KEY: Prohibit.
SYN: Forbid, interdict, debar, hinder, check, prevent, disallow, inhibit.
ANT: Permit, grant, allow, sanction.
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KEY: Prohibition.
SYN: Interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance.
ANT: Allowance, permission.
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KEY: Project \v.\
SYN: Throw, cast, hurl, propel, shoot, discharge, propound, intend, forecast, jut, extend, reach, bulge, stand out.
ANT: Recal, withdraw, draw, retract, pull, attract, rebound, recoil, adduce, revert, rebate.
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KEY: Project \n.\
SYN: Plan, purpose, design, scheme, contrivance, device.
ANT: Hazard, chance, venture.
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KEY: Projectile.
SYN: Missile.
ANT: Weapon, sidearms, handarms.
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KEY: Projection.
SYN: Protuberance, prominence, convexity, propulsion, emission.
ANT: Recess, cavity, concavity, return, indentation, hollow, attraction, recoil, rebound, ricochet, reaction.
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KEY: Prolific, [See PRODUCTION].
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KEY: Prolix.
SYN: Diffuse, lengthy, tedious, circumlocutory, prosaic, verbose, minute, toilsome, wordy.
ANT: Condensed, terse, epigrammatic, curt, brief, laconic.
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KEY: Prolong.
SYN: Lengthen, extend, protract, continue, delay, retard.
ANT: Curtail, shorten, contract, discontinue.
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KEY: Prominent.
SYN: Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous, eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctive.
ANT: Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn, inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable, subordinate.
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KEY: Promiscuous.
SYN: Mingled, [See {[cooFRO]?}], undistinguished, unselected, unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual, disorderly, unordered.
ANT: Sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved, as sorted, exclusive, nice.
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KEY: Promise \v.\ [(DEF: to engage by word of mouth, as distinguished from a bond)].
SYN: Engage, assure.
ANT: Covenant, pledge, stipulate.
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KEY: Promise \n.\
SYN: Engagement, assurance, word, pledge, [See ASSURANCE].
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KEY: Promontory.
SYN: Headland, jutland, cape.
ANT: Bay, cove, recess.
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KEY: Promote.
SYN: Aid, further, advance, excite, exalt, raise, elevate, prefer.
ANT: Discourage, repress, hinder, check, allay, depress, degrade, dishonor.
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KEY: Promotion.
SYN: Furtherance, advancement, encouragement, preferment, elevation.
ANT: Hinderance, obstruction, impediment, retardation.
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KEY: Prompt.
SYN: Ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt, unhesitating.
ANT: Unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive.
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KEY: Promptitude.
SYN: Readiness, promptness, quickness, alertness, alacrity, activity.
ANT: Unreadiness, sluggishness, inaction, inertness, tardiness, hesitation.
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KEY: Promulgate.
SYN: Divulge, announce, publish, spread, propound, disseminate, proclaim, advertise.
ANT: Repress, conceal, suppress, stifle, hush, burke, discountenance.
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KEY: Prone.
SYN: Disposed, inclined, bent, tending, apt, recumbent, prostrate, flat.
ANT: Indisposed, disinclined, unapt, averse, upright.
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KEY: Pronounce.
SYN: Articulate, utter, declare, propound, deliver, assert, affirm, enunciate, express.
ANT: Mispronounce, mispropound, misaffirm, suppress, stifle, silence, choke, swallow, gabble, mumble.
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KEY: Proof.
SYN: Test, trial, examination, criterion, essay, establishment, probation, demonstration, evidence, testimony, scrutiny.
ANT: Disproof, failure, invalidity, shortcoming, fallacy, undemonstrativeness, reprobation.
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KEY: Prop \n.\
SYN: Support, stay, buttress, shore, strut, pin.
ANT: Superstructure, superincumbency, top-weight, gravitation, extirpation, subverter, destroyer.
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KEY: Prop \v.\
SYN: Sustain, support, stay, maintain, [See SUPPORT].
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KEY: Propagate.
SYN: Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand, disseminate, diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound, broach.
ANT: Extinguish, strangle, stifle, neutralize, reduce, contract, suppress, diminish, fail, dwindle, die, contradict.
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KEY: Propel.
SYN: Hurl, project, drive, urge.
ANT: Retard, detain, withhold.
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KEY: Propensity.
SYN: Bent, predilection, proclivity, [See PROCLIVITY].
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KEY: Proper.
SYN: Peculiar, appertinent, personal, own, constitutional, special, befitting, adapted, suited, suitable, appropriate, just, fair, equitable, right, decent, becoming, fit.
ANT: Common, inappertinent, alien, universal, nonspecial, unbefitting, unadapted, unsuited, unsuitable, inappropriate, wrong, indecent, unbecoming, improper.
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KEY: Property.
SYN: Quality, attribute, peculiarity, nature, characteristic, possessions, goods, wealth, estate, gear, resources, ownership, [See ATTRIBUTE]. \n.\ [See and ESTATE].
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KEY: Prophesy, [See FORETELL].
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KEY: Prophetic.
SYN: Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical, oracular, sibylline.
ANT: Historic, narrative, chronicled, recorded, recitative, commemorative.
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KEY: Propinquity.
SYN: Nearness, proximity, contiguity, adjacence.
ANT: Distance, remoteness, longitude, separation.
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KEY: Propitiate.
SYN: Conciliate, secure, appease, win, reconcile, pacify.
ANT: Exasperate, alienate, offend, estrange.
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KEY: Propitious.
SYN: Timely, favorable, auspicious, beneficial, friendly, welldisposed, gracious, benign, fortunate.
ANT: Untimely, untoward, unseasonable, unfavorable, inauspicious, unfriendly, hostile, antagonistic, adverse, ill-disposed, unpropitious.
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KEY: Proportion.
SYN: Adaptation, relation, rate, distribution, adjustment, symmetry, interrelationship, uniformity, correlation.
ANT: Misproportion, misadjustment, incongruity, disparity, disharmony, disorder, irrelation, disproportion.
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KEY: Proposal.
SYN: Offer, overture, tender, suggestion, design, proposition, scheme.
ANT: Withholding, withdrawal, retention, reticence, dissuasive, warning, prohibition.
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KEY: Propose.
SYN: Offer, tender, proffer, bring forward, purpose, intend, mean, propound, move, design, [See {[OKFKB]?}].
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KEY: Proposition.
SYN: Statement, affirmation, declaration, sentence.
ANT: Misstatement, interjection, babel, jargon, sound, riddle, paradox.
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KEY: Propound.
SYN: Propose, promulgate, express, declare, maintain, advocate, propagate, broach.
ANT: Repress, suppress, contradict, withdraw, repudiate, renounce, abjure, recal, retract.
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KEY: Propriety.
SYN: Fitness, appropriateness, justness, correctness, expediency, decorum, [See EXPEDIENCY and DECORUM].
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KEY: Prorogation, [See PROROGUE].
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KEY: Prorogue.
SYN: Adjourn, postpone, defer.
ANT: Convene, continue, prolong, expedite, despatch.
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KEY: Prosaic.
SYN: Pull, matter-of-fact, tedious, prolix.
ANT: Poetic, animated, interesting, lively, fervid, eloquent, graphic.
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KEY: Proscribe.
SYN: Denounce, condemn, reject, interdict, ostracize, disallow, prohibit, forbid.
ANT: Permit, sanction, encourage, enjoin.
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KEY: Prosecute.
SYN: Follow, pursue, investigate, conduct, summon, arraign, persevere, carry on, persist, sue.
ANT: Drop, discontinue, abandon, misconduct, misinvestigate, missoperate, exonerate, acquit.
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KEY: Proselyte.
SYN: Convert, catechumen, neophyte.
ANT: Misbeliever, infidel, habitue, pillar, prop, buttress.
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KEY: Prospect.
SYN: View, vision, field, landscape, hope, anticipation, probability.
ANT: Viewlessness, dimness, obscurity, darkness, cloud, veiling, occultation, hopelessness, improbability.
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KEY: Prospectus.
SYN: Programme, plan, catalogue, announcement, bill, scheme, compendium.
ANT: Subject, transaction, proceeding, &c.
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KEY: Prosperity.
SYN: Success, weal, welfare, good fortune, well-being, good luck.
ANT: Unsuccess, woe, adversity, failure, reverse.
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KEY: Prosperous.
SYN: Successful, fortunate, thriving, well off, well to do, happy, lucky, [See FORTUNATE].
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KEY: Prostrate.
SYN: Fallen, flat, procumbent, lifeless, ruined, overpowered, oppressed, prone.
ANT: Risen, vertical, erect, upright, reinvigorated, revived, restored.
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KEY: Prostration.
SYN: Overthrown, demolition, destruction, depression, exhaustion, [See DEPRESSION].
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KEY: Protect.
SYN: Defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicate.
ANT: Betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose.
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KEY: Protection.
SYN: Shelter, defence, security, safety, refuge, guard, [See SECURITY].
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KEY: Protest.
SYN: Expostulate, remonstrate, denounce, repudiate, deprecate, affirm, aver, assure.
ANT: Acquiesce, coincide, sanction, subscribe, endorse, agree.
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KEY: Protract.
SYN: Prolong, produce, elongate, defer, extend, lengthen, continue, draw out.
ANT: Shorten, abbreviate, curtail, contract, reduce.
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KEY: Protrude.
SYN: Extend, project, abut, jut, demonstrate, expose, bulge, thrust forward.
ANT: Recede, retract, adduce, repress, suppress, conceal.
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KEY: Protrusion.
SYN: Projection, protuberance, convexity, tongue.
ANT: recess, cavity, hollow, concavity, mouth.
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KEY: Protuberance.
SYN: Lump, swelling, excrescence, convexity.
ANT: Cavity, smoothness, planeness, concavity, indentation, hollow.
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KEY: Proud.
SYN: Arrogant, haughty, imperious, supercilious, presumptuous, boastful, vain glorious, vain, ostentatious, elated, self-satisfied, lofty, imposing, magnificent, self-conscious.
ANT: Deferential, humble, affable, unpresuming, meek, lowly, ashamed, unimposing, mean.
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KEY: Prove.
SYN: {[Trv]?}, assay, test, establish, demonstrate, ascertain, argue, show, confirm, examine, substantiate, make trial of, verify, ascertain.
ANT: Pass, pretermit, misdemonstrate, misindicate, refute, disprove, contradict, disestablish, neutralize.
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KEY: Proverb.
SYN: Maxim, apothegm, adage, saw, dictum, by word.
ANT: Essay, dissertation, disquisition, oration, diatribe, yarn.
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KEY: Proverbial.
SYN: Notorious, current, acknowledged, unquestioned.
ANT: Dubious, unfounded, suspicious, suspected, questionable.
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KEY: Provide.
SYN: Prepare, arrange, procure, afford, supply, contribute, yield, cater, furnish, get, agree, produce, collect, stipulate.
ANT: Misprovide, neglect, overlook, withhold, retain, appropriate, refuse, den, [See {[*1]?}], alienate, divert, misemploy, mismanage.
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KEY: Provided.
SYN: Granted, supposing.
ANT: Barring, saving, excluded.
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KEY: Providence.
SYN: Forethought, timely care, forecast, divine government, divine superintendence.
ANT: Improvidence, recklessness, carelessness.
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KEY: Provident.
SYN: Forecasting, foreseeing, cautious, considerate.
ANT: Improvident, reckless, careless, inconsiderate.
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KEY: Province.
SYN: Tract, region, department, section, sphere, domain, territory.
ANT: Metropolis, centre, capital.
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KEY: Provincial.
SYN: Appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolic.
ANT: Central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly.
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KEY: Provision, Provisions.
SYN: Preparation, arrangement, produce, supply, anticipation, food, supplies, victuals, edibles, eatables.
ANT: Neglect, misprovision, forgetfulness, thoughtlessness, oversight, destitution, want, dearth, starvation, dole, pittance.
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KEY: Provisional.
SYN: Conditional, contingent, hypothetical, temporary.
ANT: Unconditional, absolute, permanent, perpetual.
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KEY: Provocation.
SYN: Incitement, stimulus, stimulant, provocative, affront, indignity, insult, [See INDIGNITY].
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KEY: Provoke.
SYN: Educe, summon, rouse, irritate, excite, challenge, vex, impel, offend, exasperate, anger, tantalize.
ANT: Allay, relegate, pacify, soothe, conciliate.
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KEY: Prowess.
SYN: Bravery, valor, gallantry, might, courage, intrepidity, fearlessness, heroism.
ANT: Cowardice, weakness, poltroonery, dastardliness.
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KEY: Prowl.
SYN: Rove, roam, wander, prey.
ANT: Fly, swoop, chase, scour.
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KEY: Proximity.
SYN: Neighborhood, vicinity, [See PROPINQUITY].
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KEY: Proxy.
SYN: Agency, substitution, representation, agent, substitute, representative, deputy, commissioner, lieutenant, delegate.
ANT: Principalship, personality, principal, person, authority, depeter.
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KEY: Prudent.
SYN: Wise, wary, cautious, circumspect, discreet, careful, judicious.
ANT: Foolish, unwary, incautious, uncircumspect, indiscreet, rash, imprudent, silly, reckless, audacious.
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KEY: Prudish.
SYN: Coy, over modest, affectedly modest, over nice, squeamish, reserved, demure, [See DEMURE].
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KEY: Prurient.
SYN: Craving, itching, hankering, longing, lustful.
ANT: Disliking, loathing, pure.
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KEY: Prune.
SYN: Trim, lop, drees, amputate.
ANT: Pamper, train.
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KEY: Pry.
SYN: Peer, peep, scrutinize, inquire.
ANT: Connive, overlook, disregard, pretermit.
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KEY: Prying.
SYN: Peering, inquisitive, scrutinizing, curious.
ANT: Incurious, [See CURIOUS].
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KEY: Public.
SYN: Open, notorious, common, social, national, exoteric, general, generally known.
ANT: Close, secret, private, domestic, secluded, solitary, personal, individual.
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KEY: Publication.
SYN: Promulgation, notification, proclamation, divulgation.
ANT: Suppression, reservation, concealment.
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KEY: Publicity.
SYN: Notoriety, currency, [See NOTORIETY].
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KEY: Publish, [See ANNOUNCE].
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KEY: Puerile.
SYN: Childish, boyish, infantile, youthful, nonsensical, futile, nugatory, weak, silly, trifling.
ANT: Manly, vigorous, effective, powerful, cogent, weighty.
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KEY: Puerility.
SYN: Childishness, boyishness, juvenility, youthfulness.
ANT: Maturity, ripeness, manliness.
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KEY: Puff.
SYN: Flatter, advertise, hawk, ventilate.
ANT: Squash, disparage, lash, chastise, blast.
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KEY: Pugnacious.
SYN: Quarrelsome, bellicose, contentious.
ANT: Peaceable, conciliatory, suavity.
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KEY: Pull.
SYN: Draw, drag, adduce, extract, tug, haul, pluck.
ANT: Push, eject, extrude, propel.
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KEY: Pummel, [See POMMEL].
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KEY: Pump.
SYN: Cross-examine, interrogate, cross-quest iou.
ANT: Prime, indoctrinate, instruct, cram.
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KEY: Punch.
SYN: Perforate, poke, pierce, puncture, terebrate, bore.
ANT: Stop, plug, seal, bung.
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KEY: Punctilious.
SYN: Ceremonious, nice, scrupulous, exact, particular, excessively nice, over scrupulous, precise.
ANT: Unceremonious, unscrupulous.
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KEY: Punctual.
SYN: Exact, prompt, early, timely.
ANT: safe, tardy, behindhand, be, lated, dilatory, unpunctual.
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KEY: Puncture \v.\ [See PUNCH].
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KEY: Pungent.
SYN: Pricking, piercing, acrid, mordant, biting, stinging, stimulating, keen, trenchant, caustic, piquant, sarcastic.
ANT: Soothing, mellow, luscious, unctuous.
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KEY: Punish.
SYN: Chastise, castigate, chasten, correct, whip, scourge.
ANT: Reward, recompense, remunerate, indemnify.
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KEY: Puny.
SYN: Petty, undeveloped, undersized, feeble, pigmy, dwarfish, small, inferior, tiny.
ANT: Great, developed, fine, robust, vigorous, oversized, colossal, gigantic.
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KEY: Pupil.
SYN: Scholar, learner, student, tyro, novice, ward.
ANT: Teacher, master, proficient, adept, guardian.
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KEY: Pupilage.
SYN: Minority, discipleship, wardship, tutelage, dependence, government.
ANT: Majority, mastership, guardianship, discretion, independence.
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KEY: Puppet, [Fr. \poupée, a doll\; Lat. \pupa\].
SYN: Doll, image, lay-figure, tool.
ANT: Personality, power.
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KEY: Puppy.
SYN: Fop, coxcomb, prig.
ANT: Boor, clown, lout.
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KEY: Purblind.
SYN: Blinkard, owleyed, short-sighted.
ANT: Eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynxeyed.
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KEY: Argus-eyed, farsighted, Purchase, [See BUY].
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KEY: Pure.
SYN: Clear, unmixed, simple, genuine, sheer, mere, absolute, unadulterated, uncorrupted, unsullied, unblemished, chaste, real, clean, spotless, immaculate, undefiled, unspotted, guileless, innocent, guiltless.
ANT: Foul, turbid, impure, adulterated, corrupt, sullied, stained, tarnished, defiled, mixed, guilty.
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KEY: Purgation.
SYN: Clearing, cleansing, purification, lustration, clarification, defecation, determine.
ANT: Imputation, contraction, defilement, befoulment.
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KEY: Purgative \a.\
SYN: Evacuant, cathartic, abstergent.
ANT: Binding, [See ABSTERSIVE].
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KEY: Purge.
SYN: Cleanse, clear, clarify, purify, [See CLEAR].
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KEY: Purify, [See PURGE].
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KEY: Puritanical.
SYN: Prudish, ascetic, demure.
ANT: Genial, dissolute, voluptuous, rakish.
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KEY: Purity.
SYN: Cleanness, clearness, immaculateness, guiltlessness, innocence, [See INNOCENCE].
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KEY: Purlieu.
SYN: Environ, precinct, suburb.
ANT: Centre, heart.
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KEY: Purloin.
SYN: Steal, filch, thieve, seize, plunder.
ANT: Reinstate, restore, To sin.
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KEY: Purport.
SYN: Tendency, meaning, import, bearing, signification, drift, tenor, current, intent, spirit.
ANT: Statement, assertion, declaration, proposition, announcement.
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KEY: Purpose \v.\
SYN: Intend, determine, design, resolve, mean, propose.
ANT: Chance, risk, hazard, revoke, Miscalculate, venture, stake.
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KEY: Purpose \n.\
SYN: Intention, design, mind, meaning, view, object, aim, end, scope, point, resolve.
ANT: Chance, fortune, fate, accident, hazard, lot, casualty, lottery, hit.
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KEY: Pursue.
SYN: Chase, follow, track, hunt, continue, prosecute, [See PROSECUTE].
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KEY: Pursy.
SYN: Short-winded, thickwinded, short-breathed.
ANT: Lithe, agile, long-winded.
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KEY: Purulent.
SYN: Feculent, festering, corrupt.
ANT: Secretional, healthy.
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KEY: Purvey.
SYN: Provide, cater, provide food, [See PROVIDE].
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KEY: Push.
SYN: Press, drive, impel, shove, press against, propel, butt, thrust, urge, expedite, accelerate, reduce.
ANT: Pull, draw, drag, adduce.
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KEY: Pusillanimity.
SYN: {[DactardlineM]?}, cowardice, meanspiritedness, faintheartedness, timidity, poltroonery.
ANT: Magnanimity, fortitude, courage, bravery, venturesomeness, daring, heroism.
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KEY: Pusillanimous.
SYN: Cowardly, timorous, faintheartedness, meanspirited, [See GALLANT].
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KEY: Putt.
SYN: Place, lay, set, propose.
ANT: Remove, raise, displace, transfer, withdraw.
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KEY: Putative.
SYN: Reckoned, supposed, deemed, reputed, reported.
ANT: Real, authenticated, veritable, established.
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KEY: Putrefy.
SYN: Rot, corrupt, decompose, decay.
ANT: Preserve, embalm, freshen, Vitilize, purify, depurate, disinfect.
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KEY: Putrid.
SYN: Stinking, corrupt, offensive, decayed, decomposed, rotten, foul, mean, base, worthless.
ANT: Wholesome, sound, inoffensive, pure, redolent, fresh, healthful, sweet, honorable, worthy.
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KEY: Puzzle \v.\
SYN: Pose, perplex, embarrass, bewilder, confound, mystify, confuse.
ANT: Enlighten, instruct, illumine.
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KEY: Puzzle \n.\
SYN: Embarrassment, be wilderment, enigma, confusion, conundrum, intricacy, labyrinth.
ANT: Disentanglement, solution, explanation, extrication, clue.
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KEY: Quack.
SYN: Empiric, mountebank, charlatan, imposter, pretender, humbug.
ANT: Dupe, gull, victim.
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KEY: Quaff.
SYN: Drink, swallow, imbibe.
ANT: Disgorge, spew, vomit.
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KEY: Quagmire, [See MARSH].
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KEY: Quail.
SYN: Sink, shrink, cower, succumb, crouch, flinch, blench, tremble.
ANT: Stand, defy, withstand, face, endure.
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KEY: Quaint.
SYN: Curious, recondite, abstruse, elegant, nice, affected, whimsical, odd, antique, archaic, fanciful, singular, old-fashioned.
ANT: Commonplace, ordinary, usual, coarse, common, modern, modish, fashionable, dowdy.
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KEY: Quake.
SYN: Tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate, quiver, quaver.
ANT: Stand, rest, root.
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KEY: Qualification.
SYN: Capacity, fitness, condition, capability, accomplishment, requirement, limitation, modification.
ANT: Incapacity, unfitness, absoluteness, disqualification, nonqualification, unrestrictedness.
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KEY: Qualified.
SYN: Fitted, adapted, competent, suitable, [See SUITABLE].
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KEY: Qualify.
SYN: Fit, prepare, adapt, capacitate, limit, restrict, enable, render capable.
ANT: Unfit, misprepare, misqualify, disqualify, incapacitate, free, absolve.
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KEY: Quality.
SYN: Condition, character, property, attribute, peculiarity, disposition, temper, sort, kind, description, capacity, power, virtue, nature, tendency.
ANT: Anomalousness, heterogeneousness, nondescript, incapacity, weakness, instistinctiveness, ineffectiveness, disqualification, negation, disability.
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KEY: Qualm.
SYN: Misgiving, remorse, scruple, penitence.
ANT: Comfort, ease, self-satisfaction, self-approval.
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KEY: Quandary.
SYN: Hobble, difficulty, doubt, puzzle, uncertainty, perplexity, bewilderment, dubitation, baiting, dilemma, embarrassment.
ANT: Clearsightedness, resolution, plainness, clearness, obviousness, facility, disencumbrance, disentanglement, disembarrassment.
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KEY: Quantity.
SYN: Measure, amount, bulk, size, sum, portion, aggregate, muchness, part, share, division.
ANT: Margin, deficiency, deduction, want, inadequacy, scantiness, insufficiency, loss, deterioration, diminution, waste, wear, leakage.
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KEY: Quarrel \n.\
SYN: Brawl, altercation, affray, squabble, feud, tumult, dispute, wrangle, variance, disagreement, misunderstanding, hostility, quarreling, embroilment, bickering, broil.
ANT: Confabulation, conversation, chat, pleasantry, conciliation, agreement, harmony, understanding, friendliness, peace, amity, good will.
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KEY: Quarrel \v.\
SYN: Wrangle, squabble, dispute, spur, jangle, fall out, bicker, brawl, [See BRAWL].
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KEY: Quarreling, [See QUARREL].
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KEY: Quarrelsome.
SYN: Choleric, irascible, petulant, litigious, pugnacious, brawling, fiery, hot-tempered, contentious, irritable.
ANT: Peaceable, amenable, genial, unquarrelsome, inoffensive, mild, meek, conciliatory, bland, suave.
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KEY: Quarter.
SYN: Region, district, locality, territory, mercy, forbearance, pity.
ANT: Extermination, mercilessness, unsparingness, pitilessness, ruthless, ness.
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KEY: Quash.
SYN: Crush, extinguish, overthrow, annihilate, annul, nullify, suppress, cancel, vacate.
ANT: Sap, undermine, disorganize, decompose.
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KEY: Quaver \v.\ [See PLEASURE].
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KEY: Queer.
SYN: Odd, whimsical, quaint, cross, strange, crochety, singular, eccentric.
ANT: Ordinary, common, usual, familiar, customary.
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KEY: Quell.
SYN: Extinguish, destroy, crush, reduce, allay, stifle, quiet, pacify, quench, repress, suppress, calm, put out, subdue, quench, overpower.
ANT: Foster, excite, fan, aggravate, stir, irritate, disturb, raise, inflame.
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KEY: Quench, [See QUELL].
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KEY: Querlmonlous.
SYN: Malcontent, dissatisfied, opposititious, litigious.
ANT: Contented, satisfied, complacent, amenable, conformable.
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KEY: Querulous.
SYN: Quarrelsome, complaining, fretful, repining, discontented, dissatisfied, chiding, murmuring, whining, peevish, fastidious, irritable.
ANT: Easy, uncomplaining, satisfied, contented, submissive, genial, complacent, cheerful, good-tempered.
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KEY: Query.
SYN: Question, interrogation, inquiry.
ANT: Answer.
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KEY: Question \v.\
SYN: Ask, inquire, interrogate, doubt, investigate, dubitate, controvert, dispute.
ANT: Dictate, state, assert, pronounce, enunciate, concede, endorse, affirm, grant, allow.
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KEY: Question \n.\
SYN: Inquiry, interrogation, doubt, scrutiny, investigation, topic.
ANT: Reply, response, solution, answer, explanation, admission, concession.
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KEY: Questionable.
SYN: Doubtful, dubious, problematical, disputable, debatable, uncertain, suspicious.
ANT: Certain, evident, self-evident, obvious, indisputable.
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KEY: Quibble \v.\
SYN: Shuffle, evade, trifle, cavil, equivocate, prevaricate.
ANT: Reason, argue, enunciate, investigate, discuss.
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KEY: Quick.
SYN: Fast, rapid, speedy, expeditious, swift, hasty, prompt, ready, clever, sharp, shrewd, adroit, keen, fleet, active, brisk, nimble, lively, agile, alert, sprightly, transient, intelligent, irascible.
ANT: Slow, tardy, sluggish, inert, inactive, dull, insensitive.
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KEY: Quicken.
SYN: Accelerate, animate, revive, reinvigorate, resuscitate, vivify, stimulate, hurry, hasten, urge, excite, promote, expedite.
ANT: Retard, delay, encumber, clog, drag, detain, discourage, allay.
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KEY: Quickness.
SYN: Liveliness, velocity, speed, swiftness, celerity, fleetness, haste.
ANT: Slowness, tardiness, dilatoriness.
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KEY: Quiescence.
SYN: Repose, rest, quiet, quietude, dormancy, tranquillity, silence, stillness, {[AcTrvrrr]?}.
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KEY: Quiet \n.\
SYN: Rest, repose, stillness, calm, appeasement, pacification, silence, peace.
ANT: Unrest, motion, noise, agitation, excitement, disturbance, turmoil, tumult.
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KEY: Quiet \v.\
SYN: Allay, appease, still, pacify, hush, lull, tranquillize, soothe, calm.
ANT: Rouse, excite, disturb, agitate, stir, urge, goad.
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KEY: Quit.
SYN: Leave, resign, abandon, relinquish, discharge, release, surrender, give up, depart from, forsake.
ANT: Seek, occupy, invade, bind, enforce, haunt, enter.
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KEY: Quite.
SYN: Perfectly, entirely, completely, wholly, truly, altogether, totally.
ANT: Partially, imperfectly, barely, insufficiently, hardly.
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KEY: Quittance.
SYN: Discharge, absolution, remission, release.
ANT: Distraint, exaction, bond, debt, obligation.
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KEY: Quiver.
SYN: Shake, shiver, vibrate, tremble, quake, [See PLEASURE].
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KEY: Quote.
SYN: Cite, name, adduce, plead, allege, note, repeat.
ANT: Disprove, refute, retort, oppose, contradict, traverse, misquote, misadduce, rebut.
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KEY: Rabble.
SYN: Crowd, mob, scum, dregs, riff-raff, vulgar herd, disorderly crowd, canaille.
ANT: Elite, aristocracy, galaxy, upper ten, [See (U.S.)].
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KEY: Rabid.
SYN: Furious, raging, mad, infuriated, maniacal, frantic, raving.
ANT: Rational, sane, reasonable, sober.
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KEY: Race.
SYN: Course, pursuit, career, family, [See LINEAGE].
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KEY: Racy.
SYN: Fine-flavored, fresh, rich, pungent, piquant, spirited, smart, lively, vivacious, spicy.
ANT: Flavorless, dull, stupid.
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KEY: Rack, [See TORTURE].
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KEY: Radiance.
SYN: Brightness, splendor, lustre, brilliancy, brilliance, effulgence, glare.
ANT: Dullness, opaque.
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KEY: Radiant.
SYN: Beaming, lustrous, brilliant, glittering, splendid, shining, sparkling, luminous, glorious, beauteous.
ANT: Dull, lustreless, nonluminous.
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KEY: Radiate.
SYN: Shine, sparkle, gleam, emanate, coruscate, shimmer, [See SHINE].
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KEY: Radical.
SYN: Original, fundamental, thoroughgoing, unsparing, extreme, entire, innate, natural, essential, immanent, ingrained, underived, deep-seated.
ANT: Derived, ascititious, adventitious, superficial, extraneous, partial, moderate, conservative, acquired.
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KEY: Rage \n.\
SYN: Fury, rabidity, choler, indignation, frenzy, auger, ire, dudgeon, mania, passion, madness, ferocity.
ANT: Reason, moderation, gentleness, temperateness, calmness, quiescence, mitigation, assuagement, tranquillity, mildness, softness.
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KEY: Rage \v.\
SYN: Rave, storm, fume, be furious, be violent.
ANT: Be calm, be composed, be peaceful.
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KEY: Raging.
SYN: Vehement, violent, impetuous, infuriate, furious.
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KEY: Rail \v.\
SYN: Censure, scold, bluster, scoff, chide, objurgate, [See CENSURE].
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KEY: Raillery, [See BANTER].
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KEY: Raiment.
SYN: Clothing, vestments, garb, apparel, dress, attire, vesture, garments.
ANT: Rags, nudity, nakedness.
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KEY: Raise.
SYN: Lift, heave, elevate, exalt, advance, promote, heighten, enhance, awaken, rouse, excite, call forth, cultivate, rear, produce, collect, summon, erect, originate, propagate.
ANT: Lay, cast, depress, degrade, retard, dishonor, lower, depreciate, lull, compose, quiet, calm, blight, destroy, disperse, disband, stifle, hush, silence, neutralize, confute.
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KEY: Rake.
SYN: Libertine, roue, debauchee, [See {[XXX]?}].
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KEY: Rakish.
SYN: Licentious, dissolute, wanton, lewd, loose, [See BOUNDLESS].
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KEY: Rally \v.\ \t.\ and \i.\
SYN: Recall, reunite, inspirit, assemble, congregate, animate, recover, reassure.
ANT: Demoralize, disperse, disband.
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KEY: Rally \v.\
SYN: Banter, satirize, chaff, taunt, mock, deride, ridicule, joke, twit.
ANT: Compliment, flatter, panegyrize, eulogize.
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KEY: Ramble \v.\
SYN: Rove, roam, wander, range, stroll, saunter, stray.
ANT: Course, speed, hasten, drive, run.
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KEY: Ramble \n.\
SYN: Jaunt, tour, wandering, strolling, excursion.
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KEY: Ramification.
SYN: Branching, branch, offshoot, division, divergence, subdivision.
ANT: Line, trunk, stem, bole, course, thread, sequence, continuity, prosecution, rectilinearity, indivergence, indivision, non-ramification.
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KEY: Rampant.
SYN: Unbridled, uncontrolled, wanton, headstrong, luxuriant, furious, rank, violent, licentious, vehement.
ANT: Demure, self-restrained, restrained, self-controlled, disciplined, curbed.
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KEY: Rampart.
SYN: Bulwark, fortification, security, wall, defence, embankment, mound, mole, outwork, breastwork.
ANT: Nonfortification, defencelessness, exposure, insecurity, vulnerability.
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KEY: Rancid.
SYN: Sour, tainted, rank, olid, reasty, frowzy, fetid, musty.
ANT: Sweet, pure, untainted, fresh, fragrant.
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KEY: Rancor.
SYN: Ill-blood, spite, grudge, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, enmity, antipathy, vindictiveness, malevolence.
ANT: Good-feeling, friendliness, kindliness, forgiveness, geniality, sympathy, congeniality, unvindictiveness.
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KEY: Random.
SYN: Haphazard, stray, chance, wild, aimless, purposeless, unpremeditated, casual, vague, accidental.
ANT: Steady, aimed, intended, regular, controlled, purposed, intentional, deliberate, designed, normal, systematic.
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KEY: Range \v.\
SYN: Rank, dispose, class, place, order, collocate, file, concatenate, ramble, stroll, rove.
ANT: Disturb, disconnect, disorder, derange, intermit, disconnect, remain, be stationary.
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KEY: Range \n.\ [See ORDER and RANK].
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KEY: Rank \n.\
SYN: Row, line, tier, order, degree, grade, dignity.
ANT: Disconnection, disorder, incontinuity, solution, intermission, hiatus, plebeianism, meanness, commonalty.
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KEY: Rank \a.\
SYN: Luxuriant, exuberant, extreme, excessive, rampant.
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KEY: Rankle.
SYN: Fester, smoulder, burn, irritate, gall, disquiet.
ANT: Heal, cool, close, calm, quiet, compose.
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KEY: Ransack.
SYN: Rummage, rifle, explore, pillage, ravage, overhaul.
ANT: skim, survey, reconnoitre.
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KEY: Ransom.
SYN: Redeem, release, indemnify, emancipate, free, liberate, unfetter, redeem.
ANT: Prosecute, indict, fine, mulct, forfeit, damnify.
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KEY: Rant.
SYN: Bombast, rhodomontade, flummery, declamation, raving, boasting.
ANT: Reason, argument, eloquence, logic, rhetoric.
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KEY: Rapacious.
SYN: Greedy, ravenous, voracious, predaceous, avaricious, grasping, extortionate.
ANT: Bountiful, liberal, contented, frugal.
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KEY: Rapid.
SYN: Quick, swift, speedy, accelerated, flying.
ANT: Slow, tardy, retarded, cumbrous, lazy.
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KEY: Rapidity.
SYN: Quickness, swiftness, speed, velocity, celerity, dispatch.
ANT: Slowness, tardiness, cumbrousness, delay.
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KEY: Rapture.
SYN: ecstasy, transport, bliss, ravishment, delight.
ANT: Agony, torture, pain, tedium, ennui, irksomeness.
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KEY: Hare.
SYN: Scarce, choice, infrequent, excellent, few, exceptional, sparse, unusual, singular, uncommon, incomparable, extraordinary, unique, dispersed, valuable, precious, thin, volatile.
ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, numerous, mean, ordinary, usual, regular, crowded, dense, vulgar, worthless, cheap, valueless.
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KEY: Rarefy.
SYN: Expand, lighten, attenuate, sublimate.
ANT: Solidify, condense, thicken.
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KEY: Rascal.
SYN: Rogue, scoundrel, vagabond, scamp, villain, knave.
ANT: Gentleman.
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KEY: Rash.
SYN: Headstrong, audacious, hasty, precipitate, reckless, foolhardy, careless, adventurous, thoughtless, indiscreet, venturesome, overventuresome, incautious, unwary, heedless.
ANT: Wary, cautious, calculating, discreet, unventuresome, dubitating, hesitating, reluctant, timid.
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KEY: Rashness.
SYN: Hastiness, precipitancy, recklessness, venturesomeness, temerity, precipitation, indiscretion.
ANT: Slowness, carefulness, cautiousness, discretion.
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KEY: Rate \n.\
SYN: Tax, impost, assessment, duty, standard, allowance, ratio, quota, worth, price, value, [See PRICE].
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KEY: Rate \v.\
SYN: Compute, calculate, estimate, value, scold, abuse, appraise, [See APPRAISE], [See COMPUTE and ABUSE].
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KEY: Rather than.
SYN: Sooner than, in preference to.
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KEY: Ratify.
SYN: Sanction, seal, confirm, endorse, secure, approve, validity, establish, substantiate, settle.
ANT: Negative, reject, repudiate, disaffirm, invalidate, abrogate, annul, nullify,.
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KEY: Ratification.
SYN: Confirmation, Substantiation, establishment, corroboration.
ANT: Negation, disaffirmation, abrogation, nullifying.
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KEY: Rational.
SYN: Sane, sound, intelligent, reasoning, reasonable, judicious, sober, sensible, probable, equitable, moderate, fair.
ANT: Insane, unsound, weak, silly, unintelligent, absurd, injudicious, fanciful, extravagant, preposterous, unreasoning, unreasonable, irrational, exorbitant.
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KEY: Ravage \n.\
SYN: Devastation, desolation, waste, pillage, plunder, sack, ruin, spoil.
ANT: Sparing, conserving, preserving.
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KEY: Ravage \v.\
SYN: Spoil, devastate, despoil, destroy, desolate, ransack, waste, ruin, overrun, plunder.
ANT: Spare, conserve, preserve, indemnify.
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KEY: Rave.
SYN: Wander, drivel, rant.
ANT: Converse, reason, discourse.
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KEY: Ravel.
SYN: Separate, undo, untwist, unwind, disentangle.
ANT: Entangle, complicate, conglomerate, contuse.
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KEY: Ravenous.
SYN: Voracious, hungry, gluttonous, rapacious, omnivorous.
ANT: Listless, inappetent, fastidious, dainty, nice.
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KEY: Raving.
SYN: Delirious, furious, violent, mad, distracted, frantic.
ANT: Calm, collected, reasonable, sensible.
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KEY: Ravish.
SYN: Entrance, transport, enchant, enrapture, charm, violate, outrage, deflour, debauch, [See DEBAUCH].
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KEY: Raw.
SYN: Uncooked, unprepared, unfinished, unripe, crude, unseasoned, inexperienced, fresh, green, unpractised, untried, bare, bald, exposed, galled, chill, bleak, piercing.
ANT: Cooked, dressed, prepared, finished, ripe, mature, mellow, seasoned, experienced, expert, adept, habituated, familiar, practised, trained, tried, covered, healed, balmy, genial.
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KEY: Raze.
SYN: Demolish, level, prostrate, overthrow, dismantle, subvert, reduce, ruin, destroy, debase.
ANT: Raise, erect, build, rear, repair, restore.
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KEY: Reach.
SYN: Extend, thrust, stretch, obtain, arrive at, attain, gain, grasp, penetrate, strain, aim.
ANT: Fail, stop, cease, revert, rebate, miss, drop.
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KEY: React.
SYN: Recoil, result, counteract, rebound.
ANT: Act, influence, strike, impress.
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KEY: Read.
SYN: Peruse, interpret, decipher, unravel, discover, recognize, learn.
ANT: Misread, misinterpret, overlook, misobserve.
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KEY: Readiness.
SYN: Promptness, preparedness, aptness, alacrity, knack, willingness, [See ALACRITY].
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KEY: Ready.
SYN: Prompt, alert, expeditions, speedy, unhesitating, dexterous, apt, skilful, handy, expert, facile, easy, opportune, fitted, prepared, disposed, willing, free, cheerful, compliant, responsive, quick.
ANT: Unready, tardy, slow, hesitating, reluctant, dubitating, awkward, unhandy, clumsy, remote, inaccessible, unavailable, inopportune, ununited, unfitted, unprepared, indisposed, unwilling, constrained, grudging, unaccommodating, incompliant, irresponsive.
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KEY: Real.
SYN: Actual, veritable, existent, authentic, legitimate, true, genuine, developed.
ANT: Fictitious, imaginary, unreal, nonexistent, untrue, false, artificial, spurious, counterfeit, factitious, adulterated, assumed, pretended, potential, possible.
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KEY: Reality.
SYN: Verity, substance, truth, existence, genuineness, substantiality.
ANT: Fiction, falsehood, untruth, hypothesis, supposition, image, fancy, shadow, figment, fabrication, insubstantiality, emptiness, hollowness, chimera, unreality.
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KEY: Realize.
SYN: Substantiate, effectuate, accomplish, exhibit, produce, acquire, gain, reap, make, verify, conceive.
ANT: Lose, miss, invalidate, dissipate, misrepresent, falsify, neutralize, misconceive.
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KEY: Really.
SYN: Veritably, truly, indeed, unquestionably.
ANT: Questionably, possibly, perhaps, falsely, untruly, fictitiously.
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KEY: Realm.
SYN: Kingdom, province, state, empire, dominion, country, [See EMPIRE].
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KEY: Reap.
SYN: Gather, obtain, receive, get, acquire, realize, derive, gain.
ANT: Scatter, squander, dissipate, waste, lose.
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KEY: Rear \n.\
SYN: Back, end, tail.
ANT: Van, front, face.
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KEY: Rear \v.\
SYN: Raise, elevate, breed, discipline, erect, train, educate, instruct, foster, establish, construct, lift.
ANT: Stifle, extinguish, kill, depress, subvert, demolish, destroy.
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KEY: Reason \n.\
SYN: Ground, account, cause, explanation, motive, proof, apology, understanding, reasoning, rationality, right, propriety, justice, order, object, sake, purpose.
ANT: Pretext, pretence, misinterpretation, falsification, misconception, disproof, unreasonableness, absurdity, fallacy, irrationality, wrong, unreason, impropriety, unfairness, folly, aimlessness, unaccountableness.
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KEY: Reason \v.\
SYN: Debate, discuss, argue, infer, deduce, conclude, [See ARGUE].
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KEY: Reasonable, [See RATIONAL].
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KEY: Reassure.
SYN: Rally, restore, encourage, inspirit, animate, countenance.
ANT: Discourage, cow, brow-bent, intimidate, discountenance.
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KEY: Rebel \n.\
SYN: Revolter, insurgent, traitor.
ANT: Supporter, adherent.
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KEY: Rebel \v.\ [See REVOLT].
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KEY: Rebound \n.\
SYN: Reaction, ricochet, reverberation, recoil, resilience.
ANT: Impression, impact, collision, percussion.
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KEY: Rebound \v.\
SYN: Recoil, spring back, reverberate, [See REVERBERATE].
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KEY: Rebuff \v.\
SYN: Rebuke, repel, repulse, check, snub, oppose, [See REPEL].
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KEY: Rebuff \n.\
SYN: Rebuke, discouragement, repulsion, check.
ANT: Welcome, acceptance, encouragement.
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KEY: Rebuke.
SYN: Reprove, chide, rebuff, reprimand, censure.
ANT: Approve, encourage, eulogize, applaud, incite.
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KEY: Rebut.
SYN: Meet, retort, annul, confute.
ANT: Accept, sanction, recognize, confirm.
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KEY: Recal.
SYN: Restore, reassemble, revoke, supersede, recollect, callback, remember, cancel.
ANT: Relegate, dismiss, dispense, delegate, appoint, commission, forget.
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KEY: Recant.
SYN: Retract, unsay, recal, revoke, abjure, renounce.
ANT: Propound, profess, assert, declare, enunciate, vindicate, maintain, hold, retain.
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KEY: Recapitulate.
SYN: Summarize, rehearse, enumerate, recite, repeat.
ANT: State, deliver, propound.
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KEY: Recede.
SYN: Retire, withdraw, retreat, retrograde, return, ebb.
ANT: Approach, advance, flow, proceed.
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KEY: Receipt \n.\
SYN: Acknowledgment, reception, voucher.
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KEY: Receive.
SYN: Take, accept, admit, hold, entertain, assent to.
ANT: Give, impart, afford, reject, discharge, emit.
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KEY: Received.
SYN: Accepted, current, ordinary, common.
ANT: Rejected, exceptional, unusual, uncommon.
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KEY: Recent.
SYN: Late, new, fresh, novel, modern, new-fangled.
ANT: Ancient, antiquated, primitive, archaic.
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KEY: Receptacle.
SYN: Repository, lodgment, recipient, magazine, store, case, berth.
ANT: Carrier, carriage, conveyance, discharger, consigner.
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KEY: Reception.
SYN: Admission, admittance, acceptance, acceptation, entertainment.