IMPUTATION—blame, censure, reproach, charge.INADVERTENCY—error, oversight, blunder, inattention, carelessness, negligence.INCENTIVE—motive, inducement, impulse.INCITE—instigate, excite, provoke, stimulate, urge, encourage, impel.INCLINATION—leaning, slope, disposition, bent, tendency, bias, affection, attachment, wish, liking, desire. (Aversion.)INCLINE,v.—slope, lean, slant, tend, bend, turn, bias, dispose.INCLOSE—surround, shut in, fence in, cover, wrap.INCLUDE—comprehend, comprise, contain, take in, embrace.INCOMMODE—annoy, plague, molest, disturb, inconvenience, trouble. (Accommodate.)INCOMPETENT—incapable, unable, inadequate.INCREASE,v.—extend, enlarge, augment, dilate, expand, amplify, raise, enhance, aggravate, magnify, grow. (Diminish.)INCREASE,n.—augmentation, accession, addition, enlargement, extension. (Decrease.)INCUMBENT—obligatory.INDEFINITE—vague, uncertain, unsettled, loose, lax. (Definite.)INDICATE—point out, show, mark.INDIFFERENCE—apathy, carelessness, listlessness, insensibility. (Application, assiduity.)INDIGENCE—want, neediness, penury, poverty, destitution, privation. (Affluence.)INDIGNATION—anger, wrath, ire, resentment.INDIGNITY—insult, affront, outrage, opprobrium, obloquy, reproach, ignominy. (Honor.)INDISCRIMINATE—promiscuous, chance, indistinct, confused. (Select, chosen.)INDISPENSABLE—essential, necessary, requisite, expedient. (Unnecessary, supernumerary.)INDISPUTABLE—undeniable, undoubted, incontestable, indubitable, unquestionable, infallible.INDORSE—ratify, confirm, superscribe.INDULGE—foster, cherish, fondle. (Deny.)INEFFECTUAL—vain, useless, unavailing, fruitless, abortive, inoperative. (Effective.)INEQUALITY—disparity, disproportion, dissimilarity, unevenness. (Equality.)INEVITABLE—unavoidable, not to be avoided.INFAMOUS—scandalous, shameful, ignominious, opprobrious, disgraceful. (Honorable.)INFERENCE—deduction, corollary, conclusion.INFERNAL—diabolical, fiendish, devilish, hellish.INFEST—annoy, plague, harass, disturb.INFIRM—weak, feeble, enfeebled. (Robust.)INFLAME—anger, irritate, enrage, chafe, incense, nettle, aggravate, embitter, exasperate. (Allay.)INFLUENCE,v.—bias, sway, prejudice, preposess.INFLUENCE,n.—credit, favor, reputation, weight, character, authority, sway, ascendancy.INFRINGE—invade, intrude, contravene, break, transgress, violate.INGENUOUS—artless, candid, generous, sincere, open, frank, plain. (Crafty.)INHUMAN—cruel, brutal, savage, barbarous, ruthless, merciless, ferocious. (Humane.)INIQUITY—injustice, wrong, grievance.INJURE—damage, hurt, deteriorate, wrong, spoil, aggrieve, harm, mar, sully. (Benefit.)INJURIOUS—hurtful, baneful, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, prejudicial, wrongful. (Beneficial.)INJUSTICE—wrong, iniquity, grievance. (Right.)INNOCENT—guiltless, sinless, harmless, inoffensive, innoxious. (Guilty.)INNOCUOUS—harmless, safe, innocent. (Hurtful.)INORDINATE—intemperate, irregular, disorderly, excessive, immoderate. (Moderate.)INQUIRY—investigation, examination, research, scrutiny, disquisition, question, interrogation.INQUISITIVE—prying, peeping, curious, peering.INSANE—deranged, delirious, demented. (Sane.)INSANITY—madness, mental aberration, lunacy, delirium. (Sanity.)INSINUATE—hint, intimate, suggest, infuse, introduce, ingratiate.INSIPID—dull, flat, mawkish, tasteless, inanimate, vapid, lifeless. (Bright, sparkling.)INSOLENT—rude, saucy, impertinent, abusive, pert, scurrilous, opprobrious, insulting, offensive.INSPIRE—animate, exhilarate, enliven, breathe, cheer, inhale.INSTABILITY—mutability, fickleness, mutableness, wavering. (Stability, firmness.)INSTIGATE—stir up, persuade, animate, stimulate, incite, urge, encourage.INSTIL—implant, inculcate, infuse, insinuate.INSTRUCT—inform, teach, educate, enlighten.INSTRUMENTAL—conducive, assistant, helping.INSUFFICIENCY—incompetency, incapability, inadequacy, deficiency, lack.INSULT—affront, outrage, indignity. (Honor.)INSULTING—insolent, impertinent, abusive, rude.INTEGRITY—uprightness, honesty, completeness, probity, entirety, entireness, purity. (Dishonesty.)INTELLECT—understanding, sense, brains, mind, intelligence, ability, talent, genius. (Body.)INTELLECTUAL—mental, metaphysical. (Brutal.)INTELLIGIBLE—clear, obvious, plain. (Abstruse.)INTEMPERATE—immoderate, excessive, drunken, nimious, inordinate. (Temperate.)INTENSE—ardent, earnest, glowing, fervid, burning, vehement.INTENT—design, purpose, intention, drift, view, aim, purport, meaning.INTERCOURSE—commerce, connection, intimacy.INTERDICT—forbid, prohibit, inhibit, proscribe, debar, restrain from. (Allow.)INTERFERE—meddle, intermeddle, interpose.INTERMINABLE—endless, interminate, infinite, unlimited, illimitable, boundless. (Brief.)INTERPOSE—intercede, arbitrate, mediate, interfere, meddle.INTERPRET—explain, expound, elucidate, unfold.INTIMATE—hint, suggest, insinuate, express, tell, signify, impart.INTIMIDATE—dishearten, alarm, frighten, scare, appal, daunt, cow, browbeat. (Encourage.)INTOLERABLE—insufferable, unbearable, insupportable, unendurable.INTREPID—bold, brave, daring, fearless, dauntless, undaunted, courageous, valorous, valiant, heroic, gallant, chivalrous, doughty. (Cowardly, faint-hearted.)INTRIGUE—plot, cabal, conspiracy, combination, artifice, ruse,amour.INTRINSIC—real, true, genuine, sterling, native, natural. (Extrinsic.)INVALIDATE—quash, cancel, overthrow, vacate, nullify, annul.INVASION—incursion, irruption, inroad, aggression, raid, fray.INVECTIVE—abuse, reproach, railing, censure, sarcasm, satire.INVENT—devise, contrive, frame, find out, discover.INVESTIGATION—examination, search, inquiry, research, scrutiny.INVETERATE—confirmed, chronic, malignant. (Inchoate.)INVIDIOUS—envious, hateful, odious, malignant.INVIGORATE—brace, harden, nerve, strengthen, fortify. (Enervate.)INVINCIBLE—unconquerable, impregnable, insurmountable.INVISIBLE—unseen, imperceptible, impalpable.INVITE—ask, call, bid, request, allure, attract.INVOKE—invocate, call upon, appeal, refer, implore, beseech.INVOLVE—implicate, entangle, compromise.IRKSOME—wearisome, tiresome, tedious, annoying. (Pleasant.)IRONY—sarcasm, satire, ridicule, raillery.IRRATIONAL—foolish, silly, imbecile, brutish, absurd, ridiculous. (Rational.)IRREGULAR—eccentric, anomalous, inordinate, intemperate. (Regular.)IRRELIGIOUS—profane, godless, impious, sacrilegious, desecrating.IRREPROACHABLE—blameless, spotless.IRRESISTIBLE—resistless, irrepressible.IRRESOLUTE—wavering, undetermined, undecided, vacillating. (Determined.)IRRITABLE—excitable, irascible, susceptible, sensitive. (Calm.)IRRITATE—aggravate, worry, embitter, madden.ISSUE,v.—emerge, rise, proceed, flow, spring.ISSUE,n.—end, upshot, effect, result, offspring.JADE—harass, weary, tire, worry.JANGLE—wrangle, conflict, disagree.JARRING—conflicting, discordant, inconsonant.JAUNT—ramble, excursion, trip.JEALOUSY—suspicion, envy.JEOPARD—hazard, peril, endanger.JEST—joke, sport, divert, make game of.JOURNEY—travel, tour, passage.JOY—gladness, mirth, delight. (Grief.)JUDGE—justice, referee, arbitrator.JOYFUL—glad, rejoicing, exultant. (Mournful.)JUDGMENT—discernment, discrimination.JUSTICE—equity, right. Justice is right as established by law; equity according to the circumstances of each particular case. (Injustice.)JUSTNESS—accuracy, correctness, precision.KEEP—preserve, save. (Abandon.)KILL—assassinate, murder, slay.KINDRED—affinity, consanguinity, relationship.KNOWLEDGE—erudition, learning. (Ignorance.)LABOR—toil, work, effort, drudgery. (Idleness.)LACK—need, deficiency, scarcity, insufficiency. (Plenty.)LAMENT—mourn, grieve, weep. (Rejoice.)LANGUAGE—dialect, idiom, speech, tongue.LASCIVIOUS—loose, unchaste, lustful, lewd, lecherous. (Chaste.)LAST—final, latest, ultimate. (First.)LAUDABLE—commendable. (Blamable.)LAUGHABLE—comical, droll, ludicrous. (Serious.)LAWFUL—legal, legitimate, licit. (Illegal.)LEAD—conduct, guide. (Follow.)LEAN—meager. (Fat.)LEARNED—erudite, scholarly. (Ignorant.)LEAVE,v.—quit, relinquish.LEAVE,n.—liberty, permission. (Prohibition.)LIFE—existence, animation, spirit. (Death.)LIFELESS—dead, inanimate.LIFT—erect, elevate, exalt, raise. (Lower.)LIGHT—clear, bright. (Dark.)LIGHTNESS—flightiness, giddiness, levity, volatility. (Seriousness.)LIKENESS—resemblance, similarity. (Unlikeness.)LINGER—lag, loiter, tarry, saunter. (Hasten.)LITTLE—diminutive, small. (Great.)LIVELIHOOD—living, maintenance, subsistence.LIVELY—jocund, merry, sportive, sprightly, vivacious. (Slow, languid, sluggish.)LONG—extended, extensive. (Short.)LOOK—appear, seem, aspect, glance, peep.LOSE—miss, forfeit. (Gain.)LOSS—detriment, damage, deprivation. (Gain.)LOUD—clamorous, high-sounding, noisy. (Low, quiet.)LOVE—affection. (Hatred.)LOW—abject, mean. (Noble.)LUNACY—derangement, insanity, mania, madness. (Sanity.)LUSTER—brightness, brilliancy, splendor.LUXURIANT—exuberant. (Sparse.)MACHINATION—plot, intrigue, cabal, conspiracy. (Artlessness.)MAD—crazy, delirious, insane, rabid, violent, frantic. (Sane, rational, quiet.)MADNESS—insanity, fury, rage, frenzy.MAGISTERIAL—august, dignified, majestic, pompous, stately.MAKE—form, create, produce. (Destroy.)MALEDICTION—anathema, curse, imprecation.MALEVOLENT—malicious, virulent, malignant. (Benevolent.)MALICE—spite, rancor, ill-feeling, grudge, animosity, ill-will. (Benignity.)MALICIOUS—see malevolent.MANACLE,v.—shackle, fetter, chain. (Free.)MANAGE—contrive, concert, direct.MANAGEMENT—direction, superintendence, care.MANGLE—tear, lacerate, mutilate, cripple, maim.MANIA—madness, insanity, lunacy.MANIFEST,v.—reveal, prove, evince, exhibit, display, show.MANIFEST,a.—clear, plain, evident, open, apparent, visible. (Hidden, occult.)MANIFOLD—several, sundry, various, divers.MANLY—masculine, vigorous, courageous, brave, heroic. (Effeminate.)MANNER—habit, custom, way, air, look.MANNERS—morals, habits, behavior, carriage.MAR—spoil, ruin, disfigure. (Improve.)MARCH—tramp, tread, walk, step, space.MARGIN—edge, rim, border, brink, verge.MARK,n.—sign, note, symptom, token, indication, trace, vestige, track, badge, brand.MARK,v.—impress, print, stamp, engrave, note.MARRIAGE—wedding, nuptials, matrimony.MARTIAL—military, warlike, soldierlike.MARVEL—wonderful, miracle, prodigy.MARVELOUS—wondrous, wonderful, miraculous.MASSIVE—bulky, heavy, weighty, ponderous, solid, substantial. (Flimsy.)MASTERY—dominion, rule, sway, ascendancy.MATCHLESS—unrivaled, unequaled, unparalleled, peerless, incomparable, inimitable, surpassing. (Common, ordinary.)MATERIAL,a.—corporeal, bodily, physical, temporal, momentous. (Spiritual, immaterial.)MAXIM—adage, apothegm, proverb, saying, byword, saw.MEAGER—poor, lank, emaciated, barren, dry, uninteresting. (Rich.)MEAN,a.—stingy, niggardly, low, abject, vile, ignoble, degraded, contemptible, vulgar, despicable. (Generous.)MEAN,v.—design, purpose, intend, contemplate, signify, denote, indicate.MEANING—signification, import, acceptation, sense, purport.MEDIUM—organ, channel, instrument, means.MEDLEY—mixture, variety, diversity, miscellany.MEEK—unassuming, mild, gentle. (Proud.)MELANCHOLY—low-spirited, dispirited, dreamy, sad. (Jolly, buoyant.)MELLOW—ripe, mature, soft. (Immature.)MELODIOUS—tuneful, musical, silver, dulcet, sweet. (Discordant.)MEMORABLE—signal, distinguished, marked.MEMORIAL—monument, memento.MEMORY—remembrance, recollection.MENACE,n.—threat.MEND—repair, amend, correct, better, ameliorate, improve, rectify.MENTION—tell, name, communicate, impart, divulge, reveal, disclose, inform, acquaint.MERCIFUL—compassionate, lenient, clement, tender, gracious, kind. (Cruel.)MERCILESS—hard-hearted, cruel, unmerciful, pitiless, remorseless, unrelenting. (Kind.)MERRIMENT—mirth, joviality, jollity. (Sorrow.)MERRY—cheerful, mirthful, joyous, gay, lively, sprightly, hilarious, blithe, blithesome, jovial, sportive, jolly. (Sad.)METAPHORICAL—figurative, allegorical.METHOD—way, manner, mode, process, order, rule, regularity, system.MIEN—air, look, manner, aspect, appearance.MIGRATORY—roving, strolling, wandering, vagrant. (Settled, sedate, permanent.)MIMIC—imitate, ape, mock.MINDFUL—observant, attentive. (Heedless.)MISCELLANEOUS—promiscuous, indiscriminate.MISCHIEF—injury, harm, damage, hurt. (Benefit.)MISCREANT—caitiff, villain, ruffian.MISERABLE—unhappy, wretched, distressed, afflicted. (Happy.)MISERLY—stingy, niggardly, avaricious, griping.MISERY—wretchedness, woe, destitution, penury, privation, beggary. (Happiness.)MISFORTUNE—calamity, disaster, mishap, catastrophe. (Good luck.)MISS—omit, lose, fall, miscarry.MITIGATE—alleviate, relieve, abate. (Aggravate.)MODERATE—temperate, abstemious, sober, abstinent. (Immoderate.)MODEST—chaste, virtuous, bashful. (Immodest.)MOIST—wet, damp, dank, humid. (Dry.)MONOTONOUS—unvaried, tiresome. (Varied.)MONSTROUS—shocking, dreadful, horrible, huge.MONUMENT—memorial, record, remembrancer.MOOD—humor, disposition, vein, temper.MORBID—sick, ailing, sickly, diseased, corrupted. (Normal, sound.)MOROSE—gloomy, sullen, surly, fretful, crabbed, crusty. (Joyous.)MORTAL—deadly, fatal, human.MOTION—proposition, proposal, movement.MOTIONLESS—still, stationary, torpid, stagnant. (Active, moving.)MOUNT—arise, rise, ascend, soar, tower, climb.MOURNFUL—sad, sorrowful, lugubrious, grievous, doleful, heavy. (Happy.)MOVE—actuate, impel, induce, prompt, instigate, persuade, stir, agitate, propel, push.MULTITUDE—crowd, throng, host, mob, swarm.MURDER,v.—kill, assassinate, slay, massacre.MUSE,v.—meditate, contemplate, think, reflect, cogitate, ponder.MUSIC—harmony, melody, symphony.MUSICAL—tuneful, melodious, harmonious, sweet.MUSTY—stale, sour, fetid. (Fresh, sweet.)MUTE—dumb, silent, speechless.MUTILATE—maim, cripple, disable, disfigure.MUTINOUS—insurgent, seditious, tumultuous, turbulent, riotous. (Obedient, orderly.)MUTUAL—reciprocal, interchanged, correlative. (Sole, solitary.)MYSTERIOUS—dark, obscure, hidden, secret, dim, mystic, enigmatical, unaccountable. (Open, clear.)MYSTIFY—confuse, perplex. (Clear, explain.)NAKED—nude, bare, uncovered, unclothed, rough, rude, simple. (Covered, clad.)NAME,v.—denominate, entitle, style, designate, term, call, christen.NAME,n.—appellation, designation, denomination, title, cognomen, reputation, character, fame, credit, repute.NARRATE—tell, relate, detail, recount, describe, enumerate, rehearse, recite.NASTY—filthy, foul, dirty, unclean, impure, gross, indecent, vile.NATION—people, community, realm, state.NATIVE—indigenous, inborn, vernacular.NATURAL—original, regular, normal, bastard. (Unnatural, forced.)NEAR—nigh, neighboring, close, adjacent, contiguous, intimate. (Distant.)NECESSARY—needful, expedient, essential, indispensable, requisite. (Useless.)NECESSITATE—compel, force, oblige.NECESSITY—need, occasion, exigency, emergency, urgency, requisite.NEED,n.—necessity, distress, poverty, indigence, want, penury.NEED,v.—require, want, lack.NEGLECT,v.—disregard, slight, omit, overlook.NEGLECT,n.—omission, failure, default, slight, negligence, remissness, carelessness.NEIGHBORHOOD—environs, vicinity, nearness, adjacency, proximity.NERVOUS—timid, timorous, shaky.NEW—fresh, recent, novel. (Old.)NEWS—tidings, intelligence, information.NICE—exact, accurate, good, particular, precise, fine, delicate. (Careless, coarse, unpleasant.)NIMBLE—active, brisk, lively, alert, quick, agile, prompt. (Awkward.)NOBILITY—aristocracy, greatness, grandeur.NOBLE—exalted, elevated, illustrious, great, grand, lofty. (Low.)NOISE—cry, outcry, clamor, row, din, uproar, tumult. (Silence.)NONSENSICAL—irrational, absurd, silly, foolish. (Sensible.)NOTABLE—plain, evident, remarkable, striking, signal, rare. (Obscure.)NOTE,n.—token, symbol, mark, sign, indication, remark, comment.NOTED—distinguished, remarkable, eminent, renowned. (Obscure.)NOTICE,n.—advice, notification, intelligence.NOTICE,v.—mark, note, observe, attend to, heed.NOTIFY,v.—publish, acquaint, apprise, inform.NOTION—conception, idea, belief, opinion.NOTORIOUS—conspicuous, open, obvious, ill-famed. (Unknown.)NOURISH—nurture, cherish, foster, supply. (Starve, famish.)NOURISHMENT—food, diet, sustenance, nutrition.NOVEL—modern, new, fresh, recent, unused, rare, strange. (Old.)NOXIOUS—hurtful, deadly poisonous, deleterious, baneful. (Beneficial.)NULLIFY—annul, vacate, invalidate, quash, cancel, repeal. (Affirm.)NUTRITION—food, diet, nutriment, nourishment.OBDURATE—hard, callous, hardened, unfeeling, insensible. (Yielding, tractable.)OBEDIENT—compliant, submissive, dutiful, respectful. (Obstinate.)OBESE—corpulent, fat, adipose. (Attenuated.)OBEY,v.—conform, comply, submit. (Rebel.)OBJECT,n.—aim, end, purpose, design, mark.OBJECT,v.—oppose, except to, contravene, impeach, deprecate. (Assent.)OBNOXIOUS—offensive. (Agreeable.)OBSCURE—undistinguished, unknown. (Distinguished.)OBSTINATE—contumacious, headstrong, stubborn, obdurate. (Yielding.)OCCASION—opportunity.OFFENCE—affront, misdeed, misdemeanor, transgression, trespass.OFFENSIVE—insolent, abusive. (Inoffensive.)OFFICE—charge, function, place.OFFSPRING—issue, progeny, children, posterity.OLD—aged, superannuated, ancient, antique, antiquated, obsolete, old-fashioned. (Young, new.)OMEN—presage, prognostic.OPAQUE—dark. (Bright, transparent.)OPEN—candid, unreserved, clear, fair. (Hidden.)OPINION—notion, view, judgment, sentiment.OPINIONATED—conceited, egotistical. (Modest.)OPPOSE—resist, withstand, thwart. (Give way.)OPTION—choice.ORDER—method, system, regularity. (Disorder.)ORIGIN—cause, occasion, beginning. (End.)OUTLIVE—survive.OUTWARD—external, outside, exterior. (Inner.)OVER—above. (Under.)OVERBALANCE—outweigh, preponderate.OVERBEAR—bear down, overwhelm, overpower.OVERBEARING—haughty, arrogant. (Gentle.)OVERFLOW—inundation, deluge.OVERRULE—supersede, suppress.OVERSPREAD—overrun, ravage.OVERTURN—invert, overthrow, reverse, subvert. (Establish, fortify.)OVERWHELM—crush, defeat, vanquish.PAIN—suffering, qualm, pang, agony, anguish. (Pleasure.)PALLID—pale, wan. (Florid.)PART—division, portion, share, fraction. (Whole.)PARTICULAR—exact, distinct, singular, strange, odd. (General.)PATIENT—passive, submissive. (Obdurate.)PEACE—calm, quiet, tranquility. (War, trouble, riot, turbulence.)PEACEABLE—pacific, peaceful, quiet. (Troublesome, riotous.)PENETRATE—bore, pierce, perforate.PENETRATION—acuteness, sagacity. (Dullness.)PEOPLE—nation, persons, folks.PERCEIVE—note, observe, discern, distinguish.PERCEPTION—conception, notion, idea.PERIL—danger, pitfall, snare. (Safety.)PERMIT—allow, tolerate. (Forbid.)PERSUADE—allure, entice, prevail upon.PHYSICAL—corporeal, bodily, material. (Mental.)PICTURE—engraving, print, representation, illustration, image.PITEOUS—doleful, woeful, rueful. (Joyful.)PITILESS—see merciless.PITY—compassion, sympathy. (Cruelty.)PLACE,n.—spot, site, position, post, situation.PLACE,v.—order, dispose.PLAIN—open, manifest, evident. (Secret.)PLAY—game, sport, amusement. (Work.)PLEASE—gratify, pacify. (Displease.)PLEASURE—charm, delight, joy. (Pain.)PLENTIFUL—abundant, ample, copious, plenteous. (Scarce.)POISE—balance, equilibrium, evenness.POSITIVE—absolute, peremptory, decided, certain. (Negative, undecided.)POSSESSOR—owner, proprietor.POSSIBLE—practical, practicable. (Impossible.)POVERTY—penury, indigence, need. (Wealth.)POWER—authority, force, strength, dominion.POWERFUL—mighty, potent. (Weak.)PRAISE—commend, extol, laud. (Blame.)PRAYER—entreaty, petition, request, suit.PRETENCE,n.—pretext, subterfuge.PREVAILING—predominant, prevalent, general. (Isolated, sporadic.)PREVENT—obviate, preclude.PREVIOUS—antecedent, introductory, preparatory, preliminary. (Subsequent.)PRIDE—vanity, conceit. (Humility.)PRINCIPALLY—chiefly, essentially, mainly.PRINCIPLE—ground, reason, motive, impulse, maxim, rule, rectitude, integrity.PRIVILEGE—immunity, advantage, favor, claim, prerogative, exemption, right.PROBITY—rectitude, uprightness, honesty, integrity, sincerity, soundness. (Dishonesty.)PROBLEMATICAL—uncertain, doubtful, dubious, questionable, disputable, suspicious. (Certain.)PRODIGIOUS—huge, enormous, vast, amazing, astonishing, astounding, surprising, remarkable, wonderful. (Insignificant.)PROFESSION—business, trade, occupation, office, vocation, employment, engagement, avowal.PROFFER—volunteer, offer, propose, tender.PROFLIGATE—abandoned, dissolute, depraved, vicious, degenerate, corrupt. (Virtuous.)PROFOUND—deep, fathomless, penetrating, recondite, solemn, abstruse. (Shallow.)PROFUSE—extravagant, prodigal, lavish, copious, improvident, excessive, plentiful. (Succinct.)PROLIFIC—productive, generative, fertile, fruitful, teeming. (Barren.)PROLIX—diffuse, long, prolonged, tedious, wordy, tiresome, verbose, prosaic. (Concise, brief.)PROMINENT—eminent, conspicuous, marked, important, leading. (Obscure.)PROMISCUOUS—mixed, unarranged, mingled, indiscriminate. (Select.)PROMPT—See punctual.PROP,v.—maintain, sustain, support, stay.PROPAGATE—spread, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, extend, breed, increase. (Suppress.)PROPER—legitimate, right, just, fair, equitable, honest, suitable, fit, adapted, meet, becoming, befitting, decent, pertinent. (Wrong.)PROSPER—flourish, succeed, grow rich, thrive, advance. (Fail.)PROSPERITY—well-being, weal, welfare, happiness, good luck. (Poverty.)PROXY—agent, representative, substitute, deputy.PRUDENCE—carefulness, judgment, discretion, wisdom. (Indiscretion.)PRURIENT—itching, craving, hankering, longing.PUERILE—youthful, juvenile, boyish, childish, infantile, trifling, weak, silly. (Mature.)PUNCTILIOUS—nice, particular, formal, precise. (Negligent.)PUNCTUAL—exact, precise, nice, particular prompt, timely. (Dilatory.)PUTREFY—rot, decompose, corrupt, decay.PUZZLE,v.—perplex, confound, embarrass, pose, bewilder, confuse, mystify. (Enlighten.)QUACK—imposter, pretender, charlatan, empiric, mountebank. (Savant.)QUAINT—artful, curious, far-fetched, fanciful, odd.QUALIFIED—competent, fitted. (Incompetent.)QUALITY—attribute, rank, distinction.QUERULOUS—doubting, complaining, fretting, repining. (Patient.)QUESTION—query, inquiry, interrogatory.QUIBBLE—cavil, evade, equivocate, shuffle.QUICK—lively, ready, prompt, alert, nimble, agile, active, brisk, expeditious, adroit, fleet, rapid, impetuous, swift, sweeping, dashing, clever. (Slow.)QUOTE—note, repeat, cite, adduce.RABID—mad, furious, raging, frantic. (Rational.)RACE—course, match, pursuit, career, family, clan, house, ancestry, lineage, pedigree.RACK—agonize, wring, torture, excruciate, harass, distress. (Soothe.)RACY—spicy, pungent, smart, spirited, vivacious, lively. (Dull, insipid.)RADIANCE—splendor, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, lustre, glare. (Dullness.)RADICAL—organic, innate, fundamental, original, constitutional, inherent, complete, entire. (Superficial. In a political sense, uncompromising; antonym, moderate.)RANCID—fetid, rank, stinking, sour, tainted, foul. (Fresh, sweet.)RANCOR—malignity, hatred, hostility, antipathy, animosity, enmity, ill-will, spite. (Forgiveness.)RANK—order, degree, dignity, consideration.RANSACK—rummage, pillage, overhaul, explore.RANSOM—emancipate, free, unfetter.RANT—bombast, fustian, cant.RAPACIOUS—ravenous, voracious, greedy, grasping. (Generous.)RAPT—ecstatic, transported, ravished, entranced, charmed. (Distracted.)RAPTURE—ecstacy, transport, bliss. (Dejection.)RARE—scarce, singular, uncommon, unique.RASCAL—scoundrel, rogue, knave, vagabond.RASH—hasty, precipitate, foolhardy, adventurous, heedless, reckless, careless. (Deliberate.)RATE—value, compute, appraise, estimate, abuse.RATIFY—confirm, establish, substantiate, sanction (Protest, oppose.)RATIONAL—reasonable, sagacious, judicious, wise, sensible, sound. (Unreasonable.)RAVAGE—overrun, overspread, desolate, despoil.RAVISH—enrapture, enchant, charm, delight.RAZE—demolish, destroy, overthrow, dismantle, ruin. (Build up.)REACH—touch, stretch, attain, gain, arrive at.READY—prepared, ripe, apt, prompt, adroit, handy. (Slow, dilatory.)REAL—actual, literal, practical, positive, certain, genuine, true. (Unreal.)REALIZE—accomplish, achieve, effect, gain, get, acquire, comprehend.REAP—gain, get, acquire, obtain.REASON,n.—motive, design, end, proof, cause, ground, purpose.REASON,v.—deduce, draw from, trace, conclude.REASONABLE—rational, wise, honest, fair, right, just. (Unreasonable.)REBELLION—insurrection, revolt.RECANT—recall, abjure, retract, revoke.RECEDE—retire, retreat, withdraw, ebb.RECEIVE—accept, take, admit, entertain.RECEPTION—receiving, levee, receipt, admission.RECESS—retreat, depth, niche, vacation.RECREATION—sport, pastime, play, amusement, game, fun.REDEEM—ransom, recover, rescue, deliver, save.REDRESS—remedy, repair, remission, abatement.REDUCE—abate, lessen, decrease, lower, shorten.REFINED—polite, courtly, polished, cultured, purified, genteel. (Boorish.)REFLECT—consider, cogitate, think, muse, censure.REFORM—amend, correct, better, restore, improve. (Corrupt.)REFORMATION—improvement, reform, amendment. (Corruption.)REFUGE—asylum, protection, harbor, shelter.REFUSE,v.—deny, reject, repudiate, decline, withhold. (Accept.)REFUSE,n.—dregs, dross, scum, rubbish, leavings.REFUTE—disprove, falsify, negative. (Affirm.)REGARD,v.—mind, heed, notice, behold, respect, view, consider.REGRET,n.—grief, sorrow, lamentation, remorse.REGULAR—orderly, uniform, customary, ordinary, stated. (Irregular.)REGULATE—methodize, arrange, adjust, organize, govern, rule. (Disorder.)REIMBURSE—refund, repay, satisfy, indemnify.RELEVANT—fit, proper, suitable, appropriate, apt, pertinent. (Irrelevant.)RELIANCE—trust, hope, dependence, confidence. (Suspicion.)RELIEF—succor, aid, help, redress, alleviation.RELINQUISH—give up, forsake, resign, surrender, quit, leave, forego. (Retain.)REMEDY—help, relief, redress, cure, specific.REMORSELESS—pitiless, relentless, cruel, ruthless, merciless, barbarous. (Merciful, humane.)REMOTE—distant, far, secluded, indirect. (Near.)REPRODUCE—propagate, imitate, represent, copy.REPUDIATE—disown, discard, disavow, renounce, disclaim. (Acknowledge.)REPUGNANT—antagonistic, distasteful. (Agreeable.)REPULSIVE—forbidding, odious, ugly, disagreeable, revolting. (Attractive.)RESPITE—reprieve, interval, stop, pause.REVENGE—vengeance, retaliation, requital, retribution. (Forgiveness.)REVENUE—produce, income, fruits, proceeds.REVERENCE,n.—honor, respect, awe, veneration, deference, worship, homage. (Execration.)REVISE—review, reconsider.REVIVE—refresh, renew, renovate, animate, resuscitate, vivify, cheer, comfort.RICH—wealthy, affluent, opulent, copious, ample, abundant, exuberant, plentiful, fertile, gorgeous, superb, fruitful. (Poor.)RIVAL,n.—antagonist, opponent, competitor.ROAD—way, highway, route, course, path, pathway, anchorage.ROAM—ramble, rove, wander, stray, stroll.ROBUST—strong, lusty, vigorous, sinewy, stalwart, stout, sturdy, able-bodied. (Puny.)ROUT,v.—discomfit, beat, defeat, overthrow.ROUTE—road, course, march, way, journey, path.RUDE—rugged, rough, uncouth, unpolished, harsh, gruff, impertinent, saucy, flippant, impudent, insolent, saucy, churlish. (Polite, polished.)RULE—sway, method, system, law, maxim, guide, precept, formula, regulation, government, test, standard.RUMOR—hearsay, talk, fame, report, bruit.RUTHLESS—cruel, savage, barbarous, inhuman, merciless, remorseless, relentless. (Considerate.)SACRED—holy, hallowed, divine, consecrated, dedicated, devoted. (Profane.)SAFE—secure, harmless, trustworthy. (Perilous.)SANCTION—confirm, countenance, encourage, support, ratify, authorize. (Disapprove.)SANE—sober, lucid, sound, rational. (Crazy.)SAUCY—impertinent, rude, impudent, insolent, flippant, forward. (Modest.)SCANDALIZE—shock, disgust, offend, calumniate, vilify, revile, malign, traduce, defame, slander.SCANTY—bare, pinched, insufficient, slender, meager. (Ample.)SCATTER—strew, spread, disseminate, disperse, dissipate, dispel. (Collect.)SECRET—clandestine, concealed, hidden, sly, underhand, latent, private. (Open.)SEDUCE—allure, attract, decoy, entice, abduct, inveigle, deprave.SENSE—discernment, appreciation, view, opinion, feeling, perception, sensibility, susceptibility, significance, thought, judgment, signification, meaning, import, purport, wisdom.SENSIBLE—wise, intelligent, reasonable, sober, sound, conscious, aware. (Foolish.)SETTLE—arrange, adjust, regulate, conclude.SEVERAL—sundry, divers, various, many.SEVERE—harsh, stern, stringent, unmitigated, unyielding, rough. (Lenient.)SHAKE—tremble, shudder, shiver, quake, quiver.SHALLOW—superficial, flimsy, slight. (Deep, thorough.)SHAME—disgrace, dishonor. (Honor.)SHAMEFUL—degrading, scandalous, disgraceful, outrageous. (Honorable.)SHAMELESS—immodest, impudent, indecent, indelicate, brazen.SHAPE—form, fashion, mold, model.SHARE—portion, lot, division, quantity, quota.SHARP—acute, keen. (Dull.)SHINE—glare, glitter, radiate, sparkle.SHORT—brief, concise, succinct, summary. (Long.)SHOW,n.—exhibition, sight, spectacle.SICK—diseased, sickly, unhealthy. (Healthy.)SICKNESS—illness, indisposition, disease, disorder. (Health.)SIGNIFICANT,a.—expressive, material, important. (Insignificant.)SIGNIFICATION—import, meaning, sense.SILENCE—speechlessness, dumbness. (Noise.)SILENT—dumb, mute, speechless. (Talkative.)SIMILE—comparison, similitude.SIMPLE—single, uncompounded, artless, plain. (Complex, compound.)SIMULATE—dissimulate, dissemble, pretend.SINCERE—candid, hearty, honest, pure, genuine, real. (Insincere.)SITUATION—condition, plight, predicament, state.SIZE—bulk, greatness, magnitude, dimension.SLAVERY—servitude, enthrallment, thralldom. (Freedom.)SLEEP—doze, drowse, nap, slumber.SLEEPY—somnolent. (Wakeful.)SLOW—dilatory, tardy. (Fast.)SMELL—fragrance, odor, perfume, scent.SMOOTH—even, level, mild. (Rough.)SOAK—drench, imbrue, steep.SOCIAL—sociable, friendly, communicative. (Unsocial.)SOFT—gentle, meek, mild. (Hard.)SOLICIT—importune, urge.SOLITARY—sole, only, single.SORRY—grieved, poor, paltry, insignificant. (Glad, respectable.)SOUL—mind, spirit. (Soul is opposed to body, mind to matter.)SOUND,a.—healthy, sane. (Unsound.)SOUND,n.—tone, noise, silence.SPACE—room.SPARSE—scanty, thin. (Luxuriant.)SPEAK—converse, talk, confer, say, tell.SPECIAL—particular, specific. (General.)SPEND—expend, exhaust, consume, waste, dissipate. (Save.)SPORADIC—isolated, rare. (General, prevalent.)SPREAD—disperse, diffuse, expand, disseminate.SPRING—fountain, source.STAFF—prop, support, stay.STAGGER—reel, totter.STAIN—soil, discolor, spot, sully, tarnish.STATE—commonwealth, realm.STERILE—barren, unfruitful. (Fertile.)STIFLE—choke, suffocate, smother.STORMY—rough, boisterous, tempestuous. (Calm.)STRAIGHT—direct, right. (Crooked.)STRAIT,a.—narrow, confined.STRANGER—alien, foreigner. (Friend.)STRENGTHEN—fortify, invigorate. (Weaken.)STRONG—robust, sturdy, powerful. (Weak.)STUPID—dull, foolish, obtuse, witless. (Clever.)SUBJECT—exposed to, liable, obnoxious. (Exempt.)SUBJECT—inferior, subordinate. (Superior to, above.)SUBSEQUENT—succeeding, following. (Previous.)SUBSTANTIAL—solid, durable. (Unsubstantial.)SUIT—accord, agree. (Disagree.)SUPERFICIAL—flimsy, shallow, untrustworthy. (Thorough.)SUPERFLUOUS—unnecessary. (Necessary.)SURROUND—encircle, encompass, environ.SUSTAIN—maintain, support.SYMMETRY—proportion.SYMPATHY—commiseration, compassion.SYSTEM—method, plan, order.SYSTEMATIC—orderly, regular, methodical. (Chaotic.)TAKE—accept, receive. (Give.)TALKATIVE—garrulous, loquacious, communicative. (Silent.)TASTE—flavor, relish, savor. (Tastelessness.)TAX—custom, duty, impost, excise, toll.TAX—assessment, rate.TEASE—taunt, tantalize, torment, vex.TEMPORARY,a.—fleeting, transient, transitory. (Permanent.)TENACIOUS—pertinacious, retentive.TENDENCY—aim, drift, scope.TENET—position, view, conviction, belief.TERM—boundary, limit, period, time.TERRITORY—dominion.THANKFUL—grateful, obliged. (Thankless.)THANKLESS—ungracious, profitless, ungrateful, unthankful.THAW—melt, dissolve, liquefy. (Freeze.)THEATRICAL—dramatic, showy, ceremonious.THEFT—robbery, depredation, spoliation.THEME—subject, topic, text, essay.THEORY—speculation, scheme, plea, hypothesis, conjecture.THEREFORE—accordingly, consequently, hence.THICK—dense, close, compact, solid, coagulated, muddy, turbid, misty, vaporous. (Thin.)THIN—slim, slender, slight, flimsy, lean, scraggy, attenuated.THINK—cogitate, consider, reflect, ponder, muse, contemplate, meditate, conceive, fancy, imagine, apprehend, hold, esteem, reckon, consider, deem, regard, believe, opine.THOROUGH—accurate, correct, trustworthy, complete, reliable. (Superficial.)THOUGHT—idea, conception, imagination, fancy, conceit, notion, supposition, care, provision, consideration, opinion, view, sentiment, reflection, deliberation.THOUGHTFUL—considerate, careful, cautious, heedful, contemplative, reflective, provident, pensive, dreamy. (Thoughtless.)THOUGHTLESS—inconsiderate, rash, precipitate, improvident, heedless.TIE,v.—bind, restrain, restrict, oblige, secure, join, unite. (Loose.)TIME—duration, season, period, era, age, date, span, spell.TOLERATE—allow, admit, receive, suffer, permit, let, endure, abide. (Oppose.)TOP—summit, apex, head, crown, surface. (Base, bottom.)TORRID—burning, hot, parching, scorching.TORTUOUS—twisted, winding, crooked, indirect.TORTURE—torment, anguish, agony.TOUCHING—tender, affecting, moving, pathetic.TRACTABLE—docile, manageable, amenable.TRADE—traffic, commerce, dealing, occupation, employment, office.TRADITIONAL—oral, uncertain, transmitted.TRAFFIC—trade, exchange, commerce.TRAMMEL,n.—fetter, shatter, clog, bond, impediment, chain, hindrance.TRANQUIL—still, unruffled, peaceful, hushed, quiet. (Noisy, boisterous.)TRANSACTION—negotiation, occurrence, proceeding, affair.TRAVEL—trip, peregrination, excursion, journey, tour, voyage.TREACHEROUS—traitorous, disloyal, treasonable, faithless, false-hearted. (Trustworthy, faithful.)TRITE—stale, old, ordinary, commonplace, hackneyed. (Novel.)TRIUMPH—achievement, ovation, victory, jubilation, conquest. (Failure, defeat.)TRIVIAL—trifling, petty, small, frivolous, unimportant, insignificant. (Important.)TRUE—genuine, actual, sincere, unaffected, true-hearted, honest, upright, veritable, real, veracious, authentic, exact, accurate, correct.TUMULTUOUS—turbulent, riotous, disorderly, disturbed, confused, unruly. (Orderly.)TURBID—foul, thick, muddy, impure, unsettled.TYPE—emblem, symbol, figure, sign, kind, letter.TYRO—novice, beginner, learner.UGLY—unsightly, plain, homely, ill-favored, hideous. (Beautiful.)UMBRAGE—offense, dissatisfaction, resentment.UMPIRE—referee, arbitrator, judge, arbiter.UNANIMITY—accord, agreement, unity, concord. (Discord.)UNBRIDLED—wanton, licentious, dissolute, loose.UNCERTAIN—doubtful, dubious, questionable, fitful, equivocal, ambiguous, indistinct, fluctuating.UNCIVIL—rude, discourteous, disrespectful, disobliging. (Civil.)UNCLEAN—dirty, foul, filthy, sullied. (Clean.)UNCOMMON—rare, strange, scarce, singular, choice. (Common, ordinary.)UNCONCERNED—careless, indifferent, apathetic. (Anxious.)UNCOUTH—strange, odd, clumsy. (Graceful.)UNCOVER—reveal, strip, expose, lay bare. (Hide.)UNDER—below, underneath, beneath, subordinate, lower, inferior. (Above.)UNDERSTANDING—knowledge, intellect, intelligence, faculty, comprehension, mind, reason.UNDO—annul, frustrate, untie, unfasten, destroy.UNEASY—restless, disturbed, unquiet, awkward, stiff. (Quiet.)UNEQUAL—uneven, not alike, irregular. (Even.)UNEQUALED—matchless, unique, novel, new.UNFIT,a.—improper, unsuitable, inconsistent, untimely, incompetent. (Fit.)UNFIT,v.—disable, incapacitate, disqualify. (Fit.)UNFORTUNATE—calamitous, ill-fated, unlucky, wretched, unhappy, miserable. (Fortunate.)UNGAINLY—clumsy, awkward, lumbering, uncouth. (Pretty.)UNHAPPY—miserable, wretched, distressed, painful, afflicted, disastrous, drear, dismal. (Happy.)UNIFORM—regular, symmetrical, equal, even, alike, unvaried. (Irregular.)UNINTERRUPTED—continuous, perpetual, unceasing, incessant, endless. (Intermittent.)UNION—junction, combination, alliance, confederacy, league, coalition, agreement. (Disunion.)UNIQUE—unequal, uncommon, rare, choice, matchless. (Common, ordinary.)UNITE—join, conjoin, combine, concert, add, attach. (Separate, disrupt, sunder.)UNIVERSAL—general, all, entire, total, catholic. (Sectional.)UNLIMITED—absolute, undefined, boundless, infinite. (Limited.)UNREASONABLE—foolish, silly, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous.UNRIVALED—unequaled, unique, unexampled, incomparable, matchless. (Mediocre.)UNRULY—ungovernable, unmanageable, refractory. (Tractable, docile.)UNUSUAL—rare, unwonted, singular, uncommon, remarkable, strange. (Common.)UPHOLD—maintain, defend, sustain, support, vindicate. (Desert, abandon.)UPRIGHT—vertical, perpendicular, erect, just, equitable, fair, pure, honorable. (Prone.)UPRIGHTNESS—honesty, integrity, fairness, goodness, probity, virtue, honor. (Dishonesty.)URGE—incite, impel, push, drive, instigate, stimulate, press, induce, solicit.URGENT—pressing, imperative, immediate, serious, wanted. (Unimportant.)USAGE—custom, fashion, practice, prescription.USE,n.—usage, practice, habit, custom, avail, advantage, utility, benefit, application. (Disuse.)USUAL—ordinary, common, accustomed, habitual, wonted, customary, general. (Unusual.)UTMOST—farthest, remotest, uttermost, greatest.UTTER,a.—extreme, excessive, sheer, mere, pure.UTTER,v.—speak, articulate, pronounce, express.UTTERLY—totally, completely, wholly, altogether.VACANT—empty, unfilled, unoccupied, thoughtless, unthinking. (Occupied.)VAGRANT,n.—wanderer, beggar, tramp, rogue.VAGUE—unsettled, undetermined, pointless, uncertain, indefinite. (Definite.)VAIN—useless, fruitless, empty, worthless, inflated, proud, conceited, unreal. (Effectual, humble.)VALIANT—brave, bold, valorous, courageous, gallant. (Cowardly.)VALID—weighty, strong, powerful, sound, binding, efficient. (Invalid.)VALOR—courage, gallantry, boldness, bravery, heroism. (Cowardice.)VALUE,v.—appraise, assess, reckon, appreciate, estimate, prize, esteem, treasure. (Despise.)VARIABLE—changeable, unsteady, inconstant, shifting, wavering, fickle, restless. (Constant.)VARIETY—difference, diversity, change, diversification, mixture, medley, miscellany. (Sameness, monotony.)VAST—spacious, boundless, mighty, enormous, immense, colossal, gigantic, prodigious. (Confined.)VAUNT—boast, brag, puff, hawk, advertise, parade.VENERABLE—grave, sage, wise, old, reverend.VENIAL—pardonable, excusable, justifiable. (Serious, grave.)VENOM—poison, virus, spite, malice, malignity.VENTURE,n.—speculation, chance, peril, stake.VERACITY—truth, truthfulness, credibility, accuracy. (Falsehood.)VERBAL—oral, spoken, literal, parole, unwritten.VERDICT—judgment, finding, decision, answer.VEXATION—chagrin, mortification. (Pleasure.)VIBRATE—oscillate, swing, sway, wave, thrill.VICE—vileness, corruption, depravity, pollution, immorality, wickedness, guilt, iniquity. (Virtue.)VICIOUS—corrupt, depraved, debased, bad, unruly, contrary, demoralized, profligate, faulty. (Gentle, virtuous.)VICTIM—sacrifice, food, prey, sufferer, dupe, gull.VICTUALS—viands, bread, meat, provisions, fare, food, repast.VIOLENT—boisterous, furious, impetuous, vehement. (Gentle.)VIRTUOUS—upright, honest, moral. (Profligate.)VISION—apparition, ghost, phantom, specter.VOLUPTUARY—epicure, sensualist.VOUCH—affirm, asserverate, assure, aver.WAIT—await, expect, look for, wait for.WAKEFUL—vigilant, watchful. (Sleepy.)WANDER—range, ramble, roam, rove, stroll.WANT—lack, need. (Abundance.)WARY—circumspect, cautious. (Foolhardy.)WASH—clean, rinse, wet, moisten, stain, tint.WASTE,v.—squander, dissipate, lavish, destroy, decay, dwindle, wither.WAY—method, plan, system, means, manner, mode, form, fashion, course, process, road, route, track, path, habit, practice.WEAKEN—debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, invalidate. (Strengthen.)WEARY—harass, jade, tire, fatigue. (Refresh.)WEIGHT—gravity, heaviness, burden, load. (Lightness.)WELL-BEING—happiness, prosperity, welfare.WHOLE—entire, complete, total, integral. (Part.)WICKED—iniquitous, nefarious. (Virtuous.)WILL—wish, desire.WILLINGLY—spontaneously, voluntarily. (Unwillingly.)WIN—get, obtain, gain, procure, effect, realize, accomplish, achieve. (Lose.)WINNING—attractive, charming, fascinating, bewitching, enchanting, dazzling. (Repulsive.)WISDOM—prudence, foresight, far-sightedness, sagacity. (Foolishness.)WONDER,v.—admire, amaze, astonish, surprise.WONDER,n.—marvel, miracle, prodigy.WRONG—injustice, injury. (Right.)YAWN—gape, open wide.YEARN—hanker after, long for, desire, crave.YELL—bellow, cry out, scream.YELLOW—golden, saffron-like.YELP—bark, sharp cry, howl.YET—besides, nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, still, ultimately, at last, so far, thus far.YIELD—bear, give, afford, impart, communicate, confer, bestow, abdicate, resign, cede, surrender.YIELDING—supple, pliant, bending, compliant, submissive, unresisting. (Obstinate.)YOKE,v.—couple, link, connect.YORE—long ago, long since.YOUTH—boy, lad, minority, adolescence.YOUTHFUL—juvenile, puerile. (Old.)ZEAL—energy, fervor, ardor, earnestness, enthusiasm, eagerness. (Indifference.)ZEALOUS—warm, ardent, fervent, enthusiastic, anxious. (Indifferent, careless.)ZEST—relish, gusto, flavor. (Disgust.)
IMPUTATION—blame, censure, reproach, charge.
INADVERTENCY—error, oversight, blunder, inattention, carelessness, negligence.
INCENTIVE—motive, inducement, impulse.
INCITE—instigate, excite, provoke, stimulate, urge, encourage, impel.
INCLINATION—leaning, slope, disposition, bent, tendency, bias, affection, attachment, wish, liking, desire. (Aversion.)
INCLINE,v.—slope, lean, slant, tend, bend, turn, bias, dispose.
INCLOSE—surround, shut in, fence in, cover, wrap.
INCLUDE—comprehend, comprise, contain, take in, embrace.
INCOMMODE—annoy, plague, molest, disturb, inconvenience, trouble. (Accommodate.)
INCOMPETENT—incapable, unable, inadequate.
INCREASE,v.—extend, enlarge, augment, dilate, expand, amplify, raise, enhance, aggravate, magnify, grow. (Diminish.)
INCREASE,n.—augmentation, accession, addition, enlargement, extension. (Decrease.)
INCUMBENT—obligatory.
INDEFINITE—vague, uncertain, unsettled, loose, lax. (Definite.)
INDICATE—point out, show, mark.
INDIFFERENCE—apathy, carelessness, listlessness, insensibility. (Application, assiduity.)
INDIGENCE—want, neediness, penury, poverty, destitution, privation. (Affluence.)
INDIGNATION—anger, wrath, ire, resentment.
INDIGNITY—insult, affront, outrage, opprobrium, obloquy, reproach, ignominy. (Honor.)
INDISCRIMINATE—promiscuous, chance, indistinct, confused. (Select, chosen.)
INDISPENSABLE—essential, necessary, requisite, expedient. (Unnecessary, supernumerary.)
INDISPUTABLE—undeniable, undoubted, incontestable, indubitable, unquestionable, infallible.
INDORSE—ratify, confirm, superscribe.
INDULGE—foster, cherish, fondle. (Deny.)
INEFFECTUAL—vain, useless, unavailing, fruitless, abortive, inoperative. (Effective.)
INEQUALITY—disparity, disproportion, dissimilarity, unevenness. (Equality.)
INEVITABLE—unavoidable, not to be avoided.
INFAMOUS—scandalous, shameful, ignominious, opprobrious, disgraceful. (Honorable.)
INFERENCE—deduction, corollary, conclusion.
INFERNAL—diabolical, fiendish, devilish, hellish.
INFEST—annoy, plague, harass, disturb.
INFIRM—weak, feeble, enfeebled. (Robust.)
INFLAME—anger, irritate, enrage, chafe, incense, nettle, aggravate, embitter, exasperate. (Allay.)
INFLUENCE,v.—bias, sway, prejudice, preposess.
INFLUENCE,n.—credit, favor, reputation, weight, character, authority, sway, ascendancy.
INFRINGE—invade, intrude, contravene, break, transgress, violate.
INGENUOUS—artless, candid, generous, sincere, open, frank, plain. (Crafty.)
INHUMAN—cruel, brutal, savage, barbarous, ruthless, merciless, ferocious. (Humane.)
INIQUITY—injustice, wrong, grievance.
INJURE—damage, hurt, deteriorate, wrong, spoil, aggrieve, harm, mar, sully. (Benefit.)
INJURIOUS—hurtful, baneful, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, prejudicial, wrongful. (Beneficial.)
INJUSTICE—wrong, iniquity, grievance. (Right.)
INNOCENT—guiltless, sinless, harmless, inoffensive, innoxious. (Guilty.)
INNOCUOUS—harmless, safe, innocent. (Hurtful.)
INORDINATE—intemperate, irregular, disorderly, excessive, immoderate. (Moderate.)
INQUIRY—investigation, examination, research, scrutiny, disquisition, question, interrogation.
INQUISITIVE—prying, peeping, curious, peering.
INSANE—deranged, delirious, demented. (Sane.)
INSANITY—madness, mental aberration, lunacy, delirium. (Sanity.)
INSINUATE—hint, intimate, suggest, infuse, introduce, ingratiate.
INSIPID—dull, flat, mawkish, tasteless, inanimate, vapid, lifeless. (Bright, sparkling.)
INSOLENT—rude, saucy, impertinent, abusive, pert, scurrilous, opprobrious, insulting, offensive.
INSPIRE—animate, exhilarate, enliven, breathe, cheer, inhale.
INSTABILITY—mutability, fickleness, mutableness, wavering. (Stability, firmness.)
INSTIGATE—stir up, persuade, animate, stimulate, incite, urge, encourage.
INSTIL—implant, inculcate, infuse, insinuate.
INSTRUCT—inform, teach, educate, enlighten.
INSTRUMENTAL—conducive, assistant, helping.
INSUFFICIENCY—incompetency, incapability, inadequacy, deficiency, lack.
INSULT—affront, outrage, indignity. (Honor.)
INSULTING—insolent, impertinent, abusive, rude.
INTEGRITY—uprightness, honesty, completeness, probity, entirety, entireness, purity. (Dishonesty.)
INTELLECT—understanding, sense, brains, mind, intelligence, ability, talent, genius. (Body.)
INTELLECTUAL—mental, metaphysical. (Brutal.)
INTELLIGIBLE—clear, obvious, plain. (Abstruse.)
INTEMPERATE—immoderate, excessive, drunken, nimious, inordinate. (Temperate.)
INTENSE—ardent, earnest, glowing, fervid, burning, vehement.
INTENT—design, purpose, intention, drift, view, aim, purport, meaning.
INTERCOURSE—commerce, connection, intimacy.
INTERDICT—forbid, prohibit, inhibit, proscribe, debar, restrain from. (Allow.)
INTERFERE—meddle, intermeddle, interpose.
INTERMINABLE—endless, interminate, infinite, unlimited, illimitable, boundless. (Brief.)
INTERPOSE—intercede, arbitrate, mediate, interfere, meddle.
INTERPRET—explain, expound, elucidate, unfold.
INTIMATE—hint, suggest, insinuate, express, tell, signify, impart.
INTIMIDATE—dishearten, alarm, frighten, scare, appal, daunt, cow, browbeat. (Encourage.)
INTOLERABLE—insufferable, unbearable, insupportable, unendurable.
INTREPID—bold, brave, daring, fearless, dauntless, undaunted, courageous, valorous, valiant, heroic, gallant, chivalrous, doughty. (Cowardly, faint-hearted.)
INTRIGUE—plot, cabal, conspiracy, combination, artifice, ruse,amour.
INTRINSIC—real, true, genuine, sterling, native, natural. (Extrinsic.)
INVALIDATE—quash, cancel, overthrow, vacate, nullify, annul.
INVASION—incursion, irruption, inroad, aggression, raid, fray.
INVECTIVE—abuse, reproach, railing, censure, sarcasm, satire.
INVENT—devise, contrive, frame, find out, discover.
INVESTIGATION—examination, search, inquiry, research, scrutiny.
INVETERATE—confirmed, chronic, malignant. (Inchoate.)
INVIDIOUS—envious, hateful, odious, malignant.
INVIGORATE—brace, harden, nerve, strengthen, fortify. (Enervate.)
INVINCIBLE—unconquerable, impregnable, insurmountable.
INVISIBLE—unseen, imperceptible, impalpable.
INVITE—ask, call, bid, request, allure, attract.
INVOKE—invocate, call upon, appeal, refer, implore, beseech.
INVOLVE—implicate, entangle, compromise.
IRKSOME—wearisome, tiresome, tedious, annoying. (Pleasant.)
IRONY—sarcasm, satire, ridicule, raillery.
IRRATIONAL—foolish, silly, imbecile, brutish, absurd, ridiculous. (Rational.)
IRREGULAR—eccentric, anomalous, inordinate, intemperate. (Regular.)
IRRELIGIOUS—profane, godless, impious, sacrilegious, desecrating.
IRREPROACHABLE—blameless, spotless.
IRRESISTIBLE—resistless, irrepressible.
IRRESOLUTE—wavering, undetermined, undecided, vacillating. (Determined.)
IRRITABLE—excitable, irascible, susceptible, sensitive. (Calm.)
IRRITATE—aggravate, worry, embitter, madden.
ISSUE,v.—emerge, rise, proceed, flow, spring.
ISSUE,n.—end, upshot, effect, result, offspring.
JADE—harass, weary, tire, worry.
JANGLE—wrangle, conflict, disagree.
JARRING—conflicting, discordant, inconsonant.
JAUNT—ramble, excursion, trip.
JEALOUSY—suspicion, envy.
JEOPARD—hazard, peril, endanger.
JEST—joke, sport, divert, make game of.
JOURNEY—travel, tour, passage.
JOY—gladness, mirth, delight. (Grief.)
JUDGE—justice, referee, arbitrator.
JOYFUL—glad, rejoicing, exultant. (Mournful.)
JUDGMENT—discernment, discrimination.
JUSTICE—equity, right. Justice is right as established by law; equity according to the circumstances of each particular case. (Injustice.)
JUSTNESS—accuracy, correctness, precision.
KEEP—preserve, save. (Abandon.)
KILL—assassinate, murder, slay.
KINDRED—affinity, consanguinity, relationship.
KNOWLEDGE—erudition, learning. (Ignorance.)
LABOR—toil, work, effort, drudgery. (Idleness.)
LACK—need, deficiency, scarcity, insufficiency. (Plenty.)
LAMENT—mourn, grieve, weep. (Rejoice.)
LANGUAGE—dialect, idiom, speech, tongue.
LASCIVIOUS—loose, unchaste, lustful, lewd, lecherous. (Chaste.)
LAST—final, latest, ultimate. (First.)
LAUDABLE—commendable. (Blamable.)
LAUGHABLE—comical, droll, ludicrous. (Serious.)
LAWFUL—legal, legitimate, licit. (Illegal.)
LEAD—conduct, guide. (Follow.)
LEAN—meager. (Fat.)
LEARNED—erudite, scholarly. (Ignorant.)
LEAVE,v.—quit, relinquish.
LEAVE,n.—liberty, permission. (Prohibition.)
LIFE—existence, animation, spirit. (Death.)
LIFELESS—dead, inanimate.
LIFT—erect, elevate, exalt, raise. (Lower.)
LIGHT—clear, bright. (Dark.)
LIGHTNESS—flightiness, giddiness, levity, volatility. (Seriousness.)
LIKENESS—resemblance, similarity. (Unlikeness.)
LINGER—lag, loiter, tarry, saunter. (Hasten.)
LITTLE—diminutive, small. (Great.)
LIVELIHOOD—living, maintenance, subsistence.
LIVELY—jocund, merry, sportive, sprightly, vivacious. (Slow, languid, sluggish.)
LONG—extended, extensive. (Short.)
LOOK—appear, seem, aspect, glance, peep.
LOSE—miss, forfeit. (Gain.)
LOSS—detriment, damage, deprivation. (Gain.)
LOUD—clamorous, high-sounding, noisy. (Low, quiet.)
LOVE—affection. (Hatred.)
LOW—abject, mean. (Noble.)
LUNACY—derangement, insanity, mania, madness. (Sanity.)
LUSTER—brightness, brilliancy, splendor.
LUXURIANT—exuberant. (Sparse.)
MACHINATION—plot, intrigue, cabal, conspiracy. (Artlessness.)
MAD—crazy, delirious, insane, rabid, violent, frantic. (Sane, rational, quiet.)
MADNESS—insanity, fury, rage, frenzy.
MAGISTERIAL—august, dignified, majestic, pompous, stately.
MAKE—form, create, produce. (Destroy.)
MALEDICTION—anathema, curse, imprecation.
MALEVOLENT—malicious, virulent, malignant. (Benevolent.)
MALICE—spite, rancor, ill-feeling, grudge, animosity, ill-will. (Benignity.)
MALICIOUS—see malevolent.
MANACLE,v.—shackle, fetter, chain. (Free.)
MANAGE—contrive, concert, direct.
MANAGEMENT—direction, superintendence, care.
MANGLE—tear, lacerate, mutilate, cripple, maim.
MANIA—madness, insanity, lunacy.
MANIFEST,v.—reveal, prove, evince, exhibit, display, show.
MANIFEST,a.—clear, plain, evident, open, apparent, visible. (Hidden, occult.)
MANIFOLD—several, sundry, various, divers.
MANLY—masculine, vigorous, courageous, brave, heroic. (Effeminate.)
MANNER—habit, custom, way, air, look.
MANNERS—morals, habits, behavior, carriage.
MAR—spoil, ruin, disfigure. (Improve.)
MARCH—tramp, tread, walk, step, space.
MARGIN—edge, rim, border, brink, verge.
MARK,n.—sign, note, symptom, token, indication, trace, vestige, track, badge, brand.
MARK,v.—impress, print, stamp, engrave, note.
MARRIAGE—wedding, nuptials, matrimony.
MARTIAL—military, warlike, soldierlike.
MARVEL—wonderful, miracle, prodigy.
MARVELOUS—wondrous, wonderful, miraculous.
MASSIVE—bulky, heavy, weighty, ponderous, solid, substantial. (Flimsy.)
MASTERY—dominion, rule, sway, ascendancy.
MATCHLESS—unrivaled, unequaled, unparalleled, peerless, incomparable, inimitable, surpassing. (Common, ordinary.)
MATERIAL,a.—corporeal, bodily, physical, temporal, momentous. (Spiritual, immaterial.)
MAXIM—adage, apothegm, proverb, saying, byword, saw.
MEAGER—poor, lank, emaciated, barren, dry, uninteresting. (Rich.)
MEAN,a.—stingy, niggardly, low, abject, vile, ignoble, degraded, contemptible, vulgar, despicable. (Generous.)
MEAN,v.—design, purpose, intend, contemplate, signify, denote, indicate.
MEANING—signification, import, acceptation, sense, purport.
MEDIUM—organ, channel, instrument, means.
MEDLEY—mixture, variety, diversity, miscellany.
MEEK—unassuming, mild, gentle. (Proud.)
MELANCHOLY—low-spirited, dispirited, dreamy, sad. (Jolly, buoyant.)
MELLOW—ripe, mature, soft. (Immature.)
MELODIOUS—tuneful, musical, silver, dulcet, sweet. (Discordant.)
MEMORABLE—signal, distinguished, marked.
MEMORIAL—monument, memento.
MEMORY—remembrance, recollection.
MENACE,n.—threat.
MEND—repair, amend, correct, better, ameliorate, improve, rectify.
MENTION—tell, name, communicate, impart, divulge, reveal, disclose, inform, acquaint.
MERCIFUL—compassionate, lenient, clement, tender, gracious, kind. (Cruel.)
MERCILESS—hard-hearted, cruel, unmerciful, pitiless, remorseless, unrelenting. (Kind.)
MERRIMENT—mirth, joviality, jollity. (Sorrow.)
MERRY—cheerful, mirthful, joyous, gay, lively, sprightly, hilarious, blithe, blithesome, jovial, sportive, jolly. (Sad.)
METAPHORICAL—figurative, allegorical.
METHOD—way, manner, mode, process, order, rule, regularity, system.
MIEN—air, look, manner, aspect, appearance.
MIGRATORY—roving, strolling, wandering, vagrant. (Settled, sedate, permanent.)
MIMIC—imitate, ape, mock.
MINDFUL—observant, attentive. (Heedless.)
MISCELLANEOUS—promiscuous, indiscriminate.
MISCHIEF—injury, harm, damage, hurt. (Benefit.)
MISCREANT—caitiff, villain, ruffian.
MISERABLE—unhappy, wretched, distressed, afflicted. (Happy.)
MISERLY—stingy, niggardly, avaricious, griping.
MISERY—wretchedness, woe, destitution, penury, privation, beggary. (Happiness.)
MISFORTUNE—calamity, disaster, mishap, catastrophe. (Good luck.)
MISS—omit, lose, fall, miscarry.
MITIGATE—alleviate, relieve, abate. (Aggravate.)
MODERATE—temperate, abstemious, sober, abstinent. (Immoderate.)
MODEST—chaste, virtuous, bashful. (Immodest.)
MOIST—wet, damp, dank, humid. (Dry.)
MONOTONOUS—unvaried, tiresome. (Varied.)
MONSTROUS—shocking, dreadful, horrible, huge.
MONUMENT—memorial, record, remembrancer.
MOOD—humor, disposition, vein, temper.
MORBID—sick, ailing, sickly, diseased, corrupted. (Normal, sound.)
MOROSE—gloomy, sullen, surly, fretful, crabbed, crusty. (Joyous.)
MORTAL—deadly, fatal, human.
MOTION—proposition, proposal, movement.
MOTIONLESS—still, stationary, torpid, stagnant. (Active, moving.)
MOUNT—arise, rise, ascend, soar, tower, climb.
MOURNFUL—sad, sorrowful, lugubrious, grievous, doleful, heavy. (Happy.)
MOVE—actuate, impel, induce, prompt, instigate, persuade, stir, agitate, propel, push.
MULTITUDE—crowd, throng, host, mob, swarm.
MURDER,v.—kill, assassinate, slay, massacre.
MUSE,v.—meditate, contemplate, think, reflect, cogitate, ponder.
MUSIC—harmony, melody, symphony.
MUSICAL—tuneful, melodious, harmonious, sweet.
MUSTY—stale, sour, fetid. (Fresh, sweet.)
MUTE—dumb, silent, speechless.
MUTILATE—maim, cripple, disable, disfigure.
MUTINOUS—insurgent, seditious, tumultuous, turbulent, riotous. (Obedient, orderly.)
MUTUAL—reciprocal, interchanged, correlative. (Sole, solitary.)
MYSTERIOUS—dark, obscure, hidden, secret, dim, mystic, enigmatical, unaccountable. (Open, clear.)
MYSTIFY—confuse, perplex. (Clear, explain.)
NAKED—nude, bare, uncovered, unclothed, rough, rude, simple. (Covered, clad.)
NAME,v.—denominate, entitle, style, designate, term, call, christen.
NAME,n.—appellation, designation, denomination, title, cognomen, reputation, character, fame, credit, repute.
NARRATE—tell, relate, detail, recount, describe, enumerate, rehearse, recite.
NASTY—filthy, foul, dirty, unclean, impure, gross, indecent, vile.
NATION—people, community, realm, state.
NATIVE—indigenous, inborn, vernacular.
NATURAL—original, regular, normal, bastard. (Unnatural, forced.)
NEAR—nigh, neighboring, close, adjacent, contiguous, intimate. (Distant.)
NECESSARY—needful, expedient, essential, indispensable, requisite. (Useless.)
NECESSITATE—compel, force, oblige.
NECESSITY—need, occasion, exigency, emergency, urgency, requisite.
NEED,n.—necessity, distress, poverty, indigence, want, penury.
NEED,v.—require, want, lack.
NEGLECT,v.—disregard, slight, omit, overlook.
NEGLECT,n.—omission, failure, default, slight, negligence, remissness, carelessness.
NEIGHBORHOOD—environs, vicinity, nearness, adjacency, proximity.
NERVOUS—timid, timorous, shaky.
NEW—fresh, recent, novel. (Old.)
NEWS—tidings, intelligence, information.
NICE—exact, accurate, good, particular, precise, fine, delicate. (Careless, coarse, unpleasant.)
NIMBLE—active, brisk, lively, alert, quick, agile, prompt. (Awkward.)
NOBILITY—aristocracy, greatness, grandeur.
NOBLE—exalted, elevated, illustrious, great, grand, lofty. (Low.)
NOISE—cry, outcry, clamor, row, din, uproar, tumult. (Silence.)
NONSENSICAL—irrational, absurd, silly, foolish. (Sensible.)
NOTABLE—plain, evident, remarkable, striking, signal, rare. (Obscure.)
NOTE,n.—token, symbol, mark, sign, indication, remark, comment.
NOTED—distinguished, remarkable, eminent, renowned. (Obscure.)
NOTICE,n.—advice, notification, intelligence.
NOTICE,v.—mark, note, observe, attend to, heed.
NOTIFY,v.—publish, acquaint, apprise, inform.
NOTION—conception, idea, belief, opinion.
NOTORIOUS—conspicuous, open, obvious, ill-famed. (Unknown.)
NOURISH—nurture, cherish, foster, supply. (Starve, famish.)
NOURISHMENT—food, diet, sustenance, nutrition.
NOVEL—modern, new, fresh, recent, unused, rare, strange. (Old.)
NOXIOUS—hurtful, deadly poisonous, deleterious, baneful. (Beneficial.)
NULLIFY—annul, vacate, invalidate, quash, cancel, repeal. (Affirm.)
NUTRITION—food, diet, nutriment, nourishment.
OBDURATE—hard, callous, hardened, unfeeling, insensible. (Yielding, tractable.)
OBEDIENT—compliant, submissive, dutiful, respectful. (Obstinate.)
OBESE—corpulent, fat, adipose. (Attenuated.)
OBEY,v.—conform, comply, submit. (Rebel.)
OBJECT,n.—aim, end, purpose, design, mark.
OBJECT,v.—oppose, except to, contravene, impeach, deprecate. (Assent.)
OBNOXIOUS—offensive. (Agreeable.)
OBSCURE—undistinguished, unknown. (Distinguished.)
OBSTINATE—contumacious, headstrong, stubborn, obdurate. (Yielding.)
OCCASION—opportunity.
OFFENCE—affront, misdeed, misdemeanor, transgression, trespass.
OFFENSIVE—insolent, abusive. (Inoffensive.)
OFFICE—charge, function, place.
OFFSPRING—issue, progeny, children, posterity.
OLD—aged, superannuated, ancient, antique, antiquated, obsolete, old-fashioned. (Young, new.)
OMEN—presage, prognostic.
OPAQUE—dark. (Bright, transparent.)
OPEN—candid, unreserved, clear, fair. (Hidden.)
OPINION—notion, view, judgment, sentiment.
OPINIONATED—conceited, egotistical. (Modest.)
OPPOSE—resist, withstand, thwart. (Give way.)
OPTION—choice.
ORDER—method, system, regularity. (Disorder.)
ORIGIN—cause, occasion, beginning. (End.)
OUTLIVE—survive.
OUTWARD—external, outside, exterior. (Inner.)
OVER—above. (Under.)
OVERBALANCE—outweigh, preponderate.
OVERBEAR—bear down, overwhelm, overpower.
OVERBEARING—haughty, arrogant. (Gentle.)
OVERFLOW—inundation, deluge.
OVERRULE—supersede, suppress.
OVERSPREAD—overrun, ravage.
OVERTURN—invert, overthrow, reverse, subvert. (Establish, fortify.)
OVERWHELM—crush, defeat, vanquish.
PAIN—suffering, qualm, pang, agony, anguish. (Pleasure.)
PALLID—pale, wan. (Florid.)
PART—division, portion, share, fraction. (Whole.)
PARTICULAR—exact, distinct, singular, strange, odd. (General.)
PATIENT—passive, submissive. (Obdurate.)
PEACE—calm, quiet, tranquility. (War, trouble, riot, turbulence.)
PEACEABLE—pacific, peaceful, quiet. (Troublesome, riotous.)
PENETRATE—bore, pierce, perforate.
PENETRATION—acuteness, sagacity. (Dullness.)
PEOPLE—nation, persons, folks.
PERCEIVE—note, observe, discern, distinguish.
PERCEPTION—conception, notion, idea.
PERIL—danger, pitfall, snare. (Safety.)
PERMIT—allow, tolerate. (Forbid.)
PERSUADE—allure, entice, prevail upon.
PHYSICAL—corporeal, bodily, material. (Mental.)
PICTURE—engraving, print, representation, illustration, image.
PITEOUS—doleful, woeful, rueful. (Joyful.)
PITILESS—see merciless.
PITY—compassion, sympathy. (Cruelty.)
PLACE,n.—spot, site, position, post, situation.
PLACE,v.—order, dispose.
PLAIN—open, manifest, evident. (Secret.)
PLAY—game, sport, amusement. (Work.)
PLEASE—gratify, pacify. (Displease.)
PLEASURE—charm, delight, joy. (Pain.)
PLENTIFUL—abundant, ample, copious, plenteous. (Scarce.)
POISE—balance, equilibrium, evenness.
POSITIVE—absolute, peremptory, decided, certain. (Negative, undecided.)
POSSESSOR—owner, proprietor.
POSSIBLE—practical, practicable. (Impossible.)
POVERTY—penury, indigence, need. (Wealth.)
POWER—authority, force, strength, dominion.
POWERFUL—mighty, potent. (Weak.)
PRAISE—commend, extol, laud. (Blame.)
PRAYER—entreaty, petition, request, suit.
PRETENCE,n.—pretext, subterfuge.
PREVAILING—predominant, prevalent, general. (Isolated, sporadic.)
PREVENT—obviate, preclude.
PREVIOUS—antecedent, introductory, preparatory, preliminary. (Subsequent.)
PRIDE—vanity, conceit. (Humility.)
PRINCIPALLY—chiefly, essentially, mainly.
PRINCIPLE—ground, reason, motive, impulse, maxim, rule, rectitude, integrity.
PRIVILEGE—immunity, advantage, favor, claim, prerogative, exemption, right.
PROBITY—rectitude, uprightness, honesty, integrity, sincerity, soundness. (Dishonesty.)
PROBLEMATICAL—uncertain, doubtful, dubious, questionable, disputable, suspicious. (Certain.)
PRODIGIOUS—huge, enormous, vast, amazing, astonishing, astounding, surprising, remarkable, wonderful. (Insignificant.)
PROFESSION—business, trade, occupation, office, vocation, employment, engagement, avowal.
PROFFER—volunteer, offer, propose, tender.
PROFLIGATE—abandoned, dissolute, depraved, vicious, degenerate, corrupt. (Virtuous.)
PROFOUND—deep, fathomless, penetrating, recondite, solemn, abstruse. (Shallow.)
PROFUSE—extravagant, prodigal, lavish, copious, improvident, excessive, plentiful. (Succinct.)
PROLIFIC—productive, generative, fertile, fruitful, teeming. (Barren.)
PROLIX—diffuse, long, prolonged, tedious, wordy, tiresome, verbose, prosaic. (Concise, brief.)
PROMINENT—eminent, conspicuous, marked, important, leading. (Obscure.)
PROMISCUOUS—mixed, unarranged, mingled, indiscriminate. (Select.)
PROMPT—See punctual.
PROP,v.—maintain, sustain, support, stay.
PROPAGATE—spread, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, extend, breed, increase. (Suppress.)
PROPER—legitimate, right, just, fair, equitable, honest, suitable, fit, adapted, meet, becoming, befitting, decent, pertinent. (Wrong.)
PROSPER—flourish, succeed, grow rich, thrive, advance. (Fail.)
PROSPERITY—well-being, weal, welfare, happiness, good luck. (Poverty.)
PROXY—agent, representative, substitute, deputy.
PRUDENCE—carefulness, judgment, discretion, wisdom. (Indiscretion.)
PRURIENT—itching, craving, hankering, longing.
PUERILE—youthful, juvenile, boyish, childish, infantile, trifling, weak, silly. (Mature.)
PUNCTILIOUS—nice, particular, formal, precise. (Negligent.)
PUNCTUAL—exact, precise, nice, particular prompt, timely. (Dilatory.)
PUTREFY—rot, decompose, corrupt, decay.
PUZZLE,v.—perplex, confound, embarrass, pose, bewilder, confuse, mystify. (Enlighten.)
QUACK—imposter, pretender, charlatan, empiric, mountebank. (Savant.)
QUAINT—artful, curious, far-fetched, fanciful, odd.
QUALIFIED—competent, fitted. (Incompetent.)
QUALITY—attribute, rank, distinction.
QUERULOUS—doubting, complaining, fretting, repining. (Patient.)
QUESTION—query, inquiry, interrogatory.
QUIBBLE—cavil, evade, equivocate, shuffle.
QUICK—lively, ready, prompt, alert, nimble, agile, active, brisk, expeditious, adroit, fleet, rapid, impetuous, swift, sweeping, dashing, clever. (Slow.)
QUOTE—note, repeat, cite, adduce.
RABID—mad, furious, raging, frantic. (Rational.)
RACE—course, match, pursuit, career, family, clan, house, ancestry, lineage, pedigree.
RACK—agonize, wring, torture, excruciate, harass, distress. (Soothe.)
RACY—spicy, pungent, smart, spirited, vivacious, lively. (Dull, insipid.)
RADIANCE—splendor, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, lustre, glare. (Dullness.)
RADICAL—organic, innate, fundamental, original, constitutional, inherent, complete, entire. (Superficial. In a political sense, uncompromising; antonym, moderate.)
RANCID—fetid, rank, stinking, sour, tainted, foul. (Fresh, sweet.)
RANCOR—malignity, hatred, hostility, antipathy, animosity, enmity, ill-will, spite. (Forgiveness.)
RANK—order, degree, dignity, consideration.
RANSACK—rummage, pillage, overhaul, explore.
RANSOM—emancipate, free, unfetter.
RANT—bombast, fustian, cant.
RAPACIOUS—ravenous, voracious, greedy, grasping. (Generous.)
RAPT—ecstatic, transported, ravished, entranced, charmed. (Distracted.)
RAPTURE—ecstacy, transport, bliss. (Dejection.)
RARE—scarce, singular, uncommon, unique.
RASCAL—scoundrel, rogue, knave, vagabond.
RASH—hasty, precipitate, foolhardy, adventurous, heedless, reckless, careless. (Deliberate.)
RATE—value, compute, appraise, estimate, abuse.
RATIFY—confirm, establish, substantiate, sanction (Protest, oppose.)
RATIONAL—reasonable, sagacious, judicious, wise, sensible, sound. (Unreasonable.)
RAVAGE—overrun, overspread, desolate, despoil.
RAVISH—enrapture, enchant, charm, delight.
RAZE—demolish, destroy, overthrow, dismantle, ruin. (Build up.)
REACH—touch, stretch, attain, gain, arrive at.
READY—prepared, ripe, apt, prompt, adroit, handy. (Slow, dilatory.)
REAL—actual, literal, practical, positive, certain, genuine, true. (Unreal.)
REALIZE—accomplish, achieve, effect, gain, get, acquire, comprehend.
REAP—gain, get, acquire, obtain.
REASON,n.—motive, design, end, proof, cause, ground, purpose.
REASON,v.—deduce, draw from, trace, conclude.
REASONABLE—rational, wise, honest, fair, right, just. (Unreasonable.)
REBELLION—insurrection, revolt.
RECANT—recall, abjure, retract, revoke.
RECEDE—retire, retreat, withdraw, ebb.
RECEIVE—accept, take, admit, entertain.
RECEPTION—receiving, levee, receipt, admission.
RECESS—retreat, depth, niche, vacation.
RECREATION—sport, pastime, play, amusement, game, fun.
REDEEM—ransom, recover, rescue, deliver, save.
REDRESS—remedy, repair, remission, abatement.
REDUCE—abate, lessen, decrease, lower, shorten.
REFINED—polite, courtly, polished, cultured, purified, genteel. (Boorish.)
REFLECT—consider, cogitate, think, muse, censure.
REFORM—amend, correct, better, restore, improve. (Corrupt.)
REFORMATION—improvement, reform, amendment. (Corruption.)
REFUGE—asylum, protection, harbor, shelter.
REFUSE,v.—deny, reject, repudiate, decline, withhold. (Accept.)
REFUSE,n.—dregs, dross, scum, rubbish, leavings.
REFUTE—disprove, falsify, negative. (Affirm.)
REGARD,v.—mind, heed, notice, behold, respect, view, consider.
REGRET,n.—grief, sorrow, lamentation, remorse.
REGULAR—orderly, uniform, customary, ordinary, stated. (Irregular.)
REGULATE—methodize, arrange, adjust, organize, govern, rule. (Disorder.)
REIMBURSE—refund, repay, satisfy, indemnify.
RELEVANT—fit, proper, suitable, appropriate, apt, pertinent. (Irrelevant.)
RELIANCE—trust, hope, dependence, confidence. (Suspicion.)
RELIEF—succor, aid, help, redress, alleviation.
RELINQUISH—give up, forsake, resign, surrender, quit, leave, forego. (Retain.)
REMEDY—help, relief, redress, cure, specific.
REMORSELESS—pitiless, relentless, cruel, ruthless, merciless, barbarous. (Merciful, humane.)
REMOTE—distant, far, secluded, indirect. (Near.)
REPRODUCE—propagate, imitate, represent, copy.
REPUDIATE—disown, discard, disavow, renounce, disclaim. (Acknowledge.)
REPUGNANT—antagonistic, distasteful. (Agreeable.)
REPULSIVE—forbidding, odious, ugly, disagreeable, revolting. (Attractive.)
RESPITE—reprieve, interval, stop, pause.
REVENGE—vengeance, retaliation, requital, retribution. (Forgiveness.)
REVENUE—produce, income, fruits, proceeds.
REVERENCE,n.—honor, respect, awe, veneration, deference, worship, homage. (Execration.)
REVISE—review, reconsider.
REVIVE—refresh, renew, renovate, animate, resuscitate, vivify, cheer, comfort.
RICH—wealthy, affluent, opulent, copious, ample, abundant, exuberant, plentiful, fertile, gorgeous, superb, fruitful. (Poor.)
RIVAL,n.—antagonist, opponent, competitor.
ROAD—way, highway, route, course, path, pathway, anchorage.
ROAM—ramble, rove, wander, stray, stroll.
ROBUST—strong, lusty, vigorous, sinewy, stalwart, stout, sturdy, able-bodied. (Puny.)
ROUT,v.—discomfit, beat, defeat, overthrow.
ROUTE—road, course, march, way, journey, path.
RUDE—rugged, rough, uncouth, unpolished, harsh, gruff, impertinent, saucy, flippant, impudent, insolent, saucy, churlish. (Polite, polished.)
RULE—sway, method, system, law, maxim, guide, precept, formula, regulation, government, test, standard.
RUMOR—hearsay, talk, fame, report, bruit.
RUTHLESS—cruel, savage, barbarous, inhuman, merciless, remorseless, relentless. (Considerate.)
SACRED—holy, hallowed, divine, consecrated, dedicated, devoted. (Profane.)
SAFE—secure, harmless, trustworthy. (Perilous.)
SANCTION—confirm, countenance, encourage, support, ratify, authorize. (Disapprove.)
SANE—sober, lucid, sound, rational. (Crazy.)
SAUCY—impertinent, rude, impudent, insolent, flippant, forward. (Modest.)
SCANDALIZE—shock, disgust, offend, calumniate, vilify, revile, malign, traduce, defame, slander.
SCANTY—bare, pinched, insufficient, slender, meager. (Ample.)
SCATTER—strew, spread, disseminate, disperse, dissipate, dispel. (Collect.)
SECRET—clandestine, concealed, hidden, sly, underhand, latent, private. (Open.)
SEDUCE—allure, attract, decoy, entice, abduct, inveigle, deprave.
SENSE—discernment, appreciation, view, opinion, feeling, perception, sensibility, susceptibility, significance, thought, judgment, signification, meaning, import, purport, wisdom.
SENSIBLE—wise, intelligent, reasonable, sober, sound, conscious, aware. (Foolish.)
SETTLE—arrange, adjust, regulate, conclude.
SEVERAL—sundry, divers, various, many.
SEVERE—harsh, stern, stringent, unmitigated, unyielding, rough. (Lenient.)
SHAKE—tremble, shudder, shiver, quake, quiver.
SHALLOW—superficial, flimsy, slight. (Deep, thorough.)
SHAME—disgrace, dishonor. (Honor.)
SHAMEFUL—degrading, scandalous, disgraceful, outrageous. (Honorable.)
SHAMELESS—immodest, impudent, indecent, indelicate, brazen.
SHAPE—form, fashion, mold, model.
SHARE—portion, lot, division, quantity, quota.
SHARP—acute, keen. (Dull.)
SHINE—glare, glitter, radiate, sparkle.
SHORT—brief, concise, succinct, summary. (Long.)
SHOW,n.—exhibition, sight, spectacle.
SICK—diseased, sickly, unhealthy. (Healthy.)
SICKNESS—illness, indisposition, disease, disorder. (Health.)
SIGNIFICANT,a.—expressive, material, important. (Insignificant.)
SIGNIFICATION—import, meaning, sense.
SILENCE—speechlessness, dumbness. (Noise.)
SILENT—dumb, mute, speechless. (Talkative.)
SIMILE—comparison, similitude.
SIMPLE—single, uncompounded, artless, plain. (Complex, compound.)
SIMULATE—dissimulate, dissemble, pretend.
SINCERE—candid, hearty, honest, pure, genuine, real. (Insincere.)
SITUATION—condition, plight, predicament, state.
SIZE—bulk, greatness, magnitude, dimension.
SLAVERY—servitude, enthrallment, thralldom. (Freedom.)
SLEEP—doze, drowse, nap, slumber.
SLEEPY—somnolent. (Wakeful.)
SLOW—dilatory, tardy. (Fast.)
SMELL—fragrance, odor, perfume, scent.
SMOOTH—even, level, mild. (Rough.)
SOAK—drench, imbrue, steep.
SOCIAL—sociable, friendly, communicative. (Unsocial.)
SOFT—gentle, meek, mild. (Hard.)
SOLICIT—importune, urge.
SOLITARY—sole, only, single.
SORRY—grieved, poor, paltry, insignificant. (Glad, respectable.)
SOUL—mind, spirit. (Soul is opposed to body, mind to matter.)
SOUND,a.—healthy, sane. (Unsound.)
SOUND,n.—tone, noise, silence.
SPACE—room.
SPARSE—scanty, thin. (Luxuriant.)
SPEAK—converse, talk, confer, say, tell.
SPECIAL—particular, specific. (General.)
SPEND—expend, exhaust, consume, waste, dissipate. (Save.)
SPORADIC—isolated, rare. (General, prevalent.)
SPREAD—disperse, diffuse, expand, disseminate.
SPRING—fountain, source.
STAFF—prop, support, stay.
STAGGER—reel, totter.
STAIN—soil, discolor, spot, sully, tarnish.
STATE—commonwealth, realm.
STERILE—barren, unfruitful. (Fertile.)
STIFLE—choke, suffocate, smother.
STORMY—rough, boisterous, tempestuous. (Calm.)
STRAIGHT—direct, right. (Crooked.)
STRAIT,a.—narrow, confined.
STRANGER—alien, foreigner. (Friend.)
STRENGTHEN—fortify, invigorate. (Weaken.)
STRONG—robust, sturdy, powerful. (Weak.)
STUPID—dull, foolish, obtuse, witless. (Clever.)
SUBJECT—exposed to, liable, obnoxious. (Exempt.)
SUBJECT—inferior, subordinate. (Superior to, above.)
SUBSEQUENT—succeeding, following. (Previous.)
SUBSTANTIAL—solid, durable. (Unsubstantial.)
SUIT—accord, agree. (Disagree.)
SUPERFICIAL—flimsy, shallow, untrustworthy. (Thorough.)
SUPERFLUOUS—unnecessary. (Necessary.)
SURROUND—encircle, encompass, environ.
SUSTAIN—maintain, support.
SYMMETRY—proportion.
SYMPATHY—commiseration, compassion.
SYSTEM—method, plan, order.
SYSTEMATIC—orderly, regular, methodical. (Chaotic.)
TAKE—accept, receive. (Give.)
TALKATIVE—garrulous, loquacious, communicative. (Silent.)
TASTE—flavor, relish, savor. (Tastelessness.)
TAX—custom, duty, impost, excise, toll.
TAX—assessment, rate.
TEASE—taunt, tantalize, torment, vex.
TEMPORARY,a.—fleeting, transient, transitory. (Permanent.)
TENACIOUS—pertinacious, retentive.
TENDENCY—aim, drift, scope.
TENET—position, view, conviction, belief.
TERM—boundary, limit, period, time.
TERRITORY—dominion.
THANKFUL—grateful, obliged. (Thankless.)
THANKLESS—ungracious, profitless, ungrateful, unthankful.
THAW—melt, dissolve, liquefy. (Freeze.)
THEATRICAL—dramatic, showy, ceremonious.
THEFT—robbery, depredation, spoliation.
THEME—subject, topic, text, essay.
THEORY—speculation, scheme, plea, hypothesis, conjecture.
THEREFORE—accordingly, consequently, hence.
THICK—dense, close, compact, solid, coagulated, muddy, turbid, misty, vaporous. (Thin.)
THIN—slim, slender, slight, flimsy, lean, scraggy, attenuated.
THINK—cogitate, consider, reflect, ponder, muse, contemplate, meditate, conceive, fancy, imagine, apprehend, hold, esteem, reckon, consider, deem, regard, believe, opine.
THOROUGH—accurate, correct, trustworthy, complete, reliable. (Superficial.)
THOUGHT—idea, conception, imagination, fancy, conceit, notion, supposition, care, provision, consideration, opinion, view, sentiment, reflection, deliberation.
THOUGHTFUL—considerate, careful, cautious, heedful, contemplative, reflective, provident, pensive, dreamy. (Thoughtless.)
THOUGHTLESS—inconsiderate, rash, precipitate, improvident, heedless.
TIE,v.—bind, restrain, restrict, oblige, secure, join, unite. (Loose.)
TIME—duration, season, period, era, age, date, span, spell.
TOLERATE—allow, admit, receive, suffer, permit, let, endure, abide. (Oppose.)
TOP—summit, apex, head, crown, surface. (Base, bottom.)
TORRID—burning, hot, parching, scorching.
TORTUOUS—twisted, winding, crooked, indirect.
TORTURE—torment, anguish, agony.
TOUCHING—tender, affecting, moving, pathetic.
TRACTABLE—docile, manageable, amenable.
TRADE—traffic, commerce, dealing, occupation, employment, office.
TRADITIONAL—oral, uncertain, transmitted.
TRAFFIC—trade, exchange, commerce.
TRAMMEL,n.—fetter, shatter, clog, bond, impediment, chain, hindrance.
TRANQUIL—still, unruffled, peaceful, hushed, quiet. (Noisy, boisterous.)
TRANSACTION—negotiation, occurrence, proceeding, affair.
TRAVEL—trip, peregrination, excursion, journey, tour, voyage.
TREACHEROUS—traitorous, disloyal, treasonable, faithless, false-hearted. (Trustworthy, faithful.)
TRITE—stale, old, ordinary, commonplace, hackneyed. (Novel.)
TRIUMPH—achievement, ovation, victory, jubilation, conquest. (Failure, defeat.)
TRIVIAL—trifling, petty, small, frivolous, unimportant, insignificant. (Important.)
TRUE—genuine, actual, sincere, unaffected, true-hearted, honest, upright, veritable, real, veracious, authentic, exact, accurate, correct.
TUMULTUOUS—turbulent, riotous, disorderly, disturbed, confused, unruly. (Orderly.)
TURBID—foul, thick, muddy, impure, unsettled.
TYPE—emblem, symbol, figure, sign, kind, letter.
TYRO—novice, beginner, learner.
UGLY—unsightly, plain, homely, ill-favored, hideous. (Beautiful.)
UMBRAGE—offense, dissatisfaction, resentment.
UMPIRE—referee, arbitrator, judge, arbiter.
UNANIMITY—accord, agreement, unity, concord. (Discord.)
UNBRIDLED—wanton, licentious, dissolute, loose.
UNCERTAIN—doubtful, dubious, questionable, fitful, equivocal, ambiguous, indistinct, fluctuating.
UNCIVIL—rude, discourteous, disrespectful, disobliging. (Civil.)
UNCLEAN—dirty, foul, filthy, sullied. (Clean.)
UNCOMMON—rare, strange, scarce, singular, choice. (Common, ordinary.)
UNCONCERNED—careless, indifferent, apathetic. (Anxious.)
UNCOUTH—strange, odd, clumsy. (Graceful.)
UNCOVER—reveal, strip, expose, lay bare. (Hide.)
UNDER—below, underneath, beneath, subordinate, lower, inferior. (Above.)
UNDERSTANDING—knowledge, intellect, intelligence, faculty, comprehension, mind, reason.
UNDO—annul, frustrate, untie, unfasten, destroy.
UNEASY—restless, disturbed, unquiet, awkward, stiff. (Quiet.)
UNEQUAL—uneven, not alike, irregular. (Even.)
UNEQUALED—matchless, unique, novel, new.
UNFIT,a.—improper, unsuitable, inconsistent, untimely, incompetent. (Fit.)
UNFIT,v.—disable, incapacitate, disqualify. (Fit.)
UNFORTUNATE—calamitous, ill-fated, unlucky, wretched, unhappy, miserable. (Fortunate.)
UNGAINLY—clumsy, awkward, lumbering, uncouth. (Pretty.)
UNHAPPY—miserable, wretched, distressed, painful, afflicted, disastrous, drear, dismal. (Happy.)
UNIFORM—regular, symmetrical, equal, even, alike, unvaried. (Irregular.)
UNINTERRUPTED—continuous, perpetual, unceasing, incessant, endless. (Intermittent.)
UNION—junction, combination, alliance, confederacy, league, coalition, agreement. (Disunion.)
UNIQUE—unequal, uncommon, rare, choice, matchless. (Common, ordinary.)
UNITE—join, conjoin, combine, concert, add, attach. (Separate, disrupt, sunder.)
UNIVERSAL—general, all, entire, total, catholic. (Sectional.)
UNLIMITED—absolute, undefined, boundless, infinite. (Limited.)
UNREASONABLE—foolish, silly, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous.
UNRIVALED—unequaled, unique, unexampled, incomparable, matchless. (Mediocre.)
UNRULY—ungovernable, unmanageable, refractory. (Tractable, docile.)
UNUSUAL—rare, unwonted, singular, uncommon, remarkable, strange. (Common.)
UPHOLD—maintain, defend, sustain, support, vindicate. (Desert, abandon.)
UPRIGHT—vertical, perpendicular, erect, just, equitable, fair, pure, honorable. (Prone.)
UPRIGHTNESS—honesty, integrity, fairness, goodness, probity, virtue, honor. (Dishonesty.)
URGE—incite, impel, push, drive, instigate, stimulate, press, induce, solicit.
URGENT—pressing, imperative, immediate, serious, wanted. (Unimportant.)
USAGE—custom, fashion, practice, prescription.
USE,n.—usage, practice, habit, custom, avail, advantage, utility, benefit, application. (Disuse.)
USUAL—ordinary, common, accustomed, habitual, wonted, customary, general. (Unusual.)
UTMOST—farthest, remotest, uttermost, greatest.
UTTER,a.—extreme, excessive, sheer, mere, pure.
UTTER,v.—speak, articulate, pronounce, express.
UTTERLY—totally, completely, wholly, altogether.
VACANT—empty, unfilled, unoccupied, thoughtless, unthinking. (Occupied.)
VAGRANT,n.—wanderer, beggar, tramp, rogue.
VAGUE—unsettled, undetermined, pointless, uncertain, indefinite. (Definite.)
VAIN—useless, fruitless, empty, worthless, inflated, proud, conceited, unreal. (Effectual, humble.)
VALIANT—brave, bold, valorous, courageous, gallant. (Cowardly.)
VALID—weighty, strong, powerful, sound, binding, efficient. (Invalid.)
VALOR—courage, gallantry, boldness, bravery, heroism. (Cowardice.)
VALUE,v.—appraise, assess, reckon, appreciate, estimate, prize, esteem, treasure. (Despise.)
VARIABLE—changeable, unsteady, inconstant, shifting, wavering, fickle, restless. (Constant.)
VARIETY—difference, diversity, change, diversification, mixture, medley, miscellany. (Sameness, monotony.)
VAST—spacious, boundless, mighty, enormous, immense, colossal, gigantic, prodigious. (Confined.)
VAUNT—boast, brag, puff, hawk, advertise, parade.
VENERABLE—grave, sage, wise, old, reverend.
VENIAL—pardonable, excusable, justifiable. (Serious, grave.)
VENOM—poison, virus, spite, malice, malignity.
VENTURE,n.—speculation, chance, peril, stake.
VERACITY—truth, truthfulness, credibility, accuracy. (Falsehood.)
VERBAL—oral, spoken, literal, parole, unwritten.
VERDICT—judgment, finding, decision, answer.
VEXATION—chagrin, mortification. (Pleasure.)
VIBRATE—oscillate, swing, sway, wave, thrill.
VICE—vileness, corruption, depravity, pollution, immorality, wickedness, guilt, iniquity. (Virtue.)
VICIOUS—corrupt, depraved, debased, bad, unruly, contrary, demoralized, profligate, faulty. (Gentle, virtuous.)
VICTIM—sacrifice, food, prey, sufferer, dupe, gull.
VICTUALS—viands, bread, meat, provisions, fare, food, repast.
VIOLENT—boisterous, furious, impetuous, vehement. (Gentle.)
VIRTUOUS—upright, honest, moral. (Profligate.)
VISION—apparition, ghost, phantom, specter.
VOLUPTUARY—epicure, sensualist.
VOUCH—affirm, asserverate, assure, aver.
WAIT—await, expect, look for, wait for.
WAKEFUL—vigilant, watchful. (Sleepy.)
WANDER—range, ramble, roam, rove, stroll.
WANT—lack, need. (Abundance.)
WARY—circumspect, cautious. (Foolhardy.)
WASH—clean, rinse, wet, moisten, stain, tint.
WASTE,v.—squander, dissipate, lavish, destroy, decay, dwindle, wither.
WAY—method, plan, system, means, manner, mode, form, fashion, course, process, road, route, track, path, habit, practice.
WEAKEN—debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, invalidate. (Strengthen.)
WEARY—harass, jade, tire, fatigue. (Refresh.)
WEIGHT—gravity, heaviness, burden, load. (Lightness.)
WELL-BEING—happiness, prosperity, welfare.
WHOLE—entire, complete, total, integral. (Part.)
WICKED—iniquitous, nefarious. (Virtuous.)
WILL—wish, desire.
WILLINGLY—spontaneously, voluntarily. (Unwillingly.)
WIN—get, obtain, gain, procure, effect, realize, accomplish, achieve. (Lose.)
WINNING—attractive, charming, fascinating, bewitching, enchanting, dazzling. (Repulsive.)
WISDOM—prudence, foresight, far-sightedness, sagacity. (Foolishness.)
WONDER,v.—admire, amaze, astonish, surprise.
WONDER,n.—marvel, miracle, prodigy.
WRONG—injustice, injury. (Right.)
YAWN—gape, open wide.
YEARN—hanker after, long for, desire, crave.
YELL—bellow, cry out, scream.
YELLOW—golden, saffron-like.
YELP—bark, sharp cry, howl.
YET—besides, nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, still, ultimately, at last, so far, thus far.
YIELD—bear, give, afford, impart, communicate, confer, bestow, abdicate, resign, cede, surrender.
YIELDING—supple, pliant, bending, compliant, submissive, unresisting. (Obstinate.)
YOKE,v.—couple, link, connect.
YORE—long ago, long since.
YOUTH—boy, lad, minority, adolescence.
YOUTHFUL—juvenile, puerile. (Old.)
ZEAL—energy, fervor, ardor, earnestness, enthusiasm, eagerness. (Indifference.)
ZEALOUS—warm, ardent, fervent, enthusiastic, anxious. (Indifferent, careless.)
ZEST—relish, gusto, flavor. (Disgust.)