Chapter 28

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KEY: Variation.

SYN: Deviation, alteration, mutation, diversity, departure, change, abnormity, exception, discrepancy.

ANT: Continuance, fixity, indivergency, exemplification, law, rule, uniformity, harmony, agreement.

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KEY: Variegated.

SYN: Diversified, diverse colored, parti-colored, mottled, [See EXHALATION].

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KEY: Variety.

SYN: Difference, diversity, medley, miscellany, multiplicity, multiformity, abnormity.

ANT: Uniformity, species, type, specimen.

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KEY: Various.

SYN: Different, diverse, multiform, multitudinous, several, sundry, uncertain, manifold, diversified.

ANT: One, same, identical, uniform, few, similar.

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KEY: Varnish.

SYN: Glaze, gloss, disguise, palliate, embellish, sophisticate, furbish.

ANT: Simplify, divest, disembellish, disencumber.

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KEY: Vary.

SYN: Alter, dissimilate, change, modify, variegate, diversify, differ, deviate, disagree.

ANT: Perpetuate, stabilitate, assimilate, stereotype, harmonize, conform.

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KEY: Vast.

SYN: Waste, wild, desolate, extensive, spacious, wide spread, gigantic, wide, boundless, measureless, enormous, mighty, huge, immense, colossal, prodigious, far-reaching.

ANT: Narrow, close, confined, frequented, populated, cultivated, tended, tilled, limited, bounded, circumscribed, moderate.

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KEY: Vaticination.

SYN: Prophecy, divination, augury, prediction.

ANT: Retrospection, realization, rehearsal, verification, fulfillment, accomplishment.

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KEY: Vaunt.

SYN: Boast, brag, puff, hawk, trumpet, cackle, advertise, make a display of, flourish, cry, parade.

ANT: Repress, suppress, conceal, disparage, decry, detract.

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KEY: Vere.

SYN: Shift, tergiversate, trim, temporize.

ANT: Stand, stick, persist, remain, adhere.

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KEY: Vegetate.

SYN: Grow, sprout, germinate, idle, bask, pullulate, hibernate.

ANT: Fade, pine, wither, decay, rot, stir, bustle, work, energize, operate.

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KEY: Vehement.

SYN: Violent, impetuous, ardent, burning, fervent, raging, furious, passionate, fervid, urgent, forcible, eager.

ANT: Mild, feeble, inanimate, subdued, controlled, unimpassioned, passionless, cold, stoical, gentle, weak, mitigated.

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KEY: Veil.

SYN: Intercept, hide, screen, disguise, palliate, mask, cover, conceal.

ANT: Expose, unveil, strip, denude, exaggerate.

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KEY: Velocity.

SYN: Quickness, swiftness, speed, celerity, rapidity, fleetness.

ANT: Slowness, sluggishness, tardiness, {[ientor]?}, languor, cumbrousness, inactivity.

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KEY: Venal.

SYN: Sordid, mercenary, prostitute, selfish, selfish, held for pay, hireling.

ANT: Disinterested, unmercenary, incorrupt, [See MACULATED].

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KEY: Venerate, [See ADORE].

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KEY: Venerable.

SYN: Sage, wise, grave, [See ADOBE].

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KEY: Veneration.

SYN: Reverence, adoration, worship.

ANT: Contempt, disesteem, loathing, vilification.

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KEY: Vengeance.

SYN: Retribution, retaliation, revenge.

ANT: Forgiveness, pardon, {[condoation]?}, amnesty, grace, remission, absolution, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve.

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KEY: Venial.

SYN: Pardonable, excusable, remissible, justifiable.

ANT: Unpardonable, inexcusable, irremissible, mortal.

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KEY: Venom.

SYN: Poison, virus, malice, malignity, spite.

ANT: Antidote, [See GRAVE and FOOLISH].

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KEY: Venomous.

SYN: Poisonous, malignant, virulent, slanderous.

ANT: Wholesome, salubrious, genial, flattering, kindly.

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KEY: Vent.

SYN: Outlet, opening, discharge, passage, utterance, [See OPENING].

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KEY: Venture \n.\

SYN: Speculation, risk, chance, hazard, stake, undertaking, luck, experiment, throw.

ANT: Nonspeculation, caution, reservation, calculation, certainty, law, method.

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KEY: Venture \v.\ [See HAZARD].

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KEY: Venturesome.

SYN: Risky, intrepid, foolhardy, [See HAZARD].

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KEY: Venturous.

SYN: Daring, rash, intrepid, audacious.

ANT: Unventuresome, cautious, timid, unenterprising.

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KEY: Veracious.

SYN: true, credible, reliable, honest, truth-loving, truthful, historical.

ANT: false, mendacious, inveracious, deceitful, unhistorical, romantic, imaginative.

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KEY: Veracity.

SYN: Truth, truthfulness, credibility, exactness, accuracy, [See ADVENTUROUS].

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KEY: Verbal.

SYN: Oral, spoken, parole, vocal, unwritten, unrecorded.

ANT: Written, documentary, epistolary, recorded.

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KEY: Verbose.

SYN: Windy, prolix, prosy, tedious.

ANT: Curt, laconic, succinct, terse, concise.

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KEY: Verdict.

SYN: Finding, judgment, answer, opinion, decision, sentence.

ANT: Nondeclaration, indecision, indetermination.

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KEY: Verge \n.\

SYN: Border, brim, edge, rim, limit, margin, brink, eve.

ANT: Heart, depth, center, midst.

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KEY: Verge \v.\

SYN: Tend, bend, slope, incline, approach, approximate, trend, bear.

ANT: Decline, deviate, revert, depart, recede, return, back, retrocede.

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KEY: Verify.

SYN: Establish, confirm, fulfill, authenticate, substantiate, identify, realize, test, warrant, demonstrate.

ANT: Disestablish, subvert, fail, falsify, mistake, misrepresent, misstate, disappoint, misdemonstrate.

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KEY: Verisimilitude.

SYN: Probability, consistency, likelihood.

ANT: Improbability, inconsistency, unlikelihood.

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KEY: Veritable.

SYN: true, actual, real, authentic, original.

ANT: false, fictitious, unreal, unauthentic, spurious, supposititious, feigned, sham, untrue.

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KEY: Verity.

SYN: Truth, reality, actuality, in existence.

ANT: Falsity, unreality, supposition, hypothesis, conjecture, chimera, dream, delusion, fancy, phantasy.

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KEY: Vernal.

SYN: Spring, youthful, genial, balmy, nascent.

ANT: Wintry, aged, brumal, hibernal, harsh, ungenial, cutting, autumnal, decadent, declining.

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KEY: Versatile.

SYN: Changeable, unsteady, unfixed, capricious, varied, many-sided, multigenous, manifold, variable, mobile, plastic, ready.

ANT: Immovable, immutable, fixed, unvaried, unvarying, one-sided, uniform, invariable, stolid, immobile, unready.

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KEY: Versed.

SYN: Skilled, practiced, conversant, acquainted, initiated, indoctrinated, clever, familiar, thoroughly acquainted, proficient.

ANT: Unskilled, ill-versed, unpracticed, inconversant, unfamiliar, uninitiated, ignorant, awkward, strange, unversed, untaught.

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KEY: Version.

SYN: Rendering, statement, account, [See FALSEHOOD].

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KEY: Vertical.

SYN: Perpendicular, upright.

ANT: Inclined, sloped, scarped.

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KEY: Vest.

SYN: Kobe, clothe, furnish, endow.

ANT: Divest, strip, unrobe, denude, deprive.

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KEY: Vestige.

SYN: Trace, mark, indication, sign, token, remnant, record, trail, scent.

ANT: Misindication, obliteration, effacement, non-indication, indemonstrableness, deletion.

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KEY: Veteran.

SYN: Habitue, expert, adept, proficient.

ANT: Tyro, recruit, novice, lubber.

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KEY: Vex.

SYN: Tease, irritate, provoke, plague, torment, tantalize, bother, worry, pester, trouble, disquiet, afflict, harass, annoy.

ANT: Soothe, appease, gratify, quiet, please.

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KEY: Vexation.

SYN: Chagrin, uneasiness, mortification.

ANT: Pleasure, enjoyment, [See INTERPRETATION].

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KEY: Vibrate.

SYN: Oscillate, swing, undulate, shake, quiver, wave.

ANT: Be at rest, [See PLEASURE].

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KEY: Vicarious.

SYN: Substitutive, deputed, delegated, representative, procuratorial.

ANT: Personal, self-performed.

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KEY: Vice.

SYN: Corruption, fault, defect, evil, crime, immorality, sin, badness.

ANT: Purity, faultlessness, perfection, virtue, immaculateness, goodness, soundness.

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KEY: Vicinity.

SYN: Juxtaposition, neighborhood, nearness, proximity.

ANT: Distance, remoteness, separation, removal.

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KEY: Vicious.

SYN: Corrupt, faulty, defective, bad, morbid, peccant, debased, profligate, unruly, impure, depraved.

ANT: Pure, sound, perfect, virtuous, healthy.

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KEY: Vicissitude.

SYN: Change, alternation, interchange, revolution, mutation, ups and downs.

ANT: Perpetuity, stability, changelessness, immutability, fixity.

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KEY: Victim.

SYN: Sufferer, prey, sacrifice, martyr, dupe, grill.

ANT: Sacrificer, seducer.

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KEY: Victorious, [See TRIUMPHANT].

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KEY: Victory.

SYN: Conquest, triumph, ovation, success.

ANT: Failure, defeat, frustration, disappointment, abortion, miscarriage, nonsuccess.

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KEY: Victuals.

SYN: Food, fare, provisions, bread, viands, meat, repast.

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KEY: Vie.

SYN: Strive, contend, contest, {[wpe]?}, compete, emulate, rival.

ANT: Yield, succumb, retire, surrender.

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KEY: View \v.\

SYN: Behold, examine, Inspect, explore, survey, consider, contemplate, reconnoitre, observe, regard, estimate, judge.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, disregard, misconsider, misinspect, misobserve, misestimate, misjudge.

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KEY: View \n.\

SYN: Sight, vision, survey, examination, inspection, judgment, estimate, scene, representation, apprehension, sentiment, conception, opinion, object, aim, intention, purpose, design, end, light, aspect.

ANT: Blindness, occultation, obscuration, darkness, misexamination, deception, error, delusion, misjudgment, misrepresentation, misconception, airlessness, nonintention.

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KEY: Vigilance.

SYN: Watchfulness, observance, wakefulness, sleeplessness, carefulness, activity, circumspection.

ANT: Drowsiness, inattention, carelessness, indulgence, somnolence, inobservance, inactivity, indifference, connivance, unwatchfulness.

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KEY: Vigilant, [See WATCHFUL].

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KEY: Vigorous.

SYN: Strong, lusty, powerful, energetic, efficacious, nervous, robust, virile, manly, active, resolute.

ANT: Weak, feeble, powerless, Inactive, nerveless, enervated, debile, debilitated, effete, emasculated, inactive, irresolute, indolent.

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KEY: Vile.

SYN: Cheap, worthier, valueless, low, base, mean, despicable, hateful, bad, impure, vicious, abandoned, abject, sinful, sordid, ignoble, wicked, villainous, degraded, wretched.

ANT: costly, rare, precious, valuable, high, exulted, noble, honorable, lofty, venerable.

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KEY: Vilify.

SYN: Debase, degrade, spoil, deteriorate, mar, defame, traduce, asperse, stigmatize, slander, upbraid, abuse, decry, cheapen.

ANT: Purify, refine, exalt, raise, improve, enhance, eulogize, praise, laud, panegyrize, commend.

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KEY: Villain.

SYN: Scoundrel, ruffian, wretch, [See WATCHFUL].

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KEY: Villainous.

SYN: Base, knavish, depraved, infamous, [See RASCAL].

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KEY: Vindicate.

SYN: Assert, maintain, uphold, clear, support, defend, claim, substantiate, justify, establish.

ANT: Waive, abandon, surrender, forego, disprove, disestablish, neutralize, nullify, destroy, subvert, annul, vitiate.

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KEY: Vindictive.

SYN: Revengeful, spiteful, unforgiving, unrelenting, Implacable, rancorous, unmerciful.

ANT: Forgiving, generous, forbearing, merciful, unvindictive.

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KEY: Violate.

SYN: Ravish, injure, abuse, disturb, hurt, rape, outrage, debauch, break, infringe, profane, transgress, disobey.

ANT: Respect, foster, observe, regard, preserve, cherish, protect, obey.

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KEY: Violence.

SYN: Vehemence, impetuosity, force, rape, outrage, rage, profanation, injustice, fury, infringement, fierceness, oppression.

ANT: Lenity, mildness, self-restraint, feebleness, gentleness, respect, forbearance, self-control, observance, obedience, preservation, conservation, protection.

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KEY: Violent.

SYN: Vehement, raving, furious, forcible, outrageous, raging, passionate, {[See Vm:]?}.

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KEY: Virago.

SYN: Termagant, vixen, scold, shrew, Jezebel.

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KEY: Virgin \n.\

SYN: Maid, maiden, damsel, girl.

ANT: Matron, married woman, strumpet, whore, prostitute, bawd.

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KEY: Virgin \a.\

SYN: Maidenly, undefiled, unpolluted, untouched, fresh.

ANT: Unmaidenly, defiled, polluted, ravished, used, cultivated.

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KEY: Virile.

SYN: Manly, masculine, robust, nervous, vigorous.

ANT: Feeble, debile, puerile, effeminate, emasculate.

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KEY: Virtual.

SYN: Potential, implied, constructive, practical, substantial, indirect, essential, implicit.

ANT: Stated, expressed, categorical, direct, sensible, material, definite, developed, explicit.

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KEY: Virtue.

SYN: Power, capacity, strength, force, efficacy, excellence, value, morality, goodness, uprightness, purity, chastity, salubrity.

ANT: Weakness, incapacity, inability, inefficacy, badness, corruption, vice, immorality, impurity, unchastity, virulence, malignancy.

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KEY: Virtuous.

SYN: Upright, moral, chaste, modest, pure, [See FRANTIC].

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KEY: Virulence.

SYN: Venom, poison, acrimony, malignity, malignancy, bitterness, malevolence.

ANT: Mildness, salubriousness, assuagement, abatement, virtue, benevolence.

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KEY: Viscid.

SYN: Glutinous, ropy, gelatinous, sticky, cohesive.

ANT: Watery, limpid, tenacious, incohesive.

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KEY: Visible.

SYN: Perceptible, apparent, clear, plain, obvious, conspicuous, observable, discernible, palpable, manifest, distinguishable, evident.

ANT: Imperceptible, nonapparent, inconspicuous, impalpable, microscopic, invisible, inobservable, concealed, eclipsed, withdrawn, indiscernible, indistinguishable.

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KEY: Vision, [See VIEW].

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KEY: Visionary.

SYN: Fanciful, dreamy, chimerical, baseless, shadowy, imaginary, unreal, fabulous, romantic.

ANT: Actual, real, truthful, sound, substantial, palpable, unromantic, sober, veritable.

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KEY: Vital.

SYN: Living, animate, life-supporting, life-containing, essential, necessary, important, indispensable, inseparable, paramount, material.

ANT: Mortal, lethal, cadaverous, lifeless, inanimate, unessential, unimportant, secondary, separable, immaterial.

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KEY: Vitiate.

SYN: Impair, corrupt, spoil, injure, invalidate, deteriorate, taint.

ANT: Corroborate, confirm, substantiate, justify, vindicate, sanction.

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KEY: Vivacious.

SYN: Alive, lively, animated, sprightly, sportive, active, brisk, gay, merry.

ANT: Dead, lifeless, inanimate, dull, stolid, moody, heavy, wooden, leaden, torpid, sluggish, spiritless.

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KEY: Vivid.

SYN: Bright, brilliant, luminous, resplendent, lustrous, radiant, graphic, clear, lively, animated, stirring, striking, glowing, sunny, bright, scintillant.

ANT: Dull, opaque, nonluminous, obscure, rayless, lurid, somber, nonreflecting, dim, dusky, cloudy, nebulous, pale, wan, caliginous.

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KEY: Vixen.

SYN: Scold, shrew, [See VIRAGO].

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KEY: Vocation.

SYN: Profession, office, calling, function, mission, avocation, trade, business, capacity, employment, occupation.

ANT: Inconversance, Incapacity, leisure, nonemployment.

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KEY: Vogue.

SYN: Way, custom, fashion, repute, use, usage, practice.

ANT: Desuetude, disuse, disesteem, unfashionableness, disrepute, abolition.

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KEY: Voice.

SYN: Tone, utterance, language, articulation, words, expression, signification, opinion, vote, suffrage, say, control.

ANT: Aphony, muteness, obmutescence, voicelessness, silence, inarticulation, inexpression, dumbness, inauthoritativeness.

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KEY: Void.

SYN: Wanting, empty, vacant, useless, nugatory, destitute, bereft, unoccupied, unfilled, unsubstantial, lacking, invalid, null.

ANT: Possessed, endued, furnished, full, occupied, solid, substantial, rich, valid, operative, good, efficacious.

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KEY: Volatile.

SYN: Vaporizable, sublimable, distillable, airy, spirituous, evaporating, gay, Iively, {[ flipity]?}, capricious, irresolute.

ANT: Fixed, solid, persistent, dull, somber, demure, steady, determined, resolute, involatile.

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KEY: Volition.

SYN: Will, choice, preference, determination, purpose, deliberation, freewill.

ANT: Force, fate, necessity, mechanism, compulsion, predestination, coercion.

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KEY: Voluble.

SYN: Boiling, running, coursing, fluent, rapid, loquacious, glib, fluent, talkative.

ANT: Stagnant, creeping, tardy, slow, sluggish, lazy, torpid, hesitating, tardiloquent, stammering, stuttering.

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KEY: Volume.

SYN: Size, body, bulk, dimensions, book, work, tome, capacity, magnitude, compass, quantity.

ANT: diminutiveness, tenuity, minuteness, smallness.

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KEY: Voluntary.

SYN: Deliberate, {[spaaimneous]?}, free, intentional, optional, discretional, unconstrained, willing.

ANT: compulsory, coercive, necessitated, involuntary.

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KEY: Volunteer.

SYN: Offer, proffer, tend, originate.

ANT: Withhold, refuse, suppress.

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KEY: Voluptuous.

SYN: Sensual, luxurious, Self-indulgent, licentious, highly pleasant.

ANT: Unsensual, abstinent, self-denying, ascetic, sober.

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KEY: Voracious.

SYN: Hungry, absorbent, ravenous, rapacious, insatiate, omnivorous, gormandizing.

ANT: Epicurean, squeamish, fastidious, delicate, dainty, nice.

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KEY: Vouch.

SYN: Attest, undertake, promise, assure, warrant, vow.

ANT: Demur, repudiate, decline, abnegate, abjure, renounce, protest.

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KEY: Vouchsafe.

SYN: Grant, accede, concede, deign, condescend.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, deny.

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KEY: Vow, [See VOUCH].

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KEY: Vulgar.

SYN: Popular, general, loose, ordinary, public, vernacular, plebeian, uncultivated, unrefined, low, mean, coarse, underbred.

ANT: Strict, scientific, philosophical, restricted, technical, accurate, patrician, select, choice, cultivated, refined, polite, high-bred, stylish, aristocratic.

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KEY: Vulnerable.

SYN: Assailable, weak, exposed, tender, delicate.

ANT: Unassailable, impregnable, invulnerable.

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KEY: Waft.

SYN: Float, transport, bear.

ANT: Sink, depress, bear down.

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KEY: Wag.

SYN: Joker, jester, droll fellow, humorist.

ANT: Sober fellow, serious fellow.

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KEY: Wage \v.\

SYN: Carry on, make, undertake as war, bet, stake, pledge.

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KEY: Wages.

SYN: Remuneration, hire, compensation, stipend, salary, allowance.

ANT: Gratuity, douceur, premium, bonus, grace.

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KEY: Walt.

SYN: Stay, tarry, rest, stop, bide, expect.

ANT: Speed, hasten, press.

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KEY: Waive.

SYN: Forego, abandon, remit, cancel, drop, relinquish, castoff.

ANT: Press, urge, enforce, assert, claim, vindicate.

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KEY: Wake.

SYN: Rouse, suscitate, excite, reanimate, revive, awake, watch, revel, evoke, summon, provoke, call.

ANT: Soothe, allay, appease, lay, hush, lullaby, mesmerize, tranquilize, quiet.

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KEY: Wakeful.

SYN: Watchful, sleepless, [See WATCHFUL].

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KEY: Walk.

SYN: Step, stride, march, stalk, plod, tread, tramp, trudge.

ANT: Halt, stop, stand still, ride.

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KEY: Wan.

SYN: Pale, livid, lurid, dusky, bloodless, haggard.

ANT: Fresh-colored, lively, bright, incarnadine, sanguine, chubby.

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KEY: Wider.

SYN: Ramble, range, stroll, rove, expatiate, roam, deviate, stray, depart, err, swerve, straggle, saunter, navigate, circumnavigate, travel.

ANT: Rest, stop, perch, bivouac, halt, lie, anchor, alight, settle, moor, pause, repose.

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KEY: Wandering.

SYN: Roving, vagrant, rambling, strolling, discursive, [See WATCHFUL].

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KEY: Wane.

SYN: Fade, pale, decrease, diminish, decline, fail, sink, ebb, deteriorate, recede, pine, droop, attenuate, contract.

ANT: Brighten, increase, improve, mend, advance, rally, develop, recover, expand.

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KEY: Want.

SYN: Deficiency, lack, failure, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, omission, neglect, nonproduction, absence.

ANT: Supply, sufficiency, provision, abundance, production, allowance, supplement, adequacy.

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KEY: Wanton.

SYN: Wandering, roving, sportive, playful, frolicsome, loose, unbridled, uncurbed, reckless, unrestrained, irregular, licentious, dissolute, inconsiderate, heedless, gratuitous.

ANT: Stationary, unrovlng, unsportive, unplayful, unfrolicsome, joyless, thoughtful, demure, sedate, discreet, staid, self-controlled, well-regulated, formal, austere, purposed, deliberate, cold-blooded, determined.

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KEY: Ward.

SYN: Watch, avert, defend, parry, guard, fend, repel.

ANT: Betray, surrender, admit.

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KEY: Warfare.

SYN: War, hostilities, antagonism, campaign, engagement, belligerence.

ANT: Peace, truce, pacification, accommodation, reconciliation, armistice, neutrality, friendliness.

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KEY: Warlike.

SYN: Military, martial, soldierly, hostile, bellicose, soldierlike, belligerent.

ANT: Peaceful, civil, unwarlike, pacific, unmilitary.

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KEY: Warm.

SYN: Blood-warm, thermal, genial, irascible, hot, ardent, affectionate, fervid, fervent, fiery, glowing, enthusiastic, zealous, eager, excited, Interested, animated.

ANT: Frigid, cold, tepid, starved, indifferent, cool, unexcited, passionless.

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KEY: Warmth.

SYN: Ardor, glow, fervor, zeal, heat, excitement, intensity, earnestness, cordiality, animation, eagerness, vehemence, geniality, sincerity, passion, irascibility, emotion, life.

ANT: Frigidity, frost, congelation, iciness, coldness, calmness, coolness, indifference, torpidity, insensitiveness, apathy, slowness, ungeniality, insincerity, passionlessness, hypocrisy, good-temper, death.

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KEY: Warn.

SYN: Premonish, monish, admonish, notify, dissuade, deter, alarm.

ANT: Encourage, incite, instigate, induce.

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KEY: Warning.

SYN: Caution, premonition, notice, admonition, [See NOTICE].

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KEY: Warp.

SYN: Turn, twist, shrink, give, contort, bias, unhinge, distort, prejudice, corrupt, narrow, pervert.

ANT: Stand, hold, direct, guide, control, correct, regulate, train, conduct, rectify, expand.

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KEY: Warrant.

SYN: Secure, undertake, authorize, empower, engage, support, justify, assure.

ANT: Imperil, endanger, repudiate, nullify, invalidate.

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KEY: Wary.

SYN: Suspicious, cautious, watchful, guarded, circumspect, prudent, vigilant.

ANT: Unwary, unsuspecting, incautious, invigilant, unwatchful, unguarded, uncircumspect, heedless.

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KEY: Wash.

SYN: Lave, cleanse, bathe, rinse, absterge.

ANT: Soil, foul, contaminate.

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KEY: Washy.

SYN: Weak, vapid, diluted, spiritless, pointless.

ANT: Vigorous, nervous, forcible, pregnant, trenchant, pungent.

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KEY: Waste.

SYN: Ruin, destroy, devastate, impair, consume, squander, dissipate, throw away, diminish, impair, lavish, desolate, pine, decay, attenuate, dwindle, shrivel, wither, wane.

ANT: Restore, repair, conserve, preserve, perpetuate, protect, husband, economize, utilize, hoard, treasure, accumulate, enrich, flourish, luxuriate, multiply, augment, develop.

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KEY: Wasteful, [See NOTICE].

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KEY: Watch.

SYN: Wait, wake, contemplate, observe, note, tend, guard.

ANT: Disregard, overlook, misobserve.

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KEY: Watchful.

SYN: Vigilant, expectant, wakeful, heedful, careful, observant, attentive, circumspect, wary, cautious.

ANT: Unwatchful, invigilant, unwakeful, slumbrous, drowsy, heedless, careless, inobservant, inattentive, uncircumspect, unwary, incautious, distracted.

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KEY: Waver.

SYN: Hesitate, dubitate, halt, fluctuate, vacillate, alternate, scruple, be undetermined, totter.

ANT: Determine, decide, rest, repose, settle.

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KEY: Wavering, [See INDESCRIBABLE].

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KEY: Way.

SYN: Form, fashion, practice, habit, method, [See STEADY].

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KEY: Wayward.

SYN: Willful, froward, perverse, refractory, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn.

ANT: Docile, manageable, amenable.

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KEY: Weak.

SYN: Feeble, infirm, enfeebled, powerless, debile, fragile, incompact, inadhesive, pliant, frail, oft, tender, milk and water, flabby, flimsy, wishy washy, destructible, watery, diluted, imbecile, inefficient, spiritless, foolish, injudicious, unsound, undecided, unconfirmed, irrepressible, wavering, ductile, easy, malleable, unconvincing, inconclusive, vapid, pointless.

ANT: Strong, vigorous, robust, muscular, nervous, powerful, tough, stout, lusty, sturdy, compact, adhesive, resistant, fibrous, hard, indistructible, potent, intoxicating, efficient, spirited, animated, wise, sound, judicious, cogent, valid, decided, determined, unwavering, stubborn, unyielding, inexorable, conclusive, irresistible, forcible, telling.

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KEY: Weaken.

SYN: Debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, dilute, impair, paralyze, attenuate, sap.

ANT: Strengthen, invigorate, empower, corroborate, confirm.

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KEY: Weakness.

SYN: Debility, feebleness, enervation, dilution, impairment, languor, imbecility, infirmity, decrepitude, frailty, faintness, inconclusiveness, worthlessness, want.

ANT: Strength, power, nerve, spirit, renovation, vigor, lustiness, tone, cogency, activity, conclusiveness, efficiency, value, abundance.

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KEY: Weal.

SYN: Welfare, prosperity, happiness, advantage, [See WELFARE and ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Wealth.

SYN: Influence, riches, mammon, lucre, plenty, affluence, abundance, opulence.

ANT: Indigence, poverty, scarcity, impecuniosity.

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KEY: Wean.

SYN: Disaccustom, dishabituate, detach, alienate, withdraw, ablactate.

ANT: Accustom, habituate, inure, reconcile, attach, associate, conciliate, enlist, draw, attract.

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KEY: Weapon.

SYN: Instrument, implement, utensil, arm.

ANT: Shift, makeshift, contrivance.

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KEY: Wear.

SYN: Carry, bear, exhibit, sport, consume, dou, waste, impair, rub, channel, groove, excavate, hollow, diminish.

ANT: Doff, abandon, repair, renovate, renew, increase, swell, augment.

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KEY: Wearisome.

SYN: Tedious, tiresome, fatiguing, toilsome, laborious, annoying, [See LABORIOUS and TEDIOUS].

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KEY: Weary \a.\

SYN: Fatigued, tired, exhausted, worn, jaded, debilitated, pent, toil-worn, faint.

ANT: Fresh, rigorous, recruited, renovated, hearty.

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KEY: Weary \v.\

SYN: Tire, fatigue, fag, jade, harass, exhaust, [See TIRE].

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KEY: Weave.

SYN: Interlace, braid, intertwine, intermix, plait, complicate, intersect.

ANT: Unravel, untwist, disunite, disentangle, extricate, simplify, enucleate, dissect.

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KEY: Weazen.

SYN: Wizened, withered, dried up.

ANT: Fresh, plump, fair, rounded out, full.

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KEY: Wed.

SYN: Link, marry, espouse.

ANT: Separate, divorce.

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KEY: Wedding.

SYN: Espousals, marriage, nuptials, [See MARRIAGE].

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KEY: Wedlock.

SYN: Marriage, matrimony, espousals, nuptials, coverture, match.

ANT: Celibacy, singleness, misogamy, divorce.

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KEY: Weep.

SYN: Cry, sob, bewail, lament, [See MARRIAGE], bemoan, deplore.

ANT: Laugh, [See BEWAIL].

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KEY: weight.

SYN: Gravity, ponderosity, heaviness, pressure, burden, importance, power, influence, efficacy, consequence, moment, impressiveness.

ANT: Lightness, levity, portableness, alleviation, unimportance, insignificance, weakness, inefficacy, unimpressiveness, triviality, worthlessness.

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KEY: Welcome \n.\

SYN: Reception, salutation.

ANT: Repudiation, repulsion.

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KEY: Welcome \a.\

SYN: Grateful, acceptable, pleasant, agreeable, gratifying, pleasing.

ANT: Unwelcome, ungrateful, unacceptable, distasteful, unpleasant, disagreeable.

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KEY: Welfare.

SYN: Well-being, weal, success, good fortune, prosperity, happiness, luck, thrift.

ANT: Adversity, reverse, unsuccess, unprosperousness, unhappiness, illluck, harm, hurt.

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KEY: Well, adv.

SYN: Rightly, thoroughly, properly.

ANT: Wrongly, imperfectly, improperly.

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KEY: Well \a.\

SYN: Hale, healthy, hearty, sound, [See BEHALF].

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KEY: Well-bred.

SYN: Well-behaved, well-mannered, courteous, polite, [See CLOWNISH].

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KEY: Wet.

SYN: Moist, damp, humid, [See CLOWNISH].

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KEY: Wheedle.

SYN: Coax, cajole, decoy, flatter, entice, inveigle.

ANT: Deter, chide, scare, undeceive, disabuse.

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KEY: Whereas.

SYN: Since, seeing, forasmuch as, inasmuch as, when in fact.

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KEY: Whet.

SYN: Sharpen, incite, stimulate, excite, provoke.

ANT: Blunt, pall, deaden, satiate, nauseate, Whim, [See DRY].

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KEY: Whimsical.

SYN: Freakish, capricious, fanciful, fantastic, quaint, crotchety, droll, farcical.

ANT: Staid, serious, sober, orderly, demure, sedate.

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KEY: Whip.

SYN: Scourge, flagellate, [See VAGARY].

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KEY: Whirl.

SYN: Twirl, spin round, gyrate, [See LASH].

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KEY: White.

SYN: Colorless, pure, snowy, unblemished, unspotted, stainless, innocent, clear.

ANT: Black, impure, [See BLAMELESS].

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KEY: Whole.

SYN: Total, entire, all, well, complete, sound, healthy, perfect, unimpaired, undiminished, integral, undivided, gross.

ANT: Partial, imperfect, incomplete, unsound, sick, impaired, diminished, fractional, divided, sectional.

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KEY: Wholesome.

SYN: Healthful, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, beneficial, nutritious, healing.

ANT: Unhealthy, unhealthful, insalubrious, insanitary, prejudicial, unwholesome, deleterious, detrimental, morbific.

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KEY: Wholly.

SYN: Entirely, completely, totally, altogether, quite, utterly, fully, [See {[]?}].

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KEY: Whore.

SYN: Harlot, prostitute, courtesan, cyprian, drab, nightwalker, street-walker, wench, strumpet, woman of ill fame, Magdalen, bawd, punk, demirep, woman of the town, huzzy, of the demi monde, fille


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