SYN: Compensatory, remedial, reparatory, invigorating.
ANT: Exhaustive, debilitating, wasting, consumptive.
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KEY: Restore.
SYN: Return, replace, refund, repay, reinstate, re-establish, renew, repair, recover, heal, cure, refresh.
ANT: Abstract, remove, displace, appropriate, alienate, deprive, impair, wound, injure, dilapidate, shatter.
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KEY: Restrain.
SYN: Check, repress, hinder, limit, confine, restrict, withhold, curb, coerce, prohibit, narrow, circumscribe, reduce.
ANT: Promote, advance, urge, incite, aid, liberate, indulge, loose, vent, amplify, enlarge, expand, extend.
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KEY: Restraint, [See CHECK \n.\].
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KEY: Restrict, [See RESTRAIN].
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KEY: Result \v.\
SYN: Terminate, end, ensue, eventuate.
ANT: Originate, arise, precede, spring, commence, start, begin.
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KEY: Result \n.\
SYN: Termination, end, issue, effect, consequence, product, fruit, outcome, upshot, development, conclusion, remainder.
ANT: Beginning, commencement, initiative, cause, rise, spring, origin, operation, causation, tendency, production, antecedent, premonition, prognostic, indication.
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KEY: Resume.
SYN: Recommence, renew, return, begin again.
ANT: Drop, discontinue, intermit, interrupt.
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KEY: Resumption, [See RESUME].
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KEY: Resurrection.
SYN: Rising, renovation, resuscitation, regeneration.
ANT: Death, burial, interment, {[ex]?}, tinction.
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KEY: Resuscitate.
SYN: Revive, re-excite, reanimate, reinvigorate, revivify.
ANT: Extinguish, lay, prostrate, quench.
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KEY: Retain.
SYN: Keep, hold, restrain.
ANT: Abandon, forfeit, surrender.
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KEY: Retaliate.
SYN: Avenge, retort, repay, requite.
ANT: Pardon, condone, forgive.
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KEY: Retaliation.
SYN: Revenge, repayment, retribution, requital, reprisals, reciprocation.
ANT: Pardon, condonation, forgiveness, r mission.
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KEY: Retard.
SYN: Clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer.
ANT: Accelerate, expedite, promote.
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KEY: Retentive.
SYN: Preservative, close, tenacious, mindful.
ANT: Loose, leaky, oblivious.
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KEY: Reticence.
SYN: Reserve, silentness, refrain, repressiveness.
ANT: Unreserve, abandon, garrulity, freedom.
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KEY: Reticent.
SYN: Silent, taciturn, voiceless, still, re-.
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KEY: Retinue.
SYN: Retainers, attendant, suite, pomp, followers, tail, satellites, escort, cortege.
ANT: Nonattendance, unstateliness, solitariness.
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KEY: Retire.
SYN: Withdraw, retreat, depart, secede, shrink, repair.
ANT: Approach, advance.
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KEY: Retirement.
SYN: Solitude, privacy, departure, seclusion, recess, concavity, retreat.
ANT: Publicity, approach, advance, prominence, protrusion, convexity.
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KEY: Retort \n.\
SYN: Rejoinder, replicable, repartee, reciprocation, retaliation, reply, answer.
ANT: Concession, confession, acquiescence, acceptance.
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KEY: Retort \v.\ [See REPLY and RETALIATE].
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KEY: Retract.
SYN: Withdraw, recal, revoke, unsay, disavow, recant, abjure, renounce.
ANT: Reiterate, repeat.
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KEY: Retreat \v.\ [See RETIRE].
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KEY: Retreat \n.\
SYN: Retirement, departure, withdrawal, seclusion, solitude, privacy, asylum, shelter, refuge, recess, [See RETIRE].
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KEY: Retrench.
SYN: Reduce, abbreviate, diminish, limit, contract, curtail, lessen, economize.
ANT: Enlarge, increase, extend, expand, multiply, amplify, augment.
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KEY: Retrenchment \n.\
SYN: curtailment, diminution, reduction.
ANT: Enlargement, expansion, extension.
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KEY: Retribution.
SYN: Penalty, repayment, reward, compensation, punishment, visitation.
ANT: Condonation, remission, pardon, reprieve, non-retribution, sparing.
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KEY: Retrievable.
SYN: Recoverable, redeemable, hopeful, salvable, reformable, amendable.
ANT: Hopeless, desperate, irredeemable, irrecoverable, reprobate, lost, irreformable, unamendable.
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KEY: Retrieve.
SYN: Recover, regain, rescue, repair, restore.
ANT: Lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, impair, deteriorate.
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KEY: Retrogression.
SYN: Retreat, retirement, decline, relapse.
ANT: Advance, progress, improvement, amelioration.
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KEY: Retrospect.
SYN: Review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration.
ANT: Prognostication, anticipation, speculation, forecasting, prophecy, prospect.
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KEY: Return.
SYN: Recur, revert, reappear, come back, repay, requite, recompense, retaliate, render, restore, yield, produce, give back, repay.
ANT: Depart, remove, vanish, disappear, retain, appropriate, misappropriate, alienate, withhold.
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KEY: Reveal.
SYN: Unveil, disclose, show, communicate, divulge, discover, expose, unearth, make known.
ANT: Hide, obscure, conceal, suppress, cover, cloak.
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KEY: Revel.
SYN: Carouse, feast, banquet, luxuriate, wallow.
ANT: Fast, abstain, nauseate.
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KEY: Revelation.
SYN: Discovery, disclosure, divine communication, apocalypse.
ANT: Concealing, veiling, shrouding, keeping back.
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KEY: Revelry.
SYN: Carousal, noisy, festivity, feast, orgies, wassail.
ANT: Fast, abstinence.
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KEY: Revenge \n.\
SYN: Retaliation, vengeance, retribution, requital.
ANT: Condonation, pardon, compassion, remission.
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KEY: Revenge \v.\ [See RETIREMENT].
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KEY: Revengeful.
SYN: Vindictive, unforgiving, uncompassionate, spiteful, resentful.
ANT: Unvindictive, forgiving, compassionate, unresentful, generous, chivalrous.
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KEY: Revenue.
SYN: Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment.
ANT: Outgoings, expenditure, waste, deductions, exhaustion, expense, impoverishment.
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KEY: Reverberate.
SYN: Echo, recoil, reflect, revert, resound.
ANT: Strike, impinge, beat.
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KEY: Reverberation, [See ECHO].
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KEY: Reverence.
SYN: Honor, awe, veneration, adoration, deference, devotion, respect, worship, homage.
ANT: Dishonor, contempt, slight, irreverent, contumely, contumacy.
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KEY: Reverie.
SYN: Dream, daydream, trance, vision, phantasy, ideality, woolgathering, wandering, musing.
ANT: Study, attention, diligence, application.
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KEY: Reverse \v.\
SYN: Invert, derange, upset, overturn, subvert, annul, counterchange.
ANT: Order, arrange, place, collocate, range.
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KEY: Reverse \n.\
SYN: Inversion, derangement, counterchange, counterposition, opposition, contrariety, contradiction, alteration, change, mutation, rear, back, evolution, counterexhibition.
ANT: Version, arrangement, sequence, order, collocation, position, perpetuation, continuance, stability, identity, uniformity, regularity, obverse, front.
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KEY: Reversible.
SYN: Changeable, exchangeable, counterchangeable, alterable, mutable, revocable, discretional.
ANT: Perpetual, unalterable, unchangeable, irreversible, absolute, undiscretional.
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KEY: Revert.
SYN: Return, refer, accrue, reaccrue, recur.
ANT: Depart, escheat, ignore, drop, dismiss, discard.
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KEY: Review \v.\
SYN: Reconsider, revise, examine, survey, inspect.
ANT: Discard, dismiss, overlook, skim, disregard, misexamine.
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KEY: Review \n.\
SYN: Resurvey, retrospect, reconsideration, revisal, re-examination, critique, criticism.
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KEY: Revile.
SYN: Reproach, asperse, upbraid, malign, slander, calumniate, vilify, abuse, blaspheme.
ANT: Flatter, compliment, eulogize, panegyrize, laud, extol.
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KEY: Revise.
SYN: Alter, amend, re-examine, [See ECHO].
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KEY: Revive.
SYN: Reanimate, revivify, resucitate, refresh, reassure, recover, awake, live.
ANT: Extinguish, kill, depress, exhaust, discourage, droop, fade, wither, decline, die.
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KEY: Revivify, [See REVIEW].
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KEY: Revocable, [See REVIVE].
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KEY: Revoke.
SYN: Recal, withdraw, cancel, annul, rescind, repeal, declare void.
ANT: Sanction, enact, perpetuate, enforce, reiterate, renew.
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KEY: Revolt \v.\ int.
SYN: Rebel, struggle, kick, resist, rise, recalcitrate.
ANT: Acquiesce, obey, submit.
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KEY: Revolt \n.\
SYN: Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny.
ANT: Submission, acquiescence, loyalty.
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KEY: Revolting.
SYN: Shocking, repulsive, disgusting, offensive, horrible, hideous, abhorrent.
ANT: Attractive, genial, pleasing, charming, captivating.
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KEY: Revolution.
SYN: Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt, reconstitution, emeute.
ANT: Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation, perpetuation, suppression.
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KEY: Revolve.
SYN: Contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel, rotate, circulate.
ANT: Discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider.
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KEY: Revulsion \n.\
SYN: Revolution, abhorrence, estrangement, antagonism.
ANT: Coincidence, harmony, acquiescence, sympathy, reconcilement, familiarity, reciprocity.
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KEY: Reward \v.\
SYN: Compensate, honor, decorate, remunerate, pay, recompense.
ANT: Punish, misrequite.
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KEY: Rhetorical.
SYN: Declamatory, persuasive, oratorical, lively, animated, spirited.
ANT: logical, calm, cool, deliberate.
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KEY: Rich.
SYN: Wealthy, opulent, affluent, abundant, generous, productive, copious, fertile, fruitful, valuable, costly, high-flavored, luscious, oleaginous, vivid, deep, bright, superb, gorgeous.
ANT: Poor, impoverished, impecunious, needy, indigent, reduced, exhausted, unproductive, scanty, niggardly, barren, sterile, unfruitful, valueless, tasteless, watery, pale, beggarly, nude, bald, cold.
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KEY: Riches.
SYN: Wealth, opulence, affluence, wealthiness, richness, plenty, abundance, treasure, possessions.
ANT: Poverty, pauperism, impecuniosity, neediness, indigence, destitution, necessity, lack, privation, beggary, insolvency.
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KEY: Riddance.
SYN: Quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape.
ANT: Entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance.
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KEY: Riddle.
SYN: Puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, problem, paradox.
ANT: Solution, explanation, statement, proposition, axiom.
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KEY: Ridicule \n.\
SYN: Derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery, irony, satire, sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect.
ANT: Veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage.
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KEY: Ridicule \v.\
SYN: Lampoon, deride, mock at, laugh at, jeer, [See REVOKE and REVERSIBLE].
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KEY: Ridiculous.
SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, droll, contemptible, preposterous, absurd, grotesque, trifling, trivial.
ANT: Serious, grave, important, weighty, considerable, venerable, imposing, majestic.
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KEY: Rifle \v.\ [See RANSACK].
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KEY: Right \n.\
SYN: Rectitude, correctness, straightness, integrity, justice, truth, propriety, fitness, suitableness, claim, power, privilege.
ANT: Wrong, incorrectness, perverseness, crookedness, disintegrity, injustice, falsehood, impropriety, unfitness, usurpation, encroachment, force, violence.
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KEY: Right \a.\
SYN: Straight, upright, direct, lawful, correct, exact, just, fair, fit, proper, suitable, equitable.
ANT: Crooked, indirect, wrong, unlawful, inexact, unjust, unfair, unfit, improper, unsuitable.
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KEY: Righteous.
SYN: Upright, just, godly, virtuous, uncorrupt, rightful, equitable, truthful, conscientious.
ANT: Unrighteous, perverse, evil, unjust, ungodly, vicious, corrupt, wrongful, false, unconscientious, unprincipled, unjustifiable, abandoned, profligate, dishonorable, unfair.
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KEY: Righteousness \n.\ [See PIETY and HONESTY].
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KEY: Rigid.
SYN: Stiff, unpliant, unflexible, stubborn, tough, stark, staunch, unswerving, exact, unbending, undeviating, austere.
ANT: Pliant, docile, flexible, variable, mild, lenient, inexact, yielding, inconstant, inconsistent.
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KEY: Rigor \n.\ [See RIGID and ASPERITY].
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KEY: Rill.
SYN: Streamlet, brook, brooklet, creek, rivulet.
ANT: River, large stream.
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KEY: Kind.
SYN: Skin, peel, bark, husk.
ANT: Kernel, meat, wood, pulp, fruit.
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KEY: Riot.
SYN: Noise, uproar, tumult, fray, outbreak, mutiny, row, revel, disturbance, turbulence.
ANT: Peace, pacification, sobriety, quiescence, orderliness.
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KEY: Ripe.
SYN: Perfect, developed, full, matured, seasoned, ready, prepared, mellow, mature, advanced, consummate.
ANT: Raw, crude, Immature, imperfect, undeveloped, blighted, unseasoned, sour, unready, unfit, unprepared, unmellowed, green, withered.
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KEY: Rise \v.\
SYN: Ascend, mount, float, soar, grow, arise, tower, slope, appear, emerge, spring, originate, extend, expand, swell, increase, excel, prosper, climb.
ANT: Descend, decline, sink, drop, diminish, fall, subside, crouch, nestle, dip, set, wane, vanish, disappear, terminate, end, debouch, contract, decrease, fail.
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KEY: Rise \n.\
SYN: Spring, fountain head, source, [See RIGID and ASPERITY].
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KEY: Risible.
SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, [See RIDICULOUS].
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KEY: Risk \n.\
SYN: Hazard, danger, peril, exposure, jeopardy.
ANT: Safety, security, insurance, protection, prophylactic.
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KEY: Risk \v.\
SYN: Hazard, peril, jeopard, venture, stake, [See HAZARD].
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KEY: Rite.
SYN: Form, custom, ceremony, observance, usage, celebration.
ANT: Inobservance, disuse, obsoleteness, nonobservance, noncelebration, desuetude.
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KEY: Rival \n.\
SYN: Antagonist, competitor, cosuitor.
ANT: Adherent, supporter, comrade, coadjutor, neutral.
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KEY: Rival \v.\
SYN: Emulate, challenge, equal, contend, strive, compete.
ANT: Succumb, surrender, yield, promote, reverence, retire, defer.
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KEY: Road.
SYN: Public way, highway, route, thoroughfare, course, pathway, path.
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KEY: Roam.
SYN: Wander, rove, range, stroll, ramble, stray, saunter.
ANT: Hurry, speed, fly, hasten, press.
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KEY: Roar.
SYN: Howl, vociferate, peal, yell, boom, resound, [See BAWL].
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KEY: Rob.
SYN: Plunder, deprive, denude, strip, pillage, defraud, cheat, impoverish.
ANT: Compensate, endow, enrich, invest, indemnify.
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KEY: Robber.
SYN: Thief, depredator, plunderer, freebooter, brigand, pirate, highwayman, footpad.
ANT: Guard, escort, protector.
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KEY: Robbery.
SYN: Theft, larceny, pillage, plundering, depredation, spoliation.
ANT: Guarding, protecting, indemnifying, compensating, enriching.
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KEY: Robe.
SYN: Invest, clothe, deck, drape, array.
ANT: Divest, disrobe, unclothe, denude, strip.
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KEY: Robust.
SYN: Strong, lusty, brawny, able-bodied, sturdy, sinewy, muscular, hale, hearty, vigorous, sound, iron.
ANT: Weak, frail, puny, fragile, weakly, delicate, sickly.
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KEY: Rogue.
SYN: Vagabond, scamp, rascal, villain, cheat, swindler, sharper.
ANT: True-penny, gentleman.
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KEY: Roguery.
SYN: Trickery, cheating, chicanery, swindling, vagabondism, mischief, fraud, knavery.
ANT: Honesty, integrity, honor, uprightness, conscientiousness.
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KEY: Roll \v.\
SYN: Revolve, wheel, rotate, turn over and over, rock, trundle wallow.
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KEY: Roll \n.\ [See RECORD].
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KEY: Rollicking.
SYN: Roystering, frolicsome, hoydenish, blustering.
ANT: Staid, sedate, demure.
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KEY: Romance.
SYN: Fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade, balderdash.
ANT: History, narrative, truth, fact.
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KEY: Romantic.
SYN: Fabulous, rhapsodical, wild, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, sentimental.
ANT: Historical, literal, truthful, unromantic, unvarnished, unadorned.
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KEY: Room.
SYN: Space, ground, compass, extent, locality, opportunity, capability, occasion, margin, capacity, admission.
ANT: Restriction, limitation, confinement, incapability, exclusion, neutralization.
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KEY: Roomy, [See SPACIOUS].
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KEY: Root.
SYN: Radix, radicle, stem, origin, source, spring, rise, commencement, parent.
ANT: Branch, ramification, outcome, product, issue, progeny.
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KEY: Rooted.
SYN: Fixed, established, grounded, based, inveterate, domiciled, naturalized, installed.
ANT: Unestablished, insecure, uncertain, wavering, unsettled, oscillating, dubious, precarious, superficial, specious, propped, bolstered, shored.
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KEY: Rot.
SYN: Putrefaction, corruption, putrescence, mouldiness, mildew, decay.
ANT: Integrity, wholesomeness, soundness, vigor, preservation, purity, healthiness, sweetness.
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KEY: Rotation.
SYN: Turn, series, order, succession, revolution, course, reversion, recurrence.
ANT: Simultaneity, perpetuity, constancy, non-intermittence, contemporaneousness.
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KEY: Rotten, [See PUTRID].
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KEY: Rotundity.
SYN: Roundness, convexity, circularity, sphericity, globosity, prominence, protuberance, intumescence.
ANT: Concavity, flatness, angularity.
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KEY: Rough.
SYN: Uneven, harsh, bristly, scabrous, rugged, knotty, unpolished, boisterous, tempestuous, stormy, coarse, craggy, gruff, crude, severe, shaggy, disordered, unrefined, uncourteous, rude, unshaped, churlish, blunt.
ANT: Even, smooth, level, polished, glabrous, glossy, glassy, silky, sleek, velvety, calm, tranquil, refined, courteous, courtly, shapely, shaped, finished, oily, specious.
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KEY: Round.
SYN: Circular, globular, spherical, entire, complete, rotund, smooth, plump.
ANT: Flat, angular, concave.
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KEY: Roundabout, [See CIRCUITOUS].
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KEY: Rouse.
SYN: Wake, excite, agitate, startle, surprise.
ANT: Compose, allay, calm, soothe, quiet, repress, Rout, [See CIRCUITOUS].
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KEY: Route.
SYN: Way, course, passage, march, path, track, direction.
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KEY: Routine.
SYN: Round, course, succession, order, rule, custom, system, sequence, gradation, rotation, stereotype, prescription, tenor, uniformity, method, settlement, regulation.
ANT: Casualty, chance, lottery, fortune, impulse, interest, individuality, merit, spontaneity, alterableness, margin, deviation, modification.
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KEY: Rove, [See ROAM].
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KEY: Row \n.\
SYN: Series, order, rank, sequence, continuation, continuity, file, string, concatenation, thread.
ANT: Dissociation, disconnection, rupture, intermission, hiatus, solution, failure, gap, discontinuance, dissolution, inconsequence, derangement, deviation, flexion, deflexion, irregularity, sinuosity, flexuosity.
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KEY: Row \n.\ [See RIOT].
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KEY: Royal, [See REGAL].
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KEY: Rubbish.
SYN: debris, waste matter, fragments, litter, dross, refuse, lion sense, trash.
ANT: [met.] see Cream and Nonsense.
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KEY: Rubicund.
SYN: Ruddy, flushed, red, sanguine, blushing.
ANT: Pale, wan, pallid, exsanguineous.
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KEY: Ruddy, [See RUBICUND].
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KEY: Rude.
SYN: Impertinent, rough, uneven, shapeless, unfashioned, artless, unpolished, uncouth, inelegant, rustic, coarse, vulgar, clownish, raw, unskilful, untaught, illiterate, ignorant, uncivil, saucy, impolite, impudent, insolent, surly, {[currifb]?}, churlish, brutal, uncivilized, barbarous, savage, violent, tumultuous, turbulent, Impetuous, boisterous, harsh, inclement, severe, Insulting, grotesque, barbaric, archaic.
ANT: Modest, bashful, civil, courteous, ceremonious, deferential, smooth, even, artistic, polished, fashioned, courtly, elegant, high-wrought, polite, accommodating, considerate, refined, gentle, peaceful, culm, genial, balmy, halcyonic, serene, placid, modern, modish, fashionable.
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KEY: Rudiment.
SYN: Principle, begin, ning, germ, seed, embryo, element, nucleus, initiation, commencement.
ANT: Perfection, completion, development, expansion, organization, fruit, maturity, consummation, product, issue.
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KEY: Rudimental, [See ELEMENTARY].
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KEY: Rue, [See REPENT].
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KEY: Ruffle.
SYN: Wrinkle, roughen, dis, compose, disturb, agitate, disorder, derange, disarrange, confute, excite.
ANT: Smooth, allay, equalize, compose, quiet, arrange, conciliate.
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KEY: Ruffian.
SYN: Villain, cutthroat, brutal fellow, bully.
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KEY: Rugged.
SYN: Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficult.
ANT: Even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine, finished, soft, mild, courtly, courteous, [See {[caitubtroka %]?}].
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KEY: Ruin.
SYN: Fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse, desolation, downfall, perdition, subversion, decay, decadence, prostration, dilapidation, disorganization.
ANT: Rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery, stabilisation, conservation, regeneration, revivification, reparation, renascence, organization, construction.
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KEY: Ruinous, [See PERNICIOUS].
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KEY: Rule \n.\
SYN: Regulation, law, precept, principle, maxim, practice, guide, canon, order, method, direction, authority, control, mastery, government, decision, determination, habit.
ANT: Irregularity, nonconformity, exception, deviation, eccentricity.
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KEY: Rule \v.\
SYN: Govern, manage, control, direct, command, dominate, [See CONTROL and GOVERN].
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KEY: Ruling.
SYN: Governing, reigning, controlling, masterful, predominant, regulating, prevalent.
ANT: Obeying, yielding, subservient.
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KEY: Ruminate.
SYN: Muse, meditate, ponder, think, reflect, cogitate, brood.
ANT: Unbend, relax, idle, gape, woolgather.
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KEY: Rumor.
SYN: Report, repute, hearsay, publication, bruit.
ANT: Authentication, verification, proof, evidence, notoriety.
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KEY: Rumple.
SYN: Ruffle, wrinkle, crease, crumple, pucker, corrugate, derange, roughen.
ANT: Smooth, flatten, arrange.
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KEY: Run.
SYN: Course, go, speed, hasten, hurry, fly, rush, escape, retreat, pass, proceed, flow, ooze, leak, melt, fuse, confuse, blend, extend, reach, work, operate, traverse, tend, incline.
ANT: Walk, saunter, lounge, drag, stay, stop, halt, hobble, resist, hold, stanch, stand, fail, drop, expire, disincline, hesitate.
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KEY: Rupture.
SYN: Breaking, bursting, tearing, laceration, partition, disruption, breach, dissolution, fracture, break, severance, disseverance, discerption, disorganization, separation, dilaceration, dismemberment.
ANT: Union, uniting, healing, fusion, amalgamation, coalition, suture, junction, reunion.
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KEY: Rural.
SYN: Countrified, rustic, agricultural, bucolic, verdant, sylvan, grassy, arcadian, pastoral.
ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic.
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KEY: Rush.
SYN: Speed, course, dash, sweep, hurry, stream, roll, charge, drive, fly, burst.
ANT: March, saunter, lag, retreat, bait, hesitate.
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KEY: Rust \n.\
SYN: Corrosion, crust, dross, indolence, inactivity, decay, canker, inaction.
ANT: Polish, attrition, use, action, operation, activity, exercise, industry.
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KEY: Rustic \n.\
SYN: Clown, boor, clod, go, leuc, booby.
ANT: Beau, savant, dandy, man of, the wond.
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KEY: Rustic \a.\
SYN: Rural, agricultural, bucolic, nomadic, sylvan, verdant, pastoral, rude, awkward, unpolished, clownish, clumsy, rough, coarse, plain, unsophisticated, simple, artless, primitive.
ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic, fashionable, modish, elegant, sophisticated, refined, courtly, polished.
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KEY: Rusticity.
SYN: Rudeness, clownishness, boorishness, coarseness, simplicity, artlessness.
ANT: Courtliness, refinement, polish, gentility, urbanity.
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KEY: Rustle.
SYN: Quiver, whisper, susurration, murmur, sighing.
ANT: Hubbub, blast, din, racket, crashing.
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KEY: Ruthless.
SYN: Unpitying, unrelenting, truculent, unsparing.
ANT: Tender, regretful, lenient, compassionate, forbearing, long-suffering.
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KEY: Rutilant.
SYN: Igneous, flammiferous, flaming, blazing, coruscant, meteoric, flashing, scintillant.
ANT: Glowing, incandescent, gleaming.
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KEY: Sable.
SYN: Dark, black, sombre, ebon.
ANT: Bright, light, white, ivory.
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KEY: Sacerdotal.
SYN: Priestly, hierarchical, clerical.
ANT: Laic, congregational.
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KEY: Sack.
SYN: Plunder, pillage, ravage, waste, spoil.
ANT: Spare, indemnify, protect, preserve.
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KEY: Sacred.
SYN: Holy, divine, hallowed, consecrated, religious, inviolable.
ANT: Unholy, common, profane, unconsecrated.
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KEY: Sacrifice \v.\
SYN: Offer, immolate, destroy, surrender, forego.
ANT: Reserve, retain, appropriate, withhold.
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KEY: Sacrifice \n.\
SYN: Offering, oblation, immolation, surrender, destruction, atonement, propitiation, appeasement, expiation.
ANT: Reservation, appropriation, retention, salvation, rescue, offence, transgression.
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KEY: Sad.
SYN: Heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnine.
ANT: Light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe.
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KEY: Saddle.
SYN: Impose, burden, load, shackle, clog, charge, encumber.
ANT: Rid, relieve, exonerate, disburden, liberate, disencumber.
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KEY: Safe.
SYN: Secure, unendangered, secured, sure, protected, impregnable, trustworthy, certain.
ANT: Insecure, imperilled, dangerous, Hazardous, exposed.
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KEY: Safeguard.
SYN: Security, protection, [See SABLE].
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KEY: Sagacious.
SYN: Intelligent, discriminating, acute, wise, prudent, foreseeing, shrewd, penetrating, sapient.
ANT: Dull, obtuse, unintelligent, stolid, undiscerning.
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KEY: Sage.
SYN: Philosopher, savant, literate.
ANT: Fool, Imbecile, Colt, blockhead.
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KEY: Sailor.
SYN: Seaman, mariner, navigator, seafarer, tar.
ANT: Landsman.
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KEY: Saintly.
SYN: Pure, holy, spiritual, heavenly-minded, pious, godly.
ANT: Impious impure, unholy, unspiritual, ungodly, carnal, foul, worldly, earthly-minded, sinful.
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KEY: Sake.
SYN: Account, behalf, purpose, end, regard, reason, cause, [See DEFENSE].
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KEY: Salient.
SYN: Projecting, springing, jutting, abutting, prominent, conspicuous, important, noteworthy.
ANT: Retreating, retiring, returning, rebated, unimportant, minor, inconsiderable, subordinate.
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KEY: Sally.
SYN: Burst, start, issue.
ANT: Retire, retreat, withdraw.
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KEY: Salubrious, [See BEHALF].
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KEY: Salubrity.
SYN: Healthiness, healthfulness, wholesomeness, salutarines.
ANT: Unwholesomeness, unhealthily, insalubrity.
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KEY: Salutary, [See HEALTHY].
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KEY: Salutation, [See WHOLESOME].
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KEY: Salute.
SYN: Hall, compliment, accost, welcome, greet.
ANT: Ignore, insult, pass, disregard, dishonor, scorn, affront.
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KEY: Salvation.
SYN: Preservation, saving, redemption, rescue, deliverance.
ANT: Destruction, perdition, damnation.
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KEY: Salve.
SYN: Heal, cure, mollify, redress, remedy, mend, relieve.
ANT: Wound, hurt, irritate, injure, aggravate, scarify.
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KEY: Same.
SYN: Identical, selfsame, similar, corresponding.
ANT: Other, different.
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KEY: Sameness, [See WELCOME].
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KEY: Sample.
SYN: Specimen, pattern, illustration, case, exemplification, scantling.
ANT: Exception, deviation, abnormity, monstrosity, variety, nondescript, hybrid, nonsuch.
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KEY: Sanative, [See IDENTITY].
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KEY: Sanatory.
SYN: Curative, sanative, remedial, therapeutic, hygienic, sanitary.
ANT: Morbific, pestilential, noxious, unwholesome, pernicious.
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KEY: Sanctification.
SYN: Justification, absolution, consecration, holiness.
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KEY: Sanctify.
SYN: Consecrate, hallow, celebrate, purify, justify, sanction, ratify.
ANT: Desecrate, profane, misobserve, pollute, disannul.
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KEY: Sanction \n.\
SYN: Rectification, authorization, authority, countenance, support, seal, allowance.
ANT: Nullification, disallowance, discountenance, prohibition.
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KEY: Sanction \v.\
SYN: Authorize, countenance, confirm, ratify, [See SANATORY and HEALTHFUL].
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KEY: Sanctity.
SYN: Holiness, sacredness, godliness, piety, solemnity.
ANT: Unholiness, profaneness, ungodliness, impiety, secularly.
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KEY: Sanctuary.
SYN: Shrine, {[adytumasy % asyurn]?}, asyurn, refuge, security, protection, inviolability.
ANT: Pitfall, trap, snare, betrayal, violation, extradition.
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KEY: Sanguinary.
SYN: Bloody, truculent, bloodthirsty, murderous.
ANT: Lenient, moderate, chivalrous, generous, sparing, forbearing.
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KEY: Sanguine.
SYN: Warm, ardent, lively, animated, hopeful, confident, trustful.
ANT: Cold, frigid, desponding, distrustful, croaking, misgiving, suspicious, cautious, unventuresome, timid, anxious, diffident, solicitous.
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KEY: Sanitary, [See APPROVE].
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KEY: Sanity.
SYN: Rationality, soundness, reasonableness, lucidity, wisdom.
ANT: Insanity, madness, lunacy, derangement, alienation, dementation, hallucination, folly.
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KEY: Sapid.
SYN: Tasty, relishing, savory, piquant, palatable, toothsome, delicious.
ANT: Dry, flavorless, distasteful, nauseous.
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KEY: Sapidity.
SYN: Sapidness, savoriness, taste, {[eavor]?}.
ANT: Savorless, tasteless, insipid, vapid.
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KEY: Sapient.
SYN: Sage, sagacious, knowing, wise, discerning.
ANT: foolish, undiscerning, blind, stolid.
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KEY: Sarcasm.
SYN: Gibe, chaff, irony, jeer, satire, ridicule, taunt, sardonicism.
ANT: Eulogy, compliment, panegyric, eulogium.
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KEY: Sarcastic.
SYN: Satirical, ironical, taunting, severe, [See SANATORY].
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KEY: Satanic.
SYN: Fiendish, devilish, infernal.
ANT: Angelic, seraphic, heavenly.
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KEY: Sate.
SYN: Satiate, glut, surfeit.
ANT: Stint, starve.
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KEY: Satellite.
SYN: Attendant, follower, subordinate, shadow, associate, hanger-on, second.
ANT: Leader, principal.
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KEY: Satiate.
SYN: Gorge, cloy, satisfy fully, [See SATIRICAL].
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KEY: Satire.
SYN: Invective, sarcasm, burlesque, lampoon, pasquinade, irony, ridicule.
ANT: Eulogy, panegyric, laudation.
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KEY: Satirical.
SYN: Cutting, poignant sarcastic, bitter, ironical, invective.
ANT: Complimentary, flattering, laudatory, panegyric, eulogistic.
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KEY: Satisfaction.
SYN: Contentment, content, complacency, pleasure, recompense, compensation, amends, remuneration, indemnification, atonement.
ANT: Discontent, grievance, dissatisfaction, pain, vexation, annoyance, injury, wrong, fraud, robbery, obligation, demand, claim, damnification, transgression, offence.
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KEY: Satisfy.
SYN: Satiate, content, sate, please, fill, gratify, suffice, recompense, compensate, remunerate, indemnify, assure, convince, meet, fulfil.
ANT: Stint, starve, deprive, dissatisfy, tantalize, half-satisfy, annoy, displease, defraud, deprive, injure, cheat, shake, disown, repudiate, stagger, pore, embarrass, puzzle.
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KEY: Saturate.
SYN: Soak, impregnate, infuse, steep, sate.
ANT: Wring, drain, exsiccate, dry, divert, empty, deprive, disimpregnate.
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KEY: Saturnine.
SYN: Dull, heavy, grave, phlegmatic, gloomy, leaden, sombre.
ANT: Jovial, gay, light-hearted, joyous, bright, merry.
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KEY: Saucy.
SYN: Pert, forward, flippant, impudent, insolent, disrespectful.
ANT: Deferential, civil, respectful, fair-spoken, glozing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, servile, snivelling, slavish.
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KEY: Saunter.
SYN: Roam, loiter, linger, stroll, wander, lag, dawdle, lounge, linger.
ANT: Speed, course, press, hasten, drive, push, scramble.
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KEY: Savage.
SYN: Ferocious, ferine, wild, uncultivated, untamed, untaught, uncivilized, unpolished, rude, brutish, brutal, heathenish, barbarous, cruel, fierce, inhuman, truculent, pitiless, merciless, murderous, violent, malevolent.
ANT: Mild, docile, domesticated, tame, tractable, meek, timid, shrinking, cultivated, tamed, taught, civilized, educated, refined, Christianized, polished, humane, generous, chivalrous, merciful, clement, forbearing, courtly, subdued, self-controlled.
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KEY: Save.
SYN: Preserve, rescue, secure, reserve, spare, hinder, obviate, prevent, snatch, catch, economize, husband.
ANT: Lose, betray, abandon, destroy, surrender, impose, facilitate, promote, induce, occasion, cause, miss, expose, imperil, endanger, risk, waste, lavish.
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KEY: Saving, [see FRUGAL].
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KEY: Savior.
SYN: Redeemer, JESUS CHRIST, Mediator, Messiah, The Anointed, The Word.
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KEY: Savory, [See SAPID].
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KEY: Say.
SYN: Utter, tell, speak, pronounce, declare, assert, allege, affirm, repeat, rehearse, recite, judge.
ANT: Suppress, secrete, silentiate, repress, misdeclare, misrecite, misdeliver, missay, misjudge, mispronounce.
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KEY: Saying.
SYN: Assertion, maxim, saw, dictum, declaration, speech, byword, proverb, aphorism, apothegm.
ANT: Dissertation, disquisition, essay, ratiocination, rigmarole, yarn, circumlocution.
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KEY: Scale.
SYN: Layer, lamina, flake.
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KEY: Scandal.
SYN: Offence, reproach, disgrace, defamation, libel, shame, infamy, detraction, slander, calumny, opprobrium.
ANT: Eulogy, fame, honor, respect, credit.
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KEY: Scandalize.
SYN: Disgrace, disgust, shock, offend, defame, reproach.
ANT: Honor, [See REPROACH].
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KEY: Scant.
SYN: Short, insufficient, mean, niggardly, stingy, narrow, limited, chary, sparing.
ANT: Full, ample, liberal, generous, bountiful, unmeasured.
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KEY: Scanty, [See REPROACH].
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KEY: Scantling, [See SCANT].
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KEY: Scar \n.\
SYN: Cicatrix, blemish, disfigurement, mark, seam, spot, reproach.
ANT: Obliteration, effacement.
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KEY: Scarce.
SYN: Rare, infrequent, unabundant, unique, uncommon, unusual, singular, precious, choice, few, wanting, sparse.
ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, valueless, thick, plentiful.
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KEY: Scarcity.
SYN: Deficiency, lack, infrequency, want, dearth, rarity.
ANT: Plenty, abundance, frequency.
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KEY: Scare.
SYN: Terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt.
ANT: Reassure, encourage, entice, allure.
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KEY: Scarify.
SYN: Cut, scratch, incise, Irritate, torment.
ANT: Heal, salve, soothe, mollify, assuage.
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KEY: Scatheless.
SYN: Unhurt, unscathed, uninjured, undamaged, whole, sound.
ANT: Wounded, injured, damaged.
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KEY: Scatter.
SYN: Strew, sprinkle, disperse, spread, broadcast, dissipate, disseminate, propagate, squander.
ANT: Collect, accumulate, heap, gather, save, husband.
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KEY: Scene.
SYN: Spectacle, show, exhibition, [See SAMPLE].
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KEY: Scent.
SYN: Odor, perfume, {[tmeU]?}, [See {[PAOEAKT]?}].
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KEY: Sceptic.
SYN: Doubter, infidel, un believer, deist.
ANT: Believer.
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KEY: Scepticism.
SYN: Doubt, unbelief, infidelity, incredulity.
ANT: Faith, belief, credulity.
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KEY: Scheme.
SYN: Plan, project, design, contrivance, purpose, draft, proposal, device, plot, theory, intrigue, machination.
ANT: Miscontrivance, bungle, misarrangement, blunder.
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KEY: Schism.
SYN: Division, separation, disruption, secession, diversity, sectarianism, breach, dissent, discord.
ANT: Unity, integrity, catholicity, communion.
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KEY: Scholar.
SYN: Pupil, learner, disciple, student, schoolman, scientist, savant, gownsman, linguist.
ANT: Master, teacher, preceptor, professor, ignoramus, dunce.
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KEY: Scholarship.
SYN: Lore, learning, erudition, attainments, culture, [See LEARNING].
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KEY: Science.
SYN: Knowledge, Information, skill, experience, expertness, comprehension, understanding, investigation, truth.
ANT: Ignorance, inexperience, Unfamiliarity, incomprehension, error, fallacy, empiricism, smattering, sciolism.
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KEY: Scientific.
SYN: Philosophical, according to general principles, or laws.
ANT: Unscientific.
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KEY: Sciolism.
SYN: Shallowness, superficialness, smattering, imperfect knowledge.
ANT: Depth, profundity, profoundness.
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KEY: Scion.
SYN: Slip, offshoot, cadet, branch, child.
ANT: Stem, stock, parent, root.
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KEY: Scoff.
SYN: Sneer, mock, jibe, jeer, contemn, scout, deride, ridicule.
ANT: Compliment, salute, respect, honor.
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KEY: Scold.
SYN: Chide, rail, reprimand, reprove, brawl, rebuke, abuse.
ANT: Praise, encourage, compliment, laud, flatter.
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KEY: Scope.
SYN: Aim, object, mark, end, design, purpose, intention, drift, room, occasion, opportunity, liberty.
ANT: Avoidance, nonintention, pretermission, inadvertence, accident, aimlessness, deviation.
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KEY: Scorn \v.\
SYN: Contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout.
ANT: Honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute.
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KEY: Scorn \n.\
SYN: Mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium, [See LEARNING].
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KEY: Scoundrel.
SYN: Villain, vagabond, knave, swindler, miscreant, reprobate.
ANT: Man of honor, gentleman.
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KEY: Scour.
SYN: Purge, cleanse, rinse, scrub.
ANT: Soil, begrime, besmear, foul, pollute, {[aefile]?}, dirt.
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KEY: Scourge.
SYN: Punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation.
ANT: Blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction.
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KEY: Scourings.
SYN: Offal, dregs, lees, offscourings, refuse, dross, scum.
ANT: Cream, elite, pickings, bloom, flower.
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KEY: Scout \v.\ [See SCORN].
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KEY: Scowl.
SYN: Frown, discountenance, browbeat, lower, glower.
ANT: Smile, encourage, countenance.
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KEY: Scraggy.
SYN: Jagged, lean, bony, uneven, gaunt, skinny, raw, angular.
ANT: Plump, fat, round, rounded.
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KEY: Scramble \v.\
SYN: Struggle, hurry, bustle.
ANT: Lag, dawdle, loiter, saunter.
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KEY: Scramble \n.\
SYN: Hurry, bustle, struggle, confusion, turmoil, ferment, commotion, bear-garden, babel, vortex.
ANT: Order, orderliness, arrangement, leisureliness, method, uniformity.
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KEY: Scrap.
SYN: Scantling, piece, morsel, fragment, atom, bit, portion.
ANT: Whole, integrity, mass, lump.
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KEY: Scrape \v.\
SYN: Grate, abrade, confricate, rasp, scratch, mark, groove.
ANT: Lubricate, polish, levigate, dig, indent, wound.
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KEY: Scratch \v.\ [See SCORN].
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KEY: Scream.
SYN: Screech, shriek, yell.
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KEY: Screen \v.\
SYN: Shelter, protect, defend, hide, palliate, mitigate, curtain, cloak, defend, harbor, fence, ward, shade.
ANT: Open, expose, surrender, betray, aggravate, exaggerate, prosecute.
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KEY: Scriptural.
SYN: Biblical, orthodox, revealed, inspired.
ANT: Profane, unrevealed, unorthodox, unbiblical, unscriptural.
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KEY: Scruple \n.\
SYN: Misgiving, doubt, hesitation, qualm, reluctance, question.
ANT: recklessness, unscrupulousness, confidence, assurance, self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-complacency.
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KEY: Scruple \v.\ [See SCRAPE].
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KEY: Scrupulous.
SYN: Conscientious, dubious, diffident, punctilious, exact, cautious, nice, precise, reluctant.
ANT: reckless, unscrupulous, unhesitating, confident, self-satisfied, self-complacent, eager.
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KEY: Scrutinize.
SYN: Examine, probe, search into, sift, [See EXAMINE].
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KEY: Scrutiny.
SYN: Search, investigation, sifting, inspection.
ANT: Oversight, misobservation, disregard, connivance.
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KEY: Sculpture.
SYN: Statuary, carving, plastic work, carved art.
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KEY: Scurrilous.
SYN: Opprobrious, foul-mouthed, obscene, offensive, reproachful, [See ABUSIVE].
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KEY: Scurrility.
SYN: Buffoonery, derision, {[ecomng]?}, mockery, jeering, abuse.
ANT: Deference, eulogium, flattery, compliment.
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KEY: Sea.
SYN: Ocean, deep, main.
ANT: Shore, land.
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KEY: Seal.
SYN: Close, fasten, confirm, sanction, ratify.
ANT: Unseal, unclose, open, annul, cancel, abrogate, disratify, disaffirm, contravene.
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KEY: Search \v.\
SYN: Inspect, explore, scrutinize, seek, investigate, inquire.
ANT: Pretermit, disregard, abandon, misinvestigate.
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KEY: Search \n.\
SYN: Exploration, pursuit, quest, inquiry, [See ABUSIVE].
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KEY: Season.
SYN: Period, time, conjuncture, while, occasion, opportunity, suitableness, timeliness.
ANT: Untimeliness, unsuitableness, contretemps, unseasonableness.
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KEY: Seasonable.
SYN: Convenient, fit, grateful, welcome, timely, suitable, periodical, normal, opportune.
ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, untimely, unsuitable, unexpected, abnormal, inopportune, unseasonable.
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KEY: Secede.
SYN: Withdraw, retire, recede, separate, dissent, segregate.