ABANDON—forsake, desert, renounce, relinquish. (Keep, cherish.)ABANDONED—deserted, forsaken, profligate, wicked, reprobate, dissolute, flagitious, corrupt, depraved, vicious. (Respected, esteemed, cherished, virtuous.)ABASEMENT—degradation, fall, degeneracy, humiliation, abjectness, debasement, servility. (Elevation, promotion, honor.)ABASH—disconcert, discompose, confound, confuse, shame, bewilder. (Embolden.)ABBREVIATE—shorten, curtail, contract, abridge, condense, reduce, compress. (Lengthen, extend, enlarge, expand.)ABDICATE—renounce, resign, relinquish. (Usurp.)ABET—incite, stimulate, whet, encourage, back up, second, countenance, assist. (Dampen, discourage, dispirit, depress, repress, oppose.)ABETTOR—instigator, prompter, assistant, coadjutor, accomplice, accessory,particeps criminis. (Extinguisher.)ABHOR—loathe, abominate, (Love, admire.)ABILITY—power, skill, gumption, efficiency, mastery, qualification, faculty, expertness. (Incompetence, inefficiency, inability.)ABJECT—despised, despicable, vile, grovelling, mean, base, worthless, servile. (Supreme, august, commanding, noble.)ABJURE—forswear, disclaim, unsay, recant, revoke, deny, disown. (Attest, affirm.)ABLE—competent, qualified, skilled, efficient, capable, clever, adroit, adept, strong, telling, masterly. (Incompetent, weak, unskilful, unqualified.)ABODE—dwelling, residence, domicile, home, quarters, habitation, lodging, settlement. (Transition, shifting, wandering, pilgrimage, peregrination.)ABOLISH—efface, extinguish, annihilate, nullify, destroy, undo, quash, annul, cancel, abrogate, quench, suppress, vitiate, revoke. (Introduce, establish, enforce, restore.)ABOMINABLE—detestable, hateful, odious, execrable. (Choice, excellent, attractive, select.)ABORTIVE—ineffectual, futile, inoperative, defective, inadequate. (Efficient, productive, complete.)ABOUT—around, near to, nearly, approximately, contiguous. (Remote from, distant.)ABSCOND—take oneself off, “vamoose,” disappear, decamp, run away. (Thrust oneself into notice.)ABSENT—not present, wanting, absentminded, abstracted, inattentive, listless, dreamy, visionary. (Present, collected, composed, vigilant, observant.)ABSOLUTE—certain, unconditioned, unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, transcendent, authoritative, paramount, imperative, arbitrary, despotic. (Conditional, limited, hampered, fettered.)ABSORB—suck up, imbibe, engross, drain away, consume. (Reserve, save, spare, husband, economize, hoard up.)ABSURD—unreasonable, nonsensical, foolish, vain, impracticable. (Reasonable, prudent, veracious.)ABUSE,v.—pervert, deprave, traduce, debase, disparage, slander, calumniate, rail at, reproach, depreciate. (Improve, develop, cultivate, promote, bless, magnify, appreciate.)ABUSE,n.—perversion, ill-usage, depravation, debasement, slander, reproach. (Cultivation, use, promotion, development, appreciation, praise.)ACCEDE—join, assent, acquiesce in, comply, agree, concur, coincide, approve. (Dissent, object, decline, refuse.)ACCELERATE—hasten, hurry, speed, expedite, quicken, precipitate, facilitate. (Retard, delay, procrastinate, arrest, stop, impede, suspend.)ACCEPT—take, receive, assume, acknowledge, endorse. (Refuse, repudiate, protest, disown.)ACCEPTABLE—pleasant, grateful, welcome. (Repugnant, displeasing.)ACCIDENT—casualty, contingency, hap, mishap, chance, mischance, misadventure. (Law, order.)ACCOMMODATE—adjust, adapt, fit, conform, reconcile, suit, oblige, furnish, convenience. (Cross, thwart, counteract, plot against, checkmate, defeat, inconvenience.)ACCOMPLICE—confederate, ally, associate, accessory,particeps criminis. (Adversary, rival, spy, opponent, enemy.)ACCOMPLISH—complete, perform, finish, fulfil, execute, perfect, consummate, achieve, effect, carry out. (Fail, miscarry, undo, wreck, frustrate.)ACCOMPLISHMENT—success, fulfilment, completion, performance, execution, achievement, consummation, attainment. (Failure, miscarriage, wreck, ruin.)ACCORD—harmonize, agree, allow, grant, concede. (Jar, clash with, deny, disallow.)ACCOST—address, confront, speak to, greet, salute. (Evade, fight shy of.)ACCOUNT,v.—compute, estimate, reckon up, take stock of. (Leave unexplained, unsolved.)ACCOUNT,n.—reckoning, relation, charge, bill. (Riddle, mystery, puzzle, unknown quantity.)ACCOUNTABLE—answerable, responsible, amenable. (Exempt, free, irresponsible.)ACCUMULATE—heap up, save, collect. (Scatter, dissipate, diffuse, spend, squander.)ACCUMULATION—heap, amount, glut. (Dissipation, dissemination, distribution, diminution.)ACCURATE—definite, precise, correct, exact. (Inaccurate, wrong, erroneous, blundering, careless.)ACHIEVE—complete, gain, win.ACHIEVEMENT—feat, exploit, distinguished performance, acquirement. (Abortion, frustration, failure, shortcoming, defect.)ACKNOWLEDGE—avow, confess, own, recognize, admit, grant, concede. (Repudiate, disclaim, disallow, disown, deny.)ACQUAINT—make known, apprise, inform, communicate, intimate, notify. (Leave ignorant, keep secret, conceal.)ACQUAINTANCE—knowledge, familiarity, fellowship, companionship. (Ignorance, stranger.)ACQUIESCE—yield, concur, agree, assent. (Protest, object, dissent, secede, oppose.)ACQUIT—set free, release, discharge, clear, absolve, exculpate, exonerate, liberate, deliver. (Accuse, impeach, charge, blame, convict.)ACT,v.—do, perform, commit, operate, work, practice, behave, personate, play, enact. (Neglect, cease, desist, rest, wait, lie idle, refrain.)ACTION—working, agency, operation, business, gesture, engagement, fight, deed, battle, feat. (Inaction, repose, rest, idleness, ease, indolence, inertia, passiveness, quiescence, dormancy.)ACTIVE—energetic, busy, stirring, alive, brisk, operative, lively, agile, nimble, diligent, sprightly, alert, quick, supple, prompt, industrious. (Passive, inert, dead, extinct, dull, torpid, sluggish, indolent, lazy, dormant, quiescent, asleep.)ACTUAL—real, positive, existing, certain. (False, imaginary, theoretical, illusive, fictitious.)ACUTE—sharp, pointed, penetrating, piercing, keen, poignant, pungent, intense, violent, shrill, sensitive, sharp-witted, shrewd, discriminating, clever, cunning. (Obtuse, blunt, bluff, dull, flat, callous, stupid, apathetic.)ADAPT—fit, suit, adjust, conform, regulate. (Misfit, discommode, dislocate.)ADDICTED—committed to, devoted, prone, given up to, inclined, habituated. (Uncommitted, free, uncompromised, neutral.)ADDITION—annexation, accession, supplement, adjunct, affix, appendage, accessory, increment, increase, complement,plus, more. (Subtraction, deduction, retrenchment, curtailment, deprivation,minus, less, loss, impoverishment.)ADDRESS—speech, salutation, accost, appeal; also skill, dexterity, adroitness; also direction, name; also residence. (Response, answer, reply, rejoinder; also awkwardness, maladroitness, clumsiness, slovenliness.)ADHESION—sticking, adherence, adoption, attachment, espousal. (Repulsion, revulsion, antipathy, aversion, hostility, incompatibility, dislike.)ADJACENT—next, near, nigh, at hand, alongside, close by, adjoining, contiguous, bordering, neighboring, proximate. (Remote, foreign, distant, aloof, far, apart, asunder.)ADJOURN—put off, postpone, defer, delay, keep in abeyance, prorogue, suspend, procrastinate, retard, waive, remand, reserve. (Conclude, clinch, accelerate, precipitate.)ADJUNCT—appendage, affix, annex, annexation, appendix, adhesion, appurtenance. (Curtailment, retrenchment, lop, mutilation, reduction, clipping, docking, filching.)ADJUST—make exact, set right, fit, adapt, dovetail, arrange, harmonize, settle, regulate. (Confound, confuse, muddle, disorder, perplex, embarrass, entangle, clash, jar, jumble, disarrange, unsettle.)ADMIRABLE—wonderful, excellent, choice, noble, grand, estimable, lovely, ideal, surpassing, extraordinary, eminent. (Detestable, vile, mean, contemptible, despicable, worthless, wretched, villainous, pitiful.)ADMIT—allow, permit, suffer, receive, usher, grant, acknowledge, confess, concede, accept. (Deny, refuse, shut out, forbid, disown, disclaim.)ADVANTAGEOUS—profitable, serviceable, useful, beneficial, helpful, of value. (Disadvantageous, detrimental, prejudicial, injurious, hurtful, harmful, deleterious, obnoxious, pernicious.)AFFECTION—bent, inclination, partiality, attraction, impulse, love, desire, passion, fascination; also suffering, disease, morbidness. (Repulsion, revulsion, antipathy, dislike, recoil, aversion, estrangement, indifference, coldness, alienation; also wholeness, soundness, healthiness.)AFFECTIONATE—loving, kind, fond, doting, tender, amiable, cordial, hearty, good-hearted. (Cold, unloving, unkind, heartless, selfish, crabbed, sour, malign, malicious, malevolent, misanthropic, cynical, ill-natured, cruel, hating.)AGREEABLE—pleasant, acceptable, grateful, refreshing, genial, pleasing, palatable, sweet, charming, delectable. (Disagreeable, displeasing, unpleasant, ungrateful, harsh, repellent, painful, noxious, plaguy, irritating, annoying, mortifying.)ALTERNATING—reciprocal, correlative, interchangeable, by turns,vice versa. (Monotonous, unchanging, continual.)AMBASSADOR—messenger, envoy, emissary, legate, nuncio, diplomatist, diplomate, representative, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, minister, agent. (Principal, government, sovereign, power.)AMEND—improve, correct, better, meliorate, rectify, prune, repair, revise, remedy, reform. (Injure, impair, damage, harm, hurt, mar, mangle, blemish, deteriorate, ruin, spoil.)ANGER—resentment, animosity, wrath, indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, displeasure, dungeon, irritation, irascibility, choler, ire, hate. (Kindness, benignity,bonhomie, good nature.)APPROPRIATE—assimilate, assume, possess oneself of, take, grab, clutch, collar, snap up, capture, steal. (Relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, discard, dismiss.)ARGUE—reason, discuss, debate, dispute, contend. (Obscure, darken, mystify, mislead, misrepresent, evade, sophisticate.)ARISE—rise, ascend, mount, climb, soar, spring, emanate, proceed, issue. (Descend, fall, gravitate, drop, slide, settle, decline, sink, dismount, alight.)ARTFUL—cunning, crafty, skilful, wily, designing, politic, astute, knowing, tricky. (Artless, naïve, natural, simple, plain, ingenuous, frank, sincere, open, candid, guileless, straightforward, direct.)ARTIFICE—contrivance, stratagem, trick, design, plot, machination, chicanery, knavery, jugglery, guile, jobbery. (Artlessness, candor, openness, simplicity, innocence, ingenuousness.)ASSOCIATION—partnership, fellowship, solidarity, league, alliance, combination, coalition, federation, junto, cabal. (Opposition, antagonism, conflict, counteraction, resistance, hinderance, counterplot, detachment, individualism.)ATTACK—assault, charge, onset, onslaught, incursion, inroad, bombardment, cannonade. (Defence, protection, guard, ward, resistance, stand, repulse, rebuff, retreat.)AUDACITY—boldness, defiance, prowess, intrepidity, mettle, game, pluck, fortitude, rashness, temerity, presumption, foolhardiness, courage, hardihood. (Cowardice, pusillanimity, timidity, meekness, poltroonery, fear, caution, calculation, discretion, prudence.)AUSTERE—severe, harsh, rigid, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, inflexible, obdurate, exacting, straight-laced, unrelenting. (Lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, pliant, lenient, mild, indulgent, easy-going, forbearing, forgiving.)AVARICIOUS—tight-fisted, griping, churlish, parsimonious, stingy, penurious, miserly, niggardly, close, illiberal, ungenerous, covetous, greedy, rapacious. (Prodigal, thriftless, improvident, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, freehanded.)AVERSION—antipathy, revulsion, repulsion, dislike, recoil, estrangement, alienation, repugnance, disgust, nausea. (Predilection, fancy, fascination, allurement, attraction, magnet.)AWE—dread, fear, reverence, prostration, admiration, bewilderment. (Familiarity, indifference, heedlessness, unconcern, contempt, mockery.)AXIOM—maxim, aphorism, apophthegm, adage, motto,dictum, theorem, truism, proverb, saw. (Absurdity, paradox.)BABBLE—splash, gurgle, bubble, purl, ripple, prattle, clack, gabble, clash, jabber, twaddle, prate, chatter, blab. (Silence, hush.)BAD—depraved, defiled, distorted, corrupt, evil, wicked, wrong, sinful, morbid, foul, peccant, noxious, pernicious, diseased, imperfect, tainted, touched. (Good, whole, sound, healthy, beneficial, salutary, prime, perfect, entire, untouched, unblemished, intact, choice, worthy.)BAFFLE—thwart, checkmate, defeat, disconcert, confound, block, outwit, traverse, contravene, frustrate, balk, foil. (Aid, assist, succor, further, forward, expedite, sustain, second, reinforce.)BASE—crude, undeveloped, low, villainous, mean, deteriorated, misbegotten, ill-contrived, ill-constituted. (Noble, exalted, lofty, sublime, excellent, elect, choice, aristocratic, exquisite, capital.)BEAR—carry, hold, sustain, support, suffer, endure, beget, generate, produce, breed, hatch. (Lean, depend, hang, yield, sterile, unproductive.)BEASTLY—bestial, animal, brutal, sensual, gross, carnal, lewd. (Human, humane, virtuous, moral, ethical, intellectual, thoughtful, spiritual.)BEAT—strike, smite, thrash, thwack, thump, pummel, drub, leather, baste, belabor, birch, scourge, defeat, surpass, rout, overthrow. (Protect, defend, soothe.)BEAUTIFUL—fair, complete, symmetrical, handsome. (Ugly, repulsive, foul.)BECOMING—suiting, accordant, fit, seemly. (Discrepant, improper, in bad form.)BEG—beseech, crave, entreat. (Offer, proffer.)BEHAVIOR—carriage, deportment, conduct.BENEFICENT—bountiful, generous, liberal. (Sordid, mercenary.)BENEFIT—good, advantage, service. (Loss, detriment, injury.)BENEVOLENCE—well-wishing, charity. (Malevolence, malice, hate.)BLAME—censure, reproach. (Approve, honor.)BLEMISH—flaw, stain, spot, imperfection, defect. (Ornament, decoration, embellishment, adornment, finery, gilding.)BLIND—dimsighted, ignorant, uninformed. (Sharp-sighted, enlightened.)BLOT—efface, cancel, expunge, erase. (Record.)BOLD—brave, daring, fearless, intrepid, courageous. (Cowardly, timid, shy, chicken-hearted.)BORDER—margin, boundary, frontier, confine, fringe, hem, selvedge, valance. (Inclosure, interior, inside.)BOUND—circumscribe, limit, restrict, confine, enclose;alsoleap, jump, hop, spring, vault, skip. (Enlarge, clear, deliver;alsoplunge, dip, sink.)BRAVE—dare, defy. (Cave in, show the white feather.)BREAK—bruise, crush, pound, squeeze, crack, snap, splinter. (Bind, hold together, knit, rivet.)BREEZE—blow, zephyr. (Stillness, hush, calm.)BRIGHT—shining, lustrous, radiant. (Dull, dim.)BRITTLE—frangible, fragile, frail. (Tough.)BURIAL—interment, sepulture, obsequies. (Exhumation, disinterment.)BUSINESS—occupation, employment, pursuit, vocation, calling, profession, craft, trade. (Leisure, vacation, play.)BUSTLE—stir, fuss, ado, flurry. (Quiet, stillness.)CALAMITY—misfortune, disaster, catastrophe. (Good luck, prosperity.)CALM—still, motionless, placid, serene, composed. (Stormy, unsettled, restless, agitated, distracted.)CAPABLE—competent, able, efficient. (Unqualified.)CAPTIOUS—censorious, cantankerous. (Conciliatory, bland.)CARE—solicitude, concern. (Negligence, carelessness,nonchalance.)CARESS—fondle, love, pet. (Spurn, disdain.)CARNAGE—butchery, gore, massacre, slaughter.CAUSE—origin, source, ground, reason, motive.CENSURE—reprehend, chide. (Approve.)CERTAIN—sure, infallible. (Doubtful, dubious.)CESSATION—discontinuance, stoppage, rest, halt. (Perseverance, persistence, continuance.)CHANCE—accident, luck. (Intention, purpose.)’CHANGE—exchange,bourse, mart, emporium.CHANGEABLE—mutable, variable, fickle. (Steadfast, firm.)CHARACTER—constitution, nature, disposition.CHARM—fascination, enchantment, witchery, attraction. (Nuisance, mortification, bore, plague.)CHASTITY—purity, virtue. (Concupiscence.)CHEAP—inexpensive, worthless. (Dear, costly.)CHEERFUL—blithe, lightsome, brisk, sprightly. (Melancholy, sombre, morose, gloomy, sad.)CHIEF—sachem, head, ruler. (Vassal, henchman.)CIRCUMSTANCE—situation, predicament.CLASS—division, category, department, order, kind, sort, genus, species, variety.CLEVER—adroit, dexterous, expert, deft, ready, smart. (Awkward, dull, shiftless, clumsy.)CLOTHED—dressed, arrayed, apparelled. (Disrobed, stripped.)COARSE—crude, unrefined. (Refined, cultivated.)COAX—cajole, wheedle, fawn, lure, induce, entice. (Dissuade, indispose, warn, admonish.)COLD—frigid, chill, inclement. (Hot, glowing.)COLOR—hue, tint, tinge, tincture, dye, shade, stain. (Pallor, paleness, wanness, blankness, achromatism, discoloration.)COMBINATION—coalescence, fusion, faction, coalition, league. (Dissolution, rupture, schism.)COMMAND—empire, rule. (Anarchy, license.)COMMODITY—goods, effects, merchandise, stock.COMMON—general, ordinary, mean, base. (Rare, exceptional, unique.)COMPASSION—pity, commiseration, sympathy. (Cruelty, severity.)COMPEL—force, coerce, oblige, necessitate, make, constrain. (Let alone, tolerate.)COMPENSATION—amends, atonement, requital. (Withholding.)COMPENDIUM—abstract, epitome, digest. (Amplification, expansion.)COMPLAIN—lament, murmur, regret, repine, deplore. (Rejoice, exult, boast, brag, chuckle.)COMPLY—consent, yield, acquiesce. (Refuse, deny, decline.)COMPOUND,a.—composite, complex, blended. (Simple, elementary.)COMPREHEND—comprise, contain, embrace, include, enclose, grasp. (Exclude, reject, mistake, eliminate, loss.)CONCEAL—hide, secrete, cover, screen, shroud, veil, disguise. (Publish, report, divulge.)CONCEIVE—grasp, apprehend, devise, invent. (Ignorant of.)CONCLUSION—result, finding. (Undetermined.)CONDEMN—convict, find guilty, sentence, doom. (Acquit.)CONDUCT,v.—direct, manage, govern. (Follow, obey, submit.)CONFIRM—corroborate, ratify, endorse, support, uphold. (Weaken, enfeeble, reduce.)CONFLICT—contend, contest, wrestle, tussle, clash, wrangle. (Harmonize, agree, fraternize, concur.)CONFUTE—refute, disprove. (Demonstrate.)CONQUER—defeat, vanquish, overcome. (Fail, be beaten, lose.)CONSEQUENCE—effect, derivation, result, event, issue. (Cause, origin, source, antecedent.)CONSIDER—reflect, deliberate. (Forget, ignore.)CONSISTENT—accordant, concordant, compatible, consonant, congruous, reconcilable, harmonious. (Discordant, discrepant.)CONSOLE—relieve, soothe, comfort. (Embitter.)CONSTANCY—continuance, tenacity, stability. (Irresolution, fickleness.)CONTAMINATE—Pollute, stain, taint, tarnish, blur, smudge, defile. (Cleanse, purify, purge.)CONTEMN—despise, disdain, scorn. (Esteem, appreciate, admire.)CONTEMPLATE—survey, scan, observe, intend. (Disregard.)CONTEMPTIBLE—despicable, paltry, shabby, beggarly, worthless, vile, cheap, trashy. (Estimable.)CONTEND—fight, wrangle, vie. (Be at peace.)CONTINUAL—perpetual, endless, ceaseless. (Momentary, transient.)CONTINUE—remain, persist, endure. (Desist, stay.)CONTRADICT—deny, gainsay, oppose. (Affirm, assert, declare.)CORRECT—mend, rectify. (Impair, muddle.)COST—expense, charge, price, value.COVETOUSNESS—avarice, cupidity, extortion. (Generosity, liberality.)COWARDICE—poltroonery, faint-heartedness. (Courage, boldness, intrepidity.)CRIME—offence, trespass, misdemeanor, felony, transgression. (Innocence, guiltlessness.)CRIMINAL—culprit, felon, convict. (Paragon.)CROOKED—twisted, distorted, bent, awry, wry, askew, deformed. (Straight, upright.)CRUEL—brutal, ferocious, barbarous, blood-thirsty, fiendish. (Kind, benignant, benevolent.)CULTIVATION—tillage, culture. (Waste.)CURSORY—fugitive, hurried, perfunctory. (Permanent, thorough.)CUSTOM—habit, wont, usage, fashion, practice.DANGER—peril, hazard, jeopardy. (Safety.)DARK—obscure, sombrous, opaque, unintelligible. (Light, luminous, shining, clear, lucid.)DEADLY—mortal, fatal, destructive, lethal.DEAR—costly, precious, high-priced, beloved, darling, pet, favorite. (Cheap, disliked, despised.)DEATH—decease, demise, dissolution. (Birth, life.)DECAY,n.—decline, consumption, atrophy. (Development, growth.)DECEIVE—cheat, defraud, cozen, overreach, gull, dupe, swindle, victimize. (Truthfulness.)DECEIT,n.—imposition, fraud, deception. (Veracity, honesty.)DECIDE—determine, resolve, conclude, settle, adjudicate, arbitrate, terminate. (Hesitate, dilly-dally, shuffle.)DECIPHER—interpret, explain, construe, unravel. (Mistake, confound.)DECISION—determination, conclusion, firmness. (Wavering, hesitancy.)DECLAMATION—harangue, oration, recitation, tirade, speech.DECLARATION—affirmation, assertion. (Denial.)DECREASE—diminish, lessen, reduce, wane, decline. (Increase, grow, enlarge.)DEDICATE—consecrate, devote, offer, apportion.DEED—act, transaction, exploit, document.DEEM—judge, estimate, consider, esteem, suppose.DEEP—profound, abtruse, hidden, extraordinarily wise. (Shallow, superficial.)DEFACE—mar, spoil, injure, disfigure. (Beautify.)DEFAULT—shortcoming, deficiency, defect, imperfection. (Sufficiency, satisfaction.)DEFENCE—fortification, bulwark, vindication, justification, apology.DEFEND—shield, vindicate. (Assault, accuse.)DEFICIENT—incomplete, lacking. (Entire, perfect, whole.)DEFILE—soil, smutch, besmear, begrime.DEFINE—limit, bound. (Enlarge, expand.)DEFRAY—pay, settle, liquidate, satisfy, clear.DEGREE—grade, extent, measure, ratio, standard.DELIBERATE,a.—circumspect, wary, cautious. (Heedless, thoughtless.)DELICACY—nicety, dainty, tit-bit, taste, refinement, modesty. (Grossness, coarseness, vulgarity, indecorum.)DELICATE—dainty, refined. (Coarse, beastly.)DELICIOUS—savory, palatable, luscious, charming, delightful. (Offensive, nasty, odious, shocking, nauseous.)DELIGHT—gratification, felicity. (Mortification, vexation.)DELIVER—transfer, consign, utter, liberate, declare. (Keep, retain, restrain, check, bridle.)DEMONSTRATE—prove, show, manifest. (Mystify, obscure.)DEPART—quit, vacate, retire, withdraw, remove.DEPRIVE—strip, bereave, despoil. (Invest, equip.)DEPUTE—commission, delegate, accredit, entrust.DERISION—ridicule, scoffing, mockery, raillery, chaff,badinage. (Awe, dread, reverence.)DERIVATION—origin, source, spring, emanation, etymology.DESCRIBE—delineate, portray, style, specify, characterize.DESECRATE—profane, blaspheme, revile. (Consecrate, sanctify.)DESERVE—merit, be entitled to, earn, justify.DESIGN,n.—delineation, illustration, sketch, plan, drawing, portraiture, draught, projection, scheme, proposal, outline.DESIRABLE—eligible, suitable, acceptable. (Unfit, objectionable.)DESIRE,n.—wish, longing, hankering, appetite.DESOLATE,a.—lonely, solitary, bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, deserted, bleak, dreary. (Befriended, social, festive.)DESPERATE—frenzied, frantic, furious. (Calm, composed, moderate.)DESTINY—fatality, doom, predestination, decree, fate. (Casualty, accident, contingency, chance.)DESTRUCTIVE—mischievous, disastrous, deleterious. (Creative, beneficial.)DESUETUDE—disuse, discontinuance. (Use, habit, practice.)DESULTORY—immethodical, disconnected, rambling, discontinuous, interrupted, fitful, intermittent. (Continuous, consecutive, constant.)DETAIL,n.—particular, item, count, specialty, individuality.DETAIL,v.—particularize, enumerate, specify. (Generalize.)DETER—discourage, dissuade. (Encourage, incite.)DETRIMENT—damage, loss. (Benefit, improvement, betterment.)DEVELOP—unfold, expand, increase. (Extirpate.)DEVOID—wanting, destitute, bereft, denuded, bare, emptied, void. (Provided, supplied, furnished.)DEVOTED—destined, consecrated, sworn to.DICTATE—enjoin, order, prescribe, mark out.DICTATORIAL—authoritative, imperative, overbearing, imperious, arbitrary, domineering.DIE—expire, perish, depart this life, cease.DIET—food, victuals, nourishment, aliment, board, sustenance, fare, viands, meal, repast,menu.DIFFER—vary, diverge, disagree, bicker, nag, split. (Accord, harmonize.)DIFFERENT—various, diverse, unlike. (Identical.)DIFFICULT—hard, tough, laborious, arduous, formidable. (Easy, facile, manageable, pliant.)DIFFUSE—discursive, digressive, diluted. (Condensed, concise, terse.)DIGNIFY—elevate, exalt, ennoble, honor, advance, promote. (Degrade, disgrace, demean, vulgarize.)DILATE—widen, extend, enlarge, expand, descant, expatiate. (Contract, narrow, compress, reduce.)DILATORY—slow, tardy, slow-paced, procrastinating, lagging, dawdling. (Prompt, peremptory, quick, instant.)DILIGENCE—zeal, ardor, assiduity. (Indolence.)DIMINISH—lessen, reduce, curtail, retrench, bate, abate, shorten, contract. (Increase, augment, aggrandize, enlarge.)DISABILITY—incapacity, unfitness. (Power.)DISCERN—descry, perceive, distinguish, espy, scan, recognize, understand, discriminate. (Ignore.)DISCIPLINE—order, training, drill, schooling. (Laxity, disorder, confusion, anarchy.)DISCOVER—detect, find, unveil, reveal, open, expose, publish, disclose. (Cover, conceal, hide.)DISCREDITABLE—disreputable, reprehensible, blameworthy, shameful, scandalous, flagrant. (Exemplary, laudable, commendable.)DISCREET—prudent, politic, cautious, wary, guarded, judicious. (Reckless, heedless, rash, unadvised, foolhardy, precipitate.)DISCREPANCY—disagreement, discordance, incongruity, disparity, unfitness, clash, jar. (Concord, unison, harmony, congruity.)DISCRIMINATION—distinction, differentiation, discernment, appreciation, acuteness, judgment, tact, nicety. (Confusion.)DISEASE—illness, sickness, ailment, indisposition, complaint, malady, disorder. (Health, sanity, soundness, robustness.)DISGRACE,n.—stigma, reproach, brand, dishonor, shame, scandal, odium, infamy. (Honor.)DISGUST—distaste, loathing, nausea, aversion, revulsion, abhorrence. (Predilection, partiality, inclination, bias.)DISHONEST—fraudulent, unfair, tricky, unjust. (Straightforward, open, sincere, honest, fair, right, just, impartial.)DISMAY,v.—alarm, startle, scare, frighten, affright, terrify, astound, appal, daunt. (Assure, cheer.)DISMAY,n.—terror, dread, fear, fright. (Courage.)DISMISS—send off, discharge, disband. (Instal, retain, keep.)DISPEL—scatter, disperse, dissipate, drive off, chase. (Collect, rally, summon, gather.)DISPLAY,v.—exhibit, show, parade. (Conceal.)DISPOSE—arrange, place, order, marshal, rank, group, assort, distribute, co-ordinate, collocate. (Derange, embroil, jumble, muddle, huddle.)DISPUTE,v.—discuss, debate, wrangle, controvert, contend. (Homologate, acquiesce in, assent to.)DISPUTE,n.—argument, controversy, contention, polemic. (Homologation, acquiescence.)DISTINCT—separate, detached. (Joined, involved.)DISTINGUISH—perceive, separate. (Confound.)DISTINGUISHED—famous, noted, marked, eminent, celebrated, illustrious. (Obscure, mean.)DISTRACT—divert, disconcert, perplex, bewilder, fluster, dazzle. (Observe, study, note, mark.)DISTRIBUTE—disperse, disseminate, dispense, retail, apportion, consign, dole out. (Accumulate.)DISTURB—derange, displace, unsettle, trouble, vex, worry, annoy. (Compose, pacify, quiet, soothe.)DIVIDE—disjoin, part, separate, sunder, sever, cleave, split, rend, partition, distribute. (Constitute, unite.)DIVINE,a.—God-like, holy, heavenly. (Devilish.)DIVINE,n.—clergyman, churchman, priest, pastor, shepherd, parson, minister. (Layman.)DO—effect, make, accomplish, transact, act.DOCILE—teachable, willing. (Refractory, stubborn, obstinate.)DOCTRINE—teaching, lore, tenet, dogma, articles of faith, creed. (Ignorance, superstition.)DOLEFUL—woeful, dismal. (Joyous, merry.)DOOM,n.—sentence, fate, lot, destiny, decree.DOUBT—uncertainty, skepticism, hesitation. (Certainty, faith.)DRAW—pull, attract, inhale, sketch, delineate.DREAD,n.—fear, horror, alarm, terror, dismay, apprehension. (Confidence, fearlessness.)DREADFUL—fearful, alarming, formidable, portentous, direful, terrible, horrid, awful. (Mild, winsome, gentle.)DRESS,n.—clothing, raiment, attire, apparel, clothes,trousseau. (Nudity, nakedness.)DRIFT—tendency, direction, course, bearing, tenor.DROLL—funny, laughable, grotesque, farcical, odd. (Dull, serious, solemn, grave.)DRY,a.—arid, parched, bald, flat, dull. (Aqueous, green, fresh, juicy, interesting.)DUE—owing, indebted, just, fair, proper.DULL—heavy, sad, commonplace, gloomy, stupid. (Bright, gay, brilliant.)DUNCE—blockhead, ignoramus, simpleton, donkey, ninny, dolt, booby, goose, dullard, numskull, dunderpate, clodhopper. (Sage, genius, man of talent, wit.)DURABLE—abiding, lasting. (Evanescent.)DWELL—stay, abide, sojourn, remain, tarry, stop. (Shift, wander, remove, tramp.)DWINDLE—pine, waste, shrink, shrivel, diminish.EAGER—keen, desirous, craving, ardent, impatient, intent, impetuous. (Loth, reluctant.)EARN—gain, win, acquire. (Lose, miss, forfeit.)EARNEST,a.—serious, resolved. (Trifling, giddy, irresolute, fickle.)EARNEST,n.—pledge, gage, deposit, caution.EASE,n.—content, rest, satisfaction, comfort, repose. (Worry, bother, friction, agitation, turmoil.)EASE,v.—calm, console, appease, assuage, allay, mitigate. (Worry, fret, alarm, gall, harass.)EASY—light, comfortable, unconstrained. (Hard, difficult, embarrassed, constrained.)ECCENTRIC—wandering, irregular, peculiar, odd, unwonted, extraordinary, queer, nondescript. (Orderly, customary.)ECONOMICAL—frugal, thrifty, provident. (Squandering, wasteful.)EDGE—verge, brink, brim, rim, skirt, hem.EFFECT,v.—produce, bring about, execute.EFFECTIVE—efficient, operative, powerful, efficacious, competent. (Impotent, incapable, incompetent, inefficient.)EFFICACY—efficiency, virtue, competence, agency, instrumentality.ELIMINATE—expel, weed, thin, decimate, exclude, bar, reject, repudiate, winnow, eject, cast out. (Include, comprehend, incorporate, embrace.)ELOQUENCE—oratory, rhetoric, declamation, facundity, grandiloquence, fluency. (Mumbling, stammering.)ELUCIDATE—clear up, unfold, simplify, explain, decipher, unravel, disentangle. (Darken, obscure.)ELUDE—escape, avoid, shun, slip, disappear, shirk.EMBARRASS—perplex, entangle, involve, impede. (Relieve, unravel.)EMBELLISH—adorn, decorate, beautify. (Tarnish, disfigure.)EMBOLDEN—animate, encourage, cheer, instigate, impel, urge, stimulate. (Discourage, dispirit, dampen, depress.)EMINENT—exalted, lofty, prominent, renowned, distinguished, famous, glorious, illustrious. (Base, obscure, low, unknown.)EMIT—send out, despatch, spirt, publish, promulgate, edit. (Reserve, conceal, hide.)EMOTION—feeling, sensation, pathos, nerve, ardor, agitation, excitement. (Apathy, frigidity, phlegm,nonchalance.)EMPLOY—occupy, engage, utilize, exercise, turn to account, exploit, make use of.ENCOMPASS—encircle, surround, gird, beset.ENCOUNTER,v.—meet, run against, clash.ENCOUNTER,n.—attack, conflict, assault, onset, engagement.END,n.—object, aim, result, purpose, conclusion, upshot, termination. (Beginning, motive.)ENDEAVOR,v.—attempt, try, essay, strive.ENDURANCE—stay, stability, stamina, fortitude.ENDURE—sustain, bear, brook, undergo.ENEMY—foe, antagonist, adversary, opponent. (Friend, ally.)ENERGETIC—active, vigorous, sinewy, nervous, forcible. (Lazy, languid, inert, flabby, flaccid, slack, effete.)ENGAGE—occupy, busy, entice, captivate.ENGROSS—monopolize, absorb, take up.ENGULF—swallow up, drown, submerge, bury.ENJOIN—order, command, decree, ordain, direct, appoint, prescribe, bind, impose, stipulate.ENJOYMENT—pleasure, relish, zest. (Privation, grief, misery.)ENLARGE—expand, widen, augment, broaden, increase, extend. (Diminish, narrow, straighten.)ENLIGHTEN—illumine, instruct. (Darken, befog, mystify.)ENLIVEN—cheer, animate, exhilarate, brighten, incite, inspire. (Sadden, deaden, mortify.)ENMITY—hostility, hatred, antipathy, aversion, detestation. (Love, fondness, predilection.)ENORMOUS—huge, immense, vast, stupendous, monstrous, gigantic, colossal, elephantine. (Tiny, little, minute, puny, petty, diminutive, infinitesimal, dwarfish.)ENOUGH—sufficient, adequate. (Short, scrimp, insufficient.)ENRAGED—infuriated, wrathful, wroth, rabid, mad, raging. (Pacified, calmed, lulled, assuaged.)ENRAPTURE—captivate, fascinate, enchant, bewitch, ravish, transport, entrance. (Irritate, gall, shock, repel.)ENROLL—enlist, register, enter, record.ENTERPRISE—undertaking, endeavor, adventure, pursuit.ENTHUSIASM—ardor, zeal, glow, unction, fervor. (Coolness, indifference, apathy,nonchalance.)ENTHUSIAST—visionary, fanatic, devotee, zealot.EQUAL—even, level, co-ordinate, balanced, alike, equable, equitable. (Unequal, disproportionate.)ERADICATE—root out, extirpate. (Cherish.)ERRONEOUS—fallacious, inaccurate, incorrect, untrue, false, inexact. (Accurate, just, right.)ERROR—mistake, blunder, slip, delusion, fallacy, deception. (Truth, fact, verity, gospel, veracity.)ESPECIALLY—chiefly, particularly, peculiarly.ESSAY—endeavor, experiment, trial, attempt, venture, dissertation, treatise, disquisition, tract.ESTABLISH—settle, fix, set, plant, pitch, lay down, confirm, authenticate, substantiate, verify.ESTEEM,n.—value, appreciation, honor, regard. (Contempt, depreciation, disparagement.)ESTIMATE,v.—value, assess, rate, appraise, gauge.ETERNAL—everlasting, perpetual, endless, immortal, infinite. (Finite, transitory, temporary.)EVADE—avoid, shun, elude, dodge, parry.EVEN—plain, flat, level, smooth. (Uneven, rough, indented, protuberant.)EVENT—occurrence, incident, affair, transaction, contingency.EVIL—ill, harm, mischief, disaster, bane, calamity, catastrophe. (Good, benefit, advantage, boon.)EXACT,a.—precise, literal, particular, correct.EXAMINATION—investigation, inquiry, search, research, scrutiny, exploration, test, sitting, trial.EXCEED—excel, outdo, transcend, surpass.EXCEPTIONAL—uncommon, unusual, rare, extraordinary. (General, ordinary, regular, normal.)EXCITE—urge, rouse, stir, awaken. (Assuage, calm, still, tranquilize.)EXCURSION—tour, trip, expedition, ramble.EXEMPT—free, absolved, cleared, discharged. (Implicated, included, bound, obliged.)EXERCISE,n.—operation, practice, office, action, performance. (Stagnation, rest, stoppage.)EXHAUSTIVE—complete, thorough, out-and-out.EXIGENCY—predicament, emergency, crisis, push, pass, turning point, conjecture.EXPRESS,v.—utter, tell, declare, signify.EXTRAVAGANT—excessive, prodigal, profuse, wasteful, lavish, thriftless. (Penurious, stingy.)FABLE—parable, tale, myth, romance. (Truth, fact, history, event, deed.)FACE—aspect, visage, countenance.FACETIOUS—pleasant, jocular. (Serious.)FACTOR—manager, agent, officer.FAIL—fall short, be deficient. (Accomplish.)FAINT—feeble, languid. (Forcible.)FAIR—clear. (Stormy.)FAIR—equitable, honest, reasonable. (Unfair.)FAITH—creed. (Unbelief, infidelity.)FAITHFUL—true, loyal, constant. (Faithless.)FAITHLESS—perfidious, treacherous. (Faithful.)FALL—drop, droop, sink, tumble. (Rise.)FAME—renown, reputation.FAMOUS—celebrated, renowned. (Obscure.)FANCIFUL—capricious, fantastical, whimsical.FANCY—imagination.FAST—rapid, quick, fleet, expeditious. (Slow.)FATIGUE—weariness, lassitude. (Vigor.)FEAR—timidity, timorousness. (Bravery.)FEELING—sensation, sense.FEELING—sensibility. (Insensibility.)FEROCIOUS—fierce, savage, wild. (Mild.)FERTILE—fruitful, prolific, plenteous. (Sterile.)FICTION—falsehood, fabrication. (Fact.)FIGURE—allegory, emblem, metaphor, symbol, picture, type.FIND—descry, discover, espy. (Lose, overlook.)FINE,a.—delicate, nice. (Coarse.)FINE,n.—forfeit, forfeiture, mulct, penalty.FIRE—glow, heat, warmth.FIRM—constant, solid, steadfast, fixed. (Weak.)FIRST—foremost, chief, earliest. (Last.)FIT—accommodate, adapt, adjust, suit.FIX—determine, establish, settle, limit.FLAME—blaze, flare, flash, glare.FLAT—level, even.FLEXIBLE—pliant, pliable, ductile. (Inflexible.)FLOURISH—prosper, thrive. (Decay.)FLUCTUATING—wavering, hesitating, oscillating, vacillating, change. (Firm, steadfast, decided.)FLUENT—flowing, glib, voluble, unembarrassed, ready. (Hesitating.)FOLKS—persons, people, individuals.FOLLOW—succeed, ensue, imitate, copy, pursue.FOLLOWER—partisan, disciple, adherent, retainer, pursuer, successor.FOLLY—silliness, foolishness, imbecility, weakness. (Wisdom.)FOND—enamored, attached, affectionate. (Distant.)FONDNESS—affection, attachment, kindness, love. (Aversion.)FOOLHARDY—venturesome, incautious, hasty, adventurous, rash. (Cautious.)FOOLISH—simple, silly, irrational, brainless, imbecile, crazy, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, nonsensical. (Wise, discreet.)FOP—dandy, dude, beau, coxcomb, puppy, jackanapes. (Gentleman.)FORBEAR—abstain, refrain, withhold.FORCE,n.—strength, vigor, dint, might, energy, power, violence, army, host.FORCE,v.—compel. (Persuade.)FORECAST—forethought, foresight, premeditation, prognostication.FOREGO—quit, relinquish, let go, waive.FOREGOING—antecedent, anterior, preceding, previous, prior, former.FORERUNNER—herald, harbinger, precursor.FORESIGHT—forethought, forecast, premeditation.FORGE—coin, invent, frame, feign, fabricate.FORGIVE—pardon, remit, absolve, acquit, excuse.FORLORN—forsaken, abandoned, deserted, desolate, lone, lonesome.FORM,n.—ceremony, solemnity, observance, rite, figure, shape, conformation, fashion, appearance, representation, semblance.FORM,v.—make, create, produce, constitute, arrange, fashion, mould, shape.FORMAL—ceremonious, precise, exact, stiff, methodical, affected. (Informal, natural.)FORMER—antecedent, anterior, previous, prior, preceding, foregoing.FORSAKEN—abandoned, forlorn, deserted, desolate, lone, lonesome.FORTHWITH—immediately, directly, instantly, instantaneously. (Anon.)FORTITUDE—endurance, resolution, fearlessness, dauntlessness. (Weakness.)FORTUNATE—lucky, happy, auspicious, successful, prosperous. (Unfortunate.)FORTUNE—chance, fate, luck, doom, possession, destiny, property, riches.FOSTER—cherish, nurse, tend, harbor. (Neglect.)FOUL—impure, nasty, filthy, dirty, unclean, defiled. (Pure, clean.)FRACTIOUS—cross, captious, petulant, splenetic, touchy, testy, peevish, fretful. (Tractable.)FRAGILE—brittle, frail, delicate, feeble. (Strong.)FRAGMENTS—pieces, scraps, leavings, remnants, chips, remains.FRAILTY—weakness, failing, foible, imperfection, fault, blemish. (Strength.)FRAME,v.—construct, invent, coin, fabricate, feign, forge, mold, make, compose.FRANCHISE—right, exemption, immunity, privilege, freedom, suffrage.FRANK—artless, candid, sincere, free, easy, open, familiar, ingenious, plain. (Tricky, insincere.)FRANTIC—distracted, furious, raving, frenzied, mad. (Quiet, subdued.)FRAUD—deceit, deception, duplicity, guile, cheat, imposition. (Honesty.)FREAK—fancy, humor, vagary, whim, caprice, crochet. (Purpose, resolution.)FREE,a.—liberal, generous, bountiful, bounteous, munificent, frank, artless, candid, familiar, open, independent, unconfined, unreserved, unrestricted, exempt, clear, loose, easy, careless. (Slavish, stingy, artful, costly.)FREE,v.—release, set free, deliver, rescue, liberate, enfranchise, affranchise, emancipate, exempt. (Enslave, bind.)FREEDOM—liberty, independence, unrestraint, familiarity, franchise, exemption. (Slavery.)FREQUENT—often, common, general. (Rare.)FRET—gall, chafe, agitate, irritate, vex.FRIENDLY—amicable, social, sociable. (Distant, reserved, cool.)FRIGHTFUL—fearful, dreadful, dire, direful, awful, terrific, horrible, horrid.FRIVOLOUS—trifling, trivial, petty. (Serious.)FRUGAL—provident, economical, saving. (Wasteful, extravagant.)FRUITFUL—fertile, prolific, productive, abundant, plentiful, plenteous. (Barren, sterile.)FRUITLESS—vain, useless, idle, bootless, unavailing, without avail.FRUSTRATE—defeat, foil, balk, disappoint.FULFILL—accomplish, effect, complete.FULLY—completely, abundantly, perfectly.FULSOME—coarse, gross, sickening, offensive, rank. (Moderate.)FURIOUS—violent, boisterous, vehement, dashing, sweeping, rolling, impetuous, frantic, distracted, stormy, angry, raging, fierce. (Calm.)FUTILE—trifling, trivial, frivolous. (Effective.)GAIN,n.—profit, emolument, advantage, benefit, winnings, earnings. (Loss.)GAIN,v.—get, acquire, obtain, attain, procure, earn, win, achieve, reap, realize, reach. (Lose.)GALLANT—brave, bold, courageous, gay, showy, fine, intrepid, fearless, heroic.GALLING—chafing, irritating. (Soothing.)GAME—play, pastime, diversion, amusement.GANG—band, horde, company, troop, crew.GAP—breach, chasm, hollow, cavity, cleft, crevice, rift, chink.GARNISH—embellish, adorn, beautify, decorate.GATHER—pick, cull, assemble, muster, infer, collect. (Scatter.)GAUDY—showy, flashy, tawdry, gay, glittering, bespangled. (Sombre.)GAUNT—emaciated, scraggy, skinny, meagre, lank, attenuated, spare, lean, thin. (Well-fed.)GAY—cheerful, merry, lively, jolly, sprightly, blithe. (Solemn.)GENERATE—form, make, beget, produce.GENERATION—formation, race, breed, stock, kind, age, era.GENEROUS—beneficent, noble, honorable, bountiful, liberal, free. (Niggardly.)GENIAL—cordial, hearty, festive. (Distant, cold.)GENIUS—intellect, invention, talent, taste, nature, character, adept.GENTEEL—refined, polished, fashionable, polite, well-bred. (Boorish.)GENTLE—placid, mild, bland, meek, tame, docile. (Rough, uncouth.)GENUINE—real, true, unaffected. (False.)GESTURE—attitude, action, posture.GET—obtain, earn, gain, attain, procure, achieve.GHASTLY—pallid, wan, hideous, grim, shocking.GHOST—spectre, sprite, apparition, phantom.GIBE—scoff, sneer, flout, jeer, mock, taunt, deride.GIDDY—unsteady, thoughtless. (Steady.)GIFT—donation, benefaction, grant, alms, gratuity, boon, present, faculty, talent. (Purchase.)GIGANTIC—colossal, huge, enormous, prodigious, vast, immense. (Diminutive.)GIVE—grant, bestow, confer, yield, impart.GLAD—pleased, cheerful, joyful, gladsome, cheering, gratified. (Sad.)GLEAM—glimmer, glance, glitter, shine, flash.GLEE—gayety, merriment, mirth, joviality, joy, hilarity. (Sorrow.)GLIDE—slip, slide, run, roll on.GLIMMER,v.—gleam, flicker, glitter.GLIMPSE—glance, look, glint.GLITTER—gleam, shine, glisten, glister, radiate.GLOOM—cloud, darkness, dimness, blackness, dullness, sadness. (Light, brightness, joy.)GLOOMY—lowering, lurid, dim, dusky, sad, glum. (Bright, clear.)GLORIFY—magnify, celebrate, adore, exalt.GLORIOUS—famous, renowned, distinguished, exalted, noble. (Infamous.)GLORY—honor, fame, renown, splendor, grandeur. (Infamy.)GLUT—gorge, stuff, cram, cloy, satiate, block up.GO—depart, proceed, move, budge, stir.GOD—Creator, Lord, Almighty, Jehovah, Omnipotence, Providence.GODLY—righteous, devout, holy, pious, religious.GOOD—benefit, weal, advantage, profit. (Evil.)GOOD,a.—virtuous, righteous, upright, just, true. (Wicked, bad.)GORGE—glut, fill, cram, stuff, satiate.GORGEOUS—superb, grand, magnificent, splendid. (Plain, simple.)GOVERN—rule, direct, manage, command.GOVERNMENT—rule, state, control, sway.GRACEFUL—becoming, comely, elegant, beautiful. (Awkward.)GRACIOUS—merciful, kindly, beneficent.GRADUAL—slow, progressive. (Sudden.)GRAND—majestic, stately, dignified, lofty, elevated, exalted, splendid, gorgeous, superb, magnificent, sublime, pompous. (Shabby.)GRANT—bestow, impart, give, yield, cede, allow, confer, invest.GRANT—gift, boon, donation.GRAPHIC—forcible, telling, picturesque, pictorial.GRASP—catch, seize, gripe, clasp, grapple.GRATEFUL—agreeable, pleasing, welcome, thankful. (Harsh.)GRATIFICATION—enjoyment, pleasure, delight, reward. (Disappointment.)GRAVE,a.—serious, sedate, solemn, sober, pressing, heavy. (Giddy.)GRAVE,n.—tomb, sepulchre, vault.GREAT—big, huge, large, majestic, vast, grand, noble, august. (Small.)GREEDINESS—avidity, eagerness. (Generosity.)GRIEF—affliction, sorrow, trial, tribulation. (Joy.)GRIEVE—mourn, lament, sorrow, pain, wound, hurt, bewail. (Rejoice.)GRIEVOUS—painful, afflicting, heavy, unhappy.GRIND—crush, oppress, grate, harass, afflict.GRISLY—terrible, hideous, grim, ghastly, dreadful. (Pleasing.)GROSS—coarse, outrageous, unseemly, shameful, indelicate. (Delicate.)GROUP—assembly, cluster, collection, clump, order.GROVEL—crawl, cringe, fawn, sneak.GROW—increase, vegetate, expand, advance. (Decay, diminution.)GROWL—grumble, snarl, murmur, complain.GRUDGE—malice, rancor, spite, pique, hatred.GRUFF—rough, rugged, blunt, rude, harsh, surly, bearish. (Pleasant.)GUILE—deceit, fraud. (Candor.)GUILTLESS—harmless, innocent.GUILTY—culpable, sinful, criminal.HABIT—custom, practice.HAIL—accost, address, greet, salute, welcome.HAPPINESS—beatitude, blessedness, bliss, felicity. (Unhappiness.)HARBOR—haven, port.HARD—firm, solid. (Soft.)HARD—arduous, difficult. (Easy.)HARM—injury, hurt, wrong, infliction. (Benefit.)HARMLESS—safe, innocuous, innocent. (Hurtful.)HARSH—rough, rigorous, severe, gruff. (Gentle.)HASTEN—accelerate, dispatch, expedite. (Delay.)HASTY—hurried, ill-advised. (Deliberate.)HATEFUL—odious, detestable. (Lovable.)HATRED—enmity, ill-will, rancor. (Friendship.)HAUGHTINESS—arrogance, pride. (Modesty.)HAUGHTY—arrogant, disdainful, supercilious.HAZARD—risk, venture.HEALTHY—salubrious, salutary. (Unhealthy.)HEAP—accumulate, amass, pile.HEARTY—cordial, sincere, warm. (Insincere.)HEAVY—burdensome, ponderous. (Light.)HEED—care, attention.HEIGHTEN—enhance, exalt, elevate, raise.HEINOUS—atrocious, flagrant. (Venial.)HELP—aid, assist, relieve, succor. (Hinder.)HERETIC—sectary, sectarian, schismatic, dissenter, non-conformist.HESITATE—falter, stammer, stutter.HIDEOUS—grim, ghastly, grisly. (Beautiful.)HIGH—lofty, tall, elevated. (Deep.)HINDER—impede, obstruct, prevent. (Help.)HINT—allude, refer, suggest, intimate, insinuate.HOLD—detain, keep, retain.HOLINESS—sanctity, piety, sacredness.HOLY—devout, pious, religious.HOMELY—plain, ugly, coarse. (Beautiful.)HONESTY—integrity, probity, uprightness. (Dishonesty.)HONOR,v.—respect, reverence. (Dishonor.)HOPE—confidence, expectation, trust.HOPELESS—desperate.HOT—ardent, burning, fiery. (Cold.)HOWEVER—nevertheless, notwithstanding, yet.HUMBLE—modest, submissive, plain, unostentatious, simple. (Haughty.)HUMBLE—degrade, humiliate, mortify. (Exalt.)HUMOR—mood, temper.HUNT—seek, chase.HURTFUL—noxious, pernicious. (Beneficial.)HUSBANDRY—cultivation, tillage.HYPOCRITE—dissembler, imposter, canter.HYPOTHESIS—theory, supposition.IDEA—thought, imagination.IDEAL—imaginary, fancied. (Actual.)IDLE—indolent, lazy. (Industrious.)IGNOMINIOUS—shameful, scandalous, infamous. (Honorable.)IGNOMINY—shame, disgrace, obloquy, reproach.IGNORANT—unlearned, illiterate, uninformed, uneducated. (Knowing.)ILL,n.—evil, wickedness, misfortune, mischief, harm. (Good.)ILL,a.—sick, indisposed, diseased. (Well.)ILL-TEMPERED—crabbed, sour, acrimonious, surly. (Good-natured.)ILL-WILL—enmity, antipathy. (Good-will.)ILLEGAL—unlawful, illicit, contraband, illegitimate. (Legal.)ILLIMITABLE—boundless, immeasurable, infinite.ILLITERATE—unlettered, unlearned, untaught, uninstructed. (Learned, educated.)ILLUSION—fallacy, deception, phantasm.ILLUSORY—imaginary, chimerical. (Real.)ILLUSTRATE—explain, elucidate, clear.ILLUSTRIOUS—celebrated, noble, eminent, famous, renowned. (Obscure.)IMAGE—likeness, picture, representation, effigy.IMAGINARY—ideal, fanciful, illusory. (Real.)IMAGINE—conceive, fancy, apprehend, think.IMBECILITY—silliness, senility, dotage.IMITATE—copy, ape, mimic, mock, counterfeit.IMMACULATE—unspotted, spotless, unsullied, stainless. (Soiled.)IMMEDIATE—pressing, instant, next, proximate.IMMEDIATELY—instantly, forthwith, directly.IMMENSE—vast, enormous, huge, prodigious.IMMUNITY—privilege, prerogative, exemption.IMPAIR—injure, diminish, decrease.IMPART—reveal, divulge, disclose, discover, afford.IMPARTIAL—just, equitable, unbiased. (Partial.)IMPASSIONED—glowing, burning, fiery, intense.IMPEACH—accuse, charge, arraign, censure.IMPEDE—hinder, retard, obstruct. (Help.)IMPEDIMENT—obstruction, hindrance, obstacle, barrier. (Aid.)IMPEL—animate, induce, incite, instigate, embolden. (Retard.)IMPENDING—imminent, threatening.IMPERATIVE—commanding, authoritative.IMPERFECTION—fault, blemish, defect, vice.IMPERIL—endanger, hazard, jeopardize.IMPERIOUS—commanding, dictatorial, imperative, authoritative, lordly, overbearing, domineering.IMPERTINENT—intrusive, meddling, officious, rude, saucy, impudent, insolent.IMPETUOUS—violent, boisterous, furious, vehement. (Calm.)IMPIOUS—profane, irreligious. (Reverent.)IMPLICATE—involve, entangle, embarrass.IMPLY—involve, comprise, infold, import, denote.IMPORTANCE—signification, significance, avail, consequence, weight, gravity, moment.IMPOSING—impressive, striking, majestic, august, noble, grand. (Insignificant.)IMPOTENCE—weakness, incapacity, infirmity, frailty, feebleness. (Power.)IMPOTENT—weak, feeble, helpless, enfeebled, nerveless, infirm. (Strong.)IMPRESSIVE—stirring, forcible, exciting, moving.IMPRISON—incarcerated, shut up, immure, confine. (Liberate.)IMPRISONMENT—captivity, durance.IMPROVE—amend, better, mend, reform, rectify, ameliorate, apply, use, employ. (Deteriorate.)IMPROVIDENT—careless, incautious, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, reckless, rash. (Thrifty.)IMPUDENCE—assurance, impertinence, confidence, insolence, rudeness.IMPUDENT—saucy, brazen, bold, impertinent, forward, rude, insolent, immodest, shameless.IMPULSE—incentive, incitement, instigation.IMPULSIVE—rash, hasty, forcible. (Deliberate.)
ABANDON—forsake, desert, renounce, relinquish. (Keep, cherish.)
ABANDONED—deserted, forsaken, profligate, wicked, reprobate, dissolute, flagitious, corrupt, depraved, vicious. (Respected, esteemed, cherished, virtuous.)
ABASEMENT—degradation, fall, degeneracy, humiliation, abjectness, debasement, servility. (Elevation, promotion, honor.)
ABASH—disconcert, discompose, confound, confuse, shame, bewilder. (Embolden.)
ABBREVIATE—shorten, curtail, contract, abridge, condense, reduce, compress. (Lengthen, extend, enlarge, expand.)
ABDICATE—renounce, resign, relinquish. (Usurp.)
ABET—incite, stimulate, whet, encourage, back up, second, countenance, assist. (Dampen, discourage, dispirit, depress, repress, oppose.)
ABETTOR—instigator, prompter, assistant, coadjutor, accomplice, accessory,particeps criminis. (Extinguisher.)
ABHOR—loathe, abominate, (Love, admire.)
ABILITY—power, skill, gumption, efficiency, mastery, qualification, faculty, expertness. (Incompetence, inefficiency, inability.)
ABJECT—despised, despicable, vile, grovelling, mean, base, worthless, servile. (Supreme, august, commanding, noble.)
ABJURE—forswear, disclaim, unsay, recant, revoke, deny, disown. (Attest, affirm.)
ABLE—competent, qualified, skilled, efficient, capable, clever, adroit, adept, strong, telling, masterly. (Incompetent, weak, unskilful, unqualified.)
ABODE—dwelling, residence, domicile, home, quarters, habitation, lodging, settlement. (Transition, shifting, wandering, pilgrimage, peregrination.)
ABOLISH—efface, extinguish, annihilate, nullify, destroy, undo, quash, annul, cancel, abrogate, quench, suppress, vitiate, revoke. (Introduce, establish, enforce, restore.)
ABOMINABLE—detestable, hateful, odious, execrable. (Choice, excellent, attractive, select.)
ABORTIVE—ineffectual, futile, inoperative, defective, inadequate. (Efficient, productive, complete.)
ABOUT—around, near to, nearly, approximately, contiguous. (Remote from, distant.)
ABSCOND—take oneself off, “vamoose,” disappear, decamp, run away. (Thrust oneself into notice.)
ABSENT—not present, wanting, absentminded, abstracted, inattentive, listless, dreamy, visionary. (Present, collected, composed, vigilant, observant.)
ABSOLUTE—certain, unconditioned, unconditional, unlimited, unrestricted, transcendent, authoritative, paramount, imperative, arbitrary, despotic. (Conditional, limited, hampered, fettered.)
ABSORB—suck up, imbibe, engross, drain away, consume. (Reserve, save, spare, husband, economize, hoard up.)
ABSURD—unreasonable, nonsensical, foolish, vain, impracticable. (Reasonable, prudent, veracious.)
ABUSE,v.—pervert, deprave, traduce, debase, disparage, slander, calumniate, rail at, reproach, depreciate. (Improve, develop, cultivate, promote, bless, magnify, appreciate.)
ABUSE,n.—perversion, ill-usage, depravation, debasement, slander, reproach. (Cultivation, use, promotion, development, appreciation, praise.)
ACCEDE—join, assent, acquiesce in, comply, agree, concur, coincide, approve. (Dissent, object, decline, refuse.)
ACCELERATE—hasten, hurry, speed, expedite, quicken, precipitate, facilitate. (Retard, delay, procrastinate, arrest, stop, impede, suspend.)
ACCEPT—take, receive, assume, acknowledge, endorse. (Refuse, repudiate, protest, disown.)
ACCEPTABLE—pleasant, grateful, welcome. (Repugnant, displeasing.)
ACCIDENT—casualty, contingency, hap, mishap, chance, mischance, misadventure. (Law, order.)
ACCOMMODATE—adjust, adapt, fit, conform, reconcile, suit, oblige, furnish, convenience. (Cross, thwart, counteract, plot against, checkmate, defeat, inconvenience.)
ACCOMPLICE—confederate, ally, associate, accessory,particeps criminis. (Adversary, rival, spy, opponent, enemy.)
ACCOMPLISH—complete, perform, finish, fulfil, execute, perfect, consummate, achieve, effect, carry out. (Fail, miscarry, undo, wreck, frustrate.)
ACCOMPLISHMENT—success, fulfilment, completion, performance, execution, achievement, consummation, attainment. (Failure, miscarriage, wreck, ruin.)
ACCORD—harmonize, agree, allow, grant, concede. (Jar, clash with, deny, disallow.)
ACCOST—address, confront, speak to, greet, salute. (Evade, fight shy of.)
ACCOUNT,v.—compute, estimate, reckon up, take stock of. (Leave unexplained, unsolved.)
ACCOUNT,n.—reckoning, relation, charge, bill. (Riddle, mystery, puzzle, unknown quantity.)
ACCOUNTABLE—answerable, responsible, amenable. (Exempt, free, irresponsible.)
ACCUMULATE—heap up, save, collect. (Scatter, dissipate, diffuse, spend, squander.)
ACCUMULATION—heap, amount, glut. (Dissipation, dissemination, distribution, diminution.)
ACCURATE—definite, precise, correct, exact. (Inaccurate, wrong, erroneous, blundering, careless.)
ACHIEVE—complete, gain, win.
ACHIEVEMENT—feat, exploit, distinguished performance, acquirement. (Abortion, frustration, failure, shortcoming, defect.)
ACKNOWLEDGE—avow, confess, own, recognize, admit, grant, concede. (Repudiate, disclaim, disallow, disown, deny.)
ACQUAINT—make known, apprise, inform, communicate, intimate, notify. (Leave ignorant, keep secret, conceal.)
ACQUAINTANCE—knowledge, familiarity, fellowship, companionship. (Ignorance, stranger.)
ACQUIESCE—yield, concur, agree, assent. (Protest, object, dissent, secede, oppose.)
ACQUIT—set free, release, discharge, clear, absolve, exculpate, exonerate, liberate, deliver. (Accuse, impeach, charge, blame, convict.)
ACT,v.—do, perform, commit, operate, work, practice, behave, personate, play, enact. (Neglect, cease, desist, rest, wait, lie idle, refrain.)
ACTION—working, agency, operation, business, gesture, engagement, fight, deed, battle, feat. (Inaction, repose, rest, idleness, ease, indolence, inertia, passiveness, quiescence, dormancy.)
ACTIVE—energetic, busy, stirring, alive, brisk, operative, lively, agile, nimble, diligent, sprightly, alert, quick, supple, prompt, industrious. (Passive, inert, dead, extinct, dull, torpid, sluggish, indolent, lazy, dormant, quiescent, asleep.)
ACTUAL—real, positive, existing, certain. (False, imaginary, theoretical, illusive, fictitious.)
ACUTE—sharp, pointed, penetrating, piercing, keen, poignant, pungent, intense, violent, shrill, sensitive, sharp-witted, shrewd, discriminating, clever, cunning. (Obtuse, blunt, bluff, dull, flat, callous, stupid, apathetic.)
ADAPT—fit, suit, adjust, conform, regulate. (Misfit, discommode, dislocate.)
ADDICTED—committed to, devoted, prone, given up to, inclined, habituated. (Uncommitted, free, uncompromised, neutral.)
ADDITION—annexation, accession, supplement, adjunct, affix, appendage, accessory, increment, increase, complement,plus, more. (Subtraction, deduction, retrenchment, curtailment, deprivation,minus, less, loss, impoverishment.)
ADDRESS—speech, salutation, accost, appeal; also skill, dexterity, adroitness; also direction, name; also residence. (Response, answer, reply, rejoinder; also awkwardness, maladroitness, clumsiness, slovenliness.)
ADHESION—sticking, adherence, adoption, attachment, espousal. (Repulsion, revulsion, antipathy, aversion, hostility, incompatibility, dislike.)
ADJACENT—next, near, nigh, at hand, alongside, close by, adjoining, contiguous, bordering, neighboring, proximate. (Remote, foreign, distant, aloof, far, apart, asunder.)
ADJOURN—put off, postpone, defer, delay, keep in abeyance, prorogue, suspend, procrastinate, retard, waive, remand, reserve. (Conclude, clinch, accelerate, precipitate.)
ADJUNCT—appendage, affix, annex, annexation, appendix, adhesion, appurtenance. (Curtailment, retrenchment, lop, mutilation, reduction, clipping, docking, filching.)
ADJUST—make exact, set right, fit, adapt, dovetail, arrange, harmonize, settle, regulate. (Confound, confuse, muddle, disorder, perplex, embarrass, entangle, clash, jar, jumble, disarrange, unsettle.)
ADMIRABLE—wonderful, excellent, choice, noble, grand, estimable, lovely, ideal, surpassing, extraordinary, eminent. (Detestable, vile, mean, contemptible, despicable, worthless, wretched, villainous, pitiful.)
ADMIT—allow, permit, suffer, receive, usher, grant, acknowledge, confess, concede, accept. (Deny, refuse, shut out, forbid, disown, disclaim.)
ADVANTAGEOUS—profitable, serviceable, useful, beneficial, helpful, of value. (Disadvantageous, detrimental, prejudicial, injurious, hurtful, harmful, deleterious, obnoxious, pernicious.)
AFFECTION—bent, inclination, partiality, attraction, impulse, love, desire, passion, fascination; also suffering, disease, morbidness. (Repulsion, revulsion, antipathy, dislike, recoil, aversion, estrangement, indifference, coldness, alienation; also wholeness, soundness, healthiness.)
AFFECTIONATE—loving, kind, fond, doting, tender, amiable, cordial, hearty, good-hearted. (Cold, unloving, unkind, heartless, selfish, crabbed, sour, malign, malicious, malevolent, misanthropic, cynical, ill-natured, cruel, hating.)
AGREEABLE—pleasant, acceptable, grateful, refreshing, genial, pleasing, palatable, sweet, charming, delectable. (Disagreeable, displeasing, unpleasant, ungrateful, harsh, repellent, painful, noxious, plaguy, irritating, annoying, mortifying.)
ALTERNATING—reciprocal, correlative, interchangeable, by turns,vice versa. (Monotonous, unchanging, continual.)
AMBASSADOR—messenger, envoy, emissary, legate, nuncio, diplomatist, diplomate, representative, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, minister, agent. (Principal, government, sovereign, power.)
AMEND—improve, correct, better, meliorate, rectify, prune, repair, revise, remedy, reform. (Injure, impair, damage, harm, hurt, mar, mangle, blemish, deteriorate, ruin, spoil.)
ANGER—resentment, animosity, wrath, indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, displeasure, dungeon, irritation, irascibility, choler, ire, hate. (Kindness, benignity,bonhomie, good nature.)
APPROPRIATE—assimilate, assume, possess oneself of, take, grab, clutch, collar, snap up, capture, steal. (Relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, discard, dismiss.)
ARGUE—reason, discuss, debate, dispute, contend. (Obscure, darken, mystify, mislead, misrepresent, evade, sophisticate.)
ARISE—rise, ascend, mount, climb, soar, spring, emanate, proceed, issue. (Descend, fall, gravitate, drop, slide, settle, decline, sink, dismount, alight.)
ARTFUL—cunning, crafty, skilful, wily, designing, politic, astute, knowing, tricky. (Artless, naïve, natural, simple, plain, ingenuous, frank, sincere, open, candid, guileless, straightforward, direct.)
ARTIFICE—contrivance, stratagem, trick, design, plot, machination, chicanery, knavery, jugglery, guile, jobbery. (Artlessness, candor, openness, simplicity, innocence, ingenuousness.)
ASSOCIATION—partnership, fellowship, solidarity, league, alliance, combination, coalition, federation, junto, cabal. (Opposition, antagonism, conflict, counteraction, resistance, hinderance, counterplot, detachment, individualism.)
ATTACK—assault, charge, onset, onslaught, incursion, inroad, bombardment, cannonade. (Defence, protection, guard, ward, resistance, stand, repulse, rebuff, retreat.)
AUDACITY—boldness, defiance, prowess, intrepidity, mettle, game, pluck, fortitude, rashness, temerity, presumption, foolhardiness, courage, hardihood. (Cowardice, pusillanimity, timidity, meekness, poltroonery, fear, caution, calculation, discretion, prudence.)
AUSTERE—severe, harsh, rigid, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, inflexible, obdurate, exacting, straight-laced, unrelenting. (Lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, pliant, lenient, mild, indulgent, easy-going, forbearing, forgiving.)
AVARICIOUS—tight-fisted, griping, churlish, parsimonious, stingy, penurious, miserly, niggardly, close, illiberal, ungenerous, covetous, greedy, rapacious. (Prodigal, thriftless, improvident, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, freehanded.)
AVERSION—antipathy, revulsion, repulsion, dislike, recoil, estrangement, alienation, repugnance, disgust, nausea. (Predilection, fancy, fascination, allurement, attraction, magnet.)
AWE—dread, fear, reverence, prostration, admiration, bewilderment. (Familiarity, indifference, heedlessness, unconcern, contempt, mockery.)
AXIOM—maxim, aphorism, apophthegm, adage, motto,dictum, theorem, truism, proverb, saw. (Absurdity, paradox.)
BABBLE—splash, gurgle, bubble, purl, ripple, prattle, clack, gabble, clash, jabber, twaddle, prate, chatter, blab. (Silence, hush.)
BAD—depraved, defiled, distorted, corrupt, evil, wicked, wrong, sinful, morbid, foul, peccant, noxious, pernicious, diseased, imperfect, tainted, touched. (Good, whole, sound, healthy, beneficial, salutary, prime, perfect, entire, untouched, unblemished, intact, choice, worthy.)
BAFFLE—thwart, checkmate, defeat, disconcert, confound, block, outwit, traverse, contravene, frustrate, balk, foil. (Aid, assist, succor, further, forward, expedite, sustain, second, reinforce.)
BASE—crude, undeveloped, low, villainous, mean, deteriorated, misbegotten, ill-contrived, ill-constituted. (Noble, exalted, lofty, sublime, excellent, elect, choice, aristocratic, exquisite, capital.)
BEAR—carry, hold, sustain, support, suffer, endure, beget, generate, produce, breed, hatch. (Lean, depend, hang, yield, sterile, unproductive.)
BEASTLY—bestial, animal, brutal, sensual, gross, carnal, lewd. (Human, humane, virtuous, moral, ethical, intellectual, thoughtful, spiritual.)
BEAT—strike, smite, thrash, thwack, thump, pummel, drub, leather, baste, belabor, birch, scourge, defeat, surpass, rout, overthrow. (Protect, defend, soothe.)
BEAUTIFUL—fair, complete, symmetrical, handsome. (Ugly, repulsive, foul.)
BECOMING—suiting, accordant, fit, seemly. (Discrepant, improper, in bad form.)
BEG—beseech, crave, entreat. (Offer, proffer.)
BEHAVIOR—carriage, deportment, conduct.
BENEFICENT—bountiful, generous, liberal. (Sordid, mercenary.)
BENEFIT—good, advantage, service. (Loss, detriment, injury.)
BENEVOLENCE—well-wishing, charity. (Malevolence, malice, hate.)
BLAME—censure, reproach. (Approve, honor.)
BLEMISH—flaw, stain, spot, imperfection, defect. (Ornament, decoration, embellishment, adornment, finery, gilding.)
BLIND—dimsighted, ignorant, uninformed. (Sharp-sighted, enlightened.)
BLOT—efface, cancel, expunge, erase. (Record.)
BOLD—brave, daring, fearless, intrepid, courageous. (Cowardly, timid, shy, chicken-hearted.)
BORDER—margin, boundary, frontier, confine, fringe, hem, selvedge, valance. (Inclosure, interior, inside.)
BOUND—circumscribe, limit, restrict, confine, enclose;alsoleap, jump, hop, spring, vault, skip. (Enlarge, clear, deliver;alsoplunge, dip, sink.)
BRAVE—dare, defy. (Cave in, show the white feather.)
BREAK—bruise, crush, pound, squeeze, crack, snap, splinter. (Bind, hold together, knit, rivet.)
BREEZE—blow, zephyr. (Stillness, hush, calm.)
BRIGHT—shining, lustrous, radiant. (Dull, dim.)
BRITTLE—frangible, fragile, frail. (Tough.)
BURIAL—interment, sepulture, obsequies. (Exhumation, disinterment.)
BUSINESS—occupation, employment, pursuit, vocation, calling, profession, craft, trade. (Leisure, vacation, play.)
BUSTLE—stir, fuss, ado, flurry. (Quiet, stillness.)
CALAMITY—misfortune, disaster, catastrophe. (Good luck, prosperity.)
CALM—still, motionless, placid, serene, composed. (Stormy, unsettled, restless, agitated, distracted.)
CAPABLE—competent, able, efficient. (Unqualified.)
CAPTIOUS—censorious, cantankerous. (Conciliatory, bland.)
CARE—solicitude, concern. (Negligence, carelessness,nonchalance.)
CARESS—fondle, love, pet. (Spurn, disdain.)
CARNAGE—butchery, gore, massacre, slaughter.
CAUSE—origin, source, ground, reason, motive.
CENSURE—reprehend, chide. (Approve.)
CERTAIN—sure, infallible. (Doubtful, dubious.)
CESSATION—discontinuance, stoppage, rest, halt. (Perseverance, persistence, continuance.)
CHANCE—accident, luck. (Intention, purpose.)
’CHANGE—exchange,bourse, mart, emporium.
CHANGEABLE—mutable, variable, fickle. (Steadfast, firm.)
CHARACTER—constitution, nature, disposition.
CHARM—fascination, enchantment, witchery, attraction. (Nuisance, mortification, bore, plague.)
CHASTITY—purity, virtue. (Concupiscence.)
CHEAP—inexpensive, worthless. (Dear, costly.)
CHEERFUL—blithe, lightsome, brisk, sprightly. (Melancholy, sombre, morose, gloomy, sad.)
CHIEF—sachem, head, ruler. (Vassal, henchman.)
CIRCUMSTANCE—situation, predicament.
CLASS—division, category, department, order, kind, sort, genus, species, variety.
CLEVER—adroit, dexterous, expert, deft, ready, smart. (Awkward, dull, shiftless, clumsy.)
CLOTHED—dressed, arrayed, apparelled. (Disrobed, stripped.)
COARSE—crude, unrefined. (Refined, cultivated.)
COAX—cajole, wheedle, fawn, lure, induce, entice. (Dissuade, indispose, warn, admonish.)
COLD—frigid, chill, inclement. (Hot, glowing.)
COLOR—hue, tint, tinge, tincture, dye, shade, stain. (Pallor, paleness, wanness, blankness, achromatism, discoloration.)
COMBINATION—coalescence, fusion, faction, coalition, league. (Dissolution, rupture, schism.)
COMMAND—empire, rule. (Anarchy, license.)
COMMODITY—goods, effects, merchandise, stock.
COMMON—general, ordinary, mean, base. (Rare, exceptional, unique.)
COMPASSION—pity, commiseration, sympathy. (Cruelty, severity.)
COMPEL—force, coerce, oblige, necessitate, make, constrain. (Let alone, tolerate.)
COMPENSATION—amends, atonement, requital. (Withholding.)
COMPENDIUM—abstract, epitome, digest. (Amplification, expansion.)
COMPLAIN—lament, murmur, regret, repine, deplore. (Rejoice, exult, boast, brag, chuckle.)
COMPLY—consent, yield, acquiesce. (Refuse, deny, decline.)
COMPOUND,a.—composite, complex, blended. (Simple, elementary.)
COMPREHEND—comprise, contain, embrace, include, enclose, grasp. (Exclude, reject, mistake, eliminate, loss.)
CONCEAL—hide, secrete, cover, screen, shroud, veil, disguise. (Publish, report, divulge.)
CONCEIVE—grasp, apprehend, devise, invent. (Ignorant of.)
CONCLUSION—result, finding. (Undetermined.)
CONDEMN—convict, find guilty, sentence, doom. (Acquit.)
CONDUCT,v.—direct, manage, govern. (Follow, obey, submit.)
CONFIRM—corroborate, ratify, endorse, support, uphold. (Weaken, enfeeble, reduce.)
CONFLICT—contend, contest, wrestle, tussle, clash, wrangle. (Harmonize, agree, fraternize, concur.)
CONFUTE—refute, disprove. (Demonstrate.)
CONQUER—defeat, vanquish, overcome. (Fail, be beaten, lose.)
CONSEQUENCE—effect, derivation, result, event, issue. (Cause, origin, source, antecedent.)
CONSIDER—reflect, deliberate. (Forget, ignore.)
CONSISTENT—accordant, concordant, compatible, consonant, congruous, reconcilable, harmonious. (Discordant, discrepant.)
CONSOLE—relieve, soothe, comfort. (Embitter.)
CONSTANCY—continuance, tenacity, stability. (Irresolution, fickleness.)
CONTAMINATE—Pollute, stain, taint, tarnish, blur, smudge, defile. (Cleanse, purify, purge.)
CONTEMN—despise, disdain, scorn. (Esteem, appreciate, admire.)
CONTEMPLATE—survey, scan, observe, intend. (Disregard.)
CONTEMPTIBLE—despicable, paltry, shabby, beggarly, worthless, vile, cheap, trashy. (Estimable.)
CONTEND—fight, wrangle, vie. (Be at peace.)
CONTINUAL—perpetual, endless, ceaseless. (Momentary, transient.)
CONTINUE—remain, persist, endure. (Desist, stay.)
CONTRADICT—deny, gainsay, oppose. (Affirm, assert, declare.)
CORRECT—mend, rectify. (Impair, muddle.)
COST—expense, charge, price, value.
COVETOUSNESS—avarice, cupidity, extortion. (Generosity, liberality.)
COWARDICE—poltroonery, faint-heartedness. (Courage, boldness, intrepidity.)
CRIME—offence, trespass, misdemeanor, felony, transgression. (Innocence, guiltlessness.)
CRIMINAL—culprit, felon, convict. (Paragon.)
CROOKED—twisted, distorted, bent, awry, wry, askew, deformed. (Straight, upright.)
CRUEL—brutal, ferocious, barbarous, blood-thirsty, fiendish. (Kind, benignant, benevolent.)
CULTIVATION—tillage, culture. (Waste.)
CURSORY—fugitive, hurried, perfunctory. (Permanent, thorough.)
CUSTOM—habit, wont, usage, fashion, practice.
DANGER—peril, hazard, jeopardy. (Safety.)
DARK—obscure, sombrous, opaque, unintelligible. (Light, luminous, shining, clear, lucid.)
DEADLY—mortal, fatal, destructive, lethal.
DEAR—costly, precious, high-priced, beloved, darling, pet, favorite. (Cheap, disliked, despised.)
DEATH—decease, demise, dissolution. (Birth, life.)
DECAY,n.—decline, consumption, atrophy. (Development, growth.)
DECEIVE—cheat, defraud, cozen, overreach, gull, dupe, swindle, victimize. (Truthfulness.)
DECEIT,n.—imposition, fraud, deception. (Veracity, honesty.)
DECIDE—determine, resolve, conclude, settle, adjudicate, arbitrate, terminate. (Hesitate, dilly-dally, shuffle.)
DECIPHER—interpret, explain, construe, unravel. (Mistake, confound.)
DECISION—determination, conclusion, firmness. (Wavering, hesitancy.)
DECLAMATION—harangue, oration, recitation, tirade, speech.
DECLARATION—affirmation, assertion. (Denial.)
DECREASE—diminish, lessen, reduce, wane, decline. (Increase, grow, enlarge.)
DEDICATE—consecrate, devote, offer, apportion.
DEED—act, transaction, exploit, document.
DEEM—judge, estimate, consider, esteem, suppose.
DEEP—profound, abtruse, hidden, extraordinarily wise. (Shallow, superficial.)
DEFACE—mar, spoil, injure, disfigure. (Beautify.)
DEFAULT—shortcoming, deficiency, defect, imperfection. (Sufficiency, satisfaction.)
DEFENCE—fortification, bulwark, vindication, justification, apology.
DEFEND—shield, vindicate. (Assault, accuse.)
DEFICIENT—incomplete, lacking. (Entire, perfect, whole.)
DEFILE—soil, smutch, besmear, begrime.
DEFINE—limit, bound. (Enlarge, expand.)
DEFRAY—pay, settle, liquidate, satisfy, clear.
DEGREE—grade, extent, measure, ratio, standard.
DELIBERATE,a.—circumspect, wary, cautious. (Heedless, thoughtless.)
DELICACY—nicety, dainty, tit-bit, taste, refinement, modesty. (Grossness, coarseness, vulgarity, indecorum.)
DELICATE—dainty, refined. (Coarse, beastly.)
DELICIOUS—savory, palatable, luscious, charming, delightful. (Offensive, nasty, odious, shocking, nauseous.)
DELIGHT—gratification, felicity. (Mortification, vexation.)
DELIVER—transfer, consign, utter, liberate, declare. (Keep, retain, restrain, check, bridle.)
DEMONSTRATE—prove, show, manifest. (Mystify, obscure.)
DEPART—quit, vacate, retire, withdraw, remove.
DEPRIVE—strip, bereave, despoil. (Invest, equip.)
DEPUTE—commission, delegate, accredit, entrust.
DERISION—ridicule, scoffing, mockery, raillery, chaff,badinage. (Awe, dread, reverence.)
DERIVATION—origin, source, spring, emanation, etymology.
DESCRIBE—delineate, portray, style, specify, characterize.
DESECRATE—profane, blaspheme, revile. (Consecrate, sanctify.)
DESERVE—merit, be entitled to, earn, justify.
DESIGN,n.—delineation, illustration, sketch, plan, drawing, portraiture, draught, projection, scheme, proposal, outline.
DESIRABLE—eligible, suitable, acceptable. (Unfit, objectionable.)
DESIRE,n.—wish, longing, hankering, appetite.
DESOLATE,a.—lonely, solitary, bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, deserted, bleak, dreary. (Befriended, social, festive.)
DESPERATE—frenzied, frantic, furious. (Calm, composed, moderate.)
DESTINY—fatality, doom, predestination, decree, fate. (Casualty, accident, contingency, chance.)
DESTRUCTIVE—mischievous, disastrous, deleterious. (Creative, beneficial.)
DESUETUDE—disuse, discontinuance. (Use, habit, practice.)
DESULTORY—immethodical, disconnected, rambling, discontinuous, interrupted, fitful, intermittent. (Continuous, consecutive, constant.)
DETAIL,n.—particular, item, count, specialty, individuality.
DETAIL,v.—particularize, enumerate, specify. (Generalize.)
DETER—discourage, dissuade. (Encourage, incite.)
DETRIMENT—damage, loss. (Benefit, improvement, betterment.)
DEVELOP—unfold, expand, increase. (Extirpate.)
DEVOID—wanting, destitute, bereft, denuded, bare, emptied, void. (Provided, supplied, furnished.)
DEVOTED—destined, consecrated, sworn to.
DICTATE—enjoin, order, prescribe, mark out.
DICTATORIAL—authoritative, imperative, overbearing, imperious, arbitrary, domineering.
DIE—expire, perish, depart this life, cease.
DIET—food, victuals, nourishment, aliment, board, sustenance, fare, viands, meal, repast,menu.
DIFFER—vary, diverge, disagree, bicker, nag, split. (Accord, harmonize.)
DIFFERENT—various, diverse, unlike. (Identical.)
DIFFICULT—hard, tough, laborious, arduous, formidable. (Easy, facile, manageable, pliant.)
DIFFUSE—discursive, digressive, diluted. (Condensed, concise, terse.)
DIGNIFY—elevate, exalt, ennoble, honor, advance, promote. (Degrade, disgrace, demean, vulgarize.)
DILATE—widen, extend, enlarge, expand, descant, expatiate. (Contract, narrow, compress, reduce.)
DILATORY—slow, tardy, slow-paced, procrastinating, lagging, dawdling. (Prompt, peremptory, quick, instant.)
DILIGENCE—zeal, ardor, assiduity. (Indolence.)
DIMINISH—lessen, reduce, curtail, retrench, bate, abate, shorten, contract. (Increase, augment, aggrandize, enlarge.)
DISABILITY—incapacity, unfitness. (Power.)
DISCERN—descry, perceive, distinguish, espy, scan, recognize, understand, discriminate. (Ignore.)
DISCIPLINE—order, training, drill, schooling. (Laxity, disorder, confusion, anarchy.)
DISCOVER—detect, find, unveil, reveal, open, expose, publish, disclose. (Cover, conceal, hide.)
DISCREDITABLE—disreputable, reprehensible, blameworthy, shameful, scandalous, flagrant. (Exemplary, laudable, commendable.)
DISCREET—prudent, politic, cautious, wary, guarded, judicious. (Reckless, heedless, rash, unadvised, foolhardy, precipitate.)
DISCREPANCY—disagreement, discordance, incongruity, disparity, unfitness, clash, jar. (Concord, unison, harmony, congruity.)
DISCRIMINATION—distinction, differentiation, discernment, appreciation, acuteness, judgment, tact, nicety. (Confusion.)
DISEASE—illness, sickness, ailment, indisposition, complaint, malady, disorder. (Health, sanity, soundness, robustness.)
DISGRACE,n.—stigma, reproach, brand, dishonor, shame, scandal, odium, infamy. (Honor.)
DISGUST—distaste, loathing, nausea, aversion, revulsion, abhorrence. (Predilection, partiality, inclination, bias.)
DISHONEST—fraudulent, unfair, tricky, unjust. (Straightforward, open, sincere, honest, fair, right, just, impartial.)
DISMAY,v.—alarm, startle, scare, frighten, affright, terrify, astound, appal, daunt. (Assure, cheer.)
DISMAY,n.—terror, dread, fear, fright. (Courage.)
DISMISS—send off, discharge, disband. (Instal, retain, keep.)
DISPEL—scatter, disperse, dissipate, drive off, chase. (Collect, rally, summon, gather.)
DISPLAY,v.—exhibit, show, parade. (Conceal.)
DISPOSE—arrange, place, order, marshal, rank, group, assort, distribute, co-ordinate, collocate. (Derange, embroil, jumble, muddle, huddle.)
DISPUTE,v.—discuss, debate, wrangle, controvert, contend. (Homologate, acquiesce in, assent to.)
DISPUTE,n.—argument, controversy, contention, polemic. (Homologation, acquiescence.)
DISTINCT—separate, detached. (Joined, involved.)
DISTINGUISH—perceive, separate. (Confound.)
DISTINGUISHED—famous, noted, marked, eminent, celebrated, illustrious. (Obscure, mean.)
DISTRACT—divert, disconcert, perplex, bewilder, fluster, dazzle. (Observe, study, note, mark.)
DISTRIBUTE—disperse, disseminate, dispense, retail, apportion, consign, dole out. (Accumulate.)
DISTURB—derange, displace, unsettle, trouble, vex, worry, annoy. (Compose, pacify, quiet, soothe.)
DIVIDE—disjoin, part, separate, sunder, sever, cleave, split, rend, partition, distribute. (Constitute, unite.)
DIVINE,a.—God-like, holy, heavenly. (Devilish.)
DIVINE,n.—clergyman, churchman, priest, pastor, shepherd, parson, minister. (Layman.)
DO—effect, make, accomplish, transact, act.
DOCILE—teachable, willing. (Refractory, stubborn, obstinate.)
DOCTRINE—teaching, lore, tenet, dogma, articles of faith, creed. (Ignorance, superstition.)
DOLEFUL—woeful, dismal. (Joyous, merry.)
DOOM,n.—sentence, fate, lot, destiny, decree.
DOUBT—uncertainty, skepticism, hesitation. (Certainty, faith.)
DRAW—pull, attract, inhale, sketch, delineate.
DREAD,n.—fear, horror, alarm, terror, dismay, apprehension. (Confidence, fearlessness.)
DREADFUL—fearful, alarming, formidable, portentous, direful, terrible, horrid, awful. (Mild, winsome, gentle.)
DRESS,n.—clothing, raiment, attire, apparel, clothes,trousseau. (Nudity, nakedness.)
DRIFT—tendency, direction, course, bearing, tenor.
DROLL—funny, laughable, grotesque, farcical, odd. (Dull, serious, solemn, grave.)
DRY,a.—arid, parched, bald, flat, dull. (Aqueous, green, fresh, juicy, interesting.)
DUE—owing, indebted, just, fair, proper.
DULL—heavy, sad, commonplace, gloomy, stupid. (Bright, gay, brilliant.)
DUNCE—blockhead, ignoramus, simpleton, donkey, ninny, dolt, booby, goose, dullard, numskull, dunderpate, clodhopper. (Sage, genius, man of talent, wit.)
DURABLE—abiding, lasting. (Evanescent.)
DWELL—stay, abide, sojourn, remain, tarry, stop. (Shift, wander, remove, tramp.)
DWINDLE—pine, waste, shrink, shrivel, diminish.
EAGER—keen, desirous, craving, ardent, impatient, intent, impetuous. (Loth, reluctant.)
EARN—gain, win, acquire. (Lose, miss, forfeit.)
EARNEST,a.—serious, resolved. (Trifling, giddy, irresolute, fickle.)
EARNEST,n.—pledge, gage, deposit, caution.
EASE,n.—content, rest, satisfaction, comfort, repose. (Worry, bother, friction, agitation, turmoil.)
EASE,v.—calm, console, appease, assuage, allay, mitigate. (Worry, fret, alarm, gall, harass.)
EASY—light, comfortable, unconstrained. (Hard, difficult, embarrassed, constrained.)
ECCENTRIC—wandering, irregular, peculiar, odd, unwonted, extraordinary, queer, nondescript. (Orderly, customary.)
ECONOMICAL—frugal, thrifty, provident. (Squandering, wasteful.)
EDGE—verge, brink, brim, rim, skirt, hem.
EFFECT,v.—produce, bring about, execute.
EFFECTIVE—efficient, operative, powerful, efficacious, competent. (Impotent, incapable, incompetent, inefficient.)
EFFICACY—efficiency, virtue, competence, agency, instrumentality.
ELIMINATE—expel, weed, thin, decimate, exclude, bar, reject, repudiate, winnow, eject, cast out. (Include, comprehend, incorporate, embrace.)
ELOQUENCE—oratory, rhetoric, declamation, facundity, grandiloquence, fluency. (Mumbling, stammering.)
ELUCIDATE—clear up, unfold, simplify, explain, decipher, unravel, disentangle. (Darken, obscure.)
ELUDE—escape, avoid, shun, slip, disappear, shirk.
EMBARRASS—perplex, entangle, involve, impede. (Relieve, unravel.)
EMBELLISH—adorn, decorate, beautify. (Tarnish, disfigure.)
EMBOLDEN—animate, encourage, cheer, instigate, impel, urge, stimulate. (Discourage, dispirit, dampen, depress.)
EMINENT—exalted, lofty, prominent, renowned, distinguished, famous, glorious, illustrious. (Base, obscure, low, unknown.)
EMIT—send out, despatch, spirt, publish, promulgate, edit. (Reserve, conceal, hide.)
EMOTION—feeling, sensation, pathos, nerve, ardor, agitation, excitement. (Apathy, frigidity, phlegm,nonchalance.)
EMPLOY—occupy, engage, utilize, exercise, turn to account, exploit, make use of.
ENCOMPASS—encircle, surround, gird, beset.
ENCOUNTER,v.—meet, run against, clash.
ENCOUNTER,n.—attack, conflict, assault, onset, engagement.
END,n.—object, aim, result, purpose, conclusion, upshot, termination. (Beginning, motive.)
ENDEAVOR,v.—attempt, try, essay, strive.
ENDURANCE—stay, stability, stamina, fortitude.
ENDURE—sustain, bear, brook, undergo.
ENEMY—foe, antagonist, adversary, opponent. (Friend, ally.)
ENERGETIC—active, vigorous, sinewy, nervous, forcible. (Lazy, languid, inert, flabby, flaccid, slack, effete.)
ENGAGE—occupy, busy, entice, captivate.
ENGROSS—monopolize, absorb, take up.
ENGULF—swallow up, drown, submerge, bury.
ENJOIN—order, command, decree, ordain, direct, appoint, prescribe, bind, impose, stipulate.
ENJOYMENT—pleasure, relish, zest. (Privation, grief, misery.)
ENLARGE—expand, widen, augment, broaden, increase, extend. (Diminish, narrow, straighten.)
ENLIGHTEN—illumine, instruct. (Darken, befog, mystify.)
ENLIVEN—cheer, animate, exhilarate, brighten, incite, inspire. (Sadden, deaden, mortify.)
ENMITY—hostility, hatred, antipathy, aversion, detestation. (Love, fondness, predilection.)
ENORMOUS—huge, immense, vast, stupendous, monstrous, gigantic, colossal, elephantine. (Tiny, little, minute, puny, petty, diminutive, infinitesimal, dwarfish.)
ENOUGH—sufficient, adequate. (Short, scrimp, insufficient.)
ENRAGED—infuriated, wrathful, wroth, rabid, mad, raging. (Pacified, calmed, lulled, assuaged.)
ENRAPTURE—captivate, fascinate, enchant, bewitch, ravish, transport, entrance. (Irritate, gall, shock, repel.)
ENROLL—enlist, register, enter, record.
ENTERPRISE—undertaking, endeavor, adventure, pursuit.
ENTHUSIASM—ardor, zeal, glow, unction, fervor. (Coolness, indifference, apathy,nonchalance.)
ENTHUSIAST—visionary, fanatic, devotee, zealot.
EQUAL—even, level, co-ordinate, balanced, alike, equable, equitable. (Unequal, disproportionate.)
ERADICATE—root out, extirpate. (Cherish.)
ERRONEOUS—fallacious, inaccurate, incorrect, untrue, false, inexact. (Accurate, just, right.)
ERROR—mistake, blunder, slip, delusion, fallacy, deception. (Truth, fact, verity, gospel, veracity.)
ESPECIALLY—chiefly, particularly, peculiarly.
ESSAY—endeavor, experiment, trial, attempt, venture, dissertation, treatise, disquisition, tract.
ESTABLISH—settle, fix, set, plant, pitch, lay down, confirm, authenticate, substantiate, verify.
ESTEEM,n.—value, appreciation, honor, regard. (Contempt, depreciation, disparagement.)
ESTIMATE,v.—value, assess, rate, appraise, gauge.
ETERNAL—everlasting, perpetual, endless, immortal, infinite. (Finite, transitory, temporary.)
EVADE—avoid, shun, elude, dodge, parry.
EVEN—plain, flat, level, smooth. (Uneven, rough, indented, protuberant.)
EVENT—occurrence, incident, affair, transaction, contingency.
EVIL—ill, harm, mischief, disaster, bane, calamity, catastrophe. (Good, benefit, advantage, boon.)
EXACT,a.—precise, literal, particular, correct.
EXAMINATION—investigation, inquiry, search, research, scrutiny, exploration, test, sitting, trial.
EXCEED—excel, outdo, transcend, surpass.
EXCEPTIONAL—uncommon, unusual, rare, extraordinary. (General, ordinary, regular, normal.)
EXCITE—urge, rouse, stir, awaken. (Assuage, calm, still, tranquilize.)
EXCURSION—tour, trip, expedition, ramble.
EXEMPT—free, absolved, cleared, discharged. (Implicated, included, bound, obliged.)
EXERCISE,n.—operation, practice, office, action, performance. (Stagnation, rest, stoppage.)
EXHAUSTIVE—complete, thorough, out-and-out.
EXIGENCY—predicament, emergency, crisis, push, pass, turning point, conjecture.
EXPRESS,v.—utter, tell, declare, signify.
EXTRAVAGANT—excessive, prodigal, profuse, wasteful, lavish, thriftless. (Penurious, stingy.)
FABLE—parable, tale, myth, romance. (Truth, fact, history, event, deed.)
FACE—aspect, visage, countenance.
FACETIOUS—pleasant, jocular. (Serious.)
FACTOR—manager, agent, officer.
FAIL—fall short, be deficient. (Accomplish.)
FAINT—feeble, languid. (Forcible.)
FAIR—clear. (Stormy.)
FAIR—equitable, honest, reasonable. (Unfair.)
FAITH—creed. (Unbelief, infidelity.)
FAITHFUL—true, loyal, constant. (Faithless.)
FAITHLESS—perfidious, treacherous. (Faithful.)
FALL—drop, droop, sink, tumble. (Rise.)
FAME—renown, reputation.
FAMOUS—celebrated, renowned. (Obscure.)
FANCIFUL—capricious, fantastical, whimsical.
FANCY—imagination.
FAST—rapid, quick, fleet, expeditious. (Slow.)
FATIGUE—weariness, lassitude. (Vigor.)
FEAR—timidity, timorousness. (Bravery.)
FEELING—sensation, sense.
FEELING—sensibility. (Insensibility.)
FEROCIOUS—fierce, savage, wild. (Mild.)
FERTILE—fruitful, prolific, plenteous. (Sterile.)
FICTION—falsehood, fabrication. (Fact.)
FIGURE—allegory, emblem, metaphor, symbol, picture, type.
FIND—descry, discover, espy. (Lose, overlook.)
FINE,a.—delicate, nice. (Coarse.)
FINE,n.—forfeit, forfeiture, mulct, penalty.
FIRE—glow, heat, warmth.
FIRM—constant, solid, steadfast, fixed. (Weak.)
FIRST—foremost, chief, earliest. (Last.)
FIT—accommodate, adapt, adjust, suit.
FIX—determine, establish, settle, limit.
FLAME—blaze, flare, flash, glare.
FLAT—level, even.
FLEXIBLE—pliant, pliable, ductile. (Inflexible.)
FLOURISH—prosper, thrive. (Decay.)
FLUCTUATING—wavering, hesitating, oscillating, vacillating, change. (Firm, steadfast, decided.)
FLUENT—flowing, glib, voluble, unembarrassed, ready. (Hesitating.)
FOLKS—persons, people, individuals.
FOLLOW—succeed, ensue, imitate, copy, pursue.
FOLLOWER—partisan, disciple, adherent, retainer, pursuer, successor.
FOLLY—silliness, foolishness, imbecility, weakness. (Wisdom.)
FOND—enamored, attached, affectionate. (Distant.)
FONDNESS—affection, attachment, kindness, love. (Aversion.)
FOOLHARDY—venturesome, incautious, hasty, adventurous, rash. (Cautious.)
FOOLISH—simple, silly, irrational, brainless, imbecile, crazy, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, nonsensical. (Wise, discreet.)
FOP—dandy, dude, beau, coxcomb, puppy, jackanapes. (Gentleman.)
FORBEAR—abstain, refrain, withhold.
FORCE,n.—strength, vigor, dint, might, energy, power, violence, army, host.
FORCE,v.—compel. (Persuade.)
FORECAST—forethought, foresight, premeditation, prognostication.
FOREGO—quit, relinquish, let go, waive.
FOREGOING—antecedent, anterior, preceding, previous, prior, former.
FORERUNNER—herald, harbinger, precursor.
FORESIGHT—forethought, forecast, premeditation.
FORGE—coin, invent, frame, feign, fabricate.
FORGIVE—pardon, remit, absolve, acquit, excuse.
FORLORN—forsaken, abandoned, deserted, desolate, lone, lonesome.
FORM,n.—ceremony, solemnity, observance, rite, figure, shape, conformation, fashion, appearance, representation, semblance.
FORM,v.—make, create, produce, constitute, arrange, fashion, mould, shape.
FORMAL—ceremonious, precise, exact, stiff, methodical, affected. (Informal, natural.)
FORMER—antecedent, anterior, previous, prior, preceding, foregoing.
FORSAKEN—abandoned, forlorn, deserted, desolate, lone, lonesome.
FORTHWITH—immediately, directly, instantly, instantaneously. (Anon.)
FORTITUDE—endurance, resolution, fearlessness, dauntlessness. (Weakness.)
FORTUNATE—lucky, happy, auspicious, successful, prosperous. (Unfortunate.)
FORTUNE—chance, fate, luck, doom, possession, destiny, property, riches.
FOSTER—cherish, nurse, tend, harbor. (Neglect.)
FOUL—impure, nasty, filthy, dirty, unclean, defiled. (Pure, clean.)
FRACTIOUS—cross, captious, petulant, splenetic, touchy, testy, peevish, fretful. (Tractable.)
FRAGILE—brittle, frail, delicate, feeble. (Strong.)
FRAGMENTS—pieces, scraps, leavings, remnants, chips, remains.
FRAILTY—weakness, failing, foible, imperfection, fault, blemish. (Strength.)
FRAME,v.—construct, invent, coin, fabricate, feign, forge, mold, make, compose.
FRANCHISE—right, exemption, immunity, privilege, freedom, suffrage.
FRANK—artless, candid, sincere, free, easy, open, familiar, ingenious, plain. (Tricky, insincere.)
FRANTIC—distracted, furious, raving, frenzied, mad. (Quiet, subdued.)
FRAUD—deceit, deception, duplicity, guile, cheat, imposition. (Honesty.)
FREAK—fancy, humor, vagary, whim, caprice, crochet. (Purpose, resolution.)
FREE,a.—liberal, generous, bountiful, bounteous, munificent, frank, artless, candid, familiar, open, independent, unconfined, unreserved, unrestricted, exempt, clear, loose, easy, careless. (Slavish, stingy, artful, costly.)
FREE,v.—release, set free, deliver, rescue, liberate, enfranchise, affranchise, emancipate, exempt. (Enslave, bind.)
FREEDOM—liberty, independence, unrestraint, familiarity, franchise, exemption. (Slavery.)
FREQUENT—often, common, general. (Rare.)
FRET—gall, chafe, agitate, irritate, vex.
FRIENDLY—amicable, social, sociable. (Distant, reserved, cool.)
FRIGHTFUL—fearful, dreadful, dire, direful, awful, terrific, horrible, horrid.
FRIVOLOUS—trifling, trivial, petty. (Serious.)
FRUGAL—provident, economical, saving. (Wasteful, extravagant.)
FRUITFUL—fertile, prolific, productive, abundant, plentiful, plenteous. (Barren, sterile.)
FRUITLESS—vain, useless, idle, bootless, unavailing, without avail.
FRUSTRATE—defeat, foil, balk, disappoint.
FULFILL—accomplish, effect, complete.
FULLY—completely, abundantly, perfectly.
FULSOME—coarse, gross, sickening, offensive, rank. (Moderate.)
FURIOUS—violent, boisterous, vehement, dashing, sweeping, rolling, impetuous, frantic, distracted, stormy, angry, raging, fierce. (Calm.)
FUTILE—trifling, trivial, frivolous. (Effective.)
GAIN,n.—profit, emolument, advantage, benefit, winnings, earnings. (Loss.)
GAIN,v.—get, acquire, obtain, attain, procure, earn, win, achieve, reap, realize, reach. (Lose.)
GALLANT—brave, bold, courageous, gay, showy, fine, intrepid, fearless, heroic.
GALLING—chafing, irritating. (Soothing.)
GAME—play, pastime, diversion, amusement.
GANG—band, horde, company, troop, crew.
GAP—breach, chasm, hollow, cavity, cleft, crevice, rift, chink.
GARNISH—embellish, adorn, beautify, decorate.
GATHER—pick, cull, assemble, muster, infer, collect. (Scatter.)
GAUDY—showy, flashy, tawdry, gay, glittering, bespangled. (Sombre.)
GAUNT—emaciated, scraggy, skinny, meagre, lank, attenuated, spare, lean, thin. (Well-fed.)
GAY—cheerful, merry, lively, jolly, sprightly, blithe. (Solemn.)
GENERATE—form, make, beget, produce.
GENERATION—formation, race, breed, stock, kind, age, era.
GENEROUS—beneficent, noble, honorable, bountiful, liberal, free. (Niggardly.)
GENIAL—cordial, hearty, festive. (Distant, cold.)
GENIUS—intellect, invention, talent, taste, nature, character, adept.
GENTEEL—refined, polished, fashionable, polite, well-bred. (Boorish.)
GENTLE—placid, mild, bland, meek, tame, docile. (Rough, uncouth.)
GENUINE—real, true, unaffected. (False.)
GESTURE—attitude, action, posture.
GET—obtain, earn, gain, attain, procure, achieve.
GHASTLY—pallid, wan, hideous, grim, shocking.
GHOST—spectre, sprite, apparition, phantom.
GIBE—scoff, sneer, flout, jeer, mock, taunt, deride.
GIDDY—unsteady, thoughtless. (Steady.)
GIFT—donation, benefaction, grant, alms, gratuity, boon, present, faculty, talent. (Purchase.)
GIGANTIC—colossal, huge, enormous, prodigious, vast, immense. (Diminutive.)
GIVE—grant, bestow, confer, yield, impart.
GLAD—pleased, cheerful, joyful, gladsome, cheering, gratified. (Sad.)
GLEAM—glimmer, glance, glitter, shine, flash.
GLEE—gayety, merriment, mirth, joviality, joy, hilarity. (Sorrow.)
GLIDE—slip, slide, run, roll on.
GLIMMER,v.—gleam, flicker, glitter.
GLIMPSE—glance, look, glint.
GLITTER—gleam, shine, glisten, glister, radiate.
GLOOM—cloud, darkness, dimness, blackness, dullness, sadness. (Light, brightness, joy.)
GLOOMY—lowering, lurid, dim, dusky, sad, glum. (Bright, clear.)
GLORIFY—magnify, celebrate, adore, exalt.
GLORIOUS—famous, renowned, distinguished, exalted, noble. (Infamous.)
GLORY—honor, fame, renown, splendor, grandeur. (Infamy.)
GLUT—gorge, stuff, cram, cloy, satiate, block up.
GO—depart, proceed, move, budge, stir.
GOD—Creator, Lord, Almighty, Jehovah, Omnipotence, Providence.
GODLY—righteous, devout, holy, pious, religious.
GOOD—benefit, weal, advantage, profit. (Evil.)
GOOD,a.—virtuous, righteous, upright, just, true. (Wicked, bad.)
GORGE—glut, fill, cram, stuff, satiate.
GORGEOUS—superb, grand, magnificent, splendid. (Plain, simple.)
GOVERN—rule, direct, manage, command.
GOVERNMENT—rule, state, control, sway.
GRACEFUL—becoming, comely, elegant, beautiful. (Awkward.)
GRACIOUS—merciful, kindly, beneficent.
GRADUAL—slow, progressive. (Sudden.)
GRAND—majestic, stately, dignified, lofty, elevated, exalted, splendid, gorgeous, superb, magnificent, sublime, pompous. (Shabby.)
GRANT—bestow, impart, give, yield, cede, allow, confer, invest.
GRANT—gift, boon, donation.
GRAPHIC—forcible, telling, picturesque, pictorial.
GRASP—catch, seize, gripe, clasp, grapple.
GRATEFUL—agreeable, pleasing, welcome, thankful. (Harsh.)
GRATIFICATION—enjoyment, pleasure, delight, reward. (Disappointment.)
GRAVE,a.—serious, sedate, solemn, sober, pressing, heavy. (Giddy.)
GRAVE,n.—tomb, sepulchre, vault.
GREAT—big, huge, large, majestic, vast, grand, noble, august. (Small.)
GREEDINESS—avidity, eagerness. (Generosity.)
GRIEF—affliction, sorrow, trial, tribulation. (Joy.)
GRIEVE—mourn, lament, sorrow, pain, wound, hurt, bewail. (Rejoice.)
GRIEVOUS—painful, afflicting, heavy, unhappy.
GRIND—crush, oppress, grate, harass, afflict.
GRISLY—terrible, hideous, grim, ghastly, dreadful. (Pleasing.)
GROSS—coarse, outrageous, unseemly, shameful, indelicate. (Delicate.)
GROUP—assembly, cluster, collection, clump, order.
GROVEL—crawl, cringe, fawn, sneak.
GROW—increase, vegetate, expand, advance. (Decay, diminution.)
GROWL—grumble, snarl, murmur, complain.
GRUDGE—malice, rancor, spite, pique, hatred.
GRUFF—rough, rugged, blunt, rude, harsh, surly, bearish. (Pleasant.)
GUILE—deceit, fraud. (Candor.)
GUILTLESS—harmless, innocent.
GUILTY—culpable, sinful, criminal.
HABIT—custom, practice.
HAIL—accost, address, greet, salute, welcome.
HAPPINESS—beatitude, blessedness, bliss, felicity. (Unhappiness.)
HARBOR—haven, port.
HARD—firm, solid. (Soft.)
HARD—arduous, difficult. (Easy.)
HARM—injury, hurt, wrong, infliction. (Benefit.)
HARMLESS—safe, innocuous, innocent. (Hurtful.)
HARSH—rough, rigorous, severe, gruff. (Gentle.)
HASTEN—accelerate, dispatch, expedite. (Delay.)
HASTY—hurried, ill-advised. (Deliberate.)
HATEFUL—odious, detestable. (Lovable.)
HATRED—enmity, ill-will, rancor. (Friendship.)
HAUGHTINESS—arrogance, pride. (Modesty.)
HAUGHTY—arrogant, disdainful, supercilious.
HAZARD—risk, venture.
HEALTHY—salubrious, salutary. (Unhealthy.)
HEAP—accumulate, amass, pile.
HEARTY—cordial, sincere, warm. (Insincere.)
HEAVY—burdensome, ponderous. (Light.)
HEED—care, attention.
HEIGHTEN—enhance, exalt, elevate, raise.
HEINOUS—atrocious, flagrant. (Venial.)
HELP—aid, assist, relieve, succor. (Hinder.)
HERETIC—sectary, sectarian, schismatic, dissenter, non-conformist.
HESITATE—falter, stammer, stutter.
HIDEOUS—grim, ghastly, grisly. (Beautiful.)
HIGH—lofty, tall, elevated. (Deep.)
HINDER—impede, obstruct, prevent. (Help.)
HINT—allude, refer, suggest, intimate, insinuate.
HOLD—detain, keep, retain.
HOLINESS—sanctity, piety, sacredness.
HOLY—devout, pious, religious.
HOMELY—plain, ugly, coarse. (Beautiful.)
HONESTY—integrity, probity, uprightness. (Dishonesty.)
HONOR,v.—respect, reverence. (Dishonor.)
HOPE—confidence, expectation, trust.
HOPELESS—desperate.
HOT—ardent, burning, fiery. (Cold.)
HOWEVER—nevertheless, notwithstanding, yet.
HUMBLE—modest, submissive, plain, unostentatious, simple. (Haughty.)
HUMBLE—degrade, humiliate, mortify. (Exalt.)
HUMOR—mood, temper.
HUNT—seek, chase.
HURTFUL—noxious, pernicious. (Beneficial.)
HUSBANDRY—cultivation, tillage.
HYPOCRITE—dissembler, imposter, canter.
HYPOTHESIS—theory, supposition.
IDEA—thought, imagination.
IDEAL—imaginary, fancied. (Actual.)
IDLE—indolent, lazy. (Industrious.)
IGNOMINIOUS—shameful, scandalous, infamous. (Honorable.)
IGNOMINY—shame, disgrace, obloquy, reproach.
IGNORANT—unlearned, illiterate, uninformed, uneducated. (Knowing.)
ILL,n.—evil, wickedness, misfortune, mischief, harm. (Good.)
ILL,a.—sick, indisposed, diseased. (Well.)
ILL-TEMPERED—crabbed, sour, acrimonious, surly. (Good-natured.)
ILL-WILL—enmity, antipathy. (Good-will.)
ILLEGAL—unlawful, illicit, contraband, illegitimate. (Legal.)
ILLIMITABLE—boundless, immeasurable, infinite.
ILLITERATE—unlettered, unlearned, untaught, uninstructed. (Learned, educated.)
ILLUSION—fallacy, deception, phantasm.
ILLUSORY—imaginary, chimerical. (Real.)
ILLUSTRATE—explain, elucidate, clear.
ILLUSTRIOUS—celebrated, noble, eminent, famous, renowned. (Obscure.)
IMAGE—likeness, picture, representation, effigy.
IMAGINARY—ideal, fanciful, illusory. (Real.)
IMAGINE—conceive, fancy, apprehend, think.
IMBECILITY—silliness, senility, dotage.
IMITATE—copy, ape, mimic, mock, counterfeit.
IMMACULATE—unspotted, spotless, unsullied, stainless. (Soiled.)
IMMEDIATE—pressing, instant, next, proximate.
IMMEDIATELY—instantly, forthwith, directly.
IMMENSE—vast, enormous, huge, prodigious.
IMMUNITY—privilege, prerogative, exemption.
IMPAIR—injure, diminish, decrease.
IMPART—reveal, divulge, disclose, discover, afford.
IMPARTIAL—just, equitable, unbiased. (Partial.)
IMPASSIONED—glowing, burning, fiery, intense.
IMPEACH—accuse, charge, arraign, censure.
IMPEDE—hinder, retard, obstruct. (Help.)
IMPEDIMENT—obstruction, hindrance, obstacle, barrier. (Aid.)
IMPEL—animate, induce, incite, instigate, embolden. (Retard.)
IMPENDING—imminent, threatening.
IMPERATIVE—commanding, authoritative.
IMPERFECTION—fault, blemish, defect, vice.
IMPERIL—endanger, hazard, jeopardize.
IMPERIOUS—commanding, dictatorial, imperative, authoritative, lordly, overbearing, domineering.
IMPERTINENT—intrusive, meddling, officious, rude, saucy, impudent, insolent.
IMPETUOUS—violent, boisterous, furious, vehement. (Calm.)
IMPIOUS—profane, irreligious. (Reverent.)
IMPLICATE—involve, entangle, embarrass.
IMPLY—involve, comprise, infold, import, denote.
IMPORTANCE—signification, significance, avail, consequence, weight, gravity, moment.
IMPOSING—impressive, striking, majestic, august, noble, grand. (Insignificant.)
IMPOTENCE—weakness, incapacity, infirmity, frailty, feebleness. (Power.)
IMPOTENT—weak, feeble, helpless, enfeebled, nerveless, infirm. (Strong.)
IMPRESSIVE—stirring, forcible, exciting, moving.
IMPRISON—incarcerated, shut up, immure, confine. (Liberate.)
IMPRISONMENT—captivity, durance.
IMPROVE—amend, better, mend, reform, rectify, ameliorate, apply, use, employ. (Deteriorate.)
IMPROVIDENT—careless, incautious, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, reckless, rash. (Thrifty.)
IMPUDENCE—assurance, impertinence, confidence, insolence, rudeness.
IMPUDENT—saucy, brazen, bold, impertinent, forward, rude, insolent, immodest, shameless.
IMPULSE—incentive, incitement, instigation.
IMPULSIVE—rash, hasty, forcible. (Deliberate.)