ANT: Tumor, protuberance, button, knob, tooth.
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KEY: Denticulated.
SYN: Notched, crenellated, indented.
ANT: Toothed, serrated.
=
KEY: Denticulation, [See DENTICULATED].
=
KEY: Denude.
SYN: Strip, divest, bare, spoil.
ANT: Invest, drape, decorate, enrich, ornament.
=
KEY: Denunciation, [See DENOUNCE].
=
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].
=
KEY: Department.
SYN: Section, division, portion, function, office, branch, province, line.
ANT: Institution, establishment, art, science, literature, service, state, whole, organization, community, society, body.
=
KEY: Dependence, [See DEPENDENT and RELIANCE].
=
KEY: Dependent.
SYN: Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative.
ANT: Independent, irrelative, irrespective, absolute, free.
=
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.
=
KEY: Depopulate.
SYN: Waste, dispeople, desert, {[coandon]?}, unpeople.
ANT: Occupy, tenant, colonize, inhabit, settle, replenish, stock, fill.
=
KEY: Deportation.
SYN: Arrival, importation, placement, reconsignment.
ANT: Exportation, emigration, displacement.
=
KEY: Deportment.
SYN: Behavior, carriage, movement, demeanor, character, conduct.
ANT: Misbehavior, misdeportment.
=
KEY: Depose, [See ENTHRONE].
=
KEY: Deprave, [See DEBASE].
=
KEY: Deprecate.
SYN: Disavow, disclaim, expostulate, intercede.
ANT: Beg, supplicate, ask, entreat, request, imprecate, invoke.
=
KEY: Depreciate, [See DISPARAGE].
=
KEY: Depredation.
SYN: Havoc, robbery, spoliation, plunder, trespass, invasion, encroachment.
ANT: Pilfering, perquisite, abstraction, pocketing, restitution, compensation.
=
KEY: Depredator, [See DEPREDATION].
=
KEY: Depress, [See ELEVATE].
=
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.
=
KEY: Depute.
SYN: Appoint, commission, charge, entrust, delegate, authorize, accredit, constitute.
ANT: Recall, discard, dismiss, discommission, supersede.
=
KEY: Deputy.
SYN: Vicegerent, lieutenant, representative, agent, commissioner, legate, envoy, delegate, proxy, substitute.
ANT: Principal, master, chief, governor, sovereign, ruler, head.
=
KEY: Derange, [See ARRANGE].
=
KEY: Derangement, [See ABERRATION].
=
KEY: Dereliction.
SYN: Abandonment, failure, shortcoming, desertion, relinquishment, neglect.
ANT: Performance, observance, adherence, attention.
=
KEY: Deride, [See DERISION].
=
KEY: Derision.
SYN: Scorn, contempt, mockery, irony, sarcasm, contumely, disrespect.
ANT: Respect, regard, admiration, reverence.
=
KEY: Derisive.
SYN: Scornful, contemptuous, disrespectful.
ANT: Respectful, deferential, reverential.
=
KEY: Derivation.
SYN: Origin, source, descent, beginning, cause, etymology, root, spring, analysis.
ANT: Result, issue, formation, application, use.
=
KEY: Derive.
SYN: Deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve.
ANT: Misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace.
=
KEY: Derogate.
SYN: Detract, disparage, depreciate, decry, deteriorate.
ANT: Esteem, value, laud, enhance, extol, exaggerate, overestimate, overvalue.
=
KEY: Derogation, [See DEROGATE].
=
KEY: Descant.
SYN: Dissert, discuss, expatiate, enlarge, talk, dwell, amplify.
ANT: Condense, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, confine, clip, delineate.
=
KEY: Descend, [See ASCEND].
=
KEY: Descendant.
SYN: Offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage.
ANT: Author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin.
=
KEY: Descent, [See DESCEND].
=
KEY: Describe.
SYN: Draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict, represent, relate, narrate, recount.
ANT: Confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort.
=
KEY: Description, [See DENOMINATION].
=
KEY: Descry.
SYN: Discern, recognize, discover, distinguish, espy, detect, observe, mark, perceive.
ANT: Miss, overlook, misobserve.
=
KEY: Desecrate.
SYN: Profane, secularize, misuse, abuse, prostitute, pollute.
ANT: Use, employ, devote, dedicate, consecrate, solemnize, sanctify, purify, reconcile.
=
KEY: Desert \n.\
SYN: Wild, waste, wilderness, solitude, void.
ANT: Inclosure, field, pasture, garden, oasis.
=
KEY: Desert, [See ABANDON].
=
KEY: Deserter.
SYN: Renegade, run, away, recanter, abjurer, apostate, traitor, forsaker.
ANT: Adherent, supporter, ally, befriender, disciple, bigot, slave.
=
KEY: Deserve.
SYN: Merit, earn, justify, win.
ANT: Forfeit, misdeserve, lose.
=
KEY: Desiderate.
SYN: Desire, want, need, require.
ANT: Disregard, forget, supersede, discard.
=
KEY: Desideratum.
SYN: Requisite, complement, essential, want.
ANT: Surplusage, superfluity, in, cumbrance, drawback.
=
KEY: Design \v.\
SYN: Contemplate, purpose, intend, plan, prepare, project.
ANT: Hit, risk, guess, conjecture, chance, fluke, misconceive, miscontrive.
=
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.
=
KEY: Designate, [See DENOMINATE].
=
KEY: Designation, [See DESIGNATE].
=
KEY: Designed, [See DESIGN].
SYN: Intended, prepared, purposed, adapted, calculated, planned, contrived, intentional.
ANT: Fortuitous, casual, accidental, miscalculated, miscontrived, unintended.
=
KEY: Designing, [See DESIGN and ARTFUL].
=
KEY: Desinence.
SYN: Termination, conclusion, cessation, discontinuance, cadence, period, finality.
ANT: Origination, initiation, inauguration, continuance, progression, commencement, inception.
=
KEY: Desirable.
SYN: Expedient, advisable, valuable, acceptable, proper, judicious, beneficial, profitable, good, enviable, delightful.
ANT: Undesirable, unadvisable, inexpedient, objectionable, improper, injudicious, unprofitable, evil.
=
KEY: Desire \n.\
SYN: Longing, affection, propension, craving, concupiscence, appetency.
ANT: Loathing, hate, repugnance, disgust, aversion, abomination, horror.
=
KEY: Desire, [See COVET].
=
KEY: Desist.
SYN: Cease, stop, discontinue, drop, abstain, forbear, leave off.
ANT: Continue, proceed, persist, persevere.
=
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.
=
KEY: Desolate \v.\
SYN: Waste, spoil, sack, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, depopulate.
ANT: People, colonize, plant, develop, fertilize, cultivate, enrich, enliven.
=
KEY: Desolation, [See DESOLATE].
=
KEY: Despair \n.\
SYN: Hopelessness, despondency, desperation.
ANT: Hopefulness, elation, anticipation, hilarity, confidence, sanguineness, expectation.
=
KEY: Despair \v.\
SYN: Despond, faint.
ANT: Hope, trust, confide, rely, presume, rally.
=
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.
=
KEY: Despicable, [See CONTEMPTIBLE].
=
KEY: Despise, [See DESPICABLE and CONTEMN].
=
KEY: Despite, prep.
SYN: Notwithstanding, opposing, resisting.
ANT: concurrently, consentaneously, {[ai]?}, ling, abetting.
=
KEY: Despite \n.\ [See DESPITE, prep. and SPITE].
=
KEY: Despoil.
SYN: Strip, denude, ravage, devastate, rob, havoc, spoliate.
ANT: Decorate, adorn, embellish, enrich, reinstate, rehabilitate.
=
KEY: Respond, [See DESPAIR].
=
KEY: Despot.
SYN: Tyrant, autocrat.
ANT: Slave, subject.
=
KEY: Despotic.
SYN: Autocratic, domineering, arbitrary, arrogant, imperious, self-willed, irresponsible, absolute, cruel, tyrannical.
ANT: Limited, constitutional, humane, merciful.
=
KEY: Destine.
SYN: Purpose, intend, design, doom, ordain, devote.
ANT: alienate?, divorce, misapply, divert.
=
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.
=
KEY: Destiny.
SYN: Fate, decree, lot, fortune, predestination, necessity, doom, end.
ANT: Will, volition, choice, deliberation, freedom, freewill.
=
KEY: Destitute, [See DEPRIVE and NEEDY].
=
KEY: Destroy.
SYN: Demolish, annihilate, subvert, ruin, overthrow, undo, waste, consume.
ANT: restore, reinstate, repair, fabricate, make, construct, create.
=
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.
=
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.
=
KEY: Detach, [See ATTACH].
=
KEY: Detail \v.\
SYN: Particularize, enumerate, recount, individualize, sift, analyze, specify.
ANT: Generalize, condense, conglomerate, gather, sketch, suggest abstract, classify, amalgamate.
=
KEY: Detail \n.\
SYN: Element, component, particular, specialty, point.
ANT: Account, statement, recital, totality, representation.
=
KEY: Detain.
SYN: Stay, keep, arrest, check, withhold, delay, restrain, embargo, stop.
ANT: Liberate, expedite, accelerate, dismiss, loose, disembargo.
=
KEY: Detect.
SYN: Discover, descry, unmask, expose.
ANT: Miss, lose, misobserve, ignore, connive.
=
KEY: Detention.
SYN: Retention, retaining, hindrance.
ANT: Relinquishment, abandonment, letting go.
=
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.
=
KEY: Deterge, [See ABSTERGE].
=
KEY: Deteriorate, [See AMELIORATE].
=
KEY: Determinate, [See DEFINITE].
=
KEY: Determination, [See DEFINITION and DECISION].
=
KEY: Determine, [See DEFINE and DECIDE].
=
KEY: detortion, [See DETERGE].
=
KEY: Detest, [See ABOMINATE].
=
KEY: Detestable, [See DETEST and ABOMINABLE].
=
KEY: Dethrone.
SYN: Uncrown, depose.
ANT: Anoint, enthrone, crown.
=
KEY: Dethronement, [See DETHRONE].
=
KEY: Detonate.
SYN: Explode, pop.
ANT: Smoulder, hang, puff.
=
KEY: detortion.
SYN: Wresting, violation, twisting, distortion, perversion, decurvity, devexity, recurvation.
ANT: Direction, aim, rectilinearity, rectification.
=
KEY: Detract.
SYN: Lessen, deteriorate, depreciate, disparage, defame, decry, derogate, calumniate, scandalize, vilify, diminish.
ANT: Augment, enhance, raise, increase.
=
KEY: Detraction.
SYN: Diminution, deterioration, depreciation, slander, backbiting, derogation.
ANT: Augmentation, improvement, enhancement, eulogy, compliment, flattery.
=
KEY: Detractor.
SYN: Slanderer, cynic, backbiter.
ANT: Flatterer, sycophant, eulogist.
=
KEY: Detriment.
SYN: Loss, harm, hurt, injury, deterioration, impairment, disadvantage, prejudice, damage, inconvenience.
ANT: Enhancement, improvement, remedy, reinstatement, repair, augmentation.
=
KEY: Detrimental.
SYN: Injurious, hurtful, pernicious.
ANT: Beneficial, profitable, augmentative.
=
KEY: Detrude, [See DASH].
=
KEY: Detruncation.
SYN: Lopping, disramification, pollarding, dismemberment, discorporation, amputation, stripping.
ANT: Training, trailing, grafting, inoculation, luxuriance.
=
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.
=
KEY: Development.
SYN: Outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.
ANT: Cause, origin, source, principal.
=
KEY: devexity, [See DETORTION].
=
KEY: Deviate.
SYN: Digress, wander, swerve, deflect, err, sway, depart, divaricate, diverge.
ANT: Continue, advance.
=
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.
=
KEY: Devil.
SYN: Satan, lucifer, fiend, archfiend, foul fiend, demon.
ANT: Archangel, angel, seraph, cherub.
=
KEY: devilish, [See ANGELIC].
=
KEY: Devious.
SYN: Tortuous, circuitous, untracked, trackless, pathless, ambagious, roundabout, distorted.
ANT: Direct, plain, trodden, frequented, straightforward.
=
KEY: Devise.
SYN: Contrive, plan, maneuvre, concert, manage.
ANT: Miscontrive, mismanage.
=
KEY: Devoid.
SYN: Void, wanting, destitute, unendowed, unprovided.
ANT: Furnished, supplied, replete, provided, gifted.
=
KEY: Devolve upon.
SYN: Impose, place, charge, commission, depute, accrue, attach, befall, fall.
ANT: Deprive, withhold, recall, cancel, alienate, miss, pretermit, pass, lapse, skip.
=
KEY: Devote, [See DEDICATE].
=
KEY: Devoted.
SYN: Attached, fond, absorbed, consecrated, ardent, loving, dedicated, given, abandoned.
ANT: Alienated, estranged, averse.
=
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.
=
KEY: Devour.
SYN: Eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb.
ANT: Disgorge, vomit.
=
KEY: Devout.
SYN: religious, pious, godly, saintly, holy, prayerful.
ANT: Irreligious, impious, profane, unholy.
=
KEY: Devoutless.
ANT: [See DEVOTION].
=
KEY: Dexterity, [See ABILITY].
=
KEY: Dexterous, [See AWKWARD].
=
KEY: Diabolical, [See DEVILISH].
=
KEY: Diadem.
SYN: Crown, coronet, coronal, chaplet, wreath, fillet, tiara, circlet.
ANT: Liberty-cap, foolscap, daisy-chain.
=
KEY: Diagnostic.
SYN: Symptom, indication, feature, sign, cue.
ANT: Development, crisis, formation, consummation, head, deception, illusion, misindication.
=
KEY: Dialect.
SYN: Provincialism, accent, idiom, tongue, language, speech, phraseology.
=
KEY: Dialectic.
SYN: Rhetorical, logical, argumentative.
ANT: Conversational, colloquial, commonplace.
=
KEY: Dialogue.
SYN: Tete-a-tete, conversation, discourse, colloquy, confabulation.
ANT: Monologue, oration, soliloquy, apostrophe.
=
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.
=
KEY: Dictatorial, [See DICTATE and ARBITRARY].
=
KEY: Diction.
SYN: Style, expression, rhetoric, phraseology, language, grammar.
ANT: Solecism, provincialism, mispronunciation.
=
KEY: Dictionary.
SYN: Lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, glossary.
=
KEY: Didactic.
SYN: Instructive, directive, moral.
ANT: Unsound, misinstructive, erroneous, pernicious, misleading.
=
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.
=
KEY: Diet.
SYN: Food, victuals, nourishment, viands, nutriment, sustenance, fare, cheer, regimen.
ANT: Starvation, fasting, abstinence, gluttony, omnivorousness.
=
KEY: Differ.
SYN: Vary, dissent, be unlike, disagree, dispute, contend.
ANT: Agree, assent, [See ASSENT].
=
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.
=
KEY: Differentiate.
SYN: Particularize, individualize, distinguish, identify, verify, specify, segregate, disseminate, fuse, lump, mass.
ANT: Generalize, classify, confound, amalgamate, confuse.
=
KEY: Differentiation \n.\ [See DIFFERENTIATE].
=
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.
=
KEY: Difficulty, [See DIFFICULT].
=
KEY: Diffident, [See MODEST].
=
KEY: Diffuse.
SYN: Discursive, prolix, verbose, diluted, copious.
ANT: Laconic, epigrammatic, terse, condensed.
=
KEY: Dig, [See DELVE].
=
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.
=
KEY: Dignified.
SYN: Exalted, stately, noble, grand, august, lofty, pompous, honored, elevated.
ANT: [See LOFTY].
=
KEY: Dignify.
SYN: Aggrandize, elevate, invest, adorn, exalt, advance, promote, honor.
ANT: Degrade, disinvest, humiliate, disgrace.
=
KEY: Digress, [See DEVIATE].
=
KEY: laceratlon, [See LACERATION].
=
KEY: Dilapidation.
SYN: Ruin, decay, disintegration, downfall, crumbling, demolition, dismantlement.
ANT: Solidity, reparation, integrity, soundness, construction, fabric, structure.
=
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.
=
KEY: Dilemma.
SYN: Fix, hobble, quandary, doubt, difficulty, scrape.
ANT: Extrication, rebutment, freedom, advantage, superiority, escape, solution, retort.
=
KEY: Diligence.
SYN: Care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry.
ANT: Indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness, inertness, idleness.
=
KEY: Dim, [See OBSCURE].
=
KEY: Dimension.
SYN: Measurement, size, configuration, delineation, mass, bulk, extent.
ANT: Mismeasurement, segment.
=
KEY: Dimidiate.
SYN: Halve, bisect.
ANT: Unite, integrate.
=
KEY: Diminish.
SYN: Lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate, retrench.
ANT: Increase, enlarge, expand, extend, amplify, magnify.
=
KEY: Diminutive, [See DIMINISH and SMALL].
=
KEY: Dimness, [See DIM and OBSCURE].
=
KEY: Din.
SYN: Racket, clamor, rattle, resononce, clangor, reverberation.
ANT: Crash, report, burst, explosion, pop, bang.
=
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.
=
KEY: Dint.
SYN: Agency, instrumentality, force, power, emcacy.
ANT: Weakness, inoperativeness, inefficacy, uselessness, helplessness, opposition, counterforce.
=
KEY: Dip, [See IMMERSE].
=
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.
=
KEY: Dire, [See DREADFUL].
=
KEY: Direct, [See INSTRUCT].
=
KEY: Direct, [See STRAIGHT].
=
KEY: Direction.
SYN: Course, tendency, inclination, line, control, command, bearing, superscription, order, address.
ANT: Misdirection, deviation, mis-control, misinstruction, aberration.
=
KEY: Directly.
SYN: Straightly, straightway, immediately, undeviatingly, at once, promptly, quickly, instantly.
ANT: Indirectly, by-and-by, interveniently.
=
KEY: Director.
SYN: Ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide.
ANT: Body, company, institution, concern, subordinate, follower.
=
KEY: Dirge.
SYN: Requiem, lament, threnody, elegy, wake, coronach.
ANT: Anthem, 'The Deum', Jubilate.
=
KEY: Dirt.
SYN: Foulness, dung, filth, uncleanness, meanness, sordidness.
ANT: Cleanness, purity, ablution, integrity.
=
KEY: Dirty, [See DIRT and NASTY].
=
KEY: Disability.
SYN: Disqualification, impotency, unfitness, incapacity, forfeiture, incompetency.
ANT: Qualification, recommendation, fitness, deserving, merit.
=
KEY: Disabled, [See DISABILITY].
=
KEY: Disabuse.
SYN: Undeceive, inform, correct, enlighten, rectify.
ANT: Deceive, mislead, prejudice, prepossess, hoodwink, inveigle, stultify, bamboozle.
=
KEY: Disadvantage, [See ADVANTAGE].
=
KEY: Disaffection, [See AFFECTION].
=
KEY: Disagreeable, [See AGREEABLE], Disagreement, [See QUARREL].
=
KEY: Disallow, [See ALLOW].
=
KEY: Disannul, [See ANNUL].
=
KEY: Disappear, [See VANISH].
=
KEY: Disappoint.
SYN: Betray, deceive, frustrate, baffle, delude, vex, mortify, defeat, foil.
ANT: Realize, justify, verify, fulfil, encourage, satisfy, gratify.
=
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.