalued, disesteemed, unappreciated, vile.

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KEY: Precipice.

SYN: Cliff, crag, steep descent, headlong, steep, [See ABYSS].

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KEY: Precipitate, [See RASH].

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KEY: Precipitous.

SYN: Steep, headlong, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular, beetling, rash, dangerous.

ANT: Shallow, graduated, inclined, undulating.

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KEY: Precise.

SYN: Definite, exact, nice, pointed, accurate, correct, particular, formal, explicit, scrupulous, terse, punctilious, ceremonious, formal.

ANT: Indefinite, vague, inexact, rough, inaccurate, loose, circumlocutory, ambagious, tortuous, informal, unceremonious.

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KEY: Precision.

SYN: Exactness, nicety, preciseness, accuracy, [See ACCURACY].

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KEY: Preclude.

SYN: Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder.

ANT: Admit, promote, further, advance.

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KEY: Precocious.

SYN: Premature, predeveloped, overforward.

ANT: Tardy, backward, slow-growing, crude.

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KEY: Precognition.

SYN: Foresight, foreknowledge.

ANT: Reflection, recollection.

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KEY: Preconception.

SYN: Forethought, anticipation, fore-understanding.

ANT: Copy, portraiture, observation, vision, representation, delineation.

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KEY: Preconcerted.

SYN: Prearranged, concocted, prepared, premeditated.

ANT: Extemporized, unprepared, unconcocted, unpremeditated.

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KEY: Precursor.

SYN: Forerunner, harbinger, herald, pioneer, advance-guard, cause.

ANT: Follower, consequent, result, effect, event.

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KEY: Precursory.

SYN: Prevenient, antecedent, introductory, prefatory, initiatory, prior, premonitory, prognosticative.

ANT: Subsequent, consequent, posterior, entailed, supervenient, eventual.

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KEY: Predaceous.

SYN: Ravenous, rapacious, carnivorous.

ANT: Innocuous, herbivorous, graminivorous.

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KEY: Predatory.

SYN: Pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous.

ANT: Guarding, keeping, watching, protecting, [See RAPACIOUS].

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KEY: Predecessor.

SYN: Ancestor, forerunner, elder.

ANT: Posterity, junior, successor.

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KEY: Predestination.

SYN: Foreordainment, foredoom, necessity, fate, election, preordination, predetermination.

ANT: Freewill, freedom, volition, choice, spontaneity.

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KEY: Predicament.

SYN: Difficulty, try, ing position, state, condition, dilemma, situation, [See DILEMMA].

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KEY: Predicate \v.\

SYN: Assert, aver, affirm, declare, [See ASSERT].

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KEY: Predict.

SYN: Prophesy, foretell, forecast, prognosticate, forebode, foreshadow, [See FORETELL].

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KEY: Prediction.

SYN: Prophecy, prognostication, vaticination, foreannouncement, premonstration, foretelling, forebodement, presage, augury, foreshowing.

ANT: Narration, relation, history, account, report.

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KEY: Predilection.

SYN: Prepossession, preference, leaning, liking, fondness, bias, inclination, predisposition, tendency, prejudice, partiality.

ANT: Prejudice, aversion, indisposition, antipathy, disinclination, apathy.

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KEY: Predisposition, [See PREDILECTION].

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KEY: Predominance.

SYN: Prevalence, superiority, ascendancy, rule.

ANT: Inferiority, subjection, minority, paucity.

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KEY: Predominant.

SYN: Prevailing, ascendant, prevalent, superior, overruling, [See SUPERIOR].

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KEY: Pre-eminent.

SYN: Paramount, predominant, egregious, consummate, prevailing.

ANT: Subordinate, inferior, minor, secondary.

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KEY: Preface.

SYN: Introduction, proem, prelude, prologue, preamble, premiss.

ANT: Peroration, sequel, appendix, epilogue, postscript.

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KEY: Prefatory.

SYN: Introductory, preclusive, initiative, preliminary, antecedent, prevenient, proemial.

ANT: Subsequent, concluding, terminal, perorational.

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KEY: Prefer.

SYN: Choose, elect, select, fancy, promote, advance, further.

ANT: Reject, postpone, defer, withhold, degrade, depress.

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KEY: Preferment.

SYN: Dignity, promotion, benefice, advancement, exaltation.

ANT: Degradation, deprivation, suspension.

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KEY: Prefiguration.

SYN: Type, adumbration.

ANT: Antitype, fulfillment.

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KEY: Prefix.

SYN: Preface.

ANT: Append, subjoin, suffix, supplement, add.

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KEY: Pregnant.

SYN: Procreant, generative, prolific, teeming, significant, fraught, fruitful, replete, with child, enceinte.

ANT: Sterile, unproductive, barren, void, meaningless.

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KEY: Pregnable.

SYN: Weak, exposed, expugnable, defenceless.

ANT: Impregnable, inexpugnable.

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KEY: Prejudice.

SYN: Prepossession, prejudgment, predisposition, bias, unfairness, injury, harm, impairment, detriment, partiality, disadvantage, damage.

ANT: Judgment, fairness, impartiality, advantage.

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KEY: prejudicial.

SYN: Harmful, hurtful, injurious, disadvantageous, [See HARMLESS].

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KEY: Preliminary.

SYN: Previous, proemial, precursive, prelusory, antecedent, preparatory.

ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following.

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KEY: Prelude.

SYN: Introduction, preparation, preface, proem, {[preli*ion]?}, overture, [See PREFACE].

ANT: Sequel, conclusion.

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KEY: Premature.

SYN: Hasty, crude, unauthenticated, untimely, precocious, precipitate, too early, rash, unseasonable.

ANT: Ripe, timely, seasonable, opportune.

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KEY: Premeditate.

SYN: Plan, propose, plot, prearrange, prepare, precompose, preconcert.

ANT: Extemporize, hazard.

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KEY: Premeditation.

SYN: Forethought, deliberation.

ANT: Without forethought, without deliberation.

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KEY: Premise.

SYN: Announce, forestate, preface.

ANT: Add, append, infer, gather, supplement, subjoin.

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KEY: Premises.

SYN: Antecedent, ground.

ANT: Consequent, inference, deduction, conclusion.

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KEY: Premium.

SYN: Reward, guerdon, encouragement, douceur, enhancement, bribe, recompense, bonus, prize, bounty.

ANT: Penalty, fine, amercement, mulct, forfeit, depreciation.

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KEY: Preordain.

SYN: Foreordain, predetermine, foredoom, predestine.

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KEY: Preparation.

SYN: Provision, making ready.

ANT: Without preparation, without, provision.

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KEY: Preparatory, [See PRELIMINARY].

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KEY: Prepare.

SYN: Fit, adapt, qualify, ad, just, provide, arrange, order, lay, plan, equip, furnish, make ready.

ANT: Misfit, misadapt, misprovide, derange, disarrange, demolish, subvert, disconcert.

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KEY: Preponderant.

SYN: Outweighing, overcoming, superior, [See SUPERIOR].

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KEY: Preponderate.

SYN: Predominate, prevail, overbalance, outweigh, outbalance.

ANT: Fail, sink, succumb.

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KEY: Prepossessing.

SYN: attractive, alluring, charming, winning, taking, engaging.

ANT: Repulsive, unattractive, sinister.

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KEY: Preposterous.

SYN: Monstrous, exorbitant, unreasonable, absurd, irrational, foolish, ridiculous.

ANT: Just, due, fair, reasonable, moderate, right, judicious, orderly, sound.

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KEY: Prerogative.

SYN: Eight, privilege, immunity.

ANT: Disqualification, disfranchisement.

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KEY: Presage \n.\

SYN: Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition.

ANT: fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization.

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KEY: Presage \v.\

SYN: Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend, threaten, augur, [See PORTEND].

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KEY: Prescribe.

SYN: Enjoin, order, impose, recommend, indicate, decree, dictate.

ANT: Inhibition, prohibit, discountenance, discommend.

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KEY: Prescription.

SYN: Direction, order, recipe, usage, custom, [See CUSTOM].

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KEY: Presence.

SYN: Nearness, influence, intercourse, closeness.

ANT: Remoteness, absence, separation, distance.

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KEY: Present \a.\

SYN: At hand, existing, not absent, nigh, instant, immediate, current, [See ABSENT].

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KEY: Present \n.\

SYN: Donation, gift, offering, grant, benefaction, [See BENEFACTION].

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KEY: Present \v.\

SYN: Give, offer, bestow, introduce, exhibit, confer upon, [See BESTOW].

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KEY: Presentation.

SYN: Introduction, exhibition, offer, delivery, gift, donation, bestowal, grant, endowment.

ANT: Withdrawal, removal, concealment, suppression, retention, withholding, refusal, nonpresentation.

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KEY: Presentiment.

SYN: Foreboding, foretaste, forethought, prescience, forecast, anticipation.

ANT: Surprise, inexpectancy, miscalculation.

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KEY: Presently.

SYN: Shortly, soon, immediately, directly, [See DIRECTLY].

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KEY: Preservation.

SYN: Safety, security, conservation, integrity, protection, nurture, guardianship, care.

ANT: Abandonment, exposure, peril, insecurity, [See IMPAIRMENT], infringement, injury, damage.

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KEY: Preserve.

SYN: Defend, guard, save, keep safe, uphold, protect, maintain, rescue, spare, [See PROTECT].

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KEY: Preside.

SYN: Manage, superintend, direct, control, govern, [See MANAGE].

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KEY: President.

SYN: Chairman, moderator, principal, superintendent.

ANT: Member, subordinate, constituent, corporation, society, ward, institution.

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KEY: Press \v.\

SYN: Urge, crowd, compel, force, squeeze, crush, compress, express, constrain, hurry, instigate, inculcate, impress, throng, encroach, lean, weigh, harass.

ANT: Relax, inhibit, persuade, entice, allure, solicit, touch, skim, graze, free, liberate, ease, avoid, relieve.

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KEY: Pressing.

SYN: Urgent compulsory, importunate.

ANT: Unimportant, slight, trivial, light.

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KEY: Pressure \n.\

SYN: Exigency, urgency, constraining, hurry, influence, [See EXISTENCE].

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KEY: Presume.

SYN: Suppose, anticipate, apprehend, venture, take for granted, conjecture, believe, deem.

ANT: Infer, deduce, prove, argue, retire, withdraw, hesitate, distrust.

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KEY: Presumption.

SYN: Anticipation, supposition, hypothesis, probability, assumption, understanding, condition, concession, forwardness, arrogance, audacity, boldness.

ANT: Proof, deduction, inference, demonstration, verification, fact, certainty, modesty, diffidence, backwardness, bashfulness, hesitation.

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KEY: Presumptive.

SYN: Probable, antecedent.

ANT: Demonstrative, established.

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KEY: Presumptuous.

SYN: Presuming, bold, overconfident, forward, rashly confident, arrogant, bold, rash, irreverent, wilful, foolhardy, [See RASH].

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KEY: Presuppose.

SYN: Presume, assume, postulate, surmise.

ANT: Prove, establish, infer, deduce, argue, demonstrate.

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KEY: Pretence.

SYN: Excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show, pretension.

ANT: Verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness, veritableness, actuality, fact.

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KEY: Pretend.

SYN: Feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect, profess.

ANT: Verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute.

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KEY: Pretention.

SYN: Claim, show, pretence, demand, profession, alleged right, [See PRETENCE and CLAIM].

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KEY: Pretext, [See PRETENCE].

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KEY: Pretty \a.\

SYN: Handsome, attractive, neat, trim, tasteful, pleasing, beautiful, fine, comely, [See ATTRACTIVE and HANDSOME].

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KEY: Pretty, adv.

SYN: Moderately, tolerably.

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KEY: Prevail.

SYN: Predominate, overcome, obtain, succeed, be in force, induce, persuade, [See CONQUER].

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KEY: Prevailing.

SYN: Controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common.

ANT: Mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless.

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KEY: Prevalence.

SYN: Custom, power, influence, operation, extension, predominance, superiority, influence, efficacy, preponderance.

ANT: Disuse, desuetude, obsoleteness, decay, evanescence, disappearance, mitigation, subordination, collapse, abandonment, abolition, diminution, subsidence, subjection.

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KEY: Prevaricate.

SYN: Shuffle, quibble, equivocate, palter, sophisticate, evade.

ANT: Affirm, asseverate, maintain, reiterate.

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KEY: Prevenient.

SYN: Preliminary, prefatory, antecedent, initiatory, introductory.

ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following, attending.

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KEY: Prevent.

SYN: Hinder, obstruct, bar, neutralize, nullify, thwart, intercept, anticipate, forefend, frustrate, obviate, checkmate.

ANT: Promote, aid, facilitate, expedite, encourage, advance, accelerate, induce, cause, produce.

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KEY: Prevention.

SYN: Obstruction, stoppage, interruption, hinderance.

ANT: Help, aid, succor, acceleration.

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KEY: Previous.

SYN: Antecedent, prior, preceding, anterior, foregoing, former, earlier.

ANT: Subsequent, posterior, succeeding, following, later.

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KEY: Prey.

SYN: Spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot.

ANT: Earnings, hues, rights.

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KEY: Price.

SYN: Cost, figure, charge, expense, compensation, value, appraisement, worth.

ANT: Donation, discount, allowance, remittance, abatement.

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KEY: Priceless.

SYN: Inestimable, invaluable, precious.

ANT: Cheap, valueless.

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KEY: Pride.

SYN: Loftiness, haughtiness, lordliness, self-exaltation, arrogance, conceit, vainglory.

ANT: Lowliness, meekness, modesty, self-distrust.

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KEY: Priggish.

SYN: Coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceited.

ANT: Plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered.

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KEY: Prim.

SYN: Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious, unbending, priggish.

ANT: Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive.

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KEY: Primary.

SYN: First, original, earliest, elementary, chief, principal, important, leading, primitive, pristine.

ANT: Secondary, subordinate, posterior, unimportant, inferior, subsequent, later, [See PRINCIPAL].

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KEY: Prime \n.\

SYN: Zenith, culmination, perfection, dawn, spring, cream, flower.

ANT: Decadence, wane, evening, refuse, winter, decay.

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KEY: Prime \a.\

SYN: Excellent, superexcellent, first-rate, perfect, consummate.

ANT: Inferior, impaired, waning, deteriorated, ordinary, second-rate, defective.

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KEY: Primeval.

SYN: Archaic, primordial, indigenous, autochthonic, aboriginal, pristine.

ANT: Subsequent, recent, modern, imported, adventitious.

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KEY: Primitive.

SYN: Old-fashioned, primeval, quaint, simple, unsophisticated, archaic, pristine.

ANT: Modern, new-fangled, sophisticated, modish.

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KEY: Primordial, [See PRIMEVAL].

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KEY: Princely.

SYN: Imperial, munificent, magnificent, superb, august, regal, royal, supreme.

ANT: Beggarly, mean, niggardly, poverty-struck.

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KEY: Principal.

SYN: Highest, first, main, leading, chief, primary, foremost, pre-eminent, prominent.

ANT: Inferior, subordinate, secondary, supplemental, subject, auxiliary, minor.

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KEY: Principle.

SYN: Source, origin, motive, cause, energy, substance, element, power, faculty, truth, tenet, law, doctrine, axiom, maxim, postulate, rule.

ANT: Exhibition, manifestation, application, development, issue, exercise, operation, formation, action.

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KEY: Prior.

SYN: Preceding, previous, former, antecedent, precedent, earlier, anterior, foregoing, [See POSTERIOR].

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KEY: Prismatic.

SYN: Iridescent, opalescent, polychromatous.

ANT: Achromatic, colorless.

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KEY: Pristine, [See PRIMEVAL and PRIMITIVE].

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KEY: Privacy.

SYN: Retirement, secrecy, solitude, seclusion, retreat, concealment.

ANT: Publicity, currency, notoriety, exposure.

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KEY: Private.

SYN: Special, peculiar, individual, secret, not public, retired, privy.

ANT: General, public, open, unconcealed.

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KEY: Privation.

SYN: Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement, hardship, want.

ANT: Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution, presence, compensation, recovery, privilege.

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KEY: Privilege.

SYN: Prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage, claim, exemption.

ANT: Disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition, inhibition.

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KEY: Privy.

SYN: Secret, clandestine, cognizant, acquainted with.

ANT: Open, unsealed, not acquainted with, not cognizant of, [See PRIVATE].

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KEY: Prize \n.\

SYN: Booty, spoil, plunder, prey, forage, trophy, laurels, guerdon, premium, honors, ovation, palm.

ANT: Loss, forfeiture, fine, penalty, amercement, sacrifice, disappointment, failure, brand, stigma, infamy, mulct.

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KEY: Prize \v.\ [See VALUE].

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KEY: Probability.

SYN: Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance.

ANT: Unliklihood, improbability, impossibility, inconceivableness.

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KEY: Probable.

SYN: Likely, presumable, credible, reasonable.

ANT: Unlikely, unreasonable, incredible.

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KEY: Probation.

SYN: Essay, examination, test, trial, experiment, proof, criterion, touchstone, ordeal, verification.

ANT: License, [See DIMINISH and SMALL], nonprobation.

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KEY: Probe.

SYN: Prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore.

ANT: Skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss.

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KEY: Probity.

SYN: Soundness, virtue, integrity, honesty, uprightness, rectitude, principle, conscientiousness.

ANT: Dishonesty, disintegrity, unsoundness, vice, unconscientiousness, roguery, rascality.

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KEY: Problematical.

SYN: Dubious, questionable, uncertain, doubtful.

ANT: Evident, obvious, self-evident, certain, demonstrable.

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KEY: Procedure.

SYN: Proceeding, act, progress, course of conduct, process, [See ACT].

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KEY: Proceed.

SYN: Move, pass, advance, progress, continue, issue, emanate, flow, arise.

ANT: Recede, deviate, retreat, stand, stop, stay, desist, discontinue, retire.

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KEY: Proceeding.

SYN: Step, measure, transaction, performance, procedure, conduct, behavior, action, process.

ANT: Abandonment, desistence, deviation, discontinuance, inaction.

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KEY: Proceeds.

SYN: Receipts, produce, returns, avail, profits, income, [See INCOME].

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KEY: Procession.

SYN: Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue.

ANT: Rabble, herd, rush, disorder, mob, confusion, rout.

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KEY: Proclaim.

SYN: Announce, publish, promulgate, declare, enunciate, advertise, call out, report, utter.

ANT: Repress, conceal, silentiate, obliviate, secrete.

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KEY: Proclamation.

SYN: Announcement, edict, decree, notice, ordinance, [See DECREE].

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KEY: Proclivity.

SYN: Tendency, propensity, bias, gravitation, disposition, inclination, proneness.

ANT: Aversion, disinclination, indisposition.

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KEY: Procrastinate, [See DEFER].

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KEY: Procrastination.

SYN: Dilatoriness, delay.

ANT: Timeliness, punctuality, promptitude, alacrity.

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KEY: Procure.

SYN: Acquire, provide, gain, get, contrive, effect, reap, win, earn, bring about.

ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit, misprovide, miscontrive.

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KEY: Prodigal.

SYN: Lavish, profuse, extravagant, reckless, wasteful, squandering, improvident.

ANT: Frugal, saving, hoarding, economical, niggardly, miserly, close, closefisted.

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KEY: productions.

SYN: Marvellous, portentous, wonderful, astounding, enormous, monstrous, amazing, surprising, remarkable, extraordinary, huge, vast.

ANT: Ordinary, commonplace, everyday, usual, familiar, moderate.

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KEY: Prodigy.

SYN: Wonder, marvel, portent, monster, miracle, [See MONSTER].

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KEY: Produce.

SYN: Exhibit, bear, furbish, afford, cause, create, originate, yield, extend, prolong, lengthen.

ANT: Withdraw, retain, stifle, withhold, neutralize, destroy, annihilate, curtail, shorten, contract, reduce.

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KEY: Produce \n.\

SYN: Product, yield, fruit, profit, effect, consequence, result, amount, [See RESULT].

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KEY: Product.

SYN: Fruit, result, issue, consequence, effect, emanation, work.

ANT: Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action, tendency, law.

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KEY: Production.

SYN: Origination, evolution, formation, genesis, product, [See CAUSE].

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KEY: Productive.

SYN: Fruitful, prolific, fertile, efficient, causative.

ANT: Unfruitful, barren, sterile, unproductive, inefficient, effete.

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KEY: Proemial, [See PREFATORY].

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KEY: Profane \a.\

SYN: Unconsecrated, secular, temporal, unsanctified, unholy, irreligious, irreverent, ungodly, wicked, godless, impious, blasphemous.

ANT: Holy, consecrated, sacred, spiritual, sanctified, reverent, religious, godly, pious, devout.

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KEY: Profane \v.\

SYN: Defile, pollute, desecrate, abuse, [See CONTAMINATE and POLLUTE].

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KEY: Profess.

SYN: Declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay claim to.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure.

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KEY: Profession.

SYN: Avowal, declaration, business, occupation, trade, calling, vocation, [See DECLARATION].

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KEY: Proffer.

SYN: Offer, propose, tender, volunteer.

ANT: Withhold, detain.

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KEY: Proficiency.

SYN: Success, advancement, progress, improvement, forwardness, dexterity.

ANT: Failure, backwardness, unsuccess, tardiness, relapse.

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KEY: Proficient \n.\

SYN: Adept, master, expert.

ANT: Tyro, novice, ignoramus, dunce.

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KEY: Proficient \a.\

SYN: Expert, clever, practised, skilled, trained, versed, advanced, conversant, skilful, competent, well qualified.

ANT: backward, ignorant, unskilled, inconversant, ill-versed, awkward, clumsy.

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KEY: Profit.

SYN: Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit service, use, improvement.

ANT: Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste.

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KEY: Profitable.

SYN: Gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful, productive, remunerative, lucrative.

ANT: Unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental, unbeneficial, unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerative.

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KEY: Profitless, [See PROFITABLE].

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KEY: Profligacy.

SYN: Shamelessness, dissoluteness, depravity, reprobation.

ANT: Virtue, probity, integrity, principle, conscientiousness.

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KEY: Profligate.

SYN: Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless, [See ABANDONED].

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KEY: Profound.

SYN: Deep, fathomless, abysmal, penetrating, intimate, solemn, abstruse, recondite, philosophical, strong, vivid, intense, deepseated.

ANT: Shallow, superficial, commonplace.

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KEY: Profuse.

SYN: Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive.

ANT: Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish, poor.

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KEY: Profusion.

SYN: Copiousness, prodigality, abundance, exuberance, extravagance, multitude, mass, heap, load, flood, wealth.

ANT: Scarcity, economy, poverty, parsimony, drain, dole, driblet, pittance.

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KEY: Progeny.

SYN: Offspring, young, issue, scion, offshoot, descendants, posterity, race.

ANT: Stock, parentage, ancestry.

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KEY: Prognostic.

SYN: Sign, indication, symptom, premonition, harbinger, token, presage, signal.

ANT: Result, reminder, memorial, record, register, misindication, mistaken.

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KEY: Prognosticate.

SYN: Foretell, presage, predict, forebode, foretoken, augur, portend, indicate, betoken.

ANT: Record, register, recal, remember, note, rehearse.

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KEY: Programme.

SYN: Advertisement, notice, plan, catalogue.

ANT: Review, rehearsal, repetition, resume, analysis, precis.

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KEY: Progress \n.\

SYN: Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey, proficiency, speed, growth.

ANT: Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure, relapse.

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KEY: Progress \v.\ [See ADVANCE].

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KEY: Progression.

SYN: Series, gradation, rate.

ANT: Inversion, diminution.

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KEY: Prohibit.

SYN: Forbid, interdict, debar, hinder, check, prevent, disallow, inhibit.

ANT: Permit, grant, allow, sanction.

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KEY: Prohibition.

SYN: Interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance.

ANT: Allowance, permission.

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KEY: Project \v.\

SYN: Throw, cast, hurl, propel, shoot, discharge, propound, intend, forecast, jut, extend, reach, bulge, stand out.

ANT: Recal, withdraw, draw, retract, pull, attract, rebound, recoil, adduce, revert, rebate.

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KEY: Project \n.\

SYN: Plan, purpose, design, scheme, contrivance, device.

ANT: Hazard, chance, venture.

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KEY: Projectile.

SYN: Missile.

ANT: Weapon, sidearms, handarms.

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KEY: Projection.

SYN: Protuberance, prominence, convexity, propulsion, emission.

ANT: Recess, cavity, concavity, return, indentation, hollow, attraction, recoil, rebound, ricochet, reaction.

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KEY: Prolific, [See PRODUCTION].

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KEY: Prolix.

SYN: Diffuse, lengthy, tedious, circumlocutory, prosaic, verbose, minute, toilsome, wordy.

ANT: Condensed, terse, epigrammatic, curt, brief, laconic.

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KEY: Prolong.

SYN: Lengthen, extend, protract, continue, delay, retard.

ANT: Curtail, shorten, contract, discontinue.

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KEY: Prominent.

SYN: Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous, eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctive.

ANT: Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn, inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable, subordinate.

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KEY: Promiscuous.

SYN: Mingled, [See {[cooFRO]?}], undistinguished, unselected, unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual, disorderly, unordered.

ANT: Sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved, as sorted, exclusive, nice.

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KEY: Promise \v.\ [(DEF: to engage by word of mouth, as distinguished from a bond)].

SYN: Engage, assure.

ANT: Covenant, pledge, stipulate.

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KEY: Promise \n.\

SYN: Engagement, assurance, word, pledge, [See ASSURANCE].

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KEY: Promontory.

SYN: Headland, jutland, cape.

ANT: Bay, cove, recess.

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KEY: Promote.

SYN: Aid, further, advance, excite, exalt, raise, elevate, prefer.

ANT: Discourage, repress, hinder, check, allay, depress, degrade, dishonor.

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KEY: Promotion.

SYN: Furtherance, advancement, encouragement, preferment, elevation.

ANT: Hinderance, obstruction, impediment, retardation.

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KEY: Prompt.

SYN: Ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt, unhesitating.

ANT: Unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive.

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KEY: Promptitude.

SYN: Readiness, promptness, quickness, alertness, alacrity, activity.

ANT: Unreadiness, sluggishness, inaction, inertness, tardiness, hesitation.

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KEY: Promulgate.

SYN: Divulge, announce, publish, spread, propound, disseminate, proclaim, advertise.

ANT: Repress, conceal, suppress, stifle, hush, burke, discountenance.

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KEY: Prone.

SYN: Disposed, inclined, bent, tending, apt, recumbent, prostrate, flat.

ANT: Indisposed, disinclined, unapt, averse, upright.

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KEY: Pronounce.

SYN: Articulate, utter, declare, propound, deliver, assert, affirm, enunciate, express.

ANT: Mispronounce, mispropound, misaffirm, suppress, stifle, silence, choke, swallow, gabble, mumble.

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KEY: Proof.

SYN: Test, trial, examination, criterion, essay, establishment, probation, demonstration, evidence, testimony, scrutiny.

ANT: Disproof, failure, invalidity, shortcoming, fallacy, undemonstrativeness, reprobation.

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KEY: Prop \n.\

SYN: Support, stay, buttress, shore, strut, pin.

ANT: Superstructure, superincumbency, top-weight, gravitation, extirpation, subverter, destroyer.

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KEY: Prop \v.\

SYN: Sustain, support, stay, maintain, [See SUPPORT].

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KEY: Propagate.

SYN: Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand, disseminate, diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound, broach.

ANT: Extinguish, strangle, stifle, neutralize, reduce, contract, suppress, diminish, fail, dwindle, die, contradict.

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KEY: Propel.

SYN: Hurl, project, drive, urge.

ANT: Retard, detain, withhold.

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KEY: Propensity.

SYN: Bent, predilection, proclivity, [See PROCLIVITY].

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KEY: Proper.

SYN: Peculiar, appertinent, personal, own, constitutional, special, befitting, adapted, suited, suitable, appropriate, just, fair, equitable, right, decent, becoming, fit.

ANT: Common, inappertinent, alien, universal, nonspecial, unbefitting, unadapted, unsuited, unsuitable, inappropriate, wrong, indecent, unbecoming, improper.

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KEY: Property.

SYN: Quality, attribute, peculiarity, nature, characteristic, possessions, goods, wealth, estate, gear, resources, ownership, [See ATTRIBUTE]. \n.\ [See and ESTATE].

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KEY: Prophesy, [See FORETELL].

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KEY: Prophetic.

SYN: Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical, oracular, sibylline.

ANT: Historic, narrative, chronicled, recorded, recitative, commemorative.

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KEY: Propinquity.

SYN: Nearness, proximity, contiguity, adjacence.

ANT: Distance, remoteness, longitude, separation.

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KEY: Propitiate.

SYN: Conciliate, secure, appease, win, reconcile, pacify.

ANT: Exasperate, alienate, offend, estrange.

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KEY: Propitious.

SYN: Timely, favorable, auspicious, beneficial, friendly, welldisposed, gracious, benign, fortunate.

ANT: Untimely, untoward, unseasonable, unfavorable, inauspicious, unfriendly, hostile, antagonistic, adverse, ill-disposed, unpropitious.

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KEY: Proportion.

SYN: Adaptation, relation, rate, distribution, adjustment, symmetry, interrelationship, uniformity, correlation.

ANT: Misproportion, misadjustment, incongruity, disparity, disharmony, disorder, irrelation, disproportion.

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KEY: Proposal.

SYN: Offer, overture, tender, suggestion, design, proposition, scheme.

ANT: Withholding, withdrawal, retention, reticence, dissuasive, warning, prohibition.

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KEY: Propose.

SYN: Offer, tender, proffer, bring forward, purpose, intend, mean, propound, move, design, [See {[OKFKB]?}].

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KEY: Proposition.

SYN: Statement, affirmation, declaration, sentence.

ANT: Misstatement, interjection, babel, jargon, sound, riddle, paradox.

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KEY: Propound.

SYN: Propose, promulgate, express, declare, maintain, advocate, propagate, broach.

ANT: Repress, suppress, contradict, withdraw, repudiate, renounce, abjure, recal, retract.

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KEY: Propriety.

SYN: Fitness, appropriateness, justness, correctness, expediency, decorum, [See EXPEDIENCY and DECORUM].

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KEY: Prorogation, [See PROROGUE].

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KEY: Prorogue.

SYN: Adjourn, postpone, defer.

ANT: Convene, continue, prolong, expedite, despatch.

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KEY: Prosaic.

SYN: Pull, matter-of-fact, tedious, prolix.

ANT: Poetic, animated, interesting, lively, fervid, eloquent, graphic.

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KEY: Proscribe.

SYN: Denounce, condemn, reject, interdict, ostracize, disallow, prohibit, forbid.

ANT: Permit, sanction, encourage, enjoin.

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KEY: Prosecute.

SYN: Follow, pursue, investigate, conduct, summon, arraign, persevere, carry on, persist, sue.

ANT: Drop, discontinue, abandon, misconduct, misinvestigate, missoperate, exonerate, acquit.

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KEY: Proselyte.

SYN: Convert, catechumen, neophyte.

ANT: Misbeliever, infidel, habitue, pillar, prop, buttress.

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KEY: Prospect.

SYN: View, vision, field, landscape, hope, anticipation, probability.

ANT: Viewlessness, dimness, obscurity, darkness, cloud, veiling, occultation, hopelessness, improbability.

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KEY: Prospectus.

SYN: Programme, plan, catalogue, announcement, bill, scheme, compendium.

ANT: Subject, transaction, proceeding, &c.

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KEY: Prosperity.

SYN: Success, weal, welfare, good fortune, well-being, good luck.

ANT: Unsuccess, woe, adversity, failure, reverse.

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KEY: Prosperous.

SYN: Successful, fortunate, thriving, well off, well to do, happy, lucky, [See FORTUNATE].

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KEY: Prostrate.

SYN: Fallen, flat, procumbent, lifeless, ruined, overpowered, oppressed, prone.

ANT: Risen, vertical, erect, upright, reinvigorated, revived, restored.

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KEY: Prostration.

SYN: Overthrown, demolition, destruction, depression, exhaustion, [See DEPRESSION].

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KEY: Protect.

SYN: Defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicate.

ANT: Betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose.

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KEY: Protection.

SYN: Shelter, defence, security, safety, refuge, guard, [See SECURITY].

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KEY: Protest.

SYN: Expostulate, remonstrate, denounce, repudiate, deprecate, affirm, aver, assure.

ANT: Acquiesce, coincide, sanction, subscribe, endorse, agree.

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KEY: Protract.

SYN: Prolong, produce, elongate, defer, extend, lengthen, continue, draw out.

ANT: Shorten, abbreviate, curtail, contract, reduce.

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KEY: Protrude.

SYN: Extend, project, abut, jut, demonstrate, expose, bulge, thrust forward.

ANT: Recede, retract, adduce, repress, suppress, conceal.

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KEY: Protrusion.

SYN: Projection, protuberance, convexity, tongue.

ANT: recess, cavity, hollow, concavity, mouth.

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KEY: Protuberance.

SYN: Lump, swelling, excrescence, convexity.

ANT: Cavity, smoothness, planeness, concavity, indentation, hollow.

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KEY: Proud.

SYN: Arrogant, haughty, imperious, supercilious, presumptuous, boastful, vain glorious, vain, ostentatious, elated, self-satisfied, lofty, imposing, magnificent, self-conscious.

ANT: Deferential, humble, affable, unpresuming, meek, lowly, ashamed, unimposing, mean.

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KEY: Prove.

SYN: {[Trv]?}, assay, test, establish, demonstrate, ascertain, argue, show, confirm, examine, substantiate, make trial of, verify, ascertain.

ANT: Pass, pretermit, misdemonstrate, misindicate, refute, disprove, contradict, disestablish, neutralize.

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KEY: Proverb.

SYN: Maxim, apothegm, adage, saw, dictum, by word.

ANT: Essay, dissertation, disquisition, oration, diatribe, yarn.

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KEY: Proverbial.

SYN: Notorious, current, acknowledged, unquestioned.

ANT: Dubious, unfounded, suspicious, suspected, questionable.

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KEY: Provide.

SYN: Prepare, arrange, procure, afford, supply, contribute, yield, cater, furnish, get, agree, produce, collect, stipulate.

ANT: Misprovide, neglect, overlook, withhold, retain, appropriate, refuse, den, [See {[*1]?}], alienate, divert, misemploy, mismanage.

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KEY: Provided.

SYN: Granted, supposing.

ANT: Barring, saving, excluded.

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KEY: Providence.

SYN: Forethought, timely care, forecast, divine government, divine superintendence.

ANT: Improvidence, recklessness, carelessness.

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KEY: Provident.

SYN: Forecasting, foreseeing, cautious, considerate.

ANT: Improvident, reckless, careless, inconsiderate.

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KEY: Province.

SYN: Tract, region, department, section, sphere, domain, territory.

ANT: Metropolis, centre, capital.

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KEY: Provincial.

SYN: Appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolic.

ANT: Central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly.

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KEY: Provision, Provisions.

SYN: Preparation, arrangement, produce, supply, anticipation, food, supplies, victuals, edibles, eatables.

ANT: Neglect, misprovision, forgetfulness, thoughtlessness, oversight, destitution, want, dearth, starvation, dole, pittance.

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KEY: Provisional.

SYN: Conditional, contingent, hypothetical, temporary.

ANT: Unconditional, absolute, permanent, perpetual.

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KEY: Provocation.

SYN: Incitement, stimulus, stimulant, provocative, affront, indignity, insult, [See INDIGNITY].

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KEY: Provoke.

SYN: Educe, summon, rouse, irritate, excite, challenge, vex, impel, offend, exasperate, anger, tantalize.

ANT: Allay, relegate, pacify, soothe, conciliate.

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KEY: Prowess.

SYN: Bravery, valor, gallantry, might, courage, intrepidity, fearlessness, heroism.

ANT: Cowardice, weakness, poltroonery, dastardliness.

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KEY: Prowl.

SYN: Rove, roam, wander, prey.

ANT: Fly, swoop, chase, scour.

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KEY: Proximity.

SYN: Neighborhood, vicinity, [See PROPINQUITY].

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KEY: Proxy.

SYN: Agency, substitution, representation, agent, substitute, representative, deputy, commissioner, lieutenant, delegate.

ANT: Principalship, personality, principal, person, authority, depeter.

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KEY: Prudent.

SYN: Wise, wary, cautious, circumspect, discreet, careful, judicious.

ANT: Foolish, unwary, incautious, uncircumspect, indiscreet, rash, imprudent, silly, reckless, audacious.

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KEY: Prudish.

SYN: Coy, over modest, affectedly modest, over nice, squeamish, reserved, demure, [See DEMURE].

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KEY: Prurient.

SYN: Craving, itching, hankering, longing, lustful.

ANT: Disliking, loathing, pure.

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KEY: Prune.

SYN: Trim, lop, drees, amputate.

ANT: Pamper, train.

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KEY: Pry.

SYN: Peer, peep, scrutinize, inquire.

ANT: Connive, overlook, disregard, pretermit.

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KEY: Prying.

SYN: Peering, inquisitive, scrutinizing, curious.

ANT: Incurious, [See CURIOUS].

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KEY: Public.

SYN: Open, notorious, common, social, national, exoteric, general, generally known.

ANT: Close, secret, private, domestic, secluded, solitary, personal, individual.

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KEY: Publication.

SYN: Promulgation, notification, proclamation, divulgation.

ANT: Suppression, reservation, concealment.

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KEY: Publicity.

SYN: Notoriety, currency, [See NOTORIETY].

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KEY: Publish, [See ANNOUNCE].

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KEY: Puerile.

SYN: Childish, boyish, infantile, youthful, nonsensical, futile, nugatory, weak, silly, trifling.

ANT: Manly, vigorous, effective, powerful, cogent, weighty.

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KEY: Puerility.

SYN: Childishness, boyishness, juvenility, youthfulness.

ANT: Maturity, ripeness, manliness.

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KEY: Puff.

SYN: Flatter, advertise, hawk, ventilate.

ANT: Squash, disparage, lash, chastise, blast.

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KEY: Pugnacious.

SYN: Quarrelsome, bellicose, contentious.

ANT: Peaceable, conciliatory, suavity.

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KEY: Pull.

SYN: Draw, drag, adduce, extract, tug, haul, pluck.

ANT: Push, eject, extrude, propel.

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KEY: Pummel, [See POMMEL].

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KEY: Pump.

SYN: Cross-examine, interrogate, cross-quest iou.

ANT: Prime, indoctrinate, instruct, cram.

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KEY: Punch.

SYN: Perforate, poke, pierce, puncture, terebrate, bore.

ANT: Stop, plug, seal, bung.

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KEY: Punctilious.

SYN: Ceremonious, nice, scrupulous, exact, particular, excessively nice, over scrupulous, precise.

ANT: Unceremonious, unscrupulous.

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KEY: Punctual.

SYN: Exact, prompt, early, timely.

ANT: safe, tardy, behindhand, be, lated, dilatory, unpunctual.

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KEY: Puncture \v.\ [See PUNCH].

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KEY: Pungent.

SYN: Pricking, piercing, acrid, mordant, biting, stinging, stimulating, keen, trenchant, caustic, piquant, sarcastic.

ANT: Soothing, mellow, luscious, unctuous.

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KEY: Punish.

SYN: Chastise, castigate, chasten, correct, whip, scourge.

ANT: Reward, recompense, remunerate, indemnify.

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KEY: Puny.

SYN: Petty, undeveloped, undersized, feeble, pigmy, dwarfish, small, inferior, tiny.

ANT: Great, developed, fine, robust, vigorous, oversized, colossal, gigantic.

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KEY: Pupil.

SYN: Scholar, learner, student, tyro, novice, ward.

ANT: Teacher, master, proficient, adept, guardian.

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KEY: Pupilage.

SYN: Minority, discipleship, wardship, tutelage, dependence, government.

ANT: Majority, mastership, guardianship, discretion, independence.

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KEY: Puppet, [Fr. \poupée, a doll\; Lat. \pupa\].

SYN: Doll, image, lay-figure, tool.

ANT: Personality, power.

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KEY: Puppy.

SYN: Fop, coxcomb, prig.

ANT: Boor, clown, lout.

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KEY: Purblind.

SYN: Blinkard, owleyed, short-sighted.

ANT: Eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynxeyed.

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KEY: Argus-eyed, farsighted, Purchase, [See BUY].

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KEY: Pure.

SYN: Clear, unmixed, simple, genuine, sheer, mere, absolute, unadulterated, uncorrupted, unsullied, unblemished, chaste, real, clean, spotless, immaculate, undefiled, unspotted, guileless, innocent, guiltless.

ANT: Foul, turbid, impure, adulterated, corrupt, sullied, stained, tarnished, defiled, mixed, guilty.

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KEY: Purgation.

SYN: Clearing, cleansing, purification, lustration, clarification, defecation, determine.

ANT: Imputation, contraction, defilement, befoulment.

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KEY: Purgative \a.\

SYN: Evacuant, cathartic, abstergent.

ANT: Binding, [See ABSTERSIVE].

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KEY: Purge.

SYN: Cleanse, clear, clarify, purify, [See CLEAR].

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KEY: Purify, [See PURGE].

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KEY: Puritanical.

SYN: Prudish, ascetic, demure.

ANT: Genial, dissolute, voluptuous, rakish.

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KEY: Purity.

SYN: Cleanness, clearness, immaculateness, guiltlessness, innocence, [See INNOCENCE].

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KEY: Purlieu.

SYN: Environ, precinct, suburb.

ANT: Centre, heart.

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KEY: Purloin.

SYN: Steal, filch, thieve, seize, plunder.

ANT: Reinstate, restore, To sin.

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KEY: Purport.

SYN: Tendency, meaning, import, bearing, signification, drift, tenor, current, intent, spirit.

ANT: Statement, assertion, declaration, proposition, announcement.

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KEY: Purpose \v.\

SYN: Intend, determine, design, resolve, mean, propose.

ANT: Chance, risk, hazard, revoke, Miscalculate, venture, stake.

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KEY: Purpose \n.\

SYN: Intention, design, mind, meaning, view, object, aim, end, scope, point, resolve.

ANT: Chance, fortune, fate, accident, hazard, lot, casualty, lottery, hit.

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KEY: Pursue.

SYN: Chase, follow, track, hunt, continue, prosecute, [See PROSECUTE].

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KEY: Pursy.

SYN: Short-winded, thickwinded, short-breathed.

ANT: Lithe, agile, long-winded.

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KEY: Purulent.

SYN: Feculent, festering, corrupt.

ANT: Secretional, healthy.

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KEY: Purvey.

SYN: Provide, cater, provide food, [See PROVIDE].

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KEY: Push.

SYN: Press, drive, impel, shove, press against, propel, butt, thrust, urge, expedite, accelerate, reduce.

ANT: Pull, draw, drag, adduce.

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KEY: Pusillanimity.

SYN: {[DactardlineM]?}, cowardice, meanspiritedness, faintheartedness, timidity, poltroonery.

ANT: Magnanimity, fortitude, courage, bravery, venturesomeness, daring, heroism.

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KEY: Pusillanimous.

SYN: Cowardly, timorous, faintheartedness, meanspirited, [See GALLANT].

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KEY: Putt.

SYN: Place, lay, set, propose.

ANT: Remove, raise, displace, transfer, withdraw.

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KEY: Putative.

SYN: Reckoned, supposed, deemed, reputed, reported.

ANT: Real, authenticated, veritable, established.

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KEY: Putrefy.

SYN: Rot, corrupt, decompose, decay.

ANT: Preserve, embalm, freshen, Vitilize, purify, depurate, disinfect.

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KEY: Putrid.

SYN: Stinking, corrupt, offensive, decayed, decomposed, rotten, foul, mean, base, worthless.

ANT: Wholesome, sound, inoffensive, pure, redolent, fresh, healthful, sweet, honorable, worthy.

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KEY: Puzzle \v.\

SYN: Pose, perplex, embarrass, bewilder, confound, mystify, confuse.

ANT: Enlighten, instruct, illumine.

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KEY: Puzzle \n.\

SYN: Embarrassment, be wilderment, enigma, confusion, conundrum, intricacy, labyrinth.

ANT: Disentanglement, solution, explanation, extrication, clue.

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KEY: Quack.

SYN: Empiric, mountebank, charlatan, imposter, pretender, humbug.

ANT: Dupe, gull, victim.

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KEY: Quaff.

SYN: Drink, swallow, imbibe.

ANT: Disgorge, spew, vomit.

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KEY: Quagmire, [See MARSH].

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KEY: Quail.

SYN: Sink, shrink, cower, succumb, crouch, flinch, blench, tremble.

ANT: Stand, defy, withstand, face, endure.

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KEY: Quaint.

SYN: Curious, recondite, abstruse, elegant, nice, affected, whimsical, odd, antique, archaic, fanciful, singular, old-fashioned.

ANT: Commonplace, ordinary, usual, coarse, common, modern, modish, fashionable, dowdy.

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KEY: Quake.

SYN: Tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate, quiver, quaver.

ANT: Stand, rest, root.

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KEY: Qualification.

SYN: Capacity, fitness, condition, capability, accomplishment, requirement, limitation, modification.

ANT: Incapacity, unfitness, absoluteness, disqualification, nonqualification, unrestrictedness.

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KEY: Qualified.

SYN: Fitted, adapted, competent, suitable, [See SUITABLE].

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KEY: Qualify.

SYN: Fit, prepare, adapt, capacitate, limit, restrict, enable, render capable.

ANT: Unfit, misprepare, misqualify, disqualify, incapacitate, free, absolve.

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KEY: Quality.

SYN: Condition, character, property, attribute, peculiarity, disposition, temper, sort, kind, description, capacity, power, virtue, nature, tendency.

ANT: Anomalousness, heterogeneousness, nondescript, incapacity, weakness, instistinctiveness, ineffectiveness, disqualification, negation, disability.

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KEY: Qualm.

SYN: Misgiving, remorse, scruple, penitence.

ANT: Comfort, ease, self-satisfaction, self-approval.

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KEY: Quandary.

SYN: Hobble, difficulty, doubt, puzzle, uncertainty, perplexity, bewilderment, dubitation, baiting, dilemma, embarrassment.

ANT: Clearsightedness, resolution, plainness, clearness, obviousness, facility, disencumbrance, disentanglement, disembarrassment.

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KEY: Quantity.

SYN: Measure, amount, bulk, size, sum, portion, aggregate, muchness, part, share, division.

ANT: Margin, deficiency, deduction, want, inadequacy, scantiness, insufficiency, loss, deterioration, diminution, waste, wear, leakage.

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KEY: Quarrel \n.\

SYN: Brawl, altercation, affray, squabble, feud, tumult, dispute, wrangle, variance, disagreement, misunderstanding, hostility, quarreling, embroilment, bickering, broil.

ANT: Confabulation, conversation, chat, pleasantry, conciliation, agreement, harmony, understanding, friendliness, peace, amity, good will.

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KEY: Quarrel \v.\

SYN: Wrangle, squabble, dispute, spur, jangle, fall out, bicker, brawl, [See BRAWL].

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KEY: Quarreling, [See QUARREL].

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KEY: Quarrelsome.

SYN: Choleric, irascible, petulant, litigious, pugnacious, brawling, fiery, hot-tempered, contentious, irritable.

ANT: Peaceable, amenable, genial, unquarrelsome, inoffensive, mild, meek, conciliatory, bland, suave.

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KEY: Quarter.

SYN: Region, district, locality, territory, mercy, forbearance, pity.

ANT: Extermination, mercilessness, unsparingness, pitilessness, ruthless, ness.

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KEY: Quash.

SYN: Crush, extinguish, overthrow, annihilate, annul, nullify, suppress, cancel, vacate.

ANT: Sap, undermine, disorganize, decompose.

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KEY: Quaver \v.\ [See PLEASURE].

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KEY: Queer.

SYN: Odd, whimsical, quaint, cross, strange, crochety, singular, eccentric.

ANT: Ordinary, common, usual, familiar, customary.

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KEY: Quell.

SYN: Extinguish, destroy, crush, reduce, allay, stifle, quiet, pacify, quench, repress, suppress, calm, put out, subdue, quench, overpower.

ANT: Foster, excite, fan, aggravate, stir, irritate, disturb, raise, inflame.

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KEY: Quench, [See QUELL].

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KEY: Querlmonlous.

SYN: Malcontent, dissatisfied, opposititious, litigious.

ANT: Contented, satisfied, complacent, amenable, conformable.

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KEY: Querulous.

SYN: Quarrelsome, complaining, fretful, repining, discontented, dissatisfied, chiding, murmuring, whining, peevish, fastidious, irritable.

ANT: Easy, uncomplaining, satisfied, contented, submissive, genial, complacent, cheerful, good-tempered.

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KEY: Query.

SYN: Question, interrogation, inquiry.

ANT: Answer.

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KEY: Question \v.\

SYN: Ask, inquire, interrogate, doubt, investigate, dubitate, controvert, dispute.

ANT: Dictate, state, assert, pronounce, enunciate, concede, endorse, affirm, grant, allow.

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KEY: Question \n.\

SYN: Inquiry, interrogation, doubt, scrutiny, investigation, topic.

ANT: Reply, response, solution, answer, explanation, admission, concession.

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KEY: Questionable.

SYN: Doubtful, dubious, problematical, disputable, debatable, uncertain, suspicious.

ANT: Certain, evident, self-evident, obvious, indisputable.

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KEY: Quibble \v.\

SYN: Shuffle, evade, trifle, cavil, equivocate, prevaricate.

ANT: Reason, argue, enunciate, investigate, discuss.

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KEY: Quick.

SYN: Fast, rapid, speedy, expeditious, swift, hasty, prompt, ready, clever, sharp, shrewd, adroit, keen, fleet, active, brisk, nimble, lively, agile, alert, sprightly, transient, intelligent, irascible.

ANT: Slow, tardy, sluggish, inert, inactive, dull, insensitive.

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KEY: Quicken.

SYN: Accelerate, animate, revive, reinvigorate, resuscitate, vivify, stimulate, hurry, hasten, urge, excite, promote, expedite.

ANT: Retard, delay, encumber, clog, drag, detain, discourage, allay.

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KEY: Quickness.

SYN: Liveliness, velocity, speed, swiftness, celerity, fleetness, haste.

ANT: Slowness, tardiness, dilatoriness.

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KEY: Quiescence.

SYN: Repose, rest, quiet, quietude, dormancy, tranquillity, silence, stillness, {[AcTrvrrr]?}.

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KEY: Quiet \n.\

SYN: Rest, repose, stillness, calm, appeasement, pacification, silence, peace.

ANT: Unrest, motion, noise, agitation, excitement, disturbance, turmoil, tumult.

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KEY: Quiet \v.\

SYN: Allay, appease, still, pacify, hush, lull, tranquillize, soothe, calm.

ANT: Rouse, excite, disturb, agitate, stir, urge, goad.

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KEY: Quit.

SYN: Leave, resign, abandon, relinquish, discharge, release, surrender, give up, depart from, forsake.

ANT: Seek, occupy, invade, bind, enforce, haunt, enter.

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KEY: Quite.

SYN: Perfectly, entirely, completely, wholly, truly, altogether, totally.

ANT: Partially, imperfectly, barely, insufficiently, hardly.

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KEY: Quittance.

SYN: Discharge, absolution, remission, release.

ANT: Distraint, exaction, bond, debt, obligation.

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KEY: Quiver.

SYN: Shake, shiver, vibrate, tremble, quake, [See PLEASURE].

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KEY: Quote.

SYN: Cite, name, adduce, plead, allege, note, repeat.

ANT: Disprove, refute, retort, oppose, contradict, traverse, misquote, misadduce, rebut.

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KEY: Rabble.

SYN: Crowd, mob, scum, dregs, riff-raff, vulgar herd, disorderly crowd, canaille.

ANT: Elite, aristocracy, galaxy, upper ten, [See (U.S.)].

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KEY: Rabid.

SYN: Furious, raging, mad, infuriated, maniacal, frantic, raving.

ANT: Rational, sane, reasonable, sober.

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KEY: Race.

SYN: Course, pursuit, career, family, [See LINEAGE].

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KEY: Racy.

SYN: Fine-flavored, fresh, rich, pungent, piquant, spirited, smart, lively, vivacious, spicy.

ANT: Flavorless, dull, stupid.

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KEY: Rack, [See TORTURE].

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KEY: Radiance.

SYN: Brightness, splendor, lustre, brilliancy, brilliance, effulgence, glare.

ANT: Dullness, opaque.

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KEY: Radiant.

SYN: Beaming, lustrous, brilliant, glittering, splendid, shining, sparkling, luminous, glorious, beauteous.

ANT: Dull, lustreless, nonluminous.

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KEY: Radiate.

SYN: Shine, sparkle, gleam, emanate, coruscate, shimmer, [See SHINE].

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KEY: Radical.

SYN: Original, fundamental, thoroughgoing, unsparing, extreme, entire, innate, natural, essential, immanent, ingrained, underived, deep-seated.

ANT: Derived, ascititious, adventitious, superficial, extraneous, partial, moderate, conservative, acquired.

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KEY: Rage \n.\

SYN: Fury, rabidity, choler, indignation, frenzy, auger, ire, dudgeon, mania, passion, madness, ferocity.

ANT: Reason, moderation, gentleness, temperateness, calmness, quiescence, mitigation, assuagement, tranquillity, mildness, softness.

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KEY: Rage \v.\

SYN: Rave, storm, fume, be furious, be violent.

ANT: Be calm, be composed, be peaceful.

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KEY: Raging.

SYN: Vehement, violent, impetuous, infuriate, furious.

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KEY: Rail \v.\

SYN: Censure, scold, bluster, scoff, chide, objurgate, [See CENSURE].

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KEY: Raillery, [See BANTER].

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KEY: Raiment.

SYN: Clothing, vestments, garb, apparel, dress, attire, vesture, garments.

ANT: Rags, nudity, nakedness.

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KEY: Raise.

SYN: Lift, heave, elevate, exalt, advance, promote, heighten, enhance, awaken, rouse, excite, call forth, cultivate, rear, produce, collect, summon, erect, originate, propagate.

ANT: Lay, cast, depress, degrade, retard, dishonor, lower, depreciate, lull, compose, quiet, calm, blight, destroy, disperse, disband, stifle, hush, silence, neutralize, confute.

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KEY: Rake.

SYN: Libertine, roue, debauchee, [See {[XXX]?}].

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KEY: Rakish.

SYN: Licentious, dissolute, wanton, lewd, loose, [See BOUNDLESS].

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KEY: Rally \v.\ \t.\ and \i.\

SYN: Recall, reunite, inspirit, assemble, congregate, animate, recover, reassure.

ANT: Demoralize, disperse, disband.

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KEY: Rally \v.\

SYN: Banter, satirize, chaff, taunt, mock, deride, ridicule, joke, twit.

ANT: Compliment, flatter, panegyrize, eulogize.

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KEY: Ramble \v.\

SYN: Rove, roam, wander, range, stroll, saunter, stray.

ANT: Course, speed, hasten, drive, run.

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KEY: Ramble \n.\

SYN: Jaunt, tour, wandering, strolling, excursion.

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KEY: Ramification.

SYN: Branching, branch, offshoot, division, divergence, subdivision.

ANT: Line, trunk, stem, bole, course, thread, sequence, continuity, prosecution, rectilinearity, indivergence, indivision, non-ramification.

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KEY: Rampant.

SYN: Unbridled, uncontrolled, wanton, headstrong, luxuriant, furious, rank, violent, licentious, vehement.

ANT: Demure, self-restrained, restrained, self-controlled, disciplined, curbed.

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KEY: Rampart.

SYN: Bulwark, fortification, security, wall, defence, embankment, mound, mole, outwork, breastwork.

ANT: Nonfortification, defencelessness, exposure, insecurity, vulnerability.

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KEY: Rancid.

SYN: Sour, tainted, rank, olid, reasty, frowzy, fetid, musty.

ANT: Sweet, pure, untainted, fresh, fragrant.

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KEY: Rancor.

SYN: Ill-blood, spite, grudge, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, enmity, antipathy, vindictiveness, malevolence.

ANT: Good-feeling, friendliness, kindliness, forgiveness, geniality, sympathy, congeniality, unvindictiveness.

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KEY: Random.

SYN: Haphazard, stray, chance, wild, aimless, purposeless, unpremeditated, casual, vague, accidental.

ANT: Steady, aimed, intended, regular, controlled, purposed, intentional, deliberate, designed, normal, systematic.

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KEY: Range \v.\

SYN: Rank, dispose, class, place, order, collocate, file, concatenate, ramble, stroll, rove.

ANT: Disturb, disconnect, disorder, derange, intermit, disconnect, remain, be stationary.

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KEY: Range \n.\ [See ORDER and RANK].

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KEY: Rank \n.\

SYN: Row, line, tier, order, degree, grade, dignity.

ANT: Disconnection, disorder, incontinuity, solution, intermission, hiatus, plebeianism, meanness, commonalty.

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KEY: Rank \a.\

SYN: Luxuriant, exuberant, extreme, excessive, rampant.

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KEY: Rankle.

SYN: Fester, smoulder, burn, irritate, gall, disquiet.

ANT: Heal, cool, close, calm, quiet, compose.

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KEY: Ransack.

SYN: Rummage, rifle, explore, pillage, ravage, overhaul.

ANT: skim, survey, reconnoitre.

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KEY: Ransom.

SYN: Redeem, release, indemnify, emancipate, free, liberate, unfetter, redeem.

ANT: Prosecute, indict, fine, mulct, forfeit, damnify.

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KEY: Rant.

SYN: Bombast, rhodomontade, flummery, declamation, raving, boasting.

ANT: Reason, argument, eloquence, logic, rhetoric.

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KEY: Rapacious.

SYN: Greedy, ravenous, voracious, predaceous, avaricious, grasping, extortionate.

ANT: Bountiful, liberal, contented, frugal.

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KEY: Rapid.

SYN: Quick, swift, speedy, accelerated, flying.

ANT: Slow, tardy, retarded, cumbrous, lazy.

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KEY: Rapidity.

SYN: Quickness, swiftness, speed, velocity, celerity, dispatch.

ANT: Slowness, tardiness, cumbrousness, delay.

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KEY: Rapture.

SYN: ecstasy, transport, bliss, ravishment, delight.

ANT: Agony, torture, pain, tedium, ennui, irksomeness.

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KEY: Hare.

SYN: Scarce, choice, infrequent, excellent, few, exceptional, sparse, unusual, singular, uncommon, incomparable, extraordinary, unique, dispersed, valuable, precious, thin, volatile.

ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, numerous, mean, ordinary, usual, regular, crowded, dense, vulgar, worthless, cheap, valueless.

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KEY: Rarefy.

SYN: Expand, lighten, attenuate, sublimate.

ANT: Solidify, condense, thicken.

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KEY: Rascal.

SYN: Rogue, scoundrel, vagabond, scamp, villain, knave.

ANT: Gentleman.

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KEY: Rash.

SYN: Headstrong, audacious, hasty, precipitate, reckless, foolhardy, careless, adventurous, thoughtless, indiscreet, venturesome, overventuresome, incautious, unwary, heedless.

ANT: Wary, cautious, calculating, discreet, unventuresome, dubitating, hesitating, reluctant, timid.

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KEY: Rashness.

SYN: Hastiness, precipitancy, recklessness, venturesomeness, temerity, precipitation, indiscretion.

ANT: Slowness, carefulness, cautiousness, discretion.

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KEY: Rate \n.\

SYN: Tax, impost, assessment, duty, standard, allowance, ratio, quota, worth, price, value, [See PRICE].

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KEY: Rate \v.\

SYN: Compute, calculate, estimate, value, scold, abuse, appraise, [See APPRAISE], [See COMPUTE and ABUSE].

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KEY: Rather than.

SYN: Sooner than, in preference to.

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KEY: Ratify.

SYN: Sanction, seal, confirm, endorse, secure, approve, validity, establish, substantiate, settle.

ANT: Negative, reject, repudiate, disaffirm, invalidate, abrogate, annul, nullify,.

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KEY: Ratification.

SYN: Confirmation, Substantiation, establishment, corroboration.

ANT: Negation, disaffirmation, abrogation, nullifying.

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KEY: Rational.

SYN: Sane, sound, intelligent, reasoning, reasonable, judicious, sober, sensible, probable, equitable, moderate, fair.

ANT: Insane, unsound, weak, silly, unintelligent, absurd, injudicious, fanciful, extravagant, preposterous, unreasoning, unreasonable, irrational, exorbitant.

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KEY: Ravage \n.\

SYN: Devastation, desolation, waste, pillage, plunder, sack, ruin, spoil.

ANT: Sparing, conserving, preserving.

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KEY: Ravage \v.\

SYN: Spoil, devastate, despoil, destroy, desolate, ransack, waste, ruin, overrun, plunder.

ANT: Spare, conserve, preserve, indemnify.

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KEY: Rave.

SYN: Wander, drivel, rant.

ANT: Converse, reason, discourse.

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KEY: Ravel.

SYN: Separate, undo, untwist, unwind, disentangle.

ANT: Entangle, complicate, conglomerate, contuse.

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KEY: Ravenous.

SYN: Voracious, hungry, gluttonous, rapacious, omnivorous.

ANT: Listless, inappetent, fastidious, dainty, nice.

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KEY: Raving.

SYN: Delirious, furious, violent, mad, distracted, frantic.

ANT: Calm, collected, reasonable, sensible.

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KEY: Ravish.

SYN: Entrance, transport, enchant, enrapture, charm, violate, outrage, deflour, debauch, [See DEBAUCH].

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KEY: Raw.

SYN: Uncooked, unprepared, unfinished, unripe, crude, unseasoned, inexperienced, fresh, green, unpractised, untried, bare, bald, exposed, galled, chill, bleak, piercing.

ANT: Cooked, dressed, prepared, finished, ripe, mature, mellow, seasoned, experienced, expert, adept, habituated, familiar, practised, trained, tried, covered, healed, balmy, genial.

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KEY: Raze.

SYN: Demolish, level, prostrate, overthrow, dismantle, subvert, reduce, ruin, destroy, debase.

ANT: Raise, erect, build, rear, repair, restore.

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KEY: Reach.

SYN: Extend, thrust, stretch, obtain, arrive at, attain, gain, grasp, penetrate, strain, aim.

ANT: Fail, stop, cease, revert, rebate, miss, drop.

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KEY: React.

SYN: Recoil, result, counteract, rebound.

ANT: Act, influence, strike, impress.

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KEY: Read.

SYN: Peruse, interpret, decipher, unravel, discover, recognize, learn.

ANT: Misread, misinterpret, overlook, misobserve.

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KEY: Readiness.

SYN: Promptness, preparedness, aptness, alacrity, knack, willingness, [See ALACRITY].

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KEY: Ready.

SYN: Prompt, alert, expeditions, speedy, unhesitating, dexterous, apt, skilful, handy, expert, facile, easy, opportune, fitted, prepared, disposed, willing, free, cheerful, compliant, responsive, quick.

ANT: Unready, tardy, slow, hesitating, reluctant, dubitating, awkward, unhandy, clumsy, remote, inaccessible, unavailable, inopportune, ununited, unfitted, unprepared, indisposed, unwilling, constrained, grudging, unaccommodating, incompliant, irresponsive.

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KEY: Real.

SYN: Actual, veritable, existent, authentic, legitimate, true, genuine, developed.

ANT: Fictitious, imaginary, unreal, nonexistent, untrue, false, artificial, spurious, counterfeit, factitious, adulterated, assumed, pretended, potential, possible.

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KEY: Reality.

SYN: Verity, substance, truth, existence, genuineness, substantiality.

ANT: Fiction, falsehood, untruth, hypothesis, supposition, image, fancy, shadow, figment, fabrication, insubstantiality, emptiness, hollowness, chimera, unreality.

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KEY: Realize.

SYN: Substantiate, effectuate, accomplish, exhibit, produce, acquire, gain, reap, make, verify, conceive.

ANT: Lose, miss, invalidate, dissipate, misrepresent, falsify, neutralize, misconceive.

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KEY: Really.

SYN: Veritably, truly, indeed, unquestionably.

ANT: Questionably, possibly, perhaps, falsely, untruly, fictitiously.

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KEY: Realm.

SYN: Kingdom, province, state, empire, dominion, country, [See EMPIRE].

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KEY: Reap.

SYN: Gather, obtain, receive, get, acquire, realize, derive, gain.

ANT: Scatter, squander, dissipate, waste, lose.

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KEY: Rear \n.\

SYN: Back, end, tail.

ANT: Van, front, face.

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KEY: Rear \v.\

SYN: Raise, elevate, breed, discipline, erect, train, educate, instruct, foster, establish, construct, lift.

ANT: Stifle, extinguish, kill, depress, subvert, demolish, destroy.

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KEY: Reason \n.\

SYN: Ground, account, cause, explanation, motive, proof, apology, understanding, reasoning, rationality, right, propriety, justice, order, object, sake, purpose.

ANT: Pretext, pretence, misinterpretation, falsification, misconception, disproof, unreasonableness, absurdity, fallacy, irrationality, wrong, unreason, impropriety, unfairness, folly, aimlessness, unaccountableness.

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KEY: Reason \v.\

SYN: Debate, discuss, argue, infer, deduce, conclude, [See ARGUE].

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KEY: Reasonable, [See RATIONAL].

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KEY: Reassure.

SYN: Rally, restore, encourage, inspirit, animate, countenance.

ANT: Discourage, cow, brow-bent, intimidate, discountenance.

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KEY: Rebel \n.\

SYN: Revolter, insurgent, traitor.

ANT: Supporter, adherent.

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KEY: Rebel \v.\ [See REVOLT].

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KEY: Rebound \n.\

SYN: Reaction, ricochet, reverberation, recoil, resilience.

ANT: Impression, impact, collision, percussion.

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KEY: Rebound \v.\

SYN: Recoil, spring back, reverberate, [See REVERBERATE].

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KEY: Rebuff \v.\

SYN: Rebuke, repel, repulse, check, snub, oppose, [See REPEL].

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KEY: Rebuff \n.\

SYN: Rebuke, discouragement, repulsion, check.

ANT: Welcome, acceptance, encouragement.

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KEY: Rebuke.

SYN: Reprove, chide, rebuff, reprimand, censure.

ANT: Approve, encourage, eulogize, applaud, incite.

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KEY: Rebut.

SYN: Meet, retort, annul, confute.

ANT: Accept, sanction, recognize, confirm.

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KEY: Recal.

SYN: Restore, reassemble, revoke, supersede, recollect, callback, remember, cancel.

ANT: Relegate, dismiss, dispense, delegate, appoint, commission, forget.

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KEY: Recant.

SYN: Retract, unsay, recal, revoke, abjure, renounce.

ANT: Propound, profess, assert, declare, enunciate, vindicate, maintain, hold, retain.

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KEY: Recapitulate.

SYN: Summarize, rehearse, enumerate, recite, repeat.

ANT: State, deliver, propound.

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KEY: Recede.

SYN: Retire, withdraw, retreat, retrograde, return, ebb.

ANT: Approach, advance, flow, proceed.

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KEY: Receipt \n.\

SYN: Acknowledgment, reception, voucher.

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KEY: Receive.

SYN: Take, accept, admit, hold, entertain, assent to.

ANT: Give, impart, afford, reject, discharge, emit.

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KEY: Received.

SYN: Accepted, current, ordinary, common.

ANT: Rejected, exceptional, unusual, uncommon.

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KEY: Recent.

SYN: Late, new, fresh, novel, modern, new-fangled.

ANT: Ancient, antiquated, primitive, archaic.

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KEY: Receptacle.

SYN: Repository, lodgment, recipient, magazine, store, case, berth.

ANT: Carrier, carriage, conveyance, discharger, consigner.

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KEY: Reception.

SYN: Admission, admittance, acceptance, acceptation, entertainment.

ANT: Denial, protest, repudiation, rejection, nonacceptance, dismissal, discardment, renunciation, abjuration.

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KEY: Recess.

SYN: Cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation, holiday.

ANT: Promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime.

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KEY: Reciprocal.

SYN: Alternate, interchanged, mutual, Interchangeable, reflexive.

ANT: One-sided, unreciprocated, unreturned.

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KEY: Reciprocation.

SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocity.

ANT: Non-interchange.

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KEY: Recital.

SYN: Recitation, repetition, rehearsal, relation, description, account, statement, narrative, [See ACCOUNT].

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KEY: Recite.

SYN: Narrate, recapitulate, say by heart, repeat, rehearse, quote, speak, tell, recount, enumerate.

ANT: Misquote, misdeliver, misrecount, misrenumerate, misrepresent.

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KEY: Reckless.

SYN: Careless, heedless, incautious, foolhardy, thoughtless, rash, overventuresome, regardless, inconsiderate, improvident.

ANT: careful, heedful, cautious, timid, chary, thoughtful, calculating, provident, considerate, wary, circumspect.

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KEY: Reckon.

SYN: Compute, calculate, count, regard, estimate, value, account, consider, argue, infer, judge.

ANT: Miscompute, miscalculate, misestimate, misreckon.

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KEY: Reckoning.

SYN: Computation, account, score, bill, charges.

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KEY: Reclaim.

SYN: Reform, recal, recover, regain, rescue, restore, amend, convert, better.

ANT: Vitiate, corrupt, sterilize, worsen.

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KEY: Reclaimable.

SYN: Recoverable, amendable, corrigible, convertible, improvable, cultivable, redeemable.

ANT: Irrecoverable, incorrigible, unimprovable, reprobate, desperate, hopeless, irredeemable.

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KEY: Recline.

SYN: Lean, slope, rest, lie, repose.

ANT: Erect, raise, rise, stand.

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KEY: Recluse.

SYN: Shut, sequestered, retired, apart, solitary, conventual, regular, dissocial.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, social, secular, unsequestered, convivial, companionable.

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KEY: Recognition.

SYN: Recollection, remembrance, memory, confession, avowal, acknowledgment, [See MEMORY].

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KEY: Recognize.

SYN: Identify, acknowledge, concede, know again, avow, own, allow.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, misobserve, repudiate, disavow, disown, disallow, Recoil, [See REBOUND].

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KEY: Recollect.

SYN: Recover, recal, remember, bethink, bring to mind, call up, think of.

ANT: Forget, lose.

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KEY: Recommend.

SYN: Commend, confide, praise, applaud, approve, advise.

ANT: Discommend, disapprove, warn, dissuade.

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KEY: Recompense.

SYN: Requite, remunerate, reward, indemnify, satisfy, repay, reimburse, compensate.

ANT: Damnify, injure, misrequite, dissatisfy.

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KEY: Recompense \n.\

SYN: Reward, indemnification, satisfaction, remuneration, amends, [See SATISFACTION].

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KEY: Reconcilable.

SYN: Congruous, harmonious, compatible, consistent, forgiving.

ANT: Incongruous, antagonistic, inconsistent, incompatible, irreconcilable, inexcusable, unforgiving.

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KEY: Reconcile.

SYN: Unite, conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, adapt, suit, reunite.

ANT: Separate, sever, dissever, estrange, disharmonize, derange, alienate.

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KEY: Recondite.

SYN: Deep, hidden, abstruse, profound, concealed, remote.

ANT: Superficial, obvious, self-evident, patent, familiar, trite.

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KEY: Record \v.\

SYN: Register, enter, note, chronicle.

ANT: Obliviate, silentiate, suppress.

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KEY: Record \n.\

SYN: Registry, entry, enrolment, list, index, catalogue, register, schedule, roll, scroll, enumeration, inventory, muniment, instrument, archive, memorandum, remembrance.

ANT: Obliteration, oblivion, nonregistration, desuetude, obsolescence, immemoriality, disremembrance.

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KEY: Record.

SYN: Archives, annals, chronicles, proceedings, [See ANNALS].

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KEY: Recount.

SYN: Rehearse, recite, narrate, detail, enumerate, specify.

ANT: Falsify, misrecite, misnarrate, misenumerate, misrehearse.

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KEY: Recourse.

SYN: Reference, aid, application, betaking, refuge.

ANT: Avoidance, independence, omission, abstinence, dispensation, disuse.

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KEY: Recover.

SYN: Regain, repossess, resume, retrieve, recruit, heal, cure, revive, restore, reanimate, save.

ANT: Lose, forfeit, miss, sacrifice, deteriorate, impair, decay, decline, relapse.

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KEY: Recovery.

SYN: Repossession, regaining, reinstatement, vindication, renovation, restitution, re-establishment, retrieval, rectification, replacement, reanimation, resuscitation, revival, redemption.

ANT: Loss, forfeiture, privation, deprival, sacrifice, abandonment, relapse, retrogression, decay, declension, incurableness, ruin.

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KEY: Recreant.

SYN: Apostate, traitorous, dastardly, craven, false, cowardly, unfaithful, renegade, base, recusant.

ANT: Staunch, true, faithful, chivalrous, knightly, gallant, loyal, redoubtable.

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KEY: Recreation.

SYN: Refreshment, cheer, reanimation, amusement, diversion, revival, holiday, sport, pastime, relaxation.

ANT: Weariness, toil, lassitude, labor, fatigue, employment, assiduity, work.

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KEY: Recriminate.

SYN: Retort, return an accusation, [See RETORT].

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KEY: Recrimination.

SYN: Retort, counter-imputation, countercharge, counteraccusation.

ANT: Acquiescence, acceptance, confession, silence, assent, avowal.

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KEY: Recruit.

SYN: Repair, refresh, renew, restore, recover, recreate, invigorate, revive, reinforce.

ANT: Waste, lose, impair, relapse, decay, decline, [See RECOVER].

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KEY: Rectify.

SYN: Straighten, correct, a need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate, rearrange, remodel.

ANT: Pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort.

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KEY: Rectilinear.

SYN: Straight, undeviating, right-lined, point-blank.

ANT: Curvilinear, deflexed, winding, tortuous, curved, serpentine.

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KEY: Rectitude.

SYN: Straightforwardness, uprightness, conscientiousness, integrity, right, uprightness, incorruptness.

ANT: Obliquity, perverseness, crookedness, tortuousness, wrong, underhandedness, iniquity, immorality, impropriety, depravity, corruption.

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KEY: Recumbent.

SYN: Lying, leaning, trailing, reclining, prostrate, reposing, horizontal.

ANT: Vertical, erect, uninclined, standing.

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KEY: Recur.

SYN: Return, come back, be repeated, run in the mind, revert, resort, have recourse, [See RETURN].

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KEY: Recurrent.

SYN: Returning, periodic, frequent, repeated, reiterated, intermittent.

ANT: Momentary, continuous, unbroken, unintermitted, solitary, transitory, evanescent.

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KEY: Recusant, [See RECREANT], which, however, has a more unfavourable, [See SENSE].

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KEY: Redeem.

SYN: Repurchase, regain, retrieve, make amends for, recompense, ransom, liberate, rescue, recover, satisfy, fulfil, discharge.

ANT: Pledge, lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, sacrifice.

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KEY: Redeemable.

SYN: Retrievable, recoverable, reservable.

ANT: Irretrievable, irrecoverable, irredeemable.

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KEY: Redemption.

SYN: Repurchase, retrieval, ransom, rescue, recovery, satisfaction, fulfilment, discharge, expiation, compensation, atonement, salvation, indemnification.

ANT: Forfeiture, abandonment, loss, deprivation, sacrifice, betrayal, damnification.

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KEY: Redolence.

SYN: Perfume, savor, scent, odor.

ANT: Fetor, stink, ill-savor.

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KEY: Redolent, [See FRAGRANT].

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KEY: Redouble.

SYN: Augment, multiply, intensify, reiterate.

ANT: Diminish, slacken, weaken, reduce, abate.

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KEY: Redound (followed by the \prep.\ to.

SYN:, Add, result, issue, tend, accrue, contribute, lead, incline, conduce.

ANT: Fail, miss, swerve, nullify, defeat, disappoint, frustrate, injure.

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KEY: Redress.

SYN: Right, order, revise, amend, rectify, remedy, repair.

ANT: Aggravate, impair, wrong, worsen, intensify, establish, confirm, reiterate, sanction, deepen, perpetuate.

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KEY: Reduce.

SYN: Lessen, diminish, curtail, attenuate, impoverish, narrow, contract, weaken, impair, subdue, subjugate, bring, refer, subject, classify, convert.

ANT: Enlarge, magnify, increase, augment, produce, extend, amplify, broaden, expand, renovate, invigorate, restore, repair, liberate, free, except, dissociate, transform.

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KEY: Reduction.

SYN: Diminution, contraction, decrease, abatement, [See ABRIDGMENT].

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KEY: Redundant.

SYN: Superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, overflowing, luxuriant.

ANT: Requisite, defective, necessary.

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KEY: Re-echo.

SYN: Resound, reverberate, repeat, [See REVERBERATE].

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KEY: Reel.

SYN: Totter, stagger, falter.

ANT: Stand firm, stand steady.

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KEY: Re-establish.

SYN: Reinstate, restore, refix, renew, confirm again, [See REINSTATE].

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KEY: Refer.

SYN: Attribute, associate, assign, advert, connect, relate, point, belong, allude, apply, appeal.

ANT: Disconnect, dissociate, misapply, misappertain, alienate, misbeseem, disresemble.

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KEY: Referable.

SYN: Ascribable, attributable, owing, imputable.

ANT: Not referable, not attributable.

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KEY: Referee.

SYN: Umpire, arbitrator.

ANT: Litigant, opponent, adversary.

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KEY: Reference.

SYN: Relation, regard, intimation, allusion, [See RELATION].

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KEY: Refined.

SYN: Courtly, polished, accomplished, genteel, [See POLITE].

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KEY: Refinement.

SYN: Clarification, purification, filtration, sublimation, polish, elegance, cultivation, civilization, subtilty, finesse, sophistry.

ANT: Turbidity, grossness, foulness, coarseness, impurity, unrefinement, rudeness, inelegance, boorishness, broadness, bluntness, unsophisticatedness.

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KEY: Refit.

SYN: Repair, rearrange, readjust, reprovide, reinstate, reorganize.

ANT: Relegate, disuse, discard, disorganize, dismantle.

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KEY: Reflect.

SYN: Return, image, mirror, exhibit, consider, think, cogitate, meditate, contemplate, ponder, muse, ruminate, heed, advert, animadvert.

ANT: Divert, dissipate, idle, dream, wander, rove, stargaze, woolgather, connive, disregard, overlook.

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KEY: Reflection.

SYN: Reflecting, meditation, thought, cogitation, [See THOUGHT].

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KEY: Refix.

SYN: Return, ebb, redound.

ANT: Flow, flux, stream.

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KEY: Reform.

SYN: Amend, ameliorate, correct, rectify, better, reclaim, regenerate, remodel, reconstitute, reorganize, improve.

ANT: Corrupt, vitiate, worsen, deteriorate, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, impair, deform, stereotype.

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KEY: Reformation.

SYN: Amendment, reform, improvement, correction, [See CORRECTION].

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KEY: Refraction.

SYN: Disradiation, obliquity.

ANT: Incidence, rectilinearity, nonrefraction.

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KEY: Refractory.

SYN: Perverse, contumacious, stubborn, unruly, obstinate, unmanageable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant.

ANT: Obedient, docile, amenable, manageable.

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KEY: Refragable.

SYN: Refutable, weak, questionable, deniable, fallacious.

ANT: Irrefragable, sound, indisputable, unquestionable, undeniable.

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KEY: Refrain.

SYN: Forbear, hold, abstain, keep, restrain, withhold, desist from.

ANT: Indulge, venture, continue, persist.

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KEY: Refresh.

SYN: Cool, refrigerate, in, vigorate, revive, reanimate, renovate, recreate, renew, restore, cheer, freshen, brace.

ANT: Heat, oppress, weary, burden, afflict, annoy, tire, fatigue, exhaust, debilitate, enervate, relax.

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KEY: Refreshment.

SYN: Relief, invigoration, regalement, entertainment, food, nourishment, [See RELIEF].

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KEY: Refuge.

SYN: Protection, shelter, harbor, asylum, retreat, covert, hospitality, sanctuary, hiding-place.

ANT: exposure, inhospitableness, peril, pitfall, snare, Scylla, Charybdis.

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KEY: Refund.

SYN: Repay, return, restore, pay back, reimburse.

ANT: Appropriate, withhold, divert, misapply, embezzle, alienate, misappropriate, expend, misspend.

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KEY: Refuse \v.\

SYN: Deny, withhold, reject, decline, repudiate.

ANT: Grant, afford, yield, concede, acquiesce.

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KEY: Refuse \n.\

SYN: Offal, scum, dregs, sediment, recrement, sweepings, trash, offscourings, debris, remains, dross.

ANT: Cream, pickings, firstfruits, flower, prime.

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KEY: Refute.

SYN: Negative, disprove, neutralize, controvert, repel, confute.

ANT: Prove, confirm, establish.

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KEY: Refutable, [See REFRAGABLE].

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KEY: Regain.

SYN: Recover, react, reprocure, reobtain, retrieve, repossess.

ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit.

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KEY: Regal \a.\

SYN: Kingly, royal, splendid, imperial, magnificent, princely.

ANT: Beggarly, miserly, mean, shabby.

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KEY: Regale.

SYN: Feast, entertain, gratify, delight, refresh.

ANT: Starve, stint, tantalize.

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KEY: Regard \v.\

SYN: Behold, view, contemplate, esteem, consider, deem, affect, respect, reverence, revere, value, conceive, heed, notice, mind.

ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, despise, dislike, contemn, hate, loathe, misconsider, misconceive, misestimate, misjudge.

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KEY: Regarding.

SYN: Touching, concerning, respecting, with respect to, about, in relation to, in reference to.

ANT: Barring, disregarding, omitting.

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KEY: Regardless \a.\

SYN: Heedless, inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, inattentive, unobservant, disregarding, indifferent, despising.

ANT: Careful, considerate, regardful, attentive, prudent, cautious, circumspect, scrupulous, mindful.

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KEY: Regards.

SYN: Compliments, respects, commendations.

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KEY: Regenerate.

SYN: Reproduce, renovate, resuscitate, revive, revivify, restore, reintegrate.

ANT: Waste, corrupt, vitiate, deteriorate, degenerate.

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KEY: Region.

SYN: Country, clime, territory, district, tract of land, portion, part.

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KEY: Register, [See BAWL].

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KEY: Regression.

SYN: Retreat, return, retrogradation, retrogression, retirement.

ANT: Advancement, progression, aggression, procession.

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KEY: Regret \v.\

SYN: Grieve, lament, repent, miss, desiderate, deplore.

ANT: Welcome, hail, approve, abandon, abjure, forget, disregard.

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KEY: Regret \n.\

SYN: Sorrow, grief, concern, remorse, lamentation, repentance, [See GRIEF].

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KEY: Regular.

SYN: Customary, normal, ordinary, orderly, stated, recurrent, periodical, systematic, methodic, established, recognized, formal, symmetrical, certain.

ANT: Unusual, exceptional, abnormal, capricious, rare, irregular, disordered, fitful, unsymmetrical, variable, eccentric, erratic, uncertain.

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KEY: Regulate.

SYN: Methodize, organize, rale, govern, [See ARRANGE and ORGANIZE].

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KEY: Regulation.

SYN: Rule, law, adjustment, disposal, method, government, order, control, arrangement.

ANT: Misrule, disorder, anarchy, misgovernment, maladministration, disarrangement, nonregulation, caprice, license, insubjection, uncontrol.

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KEY: Rehabilitate.

SYN: Reinstate, reempower, recapacitate, requalify.

ANT: Denude, divest, disempower, Incapacitate, disqualify, strip, deprive.

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KEY: Rehearsal \n.\

SYN: Repetition, recital, narrative, [See ACCOUNT, \n.\].

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KEY: Rehearse.

SYN: Repeat, recite, narrate, recount, relate, tell, recapitulate, recount, detail.

ANT: Misrepent, misrecite, misrecount, misrelate, misrepresent, misdetail.

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KEY: Reign.

SYN: Rule, govern, prevail, command.

ANT: Obey, submit.

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KEY: Reimburse.

SYN: Refund, repay, indemnify, satisfy.

ANT: Embezzle, appropriate, misapply, alienate, damnify, defraud.

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KEY: Rein.

SYN: Curb, bridle, restrain, moderate, control, govern, check, hold.

ANT: Indulge, loose, vent, discharge, humor.

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KEY: Reinforce, [See RECRUIT].

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KEY: Reinstate.

SYN: Rehabilitate, restore, reinstil, replace, reinvest.

ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest.

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KEY: Reinvest, [See REINSTATE].

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KEY: Reiterate.

SYN: Repeat, re-express, re-enunciate, renew, reproduce.

ANT: Cancel, withdraw, reverse, retract.

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KEY: Reject.

SYN: Repel, renounce, throw by, castaway, repudiate, decline, discard, refuse, exclude.

ANT: Hail, welcome, accept, appropriate, choose, select, admit.

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KEY: Rejoice.

SYN: Delight, glory, exult, joy, triumph, gladden, delight, revel, be glad, cheer, please, enliven, gratify.

ANT: Mourn, grieve, lament, weep, sorrow, repent, trouble, afflict, oppress, weary, depress, disappoint, burden, darken, distress, pain, sadden, vex, annoy.

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KEY: Rejoinder.

SYN: Retort, replication, reply, answer, rebutter, parry.

ANT: Sally, banter, rallying, sarcasm, attack, hit.

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KEY: Rekindle.

SYN: Reignite, resuscitate, reinspire, fan, refocillate, reinforce.

ANT: Stifle, extinguish, smother, suppress, damp, quench.

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KEY: Relapse \v.\

SYN: Retrogress, recede, deteriorate.

ANT: Recover, amend, progress, advance, improve.

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KEY: Relapse \n.\

SYN: Falling back, retrogression, returning to a former state (especially a bad state).

ANT: Recovery, return, improvement.

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KEY: Relate.

SYN: Tell, recite, narrate, recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe.

ANT: Misrecite, misrecount, misrepresent, misreport, falsify, pervert, distort, misrelate.

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KEY: Related.

SYN: Kindred, cognate, akin, allied, connected.

ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, not allied.

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KEY: Relation.

SYN: reference, aspect, connection, narration, proportion, bearing, affinity, homogeneity, association, relevancy, pertinency, fitness, harmony, ratio, relative, agreement, kinsman, kindred, appurtenancy.

ANT: Irrelation, disconnection, dissociation, irrelevancy, impertinency, disproportion, Disproportion, unfitness, unsuitableness, heterogeneity, disharmony, disagreement, alien.

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KEY: Relative.

SYN: Referring to, not absolute.

ANT: Absolute.

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KEY: Relatives.

SYN: Relations, kinsfolk, kindred, kinsmen, [See KIN].

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KEY: Relax.

SYN: Slacken, loosen, remit, abate, mitigate, release, unbend, relent, divert, recreate, rest, enervate, Unstring.

ANT: Tighten, increase, intensify, stretch, bend, brace, invigorate, redouble, grow, heighten, strengthen.

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KEY: Relaxation, [See RELAX].

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KEY: Relay.

SYN: Reinforcement, recruitment, refreshment, supply, relief.

ANT: Exhaustion, consumption.

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KEY: Release \v.\

SYN: Free, loose, liberate, discharge, quit, acquit, exempt, extricate, disengage, indemnify.

ANT: Bind, constrain, confine, shackle, fetter, yoke.

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KEY: Release \n.\

SYN: Liberation, discharge, freedom, [See BONDAGE].

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KEY: Relegate.

SYN: Remove, transfer, banish, transport, exile, deport, despatch.

ANT: Recal, locate, reinstate.

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KEY: Relent.

SYN: Yield, relax, soften.

ANT: Persist, harden.

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KEY: Relentless.

SYN: Cruel, inexorable, unyielding, remorseless, unmerciful, truculent.

ANT: Yielding, humane, feeling, clement, merciful, compassionate.

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KEY: Relevancy, [See RELEVANT].

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KEY: Relevant.

SYN: Appropriate, pertinent, apt, applicable, bearing.

ANT: Inappropriate, impertinent, irrelevant.

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KEY: Reliance.

SYN: Confidence, trust, dependence, assurance.

ANT: Distrust, misgiving, suspicion, diffidence.

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KEY: Relief.

SYN: Succor, support, release, extrication, alleviation, mitigation, aid, holp, assistance, remedy, redress, exemption, deliverance, refreshment, comfort.

ANT: Oppression, aggravation, intensification, burdensomeness, trouble, exhaustion, weariness, discomfort.

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KEY: Relieve.

SYN: Help, succor, [See ALLEVIATE].

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KEY: Religion.

SYN: Faith, creed, theology, belief, profession, piety, sanctity, godliness, holiness.

ANT: Unbelief, irreligion, godlessness, atheism, impiety, sacrilege, scoffing, blasphemy, scepticism, profanity, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism, formalism, reprobation.

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KEY: Religious.

SYN: Pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred.

ANT: Impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane.

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KEY: Relinquish.

SYN: Resign, leave, quit, forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, give up, lay aside, cede, forego, repudiate, surrender, discontinue.

ANT: frieze, retain, assume, enforce, vindicate, assert, maintain, prosecute, defend, continue.