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SYN: Retired, retreating, hidden, withdrawn, secret, private, sequestered, shaded.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