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KEY: Robe.

SYN: Invest, clothe, deck, drape, array.

ANT: Divest, disrobe, unclothe, denude, strip.

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KEY: Robust.

SYN: Strong, lusty, brawny, able-bodied, sturdy, sinewy, muscular, hale, hearty, vigorous, sound, iron.

ANT: Weak, frail, puny, fragile, weakly, delicate, sickly.

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KEY: Rogue.

SYN: Vagabond, scamp, rascal, villain, cheat, swindler, sharper.

ANT: True-penny, gentleman.

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KEY: Roguery.

SYN: Trickery, cheating, chicanery, swindling, vagabondism, mischief, fraud, knavery.

ANT: Honesty, integrity, honor, uprightness, conscientiousness.

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KEY: Roll \v.\

SYN: Revolve, wheel, rotate, turn over and over, rock, trundle wallow.

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KEY: Roll \n.\ [See RECORD].

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KEY: Rollicking.

SYN: Roystering, frolicsome, hoydenish, blustering.

ANT: Staid, sedate, demure.

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KEY: Romance.

SYN: Fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade, balderdash.

ANT: History, narrative, truth, fact.

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KEY: Romantic.

SYN: Fabulous, rhapsodical, wild, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, sentimental.

ANT: Historical, literal, truthful, unromantic, unvarnished, unadorned.

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KEY: Room.

SYN: Space, ground, compass, extent, locality, opportunity, capability, occasion, margin, capacity, admission.

ANT: Restriction, limitation, confinement, incapability, exclusion, neutralization.

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KEY: Roomy, [See SPACIOUS].

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KEY: Root.

SYN: Radix, radicle, stem, origin, source, spring, rise, commencement, parent.

ANT: Branch, ramification, outcome, product, issue, progeny.

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KEY: Rooted.

SYN: Fixed, established, grounded, based, inveterate, domiciled, naturalized, installed.

ANT: Unestablished, insecure, uncertain, wavering, unsettled, oscillating, dubious, precarious, superficial, specious, propped, bolstered, shored.

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KEY: Rot.

SYN: Putrefaction, corruption, putrescence, mouldiness, mildew, decay.

ANT: Integrity, wholesomeness, soundness, vigor, preservation, purity, healthiness, sweetness.

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KEY: Rotation.

SYN: Turn, series, order, succession, revolution, course, reversion, recurrence.

ANT: Simultaneity, perpetuity, constancy, non-intermittence, contemporaneousness.

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KEY: Rotten, [See PUTRID].

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KEY: Rotundity.

SYN: Roundness, convexity, circularity, sphericity, globosity, prominence, protuberance, intumescence.

ANT: Concavity, flatness, angularity.

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KEY: Rough.

SYN: Uneven, harsh, bristly, scabrous, rugged, knotty, unpolished, boisterous, tempestuous, stormy, coarse, craggy, gruff, crude, severe, shaggy, disordered, unrefined, uncourteous, rude, unshaped, churlish, blunt.

ANT: Even, smooth, level, polished, glabrous, glossy, glassy, silky, sleek, velvety, calm, tranquil, refined, courteous, courtly, shapely, shaped, finished, oily, specious.

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KEY: Round.

SYN: Circular, globular, spherical, entire, complete, rotund, smooth, plump.

ANT: Flat, angular, concave.

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KEY: Roundabout, [See CIRCUITOUS].

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KEY: Rouse.

SYN: Wake, excite, agitate, startle, surprise.

ANT: Compose, allay, calm, soothe, quiet, repress, Rout, [See CIRCUITOUS].

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KEY: Route.

SYN: Way, course, passage, march, path, track, direction.

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KEY: Routine.

SYN: Round, course, succession, order, rule, custom, system, sequence, gradation, rotation, stereotype, prescription, tenor, uniformity, method, settlement, regulation.

ANT: Casualty, chance, lottery, fortune, impulse, interest, individuality, merit, spontaneity, alterableness, margin, deviation, modification.

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KEY: Rove, [See ROAM].

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KEY: Row \n.\

SYN: Series, order, rank, sequence, continuation, continuity, file, string, concatenation, thread.

ANT: Dissociation, disconnection, rupture, intermission, hiatus, solution, failure, gap, discontinuance, dissolution, inconsequence, derangement, deviation, flexion, deflexion, irregularity, sinuosity, flexuosity.

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KEY: Row \n.\ [See RIOT].

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KEY: Royal, [See REGAL].

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KEY: Rubbish.

SYN: debris, waste matter, fragments, litter, dross, refuse, lion sense, trash.

ANT: [met.] see Cream and Nonsense.

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KEY: Rubicund.

SYN: Ruddy, flushed, red, sanguine, blushing.

ANT: Pale, wan, pallid, exsanguineous.

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KEY: Ruddy, [See RUBICUND].

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KEY: Rude.

SYN: Impertinent, rough, uneven, shapeless, unfashioned, artless, unpolished, uncouth, inelegant, rustic, coarse, vulgar, clownish, raw, unskilful, untaught, illiterate, ignorant, uncivil, saucy, impolite, impudent, insolent, surly, {[currifb]?}, churlish, brutal, uncivilized, barbarous, savage, violent, tumultuous, turbulent, Impetuous, boisterous, harsh, inclement, severe, Insulting, grotesque, barbaric, archaic.

ANT: Modest, bashful, civil, courteous, ceremonious, deferential, smooth, even, artistic, polished, fashioned, courtly, elegant, high-wrought, polite, accommodating, considerate, refined, gentle, peaceful, culm, genial, balmy, halcyonic, serene, placid, modern, modish, fashionable.

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KEY: Rudiment.

SYN: Principle, begin, ning, germ, seed, embryo, element, nucleus, initiation, commencement.

ANT: Perfection, completion, development, expansion, organization, fruit, maturity, consummation, product, issue.

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KEY: Rudimental, [See ELEMENTARY].

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KEY: Rue, [See REPENT].

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KEY: Ruffle.

SYN: Wrinkle, roughen, dis, compose, disturb, agitate, disorder, derange, disarrange, confute, excite.

ANT: Smooth, allay, equalize, compose, quiet, arrange, conciliate.

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KEY: Ruffian.

SYN: Villain, cutthroat, brutal fellow, bully.

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KEY: Rugged.

SYN: Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficult.

ANT: Even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine, finished, soft, mild, courtly, courteous, [See {[caitubtroka %]?}].

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KEY: Ruin.

SYN: Fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse, desolation, downfall, perdition, subversion, decay, decadence, prostration, dilapidation, disorganization.

ANT: Rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery, stabilisation, conservation, regeneration, revivification, reparation, renascence, organization, construction.

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KEY: Ruinous, [See PERNICIOUS].

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KEY: Rule \n.\

SYN: Regulation, law, precept, principle, maxim, practice, guide, canon, order, method, direction, authority, control, mastery, government, decision, determination, habit.

ANT: Irregularity, nonconformity, exception, deviation, eccentricity.

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KEY: Rule \v.\

SYN: Govern, manage, control, direct, command, dominate, [See CONTROL and GOVERN].

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KEY: Ruling.

SYN: Governing, reigning, controlling, masterful, predominant, regulating, prevalent.

ANT: Obeying, yielding, subservient.

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KEY: Ruminate.

SYN: Muse, meditate, ponder, think, reflect, cogitate, brood.

ANT: Unbend, relax, idle, gape, woolgather.

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KEY: Rumor.

SYN: Report, repute, hearsay, publication, bruit.

ANT: Authentication, verification, proof, evidence, notoriety.

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KEY: Rumple.

SYN: Ruffle, wrinkle, crease, crumple, pucker, corrugate, derange, roughen.

ANT: Smooth, flatten, arrange.

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KEY: Run.

SYN: Course, go, speed, hasten, hurry, fly, rush, escape, retreat, pass, proceed, flow, ooze, leak, melt, fuse, confuse, blend, extend, reach, work, operate, traverse, tend, incline.

ANT: Walk, saunter, lounge, drag, stay, stop, halt, hobble, resist, hold, stanch, stand, fail, drop, expire, disincline, hesitate.

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KEY: Rupture.

SYN: Breaking, bursting, tearing, laceration, partition, disruption, breach, dissolution, fracture, break, severance, disseverance, discerption, disorganization, separation, dilaceration, dismemberment.

ANT: Union, uniting, healing, fusion, amalgamation, coalition, suture, junction, reunion.

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KEY: Rural.

SYN: Countrified, rustic, agricultural, bucolic, verdant, sylvan, grassy, arcadian, pastoral.

ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic.

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KEY: Rush.

SYN: Speed, course, dash, sweep, hurry, stream, roll, charge, drive, fly, burst.

ANT: March, saunter, lag, retreat, bait, hesitate.

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KEY: Rust \n.\

SYN: Corrosion, crust, dross, indolence, inactivity, decay, canker, inaction.

ANT: Polish, attrition, use, action, operation, activity, exercise, industry.

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KEY: Rustic \n.\

SYN: Clown, boor, clod, go, leuc, booby.

ANT: Beau, savant, dandy, man of, the wond.

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KEY: Rustic \a.\

SYN: Rural, agricultural, bucolic, nomadic, sylvan, verdant, pastoral, rude, awkward, unpolished, clownish, clumsy, rough, coarse, plain, unsophisticated, simple, artless, primitive.

ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic, fashionable, modish, elegant, sophisticated, refined, courtly, polished.

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KEY: Rusticity.

SYN: Rudeness, clownishness, boorishness, coarseness, simplicity, artlessness.

ANT: Courtliness, refinement, polish, gentility, urbanity.

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KEY: Rustle.

SYN: Quiver, whisper, susurration, murmur, sighing.

ANT: Hubbub, blast, din, racket, crashing.

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KEY: Ruthless.

SYN: Unpitying, unrelenting, truculent, unsparing.

ANT: Tender, regretful, lenient, compassionate, forbearing, long-suffering.

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KEY: Rutilant.

SYN: Igneous, flammiferous, flaming, blazing, coruscant, meteoric, flashing, scintillant.

ANT: Glowing, incandescent, gleaming.

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KEY: Sable.

SYN: Dark, black, sombre, ebon.

ANT: Bright, light, white, ivory.

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KEY: Sacerdotal.

SYN: Priestly, hierarchical, clerical.

ANT: Laic, congregational.

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KEY: Sack.

SYN: Plunder, pillage, ravage, waste, spoil.

ANT: Spare, indemnify, protect, preserve.

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KEY: Sacred.

SYN: Holy, divine, hallowed, consecrated, religious, inviolable.

ANT: Unholy, common, profane, unconsecrated.

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KEY: Sacrifice \v.\

SYN: Offer, immolate, destroy, surrender, forego.

ANT: Reserve, retain, appropriate, withhold.

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KEY: Sacrifice \n.\

SYN: Offering, oblation, immolation, surrender, destruction, atonement, propitiation, appeasement, expiation.

ANT: Reservation, appropriation, retention, salvation, rescue, offence, transgression.

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KEY: Sad.

SYN: Heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnine.

ANT: Light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe.

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KEY: Saddle.

SYN: Impose, burden, load, shackle, clog, charge, encumber.

ANT: Rid, relieve, exonerate, disburden, liberate, disencumber.

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KEY: Safe.

SYN: Secure, unendangered, secured, sure, protected, impregnable, trustworthy, certain.

ANT: Insecure, imperilled, dangerous, Hazardous, exposed.

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KEY: Safeguard.

SYN: Security, protection, [See SABLE].

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KEY: Sagacious.

SYN: Intelligent, discriminating, acute, wise, prudent, foreseeing, shrewd, penetrating, sapient.

ANT: Dull, obtuse, unintelligent, stolid, undiscerning.

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KEY: Sage.

SYN: Philosopher, savant, literate.

ANT: Fool, Imbecile, Colt, blockhead.

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KEY: Sailor.

SYN: Seaman, mariner, navigator, seafarer, tar.

ANT: Landsman.

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KEY: Saintly.

SYN: Pure, holy, spiritual, heavenly-minded, pious, godly.

ANT: Impious impure, unholy, unspiritual, ungodly, carnal, foul, worldly, earthly-minded, sinful.

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KEY: Sake.

SYN: Account, behalf, purpose, end, regard, reason, cause, [See DEFENSE].

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KEY: Salient.

SYN: Projecting, springing, jutting, abutting, prominent, conspicuous, important, noteworthy.

ANT: Retreating, retiring, returning, rebated, unimportant, minor, inconsiderable, subordinate.

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KEY: Sally.

SYN: Burst, start, issue.

ANT: Retire, retreat, withdraw.

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KEY: Salubrious, [See BEHALF].

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KEY: Salubrity.

SYN: Healthiness, healthfulness, wholesomeness, salutarines.

ANT: Unwholesomeness, unhealthily, insalubrity.

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KEY: Salutary, [See HEALTHY].

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KEY: Salutation, [See WHOLESOME].

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KEY: Salute.

SYN: Hall, compliment, accost, welcome, greet.

ANT: Ignore, insult, pass, disregard, dishonor, scorn, affront.

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KEY: Salvation.

SYN: Preservation, saving, redemption, rescue, deliverance.

ANT: Destruction, perdition, damnation.

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KEY: Salve.

SYN: Heal, cure, mollify, redress, remedy, mend, relieve.

ANT: Wound, hurt, irritate, injure, aggravate, scarify.

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KEY: Same.

SYN: Identical, selfsame, similar, corresponding.

ANT: Other, different.

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KEY: Sameness, [See WELCOME].

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KEY: Sample.

SYN: Specimen, pattern, illustration, case, exemplification, scantling.

ANT: Exception, deviation, abnormity, monstrosity, variety, nondescript, hybrid, nonsuch.

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KEY: Sanative, [See IDENTITY].

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KEY: Sanatory.

SYN: Curative, sanative, remedial, therapeutic, hygienic, sanitary.

ANT: Morbific, pestilential, noxious, unwholesome, pernicious.

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KEY: Sanctification.

SYN: Justification, absolution, consecration, holiness.

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KEY: Sanctify.

SYN: Consecrate, hallow, celebrate, purify, justify, sanction, ratify.

ANT: Desecrate, profane, misobserve, pollute, disannul.

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KEY: Sanction \n.\

SYN: Rectification, authorization, authority, countenance, support, seal, allowance.

ANT: Nullification, disallowance, discountenance, prohibition.

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KEY: Sanction \v.\

SYN: Authorize, countenance, confirm, ratify, [See SANATORY and HEALTHFUL].

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KEY: Sanctity.

SYN: Holiness, sacredness, godliness, piety, solemnity.

ANT: Unholiness, profaneness, ungodliness, impiety, secularly.

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KEY: Sanctuary.

SYN: Shrine, {[adytumasy % asyurn]?}, asyurn, refuge, security, protection, inviolability.

ANT: Pitfall, trap, snare, betrayal, violation, extradition.

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KEY: Sanguinary.

SYN: Bloody, truculent, bloodthirsty, murderous.

ANT: Lenient, moderate, chivalrous, generous, sparing, forbearing.

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KEY: Sanguine.

SYN: Warm, ardent, lively, animated, hopeful, confident, trustful.

ANT: Cold, frigid, desponding, distrustful, croaking, misgiving, suspicious, cautious, unventuresome, timid, anxious, diffident, solicitous.

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KEY: Sanitary, [See APPROVE].

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KEY: Sanity.

SYN: Rationality, soundness, reasonableness, lucidity, wisdom.

ANT: Insanity, madness, lunacy, derangement, alienation, dementation, hallucination, folly.

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KEY: Sapid.

SYN: Tasty, relishing, savory, piquant, palatable, toothsome, delicious.

ANT: Dry, flavorless, distasteful, nauseous.

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KEY: Sapidity.

SYN: Sapidness, savoriness, taste, {[eavor]?}.

ANT: Savorless, tasteless, insipid, vapid.

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KEY: Sapient.

SYN: Sage, sagacious, knowing, wise, discerning.

ANT: foolish, undiscerning, blind, stolid.

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KEY: Sarcasm.

SYN: Gibe, chaff, irony, jeer, satire, ridicule, taunt, sardonicism.

ANT: Eulogy, compliment, panegyric, eulogium.

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KEY: Sarcastic.

SYN: Satirical, ironical, taunting, severe, [See SANATORY].

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KEY: Satanic.

SYN: Fiendish, devilish, infernal.

ANT: Angelic, seraphic, heavenly.

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KEY: Sate.

SYN: Satiate, glut, surfeit.

ANT: Stint, starve.

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KEY: Satellite.

SYN: Attendant, follower, subordinate, shadow, associate, hanger-on, second.

ANT: Leader, principal.

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KEY: Satiate.

SYN: Gorge, cloy, satisfy fully, [See SATIRICAL].

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KEY: Satire.

SYN: Invective, sarcasm, burlesque, lampoon, pasquinade, irony, ridicule.

ANT: Eulogy, panegyric, laudation.

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KEY: Satirical.

SYN: Cutting, poignant sarcastic, bitter, ironical, invective.

ANT: Complimentary, flattering, laudatory, panegyric, eulogistic.

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KEY: Satisfaction.

SYN: Contentment, content, complacency, pleasure, recompense, compensation, amends, remuneration, indemnification, atonement.

ANT: Discontent, grievance, dissatisfaction, pain, vexation, annoyance, injury, wrong, fraud, robbery, obligation, demand, claim, damnification, transgression, offence.

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KEY: Satisfy.

SYN: Satiate, content, sate, please, fill, gratify, suffice, recompense, compensate, remunerate, indemnify, assure, convince, meet, fulfil.

ANT: Stint, starve, deprive, dissatisfy, tantalize, half-satisfy, annoy, displease, defraud, deprive, injure, cheat, shake, disown, repudiate, stagger, pore, embarrass, puzzle.

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KEY: Saturate.

SYN: Soak, impregnate, infuse, steep, sate.

ANT: Wring, drain, exsiccate, dry, divert, empty, deprive, disimpregnate.

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KEY: Saturnine.

SYN: Dull, heavy, grave, phlegmatic, gloomy, leaden, sombre.

ANT: Jovial, gay, light-hearted, joyous, bright, merry.

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KEY: Saucy.

SYN: Pert, forward, flippant, impudent, insolent, disrespectful.

ANT: Deferential, civil, respectful, fair-spoken, glozing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, servile, snivelling, slavish.

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KEY: Saunter.

SYN: Roam, loiter, linger, stroll, wander, lag, dawdle, lounge, linger.

ANT: Speed, course, press, hasten, drive, push, scramble.

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KEY: Savage.

SYN: Ferocious, ferine, wild, uncultivated, untamed, untaught, uncivilized, unpolished, rude, brutish, brutal, heathenish, barbarous, cruel, fierce, inhuman, truculent, pitiless, merciless, murderous, violent, malevolent.

ANT: Mild, docile, domesticated, tame, tractable, meek, timid, shrinking, cultivated, tamed, taught, civilized, educated, refined, Christianized, polished, humane, generous, chivalrous, merciful, clement, forbearing, courtly, subdued, self-controlled.

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KEY: Save.

SYN: Preserve, rescue, secure, reserve, spare, hinder, obviate, prevent, snatch, catch, economize, husband.

ANT: Lose, betray, abandon, destroy, surrender, impose, facilitate, promote, induce, occasion, cause, miss, expose, imperil, endanger, risk, waste, lavish.

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KEY: Saving, [see FRUGAL].

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KEY: Savior.

SYN: Redeemer, JESUS CHRIST, Mediator, Messiah, The Anointed, The Word.

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KEY: Savory, [See SAPID].

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KEY: Say.

SYN: Utter, tell, speak, pronounce, declare, assert, allege, affirm, repeat, rehearse, recite, judge.

ANT: Suppress, secrete, silentiate, repress, misdeclare, misrecite, misdeliver, missay, misjudge, mispronounce.

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KEY: Saying.

SYN: Assertion, maxim, saw, dictum, declaration, speech, byword, proverb, aphorism, apothegm.

ANT: Dissertation, disquisition, essay, ratiocination, rigmarole, yarn, circumlocution.

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KEY: Scale.

SYN: Layer, lamina, flake.

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KEY: Scandal.

SYN: Offence, reproach, disgrace, defamation, libel, shame, infamy, detraction, slander, calumny, opprobrium.

ANT: Eulogy, fame, honor, respect, credit.

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KEY: Scandalize.

SYN: Disgrace, disgust, shock, offend, defame, reproach.

ANT: Honor, [See REPROACH].

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KEY: Scant.

SYN: Short, insufficient, mean, niggardly, stingy, narrow, limited, chary, sparing.

ANT: Full, ample, liberal, generous, bountiful, unmeasured.

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KEY: Scanty, [See REPROACH].

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KEY: Scantling, [See SCANT].

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KEY: Scar \n.\

SYN: Cicatrix, blemish, disfigurement, mark, seam, spot, reproach.

ANT: Obliteration, effacement.

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KEY: Scarce.

SYN: Rare, infrequent, unabundant, unique, uncommon, unusual, singular, precious, choice, few, wanting, sparse.

ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, valueless, thick, plentiful.

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KEY: Scarcity.

SYN: Deficiency, lack, infrequency, want, dearth, rarity.

ANT: Plenty, abundance, frequency.

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KEY: Scare.

SYN: Terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt.

ANT: Reassure, encourage, entice, allure.

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KEY: Scarify.

SYN: Cut, scratch, incise, Irritate, torment.

ANT: Heal, salve, soothe, mollify, assuage.

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KEY: Scatheless.

SYN: Unhurt, unscathed, uninjured, undamaged, whole, sound.

ANT: Wounded, injured, damaged.

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KEY: Scatter.

SYN: Strew, sprinkle, disperse, spread, broadcast, dissipate, disseminate, propagate, squander.

ANT: Collect, accumulate, heap, gather, save, husband.

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KEY: Scene.

SYN: Spectacle, show, exhibition, [See SAMPLE].

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KEY: Scent.

SYN: Odor, perfume, {[tmeU]?}, [See {[PAOEAKT]?}].

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KEY: Sceptic.

SYN: Doubter, infidel, un believer, deist.

ANT: Believer.

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KEY: Scepticism.

SYN: Doubt, unbelief, infidelity, incredulity.

ANT: Faith, belief, credulity.

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KEY: Scheme.

SYN: Plan, project, design, contrivance, purpose, draft, proposal, device, plot, theory, intrigue, machination.

ANT: Miscontrivance, bungle, misarrangement, blunder.

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KEY: Schism.

SYN: Division, separation, disruption, secession, diversity, sectarianism, breach, dissent, discord.

ANT: Unity, integrity, catholicity, communion.

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KEY: Scholar.

SYN: Pupil, learner, disciple, student, schoolman, scientist, savant, gownsman, linguist.

ANT: Master, teacher, preceptor, professor, ignoramus, dunce.

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KEY: Scholarship.

SYN: Lore, learning, erudition, attainments, culture, [See LEARNING].

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KEY: Science.

SYN: Knowledge, Information, skill, experience, expertness, comprehension, understanding, investigation, truth.

ANT: Ignorance, inexperience, Unfamiliarity, incomprehension, error, fallacy, empiricism, smattering, sciolism.

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KEY: Scientific.

SYN: Philosophical, according to general principles, or laws.

ANT: Unscientific.

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KEY: Sciolism.

SYN: Shallowness, superficialness, smattering, imperfect knowledge.

ANT: Depth, profundity, profoundness.

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KEY: Scion.

SYN: Slip, offshoot, cadet, branch, child.

ANT: Stem, stock, parent, root.

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KEY: Scoff.

SYN: Sneer, mock, jibe, jeer, contemn, scout, deride, ridicule.

ANT: Compliment, salute, respect, honor.

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KEY: Scold.

SYN: Chide, rail, reprimand, reprove, brawl, rebuke, abuse.

ANT: Praise, encourage, compliment, laud, flatter.

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KEY: Scope.

SYN: Aim, object, mark, end, design, purpose, intention, drift, room, occasion, opportunity, liberty.

ANT: Avoidance, nonintention, pretermission, inadvertence, accident, aimlessness, deviation.

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KEY: Scorn \v.\

SYN: Contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout.

ANT: Honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute.

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KEY: Scorn \n.\

SYN: Mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium, [See LEARNING].

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KEY: Scoundrel.

SYN: Villain, vagabond, knave, swindler, miscreant, reprobate.

ANT: Man of honor, gentleman.

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KEY: Scour.

SYN: Purge, cleanse, rinse, scrub.

ANT: Soil, begrime, besmear, foul, pollute, {[aefile]?}, dirt.

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KEY: Scourge.

SYN: Punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation.

ANT: Blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction.

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KEY: Scourings.

SYN: Offal, dregs, lees, offscourings, refuse, dross, scum.

ANT: Cream, elite, pickings, bloom, flower.

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KEY: Scout \v.\ [See SCORN].

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KEY: Scowl.

SYN: Frown, discountenance, browbeat, lower, glower.

ANT: Smile, encourage, countenance.

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KEY: Scraggy.

SYN: Jagged, lean, bony, uneven, gaunt, skinny, raw, angular.

ANT: Plump, fat, round, rounded.

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KEY: Scramble \v.\

SYN: Struggle, hurry, bustle.

ANT: Lag, dawdle, loiter, saunter.

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KEY: Scramble \n.\

SYN: Hurry, bustle, struggle, confusion, turmoil, ferment, commotion, bear-garden, babel, vortex.

ANT: Order, orderliness, arrangement, leisureliness, method, uniformity.

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KEY: Scrap.

SYN: Scantling, piece, morsel, fragment, atom, bit, portion.

ANT: Whole, integrity, mass, lump.

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KEY: Scrape \v.\

SYN: Grate, abrade, confricate, rasp, scratch, mark, groove.

ANT: Lubricate, polish, levigate, dig, indent, wound.

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KEY: Scratch \v.\ [See SCORN].

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KEY: Scream.

SYN: Screech, shriek, yell.

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KEY: Screen \v.\

SYN: Shelter, protect, defend, hide, palliate, mitigate, curtain, cloak, defend, harbor, fence, ward, shade.

ANT: Open, expose, surrender, betray, aggravate, exaggerate, prosecute.

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KEY: Scriptural.

SYN: Biblical, orthodox, revealed, inspired.

ANT: Profane, unrevealed, unorthodox, unbiblical, unscriptural.

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KEY: Scruple \n.\

SYN: Misgiving, doubt, hesitation, qualm, reluctance, question.

ANT: recklessness, unscrupulousness, confidence, assurance, self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-complacency.

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KEY: Scruple \v.\ [See SCRAPE].

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KEY: Scrupulous.

SYN: Conscientious, dubious, diffident, punctilious, exact, cautious, nice, precise, reluctant.

ANT: reckless, unscrupulous, unhesitating, confident, self-satisfied, self-complacent, eager.

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KEY: Scrutinize.

SYN: Examine, probe, search into, sift, [See EXAMINE].

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KEY: Scrutiny.

SYN: Search, investigation, sifting, inspection.

ANT: Oversight, misobservation, disregard, connivance.

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KEY: Sculpture.

SYN: Statuary, carving, plastic work, carved art.

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KEY: Scurrilous.

SYN: Opprobrious, foul-mouthed, obscene, offensive, reproachful, [See ABUSIVE].

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KEY: Scurrility.

SYN: Buffoonery, derision, {[ecomng]?}, mockery, jeering, abuse.

ANT: Deference, eulogium, flattery, compliment.

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KEY: Sea.

SYN: Ocean, deep, main.

ANT: Shore, land.

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KEY: Seal.

SYN: Close, fasten, confirm, sanction, ratify.

ANT: Unseal, unclose, open, annul, cancel, abrogate, disratify, disaffirm, contravene.

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KEY: Search \v.\

SYN: Inspect, explore, scrutinize, seek, investigate, inquire.

ANT: Pretermit, disregard, abandon, misinvestigate.

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KEY: Search \n.\

SYN: Exploration, pursuit, quest, inquiry, [See ABUSIVE].

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KEY: Season.

SYN: Period, time, conjuncture, while, occasion, opportunity, suitableness, timeliness.

ANT: Untimeliness, unsuitableness, contretemps, unseasonableness.

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KEY: Seasonable.

SYN: Convenient, fit, grateful, welcome, timely, suitable, periodical, normal, opportune.

ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, untimely, unsuitable, unexpected, abnormal, inopportune, unseasonable.

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KEY: Secede.

SYN: Withdraw, retire, recede, separate, dissent, segregate.

ANT: Adhere, accord, concur, conform, unite, amalgamate.

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KEY: Secession.

SYN: Separation, withdrawal.

ANT: Union, adherence.

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KEY: Secluded.

SYN: Retired, retreating, hidden, withdrawn, secret, private, sequestered, shaded.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, open.

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KEY: Seclusion.

SYN: Retirement, privacy, retreat, solitude, secrecy, [See SCRUTINY].

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KEY: Secondary.

SYN: Subordinate, inferior, minor, unimportant, resultant, induced.

ANT: Primary, leading, Important, prominent.

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KEY: Secrecy, [See SOLITUDE].

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KEY: Secret.

SYN: Hidden, concealed, secluded, retired, unseen, unknown, private, obscure, recondite, latent, covert, clandestine, privy, unrevealed, mysterious, underdosed.

ANT: Open, public, unconcealed, known, notorious, unreserved, disclosed.

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KEY: Secrete.

SYN: Hide, conceal.

ANT: Expose, publish, manifest, exhibit, disclose.

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KEY: Sectarian.

SYN: Party, schismatical, narrow, bigoted, exclusive, denominational, divisional, intolerant.

ANT: Broad, catholic, comprehensive, tolerant, latitudinarian, indifferent, universal.

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KEY: Secular.

SYN: Worldly, profane, civil, unmonastic, temporal, laic.

ANT: Regular, religious, monastic, spiritual, clerical.

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KEY: Secure \a.\

SYN: Safe, easy, fixed, sheltered, fast, sure, certain, confident, unanxious, careless, protected, ensured.

ANT: Anxious, distrustful, suspicious, careful, unsafe, insecure, precarious, hazardous.

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KEY: Secure \v.\

SYN: Fasten, guard, protect, assure, ensure, close, enclose, detain, arrest.

ANT: Loosen, betray, surrender, expose, imperil, endanger, open, liberate, free.

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KEY: Security.

SYN: Pledge, guarantee, warranty, protection, safeguard, pawn, deposit, bond, defence, guard, shelter, safety, certainty, ease, assurance, carelessness, confidence.

ANT: Parole, word, understanding, honor, defencelessness, exposure, danger, peril, insecurity, uncertainty, care, anxiety, precariousness.

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KEY: Sedate.

SYN: Sober, demure, serious, calm, thoughtful, grave, settled, composed, unimpassioned, serene, passive, quiet.

ANT: Flighty, frolicsome, indiscreet, unsedate, ruffled, agitated, disturbed.

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KEY: Sedative.

SYN: Allaying, tranquillizing, composing, soothing, demulcent, palliative, assuasive, lenient, anodyne, hypnotic.

ANT: Disturbing, exciting, irritant.

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KEY: Sedentary.

SYN: Close, assiduous, studious.

ANT: Active, free, erratic, locomotive.

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KEY: Sediment.

SYN: Settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate.

ANT: Elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration.

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KEY: Sedition.

SYN: Secession, insurrection, rising, outbreak, treason, tumult, riot, rebellion, revolt, mutiny, insubordination.

ANT: Union, allegiance, fealty, pacification, appeasement, quiet, orderliness, subordination, obedience.

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KEY: Seditious.

SYN: Insurgent, rebellious, tumultuous, turbulent, factious, mutinous.

ANT: Loyal, quiet, peaceable.

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KEY: Seduce.

SYN: Tempt, entice, allure, overpersuade, mislead, inveigle, decoy, corrupt, deprave, lead astray, attract.

ANT: Force, compel, overpower.

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KEY: Seducing.

SYN: Alluring, enticing, seductive, attractive.

ANT: Repellent, repulsive, abhorrent, forbidding.

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KEY: Sedulous.

SYN: Assiduous, diligent, industrious, laborious, painstaking, persevering, close, unremitting, indefatigable, constant.

ANT: Indiligent, idle, unpersevering, inattentive, distracted, wandering, inconstant.

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KEY: See.

SYN: Perceive, behold, descry, discern, look, view, conceive, distinguish, understand, comprehend, attend, beware, visit, experience.

ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, misconceive, misunderstand, ignore.

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KEY: Seed.

SYN: Spring, origin, cause, germ, embryo, root.

ANT: Issue, result, birth, product, development, offspring, fruit.

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KEY: Seek.

SYN: Search, inquire, pursue, solicit, endeavor, attempt, strive, investigate, trace, prosecute, follow, court, affect.

ANT: Ignore, disregard, avoid, shun, elude, pretermit, discard, abandon, relinquish, drop.

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KEY: Seem.

SYN: Look, appear.

ANT: Belie, misrepresent, differ.

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KEY: Seemly.

SYN: Becoming, fit, suitable, proper, appropriate, convenient, decent, congruous, meet, decorous.

ANT: Unbecoming, unfit, unsuitable, improper, inappropriate, inconvenient, indecent, incongruous, unmeet, indecorous.

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KEY: Segment.

SYN: Section, part, portion, limb, member.

ANT: Whole, totality, integrity, compound.

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KEY: Segregate.

SYN: Separate, select, part, secede, localize, exclude.

ANT: Unite, confound, fuse, amalgamate, mix, collect, gather, congregate.

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KEY: Seize.

SYN: Catch, grasp, clutch, snatch, apprehend, arrest, hold, grip, grapple, hook, take, capture.

ANT: Loose, dismiss, liberate, abandon, drop, unhand, unhook, unfasten.

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KEY: Seldom.

SYN: Rarely, infrequently, occasionally, inconstantly, hardly ever.

ANT: Commonly, frequently, uniformly, systematically, habitually, regularly, often, invariably.

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KEY: Select \v.\

SYN: Cull, pick choose, segregate, elect, prefer.

ANT: Lump, confound, sweep.

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KEY: Select \a.\

SYN: Choice, picked, fine, prime, chosen, selected, excellent.

ANT: Haphazard, common, average, unselect, coarse, ordinary.

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KEY: Selection.

SYN: Choice, option, election, excerption, gathering, preoption, segregation, adoption, preference.

ANT: Rejection, repudiation, refusal, exclusion, postponement.

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KEY: Self-conceit.

SYN: Self-esteem, egotism, [See SECLUSION].

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KEY: Self-willed.

SYN: Wilful, headstrong, stubborn, [See OBSTINATE].

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KEY: Selfish.

SYN: Egotistical, self-minded, self-indulgent, self-worshipful, worldly, illiberal, ungenerous, narrowminded, mercenary, greedy.

ANT: Disinterested, generous, unselfish, handsome, liberal, high-minded, self-denying, magnanimous, patriotic, public-spirited, considerate, accommodating.

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KEY: Sell.

SYN: Vend, retail, hawk, dispose of.

ANT: Give, bestow, present.

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KEY: Semblance.

SYN: Seeming, appearance, form, show, likeness, mien, aspect, bearing, similitude.

ANT: Unlikeness, disparity, difference, contrariety, dissimilitude.

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KEY: Seminary.

SYN: Nursery, garden, seed-plot, academy, college, school, propaganda.

ANT: Waste, wilderness.

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KEY: Send.

SYN: Despatch, transmit, impel, cast, bestow, grant.

ANT: Detain, withhold, arrest, withdraw, deny, recal.

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KEY: Send back.

SYN: Relegate, remand, transfer.

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KEY: Senile.

SYN: Aged, imbecile, doting.

ANT: Juvenile, vigorous, virile, manly.

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KEY: Seniority.

SYN: Eldership, priority, superiority.

ANT: Juniority, inferiority, posteriority, subordination.

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KEY: Sensation.

SYN: Affection, apprehension, sentiment, feeling, perception, surprise, impression.

ANT: Apathy, insensibility, nonperception, unsurprise.

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KEY: Sense.

SYN: Perception, sensation, feeling, apprehension, recognition, understanding, discernment, appreciation, sentiment, view, opinion, judgment, reason, consciousness, notion, meaning, import, signification, purport, significance, soundness, sagacity, wisdom.

ANT: Non-perception, insensibility, misapprehension, misunderstanding, stolidity, nonappreciation, misconception, unsoundness, folly, nonsense, misinterpretation.

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KEY: Senseless.

SYN: Nonsensical, unmeaning, stupid, brainless, unconscious, foolish, silly, objectless, absurd.

ANT: Sensible, significant, wise, practical.

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KEY: Sensibility.

SYN: Susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitiveness.

ANT: Insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness.

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KEY: Sensible.

SYN: Tangible, palpable, perceptible, visible, appreciable, judicious, sound, conscious, aware.

ANT: Intangible, impalpable, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insensible, unconscious, unaware.

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KEY: Sensitive.

SYN: Sentient, perceptive, impressible, easily affected.

ANT: Unimpressible, not easily affected.

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KEY: Sensual.

SYN: Carnal, fleshly, animal, voluptuous, lewd.

ANT: Spiritual, intellectual, selfdenying, abstinent, abstemious, continent, ethereal, ascetic.

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KEY: Sensuous.

SYN: Material, esthetic, embodied, representative, symbolical.

ANT: Abstract, conceptional, imageless, contemplative, intellectual, unembodied, unsymbolical, immaterial, pictureless, formless.

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KEY: Sentence.

SYN: Judgment, decree, decision, doom, phrase, passage, [See OBSTINATE].

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KEY: Sententious.

SYN: Pithy, pregnant, thoughtful, axiomatic, antithetical, pointed, nervous, didactic.

ANT: Dull, dry, inane, vapid, point, less, jejune, trashy, bald, watery, prosy.

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KEY: Sentient.

SYN: Feeling, percipient, conscious, intelligent, cognizant.

ANT: Insentient, insensate, mindless, unconscious, unintelligent, nonpercipient, incognizant.

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KEY: Sentiment.

SYN: Thought, feeling, notion, opinion, maxim, susceptibility, emotion, apprehension, impression, conviction.

ANT: Vacuity, ignorance, nonsense, crudity, bugbear, conjecture, assumption, impression, hypothesis, preconception, prejudice.

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KEY: Sentimental.

SYN: Didactic, moral, instructive, romantic.

ANT: Undidactic, unsentimental, matter-of-fact, unpoetical, prosaic.

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KEY: Sentinel.

SYN: Watch, guardian, guard, keeper, warden, sentry, watchman, patrol, vedette, {[i]?}.

ANT: Traitor, decoy.

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KEY: Separable.

SYN: Dissoluble, removable, movable, distinguishable, accidental, divisible.

ANT: Indissoluble, irremovable, permanent, immovable, indistinguishable, essential, inseparable, indivisible.

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KEY: Separate \v.\

SYN: Part, never, disjoin, disunite, divorce, tear, rend, remove, disintegrate, detach, disconnect, divide, dissipate, scatter, segregate, diverge.

ANT: Unite, fasten, tie, conjoin, wed, link, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, incorporate, connect, fuse, confound, mass, herd, congregate, convene, gather, collect, meet, converge.

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KEY: Separate \a.\

SYN: Disunited, disjoined, disconnected, unconnected, detached, severed, different.

ANT: Connected, conjoined, united, alike.

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KEY: Separation.

SYN: Disunion, disjunction, disconnection, disengagement, dissociation, [See JUDGMENT].

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KEY: Sepulchral.

SYN: Hollow, deathlike, ghastly, infernal, gloomy.

ANT: Genial, healthful, cheerful, vital, lively, sunny.

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KEY: Sepulture.

SYN: Burial, interment, humation.

ANT: Exhumation, disinterment.

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KEY: Sequacious.

SYN: Pliant, ductile, obsequious, traditional, servile, unoriginal, unimaginative.

ANT: Independent, refractory, selfwilled, self-opinionated, original, originative, imaginative.

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KEY: Sequel.

SYN: Event, result, consequence, conclusion, [See EVENT].

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KEY: Sequence.

SYN: Following, order, succession, series, consequence, progression, continuity, posteriority.

ANT: Precedence, anteriority, priority, disorder, disconnection, inconsequence, irregularity, solution, intermission.

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KEY: Sequestered.

SYN: Retired, withdrawn, private, hidden, unfrequented, secluded.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, unsecluded, unsequestered.

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KEY: Seraphic.

SYN: Angelic, heavenly, blissful, pure, rapturous, holy, ethereal.

ANT: Fiendish, hellish, devilish, demoniacal, infernal.

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KEY: Serene.

SYN: Clear, calm, unruffled, undisturbed, halcyonic.

ANT: Turbid, stormy, agitated, tempestuous, ruffled.

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KEY: Serf.

SYN: Slave, servant, villain, laborer.

ANT: Lord, baron, squire, proprietor, noble, landowner, liege, liegelord.

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KEY: Series.

SYN: Order, course, sequence, succession, train, rotation, [See EVENT].

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KEY: Serious.

SYN: Grave, thoughtful, careful, earnest, solemn, important, weighty.

ANT: Volatile, gay, thoughtless, careless, joking, jocose, insignificant, unimportant, trifling, trivial, light.

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KEY: Serpentine.

SYN: Winding, meandering, tortuous, anfractuous, undulating, sinuous, anguilliform, vermicular, coiled.

ANT: Straight, unbending, unwinding, rectilinear.

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KEY: Servant.

SYN: Retainer, domestic, attendant, minister, maid, abigail, handmaid.

ANT: Lord, master, mistress, employer.

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KEY: Serve.

SYN: Obey, minister, subserve, help, work for, forward, attend, suffice for, assist, benefit, answer, promote, tend, accommodate.

ANT: Command, disobey, thwart, oppose, resist, counteract, contradict, neutralize, baffle, retard, obstruct.

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KEY: Service.

SYN: Labor, employment, advantage, use, utility, benefit, [See ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Serviceable.

SYN: Useful, benetidal, advantageous, profitable, sound, well-conditioned.

ANT: Useless, profitless, ill-conditioned, unserviceable, unsound.

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KEY: Servile.

SYN: Obsequious, cringing, sequacious, menial, sneaking, low, abject.

ANT: Independent, fractions, refractory, recalcitrant, dogged, stubborn, defiant, rebellious.

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KEY: Servility.

SYN: Slavery, bondage, slavishness, baseness, meanness, fawning, sycophancy, [See ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Servitude.

SYN: Service, subordination, obedience, ministry, submission.

ANT: Mastery, lordship, command, dictation, sway, rule, government.

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KEY: Set \v. t.\

SYN: Seat, place, locate, situate, settle, fix, build, rest, establish, ground, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, strengthen, determine, appoint, assign, cast, risk, wager, surround, bedeck, garnish, stud.

ANT: Remove, disestablish, lift, raise, transfer, uproot, eradicate, unfix, disperse, discard, unsettle, demolish, destroy, weaken, loosen, detach, misarrange, misdetermine, denude, divest.

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KEY: Set \v. i.\

SYN: Sink, settle, subside, decline, compose, consolidate, harden.

ANT: Rise, ascend, soar, mount, stir, agitate, loosen, run, soften, melt, mollify, fuse, flow.

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KEY: Set \a.\

SYN: Fixed, established, firm, determined, regular, formal, [See FIRM].

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KEY: Settle.

SYN: Fix, establish, regulate, arrange, compose, adjust, determine, decide, adjudicate, quiet, allay, still, Milk, fall, subside, lower, calm, acquiesce, abate, agree.

ANT: Remove, disestablish, misregulate, derange, discompose, aggravate, disorder, disturb, confuse, misdetermine, misarrange, misplace, unsettle, rise, ascend, move, disagree, increase, heighten.

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KEY: Settlement.

SYN: Subsidence, dregs, residuum, precipitation, colonization, location, colony.

ANT: Excitement, perturbation, turbidity, fluctuation.

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KEY: Sever.

SYN: Separate, divide, disjoin, distinguish, part, discommunicate, sunder, disengage, detach, break, except, disconnect.

ANT: Unite, conjoin, confound, confuse, amalgamate, associate, include, connect.

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KEY: Several.

SYN: Separate, distinct, diverse, sundry, divers, various, different.

ANT: One, same, identical, indistinguishable, inseparable, united, total, integral.

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KEY: Severe.

SYN: Serious, austere, stern, grave, strict, harsh, rigid, rigorous, sharp, afflictive, distressing, violent, extreme, exact, critical, censorious, caustic, sarcastic, cutting, keen, bitter, cruel.

ANT: Gay, smiling, cheerful, relaxed, jocose, jocund, joyous, mild, genial, indulgent, light, trivial, tri-fling, inconsiderable, inexact, loose, uncritical, lenient, inextreme, moderate, kind, considerate, feeling, tender, gentle.

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KEY: Shabby.

SYN: Ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, [See FIRM].

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KEY: Shackle \n.\

SYN: Fetter, gype, chain, obstruction, embarrassment.

ANT: Aid, assistance, subsidiary, help.

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KEY: Shackle \v.\

SYN: Fetter, bind, chain, hamper, harness, impede, [See CONTEMPTIBLE and PALTRY].

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KEY: Shade \n.\

SYN: Shadow, adumbration, umbrage, darkness, [See FETTER], obscurity, seclusion, protection, shelter, screen, oscuro, minuteness, touch, degree.

ANT: Illumination, light, daylight, sunshine, brightness, radiance, glare, chiaro, amount, largeness, considerableness, quantity, publicity, defencelessness, exposure.

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KEY: Shade \v.\

SYN: Shelter, screen, obscure, darken, cloud, [See {[gombreuc-^]?}].

ANT: Illuminate, brighten, make light.

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KEY: Shadow.

SYN: Umbration, reflection, image, sham, unsubstantiality, immaterial, phantom, attendant.

ANT: Body, substance, materiality, form, principal.

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KEY: Shadowy.

SYN: Dim, cloudy, obscure, dark, murky, gloomy, mysterious, [See JUST and HONEST].

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KEY: Shake.

SYN: Agitate, weaken, oscillate, totter, convulse, loosen, tremble, jar, quiver, shiver.

ANT: Secure, fix, fasten, strengthen, stabilitate, confirm, stand.

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KEY: Shallow.

SYN: Shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound.

ANT: Deep, profound.

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KEY: Sham.

SYN: Phantom, ghost, delusion, illusion, mockery, shadow, pretence, counterfeit, unreality.

ANT: Substance, reality, verity, substantiality, truth.

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KEY: Shame \n.\

SYN: Abashment, humiliation, modesty, shamefacedness, decency, decorum, reproach, dishonor, ignominy, contempt, degradation, discredit, dispraise.

ANT: Shamelessness, Barefacedness, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, impropriety, honor, glory, exaltation, renown, credit.

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KEY: Shame \v.\

SYN: Abash, humiliate, fill with shame, disgrace, [See OBSCURE].

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KEY: Shameful.

SYN: Disgraceful, degrading, scandalous, outrageous, dishonorable, indecent, unbecoming, [See ABASH].

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KEY: Shameless.

SYN: Vicious, sinful, immodest, indelicate, unblushing, brazen, audacious, bold-faced, impudent, cool, [See BECOMING].

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KEY: Shape \v.\

SYN: Form, mould, figure, adapt, delineate, adjust, contrive, create, execute, make.

ANT: Pervert, distort, misadapt, misdelineate, derange, discompose, misconstrue, misproduce, caricature.

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KEY: Shape \n.\

SYN: Figure, form, outline, mould, fashion, pattern, cast, model, [See FIGURE and MODEL].

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KEY: Shapeless.

SYN: Amorphous, unformed, formless, chaotic, shadowy, undefined, monstrous, misshaped, ugly, unsymmetrical, rude, uncouth, grotesque.

ANT: Comely, shaped, formed, shapely, compact, trim, neat, well-defined, handsome, symmetrical.

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KEY: Shapely, [See SHAPELESS].

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KEY: Share \n.\

SYN: Portion, apportionment, lot, division, participation, allowance, quota, contingent, allotment.

ANT: Whole, mass, aggregate, entirety.

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KEY: Share \v.\

SYN: Divide, distribute, portion out, [See DIVIDE].

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KEY: Sharp.

SYN: Thin, fine, keen, shrewd, discerning, clever, sarcastic, acute, pointed, aculeated, penetrating, pungent, acid, shrill, piercing, afflictive, distressing, harsh, severe, cutting, eager, active, ardent, sore, hard, animated, spirited.

ANT: Thick, blunt, dull, obtuse, knobbed, rounded, bluff, mellow, bass, hollow, deep, light, trifling, trivial, mild, gentle, soft, tender, lenient, sluggish, inactive, indifferent, careless, spiritless, tame.

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KEY: Shatter.

SYN: Split, dissipate, disrupt, derange, break in pieces, rend, demolish, shiver, dismember, disintegrate.

ANT: Construct, organize, collocate, fabricate, compose, rear, constitute.

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KEY: Shed.

SYN: Emit, diffuse, cast, drop, scatter, spill, pour, throw off.

ANT: Absorb, collect, assume, retain.

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KEY: Sheer.

SYN: Pure, mere, unmixed, unqualified, unmitigated, absolute, simple, unadulterated.

ANT: Mixed, qualified, adulterated, modified, partial.

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KEY: Shelter \v.\

SYN: Shield, conceal, cover, protect, screen.

ANT: Expose, surrender, betray, imperil, endanger.

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KEY: Shelter \n.\

SYN: Refuge, cover, harbor, asylum, retreat, shield, security, sanctuary, [See DIVIDE].

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KEY: Shelve.

SYN: Dismiss, discard, swamp, stifle, shift.

ANT: Start, prosecute, pursue, revive, agitate.

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KEY: Shield, [See SHELTER].

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KEY: Shift \v.\

SYN: Change, alter, transfer, shelve, displace, remove.

ANT: Fix, fasten, locate, insert, pitch, plant, place.

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KEY: Shift \n.\

SYN: Contrivance, expedient, substitute, pretext, motive, change, evasion, device, artifice, resource, transference.

ANT: Miscontrivance, fixity, steadiness, retention, location, permanence.

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KEY: Shiftless.

SYN: Thriftless, improvident, imprudent, wasteful, prodigal.

ANT: Provident, prudent, careful, [See SHELTER].

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KEY: Shine.

SYN: Beam, brighten, gleam, give, light, glow, sparkle, glitter, {[re' ate]?}, glisten, excel.

ANT: Fade, wane, loom, glimmer, gleam, fail.

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KEY: Shiver \v.\ \t.\, [See PRODIGAL].

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KEY: Shiver \v.\ \i.\.

SYN: Quake, tremble, vibrate, quiver, shudder.

ANT: Hang, stand, stiffen, steady, rigidity.

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KEY: Shock.

SYN: Surprise, disgust, offend, dismay, astound, appall, horrify, shame.

ANT: Gratify, please, delight, amuse, entify.

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KEY: Shocking.

SYN: Sad, horrible, disgraceful, hateful, revolting, abominable, loathsome, foul.

ANT: Pleasing, honorable, charming, delightful, creditable, exemplary, attractive, alluring, enticing.

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KEY: Shore.

SYN: Coast, bench, strand.

ANT: Ocean, sea, main, deep.

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KEY: Short.

SYN: Brief, limited, scanty, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, deficient, defective, imperfect, incomplete, soon, near, narrow, weak, incomprehensive, inextensive, less, abrupt, blunt, concise, condensed.

ANT: Lon, [See {[(]?}], protracted, extended, unlimited, plentiful, ample, abundant, adequate, sufficient, exuberant, liberal, large, copious, complete, distant, deferred, wide, strong, comprehensive, extensive, exceeding, bland, courteous, unabrupt, expanded, diffuse.

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KEY: Shorten.

SYN: Curtail, lessen, abridge, [See {[?]?}].

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KEY: Shout \n.\

SYN: Exclamation, uproar, clamor, vociferation.

ANT: Sibilation, hissing, reticence, silence, hush.

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KEY: Shout \v.\

SYN: Cry out, exclaim, vociferate, {[yeH]?}, halloo, hollo, holla.

ANT: Be silent, speak low, speak in a natural tone.

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KEY: Show \v.\

SYN: Exhibit, present, demonstrate, unfold, reveal, teach, inform, conduct, manifest, evince, evidence, prove, explain.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, hide, withhold, obscure, mystify, wrap, misdemonstrate, misdeclare, contradict, refute, deny, disprove, misinterpret, falsify, misexplain.

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KEY: Show \n.\

SYN: Appearance, exhibition, demonstration, parade, pomp, semblance, likeness, pretext, profession, pretence, illusion.

ANT: Nonappearance, disappearance, concealment, suppression, secret, disguise, dissimilarity, unlikeness, genuineness, reality, sincerity, substance.

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KEY: Showy.

SYN: Gay, gaudy, high-colored, gorgeous, flashy, tinsel.

ANT: Inconspicuous, unnoticeable, quiet, subdued.

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KEY: Shred.

SYN: Strip, fragment, ras, tatter, oddment, scrap, paring, chip.

ANT: Fold, mass, piece, entirety, integrity, whole.

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KEY: Shrew.

SYN: Vixen, scold, virago, termagant.

ANT: Angel, dove.

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KEY: Shrewd.

SYN: Sagacious, penetrating, astute, discriminating, intelligent, discerning, acute.

ANT: Stolid, undiscerning, unsagacious, stupid, dull.

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KEY: Shrill.

SYN: Sharp, piercing, acute, high pitched.

ANT: Low, deep, base, hollow, murmuring, rumbling.

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KEY: Shrink.

SYN: Contract, shrivel, withdraw, retire, recoil, revolt.

ANT: Stretch, expand, dilate, venture, dare.

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KEY: Shrivel.

SYN: Contract, dry up, wither, wrinkle, corrugate, decrease.

ANT: expand, flatten, develop, unfold, spread, dilate.

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KEY: Shroud.

SYN: Cover, {[hfHe]?}, veil, obscure, darken, palliate, envelop, shelter.

ANT: Expose, reveal, {[nnvefl]?}, elucidate, discover, uncover.

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KEY: Shuffle.

SYN: Confuse, interchange, shift, intershift, intermix, derange, agitate, evade, prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, cavil, sophisticate, mystify, palter, dissemble.

ANT: Deal, distribute, order, arrange, compose, confess, propound, declare, explain, elucidate, reveal.

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KEY: Shun.

SYN: Avoid, escape, discard, eschew, keep clear of, elude.

ANT: Court, seek, affect.

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KEY: Shut.

SYN: Close, contract, confine, preclude, bar, fasten.

ANT: Open, expand, unclose, unbar, unfasten.

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KEY: Shy.

SYN: Timid, reserved, modest, bashful, Suspicion, shrinking, chary.

ANT: Bold, brazen-faced, impudent, audacious, reckless.

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KEY: Sibilation.

SYN: Hissing, outcry, disfavor.

ANT: Acclamation, cheers, popularity.

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KEY: Sick.

SYN: Diseased, ill, disordered, distempered, indisposed, weak, riling, feeble, morbid, nauseated, disgusted, corrupt, impaired, valetudinarian.

ANT: Whole, well, healthy, sound, robust, strong, well-conditioned, salubrious.

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KEY: Sickly.

SYN: Weak, diseased, disordered, ailing, feeble, pining, droop, ing, morbid, unhealthy, vitiated, delicate, tainted, valetudinary.

ANT: Strong, healthy, vigorous, flourishing, salubrious, sound, robust.

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KEY: Sickness.

SYN: Indisposition, illness, disease.

ANT: Health, soundness.

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KEY: Side.

SYN: Margin, edge, verge, border, laterality, face, aspect, plane, party, interest, cause, policy, behalf.

ANT: Centre, body, core, interior, essence, neutrality, disconnection, severance, secession, opposition.

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KEY: Sidereal.

SYN: Astral, heavenly, starry, celestial.

ANT: terrestrial, terrene, earthly.

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KEY: Sift.

SYN: Screen, analyze, scrutinize, robe, examine critically, investigate, winnow, sort.

ANT: Confound, fuse, confuse, amalgamate, conglomerate, compound.

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KEY: Sight.

SYN: Seeing, perception, view, vision, visibility, spectacle, show, inspection, examination, representation, appearance.

ANT: Nonperception, invisibility, blindness, obscuration, disappearance, oversight, nonappearance, undiscernment.

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KEY: Sign.

SYN: Token, indication, proof, memorial, expression, symbol, emblem, prefiguration, badge, type, premonition, symptom, prognostic, mark, wonder, presage, signal.

ANT: Misindication, misrepresentation, misleader.

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KEY: Signal.

SYN: Eminent, conspicuous, remarkable, extraordinary, notable, memorable, illustrious, important, saline, distinguished.

ANT: Ordinary, common, unnoticeable, mediocre, unmemorable, unimportant.

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KEY: Signalize.

SYN: Distinguish, exalt, glorify, dignify, immortalize, celerate.

ANT: Disgrace, dishonor, discredit.

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KEY: Significant.

SYN: Expressive, momentous, suggestive, indicative, forcible, weighty, symbolical, telling, speaking.

ANT: Inexpressive, meaningless, expressionless, unindicative, mute.

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KEY: Signify.

SYN: Portend, purport, prognosticate, mean, represent, indicate, communicate, denote, betoken, declare, utter, forebode, presage.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, misindicate, misdenote, nullify, refute, neutralize, preclude.

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KEY: Silence \n.\

SYN: Taciturnity, stillness, calm, peace, hush, muteness, secrecy, oblivion.

ANT: Garrulity, loquacity, talkativeness, chatter, noise, brawl, clamor, clatter, din, Babel, tumult, agitation, restlessness, storm, unrest, roar, bruit, reverberation, resonance, commotion, cackling, proclamation, publicity, fame, rumor, remembrance, repute, celebrity.

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KEY: Silence \v.\

SYN: Still, stifle, hush, allay, quiet, calm, [See ABRIDGE].

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KEY: Silent.

SYN: Still, taciturn, speechless, dormant, quiet, noiseless.

ANT: Noisy, loquacious, garrulous.

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KEY: Silly, Germ, selig.

SYN: Simple, foolish, weak, shallow, witless, unwise, indiscreet, imprudent, absurd.

ANT: Sagacious, intelligent, astute, wise, deep, discreet, prudent, sound, rational.

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KEY: Similar.

SYN: Correspondent, resembling, alike, common, homogeneous, concordant, harmonious, congruous.

ANT: Different, unlike, dissimilar, alien, heterogeneous, discordant, incongruous.

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KEY: Similitude.

SYN: Likeness, resemblance, comparison, similarity, [See LIKENESS].

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KEY: Simple.

SYN: Single, incomplex, uncompounded, unblended, isolated, pure, unmixed, mere, absolute, plain, unadorned, unartificial, artless, sincere, undesigning, single-minded, unaffected, sickly, weak, unsophisticated, humble, homely, lowly, elementary, ultimate, primal, rudimentary.

ANT: Double, complex, compounded, blended, mixed, fused, multiform, multigenerous, various, compound, articulated, subdivided, organized, connected, modified, complicated, elaborate, artificial, artful, designing, insincere, double-minded, affected, self-conscious, sagacious, sophisticated, great, eminent, illustrious, complete, developed, perfect.

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KEY: Simplicity.

SYN: artlessness, sincerity, plainness, frankness.

ANT: Artfulness, insincerity, guile, deceit.

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KEY: Simplify.

SYN: Facilitate, disencumber, elucidate.

ANT: Embarrass, complicate, encumber, obscure.

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KEY: Simulate.

SYN: Feign, counterfeit, pretend, impersonate, assume.

ANT: Disresemble, discard, misrepresent, mis-exhibit, misbeseem.

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KEY: Simultaneous.

SYN: Synchronous, concomitant, concurrent.

ANT: Inconcurrent, separate, apart, Intermittent, periodic.

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KEY: Sin.

SYN: Transgression, iniquity, unrighteousness, ungodliness, wickedness, evil, impurity, crime, wrongdoing, ungodliness.

ANT: Sinlessness, obedience, holiness, righteousness, purity, godliness, goodness.

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KEY: Sincere.

SYN: Pure, unmixed, genuine, unadulterated, hearty, honest, unaffected, unvarnished, candid, cordial, frank, unfeigned, true.

ANT: Impure, adulterated, dishonest, insincere, hypocritical, feigned, pretended, false.

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KEY: Sinful, [See WICKED].

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KEY: Single.

SYN: One, unique, only, individual, sole, solitary, separate, uncombined, unmarried, uncompounded.

ANT: Plural, many, collective, united, numerous, frequent, married.

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KEY: Singular.

SYN: Single, individual, unique, eminent, extraordinary, conspicuous, consummate, unusual, uncommon, odd, whimsical, quaint, peculiar, unexampled, unprecedented, solitary, sole, eccentric, fantastic, exceptional, particular, remarkable, curious, queer.

ANT: Common, frequent, numerous, ordinary, usual, unnoticeable, everyday, customary, general, regular.

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KEY: Sinister.

SYN: Unlucky, inauspicious, ill-omened, portentous, disastrous, unfavorable, wrong, unfair, underhanded, evil, foul, dishonest, dishonorable, forbidding, repulsive, lowering.

ANT: Lucky, fortunate, propitious, auspicious, favorable, right, fair, open, honest, honorable, attractive, winning, engaging, assuring, frank.

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KEY: Sink.

SYN: Fall, descend, drop, subside, penetrate, soak, droop, decline, weary, flag, decay, decrease, diminish, abate, lower, immerse, submerge, depress, degrade, drown, reduce, attenuate, suppress.

ANT: Rise, ascend, soar, swell, Increase, flourish, revive, float, heighten, promote, exalt, enhance, rescue, foster, encourage, perpetuate, promulgate, divulge.

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KEY: Sinuous.

SYN: Coiled, convolute, undulating, curved, serpentine, winding, tortuous, anfractuous, waving, flexuous.

ANT: Uncoiled, rectilinear, uninflected.

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KEY: Situation.

SYN: Locality, position, topography, state, seat, post, place, condition, residence, aspect, footing, office, birth, plight, predicament, standing.

ANT: Non-situation, non-location, absence, nonassignment, unfixedness, displacement, dislodgment.

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KEY: Size.

SYN: Greatness, magnitude, largeness, extent, dimension, bulk, extent, bigness.

ANT: Smallness, littleness, tenuity, minuteness.

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KEY: Sketch \n.\

SYN: Outline, draught, skeleton, delineation, [See WICKED].

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KEY: Sketch \v.\

SYN: Outline, draw, depict, portray, paint, delineate, [See OUTLINE].

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KEY: Skilful.

SYN: Expert, clever, dexterous, apt, well-versed, adroit, [See DELINEATE].

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KEY: Skill.

SYN: Expertness, aptitude, [See ABILITY].

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KEY: Skim.

SYN: Brush, glide, graze, touch.

ANT: Enter, penetrate.

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KEY: Skirt.

SYN: border, trim, confine, bound, surround, encircle.

ANT: Penetrate, enter, interpenetrate.

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KEY: Skulk.

SYN: Hide, sneak, cower, lurk, abscond, slink.

ANT: Appear, issue, parade, show.

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KEY: Slack.

SYN: Loose, weak, remiss, backward, indiligent, slow, remiss, tardy, lax.

ANT: Tight, tense, strong, active, prompt, diligent, alert, quick, eager.

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KEY: Slacken.

SYN: Loosen, abate, withhold, remit, languish, flag, moderate.

ANT: Tighten, increase, freshen.

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KEY: Slander.

SYN: Asperse, defame, calumniate, vilify, abuse, scandalize, traduce, belittle, blacken.

ANT: Praise, laud, honor, vindicate, defend, panegyrize, eulogize, shield, commend.

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KEY: Slaughter \n.\ [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Slave.

SYN: Bondman, thrall, vassal, drudge, [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Slavery \n.\ [See BONDAGE].

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KEY: Slavish.

SYN: Servile, drudging, {[merual]?}, mean, base, abject.

ANT: Independent, free, voluntary.

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KEY: Slay, [See BONDAGE].

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KEY: Slick.

SYN: Glossy, velvety, satin, silken, shiny, smooth.

ANT: Bough, hairy, hirsute, bristly.

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KEY: Sleep \v.\

SYN: Slumber, doze, drowse, snooze, repose.

ANT: Be awake.

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KEY: Sleepy.

SYN: Slumberous, somnolent, drowsy, sluggish, lazy.

ANT: Wakeful, vigilant, alert, awake, active.

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KEY: Slender.

SYN: Thin, narrow, slight, slim, small, trivial, spare, inadequate, fragile, feeble, flimsy, meagre, inconsiderable, superficial.

ANT: Stout, thick, broad, robust, massive, considerable, ample, deep.

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KEY: Slight \a.\ [See SLENDER].

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KEY: Slight \v.\

SYN: Disregard, disdain, acorn, overlook, disparage.

ANT: Regard, respect, notice, observe.

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KEY: Slight \n.\

SYN: Neglect, contempt, scorn, disregard.

ANT: Respect, regard, honor, [See SLENDER], [See {[811in]?}].

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KEY: Slimy.

SYN: Sticky, viscous, viscid, glutinous, [See SLENDER].

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KEY: Slink, [See SLUNK].

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KEY: Slippery.

SYN: Smooth, glassy, lubricated, insecure, perilous, unsafe, unstable, shifty, elusive, shuffling, unprincipled, deceptive, evasive, untrustworthy, uncertain.

ANT: Rough, firm, unslippery, secure, safe, stable, solid, trustworthy.

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KEY: Slough.

SYN: Mire, difficulty, despond.

ANT: Footing, standpoint.

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KEY: Slovenly.

SYN: Loose, negligent, disorderly, untidy, unclean, sluttish, slatternly.

ANT: Trim, neat, careful, orderly, tidy, precise.

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KEY: Slow.

SYN: Sluggish, inactive, Inert, lazy, unready, tardy, late, gradual, tedious, dull, dilatory, lingering, slack.

ANT: Active, quick, fast, rapid, alert, ready, prompt, early, sudden, Immediate.

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KEY: Sluggard.

SYN: Idler, drone, lazybones, laggard, [See SLUNK].

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KEY: Sluggish.

SYN: Slow, inert, indolent, phlegmatic, slothful, Iazy.

ANT: Active, quick, nervous, laborious.

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KEY: Sly.

SYN: Cunning, subtle, crafty, artful, wily, underhanded, astute, stealthy.

ANT: Open, frank, artless, undesigning.

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KEY: Small.

SYN: Little, diminutive, slight, minute, feeble, trivial, insignificant, paltry, narrow, mean, weak, slender, fine, inferior.

ANT: Great, large, big, considerable, bulky, extensive, ample, spacious, stout, strong, important, broad, liberal.

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KEY: Smart.

SYN: Keen, pungent, piercing, quick, vigorous, sharp, severe, active, clever, brilliant, vivacious, witty, ready, spruce, brisk, fresh, dressy, showy.

ANT: Dull, heavy, aching, slow, inactive, stupid, sluggish, unready, slow-minded, unwitty, dowdy, shabby, clownish.

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KEY: Smear.

SYN: Daub, plaster, spatter, tarnish, besmear, coat, begrime, varnish, incrust.

ANT: Abrade, levigate, polish, scour, scrape.

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KEY: Smell, [See PERFUME].

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KEY: Smite.

SYN: Strike, beat, buffet, chastise, blast, afflict, kill, slay, punish, surprise, captivate.

ANT: Soothe, smooth, caress, relieve, console, repel, alienate.

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KEY: Smoke \n.\

SYN: Fumigation, fumes, vapor, insubstantiality, nothingness, moonshine, triviality, trifle.

ANT: Substance, reality, realization, moment, importance.

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KEY: Smoke \v.\

SYN: Reek, fume, steam.

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KEY: Smooth \a.\

SYN: Even, plain, level, flat, polished, glossy, sleek, soft, unruffled, unobstructed, bland, oily, suave.

ANT: Uneven, rough, rugged, abrupt, precipitous, unpolished, harsh, blunt.

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KEY: Smooth \v.\

SYN: Flatten, level, ease, soften, calm, allay, mitigate, [See CALM].

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KEY: Smolder.

SYN: Reek, simmer, seethe, ferment, work.

ANT: Burst, blaze.

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KEY: Smother.

SYN: Suffocate, stifle, repress, gag, conceal, suppress, choke, strangle, allay, swallow.

ANT: Fan, ventilate, foster, cherish, nurture, publish, promulgate, divulge, spread, excite, vent.

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KEY: Snare \n.\

SYN: Net, trap, gin, noose, device, springe.

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KEY: Snarling.

SYN: Cross, crabbed, peevish, cynical, snappish, [See CALM].

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KEY: Snatch.

SYN: Twitch, pluck, pull, catch, grasp, gripe, clutch.

ANT: Unclutch, restore, unhand, release.

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KEY: Sneak.

SYN: Slink, skulk, steal away, lurk, cringe, crouch, truckle, [See CROSS].

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KEY: Sneer.

SYN: Scoff, gibe, jeer, taunt, disparagement, contempt, scorn, superciliousness, disdain.

ANT: Compliment, eulogy, commendation, deference.

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KEY: Snub.

SYN: Mortify, check, rebuke, reprimand, [See CRINGE and SKULK].

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KEY: Snug.

SYN: Close, housed, compressed, compact, comfortable, sheltered.

ANT: Exposed, loose, disordered, incompact, uncomfortable, bare, shivering.

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KEY: Soak.

SYN: Wet, steep, drench, macerate, moisten, submerge.

ANT: Dry, air, wring, exsiccate, aridify, bleach.

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KEY: Soar.

SYN: Rise, mount, tower, aspire, ascend, uprise.

ANT: Drop, sink, descend, alight.

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KEY: Sober.

SYN: Temperate, unintoxicated, cool, dispassionate, reasonable, culm, self-possessed, sound, unexcited, serious, grave, sedate, steady, abstemious, moderate.

ANT: Intemperate, drunk, intoxicated, heated, excited, impassioned, {[{[unraonnWp]?}, {[unr*aonnWp agitated, furious, passionate, extravagant, extreme, exorbitant, immoderate, flighty, erratic, eccentric.

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KEY: Sobriety.

SYN: Soberness, temperance, abstemiousness.

ANT: Intemperance.

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KEY: Sociable.

SYN: Companionable, genial, social, convertible, friendly, accessible, gregarious.

ANT: Unsociable, uncompanionable, unconversable, ungenial, in friendly, Inaccessible, re iring, morose, solitary, uncommunicative.

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KEY: Social.

SYN: Collective, political, gregarious, [See REBUKE and MORTIFY].

ANT: Individual, solitary, personal.

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KEY: Society.

SYN: community, {[pobiy]?}, association, collection, companionship, fellowship, connection, participation, company, sociality, communion, intercourse, sodality.

ANT: Individuality, personality, segregation, separation, solitariness, missociality, privacy, dissociation, disconnection.

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KEY: Soft.

SYN: Yielding, pressible, impressible, smooth, delicate, fine, sleek, glossy, mild, gentle, balmy, kind, feeling, flexible, effeminate, luxurious, unmanly, tender, irresolute, undecided.

ANT: Hard, tough, stubborn, unyielding, rigid, unimpressible, rough, coarse, harsh, abrupt, ungentle, rigorous, cutting, severe, unkind, unfeeling, sharp, inflexible, stern, austere, ascetic, self-denying, resolute, determined.

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KEY: Soften.

SYN: Mollify, palliate, compose, mitigate, assuage, dulcify, lenity, yield, macerate, humanize, abate, moderate.

ANT: Harden, indurate, aggravate, excite, infuriate, consolidate.

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KEY: Soil.

SYN: Stain, tarnish, begrime, befoul, contaminate.

ANT: Purify, bleach, cleanse, absterge.

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KEY: Sojourn.

SYN: Rest, [See SOCIABLE], reside, tarry, lodge, halt, stay, quarter.

ANT: Migrate, move, Wonder, depart, travel, journey.

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KEY: Solace.

SYN: Consolation, comfort, alleviation, relief, sympathy.

ANT: Affliction, war, bitterment,.

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KEY: Vole.

SYN: Single, solitary, only, individual, exclusive, by one's self, Alone, one, singular.

ANT: Plural, numerous, combined, collective.

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KEY: Solemn.

SYN: Sacred, formal, devotional, reverential, ritual, ceremonial, impressive, religious, grave, serious.

ANT: Profane, undevotional, secular, light, gay, trivial, unceremonial, informal, unsolemn.

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KEY: Solemnity.

SYN: Celebration, rite, office, ceremony, function, pomp, parade, seriousness, pomposity, gravity, sacredness, awe, sanctity, impressiveness, imposingness.

ANT: Noncelebration, secularity, simplicity, triviality, gaiety, profanity, desecration, unimpressiveness, meanness, tawdriness, vulgarity, unimposingness.

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KEY: Solicit.

SYN: Entreat, beg, urge, pray, ask, crave, implore, importune.

ANT: Demand, require, exact, claim.

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KEY: Solicitous.

SYN: Desirous, anxious, apprehensive, uneasy, careful, concerned, [See {rb' '}?].

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KEY: Solicitude.

SYN: Anxiety, concern, trouble, carefulness, uneasiness, care.

ANT: Indifference, unconcern, carelessness, ease.

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KEY: Solid.

SYN: Hard, firm, compact, resistant, dense, substantial, weighty, strong, valid, just, sound, impenetrable, stable, cubic.

ANT: Soft, hollow, yielding, frail, brittle, flimsy, elastic, resilient, malleable, impressible, fluid, liquid, frivolous, light, trifling, weak, invalid, unsound, fallacious, weakly.

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KEY: Solitary.

SYN: Sole, single, only, lone, lonely, private, remote, retired, sequestered, desolate, uninhabited, desert, [See ANXIOUS].

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KEY: Solitude.

SYN: Loneliness, remoteness, seclusion, retirement, isolation, wildness, desertion, barrenness, wilderness, privacy.

ANT: Publicity, populousness, society, frequentedness, intercourse, resort, meeting, reunion, throng, crowd.

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KEY: Soluble.

SYN: Separable, discerptible, divisible, dissoluble.

ANT: Indivisible, inseparable, indiscerptible, insoluble, indissoluble.

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KEY: Solution.

SYN: Separation, discerption, disruption, breach, discontinuance, disconnection, disentanglement, elucidation, explanation, key, answer, resolution, disintegration.

ANT: Union, combination, amalgamation, continuity, connection, {[con]?}, junction, entanglement, complication, confusion, mystification, obscurity, integration.

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KEY: Solve.

SYN: Explain, resolve, unfold, work out, clear up, [See EXPLAIN].

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KEY: Sombre.

SYN: Dull, grave, gloomy, dark, murky, cloudy, funereal, sable, mournful, dusky, pensive, melancholy.

ANT: Bright, gay, sunny, joyous.

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KEY: Somnolent.

SYN: Sleepy, drowsy, dozy, dreamy.

ANT: Wakeful, vigilant, alert.

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KEY: Song.

SYN: Poem, lay, ballad, strain, ditty, carol, anthem, epic, lyric.

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KEY: Sonorous.

SYN: Resonant, {[louc'audible]?}, louc'audible audible, ringing, clear, trumpetlike, high-sounding.

ANT: Mute, muffled, dumb, soft weak, inaudible, confused, powerless.

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KEY: Soon.

SYN: Shortly, quickly, promptly, before long, early.

ANT: Late, slowly, tardily.

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KEY: Soothe.

SYN: Soften, assuage, allay, compose, mollify, tranquillize, pacify, lull, mitigate, flatter, appease, relieve.

ANT: Rouse, excite, irritate, ruffle, exasperate, exacerbate, agitate, infuriate, aggravate, annoy, dissatisfy.

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KEY: Sophism.

SYN: Fallacy, quibble, paralogism.

ANT: Truth, argument, reason, logic, syllogism.

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KEY: Sophisticate.

SYN: Artificialize, demoralize, debase, corrupt, vitiate, spoil, pervert.

ANT: Naturalize, simplify, purify, train, Improve, correct, refine, reform.

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KEY: Sophistry, [See EXPLAIN].

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KEY: Soporific.

SYN: Somniferous, narcotic, anodyne, opiate.

ANT: Antisoporific, antinarcotic.

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KEY: Sorcery.

SYN: Magic, enchantment, witchcraft, divination, glamour, possession.

ANT: Disenchantment, exorcism, exsufflation, dispossessing.

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KEY: Sordid.

SYN: Dirty, filthy, foul, gross, vile, base, mean, avaricious, covetous, selfish, venal, niggardly, beggarly, closefisted, hidebound, greedy.

ANT: Pure, liberal, generous, unselfish, honorable, uncovetous, openhanded, high-minded, profuse, lavish, prodigal, extravagant, overliberal.

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KEY: Sore \a.\

SYN: Painful, irritated, susceptible, excoriated, raw, scarified, ulcerous, grievous, afflictive, heavy, burdensome.

ANT: Painless, sound, whole, healthful, healed, unbroken, unscarified, light, trivial, unburdensome, pleasant, untroublesome, grateful.

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KEY: Sore \n.\

SYN: Pustule, abscess, ulcer.

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KEY: Sorrow.

SYN: Affliction, grief, sadness, trouble, regret, distress, mental pain, ruth, mourning.

ANT: Joy, gladness, rejoicing.

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KEY: Sorry.

SYN: Grieved, pained, hurt, afflicted, woe-begone, doleful, downhearted, mortified, vexed, dejected, poor, mean, vile, shabby, worthless.

ANT: Glad, rejoiced, delighted, pleased, gratified, fine, choice, handsome.

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KEY: Sort.

SYN: Kind, species, nature, class, order, character, rank, manner, quality, condition, description, designation, genus.

ANT: non-description, solitariness, uniqueness, nonclassification, heterogeneity.

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KEY: Soul.

SYN: Spirit, vital principle, life, reason, intellect, vitality, fire, leader, inspirer, energy, courage, fervor, affection, feeling, being, person, {[innu]?}.

ANT: Soullessness, irrationality, unintellectuality, deadness, unfeelingness, spiritlessness, coldness, mind-issues, nonentity, nullity.

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KEY: Sound \n.\

SYN: Resonance, audibility, noise, report.

ANT: Silence, stillness, muteness, voicelessness, abmutescence.

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KEY: Sound \a.\

SYN: Entire, unbroken, whole, perfect, unhurt, well-grounded, uninjured, unimpaired, healthy, firm, strong, vigorous, weighty, solid, irrefragable, irrefutable, thorough, valid, wholesome, correct, substantial.

ANT: Partial, broken, injured, Impaired, unhealthy, unsound, weak, frail, fragile, light, trivial, unfounded, hollow, fallacious, imperfect, unwholesome, incorrect, unsubstantial, invalid,.

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KEY: Sound \v.\

SYN: Probe, gauge, investigate.

ANT: Overlook, disregard, misexamine, misinvestigate.

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KEY: Sour.

SYN: Tart, rancid, coagulated, turned, harsh, crabbed, austere, morose, pungent, crusty, acid, churlish, bitter, acetous, acrimonious, peevish.

ANT: Sweet, wholesome, untainted, mellow, genial, kindly.

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KEY: Source.

SYN: Rise, origin, spring, fount, fountain, cause, commencement, beginning.

ANT: Mouth, debouchure, termination, end, exit, issue, result, effect.

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KEY: Sovereign.

SYN: Paramount, supreme, primary, chief, certain, efficacious, principal, predominant, superior, imperial, regal.

ANT: Inferior, ministerial, subservient, subordinate, subject, secondary, weak, uncertain, inefficient, inefficacious.

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KEY: Sow \v.\

SYN: Scatter, disseminate, plant, strew, [See SCATTER].

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KEY: Space.

SYN: Extension, room, interval, boundlessness, immeasurableness, illimitableness, distance, measure, quantity, intervenience, interspace.

ANT: Limitation, inextension, restriction, coarctation, confinement, proximity, scantiness, contiguity, uninterruptedness, continuity.

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KEY: Spacious.

SYN: Ample, extensive, broad, vast, capacious, large, wide, roomy, expansive.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, limited, cramped, confined, inextensive.

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KEY: Spare \v.\

SYN: Save, afford, grant, reserve, do without, husband, economize, retain, store, grudge, discard, omit, forbear, withhold, refrain, abstain.

ANT: Spend, squander, waste, lavish, scatter, expend, pour, indulge, vent.

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KEY: Spare \a.\

SYN: Scanty, unplentiful, inabundant, meagre, economical, frugal, stinted, restricted, parsimonious, niggardly, chary, superfluous, disposable, available, lean, thin, ill-conditioned.

ANT: Ample, plentiful, abundant, profuse, liberal, unrestricted, generous, bountiful, unsparing, unstinted, unbounded, available, well-conditioned.

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KEY: Sparing, [See SCATTER].

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KEY: Sparkle.

SYN: Scintillate, flash, glisten, glitter, gleam, shine, bubble, radiate, coruscate, effervesce.

ANT: Smoulder, wane, stagnate, expire.

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KEY: Sparse.

SYN: Scattered, sprinkled, few, scanty, thin, meagre, innumerous.

ANT: Dense, multitudinous, numerous, frequented, thick, crowded, populous.

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KEY: Spatter.

SYN: Besprinkle, besmear.

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KEY: Speak.

SYN: Converse, discourse, talk, utter, pronounce, say, express, accost, address, tell, [See FRUGAL].

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KEY: Special.

SYN: Particular, specific, peculiar, appropriate, proper, distinctive, extraordinary, especial, exceptional.

ANT: General, universal, common, generic.

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KEY: Species, [See SORT].

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KEY: Specify.

SYN: Particularize, individualize, indicate, designate, detail, determine, state, enumerate, mention.

ANT: Generalize, classify, amalgamate, confound.

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KEY: Specimen.

SYN: Sample, mode, pattern, model, illustration, instance, type, exemplar.

ANT: Anomaly, exception, nondescript, monster, freak, misillustration.

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KEY: Specious.

SYN: Plausible, showy, ostensible, colorable, fair-spoken.

ANT: Inadmissible, self-contradictory, absurd, unreasonable.

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KEY: Speck \a.\

SYN: Blemish, mite, bit, spot, particle, [See SORT].

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KEY: Spectacle.

SYN: Sight, exhibition, display, parade, demonstration, picture, scene, representation, gazingstock, show, pageant, flourish.

ANT: Nondemonstration, noncelebration.

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KEY: Spectator.

SYN: Observer, witness, beholder, gazer, looker-on, bystander, [See BLEMISH and MASS].

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KEY: Spectral.

SYN: Ghostly, ghastly, cadaverous, shadowy, visionary, illusionary.

ANT: Bodily, substantial, corporal, fleshly, palpable.

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KEY: Spectre.

SYN: Apparition, ghost, shade, shadow, spirit, larva.

ANT: Body, substance, flesh, personality.

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KEY: Speculate.

SYN: Consider, meditate, theorize, cogitate, [See COGITATE].

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KEY: Speculation.

SYN: Contemplation, consideration, weighing, thought, theory, scheme, hypothesis, view, conjecture.

ANT: Realization, proof, fact, verification, certainty.

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KEY: Speech.

SYN: Address, oration, harangue, discourse, [See COGITATE].

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KEY: Speed.

SYN: Despatch, expedite, accelerate, urge, hasten, hurry, press.

ANT: Retard, delay, postpone, obstruct, drag, loiter, dawdle, linger, lag, stay.

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KEY: Speedy.

SYN: Early, quick, rapid, fast, accelerated, prompt, nimble, swift, fleet.

ANT: Late, slow, dragging, loitering, lingering, tardy, sluggish.

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KEY: Spend.

SYN: Bestow, waste, exhaust, squander, expend, lay out, consume, disburse, lavish.

ANT: Retain, save, hoard, accumulate, husband, economize.

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KEY: Sphere.

SYN: Globe, ball, region, realm, circuit, orb, department, vocation, rank, standing, order, [See HARANGUE].

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KEY: Spirit.

SYN: Air, breath, life, soul, vital force, essential quality, essence, immateriality, intelligence, disembodiment, spectre, apparition, ghost, energy, ardor, enthusiasm, activity, earnestness, courage, zeal, disposition, temper, principle, motive, distillation.

ANT: Substance, body, corporeity, materiality, flesh, organization, frame, embodiment, spiritlessness, listlessness, soullessness, lifelessness, torpor, deadness, timidity, dejection, slowness, sluggishness.

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KEY: Spirited.

SYN: Animated, lively, vivacious, ardent, buoyant, sprightly, courageous.

ANT: Dull, dispirited, depressed, cowardly.

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KEY: Spiritual.

SYN: Divine, religions, holy, ghostly, ethical, immaterial, incorporeal, intellectual.

ANT: Carnal, fleshly, unspiritual, gross, material, sensuous.

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KEY: Spite.

SYN: Malice, malevolence, grudge, pique, hatred, Ill-will, vindictiveness, rancor, spleen.

ANT: good will, benevolence, kindliness.

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KEY: Spiteful.

SYN: Malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, ill-natured, evilminded.

ANT: Kind, benevolent, good-natured.

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KEY: Spleen.

SYN: Anger, [See VOCATION], annoyance, rancor, hypochondria, melancholy, irascibility, gall, vexation, ill-humor.

ANT: Kindliness, benevolence, gratification, mirth, cheerfulness, geniality, high-spirits, gratulation, pacification.

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KEY: Splendid.

SYN: Brilliant, showy, magnificent, sumptuous, gorgeous, glorious, pompous, imposing, illustrious, superb, famous, heroic, grand, signal.

ANT: Dull, obscure, tame, somber, poor, beggardly, unimposing, ordinary, ineffective, inglorious.

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KEY: Split.

SYN: Divide, separate, rive, cleave, crack, splinter, burst, rend, sunder, disagree, secede, disunite.

ANT: Cohere, unite, amalgamate, coalesce, conform, agree, splice, consolidate, integrate.

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KEY: Spoil.

SYN: Plunder, strip, rob, devastate, pillage, denude, corrupt, vitiate, mar, deteriorate.

ANT: Invest, enrich, endow, replenish, renovate, improve, better, ameliorate, rectify, preserve.

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KEY: Spontaneous.

SYN: Voluntary, self-generated, self-originated, self-evolved, willing, unbidden, gratuitous.

ANT: Involuntary, imposed, compulsionary, unwilling, necessitated, coercive.

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KEY: Sport.

SYN: Play, frolic, wantonness, joke, diversion, merriment, gaiety, fun, amusement, recreation, game, pastime.

ANT: Work, seriousness, business, earnestness.

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KEY: Spot \n.\

SYN: Stain, blot, blemish, locality, site, place, [See BLEMISH].

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KEY: Spotless, [See BLEMISH].

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KEY: Spread.

SYN: Extend, stretch, expand, open, unfurl, divulge, propagate, publish, disperse, diffuse, overlay, distribute, scatter, circulate, disseminate, ramify.

ANT: Contract, furl, gather, fold, close, shut, secrete, suppress, confine, restrict, repress, hush, conceal, recal, collect, stagnate, concentrate, localize.

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KEY: Sprightly.

SYN: Blithe, lively, gay, vivacious, alert, agile, brisk, animated.

ANT: Sombre, dull, lifeless, sluggish, inanimate, heavy.

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KEY: Spring \n.\

SYN: Origin, source, fountain, beginning, rise, [See PURE].

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KEY: Spring \v.\

SYN: Leap, bound, jump, start, emerge, issue, proceed, originate, rise, emanate, germinate, burst, flow.

ANT: Settle, alight, land, drop, arrive, issue, eventuate, end, terminate, debouch, disembogue.

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KEY: Sprite.

SYN: Spirit, specter, ghost, shade, fairy, elf, [See OPINION].

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KEY: Sprout \n.\

SYN: Bud, germ, shoot, twig, stem, scion, [See GHOST].

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KEY: Sprout \v.\

SYN: Shoot, germinate, spring, vegetate, bud.

ANT: Blight, wither, decay.

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KEY: Spruce.

SYN: Neat, finical, trim, smug, tidy, smart, foppish, dandified, jaunty.

ANT: Slovenly, untidy, untrim, disorderly.

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KEY: Spur.

SYN: Incite, goad, Instigate, impel, urge, stimulate.

ANT: Rein, inhibit, hold, discourage, deter, dissuade, restrain, temper, moderate.

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KEY: Spurious.

SYN: Counterfeit, false, not genuine, unauthentic, forged, adulterate, ungenuine, bastard, supposititious, groundless, ascititious.

ANT: true, genuine, veritable, unadulterated, legitimate, authentic.

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KEY: Spurn, [See REJECT].

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KEY: Spy \v.\

SYN: See, espy, discern, discover, explore, view, inspect.

ANT: Miss, overlook, misexplore, misobserve.

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KEY: Spy \n.\

SYN: Emissary, detective, scout.

ANT: Sentinel, watchman, warder, patrol.

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KEY: Squalid.

SYN: Foul, dirty, untended, filthy, nasty, unclean, mucky, poverty-stricken.

ANT: Wholesome, cleanly, tended, trim, tidy.

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KEY: Squander.

SYN: Waste, dissipate, spend wastefully.

ANT: Save, conserve, be frugal.

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KEY: Stab.

SYN: Pierce, transfix, thrust.

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KEY: Stable.

SYN: firm, established, secure, steady, constant, unwavering, durable, stanch, permanent, firmly fixed, solid, steadfast, steady, lasting, perpetual.

ANT: Infirm, tottering, weak, insecure, precarious, inconstant, wavering, frail, transient, ephemeral, evanescent, unstable.

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KEY: Stagnant.

SYN: Motionless, currentless, tideless, unflowing, uncirculating, still, dull, torpid, lifeless, quiescent.

ANT: Brisk, flowing, circulating, rapid, lively, agitated, seething, effervescent, restless.

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KEY: Staid.

SYN: Grave, demure, steady, sober, sedate.

ANT: Unsteady, flighty, indiscreet, wanton, unsedate, erratic, eccentric, agitated, discomposed, ruffled.

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KEY: Stain \n.\

SYN: Color, dye, tinge, discoloration, blemish, blot, stigma, slur, shame, taint [See BLEMISH].

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KEY: Stain \v.\

SYN: Dye, color, tinge, slur, shame, paint, blot, soil, sully, discolor, tarnish, taint, disgrace, dishonor, befoul, blemish, stigmatize.

ANT: Purify, wash, cleanse, absolve, ornament, decorate, emblazon, signalize, honor.

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KEY: Stale.

SYN: Vapid, tasteless, threadbare, commonplace, hackneyed.

ANT: Fresh, [See VAPID].

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KEY: Stalk.

SYN: Stride, promenade, parade, pace, march.

ANT: Sneak, crawl, grovel, creep.

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KEY: Stalwart.

SYN: Powerful, able-bodied, strong, robust, resolute, brave.

ANT: Weak, timorous, irresolute.

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KEY: Stammer.

SYN: Stutter, hesitate, falter.

ANT: Speak clearly, speak unhesitatingly.

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KEY: Stamp \n.\

SYN: Genus, kind, description, make, mark, impression, imprint, print, brand, cast, mould, character, type.

ANT: Heterogeneity, non-description, formlessness.

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KEY: Stanch.

SYN: Firm, steady, constant, faithful, unswerving, reliable, sincere, trusty, zealous, fast, sound, steadfast.

ANT: Untrustworthy, vacillating, unsound, unsteady, unreliable, treacherous, precarious.

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KEY: Stand.

SYN: Rest, remain, stop, be, exist, keep one's ground, insist, depend, await, consist, hold, continue, endure, pause, halt.

ANT: Progress, move, proceed, advance, fall, fail, yield, succumb, drop, lie, vanish, fade, run, depart.

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KEY: Standard.

SYN: Measure, gauge, criterion, test, rule, exemplar, banner, flag, type, model, scale, plummet, trutination.

ANT: Mismeasurement, misrule, misadjustment, miscomparison, inconformity, misfit, incommensurateness, non-criterion.

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KEY: Standing \n.\

SYN: Status, position, ground, duration, continuance, footing, standpoint, foundation.

ANT: Baselessness, evanescence, insecurity, precariousness.

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KEY: Standing \a.\

SYN: Established, lasting, be.

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KEY: Start.

SYN: Set out, initiate, begin, set on foot, rouse.

ANT: Carry on, end, complete.

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KEY: Startle, [See FIRM].

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KEY: Starved.

SYN: Lean, thin, meagre, attenuated, famished, hungry, emaciated, ill-fed, ill-conditioned.

ANT: Fat, plump, well-conditioned, well-fed.

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KEY: State \n.\

SYN: Position, condition, situation, circumstances, plight, predicament, case, province, [See AFFRIGHT].

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KEY: State \v.\

SYN: Say, declare, propound, aver, set forth, narrate, specify, particularize, avow, recite.

ANT: Suppress, repress, suppose, imply, deny, contradict, retract.

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KEY: Stately.

SYN: Dignified, imposing, lofty, elevated, lordly, proud, majestic, pompous, magnificent, grand.

ANT: Undignified, unimposing, unstately, commonplace, mean.

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KEY: Station.

SYN: Standing, post, position, office, occupation, business, place, situation, state, rank, location.

ANT: dislodgment, displacement, non-position, ejectment, non-location, removal, departure, locomotion.

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KEY: Stationary.

SYN: Fixed, Immovable, motionless, unalterable, quiescent.

ANT: Movable, unfixed, migratory, removable, changeable, alterable.

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KEY: Statute.

SYN: Enactment, law, act, decree, ordinance, legislation, edict.

ANT: Custom, conventionality, prescription, use, precedent, usage.

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KEY: Stave \v.\

SYN: Parry, fend, forefend.

ANT: Attract, court, draw, invoke, provoke.

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KEY: Stay \n.\

SYN: Abode, continuance, sojourn, support, prop, [See ABODE and PROP].

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KEY: Stay \v.\

SYN: Hold, stop, restrain, withhold, arrest, hinder, delay, obstruct, support, rest, repose, remain, continue, dwell, await, halt, abide, wait, tarry, confide, trust, lean.

ANT: Loose, liberate, send, expedite, speed, free, accelerate, hasten, oppress, depress, burden, fail, fall, proceed, move, depart, overthrow, mistrust.

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KEY: Steadfast.

SYN: Firm, rooted, grounded, fixed, established, resolved, constant, steady, unswerving, stanch, resolute.

ANT: Infirm, weak, vacillating, capricious, uncertain, irresolute, wavering, dubious, half-hearted, halfminded.

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KEY: Steady.

SYN: Firm, fixed, constant, uniform, consistent, equable, regular, undeviating, well-regulated.

ANT: Infirm, variable, unsteady, inconstant, changeable, wavering, illregulated.

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KEY: Steal.

SYN: Filch, pilfer, purloin, swindle, take by theft, peculate, embezzle, smuggle.

ANT: Rob, plunder, ravage, maraud, Back, pillage.

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KEY: Steep \v.\

SYN: Dip, soak, immerse, macerate, submerge, drench, imbue.

ANT: Air, dry, ventilate, fan, sun, aridity, exsiccate.

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KEY: Steep \a.\

SYN: Abrupt, precipitous, elevated, inaccessible, hilly, craggy.

ANT: Easy, level, undulating, accessible, gradual.

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KEY: Stem \v.\

SYN: Oppose, breast, withstand, obstruct, confront, [See OPPOSE].

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KEY: Step \n.\

SYN: Advance, pace, space, grade, remove, degree, gradation, progression, track, trice, walk, gait, proceeding, action, measure.

ANT: Retreat, recession, baiting, station, standing, nongraduation, non-progression, standstill, stop, tracklessness, untraceableness, non impression, desinence, desistance, Inaction.

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KEY: Sterile.

SYN: Barren, unfruitful, unproductive, desert, infertile.

ANT: Fruitful, fertile, productive, luxuriant, exuberant, cultivated.

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KEY: Sterling.

SYN: Sound, substantial, unalloyed, pure, unadulterated, standard, genuine, essential, solid.

ANT: Fictitious, ungenuine, ascititious, specious, pretentious, ostensible, plausible.

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KEY: Stern.

SYN: Severe, austere, rigid, harsh, strict, rigorous, unrelenting, unyielding, forbidding.

ANT: Lenient, genial, kindly, easy, flexible, encouraging.

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KEY: Stick \v.\

SYN: Hold, adhere, cleave, [See ADHERE].

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KEY: Stiff.

SYN: Unbending, inflexible, rigid, unyielding, unpliant, stroux, stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, constrained, affected, starched, formal, ceremonious, difficult.

ANT: Pliant, flexible, flaccid, yielding, easy, unaffected, genial, affable, unceremonious.

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KEY: Stifle.

SYN: Choke, suffocate, smother, throttle, quench, repress, suppress, extinguish, burke.

ANT: Ventilate, discuss, promulgate, propound.

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KEY: Stigma.

SYN: Brand, mark, infamy, disgrace, blot, stain.

ANT: Decoration, feather, laurels, credit, renown.

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KEY: Stigmatize.

SYN: Brand, denounce, reprobate, censure.

ANT: Panegyrize, land, eulogize.

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KEY: Still.

SYN: Quiet, calm, noiseless, hushed, silent, pacific, serene, motionless, stagnant, peaceful, quiescent, tranquil, stationary.

ANT: Unquiet, disturbed, agitated, moved, noisy, resonant, turbulent, moving, transitional.

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KEY: Stimulate, [See SPUR and URGE].

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KEY: Stingy.

SYN: Close, avaricious, mean, niggardly, closefisted, parsimonious, sparing, sordid, penurious.

ANT: Liberal, generous, large, handsome, lavish, bountiful, unsparing.

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KEY: Stink \n.\

SYN: Stench, fetor, bad smell.

ANT: Sweet odor, fragrance.

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KEY: Stint.

SYN: Stop, limit, restrict, bound, dole.

ANT: Lavish, pour, heap, squander.

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KEY: Stipend, [See WAGES].

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KEY: Stipendiary.

SYN: Paid, remunerated, compensated, hired.

ANT: Unpaid, unremunerated, voluntary, gratuitous, honorary.

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KEY: Stipulate.

SYN: Bargain, agree, contract, covenant, engage, condition, provide.

ANT: Retract, decline, refuse, withdraw, revoke, disagree, deprecate, protest, recant.

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KEY: Stir.

SYN: Agitate, incite, Instigate, prompt, awaken, stimulate, animate, arouse, budge, excite, provoke, raise, ruffle.

ANT: Soothe, compose, quiet, allay, pacify, still, repress, deaden, tranquillize.

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KEY: Stock \n.\

SYN: Store, hoard, supply, fund, accumulation, [See ACCUMULATION].

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KEY: Stoical.

SYN: Philosophical, Indifferent, apathetic, phlegmatic, patient, inexcitable, imperturbable.

ANT: Sanguine, excitable, sensitive, impatient.

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KEY: Stolid.

SYN: Stupid, dull, heavy, senseless, mindless, doltish, foolish, obtuse, unintelligent.

ANT: Acute, sensitive, sagacious, quick, clever, bright.

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KEY: Stoop.

SYN: bend, condescend, yield, [See ACCUMULATION].

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KEY: Stop \v.\

SYN: Close, obstruct, plug, cork, bar, seal, arrest, suspend, end, rest, halt, hinder, suppress, delay, cease, terminate.

ANT: Open, expedite, clear, broach, unseal, promote, advance, farther, continue, proceed, speed, hasten.

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KEY: Stop \n.\

SYN: Pause, cessation, intermission, rest, quietus, [See REST].

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KEY: Store \n.\

SYN: Treasure, treasury, garner, provision, supply, fund, accumulation, hoard, abundance, shop, place of business, ammunition, stock.

ANT: Emptiness, lack, misprovision, failure, exhaustion, want, expenditure, {[disjxjsal]?}, consumption.

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KEY: Store \v.\ [See REST].

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KEY: Storehouse.

SYN: Warehouse, repository, treasury, depot, magazine.

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KEY: Stormy, [See SAVE].

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KEY: Stout.

SYN: Strong, lusty, vigorous, robust, sturdy, brawny, corpulent, resolute, brave, valiant, redoubtable.

ANT: Weak, debile, frail, attenuated, thin, slender, lean, irresolute, feeble, cowardly, timid.

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KEY: Straight.

SYN: Direct, rectilinear, undeviating, unswerving, right, nearest.

ANT: Indirect, winding, incurved, tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, circuitous, waving, crooked.

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KEY: Strain.

SYN: Stretch, tighten, force, exert, filter, filtrate, percolate, depurate, purify, clarify, defecate, lixiviate.

ANT: Loosen, relax, remit, slacken, thicken, incrassate, inspissate, befoul.

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KEY: Strait \a.\

SYN: Close, strict, narrow, [See BOISTEROUS].

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KEY: Strait \n.\ [See NARROW].

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KEY: Strange.

SYN: Foreign, alien, exotic, unfamiliar, unusual, odd, irregular, abnormal, exceptional, surprising, wonderful, marvellous, astonishing, uncommon, peculiar.

ANT: Home, domestic, familiar, usual, ordinary, common, regular, customary, commonplace, unsurprising, universal, general.

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KEY: Stranger.

SYN: Foreigner, alien.

ANT: Countryman, acquaintance, friend.

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KEY: Stratagem.

SYN: Artifice, tactics, trick, contrivance, generalship, manoeuvre, device, machination, plot, plan, deceit, imposition.

ANT: Blunder, defeat, mismanoeuvre, miscontrivance, mismanagement.

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KEY: Stray.

SYN: Wander, deviate, digress, ramble, go astray, err, depart, rove.

ANT: Adhere, abide, stick.

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KEY: Stream.

SYN: Current, course, flow, exit, drift, tide, tendency.

ANT: Stagnation, desistance, arrestation, station, standstill, stillness, halting, cessation, stopping, interruption.

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KEY: Strength.

SYN: Force, vigor, power, security, validity, vehemence, intensity, hardness, soundness, nerve, fibre, sinew.

ANT: Weakness, imbecility, feebleness, insolidity, insecurity, invalidity, frailty, delicacy, softness, flimsiness, hollowness.

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KEY: Strengthen.

SYN: Confirm, establish, fix, corroborate, secure, invigorate, fortify, {[incri-Hso]?}.

ANT: Weaken, disestablish, shake, loosen, sap, undermine, debilitate, diminish.

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KEY: Strenuous.

SYN: Strong, resilute, determined, earnest, vigorous, ardent, bold, energetic, vehement.

ANT: Weak, irresolute, undetermined, unearnest, debile, feeble, emasculate.

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KEY: Stress.

SYN: Force, strain, weight, importance, pressure, urgency, emphasis.

ANT: Alleviation, stillness, lightness, unimportance, casualty, touch, triviality.

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KEY: Stretch.

SYN: Extend, expand, elongate, draw out, spread, strain, tighten, reach.

ANT: Contract, fold, curtail, shrink, shorten.

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KEY: Strict.

SYN: Close, exact, accurate, rigorous, severe, stringent, nice, precise.

ANT: Loose, inexact, inaccurate, lenient, mild, indulgent, lax.

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KEY: Stricture.

SYN: Censure, criticism, animadversion, reprobation, dispraise, blame, reprehension.

ANT: Praise, commendation, eulogy, compliment.

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KEY: Strife.

SYN: Struggle, contention, contest, animosity, quarrel, wrangle, disagreement, discord, bickering, emulation.

ANT: good will, peace, amity, friendliness.

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KEY: Strike.

SYN: Smite, impel, give a blow to, stamp, impress, penetrate, insert, drive, lower, startle, surprise, collide, touch.

ANT: Smooth, soothe, caress, pat, stroke, efface, levigate, withdraw, raise, hoist, calm, graze, escape, avoid, pass.

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KEY: Striking.

SYN: Impressive, affecting, admirable, wonderful, surprising, [See WONDERFUL].

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KEY: Strip.

SYN: Divest, denude, bare, pull off, despoil, dismantle, disencumber, flay, fleece, rob.

ANT: Invest, endow, clothe, enrich, compensate.

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KEY: Strive.

SYN: Labor, endeavor, aim, contest, toil, try, struggle, contend, vie.

ANT: Relax, surrender, succumb, submit, yield, withdraw.

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KEY: Stroll \v.\

SYN: Ramble, wander, rove, roam, [See RAMBLE].

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KEY: Strong.

SYN: Powerful, vigorous, solid, secure, fortified, forcible, impetuous, hale, hearty, brawny, sinewy, sound, robust, cogent, influential, zealous, potent, pungent muscular, hardy, stanch, tenacious.

ANT: Powerless, weak, frail, insecure, defenceless, feeble, mild, calm, gentle, delicate, sickly, inefficacious, unsatisfactory, unconvincing, unimpressive, vapid, impotent, unavailing, lukewarm, debile, flaccid, nerveless, tender, moderate, indifferent.

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KEY: Structure.

SYN: Construction, erection, building, constitution, constituency, organization, make, edifice, composition, texture.

ANT: Destruction, subversion, demolition, disorganization, analysis, decomposition, resolution.

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KEY: Struggle \v.\ [See RAMBLE].

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KEY: Struggle \n.\

SYN: Contest, violent effort, labor, pains, agony, [See STRIFE].

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KEY: Strut, [See STRIFE].

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KEY: Stubborn.

SYN: Tough, unbending, unyielding, hard, obstinate, intractable, obdurate, stiff, harsh, inflexible, headstrong, refractory, heady, contumacious, pig-headed.

ANT: Docile, tractable, manageable, pliant, pliable, malleable, flexible.

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KEY: Studied.

SYN: Premeditated, thought out, elaborate, learned, thoughtful.

ANT: Unpremeditated, extempore, careless.

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KEY: Studious.

SYN: Literary, diligent, desirous, attentive, careful, thoughtful, assiduous, reflective.

ANT: co-literary, illiterate, idle, Indulgent, careless, regardless, indifferent, inattentive, negligent, thoughtless.

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KEY: Study \n.\

SYN: Application, learning, meditation, diligence, consideration, thought, contemplation, care, endeavor, research, intention, purpose.

ANT: Indulgence, idleness, illiterateness, thoughtlessness, ease, indifference, carelessness, unstudiousness, negligence.

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KEY: Study \v.\

SYN: Examine, con over, consider, [See CONSIDER].

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KEY: Stuff \n.\

SYN: Matter, substance, trash, nonsense, [See CONSIDER].

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KEY: Stun.

SYN: Confound, bewilder, dumbfounder, astonish, stupefy, overwhelm, overpower, electrify.

ANT: Encourage, animate, inspirit, reassure.

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KEY: Stupendous.

SYN: Amazing, overwhelming, marvellous, wondrous, vast, astounding.

ANT: Ordinary, Unimposing.

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KEY: Stupid.

SYN: Dull, senseless, stolid, doltish, besotted, insensate, obtuse, prosy, addlepated, dull witted.

ANT: Quick, sharp, bright, sensible, sagacious, penetrating, clever.

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KEY: Sturdy.

SYN: Well-set, thickset, strong, stout, stubborn, firm, resolute, forcible, hardy, robust.

ANT: Lank, weak, ill-set, lean, fragile, weakly.

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KEY: Style.

SYN: Phraseology, diction, fashion, mode, name, title, [See NONSENSE].

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KEY: Suavity.

SYN: Mildness, softness, pleasantness, gentleness, affability, courtesy, conciliatoriness, complaisance, sweetness, urbanity.

ANT: Roughness, harshness, rudeness, haughtiness, superciliousness, pride, hauteur, moroseness, austerity.

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KEY: Subdue.

SYN: Conquer, reduce, overpower, break, tame, quell, vanquish, subdue, master, subjugate.

ANT: Aggrandize, exalt, fortify, strengthen, empower, liberate, enfranchise.

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KEY: Subject \a.\

SYN: Subordinate, subservient, exposed, liable, prone, disposed, obnoxious, amenable.

ANT: Superior, independent, exempt, indisposed, unliable, unamenable.

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KEY: Subject \n.\

SYN: Question, matter, material, theme, topic.

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KEY: Subjective.

SYN: Mental, internal, intellectual.

ANT: External, objective.

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KEY: Subjugate, [See DICTION].

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KEY: Sublimate.

SYN: Vaporize, refine, heighten, elevate.

ANT: Solidify, crystallize, indurate, coarsen, worsen, degrade, deprave, lower.

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KEY: Sublime.

SYN: Raised, exalted, lofty, elevated, eminent, grand, stately, high, noble, majestic, glorious, magnificent.

ANT: Low, depressed, unexalted, inconspicuous, unimposing, ordinary, mean, ignoble, inglorious, base, ridiculous.

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KEY: Submerge.

SYN: Drown, plunge, overwhelm, deluge, inundate, fink, steep, immerse.

ANT: Raise, extricate, educe.

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KEY: Submission.

SYN: Yielding, surrender, inferiority, dependence, meekness, resignation, patience, acquiescence.

ANT: Resistance, insurrender, insubordination, independence, antagonism, self-assertion, impatience.

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KEY: Submissive.

SYN: Obedient, compliant, yielding, obsequious, humble, docile, modest, passive, acquiescent, subservient.

ANT: Disobedient, incompliant, unyielding, unobsequious, recalcitrant, refractory, prov, {[d]?}, resistent, renitent, malcontent, recusant.

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KEY: Submit.

SYN: Yield, resign, surrender, comply, refer, propose, suggest, present, acquiesce, succumb.

ANT: Recalcitrate, oppose, resist, object, withdraw, resume, rescue, recover, vindicate, retain, reserve, hold, keep, contend.

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KEY: Subordinate, [See SUBDUE].

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KEY: Subscribe.

SYN: Affirm, maintain, support, endorse, assent.

ANT: Deny, disavow, repudiate, protest.

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KEY: Subsequent.

SYN: Posterior, later, succeeding, following, after.

ANT: Prior, former, earlier, precedent anterior.

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KEY: Subservient, [See SUBDUE].

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KEY: Subsidence.

SYN: Settlement, sinking, retreat, refluence, ebb, decrease.

ANT: Rising, affluence, flow, inundation, agitation, swelling, intumescence, increase.

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KEY: Subsidiary.

SYN: Assistant, ancillary, helpful, adjuvant, conducive, favourable, promotive, adminicular, corroborative, tending.

ANT: Opponent, obstructive, preventative, inconducive, unfavorable, retardative, subversive, counteractive.

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KEY: Subsist.

SYN: be, live, feed, continue, exist.

ANT: Fail, starve, decay, die.

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KEY: Substance.

SYN: Matter, material, body, pith, gist, import, essential, meaning, Be.

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KEY: Substantial.

SYN: Existing, real, solid, true, corporeal, material, strong, stout, massive, bulky, tangible.

ANT: Imaginary, unreal, insubstantial, fictitious, supposititious, incorporeal, chimerical, visionary, immaterial, weak, frail, airy, disembodied, spiritual, ghostly.

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KEY: Substitute.

SYN: Exchange, commute, represent, replace, supply, depute.

ANT: Retain, fix, continue, perpetuate, stabilitate, establish.

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KEY: Subterfuge.

SYN: Shift, evasion, artifice, excuse, pretext, dodge, underhandedness, sophistry.

ANT: Assertion, promulgation, challenge, exhibition, manifestation, open handedness, frankness, daylight, vindication.

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KEY: Subtile.

SYN: Fine, thin, rare, refined, volatile, delicate, nice, acute.

ANT: Coarse, thick, gross, crass, dense.

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KEY: Subtle.

SYN: Sly, artful, cunning, insinuating, wily, astute, nice, discriminating, crafty, fine, shrewd, sophistical, Jesuitical.

ANT: Open, frank, honest, artless, undiscriminating, rough, blunt, undiscerning, unsophisticated, simple.

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KEY: Subtract.

SYN: Withdraw, remove, deduct, take.

ANT: Add, import, adduce, give, bring.

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KEY: Suburbs.

SYN: Precincts, purlieus, outskirts, confines, environs.

ANT: Centre, heart, citadel, acropolis.

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KEY: Subvert.

SYN: Overturn, overthrow, destroy.

ANT: Stabilitate, perpetuate, [See PITH], serve.

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KEY: Succeed.

SYN: Follow, supervene, prosper, flourish, ensue, thrive.

ANT: Proceed, anticipate, fall.

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KEY: Success.

SYN: Achievement, luck, consummation, prosperity, victory, good-fortune.

ANT: Failure, defeat, disaster, ruin.

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KEY: Successful.

SYN: Lucky, fortunate, happy, auspicious, prosperous, [See BOUNDLESS].

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KEY: Succession.

SYN: Following, supervention, consecution, sequence, order, series, rotation, continuity, supply, suite.

ANT: Precedence, anticipation, prevention, antecedence, irregularity, disorder, non-sequence, solution, failure, intermission, break, gap, inconsecutiveness.

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KEY: Succinct.

SYN: Brief, close, concise, short, summary, terse, compendious, condensed.

ANT: Prolix, diffuse, discursive, circuitous, circumlocutory.

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KEY: Succor.

SYN: Aid, support, console, alleviate, befriend, comfort, help, assist, relieve.

ANT: Distress, oppress, maltreat, injure, thwart, burden, persecute, hurt.

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KEY: Succumb.

SYN: Surrender, comply, submit, acquiesce, yield, sink, resign.

ANT: Resist, rise, contend, battle, fight, surmount.

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KEY: Suck In.

SYN: Absorb, imbibe.

ANT: Throw out, eject.

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KEY: Sudden.

SYN: Unanticipated, hasty, rash, quick, unexpected, abrupt.

ANT: Gradual, expected, transitional, slow, premonished, anticipated.

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KEY: Suffer.

SYN: Bear, endure, {[eunain]?}, undergo, let, permit, allow, admit, tolerate, experience, support.

ANT: Resist, repel, expel, reject, disallow, repudiate, forbid, ignore.

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KEY: Sufferance.

SYN: Toleration, permission, allowance, endurance, moderation, self-control, long suffering, patience.

ANT: Prohibition, resistance, nonendurance, impatience, insubmission.

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KEY: Suffering, [See LUCKY].

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KEY: Suffice.

SYN: Satisfy, content, be enough, [See AFFLICTION].

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KEY: Sufficiency, [See SATISFY].

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KEY: Sufficient.

SYN: Adequate, equal, competent, satisfactory, tit, qualified, adapted, suited, enough, ample.

ANT: Inadequate, unequal, incompetent, unqualified, unadapted, insufficient, unsuited, meagre, bare, scanty, short, deficient.

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KEY: Suffix \n.\

SYN: Affix, postfix.

ANT: Prefix.

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KEY: Suffocate, [See SMOTHER].

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KEY: Suffrage.

SYN: Vote, voice, support.

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KEY: Suggest.

SYN: Hint, insinuate, propose, allude to, recommend, intimate.

ANT: Declare, propound, enunciate, insist, demand, dictate.

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KEY: Suit \v.\

SYN: Fit, adapt, match, adjust, harmonize, apportion, befit, beseem, tally, correspond, answer, comport, please, serve, agree, become, accord.

ANT: Misfit, misadapt, mismatch, misapportion, unbeseem, vary, differ, disagree, miscomport.

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KEY: Suit \n.\

SYN: Solicitation, petition, request, action at law, wooing, courtship, process, series, [See PETITION].

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KEY: Suitable \a.\

SYN: Proper, fitting, becoming, seemly, befitting, adequate, eligible, agreeable, appropriate, decent, convenient, accordant, competent, correspondent, harmonious, uniform, homogeneous.

ANT: Improper, unfitting, unbecoming, indecent, inconvenient, inaccordant, various, heterogeneous, unsuitable, incompetent.

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KEY: Sulky.

SYN: Sullen, gloomy, splenetic, churlish, ill-tempered, fretful, morose.

ANT: Genial, kindly.

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KEY: Sullen.

SYN: Gloomy, heavy, dismal, foreboding, sulky, moody, lowering, cheerless.

ANT: Bright, light, cheerful, favorable, genial, kindly, glad, gladsome, blithe.

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KEY: Sully.

SYN: Soil, efface, dirty, taint, tarnish, spot, stain, spoil, disgrace, dishonor.

ANT: Purify, cleanse, ennoble, dignify, signalize, glorify, honor.

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KEY: Sultry.

SYN: Close, oppressive, depressing.

ANT: Open, fresh, invigorating, bracing, elastic, exhilarating, breezy.

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KEY: Sum \n.\

SYN: Aggregate, total, example, problem, whole, amount, quantity, collection, substance, gist, tenor, height, completion, drift, bearing.

ANT: Part, portion, item, imperfection, incompleteness, miscalculation, misinterpretation.

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KEY: Summary \a.\

SYN: Compendious, short, succinct, brief, offhand, decisive, quick, sharp, unceremonious, informal, rapid, concise.

ANT: Tedious, circuitous, roundabout, protracted, formal, ceremonious, punctilious, slow.

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KEY: Summary \n.\

SYN: Analysis, tabulation, abridgment, resume, compendium, digest, epitome, abstract.

ANT: Dilatation, expansion, dilution.

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KEY: Summit.

SYN: Top, height, apex, culmination, zenith.

ANT: Bottom, depth, base, foot, nadir.

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KEY: Summon.

SYN: Call, cite, challenge, convene, convoke, invite, bid.

ANT: Discharge, remit, relegate, send, disband, prorogue, dissolve, discard, dismiss.

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KEY: Sumptuous.

SYN: Costly, gorgeous, superb, splendid, expensive, magnificent, prodigal, princely, lavish, munificent.

ANT: Poor, mean, inexpensive, sordid, niggardly, economical, illiberal, beggarly, frugal, parsimonious, saving.

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KEY: Superable.

SYN: Feasible, possible, manageable, surmountable.

ANT: Insuperable, indomitable, invincible, unmanageable, impossible, insurmountable.

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KEY: Superannuated.

SYN: Effete, timeworn, decrepit, passe'.

ANT: Vigorous, energetic, active, efficient.

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KEY: Superb.

SYN: Grand, magnificent, elegant, princely, splendid, showy, proud, august, stately, gorgeous.

ANT: Mean, common, commonplace, unimposing, shabby.

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KEY: Supercilious.

SYN: Haughty, contemptuous, disdainful, arrogant, i solent.

ANT: Affable, courteous, respectful, modest, bashful.

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KEY: Supererogation.

SYN: Superfluity, excess, superabundance, supervacaneousness, needlessness.

ANT: Necessity, unprofitableness, duty, shortcoming, deficiency.

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KEY: Superficial.

SYN: Light, slight, imperfect, showy, external, flimsy, surface, shallow, smattering, skin-deep.

ANT: Deep, profound, abstruse, recondite, accurate, exact, deep-seated.

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KEY: Superfluous, [See REDUNDANT].

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KEY: Superfluity.

SYN: Redundance, needlessness, supererogation, pleonasm, excess.

ANT: Necessity, necessary, requirement, shortcoming, deficiency.

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KEY: Superhuman.

SYN: Supernatural, miraculous, divine, hyperphysical, preternatural.

ANT: Natural, human, physical, unmiraculous.

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KEY: Superintend, [See SUPERVISE].

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KEY: Superintendence, [See OVERSIGHT].

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KEY: Superintendent.

SYN: Inspector, overseer, controller, director, manager, visitor, head, principal, supervisor.

ANT: Subject, subordinate, servant, employee.

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KEY: Superior.

SYN: Higher, upper, better, preferable, surpassing, loftier, excellent, remarkable, eminent, conspicuous.

ANT: Inferior, lower, worse, subordinate, ordinary, common, unremarkable, average, mean, mediocre.

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KEY: Superiority, [See INFERIORITY].

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KEY: Superlative.

SYN: Supreme, transcendent, greatest, highest, extreme, surpassing, consummate, extraordinary.

ANT: Common, ordinary, unremarkable.

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KEY: Supernal.

SYN: Celestial, heavenly.

ANT: Terrestrial, earthly, infernal, lower, sublunary.

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KEY: Supernatural, [See INFERIORITY].

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KEY: Supersede.

SYN: Remove, displace, obviate, oust, recal, neutralize, overrule, suspend, supplant.

ANT: Confirm, perpetuate, continue, introduce, supply.

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KEY: Superstition.

SYN: Bigotry, fanaticism.

ANT: Infidelity, skepticism, disbelief, rationalism, religion, devotion, worship, reason.

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KEY: Supervene.

SYN: Happen, accrue, succeed, occur.

ANT: Pass, depart, disappear, vanish.

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KEY: Supervise.

SYN: Superintend, control, manage, direct, visit, inspect, overlook.

ANT: Mismanage, miscontrol, misregulate, misdirect.

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KEY: Supine.

SYN: Lazy, indolent, indifferent, listless, inactive, negligent, inattentive, careless, sluggish, otiose, torpid.

ANT: Active, energetic, laborious, diligent, indefatigable.

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KEY: Supple.

SYN: Pliant, bending, yielding, flexible, elastic, servile, fawning, cringing, adulatory, sycophantic, lithe, limber, compliant.

ANT: Firm, unbending, unyielding, stiff, stubborn, inflexible, inelastic, independent, self-assertive, supercilious.

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KEY: Supplement \n.\

SYN: Addition, appendix, [See SUPERHUMAN].

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KEY: Supplicate.

SYN: Pray, beg, entreat, beseech, implore, solicit, crave, importune.

ANT: Order, command, insist, dictate, demand.

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KEY: Supply.

SYN: Furnish, afford, provide, accoutre, give, minister, yield, contribute.

ANT: Expend, use, consume, waste, exhaust, absorb, demand, withhold, withdraw, retain.

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KEY: Support \v.\

SYN: Bear, uphold, sustain, underlie, befriend, assist, second, promote, further, suffer, defend, foster, nurture, nourish, cherish, endorse, maintain, continue, countenance, patronize, subsidize, help, back, stay, favor, prop.

ANT: Drop, betray, surrender, abandon, discontinue, oppose, discourage, weaken, exhaust, thwart, discountenance, disfavor, subvert, suppress.

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KEY: Support \n.\

SYN: Prop, stay, foundation, buttress, help, aid, assistance, influence, maintenance, living, patronage, subsistence, livelihood, food, [See ADDENDUM].

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KEY: Supporter, [See ADHERENT].

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KEY: Suppose.

SYN: Assume, presume, believe, divine, deem, fancy, think, regard, conceive, imagine, imply, presuppose, conjecture, guess, conclude, judge, consider.

ANT: Prove, demonstrate, substantiate, realize, disbelieve, negative, deny.

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KEY: Supposition.

SYN: Conjecture, surmise, assumption, hypothesis, speculation, theory, guess, presumption, [See ADHERENT].

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KEY: Supposititious.

SYN: Fictitious, ascititious, adventitious, spurious, counterfeit, fancied, imaginary, sham, false.

ANT: true, genuine, authentic, veritable, actual, real.

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KEY: Suppress.

SYN: Overpower, extinguish, repress, stifle, check, subdue, quell, era h, destroy, restrain, conceal, hu n, stop, smother.

ANT: Raise, support, fan, excite, strengthen, incite, instigate, increase, aggravate, vent, publish, promulgate, spread, disseminate, intensify.

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KEY: Suppressible.

SYN: Extinguishable, restrainable.

ANT: Inextinguishable, irrestrainable, irrepressible, indomitable.

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KEY: Supremacy.

SYN: Sovereignty, nonsubjection, lordship, autocracy.

ANT: Inferiority, subordination, subjection.

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KEY: Supreme.

SYN: Greatest, highest, first, predominant, paramount, principal, sovereign, [See SPECULATION].

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KEY: Sure.

SYN: Certain, secure, safe, assured, unmistakable, stable, firm, knowing, believing, confident, trusting, unquestioning, positive, unfailing, strong, permanent, abiding, enduring, infallible, indisputable, fast.

ANT: Uncertain, ignorant, dubious, doubtful, hesitating, distrustful, questioning, vacillating, weak, untrustworthy, precarious, insecure, impermanent, transient, evanescent, fallible, disputable, loose.

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KEY: Surety.

SYN: Certainty, safety, security, guaranty, pledge, {[boudsumu]?}, bail, hostage, [See PARAMOUNT].

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KEY: Surfeit.

SYN: Superabundance, excess, glut, nimiety, plethora.

ANT: Scantiness, stint, defect, starvation, inanition, insufficiency.

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KEY: Surly.

SYN: Snarling, splenetic, rough, crabbed, gloomy, uncivil, [See CERTAINTY and HOSTAGE].

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KEY: Surmise \v.\

SYN: Suspect, imagine, conjecture, guess, fancy, presume, suppose, [See SULKY and SULLEN], Surmount, [See SUPPOSE and SUSPECT].

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KEY: Surpass.

SYN: Eclipse, outvie, excel, outstrip, exceed, outdo, outstep, surmount, transcend.

ANT: Fail, foil, equal.

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KEY: Surplus.

SYN: Redundancy, remainder, rest, overplus, residue, excess, balance.

ANT: Deficiency, deficit, shortcoming.

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KEY: Surprise.

SYN: Startle, astonish, alarm, amaze, confuse.

ANT: Prepare, premonish, forewarn.

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KEY: Surprising, [See SUCCUMB].

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KEY: Surrender.

SYN: Yield, submit, cede, relinquish, abandon, resign.

ANT: Withhold, vindicate, retain, resist, contend, strive.

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KEY: Surreptitious.

SYN: Stealthy, furtive, unauthorized, fraudulent, underhanded, clandestine.

ANT: Open, openhanded, frank, honest, ingenuous.

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KEY: Surround, [See ENCIRCLE].

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KEY: Survey.

SYN: Scan, view, inspect, reconnoitre, overlook, scrutinize, examine, superintend, review, contemplate.

ANT: Ignore, miss, disregard, misobserve, misview, overlook.

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KEY: Susceptible.

SYN: Capable, impressible, tender, sensitive.

ANT: Incapable, unimpressible, insensitive, insusceptible, impassible.

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KEY: Suscitate.

SYN: Rouse, excite, vitalize, fan, inflame.

ANT: Soothe, calm, allay, repress, deaden, mesmerize, extinguish, compose, repress, lay.

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KEY: Suspect.

SYN: Imagine, {[eurmi]?}, guess, conjecture, augur, doubt, mistrust, distrust.

ANT: Disbelieve, discredit, trust, confide, credit, accredit.

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KEY: Suspend.

SYN: Attach, hang, rest, interrupt, delay, intermit, stop, discontinue.

ANT: Detach, drop, remove, continue, expedite, protract, prolong.

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KEY: Suspense.

SYN: Protraction, uncertainty, doubt, solicitude, cessation, pause, waiting, intermission, discontinuance, abeyance, stoppage, indetermination, indecision.

ANT: Determination, settlement, execution, continuance, uninterruption, revival, determination, decision, finality.