Исторический словарь английских синонимов и антонимов. Том II. J – Z
Виктор Никитин
Исторический словарь английских синонимов и антонимов. Том II. J – Z
VOLUME II
J – Z
KEY: Jabber.
SYN: Prate, mumble, [See GABBLE].
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KEY: Jade.
SYN: Fatigue, tire, weary, oppress, wear, harass, exhaust, worry.
ANT: Refresh, recruit, bait, invigorate, inspirit.
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KEY: Jangle \n.\
SYN: Jargon, babel, [See {[contemion ]?}], wrangle, bickering, squabble, quarrel.
ANT: Argument, debate, discourse.
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KEY: Jangle \v.\
SYN: Bicker, wrangle, squabble, quarrel, dispute, nag, jar.
ANT: Agree, {[hunuouize]?}, accord, concur.
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KEY: Jaunty, [(or jauty)].
SYN: Flighty, airy, fantastic, showy, flaunting.
ANT: Staid, sober, sedate, demure, dignified.
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KEY: Jar.
SYN: Interfere, clash, quarrel, [See TANGLE].
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KEY: Jargon.
SYN: Gibberish, jangle, slang, cant, lingo, patois, confused talk.
ANT: Speech, conversation, literature, discourse, oration, eloquence.
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KEY: Jaundiced.
SYN: Biased, prejudiced, warped, prepossessed.
ANT: Unbiased, unprejudiced, unjaundiced.
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KEY: Jealous.
SYN: Envious, self-anxious, covetous, invidious, suspicious.
ANT: Unenvious, liberal, genial, self-denying, indifferent, unjealous.
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KEY: Jealousy.
SYN: Suspicion, envy, rivalry, solicitude.
ANT: Certainty, magnanimity, friendliness, generousness, without solicitude.
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KEY: Jeer.
SYN: Sneer, taunt, scoff, deride, scout, flout, mock, rally, banter.
ANT: Flatter, annulate, fawn, cringe, compliment, eulogize.
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KEY: Jejune.
SYN: Bare, scant, poor, thin, weak, barren, sterile, poverty-struck, bald.
ANT: Rich, exuberant, racy, abundant, interesting, overwrought, redundant.
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KEY: Jeopardy.
SYN: Danger, peril, hazard, risk.
ANT: Safety, security, provision, insurance.
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KEY: Jest.
SYN: Joke, raillery, fun, sport, quip, witticism.
ANT: Earnest, seriousness, gravity.
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KEY: Jilt.
SYN: Flirt, coquette.
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KEY: Jingle.
SYN: Rhyme, chime, tinkle, tingle.
ANT: Euphony, consonance, melody, harmony.
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KEY: Jocose.
SYN: Humorous, funny, jocular, waggish, jolly, merry, facetious.
ANT: Melancholy, serious, earnest, grave, lugubrious, lackadaisical.
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KEY: Jocular, [See JOCOSE].
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KEY: Jocund.
SYN: Merry, joyous, jovial, gay, gleeful, blithesome, careless, mirthful, hilarious, sprightly, sportive, joyful, lively, vivacious.
ANT: Melancholy, dull, grave, mournful, sorrowful, darksome, cheerless, woful, rueful, doleful, careworn.
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KEY: Join.
SYN: Unite, adhere, adjoin, add, couple, connect, associate, annex, append, combine, link, accompany, confederate.
ANT: Separate, disjoin, subtract, disconnect.
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KEY: Joint.
SYN: Articulation, junction, flexure, elbow, knee.
ANT: Solution, disconnection, disjunction, uniformity, continuity.
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KEY: Joke, [See JEST].
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KEY: Jollification.
SYN: Revelry, festivity, conviviality, fun, carnival, merrymaking.
ANT: Weariness, tediousness, soberness, tedium, monotony.
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KEY: Jolly.
SYN: Gay, joyful, gladsome, mirthful, genial, jovial, jubilant, robust, lively, plump, merry.
ANT: Sad, mournful, joyless, cheerless, unmirthful, lugubrious, morose, gloomy, lean.
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KEY: Jollity, [See JOVIALITY].
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KEY: Jostle.
SYN: Hustle, push, thrust, jog, jolt, incommode.
ANT: Clear, lead, extricate, convoy, escort, precede, pilot, attend.
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KEY: Jot.
SYN: Tittle, cipher, trifle, rush, fig, particle, atom, thought, idea, bit, scrap, morsel, fraction, iota, whit.
ANT: Deal, power, world, mass, light, load, ocean.
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KEY: Journey.
SYN: Travel, excursion, tour, voyage, trip.
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KEY: Jovial.
SYN: Jolly, genial, convivial.
ANT: Ungenial, melancholy, unconvivial, saturnine, lugubrious, gloomy.
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KEY: Joviality.
SYN: Merriment, jollity, mirth, hilarity.
ANT: Sadness, seriousness, soberness.
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KEY: Joy.
SYN: Gladness, pleasure, delight, happiness, exultation, transport, felicity, ecstasy, rapture, bites, gaiety, mirth, merriment, festivity, hilarity.
ANT: Sorrow, pain, trouble, misery, melancholy, grief, affliction, tears, depression, despondency, despair.
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KEY: Joyful.
SYN: Happy, joyous, gladsome, blissful, [See JOCUND].
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KEY: Jubilant.
SYN: Joyous, triumphant, festive, congratulatory, exultant.
ANT: Doleful, mournful, sorrowful, wailing, penitent, penitential, lugubrious, remorseful.
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KEY: Jubilee.
SYN: Holiday, feast, rejoicing, merriment, festivity, revel, paean, carnival, high-day.
ANT: Fast, humiliation, mourning, penitence, lent.
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KEY: Judge.
SYN: Justice, magistrate, arbitrator, umpire, referee, critic, connoisseur, authority, arbiter.
ANT: Criminal, ignoramus, novice, tyro.
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KEY: Judgment.
SYN: Decision, determination, adjudication, sagacity, penetration, judiciousness, sense, intellect, belief, estimation, opinion, verdict, sentence, discernment, discrimination, intelligence, prudence, award, condemnation.
ANT: Argument, consideration, inquiry, speculation, proposition, investigation, pleading, insagacity, injudiciousness, evidence, pronunciation.
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KEY: Judicial.
SYN: Juridical, forensic.
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KEY: Judicious.
SYN: Wise, sagacious, expedient, sensible, prudent, discreet, well-judged, well-advised, polite, discerning, thoughtful.
ANT: Foolish, unwise, silly, imprudent, indiscreet, ill-judged, ill-advised, impolitic, inexpedient, rash, blind, injurious.
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KEY: Juggle.
SYN: Conjure, cheat, bamboozle, shuffle, trick, beguile, circumvent, swindle, overreach, mystify, mislead.
ANT: Expose, correct, enlighten, guide, lead, undeceive, disillusionize, detect.
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KEY: Jugglery.
SYN: Trickery, imposture, cheating, [See DECEIT].
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KEY: Jumble, [See ABRIDGMENT].
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KEY: Jump.
SYN: Leap, bound, spring, skip, bounce.
ANT: Walk.
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KEY: Junction.
SYN: Joining, connection, union, combination, coalition, attachment, fastening, annexation, alliance, confederacy.
ANT: Separation, disconnection, disunion, division, segregation, dispersion, loosening, unfastening, uniformity, continuity.
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KEY: Juncture, [See CONJUNCTURE].
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KEY: Jungle.
SYN: Thicket, brake, involution, ravelling, entanglement, labyrinth, wilderness.
ANT: Open place, order, arrangement, array, system.
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KEY: Junior.
SYN: Younger.
ANT: Senior, elder.
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KEY: Jurisdiction.
SYN: Administration, cognizance, government, control, sway, power, legalization, magistracy, liability.
ANT: Freedom, independence, Immunity, exemption.
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KEY: Just.
SYN: Exact, fitting, true, fair, proportioned, harmonious, honest, reasonable, sound, honorable, normal, impartial, equitable, upright, regular, orderly, lawful, right, righteous, proper.
ANT: Inexact, misfitted, disproportioned, illproportioned, untrue, inharmonious, unfair, unreasonable, unsound, dishonorable, partial, unequitable, unjust, irregular, abnormal, disorderly.
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KEY: justice.
SYN: {[Efluity]?}, impartiality, fairness, right, reasonableness, propriety, uprightness, desert, integrity.
ANT: Injustice, wrong, partiality, unfairness, unreasonableness, unlawfulness, inadequateness.
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KEY: Justification.
SYN: Vindication, apology, defence, advocacy, maintenance, plea, exoneration, exculpation.
ANT: Condemnation, censure, conviction, protest, abandonment, inculpation, recrimination, implication, aggravation.
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KEY: Justify.
SYN: Clear, vindicate, exonerate, defend, absolve, excuse.
ANT: Condemn, censure, convict, criminate.
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KEY: Justness.
SYN: Exactness, correctness, propriety, [See ACCURACY].
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KEY: Justle, [See JOSTLE].
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KEY: Juvenile.
SYN: Youthful, young, infantine, boyish, girlish, early, immature, adolescent, pubescent, childish, puerile,.
ANT: Mature, later, manly, womanly, elderly, aged, senile, anile, superannuated, adult.
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KEY: Juxtaposition.
SYN: Proximity, contiguity, contact, [See CONTACT].
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KEY: Keen.
SYN: Eager, vehement, sharp, piercing, penetrating, acute, cutting, biting, severe, sarcastic, satirical, ardent, prompt, shrewd.
ANT: Indifferent, languid, blunt, dull, blind.
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KEY: Keep.
SYN: Hold, restrain, retain, detain, guard, preserve, suppress, repress, conceal, tend, support, maintain, conduct, continue, obey, haunt, observe, frequent, celebrate, protect, adhere to, practise, binder, sustain.
ANT: Release, acquit, liberate, send, dismiss, {[betrnj^]?}, neglect, divulge, discard, abandon, intermit, disobey, disregard, transgress, forsake, desert, {[oblivate]?}.
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KEY: Keeper, [See KEEP].
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KEY: Keeping.
SYN: Care, guardianship, maintenance, custody, [See CARE].
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KEY: Keepsake.
SYN: Souvenir, remembrancer, a gift of affection.
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KEY: Ken.
SYN: View, survey, knowledge, cognizance.
ANT: Oversight, ignorance, incognizance, inobservance, inexperience, discredulity.
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KEY: Kernel, [See CORK].
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KEY: Key.
SYN: Clew, guide, explanation, solution, [See EXPLANATION].
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KEY: Kick.
SYN: {[Oaloitrate]?}, rebel, resist, spurn.
ANT: Caress, soothe, flatter, obey, yield.
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KEY: Kill.
SYN: Slay, murder, assassinate, destroy, slaughter, butcher, immolate, massacre, deaden, put to death, despatch.
ANT: Resuscitate, revivify, vivify, reanimate.
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KEY: Kin.
SYN: Race, kindred, offspring, kind, family, sort, ilk, genus, kidney, class, relationship, consanguinity, kinsfolk, blood.
ANT: Foreignership, strangership, disconnection, inaffinity, irrelation.
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KEY: Kind \n.\
SYN: Style, character, {[laeriptkm]?}, designation, denomination, genus, species, sort, class, nature, set, breed.
ANT: [See KIN], [See DISSIMILARITY].
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KEY: Kind \a.\
SYN: Benevolent, benign, tender, indulgent, humane, clement, lenient, compassionate, gentle, good, gracious, forbearing, kind-hearted.
ANT: Unkind, harsh, severe, cruel, hard, illiberal.
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KEY: Kindle.
SYN: Light, ignite, excite, inflame.
ANT: Extinguish, suppress, quench, allay, Kindness, [See KIND].
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KEY: Kindred \n.\ [See KIN].
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KEY: Kindred \a.\
SYN: Congenial, allied, cogitate, akin, related.
ANT: Uncongenial, unallied, unrelated.
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KEY: Kingdom.
SYN: Empire, realm, dominion, sovereignty, monarchy.
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KEY: Kingly.
SYN: Royal, regal, imperial, magnificent, noble.
ANT: [See MAGNIFICENT].
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KEY: Knave.
SYN: Hogue, cheat, rascal, villain, miscreant, scoundrel.
ANT: True-penny, gentleman, innocent, dupe, simpleton, gull, oaf.
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KEY: Knavery, [See KNAVE].
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KEY: Knavish.
SYN: Fraudulent, villainous, dishonest, [See HONEST].
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KEY: Knit, [See JOIN and INTERLACE].
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KEY: Knot.
SYN: Tie, bond, intricacy, difficulty, perplexity, cluster, collection, band, group, protuberance, joint.
ANT: Loosening, unfastening, dissolution, solution, explication, unravelling, dispersion, multitude, crowd, indentation, evenness, smoothness, cavity.
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KEY: Knotty.
SYN: Tough, bard, difficult, complicated.
ANT: Plain, simple, easy, obvious.
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KEY: Know.
SYN: Perceive, understand, comprehend, recognize, apprehend, distinguish, [See PERCEIVE].
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KEY: Knowing.
SYN: Shrewd, {[-instate]?}, discerning, sharp, acute, sagacious, penetrating, proficient, skillful, intelligent, experienced, well-informed, accomplished.
ANT: Simple, dull, innocent, gullible, undiscerning, stolid, {[siuy]?}.
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KEY: Knowledge.
SYN: Apprehension, comprehension, recognition, understanding, conversance, experience, acquaintance, familiarity, cognizance, notice, information, instruction, [See {le*i–'-ing]?} ]?}], enlightenment, scholarship, attainments, acquirements.
ANT: Misapprehension, inobservance, incomprehension, misunderstanding, misconception, inconversance, inexperience, ignorance, unfamiliarity, incognizance, misinformation, deception, misinstruction, uneducatedness, untutoredness, rudeness, illiterateness.
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KEY: Labor.
SYN: Work, toil, burn, drudgery, exertion, effort, industry, task, duties.
ANT: Indolence, ease, inactivity, facility, skill, recreation, rest, refreshment.
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KEY: Labored.
SYN: Elaborate, studied, carefully wrought.
ANT: Not elaborate, unstudied, easy, off hard.
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KEY: Laborer.
SYN: Workman, workingman, employe, operative, breadwinner, hand.
ANT: Employer.
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KEY: Laborious.
SYN: Assiduous, diligent, painstaking, indefatigable, arduous, burdensome, toilsome, wearisome, industrious, hard-working, active, difficult, tedious.
ANT: Idle, indiligent, lazy, indolent, easy, facile, light, feasible, simple.
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KEY: Labyrinth.
SYN: Maze, complexity, bewilderment, involution, perplexity, inexplicable, difficulty.
ANT: Clue, explication, elimination, enucleation.
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KEY: Lace, [See BIND].
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KEY: Lacerate, [See TEAR].
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KEY: Lack \n.\
SYN: Failure, scarcity, deficiency, want, need, demand, insufficiency.
ANT: Fulness, abundance, sufficiency, satisfaction, supply, competence.
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KEY: Lack \v.\
SYN: Want, require, need, be destitute of.
ANT: Supply, have abundance of.
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KEY: Laconic.
SYN: Terse, curt, epigrammatic.
ANT: Prolix, wordy, tedious, prosy, garrulous, circumlocutory, loquacious.
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KEY: Lade, [See LOAD].
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KEY: Laden, [See LOAD].
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KEY: Lading, [See LOAD].
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KEY: Lag.
SYN: Loiter, linger, saunter, dally, tarry, Idle.
ANT: Press, hasten, speedup, hurry, stir.
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KEY: Laggard.
SYN: Loiterer, saunterer, dawdler, slow goer, sluggard.
ANT: One moving quickly.
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KEY: laical.
SYN: Secular, non-libel, civil, temporal.
ANT: Clerical, legal, ministerial, ecclesiastical, sacerdotal, priestly, canonical, spiritual, Lull.
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KEY: Laity, [See CLERGYMAN].
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KEY: Lame.
SYN: Weak, faltering, hobbling, hesitating, ineffective, impotent, crippled, halt, defective, imperfect.
ANT: Robust, agile, potent, efficient, satisfactory, cogent, convincing, tolling, effective.
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KEY: Lament.
SYN: Deplore, mourn, bewail, regret, grieve for, bemoan, wail for.
ANT: Welcome, hall.
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KEY: Land.
SYN: Plant, place, fix.
ANT: Extricate, {[rt-iiiovu]?}, disestablish, upset.
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KEY: Language.
SYN: Speech, talk, conversation, dialect, discourse, tongue, diction, phraseology, articulation, accents, vernacular, expression.
ANT: Jargon, jabber, gibberish, babel, gabble, cry, whine, bark, howl, roar, &c, obmutescence, dumbness, muteness, inarticulateness, speechless ness.
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KEY: Languid.
SYN: Faint, weary, feeble, unnerved, unbraced, pining, drooping, enervated, exhausted, flagging, spiritless.
ANT: Strong, healthy, robust, rigorous, active, braced.
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KEY: Languish.
SYN: Pine, droop, sink, faint, wither, sigh, decline.
ANT: Flourish, luxuriate, bloom, prosper, thrive.
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KEY: Languor.
SYN: Lassitude, weariness, weakness.
ANT: Strength, vigor, freshness, energy, lithesomeness.
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KEY: Lank.
SYN: Lean, loose, slender, slim, long, lax, rawboned.
ANT: Plump, short, full, rounded, crisp, curled.
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KEY: Lapse.
SYN: Gliding, falling, flow, onflow, flux, progress, escheatment, devolution, reversion, elapsing.
ANT: Stability, uprightness, stationariness, fixture, arrestation, stoppage, retention, inheritance, possession.
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KEY: Large.
SYN: Big, bulky, extensive, abundant, capacious, ample, liberal, comprehensive, enlightened, catholic, great, vast, wide.
ANT: Small, mean, narrow, circumscribed, contracted, scanty, illiberal, niggardly, bigoted, petty, sordid.
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KEY: Lascivious.
SYN: Lustful, libidinous, lewd, lecherous, wanton.
ANT: Pure, chaste, continent.
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KEY: Lash.
SYN: Censure, castigate, satirize, beat, tie, fasten, bind, flog, strike, whip, scourge.
ANT: Extol, compliment, eulogize.
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KEY: Lassitude, [See LANGUOR].
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KEY: Last \v.\
SYN: Continue, remain, hold, endure, abide, live.
ANT: Cease, fail, fade, fly, wane, depart, disappear, terminate.
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KEY: Last \a.\
SYN: Latest, ending, final, concluding, hindmost, past, extreme, lowe? t, remotest, ultimate.
ANT: First, introductory, initiatory, opening, foremost, ensuing, highest, minor, next, nearest.
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KEY: Lasting.
SYN: Enduring, abiding, permanent, perpetual, durable, [See PERPETUAL].
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KEY: Late.
SYN: Slow, tardy, delayed, advanced, deceased, past, recent.
ANT: Early, present, existing, forthcoming, coming, future.
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KEY: Lately.
SYN: Recently, of late.
ANT: Formerly, remotely.
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KEY: Latent.
SYN: Invisible, inapparent, unobserved, hidden, concealed, undeveloped, implicit, potential, inherent, secret, occult.
ANT: Visible, apparent, manifest, conspicuous, exposed, unconcealed, attentive, developed, explicit.
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KEY: Lateral.
SYN: Indirect, oblique, secondary, resultant, collateral, deviative, additive, parallel, adjunctive, incidental.
ANT: Lineal, direct, primary, immediate.
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KEY: Latter, [See LAST], Laud, [See PRAISE].
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KEY: Laudable, [See PRAISEWORTHY].
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KEY: Laudation, [See PANEGYRIC].
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KEY: Laughable, [See RIDICULOUS].
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KEY: Laugh at.
SYN: Mock at, ridicule, deride, [See MOCK].
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KEY: Laughter.
SYN: Merriment, glee, derision, ridicule, cachinnation, contempt.
ANT: Weeping, tears, mourning, sorrow, admiration, veneration, respect, whimper, whine.
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KEY: Launch.
SYN: Propel, hurl, embark, expatiate, enlarge.
ANT: Repress, recall, ignore, avoid.
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KEY: Lave, [See WASH].
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KEY: Lavish.
SYN: Profuse, unsparing, extravagant, bountiful, wasteful, prodigal.
ANT: Chary, sparing, niggardly, economical, dainty, close, retentive.
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KEY: Lavish \v.\
SYN: Pour, heap, squander, waste.
ANT: Husband, store, keep, retain, accumulate, hoard, treasure, spare.
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KEY: Law.
SYN: Rule, edict, regulation, decree, command, order, statute, enactment, mode, method, sequence, principle, code, legislation, adjudication, jurisdiction, jurisprudence.
ANT: Misrule, disorder, anarchy, rebellion, insubordination, hazard, chance, irregularity, caprice, casualty, accident.
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KEY: Lawful.
SYN: Legal, permissible, orderly, right, allowable, fair, constitutional, rightful, legitimate.
ANT: Illegal, impermissible, unlawful, wrong, lawless, unfair.
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KEY: Lawless.
SYN: Wild, rebellious, disorderly, savage, marauding, violent.
ANT: Peaceful, loyal, orderly, civilized, honest, tractable, well-disposed.
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KEY: Lawyer.
SYN: Counsellor, attorney, counsel, advocate.
ANT: Client.
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KEY: Lax.
SYN: Loose, vague, incoherent, dissolute, licentious, unprincipled, remiss, flabby, slack.
ANT: Concise, coherent, compact, strict, rigid, severe, principled, conscientious, attentive.
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KEY: Lay.
SYN: Place, establish, deposit, allay, prostrate, arrange, dispose, put, spread, set down.
ANT: Erect, raise, lift, excite, disarrange, disorder, scrape, abrade.
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KEY: Layman, [See CLERGYMAN].
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KEY: Lazy, [See LABORIOUS].
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KEY: Lead \v.\
SYN: Conduct, guide, precede, induce, spend, pass, commence, inaugurate, convoy, persuade, direct, influence.
ANT: Misconduct, mislead, follow, dissuade, abandon, leave, misguide.
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KEY: Lead \n.\
SYN: Priority, pre-eminence, initiative, guidance, control.
ANT: Subordination, inferiority, submission.
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KEY: Leader.
SYN: Chief, director, guide, pioneer, head.
ANT: Follower.
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KEY: Leading, [See LEAD].
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KEY: League.
SYN: Bond, combination, alliance, compact, confederacy, union, coalition, confederation.
ANT: Dissolution, disconnection, neutrality, secession, disunion, disruption, alienation, divorce.
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KEY: Leak, [See OOZE].
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KEY: Lean \v.\
SYN: Incline, rest, support, tend, bend, depend, hang, repose, confide, slope.
ANT: Stabilitate, erect, re-erect, raise, rise, straighten.
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KEY: Lean \a.\
SYN: Meagre, lank, tabid, emaciated, shrivelled, bony, thin, scraggy, skinny, slender, scanty.
ANT: Fat, brawny, plump, well-conditioned.
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KEY: Leaning.
SYN: Tendency, inclination, proclivity, propensity, partiality, bias, liking.
ANT: Avoidance, aversion, repugnance, loathing.
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KEY: Leap.
SYN: Jump, bound, bounce, spring, vault, hop.
ANT: Plunge, dip, dive, duck, walk.
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KEY: Learn.
SYN: Acquire, attain, imbibe, collect, glean, understand, gather.
ANT: Lose, forget, teach, instruct.
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KEY: Learned.
SYN: Conversant, erudite, read, skilled, scholarly, literary, knowing, well-informed, versed.
ANT: Inconversant, illiterate, ignorant, unlearned, unscholarly.
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KEY: Learner.
SYN: Tyro, novice, pupil, student, beginner, scholar, disciple, catechumen.
ANT: Teacher, master, professor, adept, authority.
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KEY: Learning.
SYN: Knowledge, erudition, literature, lore, letters, acquirements, attainments, scholarship, education, tuition, culture.
ANT: Ignorance, boorishness, it, literiteness, emptiness, sciolism, intuition, revelation, inspiration.
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KEY: Least.
SYN: Smallest, lowest, meanest, last.
ANT: Greatest, highest, first, {[nuiin]?}, principal.
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KEY: Leave \v.\ [See ABANDON and BEQUEATH].
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KEY: Leave \n.\
SYN: Liberty, permission, license, concession.
ANT: Restriction, prohibition, prevention, inhibition, refusal.
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KEY: Legal.
SYN: Legitimate, lawful, allowable, juridical, constitutional.
ANT: Illegal, illegitimate, unlawful, unallowable, lay, unconstitutional.
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KEY: Legend.
SYN: Myth, fable, marvellous story, fiction.
ANT: History, fact, actual occurrence.
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KEY: Legible.
SYN: Plain, decipherable, well-written, calligraphic.
ANT: Obscure, undecipherable, illwritten, illegible, cabalistic, cryptographic.
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KEY: Legitimate.
SYN: Allowable, normal, fair, licit, real, genuine, fairly deduced, lawfully begotten.
ANT: Illegitimate, unallowable, unfair, illicit.
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KEY: Leisure.
SYN: Freedom, vacation, opportunity, convenience, ease, quiet, retirement, spare time, unoccupied time.
ANT: Constraint, employment, occupation, distraction, labor, bustle, toil, business, absorption, engagement.
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KEY: Leisurely.
SYN: Easy, deliberate, sauntering.
ANT: Eager, hurried, precipitate, rapid, expeditious.
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KEY: Lend.
SYN: Advance, loan, grant, afford, present.
ANT: Resume, retract, appropriate, retain, withhold, refuse.
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KEY: Lengthen.
SYN: Elongate, stretch out, prolong, [See EXTEND].
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KEY: Lengthy.
SYN: Diffuse, prolix, tedious, long-drawn, verbose.
ANT: Concise, compendious, curt, short, brief, laconic, compact, condensed, succinct.
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KEY: Lenient, [See MILD and KIND].
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KEY: Lenitive.
SYN: Palliative, initiative, soothing.
ANT: Inflammatory, exaggerative, provocative, aggravating, Irritant, exasperating.