KEY: Acquaint.
SYN: Advertise, inform, impart, make known, divulge, teach, notify, apprise, advise, tell.
ANT: Misinform, deceive, delude, mislead, misguide, hoodwink.
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KEY: Acquaintance.
SYN: Knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionship.
ANT: Ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience. It has also the colloquial meaning of a person with whom one is acquainted.
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KEY: Acquiesce.
SYN: Assent, concur, repose, agree, yield, be resigned, comply.
ANT: Dissent, demur, object.
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KEY: Acquire.
SYN: Gain, earn, procure, obtain, get, realize, win, reap.
ANT: Lose, forfeit, surrender, miss, forego.
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KEY: Acquirement.
SYN: Knowledge, at, entertainment, accomplishment, learning, erudition, acquisition.
ANT: Intuition, inspiration, genius.
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KEY: Acquit.
SYN: Discharge, exonerate, absolve, exculpate, release, dismiss, liberate, pardon,.
ANT: Charge, accuse, impeach, constrain, implicate, bind, compel, condemn, oblige, sentence.
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KEY: Acquittance.
SYN: Release, receipt, discharge.
ANT: Bond, claim, charge, obligation.
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KEY: Acrid.
SYN: Harsh, sour.
ANT: Mellow, sweet, luscious.
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KEY: Acrimonious.
SYN: Sharp, biting, stinging, pungent, acrid, ill-natured, sarcastic.
ANT: Smooth, sweet, pleasant, goodnatured, bland.
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KEY: Acrimony.
SYN: Sharpness, bitterness, sourness, causticity, acerbity, asperity, tartness, ill-feeling, hostility, animosity.
ANT: Smoothness, courtesy, mildness, blandness, pleasantness, friendship, amiability.
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KEY: Across.
SYN: Athwart, against, transversely. Transverseness to a line of movement becomes opposition.
ANT: Lengthwise, along, concurrently, parallel.
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KEY: Act. \v.\ [See DO].
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KEY: Act \n.\
SYN: Deed, performance, action, movement, proceeding, exercise, operation, play.
ANT: Inaction, rest, repose, cessation, suspension, quiet, immobility, inertia, quiescence.
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KEY: Action. [See ACT].
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KEY: Active.
SYN: Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert, dexterous, supple, wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent.
ANT: Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy.
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KEY: Activity.
SYN: Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness, alertness, celerity, rapidity.
ANT: Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, heaviness, sluggishness, lassitude.
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KEY: Actor.
SYN: Doer, worker, agent, performer, principal, player, tragedian, comedian.
ANT: [See AGENT].
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KEY: Actual.
SYN: Developed, positive, unquestionable, demonstrable, certain, real, authentic.
ANT: Potential, undeveloped, hypothetical, supposition, possible, virtual, theoretical, fabulous, fictitious, unreal.
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KEY: Actually.
SYN: Verity, truly, decidedly, assuredly, positively.
ANT: Potentially, hypothetically, theoretically.
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KEY: Actuate.
SYN: Urge, instigate, stir, induce, influence, incline, dispose, incite, impel, prompt, drive.
ANT: Deter, discourage, retard, inhibit, hinder, prevent, impede, dissuade.
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KEY: Acuity.
SYN: Pointedness, acylation, acumination.
ANT: Bluntness, hebetude, obtuseness.
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KEY: Aculeated.
SYN: Armed, spinous, acuminated, punctuous.
ANT: Unarmed, blunt, obtuse, stingless, pointless.
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KEY: acumen.
SYN: Point, penetrativeness, sharpness, discernment, talent, sagacity.
ANT: Bluntness, obtuseness, stupidity, dulness, indiscernment, hebetude.
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KEY: Acute.
SYN: Pointed, penetrating, sagacious, perspicacious, keen, astute, piercing, sharp, shrewd, keen-sighted, severe, distressing.
ANT: Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, undiscerning, heavy, chronic, stolid.
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KEY: Acutely.
SYN: Sharply, deeply, painfully, poignantly, intensely.
ANT: Bluntly, obtusely, stupidly, stolidly, pleasantly.
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KEY: Adage.
SYN: Maxim, saying, motto, saw, apothegm, aphorism, byword, proverb, dictum.
ANT: Discourse, disquisition, yarn, harangue.
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KEY: Adapt.
SYN: Fit, accommodate, suit, adjust, conform, admeasure, harmonize, attune.
ANT: Misfit, misconform, misapply.
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KEY: Adaptation.
SYN: Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence.
ANT: Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation, mismeasurement.
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KEY: Add.
SYN: Adduce, adjoin, increase, extend, enlarge, sum up, cast up, subjoin, amplify, annex.
ANT: Deduct, subtract, dissever, abstract.
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KEY: Addendum.
SYN: Acquisition, improvement, supplement, complement, desideratum, concomitant, annexation, appendage.
ANT: Surplusage, detriment, deterioration, detraction, drawback.
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KEY: Addicted.
SYN: Given, accustomed, prone, inclined, disposed, habituated.
ANT: Unaddicted, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, averse, free.
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KEY: additament.
SYN: Adjunct, annexation, supplement, addition, acquisition, increase, augmentation, accession.
ANT: Deduction, detraction, drawback, decrement, deterioration.
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KEY: Addition.
SYN: Accession, enlargement, increase, extension, accretion, appendage.
ANT: [See ADDITAMENT].
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KEY: Address \n.\
SYN: Tact, manners.
ANT: Awkwardness, unmannerliness.
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KEY: Address \v.\
SYN: Accost, greet, salute, approach, apostrophize, appeal, hail, woo, court.
ANT: Elude, avoid, shun, ignore, pass.
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KEY: Adduce.
SYN: Allege, apply, cite, advance, offer, introduce, produce, add, import, name, mention, quote.
ANT: Retract, except, withdraw, deduct, deduce, suppress.
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KEY: Adept.
SYN: Expert, adroit, handy, master, performer, professor, artist.
ANT: Awkward, clumsy, inexpert, tyro, novice, lubber, blunderer.
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KEY: Adequate.
SYN: Equal, sufficient, fit, satisfactory, full, competent, capable, able.
ANT: Unequal, insufficient, incompetent, inadequate.
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KEY: Adhere.
SYN: Stick, cohere, cleave, hold, attach, unite, fix, join, cling.
ANT: Disunite, part, separate, divide, secede, sunder, sever.
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KEY: Adherence.
SYN: Adhesion, attachment, devotion, fidelity, cleaving to, constancy, endearment.
ANT: Separation, disunion, unfaithfulness, desertion, treachery.
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KEY: Adherent.
SYN: Follower, supporter.
ANT: Denial, protestation, negation, contradiction, rejection.
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KEY: Admit.
SYN: Receive, pase, permit, accept, grant, concede, allow, acknowledge, confess, own, avow, suffer.
ANT: Exclude, debar, disallow, reject, deny, discharge, dismiss, eject, extrude, repudiate, disavow, disown.
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KEY: Admittance.
SYN: Introduction, entrance, pass, permit, passport, privilege, acceptance, welcome, reception.
ANT: Exclusion, denial, ejection, prohibition, bar, hindrance, rejection, repudiation.
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KEY: Admonish.
SYN: Remind, forewarn, advise, warn, dissuade, caution, counsel, reprove, censure, rebuke.
ANT: Encourage, instigate, abet, incite, urge, applaud, countenance.
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KEY: Admonition.
SYN: Warning, advice, counsel, caution, reproof.
ANT: Applauding, encouraging, inciting, urging, countenancing.
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KEY: Ado.
SYN: Hubbub, commotion, fuse, excitement.
ANT: Calm, composure, quiet, orderliness, staidness, tranquillity.
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KEY: Adopt.
SYN: Assume, select, affiliate, take, elect, arrogate, choose, endorse, avow, appropriate.
ANT: Reject, decline, repudiate, disavow, discard, renounce, abandon, disown, disclaim.
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KEY: Adore.
SYN: Admire, hallow, glorify, praise, venerate, reverence, worship, idolize.
ANT: Abhor, despise, disesteem, abominate, execrate, blaspheme.
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KEY: Adorn.
SYN: Beautify, bedeck, ornament, decorate, embellish, deck, garnish, gild, enrich.
ANT: Mar, spoil, deform, deface, disfigure, impoverish, denude, despoil, strip, bare, disembellish.
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KEY: Adrift.
SYN: Loose, afloat, agog, abroad, abroach, distracted, disordered.
ANT: 'fait victorious', tight, right, lashed, moored, secure, collected, composed.
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KEY: Adroit.
SYN: Handy, skillful, dexterous, expert, proficient, clever.
ANT: Awkward, clumsy, unskillful, inexpert, lubberly.
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KEY: Adscititious.
SYN: Adventitious, superfluous, redundant, alien, artificial, spurious, smuggled.
ANT: Essential, necessary, veritable, regular, ingenerate, ingrained, congenital, fundamental, genuine, inherent, proper.
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KEY: Adulation.
SYN: Flattery, compliment, sycophancy, courtship, incense, praise, blandishment, fawning, cringing.
ANT: Detraction, obloquy, defamation, calumny, traducement, sarcasm, ridicule, satire, bespatterment.
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KEY: Adult.
SYN: Man, woman.
ANT: Youth, stripling, boy, child, infant.
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KEY: Adulterate.
SYN: Debase, corrupt, deteriorate, vitiate, contaminate.
ANT: Make pure, genuine, undeteriorate.
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KEY: Adulterated.
SYN: Impure, ingenuine, spurious, concocted, mixed, falsified, deteriorated, garbled, vitiated.
ANT: Pure, genuine, original, unmixed, unadulterated, undeteriorated, sound.
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KEY: Adumbration.
SYN: Shadow, foreshadowing, presage, prognostic, delineation, premonition, hint, sketch, prototype, suggestion.
ANT: Body, substance, fulfillment, realization, substantiation, antitype.
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KEY: Advance \v.\
SYN: Propel, elevate, promote, further, lend, propagate, progress, increase, prosper, rise.
ANT: Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw, recall, depress, degrade, suppress, oppose, retreat, decrease.
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KEY: Advancement, [See ADVANCE].
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KEY: Advantage.
SYN: Gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good, avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition.
ANT: Loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback.
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KEY: Advent.
SYN: Approach, arrival, accession, coming.
ANT: Departure, exit, exodus, retirement, relinquishment, quittance.
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KEY: Adventitious.
SYN: Extrinsic, redundant, superfluous, adscititious irregular, casual, imported.
ANT: Regular, proper, pertinent, essential, appropriate, necessary, Intrinsic.
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KEY: Adventure.
SYN: Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance.
ANT: Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course.
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KEY: Adventurous.
SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant, fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous.
ANT: Timid, unenterprising, inadventurous, cowardly, nervous, hesitating, cautious.
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KEY: Adversary.
SYN: Antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant.
ANT: Accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally, accomplice.
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KEY: Adverse.
SYN: Opposed to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite, conflicting, contrary, unfavorable.
ANT: Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky.
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KEY: Adversity.
SYN: Ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow.
ANT: Good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement.
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KEY: Advert to.
SYN: Refer to, allude to, notice, remark, glance at, regard, touch upon, hint at.
ANT: Ignore, pass, drop, omit, overlook.
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KEY: Advertent.
SYN: Attentive, regardful, mindful, watchful, thoughtful, observant, considerate.
ANT: Inattentive, inadvertent, casual, thoughtless, heedless, inobservant, inconsiderate.
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KEY: Advertise.
SYN: Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim, promulge.
ANT: Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misinform.
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KEY: Advice, [See ADVISE].
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KEY: Advise.
SYN: Admonish, warn, deliberate, counsel, persuade, urge, prompt, instigate, incite, instruct, acquaint, inform.
ANT: Dissuade, deter, expostulate, remonstrate, prohibit, inhibit, restrain.
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KEY: Advisable.
SYN: Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent, beneficial, profitable.
ANT: inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable, unprofitable.
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KEY: Advocate \n.\
SYN: Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer, defender, maintainer.
ANT: Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer.
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KEY: Advocate \v.\ [See NOUN.]
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KEY: Afar.
SYN: Abroad, away, aloof.
ANT: Near, at home, close.
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KEY: affable.
SYN: Courteous, accessible, condescending, conversible, gracious, sociable, gentle, complaisant, urbane, polite, easy, approachable.
ANT: Exclusive, discourteous, distant, inaccessible, unapproachable, inconversible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious.
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KEY: Affair.
SYN: Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction.
ANT: Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance.
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KEY: Affect.
SYN: Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern, interest, feign, pretend.
ANT: Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate.
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KEY: Affectation.
SYN: Pretence, artifice, hypocrisy, assumption, simulation, mannerism, euphuism, airs.
ANT: Genuineness, naturalness, un affectedness, simplicity, artlessness.
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KEY: affectibility.
SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility, excitability, irritability, nervousness.
ANT: Insensibility, insensateness, hebetude, unimpressibleness, callousness.
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KEY: Affection.
SYN: Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity.
ANT: Insensibility, indifference, repugnance, disaffection, repulsion.
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KEY: Affiance.
SYN: Homage, trust, confidence, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting.
ANT: Unfealty, disloyalty, treason, suspicion, Infidelity, falseness.
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KEY: Affiliate.
SYN: Annex, graft, incorporate, unite, adopt, inoculate.
ANT: Dismember, disannex, disaffiliate, sever, transplant, separate, disjoin, disunite.
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KEY: Affiliation, [See AFFILIATE].
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KEY: Affinity.
SYN: Relationship, relation, kindred, conformity, connection, alliance, similarity, analogy, homogeneity, harmony, correlativeness, sympathy, interdependence, interconnection, intercommunity.
ANT: Dissimilarity, discordance, disconnection, independence, antagonism, antipathy, repugnance, interrepulsiveness.
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KEY: Affirm.
SYN: Assert, swear, testify, tell, aver, propound, asseverate, depose, state, declare, endorse, maintain.
ANT: Deny, dispute, doubt, demur, negative, contradict, gainsay, oppugn, impugn, oppose.
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KEY: Affix.
SYN: Attach, annex, subjoin, adjoin, connect, fasten, unite, append.
ANT: Detach, disunite, separate, remove, disengage, unfasten.
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KEY: Affliction.
SYN: Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow.
ANT: Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more (or, positively:), boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure.
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KEY: Affluence.
SYN: Abundance, plenty, wealth, riches, opulence.
ANT: Want, scarcity, penury, indigence, poverty, impecuniosity, straitness, lack.
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KEY: Afflux.
SYN: Accession, importation, augmentation, increase, addition, influx.
ANT: Decrease, detriment, detraction, diminution, exhaustion, failure, ebb.
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KEY: Afford.
SYN: Produce, supply, give, yield, grant, confer, bestow, impart, administer, extend.
ANT: Withhold, deny, withdraw, retain, stint, grudge.
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KEY: Affranchise.
SYN: Free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, qualify, open.
ANT: Enthral, enslave, subjugate, disfranchise, disqualify, close.
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KEY: Affray.
SYN: Broil, tumult, brawl, melee, fracas, disturbance, uproar, quarrel, strife, wrangle, altercation.
ANT: Order, tranquillity, pacification, dispersion, quelling.
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KEY: Affright.
SYN: Startle, astonish, terrify, alarm, dismay, cow, frighten, scare.
ANT: Encourage, embolden, reassure.
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KEY: Affront.
SYN: Outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, Indignity.
ANT: Homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment.
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KEY: Afire.
SYN: Ablaze, alight, burning, ignited.
ANT: Out, extinguished, quenched.
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KEY: Afloat.
SYN: Adrift, abroad, at sea, abroach, loose, distracted, dazed.
ANT: Ashore, snug, tight, close, fast, collected, concentrated.
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KEY: Afoot.
SYN: Working, launched, afloat, agoing, inaugurated, started, instituted, established.
ANT: Uncommenced, Incomplete, projected, proposed, contemplated, designed.
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KEY: Afore.
SYN: Precedent, antecedent, foregoing, ahead, afront, before, beyond, sooner.
ANT: Behind, following, subsequently, after, astern, aback, rearwards.
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KEY: Aforesaid.
SYN: Above-mentioned, stated, forenamed, foregoing, preceding, forementioned.
ANT: Following, subjoined, aftercited, forthcoming.
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KEY: Afraid.
SYN: Fearful, apprehensive, timid, timorous, cowardly, fainthearted, cautious, careful, frightened, alarmed, terrified, suspicious, distrustful, anxious.
ANT: Fearless, inapprehensive, unsolicitous, easy, indifferent, secure, confident, bold, hopeful, eager, reckless, audacious, venturesome.
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KEY: Afresh.
SYN: Anew, again, frequently, repeatedly, intermittently.
ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, connectedly.
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KEY: Aft, [See ABAFT].
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KEY: After.
SYN: Behind, following, succeeding.
ANT: Afore, before, Introducing, preceding.
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KEY: Again.
SYN: Anew, afresh, repeatedly, frequently.
ANT: Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, once.
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KEY: Against.
SYN: Over, opposite, abutting, opposing, resisting, despite, across, athwart, counter.
ANT: With, for, accompanying, aiding, suiting, promoting.
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KEY: Agape.
SYN: Astare, agog, astonished, curious, inquisitive, entertained, amused, eager.
ANT: Incurious, listless, lukewarm, absent.
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KEY: Age.
SYN: Period, generation, era, epoch, date, century, antiquity, senility, eldership, seniority.
ANT: Youth, infancy, boyhood, childhood, moment, instant.
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KEY: Aged.
SYN: Old, ancient, antiquated, elderly, senile, patriarchal, primeval, time-honored, olden.
ANT: Juvenile, youthful, young, upstart, recent, fresh.
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KEY: Agency, [See AGENT].
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KEY: Agent.
SYN: Doer, performer, actor, force, means, instrument, influence, cause, promoter, operator.
ANT: Counteragent, counteractor, counteraction, opponent, neutralizer.
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KEY: Agglomerate.
SYN: Accumulate, conglomerate, lump, agglutinate, entangle, heap, confuse, amalgamate.
ANT: Scatter, dissipate, sift, separate, disentangle, disject, divide, disunite, part, unravel, detach, difference.
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KEY: Aggrandize.
SYN: Promote, dignify, exalt, ennoble, enrich, advance, augment, make great, magnify, elevate, signalize.
ANT: Depress, degrade, enfeeble, Impoverish, debase, humiliate, lower, abase, disgrace, dishonor.
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KEY: Aggravate.
SYN: Exasperate, provoke, wound, heighten, intensify, irritate, make worse, increase, enhance embitter, magnify.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, diminish, palliate, neutralize, soften, lessen, alleviate, attenuate, mitigate.
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KEY: Aggregate, Aggregation.
SYN: Sum, result, total, mass, whole, totality, collection, amount, collation, combination.
ANT: Dissipation, dispersion, separation, division, segregation, disunion, individual, unit, element, ingredient, item.
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KEY: Aggression.
SYN: Invasion, attack, offence, onslaught, encroachment, assault, provocation, incursion.
ANT: Resistance, retaliation, repulsion, withdrawal, retreat, evacuation, accession, acceptance, qualification.
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KEY: Aggrieve.
SYN: Wound, trouble, annoy, hurt, vex, disappoint, molest, maltreat, grieve, afflict, injure, wrong.
ANT: Soothe, conciliate, assuage, console, satisfy, compensate.
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KEY: Aghast.
SYN: Affrighted, astonished, astare, dumbfounded, bewildered, horror-struck.
ANT: Cool, fearless, unaffected, unmoved, indifferent, unexcited, unalarmed.
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KEY: Agile.
SYN: Nimble, active, fleet, brisk, alert, featly, lithe, prompt, ready, quick, supple, nimble, swift, sprightly.
ANT: Slow, heavy, awkward, inert, clumsy, bulky, ponderous, elephantine.
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KEY: Agitate.
SYN: Disturb, trouble, excite, ruffle, stir, fluster, oscillate, instigate, convulse, shake.
ANT: Calm, compose, allay, pacify, smooth, It is sometimes used of argumentative consideration, as, to agitate a question.
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KEY: {missing}
SYN: Start, moot, ventilate, propound.
ANT: Solve, settle, determine.
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KEY: Ago.
SYN: Past, gone, since.
ANT: Coming, future, hence, hereafter.
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KEY: Agog.
SYN: Abroad, abroach, astir, adrift, agoing.
ANT: Asleep, indifferent, incurious, somnolent, heedless, collected, cool.
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KEY: Agony.
SYN: Pain, torture, torment, distress, woe, throe, suffering, pang, excruciation.
ANT: Assuagement, comfort, peace, ease, relief, gratification, enjoyment, rapture, ecstasy, composure.
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KEY: Agree.
SYN: Suit, tally, accord, fit, harmonize, combine, assent, concur, acquiesce, admit, consent, conform, consort, comport, coincide.
ANT: Differ, disagree, revolt, protest, decline, refuse, dissent, demur.
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KEY: Agreeable.
SYN: Obliging, pleasant, accommodating, grateful, acceptable, welcome, suitable, consistent, consonant, amiable, gratifying, pleasing, good-natured, complaisant.
ANT: Disobliging, unpleasant, unaccommodating, disagreeable, obnoxious, ungrateful, unwelcome, unacceptable, offensive.
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KEY: Agreeably.
SYN: Suitably, conformably, consistently, accordingly, pleasantly, acceptably, gratefully.
ANT: Unsuitably, inconsistently, impertinently, inappropriately, inharmoniously, unbefittingly, unpleasantly.
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KEY: Agreement.
SYN: Contract, compact, bond, concord, concurrence, conformity, harmony, unison, consonance, bargain, covenant, obligation, undertaking, treaty.
ANT: (As without legal force or bond). Understanding, promise, parole.
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KEY: Agriculture.
SYN: Cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage.
ANT: Sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture.
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KEY: Aground.
SYN: Strained, ashore.
ANT: Afloat, off.
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KEY: Ahead.
SYN: Forward, afore, afront, onwards.
ANT: abaft, astern, behind, aback, aft.
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KEY: Aid.
SYN: Help, assist, succour, support, befriend, co-operate, contribute favor, foster, protect, abet, encourage, instigate, subsidize.
ANT: Oppose, resist, counteract, discourage, thwart, withstand, confront, deter, baffle.
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KEY: Ailment.
SYN: Complaint, sickness, illness, disease.
ANT: Recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor, salubriousness.
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KEY: Aim \n.\
SYN: Tendency, intent, aspiration, bent, drift, object, scope, goal, purpose, mark, end, design, intention.
ANT: Shunning, disregarding, disaffecting, overlooking, avoiding.
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KEY: Aim \v.\
SYN: Seek, level, propose, design, affect, intend, mean, purpose.
ANT: Shun, disregard, disaffect, ignore, overlook, avoid.
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KEY: Airy.
SYN: Light, ethereal, spiritual, joyous, sprightly, lively, animated, frolicsome, fairy-like.