ANT: Denial, protest, repudiation, rejection, nonacceptance, dismissal, discardment, renunciation, abjuration.
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KEY: Recess.
SYN: Cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation, holiday.
ANT: Promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime.
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KEY: Reciprocal.
SYN: Alternate, interchanged, mutual, Interchangeable, reflexive.
ANT: One-sided, unreciprocated, unreturned.
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KEY: Reciprocation.
SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocity.
ANT: Non-interchange.
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KEY: Recital.
SYN: Recitation, repetition, rehearsal, relation, description, account, statement, narrative, [See ACCOUNT].
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KEY: Recite.
SYN: Narrate, recapitulate, say by heart, repeat, rehearse, quote, speak, tell, recount, enumerate.
ANT: Misquote, misdeliver, misrecount, misrenumerate, misrepresent.
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KEY: Reckless.
SYN: Careless, heedless, incautious, foolhardy, thoughtless, rash, overventuresome, regardless, inconsiderate, improvident.
ANT: careful, heedful, cautious, timid, chary, thoughtful, calculating, provident, considerate, wary, circumspect.
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KEY: Reckon.
SYN: Compute, calculate, count, regard, estimate, value, account, consider, argue, infer, judge.
ANT: Miscompute, miscalculate, misestimate, misreckon.
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KEY: Reckoning.
SYN: Computation, account, score, bill, charges.
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KEY: Reclaim.
SYN: Reform, recal, recover, regain, rescue, restore, amend, convert, better.
ANT: Vitiate, corrupt, sterilize, worsen.
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KEY: Reclaimable.
SYN: Recoverable, amendable, corrigible, convertible, improvable, cultivable, redeemable.
ANT: Irrecoverable, incorrigible, unimprovable, reprobate, desperate, hopeless, irredeemable.
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KEY: Recline.
SYN: Lean, slope, rest, lie, repose.
ANT: Erect, raise, rise, stand.
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KEY: Recluse.
SYN: Shut, sequestered, retired, apart, solitary, conventual, regular, dissocial.
ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, social, secular, unsequestered, convivial, companionable.
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KEY: Recognition.
SYN: Recollection, remembrance, memory, confession, avowal, acknowledgment, [See MEMORY].
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KEY: Recognize.
SYN: Identify, acknowledge, concede, know again, avow, own, allow.
ANT: Ignore, overlook, misobserve, repudiate, disavow, disown, disallow, Recoil, [See REBOUND].
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KEY: Recollect.
SYN: Recover, recal, remember, bethink, bring to mind, call up, think of.
ANT: Forget, lose.
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KEY: Recommend.
SYN: Commend, confide, praise, applaud, approve, advise.
ANT: Discommend, disapprove, warn, dissuade.
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KEY: Recompense.
SYN: Requite, remunerate, reward, indemnify, satisfy, repay, reimburse, compensate.
ANT: Damnify, injure, misrequite, dissatisfy.
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KEY: Recompense \n.\
SYN: Reward, indemnification, satisfaction, remuneration, amends, [See SATISFACTION].
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KEY: Reconcilable.
SYN: Congruous, harmonious, compatible, consistent, forgiving.
ANT: Incongruous, antagonistic, inconsistent, incompatible, irreconcilable, inexcusable, unforgiving.
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KEY: Reconcile.
SYN: Unite, conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, adapt, suit, reunite.
ANT: Separate, sever, dissever, estrange, disharmonize, derange, alienate.
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KEY: Recondite.
SYN: Deep, hidden, abstruse, profound, concealed, remote.
ANT: Superficial, obvious, self-evident, patent, familiar, trite.
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KEY: Record \v.\
SYN: Register, enter, note, chronicle.
ANT: Obliviate, silentiate, suppress.
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KEY: Record \n.\
SYN: Registry, entry, enrolment, list, index, catalogue, register, schedule, roll, scroll, enumeration, inventory, muniment, instrument, archive, memorandum, remembrance.
ANT: Obliteration, oblivion, nonregistration, desuetude, obsolescence, immemoriality, disremembrance.
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KEY: Record.
SYN: Archives, annals, chronicles, proceedings, [See ANNALS].
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KEY: Recount.
SYN: Rehearse, recite, narrate, detail, enumerate, specify.
ANT: Falsify, misrecite, misnarrate, misenumerate, misrehearse.
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KEY: Recourse.
SYN: Reference, aid, application, betaking, refuge.
ANT: Avoidance, independence, omission, abstinence, dispensation, disuse.
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KEY: Recover.
SYN: Regain, repossess, resume, retrieve, recruit, heal, cure, revive, restore, reanimate, save.
ANT: Lose, forfeit, miss, sacrifice, deteriorate, impair, decay, decline, relapse.
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KEY: Recovery.
SYN: Repossession, regaining, reinstatement, vindication, renovation, restitution, re-establishment, retrieval, rectification, replacement, reanimation, resuscitation, revival, redemption.
ANT: Loss, forfeiture, privation, deprival, sacrifice, abandonment, relapse, retrogression, decay, declension, incurableness, ruin.
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KEY: Recreant.
SYN: Apostate, traitorous, dastardly, craven, false, cowardly, unfaithful, renegade, base, recusant.
ANT: Staunch, true, faithful, chivalrous, knightly, gallant, loyal, redoubtable.
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KEY: Recreation.
SYN: Refreshment, cheer, reanimation, amusement, diversion, revival, holiday, sport, pastime, relaxation.
ANT: Weariness, toil, lassitude, labor, fatigue, employment, assiduity, work.
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KEY: Recriminate.
SYN: Retort, return an accusation, [See RETORT].
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KEY: Recrimination.
SYN: Retort, counter-imputation, countercharge, counteraccusation.
ANT: Acquiescence, acceptance, confession, silence, assent, avowal.
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KEY: Recruit.
SYN: Repair, refresh, renew, restore, recover, recreate, invigorate, revive, reinforce.
ANT: Waste, lose, impair, relapse, decay, decline, [See RECOVER].
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KEY: Rectify.
SYN: Straighten, correct, a need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate, rearrange, remodel.
ANT: Pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort.
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KEY: Rectilinear.
SYN: Straight, undeviating, right-lined, point-blank.
ANT: Curvilinear, deflexed, winding, tortuous, curved, serpentine.
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KEY: Rectitude.
SYN: Straightforwardness, uprightness, conscientiousness, integrity, right, uprightness, incorruptness.
ANT: Obliquity, perverseness, crookedness, tortuousness, wrong, underhandedness, iniquity, immorality, impropriety, depravity, corruption.
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KEY: Recumbent.
SYN: Lying, leaning, trailing, reclining, prostrate, reposing, horizontal.
ANT: Vertical, erect, uninclined, standing.
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KEY: Recur.
SYN: Return, come back, be repeated, run in the mind, revert, resort, have recourse, [See RETURN].
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KEY: Recurrent.
SYN: Returning, periodic, frequent, repeated, reiterated, intermittent.
ANT: Momentary, continuous, unbroken, unintermitted, solitary, transitory, evanescent.
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KEY: Recusant, [See RECREANT], which, however, has a more unfavourable, [See SENSE].
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KEY: Redeem.
SYN: Repurchase, regain, retrieve, make amends for, recompense, ransom, liberate, rescue, recover, satisfy, fulfil, discharge.
ANT: Pledge, lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, sacrifice.
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KEY: Redeemable.
SYN: Retrievable, recoverable, reservable.
ANT: Irretrievable, irrecoverable, irredeemable.
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KEY: Redemption.
SYN: Repurchase, retrieval, ransom, rescue, recovery, satisfaction, fulfilment, discharge, expiation, compensation, atonement, salvation, indemnification.
ANT: Forfeiture, abandonment, loss, deprivation, sacrifice, betrayal, damnification.
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KEY: Redolence.
SYN: Perfume, savor, scent, odor.
ANT: Fetor, stink, ill-savor.
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KEY: Redolent, [See FRAGRANT].
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KEY: Redouble.
SYN: Augment, multiply, intensify, reiterate.
ANT: Diminish, slacken, weaken, reduce, abate.
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KEY: Redound (followed by the \prep.\ to.
SYN:, Add, result, issue, tend, accrue, contribute, lead, incline, conduce.
ANT: Fail, miss, swerve, nullify, defeat, disappoint, frustrate, injure.
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KEY: Redress.
SYN: Right, order, revise, amend, rectify, remedy, repair.
ANT: Aggravate, impair, wrong, worsen, intensify, establish, confirm, reiterate, sanction, deepen, perpetuate.
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KEY: Reduce.
SYN: Lessen, diminish, curtail, attenuate, impoverish, narrow, contract, weaken, impair, subdue, subjugate, bring, refer, subject, classify, convert.
ANT: Enlarge, magnify, increase, augment, produce, extend, amplify, broaden, expand, renovate, invigorate, restore, repair, liberate, free, except, dissociate, transform.
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KEY: Reduction.
SYN: Diminution, contraction, decrease, abatement, [See ABRIDGMENT].
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KEY: Redundant.
SYN: Superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, overflowing, luxuriant.
ANT: Requisite, defective, necessary.
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KEY: Re-echo.
SYN: Resound, reverberate, repeat, [See REVERBERATE].
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KEY: Reel.
SYN: Totter, stagger, falter.
ANT: Stand firm, stand steady.
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KEY: Re-establish.
SYN: Reinstate, restore, refix, renew, confirm again, [See REINSTATE].
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KEY: Refer.
SYN: Attribute, associate, assign, advert, connect, relate, point, belong, allude, apply, appeal.
ANT: Disconnect, dissociate, misapply, misappertain, alienate, misbeseem, disresemble.
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KEY: Referable.
SYN: Ascribable, attributable, owing, imputable.
ANT: Not referable, not attributable.
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KEY: Referee.
SYN: Umpire, arbitrator.
ANT: Litigant, opponent, adversary.
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KEY: Reference.
SYN: Relation, regard, intimation, allusion, [See RELATION].
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KEY: Refined.
SYN: Courtly, polished, accomplished, genteel, [See POLITE].
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KEY: Refinement.
SYN: Clarification, purification, filtration, sublimation, polish, elegance, cultivation, civilization, subtilty, finesse, sophistry.
ANT: Turbidity, grossness, foulness, coarseness, impurity, unrefinement, rudeness, inelegance, boorishness, broadness, bluntness, unsophisticatedness.
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KEY: Refit.
SYN: Repair, rearrange, readjust, reprovide, reinstate, reorganize.
ANT: Relegate, disuse, discard, disorganize, dismantle.
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KEY: Reflect.
SYN: Return, image, mirror, exhibit, consider, think, cogitate, meditate, contemplate, ponder, muse, ruminate, heed, advert, animadvert.
ANT: Divert, dissipate, idle, dream, wander, rove, stargaze, woolgather, connive, disregard, overlook.
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KEY: Reflection.
SYN: Reflecting, meditation, thought, cogitation, [See THOUGHT].
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KEY: Refix.
SYN: Return, ebb, redound.
ANT: Flow, flux, stream.
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KEY: Reform.
SYN: Amend, ameliorate, correct, rectify, better, reclaim, regenerate, remodel, reconstitute, reorganize, improve.
ANT: Corrupt, vitiate, worsen, deteriorate, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, impair, deform, stereotype.
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KEY: Reformation.
SYN: Amendment, reform, improvement, correction, [See CORRECTION].
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KEY: Refraction.
SYN: Disradiation, obliquity.
ANT: Incidence, rectilinearity, nonrefraction.
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KEY: Refractory.
SYN: Perverse, contumacious, stubborn, unruly, obstinate, unmanageable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant.
ANT: Obedient, docile, amenable, manageable.
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KEY: Refragable.
SYN: Refutable, weak, questionable, deniable, fallacious.
ANT: Irrefragable, sound, indisputable, unquestionable, undeniable.
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KEY: Refrain.
SYN: Forbear, hold, abstain, keep, restrain, withhold, desist from.
ANT: Indulge, venture, continue, persist.
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KEY: Refresh.
SYN: Cool, refrigerate, in, vigorate, revive, reanimate, renovate, recreate, renew, restore, cheer, freshen, brace.
ANT: Heat, oppress, weary, burden, afflict, annoy, tire, fatigue, exhaust, debilitate, enervate, relax.
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KEY: Refreshment.
SYN: Relief, invigoration, regalement, entertainment, food, nourishment, [See RELIEF].
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KEY: Refuge.
SYN: Protection, shelter, harbor, asylum, retreat, covert, hospitality, sanctuary, hiding-place.
ANT: exposure, inhospitableness, peril, pitfall, snare, Scylla, Charybdis.
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KEY: Refund.
SYN: Repay, return, restore, pay back, reimburse.
ANT: Appropriate, withhold, divert, misapply, embezzle, alienate, misappropriate, expend, misspend.
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KEY: Refuse \v.\
SYN: Deny, withhold, reject, decline, repudiate.
ANT: Grant, afford, yield, concede, acquiesce.
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KEY: Refuse \n.\
SYN: Offal, scum, dregs, sediment, recrement, sweepings, trash, offscourings, debris, remains, dross.
ANT: Cream, pickings, firstfruits, flower, prime.
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KEY: Refute.
SYN: Negative, disprove, neutralize, controvert, repel, confute.
ANT: Prove, confirm, establish.
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KEY: Refutable, [See REFRAGABLE].
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KEY: Regain.
SYN: Recover, react, reprocure, reobtain, retrieve, repossess.
ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit.
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KEY: Regal \a.\
SYN: Kingly, royal, splendid, imperial, magnificent, princely.
ANT: Beggarly, miserly, mean, shabby.
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KEY: Regale.
SYN: Feast, entertain, gratify, delight, refresh.
ANT: Starve, stint, tantalize.
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KEY: Regard \v.\
SYN: Behold, view, contemplate, esteem, consider, deem, affect, respect, reverence, revere, value, conceive, heed, notice, mind.
ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, despise, dislike, contemn, hate, loathe, misconsider, misconceive, misestimate, misjudge.
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KEY: Regarding.
SYN: Touching, concerning, respecting, with respect to, about, in relation to, in reference to.
ANT: Barring, disregarding, omitting.
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KEY: Regardless \a.\
SYN: Heedless, inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, inattentive, unobservant, disregarding, indifferent, despising.
ANT: Careful, considerate, regardful, attentive, prudent, cautious, circumspect, scrupulous, mindful.
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KEY: Regards.
SYN: Compliments, respects, commendations.
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KEY: Regenerate.
SYN: Reproduce, renovate, resuscitate, revive, revivify, restore, reintegrate.
ANT: Waste, corrupt, vitiate, deteriorate, degenerate.
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KEY: Region.
SYN: Country, clime, territory, district, tract of land, portion, part.
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KEY: Register, [See BAWL].
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KEY: Regression.
SYN: Retreat, return, retrogradation, retrogression, retirement.
ANT: Advancement, progression, aggression, procession.
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KEY: Regret \v.\
SYN: Grieve, lament, repent, miss, desiderate, deplore.
ANT: Welcome, hail, approve, abandon, abjure, forget, disregard.
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KEY: Regret \n.\
SYN: Sorrow, grief, concern, remorse, lamentation, repentance, [See GRIEF].
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KEY: Regular.
SYN: Customary, normal, ordinary, orderly, stated, recurrent, periodical, systematic, methodic, established, recognized, formal, symmetrical, certain.
ANT: Unusual, exceptional, abnormal, capricious, rare, irregular, disordered, fitful, unsymmetrical, variable, eccentric, erratic, uncertain.
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KEY: Regulate.
SYN: Methodize, organize, rale, govern, [See ARRANGE and ORGANIZE].
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KEY: Regulation.
SYN: Rule, law, adjustment, disposal, method, government, order, control, arrangement.
ANT: Misrule, disorder, anarchy, misgovernment, maladministration, disarrangement, nonregulation, caprice, license, insubjection, uncontrol.
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KEY: Rehabilitate.
SYN: Reinstate, reempower, recapacitate, requalify.
ANT: Denude, divest, disempower, Incapacitate, disqualify, strip, deprive.
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KEY: Rehearsal \n.\
SYN: Repetition, recital, narrative, [See ACCOUNT, \n.\].
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KEY: Rehearse.
SYN: Repeat, recite, narrate, recount, relate, tell, recapitulate, recount, detail.
ANT: Misrepent, misrecite, misrecount, misrelate, misrepresent, misdetail.
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KEY: Reign.
SYN: Rule, govern, prevail, command.
ANT: Obey, submit.
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KEY: Reimburse.
SYN: Refund, repay, indemnify, satisfy.
ANT: Embezzle, appropriate, misapply, alienate, damnify, defraud.
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KEY: Rein.
SYN: Curb, bridle, restrain, moderate, control, govern, check, hold.
ANT: Indulge, loose, vent, discharge, humor.
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KEY: Reinforce, [See RECRUIT].
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KEY: Reinstate.
SYN: Rehabilitate, restore, reinstil, replace, reinvest.
ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest.
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KEY: Reinvest, [See REINSTATE].
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KEY: Reiterate.
SYN: Repeat, re-express, re-enunciate, renew, reproduce.
ANT: Cancel, withdraw, reverse, retract.
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KEY: Reject.
SYN: Repel, renounce, throw by, castaway, repudiate, decline, discard, refuse, exclude.
ANT: Hail, welcome, accept, appropriate, choose, select, admit.
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KEY: Rejoice.
SYN: Delight, glory, exult, joy, triumph, gladden, delight, revel, be glad, cheer, please, enliven, gratify.
ANT: Mourn, grieve, lament, weep, sorrow, repent, trouble, afflict, oppress, weary, depress, disappoint, burden, darken, distress, pain, sadden, vex, annoy.
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KEY: Rejoinder.
SYN: Retort, replication, reply, answer, rebutter, parry.
ANT: Sally, banter, rallying, sarcasm, attack, hit.
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KEY: Rekindle.
SYN: Reignite, resuscitate, reinspire, fan, refocillate, reinforce.
ANT: Stifle, extinguish, smother, suppress, damp, quench.
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KEY: Relapse \v.\
SYN: Retrogress, recede, deteriorate.
ANT: Recover, amend, progress, advance, improve.
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KEY: Relapse \n.\
SYN: Falling back, retrogression, returning to a former state (especially a bad state).
ANT: Recovery, return, improvement.
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KEY: Relate.
SYN: Tell, recite, narrate, recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe.
ANT: Misrecite, misrecount, misrepresent, misreport, falsify, pervert, distort, misrelate.
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KEY: Related.
SYN: Kindred, cognate, akin, allied, connected.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, not allied.
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KEY: Relation.
SYN: reference, aspect, connection, narration, proportion, bearing, affinity, homogeneity, association, relevancy, pertinency, fitness, harmony, ratio, relative, agreement, kinsman, kindred, appurtenancy.
ANT: Irrelation, disconnection, dissociation, irrelevancy, impertinency, disproportion, Disproportion, unfitness, unsuitableness, heterogeneity, disharmony, disagreement, alien.
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KEY: Relative.
SYN: Referring to, not absolute.
ANT: Absolute.
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KEY: Relatives.
SYN: Relations, kinsfolk, kindred, kinsmen, [See KIN].
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KEY: Relax.
SYN: Slacken, loosen, remit, abate, mitigate, release, unbend, relent, divert, recreate, rest, enervate, Unstring.
ANT: Tighten, increase, intensify, stretch, bend, brace, invigorate, redouble, grow, heighten, strengthen.
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KEY: Relaxation, [See RELAX].
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KEY: Relay.
SYN: Reinforcement, recruitment, refreshment, supply, relief.
ANT: Exhaustion, consumption.
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KEY: Release \v.\
SYN: Free, loose, liberate, discharge, quit, acquit, exempt, extricate, disengage, indemnify.
ANT: Bind, constrain, confine, shackle, fetter, yoke.
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KEY: Release \n.\
SYN: Liberation, discharge, freedom, [See BONDAGE].
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KEY: Relegate.
SYN: Remove, transfer, banish, transport, exile, deport, despatch.
ANT: Recal, locate, reinstate.
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KEY: Relent.
SYN: Yield, relax, soften.
ANT: Persist, harden.
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KEY: Relentless.
SYN: Cruel, inexorable, unyielding, remorseless, unmerciful, truculent.
ANT: Yielding, humane, feeling, clement, merciful, compassionate.
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KEY: Relevancy, [See RELEVANT].
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KEY: Relevant.
SYN: Appropriate, pertinent, apt, applicable, bearing.
ANT: Inappropriate, impertinent, irrelevant.
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KEY: Reliance.
SYN: Confidence, trust, dependence, assurance.
ANT: Distrust, misgiving, suspicion, diffidence.
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KEY: Relief.
SYN: Succor, support, release, extrication, alleviation, mitigation, aid, holp, assistance, remedy, redress, exemption, deliverance, refreshment, comfort.
ANT: Oppression, aggravation, intensification, burdensomeness, trouble, exhaustion, weariness, discomfort.
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KEY: Relieve.
SYN: Help, succor, [See ALLEVIATE].
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KEY: Religion.
SYN: Faith, creed, theology, belief, profession, piety, sanctity, godliness, holiness.
ANT: Unbelief, irreligion, godlessness, atheism, impiety, sacrilege, scoffing, blasphemy, scepticism, profanity, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism, formalism, reprobation.
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KEY: Religious.
SYN: Pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred.
ANT: Impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane.
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KEY: Relinquish.
SYN: Resign, leave, quit, forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, give up, lay aside, cede, forego, repudiate, surrender, discontinue.
ANT: frieze, retain, assume, enforce, vindicate, assert, maintain, prosecute, defend, continue.
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KEY: Relish \v.\
SYN: Like, approve, enjoy, appreciate.
ANT: Repudiate, nauseate, reject, abominate, loathe.
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KEY: Relish \n.\
SYN: Zest, recommendation, enhancement, flavor, savor, gusto, taste, appetite, piquancy, sapidity.
ANT: Drawback, disfavor, disrecommendation, nauseousness, disrelish, insipidity, unsavoriness.
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KEY: Relucent \a.\
SYN: Bright, shining, gleaming, glittering, flashing, lum nous, radiant, crystalline, pellucid, effulgent.
ANT: Dull, opaque, rayless, leaden, dark.
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KEY: Reluctance.
SYN: Aversion, repugnance, unwillingness, dislike, regret, misgiving.
ANT: Desire, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity, welcome, forwardness, eagerness.
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KEY: Reluctant.
SYN: Averse, unwilling, disinclined, loth, backward.
ANT: Willing, inclined, eager, forward.
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KEY: Rely, [See ENCIRCLE].
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KEY: Remain.
SYN: Stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last, endure, accrue, survive.
ANT: Fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass.
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KEY: Remainder.
SYN: Rest, residue, remnant, balance, surplus, leavings, relics, difference.
ANT: Expenditure, loss, outgoings, issue, waste.
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KEY: Remark.
SYN: Observe, note, heed, comment, assert, say, notice.
ANT: Misobserve, disregard, overlook, miss.
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KEY: Remarkable.
SYN: Observable, noticeable, extraordinary, unusual, rare, striking, noteworthy, notable, distinguished, famous, peculiar, prominent, singular.
ANT: Unremarkable, unnoticeable, ordinary, mean, commonplace, everyday, undistinguished.
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KEY: Remediable.
SYN: Curable, rectifiable, removable.
ANT: Incurable, irremediable, remediless, desperate, hopeless, unalterable.
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KEY: Remedial.
SYN: Sanatory, sanative, alterative, ameliorative, mitigating, corrective, curative, healing, restorative, salubrious.
ANT: Noxious, hurtful, exaggerative, confirmative, morbific, deleterious, inducive, provocative.
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KEY: Remedy.
SYN: Cure, restorative, counteraction, reparation, redress, relief, help, specific.
ANT: Evil, disease, hurt, infection, plague, ill, impairment, deterioration, aggravation, provocation.
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KEY: Remember.
SYN: Recollect, recall, retain, bear in mind, mind.
ANT: Forget, obliviate, disregard, overlook.
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KEY: Remembrance.
SYN: Recollection, memory, memorial, token, souvenir, memento, reminiscence.
ANT: Forgetfulness, oblivion.
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KEY: Reminiscence.
SYN: Remnant, relic, trace, savor, leavings.
ANT: Prognostic, indication, suggestion, warning, announcement, reministration.
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KEY: Remiss.
SYN: Slack, careless, negligent, i attentive, wanting, flow, slothful, idle, lax, dilatory, tardy, remissful.
ANT: Energetic, careful, attentive, active, assiduous, alert, painstaking, diligent, strict.
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KEY: Remissful, [See REMISS].
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KEY: Remit.
SYN: Relax, pardon, absolve, forego, discontinue, surrender, forgive, resign.
ANT: Increase, intensity, enforce, exact.
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KEY: Remittent.
SYN: Periodic, recurrent.
ANT: Chronic, continuous, constant.
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KEY: Remnant, [See REMAINDER].
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KEY: Remonstrate.
SYN: Expostulate, rebel, protest, recalcitrate, object, admonish.
ANT: Acquiesce, submit, coincide,.
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KEY: Remorse.
SYN: Compunction, anguish, self-condemnation, penitence, sting of conscience.
ANT: Complacency, self-approval, self-congratulation.
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KEY: Remorseless.
SYN: Cruel, truculent, inexorable, ruthless, pitiless, unrelenting, merciless, implacable.
ANT: Mild, humane, gentle, feeling, compunctious, lenient, remorseful, self-condemning, regretful, compassionate.
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KEY: Remote.
SYN: Distant, indirect, unconnected, unrelated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, separate, contingent.
ANT: Near, close, direct, connected, related, homogeneous, immediate, proximate, essential, present, pressing, urgent, actual.
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KEY: Remove.
SYN: Displace, separate, abstract, transport, carry, transfer, eject, oust, dislodge, suppress, migrate, depart.
ANT: Restore, conserve, stabilitate, perpetuate, establish, reinstate, reinstall, instal, fix, fasten, stay, remain, dwell, abide, stand.
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KEY: Remunerate.
SYN: Reward, recompense, satisfy, compensate, repay, requite, reimburse.
ANT: Defraud, misrequite, misrepay, dissatisfy, damnify.
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KEY: Remuneration.
SYN: Payment, compensation, recompense, reward, [See SATISFACTION].
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KEY: Rend.
SYN: Tear, lacerate, divide, separate, split, disintegrate, disunite, rive, tear asunder.
ANT: Repair, place, patch, conserve, unite, perpetuate, continuate.
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KEY: Render.
SYN: Give, present, return, restore, give up apportion, assign, surrender, pay, requite, deliver.
ANT: Keep, retain, withhold, appropriate, alienate, misapportion, misappropriate, misrequite.
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KEY: Renegade.
SYN: Apostate, traitor, deserter, heretic, betrayer, backslider, vagabond, turncoat, recreant.
ANT: Supporter, adherent, defender, bigot, zealot, dogmatist, fanatic.
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KEY: Renew.
SYN: Recreate, restore, refresh, renovate, rejuvenate, furbish, recommence, repeat, reiterate, reissue, regenerate, reform, transform.
ANT: Impair, wear, deteriorate, vitiate, exhaust, discontinue, corrupt, weaken, defile, deprave.
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KEY: Renitent.
SYN: Resistent, elastic, resilient, reluctant, stubborn, tough, counteractive.
ANT: Yielding, lentous, flexible, docile, pliant.
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KEY: Renounce.
SYN: Reject, abjure, disclaim, disown, forego, disavow, deny, quit, resign, abandon, recant, relinquish, repudiate.
ANT: Acknowledge, recognize, claim, maintain, assert, propound, own, vindicate, avow, profess, hold, retain, defend.
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KEY: Renovate, [See RENEW].
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KEY: Renown.
SYN: Fame, distinction, note, notability, eminence, celebrity, glory, reputation, lustre, honor.
ANT: Disgrace, meanness, ignobleness, degradation, taint, stain, brand, discredit, dishonor, disrepute.
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KEY: Renowned.
SYN: Famous, celebrated, wonderful, illustrious, [See FAMOUS].
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KEY: Rent.
SYN: Laceration, rupture, fissure, divulsion, schism, solution.
ANT: Suture, junction, union, continuity, integrity, reparation, redintegration, reunion, consolidation.
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KEY: Renunciation.
SYN: Rejection, repudiation, abjuration, abnegation, abandonment, cession, surrender, [See CESSION].
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KEY: Reorganize.
SYN: Rearrange, reconstitute, reassemble.
ANT: Dissolve, disband, dissipate, disperse, derange, dismember, disintegrate.
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KEY: Repair.
SYN: Restore, recover, mend, retrieve, relit.
ANT: Impair, waste, wear, deteriorate, injure.
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KEY: Reparable.
SYN: Recoverable, curable, retrievable.
ANT: Irreparable, incurable, irretrievable.
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KEY: Reparation.
SYN: Restoration, repair, restitution, compensation, satisfaction, amends, indemnification, atonement.
ANT: Injury, Impairment, deterioration, waste, wear, defective, damnification.
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KEY: Repay.
SYN: Remunerate, reimburse, recompense, reward, retaliate, requite, {[r]?}, fund.
ANT: Defraud, misappropriate, embezzle, waste, alienate, extort, confiscate, exact.
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KEY: Repeal, \v.\ (From Lat. \reappellare\, to call back.)
SYN: Abolish, revoke, rescind, cancel, annul, recal, abrogate, reverse, discontinue, rescind, make void.
ANT: Continue, establish, pass, institute, sanction, enact, perpetuate, confirm.
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KEY: Repeal \n.\
SYN: Abrogation, rescission, revocation, annulment.
ANT: Continuance, establishment, perpetuation.
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KEY: Repeat.
SYN: Reiterate, iterate, renew, cite, quote, relate, rehearse, recapitulate, reproduce.
ANT: Discontinues, drop, discard, abandon, ignore, suppress, misrepeat, misquote, misrecite, misrepresent, misinterpret, misconvey.
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KEY: Repeatedly.
SYN: Frequently again and again, often.
ANT: Seldom, rarely.
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KEY: Repel.
SYN: Repulse, reject, refuse, deter, resist, check.
ANT: Promote, propel, welcome, advance, accept, encourage, further.
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KEY: Repent.
SYN: Grieve, regret, sorrow, rue, repine, deplore, lament.
ANT: Rejoice, persist.
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KEY: Repentance.
SYN: Penitence, contrition, compunction, regret, remorse, borrow, self-reproach, selfcondemnation.
ANT: Impenitence, obduracy, recusancy, hardness, reparation, selfapproval.
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KEY: Repercussion.
SYN: Recoil, reverberation, ricochet, rebound.
ANT: Impact, stroke, shock, collision, contact.
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KEY: Repetition.
SYN: Iteration, reiteration, dwelling upon, diffuseness, verbosity, relation, [See RELATION].
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KEY: Repine.
SYN: Murmur, grumble, complain.
ANT: Acquiesce, submit, smile, rejoice.
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KEY: Replace.
SYN: Restore, supply, substitute, reinstate, rearrange, re-establish.
ANT: Move, abstract, withdraw, remove, damage, deprive.
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KEY: Replenish.
SYN: Fill, refill, resupply, stock, satisfy, furnish, enrich.
ANT: Waste, empty, exhaust, reduce, drain, impoverish.
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KEY: Replete, [See EMPTY].
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KEY: Repletion.
SYN: Fulness, abundance, amplitude, superabundance, overfulness.
ANT: Exhaustion, emptiness, want, inanition.
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KEY: Reply \v.\
SYN: Replicate, answer, respond, rejoin.
ANT: Ignore, drop, pretermit, pass, disregard.
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KEY: Reply \n.\
SYN: Answer, rejoinder, response, replication.
ANT: Pass by, ignoring.
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KEY: Report \v.\
SYN: Announce, relate, tell, circulate, notify, narrate, recite, describe, detail, communicate, declare.
ANT: Silence, hush, suppress, misreport, misrepresent, miarelate, falsify.
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KEY: Report \n.\
SYN: tidings, announce, ment, relation, narration, recital, description, communication, declaration, news, rumor, fame, repute, noise, reverberation.
ANT: Silence, suppression, misannouncement, fabrication, noiselessness.
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KEY: Repose \v.\
SYN: Lie, recline, couch rest, settle, abide, stay, acquiesce, lodge, lace, deposit.
ANT: Rise, stand, {[vo]?}, wander, flit, flutter, remove, transfer.
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KEY: Repose \n.\
SYN: lest, quiet, stillness, reclination, tranquillity, calmness, peaceful, {[ess]?}, {[ea ]?}, [See {[ ]?}], {[eace]?}, quiescence.
ANT: Movement, disquiet, unrest, agitation, restlessness, disturbance, commotion, tumult, distraction, uneasiness.
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KEY: Reprehend.
SYN: Blame chide, reprove, censure, reprimand.
ANT: praise, laud, eulogize, sanction, approve.
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KEY: Reprehensible.
SYN: Blamable, blame, culpable, censurable, reproachable, reprovable, objectionable.
ANT: Laudable, praiseworthy, irreproachach, it, irreprovable, unexceptionable, innocent, unobjectionable.
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KEY: Represent.
SYN: Portray, delineate, reproduce exhibit, personate, state, indicate, embody, enact, illustrate, denote, play, dramatize, resemble.
ANT: Misportray, misdelineate, distort, falsify, caricature, misrepresent.
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KEY: Representative.
SYN: Likeness, personation, semblance, exhibition, [See LIKENESS].
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KEY: Representative \n.\
SYN: Agent, commissioner, proxy, deputy, substitute, embodiment, personation, delegate, vicar, vicegerent, principal, sovereign, Constituency.
ANT: Autocrat, dictator.
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KEY: Representative \a.\
SYN: Figurative, symbolical, delegated to others, [See FIGURATIVE and REPRESENT].
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KEY: Repress.
SYN: Crush, quell, subdue, check, restrain, curb, overpower, mitigate, damp, calm, control.
ANT: Raise, rouse, excite, agitate, aggravate, foment, intensify, foster, encourage, stimulate, incite, fan.
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KEY: Reprieve \n.\
SYN: Respite, acquittal, suspension, delay, interval, pardon, amnesty, intermission.
ANT: Condemnation, conviction, reprisal, retribution.
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KEY: Reprimand, [See REPREHEND].
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KEY: Reprisal.
SYN: Retaliation, retribution, self-compensation, self-indemnification.
ANT: Condonation, grace, remission, reprieve.
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KEY: Reproach \v.\
SYN: Blame, censure, taunt, rebuke, upbraid, reprobate, reprove.
ANT: Laud, praise, approve, commend.
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KEY: Reproach \n.\ [See APPROBATION].
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KEY: Reprobate \v.\
SYN: Condemn, denounce.
ANT: Sanction, commend, approve.
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KEY: Reprobate \a.\
SYN: Abandoned, castaway, irredeemable, lost.
ANT: Hopeful, redeemable, salvable, recoverable.
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KEY: Reprobate \n.\
SYN: Castaway, villain, ruffian, miscreant, scapegrace, scalawag.
ANT: Example, pattern, mirror, model, paragon.
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KEY: Reproduce.
SYN: Generate, propagate, imitate, exhibit, represent, copy.
ANT: Stifle, extinguish, exterminate, misrepresent, misportray.
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KEY: Reproduction \n.\ [See REPRODUCE].
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KEY: Reprovable.
SYN: Censurable, reprehensible, [See CULPABLE].
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KEY: Reprove, [See RAPID].
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KEY: Repudiate.
SYN: Disavow, disown, discard, castoff, abjure, renounce, disclaim, divorce.
ANT: Avow, own, vindicate, assert, retain, vaunt, claim, profess, recognize, acknowledge, accept.
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KEY: Repugnant.
SYN: Hostile, antagonistic, averse, reluctant, unwilling, irreconcilable, incompatible, inimical, adverse, contradictory, loath, heterogeneous.
ANT: Friendly, coincident, harmonious, compatible, willing, consistent, homogeneous, congruous.
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KEY: Repulsive.
SYN: Forbidding, deterrent, ungenial, odious, ugly, unattractive, disagreeable, revolting.
ANT: Charming, agreeable, attract, ive, winning, captivating, fascinating, alluring, seductive, pleasant.
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KEY: Reputable.
SYN: Respectable, creditable, honorable, estimable.
ANT: Unrespectable, discreditable, dishonorable, disgraceful, disreputable.
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KEY: Request \v.\
SYN: Ask, desire, beg, entreat, beseech, petition, supplicate, solicit, demand.
ANT: Command, order, insist, direct, dictate, enjoin, require, demand, exact.
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KEY: Request \n.\ [See PETITION].
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KEY: Require.
SYN: Demand, claim, exact, insist upon, [See REQUEST], [See ANT.].
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KEY: Requital, [See SATISFACTION].
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KEY: Requite.
SYN: Repay, reward, compensate, recompense, remunerate, satisfy, retaliate, punish, avenge, revenge.
ANT: Misrequite, defraud, condone, absolve, pardon.
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KEY: Rescind.
SYN: Revoke, repeal, annul, cancel, recal, reverse, abrogate.
ANT: Perpetuate, enforce, maintain, re-enact.
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KEY: Rescue \v.\
SYN: Retake, recover, recapture, liberate, extricate, save, deliver, preserve.
ANT: endanger, imperil, betray, surrender, abandon, expose.
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KEY: Rescue \n.\ [See SALVATION].
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KEY: Research.
SYN: Investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, learning, lore, discovery, elaboration, elimination.
ANT: Ignorance, superficiality, sciolism, misinvestigation, shallowness, oversight, inobservance.
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KEY: Resemblance.
SYN: Likeness, similarity, similitude, semblance, representation, portrait, reflection, image.
ANT: Unlikeness, dissimilarity, disresemblance, difference, contrariety.
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KEY: Resent.
SYN: Repel, resist, rebel, recalcitrate, take ill.
ANT: Acquiesce, submit, condone, pardon, overlook.
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KEY: Resentful.
SYN: Choleric, malicious, vindictive, intolerant, insubmissive.
ANT: Meek, mild, placable, tolerant, forgiving, submissive.
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KEY: Resentment.
SYN: Anger, ire, indignation, animosity.
ANT: Calmness, acquiescence, toleration, mildness, endurance, forgiveness.
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KEY: Reserve.
SYN: Reservation, retention, limitation, withholding, appropriation, coyness, shyness, backwardness, secretiveness, taciturnity, modesty, restraint, constraint.
ANT: Abandonment, nonreservation, surrender, absoluteness, openness, frankness, forwardness, pertness, unrestraint, undisguise, transparency, shamelessness indiscretion.
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KEY: Reserved.
SYN: Backwardness, cold, silent, cautious, unsociable, sly, bashful, [See FRIGID and SLY].
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KEY: Reside, [See ABIDE].
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KEY: Residence.
SYN: stay, sojourn, occupation, abode, pernoctation, dwelling, location.
ANT: Migration, travel, locomotion, absenteeism, nonresidence, alibi.
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KEY: Resident \a.\
SYN: Abiding, dwelling, residing, inhabiting.
ANT: Migrating, moving.
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KEY: Resident \n.\
SYN: Occupant, dweller, tenant, sojourner, inhabitant.
ANT: Stranger, foreigner, visitor.
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KEY: Residue, [See REMAINDER].
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KEY: Resign.
SYN: Surrender, abandon, return, withdraw, abdicate, submit, leave, relinquish, forego, renounce.
ANT: Retain, claim, appropriate, vindicate, grasp.
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KEY: Resignation.
SYN: Surrender, relinquishment, forsaking, abandonment, abdication, renunciation, submission, acquiescence, patience, endurance.
ANT: Retention, claim, appropriation, vindication, grasp, resistance, rebellion, murmur, dissatisfaction, discontent, contumacy, contention, protestation, remonstrance.
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KEY: Resist.
SYN: Withstand, oppose, hinder, check, thwart, rebuff, stem, combat.
ANT: Encourage, promote, aid, advance, help, succor, acquiesce, submit, suffer, allow, tolerate, permit.
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KEY: Resistance.
SYN: Opposition, hindrance, [See CHECK].
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KEY: Resistible.
SYN: Weak, refutable, nugatory, trifling, childish, worthless.
ANT: Overpowering, irresistible, irrefragable, resistless, overwhelming, conclusive.
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KEY: Resolute.
SYN: Determined, decided, steadfast, fixed, steady, constant, persevering, stout, pertinacious, energetic, dogged, stout-hearted, inflexible, undaunted, undeviating, unflinching.
ANT: unenergetic, fitful, vacillating, irresolute, dubious, shillyshally, capricious, variable, ductile, undetermined, undecided, weak.
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KEY: Resolution.
SYN: Separation, decomposition, analysis, unravelling, disentanglement, disintegration, conversion, firmness, &c, [See [As under RESOLUTE].
ANT: Aggregation, composition, union, amalgamation, integrity, totality, incorporation, synthesis, collocation, conservation, entanglement, confusion, conglomeration.
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KEY: Resolve, [See DECIDE].
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KEY: Resonant.
SYN: Resounding, sonorous, musical, metallic, vibratory, acoustic, shrill, loud, sharp, vocal, ringing.
ANT: Mute, silent, dead, dumb, muffled, wooden, voiceless, stifled, nonresonant.
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KEY: Resort \v.\
SYN: Repair, fly, retire, retreat.
ANT: Shun, ignore, avoid, discard.
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KEY: Resort \n.\
SYN: Assembly, betaking, repairing, haunt, frequentation, employment, recourse.
ANT: Shunning, avoidance, forsaking, abandonment, desertion.
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KEY: Resound.
SYN: Ring, reverberate, echo, re-echo, respond.
ANT: Whisper, murmur, breathe, mutter, {[hum]?}.
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KEY: Resource, Resources.
SYN: Material, means, productions, supplies, expedients, contrivance, wealth, riches, device.
ANT: Destitution, barrenness, inanition, exhaustion, lack, drain, nonplus, poverty, sterility.
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KEY: Respect \v.\
SYN: Notice, regard, honor, prefer, venerate, esteem.
ANT: Overlook, disregard, dishonor, despise, contemn.
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KEY: Respect \n.\
SYN: Reference, i elation, regard, honor, deference.
ANT: Irrelativeness, disregard, contempt, dishonor, insult, contumely, disrespect.
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KEY: Respectable \a.\
SYN: Worthy, good, considerable, laudable.
ANT: Unworthy, bad, unrespectable, mean, inconsiderable.
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KEY: Respective.
SYN: relative, appertaining.
ANT: Absolute, irrespective.
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KEY: Respite, [See REPRIEVE].
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KEY: Resplendent.
SYN: Brilliant, gorgeous, luminous, glittering, flashing, burnished.
ANT: Dead, dull, lustreless, sombre.
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KEY: Respond.
SYN: Answer, reply, rejoin, correspond, tally, accord, meet, suit.
ANT: Propound, disagree, disaccord, jar, differ.
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KEY: Response, [See ANSWER].
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KEY: Responsible, [See ACCOUNTABLE].
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KEY: Responsive.
SYN: Answering, correspondent, echoing, sympathetic, obedient.
ANT: Alien, unsympathetic, strange, irresponsive.
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KEY: Rest \n.\
SYN: Quiet, repose, cessation, tranquillity, peace, security, pause, interval, intermission.
ANT: Tumult, commotion, agitation, disquiet, unrest, insecurity, continuity, uninterruptedness, progression, restlessness.
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KEY: Restitution.
SYN: Restoration, return, indemnification, reparation, compensation, amends.
ANT: Fraud, deprivation, wrong, robbery, abstraction, injury.
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KEY: Restive.
SYN: Stubborn, obstinate, uneasy, balky, recalcitrant.
ANT: Docile, manageable, tractable.
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KEY: Restless.
SYN: Unquiet, uneasy, disturbed, sleepless, agitated, roving, incessant, tossing.
ANT: Calm, quiet, reposing, still, motionless.
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KEY: Restoration.
SYN: Recovery, replacement, renewal, renovation, redintegration, re-establishment, return, revival, restitution, reparation, compensation, amends.
ANT: Loss, lapse, forfeiture, displacement, deterioration, impairment, deprivation, abandonment, departure, injury, waste, abstraction, seizure, wrong.
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KEY: Restorative.