monologue, n. soliloquy.

monopolize, v. engross, forestall.

monotonous, a. unvaried, uniform, uninteresting, humdrum, tedious.

monotony, n. monotone, tedium.

monster, n. prodigy, enormity, abnormality, monstrosity _lusus

naturæ_; fiend, brute, ogre, villain; Cerberus, Chimera, Minotaur,

Bucentaur.

monstrosity, n. abnormality, monster, _lusus naturæ_.

monstrous, a. abnormal; enormous, colossal; atrocious.

month, n. Associated Words: ultimo, proximo, instant.

monthly, a. mensal, menstrual.

monument, n. tombstone, memorial; cenotaph; dolmen, cromlech.

Associated Words: epitaph, lapidary.

mood, n. humor.

moon, n. satellite; Luna, Cynthia. Associated Words: selenology,

selenography, apogee, wax, wane, epigee, selenocentric, selenograph, halo,

orb, lunar, lunarian, interlunary, lunation, appulse, crescent, luniform.

moonshine, n. balderdash, flummery, fustian, nonsense.

moot, a. undecided, unsettled, debatable.

mooted, a. moot.

mop, n. malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).

mopboard, n. baseboard, surbase.

mopish, a. dejected, glum, dumpish, listless, dull, spiritless.

moral, a. ethical; virtuous, good; accountable, responsible,

probable. Antonyms: immoral, licentious.

moral insanity. æsthesiomania.

morality, n. virtue, rectitude, probity, goodness. Antonym:

immorality.

moral philosophy. deontology, ethology, ethics.

morass, n. slough, quagmire, bog, marsh, swamp.

Mormon, n. Latter-day Saint.

morning, n. forenoon; dawn, daybreak, aurora, cock-crowing, sunrise.

morning, a. matin, matutinal.

morning concert. (in the open air) aubade.

morning reception. levee.

morning service. matins.

morose, a. churlish, sulky, sullen, moody, splenetic, unamiable.

morsel, n. bite, mouthful; fragment, crumb, scrap.

mortally, adv. fatally.

mortar, n. Associated Word: pestle.

mortification, n. gangrene; chagrin, humiliation, abasement,

embarrassment; repression, subjection.

mortify, v. gangrene; chagrin, embarrass, abase; repress, deny,

restrain.

mosaic, a. tessellated, inlaid, variegated.

most, n. majority.

mote, n. particle, speck, mite.

moth-eaten, a. moth-fretted.

mother, n. materfamilias, matron, matriarch; generatrix; dam.

Associated Words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine,

matriarchy, matriarchal.

motherhood, n. maternity.

motherly, a. maternal.

mother-of-pearl, n. nacre.

motion, n. movement, activity; gesture, signal, gesticulation; port,

gait; impulse. Antonyms: inertia, rest, stagnation, immobility,

quiescence, repose.

motionless, a. stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent.

motive, n. incentive, inducement, incitement.

mottled, a. piebald, party-colored, spotted.

mould, n. matrix, matrice; pattern, model; mouldiness, mildew,

blight, smut, fungus.

mould, v. form, shape, model, cast; knead.

mouldy, a. musty, mildewed, fusty, decaying.

moult, v. mew, exuviate.

moulting, n. exuviation.

mount, v. ascend; bestride.

mountain, n. mount. Associated Words: orology, orography, orogeny,

montiform, butte, arete, spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous,

ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock, range, ridge, submontane,

alpestrine.

mountebank, n. quack; charlatan, impostor, empiric.

mourn, v. deplore, lament, regret, grieve, repine, sorrow, bemoan,

bewail.

mournful, a. sorrowful, lugubrious, doleful, woful.

mourning, n. sorrow, grief, bereavement; weeds.

mouse, n. murine, rodent; pl. mice, vermin.

mousing, a. meddlesome, prying, intrusive.

mouthpiece, n. embouchure; spokesman.

movable, a. portable, mobile. Antonyms: immovable, fast, immobile.

move, v. transfer; migrate, immigrate, emigrate, remove; impel,

propel, actuate, influence; budge, stir.

movement, n. motion, locomotion, transference, removal.

movement cure. kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, lingism.

moving, a. motive.

mow, v. reap.

mowing, n. reaping.

mucus, n. phlegm.

mud, n. mire, ooze, muck; silt.

mud bath. illutation.

muddiness, n. turbidness, feculence, obscurity, miriness.

muddle, v. confuse, fuddle, bewilder.

muddle, n. confusion.

muddled, a. confused, addled.

muddy, a. feculent, turbid, roily; opaque, intransparent, confused,

involved, incoherent.

mud-eating, a. limivorous.

muffle, v. wrap, envelop; deaden, subdue.

muffler, n. scarf, tippet.

mulct, n. fine, amercement.

mule, n. hybrid, hinny.

mule-driver, n. muleteer.

mulish, a. See stubborn.

mull, v. ruminate, ponder, cogitate.

mulligrubs, n. (Slang) colic.

multitude, n. crowd, throng, host.

mum, a. silent, speechless, dumb, mute.

mumble, v. mutter, maunder, mump.

mumbling, a. muttering, inarticulate, indistinct, incoherent.

mummery, n. masquerade, mimicry.

mumpish, a. moody, sullen, morose, sulky, unamiable.

mumps, n. parotitis; sullenness, the sulks.

munch, v. craunch.

murder, n. homicide.

murderer, n. homicide.

murderous, a. sanguinary, homicidal, fell.

muriatic acid. hydrochloric acid.

murky, a. lowering, dark.

murmur, v. grumble, complain, repine.

murmur, n. plaint, complaint; purl, babble; undertone.

murmuring, a. complaining, querulous, repining.

muscle, n. brawn, thew; sinew, tendon.

muscular, a. brawny, thewy, sinewy, stalwart.

muse, v. contemplate, ruminate, brood, ponder, mull, reflect.

muse, n. contemplation, meditation, revery.

Muses, n. pl. Pierides, tuneful nine (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe,

Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania). Associated Word:

Pierian.

mushroom, a. ephemeral, transitory.

mushrooms, n. pl. Fungi, agaric, Agaricaceæ. Associated Words:

mycology, agaricin, pileus, gills, spore. See Fungi.

music, n. melody, symphony, harmony; melodies, harmonics.

musical, a. melodious, harmonious, tuneful, symphonious.

musical entertainment. musicale, concert.

muskmelon, n. cantaloupe.

muss, n. confusion, litter, jumble, disorder.--v. disarrange,

rumple, dishevel.

mustard plaster. sinapism.

muster, v. assemble, marshal.

musty, a. mildewed, fusty, mouldy, frowzy, rank, stale.

mute, a. dumb, obmutescent; silent, speechless.

mutilate, v. maim, dismember, mangle.

mutilation, n. maim, dismemberment, mangling.

mutinous, a. rebellious, insubordinate, seditious, insurgent,

insurrectionary.

mutiny, n. insurrection, rebellion, insubordination, revolt.

mutter, v. maunder.

muttering, a. inarticulate, indistinct, maundering.

mutual, a. reciprocal.

mutuality, n. correlation, reciprocation, interchange.

muzzle, v. restrain, repress.

mysterious, a. inscrutable, cryptic, obscure, unexplainable,

enigmatical, unfathomed, unfathomable, abstruse, mystic, inexplicable,

recondite, cabalistic, occult, unexplained.

mystery, n. secret, enigma, riddle, intricacy, arcanum.

mystic, a. occult, esoteric, cabalistic, mystical.

mystification, n. bewilderment, perplexity, obfuscation.

mystify, v. bewilder, perplex, obfuscate, befog, nonplus.

mystifying, a. perplexing, confusing, bewildering, mysterious.

myth, n. legend, tradition, fable.

mythical, a. fabulous, legendary, traditional.

N

nab, v. (Colloq.) grab, snatch, seize.

nag, v. (Colloq.) plague, tease, twit, hector, torment, scold.

naïve, a. artless, innocent, ingenuous, frank.

naïveté, n. artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, candor.

naked, a. nude, undressed, bare; unexaggerated, uncolored, exact,

literal.

nakedness, n. nudity, bareness; exactness, literalness, accuracy.

name, n. appellation, designation, denomination; epithet, title,

cognomen, surname, cognomination, pseudonym, patronymic, metronymic,

alias, penname, prænomen, sobriquet, _nom de plume_, _nom de guerre_,

nickname, eponym, misnomer, euphemism, agnomen, allonym, anonym, autonym,

appellative, byname, caconym, cryptonym, compellation, compellative,

dionym, trionym, polyonym, diminutive; repute, fame, renown, reputation.

Associated Words: nominal, nominally, titular, titulary, onomatology,

patronomatology, onomasticon, orismology, pseudepigraphy, pseudonymity,

roster, register, née, nomancy, namesake, eponymy, of that ilk,

nomenclator, heteronym, synedoche, nominative.

name, v. entitle, denominate, style, call, christen, dub, term;

designate, specify, nominate.

nameless, a. unnamed; undistinguished, inglorious, unknown, obscure;

anonymous; unnamable, inexpressible.

namelessness, n. anonymity; obscurity.

names, n. pl. nomenclature, terminology.

Naples, n. Associated Word: Neapolitan.

narcotic, n. stupefacient, sedative, anæsthetic, opiate, anodyne.

narrate, v. recount, recite, tell about, relate.

narration, n. narrative, relation, recital, story.

narrative, n. narration, account, portrayal, story, tale.

narrow, a. limited, circumscribed, incapacious, contracted,

straitened, cramped; bigoted, illiberal, uncatholic, narrow-minded,

insular.

narrow, v. contract, reduce, constrict, restrict, limit, cramp,

confine.

narrowing, n. contraction, reduction, constriction, limitation

circumscription.

narrow-minded, a. illiberal, bigoted, intolerant, narrow,

uncatholic.

narrow-mindedness, n. illiberality, bigotry, bias, intolerance,

insularity, uncatholicity.

narrowness, n. contractedness, incapaciousness, circumscription.

narrows, n. strait, sound.

nastiness, n. squalor, filthiness, pollution, filth, corruption,

dirtiness; indecency, smut, obscenity, bawdry, ribaldry, indelicacy,

lewdness.

nasty, a. filthy, squalid, foul, polluted, dirty; indecent,

indelicate, gross, ribald, lewd, obscene, smutty, shameless; odious,

sickening, repulsive, nauseous, disgusting, disagreeable.

native, a. natal; indigenous, natural, aboriginal, autochthonal;

vernacular, mother; genuine, congenital, inherent, inborn, inbred, innate,

original. Antonyms: foreign, artificial, exotic, acquired, assumed,

unnatural.

native, n. aboriginal, denizen (by birth), indigene.

natives, n. pl. aborigines.

natty, a. (Colloq.) neat, spruce, trim, jaunty, dapper, chic.

natural, a. native, inborn, congenital, innate, characteristic;

original, indigenous; normal, regular, legitimate; artless, unaffected,

ingenuous, spontaneous, simple; unregenerate. Antonyms: unnatural,

acquired, affected, simulated.

naturalization, n. denization.

naturalize, v. familiarize, accustom, habituate, acclimatize, adapt,

acclimate.

natural philosophy. physics.

nature, n. creation, universe, cosmos, world; kind, sort, character,

quality, species; disposition, mood, temper, essence, constitution.

Associated Words: physiography, physiogony, connatural, connaturalness.

nature worship. physiolatry.

naughty, a. disobedient, mischievous, perverse, forward, refractory.

nausea, n. seasickness; qualm, squeamishness, queasiness,

qualmishness.

nauseate, v. sicken, disgust, revolt; recoil from, abhor, abominate.

nauseous, a. disgusting, nauseating, offensive, sickening, fulsome,

distasteful.

nautical, a. naval, marine, maritime, oceanic.

nautilus, n. Tetrabranchiata; argonaut, paper nautilus; diving-bell.

naval, a. nautical, marine, maritime.

navel, n. umbilicus, omphalos.

navel string, funis, umbilical cord.

navigate, v. sail, cruise; guide, steer, direct; circumnavigate

near, a. nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, proximate,

approximate to; intimate, confidential, bosom; immediate, imminent,

impending, forthcoming.

Antonyms: distant, remote, far.

nearness, n. closeness, proximity, propinquity, contiguity,

adjacency, imminence, approximation, approxi-mateness intimacy,

familiarity.

near-sighted, a. myopic, short-sighted, purblind.

near-sightedness, n. myopia.

near-sighted person. myope.

neat, a. tidy, orderly, trim, clean, cleanly; tasteful, trim,

finished, artistic, nice, excellent, adroit; dainty; spruce; dapper,

natty. Antonyms: dowdy, slovenly, slatternly, untidy, tawdry, gaudy,

frowzy, disorderly, unkempt.

necessary, a. requisite, essential, needed, needful, indispensable

inevitable, unavoidable. Antonyms: nonessential, unnecessary, optional,

discretional, casual, needless.

necessary, n. requisite, requirement, essential, _sine qua non_.

necessity, n. requisite, necessary, requirement, essential;

exigency, urgency; indispensability. Antonyms: choice, option,

contingency, doubtfulness, possibility.

neck, n. Associated Words: nape, cervical, scruff, atlas, axis,

palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, décolleté, jugular, jugulum,

wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche,

colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, retrocollic, cruels,

nuchalgia, ruff, crane.

necktie, n. cravat, neckcloth, scarf, tie.

necromancer, n. wizard, sorcerer, magician, conjurer, exorcist,

soothsayer, diviner.

necromancy, n. magic, conjuration, enchantment, sorcery, black art.

need, n. want, necessity, extremity, strait, exigency, urgency;

poverty, penury, privation, indigence.

need, v. require, lack, want.

needful, a. requisite, necessary, essential, indispensable, required.

needleprick, n. acupuncture.

needless, a. unnecessary, groundless, unfounded.

needlewoman, n. seamstress.

needs, adv. necessarily.

needy, a. destitute, indigent, penniless, impecunious.

nefarious, a. atrocious, flagitious, heinous.

negation, n. denial, disavowal.

negative, n. denial, refusal. Antonym: affirmative.

neglect, n. disregard, omission, negligence, default, dereliction,

remissness, oversight.

neglect, v. disregard, slight, overlook, ignore, omit.

neglectful, a. See negligent.

negligence, n. neglect, remissness, oversight, heedlessness, laches

(Law).

negligent, a. neglectful, heedless, indifferent, slack, remiss,

regardless, slothful, derelict, inattentive, careless Antonyms: careful,

attentive, heedful.

negotiable, a. transferable.

negro, n. African, blackamoor, Ethiopian, Nigritian, Senegambian,

Mandingo, negrillo, Papuan, Krooman; darkey, buck, nigger; (of mixed

blood) mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, mestee, Zambo, Sambo, sacatra.

Associated Words: negrophile, negrophilist, negrophilism, negrophobia.

negro, a. negritic, African, Ethiopian, negroid.

negro child. pickaninny.

negro woman. negress, wench.

neigh, n. and v. whinny.

neighborhood, n. vicinity, vicinage, locality, neighbors, venue

(Law).

neighboring, a. adjacent, contiguous, neighbor, near.

neophyte, n. convert, proselyte; novice, tyro, beginner.

nerve, n. (Slang) boldness, audacity, presumption, effrontery,

courage, assurance.

nerve, n. Associated Words: neurology, neurologist, neurography,

neuron, lecithin, rete, plexus, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neurotic,

sensorium, funiculus, ganglion, hilum, neurism, innervation, neuration,

neuritis, neuropathic, nervine, neuroma, neuropathy, neuroid, neuric,

neuricity, aneuria, glioma, neurosis, cinerea, cholesterin, perineurium,

epineurium, internuncial.

nerve, v. brace, strengthen, fortify, invigorate, energize.

nervous, a. excitable, sensitive, timorous.

nest, n. nidus; eyrie, aerie; retreat, den, haunt, resort.

Associated Words: nidificate, nidification, neossine, caliology,

cubilose, nidulant.

nestle, v. cuddle, snuggle.

net, n. toil, snare, gin, mesh; caul, trammel, seine, trawl, dredge,

dragnet.

netted, a. reticulated, retiary, interwoven, complicated, reticulose.

nettle, n. Urtica. Associated words: urticate, urtication urtical.

nettle, v. irritate, provoke, exasperate, ruffle, incense, annoy.

network, n. mesh, interlacement, reticulation; plexus, rete,

ganglion.

neutrality, n. indifference.

neutralize, v. counteract, counterbalance, invalidate.

nevertheless, adv. or conj. yet, however, notwithstanding.

new, a. recent, fresh, modern, novel, newfangled, neoteric,

unfamiliar, strange; renewed, renovated, repaired, refreshed;

unaccustomed, untried, inexperienced.

new custom. innovation.

newly, adv. lately, recently, freshly; anew, afresh, again.

news, n. tidings, word, report.

new word. neologism, neoterism, coinage. Associated Words: neology,

neologic, neologist, neoterist, neoterize coin.

New York. Gotham.

New Yorker. Gothamite.

nice, a. fastidious, exacting, particular, punctilious, queasy,

finical, difficult, squeamish, dainty; delicate, refined, dainty;

discriminating, scrupulous, precise, discerning, subtle; exquisite,

agreeable, pleasant, enjoyable, gratifying; fine, neat, finished.

nicety, n. niceness, precision; punctilio, subtlety, fine point.

niche, n. recess, cavity, nook, tabernacle.

nick, n. notch, indentation, dent, score, dint.

nick, v. notch, mar, deface, indent.

nickname, n. sobriquet.

nigger, n. (Colloq.) negro.

night, n. darkness. Associated Words: nocturnal, noctuary,

noctidial, noctilucous, belated, benight, benighted, noctivagant,

noctivagation, noctivagous, nocturne, noctiflorous pernoctalian,

pernoctation, lychnobite.

night-blindness, n. hemeralopia.

nightingale, n. philomel, philomela.

nightly, a. nocturnal.

nightmare, n. incubus, cacodemon, succubus.

nightshade, n. belladonna.

night-sight, n. nyctalopia.

nimble, a. agile, sprightly, deft, lively, swift, brisk, active,

spry. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, clumsy, dilatory, unready, dull, heavy.

nimble-fingered, a. dexterous.

nimbus, n. halo, glory, aureola.

nincompoop, n. (Slang) simpleton, dolt, witling, dunce. See

fool.

nine, n. novenary, ennead.--a. enneatic. Associated Words:

novennial, enneagon, nonagon, enneagonal, enneahedral, enneahedron.

nine days' devotion (religious). novena.

ninety, n. Associated Word: nonagesimal.

ninety years. Associated Word: nonagenarian.

nip, n. pinch; blast, cut; sarcasm, taunt, gibe.

nip, v. pinch; clip, cut off; blast, kill; chill, deaden, benumb.

nippers, n. pl. pincers, tweezers, pinchers, pliers.

nipping, a. biting, pinching, blasting, destructive.

nipple, n. teat, pap, dug, mammilla.

nitric acid. spirit of nitre, aquafortis.

nitrogen, n. azote.

no, n. refusal, denial, negative.

nobby, a. (Colloq.) modish, stylish, fashionable.

nobility, n. nobleness, high-mindedness, magnanimity, excellence,

superiority, dignity; peerage, aristocracy, patrician class.

noble, a. eminent, exalted, magnanimous, superior; stately,

magnificent, splendid, imposing, grand; aristocratic highborn, patrician.

noble, n. nobleman, peer, grandee. Antonyms: commoner, proletary,

plebeian.

nobleman, n. noble, peer, lord, aristocrat, patrician, grandee.

noblewoman, n. peeress.

nobody, n. nonentity, jackstraw.

nod, n. bow.

nodding, n. bowing, nutation.--a. annuent, bowing, nutant.

noise, n. sound; racket, clamor, din, outcry, clatter, uproar,

hubbub, tumult, rout, blare, vociferation, hullabaloo (Colloq.), powwow

(Slang), hilarity.

noiseless, a. still, silent, quiet, inaudible.

noisome, a. unwholesome, noxious, pestilential; offensive,

malodorous, fetid, stinking.

noisy, a. clamorous, boisterous, vociferous, turbulent, riotous,

obstreperous, uproarious, blatant, discordant, brawling, hilarious.

nomad, n. wanderer.

nomadic, a. wandering, nomad.

nonchalance, n. indifference, coolness, carelessness, _sang-froid_,

_insouciance_.

nonchalant, a. indifferent, cool, unconcerned, _insouciant_.

nonconformist, n. dissenter, recusant.

nonconformity, n. recusancy, dissent.

nondescript, a. undescribed, unclassifiable.

nonentity, n. non-existence; nobody, cipher.

non-essential, a. unimportant, incidental, adventitious.

nonesuch, n. paragon, pattern, nonpareil, model.

non-interference, n. _laissez faire_.

nonplus, v. perplex, puzzle, disconcert, confuse, embarrass, mystify,

bewilder.

nonsense, n. absurdity, twaddle, bosh, fudge, silliness, balderdash,

moonshine, amphigory, rigmarole.

nonsensical, a. absurd, senseless, preposterous, insensate,

amphigoric, silly.

nook, n. retreat, corner, recess.

noon, n. meridian, noonday, noontide, midday.

normal, a. natural, regular. Antonyms: abnormal, unnatural.

northern, a. boreal, north, arctic, northerly, septentrion.

northern lights. aurora borealis.

northern regions. arctic regions, Thule, septentrion.

north pole. Associated Words: Polynia, polar, circumpolar.

north star. polestar, lodestar, Cynosure, Polaris.

north wind. Boreas.

Norwegian Parliament. Storthing, Lagthing.

nose, n. snout, nozzle, spout, proboscis, muzzle.

nose, n. Associated Words: nasal, rhinal, rhinology, rhinoplasty,

coryza, aquiline, simous, retroussé, pug, snuff, snuffle, vomer, nostril,

nasalize, nasalization, nasiform, polypus, vibrissa, grogblossom,

rosedrop, snivel, rhinitis, rhinolith, septum.

nosebleeding, n. epistaxis.

nostalgia, n. homesickness.

notable, a. noticeable, conspicuous, plain, evident; signal,

remarkable, famous.

notch, v. nick, score, indent, crenellate.

notch, n. nick, indentation, score, dent, crenature, serration,

emargination.

notched, a. serrated, crenated, incised, emarginated.

notching, n. notch, indentation, serration, crenation.

note, n. billet; memorandum, minute, record; remark, comment,

annotation, commentary, scholium, gloss; mark, token, sign, feature,

peculiarity; observation, notice; distinction, repute, celebrity,

reputation, fame, renown.

note, v. See notice; record, jot down; annotate, comment,

postillate.

note-book, n. memorandum-book, commonplace book, adversaria, journal,

diary.

noted, a. celebrated, renowned, eminent, distinguished, famous.

notes, n. pl. marginalia (marginal notes), adversaria.

noteworthy, a. memorable, remarkable.

nothing, n. non-existence, nonentity; bagatelle; naught, cipher,

zero, null, nullity.

nothingness, n. nihility, non-existence, nullity.

notice, n. observation, cognizance, note, heed, attention, regard;

announcement, citation, warning, notification; bulletin; recognition,

civility, courtesy. Antonyms: disregard, connivance, inattention,

heedlessness, ignoring, oversight, slight.

notice, v. see, observe, note, heed, recognize, perceive, mark, take

cognizance of, pay attention to. Antonyms: ignore, connive, skip,

neglect, slight, overlook, disregard.

noticeable, a. observable, appreciable, conspicuous, salient,

prominent. Antonyms: unobservable, inappreciable, inconspicuous.

notification, n. See telling; notice, announcement, warning.

notify, v. inform, acquaint, tell, apprise, give notice to.

notion, n. conception, idea, concept; opinion, judgment, belief,

view; inclination, intention, disposition; (Colloq.) knicknack, device.

notional, a. whimsical, capricious, irresolute, freakish, crotchety,

changeable.

notoriety, n. repute (unfavorable), publicity.

notorious, a. talked of, evident, obvious, noted, famous (usually

unfavorable).

notwithstanding, conj. despite, nevertheless, however.

noun, n. substantive.

nourish, v. feed, nurture; support; encourage, foster, cherish,

promote.

nourishing, a. nutritious.

nourishment, n. nutrition; food, nutriment.

novel, a. new, recent, fresh, unusual, rare, unique, innovative.

novel, n. fiction, romance, story, tale.

novelty, n. newness; change, curiosity, innovation.

novice, n. tyro; probationer, proselyte, convert, novitiate

novitiate, n. apprenticeship; probation, tyronism, noviceship.

now, adv. instantly, immediately, at once, instanter.

now and then. occasionally, at intervals, infrequently,

intermittently, sometimes, periodically, once in a while.

noxious, a. injurious, baneful, unwholesome, noisome.

nub, n. (Colloq.) knob, jag, protuberance, snag, excrescence.

nucleus, n. kernel, core, heart, center.

nude, a. See naked.

nudge, v. poke (with the elbow).

nugatory, a. futile, ineffectual, unavailing. See vain.

nuisance, n. plague, pest, bane, infliction, bore, offense.

null, a. invalid, nugatory.

nullification, n. invalidation, abrogation, cancellation, repeal.

nullify, v. invalidate, abrogate, cancel, repeal, countermand.

numb, a. deadened, unfeeling, insensible, benumbed.

numb, v. benumb, deaden.

number, v. enumerate; figure up, count, numerate.

number, n. numeral, figure, digit, integer; collection, multitude.

numbers, n. poetry, music, verse, song.

numbers, n. pl. Associated Words: numeral, numeric, notation,

coefficient, numerary.

numbness, n. insensibility.

numerous, a. many, plentiful, multitudinous.

numskull, n. (Colloq.) dolt, dullard, dunce, lackwit, simpleton.

See fool.

nunnery, n. convent, cloister, mynchery (ruins).

nuptial, a. hymeneal, bridal.

nuptials, n. pl. wedding, marriage, espousals.

nurse, v. suckle; nourish, cherish, foster, succor, foment,

encourage; attend, tend; bring up, raise, nurture, rear.

nursery, n. crèche (public nursery).

nursling, n. and a. suckling.

nurture, n. care, training; food, nourishment.

nurture, v. feed, nourish, nurse; educate, train, school.

nut-bearing, a. nuciferous.

nutriment, n. nourishment, food, aliment.

nutrition, n. nourishment, feeding; nutriment, food; eutrophy,

(healthy nutrition); malnutrition, denutrition, innutrition, dystrophy

(defective nutrition). Associated Words: threpsology, trophology,

trophic.

nutritious, a. nourishing, nutritive. Antonym: innutritious.

nuts, n. pl. mast.

nut-shaped, a. nuciform.

nymph, n. dryad, sylph, Undine, nereid, hydriad, oread, houri,

Daphne.

O

oar, n. paddle, scull, spoon oar. Associated Words: rowlock, loom,

blade, wash, oarlock.

oar-shaped, a. remiform.

oat grasses. Avena. Associated Words: avenaceous, oaten.

oath, n. adjuration, pledge, sworn promise; curse, profanity,

swearing, expletive, blasphemy. Associated Words: juratory, profane,

imprecate.

oath-breaking, n. perjury.

obedience, n. compliance, submission, subservience; dutifulness.

Antonyms: disobedience, incompliance, defiance, revolt, insubordination.

obedient, a. submissive, tractable, deferential, subservient,

compliant, dutiful, docile, amenable. Antonyms: unsubmissive,

intractable, disobedient.

obelisk, n. Associated Words: pyramidion, monolithic,

hieroglyphics.

obey, v. comply, submit to, heed, regard, be ruled by.

object, v. disapprove, oppose, demur, contravene, gainsay, except,

cavil.

object, n. thing, article; goal, purpose, aim, motive, intent,

design, target, butt, destination, view.

objection, n. exception, scruple, demurrer, cavil. Antonyms:

approval, acquiescence.

objectionable, a. exceptionable, offensive, obnoxious, undesirable,

displeasing.

objectless, a. aimless, desultory, purposeless, vague.

obligation, n. accountableness, responsibility, incumbency, duty,

indebtedness; agreement, contract, stipulation, covenant, bond.

obligatory, a. binding, incumbent, imperative, coercive. Antonyms:

optional, discretional.

oblige, v. constrain, obligate; please, gratify, accommodate, coerce,

compel, necessitate, force.

obliging, a. complaisant, gracious, accommodating, affable, debonair,

deferential, yielding.

obliterate, v. efface, erase, blot out, remove, destroy, expunge.

obliteration, n. extinction, erasure, effacement, removal.

oblivious, a. unmindful, unconscious, forgetful, heedless,

disregardful.

obnoxious, a. subject, liable; offensive, odious, hateful,

displeasing.

obscene, a. smutty, lewd, gross, indecent, immodest, indelicate,

ribald.

obscenity, n. lewdness, smut, ribaldry, indecency, bawdiness,

immodesty.

obscure, a. abstruse, vague, recondite, indefinite, ambiguous;

humble, inglorious, mean, undistinguished; secluded, retired, remote;

shaded, darkened.

obscure, v. darken, obfuscate, bedim, eclipse; involve, dissemble,

disguise, confuse.

obscuring, n. obscuration, obscurity.

obscurity, n. ambiguity, vagueness; privacy, seclusion, retirement;

darkness, obfuscation, obscuration.

obsequious, a. sycophantic, cringing, fawning, deferential, servile.

obsequiousness, n. sycophancy.

obsolete, a. disused, archaic, antiquated, unfashionable,

old-fashioned.

obstacle, n. obstruction, barrier, impediment, hindrance,

stumbling-block.

obstetrician, n. midwife, accoucheur.

obstetrics, n. tocology, midwifery.

obstinacy, n. incompliance, doggedness, perversity, obduracy,

intractability, stubbornness.

obstinate, a. incompliant, intractable, mulish, perverse, dogged,

contumacious, stubborn. Antonyms: amenable, yielding, tractable,

submissive, compliant, obedient.

obstreperous, a. clamorous, vociferous, noisy, uproarious,

boisterous.

obstruct, v. impede, oppose, retard, barricade, blockade, clog,

interrupt, bar, restrain.

obstruction, n. obstacle, impediment, barrier, blockade, restraint.

obtain, v. gain, get, procure, acquire, win, attain, secure.

obtainable, a. procurable, attainable, accessible. Antonyms:

unobtainable, unprocurable, unattainable, inaccessible.

obtrusive, a. officious, meddlesome, intrusive, forward. Antonyms:

inobtrusive, retiring.

obvious, a. plain, evident, palpable, manifest, patent, self-evident.

occult, a. mystic, mystical, abstruse, recondite, secret, unrevealed.

occupant, n. occupier, tenant, holder, incumbent, possessor, lessee.

occupation, n. occupancy, tenure, incumbency; vocation, employment.

See business.

occupational, a. vocational.

occupy, v. hold, keep, possess, fill; engage, absorb, employ, busy,

monopolize.

ocean, n. main, deep. Associated Words: oceanic, interoceanic,

doldrums, oceanography, oceanology, terrigenous, Oceanus, transoceanic.

odd, a. unmatched, single, uneven; singular, peculiar, unusual,

unique, strange, quaint, extraordinary, queer, eccentric, whimsical,

freakish, baroque, fantastic, nondescript, abnormal, bizarre, erratic,

unconventional, curious, capricious; extra, remaining, additional,

redundant, casual, supernumerary.

oddity, n. oddness, singularity; curiosity, nondescript, marvel,

wonder.

odds, sing, and pl. advantage, preponderance, inequality, disparity;

probability.

odds and ends. remnants, fragments, orts, culls, scraps.

odious, a. detestable, abominable, execrable, offensive, repulsive,

hateful, loathsome.

odium, n. detestation, unpopularity, hatred, contempt, dislike,

opprobrium.

odor, n. smell, aroma, fragrance, scent, redolence, perfume, savor;

stink, stench, fetor. Associated Words: deodorize, deodorization,

deodorant, deodorizer, antibromic, disinfectant, disinfect, disinfection,

exhale, exhalation, effluvium, emanation.

odorless, a. inodorous, savorless, scentless.

odorous, a. odoriferous, fragrant, savory, aromatic, balmy, scented.

offal, n. refuse, waste, rubbish, garbage.

offend, v. displease, affront, provoke, mortify, exasperate, incense,

wound, shock.

offender, n. delinquent, wrong-doer, trespasser, malefactor,

culprit, criminal.

offense, n. crime, wrong, sin, outrage, indignity; displeasure,

resentment, dudgeon, umbrage; misdemeanor, transgression, delinquency,

trespass.

offensive, a. obnoxious, displeasing, noisome, distasteful, insolent,

abusive, aggressive, assailant, fetid, disagreeable, opprobrious,

scurrilous, fulsome.

offer, v. tender, proffer, propose, propound, volunteer, bid;

immolate, sacrifice.

offer, n. tender, proposition, bid, overture, proffer.

offering, n. overture, proposition, bid; sacrifice, oblation;

offertory; corban.

offhand, a. extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, unstudied.

office, n. duty, function, service, work, charge, trust, business.

office-holder, n. officer, official, functionary, placeman.

officer, n. office-holder, magistrate, dignitary, incumbent.

officially, adv. ex-officio.

officious, a. meddlesome, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical,

impertinent.

offscouring, n. refuse, scum, offscum, recrement, dross, trash,

waste.

offset, n. set-off, counterbalance, equivalent.--v.

counterbalance, counterpoise.

offshoot, n. scion, branch.

offspring, n. children, issue, progeny, posterity, descendants.

often, adv. frequently, repeatedly, oftentimes, ofttimes. Antonyms:

seldom, infrequently.

oil, v. lubricate.

oiliness, n. lubricity, unctuousness, unctuosity, oleosity, glibness.

oil-producing, a. oleiferous.

oilstone, n. hone.

oily, a. unctuous, oleaginous, emulsive, lubricous; glib, fluent,

plausible.

ointment, n. unguent, embrocation, salve.

old, a. aged, elderly, senescent, decrepit, venerable, patriarchal,

superannuated, senile; former, pre-existing, preceding, ancient, archaic,

antique, antiquated, olden, time-honored, traditional, immemorial,

primitive, primordial, primeval, pristine, fossil; dilapidated, decayed,

effete; practiced, veteran, experienced; sensible, astute, shrewd,

sagacious.

old age. senility, dotage, superannuation, decrepitude. Associated

words: geratology, geratic, gerontic.

old-fashioned, a. antiquated, archaic, _passé_, antique, obsolete,

fogram, frumpish.

old-fashioned word. archaism.

old iron, glass, etc. junk.

old maid. spinster.

old man. veteran, patriarch, Nestor, elder, oldster, Methuselah,

dotard; gaffer, crone, geezer; centenarian, octogenarian, sexagenarian,

nonagenarian.

old-time, a. late, former, quondam.

old woman. beldame, crone, gammer; witch, hag, harridan.

old-womanish, a. anile.

old-womanishness, n. anility.

omen, n. foretoken, sign, augury, portent, presage, prognostic,

auspice.

ominous, a. portentous, monitory, premonitory, threatening.

omission, n. default, oversight, neglect, pretermission, omittance,

non-performance.

omit, v. leave out, slap, pretermit, disregard, neglect, overlook,

ignore, delete.

omittance, n. omission, forbearance, default, neglect, oversight.

omnipresence, n. ubiquity.

omnipresent, n. ubiquitous.

one, n. unit. Associated Words: unify, unity, unification,

numerary.

one after the other. _seriatim_; tandem; alternately, consecutively.

one hundred years. century, centenary. Associated Words:

centenarian, centennial.

one letter. Associated Word: uniliteral.

on end. erect, perpendicular, upright.

oneness, n. unity, singleness, individuality, unanimity.

onerous, a. laborious, difficult, arduous.

one-sided, a. unilateral; partial, unfair, inequitable, _ex parte_.

one year. Associated Words: annual, annually.

on horseback. mounted.

onion, n. (that does not bottom out) scallion, eschallot, shallot.

Associated Words: alliaceous, cepaceous, leek, allium, garlic.

onlooker, n. looker-on, bystander, spectator, beholder, witness,

eye-witness.

on tap. broached, abroached.

on the sly. (Collog.) sly, covertly, furtively, clandestinely,

surreptitiously, secretly.

ooze, v. filter, exude, percolate, transude, seep.

oozing, n. percolation, filtering, exudation, distillation,

transudation.

opalescence, n. iridescence.

opalescent, a. iridescent.

opaque, a. intransparent; (Colloq.) obscure, unintelligible.

open, a. accessible, clear, unobstructed, unrestricted; ajar,

unlocked; extended, expanded, spread, gaping, yawning, unfolded,

dehiscent; frank, unreserved, candid, ingenuous, guileless, overt,

undisguised; generous, liberal, bounteous, open-handed; revealed, patent,

manifest; unsettled, undetermined, debatable, undecided, controvertible;

mild, clement; free, disengaged, unappropriated, unemployed.

open, v. spread, expand, unfold, evolve; reveal, disclose; unclose,

unlock, unfasten; begin, commence; dehisce.

open-air, a. outdoor, al-fresco.

opening, a. beginning, introductory, initiatory, preliminary.

opening, n. aperture, fissure, gap, orifice, rift, chasm, hiatus,

rent; beginning, introduction, outset; vacancy.

openly, adv. publicly, unreservedly, candidly.

open-mouthed, a. gaping, yawning; greedy, clamorous, ravenous,

rapacious, eager.

opiate, n. narcotic, anodyne, sedative, dormitive, soporific.

opiate, a. somniferous, narcotic, anodyne, sedative, soporiferous,

dormitive.

opinion, n. belief, judgment, impression; decision, ruling, verdict,

sentence.

opium, n. Associated Words: narcotic, opiate, chandoo, thebaine,

narcotine, codeine, dope, meconism, meconology, meconophagism,

meconophagist, opiophagism.

opponent, n. adversary, antagonist, rival, competitor.

opportune, a. timely, seasonable, apropos, felicitous, appropriate.

oppose, v. combat, resist, confront, withstand, oppugn, impugn,

contend, antagonize, contravene, discountenance, gainsay, contradict.

Antonyms: yield, acquiesce, concur, agree.

opposer, n. opponent, antagonist.

opposing, a. conflicting, antagonistic, contending, opposite,

adverse.

opposite, n. antithesis, counterpart, antipodes.

opposite, a. contrary, adverse, diametrical, antagonistic, inverse,

reverse, contradictory, counter, incompatible, antithetic, antipodal,

inconsistent.

opposition, n. resistance, counteraction, hostility, repulse, rebuff,

recalcitration, counterview, antagonism, contradiction, obstacle,

impediment, obstruction. Antonyms: acquiescence, non-resistance,

concurrence, agreement.

oppress, v. burden, overwhelm, aggrieve, tyrannize, persecute,

overpower.

oppression, n. tyranny, persecution, extortion, hardship, severity.

oppressive, a. rigorous, tyrannical, extortionate, burdensome.

oppressor, n. tyrant, persecutor, extortioner.

option, n. choice, preference, election, discretion, alternative.

Antonyms: constraint, coercion, compulsion.

optional, a. discretional, elective. Antonyms: compulsory,

coercive, obligatory.

oral, a. spoken, verbal, parole, vocal, nuncupative.

oration, n. declamation, rhetoric.

orator, n. declaimer, rhetorician.

oratorical, a. rhetorical, eloquent, declamatory.

ordeal, n. crucible.

order, n. mandate, command, precept, direction, decree, decretal,

injunction; rule, regulation, law, canon, prescription; method, system,

disposition, arrangement; succession, sequence; dictation, bidding,

commission; grade, degree, class; tranquillity, quiet.

order, v. methodize, systematize, regulate; bid, command, dictate,

enjoin.

ordering, n. distribution, disposition, regulation.

orderly, a. systematic, methodical, well-regulated, regular;

peaceable.

ordinary, a. common, regular, conventional, commonplace, mediocre,

average, usual.

organic, a. constitutional, vital, fundamental, essential, inherent,

instrumental.

organization, n. organism; formation, construction, making.

organize, v. arrange, systematize, form.

orgies, n. pl. carousal, revels, debauch, wassail, saturnalia,

bacchanals, riot.

origin, n. source, beginning, derivation, rise, origination.

original, a. first, primeval, aboriginal, primitive, archetypal,

primordial, pristine; creative, productive, inventive, ingenious.

Antonyms: derivative, copied.

original, n. origin, archetype, prototype, model, pattern.

Orkney Islands. Associated Word: Orcadian.

ornament, n. decoration, embellishment, adornment, garniture,

ornamentation; parure.

ornament, v. decorate, embellish, garnish, bedeck, grace, beautify.

ornamental, a. embellishing, beautifying, garnishing.

ornamentation, n. adornment, garniture, embellishment; arabesque,

moresque; purfling; fret-work.

ornate, a. ornamented, decorated, embellished, florid, adorned.

orthodox, a. Antonym: heterodox.

orthodoxy, n. Antonym: heterodoxy.

oscillate, v. fluctuate, vacillate.

ostentatious, a. showy, pompous, spectacular, gaudy, pretentious.

ounce by ounce. _unciatim_.

oust, v. eject, evict, dispossess, dislodge, remove, displace, expel,

depose.

ousting, n. ejection, eviction, expulsion, dispossession, ouster,

removal, disseizin, deposition.

out, adv. away, absent, abroad; outright, aloud, audibly; wanting,

lacking, deficient in; extinguished; at variance.

out and out. wholly, completely, openly.--a. absolute,

unqualified, undisguised.

outbounds, n. pl. limits, boundaries, confines.

outbreak, n. eruption, outburst, uprising.

outburst, n. eruption, outbreak, paroxysm, access, ebullition.

outcast, n. pariah, castaway, reprobate, Ishmaelite.

outcome, n. consequence, outgrowth, result, issue, upshot,

eventuation.

outdo, v. excel, surpass, outvie, outstrip, exceed.

outer, a. external, exterior.

outermost, a. extreme, uttermost, utmost.

outfit, n. equipment.

outflow, n. effusion, outpouring.

outgeneral, v. outmaneuver, circumvent.

outgrowth, n. excrescence; outcome.

outlandish, a. grotesque, bizarre, barbarous, unconventional,

freakish.

outlast, v. outwear, survive.

outlaw, n. bandit, desperado.--v. proscribe.

outlawry, n. proscription.

outlay, n. expenditure, disbursement.

outlet, n. egress, vent, exit.

outline, n. contour, circumference, periphery, profile; sketch,

draught, scenario.

outlive, v. survive.

outlook, n. prospect, view, vista; watch-tower; foresight.

outlying, a. remote, detached, distant, frontier.

out of joint. unhinged, dislocated.

out of order. disordered, disarranged, jumbled, chaotic,

disorganized.

out of place. misplaced; improper, unbecoming.

out of reach. inaccessible, unattainable.

outrage, n. indignity, affront, insult, assault.

outrageous, a. atrocious, nefarious, wanton, flagrant, unwarrantable,

furious, monstrous, villainous.

outright, adv. unconditionally, utterly.

outside, n. exterior.

outside, a. external.

outskirt, n. edge, border, purlieu, suburb, frontier.

outspoken, a. unreserved, frank, explicit, blunt, ingenuous.

outward, a. external, exterior, outer, superficial, surface,

extrinsic.

outweigh, v. overweigh, overbalance, preponderate.

outweighing, n. preponderance, preponderation.--a.

preponderant.

outwit, v. circumvent, outgeneral, defeat.

oval, a. elliptical.

oven mop. scovel.

over, adv. across, crosswise, athwart, transversely.

overawe, v. intimidate, daunt.

overbearing, a. haughty, arrogant, dictatorial, magisterial, lordly,

dogmatical, supercilious, imperious, cavalier, overweening.

overcharge, n. extortion.

overcoat, n. great coat, topcoat, ulster, raglan, inverness, surtout,

paletot.

overcome, v. surmount, conquer, subdue, master, vanquish, overpower,

subjugate.

overcoming, a. conquering, overmastering, overwhelming, irresistible.

over-confident, a. rash, presumptuous, incautious.

overdo, v. overwork, overtask, overtax, exhaust; exaggerate.

overeat, v. gorge, glut, satiate.

overfeed, v. surfeit, stuff, satiate, gorge, pamper.

overfeeding, n. surfeit, superalimentation, pampering.

overfill, v. surcharge.

overflow, n. deluge, flood, inundation; exuberance, superabundance,

profusion.

overflow, v. inundate, deluge, engulf.

overflowing, n. overflow, inundation; exuberance, copiousness,

superabundance.

overfull, a. surcharged, plethoric, surfeited, gorged.

overfullness, n. plethora, surfeit, satiety, engorgement, congestion,

repletion.

overhang, n. projection.

overhead, adv. aloft, above.

overlapping, a. obvolute, obvoluted, imbricate,

imbricated.--n.imbrication.

overlook, v. supervise, oversee; inspect, overhaul, examine,

neglect, disregard, skip, slight, ignore; condone, connive at, forgive.

overnice, a. fastidious, squeamish.

overplus, n. surplus, excess, surplusage, residue, rest.

overpower, v. vanquish, subdue, conquer, overcome, defeat, crush,

overwhelm, rout, master, subjugate, overmatch.

overpowering, a. overwhelming, conquering, irresistible,

overmastering.

overpowering, n. vanquishment, conquering, defeat, subjugation,

overthrow.

overrate, v. overvalue, overestimate, overprize.

overreach, v. outwit, dupe, swindle. See cheat.

override, v. trample upon, supersede, annul, abrogate.

overrule, v. annul, rescind, abrogate, revoke, supersede, set aside.

overruling, a. predominant, prevailing, controlling.

overruling, n. abrogation, cancellation, rescission.

overrun, v. infringe, invade.

oversee, v. superintend, supervise.

overseer, n. superintendent, supervisor, inspector, taskmaster,

foreman, monitor.

overshoe, n. galoshe, rubber, arctic.

oversight, n. superintendence, supervision, care, inspection,

surveillance, control, charge; overlooking, connivance, omission, failure,

inadvertence, default, inattention, lapse.

overstate, v. exaggerate.

overstep, v. exceed, trespass, infringe, intrench, encroach.

oversupply, n. excess, superabundance, surfeit, glut, repletion.

overt, a. public, apparent, unconcealed, patent.

overthrow, v. upset, overturn; demolish, prostrate, subvert, defeat,

vanquish, rout, overpower, overcome, subjugate, raze, worst.

overthrow, n. overthrowing, demolition, subversion, undoing,

reversal, prostration, defeat, bouleversement.

overtop, v. transcend, surpass, dwarf, overshadow.

overture, n. See offer.

overvalue, v. overrate, overestimate, overprize.

overweening, a. haughty, arrogant, cavalier, supercilious, lordly,

conceited.

overweening, n. conceit, arrogance, superciliousness, lordliness.

overweight, n. preponderance.

overwhelm, v. overflow, submerge, ingulf, drown, overpower, crush.

overwhelming, a. irresistible, overpowering.

owing, n. indebtedness.

owing, a. due, payable, unpaid; ascribable, traceable, imputable,

attributable, referable; indebted.

own, v. admit, acknowledge, confess, allow, concede, grant; possess.

Antonyms: disown, deny.

owner, n. proprietor.

ownership, n. proprietorship, claim, title.

oysters, n. pl. Mollusca, Ostrea. Associated Words: ostreaceous,

ostreaculture, ostreophagist, ostreophagous, ostriferous, bivalve, spawn,

cultch, spat.

P

pace, n. amble, rack.

pacifiable, a. placable, appeasable, conciliable.

pacify, v. appease, quiet, calm, mollify, propitiate, tranquilize.

pack, n. bundle, bale, parcel, package; multitude, number, quantity;

gang; shook.

pack, v. compress, stow, truss; load, encumber.

package, n. bundle, packet, bale, parcel, pack, budget, truss,

ceroon.

pact, n. compact, covenant, concordat. See agreement.

pad, n. cushion, bolster; saddle-cloth, housing.

padlock, n. Associated Words: shackle, staple, hasp.

pagan, n. See heathen.

page, n. footboy, buttons (Colloq.); folio.

page number. folio.

pail, n. bucket; piggin.

pain, v. hurt, torture, rack; distress, grieve, afflict, aggrieve.

pain, n. punishment, penalty; suffering, ache, smart, throe, rack,

agony, torture, distress, qualm, discomfort, pang, excruciation, paroxysm,

gripe, twinge, cramp, travail, stitch, crick, anguish; heartache, misery,

dolor. Antonyms: ease, comfort, relief, solace. Associated Words:

anodyne, anæsthetic, analgesic, dolorific, doloriferous, surcease,

anæsthetize.

painful, a. distressing, agonizing, excruciating, dolorous, racking;

toilsome, arduous, difficult.

painstaking, a. diligent, particular, precise, scrupulous.

Antonyms: slovenly, negligent.

paint, n. pigment; cosmetic, rouge.

paint, v. delineate, portray, lim, depict, picture, sketch.

painting, n. Associated Words: easel, palette, grisaille, artist,

art, atelier, studio.

pair, n. two, brace, couple, span, team, yoke, set.

pal, n. (Slang) partner, mate, confederate, associate, accomplice.

palace, n. mansion, castle, pretorium. Associated Words: palatine,

palatial.

palaver, n. cajolery, flummery; conference, debate, talk.

pale, a. pallid, wan, colorless, ghastly, blanched, cadaverous,

etiolate, ashy; dim, faint, indistinct, obscure. Antonyms: ruddy, buxom,

flushed, blowzed.

pale, n. picket; boundary, limit, confine, fence; inclosure.

paleness, n. pallidness, pallor, wanness, colorlessness, etiolation.

pall, v. cloy, sate, satiate, surfeit, glut.

palled, a. surfeited, satiated.

palliate, v. excuse, apologize for, gloss over, extenuate; moderate,

mitigate, temper.

palliation, n. extenuation, glossing over, excuse, apology;

moderation, mitigation, alleviation.

palliative, a. lenitive, mitigative, palliatory, apologetic,

extenuating.

pamper, v. overfeed, feed luxuriously; indulge, gratify, spoil,

cocker.

pamphlet, n. brochure, booklet, tract.

pan, n. basin, chafer.

panacea, n. cure-all, catholicon, relief, solace, nepenthe.

pancake, n. griddlecake, flapjack, fritter.

pander, n. bawd, pimp, procurer, whoremonger.

panegyric, n. eulogy, encomium. See praise.

panic, n. consternation, terror, alarm.

panic-stricken, a. panic-struck, alarmed, dismayed, terrified,

appalled.

pansy, n. heart's-ease, love-in-idleness.

pant, n. gasp, gasping.

pant, v. gasp; long, hunger, yearn, thirst.

panther, n. puma, cougar, jaguar.

panting, n. anhelation, gasping; longing, hunger, desire, thirst.

pantry, n. buttery, larder, ambry.

pants, n. pl (Colloq.) trousers, breeches, pantaloons; drawers;

knickerbockers, skilts, smallclothes, kneebreeches; overalls; chaparejos,

chapareras (leather breeches).

paper, n. document; essay, dissertation, article; journal, newspaper,

periodical, gazette, courant. Associated Words: papyrus, parchment,

papeterie, tablet, stationer, stationery, papier-mâché, portfolio.

papery, a. chartaceous.

par, n. equality, equivalence.

parade, n. pomp, display, ostentation, show; procession, pageant,

cavalcade; promenade.--v. display, flaunt, show off.

paradise, n. garden of Eden; Elysium; Heaven.

paragon, n. model, pattern.

parallel, a. like, similar, equal, analogous.

paralysis, n. palsy.

paralyze, v. benumb, deaden, stun, unnerve.

paralyzed person. paralytic.

paraphernalia, n. equipments, accouterments, ornaments.

parasite, n. hanger-on, toady, sycophant, fawner, flunky;

zoō; parasite, entozoa.

parcel, n. bundle, package; collection, lot; tract, plot, piece.

parch, v. torrefy.

parchment, n. vellum, pell, palimpsest.

pardon, n. absolution, remission, amnesty, forgiveness, condonation.

Antonyms: retribution, vengeance, retaliation, implacability, penalty.

pardon, v. absolve, remit, forgive, condone.

pardonable, a. venial, excusable. Antonyms: unpardonable,

inexcusable.

pare, v. peel.

parentage, n. extraction, descent, pedigree, ancestry, family, birth,

lineage.

parish, n. Associated Words: parochial, parochialism, parishioner,

parochialize.

parry, v. ward off, avert, prevent; avoid, evade, elude.

parson, n. See clergyman.

parsonage, n. rectory; manse; living, benefice.

part, n. portion, fraction, division, piece, constituent,

installment, element, section, subdivision; quarter, region, district;

share, portion, lot, allotment, assignment, duty, participation, function;

rôle, character; clause, section, paragraph, chapter, passage, division.

part, v. divide, sever, disunite, dissever, sunder, dissociate,

disconnect, detach, separate; intervene; apportion, share, mete out,

allot, distribute.

partable, a. partible, separable. Antonyms: impartible,

indivisible.

partake, v. share, participate in.

partaker, n. participant, participator, sharer.

partaking, n. participation.

parted, a. separated, divided, severed, disunited, isolated,

detached, riven, cleft, sundered.

partial, a. warped, biased, prejudiced; imperfect, incomplete.

Antonyms: See impartial.

partiality, n. bias, favoritism; predilection, inclination, fondness,

predisposition, bent.

partible, a. separable, divisible, detachable, dissoluble, severable.

Antonym: impartible.

particle, n. See bit; atom, molecule, monad.

particular, a. special, especial, specific; minute, precise,

detailed, circumstantial; individual, separate, sole, single;

characteristic, distinctive, individual, personal, peculiar; fastidious,

finical, scrupulous, precise, strict. Antonyms: indiscriminate,

slatternly, promiscuous, general.

particular, n. detail.

particulars, n. pl. details, minutiæ.

parting, a. farewell, valedictory.

parting, n. division, disunion, severance, separation; leave-taking,

farewell.

partisan, a. factionary.

partition, n. division, distribution, apportionment, allotment.

partner, n. copartner, coadjutor; colleague, associate, confederate,

accessory, ally, accomplice, partaker, confrère.

partnership, n. copartnership, cahoot (Slang).

parts, n. pl. talents, gifts, faculties, endowments; regions,

districts, quarters.

party, n. clique, faction, set, circle, ring, cabal, coterie, junto;

function, reception, salon, soirée, levee, matinée, drawing-room; company,

squad, detachment, troop; partaker, participant; person, somebody.

party-colored, a. variegated.

party man. partisan.

pass, v. elapse, lapse; transmit, deliver, hand; go, move, proceed,

advance; disappear, vanish, recede, depart; pass by, omit, pretermit;

overstep, overpass; transude.

pass, n. passageway, defile, passage; thrust, passado, lunge,

allonge; condition, plight, predicament, state, conjuncture, situation;

passport, safe-conduct.

passable, a. navigable, traversable, penetrable; tolerable, mediocre,

middling, so-so, ordinary, fair. Antonyms: impassable, impervious,

impenetrable.

passage, n. transit; fare; clause, sentence, paragraph; enactment;

corridor, hall; gangway; slype; pass, defile.

passing, a. exceeding, surpassing; transient, momentary, transitory,

fleeting, impermanent.

passing, adv. exceedingly, surpassingly.

passion, n. suffering, pain, agony; emotion, ardor, feeling, pathos;

wrath, fury, anger; love, infatuation, transport.

passionate, a. irascible, quick-tempered, choleric, excitable,

waspish; ardent, fervid, vehement, impassioned, fervent.

passionless, a. impassive, phlegmatic, stoical, unemotional,

dispassionate, apathetic.

passive, a. inactive, quiet, inert, receptive, quiescent, patient,

unresisting, submissive.

pass over. traverse.

passport, n. pass, safe-conduct; sea letter.

password, n. countersign, watchword, sesame.

past, n. Associated Words: preterist, preterition, pretermission,

preteritive, preterit, aorist, aoristic, retrospect, retrospective,

retrospection, antiquary, antiquity, antiquarian, quondam, antecedent,

antecedence, antecedents.

past, a. bygone, elapsed; preterite, preterit.

pastime, n. amusement, sport, diversion, recreation, divertisement,

entertainment, play, fun.

pastor, n. See clergyman.

pat, a. suitable, fit, convenient, timely, pertinent, appropriate.

patch, n. clout; tract, plot, parcel.--v. mend, repair, vamp,

revamp.

patent, a. evident, obvious, manifest, apparent.

path, n. footway, runway, course, passage, route, avenue, trottoir,

trail; towpath, heelpath, berm.

pathetic, a. plaintive, pitiable, piteous, mournful, sad.

pathless, a. untrodden, unexplored, trackless, impenetrable.

patience, n. long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission,

sufferance; indulgence, leniency, forbearance; persistence, diligence,

perseverance. Antonyms: impatience, restiveness, resistance.

patient, a. uncomplaining, submissive, resigned, passive,

long-suffering, indulgent; diligent.

patriotism, n. _amor patriæ_. Antonyms: incivism, chauvinism.

patron, n. supporter, promoter, defender, guardian, benefactor;

customer.

patronizing, a. condescending.

pattern, n. model, exemplar, original, prototype, archetype;

specimen, example; copy, reproduction; delineator, protractor. Associated

word: exemplary.

pattern, v. model, copy, imitate, follow.

paunch, n. abdomen.

pauperism, n. penury, indigence.

pauperize, v. impoverish.

pause, n. intermission, suspension, break; hesitation; break, cæsura.

pause, v. stop, hesitate, desist, waver, intermit.

pawn, v. pledge, impawn.

pay, v. compensate, remunerate, recompense, requite, indemnify,

reward, commute; retaliate, punish; liquidate, defray, settle, discharge;

be profitable; disburse (payout). Antonyms: repudiate, protest, bilk,

defraud.

pay, n. compensation, remuneration, recompense, requital, emolument,

salary, wages, fee, tip, honorarium, stipend, reward, hire, allowance,

perquisite.

payable, a. due, unpaid, outstanding; remunerable.

pay back. reimburse, refund, restore, repay, requite, indemnify;

retaliate.

paying, a. profitable, lucrative, gainful, remunerative.

paying back. reimbursement, refunding, restitution, requital,

indemnification, restoration, repayment; retaliation, requital, reprisal,

retribution.

paymaster, n. purser.

payment, n. paying, compensation, remuneration liquidation,

discharge, reparation, settlement, recompense, defrayment, amends;

retaliation, retribution, paying back. Antonyms: nonpayment, protest,

repudiation, default, defalcation, appropriation.

peace, n. concord, amity, harmony; tranquillity, quietness, repose,

calmness, serenity; reconciliation, compromise, pacification; armistice,

truce.

peaceable, a. amicable, inoffensive; tranquil, serene, undisturbed,

placid, peaceful, quiet. Antonyms: bellicose, belligerent, contentious,

rebellious, pugnacious.

peaceably, adv. amicably.

peaceful, a. amicable, tranquil, peaceable, halcyon.

peacemaker, n. mediator, intercessor, pacificator, make-peace,

arbitrator, intermediary.

peacemaking, a. pacificatory, conciliatory, intercessory,

propitiatory, mediatorial, irenic, intercessional.

peacemaking, n. mediation, pacification, reconciliation,

intercession, propitiation, pacation, compromise, intervention,

arbitration, negotiation, irenics, irenicon.

peace-offering, n. atonement, reparation, amends.

peach, v. (Colloq.) tell on, betray.

peacock, n. bird of Juno, Pavo. Associated word: pavonine.

peak, n. apex, pinnacle, summit, crest, spire, point, top, crown,

finial.

peaked, a. pointed; (Cottoq.) sickly, thin, pale, emaciated.

peal, v. resound, reverberate, echo, boom.

peal, n. reverberation, resounding.

peanut, n. groundnut, earthnut, goober.

pear cider. perry.

pearl, n. margarite; jewel, gem; baroque pearl; nacre

(mother-of-pearl).

pearl-producing, a. margaritiferous.

pearly, a. nacreous, pearlaceous, pellucid, iridescent.

pear-shaped, a. pyriform.

peart, a. (Colloq.) lively, active, smart, brisk.

peasant, n. rustic, swain, hind.

pease, n. pl. legumes, pulse; hastings. Associated Word:

leguminous.

pea-shaped, a. pisiform.

peck at. carp at, nag, tease, importune, twit.

peculation, n. embezzlement.

peculator, n. embezzler.

peculiar, a. individual, personal, particular; singular, eccentric,

erratic, queer, odd, exceptional, unique, bizarre, grotesque, nondescript,

unusual, unconventional.

peculiarity, n. characteristic, trait, attribute, idiosyncrasy,

eccentricity, oddness.

peddle, v. hawk, vend.

peddler, n. hawker, huckster, vender, chapman, cadger, packman,

coster.

peddler's pack. wallet.

peddling, n. hucksterage, hawking.

pedigree, n. lineage, ancestry, descent, extraction, genealogy.

peek, v. peep.

peel, n. rind, skin.--v. pare, decorticate. Antonym: pulp.

peep, v. chirp, cheep, pule; peer, peek, pry.

peer, n. equal, match, mate, compeer; nobleman, noble, lord.

peerless, a. matchless, unrivalled, inimitable, incomparable,

unsurpassed, superlative, nonpareil, transcendent, supreme, unequalled.

peevish, a. petulant, querulous, captious, spleeny, fretful,

impatient, cross.

peg, n. pin, spilikin; pretext, support, reason; degree, step.

pellmell, adv. disorderly, confusedly, helter-skelter.

pelt, n. woolfell, fell.

pelt, v. batter, beat, assail, pepper.

pen, v. confine, coop, encage, corral.

pen, n. coop, sty, cote, enclosure, hutch, paddock, pound, pinfold,

corral, stockade.

penalty, n. punishment, retribution; forfeiture, fine, mulct.

pending, a. undecided, unsettled.--prep. during.

penetrable, a. permeable, pervious. Antonym: impenetrable.

penetrate, v. pierce, perforate; comprehend, understand; explore;

interpenetrate.

penetrating, a. piercing, subtile, penetrant, sharp; acute,

discerning, penetrative.

penetration, n. piercing, perforation; acuteness, discernment,

sharpness; interpenetration.

peninsula, n. chersonese.

penis, n. Associated Words: penial, foreskin, prepuce, glans,

urethra, chordee, erection, orgasm, _corpus spangiosum_, priapism,

phimosis, smegma, phallus, bougie.

penitence, n. contrition, repentance, remorse, compunction.

Antonym: impenitence.

penitent, a. contrite, remorseful. Antonyms: impenitent,

incontrite.

penitentiary, n. prison.

penman, n. calligrapher, calligraphist, chirographer, chirographist,

writer.

penmanship, n. writing, calligraphy, pencraft, chirography.

pen name. pseudonym, _nom de plume_.

penniless, a. impecunious, indigent, destitute. See poor.

pennilessness, n. impecuniosity, indigence, poverty, destitution.

penny, n. cent; groat, stiver; denarius.

penny-a-liner, n. hack, hack writer.

pensive, a. meditative, dreamy, lackadaisical, introspective,

thoughtful, sad, grave.

Pentecost, n. Whitsunday, Whitsuntide.

penthouse, n. lean-to.

pent up. confined, restrained, restricted.

penurious, a. miserly, stingy, niggardly, parsimonious, avaricious,

grasping.

penury, n. poverty, indigence.

people, n. folks; inhabitants, population, citizens; populace,

commonalty, rabble, canaille; relatives, relations, kindred; laity.

people, v. populate, colonize.

peopled, a. inhabited, populated.

pepper, n. capsicum.

peppery, a. pungent; irascible, hot-tempered, choleric.

perceive, v. see, discern, observe; apprehend, comprehend,

understand. See see.

perception, n. cognizance, discernment; sensation, feeling.

Antonym: imperception.

perch, n. roost.

perchance, adv. perhaps, peradventure, possibly, maybe.

perchers, n. pl. Insessores.

percolate, v. ooze, strain, filter, transude.

percolation, n. filtration, straining, transuding.

perdition, n. ruin, wreck, destruction; hell.

perennial, a. perpetual, undying, imperishable.

perfect, a. consummate, faultless, flawless, exquisite, inviolate,

impeccable, infallible, correct, mature, ideal, irreproachable, blameless.

Antonyms: See imperfect.

perfect, v. consummate, elaborate, retouch, develop.

perfection, n. faultlessness, consummation, impeccability.

perfidious, a. See unfaithful.

perfidy, n. treachery, faithlessness, disloyalty, unfaithfulness.

perforate, v. bore through, pierce, penetrate, drill.

perforation, n. piercing, penetration; hole, opening, pertusion,

aperture. Antonyms: imperforation, imperforable.

perforator, n. cephalotome.

perform, v. accomplish, execute, do.

performance, n. execution, achievement, accomplishment; trick, feat,

exploit, stunt, deed, act.

performer, n. acrobat, funambulist, equilibrist, tumbler,

contortionist, aerosaltant, actor, player, impersonator.

perfume, n. fragrance, aroma, redolence, sachet, incense, emanation,

odor; attar, musk, patchouli, frankincense, civet, myrrh, pastil,

pulvillio. Associated Words: exhale, exhalation, cassolette, perfumer,

perfumery.

perhaps, adv. perchance, peradventure, possibly, haply.

peril, n. See danger.

perilous, a. dangerous, hazardous, imperiled, unsafe. Antonyms: See

safe.

period, n. interval.

perishable, a. destructible, impermanent, mortal. Antonyms:

imperishable, permanent.

perjury, n. oath-breaking. Associated Words: suborn subornation,

suborner, perjurer, perjurous, forswear.

perk, a. vain, trim, spruce, smart, jaunty.

permanence, n. durability, imperishability, stability, permanency.

permanent, a. stable, immutable, durable, imperishable, unchangeable,

abiding, indestructible. Antonyms: impermanent, evanescent, ephemeral,

transient.

permeable, a. penetrable, pervious, pervadible. Antonym:

impermeable.

permission, n. consent, allowance, license, leave, permit,

authorization, warrant. Antonyms: refusal, denial, embargo, injunction,

veto, prohibition, resistance.

permit, v. allow, consent to, suffer, tolerate, let, authorize,

indulge, license, empower. Antonyms: refuse, disallow, prohibit, resist.

permit, n. warrant, license, leave, permission.

pernicious, a. deleterious, harmful, noisome, baleful, vicious.

pernickety, a. (Colloq.) finical, particular, fastidious, fussy.

perpendicular, a. upright, vertical. Antonyms: horizontal oblique.

perpetual, a. See everlasting.

perplex, v. bewilder, puzzle, pose, confuse, mystify, distract,

disconcert, entangle.

perplexed, a. bewildered, confused, puzzled, disconcerted.

perplexing, a. bewildering, confusing, carking, mystifying, puzzling.

perplexity, n. bewilderment, distraction, confusion, disconcertion,

doubt, uncertainty, predicament, dilemma, plight, quandary, difficulty,

strait.

persecute, v. harass, oppress, tyrannize, torment, dragoon,

importune, annoy, hector, badger.

persecution, n. oppression, molestation, importunity.

perseverance, n. persistence, diligence, constancy,

indefatigableness, assiduity, pertinacity.

persevere, v. persist, continue.

persevering, a. persistent, steadfast, untiring, indefatigable,

pertinacious, unremitting, indomitable. Antonyms: inconstant, fickle,

unsteadfast.

persist, v. persevere.

persistency, n. perseverance, doggedness, pertinacity, obstinacy,

contumacy, insistence.

persistent, a. contumacious, persevering, insistent, pertinacious,

tenacious, importunate, constant.

personality, n. individuality; reflection, stricture, animadversion,

criticism.

personally, adv. individually.

personate, v. impersonate.

personation, n. impersonation.

perspiration, n. See sweat.

perspire, v. sweat.

persuade, v. induce.

persuasion, n. inducement, suasion, incitement; creed, belief.

Antonyms: dissuasion, coercion, constraint.

persuasive, a. persuasory.

pert, a. sprightly, dapper, nimble; forward, bold, saucy, malapert.

pertain, v. appertain.

pertinacious, a. resolute, determined, stubborn.

pertinacity, n. resoluteness, persistence, doggedness, stubbornness.

pertinence, n. relevancy, applicability, propriety. Antonyms:

impertinence, irrelevance.

pertinent, a. relevant, apposite, applicable, proper. Antonyms:

impertinent, irrelevant.

perturb, v. disquiet, excite, disturb, agitate, discompose, distress.

perturbation, n. excitement, agitation, discomposure, distress,

disconcertion, worry. Antonyms: composure, imperturbation, calmness.

perturbed, a. excited, distressed, worried, discomposed, agitated.

perusal, n. reading.

peruse, v. read.

perverse, a. perverted, misdirected, erring, depraved, vitiated;

intractable, obstinate, stubborn, contrary, headstrong, indocile.

Antonyms: See obedient.

perversion, n. debasement, vitiation, corruption, falsification.

pervert, v. lead astray, corrupt, debase, vitiate; misuse, misapply,

misinterpret, distort, falsify.

pervious, a. permeable, penetrable. Antonym: impervious.

pesky, a. (Colloq.) vexatious, troublesome.

pessimistic, a. gloomy, foreboding, hopeless.

pest, n. pestilence, plague, scourge; curse, nuisance, annoyance,

infliction, bane.

pester, v. plague, badger, harass, harry, tease, torment, hector,

disturb, molest.

pest house, n. lazaretto, lazar-house.

pestiferous, a. infectious, contagious, pestilential; noxious,

noisome.

pestilence, n. plague, scourge, fatal epidemic.

pestilent, a. pestiferous.

pet, n. fondling, darling, favorite; cosset; tiff.

pet, v. humor, coddle, fondle, cosset, caress, indulge.

pet, a. favorite, petted, cade.

peter out. (Slang) dwindle.

petition, n. entreaty, supplication, prayer.

petition, v. entreat, supplicate, pray.

petitioner, n. suppliant, applicant, solicitor.

petrifaction, n. lapidification, petrescence, lapidescence; fossil,

stone.

petrify, v. lapidify, fossilize.

petticoat, n. underskirt; balmoral.

petty, a. small, insignificant, trivial, trifling.

petulant, a. See cross.

pew, n. slip.

phantom, n. spectre, apparition, ghost.

phantomlike, a. spectral, ghostly.

pharmaceutist, n. apothecary, druggist.

pharmacist, n. apothecary, druggist, pharmaceutist.

phase, n. aspect, appearance.

phase, v. (Colloq.) disconcert, disturb, discompose, affect.

philistine, a. uncultured, commonplace.

phiz, n. (Colloq.) face, visage, countenance, physiognomy.

phlegm, n. mucus.

phlegm, n. dullness, sluggishness, coldness, indifference.

phlegmatic, a. unemotional, cold, dull, sluggish.

phonograph, n. graphophone.

photograph, n. heliograph.

photography, n. heliography.

phrase, n. idiom; diction, phraseology.

phrenologist, n. craniologist.

phrenology, n. craniology.

physic, n. medicine; cathartic, purge, purgative.

physic, v. purge.

physical, a. material, bodily.

physical structure. physique.

physician, n. See doctor.

piano, n. pianoforte.

piazza, n. veranda, portico, stoop, porch.

pick, v. pluck; pick out, select, choose, cull, glean.

pick, n. pickax; choice; spike, pike; plectrum.

picket, n. stake, pale, paling; sentry, guard, watchman, sentinel.

pickle, n. brine; (Colloq.) dilemma, predicament, plight; marinade.

pickpocket, n. cutpurse, _chevalier d'industrie_ (French).

picture, v. delineate, sketch, draw, represent, depict.

picture, n. drawing, painting, engraving, half- tone, photograph,

print, miniature, daguerreotype, chromo, icon, chromotype, mezzotint,

pastel, lithograph, lithotint, cartoon, sketch, etching, chromolithograph,

pasticcio, tableau, portrait, illustration, cyclorama, silhouette,

carte-de-visite, minette, caricature, vignette, draught, aquarelle,

thermotype, tintype, ambrotype, cabinet, heliograph, chrysotype,

photogravure, oleograph, cut, negative, study, likeness, scene, landscape,

view, stereogram, stereograph, panorama, aristotype, heliotype, diorama,

diaphanotype, decalcomania, mosaic, photoengraving, inconograph.

piddle, v. trifle.

piddling, a. trifling, inconsiderable, insignificant, piffling,

inconsequential.

piebald, a. spotted, dappled, pied, pintado, pinto, party-colored.

piece, n. scrap, swatch, clout, chunk, slice, clipping, chip, hunk,

hunch, fragment, fillet, shard; essay, article, composition; étude

(Mus.).

piece, v. patch, repair; augment.

pied, a. mottled, spotted, piebald, dappled, party-colored.

pieplant, n. rhubarb.

pier, n. wharf, dock, jetty, buttress.

pierce, v. transfix, stab, impale, gore; penetrate, bore, perforate,

drill.

pierced, a. perforated, penetrated.

piercer, n. stiletto, eyeleteer, gimlet, awl, bodkin.

piercing, a. penetrating, keen, sharp, thrilling, poignant.

piercing, n. penetration, perforation, impalement, transfixion,

boring.

piety, n. sanctity, godliness, holiness.

piffle, n. trifling.--v. trifle, piddle.

piffling, a. trifling.

pig, n. shoat, far; gilt (young female); whinock; hog, swine.

Associated Words: porcine, farrow, litter, barrow, boar, sow, pork.

pigeon-house, n. dove-cote, columbary.

piggery, n. pig pen, sty, pigsty.

pigheaded, a. stubborn, perverse.

pig pen, n. sty, pigsty, piggery.

pigtail, n. queue.

pile, n. heap, stack, accumulation.

pile, v. heap, stack, accumulate.

piles, n. hemorrhoids.

pilfer, v. filch, purloin.

pilfering, n. filching, theft, pilfery.

pilgrim, n. wayfarer, traveler, sojourner, crusader.

pilgrimage, n. journey, expedition, sojourn, crusade.

pilgrim's staff. bourdon.

pillage, n. devastation, plundering, rapine, spoliation; spoil,

plunder, booty, loot.

pillage, v. sack, plunder, despoil, devastate, foray.

pillar, n. column, pier, shaft, post, obelisk, monolith; supporter,

maintainer.

pillow, n. cushion, bolster.

pilot, n. steersman, helmsman; director, guide, conductor.

pilot, v. guide, steer, direct.

pimp, n. procurer, bawd, pander.--v. pander, bawd.

pimple, n. eruption, papule, pustule.

pin, n. peg, bolt, skewer, spilikin, spile, plug, linchpin.

pinafore, n. apron, tier.

pinch, n. twinge, tweak, twitch; exigency, strait.

pinch, v. squeeze, compress, twinge, tweak, gripe, nip; cramp,

straiten, oppress; skrimp.

pinch, v. (Slang) arrest.

pinchbeck, a. sham, spurious, brummagem.

pinchers, n. pl. pincers, tweezers, pliers, nippers, forceps.

pinching, a. griping, compressing, nipping, skrimping.

pine, v. droop, languish, waste; yearn, long--n. deal.

pining, a. languishing, fading, drooping.

pinion, n. feather; wing.

pink, v. scallop.

pinnacle, n. peak, summit, top, apex, zenith; finial.

pious, a. religious, devout, saintly, righteous, reverent. Antonym:

impious.

pip, n. seed; roup.

pipe, n. tube, conduit, aqueduct.

pipe, n. tobacco pipe, clay pipe; nargile, nargileh; hubble-bubble;

hookah; chibouque; dudeen.

piped, a. tubular.

pipe of peace. calumet.

pipe-shaped, a. tubular.

piping, a. peaceful, favorable; shrill, acute; sizzling, boiling,

hissing.

piquancy, n. pungency, sharpness, spiciness; raciness, liveliness.

piquant, a. pungent, spicy; racy, lively.

pique, n. displeasure, resentment, vexation, umbrage.

pique, v. displease, offend.

piracy, n. freebooting, sea-robbery.

pirate, n. sea-robber, buccaneer, picaroon, corsair, freebooter,

viking.

pirate's flag. Jolly Roger.

piratical, a. predatory.

pismire, n. emmet.

piss, n. urine.--v. urinate.

pit, n. hollow, hole, excavation, cavity; abyss; parquet; quarry;

endocarp, stone, putamen.

pitapat, adv. in a flutter, flutteringly.

pitch, n. slope, declivity, slant.

pitch, n. bitumen, asphaltum.

pitch, v. cast, hurl, toss, throw, fling, heave, chuck; plunge;

decline, slope, slant.

pitcher, n. jug, ewer, jar, toby, aiguière.

pitcher-shaped, a. urceolate.

pitch into. (Slang) attack, assault, assail.

piteous, a. compassionate, merciful; mournful, plaintive, doleful.

pitfall, n. snare, trap, pit.

pith, n. marrow; gist, heart, essence, substance.

pithy, a. sententious, laconic.

pitiable, a. sad, piteous, lamentable, deplorable.

pitiful, a. tender-hearted, compassionate, merciful, lenient,

ruthful, clement; lamentable, piteous, sad, sorrowful; despicable,

contemptible, abject, mean.

pitiless, a. See unmerciful.

pittance, n. dole.

pity, n. compassion, mercy, ruth, commiseration, condolence,

sympathy.

pity, v. have pity for, condole with, commiserate.

pitying, a. commiserative, sympathetic, tender, merciful.

pivot pin. pintle.

placable, a. appeasable, pacifiable.

placard, n. broadside, poster, bill, _affiché_.

place, a. position, site, situation, locality; rendezvous, tryst;

duty, function, post, work, office; stead, lieu.

place, v. deposit, locate, dispose, put, set, station, establish,

attribute, impute, ascribe, assign; identify.

place between. interpose.

plague, n. pestilence.

plague, v. hector, tantalize, tease, badger, pester, twit, nag,

torment, harass, harry.

plaguy, a. (Colloq.) troublesome, vexatious, annoying.

plaid, a. checkered, crossbarred.

plaid cloth of Scotland. tartan.

plain, n. prairie, field, savanna, pampas, steppe, llano, champaign,

campagna, heath, moor, camass, downs, tundra, veldt, peneplain.

plain, a. evident, manifest, explicit, obvious, unmistakable,

distinct, apparent, palpable, patent; unembellished, simple, austere,

severe, ungarnished, unadorned, untrimmed; homely, uncomely; flat, level,

even, smooth, plane; unaffected, simple, artless, outspoken, undesigning,

ingenuous, unreserved, direct; frugal, homely; unvaried, unfigured; mere,

absolute, unmistakable. Antonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, indistinct,

indecipherable, elaborate, luxurious, cryptic, abstruse, ornate,

enigmatic, vague, inexplicable, obscure, complex, intricate, embellished.

plain, adv. plainly, distinctly, bluntly, candidly, explicitly.

plain-dealing, n. honesty.

plain song. Gregorian chant, _canto fermo_.

plain-spoken, a. frank, candid, unreserved, outspoken.

plaint, n. complaint, lamentation.

plaintiff, n. complainant.

plaintive, a. piteous, melancholy, sad, sorrowful, doleful.

plait, n. braid, plat, gather, ruffle, gauffering, plication,

fluting, kilting.

plait, v. braid, plat, flute.

plaited, a. pleated, kilted.

plan, n. diagram, draught.

plan, v. scheme, project, intend, devise, contrive, design, purpose.

planetarium, n. orrery.

plant, n. vegetable, herb; pl. flora (plants of a region).

plant, v. sow; settle, establish.

plant-eaters, n. pl. Herbivora.

plant-eating, a. herbivorous, phytivorous, plantivorous,

phytophagous.

plant-eating, n. phytophagy.

plant green. chlorophyll, fecula.

plant louse. aphis, aphid, aphidian; pl. aphides, aphidæ.

plastic, a. formative, creative; impressible, fictile.

plat, v. braid, plait.

plateau, n. table-land, mesa.

platform, n. rostrum, stage, dais.

platitude, n. banality.

platitudinous, a. banal, trite, commonplace.

platter, n. trencher.

plaudit, n. applause, acclaim, acclamation.

plausibility, n. speciousness.

plausible, a. specious; glib, fluent, oily, smooth-tongued.

Antonym: implausible.

play, v. frolic, sport, gambol, disport, frisk, skip, caper, romp,

revel; wanton, dally, toy, twiddle; impersonate, personate, act; perform,

execute; strum, thrum; gamble; simulate, pretend, feign, dissemble.

play, n. game, pastime, amusement, recreation, diversion, sport,

disport, gambols, frolic, jest, merriment; action, use, employment,

practice, exercise; comedy, drama, melodrama, farce, burlesque; dalliance,

toying, twiddling; liberty, scope, swing. Associated Words: dramaturgy,

dramaturgist, dramatic, dramatize, dramatization, theater, rôle,

repertoire.

playday, n. holiday.

player, n. idler, drone; actor, thespian, tragedian, comedian,

imitator, impersonator, mime, mimic; performer, instrumentalist.

playful, a. sportive, frolicsome, prankish, jocular, sprightly,

wanton.

play off. feign, simulate, dissemble.

plaything, n. bauble, gimcrack, toy.

play-writer, n. playwright, dramatist.

plea, n. defense, excuse, apology, vindication, intercession, prayer,

entreaty.

plead, v. reason, argue; apologize; defend, advocate, intercede.

pleader, n. intercessor, defender, advocate.

pleasant, a. agreeable, genial, congenial, affable, amiable,

enjoyable, good-humored, pleasurable. Antonyms: unpleasant,

disagreeable, uncongenial, repellent, repelling, austere, unamiable,

inaffable, dreary, dismal, offensive.

pleasantry, n. badinage, banter, raillery, witticism, joke, jest,

jocularity, drollery, waggery, jollity, humor.

please, v. rejoice, gladden, delight, gratify, cheer, elate; satisfy,

content; like, choose, prefer.

pleasing, a. pleasant, delightful, gratifying, delectable, gracious,

winning.

pleasure, n. gratification, enjoyment, happiness, delectation,

delight; amusement, recreation, diversion; will, choice, preference,

desire; voluptuousness, sensuality. Antonym: displeasure.

pleat, n. plait.

pledge, n. gage, security, hostage, guarantee.

pledge, v. pawn, impawn, hypothecate, plight.

plenteous, a. plentiful.

plentiful, a. abundant, bounteous, ample, galore, copious, full,

sufficient, lavish, replete, unstinted, prolific. Antonyms: scarce,

deficient, inadequate, insufficient, scant, niggardly.

plenty, n. abundance, sufficiency, plenitude. Antonyms: See

scarcity.

plethora, n. superabundance, superfluity, excess, repletion;

hyperæmia.

pliability, n. flexibility, suppleness, pliancy, limberness,

ductility, malleability. Antonyms: inflexibility, rigidity. See

inflexibility.

pliable, a. flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe,

flexile, malleable; irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant. Antonyms:

impliable, inflexible.

plight, n. condition, state, dilemma, predicament, situation, scrape.

plight, v. pawn, pledge; promise, betroth.

plod, v. trudge, tramp.

plodding, a. hardworking, diligent.

plot, n. conspiracy, intrigue, machination, cabal, complot; plat;

imbroglio (complicated plot). Associated Word: marplot.

plot, v. conspire, intrigue, cabal, complot, machinate, scheme.

plotter, n. conspirator, intriguer, intrigant, machinator, caballer,

intrigante (female).

plowable, a. arable. Antonym: inarable.

plowland, n. arable, carucate.

plowman, n. plower, husbandman.

pluck, v. pull, draw; pick, gather.

pluck, n. courage, energy, spirit, stamina, pluckiness.

plucky, a. courageous, spirited, indomitable, resolute, unflinching,

game.

plug, n. stopper, stopple, bung, tampoon, spile, tampion, spigot.

plumb, a. perpendicular, upright, true.

plume, v. preen, prink; pride, vaunt, boast, glory.

plump, a. fleshy, bouncing, chubby, fat, portly, stout; blunt,

unreserved, unqualified.

plunder, n. booty, spoil, loot, pillage, robbery.

plunder, v. pillage, loot, rob.

plunderer, n. pillager, robber, spoiler, depredator, marauder.

plunge, v. souse, immerse, submerge, dip, douse; dive, pitch.

pocket, n. bag, sack, pouch, placket, sabretasche.

pocket-book, n. purse, wallet, _portemonnaie_.

pockmarked, a. pockpitted, pockfretten, pocky, pitted.

pod, n. capsule, legume, burr, shale, boll.

poem, n. sonnet, ballad, verse, distich, lyric, elegy, eclogue, idyl,

madrigal, epic, ode, georgic, cid, rondeau, epilogue, epigram, elegiac,

roundelay, dithyramb, dithyrambic, doggerel, rhapsody.

poet, n. bard; laureate; versifier, rhymster, poetaster; troubadour,

jongleur.

poetaster, n. rhymster, verse-monger, versifier.

poetical, a. metrical, rhythmic.

poetry, n. verse, rhyme, poems, poesy, orthometry, versification,

prosody, poetics. Antonym: prose. Associated Word: anthology.

poignant, a. pricking, piercing, pungent.

point, n. prick, gad, goad; punctilio, nicety, subtlety; poignancy,

sting; degree, step, stage; ferrule; zenith (highest point); nadir

(lowest point); aiglet, tag; apex, tip.

point, v. aim, level, direct; show, indicate, designate; punctuate;

taper.

point-blank, a. direct, plain, unqualified, unreserved.

pointed, a. sharp, picked, peaked, tapering, conical. Antonyms:

pointless, dull.

pointer, n. indicator, index.

pointing, n. sharpening; punctuation; designation, indication.

poise, n. equipoise, balance, equilibrium.

poise, v. balance, librate.

poison, n. venom, virus, toxine, toxicant, irritant, taint, bane,

ptomaine. Associated Words: toxicology, toxicophobia, toxicomania,

toxiferous, toxicologist, antidote, alexiteric, venenific, septiferous,

envenom, infect.

poisoning, n. toxication, venenation; autotoxication

(self-poisoning); tainting, vitiation, infection.

poisonous, a. toxic, toxical, venomous, noxious, baneful, virulent,

malignant. Antonyms: nonpoisonous, antidotal.

poisonousness, n. toxicity, venomousness, virulence, malignancy.

poke, n. bag, sack, pocket; thrust, punch, jog, dig; dawdler, bore.

poke, v. stir up, excite; punch, thrust; gore, hook; grope.

poke fun at. (Colloq.) ridicule, deride.

poker-painting, n. pyrography, xylopyrography.

poky, a. (Colloq.) slow, dull, tiresome, tedious, prosaic.

polar lights. aurora borealis (northern); aurora australis

(southern);

Pole, n. Polander, Polack.

pole, n. shaft, thill (of a vehicle); rod, perch; bergstock,

alpenstock; poy (rope-dancer's pole); 5 1/2 yards, 30 1/4 square yards;

jalons; quant.

polestar, n. north star, polar star, Polaris, loadstar, Cynosure.

polish, v. burnish, furbish.

polish, n. gloss, luster, sheen, glaze, glazing; courtliness,

refinement.

polished, a. burnished, glistening, bright; courtly, elegant refined.

polite, a. courtly, civil, courteous, suave, urbane, deferential

debonair, mannerly. Antonyms: See impolite.

politeness, n. courtliness, courtesy, civility, suavity, urbanity,

deference, amenity, comity.

politic, a. political; judicious, discreet, shrewd, astute;

diplomatic, strategic, artful.

politician, n. statesman, statist; demagogue (unprincipled and

factious).

polliwog, n. tadpole, purwiggy.

poll tax. capitation.

pollute, v. defile, contaminate, corrupt, infect, debase, vitiate,

desecrate, befoul.

pollution, n. defilement, contamination, corruption, infection

debasement, vitiation.

poltroon, n. coward, craven, dastard.

pommel, v. beat, pound, maul, belabor, cudgel, thwack, club.

pomp, n. pageantry, parade, pageant.

pompous, a. stately, imposing, august; pretentious, grandiose See

bombastic.

pond, n. lake (small); lagoon.

ponder, v. meditate, reflect, ruminate, think, muse.

ponderous, a. massive, heavy, cumbersome; dull, spiritless momentous,

important.

pooh-pooh, v. (Colloq.) deride.

poor, a. indigent, impecunious, needy, poverty -stricken,

straitened, necessitous, penniless, eleemosynary; emaciated, skinny, lean,

spare, meager, bony, gaunt, thin, haggard, scrawny, angular, peaked,

rawboned, pinched; inferior, mean, shabby, seedy, tacky, worthless;

barren, sterile, effete infecund, inarable, exhausted, infertile;

miserable, wretched, faulty, defective; despicable, contemptible, abject,

sordid, sorry; unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious.

poorhouse, n. almshouse, infirmary.

pope, n. bishop of Rome, pontiff, _Pontifex Maximus_. Associated

words: papal, papacy, paparchy, popish, see, popedom, popery, ablegate,

nuncio, legate, Vatican, pontifical.

poppinjay, n. dandy, coxcomb. See fop.

populace, n. commonalty, proletariat, rabble.

popular, a. approved.

popularity, n. favor, esteem, approbation, celebrity.

population, n. inhabitants.

porch, n. piazza, stoop, veranda, porte-cochère, portico.

pork, n. Associated Words: trichina, trichinosis.

porous, a. permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable. Antonyms:

imporous, compact.

porridge dish. porringer.

port, n. harbor, haven; port-hole, embrasure; larboard; deportment,

carriage, bearing, demeanor.

portend, v. foretoken, bode, presage, foreshadow, augur.

portentous, a. ominous, premonitory; monstrous, prodigious.

porter, n. doorkeeper, _concierge_.

portico, n. colonnade, arcade; porch.

portion, n. part, section, piece; allotment, quota, share,

contingent; inheritance; dowry.

portly, a. dignified, imposing, stately, commanding; fleshy, obese,

corpulent, stout.

portray, v. delineate, depict, picture, draw, sketch, paint,

describe.

portrayal, n. delineation, description, account, recital, painting,

depiction.

pose, n. attitude, posture (assumed).--v. attitudinize;

nonplus, bewilder, embarrass.

position, n. situation, post; attitude, posture; situation, place,

job; rank, standing, status; state, condition, circumstances.

positive, a. definite, precise, unequivocal, explicit, catagorical,

unmistakable; confident, certain, sure; veritable, actual, absolute;

indisputable; peremptory, dogmatic.

posse, n. (Colloq.) crowd, throng, multitude.

possess, v. own; have, hold, occupy; seize, take, appropriate.

possession, n. ownership, occupancy, tenure, fruition, retention,

occupation.

possessor, n. owner, proprietor; occupant, tenant, holder.

possibility, n. potentiality, contingency. Antonym: impossibility.

possible, a. potential, _in posse_, contingent, practicable.

Antonym: impossible.

possibly, adv. maybe, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, haply.

post, n. column, pillar, pilaster; position, seat, station; office,

employment, station; bollard, stanchion, pile, newel, puncheon.

post, v. placard, announce; mail.

posted, a. (Colloq.) informed.

poster, n. placard, bulletin, bill.

posterior, a. later, subsequent, ensuing, succeeding; hinder, rear.

post-mortem, n. autopsy, necropsy.

postpone, v. defer, delay, put off, procrastinate, adjourn, prorogue.

postponement, n. deferring, delay, procrastination.

posture, n. attitude.

posy, n. flower, nosegay, boutonnière, bouquet.

pot, n. kettle; chamber-pot, jorden, urinal; jardinière.

potboy, n. menial, scullion.

potent, a. powerful, forcible, cogent, effective, strong.

pother, n. confusion, commotion, flutter, bustle, stir.

potter, v. trifle, pother.

potter's wheel. jigger, throw.

pouch, n. bag, sack; paunch; marsupium.

poultice, n. cataplasm.

pound, v. beat; comminute, pulverize, bray, triturate; maul, belabor;

impound.

pound, n. pinfold; sixteen ounces (avoir.); twelve ounces (troy);

sovereign, $4.86.

pounder, n. pestle.

pour, v. decant.

pouring, n. decantation.

poverty, n. penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation,

neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism; deficiency, paucity, infecundity,

dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness. Associated Words:

impoverish, impoverishment.

powder, n. dust, pulverulence; cosmetic, rouge; pounce;

efflorescence.

powder, v. pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.

powdery, a. friable, loose; dusty, pulverized, pulverulent, mealy.

power, n. potency, might, cogency, efficacy, force; armipotence,

omnipotence; influence, sway, command, domination, authority; faculty,

endowment, gift.

powerful, a. mighty, potent, drastic, efficacious, intense, strong,

dynamic, puissant, effective, omnipotent, armipotent, stentorian,

invincible, cogent, commanding.

powerless, a. impotent. See weak.

pox, n. syphilis.

practicability, n. feasibility.

practicable, a. feasible.

practical, a. pragmatical. Antonyms: impractical, Utopian,

chimerical.

practice, n. custom, usage, habit; exercise, application, drill,

rehearsal.

practice, v. exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehearse.

praise, n. commendation, laudation, approbation, encomium, panegyric,

eulogy, applause, laud, acclaim, éclat, plaudit, compliment, acclamation,

puff, flattery; worship, homage, glorification; pæan. Antonyms:

condemnation, dispraise, disapprobation, disparagement, denunciation,

animadversion, stricture.

praise, v. laud, extol, commend, eulogize, panegyrize, applaud;

magnify, glorify. Antonyms: condemn, denounce, disparage, deprecate,

criticize.

praiser, n. eulogist, panegyrist, extoller, encomiast, lauder.

praiseworthy, a. laudable, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable,

unpraiseworthy, indign.

prance, v. cavort.

prank, n. trickpracticable, a. feasible.

practical, a. pragmatical. Antonyms: impractical, Utopian,

chimerical.

practice, n. custom, usage, habit; exercise, application, drill,

rehearsal.

practice, v. exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehearse.

praise, n. commendation, laudation, approbation, encomium, panegyric,

eulogy, applause, laud, acclaim, éclat, plaudit, compliment, acclamation,

puff, flattery; worship, homage, glorification; pæan. Antonyms:

condemnation, dispraise, disapprobation, disparagement, denunciation,

animadversion, stricture.

praise, v. laud, extol, commend, eulogize, panegyrize, applaud;

magnify, glorify. Antonyms: condemn, denounce, disparage, deprecate,

criticize.

praiser, n. eulogist, panegyrist, extoller, encomiast, lauder.

praiseworthy, a. laudable, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable,

unpraiseworthy, indign.

prance, v. cavort.

prank, n. trick, antic, frolic, caper.

prankish, a. playful, frolicsome, sportive, mischievous, gamesome.

prate, v. babble, gabble, clatter, chatter, prattle. See talk.

prate, n. chatter, gabble, babble, twaddle.

pray, v. invoke, supplicate, entreat, implore, beg, petition,

intercede.

pray against. deprecate.

prayer, n. invocation, orison, collect, suffrage, supplication,

obsecration; litany, rogation, rosary, euchologion, secreta; entreaty,

intercession.

preach, v. exhort.

preacher, n. homilist, exhorter, predicant, pulpiteer; missionary,

evangelist, revivalist.

preaching, n. sermon, homily, exhortation. Associated Words:

homiletics, homiletic.

precarious, a. uncertain, insecure, unassured, doubtful

preceding, a. foregoing.

precept, n. commandment, maxim, rule, adage, behest, injunction.

precious, a. costly, expensive; valuable; dear, beloved, adored,

idolized.

precious stone. jewel, gem. See stone.

precise, a. exact; formal, punctilious, particular, prim, prudish.

precision, n. exactness, accuracy; formalness, prudery.

predatory, a. predaceous, plundering.

predestination, n. foreordination, foreordainment.

predict, v. prophesy, foretell, prognosticate, forebode, portend,

augur, presage, vaticinate.

prediction, n. prophecy, soothsaying, divination, augury,

prognostication.

predominant, a. dominant, overruling, ascendant, supreme.

preface, n. prologue, prelude. See introduction.

prejudice, n. prejudgment, bias; harm, mischief, detriment.

preposterous, a. absurd, ridiculous, irrational, inconsistent,

foolish.

presage, n. omen, augury, auspice, portent; foreknowledge,

premonition.

present, n. gift, donation, largess, gratuity, douceur.

preserve, v. conserve.--n. compote.

press, n. pressure, urgency.

press, v. squeeze, crowd, compress; urge, crowd; express; embrace,

hug, clasp; oppress, enjoin, constrain.

pressed together. compact, serried, crowded.

pressing, a. urgent, importunate, exigent.

pretend, v. claim; simulate, feign, affect.

pretense, n. assumption, claim, pretension; simulation, affectation;

pretext, feint, subterfuge.

pretty, a. comely, fair; personable, considerable. Antonyms:

plain, homely, uncomely, ugly.

prevent, v. thwart, hinder, obstruct, preclude, obviate, forestall,

intercept, avert, parry, deter, frustrate.

prevention, n. obstruction, thwarting, interruption, hindrance,

preclusion, obviation, interception.

preventive, a. deterrent, prophylactic, obviating.--n.

prophylactic.

previous, a. former, foregoing, antecedent, prior, anterior.

prey, n. spoil, loot, plunder, booty; victim, quarry, captive;

depredation, ravage, spoliation.

preying upon others. predatory.

prick, n. goad, spur, gad; sting, compunction, qualm; puncture.

prick, v. puncture, pierce, perforate; goad, spur, incite; sting,

wound, hurt.

pricking, a. poignant, sharp, piercing, stinging.

prickle, n. thorn, spine, barb.

prickly, a. thorny, spiny, brambly, briery.

pride, n. self-esteem, self-respect; haughtiness, arrogance, hauteur,

superciliousness, contumely, conceit, vanity, priggishness, lordliness,

imperiousness. Antonyms: humility, shame, self-abasement, modesty,

lowliness.

priestly, a. sacerdotal.

priestly garments. vestments, canonicals. See canonicals.

prim, a. formal, precise, demure, prudish.

prime minister. premier.

primer, n. hornbook.

primitive, a. pristine, primordial, primeval, primal; antique,

quaint, old-fashioned; original, radical, primary.

principal, a. leading, chief, cardinal, paramount, main, foremost.

printing, n. typography; (for the blind) Braille.

prior, a. previous, former, antedecent, anterior.

priority, n. antecedence, anteriority, precedence.

prison, n. penitentiary, bridewell, jail, house of correction,

clink, bastille.--v. imprison, incarcerate. Associated Words:

mittimus, commit, commitment, turnkey, warden, remand, prisoner, convict.

privacy, n. retirement, seclusion; retreat, solitude, concealment,

secrecy, secret.

private, a. personal, individual; secret, secluded, covert,

sequestered, hidden, unrevealed.

privates, n. pl. genitals. See sexual organs.

privation, n. deprivation, degradation; destitution, poverty, need;

absence.

privilege, n. liberty, right, franchise, prerogative, immunity,

advantage.

privy, n. water-closet, backhouse, jakes.

prize, n. meed, guerdon, palm, trophy, laurels, reward, premium,

sweepstakes.

prize, v. value, esteem.

prize-fighter, n. pugilist.

prize-fighting, n. pugilism.

probability, n. likelihood, verisimilitude, credibleness.

probable, a. likely, credible, reasonable.

probe, v. investigate, examine.

proboscis, n. snout, trunk; haustellum (sucking proboscis).

procession, n. parade, cavalcade, cortège, train, retinue, file.

proclaim, v. See announce.

procure, v. get, obtain, acquire.

prod, n. goad.

prodigal, a. wasteful, extravagant, lavish, profuse.

profane, v. violate, desecrate; debase, prostitute, defile.

profane, a. unconsecrated, secular; unsanctified, unholy;

blasphemous, irreverent, impious, sacrilegious.

profess, v. acknowledge, avow, admit; claim, pretend.

profession, n. acknowledgment, avowal; vocation, business, calling.

proficient, a. expert, adept, skilled.

profit, n. gain, emolument, dividend. Associated Words: pernor,

fructuary, exploit, exploitation.

profitable, a. remunerative, lucrative, gainful, beneficial.

Antonyms: See unprofitable.

profound, a. abysmal, deep; abstruse, recondite. Antonym: shallow.

progress, n. progression, advancement, improvement.

prohibit, v. See forbid.

prominent, a. protuberant; conspicuous, salient; eminent,

distinguished.

promiscuous, a. indiscriminate.

promise, n. pledge, word, parole, plight, betrothal, troth, vow,

assurance, covenant.

promise, v. pledge, covenant, assure, plight.

promote, v. advance, forward; exalt, elevate, raise, aggrandize;

brevet.

promotion, n. preferment, exaltation, advancement, furtherance,

aggrandizement; brevet.

prompt, a. quick, expeditious, ready; punctual, timely.

pronunciation, n. orthoëpy; utterance, articulation, enunciation.

Associated Words: diacritical marks, macron, breve, diæresis, orthoëpic,

orthoëpist, cacoëpy.

proof, n. verification, corroboration, attestation, certification,

confirmation. Antonyms: disproof, refutation.

prop, n. buttress, stay, support, brace, fulcrum, shore, stanchion.

prop, v. buttress, brace, stay, support, sustain, shore up.

proper, a. appropriate, meet, suitable, seemly, condign, appertinent,

conformable, consistent, apposite; decorous, conventional, formal, sedate,

demure. Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, unsuitable.

property, n. attribute, trait; estate, wealth, chattels, goods,

resources, assets, inheritance.

prophecy, n. prediction, foretelling, divination, soothsaying,

prognostication, augury, vaticination.

prophesy, v. prognosticate, foretell, divine, augur, predict,

vaticinate.

prophet, n. prognosticator, vaticinator, soothsayer, diviner, oracle,

seer, python.

prophetess, n. sibyl, pythoness.

prophetic, a. prognostic, predictive, fatidical, oracular,

divinatory, vaticinal.

prosperity, n. weal, success, well-being. Antonyms: adversity,

reverses, disaster.

prostitute, n. harlot, whore, strumpet, courtesan.

prostitution, n. harlotry, social evil, whoredom; perversion, misuse,

profanation.

prosy, a. prosaic, dull, tiresome, tedious, uninteresting, jejune.

protect, v. shield, defend, guard, fortify, screen, shelter,

befriend.

protection, n. defense, shield, shelter, tutelage, refuge, bulwark,

coverture, safeguard.

protector, n. defender, guardian, patron.

proud, a. arrogant, vain, haughty, overbearing, supercilious,

cavalier, overweening, disdainful, imperious, lordly, magisterial,

contumelious. Antonyms: meek, humble.

proud flesh. granulation, fungus.

provable, a. demonstrable.

prove, v. verify, corroborate, substantiate, demonstrate. Antonyms:

disprove, refute.

proverb, n. aphorism, maxim, saw, adage. See saying.

provide, v. supply, furnish; stipulate, covenant, agree; cater,

purvey.

provider, n. furnisher, caterer, purveyor, provisor.

provoke, v. incite, stimulate, instigate, rouse; exasperate,

displease, aggravate, offend.

prowess, n. bravery, intrepidity, valor.

prudence, n. discretion, caution.

prudent, a. discreet, cautious, circumspect, provident. Antonyms:

imprudent, incautious.

pry, n. lever; leverage.--v. prize; gaze, inspect.

puberty, n. Associated Words: puberal, pubescence, pubescent,

hebetic, impuberal.

publish, v. promulgate, proclaim, circulate, blazon, announce.

Antonyms: suppress, withhold.

publisher's inscription. colophon, impress, imprint.

pucker, v. crease, corrugate, cockle, purse, wrinkle.

pucker, n. crease, corrugation, cockle, wrinkle; (Colloq.)

confusion, bother, perplexity.

puckery, a. astringent.

puddle, n. pool, plashet, plash.

puerile, a. childish, silly, trifling.

puke, v. vomit.

pull, v. draw, tug, haul, tow, drag; pluck, jerk, twitch.

pulverize, v. triturate, comminute, levigate, bray.

pump, v. interrogate, question, quiz.

pun, n. paragram.

punch, v. push, poke; pierce, bore, perforate, puncture.

puncture, v. prick, perforate, pierce.

pungent, a. pricking, stinging; poignant, sharp, excruciating,

severe.

punish, v. chastise, castigate, chasten, discipline.

punishment, n. chastisement, castigation, scourging, discipline,

penalty, visitation, retaliation, retribution, infliction. Antonyms:

immunity, impunity, acquittal, exoneration. Associated Words: penal,

penology, punitive, penologist, penological, reprieve, commute,

commutation, Nemesis, connivance.

punning, n. paronomasia.

puny, a. undeveloped, small, undersized, diminutive, stunted,

atrophied, feeble.

pup, n. puppy, whelp.

pupil, n. scholar; learner, disciple, catechumen, neophyte, tyro,

novice, probationer.

pupilage, n. nonage, minority.

puppy, n. pup, whelp; coxcomb, dandy, fop.

purchasable, a. venal.

purchase, v. buy.

pure, a. chaste, virtuous, innocent, undefiled, unpolluted,

inviolated, unspotted, immaculate, virgin, incorrupt, impeccable,

inviolable; unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, simple, refined,

genuine, uncontaminated. Antonyms: See impure.

purge, n. physic, purgative, cathartic.

purification, n. depuration, expurgation, defecation, refinement,

cleansing.

purificator, n. mundatory.

purify, v. cleanse, refine, expurgate, sublime, clarify.

purity, n. chastity. Antonyms: See impurity.

purport, n. meaning, signification, import.--v. mean, intend,

signify, import.

purpose, n. aim, object, design, intent, goal, view, drift.

purpose, v. intend, design, contemplate.

purveyor, n. caterer, provider; procurer, pimp, bawd, pander.

pus, n. matter, purulence. Associated Words: purulent, maturate,

maturation, suppurate, suppuration, indigested, fester.

push, v. shove, impel.

push, n. shove.