Chapter 6

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KEY: Conditionally.

SYN: Provisionally, relatively, provided, hypothetical, contingently.

ANT: Absolutely, unconditionally, categorically, positively.

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KEY: Condole.

SYN: Sympathize, console, commiserate.

ANT: Congratulate, exhilarate, disregard, rally, discompassionate, discommiserate.

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KEY: Condolence, [See CONDOLE].

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KEY: Condonation.

SYN: Indulgence, excuse, amnesty, pardon, forgiveness.

ANT: Expiation, satisfaction, atonement.

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KEY: Conduce.

SYN: Concur, contribute, avail, aid, tend, coincide, converge, assist, help, make for, conspire, lead, subserve.

ANT: Indispose, counteract, defeat, neutralize.

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KEY: Conducive, [See CONDUCE].

SYN: Contributive, promotive, subsidiary, causative, effective, productive.

ANT: Preventive, counteractive, contrariant, repugnant, destructive.

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KEY: Conduct \v.\

SYN: Lead, bring, carry, transfer, direct, guide, control, manage, administer.

ANT: Mislead, miscarry, mismanage, misconduct, misadminister.

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KEY: Conduct \n.\ [See BEHAVIOR].

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KEY: Confabulation, [See COLLOQUY].

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KEY: Confection \n.\ [See CONCOCTION, CONDIMENT, and COMPOUND. (Used

of sweet compounds].

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KEY: SYN:, Sweetmeat, sugarplum, cake, condiment.

ANT: [See CONDIMENT].

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KEY: Confederacy, Confederation.

SYN: Alliance, treaty, league, union, association.

ANT: Disruption, secession, disunion.

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KEY: Confederate \a.\

SYN: Leagued, allied, united, combined.

ANT: Disunited, dissolved.

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KEY: Confederate \n.\ [See COMPANION].

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KEY: Confer.

SYN: Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give, present.

ANT: Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw.

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KEY: Conference.

SYN: Discussion, discourse, consultation, parley, contravention, convocation, meeting.

ANT: Monologue, silence. [See CONVENTION].

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KEY: Confess.

SYN: Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge.

ANT: Disaver, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny.

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KEY: Confession.

SYN: Creed, catechism, articles, doctrines, tenets, profession, declaration, subscription.

ANT: Heresy, apostacy, protest, condemnation, refutation, index, renunciation, abjuration.

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KEY: Confidant.

SYN: Confessor, adviser, confederate.

ANT: Traitor, betrayer, rival.

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KEY: Confide.

SYN: Trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely.

ANT: Doubt, distrust, disbelieve.

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KEY: Confidence.

SYN: Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence, reliance.

ANT: Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving.

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KEY: Confident.

SYN: Positive, assured, sure, certain, impudent, bold, sanguine.

ANT: [See CERTAIN].

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KEY: Confidential.

SYN: Private, secret, trustworthy, intimate.

ANT: Public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious.

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KEY: Configuration.

SYN: Shape, outline, delineation, form, figure, conformation, contour.

ANT: Shapelessness, amorphousness, formlessness, undelineation, contortion, distortion, deformity.

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KEY: Confine.

SYN: Immure, limit, bound, imprison, circumscribe, restrict, enclose, narrow, incarcerate, bind.

ANT: Dilate, expand, extend, widen, unfasten, liberate, loosen, disenclose.

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KEY: Confined, [See CIRCUMSCRIBE].

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KEY: Confirm.

SYN: Strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify.

ANT: Weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute.

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KEY: Confirmation, [See CONFIRM].

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KEY: Confiscate.

SYN: Seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain.

ANT: Restore, release, refund.

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KEY: Conflagration.

SYN: Ignition, fire, combustion, arson, incendiarism.

ANT: Extinction, smoulder, quenching.

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KEY: Conflict.

SYN: Encounter, engagement, contest, battle, fight, combat.

ANT: Reconciliation, pacification, amity, arbitration.

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KEY: Conflicting.

SYN: Adverse, opposed, opposing, dashing, discordant, irreconcilable, contradictory.

ANT: Harmonizing, consistent, consentaneous, congruous.

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KEY: Confluence.

SYN: Conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence.

ANT: Reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence.

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KEY: Conform.

SYN: Agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield.

ANT: Disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt.

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KEY: Conformation \n.\ [See CONFORM and CONFIGURATION].

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KEY: Conformity, [See CONFORMATION].

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KEY: Confound.

SYN: Confuse, disorder, trouble, disarrange, intermix, abash, astound, mystify, obscure, stupefy, disconcert, mix, blend, intermingle, perplex, discompose.

ANT: Arrange, classify, order, allocate, distribute, dispense, unravel, enucleate, eliminate, elucidate, rally, enlighten.

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KEY: Confraternity, [See COMPANY].

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KEY: Confront.

SYN: Oppose, face, encounter, resist, intimidate, menace.

ANT: Rally, encourage, abet, countenance.

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KEY: Confuse, [See CONFOUND].

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KEY: Confusion, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Confused.

SYN: Abashed, embarrassed, perplexed, disconcerted, disorganized, promiscuous, chaotic, complex, involved, disarranged, disordered.

ANT: Unabashed, unembarrassed, systematic, unconfused, organized, arranged.

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KEY: Confute, [See REFUTE].

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KEY: Congeal.

SYN: Freeze, benumb, congelate.

ANT: Thaw, relax, melt, chafe, dissolve.

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KEY: Congenial.

SYN: Natural, concordant, consonant, grateful, sympathetic, kindred.

ANT: Unnatural, abbhorant, discordant, dissonant, disagreeable, ungrateful, antagonistic, alien, dissimilar, uncongenial.

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KEY: Congenital.

SYN: Coeval, coetaneous, natural, inherent, innate, immanent, ingrained, incarnate, connate, ingenerate.

ANT: Unnatural, uncongenial, acquired, habitual, extraneous, artificial, adscititious, adventitious, assumed.

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KEY: Congestion.

SYN: Congeries, accumulation, glomeration, redundancy, plethora.

ANT: Dissipation, diffusion, clearance, evacuation, colliquation.

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KEY: Conglomerate, [See AGGLOMERATE].

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KEY: Conglutinate, [See AGGLUTINATE].

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KEY: Congratulate.

SYN: Felicitate.

ANT: [See CONDOLE].

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KEY: Congregate, [See AGGREGATE].

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KEY: Congregation, [See AGGREGATION].

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KEY: Congress.

SYN: Parliament, council, conclave, assembly, synod, legislature, convention.

ANT: Cabal, conclave, mob.

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KEY: Congruous.

SYN: Agreeing, harmonious, coherent, homogeneous, consonant, accordant.

ANT: Discordant, dissonant, incongruous, heterogeneous.

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KEY: Conjecture \v.\

SYN: guest, divination, hypothesis, theory, notion, surmise, supposition.

ANT: Computation, calculation, inference, reckoning, proof, deduction.

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KEY: Conjecture \n.\ [See SUPPOSE].

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KEY: Conjoin, [See CONCATENATE].

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KEY: Conjuncture.

SYN: Crisis, turning-point, contingency, occasion, opportunity, exigency, emergency.

ANT: Arrangement, provision, ordainment, preparation, course.

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KEY: Conjure.

SYN: Implore, importune, crave, entreat, beseech, supplicate.

ANT: Deprecate, protest, remonstrate, expostulate.

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KEY: Connect, [See UNITE].

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KEY: Connection.

SYN: Junction, conjunction, union, association, concatenation, relation, affinity, relevance, intercourse, communication, kinsman, relationship, kindred.

ANT: Disconnection, disjunction, dissociation, independence, irrelevance, disunion.

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KEY: Connive.

SYN: Wink, pretermit, pass, overlook.

ANT: Notice, visit, censure, investigate.

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KEY: Connubial.

SYN: Conjugal, matrimonial, nuptial.

ANT: Single, celibate, illicit, adulterous.

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KEY: Conquer.

SYN: Subdue, vanquish, surmount, overcome, overpower, overthrow, defeat, crush, master, subjugate, prevail over.

ANT: Fail, fall, retreat, succumb, fly, submit, surrender, lose, forfeit, sacrifice, resign, cede.

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KEY: Conquest, [See CONQUER].

SYN: Victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation.

ANT: Failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture.

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KEY: Consanguinity.

SYN: Kindred, blood, lineage.

ANT: Disconnection, dissociation.

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KEY: Conscience.

SYN: Sense, intuition, integrity, principle.

ANT: [See PERTURB and STOICAL], license.

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KEY: Conscientious.

SYN: Scrupulous, exact, equitable, strict, upright, highprincipled.

ANT: Unscrupulous, lax, unprincipled, reprobate, unconscientious.

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KEY: Conscious.

SYN: Aware, cognizant, sensible.

ANT: Unaware, unconscious, insensible.

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KEY: Consciousness.

SYN: Sense, sensation, intelligence, perception.

ANT: Insensibility, unconsciousness.

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KEY: Conscription.

SYN: Impressment, drafting.

ANT: Enlistment, volunteering.

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KEY: Consecrate.

SYN: Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify.

ANT: Desecrate, secularize, profane.

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KEY: Consecration, [See CONSECRATE and DEVOTION].

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KEY: Consecutive.

SYN: Orderly, arranged, coherent, continuous.

ANT: Disordered, undigested, incoherent, rambling, inconsequent, inconsecutive, discursive.

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KEY: Consent.

SYN: Submit, agree, acquiesce.

ANT: resist, disagree, dissent, deline, refuse.

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KEY: Consentaneous.

SYN: Agreeing, correspondent, consonant, congruous, [See HARMONIOUS].

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KEY: Consequence.

SYN: Effect, issue, result, inference, coherence, deduction, conclusion, outcome, importance, note, moment, dignity.

ANT: Cause, causation, antecedence, premise, origin, datum, postulate, axiom, unimportance, insignificance, inconsequence, inconsecutiveness, irrelevance, meanness, paltriness.

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KEY: Consequent.

SYN: Inferred, deduced, resultant, accruing, attendant.

ANT: Assumed, conjectured, antecedent, conducive, productive, inconsequent.

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KEY: Consequential.

SYN: Coherent, connected, nected, cogent, logical, pompous, arrogant.

ANT: Incoherent, disconnected, in, valid, illogical, inconsequential, affable, conversible, accessible, easy, humble-minded.

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KEY: Consequently.

SYN: Accordingly, therefore, [See ACCORDING].

ANT: Irrelevantly, inconsequently.

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KEY: Conservation.

SYN: Preservation, keeping, protection, guardianship, maintenance, stabilisation, perpetuation.

ANT: Neglect, exposure, abrogation, destruction, abolition.

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KEY: Conservative.

SYN: Undestroyed, unsuppressed, stationary, unrepealed.

ANT: Changed, newfangled, radical, progressive, modifiable, alterable, transitional.

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KEY: Consider.

SYN: Attend, revolve, meditate, think, reflect, investigate, regard, observe, judge, opine, infer, deduce, weigh, cogitate, deliberate, ponder, deem.

ANT: Disregard, ignore, pretermit, despise, guess, conjecture, hazard.

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KEY: Considerable.

SYN: Important, large, extensive.

ANT: Unimportant, trifling, inconsiderable.

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KEY: Considerate.

SYN: Thoughtful, attentive, forbearing, unselfish, judicious, serious, prudent, circumspect, reflective, careful, cautious.

ANT: Thoughtless, inconsiderate, inattentive, rude, overbearing, selfish, injudicious, rash, careless.

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KEY: Consideration.

SYN: Importance, suspect, consequence, motive, inducement, compensation, subsidy, remuneration.

ANT: Meanness, insignificance, unimportance.

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KEY: Considering.

SYN: Because, regarding.

ANT: Irrespectively, independently.

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KEY: Consign, [See ASSIGN].

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KEY: Consignment.

SYN: Custody, commission, delegation.

ANT: Miscommitment, misconsignment.

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KEY: Consist, [See CONSTITUTE].

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KEY: Consistence, [See CONSISTENCY].

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KEY: Consistency.

SYN: Consistence, congruity, composition, substance, material, amalgamation, compound, mass, density, solidity, closeness, compactness, coherence, uniformity, harmony, analogy, proportion.

ANT: Volatility, vaporousness, subtility, tenuity, sublimation, incoherence, inconsistency, incongruity, disproportion, contrariety, contradiction.

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KEY: Consistent.

SYN: Congruous, accordant, consonant, agreeing, compatible, harmonious.

ANT: Incongruous, at variance with, not agreeing with, incompatible, inharmonious.

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KEY: Consociation, [See ASSOCIATION and COMPANY].

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KEY: Console.

SYN: Relieve, soothe, solace, encourage, comfort, assuage.

ANT: Congratulate, felicitate, aggravate, oppress, disturb, trouble, annoy, irritate, irreconcile, dissatisfy.

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KEY: Consolidate.

SYN: Condense, incorporate, conglutinate, cement, solder, bond, weld, thicken, strengthen, fuse.

ANT: Weaken, dissipate, disunite, dismember, disintegrate, colliquate, dissolve, melt, vaporize, sublimate, attenuate, triturate, pulverize.

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KEY: Consonant, [See CONGRUOUS and CONSISTENT].

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KEY: Consort \v.\

SYN: Associate, herd, company, fraternize.

ANT: Avoid, abandon, excommunicate, blackball, banish, exclude.

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KEY: Conspicuous.

SYN: Visible, easily seen, prominent, distinguished, manifest, eminent, famous, noted, salient, observable, noticeable, magnified.

ANT: Invisible, Inconspicuous, in, observable, noticeable, microscopic.

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KEY: Conspiracy.

SYN: Intrigue, cabal, plot, treason, treachery, machination, coalition.

ANT: Legislation, parliament, congress, synod, \Comp.\ Conclave and

cabal.

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KEY: Conspire.

SYN: Concur, conduce, contribute, agree, unite, hang, pull together, co-operate, league, baud.

ANT: Oppose, counteract, withstand, run counter to.

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KEY: Constant.

SYN: Uniform, regular, invariable, perpetual, continuous, firm, fixed, steady, immutable, faithful, true, trustworthy.

ANT: Irregular, exceptional, variable, casual, accidental, incidental, broken, interrupted, inconstant, fickle, untrustworthy, faithless, treacherous, false.

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KEY: Consternation.

SYN: Amazement, bewilderment, astonishment, astounding, horror, terror, dismay.

ANT: Encouragement, boldness, fearlessness, assurance, anticipation, welcome, expectation, greeting, congratulation.

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KEY: Constituent.

SYN: Voter, returner, sender, deputer, appointer, patron, ingredient, element, component.

ANT: Representative, nominee, committee, constitution, system, whole.

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KEY: Constitute.

SYN: Form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute.

ANT: Dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake.

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KEY: Constitution.

SYN: Temperament, frame, temper, character, habit, nature, government, polity, state, consistence, composition, substance, organization, structure, regulation, law.

ANT: Accident, habituation, modification, Interference, anarchy, despotism, tyranny, rebellion, revolution, dissipation, disorganization, demolition, destruction.

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KEY: Constitutional.

SYN: Fundamental, legal, lawful, legitimate, natural.

ANT: Unconstitutional, illegal, Illegitimate, unnatural, unchanged.

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KEY: Constrain, [See COERCE].

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KEY: Construct.

SYN: Compose, build, fabricate, form, erect, invent, frame.

ANT: Derange, destroy, demolish, overthrow.

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KEY: Construction.

SYN: Composition, fabrication, explanation, rendering, erection, fabric, edifice, reading, understanding, interpretation, view.

ANT: Dislocation, dismemberment, demolition, displacement, misplacement, misconstruction, misunderstanding, misconception, misinterpretation.

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KEY: Construe.

SYN: Parse, resolve, analyze, interpret, understand, render.

ANT: Nullify, neutralize, mystify, distort, falsify, misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, mistranslate.

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KEY: Consult.

SYN: Interrogate, canvass, question, deliberate, confer, advise with, regard, consider, ask advice of, care for, promote.

ANT: Resolve, explain, expound, direct, instruct, dictate, counteract, contravene.

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KEY: Consume.

SYN: Use, appropriate, burn, oat up, devour, spend, squander, assimilate, occupy, absorb, employ, utilize, waste, destroy, spoil, ravage, expend, pine, wither, decay.

ANT: Reject, supersede, disuse, discard.

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KEY: Consummate \v.\

SYN: Complete, perfect, execute, finish, accomplish, conclude, seal, end.

ANT: Neglect, drop, interrupt, nullify, undo, baffle, frustrate, mar, defeat, spoil.

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KEY: Consummate \a.\

SYN: Perfect, egregious, excellent, complete, finished.

ANT: Imperfect, rude, common, mediocre, faulty, defective, ordinary.

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KEY: Consummation, [See CONSUMMATE and COMPLETION].

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KEY: Consumption.

SYN: Decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease.

ANT: Growth, development, enlargement, augmentation.

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KEY: Contact.

SYN: Touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction.

ANT: Proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance, isolation, noncontact.

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KEY: Contagious.

SYN: Catching, epidemic, infectious, pestilential, communicated, transferred, transmitted, infections.

ANT: Sporadic, endemic, preventive, antipathetic.

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KEY: Contain.

SYN: Hold, include, comprise, embrace, comprehend, inclose.

ANT: Drop, exclude, extrude, emit, discharge, afford, yield, produce.

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KEY: Contaminate.

SYN: Defile, taint, corrupt, sully, befoul, soil.

ANT: Purify, cleanse, lave, clarify, sanctify, chasten.

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KEY: Contemn.

SYN: Despise, disdain, deride, vilify, slight, disregard, scorn.

ANT: Respect, revere, venerate, regard.

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KEY: Contemplate.

SYN: Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon.

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KEY: Contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Contempt, [See CONTEMN].

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KEY: Contemptible.

SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial.

ANT: Important, grave, weighty, honorable, respectable, venerable.

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KEY: Contemptuous, [See SUPERCILIOUS].

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KEY: Contend.

SYN: Strive, compete, cope, dispute, vie, contest, struggle, grapple, argue, maintain, disagree, wrangle.

ANT: Resign, concede, allow, relinquish, forego, surrender, waive.

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KEY: Content.

SYN: Full, satisfied, pleased, gratified, contented, willing, resigned.

ANT: Unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unwilling, reluctant, discontented.

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KEY: Contented, [See CONTENT].

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KEY: Contention, [See STRIFE].

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KEY: Contentious, [See CONTEND and QUARRELSOME].

SYN: Litigious, perverse, wayward, splenetic, cantankerous, exceptions.

ANT: Pacific, obliging, considerate, obsequious, accommodating, easy.

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KEY: Conterminous.

SYN: Commensurate, adjoining, contiguous, abutting.

ANT: Unequal, inconformable, adjacent, proximate, remote, inconterminous.

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KEY: Contest \v.\ [See CONTEND].

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KEY: Contest \n.\ [See CONTENTION].

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KEY: context.

SYN: Tenor, treatment, texture, composition, matter.

ANT: Text, quotation, citation, passage, extract.

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KEY: Contexture, [See TEXTURE].

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KEY: Contiguous, [See CONTAGIOUS, ADJACENT, and CONTERMINOUS].

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KEY: Continence.

SYN: Abstinence, selfcontrol, refrain \n.\ Chastity, sobriety, temperance.

ANT: Licentiousness, self-indulgence, incontinence, dissoluteness, intemperance.

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KEY: Contingency, [See ACCIDENT].

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KEY: Contingent \a.\

SYN: Dependent, incidental, resultant, co-emcient, hypothetical, uncertain, conditional.

ANT: Positive, absolute, independent, unmodified, unaffected, uncontrolled, irrespective.

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KEY: Contingent \n.\

SYN: Contribution, subsidy, supply, succor, reinforcement, auxiliaries, donation, subscription.

ANT: Army, sum, host, campaign, fund, capital.

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KEY: Continual. [See CONSTANT and EVERLASTING].

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KEY: Continually.

SYN: Constantly, persistently, always, ever, perpetually, unceasingly, repeatedly, frequently, continuously.

ANT: Casually, occasionally, contingently, sometimes, rarely, fitfully, intermittently.

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KEY: Continuation.

SYN: Sequence, continuance, continuity, duration, succession, connection, extension, prolongation, perpetuation, concatenation.

ANT: Interruption, cessation, discontinuance, break, gap.

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KEY: Continue.

SYN: Last, persist, endure, remain, abide, stay, persevere, proceed.

ANT: Cease, fail, stop, pause, break, discontinue.

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KEY: Continuity, [See CONTINUATION].

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KEY: Contortion.

SYN: Twisting, writhing, wresting, distortion, deformity, convolution.

ANT: Symmetry, uniformity, shapeliness, configuration, contour.

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KEY: Contour, [See CONFIGURATION].

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KEY: Contraband.

SYN: Illicit, interdicted, smuggled.

ANT: Licit, uninterstated, free.

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KEY: Contract \v.\

SYN: Abridge, abbreviate, narrow, lessen, reduce, compress, decrease, retrench, curtail, form, agree.

ANT: Expand, amplify, dilate, elongate, reverse, cancel, abandon.

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KEY: Contract \n.\

SYN: Covenant, agreement, compact, bond, pact, stipulation, bargain.

ANT: Promise, assurance, parole.

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KEY: Contradict.

SYN: Oppose, dissent, negative, controvert, deny, disprove, confute, refute, gainsay, contravene.

ANT: State, propound, maintain, argue, confirm, affirm, endorse.

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KEY: Contradiction.

SYN: Repugnance, contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility.

ANT: Harmony, coincidence, concurrence, affirmation, proof, statement.

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KEY: Contraposition.

SYN: Oppositeness, confrontment, facing.

ANT: Side, flank, collateralness.

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KEY: Contrarious, [See CONTENTIOUS].

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KEY: Contrary.

SYN: Opposed, opposite, repugnant, antagonistic, adverse, incompatible, inconsistent.

ANT: Agreeing, consentaneous, compatible, kindred, coincident, consistent.

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KEY: Contrast.

SYN: Opposition, contrariety, dissimilarity.

ANT: Harmony, similarity, comparison, similitude.

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KEY: Contribute.

SYN: Conduce, add, subscribe, give, co-operate, assist, tend, supply.

ANT: Refuse, withhold, misconduct, misapply, contravene.

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KEY: Contribution.

SYN: Donation, oblation, offering, gift, subscription, subsidy, aid, assistance.

ANT: Withholding, retention, disallowance, misappropriation, misapplication, contravention.

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KEY: Contrition, [See ATTRITION].

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KEY: Contrivance, [See CONTRIVE and DEVICE].

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KEY: Contrive.

SYN: Plan, design, arrange, fabricate, adapt, manage, scheme, devise, concert, adjust.

ANT: Hit, hazard, run, chance, venture, bungle, overvault, overdo.

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KEY: Contriving, [See CONTRIVE].

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KEY: Control \v.\

SYN: Check, curb, moderate, repress, guide, regulate, restrain, coerce, manage, administer, govern.

ANT: Neglect, abandon, license, berate, free, mismanage, misconduct.

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KEY: Control \n.\ [See VERB and COMPULSION].

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KEY: Controversy.

SYN: Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation, wrangle, bickering, question.

ANT: Agreement, unanimity, coincidence.

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KEY: controvertible.

SYN: Questionable, dubious.

ANT: Unquestionable, incontrovertible.

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KEY: Contumacy.

SYN: Rebelliousness, stubbornness, restiveness, waywardness, self-will, untractableness.

ANT: Submissiveness, docility, tractableness, servility, cringing, fawning, flattery.

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KEY: Contumely.

SYN: Contemptuousness, scornfulness, arrogance, disrespect, obloquy.

ANT: Respect, regard, obligingness, accommodation, considerateness, flattery, adulation, obsequiousness, fawning.

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KEY: Contusion.

SYN: Bruise, knock, blow.

ANT: Soothing, smoothing, stroking, caress, pat.

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KEY: Convene.

SYN: Assemble, collect, gather, meet, congregate, call together, summon, muster, levy, convoke.

ANT: Disperse, dismiss, disband.

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KEY: Convenient.

SYN: Handy, apt, adapted, fitted, suitable, helpful, commodious, useful, timely, seasonable, opportune.

ANT: Inconvenient, awkward, obstructive, useless, superfluous, unseasonable, untimely, inopportune.

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KEY: Convention.

SYN: Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress, session, synod, treaty, compact.

ANT: Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word, parole.

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KEY: Conventional.

SYN: Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social.

ANT: Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, statutable, immutable, natural, invariable.

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KEY: Conventual.

SYN: CÅ“nobitual, regular, monastic.

ANT: Social, secular, laic.

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KEY: Converge.

SYN: Tend, bear, incline, lead, coincide, conduce, contribute, meet, concentrate, coradiate.

ANT: Diverge, deviate, radiate, mix, foul, entangle.

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KEY: Conversant.

SYN: Familiar, ae, quainted, proficient, experienced, versed, learned.

ANT: Unfamiliar, unacquainted, ignorant, unversed, unlearned, strange, inconversant.

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KEY: Conversation.

SYN: Converse, dialogue, talk, conference, colloquy, confabulation, chat.

ANT: Speech, oration, harangue, babel, jabber, babble, prattle, dribble, mutter, soliloquy, apostrophe, monologue, interpellation, interruption, silence, taciturnity.

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KEY: Converse \v.\

SYN: Talk, discourse, speak, chat.

ANT: Keep silent.

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KEY: Converse \a.\

SYN: Opposite, reverse, contrary, opposed, contradictory, counter, relative, correlative.

ANT: Identical, same, one, inseparable, indistinguishable, connate, uniform, direct, primary, uninverted.

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KEY: Conversion.

SYN: Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge.

ANT: Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity.

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KEY: Convert \v.\

SYN: Change, alter, transmute, transform, apply, appropriate, turn.

ANT: Conserve, perpetuate, stabilitate, [See {Q1409 stereotype}?], clinch, alienate, divert, misappropriate, misapply.

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KEY: Convertible.

SYN: Identical, commensurate, conterminous, equivalent, equipollent.

ANT: Variant, incommensurate, unequivalent, contrary, contradictory, contrariant.

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KEY: Convey.

SYN: Take, carry, transfer, relegate, bear, transmit, consign, transport, remove.

ANT: Bring, adduce, fetch, drop, house, stow, deposit.

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KEY: Conveyance, [See CONVEY].

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KEY: Convict.

SYN: Sentence, condemn.

ANT: Acquit, discharge.

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KEY: Conviction.

SYN: Assurance, persuasion, belief.

ANT: Doubt, misgiving, disbelief.

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KEY: Convince.

SYN: Persuade, enlighten, inoculate, indoctrinate.

ANT: Misguide, mislead, misadvise, mystify, puzzle, perplex, mispersuade, unsettle.

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KEY: Convivial.

SYN: Hospitable, social, festive, gay, festal, jovial, jolly.

ANT: Inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly, churlish, abstemious, austere, ascetic.

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KEY: Convocate, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Convocation, [See CONVENTION].

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KEY: Convoke, [See CONVENE].

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KEY: Convolution.

SYN: Coil, involution, implication, spiral, twist, contortion.

ANT: Unravelling, explication, evolution, enucleation.

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KEY: Convoy.

SYN: Escort, guard, protection, conduct.

ANT: Loss, betrayal, capture, interception.

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KEY: Convulse.

SYN: Agitate, shake, perturb, disturb.

ANT: Soothe, collocate, compose, assuage.

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KEY: Cool \v.\

SYN: Ventilate, refrigerate, allay, damp, temper, moderate.

ANT: Warm, heat, chafe, irritate, excite, inflame.

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KEY: Cool \a.\

SYN: Cold, frigid, unimpassioned, calm, indifferent, self-possessed, deliberate, dispassioned, collected, apathetic, composed.

ANT: Warm, hot, ardent, eager.

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KEY: Coolness.

SYN: Coldness, indifference, self-possession, distance, calmness.

ANT: Heat, ardor, eagerness, passion, excitement, warmth, heartiness.

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KEY: Coop, [See CONFINE].

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KEY: Co-operate.

SYN: Assist, abet, contribute, concur, work together, help, conspire.

ANT: Thwart, oppose, counteract, rival.

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KEY: Co-operation, [See CO-OPERATE and UNION].

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KEY: Co-ordinate.

SYN: Consociate, coincident, equal, coequal, equivalent, tantamount, equipollent, interequivalent.

ANT: Extraneous, diverse, alien, unequal, unequivalent, incoordinate, disparate.

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KEY: Copartner, [See PARTNER].

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KEY: Cope.

SYN: Contend, vie, struggle, compete, strive.

ANT: Negotiate, arbitrate, compromise, surrender.

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KEY: Copious, [See ABUNDANT].

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KEY: Copy \n.\

SYN: Imitation, portraiture, facsimile, counterfeit, duplicate, image, likeness, transcript.

ANT: Original, prototype, model, example, pattern.

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KEY: Cordial.

SYN: Warm, earnest, sincere, reviving, invigorating, affectionate, hearty.

ANT: Cold, distant, formal, ceremonious.

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KEY: Core.

SYN: Heart, kernel, nucleus, centre.

ANT: Face, exterior, aspect, appearance, complexion, ostensibility, pretext.

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KEY: Corner.

SYN: Cavity, hole, nook, recess, retreat.

ANT: Coin, abutment, prominence, salience, angle, protrusion, elbow, protection, convexity.

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KEY: Cornice.

SYN: Beading, moulding, projection.

ANT: Entablature, fluting, corrugation, cavity, groove.

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KEY: Corollary.

SYN: Inference, deduction, additament, superaddition.

ANT: Problem, proposition.

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KEY: Corporal.

SYN: Bodily, fleshly, physical, material, corporeal.

ANT: Mental, moral, spiritual.

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KEY: Corps.

SYN: Body, regiment, band, squadron, troop, company.

ANT: Aggregate, army, host, force, mass, organization.

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KEY: Corpse.

SYN: Carcass, remains, dust, clay.

ANT: Soul, person, individual.

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KEY: Corpulent.

SYN: Stout, burly, fat, portly, gross, lusty, plethoric, fleshy.

ANT: Lean, thin, attenuated, slight, emaciated.

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KEY: Corpuscle.

SYN: Atom, particle, monad, jot, molecule.

ANT: mass, body, aggregate, organization, matter.

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KEY: Corpuscular, [See CORPUSCLE].

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KEY: corradiate, [See CONVERGE].

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KEY: Correct \a.\

SYN: true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right.

ANT: false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong.

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KEY: Correct \v.\

SYN: Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set right, improve.

ANT: Spare, falsify, corrupt.

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KEY: correction.

SYN: amendment, discipline, emendation, chastisement, punishment.

ANT: Deterioration, debasement, retrogradation, reward, recompense.

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KEY: Corrective.

SYN: Regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative.

ANT: Confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive.

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KEY: Correlation.

SYN: correspondence, interrelation, interdependence, mutuality, apposition.

ANT: Contradiction, independence, [See LEARNED and RATIONAL].

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KEY: Correlative, [See CORRUGATION].

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KEY: Correspond.

SYN: Match, tally, fit, answer, agree, suit, harmonize.

ANT: Vary, differ, disagree, jar, clash.

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KEY: Correspondence.

SYN: Fitness, agreement, adaptation, congruity, answerableness, match, congeniality, communication, letter, writing, despatches.

ANT: Conversation, colloquy, confabulation, reservation, withdrawal, withholding, nonintercourse, difference, repugnance.

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KEY: Correspondent \a.\ [See SUITABLE].

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KEY: Corrigible.

SYN: Amenable, docile, tractable.

ANT: Intractable, stubborn, incorrigible.

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KEY: Corroborate.

SYN: Strengthen, confirm, fortify, support.

ANT: Weaken, invalidate, shake, confute, rebut, enfeeble.

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KEY: corporation.

SYN: Confirmation, fortification, strengthening.

ANT: Counterevidence, contradiction, invalidation, shaking, refutation.

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KEY: Corrode.

SYN: Eat, rust, gnaw, canker, wear, crumble.

ANT: Repair, renew, furbish, consolidate.

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KEY: Corrosion, [See CORRODE and RUST].

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KEY: Corrosive, [See CORRODE].

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KEY: Corrugate.

SYN: Furrow, groove, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, ruffle, crease.

ANT: Plane, flatten, roll.

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KEY: Corrugation, [See CORRUGATE].

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KEY: Corrupt \v.\

SYN: Spoil, deteriorate, impair, putrefy, vitiate, demoralize, debase, defile, contaminate, pollute, deprave.

ANT: Mend, repair, purify, cleanse, correct, ameliorate, better.

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KEY: Corrupt \a.\

SYN: Defiled, polluted, vitiated, decayed, depraved, putrid, rotten, infected, tainted, profligate, contaminated.

ANT: Pure, uncorrupt, undented.

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KEY: Corruption.

SYN: Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness, defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination, putrefaction.

ANT: Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration.

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KEY: Coruscate.

SYN: Blaze, flame, flash, scintillate, glisten.

ANT: Pale, smoulder, darken, loom, lower, glimmer, gleam, glare, beam, shimmer.

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KEY: Coruscation, [See CORUSCATE].

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KEY: Cosmical.

SYN: Universal, general.

ANT: Local, topical, national, persomal.

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KEY: Cost. \v.\

SYN: Require, consume, absorb.

ANT: Bring, produce, yield, afford, fetch, return.

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KEY: Cost. \n.\

SYN: Expenditure, outlay, disbursement, payment, compensation, price, worth, expense, charge, outgoings.

ANT: Receipt, income, emolument, return, profit, perquisite, revenue.

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KEY: Costly.

SYN: Valuable, expensive, high-priced, rich, precious, sumptuous.

ANT: Valueless, cheap, low-priced, mean, worthless, beggarly, paltry.

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KEY: Costume.

SYN: Uniform, livery, robes.

ANT: Disguise, transformation, incognito.

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KEY: Cosy.

SYN: Snug, comfortable, chatty.

ANT: Bare, comfortless, cross.

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KEY: contemporary, [See COETANEOUS].

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KEY: Council.

SYN: Cabinet, bureau, chamber, consultation, conclave, parliament, congress, synod, company, assembly, meeting, conference, convention, convocation.

ANT: League, conspiracy, cabal, intrigue, mob, multitude, crowd.

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KEY: Counsel \n.\

SYN: Advice, instruction, monition, admonition, warning, recommendation.

ANT: Misguidance, misinstruction, betrayal.

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KEY: Counsel \v.\

SYN: Advise, instruct, warn, guide, admonish.

ANT: Misguide, misinstruct, betray, counselor, [See COUNSEL].

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KEY: Count.

SYN: Compute, reckon, enumerate, estimate, number, sum, calculate.

ANT: Hazard, conjecture, guess, lump, confound.

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KEY: Countenance \v.\

SYN: Help, aid, abet, favor, sanction, patronize, support, encourage.

ANT: Oppose, confront, discourage, discountenance, browbeat.

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KEY: Countenance \n.\

SYN: Aid, abet, encourage, support.

ANT: Discountenance.

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KEY: Counter.

SYN: Opposed, contrary, against.

ANT: According, coincident.

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KEY: Counteract.

SYN: Counterinfluence, counterfoil, foil, baffle, neutralize, oppose, rival, thwart, hinder.

ANT: Aid, help, abet, promote, conserve, co-operate, subserve.

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KEY: Counterevidence.

SYN: Contradiction, confliction.

ANT: Corroboration, confirmation.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \v.\

SYN: Simulate, misrepresent, impersonate.

ANT: Expose, unmask, detect.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \n.\

SYN: Cheat, trick, juggle, fraud, artifice, fabrication, pretense, ruse, sham.

ANT: Exposure, detection, unmasking, unveiling, reality, verity, fact, truth.

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KEY: Counterfeit. \a.\ [See FALSE].

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KEY: Counterfoil. [See BAFFLE].

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KEY: Countermand, [See COMMAND].

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KEY: Counterpart.

SYN: Match, fellow, tally, brother, twin, copy.

ANT: Correlative, complement, supplement, opponent, counteragent, reverse, obverse, opposite, antithesis, contrast, contradiction.

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KEY: Counterpoise \v.\

SYN: Balance, equalize.

ANT: Over-balance, aggravate.

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KEY: Counterpoise \n.\

SYN: Makeweight, equilibrium.

ANT: Preponderance.

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KEY: Counterpressure.

SYN: Resistance, stubbornness, renitency.

ANT: Yielding, giving, resilience.

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KEY: Countervail.

SYN: Counteract, of, pose, withstand.

ANT: Aggravate, intensify, subserve.

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KEY: Countless \a.\

SYN: Innumerable, numberless, unnumbered.

ANT: Few, scant, sparse.

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KEY: Countryman.

SYN: Rustic, clown, boor, compatriot, swain, yeoman, bus, bandman, farmer, agriculturist, laborer, peasant, fellow-countryman, fellow-subject, fellowcitizen, subject, citizen, inhabitant, native.

ANT: Oppidan, townsman, cockney, foreigner, alien, stranger, Couple


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