Chapter 24

ANT: Adhere, accord, concur, conform, unite, amalgamate.

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KEY: Secession.

SYN: Separation, withdrawal.

ANT: Union, adherence.

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KEY: Secluded.

SYN: Retired, retreating, hidden, withdrawn, secret, private, sequestered, shaded.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, open.

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KEY: Seclusion.

SYN: Retirement, privacy, retreat, solitude, secrecy, [See SCRUTINY].

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KEY: Secondary.

SYN: Subordinate, inferior, minor, unimportant, resultant, induced.

ANT: Primary, leading, Important, prominent.

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KEY: Secrecy, [See SOLITUDE].

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KEY: Secret.

SYN: Hidden, concealed, secluded, retired, unseen, unknown, private, obscure, recondite, latent, covert, clandestine, privy, unrevealed, mysterious, underdosed.

ANT: Open, public, unconcealed, known, notorious, unreserved, disclosed.

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KEY: Secrete.

SYN: Hide, conceal.

ANT: Expose, publish, manifest, exhibit, disclose.

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KEY: Sectarian.

SYN: Party, schismatical, narrow, bigoted, exclusive, denominational, divisional, intolerant.

ANT: Broad, catholic, comprehensive, tolerant, latitudinarian, indifferent, universal.

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KEY: Secular.

SYN: Worldly, profane, civil, unmonastic, temporal, laic.

ANT: Regular, religious, monastic, spiritual, clerical.

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KEY: Secure \a.\

SYN: Safe, easy, fixed, sheltered, fast, sure, certain, confident, unanxious, careless, protected, ensured.

ANT: Anxious, distrustful, suspicious, careful, unsafe, insecure, precarious, hazardous.

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KEY: Secure \v.\

SYN: Fasten, guard, protect, assure, ensure, close, enclose, detain, arrest.

ANT: Loosen, betray, surrender, expose, imperil, endanger, open, liberate, free.

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KEY: Security.

SYN: Pledge, guarantee, warranty, protection, safeguard, pawn, deposit, bond, defence, guard, shelter, safety, certainty, ease, assurance, carelessness, confidence.

ANT: Parole, word, understanding, honor, defencelessness, exposure, danger, peril, insecurity, uncertainty, care, anxiety, precariousness.

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KEY: Sedate.

SYN: Sober, demure, serious, calm, thoughtful, grave, settled, composed, unimpassioned, serene, passive, quiet.

ANT: Flighty, frolicsome, indiscreet, unsedate, ruffled, agitated, disturbed.

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KEY: Sedative.

SYN: Allaying, tranquillizing, composing, soothing, demulcent, palliative, assuasive, lenient, anodyne, hypnotic.

ANT: Disturbing, exciting, irritant.

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KEY: Sedentary.

SYN: Close, assiduous, studious.

ANT: Active, free, erratic, locomotive.

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KEY: Sediment.

SYN: Settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate.

ANT: Elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration.

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KEY: Sedition.

SYN: Secession, insurrection, rising, outbreak, treason, tumult, riot, rebellion, revolt, mutiny, insubordination.

ANT: Union, allegiance, fealty, pacification, appeasement, quiet, orderliness, subordination, obedience.

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KEY: Seditious.

SYN: Insurgent, rebellious, tumultuous, turbulent, factious, mutinous.

ANT: Loyal, quiet, peaceable.

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KEY: Seduce.

SYN: Tempt, entice, allure, overpersuade, mislead, inveigle, decoy, corrupt, deprave, lead astray, attract.

ANT: Force, compel, overpower.

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KEY: Seducing.

SYN: Alluring, enticing, seductive, attractive.

ANT: Repellent, repulsive, abhorrent, forbidding.

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KEY: Sedulous.

SYN: Assiduous, diligent, industrious, laborious, painstaking, persevering, close, unremitting, indefatigable, constant.

ANT: Indiligent, idle, unpersevering, inattentive, distracted, wandering, inconstant.

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KEY: See.

SYN: Perceive, behold, descry, discern, look, view, conceive, distinguish, understand, comprehend, attend, beware, visit, experience.

ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, misconceive, misunderstand, ignore.

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KEY: Seed.

SYN: Spring, origin, cause, germ, embryo, root.

ANT: Issue, result, birth, product, development, offspring, fruit.

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KEY: Seek.

SYN: Search, inquire, pursue, solicit, endeavor, attempt, strive, investigate, trace, prosecute, follow, court, affect.

ANT: Ignore, disregard, avoid, shun, elude, pretermit, discard, abandon, relinquish, drop.

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KEY: Seem.

SYN: Look, appear.

ANT: Belie, misrepresent, differ.

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KEY: Seemly.

SYN: Becoming, fit, suitable, proper, appropriate, convenient, decent, congruous, meet, decorous.

ANT: Unbecoming, unfit, unsuitable, improper, inappropriate, inconvenient, indecent, incongruous, unmeet, indecorous.

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KEY: Segment.

SYN: Section, part, portion, limb, member.

ANT: Whole, totality, integrity, compound.

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KEY: Segregate.

SYN: Separate, select, part, secede, localize, exclude.

ANT: Unite, confound, fuse, amalgamate, mix, collect, gather, congregate.

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KEY: Seize.

SYN: Catch, grasp, clutch, snatch, apprehend, arrest, hold, grip, grapple, hook, take, capture.

ANT: Loose, dismiss, liberate, abandon, drop, unhand, unhook, unfasten.

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KEY: Seldom.

SYN: Rarely, infrequently, occasionally, inconstantly, hardly ever.

ANT: Commonly, frequently, uniformly, systematically, habitually, regularly, often, invariably.

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KEY: Select \v.\

SYN: Cull, pick choose, segregate, elect, prefer.

ANT: Lump, confound, sweep.

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KEY: Select \a.\

SYN: Choice, picked, fine, prime, chosen, selected, excellent.

ANT: Haphazard, common, average, unselect, coarse, ordinary.

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KEY: Selection.

SYN: Choice, option, election, excerption, gathering, preoption, segregation, adoption, preference.

ANT: Rejection, repudiation, refusal, exclusion, postponement.

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KEY: Self-conceit.

SYN: Self-esteem, egotism, [See SECLUSION].

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KEY: Self-willed.

SYN: Wilful, headstrong, stubborn, [See OBSTINATE].

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KEY: Selfish.

SYN: Egotistical, self-minded, self-indulgent, self-worshipful, worldly, illiberal, ungenerous, narrowminded, mercenary, greedy.

ANT: Disinterested, generous, unselfish, handsome, liberal, high-minded, self-denying, magnanimous, patriotic, public-spirited, considerate, accommodating.

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KEY: Sell.

SYN: Vend, retail, hawk, dispose of.

ANT: Give, bestow, present.

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KEY: Semblance.

SYN: Seeming, appearance, form, show, likeness, mien, aspect, bearing, similitude.

ANT: Unlikeness, disparity, difference, contrariety, dissimilitude.

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KEY: Seminary.

SYN: Nursery, garden, seed-plot, academy, college, school, propaganda.

ANT: Waste, wilderness.

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KEY: Send.

SYN: Despatch, transmit, impel, cast, bestow, grant.

ANT: Detain, withhold, arrest, withdraw, deny, recal.

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KEY: Send back.

SYN: Relegate, remand, transfer.

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KEY: Senile.

SYN: Aged, imbecile, doting.

ANT: Juvenile, vigorous, virile, manly.

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KEY: Seniority.

SYN: Eldership, priority, superiority.

ANT: Juniority, inferiority, posteriority, subordination.

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KEY: Sensation.

SYN: Affection, apprehension, sentiment, feeling, perception, surprise, impression.

ANT: Apathy, insensibility, nonperception, unsurprise.

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KEY: Sense.

SYN: Perception, sensation, feeling, apprehension, recognition, understanding, discernment, appreciation, sentiment, view, opinion, judgment, reason, consciousness, notion, meaning, import, signification, purport, significance, soundness, sagacity, wisdom.

ANT: Non-perception, insensibility, misapprehension, misunderstanding, stolidity, nonappreciation, misconception, unsoundness, folly, nonsense, misinterpretation.

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KEY: Senseless.

SYN: Nonsensical, unmeaning, stupid, brainless, unconscious, foolish, silly, objectless, absurd.

ANT: Sensible, significant, wise, practical.

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KEY: Sensibility.

SYN: Susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitiveness.

ANT: Insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness.

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KEY: Sensible.

SYN: Tangible, palpable, perceptible, visible, appreciable, judicious, sound, conscious, aware.

ANT: Intangible, impalpable, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insensible, unconscious, unaware.

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KEY: Sensitive.

SYN: Sentient, perceptive, impressible, easily affected.

ANT: Unimpressible, not easily affected.

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KEY: Sensual.

SYN: Carnal, fleshly, animal, voluptuous, lewd.

ANT: Spiritual, intellectual, selfdenying, abstinent, abstemious, continent, ethereal, ascetic.

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KEY: Sensuous.

SYN: Material, esthetic, embodied, representative, symbolical.

ANT: Abstract, conceptional, imageless, contemplative, intellectual, unembodied, unsymbolical, immaterial, pictureless, formless.

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KEY: Sentence.

SYN: Judgment, decree, decision, doom, phrase, passage, [See OBSTINATE].

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KEY: Sententious.

SYN: Pithy, pregnant, thoughtful, axiomatic, antithetical, pointed, nervous, didactic.

ANT: Dull, dry, inane, vapid, point, less, jejune, trashy, bald, watery, prosy.

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KEY: Sentient.

SYN: Feeling, percipient, conscious, intelligent, cognizant.

ANT: Insentient, insensate, mindless, unconscious, unintelligent, nonpercipient, incognizant.

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KEY: Sentiment.

SYN: Thought, feeling, notion, opinion, maxim, susceptibility, emotion, apprehension, impression, conviction.

ANT: Vacuity, ignorance, nonsense, crudity, bugbear, conjecture, assumption, impression, hypothesis, preconception, prejudice.

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KEY: Sentimental.

SYN: Didactic, moral, instructive, romantic.

ANT: Undidactic, unsentimental, matter-of-fact, unpoetical, prosaic.

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KEY: Sentinel.

SYN: Watch, guardian, guard, keeper, warden, sentry, watchman, patrol, vedette, {[i]?}.

ANT: Traitor, decoy.

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KEY: Separable.

SYN: Dissoluble, removable, movable, distinguishable, accidental, divisible.

ANT: Indissoluble, irremovable, permanent, immovable, indistinguishable, essential, inseparable, indivisible.

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KEY: Separate \v.\

SYN: Part, never, disjoin, disunite, divorce, tear, rend, remove, disintegrate, detach, disconnect, divide, dissipate, scatter, segregate, diverge.

ANT: Unite, fasten, tie, conjoin, wed, link, amalgamate, consolidate, integrate, incorporate, connect, fuse, confound, mass, herd, congregate, convene, gather, collect, meet, converge.

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KEY: Separate \a.\

SYN: Disunited, disjoined, disconnected, unconnected, detached, severed, different.

ANT: Connected, conjoined, united, alike.

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KEY: Separation.

SYN: Disunion, disjunction, disconnection, disengagement, dissociation, [See JUDGMENT].

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KEY: Sepulchral.

SYN: Hollow, deathlike, ghastly, infernal, gloomy.

ANT: Genial, healthful, cheerful, vital, lively, sunny.

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KEY: Sepulture.

SYN: Burial, interment, humation.

ANT: Exhumation, disinterment.

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KEY: Sequacious.

SYN: Pliant, ductile, obsequious, traditional, servile, unoriginal, unimaginative.

ANT: Independent, refractory, selfwilled, self-opinionated, original, originative, imaginative.

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KEY: Sequel.

SYN: Event, result, consequence, conclusion, [See EVENT].

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KEY: Sequence.

SYN: Following, order, succession, series, consequence, progression, continuity, posteriority.

ANT: Precedence, anteriority, priority, disorder, disconnection, inconsequence, irregularity, solution, intermission.

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KEY: Sequestered.

SYN: Retired, withdrawn, private, hidden, unfrequented, secluded.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, unsecluded, unsequestered.

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KEY: Seraphic.

SYN: Angelic, heavenly, blissful, pure, rapturous, holy, ethereal.

ANT: Fiendish, hellish, devilish, demoniacal, infernal.

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KEY: Serene.

SYN: Clear, calm, unruffled, undisturbed, halcyonic.

ANT: Turbid, stormy, agitated, tempestuous, ruffled.

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KEY: Serf.

SYN: Slave, servant, villain, laborer.

ANT: Lord, baron, squire, proprietor, noble, landowner, liege, liegelord.

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KEY: Series.

SYN: Order, course, sequence, succession, train, rotation, [See EVENT].

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KEY: Serious.

SYN: Grave, thoughtful, careful, earnest, solemn, important, weighty.

ANT: Volatile, gay, thoughtless, careless, joking, jocose, insignificant, unimportant, trifling, trivial, light.

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KEY: Serpentine.

SYN: Winding, meandering, tortuous, anfractuous, undulating, sinuous, anguilliform, vermicular, coiled.

ANT: Straight, unbending, unwinding, rectilinear.

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KEY: Servant.

SYN: Retainer, domestic, attendant, minister, maid, abigail, handmaid.

ANT: Lord, master, mistress, employer.

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KEY: Serve.

SYN: Obey, minister, subserve, help, work for, forward, attend, suffice for, assist, benefit, answer, promote, tend, accommodate.

ANT: Command, disobey, thwart, oppose, resist, counteract, contradict, neutralize, baffle, retard, obstruct.

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KEY: Service.

SYN: Labor, employment, advantage, use, utility, benefit, [See ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Serviceable.

SYN: Useful, benetidal, advantageous, profitable, sound, well-conditioned.

ANT: Useless, profitless, ill-conditioned, unserviceable, unsound.

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KEY: Servile.

SYN: Obsequious, cringing, sequacious, menial, sneaking, low, abject.

ANT: Independent, fractions, refractory, recalcitrant, dogged, stubborn, defiant, rebellious.

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KEY: Servility.

SYN: Slavery, bondage, slavishness, baseness, meanness, fawning, sycophancy, [See ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Servitude.

SYN: Service, subordination, obedience, ministry, submission.

ANT: Mastery, lordship, command, dictation, sway, rule, government.

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KEY: Set \v. t.\

SYN: Seat, place, locate, situate, settle, fix, build, rest, establish, ground, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, strengthen, determine, appoint, assign, cast, risk, wager, surround, bedeck, garnish, stud.

ANT: Remove, disestablish, lift, raise, transfer, uproot, eradicate, unfix, disperse, discard, unsettle, demolish, destroy, weaken, loosen, detach, misarrange, misdetermine, denude, divest.

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KEY: Set \v. i.\

SYN: Sink, settle, subside, decline, compose, consolidate, harden.

ANT: Rise, ascend, soar, mount, stir, agitate, loosen, run, soften, melt, mollify, fuse, flow.

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KEY: Set \a.\

SYN: Fixed, established, firm, determined, regular, formal, [See FIRM].

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KEY: Settle.

SYN: Fix, establish, regulate, arrange, compose, adjust, determine, decide, adjudicate, quiet, allay, still, Milk, fall, subside, lower, calm, acquiesce, abate, agree.

ANT: Remove, disestablish, misregulate, derange, discompose, aggravate, disorder, disturb, confuse, misdetermine, misarrange, misplace, unsettle, rise, ascend, move, disagree, increase, heighten.

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KEY: Settlement.

SYN: Subsidence, dregs, residuum, precipitation, colonization, location, colony.

ANT: Excitement, perturbation, turbidity, fluctuation.

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KEY: Sever.

SYN: Separate, divide, disjoin, distinguish, part, discommunicate, sunder, disengage, detach, break, except, disconnect.

ANT: Unite, conjoin, confound, confuse, amalgamate, associate, include, connect.

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KEY: Several.

SYN: Separate, distinct, diverse, sundry, divers, various, different.

ANT: One, same, identical, indistinguishable, inseparable, united, total, integral.

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KEY: Severe.

SYN: Serious, austere, stern, grave, strict, harsh, rigid, rigorous, sharp, afflictive, distressing, violent, extreme, exact, critical, censorious, caustic, sarcastic, cutting, keen, bitter, cruel.

ANT: Gay, smiling, cheerful, relaxed, jocose, jocund, joyous, mild, genial, indulgent, light, trivial, tri-fling, inconsiderable, inexact, loose, uncritical, lenient, inextreme, moderate, kind, considerate, feeling, tender, gentle.

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KEY: Shabby.

SYN: Ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, [See FIRM].

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KEY: Shackle \n.\

SYN: Fetter, gype, chain, obstruction, embarrassment.

ANT: Aid, assistance, subsidiary, help.

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KEY: Shackle \v.\

SYN: Fetter, bind, chain, hamper, harness, impede, [See CONTEMPTIBLE and PALTRY].

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KEY: Shade \n.\

SYN: Shadow, adumbration, umbrage, darkness, [See FETTER], obscurity, seclusion, protection, shelter, screen, oscuro, minuteness, touch, degree.

ANT: Illumination, light, daylight, sunshine, brightness, radiance, glare, chiaro, amount, largeness, considerableness, quantity, publicity, defencelessness, exposure.

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KEY: Shade \v.\

SYN: Shelter, screen, obscure, darken, cloud, [See {[gombreuc-^]?}].

ANT: Illuminate, brighten, make light.

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KEY: Shadow.

SYN: Umbration, reflection, image, sham, unsubstantiality, immaterial, phantom, attendant.

ANT: Body, substance, materiality, form, principal.

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KEY: Shadowy.

SYN: Dim, cloudy, obscure, dark, murky, gloomy, mysterious, [See JUST and HONEST].

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KEY: Shake.

SYN: Agitate, weaken, oscillate, totter, convulse, loosen, tremble, jar, quiver, shiver.

ANT: Secure, fix, fasten, strengthen, stabilitate, confirm, stand.

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KEY: Shallow.

SYN: Shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound.

ANT: Deep, profound.

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KEY: Sham.

SYN: Phantom, ghost, delusion, illusion, mockery, shadow, pretence, counterfeit, unreality.

ANT: Substance, reality, verity, substantiality, truth.

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KEY: Shame \n.\

SYN: Abashment, humiliation, modesty, shamefacedness, decency, decorum, reproach, dishonor, ignominy, contempt, degradation, discredit, dispraise.

ANT: Shamelessness, Barefacedness, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, impropriety, honor, glory, exaltation, renown, credit.

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KEY: Shame \v.\

SYN: Abash, humiliate, fill with shame, disgrace, [See OBSCURE].

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KEY: Shameful.

SYN: Disgraceful, degrading, scandalous, outrageous, dishonorable, indecent, unbecoming, [See ABASH].

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KEY: Shameless.

SYN: Vicious, sinful, immodest, indelicate, unblushing, brazen, audacious, bold-faced, impudent, cool, [See BECOMING].

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KEY: Shape \v.\

SYN: Form, mould, figure, adapt, delineate, adjust, contrive, create, execute, make.

ANT: Pervert, distort, misadapt, misdelineate, derange, discompose, misconstrue, misproduce, caricature.

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KEY: Shape \n.\

SYN: Figure, form, outline, mould, fashion, pattern, cast, model, [See FIGURE and MODEL].

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KEY: Shapeless.

SYN: Amorphous, unformed, formless, chaotic, shadowy, undefined, monstrous, misshaped, ugly, unsymmetrical, rude, uncouth, grotesque.

ANT: Comely, shaped, formed, shapely, compact, trim, neat, well-defined, handsome, symmetrical.

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KEY: Shapely, [See SHAPELESS].

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KEY: Share \n.\

SYN: Portion, apportionment, lot, division, participation, allowance, quota, contingent, allotment.

ANT: Whole, mass, aggregate, entirety.

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KEY: Share \v.\

SYN: Divide, distribute, portion out, [See DIVIDE].

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KEY: Sharp.

SYN: Thin, fine, keen, shrewd, discerning, clever, sarcastic, acute, pointed, aculeated, penetrating, pungent, acid, shrill, piercing, afflictive, distressing, harsh, severe, cutting, eager, active, ardent, sore, hard, animated, spirited.

ANT: Thick, blunt, dull, obtuse, knobbed, rounded, bluff, mellow, bass, hollow, deep, light, trifling, trivial, mild, gentle, soft, tender, lenient, sluggish, inactive, indifferent, careless, spiritless, tame.

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KEY: Shatter.

SYN: Split, dissipate, disrupt, derange, break in pieces, rend, demolish, shiver, dismember, disintegrate.

ANT: Construct, organize, collocate, fabricate, compose, rear, constitute.

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KEY: Shed.

SYN: Emit, diffuse, cast, drop, scatter, spill, pour, throw off.

ANT: Absorb, collect, assume, retain.

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KEY: Sheer.

SYN: Pure, mere, unmixed, unqualified, unmitigated, absolute, simple, unadulterated.

ANT: Mixed, qualified, adulterated, modified, partial.

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KEY: Shelter \v.\

SYN: Shield, conceal, cover, protect, screen.

ANT: Expose, surrender, betray, imperil, endanger.

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KEY: Shelter \n.\

SYN: Refuge, cover, harbor, asylum, retreat, shield, security, sanctuary, [See DIVIDE].

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KEY: Shelve.

SYN: Dismiss, discard, swamp, stifle, shift.

ANT: Start, prosecute, pursue, revive, agitate.

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KEY: Shield, [See SHELTER].

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KEY: Shift \v.\

SYN: Change, alter, transfer, shelve, displace, remove.

ANT: Fix, fasten, locate, insert, pitch, plant, place.

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KEY: Shift \n.\

SYN: Contrivance, expedient, substitute, pretext, motive, change, evasion, device, artifice, resource, transference.

ANT: Miscontrivance, fixity, steadiness, retention, location, permanence.

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KEY: Shiftless.

SYN: Thriftless, improvident, imprudent, wasteful, prodigal.

ANT: Provident, prudent, careful, [See SHELTER].

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KEY: Shine.

SYN: Beam, brighten, gleam, give, light, glow, sparkle, glitter, {[re' ate]?}, glisten, excel.

ANT: Fade, wane, loom, glimmer, gleam, fail.

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KEY: Shiver \v.\ \t.\, [See PRODIGAL].

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KEY: Shiver \v.\ \i.\.

SYN: Quake, tremble, vibrate, quiver, shudder.

ANT: Hang, stand, stiffen, steady, rigidity.

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KEY: Shock.

SYN: Surprise, disgust, offend, dismay, astound, appall, horrify, shame.

ANT: Gratify, please, delight, amuse, entify.

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KEY: Shocking.

SYN: Sad, horrible, disgraceful, hateful, revolting, abominable, loathsome, foul.

ANT: Pleasing, honorable, charming, delightful, creditable, exemplary, attractive, alluring, enticing.

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KEY: Shore.

SYN: Coast, bench, strand.

ANT: Ocean, sea, main, deep.

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KEY: Short.

SYN: Brief, limited, scanty, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, deficient, defective, imperfect, incomplete, soon, near, narrow, weak, incomprehensive, inextensive, less, abrupt, blunt, concise, condensed.

ANT: Lon, [See {[(]?}], protracted, extended, unlimited, plentiful, ample, abundant, adequate, sufficient, exuberant, liberal, large, copious, complete, distant, deferred, wide, strong, comprehensive, extensive, exceeding, bland, courteous, unabrupt, expanded, diffuse.

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KEY: Shorten.

SYN: Curtail, lessen, abridge, [See {[?]?}].

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KEY: Shout \n.\

SYN: Exclamation, uproar, clamor, vociferation.

ANT: Sibilation, hissing, reticence, silence, hush.

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KEY: Shout \v.\

SYN: Cry out, exclaim, vociferate, {[yeH]?}, halloo, hollo, holla.

ANT: Be silent, speak low, speak in a natural tone.

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KEY: Show \v.\

SYN: Exhibit, present, demonstrate, unfold, reveal, teach, inform, conduct, manifest, evince, evidence, prove, explain.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, hide, withhold, obscure, mystify, wrap, misdemonstrate, misdeclare, contradict, refute, deny, disprove, misinterpret, falsify, misexplain.

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KEY: Show \n.\

SYN: Appearance, exhibition, demonstration, parade, pomp, semblance, likeness, pretext, profession, pretence, illusion.

ANT: Nonappearance, disappearance, concealment, suppression, secret, disguise, dissimilarity, unlikeness, genuineness, reality, sincerity, substance.

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KEY: Showy.

SYN: Gay, gaudy, high-colored, gorgeous, flashy, tinsel.

ANT: Inconspicuous, unnoticeable, quiet, subdued.

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KEY: Shred.

SYN: Strip, fragment, ras, tatter, oddment, scrap, paring, chip.

ANT: Fold, mass, piece, entirety, integrity, whole.

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KEY: Shrew.

SYN: Vixen, scold, virago, termagant.

ANT: Angel, dove.

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KEY: Shrewd.

SYN: Sagacious, penetrating, astute, discriminating, intelligent, discerning, acute.

ANT: Stolid, undiscerning, unsagacious, stupid, dull.

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KEY: Shrill.

SYN: Sharp, piercing, acute, high pitched.

ANT: Low, deep, base, hollow, murmuring, rumbling.

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KEY: Shrink.

SYN: Contract, shrivel, withdraw, retire, recoil, revolt.

ANT: Stretch, expand, dilate, venture, dare.

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KEY: Shrivel.

SYN: Contract, dry up, wither, wrinkle, corrugate, decrease.

ANT: expand, flatten, develop, unfold, spread, dilate.

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KEY: Shroud.

SYN: Cover, {[hfHe]?}, veil, obscure, darken, palliate, envelop, shelter.

ANT: Expose, reveal, {[nnvefl]?}, elucidate, discover, uncover.

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KEY: Shuffle.

SYN: Confuse, interchange, shift, intershift, intermix, derange, agitate, evade, prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, cavil, sophisticate, mystify, palter, dissemble.

ANT: Deal, distribute, order, arrange, compose, confess, propound, declare, explain, elucidate, reveal.

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KEY: Shun.

SYN: Avoid, escape, discard, eschew, keep clear of, elude.

ANT: Court, seek, affect.

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KEY: Shut.

SYN: Close, contract, confine, preclude, bar, fasten.

ANT: Open, expand, unclose, unbar, unfasten.

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KEY: Shy.

SYN: Timid, reserved, modest, bashful, Suspicion, shrinking, chary.

ANT: Bold, brazen-faced, impudent, audacious, reckless.

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KEY: Sibilation.

SYN: Hissing, outcry, disfavor.

ANT: Acclamation, cheers, popularity.

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KEY: Sick.

SYN: Diseased, ill, disordered, distempered, indisposed, weak, riling, feeble, morbid, nauseated, disgusted, corrupt, impaired, valetudinarian.

ANT: Whole, well, healthy, sound, robust, strong, well-conditioned, salubrious.

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KEY: Sickly.

SYN: Weak, diseased, disordered, ailing, feeble, pining, droop, ing, morbid, unhealthy, vitiated, delicate, tainted, valetudinary.

ANT: Strong, healthy, vigorous, flourishing, salubrious, sound, robust.

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KEY: Sickness.

SYN: Indisposition, illness, disease.

ANT: Health, soundness.

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KEY: Side.

SYN: Margin, edge, verge, border, laterality, face, aspect, plane, party, interest, cause, policy, behalf.

ANT: Centre, body, core, interior, essence, neutrality, disconnection, severance, secession, opposition.

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KEY: Sidereal.

SYN: Astral, heavenly, starry, celestial.

ANT: terrestrial, terrene, earthly.

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KEY: Sift.

SYN: Screen, analyze, scrutinize, robe, examine critically, investigate, winnow, sort.

ANT: Confound, fuse, confuse, amalgamate, conglomerate, compound.

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KEY: Sight.

SYN: Seeing, perception, view, vision, visibility, spectacle, show, inspection, examination, representation, appearance.

ANT: Nonperception, invisibility, blindness, obscuration, disappearance, oversight, nonappearance, undiscernment.

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KEY: Sign.

SYN: Token, indication, proof, memorial, expression, symbol, emblem, prefiguration, badge, type, premonition, symptom, prognostic, mark, wonder, presage, signal.

ANT: Misindication, misrepresentation, misleader.

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KEY: Signal.

SYN: Eminent, conspicuous, remarkable, extraordinary, notable, memorable, illustrious, important, saline, distinguished.

ANT: Ordinary, common, unnoticeable, mediocre, unmemorable, unimportant.

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KEY: Signalize.

SYN: Distinguish, exalt, glorify, dignify, immortalize, celerate.

ANT: Disgrace, dishonor, discredit.

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KEY: Significant.

SYN: Expressive, momentous, suggestive, indicative, forcible, weighty, symbolical, telling, speaking.

ANT: Inexpressive, meaningless, expressionless, unindicative, mute.

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KEY: Signify.

SYN: Portend, purport, prognosticate, mean, represent, indicate, communicate, denote, betoken, declare, utter, forebode, presage.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, misindicate, misdenote, nullify, refute, neutralize, preclude.

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KEY: Silence \n.\

SYN: Taciturnity, stillness, calm, peace, hush, muteness, secrecy, oblivion.

ANT: Garrulity, loquacity, talkativeness, chatter, noise, brawl, clamor, clatter, din, Babel, tumult, agitation, restlessness, storm, unrest, roar, bruit, reverberation, resonance, commotion, cackling, proclamation, publicity, fame, rumor, remembrance, repute, celebrity.

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KEY: Silence \v.\

SYN: Still, stifle, hush, allay, quiet, calm, [See ABRIDGE].

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KEY: Silent.

SYN: Still, taciturn, speechless, dormant, quiet, noiseless.

ANT: Noisy, loquacious, garrulous.

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KEY: Silly, Germ, selig.

SYN: Simple, foolish, weak, shallow, witless, unwise, indiscreet, imprudent, absurd.

ANT: Sagacious, intelligent, astute, wise, deep, discreet, prudent, sound, rational.

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KEY: Similar.

SYN: Correspondent, resembling, alike, common, homogeneous, concordant, harmonious, congruous.

ANT: Different, unlike, dissimilar, alien, heterogeneous, discordant, incongruous.

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KEY: Similitude.

SYN: Likeness, resemblance, comparison, similarity, [See LIKENESS].

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KEY: Simple.

SYN: Single, incomplex, uncompounded, unblended, isolated, pure, unmixed, mere, absolute, plain, unadorned, unartificial, artless, sincere, undesigning, single-minded, unaffected, sickly, weak, unsophisticated, humble, homely, lowly, elementary, ultimate, primal, rudimentary.

ANT: Double, complex, compounded, blended, mixed, fused, multiform, multigenerous, various, compound, articulated, subdivided, organized, connected, modified, complicated, elaborate, artificial, artful, designing, insincere, double-minded, affected, self-conscious, sagacious, sophisticated, great, eminent, illustrious, complete, developed, perfect.

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KEY: Simplicity.

SYN: artlessness, sincerity, plainness, frankness.

ANT: Artfulness, insincerity, guile, deceit.

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KEY: Simplify.

SYN: Facilitate, disencumber, elucidate.

ANT: Embarrass, complicate, encumber, obscure.

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KEY: Simulate.

SYN: Feign, counterfeit, pretend, impersonate, assume.

ANT: Disresemble, discard, misrepresent, mis-exhibit, misbeseem.

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KEY: Simultaneous.

SYN: Synchronous, concomitant, concurrent.

ANT: Inconcurrent, separate, apart, Intermittent, periodic.

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KEY: Sin.

SYN: Transgression, iniquity, unrighteousness, ungodliness, wickedness, evil, impurity, crime, wrongdoing, ungodliness.

ANT: Sinlessness, obedience, holiness, righteousness, purity, godliness, goodness.

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KEY: Sincere.

SYN: Pure, unmixed, genuine, unadulterated, hearty, honest, unaffected, unvarnished, candid, cordial, frank, unfeigned, true.

ANT: Impure, adulterated, dishonest, insincere, hypocritical, feigned, pretended, false.

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KEY: Sinful, [See WICKED].

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KEY: Single.

SYN: One, unique, only, individual, sole, solitary, separate, uncombined, unmarried, uncompounded.

ANT: Plural, many, collective, united, numerous, frequent, married.

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KEY: Singular.

SYN: Single, individual, unique, eminent, extraordinary, conspicuous, consummate, unusual, uncommon, odd, whimsical, quaint, peculiar, unexampled, unprecedented, solitary, sole, eccentric, fantastic, exceptional, particular, remarkable, curious, queer.

ANT: Common, frequent, numerous, ordinary, usual, unnoticeable, everyday, customary, general, regular.

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KEY: Sinister.

SYN: Unlucky, inauspicious, ill-omened, portentous, disastrous, unfavorable, wrong, unfair, underhanded, evil, foul, dishonest, dishonorable, forbidding, repulsive, lowering.

ANT: Lucky, fortunate, propitious, auspicious, favorable, right, fair, open, honest, honorable, attractive, winning, engaging, assuring, frank.

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KEY: Sink.

SYN: Fall, descend, drop, subside, penetrate, soak, droop, decline, weary, flag, decay, decrease, diminish, abate, lower, immerse, submerge, depress, degrade, drown, reduce, attenuate, suppress.

ANT: Rise, ascend, soar, swell, Increase, flourish, revive, float, heighten, promote, exalt, enhance, rescue, foster, encourage, perpetuate, promulgate, divulge.

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KEY: Sinuous.

SYN: Coiled, convolute, undulating, curved, serpentine, winding, tortuous, anfractuous, waving, flexuous.

ANT: Uncoiled, rectilinear, uninflected.

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KEY: Situation.

SYN: Locality, position, topography, state, seat, post, place, condition, residence, aspect, footing, office, birth, plight, predicament, standing.

ANT: Non-situation, non-location, absence, nonassignment, unfixedness, displacement, dislodgment.

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KEY: Size.

SYN: Greatness, magnitude, largeness, extent, dimension, bulk, extent, bigness.

ANT: Smallness, littleness, tenuity, minuteness.

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KEY: Sketch \n.\

SYN: Outline, draught, skeleton, delineation, [See WICKED].

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KEY: Sketch \v.\

SYN: Outline, draw, depict, portray, paint, delineate, [See OUTLINE].

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KEY: Skilful.

SYN: Expert, clever, dexterous, apt, well-versed, adroit, [See DELINEATE].

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KEY: Skill.

SYN: Expertness, aptitude, [See ABILITY].

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KEY: Skim.

SYN: Brush, glide, graze, touch.

ANT: Enter, penetrate.

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KEY: Skirt.

SYN: border, trim, confine, bound, surround, encircle.

ANT: Penetrate, enter, interpenetrate.

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KEY: Skulk.

SYN: Hide, sneak, cower, lurk, abscond, slink.

ANT: Appear, issue, parade, show.

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KEY: Slack.

SYN: Loose, weak, remiss, backward, indiligent, slow, remiss, tardy, lax.

ANT: Tight, tense, strong, active, prompt, diligent, alert, quick, eager.

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KEY: Slacken.

SYN: Loosen, abate, withhold, remit, languish, flag, moderate.

ANT: Tighten, increase, freshen.

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KEY: Slander.

SYN: Asperse, defame, calumniate, vilify, abuse, scandalize, traduce, belittle, blacken.

ANT: Praise, laud, honor, vindicate, defend, panegyrize, eulogize, shield, commend.

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KEY: Slaughter \n.\ [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Slave.

SYN: Bondman, thrall, vassal, drudge, [See CARNAGE].

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KEY: Slavery \n.\ [See BONDAGE].

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KEY: Slavish.

SYN: Servile, drudging, {[merual]?}, mean, base, abject.

ANT: Independent, free, voluntary.

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KEY: Slay, [See BONDAGE].

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KEY: Slick.

SYN: Glossy, velvety, satin, silken, shiny, smooth.

ANT: Bough, hairy, hirsute, bristly.

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KEY: Sleep \v.\

SYN: Slumber, doze, drowse, snooze, repose.

ANT: Be awake.

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KEY: Sleepy.

SYN: Slumberous, somnolent, drowsy, sluggish, lazy.

ANT: Wakeful, vigilant, alert, awake, active.

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KEY: Slender.

SYN: Thin, narrow, slight, slim, small, trivial, spare, inadequate, fragile, feeble, flimsy, meagre, inconsiderable, superficial.

ANT: Stout, thick, broad, robust, massive, considerable, ample, deep.

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KEY: Slight \a.\ [See SLENDER].

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KEY: Slight \v.\

SYN: Disregard, disdain, acorn, overlook, disparage.

ANT: Regard, respect, notice, observe.

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KEY: Slight \n.\

SYN: Neglect, contempt, scorn, disregard.

ANT: Respect, regard, honor, [See SLENDER], [See {[811in]?}].

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KEY: Slimy.

SYN: Sticky, viscous, viscid, glutinous, [See SLENDER].

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KEY: Slink, [See SLUNK].

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KEY: Slippery.

SYN: Smooth, glassy, lubricated, insecure, perilous, unsafe, unstable, shifty, elusive, shuffling, unprincipled, deceptive, evasive, untrustworthy, uncertain.

ANT: Rough, firm, unslippery, secure, safe, stable, solid, trustworthy.

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KEY: Slough.

SYN: Mire, difficulty, despond.

ANT: Footing, standpoint.

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KEY: Slovenly.

SYN: Loose, negligent, disorderly, untidy, unclean, sluttish, slatternly.

ANT: Trim, neat, careful, orderly, tidy, precise.

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KEY: Slow.

SYN: Sluggish, inactive, Inert, lazy, unready, tardy, late, gradual, tedious, dull, dilatory, lingering, slack.

ANT: Active, quick, fast, rapid, alert, ready, prompt, early, sudden, Immediate.

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KEY: Sluggard.

SYN: Idler, drone, lazybones, laggard, [See SLUNK].

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KEY: Sluggish.

SYN: Slow, inert, indolent, phlegmatic, slothful, Iazy.

ANT: Active, quick, nervous, laborious.

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KEY: Sly.

SYN: Cunning, subtle, crafty, artful, wily, underhanded, astute, stealthy.

ANT: Open, frank, artless, undesigning.

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KEY: Small.

SYN: Little, diminutive, slight, minute, feeble, trivial, insignificant, paltry, narrow, mean, weak, slender, fine, inferior.

ANT: Great, large, big, considerable, bulky, extensive, ample, spacious, stout, strong, important, broad, liberal.

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KEY: Smart.

SYN: Keen, pungent, piercing, quick, vigorous, sharp, severe, active, clever, brilliant, vivacious, witty, ready, spruce, brisk, fresh, dressy, showy.

ANT: Dull, heavy, aching, slow, inactive, stupid, sluggish, unready, slow-minded, unwitty, dowdy, shabby, clownish.

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KEY: Smear.

SYN: Daub, plaster, spatter, tarnish, besmear, coat, begrime, varnish, incrust.

ANT: Abrade, levigate, polish, scour, scrape.

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KEY: Smell, [See PERFUME].

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KEY: Smite.

SYN: Strike, beat, buffet, chastise, blast, afflict, kill, slay, punish, surprise, captivate.

ANT: Soothe, smooth, caress, relieve, console, repel, alienate.

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KEY: Smoke \n.\

SYN: Fumigation, fumes, vapor, insubstantiality, nothingness, moonshine, triviality, trifle.

ANT: Substance, reality, realization, moment, importance.

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KEY: Smoke \v.\

SYN: Reek, fume, steam.

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KEY: Smooth \a.\

SYN: Even, plain, level, flat, polished, glossy, sleek, soft, unruffled, unobstructed, bland, oily, suave.

ANT: Uneven, rough, rugged, abrupt, precipitous, unpolished, harsh, blunt.

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KEY: Smooth \v.\

SYN: Flatten, level, ease, soften, calm, allay, mitigate, [See CALM].

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KEY: Smolder.

SYN: Reek, simmer, seethe, ferment, work.

ANT: Burst, blaze.

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KEY: Smother.

SYN: Suffocate, stifle, repress, gag, conceal, suppress, choke, strangle, allay, swallow.

ANT: Fan, ventilate, foster, cherish, nurture, publish, promulgate, divulge, spread, excite, vent.

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KEY: Snare \n.\

SYN: Net, trap, gin, noose, device, springe.

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KEY: Snarling.

SYN: Cross, crabbed, peevish, cynical, snappish, [See CALM].

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KEY: Snatch.

SYN: Twitch, pluck, pull, catch, grasp, gripe, clutch.

ANT: Unclutch, restore, unhand, release.

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KEY: Sneak.

SYN: Slink, skulk, steal away, lurk, cringe, crouch, truckle, [See CROSS].

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KEY: Sneer.

SYN: Scoff, gibe, jeer, taunt, disparagement, contempt, scorn, superciliousness, disdain.

ANT: Compliment, eulogy, commendation, deference.

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KEY: Snub.

SYN: Mortify, check, rebuke, reprimand, [See CRINGE and SKULK].

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KEY: Snug.

SYN: Close, housed, compressed, compact, comfortable, sheltered.

ANT: Exposed, loose, disordered, incompact, uncomfortable, bare, shivering.

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KEY: Soak.

SYN: Wet, steep, drench, macerate, moisten, submerge.

ANT: Dry, air, wring, exsiccate, aridify, bleach.

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KEY: Soar.

SYN: Rise, mount, tower, aspire, ascend, uprise.

ANT: Drop, sink, descend, alight.

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KEY: Sober.

SYN: Temperate, unintoxicated, cool, dispassionate, reasonable, culm, self-possessed, sound, unexcited, serious, grave, sedate, steady, abstemious, moderate.

ANT: Intemperate, drunk, intoxicated, heated, excited, impassioned, {[{[unraonnWp]?}, {[unr*aonnWp agitated, furious, passionate, extravagant, extreme, exorbitant, immoderate, flighty, erratic, eccentric.

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KEY: Sobriety.

SYN: Soberness, temperance, abstemiousness.

ANT: Intemperance.

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KEY: Sociable.

SYN: Companionable, genial, social, convertible, friendly, accessible, gregarious.

ANT: Unsociable, uncompanionable, unconversable, ungenial, in friendly, Inaccessible, re iring, morose, solitary, uncommunicative.

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KEY: Social.

SYN: Collective, political, gregarious, [See REBUKE and MORTIFY].

ANT: Individual, solitary, personal.

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KEY: Society.

SYN: community, {[pobiy]?}, association, collection, companionship, fellowship, connection, participation, company, sociality, communion, intercourse, sodality.

ANT: Individuality, personality, segregation, separation, solitariness, missociality, privacy, dissociation, disconnection.

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KEY: Soft.

SYN: Yielding, pressible, impressible, smooth, delicate, fine, sleek, glossy, mild, gentle, balmy, kind, feeling, flexible, effeminate, luxurious, unmanly, tender, irresolute, undecided.

ANT: Hard, tough, stubborn, unyielding, rigid, unimpressible, rough, coarse, harsh, abrupt, ungentle, rigorous, cutting, severe, unkind, unfeeling, sharp, inflexible, stern, austere, ascetic, self-denying, resolute, determined.

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KEY: Soften.

SYN: Mollify, palliate, compose, mitigate, assuage, dulcify, lenity, yield, macerate, humanize, abate, moderate.

ANT: Harden, indurate, aggravate, excite, infuriate, consolidate.

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KEY: Soil.

SYN: Stain, tarnish, begrime, befoul, contaminate.

ANT: Purify, bleach, cleanse, absterge.

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KEY: Sojourn.

SYN: Rest, [See SOCIABLE], reside, tarry, lodge, halt, stay, quarter.

ANT: Migrate, move, Wonder, depart, travel, journey.

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KEY: Solace.

SYN: Consolation, comfort, alleviation, relief, sympathy.

ANT: Affliction, war, bitterment,.

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KEY: Vole.

SYN: Single, solitary, only, individual, exclusive, by one's self, Alone, one, singular.

ANT: Plural, numerous, combined, collective.

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KEY: Solemn.

SYN: Sacred, formal, devotional, reverential, ritual, ceremonial, impressive, religious, grave, serious.

ANT: Profane, undevotional, secular, light, gay, trivial, unceremonial, informal, unsolemn.

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KEY: Solemnity.

SYN: Celebration, rite, office, ceremony, function, pomp, parade, seriousness, pomposity, gravity, sacredness, awe, sanctity, impressiveness, imposingness.

ANT: Noncelebration, secularity, simplicity, triviality, gaiety, profanity, desecration, unimpressiveness, meanness, tawdriness, vulgarity, unimposingness.

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KEY: Solicit.

SYN: Entreat, beg, urge, pray, ask, crave, implore, importune.

ANT: Demand, require, exact, claim.

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KEY: Solicitous.

SYN: Desirous, anxious, apprehensive, uneasy, careful, concerned, [See {rb' '}?].

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KEY: Solicitude.

SYN: Anxiety, concern, trouble, carefulness, uneasiness, care.

ANT: Indifference, unconcern, carelessness, ease.

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KEY: Solid.

SYN: Hard, firm, compact, resistant, dense, substantial, weighty, strong, valid, just, sound, impenetrable, stable, cubic.

ANT: Soft, hollow, yielding, frail, brittle, flimsy, elastic, resilient, malleable, impressible, fluid, liquid, frivolous, light, trifling, weak, invalid, unsound, fallacious, weakly.

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KEY: Solitary.

SYN: Sole, single, only, lone, lonely, private, remote, retired, sequestered, desolate, uninhabited, desert, [See ANXIOUS].

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KEY: Solitude.

SYN: Loneliness, remoteness, seclusion, retirement, isolation, wildness, desertion, barrenness, wilderness, privacy.

ANT: Publicity, populousness, society, frequentedness, intercourse, resort, meeting, reunion, throng, crowd.

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KEY: Soluble.

SYN: Separable, discerptible, divisible, dissoluble.

ANT: Indivisible, inseparable, indiscerptible, insoluble, indissoluble.

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KEY: Solution.

SYN: Separation, discerption, disruption, breach, discontinuance, disconnection, disentanglement, elucidation, explanation, key, answer, resolution, disintegration.

ANT: Union, combination, amalgamation, continuity, connection, {[con]?}, junction, entanglement, complication, confusion, mystification, obscurity, integration.

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KEY: Solve.

SYN: Explain, resolve, unfold, work out, clear up, [See EXPLAIN].

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KEY: Sombre.

SYN: Dull, grave, gloomy, dark, murky, cloudy, funereal, sable, mournful, dusky, pensive, melancholy.

ANT: Bright, gay, sunny, joyous.

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KEY: Somnolent.

SYN: Sleepy, drowsy, dozy, dreamy.

ANT: Wakeful, vigilant, alert.


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