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SYN: Sycophant, flatterer, toady, courtier, toad-eater, timeserver.

ANT: Detractor, calumniator, traducer.

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KEY: Parcel.

SYN: Package, bundle.

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KEY: Pardon.

SYN: Forgive, condone, absolve, acquit, remit, excuse, overlook.

ANT: Condemn, punish, visit.

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KEY: Pardonable.

SYN: Venial, excusable.

ANT: Inexcusable, unpardonable.

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KEY: Pare.

SYN: Peel, cut off, shave off, skin, clip, diminish, [See DIMINISH].

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KEY: Parentage.

SYN: Descent, extraction, lineage, birth, stock, pedigree, [See BIRTH and LINEAGE].

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KEY: Parity.

SYN: Analogy, correspondence, equality, resemblance, [See ANALOGY].

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KEY: Parody.

SYN: Travesty, burlesque, [See BURLESQUE].

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KEY: Parsimonious.

SYN: Sparing, close, penurious, frugal, niggardly, illiberal, stingy.

ANT: Liberal, unsparing, profuse, extravagant, Parson, [See CLERGYMAN].

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KEY: Part \n.\

SYN: Portion, piece, fragment, fraction, division, member, constituent, element, ingredient, share, lot, concern, interest, participation, side, party, interest, faction, behalf, duty.

ANT: Whole, completeness, entirety, integrity, totality, mass bulk, body, compound, transaction, affair.

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KEY: Part \v.\ [See SEPARATE].

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KEY: Partake.

SYN: Share, participate, accept, derive.

ANT: Forfeit, relinquish, forego, cede, yield, afford.

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KEY: Partial.

SYN: Restricted, local, peculiar, specific, favoring, inequitable, unfair, biased, particular.

ANT: Unrestricted, total, universal, general, impartial, equitable, just, fair, unbiased.

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KEY: Partiality.

SYN: Preponderance, fondness, relish, love.

ANT: Indifference, impartiality, apathy.

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KEY: Partially, [See PARTLY].

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KEY: Participate.

SYN: Share, join in, have a share, [See PARTAKE].

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KEY: Particle.

SYN: Bit, grain, jot, mite, tittle, atom, [See ATOM].

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KEY: Particular \a.\

SYN: Local, specific, subordinate, detailed, partial, special, fastidious, minute, scrupulous, careful, accurate, exact, circumstantial, precise, delicate, nice.

ANT: Universal, general, unspecial, comprehensive, unscrupulous, uncareful, inaccurate, inexact, rough, coarse, indiscriminate, undisiluminating.

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KEY: Particular \n.\

SYN: Detail, point, feature.

ANT: Whole, subject, case.

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KEY: Particularly.

SYN: Specially, chiefly, in particular, especially, distinctly, [See MAINLY].

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KEY: Parting.

SYN: Separation, detachment, division, disruption.

ANT: Union, attachment, cleaving together.

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KEY: Partisan.

SYN: Adherent, follower, party man, henchman, clansman, supporter, disciple, [See ADHERENT].

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KEY: Partition.

SYN: Barrier, division, enclosure, compartment, interspace, separation, distribution, allotment, screen.

ANT: Non-partition, non-distinction, nonseparation, inclusion, comprehension, combination, amalgamation, incorporation, coalition, union, concatenation, generalization, collection.

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KEY: Partly.

SYN: In part, somewhat, In some degree, to some extent, in a measure, not wholly, partially.

ANT: Altogether, in whole, entirely, to the full extent, completely.

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KEY: Partner.

SYN: Associate, sharer, participator, colleague, coadjutor, confederate, accomplice, partaker, companion, spouse.

ANT: Rival, alien, competitor, opponent, counter-age at.

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KEY: Partnership.

SYN: Union, connection, company, firm, joint interest, co-operation, society, house, [See CONNECTION].

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KEY: Pacts.

SYN: [See CONTROL and GOVERN], move, proceed, go by, slip away, glide, shapelessness, [See ELAPSE].

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KEY: Passable.

SYN: Traversable, navigable, penetrable, admissible, tolerable, ordinary.

ANT: Impassable, impervious, impenetrable, inadmissible, excellent.

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KEY: Passage.

SYN: Journey, thoroughfare, road, course, avenue, route, channel, clause, phrase, sentence, paragraph.

ANT: Chapter, book, [See COURSE].

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KEY: Passible.

SYN: Susceptible, sensible, sensitive, impressible.

ANT: Insusceptible, insensitive, impassible.

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KEY: Passion.

SYN: Emotion, desire, ardor, vehemence, lust, auger, animation, excitement, warmth, feeling.

ANT: Coolness, indifference, apathy, coldness, frigidity, iciness.

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KEY: Passionate, [See ANGRY and HASTY].

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KEY: Passive.

SYN: Inactive, inert, quiescent, unresisting, unquestioning, negative, enduring, patient.

ANT: Active, alert, resistant, positive, unsubmissive, malcontent, vehement, impatient.

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KEY: Pass over.

SYN: Omit, overlook, [See OVERLOOK].

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KEY: Past.

SYN: Spent, gone by, elapsed, departed, late.

ANT: Present, unspent.

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KEY: Pastime.

SYN: Recreation, entertainment, amusement, diversion, play, sport.

ANT: Business, study, labor, task, occupation, work.

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KEY: Patch.

SYN: Botch, bungle, cobble, clout, piece.

ANT: Fine-draw, embroider.

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KEY: Patent.

SYN: obvious, evident, indisputable, plain, [See INT], Dubious, ambiguous, questionable.

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KEY: Paternal.

SYN: Fatherly, careful, tender, hereditary.

ANT: Unfatherly, careless, rough, harsh, [See HEREDITARY].

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KEY: Path.

SYN: Footpath, pathway, road, track, course, route, method.

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KEY: Pathetic.

SYN: Affecting, moving, emotional, tender, melting, tender.

ANT: Ludicrous, unimpassioned, farcical, unaffecting.

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KEY: Patience.

SYN: Endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance.

ANT: Resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience.

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KEY: Pathless.

SYN: Trackless, Untrodden.

ANT: Trodden, frequented.

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KEY: Patient.

SYN: Resigned, unrepining, enduring.

ANT: Impatient, [See PASSIVE].

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KEY: Patrician.

SYN: Noble, senator, aristocratic.

ANT: Plebeian, churl.

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KEY: Patrimony.

SYN: Inheritance, heritage.

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KEY: Patronize \v.\

SYN: Countenance, befriend, favor, support, help.

ANT: Oppress, depress, oppose, withstand, disfavor, discountenance.

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KEY: Pattern.

SYN: Model, sample, archetype, exemplar, specimen, shape, precedent, mould, design, plan.

ANT: Monstrosity, caricature, perversion, misrepresentation.

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KEY: Paucity.

SYN: Rarity, scantity, fewness, deficiency, lack, [See DEFICIENCY].

ANT: Frequency, quantity, number, abundance.

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KEY: Pauperism, [See BEGGARY and MENDICITY].

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KEY: Pause \n.\

SYN: Stop, cessation, suspension, halt, intermission, rest.

ANT: Continuance, advancement, perseverance.

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KEY: Pause \v.\

SYN: Cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist.

ANT: Continue, proceed, advance, persist, persevere.

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KEY: Pave.

SYN: Prepare, facilitate, smooth, expedite, adapt, fit, mature, arrange, dispose, qualify.

ANT: Obstruct, indispose, disqualify.

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KEY: Pawn.

SYN: Pledge, impignorate.

ANT: Ransom, redeem.

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KEY: Pay \n.\

SYN: Wages, salary, stipend, recompense, payment, [See SPUR and UBOE].

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KEY: Pay \v.\

SYN: Compensate, remunerate, satisfy, discharge, expend, disburse, requite, liquidate.

ANT: Deprive, defraud, exact, dissatisfy, hoard, retain, invest, fund.

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KEY: Payment, [See PAY, \n.\].

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KEY: Peace.

SYN: Quiet, tranquillity, calm, repose, pacification, order, calmness, reconciliation, harmony, concord.

ANT: Noise, disturbance, tumult, agitation, hostility, disorder, embroilment, war, discord, variance, strife.

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KEY: Peaceable.

SYN: unwarlike, inoffensive, quiet, peaceful, innocuous, mild, unquarrelsome, serene, placid.

ANT: Pugnacious, warlike, litigious, quarrelsome, savage, fierce, hostile, violent, bellicose, restless.

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KEY: Peasant.

SYN: Countryman, hind, clown, laborer, villager, swain, rustic.

ANT: Citizen, cockney, townsman.

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KEY: Peccability.

SYN: Frailty, sinfulness.

ANT: Impeccability, perfection.

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KEY: Peccable.

SYN: Frail, sinful.

ANT: Impeccable, perfect, incorrupt.

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KEY: Peccant.

SYN: Morbid, corrupt, criminal, offensive, objectionable, vicious, erring, guilty, transgressing.

ANT: Pure, incorrupt, wholesome.

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KEY: Peculator.

SYN: Defaulter, delinquent, thief, embezzler, [See DEFAULTER and ROBBER].

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KEY: Peculiar.

SYN: Private, personal, characteristic, exceptional, exclusive, special, specific, particular, unusual, singular, uncommon, strange.

ANT: Public, common, general, universal, unspecial, ordinary.

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KEY: Peculiarity.

SYN: Speciality, individuality, distinctiveness, idiosyncrasy.

ANT: Generality, universality, community, uniformity, homology, homogeneity, conaturality.

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KEY: Pedantic.

SYN: Pedagogical, priggish.

ANT: Unaffected, slipshod.

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KEY: Pedigree.

SYN: Descent, parentage, genealogy, lineage, [See BIRTH and LINEAGE].

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KEY: Pedler.

SYN: Huckster, hawker, shopman, trader.

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KEY: Peer \n.\

SYN: Mate, equal, compeer.

ANT: One unequal in rank, state, or condition.

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KEY: Peer \v.\

SYN: Peep, pry, look narrowly.

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KEY: Peerless.

SYN: Matchless, paramount, unique, unequaled.

ANT: Mediocre, commonplace, ordinary.

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KEY: Peevish.

SYN: Fretful, querulous, petulant, testy, captious, waspish, splenetic, ill-natured, irascible.

ANT: Genial, complaisant, insensate, inquerulous, easy, good-natured, good-tempered.

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KEY: Pelf.

SYN: Lucre, mammon.

ANT: Reward, compensation, wage.

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KEY: Pellucid.

SYN: Translucent, limpid, crystalline, vitreous.

ANT: Opaque, semiopaque, luteous, turbid.

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KEY: Penal.

SYN: Retributive, coercive, visitatorial, castigatory, inflictive, corrective, punitive.

ANT: Remunerative, reparatory, decorative, honorary.

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KEY: Penalty.

SYN: Pain, punishment, forfeiture, price, fare, retribution, amercement.

ANT: Guerdon, wages, reward, premium, prize, douceur, sop, bribe, honorarium, compensation, remuneration.

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KEY: Pendent.

SYN: Pendulous, hanging, suspended, drooping, projecting.

ANT: Supporting, sustaining, supported.

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KEY: Penetrate.

SYN: Pierce, enter, enter into, reach, permeate, make one's way, disclose, fathom, [See PIERCE].

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KEY: Penetrable.

SYN: Pervious, permeable.

ANT: Impervious, impermeable.

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KEY: Penetration.

SYN: Discernment, observation, sagacity, acuteness, discrimination, insight, sharpness.

ANT: Indiscernment, dulness, indiscrimination, stolidity, hebetude, shortsightedness, shallowness, obtuseness.

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KEY: Penitence.

SYN: Repentance, contrition, sorrow, remorse.

ANT: Congratulation, self-approval, obduracy, hardheartedness.

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KEY: Penitent, [See PENITENTIAL].

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KEY: Penitential.

SYN: Wailing, mournful, dirgeful, sorrowful, contrite, penitent.

ANT: Impenitent, hard-hearted, obdurate.

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KEY: Pensive.

SYN: Meditative, ruminating, thoughtful, musing, reflective, impressed, melancholy, sober, dejected.

ANT: Vacant, joyous, unreflecting, careless, thoughtless, unmeditative, incogitant, unreflective.

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KEY: Penurious.

SYN: Niggardly, parsimonious, avaricious, griping, miserly, closefisted, sordid, stingy.

ANT: Liberal, open-handed, bountiful.

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KEY: Penury.

SYN: Wart, privation, poverty, indigence, impecuniosity, destitution, beggary.

ANT: Competence, wealth, affluence, pecuniosity.

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KEY: People.

SYN: Nation, community, populace, mob, crowd, vulgar, herd, mass, persons, inhabitants, commonalty, fellow-creatures, tribe, race.

ANT: Aristocracy, nobility, government, ruler, oligarchy.

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KEY: Perceivable.

SYN: Cognizable, appreciable, perceptible, sensible, distinguishable.

ANT: Incognizable, inappreciable, imperceptible, insensible, indistinguishable.

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KEY: Perceive.

SYN: Discern, distinguish, descry, observe, feel, touch, see, recognize, understand, know.

ANT: Miss, misobserve, overlook, misunderstand, misconceive, misperceive.

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KEY: Perceptible, [See PERCEIVABLE].

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KEY: Perception.

SYN: Cognizance, apprehension, sight, understanding, discernment.

ANT: Incognizance, ignorance, imperception, misapprehension, misunderstanding.

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KEY: Perceptive.

SYN: Cognitive, apprehensive, sensitive, percipient.

ANT: Reflective, reminiscent, insensible, impercipient, inobservant, inapprehensive, insensitive.

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KEY: Percipient, [See PERCEPTIVE].

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KEY: Percolate.

SYN: Strain, niter, exude, ooze.

ANT: Absorb, retain, [See OOZE].

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KEY: Percussion.

SYN: Collision, shock, encounter, crash.

ANT: Graze, touch, recoil, rebound, repercussion, reverberation.

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KEY: Perdition.

SYN: Destruction, ruin, loss, demolition.

ANT: Restoration, recovery, renovation, rescue, salvation.

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KEY: Peregrination.

SYN: Wandering, travel, perambulation, perennation.

ANT: Domiciliation, residence.

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KEY: Peremptory.

SYN: Decisive, express, absolute, authoritative, arbitrary, dogmatical, imperious, despotic, positive.

ANT: Suggestive, entreative, mild, postulatory, hortatory.

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KEY: Perennial.

SYN: Perpetual, unceasing, unfailing, ceaseless, incessant, constant, permanent, unintermittent, continual, undying.

ANT: Periodical, occasional, intermittent, failing, deficient, uncertain.

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KEY: Perfect.

SYN: Consummate, complete, full, indeficient, immaculate, absolute, faultless, impeccable, infallible, unblemished, blameless, unexceptionable, mature, ripe.

ANT: Incomplete, meagre, faulty, scant, short, deficient, defective, imperfect, peccable, fallible, blemished, marred, spoilt.

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KEY: Perfection.

SYN: Perfectness, completion, consummation, wholeness, excellency.

ANT: Imperfection, incompletion, imperfectness.

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KEY: Perfectly.

SYN: Fully, wholly, entirely, completely, totally, exactly, accurately.

ANT: Imperfectly, incompletely, partially, inaccurately.

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KEY: Perfidious.

SYN: false, treacherous, faithless, traitorous, deceptive, disloyal, insidious.

ANT: true, staunch, faithful.

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KEY: Perforate.

SYN: Bored, pierced, drilled.

ANT: Unpierced, imperforate.

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KEY: Perform.

SYN: Accomplish, [See DO], act, transact, achieve, execute, discharge, fulfil, effect, complete, consummate, enact.

ANT: Miss, mar, misperform, misexecute, botch, misenact, misconduct, spoil.

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KEY: Performance.

SYN: Accomplishment, act, execution, deed, exploit, work, achievement, enterprise, operation, [See ACHIEVEMENT and DEED].

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KEY: Perfume.

SYN: Odor, scent, fragrance, redolence, aroma, smell, incense.

ANT: Fetor, stench, stink.

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KEY: Perfunctory.

SYN: Uninterested, routine, mechanical, careless, slovenly.

ANT: Interested, zealous, spirited, animated, ardent, assiduous, careful.

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KEY: Perhaps.

SYN: Possibly, peradventure, perchance, may be.

ANT: Certainly, inevitably.

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KEY: Peril.

SYN: Danger, risk, hazard, jeopardy, insecurity, uncertainty, unsafety, venture.

ANT: Security, safety, certainty.

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KEY: Perilous.

SYN: Hazardous, dangerous.

ANT: Safe, secure, certain.

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KEY: Period.

SYN: Time, date, epoch, era, age, duration, continuance, limit, bound, end, conclusion, determination.

ANT: Eternity, datelessness, immemoriality, infinity, perpetuity, illimitability, endlessness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness.

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KEY: Periodical.

SYN: Stated, recurrent, regular, systematic, calculable.

ANT: Indeterminate, eccentric, irregular, incalculable, spasmodic, fitful.

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KEY: Perish.

SYN: Decay, waste away, be ruined, be destroyed, die, expire, fade away, [See DECAY].

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KEY: Perishable.

SYN: Frail, evanescent, fragile, destructible, fleeting, transient, ephemeral, impermanent.

ANT: Enduring, lasting, indestructible, imperishable, persistent, perpetual, permanent, Permanent, [See PERISHABLE].

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KEY: Permeable.

SYN: Penetrable, pervadible, percolable.

ANT: Impenetrable, impermeable.

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KEY: Permeate, [See PERMEABLE].

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KEY: Permissable.

SYN: Allowable, sufferable, lawful.

ANT: Unallowable, insufferable, unlawful.

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KEY: Permission.

SYN: Leave, license, dispensation, allowance, liberty, consent, sufferance, compliance, endurance.

ANT: Prohibition, refusal, denial, prevention, hinderance, resistance.

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KEY: Permit, [See ALLOW].

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KEY: Permutation.

SYN: Interchange, transference, transposition.

ANT: stabilisation, retention, fixity, sequence, order, series, succession.

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KEY: Pernicious.

SYN: Hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly, injurious, baneful.

ANT: Beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutary.

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KEY: Perpendicular.

SYN: Vertical, upright, standing upright.

ANT: Horizontal.

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KEY: Perpetrate.

SYN: Commit.

ANT: Achieve, perfect.

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KEY: Perpetual.

SYN: Constant, unceasing, endless, eternal, everlasting, unfailing, perennial, continual, enduring, incessant, uninterrupted.

ANT: Inconstant, periodic, recurrent, temporary, transient, falling, exhaustible, occasional, momentary, casual.

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KEY: Perpetuate, [See PERPETUAL].

SYN: Continue, stabilitate, eternize.

ANT: Discontinue, abolish, eradicate, cancel, disestablish, break.

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KEY: Perpetuity.

SYN: Constancy, permanence, perennity, persistence, continuity, fixity.

ANT: Impermanence, transience, evanescence, discontinuance, casualty, momentariness.

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KEY: Perplex.

SYN: Embarrass, puzzle, entangle, involve, encumber, complicate, confuse, bewilder, mystify, harass, entangle.

ANT: Clear, enlighten, explicate, disentangle, simplify, elucidate, disencumber.

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KEY: Perplexity.

SYN: Embarrassment, difficulty, uncertainty.

ANT: Certainty, certitude, sureness, [See DILEMMA].

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KEY: Persecute.

SYN: Harass, molest, annoy, worry, vex.

ANT: Encourage, inspirit, abet, support.

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KEY: Perserverance.

SYN: Persistence, steadfastness, constancy, indefatigableness, resolution, tenacity.

ANT: Inconstancy, unsteadfastness, fitfulness, caprice, irresoluteness, vacillation, wavering, indecision, variableness, levity, volatility.

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KEY: Persevere.

SYN: Persist, insist, continue, keep on, be steadfast, hold out, [See CONTINUE].

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KEY: Persist, [See PERSEVERE].

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KEY: Persistence, [See PERSEVERANCE and PERISHABLE].

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KEY: Person.

SYN: Individual, special, peculiar, idiosyncratic.

ANT: Generic, common.

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KEY: Persons.

SYN: Men folks, people, beings, living souls, individuals.

ANT: Single persons.

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KEY: Perspicacity.

SYN: Acuteness, discernment, sagacity, penetration.

ANT: Hebetude, dullness, stolidity, inobservance.

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KEY: Perspicuous, [See LUCID and PLAIN].

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KEY: Perspicuity.

SYN: Clearness, lucidity, transparency, intelligibility.

ANT: Obscurity, turbidity, unintelligibility, mystification, confusedness.

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KEY: Persuade.

SYN: Induce, influence, incline, convince, dispose, urge, allure, incite.

ANT: Deter, disincline, indispose, mispersuade, misinduce, coerce, compel.

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KEY: Persuasion.

SYN: Conviction, inducement, creed, belief, opinion, [See CONVICTION].

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KEY: Pert \a.\

SYN: Flippant, saucy, impudent, forward.

ANT: Modest, retiring, bashful, demure, staid.

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KEY: Pertain to.

SYN: Belong to, relate to, appertain to, regard, concern.

ANT: Be foreign to.

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KEY: Pertinacious.

SYN: Obstinate, persistent, wilful, dogged, persevering, determined, unyielding.

ANT: Flexible, inconstant, irresolute, volatile.

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KEY: Pertinacity.

SYN: Obstinacy, tenaciousness, adherence, resoluteness.

ANT: Irresoluteness, irresolution, indecision, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness.

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KEY: Pertinent.

SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, appropriate, fit, apposite, just, proper, congruous, applicable.

ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, alien, inappropriate, impertinent, incongruous, discordant, repugnant, Perturb, [See AGITATE].

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KEY: Pervade.

SYN: Permeate, fill, saturate, color, tinge, fill, diffuse.

ANT: Touch, affect.

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KEY: Perverse.

SYN: Froward, untoward, stubborn, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, intractable, crochety.

ANT: Docile, ductile, amenable, governable, complacent, accommodating, pleasant, obliging.

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KEY: Perversion.

SYN: Abuse, misrepresentation, distortion, corruption, misinterpretation, caricature, sophistry.

ANT: Use, conservation, representation, right, truth, portraiture, manifestation, explanation, interpretation, reason, correction, authentication, verification.

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KEY: Pervert.

SYN: Twist, distort, corrupt, falsify, misrepresent, [See REPRESENT and TWIST].

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KEY: Pervious.

SYN: Penetrable, traversable, explorable.

ANT: Impenetrable, impervious, impregnable, inexplorable.

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KEY: Pest.

SYN: Plague, nuisance, curse, annoyance, blight, bone, scourge.

ANT: Benefit, blessing, acquisition.

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KEY: Pester.

SYN: Plague, worry, vex, harass, disquiet, annoy, tease, torment, chafe, harry, badger, incommode, gall.

ANT: Treat, regale, amuse, refresh, gratify, soothe.

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KEY: Pestiferous.

SYN: Insalubrious, pestilential, deleterious, mephitic, virulent, mortiferous, infectious, contagious, catching, lethal, morbific.

ANT: {[(ifiiiiil]?}, salubrious, balmy, salutiferous, sanitary, innocuous, remedial, wholesome, nutritive, pure, sanative, disinfectant.

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KEY: Pestilential.

SYN: Noxious, ruinous, deadly, deleterious, mischievous, [See PESTIFEROUS].

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KEY: Pet \n.\

SYN: Darling, fondling, favorite, cosset, jewel, minion, idol.

ANT: Horror, bugbear, aversion, scarecrow.

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

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KEY: Petition.

SYN: Supplication, entreaty, craving, application, appeal, salutation, prayer, request, instance.

ANT: Deprecation, expostulation, protect, command, injunction, claim, demand, requirement, exaction, dictation.

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KEY: Petrify.

SYN: Astound, electrify, dismay, horrify, appal, stun, stupefy, dumbfounder.

ANT: Reassure, tranquillize.

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KEY: Pettish.

SYN: Petulant, testy, peevish, waspish, querulous.

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

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KEY: Petty.

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

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

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KEY: Petulant, [See PEEVISH].

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KEY: Phantasm.

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

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

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KEY: Pharisaical.

SYN: Sanctimonious, formal, ceremonious, precision.

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

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KEY: Philanthropic.

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

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

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KEY: Philanthropy.

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

ANT: Misanthropy, hatred of men.

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KEY: Philosopher.

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

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

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KEY: Philosophical.

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

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

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KEY: Phlegmatic.

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

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

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KEY: Phrensy.

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

ANT: Sanity, sobriety, rationality, lucidity.

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KEY: Physical.

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

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

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KEY: Pick.

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

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

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KEY: Pictorial.

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

ANT: Plain, unembellished, unadorned.

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KEY: Picture \n.\

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

ANT: Original.

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KEY: Picture \v.\

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

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KEY: Picturesque.

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

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

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KEY: Pierce.

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

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

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KEY: Piercing.

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

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KEY: Piety.

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

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

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KEY: Pile.

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

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

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KEY: Pilfer.

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

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

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KEY: Pillage, [See PILFER].

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KEY: Pillar.

SYN: Column, shaft, post, support.

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KEY: Pilot \v.\

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

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KEY: Pimple.

SYN: Pustule, blotch, eruption.

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KEY: Pinch, [See EMERGENCY].

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KEY: Pinch \v.\

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

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KEY: Pine \v.\

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

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KEY: Pious.

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

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KEY: Piquant.

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

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

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KEY: Pique.

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

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KEY: Pirate.

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

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KEY: Pit.

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

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KEY: Pitch.

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

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KEY: Piteous.

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

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

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KEY: Pith.

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

ANT: Surplusage, surroundings, dressing, verbiage.

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KEY: Pithy.

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

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

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KEY: Pitiable, [See PITEOUS].

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KEY: Pitiful, [See PITILESS].

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KEY: Pitiless.

SYN: Merciless, unsparing, inexorable, cruel.

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

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KEY: Pittance.

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

ANT: Exuberance, abundance, profusion, lavishment.

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KEY: Pity.

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

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

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KEY: Placard.

SYN: Handbill, poster, bin, broadside.

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KEY: Place.

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

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

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KEY: Placid.

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

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

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KEY: Plain.

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

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

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KEY: Plaintive.

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

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

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


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