Chapter 5

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KEY: Charlatan, [See QUACK], Charm \v.\

SYN: Bewitch, enchant, fascinate, lay, soothe, mesmerize, delight, enrapture, transport, entice, allure, entrance, captivate, subdue.

ANT: Disenchant, disillusionize, excite, rouse, disturb, annoy, Irritate, alarm, terrify, repel, disgust.

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KEY: Charm \n.\

SYN: Spell, incantation, enchantment, fascination, attraction, allurement.

ANT: Disenchantment, repulsion, fear.

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KEY: Chary.

SYN: Careful, cautions, calculating, frugal, shy, wary, sparing, slow, saving, reluctant.

ANT: Liberal, lavish, profuse, eager.

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KEY: Chase \v.\

SYN: Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute.

ANT: Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade.

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KEY: Chaste.

SYN: Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented, virtuous, incorrupt, simple, unaffected, nice.

ANT: Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated.

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KEY: Chasten.

SYN: Purify, discipline, chastise, correct, castigate, improve, spiritualize, afflict, refine.

ANT: Indulge, sensualize, brutalize, degrade, corrupt, pamper, carnalize, spoil, demoralize.

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KEY: Chat, [See BABBLE].

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KEY: Chattels.

SYN: Effects, goods, wares, movables, furniture.

ANT: Freehold.

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KEY: Chatter.

SYN: Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle.

ANT: Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation.

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KEY: Cheap.

SYN: Common, inexpensive, uncostly, mean, vile, worthless, low-priced.

ANT: Rare, costly, worthy, expensive, honorable, noble, high.

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KEY: Cheat \v.\

SYN: Overreach, fleece, silence, trick, gull, cozen, juggle, defraud, swindle, dupe, beguile, deceive, deprive, hoodwink, prevaricate, dissemble, shuffle, inveigle.

ANT: Enlighten, guide, remunerate, compensate, undeceive, disabuse.

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KEY: Cheat \n.\

SYN: Deception, fraud, imposition, trick, artifice, illusion, imposture, swindle, finesse, deceit, lie, fiction.

ANT: Troth, reality, verity, fact, certainty, genuineness, verification, honesty, authenticity.

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KEY: Check \n.\

SYN: Repulse, hindrance, set back, rebuff.

ANT: Encouragement, freedom, liberty.

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KEY: Check \v.\

SYN: Curb, restrain, stop, stay, repress, hinder, impede, inhibit, cohibit, bridle, control, obstruct.

ANT: Loose, liberate, instigate, accelerate, license, indulge, allow, abet.

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KEY: Cheer \v.\ [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Cheer \n.\

SYN: Hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality.

ANT: Dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth, inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociableness.

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KEY: Cheerful.

SYN: Lively, gay, bright, happy, bonny, merry, joyful, pleasant, buoyant, sunny, enlivening, in good spirits, sprightly, blithe, joyous.

ANT: Lifeless, dull, gloomy, unhappy, dejected, depressed, sullen, joyless, melancholy, depressing, dispiriting.

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KEY: Cheerfulness, [See CHEERFUL].

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KEY: Cheerless, [See CHEERFUL].

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KEY: Cherish.

SYN: Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage.

ANT: Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check.

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KEY: Chew.

SYN: Masticate, munch, eat.

ANT: Gorge, bolt whole.

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KEY: Chicanery.

SYN: Artifice, subtlety, sophistry, subterfuge, prevarication, shift, trickery, dodge, quibble, mystification, pettifogging, underhandedness.

ANT: Openness, candor, fairness, cogency, demonstrativeness, soundness.

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KEY: Chide.

SYN: Rate, scold, trounce, reprove, reprimand, rebuke, blame, admonish, objurgate.

ANT: Applaud, flatter, compliment.

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KEY: Chief \a.\

SYN: Chef, the head, [See CAPITAL].

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KEY: Chief \n.\ [See CHIEFTAIN].

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KEY: Chiefly, [See MAINLY].

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KEY: Chieftain.

SYN: Captain, general, chief, commander, head man, leader.

ANT: Follower, attendant, retainer, subaltern, vassal, satellite, minion, adherent.

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KEY: Childish.

SYN: Weak, silly, puerile, infantine, imbecile, foolish, trifling, paltry, trivial.

ANT: Strong, resolute, manly, wise, judicious, sagacious, chivalrous, profound, politic.

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KEY: Chimerical, [See VISIONARY].

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KEY: Chivalrous.

SYN: Courageous, generous, knightly, gallant, heroic, adventurous, valiant, spirited, handsome, high-minded.

ANT: Unhandsome, dirty, sneaking, pettifogging, scrubby, dastardly, recreant, ungenerous, ungentlemanly.

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KEY: Choice \n.\

SYN: Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative.

ANT: Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance, indifference, refuse.

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KEY: Choice \a.\

SYN: Select, exquisite, precious, dainty, cherished, valuable, excellent, rare.

ANT: Common, ordinary, Inferior, cheap, valueless, despicable, trumpery.

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KEY: Choke.

SYN: Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle.

ANT: Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit, ventilate.

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KEY: Choler, [See ANGER].

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KEY: Choleric.

SYN: Hasty, testy, impetuous, irascible.

ANT: Cool, phlegmatic, serene, placid, dispassionate, stoical.

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KEY: Choose.

SYN: Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick out.

ANT: Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore, decline.

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KEY: Chronicle \v.\

SYN: Record, register.

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KEY: Chronicle \n.\ [See ANNALS].

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KEY: Chuckle.

SYN: Grin, crow, cackle.

ANT: Cry, wail, grumble, whimper, whine.

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KEY: Churchyard.

SYN: Buryingground, burial place, cemetery, God's acre, necropolis, graveyard.

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KEY: Churlish.

SYN: Illiberal, niggardly, inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly.

ANT: Liberal, bountiful, hospitable neighborly, sociable.

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KEY: Cipher.

SYN: Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.) straw, pin, rush, molehill.

ANT: Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton, colossus, star.

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KEY: Circuit.

SYN: Tour, circumference.

ANT: Line, straightness, directness.

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KEY: Circuitous.

SYN: Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round about, sinuous, winding.

ANT: Linear, direct, straight.

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KEY: Circular.

SYN: Round, spherical.

ANT: Lineal, direct.

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KEY: Circulate.

SYN: Disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread, travel.

ANT: Suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate.

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KEY: Circumference.

SYN: Periphery, enclosure, circuit, outline, boundary.

ANT: Diameter, crossing, bisection, transection, transversion.

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KEY: Circumlocution.

SYN: Periphrasis, verbosity, inconciseness, insuccinctness, ambiguousness, anfractuosity.

ANT: Terseness, point, conciseness, succinctness, condensation, directness, plainness, simplicity, coherence.

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KEY: Circumscribe.

SYN: Define, designate, delineate, limit, enclose, confine, restrict, fence.

ANT: Expand, dilate, dissipate, disenclose, distend.

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KEY: Circumscribed.

SYN: Limited, narrow, restricted.

ANT: Limitless, ample, unconfined.

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KEY: Circumspect.

SYN: Cautious, wary, careful, heedful, attentive, prudent, watchful, scrupulous, vigilant.

ANT: Heedless, incautious, careless, reckless, invigilant, incircumspect.

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KEY: Circumstance.

SYN: Detail, feature, point, event, occurrence, incident, situation, position, fact, topic, condition, particular, specialty.

ANT: Deed, case, transaction.

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KEY: Circumstantial.

SYN: Inferential, constructive, minute, detailed, elaborate, specific.

ANT: Jocular, positive, inaccurate, loose, general.

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KEY: Circumvent.

SYN: Ensnare, entrap, outwit, diplomatize.

ANT: Force, subjugate, reduce, compel, circumvention, [See CIRCUMVENT].

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KEY: Citadel.

SYN: Fortress, castle, stronghold, acropolis.

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KEY: Cite.

SYN: Summon, call, quote, adduce, mention, name, select, refer to.

ANT: Discard, dismiss, canvass, dispute, reject, contradict, disprove, discredit, challenge.

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KEY: Citizen.

SYN: Townsman, inhabitant, burgess, subject, denizen.

ANT: Alien, foreigner, visitor, exile.

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KEY: Civic.

SYN: Municipal, corporate, urbane, oppidan.

ANT: Suburban, provincial, rural, cosmopolitan.

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KEY: Civil.

SYN: Well-mannered, political, courteous, well-bred, complaisant, affable, urbane, polite, obliging, accommodating, respectful.

ANT: Disobliging, unaccommodating, disrespectful, boorish, clownish, churlish, uncivil.

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KEY: Civilization.

SYN: Amelioration, culture, cultivation, humanization, refinement.

ANT: Demoralization, savagery, uncivilization, barbarism, rudeness, brutality.

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KEY: Claim \v.\

SYN: Demand, ask, require, insist, pretense, right, privilege, title, request, maintain.

ANT: Forego, waive, disclaim, abjure, disavow, abandon, concede, surrender, repudiate.

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KEY: Claim \n.\

SYN: Assertion, vindication, pretension, title, right, privilege, arrogation, demand.

ANT: Waiving, abjuration, disclaimer, surrender.

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KEY: Claimant.

SYN: Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant.

ANT: Relinquisher, resigner, conceder, waiver, renouncer, abjurer.

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KEY: Clamor.

SYN: Contention, contentiousness, squabble, tumult, hubbub, noise, uproar, outcry, obloquy.

ANT: Silence, acquiescence, reticence.

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KEY: Clamorous, [See NOISY].

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KEY: Clandestine.

SYN: Furtive, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, hidden, disguised, concealed, private, underhand.

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KEY: Clasp.

SYN: Grasp, connect, unite, bracket, concatenate, embrace.

ANT: Relax, sever, unclasp, disconnect, detach, exclude.

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KEY: Class, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Classical.

SYN: Pure, refined, elegant, polished, chaste, augustan.

ANT: Corrupt, debased, inelegant, harsh, barbarous, unclassical, uncouth.

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KEY: Classification, taxonomic.

SYN: Order, species, nature, character, cast, stamp, group, kind, section, sect, category, assortment, designation, description, genus.

ANT: Individuality, speciality, isolation, alienation, division, distinction, singularity, exclusion, heterogenity.

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KEY: Classify.

SYN: Arrange, systematize, adjust, rank, class, tabulate, dispose, collocate, assort.

ANT: Derange, confound, disorder, disorganize, intermix.

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KEY: Clause.

SYN: Portion, paragraph, stipulation, provision, article, condition, chapter, section, passage.

ANT: Document, instrument, muniment.

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KEY: Clean \v.\

SYN: Purify, clarify.

ANT: Pollute, befoul, bespatter, defile.

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KEY: Clean \a.\

SYN: Pure, neat, cleanly, clear, purified, cleansed, untarnished, spotless, unclogged, upright.

ANT: Impure, untidy, dirty, entangled, hampered, unclean.

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KEY: Clear \v.\

SYN: Clarify, disencumber, disentangle, disembarrass, vindicate, liberate, set free, release, exonerate, exculpate, justify, retrieve, acquit, absolve, whitewash, extricate, eliminate.

ANT: Befoul, contaminate, pollute, clog, encumber, embarrass, involve, implicate.

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KEY: Clear \a.\

SYN: Open, pure, bright, transparent, free, disencumbered, disentangled, disengaged, absolved, acquitted, serene, unclouded, evident, apparent, distinct, manifest, conspicuous, unobstructed, plain, obvious, intelligible, lucid.

ANT: Thick, muddy, foul, opaque, encumbered, entangled, condemned, convicted, turbid, dubious, indistinct, unintelligible.

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KEY: Clearly.

SYN: Plainly, obviously, distinctly, evidently, palpably, lucidly, explicitly, perspicuously.

ANT: Opaquely, indistinctly, Imperfectly, confusedly.

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KEY: Cleave.

SYN: Sunder, split, divide, adhere, rend, di?sever, stick.

ANT: Conserve, unite, splice, bond, cement, agglutinate, consolidate, separate, depart, desert, apostatize, secede.

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KEY: Clemency, [See MERCY].

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KEY: Clergyman.

SYN: Pastor, divine, parson, preacher, presbyter, minister, elder, deacon, bishop, dominie, rector, prelate, priest, monk, friar, vicar, curate.

ANT: Layman, laic, congregation, laity, flock.

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KEY: Clever.

SYN: Able, ready, talented, quick, ingenious, dexterous, adroit, expert, gifted, quick-witted, skillful, well-contrived.

ANT: Weak, dull, stupid, slow, illcontrived, doltish, uninventive, awkward, clumsy, bungling, botched.

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KEY: Climate.

SYN: Air, atmosphere, temperature, weather, clime, sky, region, sphere, latitude.

ANT: Earth, globe, world, sphere.

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KEY: Climax.

SYN: Summit, height, consummation, acme, point, head, mered, ian, culmination, zenith.

ANT: Base, floor, bathos, anticlimax, depth, gulf, nadir.

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KEY: Climb.

SYN: Ascend, mount, clamber, swarm, surmount, scale, escalade, soar, creep up, rise.

ANT: Descend, drop, fall, slip, tumble, swoop.

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KEY: Cling.

SYN: Fasten, hold, adhere, embrace, stick, cleave, hang, twine, hug.

ANT: Drop, recede, secede, apostatize, abandon, relax, forego, swerve, surrender.

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KEY: Clip.

SYN: Curtail, prune, contract, abridge.

ANT: Elongate, cherish, grow, nourish.

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KEY: Cloak.

SYN: Conceal, disguise, mask, veil, hide, cover, palliate, screen, mitigate, extenuate.

ANT: Exhibit, propound, promulge, portray, aggravate, expose, demonstrate, reveal.

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KEY: Close \a.\

SYN: Narrow, limited, restricted, condensed, packed, secret, compressed, solid, firm, compact, reserved, niggardly, shut, fast, dense.

ANT: Wide, open, ample, spacious, airy, unconfined, dispersed, rarefied, subtle, vaporous, patent, public, advertised, open-handed, liberal, frank.

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KEY: Close \v.\

SYN: Shut, conclude, stop, complete.

ANT: Open, initiate, conduct, protract.

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KEY: Clothe \v.\

SYN: Invest, robe, drape, dress, array, attire, cover.

ANT: Denude, strip, divest.

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KEY: Clothes, [See HABILIMENTS].

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KEY: Cloudy, [See MUGGY and OBSCURE].

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KEY: Clownish.

SYN: Bustic, boorish, bucolic, Boeotian, awkward, clumsy, cloddish, untutored, rude.

ANT: Polite, civil, urbane, affable, graceful, polished, refined, courtly, high-bred, intelligent, educated.

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KEY: Clumsy.

SYN: Awkward, inexpert, uncouth, maladroit, botching, bungling, unskillful, unwieldly, unhandy, ill-shaped.

ANT: Neat, workmanlike, artistic, handy, skillful, clever, expert, adroit, dexterous.

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KEY: Cluster.

SYN: Bunch, group, gathering, muster, throng.

ANT: Scattering, sprinkling, dispersion.

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KEY: Clutch \v.\

SYN: Grasp, grab, seize, catch, grip, grapple with, snatch, pounce.

ANT: Liberate, release, emancipate.

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KEY: Coagulate.

SYN: Mix, blend, fuse, coalesce, amalgamate, condense.

ANT: Rarefy, expand, dissipate, subtilize, discombine.

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KEY: Coadjutor.

SYN: Assistant, ally, cooperator, accessory, accomplice.

ANT: Opponent, counteractor, antagonist, baffler, adversary.

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KEY: Coalesce.

SYN: Harmonize, blend, mix, combine, join, unite, amalgamate, cohere.

ANT: Disagree, discomport.

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KEY: Coalition.

SYN: Combination, consentaneity, compromise, consociation, union, alliance, league, compact, amalgamation, composition, confederacy.

ANT: Dissociation, disruption, disagreement, dissentience.

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KEY: Coarse.

SYN: Common, ordinary, indelicate, vulgar, gross, unrefined, immodest, rough, rude, unpolished.

ANT: Fine, refined gentle, polished, delicate, choice.

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KEY: Coax.

SYN: Wheedle, fawn, flatter, call, ole, persuade, overcome, seduce, allure, circumvent.

ANT: Intimidate, coerce, impel, instigate, drive.

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KEY: Cobble.

SYN: Patch, botch, bungle, clout.

ANT: Repair, manipulate, finedraw.

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KEY: Cobweb.

SYN: Trifle, cipher, moonshine, prejudice, bugbear, phantasy, caprice.

ANT: Substance, verity, axiom, law, reality, perpetuity, institution, truth.

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KEY: Cockney.

SYN: Londoner, citizen, swell.

ANT: Clodhopper, bumpkin, lout.

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KEY: Coddle.

SYN: Spoil, humor, pamper, nurse, caress.

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KEY: Codger.

SYN: Gaffer, churl, curmudgeon.

ANT: Swell, fop, spendthrift, scapegrace, puppy.

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KEY: Codify.

SYN: Summarize, digest, incorporate, embody, condense.

ANT: Expunge, abrogate, annul, disembody, disincorporate, rescind.

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KEY: Coerce.

SYN: Restrain, inhibit, impel, compel, drive, counteract, check, constrain, force, confine, intimidate.

ANT: Permit, persuade, urge, instigate, encourage, liberate, induce, seduce, tempt.

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KEY: coetaneous.

SYN: Coeval, contemporary, synchronous.

ANT: Incoincident, incontemporaneous, anachronistic, asynchronous.

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KEY: Coeval, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Coexist.

SYN: Concur, comport, accompany, coalesce, coincide.

ANT: Disconcur, discomport.

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KEY: Coexistent.

SYN: Concurrent, coetaneous, contemporary, coincident, compatible, correspondent, correlative.

ANT: Discurrent, incontemporaneous, incompatible, adverse, repugnant, antagonistic.

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KEY: coextension.

SYN: Commensurateness, equality, parallelism, conterminousness.

ANT: Incommensurateness, inadequacy, inconterminousness, disparity, divergency, inequality.

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KEY: Coextensive, [See COEXTENSION].

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KEY: Cogent.

SYN: Forcible, powerful, potent, strong, persuasive, influential.

ANT: Weak, ineffectual, powerless, feeble.

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KEY: Cogitate.

SYN: Think, ruminate, reflect, meditate, brood, speculate, contemplate, ponder, muse.

ANT: Idle, maunder, dream.

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KEY: Cogitation, [See COGITATE].

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KEY: Cognizance.

SYN: Notice, observation, recognition, knowledge, experience.

ANT: Inadvertence, neglect, ignorance, inexperience, oversight, connivance.

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KEY: Cognizant.

SYN: Aware, informed.

ANT: Unaware, ignorant, uninformed.

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KEY: Cohere.

SYN: Stick, adhere, conform, unite, coalesce.

ANT: Sever, separate, disunite, disintegrate.

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KEY: Coherent.

SYN: Consecutive, consistent, complete, sensible, compact, logical, close.

ANT: Inconsecutive, rambling, disunited, inconsistent, discursive, loose, silly, illogical, aberrant.

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KEY: Cohibit.

SYN: Prevent, hinder, curb, restrain, inhibit.

ANT: Indulge, permit, incite, instigate, encourage, urge.

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KEY: Coin.

SYN: Fabricate, counterfeit, invent.

ANT: Misform, misconstrue.

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KEY: Coincide, [See AGREE].

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KEY: Coincidence.

SYN: Chance, fortuity, casualty, concurrence, correspondence, contemporaneousness, commensurateness, harmony, agreement, consent.

ANT: Design, purpose, adaptation, synchronism, anachronism, disharmony, incommensurateness, discordance, variation, difference.

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KEY: Cold, [See FRIGID].

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KEY: Collate.

SYN: Adduce, collect, compare, gather, induct, extract, cite.

ANT: Verify, identify, recognize, authenticate.

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KEY: Collateral.

SYN: Indirect, related, connected, parallel.

ANT: Direct, linear, essential, integral.

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KEY: Colleague.

SYN: Helper, companion, associate, ally, confederate, coadjutor, partner, assistant, adjutant, assessor.

ANT: co-opponent, corival, counteragent, co-antagonist, competitor, colluctator.

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KEY: Collect.

SYN: Collate, gather, glean, sum, infer, learn, congregate, assemble, convoke, convene, muster, amass, garner, accumulate.

ANT: Classify, arrange, distribute, dispose, dispense, divide, sort, deal.

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KEY: Collected.

SYN: Calm, composed, cool, attentive, self-possessed, firm, placid, serene, unmoved.

ANT: Excited, distracted, wandering, dazed, scared, bewildered.

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KEY: Collection.

SYN: Assembly, assemblage, store, gathering, collation.

ANT: Dispersion, distribution, dispensation, division, arrangement, disposal, classification.

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KEY: Collision.

SYN: Encounter, conflict, crash, opposition, impact, concussion, clash.

ANT: Interswerving, interdivergence, shave.

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KEY: Collocate.

SYN: Place, locate, arrange, classify, tabulate, allocate.

ANT: Move, dislocate, distribute, dispense, disturb, disperse, confound, confuse, displace, misplace.

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KEY: Collocation, [See COLLOCATE].

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KEY: Colloquy.

SYN: Conference, consultation, conversation, council, confabulation.

ANT: Clamor, outcry, tumult, babel.

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KEY: Colluctation.

SYN: Wrestling, contention, competition.

ANT: Coadjutorship, assistance, support, backing.

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KEY: Collusion.

SYN: Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy.

ANT: Baffling, frustration, counteraction, defeat, discomfiture, discernment, betrayal, exposure, informership, traitorship.

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KEY: Color.

SYN: Hue, tint, complexion, pretense, speciousness, tinge, garbling, falsification, distortion, perversion, varnish.

ANT: Achromatism, paleness, nakedness, openness, genuineness, transparency, truthfulness.

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KEY: Colorable.

SYN: Specious, ostensible, deceptive, dressed, tinged, warped.

ANT: Genuine, candid, open, naked, transparent.

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KEY: Colossal, [See GIGANTIC].

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KEY: Combat \v.\ [See RESIST].

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KEY: Combat \n.\

SYN: Encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement, arms, battle.

ANT: Surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce, arbitration.

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KEY: Combination.

SYN: Union, association, consortment, concert, confederacy, alliance, league, coalition, cabal, synthesis, co-operation.

ANT: Division, disunion, disruption, dissolution, dispersion, analysis, opposition, resistance, non-location, removal,.

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KEY: Comely.

SYN: Seemly, graceful, elegant, shapely, suitable, fitting, handsome, decent, becoming.

ANT: Unseemly, ungraceful, inelegant, unshapely.

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KEY: Comfortable.

SYN: Snug, satisfied, pleasant, agreeable, cozy, commodious, convenient, consoled.

ANT: Uncomfortable, dissatisfied, troubled, miserable, wretched, cheerless, unhappy, disagreeable, forlorn.

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KEY: Comfortless, [See COMFORTABLE].

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KEY: Comic, [See LUDICROUS].

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KEY: Comity.

SYN: Urbanity, pleasantness, affability, blandness.

ANT: Rudeness, distantness, roughness, churlishness.

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KEY: Command \v.\

SYN: Order, direct, instruct, charge, bid, enjoin.

ANT: Supplicate, entreat, persuade, beg, petition, suggest, represent.

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KEY: Command \n.\ [See MANDATE].

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KEY: Commanding, [See AUTHORITATIVE].

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KEY: Commemorate.

SYN: Perpetuate, celebrate, solemnize, keep.

ANT: Ignore, drop, abolish, forget, obliviate.

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KEY: Commence.

SYN: Begin, start, open, initiate, inaugurate, enter upon, set about, undertake.

ANT: Finish, terminate, conclude, consummate, complete.

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KEY: Commend.

SYN: Praise, laud, extol, approve, recommend, encourage, applaud, eulogize.

ANT: Blame, censure, disapprove, discourage, denounce, condemn, discommend.

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KEY: Commendation, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Commensurate.

SYN: Equal, adequate, sufficient, coextensive, conterminous.

ANT: Unequal, short, scant, inadequate, insufficient, incommensurate.

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KEY: Comment \v.\

SYN: Note, observe, interpret, illustrate, expound, dilate, explain, expatiate, criticise.

ANT: Confound, confuse, obscure, mystify, misinterpret, misapprehend, misconceive, misrepresent.

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KEY: Comment \n.\ [See OBSERVATION].

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KEY: Commentator.

SYN: Interpreter, explainer, note-maker, scholiast, expositor, glossary, elucidator.

ANT: Mystifier, misinterpreter, puzzler, enigmatist, Oedipus.

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KEY: Commerce.

SYN: Trade, traffic, merchandize, barter, exchange, business, communication, dealing, intercourse.

ANT: Stagnation, exclusion, inactivity, interdict, embargo, dullness.

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KEY: Commiserate.

SYN: Despise, contemn, pity, compassionate, condole, sympathize.

ANT: Admire, envy, disregard, maltreat, molest, ignore, condemn.

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KEY: Commiseration, [See PITY].

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KEY: Commit.

SYN: Perpetrate, execute, confide, [See DO], relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consign.

ANT: Miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit.

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KEY: Commodious.

SYN: Ample, easy, convenient, spacious, suitable, comfortable.

ANT: Inconvenient, incommodious, narrow, ill-contrived, incommensurate, discommodious.

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KEY: Commodity.

SYN: Staple, ware, article, stock.

ANT: Drug, offal, refuse, garbage.

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KEY: Common.

SYN: Ordinary, familiar, habitual, everyday, frequent, coarse, vulgar, low, mean, universal.

ANT: Unusual, exceptional, scarce, rare, uncommon, refined, partial, infrequent, sporadic, egregious, excellent.

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KEY: Commotion.

SYN: Agitation, disturbance, tumult, excitement, turmoil, perturbation.

ANT: Quiescence, calm, subsidence, pacification, tranquillity, mitigation, appeasement, soothing, allaying, moderating.

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KEY: Communicate.

SYN: Adjoin, join, touch, reveal, disclose, divulge, promulgate, publish, attach, co-operate, unite, impart, tell, announce, declare.

ANT: Separate, disjoin, recede, stop, suppress, conceal, secrete, withhold, reserve.

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KEY: Communication, [See INTERCOURSE].

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KEY: Communion.

SYN: Participation, share, converse, agreement, partnership, comportionment, fellowship, association, intercourse.

ANT: Exclusion, deprivation, nonparticipation, disqualification, disconnection, alienation, disruption.

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KEY: Community.

SYN: Aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity, homogeneity.

ANT: Segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity.

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KEY: Commute.

SYN: Alter, mitigate, substitute, exchange, compensate, barter, equalize, balance, modify.

ANT: Misappropriation, misconvert, misappropriate, disallow, stabilitate, perpetuate, stereotype.

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KEY: Compact \n.\ [See AGREEMENT].

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KEY: Compact \a.\

SYN: Dense, close, hard, solid, firm, pithy, concise, condensed, contracted, compendious, convenient, concentrated, consolidated, concrete.

ANT: Ductile, brittle, friable, diffuse, unshapely, straggling, sparse, broadcast, dispread.

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KEY: Companion.

SYN: Associate, mate, comrade, colleague, ally, partner, accomplice, coadjutor.

ANT: Rival, toe, antagonist, adversary.

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KEY: Companionable.

SYN: Pleasant, affable, sociable, convertible, friendly, easy, agreeable, gregarious.

ANT: Disagreeable, churlish, unsociable, distant, reserved, ungenial, cold, inaccessible, unneighborly, solitary.

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KEY: Companionship.

SYN: Converse, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, friendliness, association.

ANT: Ignorance, distance, avoidance, estrangement, alienation, unfamiliarity, soitude, isolation.

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KEY: Company.

SYN: Aggregation, association, union, sodality, order, fraternity, guild, corporation, society, community, assemblage, assembly, crew, posse, gang, troop, audience, congregation, concourse.

ANT: Rivalry, opposition, disqualification, antagonism, counteragency, competition, counterassociation.

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KEY: Compare.

SYN: Assimilate, collate, parallel.

ANT: Contrast, oppose, dissociate, disconnect, pit, distinguish.

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KEY: Comparable.

SYN: Resembling, approximate, similar.

ANT: Dissimilar, unlike, remote, inferior.

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KEY: Comparative.

SYN: Relatively, proportionately.

ANT: Absolutely, actually, positively, superlatively.

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KEY: Comparison, [See LIKENESS].

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KEY: Compartment.

SYN: Division, partition, allotment, sphere, space.

ANT: correlative, viz, anything of which it is a compartment.

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KEY: Compass \n.\

SYN: Area, enclosure, circuit, circumference, horizon.

ANT: Common, space, tract, expanse, boundlessness, limitlessness, indefiniteness.

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KEY: Compass \v.\

SYN: Encompass, surround, enclose, environ, circumscribe, embrace, achieve, effect, effectuate, consummate, complete, circumvent.

ANT: Expand, disband, unfold, amplify, display, dismiss, liberate, discard, fail, bungle, botch, misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue.

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KEY: Compassion.

SYN: Pity, sympathy, condolence, tenderness, fellow-feeling, commiseration, pardon.

ANT: Hardheartedness, unforgiveness, cruelty, antipathy, denunciation, condemnation, vindictiveness, retaliation.

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KEY: Compassionate, [See KIND].

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KEY: Compatible.

SYN: Consistent, consentaneous, harmonious, coexistent, correspondent, congruous, accordant, agreeable, congenial, consonant.

ANT: Incompatible, impossible, insupposable, inconsistent, discordant, hostile, adverse, antagonistic, incongruous, destructive, inter-repugnant, contradictory.

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KEY: Compeer.

SYN: Equal, co-ordinate, peer, fellow, mate, compatriot, comrade.

ANT: Inferior, superior, solitary.

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KEY: Compel.

SYN: Force, oblige, drive, constrain, necessitate, make, coerce, bind.

ANT: Persuade, convince, coax, allure, egg, induce, tempt, seduce, acquit, cozen, liberate, release.

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KEY: Compendious.

SYN: Condensed, concentrated, brief, short, succinct, concise, abridged, commodious, convenient, useful, handy, comprehensive, compact.

ANT: Diffuse, vague, prolix, shapeless, cumbrous, undigested.

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KEY: Compendium, [See ABRIDGEMENT].

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KEY: Compensate.

SYN: Atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite, reward, recompense, make amends for.

ANT: Defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage.

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KEY: Compensation.

SYN: Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages.

ANT: Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage.

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KEY: Compete.

SYN: Contend, rival, cope, emulate.

ANT: Participate, share.

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KEY: Competence.

SYN: Power, adequacy, sufficiency, wealth, ability.

ANT: Incompetence, weakness, inability, insufficiency, want, poverty, impecuniosity, indigence.

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KEY: Competent, [See ADEQUATE].

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KEY: Competition.

SYN: Rivalry, emulation, race, two of a trade.

ANT: Association, colleagueship, alliance, jointstock, copartnership, confederation.

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KEY: Competitor.

SYN: Rival, emulator, opponent, adversary, antagonist.

ANT: Participator, partner, auxiliary, colleague.

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KEY: Compilation.

SYN: Collation, composition, patchwork.

ANT: Effusion, creation.

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KEY: Complacent.

SYN: Pleased, satisfied, content, pleasant, affable, kind, mannerly, acquiescent, amiable.

ANT: Dissatisfied, irritated, churlish, unmannerly, morose, austere, grudging.

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KEY: Complain, [See GROWL].

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KEY: Complaint.

SYN: Murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance, expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease.

ANT: Congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause, jubilee, health, sanity.

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KEY: Complaisant, [See POLITE].

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KEY: Complement.

SYN: Completion, fulfilment, totality, supply, counterpart, correlative.

ANT: Deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, abatement, detraction, defalcation, diminution, drawback.

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KEY: Complete \v.\ [See ACCOMPLISH].

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KEY: Complete \a.\

SYN: Full, perfect, finished, adequate, entire, consummate, total, exhaustive, thorough, accomplished.

ANT: Incomplete, partial, imperfect, unfinished, inadequate.

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KEY: Completely.

SYN: Fully, totally, altogether, wholly, perfectly, entirely, thoroughly.

ANT: Partially, incompletely, Imperfectly.

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KEY: Completion, [See TINGE].

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KEY: Complex.

SYN: Intricate, multifarious, compound, complicated, multifold, involved, deep, many-sided, abstruse, close, tangled, obscure.

ANT: Obvious, plain, simple, direct, inobscure, superficial, vague, loose, unraveled.

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KEY: Complexion.

SYN: Face, aspect, color, look, feature, appearance, character, hue, interpretation, indication.

ANT: Unindicativeness, concealment, reticence, inexpression, heart, core.

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KEY: Complexity \n.\ [See COMPLEX].

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KEY: Compliance.

SYN: Yielding, submission, obedience, acquiescence, consent, ductility, docility.

ANT: Resistance, repulsion, disobedience, refusal, noncompliance.

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KEY: Compliant, [See SUBMISSIVE].

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KEY: Complicated.

SYN: Confused, intricate, involved, perplexed, entangled.

ANT: Clear, simple, uninvolved, lucid, unraveled.

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KEY: Compliment \v.\ [See PRAISE].

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KEY: Compliment \n.\

SYN: Homage, courtesy, flattery, praise.

ANT: Insult, discourtesy, contempt.

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KEY: Complimentary.

SYN: Commendatory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise.

ANT: Disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, vituperative, defamatory.

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KEY: Comply, [See YIELD].

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KEY: Component.

SYN: Ingredient, element, constituent, factor, content, rudiment.

ANT: Aggregate, sum, entirety, adventitious, compound, nonconstituent, foreign, heterogeneous.

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KEY: Comport.

SYN: Demean, conduct, carry, behove, tally, consist, harmonize, match, agree, suit, coincide.

ANT: Misdemean, misconduct, forget, vary, differ, disagree, contrast, militate.

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KEY: Compose.

SYN: Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together, constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write.

ANT: Analyze, awaken, stir, dissect, criticise, irritate, excite.

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KEY: Composed, [See COLLECTED and PLACID].

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KEY: Composition.

SYN: Compound, conformation, structure, mixture, combination, compromise, adjustment, settlement, commutation.

ANT: Analysis, segregation, examination, criticism, discussion, disturbance, aggravation, perpetuation.

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KEY: Composure.

SYN: Tranquility, sereneness, self-possession, sedateness, calm, repose.

ANT: Perturbation, restlessness, mobility, disturbance.

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KEY: Compound \v.\

SYN: Concert, mix, amalgamate, fuse.

ANT: Resolve, analyze.

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KEY: Compound \n.\

SYN: Mixture, combination, amalgamation, junction, unification, coalescence.

ANT: Decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution.

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KEY: Comprehend.

SYN: Comprise, embody, grasp, understand, conceive, apprehend, enclose, include, involve, embrace.

ANT: Exclude, except, misunderstand.

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KEY: Comprehension.

SYN: Understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension.

ANT: Misunderstanding, misconception.

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KEY: Comprehensive.

SYN: Wide, ample, general, extensive, large, broad, all, embracing, generic, significant, capacious, inclusive, compendious, pregnant.

ANT: Narrow, restricted, shallow, exclusive, adversative, exceptive.

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KEY: Compress.

SYN: Condense, compact, crowd, squeeze, contract, abridge, epitomize, summarize.

ANT: Expand, dilate, diffuse, colliquate, Compression, [See COMPRESS].

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KEY: Comprise \v.\

SYN: Embrace, include, involve, contain, comprehend, imply.

ANT: Exclude, except, discard, bar, omit, reject.

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KEY: Comprobation.

SYN: Induction, co-evidence, co-testimony.

ANT: disproof, counterevidence, refutation, rejoinder, intercontrariance.

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KEY: Compromise \v.\

SYN: Arbitrate, adjust, compose, settle, endanger, implicate, involve.

ANT: Aggravate, excite, foster, perpetuate, exempt, enfranchise, disengage, extricate, exonerate.

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KEY: Compulsion \n.\

SYN: For, ce, restraint, control, coercion.

ANT: Persuasion, coaxing, alluring, Inducing.

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KEY: Compunction.

SYN: Contrition, penitence, misgiving, remorse, regret, sorrow.

ANT: Satisfaction, self-complacency, assurance.

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KEY: Compute.

SYN: Calculate, reckon, count, number, appraise, value, estimate, cast up, rate.

ANT: Conjecture, guess, surmise.

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KEY: Comrade, [See COMPLEX].

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KEY: Concatenation.

SYN: Linking, connection, stringing, continuity.

ANT: Discatenation, unlinking, unchanging, severance, intermission, disconnection.

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KEY: Concave.

SYN: Hollow, scooped, pitted, excavated, retreating, alveolar.

ANT: Convex, tumular, protuberant, relievant, embossed, intumescent.

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KEY: Conceal.

SYN: Hide, secrete, disguise, keep secret, dissemble, screen, suppress.

ANT: Reveal, manifest, exhibit, avow, confess, expose, promulgate, publish, divulge.

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KEY: Concede.

SYN: Surrender, grant, allow, yield, admit, resign.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, deny, contradict, contest, claim, contend.

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KEY: Conceit.

SYN: Idea, notion, thought, affectation, vanity, abstraction, imagination, conception, whim, vagary, egotism.

ANT: Substance, reality, verity, concretion, body, fact, naturalness, simplicity, unaffectedness, humility.

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KEY: Conceited.

SYN: Egotistical, self-conceited, vain.

ANT: Self-deprecating, simple, unassuming, unaffected.

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KEY: Conceive.

SYN: Imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think, understand.

ANT: Produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive.

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KEY: Conception, [See CONCEIVE].

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KEY: Concentrate.

SYN: assemble, converge, muster, congregate, convene, draw, conglomerate, condense, localize, centralize.

ANT: Disperse, scatter, dismiss, decentralize.

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KEY: Concentration, [See CONCENTRATE].

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KEY: Concern.

SYN: Interest, regard, anxiety, matter, affair, institution, solicitude, moment, regret, sympathy, sorrow.

ANT: Indifference, disregard, carelessness, congratulation, chuckling.

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KEY: Concerning.

SYN: About, of, relating, regarding, touching, in relation to, respecting, with respect to, with regard to, with reference to, relative to.

ANT: Omitting, disregarding.

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KEY: Concert \v.\ [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Concert \n.\

SYN: Onion, combination, concord, harmony, agreement, association, co-operation.

ANT: Dissociation, counteraction, opposition.

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KEY: Concession, [See CONCEPT].

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KEY: Conciliate.

SYN: Win, gain, enlist, pacify, make friendly, reconcile, propitiate.

ANT: Lose, estrange, excommunicate, eject, alienate, irritate, displease.

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KEY: Concise.

SYN: Condensed, terse, pregnant, expressive, pointed, neat, compendious, succinct, summary, brief, short.

ANT: Diffuse, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory, rambling, discursive.

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KEY: Conclave.

SYN: Council, assembly, bureau, synod, cabinet, caucus.

ANT: Crowd, multitude, assemblage, population, throng, populace, mob, concourse.

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KEY: Conclude.

SYN: Close, terminate, complete, end, decide, finish, infer, deduce, determine, argue.

ANT: Begin, initiate, start, open, prolong, protract, perpetuate, doubt, dispute.

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KEY: Conclusion, [See CONCLUDE and TERMINATION].

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KEY: Conclusive.

SYN: Definitive, indisputable, final, positive, decisive.

ANT: Uncertain, dubious, questionable, hypothetical, supposititious, problematical, theoretical, vague, indeterminate, inconclusive.

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KEY: Concoct.

SYN: Compound, prepare, mix, hatch, brew.

ANT: Spoil, upset, disconcoct, disconcert, mar, misprepare.

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KEY: Concoction.

SYN: Brew, mixture, compound.

ANT: Crudity, rawness, ingredient.

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KEY: Concomitant.

SYN: Accompanying, attending, attendant, synchronous.

ANT: Precedent, subsequent, diverse, unconnected, independent, irrelative.

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KEY: Concord.

SYN: Harmony, accordance, agreement, peace, union, unity, unanimity, amity.

ANT: Discord, disagreement, variance, animosity.

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KEY: Concordance, [See CONCORD].

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KEY: Concourse.

SYN: Assembly, assemblage, crowd, throng, convergence, mob.

ANT: Cabinet, conclave, cabal, dispersion, desertion, solitude.

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KEY: Concrete.

SYN: Firm, compact, consolidated, indurated, embodied, particularized.

ANT: Loose, sloppy, luteous, shifting, boggy, swampy, yielding, unresisting, abstract, generalize.

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KEY: Concur.

SYN: Approve, acquiesce, assent, coincide, meet, converge, concentrate, agree.

ANT: Diverge, radiate, disagree, dissent, part, differ.

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KEY: Concussion, [See COLLISION and COMMOTION].

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KEY: Condemn.

SYN: Blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom, sentence.

ANT: Absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve.

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KEY: Condense, [See ABRIDGE].

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KEY: Condescend.

SYN: Stoop, descend, deign, vouchsafe.

ANT: Disdain, scorn, spurn.

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KEY: Condescension \n.\ [See CONDESCEND].

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KEY: SYN:, Affability, graciousness, favor, stooping.

ANT: Haughtiness, arrogance, pride, superciliousness, disdain, scorn.

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KEY: Condign.

SYN: Deserved, merited, meet, just, adequate.

ANT: Undeserved, unmerited, scant, excessive.

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KEY: Condiment.

SYN: Sauce, pickle, preserve, seasoning.

ANT: Gall, wormwood, ashes, aloe.

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KEY: Condition.

SYN: State, case, mood, term, mode, qualification, requisite, stipulation, predicament, proviso, situation, circumstances, plight.

ANT: Relation, dependence, situation, circumstance, concession, fulfillment, adaptation.


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