Chapter 11

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KEY: Fastidious.

SYN: Critical, overnice, overrefined, censorious, punctillious, particular, squeamish, dainty.

ANT: Easy, indulgent, uncritical, coarse, omnivorous.

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KEY: Fat.

SYN: Corpulent, fleshy, brawny, pursy, rich, luxuriant, portly, stout, fertile, unctuous, obese, oleaginous.

ANT: Lean, slender, attenuated, emaciated, barren, poor, scant, narrowless, exsanguineous, anatomical.

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KEY: Fatal.

SYN: Calamitous, deadly, destructive, mortal, lethal.

ANT: Beneficial, wholesome, nutritious, vitalizing, salubrious, restorative, slight, superficial, harmless.

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KEY: Fate.

SYN: Necessity, destiny, lot, end, fortune, doom.

ANT: Will, choice, decision, freedom, independence.

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KEY: Fathom.

SYN: Gauge, pierce, measure, sound, probe.

ANT: Survey, glance, scan, overlook, miss, graze, skim.

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KEY: Fathomless.

SYN: Bottomless, profound, abysmal.

ANT: Superficial, shallow, skin-deep.

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KEY: fatigue \n.\

SYN: Weariness, languor, enervation, exhaustion, lassitude.

ANT: Freshness, vigor, activity, indefatigability.

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KEY: Fatigue \v.\

SYN: Harass, weary, tire, jade.

ANT: Inspirit, refresh, animate, enliven.

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KEY: Fatuity.

SYN: Folly, imbecility, idiotcy, infatuation.

ANT: Wisdom, sense, soundness, discernment, sobriety.

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KEY: Fatuous, [See FATUITY].

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KEY: Fault.

SYN: Defect, error, imperfection, flaw, misdeed, failure, omission, want, drawback.

ANT: Sufficiency, correctness, completeness, perfection.

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KEY: Faultless.

SYN: Complete, perfect, correct, accurate, stainless, blameless.

ANT: Incomplete, imperfect, incorrect, inaccurate, defective, corrupt, erroneous, faulty.

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KEY: Faulty, [See FAULT].

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KEY: Favor.

SYN: Permission, grace, concession, predilection, gift, civility, benefit, kindness, good will, regard, condescension, preference, boon, countenance, patronage.

ANT: Refusal, denial, prohibition, disfavor, withdrawal, withholding, frown, disapproval, injury, discountenance.

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KEY: Favorable.

SYN: Permissive, indulgent, propitious, concessive, partial, fond, liberal, advantageous, auspicious, friendly.

ANT: {[Rei'actant]?}, unpropitious, unfavorable, impartial.

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KEY: Favoritism.

SYN: Partiality, invidiousness.

ANT: Odium, prejudice, antipathy.

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KEY: Fawn upon.

SYN: Flatter, wheedle, cajole, cringe, palaver, slaver.

ANT: Insult, deride, satirize, censure, rebuke, reprimand, defy, dare.

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KEY: Fealty, [See FIDELITY].

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KEY: Fear.

SYN: Apprehension, solicitude alarm, fright, dread, terror, trepidation, dismay, consternation, misgiving, horror, timidity, awe.

ANT: Assurance, confidence, courage, fearlessness, trust, boldness.

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KEY: Fearful.

SYN: Timid, hesitating, terrible, awful, apprehensive, frightful, shocking, terrific, afraid, horrible, dreadful.

ANT: Bold, venturesome, confident, audacious, consolatory, inspiriting, assuring, alluring, attractive, hopeful, inviting.

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KEY: Fearless, [See COURAGEOUS].

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KEY: Feasible.

SYN: Possible, manageable, contrivable, permissible, practicable.

ANT: Impossible, unallowable.

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KEY: Feat, [See ACHIEVEMENT].

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KEY: Featly, [See FEAT].

SYN: Neatly, cleverly, dexterously, adroitly.

ANT: Clumsily, hardly, bunglingly.

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KEY: Feature.

SYN: Component, element, characteristic, indication, portion, mark, lineament, sign.

ANT: Whole, system, countenance, case, arrangement, (Here the antonym is the Correlative) Misindication, falsification, excrescence, blind, mask, disguise.

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KEY: Federation, [See CONFEDERACY].

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KEY: Feeble.

SYN: Wretched, weak, poor, frail, debilitated, dull, forceless, puny, nerveless, enfeebled, enervated, faint, infirm, incomplete, vain, fruitless, scanty, pitiable.

ANT: Strong, robust, active, effective, successful, abundant.

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KEY: Feeling.

SYN: Touch, sensation, contact, pathos, tenderness, impression, consciousness, sensibility, emotion, sentiment, passion, sensitiveness.

ANT: Insensibility, callousness, Imperturbability, inexcitable ty, coldness, insensateness.

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KEY: Feign, [See PRETEND].

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KEY: Feint, [See FEIGN].

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KEY: Felicitate, [See CONGRATULATE].

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KEY: Felicitous.

SYN: Happy, timely, successful, opportune, joyous.

ANT: Unfortunate, unhappy, untimely, unsuccessful, disastrous, inopportune, sad.

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KEY: Felicity, [See FELICITOUS].

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KEY: Fell. \a.\

SYN: Cruel, barbarous, inhuman, savage, bloody, direful, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, remorseless, relentless, fierce, truculent.

ANT: Generous, chivalrous, humane, lenient, propitious.

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KEY: Fell. \v.\

SYN: Cut, level, prostrate, demolish, subvert, waste, bare.

ANT: Plant, erect, support, propagate, stock, upraise, rear.

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KEY: Fellow.

SYN: Companion, adherent, equal, compeer, comrade, colleague, member, match, tally, correlative, partner, friend, associate.

ANT: Foe, opponent, stranger, mismatch, opposite, antagonist.

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KEY: Fellowship.

SYN: Association, membership, company, partnership, sociality, brotherhood, familiarity, intimacy, society, acquaintance.

ANT: Severance, disconnection, dismemberment, Felonious, [See CRIMINAL].

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KEY: Feminine.

SYN: Delicate, womanly, tender, modest, soft.

ANT: Robust, manly, indelicate, rude, rough, unfeminine.

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KEY: Fence.

SYN: Circumscribe, enclose, protect, elude, parry, stave.

ANT: Open, disenclose, catch, receive, suffer.

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KEY: Ferine, [See SAVAGE].

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KEY: Ferment.

SYN: Seethe, concoct, brew, warm, chafe, effervesce, rankle, fester.

ANT: Damp, cool, dissipate, subside, disperse, evaporate, heal.

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KEY: Ferocity, [See FIERCENESS].

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KEY: Fertile.

SYN: Rich, luxuriant, teeming, productive, exuberant, causative, conducive, pregnant, fraught, prolific, fecund, fruitful, ingenious, inventive.

ANT: Poor, sterile, barren, unproductive, ineffective, inconducive, fruitless, inoperative, uninventive, unimaginative.

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KEY: Fervor, [See ARDOR].

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KEY: Fester, [See FERMENT].

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KEY: Festive.

SYN: Convivial, jovial, gay, merry.

ANT: Solitary, deserted, ascetic, gloomy.

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KEY: Festivity, [See FESTIVE].

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KEY: Fetch, [See BRING].

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KEY: Fetid.

SYN: Stinking, corrupt, foul.

ANT: Inodorous, fresh, perfumed, scented, balmy.

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KEY: Fetter.

SYN: Manacle, hinder, restrain, clog, impede, shackle.

ANT: Free, liberate, expedite, accelerate.

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KEY: Feud.

SYN: Fray, affray, broil, contention, enmity, antipathy, animosity, quarrel, strife, bitterness, dissension, hostility.

ANT: Friendliness, sympathy, congeniality, clanship, pacification, reconciliation, sociality, neighborliness.

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KEY: Fever.

SYN: Heat, ardor, fervor, broil, flush, ferment, passion.

ANT: Coolness, composure, frigidity, iciness, indifference.

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KEY: Few.

SYN: Scant, rare, lacking.

ANT: Many, abundant, numerous.

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KEY: Fibre.

SYN: Strength, sinews, thews, toughness.

ANT: Laxity, debility, flabbiness.

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KEY: Fickle.

SYN: Fanciful, fitful, capricious, irresolute, changeable, vacillating, mutable, unreliable, veering, shifting, variable, restless, inconstant, unstable.

ANT: Sober, orderly, reliable, well-regulated, calculable, trustworthy, steady, uniform.

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KEY: Fiction.

SYN: Invention, fabrication, creation, figment, fable, falsehood, romance, myth.

ANT: Fact, truth, verity, reality.

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KEY: Fictitious.

SYN: Unreal, suppositious, spurious, imaginary.

ANT: Real, true, historical, genuine, authentic, veritable.

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KEY: Fidelity.

SYN: Fealty, attachment, truthfulness, allegiance, accuracy, closeness, exactness, faithfulness, integrity, loyalty, honesty.

ANT: Treachery, disloyalty, disaffection, untruthfulness, inaccuracy, inexactness, infidelity.

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KEY: Field.

SYN: Ground, scope, province, arena, scene, opportunity, room.

ANT: Circumscription, constraint, exclusion, debarment, interdiction.

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KEY: Fiendish, [See ANGELIC].

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KEY: Fierce.

SYN: Wild, savage, violent, raging, fiery, furious, impetuous, ferocious.

ANT: Mild, tame, docile, harmless, calm, gentle.

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KEY: Fierceness, [See FIERCE].

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KEY: Fiery.

SYN: Hot, vehement, ardent, fervent, fierce, passionate, irascible, choleric, excited, enkindled, glowing, fervid, impassioned, irritable, hotbrained.

ANT: Cold, icy, indifferent, phlegmatic, passionless, unimpassioned, mild, quenched, extinguished, tame.

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KEY: Fight.

SYN: Battle, contention, struggle, conflict, combat, contest, action, engagement, encounter.

ANT: Pacification, reconciliation.

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KEY: Figurative.

SYN: Metaphorical, poetical, tropical, rhetorical, symbolical, typical, emblematical.

ANT: Literal, prosaic, unpoetical, unmetaphorical.

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KEY: Figure.

SYN: Aspect, shape, emblem, type, image, condition, appearance, form, symbol, metaphor, likeness, delineation, illustration.

ANT: Misrepresentation, deformity, disfigurement.

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KEY: Filch, [See CABBAGE].

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KEY: File.

SYN: Rasp, polish, smooth, finish, perfect, improve, refine.

ANT: Roughen, jag, denticulate, acuminate, barb, cusp, notch.

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KEY: Filiation, [See AFFILIATION].

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KEY: Fill.

SYN: Replenish, content, supply, satisfy, gorge, glut, occupy, appoint, stuff, store, rise, swell, grow, expand, increase.

ANT: Exhaust, deprive, drain, dissatisfy, stint, vacate, misappoint, subside, shrink, ebb, evaporate, diminish.

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KEY: Filter.

SYN: Strain, percolate, refine, distil, ooze, exude, leak, depurate, defecate, clarify.

ANT: Befoul, muddle, disturb, thicken.

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KEY: Filthy.

SYN: Dirty, nasty, dingy, impure, unclean, squalid, foul.

ANT: Pure, sweet, clean.

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KEY: Filtration, [See FILTER].

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KEY: Fimbriated.

SYN: Fringed, tasselled, filamentous.

ANT: Bound, hemmed, unfringed, {[sel-]?}.

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KEY: final.

SYN: Terminal, last, latest, conclusive, definite, developed, ultimate, decisive.

ANT: Initiative, open, unconcluded, progressive, continuous, current, incipient, inaugural, inchoate, rudimental, nascent.

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KEY: Finality, [See FINAL].

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KEY: Find.

SYN: Meet, confront, ascertain, experience, perceive, discover, furnish, invent.

ANT: Miss, elude, overlook, lose, withhold, withdraw, misconstrue.

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KEY: Fine.

SYN: Thin, minute, slender, delicate, pure, smooth, filmy, gauzy, keen, artistic, choice, finished, high, Grand, noble, sensitive, refined, generous, honorable, excellent, superior, pretty, beautiful, showy, elegant, ostentatious, presumptuous, nice, casuistical, subtle.

ANT: Coarse, large, rough, blunt, rude, unfinished, mean, petty, illiberal, unimposing, paltry, modest, unaffected, affable, categorical, plain-spoken, unanalytical, unreflective, indissective.

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KEY: Finery.

SYN: Overornament, tawdriness, tinsel, gewgaw, trinkets, trash, dressiness, bedizenment.

ANT: Ornament, dress, decoration, adornment, chastity, simplicity, sobriety.

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KEY: Finical.

SYN: Affected, over nice, dandyish, dallying, foppish, spruce, factitious, euphuistic.

ANT: Unaffected, effective, practical, energetic, real, genuine, natural, outspoken, blunt, coarse, rude.

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KEY: Finish.

SYN: Complete, perfect, accomplish, conclude, achieve, end, shape, terminate.

ANT: Begin, commence, start, undertake, fail, miscontrive, mismanage, botch, mar.

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KEY: Finished.

SYN: Artistic, perfect, refined, high.

ANT: Inartistic, incomplete, rude, poor, coarse, unfinished.

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KEY: Finite.

SYN: Limited, bounded, terminable, restricted.

ANT: Unlimited, unbounded, infinite.

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KEY: Fire, [See FIERY].

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KEY: Firm.

SYN: Fast, secure, strong, steadfast, solid, stable, established, rooted, immovable, robust, unshaken, sturdy, resolute, determined, fixed, decided, attached.

ANT: Loose, insecure, weak, illrooted, tottering, vacillating, irresolute, ductile, exorable, indulgent, disaffected, wavering, unreliable.

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KEY: First.

SYN: Leading, primary, pristine, original, foremost, primitive, principal, primeval, highest, chief, earliest, {[onmost]?}.

ANT: Subsequent, secondary, subordinate, subservient, lowest, unimportant, last, hindmost.

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KEY: Fit.

SYN: Decent, befitting, meet, apt, fitting, adapted, seemly, appropriate, becoming, decorous, qualified, congruous, peculiar, particular, suitable, prepared, adequate, calculated, contrived, expedient, proper, ripe.

ANT: Awkward, ungainly, misfitting, ill-suited, unseemly, inappropriate, unsuitable, unprepared, Inadequate, miscalculated, miscontrived, inexpedient, improper, unfit.

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KEY: Fitful.

SYN: Capricious, fickle, unstable, restless, inconstant, mutable, impulsive, desultory, fanciful, unequal, irregular.

ANT: Regular, equable, systematic, orderly, calculable.

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KEY: Fitness, [See FIT].

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KEY: Fitting, [See FIT].

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KEY: Fix.

SYN: Place, settle, fasten, link, locate, attach, consolidate, tie, plant, root, establish, secure, determine, decide.

ANT: Displace, unsettle, disarrange, remove, uproot, transfer, transplant, disestablish, weaken, shake, reverse, disturb, change, unfix.

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KEY: Flaccid.

SYN: Flabby, limber, lax, tabid.

ANT: Firm, muscular, braced, plump, chubby, brawny.

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KEY: Flag.

SYN: Droop, pine, weary, tire, give in, faint, succumb, languish, decline.

ANT: Hold, freshen, flourish, persevere, battle, struggle, persist, recruit, recover.

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KEY: Flagitious.

SYN: Facinorous, atrocious, enormous, monstrous, disgraceful, nefarious, scandalous, flagrant, heinous, aggravated.

ANT: Noble, creditable, honorable, meritorious, distinguished, pardonable, justifiable, excusable, extenuated.

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KEY: Flagrant, [See FLAGITIOUS].

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KEY: Flaring.

SYN: Flaming, glaring, conspicuous, gaudy, bright, over-colored, flaunting, flashy, showy, tawdry, ostentatious.

ANT: Toned, subdued, harmonized, dull, dim, dowdy, dingy, neutral, colorless.

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KEY: Flashy, [See FLARING].

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KEY: Flat.

SYN: Dull, tame, insipid, vapid, spiritless, level, horizontal, absolute, even, downright, mawkish, tasteless, lifeless.

ANT: Exciting, animated, interesting, thrilling, sensational.

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KEY: Flatter, [See FAWN].

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KEY: Flatterer, [See FLATTER].

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KEY: Flaunt \v.\

SYN: Boast, vaunt, flout, flutter, flounce, display, flourish, parade, figure.

ANT: Suppress, conceal, retire, re-cede, skulk, hide, shrivel, collapse, furl.

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KEY: Flavor.

SYN: Taste, savor, smack, odor, relish, zest.

ANT: Insipidity, tastelessness, inodorousness, inawkishness, scentlessness.

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KEY: Flaw, [See BLEMISH].

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KEY: Flee, [See ESCAPE].

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KEY: Fleece.

SYN: Strip, despoil, shear.

ANT: Invest, endow, endue.

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KEY: Fleet, [See SWIFT].

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KEY: Fleeting, [See FLEET].

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KEY: Fleshy, [See FAT].

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KEY: Flexible.

SYN: Pliant, lithe, supple, elastic, easy, indulgent, ductile, flexile, yielding, pliable.

ANT: Tough, rigid, inelastic, inflexible, hard, inexorable.

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KEY: Flexion, [See FLEXIBLE].

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KEY: Flexure, [See FLEXION].

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KEY: Flicker.

SYN: Flutter, quiver, bicker, falter, waver, glimmer, shimmer, scintillate.

ANT: Stream, blaze, gleam, shine, beam.

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KEY: Flight.

SYN: Volitation, departure, escape, evasion, disappearance, flying, stampede, soaring, begin, fleeing, exodus.

ANT: Recurrence, return, reappearance, perching, alighting, repose.

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KEY: Flighty, [See ECCENTRIC].

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KEY: Flimsy.

SYN: Gauzy, poor, thin, transparent, trifling, trivial, puerile, inane, slight, superficial, weak, shallow.

ANT: Solid, sound, irrefragable, substantial, cogent.

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KEY: Flinch.

SYN: Blench, swerve, wince, recoil.

ANT: Dare, face, bear, meet, endure.

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KEY: Fling.

SYN: Cast, throw, emit, toss, hurl, ejaculate.

ANT: Snatch, grasp, hold, keep, retain, arrest.

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KEY: Flippant.

SYN: Pert, forward, superficial, thoughtless, saucy, malapert.

ANT: Flattering, servile, obsequious, accurate, considerate, deferential, complimentary, respectful.

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KEY: Flit, [See FLUTTER].

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KEY: Flitting, [See FLUTTER].

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KEY: Float.

SYN: Swim, spread, prevail.

ANT: Sink, drown, die, founder, vanish.

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KEY: Flock \v.\

SYN: Herd, congregate, throng, assemble, crowd.

ANT: Disperse, scatter, separate, segregate.

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KEY: Flock \n.\ [See FLOCK \v.\].

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KEY: Flood.

SYN: Deluge, inundation, abundance.

ANT: Drought, drain, ebb, scarcity, subsidence.

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KEY: Florid.

SYN: Rubicund, flowery, sanguine, ornate, overwrought, meretricious.

ANT: Pallid, exsanguineous, bare, unadorned, nude, sober, chaste.

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KEY: Flounce, [See FLAUNT].

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KEY: Flounder.

SYN: Roll, blunder, bungle, boggle, wallow, tumble.

ANT: Emerge, flow, course, career, speed, rise, flourish, skim.

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KEY: Flourish.

SYN: Prosper, thrive, speed, triumph, brandish, wave.

ANT: Fail, fade, decline, miscarry, founder, arrest, sheath, ground.

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KEY: Flout, [See FLAUNT].

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KEY: Flow.

SYN: Stream, issue, progress, glide, course, career, run.

ANT: Halt, stick, stickle, stop, hesitate, fail, stint, beat, recoil, regurgitate, ebb.

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KEY: Flower.

SYN: Perfection, blossom, bloom, acme, pride, ornament, gem, cream.

ANT: Disappointment, deformity, blot, abortion, scum, dregs, blight.

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KEY: Flowing.

SYN: Copious, abundant, fluent, exuberant, easy, eloquent.

ANT: Dribbling, dry, strained, meagre, labored, unready, difficult.

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KEY: Fluctuate.

SYN: Waver, oscillate, hesitate, vacillate, vary, veer.

ANT: Persist, abide, stay, stick, adhere.

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KEY: Fluent, [See FLOWING].

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KEY: Flummery.

SYN: Nonsense, trash, emptiness, froth.

ANT: Sense, nourishment, satisfaction, solidity, reason.

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KEY: Flurry \v.\

SYN: Agitate, excite, worry, ruffle, fluster.

ANT: Soothe, compose, quiet, calm, mesmerize.

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KEY: Flurry \n.\ [See VERB].

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KEY: Fluster, [See FLURRY].

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KEY: Fluted, [See CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Flutter.

SYN: Vibrate, quiver, palpitate, flicker, flit.

ANT: Perch, roost, nestle, settle, subside, collapse, rest, lull, pause, {[re]?}, pose, sink.

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KEY: Flux.

SYN: Flow, motion, progression, change, substitution, transmutation.

ANT: Stagnation, stillness, invariableness, identity, immutability, crystallization, arrestation.

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KEY: Fly, [See FLEE].

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KEY: Focus.

SYN: Centre, standpoint, rendezvous, convergence, nucleus.

ANT: Circle, dispersion, dissipation, divergence, Foe, [See FRIEND].

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KEY: Foggy.

SYN: Confused, dazed, absent, stupid, hazy, obscure, misty.

ANT: Clear, alive, alert, awake, luminous, lucid, bright, shrewd, sharp.

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KEY: Foible.

SYN: Peccadillo, failing, fault, weakness, infirmity.

ANT: Crime, atrocity, enormity, sin.

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KEY: Foil \v.\ [See BAFFLE].

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KEY: Foil \n.\

SYN: Set-off, background, contrast, enhancement, setting, elucidation.

ANT: Eclipse, outshining, extinction, overshadowing.

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KEY: Foist.

SYN: Falsify, counterfeit, palm, pass.

ANT: Expose, detect, verify, authenticate.

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KEY: Fold.

SYN: Double, enfold, embrace, envelop, inclose, wrap.

ANT: Unfold, disengage, expose.

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KEY: Follow.

SYN: Pursue, chase, accompany, obey, Imitate, succeed, result, ensue, attend, shadow, observe, copy.

ANT: Avoid, elude, quit, disobey, precede, cause, produce, abandon, shun.

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KEY: Follower.

SYN: Partisan, adherent, disciple, henchman, retainer, pursuer, attendant.

ANT: Leader, teacher, antagonist, opponent, rival.

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KEY: Folly.

SYN: Madness, nonsense, misconduct, imprudence, silliness, foolishness, weakness, absurdity, imbecility.

ANT: Sense, wisdom, sanity, judgment, prudence, sobriety.

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KEY: Foment.

SYN: Excite, cherish, fan, propagate, encourage.

ANT: Allay, extinguish, discourage, extirpate, quench.

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KEY: Fond.

SYN: Loving, attached, affectionate, foolish, silly, weak, doting, empty, enamored, devoted.

ANT: Unloving, averse, unaffectionate, strong-minded, austere, rational, well-grounded, sensible, undemonstrative.

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KEY: Fondle.

SYN: Dandle, pet, caress.

ANT: Tease, worry, annoy, chafe, irritate, ruffle.

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KEY: Fondness, [See FOND].

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KEY: Foolish.

SYN: Senseless, idiotic, crazed, shallow, weak, silly, injudicious, irrational, absurd, contemptible, objectionable, witless, brainless, imbecile, preposterous, ridiculous, nonsensical, simple.

ANT: Sensible, sane, deep, clearsighted, sound, sagacious, strongminded, wise, prudent, judicious, calculating, advisable, eligible.

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KEY: Footing.

SYN: Standing, status, condition, foundation, foothold.

ANT: Dislodgment, ousting.

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KEY: Foppish.

SYN: Finical, coxcombical, dandified, dressy.

ANT: Modest, unassuming, unaffected, dowdy, slovenly, clownish.

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KEY: Foray.

SYN: Raid, sally, inroad, {[dragonade]?}, escapade.

ANT: Flight, retreat, recall, decampment, stampede.

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KEY: Forbear.

SYN: Abstain, refrain, withhold, forego, avoid.

ANT: Seek, indulge, Forbid, [See BID].

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KEY: Forbidding.

SYN: Repulsive, deterrent, prohibitory, offensive.

ANT: Attractive, encouraging, alluring, seductive, permissive.

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KEY: Force.

SYN: Power, strength, agency, instrumentality, compulsion, cogency, vigor, might, dint, vehemence, pressure, host, army, coercion, validity, violence.

ANT: Feebleness, weakness, counteraction, neutralization, inefficiency, inconclusiveness, debility, pointlessness.

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KEY: Forego.

SYN: Waive, drop, abandon, abjure, renounce, give up, relinquish, yield, surrender, resign.

ANT: Claim, assume, vindicate, seize, grasp, retain.

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KEY: Foreign.

SYN: Strange, exotic, outlandish, alien, irrelevant, extraneous.

ANT: Domestic, native, congenial, pertinent, germane.

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KEY: Forerunner.

SYN: Predecessor, precursor, harbinger, herald, omen, Avant-courier.

ANT: Successor, follower.

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KEY: Foresee.

SYN: Predict, anticipate, foretell, forecast, foreknow, forebode, divine.

ANT: Reflect, remember, recollect, recurl.

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KEY: Forestall, [See ANTICIPATION].

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KEY: Forestallment, [See FORESTALL].

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KEY: Foretell.

SYN: Predict, preindicate, prognosticate, forebode, prophesy, presage, augur, foreshow, betoken, portend, forewarn.

ANT: Recite, narrate, detail.

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KEY: Forewarn, [See WARN].

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KEY: Forfeit.

SYN: Fine, penalty, mulct, amercement, damages, loss.

ANT: Premium, bribe, douceur, remuneration, compensation, reward, gratuity.

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KEY: Forefend.

SYN: Stave, obviate, prevent.

ANT: Rectify, mend, cure, redress, remedy.

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KEY: Forge.

SYN: Work, frame, produce, elaborate, fabricate, counterfeit, feign, falsify, form, shape, make falsely.

ANT: Shatter, batter, shiver, blast, fuse, detect, expose, verify, misconstrue, misfabricate, misshape.

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KEY: Forgery.

SYN: Falsification, counterfeit.

ANT: Signature, verification, attestation.

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KEY: Forget.

SYN: Lose, pretermit, {[un]?}, learn, obliviate, overlook.

ANT: Acquire, learn, remember, recollect, mind, retain, treasure.

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KEY: Forgive, [See PARDON].

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KEY: Forgotten.

SYN: Unremembered, bygone, slighted, overlooked, obsolete, disregarded, neglected.

ANT: Remembered, present, treasured, guarded, regarded, cherished.

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KEY: Forlorn.

SYN: Abandoned, deserted, forsaken, solitary, destitute, desolate, hapless, luckless, helpless, disconsolate, lone, woe-begone, lonesome, wretched.

ANT: Supported, attended, cherished, protected, befriended, cheered.

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KEY: Form.

SYN: Shape, mould, fashion, constitute, arrange, frame, construct, contrive, conceive, make, produce, create, devise.

ANT: Deform, dislocate, distort, dissipate, derange, dismember, disintegrate, analyze, disorganize.

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KEY: Formal.

SYN: Regular, complete, shapely, sufficient, correct, stately, dignified, ceremonious, pompous, stiff, precise, explicit, exact, affected, methodical.

ANT: Irregular, incomplete, informal, inadequate, incorrect, easy, unassuming, unceremonious.

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KEY: Formalism.

SYN: Rigidity, ceremoniousness, pomposity, externalism, parade, punctilio.

ANT: Simplicity, unostentatiousness, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness.

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KEY: Formality.

SYN: Ceremony, parade, affectation, stateliness, punctiliousness, etiquette.

ANT: [See FORMALISM].

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KEY: Formation.

SYN: Shape, structure, construction.

ANT: Deformity, malformation, dislocation, distortion.

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KEY: Former.

SYN: Preceding, antecedent, previous, prior, earlier, ancient, bygone, anterior, first-mentioned, foregoing.

ANT: Succeeding, subsequent, posterior, latter, modern, coming, future.

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KEY: Formidable.

SYN: Awful, terrible, alarming, terrifying, discouraging, serious, appalling, fearful, dreadful, horrible, shocking.

ANT: Despicable, weak, contemptible, light, trivial.

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KEY: Formless, [See FORM].

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KEY: Forsake, [See ABANDON].

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KEY: Forswear, [See ABJURE].

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KEY: Forthwith.

SYN: Immediately, instantly, directly, instantaneously.

ANT: By-and-by, hereafter, soon, presently.

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KEY: Fortify.

SYN: Strengthen, confirm, corroborate, garrison, brace, intrench.

ANT: Weaken, invalidate, dismantle.

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KEY: Fortitude.

SYN: Courage, endurance, braveness, calmness, resignation, hardihood, composure, resolution, stoicism, firmness.

ANT: Timidity, flinching, impatience, irritation, faintness, delicacy, effeminacy, womanishness, childishness.

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KEY: Fortuitous.

SYN: Accidental, undesigned.

ANT: Designed, purposed.

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KEY: Fortunate.

SYN: Lucky, propitious, happy, felicitous, prosperous, auspicious, providential, successful.

ANT: Unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, infelicitous.

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KEY: Fortune, [See CHANCE].

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KEY: Forward.

SYN: Advanced, ready, eager, anxious, obtrusive, self-assertive, impertinent, progressive, onward, confident, bold, presumptuous.

ANT: Tardy, backward, reluctant, indifferent, slow, retiring, modest.

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KEY: Foster, [See CHERISH].

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KEY: Foul, [See CORRUPT].

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KEY: Found.

SYN: Establish, institute, fix, set, build, set up, base, endow, rest, ground, plant, root.

ANT: Disestablish, subvert, supplant, uproot.

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KEY: Foundation.

SYN: Institution, establishment, footing, base, basis, origin, ground, groundwork, rudiments, substratum, underlying principle.

ANT: Disestablishment, superstructure.

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KEY: Founder \n.\

SYN: Author, instituter, establishes originator, planter.

ANT: Subverter, destroyer.

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KEY: Founder \v.\ [See FOUND and SINK].

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KEY: Fractious.

SYN: Snappish, peevish, cross, pettish, fretful, touchy, petulant, testy.

ANT: Good-humored, blithesome, genial, agreeable, complaisant.

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KEY: Fragile.

SYN: Delicate, frail, brittle, weak, slight, frangible.

ANT: Tough, hardy, stout, strong.

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KEY: Fragment.

SYN: Piece, bit, chip, morsel, driblet, scrap, remnant.

ANT: Bulk, body, mass, whole.

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KEY: Fragrant.

SYN: Odorous, scented, perfumed, balmy, sweet-smelling, aromatic, sweet-scented, odoriferous, spicy.

ANT: Inodorous, scentless, fetid.

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KEY: Frail.

SYN: [See FRAGILE], Irresolute, erring, mutable.

ANT: Resolute, virtuous, lasting.

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KEY: Frame, [See FORM].

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KEY: Franchise.

SYN: Freedom, immunity, exemption, right.

ANT: Obligation, disability, jurisdiction, liability, disqualification.

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KEY: Frangible, [See FRAGILE].

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KEY: Frank.

SYN: Ingenuous, candid, open, unreserved, artless, free, familiar, honest, easy, sincere, outspoken, plain.

ANT: Disingenuous, close, reserved.

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KEY: Frantic.

SYN: Mad, raving, furious, distracted, wild, frenzied, maniacal.

ANT: Sane, sober, calm, collected, cool, unruffled, composed.

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KEY: Fraternity, [See BROTHERHOOD].

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KEY: Fraternize.

SYN: Sympathize, consort, co-operate, associate with.

ANT: Renounce, abjure, forswear.

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KEY: Fraud, [See CHEAT].

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KEY: Fraught.

SYN: {[Loadal]?}, full, pregnant, teeming, abounding, charged.

ANT: Devoid, divested, exempt, empty, wanting, poor, scant.

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KEY: Freakish.

SYN: Sportful, frisky, whimsical, fanciful, capricious, erratic.

ANT: Steady, sober, demure, unwhimsical, unfanciful, reliable, consistent, uniform, equable.

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KEY: Free.

SYN: Detached, playing, operating, open, unoccupied, unobstructed, unimpeded, permitted, unhindered, exempt, gratuitous, unconditional, at liberty, clear, liberal, untrammelled, uncounted, careless, loose, easy, munificent, unreserved, frank, bountiful, generous, bounteous.

ANT: Subservient, bound, shackled, restricted, clogged, occupied, obstructed, impeded, compulsory, unlawful, biased, subject, liable, amenable, conditional, qualified, niggardly, stingy.

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KEY: Freight, [See CARGO].

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KEY: Frenzy.

SYN: Fanaticism, madness, raving, fury, fire.

ANT: Calm, composure, collectedness, coolness, sanity, sobriety, equanimity.

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KEY: Frequent.

SYN: Many, repeated, numerous, recurrent, general, continual, usual, common.

ANT: Few, solitary, rare, scanty, casual.

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KEY: Fresh.

SYN: New, young, vigorous, cool, recent, renewed, unimpaired, untarnished, unfaded, blooming, ruddy, novel, untried, modern, unskilled.

ANT: Old, stale, jaded, weary, former, stagnant, ordinary, original, impaired, tarnished, faded, decayed, pallid, sickly, putrid, mouldy, musty, fusty.

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KEY: Fret, [See CHAFE].

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KEY: Fretful.

SYN: Irritable, fractious, peevish, impatient, petulant, waspish.

ANT: Patient, forbearing, contented, meek, resigned, unmurmuring.

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KEY: Friable, [See FRAGILE].

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KEY: Fribble, [See TRIFLE].

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KEY: Friction.

SYN: Rubbing, grating, attrition, abrasion, contact.

ANT: Lubrication, detachment, isolation, noncontact.

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KEY: Friend.

SYN: Associate, companion, acquaintance, familiar, ally, chum, messmate, coadjutor, confidant, adherent.

ANT: Opponent, foe, adversary, antagonist, enemy.

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KEY: Friendless, [See FRIEND and FORLORN].

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KEY: Friendly.

SYN: Well-inclined, welldisposed, amicable, kindly, social, neighborly, sociable, affectionate, favorable, cordial.

ANT: ill-inclined, ill-disposed, hostile, inimical, adverse, antagonistic.

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KEY: Friendship, [See FRIEND].

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KEY: Fright, [See ALARM].

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KEY: Frightful.

SYN: Terrible, horrible, alarming, ugly, hideous, monstrous, dreadful, direful, awful, shocking, horrid, terrific.

ANT: Pleasing, attractive, beautiful, fair, encouraging, lovely.

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KEY: Frigid.

SYN: Cold, inanimate, lifeless, passionless, distant, forbidding.

ANT: Warm, ardent, impassioned.

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KEY: Fringed, [See FIMBRIATED].

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KEY: Frippery.

SYN: Trumpery, finery, tawdriness.

ANT: Apparel, costume, uniform, dress, decoration, ornament.

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KEY: Frisk.

SYN: Sport, leap, jump, play, dance, wanton.

ANT: Lie, ruminate, rest, repose, roost, mope, sulk.

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KEY: Frisky.

SYN: Sportive, playful, wanton.

ANT: Demure, sedate, meditative, pensive.

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KEY: Fritter.

SYN: Dribble, waste, idle, dissipate.

ANT: Economise, husband, cultivate.

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KEY: Frivolous.

SYN: Trifling, silly, trivial, petty, worthless.

ANT: Serious, earnest, important, grave.

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KEY: Frolic.

SYN: Play, game, sport, festivity, entertainment, gambol, gayety, lark, spree, merrymaking, prank.

ANT: Study, undertaking, purpose, engagement, occupation.

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KEY: Frolicsome.

SYN: Playful, gamesome, sportive, wanton, festive.

ANT: Serious, grave, studious, laborious, earnest.

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KEY: Front, [See FACE].

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KEY: Froth, [See BALDERDASH].

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KEY: Froward.

SYN: Contrary, perverse, untoward, wayward, refractory, fractious, disobedient.

ANT: Favorable, docile, amenable, ductile, agreeable, obedient, Frown, [See FAVOR].

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KEY: Frugal.

SYN: Sparing, economical, parsimonious, abstinent, abstemious, temperate, saving, thrifty, provident.

ANT: Profuse, luxurious, extravagant, prodigal, self-indulgent, intemperate.

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KEY: Fruit.

SYN: Production, outcome, outgrowth, result, consequence, produce, reward.

ANT: Seed, origin, cause, growth, operation.

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KEY: Fruitful.

SYN: Productive, prolific, pregnant, fraught, causative, effectual, useful, successful, fertile, abundant, plenteous, fecund, plentiful.

ANT: Unproductive, sterile, barren, fruitless, ineffectual, useless, abortive.

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KEY: Fruition.

SYN: Reaping, attainment, enjoyment, use, possession.

ANT: Disappointment, loss, nonattainment.

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KEY: Fruitless, [See FRIENDLY].

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KEY: Frustrate, [See BAFFLE].

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KEY: Frustration, [See FRUSTRATE and DISAPPOINTMENT].

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KEY: Fugacious.

SYN: Ephemeral, fugitive, fleeting, transient.

ANT: Persistent, perennial, perpetual, permanent.

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KEY: Fugitive, [See FUGACIOUS].

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KEY: Fulfil.

SYN: Fill, complete, discharge, verify, accomplish, achieve, execute, effect.

ANT: Neglect, ignore, disappoint, falsify.

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KEY: Fulminate.

SYN: Thunder, clamor, roar, vociferate, denounce.

ANT: Laud, panegyrize, eulogize.

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KEY: Fulsome.

SYN: Excessive, gross, loathsome, nauseous, sickening, fawning, offensive.

ANT: Chaste, sober, nice, delicate.

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KEY: Fumble, [See BUNGLE].

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KEY: Fumbler, [See BUNGLER].

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KEY: Fume.

SYN: Vapor, chafe, frown.

ANT: Acquiesce, smile.

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KEY: Function.

SYN: Office, part, character, capacity, business, administration, discharge, operation, exercise, power, duty, employment.

ANT: Usurpation, maladministration, misconduct, misdemeanor.

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KEY: Functionary.

SYN: Official, officer, servant, personage.

ANT: [See FUNCTION].

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KEY: Fund.

SYN: Stock, capital, investment.

ANT: Expenditure, outlay, disbursement.

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KEY: Fundamental.

SYN: Primary, important, indispensable, essential.

ANT: Secondary, unimportant, adventitious, ascititious, nonessential.

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KEY: Funereal.

SYN: Lugubrious, dismal, woeful, sombre, mournful, plaintive, deathlike, solemn.

ANT: Joyous, festive, ridiculous, funny, stirring, lively, farcical.

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KEY: Funny.

SYN: Sportive, droll, comical, laughable, humorous, jocose, ridiculous, ludicrous, diverting.

ANT: Dull, tedious, mournful, lugubrious, dismal, grave, serious, sad, lamentable.

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KEY: Furbish.

SYN: Brighten, polish, burnish.

ANT: Dull, cloud, tarnish.

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KEY: Furious, [See FRANTIC].

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KEY: Furnish.

SYN: Supply, provide, equip, afford, yield, bestow, purvey, give.

ANT: Withhold, withdraw, dismantle.

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KEY: Further, [See ADVANCE].

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KEY: Furtive.

SYN: Stealthy, clandestine, secretive, secret, sly.

ANT: Open, public, undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed.

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KEY: Fury, [See FURIOUS].

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KEY: Fuse.

SYN: Liquefy, melt, smelt, amalgamate, commingle, consolidate.

ANT: Disunite, disincorporate, diffuse, disamalgamate, Fusion, [See FUSE and BLEND].

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KEY: Fuss.

SYN: Stir, excitement, tumult, worry, ado, bustle, flurry, fidget.

ANT: Quiet, peace, sedateness, tranquillity, composure, calm.

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KEY: Fustian, [See BOMBAST].

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KEY: Fusty, [See FRESH].

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KEY: Futile.

SYN: Weak, ineffective, useless, nugatory, unavailing, vain, trifling.

ANT: Powerful, effective, cogent, useful, solid, substantial.

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KEY: Future.

SYN: Forthcoming, coming, advenient.

ANT: Gone, bygone, past.

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KEY: Gabble \n.\

SYN: Prate, jabber, jargon, stuff, babble, rattle, twaddle, gibber, chatter, gibberish.

ANT: Conversation, speech, eloquence, reticence, taciturnity, mincing, mouthiness, euphuism, grandiloquence.

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KEY: Gabble \v.\ [See GABBLE, \n.\].

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KEY: Gaffer, [See CODGER].

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KEY: Gag.

SYN: Silence, stifle, burke, muzzle, hush.

ANT: Evoke, provoke, inspire, animate.

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KEY: Gage.

SYN: Engage, bind, pledge, secure, pawn, deposit.

ANT: Intimate, promise, acquit, release, redeem.

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KEY: Gaiety, [See GAY].

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KEY: Gain \v.\

SYN: Acquire, get, win, procure, obtain, profit, benefit, earn, attain, realize, achieve, reap, reach.

ANT: Lose, forfeit, suffer.

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KEY: Gain \n.\ [See GAIN \v.\].

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KEY: Gainful.

SYN: Profitable, beneficial, advantageous, winning.

ANT: Unprofitable, detrimental, injurious, disadvantageous, gainless, losing.

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KEY: Gainless, [See GAINFUL].

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KEY: Gainsay, [See AFFIRM].

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KEY: Galaxy, [See BEVY].

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KEY: Gallant.

SYN: Brave, chivalrous, intrepid, courteous, heroic, fearless, courageous, valiant, bold, splendid, showy, gay.

ANT: Cowardly, churlish, discourteous.

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KEY: Gambol \v.\

SYN: Frolic, sport, frisk, play, caper, jump.

ANT: Tire, weary, droop, flog.

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KEY: Gambol \n.\ [See GAMBOL \v.\].

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KEY: Game.

SYN: Sport, recreation, pastime, amusement, frolic, diversion, play.

ANT: Study, toil, labor, business, duty, weariness, flagging.

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KEY: Gamesome, [See GAME and MERRY].

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KEY: Gang, [See CREW].

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KEY: Garb.

SYN: Dress, uniform, clothing, costume, vestments, apparel.

ANT: Undress, tatters, rags, shreds, nudity.

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KEY: Garble.

SYN: Misrepresent, misquote, mutilate, cook, dress, color, falsify, pervert, distort.

ANT: Quote, cite, extract, recite.

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KEY: Garbled, [See GABBLE].

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KEY: Garnish.

SYN: Deck, furnish, adorn, dress, furbish, beautify, embellish, decorate, ornament.

ANT: Denude, strip, dismantle.

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KEY: Garniture, [See GARNISH].

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KEY: Garrulity.

SYN: Verbosity, loquacity, talkativeness, chatter.

ANT: Reticence, taciturnity, laconism.

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KEY: Garrulous, [See GARRULITY].

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KEY: Gather, [See COLLECT].

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KEY: Gaud.

SYN: Trinket, trumpery, finery, gewgaw, bauble, kickshaw, gimcrack, whim.

ANT: Decoration, ornament, gem, jewel, valuable.

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KEY: Gaudy.

SYN: Tawdry, fine, meretricious, bespangled, glittering, showy, gay, garish.

ANT: Rich, simple, handsome, chaste.

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KEY: Gauge.

SYN: Measure, fathom, probe.

ANT: Survey, conjecture, view, {[ecan]?}, guess, observe, mismeasure.

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KEY: Gaunt.

SYN: Grim, savage, lean, lank, hungry, thin, spare, attenuated, emaciated.

ANT: Docile, tractable, tame, sleek, well-fed.

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KEY: Gawky.

SYN: Awkward, ungainly, uncouth, clumsy, clownish.

ANT: Neat, handy, graceful, handsome.

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KEY: Gay.

SYN: Merry, blithe, lively, jolly, sportive, sprightly, smart, festive, gladsome, pleasuresome, cheerful.

ANT: Heavy, melancholy, grave, sad, sombre, dull, dowdy.


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