Contrive, devise, sketch out, design, hatch, [See CONTRIVE].
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KEY: Plant.
SYN: Set, insert, settle, establish, introduce, stock, fix, place.
ANT: Remove, extract, eradicate, extirpate, disestablish, transport, denude, transplant, displace.
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KEY: Plaster.
SYN: Palliate, patch, ramp, tinker, cobble, bolster.
ANT: Expose, repair, restore, renovate, redintegrate.
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KEY: Plastic.
SYN: Ductile, pliant, yielding, malleable, tractile, flexible.
ANT: Stubborn, unyielding, inert, unmalleable, inflexible, intractile.
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KEY: Platitude.
SYN: Commonplace, generality, truism, triviality.
ANT: Sophism, laconism, enigma, dictum, oracle.
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KEY: Platonic.
SYN: Cold, intellectual, unsensual, mental, philosophical.
ANT: Ardent, animal, sensual, passionate, sexual.
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KEY: Plaudit, [See APPLAUSE].
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KEY: Plausible.
SYN: Specious, superficial, passable, unctuous, fair-spoken, pretentious, ostensible, right, apparently, colorable, feasible.
ANT: Genuine, sterling, transparent, unmistakable, profound.
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KEY: Play \n.\
SYN: Sport, pastime, amusement, diversion, recreation, gambol, frolic, opportunity, scope, room, [See PASTIME and SPORT].
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KEY: Playful.
SYN: Lively, sportive, jocund, frolicsome, gay, vivacious, sprightly, [See LIVELY].
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KEY: Plea.
SYN: Excuse, vindication, justification, ground, defence, apology, entreaty.
ANT: Charge, accusation, impeachment, action.
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KEY: Pleasant.
SYN: Grateful, agreeable, acceptable, pleasurable, desirable, gratifying, cheerful, enlivening, sportive, delicious, delectable, jocular, satisfactory, exquisite, merry.
ANT: Unpleasant, ungrateful, disagreeable, obnoxious, unacceptable, offensive, unlively, lugubrious, dull, ill-humored.
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KEY: Please.
SYN: Delight, content, gladden, fascinate, [See GRATIFY].
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KEY: Pleasing, [See AGREEABLE].
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KEY: Pleasure.
SYN: Enjoyment, gratification, sensuality, self-indulgence, voluptuousness, choice, preference, vill, inclination, purpose, determination, favor, satisfaction, indulgent.
ANT: Pain, suffering, affliction, trouble, asceticism, self-denial, abstinence, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, denial, refusal.
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KEY: Plebeian.
SYN: Low, vulgar, lowborn, lowbred, coarse, ignoble.
ANT: Patrician, noble, aristocratic, refined, highborn, high-bred.
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KEY: Pledge \n.\
SYN: Security, guarantee, warrant, hostage, surety, pawn, earnest.
ANT: Word, promise, assurance, parole.
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KEY: Pledge \v.\
SYN: Pawn, hypothecate.
ANT: Redeem.
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KEY: Plenary.
SYN: Full, abundant, complete, entire, unreserved, unstinted, unrestricted.
ANT: Partial, incomplete, restricted, reserved, contingent, temporary.
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KEY: Plenitude.
SYN: Fulness, copiousness, repletion, abundance, amplitude, exuberance, largeness, liberality, height, maximum, richness, completeness.
ANT: Scantiness, Insufficiency, restriction, partiality, stint, narrowness, poverty, incompleteness, reserve, minimum.
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KEY: Plentiful, [See ABUNDANT].
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KEY: Plenty.
SYN: Enough, sufficiency, full supply, profusion, copiousness, [See PLENITUDE].
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KEY: Pleonastic.
SYN: Redundant, superfluous, surplus, inconcise.
ANT: Requisite, necessary, essential, terse, concise, succinct.
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KEY: Pliable.
SYN: Flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliant.
ANT: Stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable.
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KEY: Pliant, [See PLIABLE].
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KEY: Plight \n.\
SYN: Situation, condition, predicament, difficulty, dilemma, [See DILEMMA].
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KEY: Plight \v.\
SYN: Vow, pledge.
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KEY: Plodding.
SYN: Painstaking, industrious, persevering, laborious, studious.
ANT: Indiligent, unindustrious, distracted, inattentive, impatient, unpersevering, flighty, fitful.
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KEY: Plot \n.\
SYN: Scheme, plan, stratagem, combination, conspiracy, machination, [See SCHEME].
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KEY: Plot \v.\
SYN: Devise, concoct, conspire, contrive, frame, batch, [See CONSPIRE and DEVISE].
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KEY: Pluck, [See COURAGE].
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KEY: Pluck up.
SYN: Eradicate, root out, exterminate, [See ERADICATE].
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KEY: Plump.
SYN: Well-conditioned, wellrounded, chubby, strapping, bouncing, fleshy, brawny, full, fat, round, massive, portly.
ANT: Ill-conditioned, lean, emaciated, scraggy, weazen, macilent, lank, rawboned, shrivelled, flaccid, tabid.
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KEY: Plunder, [See PILLAGE].
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KEY: Plunge.
SYN: Dip, dive, douse, duck, submerge, immerse, precipitate, sink, overwhelm, thrust under, pitch headlong.
ANT: Emerge, issue, soar, raise, extricate, rescue.
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KEY: Plurality.
SYN: Multitude, multitudinousness, number, numerousness, profusion, host, legion, collection.
ANT: Unity, singularity, oneness, solitude, individuality, singleness, isolation.
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KEY: Ply.
SYN: Work, urge, practice, exercise, apply steadily, [See URGE].
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KEY: Poet.
SYN: Bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, author of poems.
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KEY: Poetical.
SYN: Metrical, rythmic, versified, lyric, rhyming, imaginative, creative, romantic, fictitious, dreamy, flighty.
ANT: Unmetrical, unrythmical, prosaic, unpoetical, unversified, unimaginative, commonplace, historical, mathematical, logical, matter-of-fact, veracious, sober.
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KEY: Poignant.
SYN: Stinging, sharp, keen, penetrating, severe, biting, intense, piercing, [See KEEN].
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KEY: Point \v.\
SYN: Aim, level, direct, show, indicate, [See INDICATE].
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KEY: Point \n.\
SYN: Apex, top, summit, sharp end, aim, purpose, subject matter, object, [See ACME].
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KEY: Pointed.
SYN: Peaked, keen, sharp, marked, severe, telling, [See KEEN].
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KEY: Pointless \a.\
SYN: Vague, vapid, aimless, inexpressive, feeble.
ANT: Close, sharp, telling, pregnant, significant, expressive, forcible, epigrammatic.
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KEY: Poise, [See BALANCE].
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KEY: Poison.
SYN: Vitiate, taint, infect, envenom, pollute.
ANT: Purify, disinfect, depurate.
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KEY: Poisonous.
SYN: Venomous, infect ant, vicious, corruptive, vitiative, noxious, baneful, malignant, morbific, peccant, virulent, pestiferous, mephitic, deleterious.
ANT: Wholesome, genial, beneficial, sanative, invigorative, healthful, innoxious, restorative, remedial, hygeian.
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KEY: Policy.
SYN: Plan, device, system, prudence, management, cunning, [See DEVICE].
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KEY: Polish.
SYN: Burnish, furbish, levigate, brighten, refine, make glossy.
ANT: Abrade, scratch.
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KEY: Polite.
SYN: Elegant, refined, wellbred, courteous, obliging, complaisant, civil, courtly, polished, genteel, accomplished.
ANT: Awkward, rude, uncouth, illbred, discourteous, boorish, clownish, disobliging.
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KEY: Politeness.
SYN: Courtesy, refinement, good breeding, courteousness, urbanity, civility, gentility, [See COURTESY].
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KEY: Politic.
SYN: Prudent, wise, sagacious, provident, diplomatic, judicious, cunning, wary, well devised, discreet.
ANT: Imprudent, unwise, improvident, undiplomatic, impolitic.
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KEY: Pollute.
SYN: Befoul, taint, poison, corrupt, tarnish, stain, contaminate, soil, vitiate, deprave.
ANT: Purify, clarify, disinfect, filter.
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KEY: Poltroon.
SYN: Scoundrel, coward, hound, skulk, dastard.
ANT: Hero, philanthropist, gentleman, benefactor, model, example.
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KEY: Pommel.
SYN: Beat, thump, baste, thrash, strike, cudgel.
ANT: Smooth, caress, pat, stroke.
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KEY: Pomp.
SYN: Ostentation, magnificence, parade, ceremony, show, display, gorgeousness, grandeur, splendor, pageantry, publicity.
ANT: Quiet, retirement, simplicity, unceremoniousness, unadornment, privacy, plainness.
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KEY: Pompous.
SYN: Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, Inflated, pretentious, coxcombical, assuming.
ANT: Unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded.
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KEY: Ponder.
SYN: Think over, meditate on, weigh, consider, cogitate, deliberate, ruminate, reflect, amuse, study, resolve, [See CONSIDER].
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KEY: Ponderable.
SYN: Appreciable, determinable, palpable.
ANT: Inappreciable, indeterminable, impalpable, imponderable.
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KEY: Ponderous, Weighty, bulky, massive, burdensome, heavy, onerous.
ANT: Light, trifling, airy, volatile, subtle.
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KEY: Poor.
SYN: Indigent, moneyless, impecunious, penniless, weak, meagre, insufficient, deficient, faulty, unsatisfactory, inconsiderable, thin, scanty, bald.
ANT: Rich, wealthy, copious, affluent, abundant, liberal, large, ample, moneyed, sufficient, satisfactory, considerable.
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KEY: Popular.
SYN: Common, current, vulgar, public, general, received, favorite, beloved, prevailing, approved, widespread, liked.
ANT: Exclusive, restricted, scientific, esoteric, unpopular, odious, detested.
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KEY: Populous.
SYN: Crowded, dense, swarming, thronged.
ANT: Deserted, thin, scanty, unfrequented, unoccupied, uninhabited.
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KEY: Porch.
SYN: Portico, vestibule, [See ENTRANCE].
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KEY: Porous.
SYN: Foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable.
ANT: Impervious, impermeable, impercolable.
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KEY: Port.
SYN: Haven, harbor, mien, bearing, demeanor, carriage, deportment, air, [See DEPORTMENT and MIEN].
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KEY: Portable.
SYN: Movable, {[haLdy]?}, manageable, light.
ANT: Ponderous, immovable, awkward, unmanageable, unhandy.
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KEY: Portal.
SYN: Gate, entrance, gateway, [See ENTRANCE].
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KEY: Portend.
SYN: Indicate, threaten, prognosticate, forbode, augur, presage, herald, foreshow, betoken.
ANT: Contradict, negative, preclude, forefend, nullify, contravene, avert.
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KEY: Portentous.
SYN: Indicative, suggestive, threatening, prophetic, predictive, ominous, premonitory.
ANT: Auspicious, hopeful, cheering, assuring, animating, encouraging, joyous.
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KEY: Portion, [See PART].
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KEY: Portly.
SYN: Dignified, burly, imposing, stately, corpulent, stout, plump.
ANT: Undignified, unimposing, mean.
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KEY: Portray.
SYN: Draw, delineate, represent, depict, describe, sketch, paint.
ANT: Misrepresent, caricature, misportray.
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KEY: Pose.
SYN: Puzzle, perplex, bewilder, dumbfounder, mystify, embarrass, daze, confound.
ANT: Enlighten, unmystify, indoctrinate, initiate.
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KEY: Position, [See SITUATION].
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KEY: Positive.
SYN: real, actual, substantial, absolute, independent, unconditional, unequivocal, explicit, fixed, settled, definitive, indisputable, decisive, express, enacted, assured, confident, direct, dogmatic, overbearing, dogmatical.
ANT: Negative, insubstantial, unreal, fictitious, imaginary, relative, contingent, dependent, conditional, implied, dubious, questionable, moral, uncertain, doubtful, indirect, occasional, suspicious.
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KEY: Possess.
SYN: Occupy, enjoy, have, hold, entertain, own.
ANT: Abandon, renounce, abjure, surrender, lose, forfeit, resign.
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KEY: Possession.
SYN: Holding, ownership, tenure, occupation.
ANT: Abandoning, renouncing, resigning, surrendering.
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KEY: Possible.
SYN: Practicable, feasible, likely, potential.
ANT: Impracticable, impossible.
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KEY: Possibly.
SYN: Perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe, [See PERHAPS].
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KEY: port, [See SITUATION].
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KEY: Posterior.
SYN: Later, subsequent.
ANT: Earlier, precedent, antecedent, prior.
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KEY: Posterity.
SYN: Futurity.
ANT: Ancestry.
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KEY: Postpone.
SYN: Defer, delay, prorogue, procrastinate.
ANT: Expedite, despatch, accelerate.
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KEY: Postulate.
SYN: Assume, presuppose.
ANT: Prove, elaborate, exemplify, argue.
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KEY: Posture, [See SITUATION].
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KEY: Potent.
SYN: Powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energetic.
ANT: Weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative.
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KEY: Potential.
SYN: Possible, implicit, undeveloped, germinative, immanent, virtual.
ANT: Actual, explicit, developed, objective, real, express.
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KEY: Pound.
SYN: Imprison, cage, coop.
ANT: Discharge, liberate, release.
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KEY: Pound.
SYN: Beat, bruise, pulverize, triturate.
ANT: Soothe, stroke, amalgamate, compound.
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KEY: Poverty.
SYN: Want, need, indigence, destitution, [See WANT].
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KEY: Power.
SYN: Faculty, capacity, capability, potentiality, ability, strength, force, might, energy, susceptibility, influence, dominion, sway, command, government, agency, authority, rule, jurisdiction, effectiveness.
ANT: Incapacity, incapability, impotence, inability, weakness, imbecility, inertness, insusceptibility, subjection, power lessness, obedience, subservience, ineffectiveness.
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KEY: Powerful.
SYN: Strong, potent, puissant, masterful, mighty, [See STRONG].
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KEY: Practicable.
SYN: Possible, feasible, usable.
ANT: Impossible, impracticable, unusable.
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KEY: Practical.
SYN: Useful, serviceable, skilled, trained, [See CUSTOM].
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KEY: Practically.
SYN: Really, actually, substantially, in fact, in effect, [See ACTUALLY].
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KEY: Practice \n.\
SYN: Usage, habit, exercise, experience, exercitation, action, custom, manner, performance.
ANT: Disuse, dishabituation, Inexperience, theory, speculation, nonperformance.
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KEY: Practise \v.\
SYN: Perform, exercise, deal in, carry on, [See PERFORM].
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KEY: Practised.
SYN: Trained, experienced, proficient, accomplished, [See PROFICIENT \a.\].
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KEY: Pragmatical.
SYN: Over-busy, fussy, consequential, officious, meddlesome.
ANT: Reserved, uninterfering, distant, unconcerned, inobtrusive, unmeddlesome, inofficious.
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KEY: Praise \v.\
SYN: Eulogize, laud, commend, honor, glorify, compliment, celebrate, puff, extol, applaud, panegyrize.
ANT: Blame, censure, discommend, reprove.
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KEY: Praise, [See APPROBATION].
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KEY: Praiseworthy.
SYN: commendable, laudable, meritorious, honorable, worthy.
ANT: Blameable, censureable, reprehensible.
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KEY: Prank.
SYN: Caper, antic, capricious, action, frolic, trick, gambol, escapade, freak, [See FROLIC].
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KEY: Prate.
SYN: Babble, prattle, chat, chatter, tattle, gossip, [See BABBLE].
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KEY: Pray.
SYN: Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, solicit, supplicate, adjure, invoke, crave, [See BESEECH].
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KEY: Prayer.
SYN: Petition, supplication, entreaty, orison, benediction, suit, request, [See BENEDICTION].
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KEY: Preamble.
SYN: Preface, introduction, exordium, opening, introductory, part.
ANT: Close, termination, peroration, finale, conclusion.
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KEY: Precarious.
SYN: Hazardous, peril, ous, uncertain, riskful, unassured, insecure, dubious, doubtful.
ANT: Assured, certain, systematic, safe, immutable.
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KEY: Precaution.
SYN: Forethought, provision, premunition, anticipation, prearrangement, care, providence.
ANT: Carelessness, thoughtlessness, improvidence.
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KEY: Precede.
SYN: Lead, introduce, herald, go before, usher, head.
ANT: Succeed, follow.
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KEY: Precedence.
SYN: Superiority, lead, priority, preference, antecedence, supremacy, pre-eminence.
ANT: Inferiority, sequence, subordination, posteriority.
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KEY: Precedent.
SYN: Anterior, prior, earlier.
ANT: Subsequent, posterior, Inter.
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KEY: Precedent \n.\
SYN: Instance, example, authority, warrant, antecedent, pattern.
ANT: Prohibition, diswarrant, disallowance.
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KEY: Preceding.
SYN: Precedent, former, foregoing, prior, previous, antecedent, anterior, [See ANTERIOR].
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KEY: Precept.
SYN: Rule, maxim, injunction, commandment, doctrine, direction, law, mandate, principle, instruction, command, order.
ANT: Suggestion, prompting, instigation, impulse.
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KEY: Preceptor.
SYN: Master, teacher, pedagogue, tutor, instructor, schoolmaster.
ANT: Pupil, learner, scholar, student.
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KEY: Precinct, Precincts.
SYN: Purlieus, environs, limit, bounds, boundary, confine, district.
ANT: Heart, centre, nucleus.
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KEY: Precious.
SYN: Dear, valuable, costly, cherished, treasured, beloved, estimable, of great value.
ANT: Cheap, valueless, worthless, unvalued, disesteemed, unappreciated, vile.
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KEY: Precipice.
SYN: Cliff, crag, steep descent, headlong, steep, [See ABYSS].
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KEY: Precipitate, [See RASH].
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KEY: Precipitous.
SYN: Steep, headlong, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular, beetling, rash, dangerous.
ANT: Shallow, graduated, inclined, undulating.
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KEY: Precise.
SYN: Definite, exact, nice, pointed, accurate, correct, particular, formal, explicit, scrupulous, terse, punctilious, ceremonious, formal.
ANT: Indefinite, vague, inexact, rough, inaccurate, loose, circumlocutory, ambagious, tortuous, informal, unceremonious.
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KEY: Precision.
SYN: Exactness, nicety, preciseness, accuracy, [See ACCURACY].
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KEY: Preclude.
SYN: Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder.
ANT: Admit, promote, further, advance.
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KEY: Precocious.
SYN: Premature, predeveloped, overforward.
ANT: Tardy, backward, slow-growing, crude.
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KEY: Precognition.
SYN: Foresight, foreknowledge.
ANT: Reflection, recollection.
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KEY: Preconception.
SYN: Forethought, anticipation, fore-understanding.
ANT: Copy, portraiture, observation, vision, representation, delineation.
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KEY: Preconcerted.
SYN: Prearranged, concocted, prepared, premeditated.
ANT: Extemporized, unprepared, unconcocted, unpremeditated.
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KEY: Precursor.
SYN: Forerunner, harbinger, herald, pioneer, advance-guard, cause.
ANT: Follower, consequent, result, effect, event.
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KEY: Precursory.
SYN: Prevenient, antecedent, introductory, prefatory, initiatory, prior, premonitory, prognosticative.
ANT: Subsequent, consequent, posterior, entailed, supervenient, eventual.
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KEY: Predaceous.
SYN: Ravenous, rapacious, carnivorous.
ANT: Innocuous, herbivorous, graminivorous.
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KEY: Predatory.
SYN: Pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous.
ANT: Guarding, keeping, watching, protecting, [See RAPACIOUS].
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KEY: Predecessor.
SYN: Ancestor, forerunner, elder.
ANT: Posterity, junior, successor.
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KEY: Predestination.
SYN: Foreordainment, foredoom, necessity, fate, election, preordination, predetermination.
ANT: Freewill, freedom, volition, choice, spontaneity.
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KEY: Predicament.
SYN: Difficulty, try, ing position, state, condition, dilemma, situation, [See DILEMMA].
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KEY: Predicate \v.\
SYN: Assert, aver, affirm, declare, [See ASSERT].
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KEY: Predict.
SYN: Prophesy, foretell, forecast, prognosticate, forebode, foreshadow, [See FORETELL].
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KEY: Prediction.
SYN: Prophecy, prognostication, vaticination, foreannouncement, premonstration, foretelling, forebodement, presage, augury, foreshowing.
ANT: Narration, relation, history, account, report.
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KEY: Predilection.
SYN: Prepossession, preference, leaning, liking, fondness, bias, inclination, predisposition, tendency, prejudice, partiality.
ANT: Prejudice, aversion, indisposition, antipathy, disinclination, apathy.
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KEY: Predisposition, [See PREDILECTION].
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KEY: Predominance.
SYN: Prevalence, superiority, ascendancy, rule.
ANT: Inferiority, subjection, minority, paucity.
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KEY: Predominant.
SYN: Prevailing, ascendant, prevalent, superior, overruling, [See SUPERIOR].
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KEY: Pre-eminent.
SYN: Paramount, predominant, egregious, consummate, prevailing.
ANT: Subordinate, inferior, minor, secondary.
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KEY: Preface.
SYN: Introduction, proem, prelude, prologue, preamble, premiss.
ANT: Peroration, sequel, appendix, epilogue, postscript.
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KEY: Prefatory.
SYN: Introductory, preclusive, initiative, preliminary, antecedent, prevenient, proemial.
ANT: Subsequent, concluding, terminal, perorational.
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KEY: Prefer.
SYN: Choose, elect, select, fancy, promote, advance, further.
ANT: Reject, postpone, defer, withhold, degrade, depress.
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KEY: Preferment.
SYN: Dignity, promotion, benefice, advancement, exaltation.
ANT: Degradation, deprivation, suspension.
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KEY: Prefiguration.
SYN: Type, adumbration.
ANT: Antitype, fulfillment.
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KEY: Prefix.
SYN: Preface.
ANT: Append, subjoin, suffix, supplement, add.
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KEY: Pregnant.
SYN: Procreant, generative, prolific, teeming, significant, fraught, fruitful, replete, with child, enceinte.
ANT: Sterile, unproductive, barren, void, meaningless.
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KEY: Pregnable.
SYN: Weak, exposed, expugnable, defenceless.
ANT: Impregnable, inexpugnable.
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KEY: Prejudice.
SYN: Prepossession, prejudgment, predisposition, bias, unfairness, injury, harm, impairment, detriment, partiality, disadvantage, damage.
ANT: Judgment, fairness, impartiality, advantage.
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KEY: prejudicial.
SYN: Harmful, hurtful, injurious, disadvantageous, [See HARMLESS].
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KEY: Preliminary.
SYN: Previous, proemial, precursive, prelusory, antecedent, preparatory.
ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following.
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KEY: Prelude.
SYN: Introduction, preparation, preface, proem, {[preli*ion]?}, overture, [See PREFACE].
ANT: Sequel, conclusion.
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KEY: Premature.
SYN: Hasty, crude, unauthenticated, untimely, precocious, precipitate, too early, rash, unseasonable.
ANT: Ripe, timely, seasonable, opportune.
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KEY: Premeditate.
SYN: Plan, propose, plot, prearrange, prepare, precompose, preconcert.
ANT: Extemporize, hazard.
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KEY: Premeditation.
SYN: Forethought, deliberation.
ANT: Without forethought, without deliberation.
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KEY: Premise.
SYN: Announce, forestate, preface.
ANT: Add, append, infer, gather, supplement, subjoin.
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KEY: Premises.
SYN: Antecedent, ground.
ANT: Consequent, inference, deduction, conclusion.
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KEY: Premium.
SYN: Reward, guerdon, encouragement, douceur, enhancement, bribe, recompense, bonus, prize, bounty.
ANT: Penalty, fine, amercement, mulct, forfeit, depreciation.
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KEY: Preordain.
SYN: Foreordain, predetermine, foredoom, predestine.
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KEY: Preparation.
SYN: Provision, making ready.
ANT: Without preparation, without, provision.
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KEY: Preparatory, [See PRELIMINARY].
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KEY: Prepare.
SYN: Fit, adapt, qualify, ad, just, provide, arrange, order, lay, plan, equip, furnish, make ready.
ANT: Misfit, misadapt, misprovide, derange, disarrange, demolish, subvert, disconcert.
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KEY: Preponderant.
SYN: Outweighing, overcoming, superior, [See SUPERIOR].
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KEY: Preponderate.
SYN: Predominate, prevail, overbalance, outweigh, outbalance.
ANT: Fail, sink, succumb.
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KEY: Prepossessing.
SYN: attractive, alluring, charming, winning, taking, engaging.
ANT: Repulsive, unattractive, sinister.
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KEY: Preposterous.
SYN: Monstrous, exorbitant, unreasonable, absurd, irrational, foolish, ridiculous.
ANT: Just, due, fair, reasonable, moderate, right, judicious, orderly, sound.
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KEY: Prerogative.
SYN: Eight, privilege, immunity.
ANT: Disqualification, disfranchisement.
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KEY: Presage \n.\
SYN: Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition.
ANT: fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization.
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KEY: Presage \v.\
SYN: Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend, threaten, augur, [See PORTEND].
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KEY: Prescribe.
SYN: Enjoin, order, impose, recommend, indicate, decree, dictate.
ANT: Inhibition, prohibit, discountenance, discommend.
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KEY: Prescription.
SYN: Direction, order, recipe, usage, custom, [See CUSTOM].
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KEY: Presence.
SYN: Nearness, influence, intercourse, closeness.
ANT: Remoteness, absence, separation, distance.
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KEY: Present \a.\
SYN: At hand, existing, not absent, nigh, instant, immediate, current, [See ABSENT].
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KEY: Present \n.\
SYN: Donation, gift, offering, grant, benefaction, [See BENEFACTION].
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KEY: Present \v.\
SYN: Give, offer, bestow, introduce, exhibit, confer upon, [See BESTOW].
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KEY: Presentation.
SYN: Introduction, exhibition, offer, delivery, gift, donation, bestowal, grant, endowment.
ANT: Withdrawal, removal, concealment, suppression, retention, withholding, refusal, nonpresentation.
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KEY: Presentiment.
SYN: Foreboding, foretaste, forethought, prescience, forecast, anticipation.
ANT: Surprise, inexpectancy, miscalculation.
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KEY: Presently.
SYN: Shortly, soon, immediately, directly, [See DIRECTLY].
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KEY: Preservation.
SYN: Safety, security, conservation, integrity, protection, nurture, guardianship, care.
ANT: Abandonment, exposure, peril, insecurity, [See IMPAIRMENT], infringement, injury, damage.
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KEY: Preserve.
SYN: Defend, guard, save, keep safe, uphold, protect, maintain, rescue, spare, [See PROTECT].
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KEY: Preside.
SYN: Manage, superintend, direct, control, govern, [See MANAGE].
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KEY: President.
SYN: Chairman, moderator, principal, superintendent.
ANT: Member, subordinate, constituent, corporation, society, ward, institution.
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KEY: Press \v.\
SYN: Urge, crowd, compel, force, squeeze, crush, compress, express, constrain, hurry, instigate, inculcate, impress, throng, encroach, lean, weigh, harass.
ANT: Relax, inhibit, persuade, entice, allure, solicit, touch, skim, graze, free, liberate, ease, avoid, relieve.
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KEY: Pressing.
SYN: Urgent compulsory, importunate.
ANT: Unimportant, slight, trivial, light.
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KEY: Pressure \n.\
SYN: Exigency, urgency, constraining, hurry, influence, [See EXISTENCE].
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KEY: Presume.
SYN: Suppose, anticipate, apprehend, venture, take for granted, conjecture, believe, deem.
ANT: Infer, deduce, prove, argue, retire, withdraw, hesitate, distrust.
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KEY: Presumption.
SYN: Anticipation, supposition, hypothesis, probability, assumption, understanding, condition, concession, forwardness, arrogance, audacity, boldness.
ANT: Proof, deduction, inference, demonstration, verification, fact, certainty, modesty, diffidence, backwardness, bashfulness, hesitation.
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KEY: Presumptive.
SYN: Probable, antecedent.
ANT: Demonstrative, established.
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KEY: Presumptuous.
SYN: Presuming, bold, overconfident, forward, rashly confident, arrogant, bold, rash, irreverent, wilful, foolhardy, [See RASH].
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KEY: Presuppose.
SYN: Presume, assume, postulate, surmise.
ANT: Prove, establish, infer, deduce, argue, demonstrate.
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KEY: Pretence.
SYN: Excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show, pretension.
ANT: Verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness, veritableness, actuality, fact.
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KEY: Pretend.
SYN: Feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect, profess.
ANT: Verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute.
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KEY: Pretention.
SYN: Claim, show, pretence, demand, profession, alleged right, [See PRETENCE and CLAIM].
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KEY: Pretext, [See PRETENCE].
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KEY: Pretty \a.\
SYN: Handsome, attractive, neat, trim, tasteful, pleasing, beautiful, fine, comely, [See ATTRACTIVE and HANDSOME].
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KEY: Pretty, adv.
SYN: Moderately, tolerably.
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KEY: Prevail.
SYN: Predominate, overcome, obtain, succeed, be in force, induce, persuade, [See CONQUER].
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KEY: Prevailing.
SYN: Controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common.
ANT: Mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless.
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KEY: Prevalence.
SYN: Custom, power, influence, operation, extension, predominance, superiority, influence, efficacy, preponderance.
ANT: Disuse, desuetude, obsoleteness, decay, evanescence, disappearance, mitigation, subordination, collapse, abandonment, abolition, diminution, subsidence, subjection.
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KEY: Prevaricate.
SYN: Shuffle, quibble, equivocate, palter, sophisticate, evade.
ANT: Affirm, asseverate, maintain, reiterate.
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KEY: Prevenient.
SYN: Preliminary, prefatory, antecedent, initiatory, introductory.
ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following, attending.
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KEY: Prevent.
SYN: Hinder, obstruct, bar, neutralize, nullify, thwart, intercept, anticipate, forefend, frustrate, obviate, checkmate.
ANT: Promote, aid, facilitate, expedite, encourage, advance, accelerate, induce, cause, produce.
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KEY: Prevention.
SYN: Obstruction, stoppage, interruption, hinderance.
ANT: Help, aid, succor, acceleration.
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KEY: Previous.
SYN: Antecedent, prior, preceding, anterior, foregoing, former, earlier.
ANT: Subsequent, posterior, succeeding, following, later.
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KEY: Prey.
SYN: Spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot.
ANT: Earnings, hues, rights.
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KEY: Price.
SYN: Cost, figure, charge, expense, compensation, value, appraisement, worth.
ANT: Donation, discount, allowance, remittance, abatement.
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KEY: Priceless.
SYN: Inestimable, invaluable, precious.
ANT: Cheap, valueless.
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KEY: Pride.
SYN: Loftiness, haughtiness, lordliness, self-exaltation, arrogance, conceit, vainglory.
ANT: Lowliness, meekness, modesty, self-distrust.
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KEY: Priggish.
SYN: Coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceited.
ANT: Plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered.
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KEY: Prim.
SYN: Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious, unbending, priggish.
ANT: Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive.
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KEY: Primary.
SYN: First, original, earliest, elementary, chief, principal, important, leading, primitive, pristine.
ANT: Secondary, subordinate, posterior, unimportant, inferior, subsequent, later, [See PRINCIPAL].
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KEY: Prime \n.\
SYN: Zenith, culmination, perfection, dawn, spring, cream, flower.
ANT: Decadence, wane, evening, refuse, winter, decay.
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KEY: Prime \a.\
SYN: Excellent, superexcellent, first-rate, perfect, consummate.
ANT: Inferior, impaired, waning, deteriorated, ordinary, second-rate, defective.
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KEY: Primeval.
SYN: Archaic, primordial, indigenous, autochthonic, aboriginal, pristine.
ANT: Subsequent, recent, modern, imported, adventitious.
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KEY: Primitive.
SYN: Old-fashioned, primeval, quaint, simple, unsophisticated, archaic, pristine.
ANT: Modern, new-fangled, sophisticated, modish.
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KEY: Primordial, [See PRIMEVAL].
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KEY: Princely.
SYN: Imperial, munificent, magnificent, superb, august, regal, royal, supreme.
ANT: Beggarly, mean, niggardly, poverty-struck.
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KEY: Principal.
SYN: Highest, first, main, leading, chief, primary, foremost, pre-eminent, prominent.
ANT: Inferior, subordinate, secondary, supplemental, subject, auxiliary, minor.
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KEY: Principle.
SYN: Source, origin, motive, cause, energy, substance, element, power, faculty, truth, tenet, law, doctrine, axiom, maxim, postulate, rule.
ANT: Exhibition, manifestation, application, development, issue, exercise, operation, formation, action.
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KEY: Prior.
SYN: Preceding, previous, former, antecedent, precedent, earlier, anterior, foregoing, [See POSTERIOR].
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KEY: Prismatic.
SYN: Iridescent, opalescent, polychromatous.
ANT: Achromatic, colorless.
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KEY: Pristine, [See PRIMEVAL and PRIMITIVE].
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KEY: Privacy.
SYN: Retirement, secrecy, solitude, seclusion, retreat, concealment.
ANT: Publicity, currency, notoriety, exposure.
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KEY: Private.
SYN: Special, peculiar, individual, secret, not public, retired, privy.
ANT: General, public, open, unconcealed.
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KEY: Privation.
SYN: Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement, hardship, want.
ANT: Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution, presence, compensation, recovery, privilege.
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KEY: Privilege.
SYN: Prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage, claim, exemption.
ANT: Disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition, inhibition.
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KEY: Privy.
SYN: Secret, clandestine, cognizant, acquainted with.
ANT: Open, unsealed, not acquainted with, not cognizant of, [See PRIVATE].
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KEY: Prize \n.\
SYN: Booty, spoil, plunder, prey, forage, trophy, laurels, guerdon, premium, honors, ovation, palm.
ANT: Loss, forfeiture, fine, penalty, amercement, sacrifice, disappointment, failure, brand, stigma, infamy, mulct.
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KEY: Prize \v.\ [See VALUE].
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KEY: Probability.
SYN: Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance.
ANT: Unliklihood, improbability, impossibility, inconceivableness.
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KEY: Probable.
SYN: Likely, presumable, credible, reasonable.
ANT: Unlikely, unreasonable, incredible.
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KEY: Probation.
SYN: Essay, examination, test, trial, experiment, proof, criterion, touchstone, ordeal, verification.
ANT: License, [See DIMINISH and SMALL], nonprobation.
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KEY: Probe.
SYN: Prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore.
ANT: Skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss.
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KEY: Probity.
SYN: Soundness, virtue, integrity, honesty, uprightness, rectitude, principle, conscientiousness.
ANT: Dishonesty, disintegrity, unsoundness, vice, unconscientiousness, roguery, rascality.
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KEY: Problematical.
SYN: Dubious, questionable, uncertain, doubtful.
ANT: Evident, obvious, self-evident, certain, demonstrable.
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KEY: Procedure.
SYN: Proceeding, act, progress, course of conduct, process, [See ACT].
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KEY: Proceed.
SYN: Move, pass, advance, progress, continue, issue, emanate, flow, arise.
ANT: Recede, deviate, retreat, stand, stop, stay, desist, discontinue, retire.
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KEY: Proceeding.
SYN: Step, measure, transaction, performance, procedure, conduct, behavior, action, process.
ANT: Abandonment, desistence, deviation, discontinuance, inaction.
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KEY: Proceeds.
SYN: Receipts, produce, returns, avail, profits, income, [See INCOME].
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KEY: Procession.
SYN: Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue.
ANT: Rabble, herd, rush, disorder, mob, confusion, rout.
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KEY: Proclaim.
SYN: Announce, publish, promulgate, declare, enunciate, advertise, call out, report, utter.
ANT: Repress, conceal, silentiate, obliviate, secrete.
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KEY: Proclamation.
SYN: Announcement, edict, decree, notice, ordinance, [See DECREE].
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KEY: Proclivity.
SYN: Tendency, propensity, bias, gravitation, disposition, inclination, proneness.
ANT: Aversion, disinclination, indisposition.
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KEY: Procrastinate, [See DEFER].
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KEY: Procrastination.
SYN: Dilatoriness, delay.
ANT: Timeliness, punctuality, promptitude, alacrity.
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KEY: Procure.
SYN: Acquire, provide, gain, get, contrive, effect, reap, win, earn, bring about.
ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit, misprovide, miscontrive.
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KEY: Prodigal.
SYN: Lavish, profuse, extravagant, reckless, wasteful, squandering, improvident.
ANT: Frugal, saving, hoarding, economical, niggardly, miserly, close, closefisted.
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KEY: productions.
SYN: Marvellous, portentous, wonderful, astounding, enormous, monstrous, amazing, surprising, remarkable, extraordinary, huge, vast.
ANT: Ordinary, commonplace, everyday, usual, familiar, moderate.
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KEY: Prodigy.
SYN: Wonder, marvel, portent, monster, miracle, [See MONSTER].
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KEY: Produce.
SYN: Exhibit, bear, furbish, afford, cause, create, originate, yield, extend, prolong, lengthen.
ANT: Withdraw, retain, stifle, withhold, neutralize, destroy, annihilate, curtail, shorten, contract, reduce.
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KEY: Produce \n.\
SYN: Product, yield, fruit, profit, effect, consequence, result, amount, [See RESULT].
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KEY: Product.
SYN: Fruit, result, issue, consequence, effect, emanation, work.
ANT: Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action, tendency, law.
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KEY: Production.
SYN: Origination, evolution, formation, genesis, product, [See CAUSE].
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KEY: Productive.
SYN: Fruitful, prolific, fertile, efficient, causative.
ANT: Unfruitful, barren, sterile, unproductive, inefficient, effete.
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KEY: Proemial, [See PREFATORY].
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KEY: Profane \a.\
SYN: Unconsecrated, secular, temporal, unsanctified, unholy, irreligious, irreverent, ungodly, wicked, godless, impious, blasphemous.
ANT: Holy, consecrated, sacred, spiritual, sanctified, reverent, religious, godly, pious, devout.
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KEY: Profane \v.\
SYN: Defile, pollute, desecrate, abuse, [See CONTAMINATE and POLLUTE].
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KEY: Profess.
SYN: Declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay claim to.
ANT: Conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure.
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KEY: Profession.
SYN: Avowal, declaration, business, occupation, trade, calling, vocation, [See DECLARATION].
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KEY: Proffer.
SYN: Offer, propose, tender, volunteer.
ANT: Withhold, detain.
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KEY: Proficiency.
SYN: Success, advancement, progress, improvement, forwardness, dexterity.
ANT: Failure, backwardness, unsuccess, tardiness, relapse.
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KEY: Proficient \n.\
SYN: Adept, master, expert.
ANT: Tyro, novice, ignoramus, dunce.
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KEY: Proficient \a.\
SYN: Expert, clever, practised, skilled, trained, versed, advanced, conversant, skilful, competent, well qualified.
ANT: backward, ignorant, unskilled, inconversant, ill-versed, awkward, clumsy.
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KEY: Profit.
SYN: Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit service, use, improvement.
ANT: Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste.
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KEY: Profitable.
SYN: Gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful, productive, remunerative, lucrative.
ANT: Unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental, unbeneficial, unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerative.
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KEY: Profitless, [See PROFITABLE].
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KEY: Profligacy.
SYN: Shamelessness, dissoluteness, depravity, reprobation.
ANT: Virtue, probity, integrity, principle, conscientiousness.
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KEY: Profligate.
SYN: Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless, [See ABANDONED].
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KEY: Profound.
SYN: Deep, fathomless, abysmal, penetrating, intimate, solemn, abstruse, recondite, philosophical, strong, vivid, intense, deepseated.
ANT: Shallow, superficial, commonplace.
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KEY: Profuse.
SYN: Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive.
ANT: Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish, poor.
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KEY: Profusion.
SYN: Copiousness, prodigality, abundance, exuberance, extravagance, multitude, mass, heap, load, flood, wealth.
ANT: Scarcity, economy, poverty, parsimony, drain, dole, driblet, pittance.
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KEY: Progeny.
SYN: Offspring, young, issue, scion, offshoot, descendants, posterity, race.
ANT: Stock, parentage, ancestry.
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KEY: Prognostic.
SYN: Sign, indication, symptom, premonition, harbinger, token, presage, signal.
ANT: Result, reminder, memorial, record, register, misindication, mistaken.
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KEY: Prognosticate.
SYN: Foretell, presage, predict, forebode, foretoken, augur, portend, indicate, betoken.
ANT: Record, register, recal, remember, note, rehearse.
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KEY: Programme.
SYN: Advertisement, notice, plan, catalogue.
ANT: Review, rehearsal, repetition, resume, analysis, precis.
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KEY: Progress \n.\
SYN: Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey, proficiency, speed, growth.
ANT: Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure, relapse.
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KEY: Progress \v.\ [See ADVANCE].
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KEY: Progression.
SYN: Series, gradation, rate.
ANT: Inversion, diminution.
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