Chapter 20

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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