Chapter 8

ANT: Tumor, protuberance, button, knob, tooth.

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KEY: Denticulated.

SYN: Notched, crenellated, indented.

ANT: Toothed, serrated.

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KEY: Denticulation, [See DENTICULATED].

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KEY: Denude.

SYN: Strip, divest, bare, spoil.

ANT: Invest, drape, decorate, enrich, ornament.

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KEY: Denunciation, [See DENOUNCE].

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KEY: Deny.

SYN: Refuse, reject, withhold, negative, contradict, gainsay, disclaim, disavow, disown, oppose.

ANT: Grant, accept, concede, admit, affirm, confirm, afford, yield, indulge.

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KEY: Depart.

SYN: Leave, quit, [See CONTROL and GOVERN], decamp, start, sally, retire, withdraw, abandon, remove, vanish.

ANT: Stay, cling, remain, come, arrive, alight, Used also for die.

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KEY: Departed, [See DEPART and DEFUNCT].

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KEY: Department.

SYN: Section, division, portion, function, office, branch, province, line.

ANT: Institution, establishment, art, science, literature, service, state, whole, organization, community, society, body.

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KEY: Dependence, [See DEPENDENT and RELIANCE].

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KEY: Dependent.

SYN: Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative.

ANT: Independent, irrelative, irrespective, absolute, free.

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KEY: Depict.

SYN: Portray, color, paint, draw, delineate.

ANT: Misrepresent, exaggerate, deform, caricature.

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KEY: Deplorable.

SYN: Lamentable, miserable, pitiable, sad, calamitous, disastrous.

ANT: Welcome, glad, acceptable, felicitous, beneficial, joyous.

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KEY: Deplore.

SYN: Regret, lament, moorn, bewail, bemoan.

ANT: Welcome, hail.

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KEY: Depopulate.

SYN: Waste, dispeople, desert, {[coandon]?}, unpeople.

ANT: Occupy, tenant, colonize, inhabit, settle, replenish, stock, fill.

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KEY: Deportation.

SYN: Arrival, importation, placement, reconsignment.

ANT: Exportation, emigration, displacement.

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KEY: Deportment.

SYN: Behavior, carriage, movement, demeanor, character, conduct.

ANT: Misbehavior, misdeportment.

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KEY: Depose, [See ENTHRONE].

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KEY: Deprave, [See DEBASE].

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KEY: Deprecate.

SYN: Disavow, disclaim, expostulate, intercede.

ANT: Beg, supplicate, ask, entreat, request, imprecate, invoke.

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KEY: Depreciate, [See DISPARAGE].

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KEY: Depredation.

SYN: Havoc, robbery, spoliation, plunder, trespass, invasion, encroachment.

ANT: Pilfering, perquisite, abstraction, pocketing, restitution, compensation.

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KEY: Depredator, [See DEPREDATION].

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KEY: Depress, [See ELEVATE].

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KEY: Depression.

SYN: Lowering, degradation, debasement, dejection, discouragement, hollow, valley, dip.

ANT: Raising, elevation, exaltation, promotion, preferment, amelioration, encouragement, rallying, rising, eminence, mound, prominence.

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KEY: Deprive.

SYN: Strip, bereave, despoil, rob, divest, dispossess, abridge, depose, prevent, hinder.

ANT: Invest, endow, compensate, enrich, supply, present, reinstate, indemnify.

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KEY: Depute.

SYN: Appoint, commission, charge, entrust, delegate, authorize, accredit, constitute.

ANT: Recall, discard, dismiss, discommission, supersede.

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KEY: Deputy.

SYN: Vicegerent, lieutenant, representative, agent, commissioner, legate, envoy, delegate, proxy, substitute.

ANT: Principal, master, chief, governor, sovereign, ruler, head.

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KEY: Derange, [See ARRANGE].

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KEY: Derangement, [See ABERRATION].

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KEY: Dereliction.

SYN: Abandonment, failure, shortcoming, desertion, relinquishment, neglect.

ANT: Performance, observance, adherence, attention.

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KEY: Deride, [See DERISION].

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KEY: Derision.

SYN: Scorn, contempt, mockery, irony, sarcasm, contumely, disrespect.

ANT: Respect, regard, admiration, reverence.

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KEY: Derisive.

SYN: Scornful, contemptuous, disrespectful.

ANT: Respectful, deferential, reverential.

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KEY: Derivation.

SYN: Origin, source, descent, beginning, cause, etymology, root, spring, analysis.

ANT: Result, issue, formation, application, use.

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KEY: Derive.

SYN: Deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve.

ANT: Misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace.

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KEY: Derogate.

SYN: Detract, disparage, depreciate, decry, deteriorate.

ANT: Esteem, value, laud, enhance, extol, exaggerate, overestimate, overvalue.

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KEY: Derogation, [See DEROGATE].

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KEY: Descant.

SYN: Dissert, discuss, expatiate, enlarge, talk, dwell, amplify.

ANT: Condense, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, confine, clip, delineate.

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KEY: Descend, [See ASCEND].

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KEY: Descendant.

SYN: Offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage.

ANT: Author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin.

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KEY: Descent, [See DESCEND].

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KEY: Describe.

SYN: Draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict, represent, relate, narrate, recount.

ANT: Confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort.

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KEY: Description, [See DENOMINATION].

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KEY: Descry.

SYN: Discern, recognize, discover, distinguish, espy, detect, observe, mark, perceive.

ANT: Miss, overlook, misobserve.

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KEY: Desecrate.

SYN: Profane, secularize, misuse, abuse, prostitute, pollute.

ANT: Use, employ, devote, dedicate, consecrate, solemnize, sanctify, purify, reconcile.

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KEY: Desert \n.\

SYN: Wild, waste, wilderness, solitude, void.

ANT: Inclosure, field, pasture, garden, oasis.

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KEY: Desert, [See ABANDON].

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KEY: Deserter.

SYN: Renegade, run, away, recanter, abjurer, apostate, traitor, forsaker.

ANT: Adherent, supporter, ally, befriender, disciple, bigot, slave.

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KEY: Deserve.

SYN: Merit, earn, justify, win.

ANT: Forfeit, misdeserve, lose.

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KEY: Desiderate.

SYN: Desire, want, need, require.

ANT: Disregard, forget, supersede, discard.

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KEY: Desideratum.

SYN: Requisite, complement, essential, want.

ANT: Surplusage, superfluity, in, cumbrance, drawback.

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KEY: Design \v.\

SYN: Contemplate, purpose, intend, plan, prepare, project.

ANT: Hit, risk, guess, conjecture, chance, fluke, misconceive, miscontrive.

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KEY: Design \n.\

SYN: Contemplation, pur pose, intention, plan, preparation draft, delineation, sketch, drawing, artifice, cunning, artfulness, guile, contrivance, intent, project, scheme.

ANT: Execution, performance, result, issue, construction, structure, candor, fairness, openness, artlessness, sincerity, simplicity, change, incident.

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KEY: Designate, [See DENOMINATE].

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KEY: Designation, [See DESIGNATE].

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KEY: Designed, [See DESIGN].

SYN: Intended, prepared, purposed, adapted, calculated, planned, contrived, intentional.

ANT: Fortuitous, casual, accidental, miscalculated, miscontrived, unintended.

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KEY: Designing, [See DESIGN and ARTFUL].

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KEY: Desinence.

SYN: Termination, conclusion, cessation, discontinuance, cadence, period, finality.

ANT: Origination, initiation, inauguration, continuance, progression, commencement, inception.

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KEY: Desirable.

SYN: Expedient, advisable, valuable, acceptable, proper, judicious, beneficial, profitable, good, enviable, delightful.

ANT: Undesirable, unadvisable, inexpedient, objectionable, improper, injudicious, unprofitable, evil.

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KEY: Desire \n.\

SYN: Longing, affection, propension, craving, concupiscence, appetency.

ANT: Loathing, hate, repugnance, disgust, aversion, abomination, horror.

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KEY: Desire, [See COVET].

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KEY: Desist.

SYN: Cease, stop, discontinue, drop, abstain, forbear, leave off.

ANT: Continue, proceed, persist, persevere.

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KEY: Desolate \a.\

SYN: Bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, comfortless, deserted, uninhabited, desert, wild, waste, bare, bleak, lonely.

ANT: Cheered, cheerful, consoled, attended, cultivated, sheltered, fertile, luxuriant, animated, lively, gay, frequented.

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KEY: Desolate \v.\

SYN: Waste, spoil, sack, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, depopulate.

ANT: People, colonize, plant, develop, fertilize, cultivate, enrich, enliven.

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KEY: Desolation, [See DESOLATE].

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KEY: Despair \n.\

SYN: Hopelessness, despondency, desperation.

ANT: Hopefulness, elation, anticipation, hilarity, confidence, sanguineness, expectation.

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KEY: Despair \v.\

SYN: Despond, faint.

ANT: Hope, trust, confide, rely, presume, rally.

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KEY: Desperate.

SYN: Wild, daring, audacious, determined, reckless, abandoned, rash, furious, frantic, despairing, regardless, mad, desponding, hapless, inextricable, irremediable.

ANT: Cool, calm, cautious, timid, shy, irresolute, remediable, hopeful, promising, propitious.

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KEY: Despicable, [See CONTEMPTIBLE].

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KEY: Despise, [See DESPICABLE and CONTEMN].

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KEY: Despite, prep.

SYN: Notwithstanding, opposing, resisting.

ANT: concurrently, consentaneously, {[ai]?}, ling, abetting.

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KEY: Despite \n.\ [See DESPITE, prep. and SPITE].

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KEY: Despoil.

SYN: Strip, denude, ravage, devastate, rob, havoc, spoliate.

ANT: Decorate, adorn, embellish, enrich, reinstate, rehabilitate.

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KEY: Respond, [See DESPAIR].

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KEY: Despot.

SYN: Tyrant, autocrat.

ANT: Slave, subject.

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KEY: Despotic.

SYN: Autocratic, domineering, arbitrary, arrogant, imperious, self-willed, irresponsible, absolute, cruel, tyrannical.

ANT: Limited, constitutional, humane, merciful.

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KEY: Destine.

SYN: Purpose, intend, design, doom, ordain, devote.

ANT: alienate?, divorce, misapply, divert.

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KEY: Destination.

SYN: Purpose, intention, design, consignment, object, end, fate, doom, arrival, application, use, scope, appointment, point, location, goal, aim.

ANT: Operation, tendency, exercise, action, movement, design, initiation, project, effort.

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KEY: Destiny.

SYN: Fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end.

ANT: Will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill.

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KEY: Destitute, [See DEPRIVE and NEEDY].

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KEY: Destroy.

SYN: Demolish, annihilate, subvert, ruin, overthrow, undo, waste, consume.

ANT: restore, reinstate, repair, fabricate, make, construct, create.

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KEY: Destructive.

SYN: detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversive.

ANT: Wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative.

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KEY: Desuetude.

SYN: Disuse, obsoleteness, non-observance.

ANT: Use, vogue, custom, practice, observance, exercise, operation, permanence, perpetuation.

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KEY: Desultory.

SYN: Rambling, discursive, loose, unmethodical, superficial, unsettled, erratic, inexact, spasmodic, fitful, freakish, aberrant, unsystematic, cursory, roving, hasty, slight.

ANT: Settled, consecutive, earnest, serious, persevering, continuous, methodical, exact, diligent, untiring, recurrent, periodical, systematic.

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KEY: Detach, [See ATTACH].

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KEY: Detail \v.\

SYN: Particularize, enumerate, recount, individualize, sift, analyze, specify.

ANT: Generalize, condense, conglomerate, gather, sketch, suggest abstract, classify, amalgamate.

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KEY: Detail \n.\

SYN: Element, component, particular, specialty, point.

ANT: Account, statement, recital, totality, representation.

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KEY: Detain.

SYN: Stay, keep, arrest, check, withhold, delay, restrain, embargo, stop.

ANT: Liberate, expedite, accelerate, dismiss, loose, disembargo.

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KEY: Detect.

SYN: Discover, descry, unmask, expose.

ANT: Miss, lose, misobserve, ignore, connive.

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KEY: Detention.

SYN: Retention, retaining, hindrance.

ANT: Relinquishment, abandonment, letting go.

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KEY: Deter.

SYN: Warn, stop, dissuade, disincline, indispose, dispirit, hinder, prevent, discourage, dishearten, terrify, scare.

ANT: Encourage, incite, provoke, move, allure, prompt, tempt, seduce, persuade.

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KEY: Deterge, [See ABSTERGE].

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KEY: Deteriorate, [See AMELIORATE].

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KEY: Determinate, [See DEFINITE].

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KEY: Determination, [See DEFINITION and DECISION].

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KEY: Determine, [See DEFINE and DECIDE].

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KEY: detortion, [See DETERGE].

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KEY: Detest, [See ABOMINATE].

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KEY: Detestable, [See DETEST and ABOMINABLE].

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KEY: Dethrone.

SYN: Uncrown, depose.

ANT: Anoint, enthrone, crown.

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KEY: Dethronement, [See DETHRONE].

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KEY: Detonate.

SYN: Explode, pop.

ANT: Smoulder, hang, puff.

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KEY: detortion.

SYN: Wresting, violation, twisting, distortion, perversion, decurvity, devexity, recurvation.

ANT: Direction, aim, rectilinearity, rectification.

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KEY: Detract.

SYN: Lessen, deteriorate, depreciate, disparage, defame, decry, derogate, calumniate, scandalize, vilify, diminish.

ANT: Augment, enhance, raise, increase.

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KEY: Detraction.

SYN: Diminution, deterioration, depreciation, slander, backbiting, derogation.

ANT: Augmentation, improvement, enhancement, eulogy, compliment, flattery.

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KEY: Detractor.

SYN: Slanderer, cynic, backbiter.

ANT: Flatterer, sycophant, eulogist.

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KEY: Detriment.

SYN: Loss, harm, hurt, injury, deterioration, impairment, disadvantage, prejudice, damage, inconvenience.

ANT: Enhancement, improvement, remedy, reinstatement, repair, augmentation.

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KEY: Detrimental.

SYN: Injurious, hurtful, pernicious.

ANT: Beneficial, profitable, augmentative.

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KEY: Detrude, [See DASH].

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KEY: Detruncation.

SYN: Lopping, disramification, pollarding, dismemberment, discorporation, amputation, stripping.

ANT: Training, trailing, grafting, inoculation, luxuriance.

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KEY: Develop.

SYN: Educe, enucleate, eliminate, enunciate, lay open, disclose, unravel, unfold, clear, amplify, expand, enlarge.

ANT: Envelope, wrap, obscure, mystify, conceal, narrow, restrict, contract, condense, compress, involve.

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KEY: Development.

SYN: Outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.

ANT: Cause, origin, source, principal.

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KEY: devexity, [See DETORTION].

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KEY: Deviate.

SYN: Digress, wander, swerve, deflect, err, sway, depart, divaricate, diverge.

ANT: Continue, advance.

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KEY: Device.

SYN: Artifice, expedient, design, plan, stratagem, project, symbol, emblem, show, invention, contrivance, cognizance.

ANT: Fair-dealing, openness, miscontrivance, abortion, fortune, luck, hazard, hit, incognito.

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KEY: Devil.

SYN: Satan, lucifer, fiend, archfiend, foul fiend, demon.

ANT: Archangel, angel, seraph, cherub.

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KEY: devilish, [See ANGELIC].

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KEY: Devious.

SYN: Tortuous, circuitous, untracked, trackless, pathless, ambagious, roundabout, distorted.

ANT: Direct, plain, trodden, frequented, straightforward.

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KEY: Devise.

SYN: Contrive, plan, maneuvre, concert, manage.

ANT: Miscontrive, mismanage.

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KEY: Devoid.

SYN: Void, wanting, destitute, unendowed, unprovided.

ANT: Furnished, supplied, replete, provided, gifted.

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KEY: Devolve upon.

SYN: Impose, place, charge, commission, depute, accrue, attach, befall, fall.

ANT: Deprive, withhold, recall, cancel, alienate, miss, pretermit, pass, lapse, skip.

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KEY: Devote, [See DEDICATE].

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KEY: Devoted.

SYN: Attached, fond, absorbed, consecrated, ardent, loving, dedicated, given, abandoned.

ANT: Alienated, estranged, averse.

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KEY: Devotion.

SYN: Piety, devoutness, religiousness, dedication, self-abandonment, consecration, ardor, self-surrender, self-sacrifice, love, attachment.

ANT: Impiety, profanity, selfishness, aversion, alienation, antipathy, indifference, apathy.

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KEY: Devour.

SYN: Eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb.

ANT: Disgorge, vomit.

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KEY: Devout.

SYN: religious, pious, godly, saintly, holy, prayerful.

ANT: Irreligious, impious, profane, unholy.

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KEY: Devoutless.

ANT: [See DEVOTION].

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KEY: Dexterity, [See ABILITY].

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KEY: Dexterous, [See AWKWARD].

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KEY: Diabolical, [See DEVILISH].

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KEY: Diadem.

SYN: Crown, coronet, coronal, chaplet, wreath, fillet, tiara, circlet.

ANT: Liberty-cap, foolscap, daisy-chain.

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KEY: Diagnostic.

SYN: Symptom, indication, feature, sign, cue.

ANT: Development, crisis, formation, consummation, head, deception, illusion, misindication.

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KEY: Dialect.

SYN: Provincialism, accent, idiom, tongue, language, speech, phraseology.

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KEY: Dialectic.

SYN: Rhetorical, logical, argumentative.

ANT: Conversational, colloquial, commonplace.

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KEY: Dialogue.

SYN: Tete-a-tete, conversation, discourse, colloquy, confabulation.

ANT: Monologue, oration, soliloquy, apostrophe.

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KEY: Dictate.

SYN: Prompt, suggest, enjoin, order, direct, {[pre--crit)e]?}, pre--crit)e, decree, instruct, propose, command.

ANT: Follow, repeat, obey, echo, answer.

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KEY: Dictation.

SYN: Imperative, imperious, domineering, arbitrary.

ANT: Condescending, affable, indulgent, modest, unassuming, suppliant, supplicatory, precatory, persuasive, insinuating.

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KEY: Dictatorial, [See DICTATE and ARBITRARY].

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KEY: Diction.

SYN: Style, expression, rhetoric, phraseology, language, grammar.

ANT: Solecism, provincialism, mispronunciation.

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KEY: Dictionary.

SYN: Lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, glossary.

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KEY: Didactic.

SYN: Instructive, directive, moral.

ANT: Unsound, misinstructive, erroneous, pernicious, misleading.

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KEY: Die.

SYN: Expire, depart, perish, decline, decease, disappear, wither, languish, wane, sink, fade, decay, cease.

ANT: Begin, originate, rise, live, {[develoftel]?}, develoftel grow, strengthen, flourish, luxuriate, vegetate.

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KEY: Diet.

SYN: Food, victuals, nourishment, viands, nutriment, sustenance, fare, cheer, regimen.

ANT: Starvation, fasting, abstinence, gluttony, omnivorousness.

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KEY: Differ.

SYN: Vary, dissent, be unlike, disagree, dispute, contend.

ANT: Agree, assent, [See ASSENT].

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KEY: Difference.

SYN: Separation, destruction, dissimilarity, unlikeness, disagreement, dissonance, discord, contrariety, dissent, distinction, dissimilitude, estrangement, variety.

ANT: Community, consociation, condonation, similarity, likeness, agreement, sympathy, consonance, harmony, consentaneousness, reconciliation, uniformity, identity.

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KEY: Differentiate.

SYN: Particularize, individualize, distinguish, identify, verify, specify, segregate, disseminate, fuse, lump, mass.

ANT: Generalize, classify, confound, amalgamate, confuse.

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KEY: Differentiation \n.\ [See DIFFERENTIATE].

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KEY: Difficult.

SYN: Hard, intricate, Involved, perplexing, enigmatical, obscure, trying, arduous, troublesome, up hill, unmanageable, unamenable, reserved, opposed.

ANT: Easy, plain, straight, pimple, lucid, categorical, tractable, amenable, unreserved, favorable.

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KEY: Difficulty, [See DIFFICULT].

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KEY: Diffident, [See MODEST].

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KEY: Diffuse.

SYN: Discursive, prolix, verbose, diluted, copious.

ANT: Laconic, epigrammatic, terse, condensed.

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KEY: Dig, [See DELVE].

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KEY: Digest \v.\

SYN: Sort, arrange, dispose, order, classify, study, ponder, consider, prepare, assimilate, incorporate, convert, methodise, tabulate.

ANT: Displace, confound, complicate, derange, disorder, discompose, eject, refuse, reject, disturb.

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KEY: Dignified.

SYN: Exalted, stately, noble, grand, august, lofty, pompous, honored, elevated.

ANT: [See LOFTY].

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KEY: Dignify.

SYN: Aggrandize, elevate, invest, adorn, exalt, advance, promote, honor.

ANT: Degrade, disinvest, humiliate, disgrace.

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KEY: Digress, [See DEVIATE].

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KEY: laceratlon, [See LACERATION].

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KEY: Dilapidation.

SYN: Ruin, decay, disintegration, downfall, crumbling, demolition, dismantlement.

ANT: Solidity, reparation, integrity, soundness, construction, fabric, structure.

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KEY: Dilate.

SYN: Stretch, widen, expand, swell, distend, enlarge, descant, expatiate.

ANT: Narrow, contract, restrict, constrict, particularize, dissect, anatomize, concentrate, epitomize, condense.

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KEY: Dilatory.

SYN: Tardy, procrastinating, slow, loitering, behindhand, lagging, dawdling.

ANT: Quick, prompt, beforehand, vigilant, eager, alert, hasty, precipitate, rash, ardent.

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KEY: Dilemma.

SYN: Fix, hobble, quandary, doubt, difficulty, scrape.

ANT: Extrication, rebutment, freedom, advantage, superiority, escape, solution, retort.

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KEY: Diligence.

SYN: Care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry.

ANT: Indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness, inertness, idleness.

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KEY: Dim, [See OBSCURE].

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KEY: Dimension.

SYN: Measurement, size, configuration, delineation, mass, bulk, extent.

ANT: Mismeasurement, segment.

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KEY: Dimidiate.

SYN: Halve, bisect.

ANT: Unite, integrate.

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KEY: Diminish.

SYN: Lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate, retrench.

ANT: Increase, enlarge, expand, extend, amplify, magnify.

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KEY: Diminutive, [See DIMINISH and SMALL].

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KEY: Dimness, [See DIM and OBSCURE].

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KEY: Din.

SYN: Racket, clamor, rattle, resononce, clangor, reverberation.

ANT: Crash, report, burst, explosion, pop, bang.

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KEY: Dingy.

SYN: Dull, dusky, rusty, bedimmed, soiled, tarnished, dimly, dim, colorless, obscure, dead, soon, {[=-tj]?}.

ANT: Bright, burnished, flossy, highcolored, radiant, luminous, gleaming, lustrous.

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KEY: Dint.

SYN: Agency, instrumentality, force, power, emcacy.

ANT: Weakness, inoperativeness, inefficacy, uselessness, helplessness, opposition, counterforce.

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KEY: Dip, [See IMMERSE].

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KEY: Dip \n.\

SYN: Declination, depression, devexity, slope.

ANT: Elevation, ascent, acclivity, gradient.

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KEY: Diplomacy.

SYN: Embassy, ministry, ambassadorship, representation, tact, contrivance, management, negotiation, outwitting, circumvention.

ANT: Cancel, recall, conge, miscontrivance, mismanagement, maladministration, overvaulting, selfentanglement, selfdefeat, selfstultification.

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KEY: Diplomatic.

SYN: Judicious, knowing, wise, prudent, well-contrived, clever, astute, politic, discreet, well-planned, well-conceived, sagacious, well-managed.

ANT: Injudicious, bungling, stultifying, ill-managed, undiplomatic.

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KEY: Dire, [See DREADFUL].

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KEY: Direct, [See INSTRUCT].

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KEY: Direct, [See STRAIGHT].

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KEY: Direction.

SYN: Course, tendency, inclination, line, control, command, bearing, superscription, order, address.

ANT: Misdirection, deviation, mis-control, misinstruction, aberration.

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KEY: Directly.

SYN: Straightly, straightway, immediately, undeviatingly, at once, promptly, quickly, instantly.

ANT: Indirectly, by-and-by, interveniently.

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KEY: Director.

SYN: Ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide.

ANT: Body, company, institution, concern, subordinate, follower.

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KEY: Dirge.

SYN: Requiem, lament, threnody, elegy, wake, coronach.

ANT: Anthem, 'The Deum', Jubilate.

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KEY: Dirt.

SYN: Foulness, dung, filth, uncleanness, meanness, sordidness.

ANT: Cleanness, purity, ablution, integrity.

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KEY: Dirty, [See DIRT and NASTY].

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KEY: Disability.

SYN: Disqualification, impotency, unfitness, incapacity, forfeiture, incompetency.

ANT: Qualification, recommendation, fitness, deserving, merit.

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KEY: Disabled, [See DISABILITY].

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KEY: Disabuse.

SYN: Undeceive, inform, correct, enlighten, rectify.

ANT: Deceive, mislead, prejudice, prepossess, hoodwink, inveigle, stultify, bamboozle.

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KEY: Disadvantage, [See ADVANTAGE].

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KEY: Disaffection, [See AFFECTION].

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KEY: Disagreeable, [See AGREEABLE], Disagreement, [See QUARREL].

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KEY: Disallow, [See ALLOW].

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KEY: Disannul, [See ANNUL].

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KEY: Disappear, [See VANISH].

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KEY: Disappoint.

SYN: Betray, deceive, frustrate, baffle, delude, vex, mortify, defeat, foil.

ANT: Realize, justify, verify, fulfil, encourage, satisfy, gratify.

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KEY: Disapprobation, [See APPROBATION].

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KEY: Disarm, [See ARM].

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KEY: Disarrange, [See ABRIDGMENT].

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KEY: Disarray, [See ARRAY].

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KEY: Disaster, [See CALAMITY], Disavow, [See ACKNOWLEDGE], Disband, [See MUSTER].

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KEY: Disbelief, [See BELIEF].

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KEY: Disburden, [See BURDEN].

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KEY: Disburse, [See EXPEND].

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KEY: Discern.

SYN: Descry, observe, recognize, see, distinguish, discover, behold, penetrate, discriminate, differentiate, separate, perceive.

ANT: Overlook, confound, misdiscern.

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KEY: Discernible.

SYN: Visible, conspicuous, manifest, palpable, apparent, plain, perceptible, evident.

ANT: Invisible, inconspicuous, obscure, indiscernible, impalpable, microscopic, minute.

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KEY: Discernment.

SYN: Discrimination, farsightedness, clearsightedness, penetration, observation, sagacity, judgment.

ANT: Heedlessness, blindness, inobservance, shortsightedness, dullness, density, hebetude.

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KEY: Discharge.

SYN: Liberate, empty, dismiss, acquit, release, free, execute, perform, send away.

ANT: Confine, charge, detain.

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KEY: Disciple.

SYN: Follower, student, believer, votary.

ANT: Master, teacher, leader, professor.

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KEY: Disciplinarian.

SYN: Martinet, tight hand.

ANT: Sloven, kingdog.

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KEY: Discipline.

SYN: Order, strictness, training, government, instruction, drilling, control, coercion, punishment, organization.

ANT: Disorder, confusion, rebellion, mutiny, encouragement, reward, disorganization.

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KEY: Disclaim, [See CLAIM].

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KEY: Disclose.

SYN: Discover, reveal, confess, detect, divulge, make known, promulgate.

ANT: Cover, conceal, lock, suppress.

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KEY: Discolor.

SYN: Daub, stain, taint, dis, figure.

ANT: Paint, color, embellish, tin's decorate, illuminate.

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KEY: Discomfit, [See DISCONCERT].

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KEY: Discomfort.

SYN: Disquiet, vexation, annoyance, trouble, unpleasantness, disagreeableness.

ANT: Comfort, ease, pleasantness, agreeableness.

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KEY: Discommendation, [See COMMENDATION].

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KEY: Discompose, [See DERANGE].

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KEY: Disconcert.

SYN: Abash, confuse, confound, upset, baffle, derange, discompose, thwart, disturb, defeat, fret, interrupt, vex, ruffle, disorder, unsettle, frustrate, discomfit, [See {[i\ST]?}], Encourage, rally, countenance, aid, concert, concoct, arrange, order, prepare, scheme, contrive, hatch, design.

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KEY: Disconcerted, [See DISCONCERT].

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KEY: disconformity, [See CONFORMITY].

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KEY: discongruity, [See CONGRUOUS].

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KEY: Disconnect, Disconnected, Disconnection, [See CONNECTION].

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KEY: Disconsolate.

SYN: Sad, forlorn, melancholy, inconsolable, brokenhearted, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, woful.

ANT: Joyous, cheerful, merry, happy, gay, jovial, gladsome, blithe.

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KEY: Discontent, [See CONTENT].

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KEY: Discontented, [See CONTENTED].

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KEY: Discontinuance, [See CONTINUANCE].

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KEY: Discontinuity, [See CONTINUATION].

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KEY: Discord, [See CONCORD].

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KEY: Discordance, [See ACCORD].

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KEY: Discountenance, [See COUNTENANCE].

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KEY: Disenthrone, [See ENTHRONE].

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KEY: Discourage, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Discouragement, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Discourse, [See CONVERSATION].

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KEY: Discourtesy, [See COURTESY].

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KEY: Discover.

SYN: Find, invent, descry, disclose, unearth, ferret out, ascertain, discern, make known, detect, betray, indicate, manifest.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, repress, miss, lose, overlook, mask, cover, screen.

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KEY: Discredit, [See CREDIT].

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KEY: Discreditable, [See DISREPUTABLE].

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KEY: Discreet.

SYN: Discerning, wise, prudent, circumspect, cautious, wary, regulative, sensible, judicious.

ANT: Undiscerning, blind, foolish, imprudent, indiscreet, unrestrained, reckless, injudicious, silly.

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KEY: Discrepancy.

SYN: Dissonance, disharmony, discord, contrariety, disagreement, difference, variation.

ANT: Consonance, harmony, accordance, agreement, correspondence.

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KEY: Discretion, [See DISCREET].

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KEY: Discretional.

SYN: Optional.

ANT: Compulsory, obligatory.

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KEY: Discrimination.

SYN: Penetration, sagacity, acuteness, nicety, shrewdness, judgment, discernment, insight, distinction.

ANT: Dullness, confusedness, indiscriminateness, shortsightedness, hebetude, indiscernment.

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KEY: Discursive, [See CONSECUTIVE].

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KEY: Discuss.

SYN: Debate, argue, sift canvass, examine.

ANT: Mystify, confound, obscure.

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KEY: Disdain \n.\

SYN: Contempt, {[sooru]?}, haughtiness, disregard, superciliousness.

ANT: Respect, reverence, admiration, respectfulness, considerateness, humility.

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KEY: Disdain \v.\ [See SCORN].

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KEY: Disdainful, [See DISDAIN].

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KEY: Disease.

SYN: Complaint, disorder, illness, indisposition, distemper, ailment, malady, sickness.

ANT: Health, convalescence, sanity, salubrity.

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KEY: Disembody, [See EMBODY].

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KEY: disenable, [See ENABLE].

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KEY: Disenchant, [See ENCHANT].

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KEY: Disencumber, [See ENCUMBER].

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KEY: Disengage, [See ENGAGE], Disentangle, [See ENTANGLE].

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KEY: Disentitled, [See ENTITLE].

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KEY: Disesteem, [See ESTEEM].

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KEY: Disfavor, [See FAVOR].

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KEY: Disfigure, [See ADORN].

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KEY: Disfranchise, [See ENFRANCHISE].

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KEY: Disgorge, [See GORGE].

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KEY: Disgrace \v.\ [See DISHONOR].

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KEY: Disgrace \n.\ [See HONOR].

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KEY: Disguise, [See GUISE].

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KEY: Disguised, [See GUISE].

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KEY: Disgust.

SYN: Nausea, loathing, abomination, aversion, dislike, repugnance, abhorrence, distaste.

ANT: Desire, liking, partiality, predilection, relish, fondness, longing, avidity.

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KEY: Dishearten, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Dishevel.

SYN: Disorder, entangle, disarrange.

ANT: Tire, dress, plait, bind, weave, braid.

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KEY: Dishonest, [See FALLIBLE].

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KEY: Dishonor \n.\ [See HONOR].

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KEY: Dishonorable, [See HONORABLE].

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KEY: Disincline, [See INCLINE].

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KEY: Disinfect, [See INFECT].

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KEY: Disingenuous, [See INGENUOUS].

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KEY: Disinherit, [See INHERIT and DISOWN].

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KEY: Disintegrate, [See INTEGRATE].

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KEY: Disinter, [See INTER].

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KEY: Disinterested, [See INTERESTED and SELFISH].

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KEY: Disenthral, [See ENTHRAL].

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KEY: Disjoin, [See JOIN].

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KEY: Dislike, [See LEARNED].

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KEY: Dislocate, [See LOCATE].

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KEY: Dislodge, [See LODGE].

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KEY: Disloyal, [See LOYAL].

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KEY: Dismal, [Lat. /dies malus/, evil day.]

SYN: Dreary, ominous, foreboding, lonesome, cheerless, gloomy, sad, depressed, lugubrious, funereal, sorrowful, melancholy, tragic, blank.

ANT: Gay, propitious, promising, cheerful, lively, elated, joyous, laughable, ridiculous, comic.

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KEY: Dismantle.

SYN: Disrobe, divest, denude, despoil, disarm, strip.

ANT: Kobe, invest, drape, adorn, arrange, equip, endue.

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KEY: Dismay \v.\

SYN: Affright, astonish, terrify, dishearten, daunt, scare, frighten, appall.

ANT: Encourage, rally, inspirit, assure, allure.

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KEY: Dismay \n.\ [See TERROR].

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KEY: Dismember.

SYN: Disintegrate, disincorporate, detruncate.

ANT: Integrate, incorporate, organize, engraft, reorganize.

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KEY: Dismiss.

SYN: Banish, discard, abandon, cashier, send off, divest, discharge.

ANT: Retain, detain, keep, maintain.

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KEY: Dismount.

SYN: Alight, descend.

ANT: Mount, start.

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KEY: Disobey, [See OBEY].

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KEY: Disoblige, [See OBLIGE].

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KEY: Disorder, [See ORDER].

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KEY: Disorderly, [See ORDERLY].

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KEY: Disorganize, [See ORGANIZE], Disown, [See OWN].

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KEY: Disparage.

SYN: Depreciate, decry, undervalue, derogate, lower, detract, underestimate.

ANT: Extol, laud, panegyrize, overestimate, exaggerate.

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KEY: Disparate.

SYN: Unequal, different, ill-assorted, ill-matched.

ANT: Equal, co-ordinate, {[well-ai]?}, sorted, well-matched.

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KEY: dispassion, [See PASSION].

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KEY: Dispatch.

SYN: Expedite, send, accelerate, hasten, execute, conclude, Used also in the sense of kill.

ANT: Retard, detain, obstruct, impede.

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KEY: Dispel.

SYN: Disperse, scatter, dissipate, drive away, dismiss.

ANT: Collect, recall, summon, convene, congregate, conglomerate, mass, accumulate.

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KEY: Dispensation.

SYN: Economy, dealing, revelation, distribution, arrangement, visitation, exemption, immunity, privilege, abandonment, dismissal, disuse, indulgence.

ANT: Reservation, injunction, prohibition, enforcement, retention, restriction.

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KEY: Dispeople, [See PEOPLE].

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KEY: Disperse.

SYN: Dispel, scatter, disseminate, separate, break up, spread abroad, deal out, distribute, dissipate.

ANT: Collect, summon, recall, gather, concentrate, meet.

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KEY: Dispirit, [See ENCOURAGE].

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KEY: Displace, [See PLACE].

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KEY: Displant, [See PLANT].

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KEY: Display.

SYN: Show, exhibit, unfold, evidence, evince, flaunt, vault, expose, ostentation, spread out, parade.

ANT: Hide, conceal, dissemble, simulate, suppress, wrap, cloke.

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KEY: Displease, [See PLEASE].

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KEY: Displeasure, [See INTERPRETATION].

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KEY: Disport, [See SPORT].

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KEY: Dispose, [See ABRIDGMENT], [See INCLINE].

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KEY: Disposition, [See DISPOSE, ARRANGE, and CHARACTER].

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KEY: Dispossess, [See POSSESS].

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KEY: Dispraise, [See PRAISE].

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KEY: Dispread, [See SPREAD].

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KEY: Disprize, [See PRIZE].

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KEY: Disproof, [See PROOF].

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KEY: Disprove, [See PROVE].

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KEY: Disproportion, [See PROPORTION].

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KEY: Disputant.

SYN: Litigant, competitor, claimant.

ANT: Partner, auxiliary, advocate.

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KEY: Disputatious.

SYN: Litigious, argumentative, cantankerous, quarrelsome, querulous.

ANT: Conciliatory, unquarrelsome, inquerulous.

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KEY: Dispute.

SYN: Argue, question, canvass, contest, contend, challenge, debate, controvert, controversy, difference, gainsay, impugn, quarrel, altercation.

ANT: Waive, concede, allow, forego.

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KEY: Disqualify, [See QUALIFY].

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KEY: Disquiet, [See QUIET].

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KEY: Disquietude.

SYN: Anxiety, solicitude, uneasiness, embarrassment, apprehension, agitation, disturbance, commotion, dissatisfaction.

ANT: Peace, pacification, assurance, calmness, confidence, contentment, acquiescence.

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KEY: Disquisition.

SYN: Essay, treatise, discussion, dissertation.

ANT: Effusion, tirade, diatribe, rhodomontade, blarney.

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KEY: Disregard, [See REGARD].

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KEY: Disrelish, [See RELISH].

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KEY: Disreputable, [See REPUTABLE].

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KEY: Disrespect, [See RESPECT].

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KEY: Disrobe, [See DISMANTLE].

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KEY: Disruption.

SYN: Disintegration, discord, dissension, a breaking up, separation, alienation, hostility.

ANT: Union, amalgamation, reconciliation.

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KEY: Dissatisfaction, [See SATISFACTION].

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KEY: Dissect.

SYN: Take to pieces, anatomize, scrutinize, investigate.

ANT: Grasp, comprehend, slur, skim, unite, integrate, organize, compound, collocate, conjoin, confound.

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KEY: Dissemble.

SYN: Disguise, conceal, repress, smother, restrain, cloke.

ANT: Exhibit, manifest, protrude, vaunt, pretend, simulate, feign, assume, expose, profess, proclaim.

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KEY: Dissembler.

SYN: Feigner, hypocrite, disguiser, suppressor, concealer.

ANT: Exhibitor, vaunter, pretender, simulator.

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KEY: Disseminate.

SYN: Spread, propagate, preach, proclaim, publish, promulgate, scatter, circulate.

ANT: Repress, suppress, stifle, discountenance, extirpate, eradicate.

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KEY: Dissent, [See ASSENT and CONSENT].

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KEY: Dissertation, [See DEPREDATION].

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KEY: Disservice, [See SERVICE].

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KEY: Dissever, [See SEVER].

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KEY: Dissidence, [See AGREE]

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KEY: Dissilience.

SYN: Avoidance, repulsion, aversion, dislike, interrepugnance, antipathy.

ANT: Approach, attraction, appetency, desire, affection, sympathy, interest.

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KEY: Dissimilar, [See SIMILAR].

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KEY: Dissimilitude, [See SIMILITUDE].

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KEY: Dissipate, [See SQUANDER].

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KEY: Dissociate, [See ASSOCIATION and SEVER].

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KEY: Dissolute.

SYN: Abandoned, profligate, loose, licentious, wanton, vicious.

ANT: Upright, conscientious, strict, self-controlled, correct.

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KEY: Dissoluteness, [See DISSOLUTE].

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KEY: Dissolution, [See DECOMPOSITION].

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KEY: Dissolve, [See MELT and CONSOLIDATE].

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KEY: Dissonance, [See CONSONANCE].

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KEY: Dissuade, [See PERSUADE].

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KEY: Distance.

SYN: Interval, removal, separation, interspace, remoteness, absence, space, length.

ANT: Proximity, nearness, adjacency, contiguity, neighborhood, propinquity, contact, presence.

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KEY: Distant.

SYN: Far, remote, aloof, apart, asunder, separate, indistinct, obscure.

ANT: Close, near, adjacent, contiguous.

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KEY: Distaste, [See TASTE].

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KEY: Distasteful, [See TASTE].

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KEY: Distemper.

SYN: Disorder, disease, ailment.

ANT: Health, sanity, vigor, convalescence.

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KEY: Distend, [See DILATE].

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KEY: Distil.

SYN: Drop, emanate, drip, percolate.

ANT: Absorb, condense, retain, suck, hold.


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