push, n. (Colloq.) energy, spiritedness,_Putnam's word book

aggressiveness; (Slang) crowd, gang, posse.

pushing, a. enterprising, energetic, intrusive, forward, officious,

obtrusive, aggressive.

pusillanimous, a. See cowardly.

pussy, a. (Colloq.) pursy, fleshy.

put back. replace, restore, reinstate; retard, impede, delay, hinder.

put between. interpose.

put down. deposit; crush, quell, suppress, repress, vanquish

overthrow; reduce, lower.

put in. insert, inject, interpolate, interpose, thrust in,

interject, interlard.

put-off, n. shift, evasion, subterfuge, ruse, parry.

put off. discard, doff; delay, defer, postpone, procrastinate.

put out. eject, oust, remove, evict, dispossess, dislodge; extend,

protrude; extinguish; issue, publish; dislocate; displease, offend, anger.

putter, v. potter, pother, trifle, fribble, dally, dawdle.

putting back. hindering, delay, retardation; replacement,

restoration, reinstatement.

putting in. insertion, injection, interpolation.

putting in practice. application.

putting off. delay, deferment, postponement, procrastination.

putting on. investing, investiture; assumption, arrogation;

instigation, incitement.

putting out. ejection, eviction, dispossession, expulsion, ousting;

extinguishment, extinction; dislocation.

put to flight. rout.

put-up, a. (Colloq.) arranged, predetermined.

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

puzzle, n. enigma, conundrum, intricacy, maze, crux, riddle, rebus,

poser; confusion, quandary, perplexity, nonplus, bewilderment.

puzzling, a. enigmatical, perplexing, inexplicable, inscrutable,

intricate, bewildering.

pyx, n. ciborium; ostensorium, monstrance; binnacle.

quack, n. charlatan, empiric, pretender, mountebank.

quack, a. empirical, charlatanic, quackish.

quackery, n. empiricism, charlatanism, charlatanry, mountebankery.

quackish, a. empirical, charlatanic.

quack medicine. nostrum.

quaggy, a. boggy, queachy, swampy, marshy, fenny.

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

quail, n. bobwhite.

quail, v. tremble, cower, flinch, quake, blench, falter.

quaint, a. fanciful, whimsical, odd, curious, grotesque,

old-fashioned.

quake, v. quiver, tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate.

quake, n. agitation, trembling, shaking, vibration, quivering.

Quaker, n. Friend.

qualification, n. condition, restriction, modification, limitation;

endowment, ability, eligibility, capability, fitness, competency;

allowance, diminution, adaptation, mitigation, preparation.

qualified, a. modified, limited; competent, eligible, fitted,

capable.

qualify, v. modify, limit, restrict, condition; fit, prepare, equip;

modulate, vary, temper; diminish, moderate, mitigate, assuage, alleviate.

quality, n. nature, character, sort, strain, condition;

characteristic, peculiarity, trait, property, attribute, attribution,

accident; high rank, nobility, gentry, aristocracy.

qualm, n. nausea; compunction, regret, uneasiness.

qualmish, a. nauseated.

quandary, n. perplexity, predicament, dilemma, puzzle, difficulty,

strait.

quantity, n. amount.

quarrel, n. altercation, disagreement, dispute, brawl, affray, fray,

variance, bickering, contention, wrangle, spat, tiff, squabble, broil,

dissension.

quarrel, v. wrangle, altercate, dispute, contend, squabble, bicker,

spar, jangle; disagree, clash, dissent, differ.

quarrelsome, a. disputatious, contentious, irascible, choleric,

litigious, pugnacious, brawling.

quarry, n. stone pit; game, prey.

quartering, n. quadrisection, quadripartition.

quarter note. crotchet.

quarters, n. pl. rooms, lodging; posts, stations, cantonments,

barracks.

quartz, n. silica, silex.

quash, v. crush, subdue, extinguish, quell, suppress; annul,

overrule.

quashing, n. extinguishment, quelling, suppression; annulment,

overruling.

quaver, n. shaking, trembling, quiver.--v. shake, tremble,

quiver.

quay, n. wharf.

quean, n. hussy, jade.

queen, n. consort.

queer, a. odd, erratic, eccentric, peculiar, singular, unusual,

uncommon, unique, whimsical, bizarre, strange, grotesque, fantastic,

unconventional, nondescript, freakish, exceptional, irregular; (Colloq.)

suspicious, questionable.

queer, v. (Slang) ridicule, banter, rally; spoil, discourage.

quell, v. subdue, suppress, crush, quash.

quelling, n. suppression, repression, crushing.

quench, v. slake; extinguish, stifle, suppress.

quenchless, a. unquenchable.

querulous, a. peevish, fretful, petulant, discontented,

fault-finding, querimonious.

query, n. question.

quest, n. search, seeking, pursuit, request, desire, solicitation,

inquiry.

question, n. interrogation, inquiry, query, quizzing, quiz,

examination; objection, dispute, gainsaying, scruple, cavil; inquest,

debate, discussion, disquisition, inquisition; subject, theme, topic,

problem, proposition; interpellation.

question, v. interrogate, quiz, catechise, examine, inquire of,

pump, heckle; doubt, query, challenge; interpellate.

questionable, a. suspicious, disputable, doubtful, debatable,

problematical, moot, controvertible, dubious, indeterminate, ambiguous.

questioner, n. inquirer, interrogator, inquisitor, querist, quizzer,

quiz.

questioning, a. interrogatory, inquisitive, quizzical, inquisitorial,

catechistic, curious, heckling.

question mark. interrogation point, eroteme.

queue, n. pigtail (of hair), cue.

quib, n. gibe, quip, taunt, sarcasm.

quibble, n. shift, evasion, cavil, sophism, subterfuge, subtlety.

quibble, v. prevaricate, equivocate, cavil, trifle.

quibbler, n. caviler, prevaricator.

quibbling, a. trifling, evasive, prevaricative, caviling, elusive,

sophistical.

quick, a. hasty, swift, fast, speedy, fleet, hurried, rapid,

expeditious; living, animate, live; animated, sprightly, lively, spirited,

agile, brisk, nimble, prompt, deft; irascible, passionate, choleric,

excitable, hasty, sharp; summary. Antonyms: slow, dilatory, sluggish.

quicken, v. revive, vivify, vitalize, resuscitate, animate; excite,

stimulate, incite, actuate; accelerate, expedite, hasten, advance,

facilitate, further. Antonyms: impede, retard, hinder, obstruct, check.

quickening, n. vivification, resuscitation, reanimation,

revivification, animation; excitement, stimulation, actuation, incitement;

acceleration, expedition.

quickening, a. accelerative.

quickness, n. fleetness, expedition, rapidity, celerity, alacrity,

agility, dispatch, velocity, haste, speed, facility.

quicksand, n. syrtis.

quid, n. cud.

quiddity, n. cavil, quibble, subterfuge.

quiet, a. calm, still, pacific, motionless, unmoved, stagnant,

placid, serene, undisturbed, unruffled, halcyon, unmolested; hushed,

silent, still, noiseless, inaudible; demure, meek, inoffensive, gentle,

retiring, modest, unobtrusive, unassuming, undemonstrative, staid,

reserved, sedate; sequestered, unfrequented, retired, secluded.

Antonyms: noisy, tumultuous, boisterous, hoidenish, rude, stormy,

disturbed, obtrusive, forward, demonstrative.

quiet, v. still, hush, lull, appease, allay, compose, tranquilize,

pacify, becalm; assuage, alleviate, mollify, moderate, relieve.

Antonyms: arouse, aggravate, exasperate, intensify, increase.

quietness, n. stillness, quiescence, quiet, repose, calmness,

tranquillity, serenity, unobtrusiveness, silence, inaudibility.

quill feathers. remiges.

quilt, n. coverlet, bedquilt, counterpane.

quip, n. gibe, taunt, quirk.

quip, v. gibe, taunt.

quirk, n. evasion, subterfuge, shift;, quibble, prevarication,

equivocation; retort, quip, gibe.

quirky, adv. tricky, disingenuous, deceitful.

quit, v. cease, stop, desist, discontinue, forbear, break off;

abandon, leave, forsake, evacuate, surrender, resign; absolve, acquit.

Antonyms: continue, persist, stay.

quitch grass. crouch grass, quack grass.

quiver, v. tremble, shake, shudder, quake.

quivering, a. trimbling, tremulous, shuddering, shaking.

quixotic, a. Utopian, impracticable, chimerical fanciful.

quiz, v. puzzle, banter, chaff; question.

quiz, n. puzzle, conundrum, poser; examination.

quod, n. (Slang) quadrangle, court.

quoit, n. discus.

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

quota, n. portion, share, allotment, apportionment.

quotation, n. citation, excerpt.

quotation marks. guillemets.

quote, v. cite, repeat, paraphrase, excerpt.

rabbit, n. hare, coney, bunny, cottontail.

rabbitry, n. warren.

rabble, n. mob, rabblerout, populace.

rabid, a. violent, raging, furious; intolerant, fanatical,

uncompromising, rampant.

rabies, n. hydrophobia. Associated Words: rabid, rabietic,

hydrophobic, antihydrophobic.

race, n. Associated Words: ethnology, ethnography, ethnologist,

ethnic, racial, ethnogeny, holethnos, holethnic, interracial.

race-course, n. race-track, ring, circus, career, hippodrome,

curriculum, stadium.

racer, n. courser.

rack, n. pain, torture, agony; amble, pacing; crib, manger; distaff;

arrack.

rack, v. stretch, strain, torture, agonize; harass, persecute,

torment.

rack and ruin. (Colloq.) destruction, ruin.

racket, n. din, uproar, clamor, babel, clangor, blare, noise,

hullabaloo, hilarity, vociferation; (Slang) carouse, revel, dissipation.

racy, a. fine-flavored, pungent, rich; spirited, piquant, fresh and

lively. Antonyms: insipid, vapid, tasteless, flavorless, dull, prosaic.

radiance, n. effulgence, refulgence, brilliancy, brightness.

radiant, a. effulgent, refulgent, brilliant. See bright.

radiate, v. shine, beam, gleam; diverge.

radiated, a. divergent.

radiation, n. irradiance, irradiation; divergence. Antonym:

convergence.

radical, a. original, fundamental; extreme, thorough-going;

primitive. Antonyms: conservative, moderate, slight, trifling,

derivative.

radical, n. root, etymon, radix.

radically, adv. fundamentally.

raff, n. heap, jumble.

raffle, n. lottery.

raft, n. float, catamaran; (Slang) lot, multitude, collection,

heap.

rag, n. tatter, flitter, shred, patch, frazzle, fragment.

ragamuffin, n. tatterdemalion, scarecrow.

rag-baby, n. mopsey, moppet.

rage, n. fury, wrath, passion; (Colloq.) vogue, mode, fashion. See

anger.

rage, v. storm, fume, rave.

ragged, a. rent, torn, frazzled; rough, jagged; ragamuffin,

tatterdemalion.

raging, a. furious, raving, infuriated, wroth, frenzied, flagrant,

rampant.

rag-picker, n. chiffonier.

raid, n. foray, incursion.

rail, v. upbraid, reproach, censure, scoff.

railing, n. invective, vituperation, reproach, upbraiding, contumely.

See abuse.

raillery, n. banter, pleasantry, jesting, asteism.

railroad, n. railway.

railroad, v. (Colloq.) hurry, rush.

raiment, n. See clothes.

rain, n. (fine rain) drizzle, mizzle, mist, misle; shower.

Antonym: drought.

rainbow, n. iris.

rain gauge. ombrometer, udometer, pluviometer, pluviograph,

ombrograph, hyetometer.

rainy, a. showery, wet, pluvious, pluvial.

raise, v. uplift, lift; hoist, heave; erect, build, rear; elevate,

advance, exalt; enhance, augment; excite, arouse; propagate, grow,

cultivate; rear; levy, collect.

raising, n. uplifting, lifting, elevation, hoisting; erection,

rearing; exaltation, elevation; propagation, growing, cultivation.

rake, n. libertine, lecher, debauchee, _roué_, wencher, rakehell,

satyr.

rakish, a. licentious, dissolute, libertine, immoral, lecherous,

lewd.

rally, v. collect, reunite; recover, recuperate; assemble; banter,

satirize, joke.

ram, n. buck; (Astron.) Aries.

ram, v. cram, stuff, compress.

ramble, v. rove, range, stroll, stray, straggle, roam, wander.

ramble, n. stroll, wandering, rambling.

rambler, n. rover, wanderer, roamer, stroller.

rambling, a. roving, wandering; discursive, digressive, incoherent.

ramp, v. spring, leap, bound, romp.

rampage, n. (Slang) debauchery, passion, excess, unrestraint.

rampageous, a. (Low) rampant, unrestrained, unruly, violent.

rampancy, n. exuberance, luxuriance.

rampant, a. exuberant, luxuriant, rank, wanton, excessive;

uncontrollable, violent, raging, furious, unbridled.

rampart, n. fortification, bulwark, security, vallum.

ramshackle, a. dilapidated, disjointed.

rancid, a. musty, tainted, rank, frowzy.

rancor, n. malignity, vindictiveness, hatred, virulence, malevolence,

bitterness.

rancorous, a. malevolent, vindictive, malignant, hateful, virulent,

bitter.

random, a. haphazard, chance, stray, aimless, hazarded.

range, v. arrange, rank, class, classify; rove, roam, ramble;

correspond.

range, n. extent, reach, sweep, compass, scope, latitude; order,

class, kind, series, rank; compass, register.

rank, a. exuberant, luxuriant, rampant, vigorous; violent, extreme,

excessive, immoderate, gross; rancid, musty, frowzy, fetid, stale;

offensive, impalatable, fulsome, foul, gross.

rank, n. row, line, range, order, tier, series; grade, class, order,

division; position, station, degree; eminence, distinction.

rank, v. classify, arrange, dispose, class, group, be ranked.

rankling, n. festering, inflammation; heart-burning, resentment.

ransack, v. rummage.

ransom, n. release, liberation, redemption, deliverance.

ransom, v. redeem, rescue, liberate, deliver.

rant, v. declaim, spout, rave, vociferate.

rant, n. rodomontade, ranting, vociferation, bombast.

ranting, a. bombastic.

rap, v. knock.--n. knock, thump, thwack.

rapacious, a. predatory, predaceous, ravenous; avaricious, grasping,

extortionate, voracious.

rapacity, n. voracity, rapaciousness, greediness, avarice.

rape, n. constupration, defloration, ravishment, violation.

rape, v. ravish, constuprate, violate, deflower.

rapid, a. swift, fast, fleet, expeditious, cursory, quick, speedy,

hasty, furious.

rapidity, n. swiftness, celerity, velocity, haste, speed, fleetness.

rapidly, adv. swiftly, fast, post haste.

rapine, n. plundering, sack, pillage, spoliation, depredation.

rapscallion, n. (Colloq.) rascal, rogue, scoundrel, knave,

miscreant.

rapt, a. enraptured, fascinated, transported, spellbound; absorbed,

engrossed.

rapture, n. ecstasy, transport, delight, bliss, beatitude.

rapturous, a. ecstatic, beatific, delightful, ravishing,

transporting.

rare, a. uncommon, unusual, strange, infrequent, singular, curious;

exquisite, fine, incomparable, _recherché_; sparse, dispersed; subtile,

fine, thin, rarefied, tenuous; underdone.

rare bird. _rara avis_.

rarebit, n. delicacy, tidbit, dainty.

rarely, adv. infrequently, seldom.

rascal, n. rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, scamp, knave, villain,

miscreant, varlet, trickster, renegade, scapegrace, rapscallion.

rascality, n. chicanery, improbity. See badness.

rash, a. incautious, precipitate, overhasty, indiscreet,

inconsiderate, impulsive, temerarious, madcap, headlong, foolhardy,

unwary, reckless.

rash, n. exanthema, eruption, efflorescence.

rashness, n. temerity, precipitancy, indiscretion, incaution,

recklessness.

rasp, v. grate, file; offend.

rasping, a. grating.--n. pl. scobs.

rate, v. estimate, value, appraise; assess; scold, censure, chide,

berate, reprove.

ratification, n. confirmation, sanction, substantiation,

corroboration.

ratify, v. confirm, sanction, substantiate, corroborate.

ration, n. allowance, portion, allotment.

rational, a. reasoning; intelligent, sane, sound, judicious, wise,

reasonable, equitable. Antonyms: irrational, insane, injudicious,

unwise, unreasonable.

rationale, n. explanation, exposition, reason.

rattle, v. clatter; chatter, prate, babble, prattle; disconcert,

confuse, discompose.

rattle, n. clatter; chatter, babble, prattle; crepitaculum; rale.

rattle-headed, a. giddy, rattle-brained, thoughtless.

ravage, v. plunder, pillage, devastate, sack, desolate, despoil.

ravage, n. plunder, pillage, devastation, spoliation, sack,

despoliation, rapine.

rave, v. rage, rant, storm.

ravel, v. unravel.

ravening, a. rapacious, insatiable, predatory, ferocious.

ravenous, a. voracious, rapacious, ravening, insatiable.

ravine, n. gorge, defile, clough, lin, gully, gulch.

raving, a. irrational, delirious, maniacal, wild, phrenetic.

ravish, v. transport, enrapture, enchant; rape.

ravishing, a. rapturous, ecstatic, transporting, beatific,

delightful.

ravishment, n. ecstasy, transport, rapture; rape.

raw, a. uncooked; unprepared, crude; immature, unripe; galled, sore,

sensitive; inexperienced, unskilled, green.

rawboned, a. gaunt, skinny.

raw meat. Associated Word: omophagic.

raw sugar. cassonade.

ray, n. beam, gleam.

raze, v. erase, efface, rase; overthrow, subvert, demolish.

reach, v. attain.

reachable, a. attainable, accessible.

reach the highest point. culminate.

react, v. repeat; resist, oppose; rebound, recoil.

read, v. peruse.

readable, a. legible. Antonyms: unreadable, illegible.

reader, n. peruser.

readiness, n. promptness, facility, alacrity. Antonyms:

unreadiness, reluctance.

reading, n. perusal; recitation, prelection.

reading desk. lecturn.

real, a. genuine, veritable, actual, true. Antonyms: fictitious,

unreal, spurious, ostensible, artificial, feigned, sham.

reality, n. actuality, verity. Antonyms: unreality, phantasm,

simulation, phantom.

realization, n. fulfillment, effectuation.

realize, v. effectuate.

really, adv. actually, truly, indeed, veritably, verily.

realm, n. kingdom, dominion; domain, region, sphere, department.

realty, n. real estate.

ream, n. twenty quires, 480 sheets.

rear, a. hindmost.

rear, v. raise, lift, elevate; erect, build; bring up.

rearing, n. elevation, raising; erection.

reason, n. motive, consideration, design, purpose, rationality,

logic, account. Associated Words: dialectics, logic, syllogism,

premises, conclusion.

reason, v. ratiocinate, syllogize; argue, remonstrate, expostulate.

reasonable, a. rational; logical, just; conscionable, fair, moderate,

equitable.

reasoner, n. logician.

reasoning, n. ratiocination, argumentation, syllogism, discursus;

(sophistical or false) sophistry, fallacy, casuistry.

reata, n. lariat, lasso, riata.

rebate, n. deduction, discount, allowance.

rebel, n. insurgent, revolter, turncoat.

rebel, v. revolt, mutiny.

rebellion, n. insurrection, insurgency, mutiny, sedition, revolt,

insubordination.

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

refractory. Antonyms: dutiful, submissive, docile, compliant,

deferential, obedient.

rebound, v. recoil, ricochet; reverberate, reëcho.

rebound, n. rebounding, resilience, repercussion, recoil, ricochet.

rebuff, n. repulse, resistance, opposition, repellence, check,

setback.

rebuff, v. repulse, resist, repel, oppose.

rebuke, v. reprove, upbraid, censure, reprehend, chide, admonish.

rebuke, n. reproof, censure; chastisement, punishment.

recall, v. revoke, annul, retract, recant, rescind, repeal, abjure;

remember, recollect.

recall, n. revocation, rescission, repeal, recantation, retraction.

recalling, a. revocatory.

recant, v. retract, abjure.

recantation, n. retraction, abjuration, retractation.

recapitulate, v. summarize.

recapitulation, n. summary, résumé.

receipt, n. receiving, reception; formula, recipe, formulary;

voucher.

receive, v. take, accept; admit, allow; welcome; hold, contain.

receiver, n. recipient, donee; beneficiary; receptacle; fence

(receiver of stolen goods).

recent, a. new, late.

receptacle, n. container, repository.

reception, n. receipt, receiving; levee, soirée, function;

acceptance, welcome, admittance.

recess, n. retreat, withdrawal, retirement; intermission; alcove,

niche, nook, retreat; seclusion, privacy.

recipe, n. formula, receipt.

recipient, n. receiver, beneficiary, donee, conferree.

reciprocity, n. reciprocation, interchange.

recital, n. recitation, narration, narrative.

recitation, n. reciting, rehearsal; cantillation (recitation with

musical modulations).

recite, v. relate, recount, repeat, deliver; cantillate.

reckless, a. heedless, inconsiderate, unmindful, thoughtless,

temerarious, rash, uncircumspect, incautious, hasty, foolhardy.

reckon, v. compute, calculate, count, enumerate; esteem, regard.

reckoning, n. computation, calculation, enumeration; settlement,

adjustment.

reclaim, v. tame, domesticate; reform.

reclamation, n. reclaiming, recovery, reformation.

reclining, a. recumbent, leaning, lying.--n. recumbence,

reclination.

recluse, a. solitary, eremitic.

recluse, n. solitary, eremite, anchoret, hermit.

reclusion, n. seclusion, eremitism.

recoil, v. rebound, react; flinch, shrink, quail.

recollect, v. remember.

recollection, n. remembrance, memory, reminiscence.

recommend, v. commend, praise.

recommendation, n. commendation.

recompense, v. See repay.

reconcile, v. conciliate, propitiate, pacify; harmonize, adjust,

settle. Antonyms: estrange, disaffect, alienate.

reconciliation, n. conciliation, pacification, appeasement, reunion.

recondite, a. See abstruse.

record, n. register, memoir, diary, chronicle, minute, memorandum,

note, annals, document, muniment, cartulary; testimony, witness,

attestation.

recorder, n. register, registrar; cartulary.

records, n. pl. annals, archives.

recover, v. regain, reclaim, retrieve, repair, recoup, recruit,

rally, repossess, recuperate.

recoverable, a. retrievable.

recovery, n. retrieval, recuperation, regaining, restoration,

convalescence.

recreancy, n. cowardliness, mean-spiritedness, pusillanimity,

apostasy.

recreant, a. mean-spirited, pusillanimous, cowardly, craven,

faithless, false, apostate.

recreation, n. pastime, amusement, relaxation, diversion, sport, fun,

divertisement.

rectify, v. correct, amend.

rectitude, n. probity, integrity, uprightness, honesty, virtue.

rector, n. pastor, clergyman, priest.

rectorship, n. rectorate, pastorate.

rectory, n. parsonage.

red, n. carmine, crimson, scarlet, cerise, garnet, vermilion.

Associated Words: rubefacient, rubefaction.

red, a. florid, blushing, flushed, ruby, ruddy, rubicund, blowzed,

rubescent, auburn (reddish brown).

redeem, v. repurchase; regain, recover; ransom, rescue, deliver.

redeemer, n. ransomer, deliverer, savior.

redemption, n. repurchase; ransom, salvation, deliverance, rescue.

red-letter, a. fortunate, auspicious, happy.

redoubtable, a. formidable, terrible; valiant, courageous, brave.

redound, v. contribute, conduce, react.

red pepper. cayenne pepper.

redress, n. reparation, amends, indemnification, relief.

reduce, v. diminish, lower, degrade, minimize, depress, debase;

humble, conquer, subdue, vanquish, subjugate, subject.

reduction, n. diminution, abatement, minimization, decrement,

debasement; subjugation, subjection, conquest, subdual, overthrow.

redundance, n. superabundance, superfluity, excess, plethora.

redundant, a. superabundant, superfluous, excessive, plethoric.

reëcho, n. reverberation.--v. reverberate, resound, peal.

reek, n. fume, vapor, exhalation, effluvium, steam.

reeking, a. fumy, vaporous, steaming, smoky.

reel, v. stagger.

refer, v. allude.

referable, a. attributable, ascribable, traceable, assignable.

referee, n. umpire, judge, arbitrator, arbiter.

refine, v. purify, defecate, clarify, sublimate, subtilize, sublime,

devulgarize, decrassify.

refined, a. exquisite, polished, fine, well-bred, courtly, cultured;

purified, sublimated, subtle, subtilized.

refinement, n. culture, elegance, polish, fastidiousness;

purification, sublimation, subtility, clarification, tenuity. Antonyms:

vulgarity, coarseness, crudity, barbarity, Philistinism.

reflect, v. mirror; rebound, revert; meditate, ruminate, consider,

contemplate.

reflection, n. meditation, contemplation, rumination; stricture,

animadversion.

reforestization, n. reforesting, reafforestation, reboising.

reforestize, v. reafforest, reboise.

reform, v. reclaim, regenerate, convert, amend.

reformable, a. corrigible. Antonym: irreformable.

reformation, n. reform, reclamation, betterment, improvement.

refraction, n. deflection.

refractory, a. See unruly.

refrain, v. restrain, curb, check; forbear, abstain, desist.

refresh, v. revive, enliven, reanimate; renovate, renew, restore.

refreshing, a. reviving, reanimating, cooling, reinvigorating,

refective.

refreshment, n. collation, lunch, refection, regalement.

refuge, n. stronghold, asylum, retreat, covert; shelter, protection,

security, guard; expedient, device, shift, resort.

refugee, n. fugitive, runaway.

refund, v. repay, return, restore.

refusal, n. dissent, denial, non-acceptance, negation; option,

preëmption.

refuse, v. deny, decline; reject, rebuff, repulse.

refuse, n. offal, dregs, offscum, garbage, fag-ends, recrement,

riffraff, lees, dross, draff, offscouring, rubbish, waste, culls.

refutable, a. confutable. Antonym: irrefutable.

refutation, n. confutation, disproof.

refute, v. confute, disprove.

regain, v. recover, retrieve.

regal, a. kingly, royal.

regale, v. feast, entertain, gratify.

regalia, n. pl. insignia.

regard, v. heed, observe, consider.

regard, n. respect, esteem, estimation, opinion; respect, reference,

relation; heed, attention, observation, notice. Antonyms: disregard,

heedlessness. See disregard.

regardful, a. mindful, heedful, attentive, observant.

regardless, a. heedless, careless, unmindful, inattentive,

indifferent.

regards, n. pl. compliments, respects.

region, n. district, quarter, locality, neighborhood, vicinity.

registration, n. registry, enrollment, matriculation.

regret, n. sorrow, compunction, deprecation, rue.

regret, v. deplore, be sorry for, rue, deprecate.

regular, a. formal, normal, conventional, systematic: steady,

uniform, methodical, constant; (Colloq.) unmitigated, thorough,

out-and-out.

regularity, n. uniformity, symmetry, shapeliness, constancy, order,

system, method. Antonyms: irregularity, inconstancy, unshapeliness,

disorder.

rehash, n. _réchauffé_.

reign, n. sovereignty, rule, dominion; regnancy, sway, power,

influence; kingdom, realm.

reins, n. pl. loins.

reject, v. cast away, discard; refuse, decline, rebuff, repulse,

contemn, repudiate.

rejection, n. refusal, declination, rebuff, repulse, discarding,

repudiation.

rejoice, v. glory, exult; gladden, cheer, delight, please,

exhilarate.

rejoicing, n. joy, gladness, exultation, delight, pleasure.

relate, v. recount, narrate, tell.

related, a. allied, cognate, german, agnate, akin, kindred;

consanguineous; cognate; agnate; correlated, correlative.

relation, n. connection, bearing, relationship, reference,

correlation, alliance, correspondence, relevancy; affinity, consanguinity,

kindred, kinship, cognation, filiation; telling, account, recital,

narration, narrative, detail, report. Antonyms: irrelation, alienage.

relationship, n. kindred, affinity, alliance, kinship, cognation.

relationship by blood. consanguinity; cognation; agnation.

relationship by marriage. affinity.

relative, a. relating, referring, respecting, pertaining; particular,

definite, specific, pertinent.

relative, n. relation, kinsman, kinswoman, connection; cognate,

agnate. Associated Words: nepotism, nepotic, nepotist.

relax, v. loosen, slacken; abate, diminish, mitigate, temper.

relaxation, n. loosening, slackening; diversion, recreation, rest.

relay, n. reinforcement.

release, v. liberate, loose, discharge, free, acquit, extricate,

disengage, relinquish, absolve, remit, relieve, exonerate, disencumber.

release, n. liberation, discharge, deliverance, acquittance,

extrication, exoneration, disengagement, freedom.

relentless, a. ruthless, implacable, unrelenting, inexorable,

unmerciful.

relevancy, n. pertinency, applicability, relevance.

relevant, a. pertinent, germane, apposite.

reliability, n. trustworthiness.

reliable, a. trustworthy, trusty, dependable.

reliance, n. dependence, confidence, trust.

reliant, a. confident, trusting.

relics, n. pl. leavings, remains, reliquiæ, remnants; memorial,

souvenir, memento, trophy, keepsake. Associated Words: reliquary,

confession, hierotheca.

relict, n. widow.

relief, n. alleviation, mitigation, comfort, ease, succor,

palliation, assuagement, help; redress, remedy; relay, reinforcement;

prominence, projection.

relieve, v. assuage, alleviate, allay, lessen, remedy, ease,

mitigate, palliate, succor, extricate, disentangle, disburden, redress,

disengage.

relieving, a. mitigative, assuasive, palliative, remedial, emollient,

lenitive, comforting.

religious, a. pious, godly, devout, righteous, devotional; strict,

exact, scrupulous, conscientious.

relinquish, v. surrender, waive, forego, renounce, cede, abandon,

desert.

relinquishment, n. surrender, abandonment, renunciation.

relishable, a. palatable, gustable.

reluctance, n. unwillingness, disinclination, aversion.

reluctant, a. disinclined, unwilling, averse, loath, indisposed.

remain, v. See stay.

remainder, n. residue, remnant, balance, rest, surplus, surplusage,

residuum.

remaining, a. residual, remanent, remainder.

remains, n. pl. relics, debris, remnants; corpse.

remand, v. recommit, send back.--n. recommitment.

remark, v. notice, observe, heed, see, note; say, state, assert.

remark, n. comment, observation.

remarkable, a. noteworthy, striking, extraordinary, wonderful,

notable.

remediless, a. irremediable, incurable, desperate, irreparable,

insanable.

remedy, v. heal, cure, repair, relieve, redress, alleviate, assuage,

palliate.

remedy, n. medicine, cure, antidote, corrective, specific,

restorative, panacea, alterant, carminative, medicament, arcanum,

prescription, nostrum, elixir, balm; reparation, cure, redress, aid,

relief.

remember, v. recollect, recall.

remembrance, n. recollection, memory, reminiscence; souvenir,

keepsake, memento, memorial, trophy, reminder. Antonyms: forgetfulness,

amnesia, amnesty, oblivion.

remembrancer, n. memento, souvenir, keepsake, trophy, memorial.

reminder, n. remembrancer.

remiss, a. negligent, derelict, careless, slack, heedless,

neglectful.

remission, n. surrender, relinquishment; discharge, acquittance;

abatement, assuagement, mitigation, subsidence; absolution, exculpation,

forgiveness.

remmnant, n. remainder, residue, rest; fragment, piece.

remonstrance, n. expostulation, protest, protestation.

remonstrant, a. expostulatory, remonstrative.

remonstrate, v. expostulate, protest.

remonstrative, a. expostulatory, remonstrant.

remorse, n. self-reproach, sorrow, regret, penitence; pity,

compassion, sympathy.

remorseless, a. implacable, ruthless, merciless, unmerciful.

remote, a. distant.

remoteness, n. distance.

removal, n. displacement, dislodgement, transference, expulsion,

elimination, dismissal, discharge, ejection, dispossession, divestiture,

extraction.

remove, v. move, displace, transfer, dislodge; dismiss, discharge,

divest, dispossess, eject; extract, isolate, abstract, withdraw.

remuneration, n. See pay.

remunerative, a. profitable, lucrative.

rend, v. tear, rive, lacerate, cleave, sunder.

render, v. repay, restore; translate, interpret, construe; extract,

try out; yield up, contribute.

rendering, n. repayment, restoration; contribution, surrender;

translation, version; extraction.

rending, n. tearing asunder, laceration, riving.

renegade, n. deserter, recreant, backslider, turncoat; rebel,

traitor; vagabond, outcast.

renew, v. renovate, rejuvenate, restore, rebuild, remodel,

reconstruct, revamp, redintegrate, repair; regenerate, transform.

renewal, n. renovation, repair, restoration, redintegration,

reconstruction, rejuvenation, regeneration.

renounce, v. disclaim, disown, repudiate, reject; forswear, abjure,

forsake.

renouncement, n. renunciation, abnegation, repudiation, abdication,

rejection.

renovation, n. restoration, renewal, rehabilitation, reconstruction.

renown, n. celebrity, repute, fame, notoriety, note.

renowned, a. famous, celebrated, eminent, far-famed, illustrious.

Antonyms: unrenowned, obscure, inglorious, unknown.

rent, v. lease, let, hire.

renter, n. lessee, tenant.

renunciation, n. abjuration, denial, disownment, disclaimer,

abnegation.

repair, v. mend, restore, patch, tinker, revamp, darn, cobble,

remodel; indemnify, redress, atone for, retrieve, regain.

repair, n. renovation, restoration, reconstruction, reparation,

rehabilitation.

reparable, a. restorable, retrievable. Antonyms: irreparable,

irretrievable.

reparation, n. restoration, rehabilitation, instauration, renovation;

atonement, restitution.

repartee, n. _bon mot_.

repay, v. refund, restore, reimburse; recompense, requite; revenge,

avenge, retaliate.

repayment, n. restoration, reimbursement; recompense, requital;

retaliation, revenge.

repeal, v. revoke, rescind, abrogate.

repeal, n. revocation, rescission, abrogation.

repeat, v. iterate, reiterate, verbigerate.

repeating, n. repetition, iteration, reiteration; verbigeration.

repel, v. repulse, rebuff, resist, oppose.

repellence, n. repulsion, rebuff, opposition.

repellent, a. repulsive, repelling.

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

Antonym: impenitence.

repentant, a. contrite, penitent. Antonyms: unrepentant,

impenitent.

repetition, n. iteration, reiteration, recurrence; verbigeration;

tautology; echo, rote; recapitulation; reverberation.

repine, v. complain, murmur.

replace, v. restore, refund, repay.

replacement, n. restoration, reinstatement.

repletion, n. excess, superabundance, surfeit; plethora.

reply, v. answer, respond, rejoin, retort.

reply, n. answer, response, rejoinder; retort, repartee.

report, n. rumor, _on dit_, hearsay, bruit; account, statement,

communication; fame, repute, reputation; sound, noise, repercussion,

detonation, discharge, explosion; cahier; description, narrative,

narration, recital.

report, v. announce, communicate, describe; bruit, circulate,

promulgate, publish. Antonyms: suppress, withhold, reserve.

repose, n. rest, inactivity, motionlessness; composure, tranquillity.

repository, n. depository, storehouse, depot, magazine.

represent, v. show, typify, symbolize; personate, impersonate;

portray, delineate, depict.

representative, a. delegated, vicarious; typical, figurative,

symbolical, emblematic.

representative, n. deputy, delegate, vicar, proxy, agent, substitute,

vicegerent, surrogate, regent, commissioner, envoy, emissary, ambassador,

exponent.

repress, v. quell, subdue, suppress, overpower, restrain, curb,

stifle.

repression, n. suppression, restraint, quelling, check.

reproach, v. censure, upbraid, rebuke, reprimand, revile, chide,

vilify.

reproach, n. censure, scurrility, contumely, invective, odium,

obloquy, shame, disgrace.

reproachful, a. upbraiding, opprobrious, abusive; shameful,

disgraceful, scandalous.

reprobate, a. abandoned, depraved, profligate,

incorrigible.--n.castaway, outcast, wretch.

reprobate, v. condemn, denounce, reject, abandon.

reprobation, n. condemnation, denunciation, censure abandonment.

reproduce, v. portray, duplicate, imitate; generate, beget,

propagate.

reproduction, n. duplication, copy, imitation; generation,

procreation, propagation.

reproof, n. See censure.

reprovable, a. culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blamable,

reproachable.

reprove, v. See censure.

repudiate, v. reject, renounce, disavow, abjure, disclaim.

repudiation, n. disavowal, rejection, abjuration, disclaimer,

disowning.

repugnance, n. aversion, reluctance, unwillingness, hostility,

antipathy.

repugnant, a. hostile, contrary, refractory, adverse, offensive,

antagonistic, opposed.

repulse, v. repel, reject.

repulse, n. repulsion, repelling, rejection, refusal, rebuff.

repulsive, a. repellent, offensive, forbidding, revolting.

reputation, n. repute, name, credit, esteem, honor.

repute, n. reputation, esteem, credit.

reputed, a. putative.

request, n. asking, solicitation, demand, instance, prayer, petition,

entreaty, suit, quest.

request, v. ask, supplicate, petition, beg, entreat, importune,

beseech.

require, v. demand, claim, exact, need, want, necessitate, enjoin.

requirement, n. demand, requisition, requisite; command, essential,

need.

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

requital, n. recompense, remuneration, retribution, recaliation,

reprisal.

requite, v. compensate, remunerate, repay, pay, retaliate, avenge,

reciprocate.

rescue, n. deliverance, liberation, salvation, ransom, extrication,

disentanglement.

rescue, v. release, deliver, liberate, recapture, redeem, save,

extricate, disenthrall.

resemblance, n. likeness, similitude, similarity, analogy, parity,

semblance.

resentment, n. dudgeon, umbrage, displeasure, grudge.

reserve, n. reticence, constraint, uncommunicativeness, taciturnity,

restraint.

reserved, a. retained, withheld, excepted; uncommunicative, reticent,

taciturn, restrained.

residence, n. dwelling, domiciliation, abode, habitancy, habitation,

domicile, home.

resident, n. denizen, inhabitant, dweller, residentiary.

residue, n. remainder, remnant, residuum, rest, balance; surplus,

excess.

resign, v. demit, abdicate, withdraw, surrender, relinquish, submit.

resignation, n. surrender, abdication, demit; forbearance, fortitude,

long-suffering, patience.

resigned, a. surrendered; uncomplaining, submissive, patient.

resist, v. oppose, withstand, impugn, oppugn, defy, baffle,

contravene, rebuff.

resistance, n. opposition, renitence, recalcitration, oppugnation,

antagonism, rebuff.

resistant, a. resisting, opposing, renitent.

resistless, a. irresistible.

resolute, a. determined, unwavering, unflinching, steadfast, firm,

pertinacious.

resolution, n. firmness, determination, pertinacity, persistence,

steadfastness, constancy; resolve, purpose, determination; decomposition,

solution, dissolution.

resolvable, a. solvable, resoluble, dissolvable.

resolve, v. determine; dissolve, liquefy.

resolve, n. resolution, determination, intention, purpose, design.

resonance, n. reverberation.

resonant, a. resounding, reverberating.

resound, v. reverberate, reëcho, peal.

resound, n. echo, reverberation.

resounder, n. resonator, reverberator.

resounding, a. resonant.

resource, n. resort, expedient, device, shift.

resources, n. pl. assets, means.

respect, n. care, caution, regard; esteem, veneration, deference,

reverence, homage, obeisance; reference, regard; particular, feature.

Antonyms: See disrespect.

respect, v. esteem, venerate, revere, honor, reverence.

respectable, a. reputable, honorable, estimable; moderate, fair,

average.

respectful, a. deferential, courteous, polite, obeisant, reverent.

Antonyms: disrespectful, discourteous, defiant, irreverent.

respective, a. relative; particular, own.

respect of persons. partiality, favoritism.

respects, n. pl. compliments, regards, devoirs.

response, n. reply, answer, rejoinder, retort, repartee, antiphon,

antiphone, antiphony.

responsibility, n. accountability, liability; duty, trust.

responsible, a. accountable, answerable, amenable. Antonyms:

irresponsible, unaccountable, independent.

responsive, a. responding, antiphonal.

responsory, n. antiphone, antiphony, antiphonary.

rest, n. quiet, quietness, inactivity, repose, ease, tranquillity,

quiescence, stillness, stagnation, security, cessation, abeyance,

intermission, respite, reprieve, pause, recess, sabbatism; cæsura, pause;

support, stay, brace; residue, remainder, balance, residuum, others;

surplus. Antonyms: activity, agitation, unrest, commotion.

rest, v. stop, halt, pause, desist; repose, recline, lie; trust,

rely, depend, acquiesce.

restaurant, n. café, eating-house, chophouse, refectory, buffet.

restaurant keeper. restaurateur.

rest house. caravansary (in Eastern countries).

resting, a. reclining, lying, incumbent.

resting on something else. superincumbent.--n. superincumbence.

restitution, n. repayment, restoration, return, indemnification;

reparation, requital, compensation.

restive, a. restless, impatient, fidgety, intractable, uneasy,

fractious, rebellious.

restless, a. restive, fidgety, agitated, unquiet, uneasy,

kicksy-wicksy.

restlessness, n. restiveness, the fidgets, uneasiness, agitation,

turbulence, dysphoria.

restoration, n. return, restitution, replacement, reinstatement,

reparation; repatriation; renewal, renovation, redintegration,

reconstruction, rehabilitation, instauration; recuperation, recovery.

restore, v. repair, renew, reconstruct, rehabilitate, redintegrate,

remodel; replace, refund, return; repatriate; resuscitate, reestablish,

revive.

restrain, v. repress, suppress, check, bridle, curb, constrain;

abridge, circumscribe, limit, restrict, narrow; withhold, forbear; debar,

prevent, interdict, prohibit.

restraint, n. repression, constraint, check, suppression; limitation,

prevention; confinement, duress.

restrict, v. restrain, limit, confine, repress, curb, circumscribe.

restriction, n. restraint, constraint, confinement, repression,

circumscription, limitation.

result, v. terminate, end, eventuate, redound, issue, accrue, ensue.

result, n. consequence, effect, issue, event, outcome, eventuation,

sequence; decision, resolve.

résumé, n. recapitulation, summary, abstract.

resurrect, v. (Slang) disentomb, disinter, unbury, exhume.

resurrection, n. resurgence, revivification.

retain, v. keep, hold, reserve.

retainment, n. retention.

retaliate, v. avenge, requite, repay.

retaliation, n. revenge, requital, retribution.

retard, v. impede.

retarding, n. retardation.

retentive, a. tenacious. Antonyms: unretentive, irretentive.

reticence, n. reserve, uncommunicativeness, taciturnity.

reticent, a. taciturn, reserved, uncommunicative.

retinue, n. train, suite, followers.

retire, v. withdraw, retreat, recede, retrocede, leave, secede.

retired, a. secluded, sequestered, unfrequented, withdrawn.

retirement, n. withdrawal, seclusion, retreat.

retiring, a. diffident, shy, coy, shrinking, reserved, modest.

retract, v. recant, rescind, recall, disavow.

retraction, n. recantation, rescission, disavowal.

retreat, n. retirement, withdrawal; refuge, asylum, seclusion,

privacy, fastness.

retreat, v. retire, withdraw, recede.

retrench, v. curtail, lessen, diminish, abridge; limit, confine.

retrenchment, n. diminution, curtailment, abridgment, lessening.

retribution, n. retaliation, repayment, requital.

retrograde, v. retrocede, recede, decline, deteriorate.

retrogression, n. retrogradation, decline, regression, deterioration.

return, v. restore, repay, refund, replace; recur, regress, reappear,

revert; requite, retaliate, repay; repatriate.

return, n. restoration, restitution, repayment, requital,

retribution, redress; recurrence, regress, reversion; repatriation,

atavism; recrudescence; relapse.

returning, a. recurrent, recurring, intermittent.

reveal, v. disclose, unveil, expose, divulge, impart.

revel, n. carousal, festivity, saturnalia.

revel, v. carouse; luxuriate, wanton.

revelation, n. disclosure, divulgement, exposition, apocalypse.

reveler, n. carouser, bacchanal, roysterer, bacchant, bacchanalian.

revelry, n. reveling, carousal, wassail, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal.

revenge, v. avenge, retaliate, wreak vengeance.

revenge, n. vengeance, retaliation.

revengeful, a. vindictive, implacable, resentful, rancorous.

revenue, n. income.

reverberate, v. resound, reëcho.

reverberation, n. resonance, reëcho.

revere, v. venerate, reverence, honor, respect.

reverence, n. veneration.

reverence, v. revere, venerate.

reverent, a. reverential, humble.

reverse, v. invert; overthrow, subvert, overturn; revoke, annul,

rescind, countermand.

reverse, n. opposite, contrary, counterpart; reversal; misfortune,

failure.

reversion, n. succession; atavism; escheat.

review, v. reconsider, revise, reexamine, retrace.

review, n. reëxamination, reconsideration, retrospect, revision.

revile, v. vilify, traduce, asperse, reproach, malign, calumniate.

revilement, n. vilification, traducement, aspersion, reproach,

calumniation, contumely.

reviling, a. scurrilous, vituperative, contumelious, reproachful,

abusive.

revisal, n. revision, emendation, recension.

revision, n. revisal, recension, emendation.

revivable, a. resuscitable.

revival, n. revivification, reanimation, resuscitation, restoration,

renaissance, renascence.

revivalist, n. evangelist.

revive, v. resuscitate, reanimate, quicken, revivify, reinspirit,

revitalize, restore, reinspire, rally.

revivification, n. resuscitation, reanimation, revival, quickening.

revocation, n. recall, repeal, reversal, abjuration, recantation.

revoke, v. repeal, reverse, recant, rescind, abrogate, countermand,

retract, abjure.

revolt, n. rebellion, sedition, uprising, mutiny, insurrection,

insubordination, insurgency.

revolt, v. rebel, mutiny; disgust, nauseate, shock, offend.

revolter, n. insurgent, rebel, mutineer, renegade.

revolting, a. nauseating, repulsive, fulsome, abhorrent, disgusting.

revolution, n. rotation, gyration; rebellion, revolt.

revolve, v. rotate, spin, gyrate, turn; devolve; brood over,

ruminate, ponder, consider.

revolver, n. pistol, repeater.

revolving, a. rotary, gyrating, gyratory, rotatory.--n.

revolution, rotation.

reward, n. recompense, requital, guerdon, meed, remuneration premium,

bonus, bounty, douceur, merit; honorarium; retribution, retaliation,

penalty.

reward, v. requite, recompense.

rhyme, n. jingle, poetry.

rhymer, n. poetaster, versifier, rhymester, rhymist.

rib, n. costa. Associated words: costal, intercostal, sternal,

asternal.

ribald, a. indelicate, gross, indecent, obscene, lewd.

ribaldry, n. obscenity, indecency, lewdness.

ribbon badge of honor. cordon.

rice refuse. shude.

rich, a. wealthy, opulent, affluent, well-to-do, moneyed; abundant,

copious, bountiful, plentiful; fecund, fertile, luxuriant, prolific,

exuberant, teeming, productive; sumptuous, luxurious; delicious, luscious,

hearty, nutritive gorgeous, elegant, beautiful; vivid, bright, intense.

Antonyms: poor, infertile, indigent, plain.

rich, n. (newly rich) _Nouveau riche_.

riches, n. pl. See wealth.

rich man. nabob, Crœoeus, Dives, plutocrat, millionaire.

richness, n. opulence, wealth, affluence; abundance, profusion;

luxuriance, sumptuousness, costliness, elegance, fertility, fecundity.

Antonyms: poverty, infertility.

rickets, n. rachitis.

rickety, a. ramshackle, dilapidated, tottering, crazy.

rid, a. free, clear, disencumbered.

rid, v. free, disburden, relieve, disencumber, dispose, dispatch.

riddance, n. deliverance, relief, disencumbrance.

riddle, n. enigma, puzzle, problem, rebus, crux, conundrum, paradox.

rider, n. equestrian, horseman; equestrienne (female), jockey,

postilion.

ridge, n. crest; whelk.

ridicule, n. mockery, gibe, jeer, burlesque, raillery, satire,

sarcasm, irony.

ridicule, v. deride, satirize, scoff, rally, banter, burlesque,

lampoon, mock, scout, jeer, taunt, twit.

ridiculous, a. preposterous, absurd, farcical, burlesque, ludicrous.

riding boots. top boots.

riding on horseback. equestrianism, equitation.

rife, a. abounding, prevalent, plentiful, replete.

rifle, v. strip, fleece, despoil, pillage, devastate.

rift, n. cleft, fissure, crack, gap, crevice, cranny, break, chink.

rig, v. equip; bedizen, accouter.

rigging, n. dress, tackle, equipment, gear.

right, a. just, true, equitable, honest, rightful, lawful, correct,

true, accurate, reasonable, ethical, condign, appropriate, proper,

suitable, seemly, relevant, consistent, fortunate, auspicious, favorable;

dexter, dextral, dextrorse.

right, v. correct, rectify, emend; make restitution, redress.

right, n. prerogative, privilege, immunity, exemption.

right, n. uprightness, rectitude, probity, integrity, propriety,

justice, morality, virtue, equity; title, claim; authority. Associated

words: ethics, casuistry, deontology, redress, ethology, aretology.

right along. continuously, constantly, uninterruptedly.

right away. immediately, straightway, right off, instantly,

instanter, at once.

righteous, a. pious, religious, devout, godly, saintly; equitable,

just, right.

righteousness, n. godliness, holiness, sanctity. Antonym:

unrighteousness.

right-handed, a. dexterous.

right-handedness, n. dexterity, dextrality.

rigid, a. inflexible, stiff, unyielding, unpliant; rigorous, severe,

austere, strict.

rigidity, n. stiffness, inflexibility, severity, rigor.

rigmarole, n. (Colloq.) nonsense, flummery, balderdash, twaddle.

rigor, n. rigidity, inflexibility, austerity, severity, asperity,

sternness, inclemency, stringency.

rigorous, a. severe, stringent, strict, unyielding; inclement,

severe.

rile, v. (Colloq.) roil; anger, vex, offend.

rill, n. streamlet, rivulet, runnel, brook.

rily, a. (Colloq.) roily, turbid.

rim, n. brim, margin, edge, brink, verge, border; felly (rim of a

wheel).

rime, n. hoarfrost.

rind, n. skin, peel. Antonym: pulp.

ring, v. sound, resound, reverberate; toll, knell, chime, ding,

tinkle, clang.

ring, n. circle, hoop; grommet, gimmal, terret, manilla, lute;

annulation, annulet. Associated Words: annular, annularity, annulate,

signet, dactyliology, dactylioglyphy, dactylioglyph, cameo, intaglio,

lapidary, lapidist, posy.

ring, n. arena; clique, coterie, set, cabal.

ringing, n. sounding, resounding, reverberation, tolling, clang,

chime, clam, tinkling, knell, clangor.

ringlet, n. tress, curl, lock.

ringworm, n. circular herpes, serpigo.

riot, n. tumult, uproar; revelry.

rioter, n. reveler, carouser, roysterer.

riotous, a. wanton, luxuriant, unrestrained; seditious, tumultuous,

turbulent, insubordinate, rebellious.

rip, n. rent, tear.

rip, n. (Slang) harridan, hag.

ripe, a. mature, ripened; consummate, complete, perfect; suppurated,

matured; rareripe.

ripen, v. mature, maturate.

ripeness, n. maturity, completeness, consummateness, development.

ripple, v. fret.

rise, v. ascend, mount, arise, levitate; tower; swell, increase,

grow, enlarge; emerge; proceed, spring, emanate, originate; rebel, revolt;

transcend (rise above).

rise, n. ascent; spring, source, origin, beginning; increase,

advance, appreciation, augmentation; elevation, hill, knoll.

rise again. resurge.

risible, a. funny, ludicrous. See laughable.

rising, a. ascending, ascendant.

rising, n. ascent, ascension, rise, levitation, levee, emergence;

insurrection, uprising.

<>rising again. resurrection, resurgence.--a. resurgent.

risk, n. unsafety, danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, imperilment.

risk, v. hazard, endanger, peril, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize.

risky, a. hazardous, unsafe, perilous, jeopardous, dangerous,

precarious.

rite, n. ceremony, ordinance.

ritual, n. liturgy, consuetudinary.

rival, n. competitor, emulator, antagonist.--a. competing,

competitive, emulative.

rival, v. compete, emulate.

rivalry, n. competition, emulation, contention.

riven, a. cleft, split, rent asunder.

river, n. Associated Words: potamology, potamography, riparian,

riparious, fluvial, levee, wady, estuary, fluviatic, fluviatile, bayou,

pothole, dredge, fluvicoline, fluviograph, fluviometer, crevasse, anadron,

tributary, embouchure, barrage.

rivulet, n. rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, runlet, brook, bourn.

road, n. thoroughfare, avenue, highroad, highway, street, lane,

passage, artery, roadstead, boulevard, esplanade, turnpike, tramroad,

causeway, corduroy road, anchorage, _impasse_.

road agent. highwayman, bandit.

roam, v. ramble, stray, rove, range, wander.

roar, n. bellow, bellowing.

roar, v. bellow; boom, peal, resound, thunder.

roast, v. bake; torrefy, parch; (Colloq.) banter.

rob, v. plunder, pillage, fleece, despoil, rifle, sack, spoliate,

loot, forage.

robber, n. bandit, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, depredator,

despoiler, footpad, filibuster, forager, desperado, corsair, freebooter,

highwayman, picaroon, marauder, pillager, pirate, plunderer, raider,

thief, ladrone.

robbery, n. larceny, burglary, theft, plundering, piracy,

peculation, depredation, brigandage, buccaneering, despoliation, loot,

sack.

robe, n. gown.

robing room of a church. vestry, sacristy.

robust, a. strong, sinewy, muscular, brawny, stalwart, vigorous,

sound.

rock, n. bowlder; crag.

rocking-horse, n. cockhorse.

rod, n. wand, cane, stick; pole, perch, 16-1/2 feet.

roe, n. roebuck; ova, spawn (of fishes).

rogue, n. knave, miscreant, scamp, rascal, sharper. See

scoundrel.

roguery, n. cheating, knavery, fraud; mischievousness.

roguish, a. knavish, tricky; waggish, sportive, arch, mischievous.

roil, v. make turbid, rile.

roily, a. turbid, muddy, feculent.

roll, n. scroll; roster, record; convolution, trundle, coil.

roll, v. wheel, whirl, revolve, rotate, turn, gyrate, spin, trundle,

circumgyrate; inwrap, infold, convolve; wallow, welter; rock, sway, lurch,

titubate, fluctuate.

rolled, a. coiled, convoluted, involuted.

roller, n. cylinder; fillet.

rolling, a. rotating, circumrotary; undulating, hilly; voluble.

rolling, n. rotation, wheeling, circumrotation, titubation,

involution.

romantic, a. imaginary, impractical, chimerical, picturesque,

fanciful, fantastic.

roof timber. rafter.

room, n. space, compass, range, scope, latitude; apartment, chamber,

compartment. Associated Word: suite.

roomer, n. lodger.

roomy, a. spacious, capacious, commodious.

roost, n. perch.

rooster, n. cock, chanticleer; cockerel (young); capon

(castrated).

root, n. rootstock, radix, taproot, spur; rootlet, radicel; tuber,

bulb.

root, n. etymon, stem, radix, radical.

rooted, a. radicated; implanted, fixed, ingrained.

rooting, n. radication; burrowing; implantation.

rooting out. uprooting, eradication, extirpation.

rope, n. cordage, cable, hawser, lasso, lariat, cabestro, tether,

tow; pl. shrouds, ratlines. Associated Words: marline, marline

spike, marling, strand, oakum, winch, windlass, lif, contline.

rope-dancer, n. funambulist, equilibrist, acrobat.

rope-dancing, n. funambulation. Associated Words: funambulate,

funambulatory, poy.

rope-walker, n. equilibrist.

ropy, a. stringy, tenacious, sticky.

rose, n. Associated Words: attar, rodomel.

rose-colored, a. roseate, rosy; alluring.

rosedrop, n. grogblossom, rosy whelk.

rose-grower, n. rosarian.

rose rash. roseola.

rosery, n. rosarium, rosary.

rosin, n. colophony.

rostrum, n. platform, stage, dais.

rosy, a. rose-colored, roseate, ruddy, alluring.

rot, n. decomposition, decay, putrescence, corruption, putridity.

Antonyms: preservation, imputrescence, incorruption, soundness.

rotary, a. turning, rotating.

rotary motion. rotation. Associated Words: trochilics, trochilic.

rotate, v. revolve, turn, gyrate, whirl.

rotation, n. turning, revolution; succession.

rotten, a. decayed, putrid, putrescent, carious, corrupt, decomposed,

putrefied; malodorous, fetid.

rottenness, n. putrefaction. See rot. Associated Words:

antiseptic, imputrescible, septic, putrescible, aseptic.

rotund, a. round, spherical, globular, orbicular.

rotundity, n. roundness, sphericity, circularity, globosity.

roué, n. rake.

rouge, n. ferric oxide, crocus; cosmetic.

rough, a. uneven, jagged, craggy, rugged, cragged, scraggy; rude,

inurbane, burly, unrefined, discourteous, uncivil, blunt, bluff, brusque,

austere, abrupt, gruff, boorish, uncourtly; boisterous, tumultuous,

tempestuous, stormy; harsh, hard, severe, inclement, drastic, violent;

harsh, grating, raucous, discordant, inharmonious; unkempt, disheveled,

shaggy; incomplete, superficial, cursory, crude, uncut, unpolished,

scabrous.

rough, n. bully, ruffian, rowdy.

round, a. circular, spherical, orbicular, orbed, globular, annular,

discoid, rotund; cylindrical; convex, protuberant, bulging; orotund.

round, n. revolution, cycle, rotation, series, succession; rung,

rundle, ranee, step; circuit, beat; bout.

roundabout, a. circuitous, indirect, tortuous; encircling, ambient,

circumambient, encompassing.

roundabout language. circumlocution.

round building or room. rotunda.

roundelay, n. rondeau, rondel, round.

roundness, n. circularity, globularity, sphericity, rotundity,

cylindricity, globosity, annularity, orbiculation, orotundity, convexity.

rouse, v. See arouse.

rousing, a. exciting, stirring; (Colloq.) astounding, startling.

rout, n. overthrow, defeat, discomfiture, vanquishment: clamor,

tumult, uproar, din, brawl; mob, rabble.

rout, v. vanquish, defeat, scatter.

route, n. course, way, road, passage.

routine, a. custom, round, course.

rove, v. range, ramble, straggle. See wander.

rover, n. See wanderer.

row, n. (Colloq.) brawl, broil, affray, rumpus, squabble, mêlée,

tumult, fracas.

row, n. rank, line, file, series.

rowdy, n. (Colloq.) ruffian, rough, bully, hoodlum, larrikin.

royal, a. kingly, regal, imperial, monarchical, palatine; august,

majestic, princely.

royal mace. scepter.

royalty, n. kingship, sovereignty, regality, regency; sovereign,

majesty; domain, realm.

rub, n. friction; hindrance, impediment, obstruction, pinch,

difficulty; sarcasm, jeer, jibe, taunt; whetstone.

rub, v. abrade, chafe, scrape, grate, fret; embrocate; massage;

graze, scour, smooth, smear, fray; burnish, furbish, polish.

rubber, n. caoutchouc, India-rubber; overshoe, galoshe, galoche;

eraser. Associated Words: vulcanize, vulcanization.

rubbing, n. friction, abrasion, attrition, chafing, fraying;

embrocation; massage.

rubbing out. erasure, obliteration, effacement.

rubbish, n. trash, litter, lumber, refuse, debris, garbage, dross,

trumpery.

rubicund, a. ruddy, florid.

rub out. erase, obliterate, expunge, efface.

rub up. burnish, scour, polish.

ruck, n. wrinkle, crease; (Colloq.) common sort.

rudder, n. Associated Word: tiller.

ruddy, a. red, florid, rubicund, blowzed.

rude, a. crude, unpolished, raw, rough, indelicate, unrefined,

coarse, undisciplined, uncivilized; inelegant, inartistic, artless;

uncivil, discourteous, inurbane, impolite, romping, hoidenish; boisterous,

turbulent, violent, inclement, tumultuous; unwrought, unfashioned.

rudiment, n. element; embryo; pl. elements, accidence.

rudimentary, n. rudimental, elementary, initial; embryonic, embryo.

rue, v. regret, deplore.

rueful, a. woeful, sad, lugubrious, mournful.

ruffian, n. monster, villain, rowdy, desperado.

ruffle, n. ruff, frill, flounce, furbelow; perturbation, flurry,

bustle.

ruffle, v. pucker, pleat, wrinkle; rumple, derange, disarrange,

disorder; agitate, discompose, perturb, disconcert; swagger, strut.

rugged, a. irregular, rough, uneven, scraggy, cragged, craggy;

inclement, tempestuous, turbulent, boisterous, wild; (Colloq.) robust,

hardy, vigorous; austere, crabbed, harsh, unfeeling.

ruin, n. bane, pest, plague.

ruin, n. wreck, destruction, undoing, dilapidation, disorganization,

perdition, ruination, subversion, shipwreck, downfall, havoc, demolition.

ruin, v. overthrow, subvert, destroy, wreck, ruinate, impoverish.

ruination, n. ruin.

ruinous, a. destructive.

rule, n. regulation, prescript, prescription, order, ruling;

standard, criterion, touchstone, brocard; maxim, law, canon; norm;

government, sway, regency, domination, authority, direction, empire,

dynasty, supremacy, administration, regime.

rule, v. govern, dominate; restrain, influence, sway, prevail,

dominate, preponderate, domineer.

ruler, n. governor, sovereign, monarch, president, king, potentate,

dynast, lord, satrap, rajah, emir, caliph, burgrave, procurator, Pharaoh,

interregent, despot, regent, dominator, arbiter, viceroy, vicegerent,

autocrat, oligarch, liege lord, protector, kaiser, czar, dey, doge, mogul,

pasha, bey, tetrarch, khedive, sultan, emperor.

ruling, a. regnant, reigning; predominant, dominative, dominant,

prevailing.

ruling, n. government, regnancy.

rum, a. (Slang) queer, odd, old-fashioned.

ruminate, v. meditate, muse, ponder, reflect.

rumination, n. meditation.

rummage, v. ransack.

runmy, a. (Slang) strange, odd, freakish, singular.

rumor, n. hearsay, gossip, bruit, _on dit_.

rump, n. buttocks.

rump bone. aitchbone, edgebone, natch bone.

rumple, v. crumple, wrinkle, pucker, crease.

rumple, n. crumple, pucker, wrinkle, crease.

rumpus, n. (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, affray, brawl, row,

fracas.

run, v. sprint, lope, scamper, scud, speed, his, hasten, scour,

scuttle, flee, race, pace, gallop, trot; proceed, flow; melt, fuse;

elapse, pass; pursue, follow, tag; stampede; abscond.

run, n. running, sprint, sprinting; course, series, repetition

pressure, demand, importunity; generality.

run, n. brook, rill, streamlet, rivulet.

run after. pursue, follow, tag.

runagate, n. renegade, deserter, apostate, vagabond.

runaway, n. fugitive, absconder, deserter, truant, renegade.

runaway, a. fugitive, absconding, truant.

run away. flee, escape, desert, elope, abscond.

run away with. accompany.

run down. decline, deteriorate; decry, belittle, disparage, derogate.

rung, n. round, rime, rundle (of a ladder).

run into. collide.

runner, n. racer, sprinter; messenger, courier.

running, a. successive, consecutive; flowing, easy, cursive;

continuous; trailing.

running after. pursuit.

running away. desertion, fleeing, absconding, elopement.

running down. decline, deterioration; decrial, disparagement.

running into. collision.

running out. expiration, extension, expatiation, extinction.

run out. expire; extend, spread; expatiate, descant; become extinct.

run over. overflow.

runround, n. (Colloq.) felon, whitlow.

runt, n. dwarf, pygmy.

run through. squander, dissipate; transfix, impale, pierce.

ruption, n. breach, rupture.

rupture, n. disruption, breach; hernia.

rural, a. rustic, country, countrified, pastoral, bucolic, agrestic.

ruralism, n. ruralness, rurality, rusticity.

ruralize, v. rusticate.

ruse, n. artifice, wile, trick, stratagem, maneuver, feint, dodge.

rush, v. press, hurry.

rush, n. activity, demand.

Russia, n. Associated Words: Russian, russianize, Russification,

russify, Russophile, Russophobia, Russophobe, Duma, vodka.

Russian peasant. muzhik, moujik.

rust, n. corrosion, ærugo, verdigris; mildew, blight, mould; pating.

rust, v. corrode; degenerate (in idleness), decline.

rustic, a. rural, country, agrestic; unpolished, countrified,

uncouth, rude, rough; coarse, plain, simple, inelegant, homely; artless,

unaffected.

rustic, n. countryman, farmer; boor, churl, hind, put, carl, yokel.

rusticate, v. ruralize.

rustle, n. rustling, frou-frou.

rustlings a. whispering, susurrous.

rust of plants. ferrugo.

rusty, a. seruginous; ferruginous; reasty, rancid, musty, fusty,

mildewed; discolored, stained; rubiginous.

rut, n. groove; roaring (of waves), rote.

rut, n. œstrus, heat, œstruation. Associated Word: œstrual.

ruth, n. pity, tenderness, compassion, mercy.

ruthful, a. pitiful, tender, compassionate, merciful.

ruthless, a. pitiless, cruel, truculent, relentless, implacable,

fell, hard-hearted.

ruthlessness, n. truculence, implacability, cruelty, mercilessness.

ruttish, a. lustful, salacious, lascivious.

rye, n. Associated Words: ergot, ergotism, ergotized.

sack, n. bag, pouch; pillage, plunder, rapine, havoc, devastation,

spoliation.

sack, v. devastate, plunder, pillage, ravage, despoil, loot, rapine,

strip.

sacred, a. consecrated, hallowed; venerable, sainted, religious;

inviolable.

sacredness, n. sanctity, holiness; inviolability, inviolableness.

sacrifice, n. oblation, immolation; surrender, loss, giving up;

holocaust; hecatomb.

sacrifice, v. offer, immolate; surrender, give up, forego.

sacrilege, n. desecration, profanation, violation.

sacrilegious, a. impious, profane, irreverent.

sad, a. sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious,

rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate,

dejected, touching; calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive,

wretched, saturnine, grave, sober; dull, sombre, subdued; (Colloq.) bad,

naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious.

sadden, v. depress, dishearten; tone down, subdue.

saddle, n. Associated Words: pommel, cantle, girth, pillion,

stirrup, saddle-tree, croup, crutch, chapelet, tilpah, tapadero, housing,

latigo, pique, panel, sinch, saddle-bow, selliform, holster, mochila.

sadness, n. melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness,

seriousness.

safe, a. unharmed, intact, unscathed, immune; trustworthy, reliable,

sure, secure, invulnerable, impregnable. Antonyms: unsafe, endangered,

insecure.

safe-conduct, n. convoy, guard, escort; pass, passport.

safeguard, n. defense, security, palladium, protection, convoy,

guard; passport.

safeguard, v. guard, defend, protect, shield.

safekeeping, n. guardianship, care, custody, charge, preservation.

safety, n. security, custody; immunity, exemption.

sagacious, a. intelligent, knowing, shrewd, discerning.

sagacity, n. intelligence, shrewdness, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom.

sail, v. navigate, cruise, embark.--n. sailing, cruise,

embarkation.

sailable, a. navigable.

sailcloth, n. canvas, duck, tarpaulin, raven's-duck.

sailing, n. navigation; circumnavigation (sailing round);

orthodromics, orthodromy.

sailor, n. mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, tarpaulin, tar,

salt, Jacky.

sailor's song. chantey.

sailor's wages. portage.

saint, n. Associated Words: canonize, canonization, hagiology,

hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, Hagiographa, dulia,

legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine,

saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca.

sainted, a. holy, pious, saintly, consecrated; canonized.

Saint Vitus's dance. chorea. Associated Word: choreic.

salable, a. vendible, marketable. Antonyms: unsalable,

unmarketable.

salacious, a. lascivious, lecherous, concupiscent. See lustful.

salad, n. Associated Word: acetarious.

sale, n. vendition, market; auction; handsel.

salient, a. prominent, conspicuous, noticeable, striking.

saliva, n. spittle, sputum, spit. Associated Words: salivate,

salivation, insalivate, insalivation, salivant, salivary, ptyalism,

salival, salivous, expectorant, drool, drivel, ptyalogogue, sialogogue,

ptysmagogue.

sally, n. spring, leap; sortie; witticism, jest, frolic, escapade.

saloon, n. grogshop, barroom, groggery, dramshop.

sal soda. carbonate of soda.

salt, n. chloride of sodium.

salt, n. seasoning, flavor, savor, taste; piquancy, wit, sense,

humor; old sailor.

saltness, n. salinity, salineness, saltiness.

salt of wisdom. alembroth.

saltpetre, n. potassium nitrate, nitre, nitrate of potash.

salt spring. saline.

salt works. salina.

salty, a. saline, brackish, saltish, salt, briny, saliferous.

salute, v. address, greet, hail, welcome, accost.--n.

salutation.

salvation, n. redemption. Associated Word: soteriology.

salve, n. ointment, cerate, embrocation, emollient, balm, unguent.

salve, v. anoint, embrocate, heal; remedy, cure.

sal-volatile, n. carbonate of ammonia, salts of hartshorn, smelling

salts.

same, a. identical, invariable, uniform, analogous, similar,

cognate; isomeric, isonomic. Antonyms: See different.

sameness, n. identity, identicalness, similarity, correspondence,

uniformity, analogy, parity, invariability, parallelism; monotony;

isomerism.

sample, n. specimen, example, illustration, exemplification,

instance, pattern.

sanction, n. confirmation, ratification, authorization, penalty,

punishment.

sanction, v. confirm, ratify, approve, countenance.

sanctity, n. godliness, saintliness, inviolability, sacredness.

sanctuary, n. shrine, sanctum, adytum; Holy of Holies; church,

temple.

sand, n. sandy soil; quicksand, syrtis; arena (Med.). Associated

words: dune, downs, arenicolous, burst, sabulosity (sandiness),

psammophilous, ammophilous, medano, eschar, os, kame, arenarious.

sand, n. (Slang) grit, pluck, nerve, courage, fearlessness,

audacity, spirit.

sand bath. arenation, psammotherapy, inhumation, saburration.

sandglass, n. hourglass.

Sandwich islands. Associated Word: Kanacka (native).

sandy, a. sabulous, gritty, arenaceous, arenose.

sane, a. underanged, rational, sound, lucid, _compos mentis_.

sanguinary, a. bloody, murderous; cruel, truculent, bloodthirsty.

sanitarium, n. sanatorium, health retreat.

sanity, n. saneness, rationality.

sap, v. mine, undermine, subvert; exhaust, drain, unsettle.

saphead, n. (Slang) simpleton, sap, dolt.

sappy, a. juicy, lush, succulent; (Low) silly, foolish,

half-witted.

sapwood, n. alburnum.

sarcastic, a. satirical, taunting, ironical, derisive, sneering.

sash, n. girdle.

Satan, n. devil, Belial, Apollyon, Abaddon, Asmodeus, Prince of

Darkness, Archfiend, the Evil One, the Tempter, the Arch Enemy.

satchel, n. handbag, valise.

satiate, v. surfeit, pall, glut, overfeed, cloy, gorge.

satiety, n. satiation, surfeit, cloyment, over-fullness.

satire, n. irony, sarcasm, ridicule, lampoon, pasquinade.

satirical, a. bitter, sarcastic, ironical, caustic, mordacious.

satirize, v. lampoon, ridicule, lash.

satisfaction, n. gratification; contentment, complacency, content,

comfort; reparation, indemnification, requital, reimbursement, recompense;

atonement, amends. Antonyms: dissatisfaction, discontent.

satisfactory, a. sufficient, satisfying, conclusive, gratify, ing,

atoning.

satisfy, v. gratify, content, appease, satiate, suffice; indemnify,

repay.

sauce, n. (Low) sauciness, impertinence, insolence, rudeness

saucy, a. impertinent, insolent, pert, impudent, malapert, flippant.

saunter, v. loiter, linger, straggle, lounge, stroll, delay, dawdle,

lag.

savable, a. salvable.

savage, a. uncivilized, barbarous; ferocious, ravenous, fierce,

untamed; brutal, fell, truculent, implacable, atrocious, ferocious,

inhuman.

savage, n. barbarian; cannibal.

savages, n. pl. Associated Words: agriology, agriologist.

save, v. rescue, deliver, redeem; preserve, conserve, keep; reserve,

hoard, garner; economize, husband; spare, obviate, prevent, forefend,

shield, protect.

save, prep. or conj. except, excepting, reserving.

saving, a. preserving, redemptory, redeeming; preservative,

conservative; frugal, thrifty, economical, provident, sparing, choice,

chary. Antonyms: lavish, extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, profuse,

wasteful.

saving, n. treasure, hoard, reserve; exception, reservation,

salvation, rescue, redemption, deliverance; preservation, conservation;

salvage.

savingness, n. frugality, parsimony, thrift, providence, economy,

chariness. Antonyms: extravagance, prodigality, improvidence.

savory, a. gustable, palatable, toothsome, fragrant. Antonyms:

unsavory, impalatable.

savvy, v. (Slang) understand, comprehend.--n. understanding,

comprehension.

saw, n. maxim, adage, apothegm. See saying.

sawbones, n. (Nickname) surgeon.

sawer, n. sawyer.

saw tooth. serration, serrature, serrulation.

saw-toothed, a. serrate, serrated, serrulate.

say, v. utter, express, mention, pronounce, speak, declare, tell,

articulate, recite, rehearse; state, assert, affirm, allege, aver,

asseverate, predicate, cite; suppose, assume, presume.

saying, n. utterance, declaration, statement, pronunciation, mention,

assertion, affirmation, citation, averment, asseveration, alleging,

recital, rehearsal.

saying, n. maxim, saw, proverb, apothegm, aphorism, adage, dictum,

precept, axiom, motto, quotation.

scab, n. eschar, incrustation; mange.

scabby, a. scabbed, scaly, scabious, mangy.

scaffold, n. staging, scaffolding; gallows.

scalawag, n. (Slang) scamp, rascal, rogue, scapegrace, miscreant,

scoundrel, villain, caitiff, varlet.

scale, n. flake, lamina, leprosity, lamella, squama, incrustation.

scale, n. (Mus.) gamut, sol-fa. Associated Words: diatonic,

chromatic, tonic.

scale, n. (Bot.) squamula, lodicule; fulcrum.

scale, v. exfoliate, desquamate; climb, ascend, mount, clamber,

escalade.

scales, n. pl. balance; steelyards, Roman balance.

scalloped, a. pinked; crenate, crenated (Bot.).

scaly, a. flaky, squamose, leprose, squamoid, scurvy; (Low) mean,

low, contemptible, scurvy, despicable.

scamble, v. sprawl, wabble, shamble; scramble, jostle.

scamp, v. (Colloq.) slight, skimp.

scamp, n. rascal, knave, miscreant, caitiff, scapegrace, scoundrel.

scamper, v. hasten away, scud, hie, run, scuttle, scatter.

scandal, n. reproach, opprobrium, disgrace, odium, shame; slander.

scandalize, v. shock, offend, displease; disgrace; slander, defame,

vilify.

scandalous, a. defamatory, libellous, slanderous; infamous,

disgraceful, opprobrious, shameful, disreputable.

scant, a. scanty, meager, insufficient, inadequate; sparing, saving,

chary.

scant, v. limit, straiten, stint.

scantness, n. smallness, narrowness, inadequacy, insufficiency,

meagerness, scantiness.

scanty, a. insufficient, inadequate, meager; sparing, illiberal,

niggardly.

scapegrace, n. rogue, scamp, blacksheep, miscreant.

scar, n. cicatrix, seam, cicatrice; blemish, disfigurement, flaw.

Associated Words: cicatricial, cicatrisive, cicatrizant, cicatrize,

cicatrization, escharotic.

scarce, a. rare, unplentiful, deficient.

scarcity, n. dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, drought,

rarity, paucity.

scare, v. frighten, intimidate, terrify, daunt, cow, appall, startle,

affright, alarm, browbeat, dismay, terrorize, overawe. Antonym:

reassure.

scare, n. fright, alarm, terror, panic, consternation.

scarecrow, n. guy, effigy; ragamuffin.

scarf, n. muffler, tippet, neckcloth, neckerchief, cravat, necktie,

maniple.

scarfskin, n. epidermis, cuticle.

scary, a. (Colloq.) timid, apprehensive, alarming, frightful.

scatter, v. dissipate, disperse, dispel, separate; intersperse.

scatter-brained, a. giddy, thoughtless, flighty, careless.

scattering, a. scattered, sporadic.

scattering, n. dissipation, dispersion; interspersion.

scene, n. spectacle, show, exhibition, display, view, scenery.

scenery, n. view, landscape, prospect.

scent, n. odor, smell, perfume; _flair_. See smell.

scepter, n. royal mace, sovereignty.

schedule, n. list, catalogue, table.

scheme, n. design, plan, project, machination, intrigue, cabal;

outline, draught, arrangement, plan, system.

scheme, v. devise, excogitate, plan, machinate, plot, design.

schemer, n. plotter, intriguer, machinator, intrigant, planner,

contriver.

scheming, a. artful, designing, intriguing, Machiavelian, tricky,

wily, insidious. Antonyms: guileless, undesigning, artless.

schismatic, a. dissentious, heretical, dissentient, schismatical.

schismatic, n. nonconformist, dissenter, separatist, heretic,

sectary.

scholar, n. pupil, student, learner, disciple; savant, philomath.

scholarly, a. scholarlike, erudite, scholastic.

scholarship, n. erudition, learning, knowledge, attainments,

polymathy.

school, n. institute, academy, seminary, college, gymnasium

conservatory, university; denomination, sect; shoal; clinic.

school, v. train, educate, drill, teach.

schooling, n. education, training, nurture, discipline; tuition.

scientist, n. savant.

scintilla, n. iota, trace, whit, particle, mite, bit, tittle, jot,

scrap, atom.

scion, n. descendant, heir; shoot, sprout.

scoff, v. deride, ridicule, mock, sneer, gibe, jeer, contemn.

scoffer, n. derider, ridiculer, mocker, sneerer, scorner, contemner,

jeerer.

scoffery, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, jeering.

scold, v. chide, berate, censure, reprimand, blame, reprove, brawl,

lecture, reprehend, vituperate, rate, rebuke, declaim against.

scold, n. shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, rixatrix, Xantippe.

scolding, n. chiding, censure, rating, reprimand, reprehension,

rebuke, berating.

scolding, a. berating, chiding, censorious, shrewish, reprehensory,

termagant.

scoop, n. ladle; cavity, hollow; stroke, sweep, swoop.

scope, n. design, purpose; opportunity, space, room, liberty; extent,

compass, purview.

scorch, v. singe, char, torrefy, burn, parch.

score, n. tally, account; notch, incision; motive, account, reason,

sake, consideration, behalf; line, groove; twenty.

score, v. notch, scratch, cut; record, enter.

scorn, n. contempt, disdain, derision, contumely, mockery, slight.

scorn, v. despise, reject, contemn, disregard, scout, spurn.

scornful, a. disdainful, contemptuous, contumelious, defiant.

Scotch, n. Gaelic.

Scotchman, n. Scot, Scotsman, Caledonian, Gael, Celt.

Scotland, n. Scotia, Caledonia.

scoundrel, n. villain, knave, rascal, scamp, rogue, caitiff,

reprobate, cheat, swindler, libertine, miscreant, bezonian, vagabond,

wretch.

scoundrelism, n. villainy, turpitude, knavery, rascality.

scourge, n. affliction, infliction, bane, punishment.

scout, v. disdain, flout, contemn, scorn, spurn, scoff, ridicule.

scout, n. spy.

scowl, v. glower, frown, lower.--n. frown.

scowling, a. sullen, glowering, frowning, lowering.

scraggy, a. scragged, craggy; scrawny, lank, gaunt, skinny, angular.

scramble, v. scrabble, clamber; struggle, contend, strive.

scrap, n. bit, fragment, morsel, crumb; excerpt, extract; pl.

cracklings.

scrapbook, n. commonplace book, album.

scrape, n. difficulty, predicament, dilemma.

scrape, v. abrade, rasp, grate, rub; gather, collect; erase, remove.

scraper, n. rasper.

scrappy, a. fragmentary, disconnected, inconsistent.

scratch, v. scrape; scribble; erase, expunge; scarify.

scratch, a. (Slang) haphazard, chance, improvised.

scrawl, n. scribble.

scrawny, a. (Colloq.) angular, lank, meager, scraggy, bony,

rawboned, gaunt.

screak, n. creaking, screech, squeak.--v. screech, creak,

squeak.

scream, n. shriek, screech, yell, outcry.

screech, n. shriek, scream, screak.

screechy, a. discordant, unmelodious, unmusical, strident.

screed, n. tirade, diatribe, harangue.

screen, n. shield, protection, guard, defense, traverse, fender;

mask, disguise; sieve, riddle; jube, parclose, rood screen; pavesade.

screen, v. shield, defend, protect, cover, conceal, cloak, hide;

sift, riddle.

screw, v. twist, wrench, force, squeeze; oppress, rack; distort.

screw, n. extortioner, skinflint.

scribe, n. writer, scrivener, amanuensis, copyist.

scrimmage, n. skirmish, scuffle, scrabble, row, fight.

scrimp, v. limit, straiten, scant, stint.

scrimp, a. scanty.

scrofula, n. king's evil. Associated Words: scrofulide, scrofulous.

scrotum, n. cod. Associated Words: scrotal, varicocele, spermatic

cord, pneumatocele, gubernaculum, cirsotomy, dartos, urocele, sarcocele,

mesorchium, scrotocele, _vas_ _deferens_, suspensory.

scrub, n. jungle, thicket, brushwood.

scrubby, a. stunted, dwarfed, undeveloped, scrub, insignificant.

scrumptious, a. (Slang) fine, elegant, excellent, fastidious,

particular.

scruple, n. hesitation, doubt; twenty grains.

scrupulous, a. conscientious, exact, strict, punctilious, particular.

scuffle, n. tussle, struggle, encounter, contest, fight, fray.

scullion, n. menial.

sculpture, n. statuary.

scum, n. dross, recrement, refuse, waste, froth.--v. despumate.

scurrilous, a. indecent, scurrile, opprobrious, insulting, abusive.

scurry, v. hurry, scamper, scuddle, scuttle.

scurry, a. despicable, abject, low, mean, contemptible.

scurvy, n. scorbutus.

scuttle, n. coal hod; manhole.

scuttle, v. scuddle, hurry, bustle, run.

scythe, n. Associated Words: swath, snath.

scythestone, n. whetstone.

sea, n. Associated Words: marine, naval, maritime, nautical, Davy

Jones, pelagic, pelagian, loom, looming, submarine, ultramarine, rote,

frith, estuary, fiord, kraken, Triton, haliography, haliographer,

hydrography, thalassography, marinorama, nereid, mirage, nautilus,

thalassotherapy.

seacoast, n. seaboard, seashore, seaside, beach, strand, seamarge.

sea cow. manatee; dugong; walrus.

sea fight. naval battle, naumachy.

sea horse. hippocampus; walrus.

sea king. Norse pirate chief, Viking (pirate).

seal, n. Associated Words: rookery, pup.

seal, n. signet; assurance, ratification, attestation,

authentication, confirmation; cachet (seal of a letter); breloque

(jewel). Associated Words: sphragistics, sigillography, sigillate.

seal, v. ratify, authenticate, confirm, attest.

sea letter. passport, sea pass.

sealing, n. confirmation, ratification, authentication, attestation,

obsignation.

seam, n. suture, commissure; layer, stratum.

seamaid, n. mermaid, sea-nymph, siren.

seaman, n. sailor, seafarer, mariner, tarpaulin, tar, salt, sea dog,

Jacky, beachcomber; merman; midshipman, middy, skipper, cockswain, pilot,

navigator.

sear, v. cauterize, scorch.

sear, a. dry, withered, dead, sere.

search, v. examine, explore, hunt, seek, overhaul; rummage, ransack,

ferret; scrutinize, probe, sift.

search, n. quest, research, pursuit.

searcher, n. seeker.

searchless, a. unsearchable, impenetrable, inscrutable.

seared, a. scorched, cauterized; callous, case-hardened.

searing, n. scorching, cautery, cauterization, cauterizing.

Associated Words: cauter, cauterant, cauterism, cautery.

seashore, n. seacoast, seaside, seaboard.

seasickness, n. nausea, _mal de mer_.

sea soldier. marine.

season, v. habituate, inure, harden, accustom, acclimatize,

acclimate; dry, mature; flavor, spice.

seasonable, a. opportune, timely, suitable, apropos, convenient.

seasoning, n. condiment, spice, relish, sauce, flavor, salt,

_hautgoût_.

seat, n. site, abode, situation, station; fundament, buttocks,

bottom, breech; chair, sofa, tête-à-tête, divan, settee; banquette,

dickey, rumble; bench, form; pew.

seat, v. usher.

seaweeds, n. pl. algæ, dulse, sea lettuce, confervæ, wrack; sargasso;

kelp, fucus, rockweed. Associated Words: algology, algous, fucivorous,

fucoid, fucoidal, fucosol, laver, barilla, phycology, phycography, varec,

rhabdolith.

secluded, a. sequestered, isolated, retired, withdrawn, covert,

lonely.

seclusion, n. sequestration, isolation, solitude, loneliness,

retirement.

second, n. backer, supporter, assistant.--v.. back, support,

abet.

secondary, a. subordinate, second, inferior, minor, collateral.

secondary, n. subordinate, deputy, delegate, proxy, underling,

auxiliary.

second-class, a. inferior, second-rate.

second son. Associated Word: secundogeniture.

second sight. prophetic vision, deuteroscopy.

second thought. reconsideration.

secrecy, n. seclusion, privacy, retirement, concealment, confidence.

secret, a. mystery, arcanum; pl. confidences; pl.

genitals; pl. _penetralia_. Associated Words: secretive, secretory,

confide, confidential.

secret, a. hidden, concealed, unrevealed, mysterious, cryptic,

recondite, occult, esoteric, cabalistic, abstruse, unknown, latent;

secluded, privy, withdrawn, retired, covert, private, sequestered;

stealthy, underhand, clandestine, sly, surreptitious, confidential,

undetected. Antonyms: overt, revealed, open, exoteric, manifest.

secretary, n. amanuensis, clerk, writer, scribe; writing-desk,

escritoire, scrutoire. Associated Words: secretarial, secretariat,

portfolio.

secrete, v. bury, hide, conceal, shroud, disguise, cloak.

secretion, n. concealment, hiding.

secretive, a. uncommunicative, taciturn, reserved, silent, wary.

secretiveness, n. taciturnity, reserve, silence, uncommunicativeness,

wariness.

secret language. cryptology, argot, flash.

secret name. cryptonym.

secrets, n. pl. confidences, mysteries; arcana, _penetralia_.

secret science. esoterics, cabala.

secret vice. masturbation, onanism, self-abuse.

secret writing. cryptography, cipher, steganography, cryptogram.

sect, n. school, party, denomination.

sectarian, a. denominational.

section, n. portion, part, division, segment, piece; paragraph.

secular, a. temporal, worldly, laic, civil.

secure, a. safe, confident, assured, fast, immovable, stable,

indemnified. Antonyms: insecure, risky, hazardous.

secure, v. gain, procure, obtain, get, acquire; fasten, moor;

guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, indemnify; defend, guard, shield,

protect.

security, n. safety, confidence, assurance, certainty; warranty,

surety, indemnification, pledge, indemnity, bond, guarantee, vadium;

defense, protection, bulwark.

sedate, a. staid, demure, imperturbable, composed, calm.

sedative, a. composing, soothing, anodyne.

sedative, n. anæsthetic, narcotic, opiate, hypnotic.

sediment, n. precipitate, dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, feculence.

sedition, n. rebellion, revolt, insurrection, riot, mutiny,

insubordination.

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

seduce, v. entice, tempt, betray, allure.

seducement, n. seduction, enticement.

seducer, n. Lothario.

seduction, n. enticement, temptation, allurement, lure.

seductive, a. alluring, attractive, siren, enticing.

see, v. perceive, descry, view, behold, witness, espy; discern,

distinguish, observe, note, notice, observe, understand, grasp; watch,

regard, look after; accompany, escort; interview, visit. Antonyms:

overlook, ignore, miss, skip, connive at.

seed, n. semen, sperm; first principle, origin, source.

seed, n. kernel, grain, pip, ovule. Associated Words: carpology,

spermologist, seminal, semination, seminific, spermophyte, angiosperm,

pericarp, angiospermous, carpolite, germinate, germination, achene,

carpel, spermophyta, silique, silicle, weevil, chorion, testa, tegmen,

endopleura, capsule, pod.

seedy, a. (Colloq.) shabby, tacky, threadbare; spiritless.

seeing, n. perception, viewing, espial, descrying, beholding;

discernment, observation, comprehension; sight, vision. Antonyms:

imperception, blindness, connivance. See sight.

seek, v. search for, hunt; aim at, strive after, attempt.

seeming, n. appearance, show, semblance, speciousness, guise, look.

seemingly, adv. apparently, ostensibly.

seemly, a. becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, meet, befitting.

seep, v. percolate.

seer, n. prophet, vaticinator, predictor, diviner.

seething, a. boiling, ebullient.

segment, n. section, part, portion, piece; (Biol.) metamere,

somite, somatome.

seize, v. apprehend, snatch, clutch, catch, gripe, grasp, grapple;

arrest; confiscate, usurp, appropriate; distrain, distress.

seizure, n. apprehension, grasping; capture; confiscation,

usurpation.

seldom, adv. infrequently, rarely.

select, v. pick out, choose, prefer, cull, single out,

elect.--a. choice. Antonyms: promiscuous, indiscriminate.

selecting, a. elective, eclectic.

selection, n. choice, election, preference, pick; collection,

assortment. Antonyms: promiscuity, indiscrimination.

self, n. ego, person, individual. Associated Words: egoism, egoist,

egoistic, egotism, egotist, egotistical.

self-abasement, n. self-degradation, humility, meekness.

self-abuse, n. masturbation, onanism, secret vice, self-pollution.

self-acting, a. automatic.

self-conceit, n. egotism, overweening, priggishness, vanity.

self-conceited, a. egotistical, vain, overweening, priggish,

opinionated, bumptious, conceited.

self-consumption, n. autophagy.

self-defense, n. Associated Word:: jujutsu.

self-deification, n. autotheism.

self-denial, n. self-abnegation, asceticism, self-sacrifice,

abstemiousness. Antonyms: self-indulgence, sensuality, voluptuousness.

self-denying, a. self-sacrificing, unselfish, ascetic, abstemious.

self-evident, a. axiomatic, obvious.

self-examination, n. introspection; autoscopy.

self-explanatory, a. obvious.

self-fear, n. self-distrust, autophoby.

self-fertilization, n. autogamy.

self-government, n. self-control; democracy; autonomy. Antonyms:

subjection, heteronomy, abandon, subordination.

self-heating, a. idiothermic.

self-importance, n. pompousness, pomposity, vanity, conceit.

self-important, a. pompous, vain, opinionated, bumptious.

selfish, a. ungenerous, narrow, illiberal, uncharitable.

self-knowledge, n. autology.

self-murderer, n. suicide, _felo-de-se_.

self-possessed, a. composed, unruffled, sedate, calm, collected.

self-possession, n. composure, equanimity, calmness, _aplomb_.

Antonyms: discomposure, agitation.

self-righteous, a. pharisaic, sanctimonious.

self-sufficiency, n. self-complacency.

self-taught person. autodidact, automath.

self-worship, n. autolatry, idiolatry.

sell, v. vend, barter, exchange; betray; (Slang) deceive, impose

upon, cheat.

sell, n. (Slang) imposition, cheat, hoax, deception, trick, fraud.

seller, n. vender, vendor.

selling, n. vendition, barter, vending, sale.

selvedge, n. listing.

semen, n. sperm, seed. Associated Words: seminal, spermatic,

spermatism, gonic, aspermatism, aspermia, seminific, seminiferous,

spermatoid, spermatozoid, spermic, spermary, spermatorrhea, spermatozoa,

emission, _vesiculæ seminales_, fecundate.

semicircle, n. hemicycle.

send, v. dispatch, commission, delegate; transmit, forward.

send back. return, remand, recommit.

sending back. return, remand, remandment, recommitment.

senile, a. decrepit, feeble, aged, infirm.

senility, n. dotage, decrepitude, old age.

seniority, n. eldership, superiority.

sensation, n. consciousness, feeling, perception; excitement.

Associated Words: æsthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory,

sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory,

sensitive, æsthesiometer, æsthesiogen, catalepsy, anæsthesia.

sensational, a. melodramatic, emotional, exciting, thrilling.

sense, n. perception, sensation, sensibility, feeling, æsthesia;

apprehension, understanding; wisdom, sagacity; judgment, notion, opinion,

sentiment, view; conviction, consciousness. Associated Words:

æsthematology, æsthesiography, sensuous, sensual, sensuality,

sensuousness.

sense, v. (Colloq.) perceive, recognize.

senseless, a. insensible, unconscious; absurd, silly, nonsensical,

inept, foolish, idiotic, fatuous, unwise.

senselessness, n. insensibility, unconsciousness; fatuity, absurdity.

sensibility, n. susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling,

emotion.

sensible, a. apprehensible, perceptible; susceptible, impressible,

conscious, cognizant, aware; wise, judicious, discreet, intelligent.

Antonyms: insensible, unconscious.

sensitive, a. susceptible, impressible, sentient, irritable.

sensual, a. unspiritual, carnal, fleshly, sensuous; voluptuous,

luxurious, sybaritic, wanton, licentious, self-indulgent.

sensualist, n. voluptuary, epicure, sybarite.

sensuality, n. voluptuousness, carnality, sybaritism; wantonness,

licentiousness, self-gratification.

sensuous, a. sensual. Antonym: insensuous.

sentence, n. opinion, decision, determination, judgment; axiom,

maxim, precept, posy, adage, epigram, apothegm, saying.

sententious, a. terse, pithy, laconic, epigrammatic.

sentient, a. sensitive, perceptive, conscious, susceptible.

Antonyms: insentient, insusceptible.

sentiment, n. thought, feeling; judgment, notion, opinion; maxim,

saying, toast; sensibility, susceptibility.

sentimental, a. romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical.

Antonyms: unsentimental, matter-of-fact, pragmatical.

sentinel, n. guard, sentry, watchman, picket, vidette, perdue.

Associated Word: cordon.

separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible. Antonym:

inseparable.

separate, v. divide, dissolve, detach, sunder, sever, disconnect,

part, disjoin, withdraw, rend, dissociate, disengage, isolate, disunite,

eliminate, disintegrate, segregate, scatter, disperse, dissipate,

sequester, cleave, insulate, dissever, deglutinate.

separate, a. detached, disconnected, disjoined, separated, apart,

distinct, isolated, segregated, disunited, severed, withdrawn.

separation, n. division, segregation, disunion, disconnection,

sequestration, disjunction, dissolution, disengagement, disintegration,

insulation, isolation, rupture, dissociation, divorce, analysis,

decomposition, detachment, demarcation, severance, partition,

deglutination.

separatist, n. nonconformist, dissenter, sectary, schismatic.

sequel, n. continuation, conclusion, consequence, result, outcome.

sequence, n. succession, series, following; result, sequel,

consequence.

sequestered, a. secluded.

sere, a. dry, withered, sear.

serenade, n. nocturne; (burlesque) charivari, callithump.

serene, a. calm, placid, composed, tranquil, unruffled, unclouded.

serenity, n. calmness, composure, tranquillity; cloudlessness,

clearness.

serf, n. bondman, thrall, slave, bond servant, villein.

serfdom, n. thralldom, slavery, subjection, bondage, servitude.

serious, a. grave, earnest, thoughtful, solemn, staid, sober, demure,

saturnine; momentous, important, weighty, grave; dangerous, alarming,

critical.

seriousness, n. gravity. Antonyms: levity, frivolity, triviality.

sermon, n. homily, exhortation (religious), discourse. Associated

words: homiletics, homiletic, homilist.

serpent, n. snake, reptile, ophidian; basilisk, cockatrice,

amphisbæna. Associated Words: ophiology, ophiolatry, ophiophagous,

ophiography, herpetology, ophidian, ophiologic, ophiomorphous,

herpetologist, herpetotomy, herpetotomist, ophiologist, ophiomancy,

echidna, echidnine, fang, uræus, serpentry, reptilian, anguiform, anguine.

serpentine, a. serpentlike, subtle, sinuous, winding, zigzag,

tortuous.

servant, n. dependent, subaltern, subordinate, helper, servitor,

attendant, retainer; domestic, maid, menial, drudge, valet, flunky, groom,

coistril, lackey, underling, fag, coolie, butler, factotum, orderly,

soubrette, equerry.

serve, v. attend, wait upon; promote, advance, contribute, conduce

to; subserve; treat, requite; satisfy, suffice, content, answer, do; deal,

distribute.

service, n. labor, employment, office, duty, business, function,

ministry; ritual, ceremony, rite; advantage, benefit, avail, use, utility;

homage, obeisance.

servile, a. slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious;

dependent, enslaved.

servitude, n. bondage, enslavement.

set, v. place, put, fix, establish, locate, station; adjust,

regulate, adapt; oppose, obstruct; appoint, assign.

set, a. fixed, immovable, rigid, firm, obstinate, inflexible,

unyielding; regular, uniform, established, prescribed, ordained,

appointed.

set, n. clique, group, class, party, coterie, circle, band, company.

set aside. displace, supersede.

setback, n. (Colloq.) backset, check, repulse, reverse, relapse.

set-off, n. offset; counterclaim, equivalent.

set-out, n. display, equipage, rig, turnout; (Colloq.)

preparations.

settle, v. fix, establish; ordain, install; adjust, determine,

decide; sink, subside, fall; precipitate; quiet, calm, pacify,

tranquillize; colonize, people.

settlement, n. establishment; ordination, installation; colonization,

colony; adjustment; subsidence.

settler, n. pioneer, colonist.

settlings, n. pl. sediment, dregs, lees, precipitate, grounds,

feculence; foots.

set-to, n. (Colloq.) contest, conflict, encounter, combat, fight,

scrimmage.

seven, n. heptade. Associated Words: septenary, septuple, septette,

septenate, septemvirate, septemvir, heptarchy.

sevenfold, a. septuple.

seven languages. Associated Word: heptaglot.

seven-sided, a. heptagonal, septilateral.

seven-sided figure. heptagon, heptahedron.

seventy, n. Associated Words: septuagenary, septuagesimal,

Septuagint.

seventy years. Associated Words: septuagenarian, septuagenary.

seven years. septennate. Associated Words: septennial,

septennially, septenary.

sever, v. part, divide, disunite, separate, disjoin, detach,

disconnect.

several, a. various, diverse, manifold, divers, sundry.

severe, a. drastic, harsh, stern, rigorous, exact, cruel; serious,

sedate, grave, austere, sober; distressing, afflictive, sharp, acute,

violent, intense; inexorable, stern, exacting, peremptory, unrelenting,

unmerciful; plain, austere, unembellished, unadorned; methodical, strict,

precise, exact.

severity, n. rigor, rigorousness, harshness, exactness, cruelty;

seriousness, gravity; violence, intensity, acuteness; austerity,

simplicity, plainness; exactness, strictness, preciseness.

sew, v. stitch; baste.

sewer, n. Associated Words: sewerage, sewage.

sewing woman. seamstress.

sex, n. Associated Words: sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual,

epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad.

sexless, a. asexual, agamous.

sexton, n. janitor (of a church), sacristan, sacrist.

sexual desire. lust, venereal appetite, sexual appetite, carnal

appetite, lasciviousness, venery, concupiscence, salacity, salaciousness,

aphrodisia; satyriasis (immoderate); nymphomania (morbid in women);

(of animals) œstrus, rut, heat, œstruation. Antonym: anaphrodisia.

Associated Words: aphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac,

aphrodisiacal, amative, amativeness, amorous, amorousness, amatory,

antiorgastic, philter, œstrual, sedative, erotic, erotomania, sadism,

satyromaniac.

sexual intercourse. coition, copulation, venery, sexual conjunction;

(illicit) fornication, bawdry; prostitution, putage; adultery; incest;

rape; (unnatural) sodomy, buggery, pederasty; (of birds) tread.

Antonyms: continence, chastity, virginity. Associated Words: venereal,

incontinence, incontinent, unchastity, copulatory, gonorrhea, clap,

syphilis, cenogamy, infibulation, intromittent, access, nonaccess, orgasm,

fecundation, impregnate, impregnation, copulate, lecher, lechery,

lecherous, libertine, libertinism, house of assignation, bawd, procurer,

bawdry, pander, catamite.

sexual love. venery, amorousness, amativeness.

sexual organs. genitals, privates, private parts, organs of

generation, pudenda, virilia; (male) penis, testicles; (female

external) vulva, pudendum; (internal) womb, uterus, ovaries, vagina,

clitoris. Associated Words: agamic, agamous, protandric, protandrism,

nympha, maidenhead, pudic, pubes, spermatheca, gonad, masturbation,

infibulation.

sexual power. virility; fecundity. Associated Word: emasculate.

sexual weakness. (male) impotency, sexual debility, invirility,

emasculation, eviration; (female) sterility, defemination, infecundity.

shabby, a. seedy, threadbare, tacky (Colloq.); mean, despicable,

scurvy, contemptible.

shack, n. (Colloq.) vagabond, tramp, loafer; hut, shanty, hovel,

cabin.

shackle, n. handcuff, manacle, fetter.

shackle, v. manacle, hamper, fetter; impede, trammel.

shade, n. umbrage, shadow; pl. darkness, obscurity, gloom,

shadows; retreat, seclusion; screen, protection, curtain, awning, blind;

spirit, ghost, specter, phantom, manes; minute difference, variation,

nuance.

shade, v. screen; obscure, dim, obfuscate, cloud, darken, eclipse.

shadow, n. shade, darkness, penumbra, adumbration; prefiguration.

Associated Words: sciagraphy, sciomachy, periscian, silhouette,

sciomancy.

shadow, v. shade, screen; adumbrate, typify, symbolize; cloud,

obscure.

shadowy, a. unsubstantial, visionary, illusory, chimerical.

shady, a. umbrageous, shadowy, umbriferous; sheltered, screened;

(Colloq.) equivocal, questionable, corrupt.

shaft, n. arrow, spear, missile; column, obelisk; handle, helve;

spire, pinnacle; pole, tongue, thill; axis.

shake, v. agitate, jar, jolt, convulse, concuss, jounce, dodder,

tremble, trill, shiver, totter, joggle, jiggle, wave, vibrate, shudder.

shake, n. jar, shivering, jolt, shaking, shudder.

shaking, n. concussion, agitation, disturbance, trembling,

convulsion.

shaky, a. trembling, shaking; (Colloq.) unsound, tottering.

shallow, a. shoal; superficial, frivolous, senseless.

sham, n. pretense, feint, delusion, imposition, mockery, fraud,

imitation, dissimulation, simulation.

sham, a. counterfeit, spurious, pretended, dummy, unreal false, mock,

simulated.

sham, v. feign, pretend, imitate, personate, dissimulate.

shame, n. ignominy, dishonor, reproach, derision, contempt discredit,

opprobrium, scandal, disgrace, obloquy; mortification, abashment,

humiliation, discomfiture; modesty, decency.

shame, v. humiliate, mortify, disconcert; disgrace, degrade; mock,

deride, ridicule.

shamefaced, a. bashful, diffident, modest.

shameful, a. indecent, immodest, obscene; scandalous, disgraceful,

reproachful, ignominious, infamous, flagitious, disreputable, vile,

opprobrious.

shameless, a. immodest, unabashed, indelicate, indecent, unblushing,

audacious, brazen-faced, abandoned, graceless.

shammy, n. chamois.

shanty, n. hut, hovel, shack.

shape, v. form, mould, fashion, frame; adjust, regulate, design,

plan, arrange.

shape, n. form, figure, guise, appearance.

shapeless, a. misshapen, unsymmetrical, unshapely, formless,

amorphous.

shapely, a. symmetrical, well-formed, comely, well-proportioned.

share, v. apportion, divide; partake, participate in.

share, n. portion, allotment, quota, dole, proportion, contingent,

dividend.

sharer, n. participator, partaker; divider, distributor.

shark, n. (Colloq.) sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler; fraud,

trickery.

sharp, a. pointed, trenchant, incisive, keen; poignant, piercing,

acute, penetrating, severe, excruciating, intense, subtile, violent;

biting, sarcastic, acrimonious, acrid, cutting; sagacious, clever,

perspicacious, ingenious, bright, discerning, resourceful, astute, shrewd,

apt, smart, long-headed, acuminous; fierce, fiery, unquenchable, eager;

exacting, close; steep, abrupt, precipitous; pungent, piquant peppery,

high-seasoned: shrill, piercing; peaked, ridged.

sharpen, v. intensify, aggravate, quicken; hone, grind, point, whet.

sharpening stone. whetstone, hone, oilstone, grindstone, abradant.

sharper, n. trickster, swindler, knave, cheat, extortioner, blackleg.

sharpness, n. keenness, poignancy, acuity, acuteness, edge; asperity,

acrimony, impatience; acumen, sagacity, shrewdness, astuteness, aptness;

pungency, piquancy.

sharp practice. trickery, chicanery.

sharp-sighted, a. eagle-eyed, acute, perspicacious, argus-eyed.

shatter, v. shiver, demolish; disorder, derange.

shave, n. shaving; spokeshave, drawshave.

sheath, n. case, scabbard; covering.

shed, v. diffuse, emit, radiate, spread; cast, exuviate, moult, mew,

discard; doff.

shed, n. outhouse, lean-to, shack, shanty.

shedding, n. (skins_, _shells_, _etc.) exuviation, ecdysis,

moulting.

she-devil, n. Jezebel, fury, virago, termagant.

sheen, n. shine, luster, gloss, brightness, splendor.

sheep, n. _Ovis_, _Ovis aries_; (male) ram, buck; (female) ewe;

(young) lamb, eanling; (castrated ram) wether; (leader of the flock)

bellwether; hoggerel, hogget. Associated Words: bleat, braxy, gid,

mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean,

lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold.

sheep-dog, n. collie, shepherd dog.

sheepish, a. bashful, shy, over-modest.

sheepskin, n. sheep-pelt, pelt, woolfell; roan; (Cant) diploma.

Associated Words: fellmonger, woolpuller, skiver, budge.

sheer, a. thin; unadulterated, pure, unmixed; precipitous, abrupt,

perpendicular.

shelf, n. mantel, mantelpiece; bracket, console; ledge, shallow,

shoal; banquette.

shell, n. shuck, putamen; test, testa, episperm, spermoderm.

Associated Words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.

shell, n. armature, case, exoskeleton, shale; carapace, plastron;

cockle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre shell, abilone shell;

exuviae (cast-off); conchite (fossil). Associated Words: conchology,

conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous,

conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate,

exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve.

shell, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade.

shell, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege.

shellfish, n. pl. Mollusks, Mollusca, Testacea.

shell money. wampum, hiagua, peag, colcol, kopkops, seawan,

suckanhock.

shelter, n. protection, screen, cover, shield, defense, covert,

security, lee; asylum, refuge, retreat, haven, sanctuary.

shelter, v. shield, protect, defend, screen, ensconce, cover.

Antonym: expose.

sheltered, a. protected, covert.

shepherd, n. pastor, pastoralist. Associated Words: bucolic,

pastoral, staff, crook.

shibboleth, n. watchword, party cry.

shield, n. ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum;

defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. Associated Words:

scutal, bouche.

shield, v. defend, protect, safeguard; ward off, repel.

shield-shaped, a. thyroid.

shift, v. veer, change, turn; quirk, quibble, palter; change,

substitute.

shift, n. subterfuge, device, contrivance, evasion, stratagem, trick,

dodge; resource, expedient, change, substitution; chemise.

shifting, a. unstable, variable, changeable.

push, n. (Colloq.) energy, spiritedness, enterprise,