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SYN: Uninterfering, impartial, indifferent, negative, unavowed.

ANT: Partial, interested, interfering, active, positive, declared, avowed.

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KEY: Neutrality.

SYN: Non-interference, indifference.

ANT: Interference, activity.

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KEY: Neutralize.

SYN: Counteract, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail.

ANT: Aggravate, enhance, Intensify.

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KEY: New.

SYN: Novel, recent, fresh, modern.

ANT: Old, ancient, antique, antiquated, obsolete.

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KEY: News.

SYN: Intelligence, Information, tidings, [See INTELLIGENCE].

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KEY: New-fangled.

SYN: Upstart, newlight, innovating, strange, odd, fantastic, novel.

ANT: Venerable, time-honored, established, ancient, old, old-fashioned.

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KEY: Nibble.

SYN: Carp, cavil, peck, object, demur.

ANT: Accept, eulogize, command, endorse, allow.

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KEY: Nice.

SYN: Fastidious, scrupulous, accurate, neat, discerning, dainty, pleasant, agreeable, exact, fine, finished, particular.

ANT: Coarse, unscrupulous, inaccurate, rude, rough, undiscriminating, nasty, nauseous, disagreeable.

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KEY: Sleety.

SYN: Fastidiousness, scrupulousness, accuracy.

ANT: Coarseness, inaccuracy, rudeness, roughness.

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KEY: Niggard, [See MISER].

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KEY: Niggardly, [See LIBERAL].

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KEY: Nimble.

SYN: Agile, quick, lively, sprightly, [See SLOW].

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KEY: Nobility.

SYN: Distinction, dignity, rank, peerage, lordship, loftiness, generosity, rank, aristocracy.

ANT: Obscurity, meanness, commonalty, serfdom, paltriness, contemptibleness, plebeianism.

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KEY: Noble.

SYN: Grand, aristocratic, generous, illustrious, exalted, worthy, magnanimous, dignified, excellent, lofty-minded, honorable, fine.

ANT: Mean, plebeian, ignoble, paltry.

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KEY: Nobody, [See CIPHER].

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KEY: Nocturnal.

SYN: Nightly, dark, gloomy, tenebrose.

ANT: Diurnal, light, brilliant, solar.

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KEY: Nodosity.

SYN: Protuberance, protuberousness, knottiness, tuberosity, lumpiness.

ANT: Planeness, evenness, smoothness, polish, levigation.

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KEY: Noise.

SYN: Sound, clamor, rattle, din, uproar, tumult.

ANT: Note, voice, music, melody, silence, still n ess, voicelessness, hush.

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KEY: Noiseless, [See NOISY].

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KEY: Noisome.

SYN: Hurtful, harmful, nocuous, pestilential.

ANT: Wholesome, salutary, salubrious, beneficial.

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KEY: Noisy.

SYN: Loud, clamorous, stunning.

ANT: Still, soft, inaudible, whispering, soothing, musical, melodious, harmonious, tuneful, subdued, gentle, noiseless.

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KEY: Nomad.

SYN: Pastoral, vagrant, Arab, Scythian, roving, migratory.

ANT: Fixed, unwandering, agricultural, unroving, urban.

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KEY: Nominal.

SYN: Trifling, suppositious, ostensible, professed, pretended, formal.

ANT: Real, deep, serious, important, grave, substantial, actual, intrinsic, veritable, essential.

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KEY: Nominate.

SYN: Name, specify, appoint, individualize, define, invest, present, entitle.

ANT: Suggest, indicate, conjecture, describe, recal, deprive, cancel, withdraw, divert.

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KEY: Nonsense.

SYN: Absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash.

ANT: Sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason.

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KEY: Nonsensical, [See FOOLISH].

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KEY: Normal.

SYN: Regular, typical, usual, recognized, natural, ordinary.

ANT: Abnormal, irregular, unnatural, exceptional, monstrous.

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KEY: Notable, [See REMARKABLE].

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KEY: Note \n.\ [See PARASITE].

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KEY: Note \v.\ [See NOTICE].

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KEY: Notice \n.\

SYN: Observation, cognizance, heed, advice, news, consideration, visitation, mark, note.

ANT: Oversight, disregard, misinformation, mistidings, neglect, slight, connivance, ignorance, incognizance, heedlessness, amnesty, omission.

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KEY: Notice \v.\

SYN: Mark, note, observe, attend to, mention, heed, regard, give heed to, [See REGARD].

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KEY: Noticeable, [See REMARKABLE].

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KEY: Notification.

SYN: Notice, declaration, publication, [See NOTICE].

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KEY: Notify.

SYN: Intimate, declare, announce, give notice to, acquaint, communicate, apprise, inform, warn.

ANT: Suppress, withhold, conceal, misreport.

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KEY: Notion.

SYN: Apprehension, idea, conception, judgment, opinion, belief, expectation, sentiment.

ANT: Misapprehension, falsification, misbelief, misjudgment, frustration, misconception.

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KEY: Notoriety.

SYN: Publicity, vogue, repute, celebrity, knowledge certainty.

ANT: Privacy, secrecy, concealment, obscurity, mystery, suspicion, rumor, whisper.

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KEY: Notorious.

SYN: Known, undisputed, recognized, allowed.

ANT: Suspected, reported, reputed.

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KEY: Nourish.

SYN: Nurture, fed, foster, cherish, nurse, tend, support, promote.

ANT: Starve blight, destroy, kill, wither.

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KEY: Nourishment, [See ALIENATE].

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KEY: Novel, [See NEW-FANGLED].

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KEY: Novice, [See TYRO].

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KEY: Noxious, [See NOISOME].

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KEY: Nucleus.

SYN: Core, central part, center, kernel, [See CORE].

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KEY: Nudity.

SYN: Nakedness, bareness, exposure.

ANT: Clothing, drapery, investment, dress.

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KEY: Nugatory.

SYN: Trifling, vain, inoperative, ineffectual, null, void.

ANT: Grave, serious, important, potent, efficacious, momentous, successful, satisfactory.

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KEY: Nuisance.

SYN: Offence, annoyance, plague, pest, trouble.

ANT: Gratification, blessing, pleasure, delight, benefit.

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KEY: Null, [See VOID].

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KEY: Nullify.

SYN: Abrogate, neutralize, cancel, abolish, extinguish, annul, quash, repeal.

ANT: Confirm, perpetuate, reenact, stabilitate, establish, cherish.

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KEY: Number, [See COUNT].

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KEY: Numberless.

SYN: Countless, innumerable, infinite,.

ANT: Few, scarce, rare.

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KEY: Numbness.

SYN: Hebetude, callousness, insensibility.

ANT: acuteness, sensibility, liveliness, sensitiveness.

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KEY: Numerous, [See MANY].

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KEY: Nuptial.

SYN: Connubial, hymeneal, bridal.

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KEY: Nuptials.

SYN: Wedding, marriage, espousal, [See MARRIAGE].

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KEY: Nurse, [See NOURISH].

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KEY: Nursery.

SYN: [See {[{d-plot}?], seminary, plantation, school.

ANT: World, life, education, profession.

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KEY: Nurture, [See NOURISH].

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KEY: Nutriment.

SYN: Aliment, food, sustenance, nourishment, replenishment, sustentation, {[pibalum]?}.

ANT: Starvation, languishment, decay, inanition, exhaustion, poison, detriment.

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KEY: Nutrition.

SYN: Alimentation, sustentation, feeding,.

ANT: Exhaustion, starvation, inanition.

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KEY: Oaf, [See BOOBY].

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KEY: Obdurate.

SYN: Hardened, obstinate, stubborn, impenitent, reprobate, callous, unfeeling, insensible, unyielding.

ANT: Softened, flexible, tender, teachable, yielding, penitent, docile, amenable.

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KEY: Obedience.

SYN: Submission, compliance, subservience.

ANT: Resistance, rebellion, violation, transgression, antagonism, disobedience.

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KEY: Obedient, [See SUBMISSIVE].

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KEY: Obesity.

SYN: Fatness, fleshiness, corpulence, plumpness, corpulency, embonpoint.

ANT: Leanness, thinness.

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KEY: Obey.

SYN: Submit, comply, yield.

ANT: Resist, disobey, refuse, [See OBEDIENCE].

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KEY: Object \n.\

SYN: Appearance, sight, design, end, aim, motive, intent, view, goal.

ANT: Idea, notion, conception, fancy, subject, proposal, purpose, effect.

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KEY: Object to \v.\

SYN: Oppose, contravene, obstruct, defer to, except to, gainsay, disapprove.

ANT: Approve, approve of.

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KEY: Objective.

SYN: Extrinsic, concrete, external.

ANT: Intrinsic, abstract, notional, subjective.

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KEY: Objurgate, [See SCOLD].

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KEY: Oblation.

SYN: Offering, presentment, gift.

ANT: Spoliation, sacrilege, withholding, resumption, refusal, negation.

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KEY: Obligation.

SYN: Duty, necessity, compulsion, contract, bond, covenant, belief.

ANT: Promise, word, choice, freedom, assurance, declaration, intention, exemption.

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KEY: Oblige.

SYN: Compel, coerce, necessitate, force, benefit, favor, accommodate, gratify, bind, constrain.

ANT: Release, acquit, induce, persuade, {[annon]?}, disoblige.

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KEY: Obliging.

SYN: Kind, considerate, compliant, complaisant, accommodating.

ANT: Discourteous, rude, crossgrained, perverse, unaccomadating, disobliging.

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KEY: Oblique.

SYN: Divergent, diagonal, lateral, angular.

ANT: straight, rectilineal, forward.

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KEY: Obliterate \v.\ [See EFFACE].

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KEY: Oblivion \n.\

SYN: Forgetfulness, disremembrance.

ANT: Remembrance, recollection, memory, reminiscence, commemoration, celebration.

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KEY: Obloquy.

SYN: Censure, blame, defamation, contumely, reproach.

ANT: Praise, panegyric, acclamation, encomium.

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KEY: Obnoxious.

SYN: Odious, detrimental, pernicious, amenable, liable, blameworthy, offensive, answerable.

ANT: Pleasant, grateful, whole some, salutary, beneficial, unamenable, independent, exempt.

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KEY: Obscene.

SYN: Impure, immodest, indecent, lewd, four, indelicate, filthy, disgusting, foul-mouthed.

ANT: Pure, modest, decent.

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KEY: Obscure \a.\

SYN: Dark, dim, lowering, indistinct, enigmatical, uncertain, doubtful, unascertained, humble, unintelligible, mean.

ANT: Bright, luminous, distinct, lucid, plain, plain spoken, intelligible, unambiguous, ascertained, eminent, prominent.

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KEY: Obscure \v.\

SYN: Conceal, darken.

ANT: Reveal, make known, discover.

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KEY: Obsequious.

SYN: Submissive, servile, deferential, cringing, sycophantic, flattering.

ANT: Insubmissive, independent, arrogant, self assertive, impudent.

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KEY: Observance.

SYN: Attention, fulfilment, respect, celebration, performance, ceremony, custom, form, rule, practice.

ANT: Inobservance, inattention, breach, disrespect, disregard, desuetude, disuse, non-performance, informality, ceremoniousness, omission,.

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KEY: Observant.

SYN: Regardful, attentive, mindful, obedient, watchful, heedful,.

ANT: Disregardful, neglectful, unmindful, disobedient, heedless.

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KEY: Observation.

SYN: Contemplation, study, remark, attention, notice, comment.

ANT: Disregard, oversight, inadvertence, inattention, silence, ignorance.

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KEY: Observe.

SYN: Remark, mark, watch, note, behold, perceive keep, heed, respect, [See PERCEIVE].

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KEY: Obsolete.

SYN: Antiquated, past, effete, disused, archaic, old-fashioned.

ANT: Fashionable, modern, current, customary, operative, extant.

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KEY: Obstacle.

SYN: Impediment, obstruction, hindrance, objection, bar, difficulty, check, obstruction.

ANT: Course, proceeding, career, advancement.

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KEY: Obstinate.

SYN: Headstrong, stubborn, refractory, self-willed, pertinacious, obdurate, perverse, intractable.

ANT: Amenable, complaisant, yielding, docile, ductile, characterless, irresolute, wavering.

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KEY: Obstinacy, [See OBSTINATE].

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KEY: Obstreperous.

SYN: Noisy, uproarious, clamorous, rattling.

ANT: Subdued, quiet, noiseless, inobstreperous.

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KEY: Obstruct.

SYN: Bar, block, choke, hinder, impede, interrupt, retard, clog.

ANT: Open, clear, pave, facilitate, expedite, further, advance, promote, accelerate, aid.

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KEY: Obstruction.

SYN: Hinderance, obstacle, impediment, [See OBSTACLE].

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KEY: Obtain, [See ACQUIRE].

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KEY: Obtestation.

SYN: Entreaty, supplication, adjuration.

ANT: Abjuration, deprecation, defiance.

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KEY: Obtrude.

SYN: Force, thrust, interfere, intrude.

ANT: Suggest, insinuate, retire, withdraw.

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KEY: Obtuse.

SYN: Dull, stupid, unintelligent, stolid, doltish.

ANT: Acute, clever, intelligent, quick, sharp.

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KEY: Obumbrate.

SYN: Shade, overshadow, darken.

ANT: Lighten, illumine, elucidate.

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KEY: Obverse.

SYN: Opposite, facing.

ANT: Hinder, reverse.

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KEY: Obvious.

SYN: Plain, self-evident, manifest, explicit, apparent, open, patent.

ANT: Remote, obscure, farfetched, involved, latent.

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KEY: Occasion \n.\

SYN: Conjuncture, opportunity, occurrence, cause, need, event, reason, necessity, opening, ground.

ANT: Untimeliness, unseasonableness, frustration.

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KEY: Occasion \v.\

SYN: Cause, make, create, [See PRODUCE and CREATE].

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KEY: Occasionally.

SYN: Sometimes, casually, rarely.

ANT: Always, regularly, constantly, frequently.

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KEY: Occult.

SYN: Latent, hidden, unrevealed, mysterious, secret, dark, unknown.

ANT: Developed, plain, patent clear, familiar, exposed, open.

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KEY: Occupancy.

SYN: Possession, enjoyment, tenure.

ANT: Ejection, eviction, dispossession.

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KEY: Occupant.

SYN: Owner, resident, proprietor, tenant, occupier.

ANT: Foreigner, stranger, visitor, intruder, usurper.

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KEY: Occupation.

SYN: Employment, avocation, possession, usurpation, encroachment, tenure, calling, pursuit, trade, business, holding.

ANT: Idleness, vacancy, leisure, abandonment, vacation, re signation.

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KEY: Occupier, [See OCCUPANT].

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KEY: Occupy.

SYN: Hold, possess, employ, fill, busy, [See HOLD].

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KEY: Occur.

SYN: Befall, happen, betide, supervene, take place, appear, arise.

ANT: Pass, threaten, impend.

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KEY: Occurrence.

SYN: Event, affair, incident, transaction, adventure, [See EVENT].

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KEY: Ocular.

SYN: Visible, demonstrable, palpable.

ANT: Inferential, auricular, hearsay, circumstantial, deductive, constructive.

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KEY: Odd.

SYN: Alone, sole, unmatched, remaining, over, fragmentary, uneven, singular, peculiar, queer, quaint, fantastical, uncommon, nondescript.

ANT: Aggregate, consociate, matched, balanced, squared, integrant, even, common, usual, regular, normal.

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KEY: Odious.

SYN: Hateful, offensive, detestable, abominable.

ANT: Delectable, grateful, acceptable, pleasant.

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KEY: Odium.

SYN: Hatred, offensiveness, dislike, invidiousness, jealousy, unpopularity, grudge.

ANT: Love, tastefulness, accept, ableness, popularity, ungrudging, news, welcome.

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KEY: Odor.

SYN: Smell, scent, fragrance, perfume, redolence, effluvium, fume, trail, nidor.

ANT: inodorousness, absence of smell, want of smell.

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KEY: Odorous, [See FRAGRANT].

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KEY: Offal, [See CREAM].

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KEY: Offence, Offense.

SYN: Attack, sin, crime, umbrage, transgression, crime, misdeed, injury, wrong, affront, outrage, insult, trespass, indignity, misdemeanor.

ANT: defence, innocence, guiltlessness.

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KEY: Offend.

SYN: Displease, affront, outrage, irritate, shock, annoy, pain, wound, nettle, vex, err, fall.

ANT: Conciliate, gratify, please.

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KEY: Offender, [See CULPRIT].

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KEY: Offensive.

SYN: Aggressive, obnoxious, distasteful, displeasing, foul, fetid, unsavory.

ANT: Defensive, grateful, pleasant, savory.

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KEY: Offer.

SYN: Propose, exhibit, proffer, present, tender, extend, adduce, volunteer.

ANT: Withhold, withdraw, retract, retain, alienate, divest.

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KEY: Offering, [See OFFER and OBLATION].

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KEY: Off-hand.

SYN: Impromptu, unpremeditated, extempore, unstudied,.

ANT: premeditated, studied, thought out, elaborate.

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KEY: Office.

SYN: Service, duty, appointment, function, employment, station, business post.

ANT: Leisure, vacancy, resignation, sinecure.

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KEY: Officer.

SYN: Official, functionary, conductor, director, administrator, manager, dignitary, official.

ANT: Member, servant, private, sinecurist.

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KEY: Official \n.\ [See OFFICER].

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KEY: Official \n.\

SYN: Administrative, authoritative, negotiative, functional, professional.

ANT: Private, unofficial, unprofessional.

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KEY: Officiate.

SYN: Act, serve, perform.

ANT: Retire, witness.

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KEY: Officious.

SYN: Meddling, interfering, pushing, forward, intrusive, intermeddling.

ANT: Backward, negligent, remiss, unofficious, retiring, modest, backward.

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KEY: Often.

SYN: Frequently, repeatedly.

ANT: Infrequently, seldom.

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KEY: Ogre.

SYN: Spectre, goblin, hobgoblin, , bugbear, [See SPECTRE].

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KEY: Oily, [See OLEAGINOUS].

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KEY: Old.

SYN: Aged, pristine, long-standing, ancient, preceding, antiquated, obsolete, senile antique.

ANT: Youthful, young, recent, fresh, modern, subsequent, newfashioned, current.

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KEY: Oleaginous.

SYN: Oily, unctuous, pulchritudinous.

ANT: Harsh, dry, sour, acid, moistureless.

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KEY: Omen.

SYN: Augury, sign, presage, portent, forboding, prognostic, [See PRESAGE].

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KEY: Ominous.

SYN: Portentous, suggestive, threatening, foreboding, premonitory, unpropitious.

ANT: Auspicious, propitious, encouraging.

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KEY: Omission.

SYN: Oversight, exclusion.

ANT: Attention, insertion, notice.

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KEY: Omit.

SYN: Neglect, fail, miss, leave out, pass by, overlook, [See NEGLECT].

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KEY: Omnipotent.

SYN: all-powerful, Almighty, irresistible,.

ANT: powers, inefficient.

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KEY: Omniscient.

SYN: All-knowing, all-wise, infallible.

ANT: Short sight, ignorant, fallible.

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KEY: One.

SYN: Single, undivided, individual.

ANT: Many.

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KEY: Oneness, [See UNITY].

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KEY: Onerous.

SYN: Burdensome, toilsome, heavy, responsible, oppressive, laborious, oppose, difficult.

ANT: Light, easy, trivial, inoppressive.

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KEY: Only \a.\

SYN: Single, sole, alone, solitary.

ANT: Many, together, mixed.

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KEY: Only, adv.

SYN: Solely, singly, merely, simply, barely.

ANT: Among, amongst, together, collectively.

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KEY: Onset, [See ATTACK].

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KEY: Onslaught, [See ATTACK].

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KEY: Onward.

SYN: Forward, ahead, in advance.

ANT: Backward, astorm, aback.

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KEY: Ooze.

SYN: Distill, drop, drip, percolate, perspire, sweat, drain, leak, transude.

ANT: [See POULTICE], rush, flow, stream, disgorge.

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KEY: Opaque, [See TRANSPARENT].

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KEY: Open \v.\

SYN: Unclose, lay open, lay Dare expose, explain, disclose, initiate, begin, commence.

ANT: Close, shut up, conceal, inclose, mystify, misinterpret, conclude, cover.

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KEY: Open \a.\

SYN: Accessible, free, available, unshut, unfolded, public, free, unrestricted, unreserved, unaffected, genuine, barefaced, undisguised, above-board, liberal, unclosed, candid, frank, ingenuous, unsettled, undetermined.

ANT: Inaccessible, closed, barred, unavailable, shut, close, secretive, reserved, settled, determined.

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KEY: Opening.

SYN: Aperture, gap, opportunity, space, commencement, initiation, start, inauguration, hole, fissure, chink, beginning.

ANT: Occlusion, obstruction, stopgap, unreasonableness, contretemps, inopportuneness, enclosure, termination, close, end, conclusion.

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KEY: Operate.

SYN: Act, work, produce, effect, produce an effect, have effect.

ANT: Cease, rest, fail, misoperate.

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KEY: Operation.

SYN: Agency, action, exercise, production, influence, performance.

ANT: Cessation, inaction, rest, inoperativeness, inefficacy, inefficiency, misoperation.

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KEY: Operative.

SYN: Active, efficacious, serviceable, binding.

ANT: Inefficacious, inoperative.

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KEY: Operose.

SYN: Onerous, laborious, burdensome, tedious, wearisome, toilsome.

ANT: Light, unburdensome, stimulating, refreshing.

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KEY: Opine.

SYN: Think, believe, conjecture, suppose, judge, surmise.

ANT: Know, ascertain, verify.

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KEY: Opinion.

SYN: Conviction, view, judgment, notion, idea, impression, estimation, theory.

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KEY: Opinionative.

SYN: Dictatorial, dogmatical, self-conceited, oracular.

ANT: Modest, diffident, inquiring, vacillating, cautious, undemonstrative.

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KEY: Opponent, [See ADVERSARY].

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KEY: Opportune.

SYN: Timely, seasonable, appropriate, felicitous, suitable, fit, meet, auspicious.

ANT: Inopportune, untimely, unseasonable, infelicitous.

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KEY: Opportunity.

SYN: Occasion, turn, opening, convenience.

ANT: Inopportuneness, unseasonableness, lapse, omission, contretemps.

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KEY: Oppose.

SYN: Withstand, resist, mutch, obstruct, confront, oppugn, bar, hinder, contravene, check, thwart.

ANT: Aid, abet, back, support, advance, expedite.

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KEY: Opposition.

SYN: Resistance, hostility, obstacle, obstruction, [See ANIMOSITY].

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KEY: Opposite.

SYN: Facing, adverse, repugnant, inconsistent, irreconcilable, contrary, antagonistic, counter, contradictory.

ANT: Agreeing, coincident, consentaneous.

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KEY: Oppress.

SYN: Burden, grind, weigh down, persecute, aggrieve, maltreat, abuse, overbear, constrain.

ANT: Encourage, support, patronize, assist, befriend.

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KEY: Oppression.

SYN: Cruelty, tyranny, severity, injustice, hardship.

ANT: Kindness, mercy, clemency, leniency, justice, [See TYRANNY].

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KEY: Oppressive.

SYN: Heavy, overpowering, unjust, {[gaLLug]?}, extortionate, grinding.

ANT: light, just, compassionate, [See {[CBTJKL]?}].

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KEY: Opprobrious.

SYN: Insulting, infamous, [See ABUSIVE].

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KEY: Opprobrium.

SYN: Reproach, scandal, disgrace, obloquy, ignominy, odium, [See OBLOQUY and ODIUM].

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KEY: Option.

SYN: Discretion, choice, preference, deliberation, wish, election.

ANT: Obligation, necessity, burden, compulsion.

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KEY: Opulence.

SYN: Wealth, affluence, riches, fortune.

ANT: Poverty, indigence, impecuniosity.

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KEY: Opulent.

SYN: Rich, well to do, moneyed, affluent, [See RICH].

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KEY: Oracular, [See OPINIONATIVE].

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KEY: Oral.

SYN: Unwritten, traditional, vocal, spoken, verbal.

ANT: Written, documentary.

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KEY: Oration, [See COGITATE].

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KEY: Oratory.

SYN: Eloquence, rhetoric, elocution, declamation.

ANT: Hesitation, tardiloquence, imperfection of speech.

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KEY: Orb.

SYN: Sphere, circle, ball, globe.

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KEY: Orbit.

SYN: Revolution, path, circuit, sphere.

ANT: Eccentricity, deviation, perturbation.

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KEY: Ordain.

SYN: Set, appoint, decree, institute, prescribe, arrange, direct, regulate, dictate, establish.

ANT: Subvert, revoke, cancel, annul, disestablish, countermand.

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KEY: Ordeal.

SYN: Test, trial, probation, experiment.

ANT: Argument, plea, discussion, Investigation, evidence.

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KEY: Order \n.\

SYN: Arrangement, condition, sequence, direction, rank, grade, class, decree, succession, series, method, injunction, precept, command.

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KEY: Order \v.\

SYN: Arrange, dispose, regulate, adjust, direct, command, classify, ordain, enjoin, prescribe, appoint, manage, [See ABRIDGMENT].

ANT: Disarrangement, confusion, unsettlement, inversion, execution, disorder.

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KEY: Orderly.

SYN: Regular, equable, peaceable, methodical, quiet.

ANT: Irregular, disorderly, riotous.

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KEY: Ordinance.

SYN: Statute, Institute, decree, law, edict, regulation, rule.

ANT: Custom, usage, prescription.

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KEY: Ordinary.

SYN: Settled, wonted, conventional, plain, inferior, commonplace, humdrum, matter of fact.

ANT: Extraordinary, unusual, uncommon, superior, [See FUTILE].

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KEY: Organic.

SYN: Fundamental, constitutional, radical.

ANT: Nonessential, circumstantial, contingent, provisional.

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KEY: Organization.

SYN: Structure, form, construction.

ANT: Disorganization.

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KEY: Organize.

SYN: Shape, adjust, constitute, frame, dispose, arrange, construct.

ANT: Distort, break up, annul, disorganize, dismember, disband.

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KEY: Orifice.

SYN: Aperture, perforation, mouth, opening, hole, bung, bunghole.

ANT: Obstruction, stopper, plug, imperforation.

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KEY: Origin.

SYN: Source, commencement, spring, cause, derivation, rise, beginning.

ANT: Termination, conclusion, extinction.

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KEY: Original.

SYN: Primary, initiatory, primordial, peculiar, pristine, ancient, former, first.

ANT: Subsequent, terminal, modern, later, derivative.

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KEY: Originate.

SYN: Commence, spring, rise, start, initiate, invent, create, cause to be made, proceed, emanate.

ANT: Prosecute, conduct, apply.

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KEY: Ornament \n.\

SYN: Decoration, embellishment.

ANT: Disgrace, brand, disfigurement.

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KEY: Ornament, [See ADORN].

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KEY: Ornate.

SYN: Decorated, embellished, rich, high-wrought, ornamented.

ANT: Plain, chaste, nude, naked, bare, bald.

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KEY: Orthodox.

SYN: Correct, sound, true.

ANT: Heretical, unorthodox.

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KEY: Ostensible.

SYN: Avowed, pretended, declared, professed, manifest, visible, nominal, apparent, outward.

ANT: Real, genuine, concealed, unpretended, actual, veritable.

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KEY: Ostentation.

SYN: Show, parade, display, flourish, pomp, vaunting, boasting.

ANT: Reserve, retirement, modesty, concealment, unobtrusiveness, quiet, diffidence.

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KEY: Ostentations.

SYN: Showy, vain, boastful, vainglorious.

ANT: Modest, quiet, retired.

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KEY: Ostracism.

SYN: Banishment, expulsion, blackball.

ANT: Admittance, enlistment, out voting.

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KEY: Oust.

SYN: Eject, dispossess, deprive, evict, eject, dislodge, remove.

ANT: Install, reinstate, readmit, restore.

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KEY: Outbreak.

SYN: Outburst, tumult, commotion, insurrection, rebellion, ebullition.

ANT: Subsidence, pacification, quelling, quiet, order, cooling.

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KEY: Outcast.

SYN: Castaway, reprobate, vagrant, vagabond, exile, [See VAGABOND].

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KEY: Outcry.

SYN: Clamor, tumult, denunciation, hullabaloo, yell, noise, scream.

ANT: Acclamation, plaudit, quiet, silence.

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KEY: Outdo.

SYN: Outstrip, transcend, eclipse, [See SURPASS and TRANSCEND].

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KEY: Outer.

SYN: Outward, outside, external, exterior.

ANT: Inward, inside, internal, interior, [See OUTWARD].

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KEY: Outlandish.

SYN: Strange, queer, grotesque, foreign, rustic, barbarous, rude.

ANT: Fashionable, modish, native.

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KEY: Outlaw.

SYN: Brigand, bandit, robber, highwayman, freebooter, [See ROBBER].

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KEY: Outlet.

SYN: Egress, exit, vent.

ANT: Ingress, entrance.

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KEY: Outline.

SYN: Delineation, sketch, contour, draft, plan.

ANT: Form, substance, figure, object, subject, field, ground, bulk, space.

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KEY: Outlive.

SYN: Outlast, survive.

ANT: Die, perish.

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KEY: Outlook.

SYN: Prospect, view, eight, [See PROSPECT].

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KEY: Outrage.

SYN: Outbreak, offence, wantonness, mischief, abuse, ebullition, violence, indignity, affront, insult.

ANT: Moderation, self-control, selfrestraint, subsidence, coolness, calmness.

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KEY: Outrageous.

SYN: Excessive, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, wanton, flagrant, nefarious, atrocious, violent.

ANT: Moderate, justifiable, reasonable.

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KEY: Outset.

SYN: Opening, start, commencement, exordium, beginning, inauguration, preface.

ANT: Close, termination, conclusion, peroration.

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KEY: Outshine.

SYN: Surpass, eclipse, overshadow.

ANT: Foil, relieve, back.

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KEY: Outskirts.

SYN: Border, outpost, purlieu, environs, precincts.

ANT: Interior, centre, bulk, body, mass, heart.

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KEY: Outspoken.

SYN: Plain, frank, unreserved, candid.

ANT: Mysterious, enigmatical, reserved, taciturn, secretive, uncommunicative.

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KEY: Outspread.

SYN: Expanded, unfolded, wrapped, patent, dispread, open, outstretched.

ANT: Folded, contracted, closed, furled, collapsed.

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KEY: Outstanding.

SYN: Unappropriated, uncollected, ungathered.

ANT: Appropriated, collected, gathered.

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KEY: Outstep.

SYN: Exceed, transgress, outstrip, outwalk.

ANT: Observe, regard, accompany, attend.

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KEY: Outstretched, [See OUTSPREAD].

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KEY: Outstrip.

SYN: Surpass, beat, distance, eclipse.

ANT: Follow, succeed.

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KEY: Outvie, [See VIE and ECLIPSE].

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KEY: Outward.

SYN: External, apparent, visible, sensible, superficial, ostensible, forthcoming, extrinsic, extraneous.

ANT: Internal, intrinsic, withdrawn, inapparent, inward.

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KEY: Outweigh.

SYN: Outbalance, overbalance, [See PREPONDERATE].

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KEY: Outwit.

SYN: Outgeneral, circumvent, [See CIRCUMVENT].

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KEY: Outwork.

SYN: Screen, abattis, propugnation, fortification, escarpment.

ANT: Stand, position, ground, centre.

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KEY: Ovation, [See TRIUMPH], Overawe, [See BROWBEAT].

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KEY: Overbalance, [See BALANCE].

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KEY: Overbearing.

SYN: Bullying, domineering, [See ARROGANCE].

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KEY: Overcast.

SYN: Cloudy, nubilous, lowering, murky.

ANT: Cloudless, clear, luminous, azure.

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KEY: Overcharge.

SYN: Overload, surfeit, [See CHARGE and EXAGGERATE].

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KEY: Overcome.

SYN: Vanquish, get the better of, surmount, [See CONQUER] KEY:, Overestimate, [See DISPARAGE].

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KEY: Overflow.

SYN: Redundancy, exuberance, superabundance, deluge, inundation.

ANT: Deficiency, exhaustion, subsidence.

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KEY: Overflowing, [See ABUNDANT].

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KEY: Overjoyed.

SYN: Transported, delighted, enraptured.

ANT: Saddened, depressed, disgusted.

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KEY: Overlook.

SYN: Condone, connive, disregard, oversee, supervise, inspect, survey, review, excuse, pardon, forgive, neglect.

ANT: Visit, scrutinize, investigate, mark.

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KEY: Overplus.

SYN: Surplus, surplusage, residue, excess, [See REMAINDER].

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KEY: Overpower, [See MASTER].

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KEY: Overreach, [See CIRCUMVENT].

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KEY: Overruling.

SYN: Governing, controlling, superior, predominant.

ANT: Governed, controlled, inferior, [See SUPERIOR].

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KEY: Overrun.

SYN: Lay-waste, devastate, [See RAVAGE].

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KEY: Oversee.

SYN: Superintend, supervise, [See OVERLOOK].

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KEY: Oversight.

SYN: Error, omission, mistake, neglect, slip, inadvertence, inspection, superintendence.

ANT: Scrutiny, correction, emendation, attention, mark, notice.

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KEY: Overt.

SYN: Deliberate, public, open, avowed, manifest.

ANT: Covert, secret, implied, clandestine, furtive.

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KEY: Overthrow.

SYN: Destroy, subvert, upset, overturn, ruin, demolish, defeat, rout, overcome, discomfit, invert, overset, reverse.

ANT: Restore, reinstate, construct, regenerate, redintegrate, revive, reedify.

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KEY: Overture.

SYN: Prelude, advance, proposal, offer, invitation, lead, initiation.

ANT: Inaction, undemonstrativeness, quiescence.

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KEY: Overturn, [See OVERTHROW].

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KEY: Overvalue.

SYN: Overestimate, overprize, overrate.

ANT: Underestimate, underprize, underrate.

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KEY: Overweening.

SYN: Vain, conceited, haughty, egotistical, [See AFFABLE and VAIN].

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KEY: Overwhelm.

SYN: Crush, quell, extinguish, drown, subdue, swamp.

ANT: Raise, reinvigorate, reinstate, re-establish, rescue, extricate.

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KEY: Owe.

SYN: Borrow, hypothecate, attribute.

ANT: Requite, repay, liquidate, defray.

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KEY: Owing.

SYN: Due, imputable, ascribable, attributable.

ANT: Casually, perchance, by chance, by accident.

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KEY: Own.

SYN: Possess, hold, have, acknowledge, avow, admit, confess.

ANT: Alienate, forfeit, lose, disclaim, disavow, disinherit, disown, abjure, abandon.

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KEY: Owner.

SYN: Proprietor, possessor.

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KEY: Pabular.

SYN: Esculent, nutritious, comestible, alimental.

ANT: Uneatable, innutritions.

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KEY: Pace.

SYN: Step, stride, tread, gait.

ANT: Standing still.

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KEY: Pacific.

SYN: Conciliatory, mild, appeasing, calm, tranquil, peaceful.

ANT: Unconciliatory, harsh, quarrelsome, exasperating, irritating, turbulent, noisy, tumultuous, warlike.

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KEY: Pacification.

SYN: Conciliation, reconciliation, reconcilement, arrangement, compromise, adjustment.

ANT: Warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword.

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KEY: Pacify.

SYN: Appease, conciliate, calm, still, soothe, quiet, tranquillize.

ANT: Exasperate, agitate, excite, irritate, rouse, provoke.

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KEY: Pack \n.\

SYN: Burden, bundle, package, lot, parcel, load, [See BURDEN].

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KEY: Pack \v.\

SYN: Stow, compact, compress, cook.

ANT: Unpack, unsettle, jumble, displace, misarrange, dissipate, neutralize.

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KEY: Pact.

SYN: Agreement, bargain, covenant, league, bond, alliance, stipulation.

ANT: Understanding, promise, parole, honour.

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KEY: Paean.

SYN: Jubilation, 'Te Deum', alleluia.

ANT: Dirge, miserere, threnody, jeremiade.

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KEY: Pagan \n.\

SYN: Heathen, idolater, Gentile.

ANT: Believer, Christian.

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KEY: Pagan \a.\

SYN: Heathenish, idolatrous.

ANT: Christian.

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KEY: Paganism.

SYN: Heathenism, polytheism, pantheism, ditheism, tritheism, dualism, heathendom.

ANT: Christianity, Christendom.

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KEY: Pageant.

SYN: Pomp, procession, exhibition, display, spectacle, show, ceremony.

ANT: Dream, illusion, phantasmagoria, mockery.

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KEY: Pageantry.

SYN: Parade, pomp, show, splendor, magnificence, [See POMP].

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KEY: Pain \n.\

SYN: Penalty, suffering, distress, uneasiness, grief, (labour, effort, in the, pains) anguish, torture, agony.

ANT: Reward, remuneration, ease, gratification, joy, pleasure, felicity, relief, alleviation, enjoyment, delight.

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KEY: Pain \v.\

SYN: Hurt, grieve, afflict, torment, rack, agonize, trouble, torture, aggrieve, annoy, distress.

ANT: Gratify, please, delight, rejoice, charm, relieve, ease, refresh.

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KEY: Painful.

SYN: Afflicting, distressful, grieving, grievous, excruciating, [See GRIEVOUS and PLEASANT].

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KEY: Painfully, [See PAINFUL].

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KEY: Painstaking \a.\

SYN: Careful, attentive, diligent, laborious, [See OBSERVANT and THOUGHTFUL].

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KEY: Paint \v.\

SYN: Color, tinge, tint, portray, represent, delineate, depict, sketch, describe.

ANT: Daub, caricature, misportray, misrepresent, misdelineate, misdepict.

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KEY: Pair.

SYN: Two, couple, span, brace.

ANT: One, several.

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KEY: Palatable.

SYN: Tasteful, savory, appetizing, delicious, toothsome, [See DELICIOUS].

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KEY: Pale.

SYN: Pallid, {[wan]?}, faint, dim, undefined, etiolated, sallow, cadaverous.

ANT: Ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, deep.

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KEY: Pall.

SYN: Blunt, dispirit, satiate, cloy.

ANT: Quicken, sharpen, inspirit, whet.

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KEY: Palliate.

SYN: Cloak, cover, conceal, extenuate, mitigate, soften, soothe, gloze.

ANT: Expose, denounce, exaggerate, aggravate, magnify.

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KEY: Pallid, [See PALE].

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KEY: Palm.

SYN: Trophy, prize, crown, laurels, bays.

ANT: Brand, stigma, shame, blot.

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KEY: Palmy.

SYN: Prosperous, glorious, distinguished, victorious, flourishing.

ANT: Depressed, inglorious, undistinguished, unflourishing.

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KEY: Palpable.

SYN: Material, corporal, tangible, obvious, gross, perceptible, evident, distinct.

ANT: Immaterial, incorporal, invisible, ethereal, impalpable, indistinct, dubious, imperceptible.

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KEY: Palpitate.

SYN: Throb, flutter, beat, pulsate, pant.

ANT: Pause, stop, cease.

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KEY: Palter.

SYN: Shuffle, prevaricate, trifle, shift, dodge, haggle.

ANT: Act, determine, decide.

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KEY: Paltry.

SYN: Mean, shabby, shuffling, trifling, prevaricating, shifty, contemptible, pitiable, vi e, worthless, beggarly, trashy.

ANT: Noble, honorable, candid, conscientious, determined, straightforward, estimable, admirable, worthy, magnificent.

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KEY: Pamper.

SYN: Feed, glut, spoil, indulge, cocker.

ANT: Harden, starve, inure, stint, discipline.

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KEY: Panegyric.

SYN: Eulogy, encomium, praise, eulogium, laudation.

ANT: Stricture, sa ire, sarcasm, lampoon, invective, philippic, tirade.

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KEY: Pang.

SYN: Paroxysm, throe, agony, convulsion, smart, anguish, pain, twinge.

ANT: Pleasure, enjoyment, gratification, delight, delectation, fascination, refreshment.

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KEY: Pant.

SYN: Palpitate, throb, gasp, puff, long, yearn, [See PALPITATE and YEARN].

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KEY: Parable.

SYN: Apologue, similitude, fable, allegory.

ANT: History, fact, narrative.

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KEY: Parade.

SYN: Vaunt, flaunt, display.

ANT: Suppress, veil, conceal.

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KEY: Parade \n.\

SYN: Vaunting, flaunting, display, pomp, ostentation, show, pageant, procession, spectacle.

ANT: Suppression, concealment, modesty, humility, simplicity, undemonstrativeness, plainness, retirement, unceremoniousness.

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KEY: Paradise.

SYN: Heaven, bliss, ecstasy, Eden, Elysium.

ANT: Purgatory, hell, misery, torture.

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KEY: Paradox.

SYN: Contradiction, enigma, mystery, absurdity, ambiguity.

ANT: Precept, proposition, axiom, truism, postulate.

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KEY: Paradoxical.

SYN: Contradictory, absurd, enigmatical, mysterious.

ANT: Self-evident, axiomatic, lucid, obvious.

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KEY: Parallel.

SYN: Correspondent, congruous, correlative, analogous, concurrent, equidistant.

ANT: Different, opposed, incongruous, irrelative, unanalogous, divergent, contrariant.

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KEY: Paralyze.

SYN: Deaden, benumb, prostrate, enervate, debilitate, enfeeble.

ANT: Give life, strengthen, nerve, lift up, restore.

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KEY: Paramount.

SYN: Superior, preeminent, chief, principal, supreme.

ANT: Subordinate, minor, inferior, secondary.

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