ANT: Broaden, increase, expand, dilate, swell, enlarge, develop,
amplify.
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KEY: Attest.
SYN: Vouch, aver, assert, certify, witness, vouch for, affirm,
testify, evidence, support, confirm, suggest, prove, involve,
demonstrate, establish, imply, bespeak.
ANT: Deny, controvert, contradict, contravene, disprove,
disestablish, exclude, neutralize, upset, oppugn, refute.
=
KEY: Attestation, [See EVIDENCE].
=
KEY: Attire.
SYN: Robes, garments, clothing, vestments, habiliment, habit,
raiment, clothes, garb, apparel, accoutrement, livery, uniform,
costume.
ANT: Nudity, divestment, exposure, denudation, bareness, disarray,
dishabille, tatters, rags, patches, shreds.
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KEY: Attitude.
SYN: Posture, position, situation, standing, composition,
collocation, aspect, pose, lie.
ANT: Evolution, exercise, bearing, deportment, movement,
gesticulation, manoeuvre, gesture.
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KEY: Attract.
SYN: Influence, induce, dispose, incline, tempt, prompt, allure,
charm, fascinate, invite, entice.
ANT: Repel, deter, indispose, disincline, estrange, alienate.
=
KEY: Attraction.
SYN: Inducement, influence, adduction, inclination, disposition,
charm, beauty, allurement.
ANT: Repulsion, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, deformity,
repugnance.
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KEY: Attractive.
SYN: Winning, alluring, tempting, inviting, engaging, captivating,
fascinating, enticing, interesting, charming, pleasant, beautiful,
agreeable.
ANT: Unattractive, repugnant, repulsive, uninteresting,
disagreeable, unpleasant, deformed, ugly, deterrent, loathsome,
forbidding.
=
KEY: Attribute \v.\
SYN: Refer, assign, associate, apply, ascribe, charge, impute,
connect.
ANT: Divorce, disconnect, dissociate, dissever.
=
KEY: Attribute \n.\
SYN: Property, quality, characteristic, attainment, sign, mark,
indication, manifestation.
ANT: correlative, viz, Essence, nature, substance, etc, or,
spuriously, affectation, misnomer, semblance, assumption, mask,
veil.
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KEY: Attrition.
SYN: Sorrow, repentance, affliction, penitence, compunction, remorse,
self-reproach.
ANT: Impenitence, callousness, obduracy, reprobation,
relentlessness.
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KEY: Attune.
SYN: Temper, attemper, harmonize, adjust, accommodate.
ANT: Unstring, disharmonize, disarrange, discompose, dislocate,
disturb, disconcert.
=
KEY: Audacious.
SYN: Insolent, adventurous, venturesome, presumptuous, valiant, rash,
bold, daring, reckless, enterprising.
ANT: Timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome,
unenterprising.
=
KEY: Audacity.
SYN: Boldness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, hardihood.
ANT: Caution, self-preservation, timidity, calculation, forethought,
foresight, diffidence, inadventurousness.
=
KEY: Audience.
SYN: Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception,
interview.
ANT: Soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe.
=
KEY: Augment, [See ENLARGE].
=
KEY: Augmentation.
SYN: Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply,
enhancement, addition, acquisition, improvement.
ANT: Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal,
reservation, expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration,
impoverishment, reduction, curtailment.
=
KEY: Augury.
SYN: Prophecy, prediction, divination, conjecture, omen,
prognostication.
ANT: Experience, science, observation.
=
KEY: August \a.\
SYN: Majestic, dignified, stately, noble, pompous, imposing, grand,
solemn, exalted.
ANT: Mean, undignified, unimposing, common, vulgar, despicable,
paltry, unnoticeable, beggarly, commonplace.
=
KEY: auspicious.
SYN: Propitious, lucky, favorable, encouraging, satisfactory,
successful, hopeful, promising, happy, golden, fortunate, opportune,
prosperous.
ANT: Unpropitious, unfavorable, discouraging, unsatisfactory,
inauspicious, unpromising, abortive, hopeless.
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KEY: Austere.
SYN: Hard, rigid, stern, severe, morose, unrelenting, unyielding,
strict, rigorous, harsh, sour, relentless.
ANT: Mild, affable, kindly, tender, feeling, bland, indulgent,
genial.
=
KEY: Authentic.
SYN: Genuine, veritable, reliable, real, original, trustworthy, not
spurious, true, legitimate, certain, accepted, current, received.
ANT: Unreliable, spurious, false, apocryphal, disputed, exploded,
rejected, counterfeit, unfounded, unauthorized, baseless, fabulous,
fictitious.
=
KEY: Authenticate.
SYN: Confirm, settle, establish, verify, substantiate, identify.
ANT: Contravene, disprove, disestablish, refute, upset.
=
KEY: Author.
SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause,
constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer,
perpetrator, doer.
ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser.
=
KEY: Authoritative.
SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent,
dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic,
commanding.
ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite,
vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient,
persuasive.
=
KEY: Authority.
SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness,
conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction,
jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway,
sufferance, supremacy, dominion.
ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness,
inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong.
=
KEY: Authorize, [See EMPOWER].
=
KEY: Autocracy, [See AUTOCRATIC].
=
KEY: Autocratic.
SYN: Independent, arbitrary, despotic, irresponsible, absolute.
ANT: Dependent, subordinate, re sponsible, constitutional, limited.
=
KEY: Auxiliary.
SYN: Helpful, abetting, aiding, accessory, promotive, conducive,
assistant, ancillary, assisting, subsidiary, helping.
ANT: Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous,
obstructive, retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome.
=
KEY: Avail \v.\
SYN: Suffice, hold, stand, endure, answer, tell, profit, help,
benefit, advantage, service, use, utility.
ANT: Fail, fall, disappoint, betray.
=
KEY: Avail.
SYN: Profit, help, benefit, advantage, use, utility, service.
ANT: Disadvantage, hindrance, helplessness.
=
KEY: Available.
SYN: Useful, appropriable, convertible, attainable, handy, conducive,
applicable, procurable, advantage, helpful, profitable, suitable,
serviceable.
ANT: Useless, inappropriate, inapplicable, unprocurable,
inconducive, irrelevant, Inoperative, unavailable.
=
KEY: Avarice.
SYN: Greed, cupidity, rapacity, penuriousness, niggardliness,
miserliness, stinginess, covetousness, acquisitiveness, griping,
greediness.
ANT: Large-heartedness, unselfishness, liberality, bountifulness,
profuseness, squander, prodigality, extravagance, waste.
=
KEY: Avaricious, [See LIBERAL].
=
KEY: Avenge.
SYN: Vindicate, right, visit, retaliate.
ANT: Waive, don, forego, condone, remit, forgive, overlook.
=
KEY: Avenue.
SYN: Approach, adit, access, entrance.
ANT: Exit, egress.
=
KEY: Aver.
SYN: Assert, asseverate, affirm, depose, avouch, protest, oblige,
declare.
ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, disavow, disclaim, repudiate,
gainsay, oppugn.
=
KEY: Average.
SYN: Mean, medium, middle, mediocre.
ANT: Extreme, excess, defect, perfectness, perfection.
=
KEY: Averse.
SYN: Hostile, disinclined, indisposed, repugnant, backward,
unwilling, reluctant, loath.
ANT: Ready, disposed, eager, prone, inclined, desirous.
=
KEY: Aversion.
SYN: Hatred, dislike, distaste, repugnance, uncongeniality,
abhorrence, antipathy.
ANT: Love, desire, affection, liking, congeniality, sympathy, ardor,
eagerness, avidity.
=
KEY: Avidity.
SYN: Cupidity, avarice, desire, greed, longing, rapacity, eagerness.
ANT: Coldness, indifference, apathy, insensibility, antipathy,
nausea, aversion, repugnance, loathing.
=
KEY: Avocation.
SYN: Profession, calling, lot, employment, vocation, occupation,
business, pursuit, line.
ANT: Holiday, leisure, idleness, self-abandonment, misemployment.
=
KEY: Avoid.
SYN: Quit, shun, abandon, desert, forsake, relinquish, fly, eschew,
elude, dodge, escape, shirk.
ANT: Seek, court, approach, accost, address, affect.
=
KEY: Avouch.
SYN: Aver, protest, declare, propound, asseverate, profess.
ANT: Deny, contradict, oppose, oppugn, contravene, controvert,
gainsay.
=
KEY: Avow, [See AVOUCH].
=
KEY: Awaken, [See BOUSE].
=
KEY: Award.
SYN: Assign, apportion, attribute, accord, grant, distribute, divide,
allot, give, determine, decree, order, adjudge.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, withdraw, retain, misappropriate,
misapportion.
=
KEY: Aware.
SYN: Conscious, sensible, informed, certified, assured, known,
apprised, cognizant.
ANT: Unconscious, insensible, ignorant, unaware, uninformed.
=
KEY: Away.
SYN: Far, afar, separate, detached, loose, abroad.
ANT: Close, near.
=
KEY: Awe.
SYN: Fear, dread, veneration, reverence.
ANT: Fearlessness, contempt, disrespect, familiarity, irreverence.
=
KEY: Awful.
SYN: Fearful, direful, appalling, terrible, alarming, dreadful,
horrible, solemn, portentous, horrific.
ANT: Inocuous, informidable, unimposing, unastonishing, commonplace,
unnoticeable, unalarming, alluring.
=
KEY: Awhile.
SYN: Briefly, little.
ANT: Ever, always, forever, ever, more.
=
KEY: Awkward.
SYN: Ungainly, clownish, clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, uncouth, rough,
boorish, bungling, gawky.
ANT: Neat, clever, dexterous, skilful, adroit, handy.
=
KEY: Awry.
SYN: Crooked, aslant, askew, atwist, bent, carved, distorted, twisted,
wrong.
ANT: Right, straight, true, direct.
=
KEY: Axiom.
SYN: Self-evident truth, aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim.
ANT: Nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness.
=
KEY: Azure \a.\
SYN: Blue, cerulean, sky blue, bluish, blue-colored.
ANT: Orange, ochreous, orange-colored, orange-flame.
=
KEY: Babble \v.\
SYN: Prate, prattle, dribble, chatter, gabble, twaddle, blab, cackle.
ANT: Enunciate, vociferate, hush, suppress.
=
KEY: Babbler.
SYN: Blab, chatterbox, gossip, tattler, telltale.
ANT: Confident, confessor.
=
KEY: Babbling.
SYN: Prating, blabbing, talkativeness, tattling, cackling, gossip,
loquacity, garrulity.
ANT: Reticence, reserve, secretiveness, closeness, refrain,
incommunicativeness, taciturnity.
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KEY: Babel.
SYN: Hubbub, confusion, clamor, jargon, din, discord, clang.
ANT: Elocution, articulation, monotony, distinctness,
consecutiveness, intonation, enunciation, unisonousness.
=
KEY: Backbiter.
SYN: Detractor, traducer, calumniator, slanderer, cynic, maligner,
defamer.
ANT: Vindicator, upholder, palliator, advocate, mitigator, defender,
befriender.
=
KEY: Backslider.
SYN: Renegade, abjurer, recreant, apostate.
ANT: Professor, confessor, adherent, zealot, bigot.
=
KEY: Backsliding, [See BACKSLIDER].
=
KEY: Backwardness.
SYN: Reluctance, slowness, shyness, hesitation, unwillingness,
repugnance.
ANT: Forwardness, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity.
=
KEY: Backward, [See BACKWARDNESS].
=
KEY: Bad, [See GOOD].
=
KEY: Baffle.
SYN: Frustrate, counteract, estop, disconcert, elude, mock,
thwart, confound, defeat, perplex, restrain, upset, foil, mar, balk,
neutralize, dodge, counterfoil.
ANT: Point, aid, abet, enforce, promote, assist, advance, encourage.
=
KEY: Bait.
SYN: Morsel, snare, decoy, enticement, allurement, inducement.
ANT: Warning, scarecrow, dissuasive, deterrent, prohibition,
intimidation, threat.
=
KEY: Balance.
SYN: Weigh, poise, pit, et, counterpoise, counteract, neutralize,
equalize, estimate, redress, adjust.
ANT: Upset, tilt, cant, subvert, mispoise, overbalance.
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KEY: Balderdash.
SYN: Gasconade, flummery, rhodomontade, bombast, fustian, froth.
ANT: Sense, wisdom, logic, reason, sobriety, truthfulness.
=
KEY: Balk.
SYN: Estop, bar, thwart, frustrate, foil, stop, prevent, hinder,
neutralize, nullify, mar, counteract, disappoint, defeat, baffle.
ANT: Aid, abet, promote, advance, encourage, instigate.
=
KEY: Balmy, [See AROMATIC].
=
KEY: Bandy.
SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocate, cross, pass.
ANT: Quash, silence, drop, burke, close, stifle, extinguish.
=
KEY: Baneful, [See PERNICIOUS].
=
KEY: Banish.
SYN: Expel, abandon, dispel, eject, extrude, exclude, relegate,
expatriate, repudiate, disclaim.
ANT: Cherish, foster, protect, consider, encourage, locate, retain,
entertain, domiciliate, domesticate, harbor.
=
KEY: Banishment.
SYN: Outlawry, ostracism, expatriation, expulsion, persecution.
ANT: Remaining, cherishing, fostering, retaining.
=
KEY: Banquet.
SYN: Feast, festivity, treat, entertainment, festival, carousal,
carouse, regalement, cheer.
ANT: Fast, abstinence, starvation.
=
KEY: Banter.
SYN: Badinage, chaff, mockery, derision, ridicule, irony, jeering,
raillery.
ANT: Discussion, discourse, argument.
=
KEY: Barbarous.
SYN: Rude, strange, uncivilized, brutal, cruel, ferocious, inhuman,
merciless, outlandish, savage, uncouth, atrocious, flagitious,
unfettered, nefarious, gross.
ANT: Polite, civilized, refined, humane, urbane.
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KEY: Barely, [See HARDLY].
=
KEY: Bargain.
SYN: Transaction, negotiation, business, profit, speculation,
higgling, gain, hawking, chaffer, haggling.
ANT: Loss, misprofit.
=
KEY: Barren, [See STERILE].
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KEY: Base \a.\
SYN: Vile, dishonorable, low, sordid, ignoble, worthiest, mean,
infamous, shameful, grovelling, disingenuous, disesteemed, cheap,
corrupt, deep.
ANT: Lofty, exalted, refined, noble, esteemed, honored, valued, pure,
correct, shrill.
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KEY: Baseless, [See GROUNDLESS].
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KEY: Bashful.
SYN: Modest, diffident, shy, retiring, reserved.
ANT: Bold, impudent, forward, unreserved, pert, conceited,
ostentatious, egotistic.
=
KEY: Bask.
SYN: Luxuriate, repose, lounge, dally.
ANT: Stir, work, toil, slave, drudge, labor.
=
KEY: Baste.
SYN: Buffet, cudgel, pound, beat.
ANT: Soothe, tickle, caress, stroke.
=
KEY: Battle.
SYN: Fight, conflict, contest, combat, engagement, encounter,
action.
ANT: Peace, truce, pacification, arbitrament, council, mediation.
=
KEY: Bauble.
SYN: Toy, trifle, plaything, knicknack, gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaw.
ANT: Valuable, possession, acquisition, gera, ornament, decoration,
jewel.
=
KEY: Basis, [See FOUNDATION].
=
KEY: Bawl.
SYN: Shout, vociferate, halloo, roar, bellow.
ANT: Whisper, mutter, babble, mumble.
=
KEY: Bays.
SYN: Laurels, trophy, success, prize, premium, achievement, victory,
triumph.
ANT: Failure, defeat, disgrace, stigma, brand.
=
KEY: Beach.
SYN: Shore, coast, strand, seacoast, seaboard, seashore.
ANT: Sea, ocean, deep, main.
=
KEY: Beaming.
SYN: Shining, gleaming, bright, radiant, beautiful, transparent,
translucid.
ANT: Dull, opaque, dingy, beamless, wan, matt.
=
KEY: Bear.
SYN: Carry, lift, transport, convey, maintain, uphold, suffer,
undergo, support, tolerate, waft, yield, sustain, hold, harbor,
entertain, fill, enact, endure, admit, produce, generate.
ANT: Drop, refuse, decline, resign, expel, eject, resist, repel,
protest, resent, reject.
=
KEY: Bearing.
SYN: Behavior, deportment, manner, aspect, carriage, mien, demeanour,
port, conduct, inclination, position, appearance, direction, course.
ANT: Misbehaviour, jurisdirection, misobservation.
=
KEY: Beastly, [See BRUTAL].
=
KEY: Beat.
SYN: Strike, pound, batter, surpass, thrash, cudgel, overcome, defeat,
conquer, worst, whack, belabor, vanquish.
ANT: Defend, protect, shield, fall, shelter, surrender, stroke,
caress, pat.
=
KEY: Beatitude.
SYN: Blessedness, bliss, beatification.
ANT: Misery, pain, suffering, punishment.
=
KEY: Beautiful, [See BEAUTY, and HANDSOME].
=
KEY: Beautify.
SYN: Decorate, adorn, ornament, deck.
ANT: Deform, spoil, mar, stain, deface, disfigure, befoul, soil,
denude, bare, strip.
=
KEY: Beauty.
SYN: Loveliness, grace, fairness, seemliness, comeliness,
picturesqueness, exquisiteness, adornment, embellishment.
ANT: Foulness, ugliness, deformity, hideousness, bareness,
unattractiveness.
=
KEY: Because.
SYN: Owing, consequently, accordingly.
ANT: Irrespectively, independently, inconsequently, unconnectedly.
=
KEY: Beck.
SYN: Nod, sign, signal, symbol, token, indication, authority, orders,
instruction, subserviency, influence, call, command, control,
mandate.
ANT: Independence, insubservience.
=
KEY: Become.
SYN: Befit, grace, beseem, behove.
ANT: Misbeseem, misfit, misbecome, disgrace.
=
KEY: Becoming.
SYN: Beseeming, neat, fit, proper, decorous, comely, seemly,
befitting, graceful, decent, suitable, improving.
ANT: Unbeseeming, unseemly, uncomely, unbecoming, unbefitting,
ungraceful, indecent, unsuitable, unimproving, derogatory.
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KEY: Bedaub.
SYN: Bespatter, befoul, discolor, mar, disfigure, deface, besmear,
spoil, soil, stain.
ANT: Cleanse, absterge, purify, embellish, whiten, decorate,
beautify.
=
KEY: Bedeck, [See DECK].
=
KEY: Bedizen.
SYN: Tawdry, betinselled, gaudy, flashy, bespangled.
ANT: Adorned, robed, decorated, beautified.
=
KEY: Befall.
SYN: Happen, occur, betide, fall, supervene, bechance.
ANT: Miss, pass, spare, pretermit.
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KEY: Befitting.
SYN: Fitting, decent, becoming, suitable, appropriate, proper,
consistent, expedient, desirable.
ANT: Obligatory, compulsory, unbefitting, indecent, unbecoming,
unsuitable, inappropriate, incompatible, inexpedient, improper.
=
KEY: Befool.
SYN: Deceive, cheat, mystify, bamboozle, ensnare, hoodwink, mislead.
ANT: Guide, enlighten, advise, undeceive, lead.
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KEY: Before.
SYN: Precedently, anteriorly, antecedently.
ANT: After, afterwards, subsequently, posteriorly, later, behind.
=
KEY: Befriend.
SYN: Assist, countenance, support, advocate, promote, protect,
defend.
ANT: Oppose, di?countenanced, withstand, thwart, decry, defame,
oppress, annoy.
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KEY: Beg.
SYN: Ask, request, entreat, supplicate, beseech, implore, pray,
petition, crave.
ANT: Insist, exact, extort, require, demand.
=
KEY: Beggar.
SYN: Mendicant, petitioner, suitor, suppliant, applicant.
ANT: Exactor, extortioner.
=
KEY: Beggarly, Miserable, poor, stinted, wretched, niggardly, stingy,
scant, illiberal.
ANT: Noble, princely, stately, prodigal, sumptuous, liberal, profuse,
gorgeous, magnificent.
=
KEY: Beggary.
SYN: Want, penury, destitution, indigence, mendicancy.
ANT: Affluence, riches, abundance, plenty.
=
KEY: Begin.
SYN: Initiate, commence, prepare, start, originate, arise,
inaugurate.
ANT: Achieve, complete, terminate, conclude, consummate, finish,
close, end.
=
KEY: Beginner.
SYN: Tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, pupil.
ANT: Adept, expert, master, authority.
=
KEY: Beginning.
SYN: Commencement, start, origin, rise, initiation, preparation,
preface, prelude, inauguration, inception, threshold, opening,
source, outset, foundation.
ANT: End, close, termination, conclusion, consummation, completion.
=
KEY: Beguile, [See BEFOOL].
=
KEY: Behalf.
SYN: Side, interest, advantage, aid, bestead.
ANT: [See BESTEAD].
=
KEY: Behavior.
SYN: Conduct, bearing, demeanor, proceeding, comportment, action,
manner, deportment.
ANT: Misdemeanor, misbehavior, misconduct.
=
KEY: Behest.
SYN: Injunction, command, instruction, mandate, commission,
requirement, trust.
ANT: Option, liberty, non-interference, discretion.
=
KEY: Behind, [See BEFORE].
=
KEY: Behold.
SYN: Look, discern, regard, view, descry, look upon, gaze,
contemplate, observe, see, scan, survey.
ANT: Overlook, disregard, ignore, miss, blink, wink, connive.
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KEY: Beholden.
SYN: Bound, obliged, indebted, thankful, grateful.
ANT: Unindebted, unobliged, unbound, unthankful, ungrateful.
=
KEY: Beholder.
SYN: Spectator, observer, bystander, witness, looker-on.
ANT: [See BEHOLD].
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KEY: Belief.
SYN: Assent, faith, trust, credence, avowal, assurance, admission,
conviction, opinion, permission, creed, reliance, concession,
confidence.
ANT: Dissent, unbelief, distrust, denial, misgiving, disavowal,
rejection, disbelief.
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KEY: Bellicose.
SYN: Quarrelsome, pugnacious, belligerent, irascible, contentious.
ANT: Peaceful, peaceable, unquarrelsome, pacific, unwarlike,
unexcitable, good-tempered, genial.
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KEY: Belligerent.
SYN: Contending, engaging, fighting, opposed, adverse, rival,
conflicting, antagonist, assailant, hostile.
ANT: Neutral, pacific, peaceful, nonbelligerent, appeased,
reconciled.
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KEY: Bellow, [See BAWL].
=
KEY: Belonging.
SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, cognate, congenial,
obligatory, accompanying.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, Irrelevant, impertinent, alien,
uncongenial, discretional, optional, uninvolved, unimplied,
independent.
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KEY: Belong to.
SYN: Pertain to, appertain to, regard, relate to.
ANT: Not to belong to, not to appertain to, not to relate to.
=
KEY: Beloved.
SYN: Cared for, cherished, loved.
ANT: Hated, loathed.
=
KEY: Below.
SYN: Under, beneath, adown, underneath.
ANT: Above, over, aloft.
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KEY: Bend.
SYN: Curve, deviate, incline, tend, swerve, diverge, mold, persuade,
influence, bias, dispose, direct, lower, subordinate to, lean,
deflect, bow, condescend, yield, stoop, submit.
ANT: Proceed, continue, extend, advance, stand, stiffen, break, crush,
resist.
=
KEY: Beneath.
SYN: Below, underneath, under, adown.
ANT: Above, over, overhead, aloft.
=
KEY: Benediction.
SYN: Blessing, commendation, approval, benison, gratitude,
thankfulness, thanksgiving.
ANT: Curse, malediction, disapproval, censure, obloquy, execration,
ingratitude.
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KEY: Benefaction.
SYN: Grant, gratuity, boon, donation, aims, present, gift, endowment,
bequest, favor, presentation.
ANT: Deprivation, reservation, disfavor, presumption, confiscation,
disendowment.
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KEY: Benefactor.
SYN: Friend, supporter, contributor, upholder, well-wisher, favorer,
well-doer, patron.
ANT: Foe, opponent, disfavorer, antagonist, rival, backfriend,
oppressor.
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KEY: Beneficial.
SYN: Profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious.
ANT: Prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental.
=
KEY: Beneficent.
SYN: Bountiful, benevolent, benignant.
ANT: Hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal,
oppressive, cruel.
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KEY: Benefit.
SYN: Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage,
profit, favor, blessing.
ANT: Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity,
bereavement, injury, privation.
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KEY: Benevolence.
SYN: Kindness, goodwill, charity, philanthropy, kindliness,
kind-heartedness, benignity, beneficence, liberality.
ANT: Unkindness, harshness, barbarity, niggardliness, maleficence,
malignity, illiberality, ill-will, churlishness.
=
KEY: Benevolent, [See BENEFICIENT].
=
KEY: Benignant, [See BENEFICIENT].
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KEY: Benison, [See BENEDICTION].
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KEY: Bent.
SYN: Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition,
intention, prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning.
ANT: Indisposition, aversion.
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KEY: Bequeath.
SYN: Give, grant, leave by will, devise, will, bestow, impart, demise,
leave \n.\ Legacy, inheritance.
ANT: Withhold, alienate \n.\ Disinheritance, transference,
abalienation, dispossession.
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KEY: Bereave.
SYN: Rob, deprive, divest, dispossess, impoverish, reduce, spoil,
strip.
ANT: Replenish, compensate, reinstate, satisfy, enrich, benefit.
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KEY: Bereavement.
SYN: Destitution, affliction, deprivation, loss.