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1)

Abandonmen
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3) Abhor

5) Abjure

CESSATION
STOPPAGE, HALT
COMPARE
EXTENTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forsaking


Synonyms: dereliction, desertion, jettison, jilting. Antonyms:
EXTENTION.

LOVE
LIKE, ATTRACT
PLEASE
LOATHE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: regard with contempt or disgust


Synonyms: abominate, be allergic to, be down on, be grossed out
by, despise, detest, hate, have no use for, loathe, scorn
Antonyms: admire, adore, approve, cherish, desire, enjoy, like, love,
relish, ATTRACT.

ACKNOWLEDGE
DISOWN, DENY
HATE
GIVE UP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up
Synonyms: abstain from, forswear, recant, renege, renounce,
retract, take back, withdraw
Notes: abjure is 'swear off' or 'swear away' and adjure is
'command earnestly'; abjure implies a firm and final
rejecting,renounce often equals abjure but may carry the meaning
of disclaim
Antonym: ACKNOWLEDGE.

7) Abominate

PRAISE
ATTRACT, ADORE
ADORN
HORRIFY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detest


Synonyms: abhor, despise, dislike, hate, loathe
Antonym:
ADORE.

9) Abridge

11) Absolute

13)
Abstemious

CONDENSE
REDUCE, LENGTHEN
CONTINUE
SHORTEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shorten
Synonyms: abbreviate, abstract, chop, clip, compress, concentrate,
condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize,
lessen, limit, narrow, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim,
truncate
Antonyms: add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, LENGTHEN

SCARCE
LIMITED, FAULTY
DEFICIENT
PERFECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:without limit
Synonyms: complete, consummate, downright, entire, flat out, free,
full, infinite, outright, plenary, pure, sheer, simple, supreme,
thorough, total, unabridged, unadulterated, unconditional,
unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted, utter
Antonyms: accountable, circumscribed, LIMITED, restricted,
tractable

ABSENT
PRESENT, MISERLY
IRREGULAR
PRODIGAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: restraining behavior or appetite


Synonyms: abstinent, ascetic, austere, continent, frugal, moderate,
moderating, restrained, self-denying, self-restrained, sober, sparing,
temperate
Antonyms: gluttonous, greedy, hungry, PRODIGAL.

15) Absurd

17) Abusive

19)
Accomplice

SCARCITY
ADORN, RATIONAL
FLORISH
RIDICULOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ridiculous, senseless
Synonyms: batty, campy, crazy, daffy, dippy, fooling around,
foolish, freaky, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational,
jokey, joshing, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous,
screwy, silly, stupid, tomfool, unreasonable, wacky
Antonyms: certain, logical, RATIONAL, reasonable, sensible, wise

DECENT, COMPLIMENTATY
WRETCHED
RESPECTFUL
OFFENSIVE
Definition: exhibiting unkind behavior or words


Synonyms: calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious,
defamatory, derisive, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous,
maligning, obloquious, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude,
sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, traducing, upbraiding,
vilifying, vituperative
Antonyms: complimentary, kind, RESPECTFUL

OPPONENT
DESERTION, ESCORT
OBEY
ACCESSORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: helper, especially in committing a crime

Synonyms: abettor, accessory, aid, aide, ally, assistant, associate, coconspirator, collaborator, colleague, confederate, conspirator,
insider, partner.
Antonyms: adversary, enemy, opponent, ACCESSORY

21) Acerbity

23) Acquitted

25)Active

SWEAT
GENTLENESS, TASTY
ACCOUNT
SOURNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bitterness of taste


Synonyms: acidity, asperity, astringency, mordancy, sourness,
tartness
Antonyms: mellowness, mildness, sweetness, GENTLENESS.

CONVICTED, BURDENED
ENTRUSTED
FREED
EXEMPTED
Part of Speech: verb
Def: announce removal of blame
Synonyms: absolve, blink at, clear, deliver, discharge, disculpate,
exculpate, excuse, exonerate, liberate,release,relieve,vindicate,wink
at, wipe off
Notes: one is absolved of blame or responsibility but is acquitted of
a charge, usually a crime
Antonyms: blame, censure, condemn, CONVICTED, damn,
denounce, doom, sentence

ANIMATED
ADJUST, PASSIVE
AGILE
DYNAMIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: having movement
Syn: alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive,
flowing, going, hasty, impelling, mobile, movable, moving,
operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, rustling, shifting,
simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling,
turning, working
Antonyms: abeyant, dormant,PASSIVE, sluggish

OBTUSE
KEEN

27) Acute

29) Adamant

31) Adherent

FIGURE, ASTUTE
SHARP

Def: deeply perceptive


Synonyms: astute, canny, clever, discerning, discriminating, incisive,
ingenious, insightful, intense, intuitive, judicious, keen, observant,
penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, sensitive, sharp, smart, subtle
Notes: acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is
for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration
Antonyms: dense, imperceptive, insensitive, OBTUSE, slow, stupid

FLEXIBLE
ABOMINATE, ADHERE
AWKWARD
UNYIELDING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unyielding
Synonyms: determined, firm, fixed, hanging tough, immovable,
inexorable, inflexible, insistent, intransigent, obdurate, pat,
relentless, resolute, rigid, set, standing pat, stiff, stubborn,
unbendable, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unshakable,
unswayable
Antonyms: FLEXIBLE, pliant, submissive,yielding

IRRESPONSIBLE, RIVAL
LOOSE
DETRACTOR
DISCIPLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: supporter or follower


Synonyms: advocate, aficionado, backer, believer, card-carrying
member, devotee, disciple, enthusiast, fan, hanger-on
Antonyms: DETRACTOR

33)Adore

LOVE
HATE, DESPISE
GENTLE
CHERISH
Part of Speech: verb
Def:love intensely
Synonyms: admire, be crazy about, be gone on, be mad for, be nuts
about, be serious about, be smitten with, be stuck on, be sweet on, be
wild about, cherish, esteem, exalt, fall for, flip over, glorify, go for,
honor, idolize, prize, revere, reverence, treasure, venerate, worship
Antonyms:abhor, condemn, DESPISE, detest, hate

INDIRECTLY
HARDLY, SUCCESSFULLY

35) Adroitly

37) Adulation

INGENUOUSLY
ADMITTEDLY

Part of Speech: adverb


Def: in a dexterous manner
Synonyms: ably, adroitly , agilely, aptly, cunningly, deftly,
dexterously, expertly, facilely, glibly, handily, ingeniously, neatly,
nimbly, proficiently, quickly, readily, resourcefully, skillfully,
smoothly
Antonyms: awkwardly, clumsily, unskillfully, INGENUOUSLY.

CRITICISM
APPROVAL, FLATTERY
MATURITY
FAVOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overenthusiastic praise


Synonyms: applause, audation, blandishment, bootlicking,
commendation, fawning, flattery, sycophancy, worship
Antonyms: abuse, CRITICISM

39) Adversity

41) Affable

43) Affected

SUFFERING
PROMOTION
CALAMITY, HARDSHIP
SUCCESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: bad luck, situation
Syn: affliction, bad break, bummer, calamity, catastrophe, clutch,
contretemps, crunch, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer, hardship,
hurting, jam, jinx, kiss of death, misery, misfortune, mishap, on the
skids, reverse, sorrow, suffering, the worst, tough luck, trial, trouble
Antonyms: aid, encouragement, SUCCESS, fortune.

COURTEOUS
APPROACHABLE
RUDE, TIMID
NASTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly
Synonyms: amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign,
breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle,
good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite,
sociable, urbane, warm
Antonyms: complaining, disdainful, RUDE, grumbling, impolite,
miserable, surly, unfriendly

INFLUENCED
CHARGED, WEARY
MODIFIED
UNFEIGNED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deeply moved or hurt emotionally


Syn: afflicted, altered, changed, compassionate, concerned,
damaged, distressed, excited, grieved, impaired, influenced, injured,
overwhelmed, stimulated, sympathetic, tender, touched,
Antonyms: calm, unmoved, unperturbed, unswayed, untroubled,
UNFEIGNED

45) Affluence

47) Agile

49)Agony

PROSPERITY
PRIVILEDGE,AILMENT
PERSUATION
POVERTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wealth


Synonyms: abundance, fortune, luxury, opulence, plenty,
prosperity, riches, wealthiness
Antonyms:
POVERTY

SLOW
FEEBLE, SWIFT
HARD
NIMBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: physically or mentally nimble, deft
Synonyms: active, acute, alert, athletic, brisk, buoyant, bustling,
clever, dexterous, energetic, fleet, frisky, limber, lithe, lively,
mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, ready, sharp, spirited, sportive,
spright, sprightly, spry, stirring, supple, swift, vigorous, vivacious,
winged, zippy
Antonyms: brittle, clumsy, stiff, SLOW

SUFFERING
CONMFORT
TORMENT
EMOTION, DISTRESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: suffering, pain


Synonyms: affliction, anguish, distress, dolor, misery, pangs,
passion, throes, torment, torture, woe
Antonyms: COMFORT , happiness, health, peace, success

GATHER
ASSEMBLE, UNITE

51) Alienate

53)Allay

Part of Speech: verb


Definition: cause unfriendliness, hostility


Synonyms: break off, come between, disaffect, disunite, divide,
divorce, estrange, make indifferent, part, separate, set against, turn
away, turn off, wean, withdraw the affections of
Antonyms: be friendly, disarm, IDENTITY

ALERT
VIGILANT, AROUSE
AWAKEN
ENERGETIC
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce something, usually a pain or a problem

Synonyms: abate, alleviate, assuage, calm, compose, cool out,
decrease, ease, lessen, lighten, make nice, mitigate, moderate,
mollify, pacify, play up to, pour oil on, quiet, square.
Antonyms: intensify, provoke, stir, worsen, AROUSE

LESSENING
INTENSITY,AGGRAVATION

55)
Alleviation

IDENTIFY
ESTRAGE

MAGNIFICATION
EXAGGERATION

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: relief


Synonyms: abatement, assuagement, comfort, ease, easement,
mitigation, palliation, palliative, remedy, salving.
Antonyms: AGGRAVATION.

57)Aloof

DETACHED
GREGARIOUS
RUDDY, HONORABLE
DISTANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: remote
Synonyms: above, apart, casual, chilly, cold, cold fish, cool,
detached, distant, forbidding, haughty, incurious, indifferent, offish,
reserved, secluded, solitary, standoffish, stuck up, supercilious,
unapproachable, unconcerned, unfriendly, uninterested,
unresponsive, unsociable, uppity,
Antonyms: concerned, friendly, GREGARIOUS

SEPARATE
DISFIGURE

59)
Amalgamate

61)
Ambiguous

MIX, ALTERNATE
CONFUSE

Part of Speech: verb


Definition: blend


Synonyms: admix, alloy, ally, coalesce, combine, come together,
compound, consolidate, fuse, hook up with, incorporate, integrate,
interface, intermix, join together, meld, merge, mingle, network,
pool, team up, tie in, tie up, unite
Antonyms: divide, SEPARATE

VAGUE
CLEAR, EQUIVOCAL
TRANSPARENT
REPRESSED
Def:having more than one meaning
Synonyms: cryptic, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, enigmatical,
equivocal, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, muddy,
multivocal, obscure, opaque, polysemous, puzzling, tenebrous,
uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague
Notes: ambiguous is vague by accident or intent; equivocal is
vague by intent
Antonyms: clear, explicit, lucid, EQUIVOCAL

63)Amble

65)
Ameliorate

67) Amicable

STROLL
RAMBLE, SAUNTER
IMPORT
HASTEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: walk casually


Synonyms: ankle, boogie, dawdle, drift, gander, hoof it, loiter,
meander, mosey, percolate*, ramble, sashay, saunter, stroll, toddle,
wander
Antonyms: run, HASTEN

CHANGE
WORSEN, MODIFY
CONVERT
DECREASE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make, become better


Synonyms: alleviate, amend, help, improve, lighten, meliorate,
mitigate, relieve, step up, upgrade
Antonyms: WORSEN,

UNFRIENDLY

PENETRATABLE

HARMONIOUS

COOPERATIVE,AMAZING

Definition: friendly. Syn: accordant,


agreeing, amiable, civil, clubby, concordant, cordial, mellow, pacific,
peaceable, peaceful, polite,regular,sociable, Notes: amicable implies
being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and is applied
only to people - amiable first meant'kind' or 'lovely' and amicable
first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign'
Antonyms: hostile, UNFRIENDLY

69)
Amorphous

71)Amuse

73) Anarchy

DEFINITE
UNCERTAIN,REGULAR
OBSCENE
CONFIRMED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without definite shape, character


Synonyms: baggy, blobby, characterless, formless, inchoate,
indeterminate, irregular, nebulous, nondescript, shapeless,
unformed, unshaped, unstructured, vague
Antonyms: DEFINITE, distinct, distinctive, shaped, shapely

ENTERTAIN
WEARY, DIVERT
INFORM
RELAX
Def: entertain; make laugh
Synonyms: break one up, charm, cheer, delight, divert, fracture,
gladden, gratify, interest, knock dead, occupy, please, regale, slay,
tickle,
Notes: the first meaning of amuse was 'to divert the attention of in
order to mislead,' 'delude, deceive' and now means 'entertain, make
smile or laugh'; bemuse means 'confuse, bewilder, puzzle'
Antonyms: anger, annoy, bore, dull, tire, WEARY

PEACE
CHAOS, REBELLION
MAYHEM
UNREST
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lawlessness; absence of government


Synonyms: chaos, confusion, disorder, disorganization, disregard,
hostility, misrule, mob rule, nihilism, nongovernment, rebellion,
revolution, riot, turmoil, unrest
Antonyms: lawfulness, order, rule, PEACE

PIONEER
ANCIENT, BACKWARD

75) Ancestor

77)Anger

79) Animosity

FOREFATHER
SUCCESSOR

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: predecessor in family


Synonyms: antecedent, antecessor, ascendant, forebear, forefather,
foregoer, foremother, forerunner, founder, precursor, primogenitor,
progenitor
Antonyms: descendant, SUCCESSOR

PARTY
HAPPINESS
APPROVAL, LOVE
JOY
Def: state of being mad, annoyed
Synonyms: acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism,
conniption, dander, disapprobation, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred,
huff, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation,
mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, soreness, stew,
storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage.Antonyms: agreeability,
calmness, contentment, LOVE , joy, peace, pleasantness

ENIMITY
MALICE, FRIENDSHIP
ANTIPATHY
LIKENESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme dislike, hatred


Synonyms: acrimony, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood,
bitterness, displeasure, enmity, hate, hostility, ill will, malevolence,
malice, malignity, rancor, resentment, virulence
Antonyms: good will, love, FRIENDSHIP

81)
Annularity

SMOOTH, REVIVAL
STUBBORN
Synonyms:
Antonyms: VERTICAL

CANCELLATION
VERTICAL

83)
Anonymous

UNKNOWN
PUNCTUAL
SIGNED, VERBAL
DEFINED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unknown, usually by choice

Synonyms: bearding, incognito, innominate, nameless, pseudo,
pseudonymous, secret, unacknowledged, unattested, unavowed,
unclaimed, uncredited, undesignated, undisclosed, unidentified,
unnamed,
Antonyms: identified, known, named, SIGNED

85)
Antediluvian

ISOLATED
CELEBRATION
ANCIENT, MODERN
AUTHORIZED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: out-of-date; prehistoric


Synonyms: ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, hoary, obsolete,
old, old-fashioned, pass, primeval, primitive, primordial, timeworn,
venerable
Antonyms: MODERN, new, up-to-date, young

87) Antiquity

COMMON
RECENT, INNOVATION
YOUTHFULNESS
ANCIENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: old object


Synonyms: antique, relic, ruin, RECENT

SPELL, DEVOTION
NECESSARY
OBJECTION
VOLUBILITY
Synonym
Antonyms: VOLUBILITY

89) Aphasia
FALSE, GENUINE

91)
Apocrypha

LOUD-CRY
PORTRAIT
APPROVAL
Antonyms: GENUINE

93) Appease

95)
Appropriate

97)Arid

DISPLEASURE
AGITATE, RIVALRY
ANIMOSITY
DELIGHT
Part of Speech: verb
Def: satisfy, pacify
Synonyms: allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, calm, compose,
conciliate, content, diminish, ease, gratify, lessen, lull, mitigate,
mollify, patch things up, placate, propitiate, quell, quench, quiet,
serve, soften, soothe, subdue, sweeten, tranquilize
Antonyms: aggravate, annoy, incite, irritate, provoke, tease,
AGITATE

UNSKILLED
UNSUITABLE
UNQUALIFIED
UNABLE,FAVOURABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: suitable
Synonyms: adapted, applicable, appurtenant, apropos, apt,
becoming, befitting, belonging, congruous, convenient, correct,
deserved, desired, due, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, opportune,
pertinent, proper, relevant, right, rightful, seemly, true, useful.
Antonyms: improper, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable,
UNSUITABLE

DRY
WET, HUMID
PLEASANT
PARCHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dry
Synonyms: barren, bone-dry, desert, dry as a bone, dry as dust,
dusty, moistureless, parched, thirsty, waterless
Antonyms: damp, HUMID, moist, wet

VEIN
CREATIVE

99) Artery

101)
Asceticism

103) Assume

ARTEFACT, INFANTRY
ARROGANCE

Part of Speech: noun


Def: channel
Synonyms: avenue, boulevard, canal, conduit, corridor, course,
duct, highway, line, passage, pathway, road, route, sewer,
thoroughfare, track, tube, way
Antonym: VEIN

WONDER
SURPRISE, PLEASURE
JOY
DEPRESSION

Synonyms:
asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism; cynicism, austerity; total
abstinence; nephalism., mortification, aceration, sackcloth and
ashes, flagellation; penance; fasting; martyrdom., ascetic; anchoret,
sanyasi, yogi.
ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over.
,Antonyms: sensualist, PLEASURE

CONSUME
PRESUME, SUPPOSE
HANDOVER
POSTULATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: believe, take for granted
Synonyms: accept, ascertain, conclude,conjecture, consider, deduce,
deem, divine, estimate,expect, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess,
hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate,
presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize,
understand
Antonyms: doubt, HANDOVER

105) Atrophy

107)
Audacious

109)
Austerity

SHRINK, FLOURISH
EXTRAVAGANT
RECOMPOSE
DELINE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wasting away, disintegration


Synonyms: decline, degeneracy, degeneration, deterioration,
diminution, downfall, downgrade
Antonym: FLOURISH

ACCOUNTABLE
VULNERABLE
DARING, COWARDLY
VIGILANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reckless, daring
Synonyms: adventurous, aweless, bold, brassy, brave, courageous,
daredevil, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty,
intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, unafraid, uncurbed,
undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome
Antonyms: cautious, gentle, humble, meek, mild, modest, reserved,
timid, yielding, COWARDLY

EXTREME
HARSH, LENIENCE
ASCETIC
RIGIDITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: severity

Synonyms: acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness,
exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness,hardness,
harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor,
solemnity, sternness, stiffness, strictness.
Antonyms: blandness, calmness, gentility, meekness, mildness,
LENIENCE

111)
Autonomy

SLAVERY
DEPENDENCY
COLONIAL, NATURAL
SOVEREIGNTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: independence


Synonyms: freedom, liberty, self-determination, self-government,
self-rule, sovereignty
Antonyms: dependence , DEPENDENCY

WILLING
REFUSAL, REJECTION

113) Averse

Definition: opposing
Synonyms: afraid, allergic, antagonistic, antipathetic, contrary, hostile,
indisposed, inimical, loath, nasty, perverse, reluctant, uneager.
Notes: aversion is something that originates from within, whereas adversity is
something that originates from without; adverse is usually applied to situations
while averse is used to describe a person's attitude
averse means reluctant or disinclined; adverse means hostile and antagonistic
Antonyms: caring, liking, loving, WILLING

SKILFUL
FAME

115)
Awkward

UNWILLING
CONTRARY

SMOOTH, PENALTY
CLUMSY

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: clumsy, inelegant
Synonyms: amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling,
bungling, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, incompetent, inept,
inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling,
uncoordinated, uncouth.
Antonyms: adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy,
skillful, SKILFUL

117) Badger

119) Bashful

121) Balk

HARASS
TORMENT, COMBAT
IRRITATE
COMFORT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nag, bother
Synonyms: annoy, bait, bug, bully, give the business, goad, harass,
harry, hassle, heckle, hound, importune, insist on, needle, nudge,
pester, plague, ride, tease, torment.
Antonym:
COMFORT

TIMIT, DEMURE
SHAMEFUL
BRAZEN
RESERVE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: expel from place or situation
Synonyms: ban, deport, discard, discharge, dislodge, dismiss,
dispel, eject, eliminate, eradicate, evict, exclude, excommunicate,
exile, expatriate, expulse, extradict, isolate, ostracize, oust, outlaw,
proscribe, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, shut out, transport
Antonyms: allow, keep, welcome, BRAZEN

HUGE
YELL, SUPPORT
SIDE-TRACK
DEVOUR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stop short


Synonyms: cramp, crimp, demur, desist, dodge, evade, flinch,
hesitate, recoil, refuse, resist, shirk, shrink from, shy.
Antonym: SUPPORT

PROHIBIT
INANE

123) Bane

125)
Barbarous

127) Barren

CURSE, BLESS
MIEN

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: cause of misery
Synonyms: affliction, blight, burden, calamity, curse, despair,
destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance,
pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble,
undoing, venom, woe
Antonyms: advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck

BLOATED
CIVILIZED, DEEADFUL
CONSCIOUS
COARSE
Definition: crude, savage
Synonyms: atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse,
cruel, ferocious, heartless, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude,
ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth,uncultured,
unsophisticated, vicious
Notes: barbaric pertains to crudeness; barbarous pertains to
cruelty, harshness, and immorality
Antonyms: CIVILISED, cultured, educated, kind

RADIANT
FERTILE, BESIEGE
REDUCE
DEPLETED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to support growth
Synonyms: arid, depleted, desert, desolate, dry, effete, empty,
fallow, fruitless, impotent, impoverished, infecund, infertile,
parched, sterile, unbearing, uncultivable, unfertile, unfruitful,
unproductive, waste
Antonyms: developing, fecund, FERTILE, filled, full, growing,
productive, useful

129) Battle

131) Bawdy

133) Beatific

ELABORATE
CONFLICT, EXPLAIN
CONFRONTATION
CLARIFY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military fight
Synonyms: action, assault, attack, barrage, blitzkreig, bloodshed,
bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict,
contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc,
hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, skirmish,
sortie, strife, struggle, war,
Antonyms: truce, CLARIFY

DECENT
INDECENT, DIRTY
INFLEXIBLE
UGLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vulgar, dirty
Synonyms: blue, cheap, coarse, erotic, gross, indecent, indecorous,
indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful,
obscene, off-color, prurient, ribald, risqu, rude, salacious,
suggestive
Antonyms: chaste, clean, decent, proper, virginal, DECENT

DREADFUL
PRACTICAL, TACTFUL
HANDSOME
GORGEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blissful
Synonyms: delightful, elated, euphoric, happy, joyful, rapturous
Antonyms: miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, DREADFUL

135) Belittle

137)
Benediction

139)
Benevolent

EXTOL
DISGRACE,PROFOUND
ENLARGE
DISOWN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detract
Synonyms: blister, criticize, decry, deprecate, depreciate, deride,
derogate, diminish, discount, discredit, disparage, dispraise,
downgrade, downplay, lower, minimize, pan, roast, scorn, smear,
squash, squelch, tear down, underestimate, underrate, undervalue.
Antonyms: build up, exaggerate, praise, EXTOL

APPROVAL
THANKS
MALEDICTION, GRANT
BLESSING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: closing prayer
Synonyms: amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus,
benison, blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation,
laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: anathema, execration, MALEDICTION

MALEVOLENT
HARD, FEEBLE
PHILANTHROPIST
GENEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: charitable, kind
Synonyms: all heart, altruistic, beneficent, benign, big, big-hearted,
bounteous, bountiful, caring, chivalrous, compassionate,
considerate, generous, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kindhearted,
liberal, magnanimous, philanthropic
Antonyms: greedy, MALEVOLENT, mean, selfish, spiteful, unkind

141) Benison

143) Berate

145) Bestial

TERRITORY
CEREMONY
BLESSING, COMEDY
CURSE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: closing prayer


Synonyms: amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus,
benison , blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation,
laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: anathema, execration, CURSE

EXPEL
POINT OUT, CONFIRM
CONFESS
PRAISE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: criticize hatefully


Synonyms: bawl out, blister, call down, castigate, censure, chew
out, chide, cuss out, eat out, jaw, jump all over, rail at, rake over the
coals, rate, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, scold,
scorch, tell off, upbraid, vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, hail, PRAISE

CRAZY, THEORETICAL
UNMARRIED
RASCAL
NOBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brutal
Synonyms: barbarous, beastly, boorish, brutish, cruel, depraved,
feral, inhuman, savage
Antonyms: generous, gentle, humane, kind, nice, NOBLE

BROAD-MINDED
GROTESQUE

147) Bigoted

149) Bitter

151) Blanch

EMPTY, FANATIC
NARROW-MINDED

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: intolerant, prejudiced


Synonyms: biased, chauvinistic, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded,
obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, smallminded, twisted, unfair, warped
Antonyms: BROAD-MINDED, fair, humanitarian, just, openminded, tolerant, unprejudiced

BITING
STINGING
UNFAVOURABLE
HARSH, MILD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pungent, sharp

Synonyms: absinthal, absinthian, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid,
amaroidal, astringent, harsh, sour, tart, unsweetened, vinegary
Antonyms: bland, MILD, pleasant, sweet

CLUMSY
DARKEN, ENUMERATE
SCHEDULE
MODIFY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become afraid
Synonyms: flinch, pale, recoil, shrink, start, wince
Antonyms: be brave , DARKEN

153)
Blandiloquen
ce

155) Blatant

157) Blight

BLUNTNESS
POWER
A

SOOTHING, NEW
SEARCH

CLAMOROUS
CAPTIVATE

ECCENTRIC, GENTLE
ENTHUSIASTIC

Def:obvious;brazen
Synonyms: arrant, bald, barefaced, brassy, clear, conspicuous, flagrant,
flashy, flaunting, garish, glaring, glitzy, impudent, meretricious, naked,
obtrusive, ostentatious, overbold, overt, prominent, screaming, sheer,
snazzy Notes: flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant
is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term
than blatant. Antonyms: inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, GENTLE

BLESS
SHRINK, AVAIL
WEEP
DECAY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease; plague
Synonyms: affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker,
contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore,
fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge,
sight, withering, woe
Antonyms: blessing, boon, health, prosperity , BLESS

159) Blithe

161) Blush

SAD
ALOOF, CHEERLESS
GLOOMY
DESERTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: animated, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chirpy,
gay, gladsome, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful,
lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sprightly, sunny, vivacious
Antonyms: heavyhearted, morose, sad, sorrowful, unhappy,
CHEERLESS

BLOOM
TOLERATE
EFFRONTERY
BEAT, DEPRESSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pink coloring
Synonyms: bloom, blossom, burning, color, flush, flushing, glow,
glowing, mantling, pink tinge, reddening, redness, rosiness, rosy
tint, ruddiness, scarlet
Antonyms: paleness, pallidity, whiteness , EFFRONTERY

DUPE
VIRTUE

163) Boon

NICKNAME, CURSE
BLAST

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: advantage
Synonyms: benefaction, benefit, benevolence, blessing, break,
compliment, donation, favor, gift, godsend, good, good fortune,
grant, gratuity, help, largess, present, windfall
Antonyms: disadvantage

165) Boost

167) Brazen

169) Bridge

HINDER
OBSTRUCT
DISCOURAGE
REBUKE, ELEVATE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: increase


Synonyms: addition, advance, breakthrough, expansion, hike,
improvement, increment, jump, lift, raise, rise, step-up, up, upgrade,
wax
Antonyms: blow, decrease, hindrance, setback , HINDER

REGARD
ELEVATE, SHAMEFUL
EXALTED
INSOLENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brash, unashamed
Synonyms: audacious, barefaced, blatant, bold, brassy, cheeky,
cocky, contumelious,defiant,flashy, gritty, gutsy, hotshot,
impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, loud, meretricious, nervy,
pert, saucy, smart-ass, spunky, tawdry, unabashed,
Antonyms: humble, meek, shamed, shamefaced, shy, timid ,
SHAMEFUL

DIVIDE
BIND, RELEASE
OPEN
SPAN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: structure or something that makes connection

Synonyms: arch, bond, branch, catwalk, connection, extension,
gangplank, link, overpass, platform, pontoon, scaffold, span, tie,
transit, trestle, viaduct, wing
Antonym: SPAN

171) Brunette

173) Brutal

175) Bull

BROWN
BLAND, BLONDE
KITCHENETTE
THORNY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dark hair and/or skin


Synonyms: bistered, brown, dusky, pigmented, swart, swarthy,
tanned, tawny
Antonyms: blond/BLONDE

KINDLY
HUMANE, SAVAGE
RESPECTED
VICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: cruel, remorseless
Synonyms: barbarous, bloodthirsty, callous, ferocious, gruff, hard,
harsh, heartless, impolite, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, pitiless,
remorseless, rough, rude, ruthless, savage, severe, uncivil,
uncivilized, unfeeling, unmannerly, unmerciful, vicious
Antonyms: generous, humane, kind, SAVAGE

BILE
OX, BEAR
GOAT
PUSH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nonsense
Synonyms: balderdash, baloney, bilge, bunkum, claptrap, crap,
hogwash, rubbish, trash
Antonyms: fact, truth , BEAR

177) Buskin

HARD-SKIN
LONG-COAT, SOCKS
NAKED
DRIED
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military boot
Synonyms: army boot, buskin , chukka boot, jackboot, top boot
Antonym: SOCKS

CACOEPY,ORTHOGRAPHY

LITHOGRAPHY

CARDIOGRAPHY
NONE OF THESE

179)
Cacography

181)
Calamity

CATASTROPHE
CONDITION, DISASTER
MISFORTUNE
BLESSING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disaster; tragedy
Synonyms: adversity, affliction, blue ruin, cataclysm, catastrophe,
collapse, cross, curtains, distress, downfall, hardship, holy mess,
misadventure, mishap, reverse, ruin, scourge, the worst, trial,
tribulation, unholy mess, visitation, waterloo, woe, wreck,
wretchedness
Antonyms: advantage, blessing, boon, comfort, fortune, good
fortune, good luck, happiness, joy, profit

183) Callous

HARDENED
SOFT, SENSITIVE
COMPACT
INDIFFERENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cruel, insensitive
Synonyms: apathetic, careless, cold, deaf to, hard, hardhearted,
heartless, impassive, impenitent, indurated, inflexible, insensate,
insensitive,
Notes: callus is a hard patch of skin; callous is an adjective
meaning 'indifferent to suffering' or 'hardened'Antonyms:
compassionate, feeling, kind, nice, sensitive, sympathetic, tender,
SOFT
SLANDER
FACILITATE

PRAISE, LIBEL
INSULT

185) Calum

187) Candid

ANXIOUS
VAGUE, SECRETIVE
SHALLOW
FRANK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: honest
Synonyms: aboveboard, bluff, blunt, equal, equitable, fair,
forthright, frank, free, frontal, genuine, guileless, impartial,
ingenuous, just, objective, open, outspoken, plain, scrupulous,
sincere, truthful, unbiased, uncolored, unequivocal, unprejudiced,
unpretended, upright
Ant: artful, deceitful, devious, lying, SECRETIVE

189)
Capacious

191) Captious

193)
Caricature

CONFINING
FEROCIOUS,MILITANT
EXTROVERT
SPACIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ample, extensive
Synonyms: abundant, broad, comfortable, commodious,
comprehensive, dilatable, distensible, expandable, expansive,
extended, generous, liberal, plentiful, roomy, sizable, spacious,
substantial, vast, voluminous, wide
Antonyms: cramped, small, squeezed, tiny , CONFINING

PIONEER
SOBER
AGGRESSIVE
CUNNING, TOLERANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very critical
Synonyms: acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling,
censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating,
disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky,
hypercritical,irritable,nagging, peevish, perverse, petulant,
sarcastic, severe, testy,
Antonyms: commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering,
laudatory, TOLERANT
PAINTING
PRIM, GLORY
FIDELITY
DEVOTE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated description in writing, drawing

Synonyms: burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation,
lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche,
put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty
Antonym: FIDELITY

195) Carnal

197) Carping

199)
Cashiered

SENSUAL
PHYSICAL, OPENING
FINAL
SPIRITUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: erotic, sensual
Synonyms: animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly,
genital, impure, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful,
physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, temporal, unchaste,
venereal, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, worldly
Antonyms: chaste, clean, intellectual, pure, spiritual , SPIRITUAL

COMPLAINING
LAYER, CRAVING
CRITICAL
UNCRITICAL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nag
Synonyms: bother, cavil, censure, complain, criticize, find fault,
fuss, grumble, knock, nitpick, objurgate, pan, peck, pick at, quibble,
reproach
Antonyms: ignore, let go , UNCRITICAL

DISMISSED
CANCELLED, SPENT
PROMOTED
SUBMITTED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: discard, expel
Synonyms: ax, boot, bounce, break, discharge, dismiss, displace,
drum out, fire, give a pink slip, give the heave ho, heave, remove,
sack, terminate
Antonym: PROMOTED

201)
Castigation

203)
Casuistry

205)
Catastrophe

CRITICISM
SCOLD, OBJECTION
AUTHORITY
COMMENDATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: punishment


Synonyms: chastisement, chewing out, discipline, penalty, reproof,
retribution, scolding
Antonym: COMMENDATION

CASUAL, VERITY
MENDACITY
LITIGATION
POLEMIC
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overgeneral reasoning


Synonyms: chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion,
equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism,
sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick
Antonym : VERITY

TRAGEDY
BLESSING, DISASTER
DEVASTATION
CONFUSION
Def:calamity;unhappy conclusion
Synonyms: accident, adversity,affliction,alluvion, blow, calamity,
casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains,
debacle, desolation, devastation, disaster, failure, fatality, fiasco,
havoc, misadventure, misery, misfortune, mishap, stroke, tragedy,
trial, trouble, upshot, wreck
Antonyms: benefit, BLESSING, favor, good fortune, good luck,
miracle, success, wonder

207) Catholic

209)
Celebrity

211) Celibate

NARROW
MUNDANE, RELIGIOUS
WESTERN
RIDICULOUS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: all-embracing, general

Synonyms: broad-minded, charitable, comprehensive, cosmic,
cosmopolitan, diffuse, eclectic, ecumenical, extensive, generic,
global, inclusive, indeterminate, liberal, open-minded, planetary,
receptive, tolerant, unbigoted, universal, unprejudiced, unsectarian,
whole, wide.
Antonyms: NARROW, narrow-minded, specific,

CELEBRATION
SOLEMNITY
OBSCURITY, HAZY
PERSONAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dignitary
Synonyms: VIP, ace, big cheese, big name, big shot, big stuff,
bigwig, celeb, cynosure, famous person, figure, heavyweight, hero,
hotshot, immortal, luminary, magnate, mahatma, major leaguer,
name, notable, personage, personality, somebody, someone, star,
superstar, worthy
Antonyms: nobody , OBSCURITY

BACHELOR
RETIRED, NOTABLE
ADORN
MARRIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abstaining from sexual activity

Synonyms: chaste, continent, pure, virgin, virginal, virtuous
Antonyms: active, promiscuous , MARRIED

213) Censure

215)
Cessation

217)
Challenge

PRAISE
REBUKE, INVESTIGATE
IMPARTIAL
DISAPPROVAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: severe criticism
Synonyms: admonishment, admonition, blame, castigation,
condemnation, disapproval, objection, obloquy, rebuke,
remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof,
stricture
Notes: to censor is to disallow portions or the entireties of books; to
censure is to criticize
Antonyms: approval, PRAISE, endorsement,
STARTING
BEGINNING
OUTRIGHT, HURRY
END
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ending
Synonyms: abeyance, arrest, break, breather, cease, ceasing, close,
conclusion, cutoff, desistance, discontinuance, downtime, end, finish,
halt, halting, hiatus, intermission, interruption, interval, pause,
recess, remission, respite, rest, stay, stop, stoppage, suspension,
termination,
Antonyms: BEGINNING, commencement, start

ADMIRE
ACCEPT, FAVOUR
PRAISE
REJECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dispute, question
Synonyms: claiming, confrontation, dare, defiance, demanding,
demur, interrogation, objection, protest, provocation, remonstrance,
summons to contest, test, threat, trial, ultimatum
Antonyms: agree, answer, decide, win , REJECT

219)
Cheerless

JOYOUS
PRIDE, CAREFULLY
DELIGHTED
FOOLISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: depressing, unhappy
Syn: austere, black, bleak, blue,comfortless, dark, dejected,
dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal,
drab, draggy, dreary, gloomy, grim,jarring, joyless,melancholy,
miserable, mopey, oppressive, sad, somber, sullen, tenebrific,
uncomfortable, wintry, woeful
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, JOYOUS

DISAPPOINTED
HOPEFUL, SEPARATE
C

DISCONTINUE
DEMOLISH

221) Cheesed
Off

223) Cherish

ADORE
RESPECT, DETEST
HONOUR
GROW
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: care about deeply
Synonyms: admire, adore, appreciate, apprize, clasp, coddle,
comfort, cosset, defend, embrace, fancy, fondle, foster, guard,
harbor, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet,
prize, revere, reverence, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure,
value, venerate, worship
Antonyms: abandon, denounce, forsake, DETEST

225) Chest

227) Chickenhearted

229) Chide

BOSOM
BACK, LOCKER
CONTAINER
FRONT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: box for storage
Synonyms: bin, bureau, cabinet, carton, case, casket, chiffonier,
coffer, commode, crate, exchequer, pyxis, receptacle, reliquary,
strongbox, treasury, trunk
Antonym: BACK,

BRAVE
FRIGHTENED
DELICATE, FAMOUS
UNKNOWN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, cowering,
cowhearted, craven, dastardly, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted,
gutless, jittery,nervous, panicky,pigeonhearted, pusillanimous,
recreant, retiring, running scared, scared, shy, spineless, timid,
timorous, weak,
Antonyms: bold, BRAVE, courageous, daring

FLATTER
PRAISE, HIGH TALK
BOAST
REBUKE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize, lecture
Synonyms: admonish, berate, blame, call down, call on the carpet,
castigate, censure, check, condemn, exprobate, find fault, flay, give a
hard time, lesson, monish, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand,
reproach, reprove, scold, slap on the wrist, speak to, talk to, tell off,
tick off, upbraid
Ant: compliment, laud, praise , HIGH TALK

231) Choice

233) Cipher

235)
Circumscribe
d

REFUSAL
DILEMMA, HARM
APPROVAL
FORCE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: best, superior


Synonyms: elite, excellent, exceptional, exclusive, exquisite, fine,
nice, popular, precious, preferential, preferred, prime, prize, rare,
select, solid gold, special, uncommon, unusual, valuable, winner
Antonyms: inferior, poor, sad, worst , DILEMMA

HUNDRED
NOTHING, DECIPHER
DECRY
ROB
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: zero; nothingness


Synonyms: blank, diddly squat, goose egg, insignificancy, nada,
naught, nil, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nought, nullity, squat, zilch,
zip, zippo, zot
Antonyms :
DECIPHER

UNRESTRICTED
UNCONFINED
OPEN, FREE
CONFINED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mark off, delimit
Synonyms: bar, bound, confine, define, delineate, demarcate,
encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hamper, hem in, limit,
nail down, outline, prelimit, restrain, restrict, surround, trammel
Antonyms: free, loose, open, UNCONFINED

237) Clarity

239)
Coagulate

241)
Cohesion

EXAGGERATION
CANDOUR
CONFUSION
RESERVE, OBVIOUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clearness
Synonyms: accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty,
cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability,
definition, directness, manifestness, overtness, palpability,
penetrability,perceptibility,perspicuity, salience, simplicity,
tangibility, transparency, unambiguity
Antonyms: dirtiness, obscurity, CONFUSION

CULMINATION
AMITY, DISSIPATE
SLOPPY
COARSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clot
Synonyms: clabber, coalesce, compact, concentrate, concrete,
condense, congeal, consolidate, curdle, dry, gel, gelate, gelatinize,
glop up, harden, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, lopper, set, solidify,
thicken
Antonyms: dilute, dissolve, melt, open, thin, unclot, DISSIPATE

DISINTEGRATION
ANOMALY, DISUNITY
INTERNAL
RESEMBLANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: union
Synonyms: adherence, attachment, coherence
Antonym:
DISUNITY

PAINFUL
EMOTIONAL

243) Comic

245)
Compendious

247)
Compliance

FEARFUL, TRAGIC
WITTY

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: funny person, often professional


Synonyms: banana, clown, comedian, droll, funnyman, humorist,
jester, joker,jokester,million laughs, quipster, stooge, top banana,
wag,
Notes: comic means 'intended to be funny' while comical is 'funny
unintentionally'
Antonyms: tragedian, TRAGIC
INFLATED
EPITOME, ABSTRACT
COLLEAGUE
ARREAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abridged
Synonyms: abbreviated, breviloquent, brief, close, compact,
compendiary, comprehensive, concise, condensed, contracted, curt,
inclusive, laconic, short, short and sweet, succinct, summarized,
summary, synoptic
Antonyms: enlarged, lengthened, unabridged, INFLATED

CONDONE, CLAMOUR
RESISTANCE
CONDENSE
APPRECIATION
Part of Speech: noun
Def: agreement
Synonyms: acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance,
concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility,
obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission,
submissiveness, tractability, yielding
Ant: defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension,
dissent, fight, RESISTANCE

249) Conceal

251) Concord

253)
Confiscate

UNFOLD
REVEAL, OPEN
DISCOVER
CAMOUFLAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: hide, disguise

Synonyms: beard, burrow, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, couch,
cover, dissemble, ditch, duck, ensconce, enshroud, harbor, hole up,
lurk, mask, masquerade, obscure, screen, secrete, shelter, skulk,
slink, sneak, stash, stow, veil, wrap
Antonyms: disclose, divulge, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal,
show, tell, uncover, OPEN

CONSOLIDATE
BESTOW, OUTLINE
DISCORD
CONNECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unity, harmony


Synonyms: accord, agreement, amity, calmness, chime, comity,
concert, concordance, consensus, consonance, friendship, goodwill,
peace, placidity, rapport, serenity, tranquility, tune, unanimity,
understanding, unison
Antonyms: DISCORD, disunity

RELEASE
ALLOW, USE
CONFER
IMPOUND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: steal; seize
Synonyms: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume,
commandeer, confisticate, expropriate, glom on to, grab, hijack,
impound, liberate, preempt, sequester, sequestrate, swipe, take,
usurp
Antonyms: give, offer, CONFER

255)
Conservative

257)
Consolidate

259)
Constrict

REACTIONARY
ORTHODOX, SAVING
ICONOCLAST
DUUMVIR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, moderate.
Synonyms: Constant, controlled, conventional, fearful, firm,
fogyish, guarded, hidebound, illiberal, inflexible, obstinate,
orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, sober, stable, timid,
traditional, unchangeable, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative,
unprogressive, Ant: exaggerated, liberal, progressive, radical,
DUUMVIR

WEAKEN
AUGMENT, ISOLATE
SEPARATE
CONCENTRATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: combine;make firm
Synonyms: amalgamate, amass, band, bind, blend, cement,
centralize, compact, compound, concatenate, concentrate, condense,
conjoin, connect, densen, develop, federate, fortify, fuse, harden,
hitch, incorporate, join, mass, meld, mix, pool, reinforce Ant:
disjoin, disperse, divide, part, separate , WEAKEN

SQUEEZE
EXPAND, BLOW UP
DETAILED
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inhibit
Synonyms: astringe, choke, circumscribe, clench, compress,
concentrate, condense, confine, constringe, contract, cramp, curb,
limit, narrow, pinch, restrain, restrict, shrink, squeeze, strangle,
strangulate, tauten, tense, tighten, tuck
Antonyms: expand, free, loosen, open, release, BLOW UP

261)
Contusion

PERPLEXITY
INJURY, HEALING
PRESSURE
PULL-TOGETHER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bruise, injury
Synonyms: bang, bump, cut, discoloration, knock, mouse, swelling,
wale, wound
Antonym: HEALING

DEBARRED
DETHRONED
Antonym: DETHRONED

DISGRACED
DEJECTED, ELEVATED

263)
Coronated

265) Cosset

FORGET, REMEMBER
NEGLECT
REJECT
AGREE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: care for lovingly
Synonyms: caress, cuddle, fondle, lamb, love, pamper, pet, spoil
Antonym: NEGLECT

RASH
GLOOMY

267)
Contented

NARROW-MINDED
DISAPPOINTED, CALM

Part of Speech: verb


Definition: please
Synonyms: appease, bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, enrapture,
gladden, gratify, humor, indulge, make happy, mollify, placate,
reconcile, satisfy, suffice, thrill, tickle
Antonyms: anger, displease, disturb, upset, DISAPPOINTED,

DOCILE
INCORRIGIBLE
Antonym: INCORRIGIBLE

COVETOUS, OBSERVE
VALIDATE

269)
Corrigible

271) Covert

OPEN
BOLD, OVERT
OVERWHELM
ENVY
Def: clandestine, underhanded
Synonyms: buried, camouflaged, cloaked, concealed, disguised,
dissembled, furtive, hidden, incog, incognito, masked, obscured,
private, privy, shrouded, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior.
Notes: covert (concealed, covered, hidden) is the opposite of overt
(apparent, open to view, plain, public) Antonyms: aboveboard,
candid, frank, honest, open, OVERT, public, unconcealed

273) Cozen

TREAT HONESTLY
DECEIT, TREACHERY
FALSEHOOD
COMFORTABLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deceive


Synonyms: bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chisel, con, defraud,
dupe, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hoodwink, swindle, trick
Antonyms: TREAT HONESTLY

APPEAR
BLACK

275) Cream

277) Crux

CREAT, DREGS
HARD

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: lotion, oil
Synonyms: cerate, chrism, demulcent, emulsion, essence, jelly,
liniment, moisturizer, ointment, paste, salve, unction, unguent
Antonyms: DREGS

WAIL
OPINION, SUMMARY
IMPORTANT ISSUE
TRIVIAL POINT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: most important part


Synonyms: body, bottom line, core, decisive point, essence, gist,
heart, kernel, matter, meat and potatoes, nub, pith, purport,
substance, thrust
Antonyms: TRIVIAL POINT

279)
Culminate

281) Culprit

283) Cursory

FINALIZE
ABORT, FIX
BEGINNING
CONCLUDE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: come to a climax
Synonyms: cap, climax, close, come to a head, conclude, crown,
end, end up, finish, go the route, rise to crescendo, round off, shoot
one's wad, terminate, top off, wind up
Antonyms: begin, commence, open, start, ABORT,

VICTIM
TYRRANT, INNOCENT
IGNORANT
OFFENDER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person responsible for wrongdoing

Synonyms: con, convict, criminal, delinquent, evildoer, felon,
fugitive, guilty party, jailbird, malefactor, miscreant, offender,
rascal, sinner, transgressor, wrongdoer, yardbird
Antonym: VICTIM

PROFOUND
CUPIDITY, CUDGEL
ESCAPE
WEAK
Def: casual, hasty
Synonyms: brief, careless, depthless, desultory, fast, haphazard,
hurried, offhand, passing, perfunctory, quick, random, rapid,
shallow, short, sketchy, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary,
superficial, swift, uncritical
Notes: cursory means 'superficial'; cursorial is 'pertaining or
adapted to running'
Antonyms: complete, meticulous, PROFOUND

285) Cynical

287) Damage

289) Dank

SAFE, MINDFUL
TRUSTING
VALUABLE
SKEPTICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nonbelieving; doubtful


Synonyms: contemptuous, derisive, ironic, misanthropic,
misanthropical, mocking, pessimistic, sarcastic, sardonic, scoffing,
scornful, skeptical, sneering, suspicious, unbelieving, wry
Antonyms: believing, hopeful, optimistic, trusting, undoubting,
TRUSTING

WOUND
RANSOM, CRIPPLE
FINE
REPAIR
Definition: injury, loss
Synonyms: accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane,
blemish, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, corruption,
debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, detriment,
devastation, disservice, infliction, knockout, marring, mutilation,
outrage, ravage, reverse,ruin,
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement,
profit, REPAIR

CLAMMY
DROOP, MUGGY
DRY
BELOVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clammy
Synonyms: chilly, close, damp, dewy, dripping, humid, moist,
muggy, slimy, soggy, steamy, sticky, wet, wettish
Antonyms: DRY, parched

291) Daring

293) Dawdle

295) Dear

BOLD
CONFRONTING
TIMID
CLEAR, GALLANT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: challenge, defy someone


Synonyms: beard, brave, bully, confront, cope, denounce,
disregard, face, front, goad, insult, meet, mock, oppose, outdare,
provoke, resist, scorn, spurn, taunt, threaten.
Antonym: TIMID

FIDDLE
POKE
HURRY
IDLE, PITCH
Part of Speech: verb
Def: delay; waste time
Synonyms: amble, bum around, dally, drag, idle, lag, laze, lazy,
loaf, loiter, loll, lounge, mosey, procrastinate, saunter, stay, stroll,
tarry, toddle, trifle, wait, warm a chair
Antonyms: forward, hasten, hurry, push, rush, speed, HURRY

CHEAP
WORTHLESS
FREE
PRICELESS, COSTLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beloved, favorite
Synonyms: cherished, close, darling, doll face, endeared, esteemed,
familiar, intimate, loved, pet, precious, prized, respected, treasured
Antonyms: common, despised, hateful, unimportant, valueless,
worthless, CHEAP

297) Debacle

299)
Debilitate

301)
Debonair

CATASTROPHE
DISASTER, TIMIDITY
WEAK
PROGRESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: catastrophe
Synonyms: beating, breakdown, collapse, crash, defeasance, defeat,
devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, drubbing, failure, fiasco,
havoc, licking, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, ruination,
shellacking, smash, smashup, trouncing, vanquishment, washout,
wreck
Antonyms: boon, miracle, wonder, PROGRESS

STRENGTHEN
REHABILITATE
TORTURE
SOOTH, CORNER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: incapacitate
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate,
enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar,
prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unstrengthen,
weaken, wear out
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend,
STRENGTHEN

UGLY
BAD-SHAPED
AWKWARD, ROUGH
SOPHISTICATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: charming, elegant


Synonyms: affable, buoyant, casual, cheerful, courteous, dashing,
detached, happy, jaunty, lighthearted, nonchalant, pleasant, refined,
smooth, sprightly, suave, urbane
Antonyms: AWKWARD, clumsy, inelegant, uncharming,
undebonair

303) Deep

305) Deflated

SUPERFICIAL,SHALLOW
ELEMENTARY
PERFUNCTORY
EXTENSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extending very far, usually down
Synonyms: abysmal, abyssal, below, beneath, bottomless, broad,
buried, distant, downreaching, far, fathomless, immersed, profound,
rooted, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, subterranean, sunk,
underground, unfathomable, wide, yawning
Antonyms: SHALLOW

EMPTY
UPRIGHT, TURGID
TURBID
LIE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reduce or cause to contract


Synonyms: collapse, decrease, depreciate, depress, devalue,
diminish, empty, exhaust, flatten, puncture, shrink, squash, void
Antonyms: blow up, expand, inflate, TURGID

SHINE
CLEAR

307) Defile

CLEANSE, PURE
DAMAGE

Part of Speech: verb


Definition: corrupt, violate
Synonyms: abuse, adulterate, befoul, besmirch, contaminate,
debase, deflower, degrade, desecrate, dirty, discolor, disgrace,
dishonor, hurt, maculate, molest, pollute, profane, rape,
ravish,seduce, smear, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, trash, vitiate
Antonyms: clean, clease, hallow, honor, purify, sanctify, CLEANSE,

309) Delete

311) Delicacy

313)
Demented

IMPOUND
INSERT, INSPIRE
INJURE
IGNORE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: erase, remove
Synonyms: annul, black out, bleep, cancel, clean, cut,
decontaminate, destroy, drop, edit, efface, eliminate, exclude,
expunge, obliterate, omit, pass up, rub, sanitize, snip, squash,
squelch, sterilize, strike out, trim, wipe out
Antonyms: add, put in, INSERT,

COARSENESS
DISPARAGE, AFFIRM
DERELICTION
FRAGILITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: daintiness, fineness
Synonyms: airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness,
exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity,
lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness,
tenuity, translucency
Antonyms: COARSENESS, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance,
robustness, roughness

ENRAGED
CALM, ANGRY
ORIGINAL
UNSTABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: crazy, insane
Synonyms: bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious,
deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied,
fruity, hysterical, idiotic, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic,
psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced,
unglued, unhinged, unsound, whacko
Ant: rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, CALM

DEPRAVE

315) Demur

APPROVE, EMBELLISH
FORSAKE
DEMOLISH
Definition: disagree
Synonyms: balk, cavil, challenge, combat, complain, deprecate,
disapprove, dispute, doubt, fight, hesitate, object, oppose, pause,
protest, pussyfoot, refuse, remonstrate, resist, scruple, shy, stick,
stickle, strain, vacillate Notes: demur is the verb 'to object or voice
opposition' while demure is the adjective meaning 'modest, shy'
Antonyms: accept, agree, consent, APPROVE,

BRIGHTNESS
INTELLIGENCE,RARITY

317) Density

319)
Deranged

CLARITY
THICKNESS

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: bulk, mass
Synonyms: body, closeness, compactness, concretion, consistency,
crowdedness, denseness, frequency, heaviness, impenetrability,
massiveness, quantity, solidity, substantiality, thickness, tightness
Antonyms: openness, sparsity, thinness, RARITY

CRAZY
INSANE, CRIMINAL
RATIONAL
ARMED
Part of Speech: verb
Def:make crazy;confuse
Synonyms: confound, dement, disarrange, disarray, discommode,
discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, displace, distract,
disturb, frenzy, madden, make insane, misplace, muss, perplex,
ruffle, rummage, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset
Antonyms: calm, comfort, RATIONAL

321)
Derogatory

323)
Desecrate

325) Designed

DISPARAGING
BELITTLING,PRAISING
AUTHORIZED
FAMILIAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: offensive, uncomplimentary
Syn: aspersing, belittling, calumnious, censorious, contumelious,
decrying, defamatory, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory,
depreciative, malevolent, malicious, maligning, opprobrious,
reproachful, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, unfavorable,
Antonyms: appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering,
PRAISING

PROFANE
CONSECRATE,DEBASE
DISRESPECT
CONFUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abuse, violate


Synonyms: befoul, blaspheme, commit sacrilege, contaminate,
defile, depredate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, dishonor,
pervert, pillage, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, sack, spoil,
spoliate, waste
Antonyms: honor, praise, sanctify, CONSECRATE

RESIGNED
PLANNED
FATUOUS, FORTUITOUS
DISAPPROVED
Part of Speech: verb
Def: plan, outline
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, arrange, block out, blueprint, cast,
chart, construct, contrive, create, delineate, describe, devise,
diagram, dope out, draft, draw, effect, execute, fashion, form, frame,
fulfill, invent, perform, produce, project, sketch, trace.
Antonyms: disorder, disorganize, FORTUITOUS

327) Destitute

329) Deviate

331) Devoid

IMPOVERISHED
BROKE, SYMPATHY
SHINING
AFFLUENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: down and out; wanting
Synonyms: bankrupt, beggared, bereft, busted, dead broke,
deficient, depleted, dirt poor, divested, drained, empty, exhausted,
flat broke, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, lacking,
moneyless, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, pinched, poor,
stony, strapped, stripped
Antonyms: prosperous, rich, AFFLUENT, wealthy

OBLIVIATE
BREAK, LOCATE
FOLLOW
CONCENTRATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stray from normal path


Synonyms: aberrate, avert, bend, circumlocate, contrast, deflect,
depart, differ, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, err, not conform,
part, shy, swerve, swim against stream, take a turn, turn, turn aside,
vary, veer, wander
Antonyms: go straight, keep, stay, FOLLOW

EMPTY
INSPIRING, HANDICAP
POWERFUL
FULL OF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: empty, wanting
Syn: bare, barren, bereft, deficient, denuded, destitute, free from,
innocent, lacking, needed, sans, unprovided with, vacant, void,
without
Notes: void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only
after something has been taken away
Antonyms: complete, filled, FULL OF

333) Devout

335)
Diabolical

337) Diatribe

EARNEST
REVERENT
CONSUME, CALM
IMPIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sincerely believing; devoted


Synonyms: adherent, adoring, ardent, deep, earnest, faithful,
fervent, fervid, genuine, godly, heartfelt, holy, intense, orthodox,
passionate, pietistic, pious, prayerful, profound, religious, reverent,
revering, serious, sincere, worshiping,
Antonyms: insincere, irreligious, IMPIOUS

SERAPHIC
DEVILISH, CRUEL
WICKED
DISTINGUISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: devilish


Synonyms: cruel, demoniac, evil, fiendish, heinous, hellish, infernal,
satanic, serpentine, vicious, vile, wicked
Antonym: SERAPHIC

BITTER
VIOLENT
AGAINST
GROUP, EULOGY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harangue, criticism


Synonyms: abuse, castigation, denunciation, disputation, invective,
jeremiad, objection, onslaught, philippic, reviling, screed, stricture,
tirade, vituperation
Antonyms: praise, recommendation, EULOGY

DISORGANIZED
DISRESPECTFUL
RESPECTFUL,PROMINENT
DISTINGUISHABLE
Antonym: DISRESPECTFUL:

339)
Differential

341)
Dilapidated

343) Dilatory

DECAYING
CRUMBLING
CONFUSED, SOUND
DEPARTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: falling apart; in ruins

Syn: battered, crumbling, crumbly, crummy, damaged, decayed,
decaying, decrepit, derelict, dingy, faded, impaired, injured, old,
ramshackle, ratty, raunchy, rickety, seedy, shabby, shaky, slummy,
tacky, threadbare, unimproved, unkempt,
Antonyms: in good repair, rebuilt, SOUND

PROMPT
DELAYED, TACTFUL
PARTICIPANT
BITTER
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: procrastinating
Synonyms: backward, behindhand, dallying, delaying, deliberate,
laggard, late, lax, lazy, leisurely, lingering, loitering, moratory,
neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, tardy, tarrying,
unhasty, unhurried
Antonyms: diligent, eager, enthusiastic, hard-working, ready,
zealous, PROMPT

345) Diligent

347)
Diminution

349)
Diplomatic

LAZY, IGNOMINIOUS
DECEITFUL
UMBRAGE
VIGILANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: persevering, hard-working
Synonyms: active, assiduous, attentive, busy, careful, conscientious,
constant, eager beaver, indefatigable, industrious, laborious,
occupied, operose, painstaking, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
plugging, sedulous, steadfast, studious, tireless, unflagging,
unrelenting,untiring
Ant: inactive, indifferent, languid, LAZY,

APPRECIATION
REDUCTION
ACCEPTANCE,REQUEST
REJECTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lessening, reduction
Synonyms: abatement, alleviation, contraction, curtailment, cut,
cutback, decay, decline, decrease, deduction, retrenchment,
weakening
Antonyms: development, enlargement, expansion, growth, increase,
APPRECIATION

RUDE
STUPID
SHARP
TACTFUL, PRUDENT
Definition: politic, tactful


Synonyms: adept, arch, artful, astute, bland, brainy, cagey,
calculating, capable, clever, conciliatory, conniving, contriving,
courteous, crafty, cunning, deft, delicate, dexterous, discreet,
gracious, guileful, intriguing, opportunistic, polite, prudent, savvy,
scheming, sensitive, sharp
Antonyms: artless, impolite, RUDE, tactless

351) Discard

353) Discord

355) Discreet

ABANDON
DISPOSE
RETAIN, REFRAIN
AGREEMENT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get rid of
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, abjure, adios, banish, cancel,
cashier, chuck, desert, dispatch, dispossess, ditch, divorce, drop,
dump, eject, eliminate, expel, forsake, jettison, oust, protest, reject,
relinquish, remove, renounce, repeal, throw overboard, toss aside,
write off
Antonyms: embrace, keep, RETAIN

AGREEMENT
CONCORD
ACCEPTANCE
YIELDING, CONFLICT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: noise


Synonyms: cacophony, clamor, clinker, din, disharmony,
dissonance, harshness, jangle, jarring, racket, sour note, tumult
Antonyms: harmoniousness, harmony , CONCORD

DEBATE
RECKLESS
HOARD
PERPLEX, CAUTIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious, sensible
Synonyms: alert, attentive, awake, cagey, calculating, careful,
chary, circumspect, civil, conservative, discerning,
discriminating,gingerly, heedful, judicious, politic, precautious,
prudent, safe, sagacious,thoughtful, vigilant, wary, wise,
Ant: careless, foolish, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless,
thoughtless, uncareful, RECKLESS

357)
Disparage

359) Dissect

361) Divine

PARE, PARAGRAPH
JUMP
EJECT
APPRECIATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize; detract from
Synonyms: abuse, belittle, decry, defame, degrade, deject,
denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derogate, dis, discourage,
discredit, disdain, dishearten, dispirit, dispraise, malign, pan, rap,
ridicule, roast, scorch, scorn, slander, smear, traduce,
underestimate, underrate,
Ant:approve,commend,flatter, laud, APPRECIATE

DIVISION
DISAGREE
VIVISECT
VISUALIZE, VILE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cut up; take apart


Synonyms: anatomize, break up, cut, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint,
dislimb, dismember, dissever, divide, exscind, exsect, lay open,
operate, part, prosect, quarter, section, sever, slice, sunder
Antonyms: connect, join, mend, sew, VIVISECT

UNGODLY
FAITHFUL, ATHEIST
IRRELIGIOUS
SACRED
Definition: godlike, perfect
Syn: all-powerful, almighty, ambrosial, angelic, anointed, beatific,
beautiful, blissful, celestial, deific, deistic, eternal,
exalted,glorious,hallowed, heavenly, immaculate, magnificent,
marvelous, omniscient, rapturous, religious, sacramental, sacred,
sacrosanct, sanctified, spiritual, splendid, superlative, supernatural,
theistic, transcendent, transcendental. Ant: UNGODLY

DOGMA
IMPERIOUS, DOCILE
DISMAL
TENACIOUS
Antonym: DOCILE

363) Dogged

365) Dormant

367) Ductile

JUBILANT
ACTIVE, LIVE
MODERN
INACTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inactive; sleeping
Synonyms: abeyant, asleep, closed down, comatose, down, fallow,
hibernating, inert, inoperative, latent, lethargic, lurking, passive,
potential, prepatent, quiescent, sidelined, slack, sluggish,
slumbering, smoldering, suspended, torpid
Antonyms: active, lively, LIVE

INDISTINCT
VAGUE, INELASTIC
QUIESCENT
WAEK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pliant, flexible
Synonyms: adaptable, amenable, biddable, docile, extensile,
malleable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliable, responsive,
submitting, supple, tractable, yielding
Antonyms: hard, inflexible, intractable, stiff, unyielding,
INELASTIC

369) Dumb

371)
Duplicity

373) Dusky

SLOW
IGNORANT, STUPID
SMART
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to speak


Synonyms: inarticulate, incoherent, mousy, mum, mute, quiet,
silent, soundless, speechless, uncommunicative, voiceless, wordless
Antonyms: speaking, SMART

LOYALTY
DECEPTION
ARTIFICE, DEALING
REPEAT
Def: deception
Syn: artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dishonesty,
dissemblance, dissimulation, dualism, duality, faithlessness,
falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, perfidy,
skullduggery, treacherousness, treachery, twoness
Notes: duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests
trickery and wiliness
Ant: forthrightness, honesty, LOYALTY

LIGHT
BRIGHT, SHINING
FAIR
DARK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dark-hued; murky
Synonyms: adusk, bistered, bleak, brunette, caliginous, cheerless,
cloudy, crepuscular, dark, darkish, desolate, dim, dismal, dull,
funereal, gloomy, joyless, lightless, obscure, overcast, sable,
shadowy, shady, swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilit,
unilluminated, veiled
Antonyms: bright, clear, light , FAIR

LIVE ALONE
PROMOTE
Antonym: COMBINED

FOLLOW, SEPARATE
COMBINED

375) Dwell
Apart

377) Dynamic

379) Eager

VIGOROUS
LIVELY, INACTIVE
EXPLOSIVE
UNEDUCATED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: active, vital

Syn: activating, aggressive, changing,charismatic, compelling,
driving, effective, electric, energetic, energizing, enterprising,
forceful, forcible, influential, intense, lusty, magnetic, productive,
strenuous, vehement, vigorous, vitalizing, zippy
Antonyms: apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting,
INACTIVE

RELUCTANT
ENTHUSIASTIC
INTENT, EARLY
FAMILIAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: anxious, enthusiastic
Syn: acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst,
avid, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, earnest, fervent, fervid,
hankering, impatient, longing, pining, restless, solicitous, thirsty,
vehement, voracious, yearning, zealous
Antonyms: apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned,
uneager, RELUCTANT

381) Ebb

383) Ecstasy

385) Effete

RISE, EFFERVESCENT
ENERVATE
ETERNAL
RECEDE
Part of Speech: noun Def: regression; decline

Synonyms: abatement, backflow, decay, decrease, degeneration,
depreciation, deterioration, diminution, drop, dwindling, flagging,
lessening, recession, refluence, reflux, retreat, retrocession,
retroflux, shrinkage, sinking, slackening, subsidence, sweep, wane,
waning, withdrawal
Antonyms: flow, incline, increase, RISE,

RAPTURE
BEAUTIFUL
EXALTATION
OILY, MISERY
Definition: bliss
Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness, delectation, delight, delirium,
ebullience, enchantment, exaltation, felicity, fervor, frenzy, gladness,
happiness, heaven, inspiration, intoxication, joy, joyfulness,
paradise, rapture, ravishment, trance,
Notes: enstasy means 'to stand inside the self'; ecstasy means 'to
stand outside the ordinary self'
Antonyms: despair, sorrow, torment, MISERY

COURAGEOUS
BOLD, STRONG
LARGE
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: spoiled, exhausted
Synonyms: corrupt, debased, decadent, decayed, declining, decrepit,
degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, drained, enervated, enfeebled, fargone, feeble, immoral, obsolete, overrefined, overripe, played out,
soft, spent, vitiated, wasted, weak,
Antonyms: capable, tireless, STRONG

387)
Embellish

389) Embrace

391) Endemic

GARNISH
DISFIGURE, ADORN
DISARM
PERISH
Part of Speech: verb Def: make beautiful; decorate

Synonyms: add bells and whistles, adorn, amplify, array, beautify,
bedeck, color, deck, elaborate, emblaze, embroider, enhance, enrich,
exaggerate, festoon, fix up, fudge, garnish, gild, give details, grace,
gussy up, magnify, ornament, overstate, trim
Antonyms: deface, disfigure, mar, simplify, spoil, uglify,
DISFIGURE

REFUSE
REJECT, HARM
HUG
CLASP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold tightly in one's arms


Synonyms: bear hug, clasp, clinch, cling, clutch, cradle, cuddle,
encircle, enfold, entwine, envelop, fold, fondle, grab, grasp, grip,
hug, lock, nuzzle, press, seize, snuggle, squeeze, take in arms, wrap
Antonyms: let go, release, REJECT,

EPIDEMIC
ENDING, HATEFUL
ASSAULTING
LETHARGIC
Definition: native
Synonyms: local, regional Notes: an endemic is a disease that is
constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain
class or in people living in a particular location;an epidemic is a
outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the
same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is occurring a region or
even throughout the world Ant: EPIDEMIC

393) Endow

SNATCH
BORROW, ASK
STEAL
CONTRIBUTE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: give large gift
Synonyms: accord, award, back, bequeath, bestow, come through
with, confer, contribute, donate, empower, enable,
endue,enhance,enrich,establish, favor, finance, found, fund, furnish,
grant, invest, leave, promote, provide, settle on, sponsor, subscribe,
subsidize, supply, support, vest in, will
Antonyms: receive, take, BORROW,

WEAKENED
ENTERED
Antonym: ENERGETIC

NERVOUS, ENERGETIC
EXTERNED

395)
Enervated

397) Enhance

ENRICH
INTENSIFY
INSULT
BEAUTIFY, DEGRADE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improve, embellish


Synonyms: add to, adorn, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate,
augment, beautify, boom, boost, build up, complement, elevate,
embroider, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, increase, intensify, lift,
magnify, pyramid, raise, reinforce, strengthen, swell.
Ant: decrease, fix, lower, minimize, DEGRADE

399) Ennui

401)
Enunciate

403) Epilogue

INTRODUCE
NEWNESS
EXCITEMENT
DULL, POWERLESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boredom
Synonyms: apathy, blahs, blues, dejection, depression,
dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps, fatigue, ho hums, lack of interest,
languidness, languor, lassitude, listlessness,melancholy,satiety,
spiritlessness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn
Antonyms: energy, enthusiasm, EXCITEMENT, liveliness, vigor

ARTICULATE
PRONOUNCE,PROVIDE
ACCUMULATE
MUMBLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: speak clearly


Synonyms: affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop,
enounce, express, intone, modulate, outline, phonate, postulate,
proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, show,
sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice
Antonyms: mispronounce, muffle, MUMBLE

DRAMATIC
DIALOGUE
MONOLOGUE
PROLOGUE, PRELUDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: afterword
Synonyms: coda, concluding speech, conclusion, ending, finale,
follow-up, peroration, postlude, postscript, sequel, summation, swan
song
Antonyms: foreword, introduction, preface, PROLOGUE,

405)
Equanimity

407)
Equitable

409) Erratic

IDENTIFICATION
LIKENESS, LUSTER
QUANTITY
AGITATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: levelheadedness
Synonyms: aplomb, assurance, ataraxia, ataraxy, calm, calmness,
composure, confidence, cool, coolness,
detachment,equability,imperturbability, patience, peace, phlegm,
placidity, poise, presence of mind, sangfroid, serenity, steadiness,
Antonyms: agitation, alarm, anxiety, discomposure, excitableness,
upset, AGITATION

UNFAIR
IMPARTIAL
EJECTIVE, UNBIASED
EQUALITY
Definition: impartial
Syn: candid, cricket, decent, disinterested, dispassionate, due,
ethical, fair, honest, impersonal, just, level,
nonpartisan,proportionate, right, rightful, square, square deal,
stable, unbiased, uncolored. Notes: equable means steady or
unvarying and far from extremes; equitable means fair and
impartial Antonyms: biased, disproportionate, partial, prejudiced,
UNFAIR

IRREGULAR
STEADY, ROMANTIC
ECCENTRIC
FAMOUS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: unpredictable; wandering

Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre,
capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dubious, eccentric,
fluctuant, iffy, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, spasmodic,
strange, stray, vagarious, variable, volatile. Ant:certain, consistent,
definite, dependable,predictable,regular,reliable, STEADY,

411) Erudite

413) Escalate

415) Ethereal

UNKNOWN, ILLITERATE
IGNORANT
UNFAMILIAR
ERADICATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: well-educated, cultured
Synonyms: brainy, cultivated, educated, highbrow, in the know,
knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly,
scholastic, studious, wise up
Antonyms: common, ignorant, uncultured, uneducated,
IGNORANT

DECREASE
SUBSIDE, LESSEN
REDUCE
ENHANCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: increase, be increased


Synonyms: amplify, ascend, broaden, climb, enlarge, expand,
extend, grow, heighten, intensify, magnify, make worse, mount,
raise, rise, scale, step up, widen
Antonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, weaken, SUBSIDE

EARTHY
CLUMSY, CRITICAL
IMITATION
PERMANENT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: delicate, heavenly

Synonyms: aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal,
empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer,
impalpable, insubstantial, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime,
subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly,
vaporous, vapory
Antonyms: EARTHY, indelicate, worldly

PRETTY
STERN

417)
Eulogistic

Definition: flattering
Synonyms: adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory,
approving, commendatory, courtly, encomiastic, eulogistic, fawning,
laudatory, plauditory, praiseful, respectful, sycophantic, Notes:
something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such
an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces
completeness in something
Antonyms: blaming, censuring, CRITICAL, denouncing, disparaging,
insulting, reproachful, unflattering

STRIDENT,SIGNIFICANT
DISTASTEFUL

419)
Euphonious

421)
Evacuate

CRITICAL, BRIEF
FREE

LETHARGIC
TEMPORARY

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: pleasing to the ear


Synonyms: agreeable, clear, dulcet, harmonious, mellifluous,
melodious, musical, rhythmic, smooth, sweet-sounding, tuneful,
well-pitched
Antonyms: STRIDENT

ADMIT
EMERGE, ABANDON
INVADE
OCCUPY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clear an area; empty


Synonyms: abandon, bail out, cut out, decamp, depart, desert,
discharge, displace, eject, expel, forsake, hightail, leave, move out,
pack up, pull out, quit, relinquish, remove, run for the hills,
skidaddle, vacate, withdraw
Antonyms: come in, enter, fill, load, OCCUPY

CLEAR
QUICK, PROTRACTED

423) Evasive

425)
Exasperate

Definition: deceitful, tricky


Synonyms: ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, cunning, deceptive, devious,
dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy,
intangible, oblique, prevaricating, shifty, shuffling, slippery, sly,
sophistical, stonewalling, unclear, vague Notes: elusive is used when what
is being avoided is physical capture or apprehension, whereas evasive is
used when what is being avoided is direct response to a verbal challenge
Ant:direct, forthright, honest, STRAIGHTFORWARD

IRRITABLE
INSTANCE, EXPAND
BETRAY
TRANQUILIZE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: upset, provoke

Syns: aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, disturb, drive up the wall,
embitter, enrage, exacerbate, excite, gall, incense, inflame, infuriate,
irk, irritate, madden, needle, nettle, peeve, pique, rankle, rile, roil,
rouse, vex,
Ant:calm, comfort, placate, please, TRANQUILIZE

PROHIBIT
DEMOLISH

427) Exclude

STRAIGHTFORWARD
DODGING

EXHIBIT, PRECLUDE
PERMIT

Part of Speech: verb


Def: expel, forbid
Synonyms: ban, bar, bate, blacklist, block, bounce, boycott, debar,
disallow, eject, embargo, estop, evict, ignore, interdict, obviate,
occlude, omit, ostracize, oust, preclude, prohibit, proscribe, refuse,
refuse admittance, reject, remove,
Antonyms: accept, add, admit, allow, include, incorporate, take on,
welcome, PERMIT

429)
Excruciating

PAINFUL, TORTUROUS
TROUBLING
ESSENTIAL
SOOTHING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: torturous, painful )(

Syn: acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, exquisite, extreme,
grueling, harrowing, insufferable, piercing, punishing,
racking,rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing,
tormenting, unbearable, unendurable, violent
Ant: bearable, endurable, helpful, SOOTHING

SPIRITUAL,EXCELLENT

431)
Execrable

433)
Exemplary

MEDITATIVE
DESERVING

CRUSHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: horrible, sickening
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious,
confounded, cursed,damnable,defective, deplorable, despicable,
detestable, disgusting, foul, hateful, heinous, horrific, loathsome,
low, monstrous, nauseous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repulsive,
revolting, vile, wretched
Antonyms: nice, pleasant, EXCELLENT

HATEFUL
REPREHENSIBLE
TORMENT
UNDUE, SUPERB
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ideal
Synonyms: admirable, blameless, bueno, characteristic, classical,
commendable, estimable, excellent, guiltless, illustrative, inculpable,
innocent, irreprehensible, neato, paradigmatic, praiseworthy,
prototypical, punctilious, pure, quintessential, sterling, typical,
virtuous, worthy
Ant:erring, incorrect, unideal, REPREHENSIBLE

435)
Exhilarate

437) Exigent

439)
Exonerate

GLADDEN
INVIGORATE
SHABBILY
INSPIRING, DEPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make very happy
Synonyms: animate, boost, buoy, cheer, commove, delight, elate,
enliven, exalt, excite, gladden, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, lift,
quicken, rejoice, send, snap up, stimulate, thrill, turn on, uplift,
vitalize
Antonyms: agitate, DEPRESS, discourage, sadden, upset, worry

CRISIS
OUTSIDE, URGENT
ORDINARY
EXERCISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: urgent, pressing
Synonyms: acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, constraining,
critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant,
menacing, necessary, needful, threatening
Antonyms: ORDINARY, unpressured, usual

REJECT
CONTRACT
ACCUSE, ADMIT
PROCLAIM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: excuse, clear of responsibility or blame

Synonyms: absolve, acquit, disburden, discharge, dismiss,
exculpate, exempt, free, justify, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize,
vindicate, whitewash.
Notes: to exculpate is 'to free from accusation or blame' while
exonerate is literally 'to free from a burden' Ant: ACCUSE,
blame, charge, sentence

441) Exoteric

443) Expunge

445) Extant

ECSTATIC
ESOTERIC
DEVELOPED
MONASTIC, FOREIGN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: outside
Synonyms: exoteric , external, extraneous, extraterrestrial,
extraterritorial, extrinsic, foreign, marginal, outdoor, outer,
outermost, outlying, outmost, outward, over, peripheral, superficial,
surface
Antonyms: central, interior, middle, ESOTERIC

ERASE
DILATE, ENTITY
IMPRINT
EXTRIPATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: destroy, obliterate
Synonyms: abolish, annihilate, annul, black, black out, blot out, blue
pencil, cancel, cut, delete, discard, drop, efface, eradicate, erase,
exclude, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, kayo, kill, launder,
omit, raze, remove, scrub, trim, zap
Antonyms: bear, build, construct, create, IMPRINT

DESTROYED
EXTINGUISHED
FORGOTTEN
UNHEEDED, EXIST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: in existence
Synonyms: actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current,
existent, existing, immediate, in current use, instant, living, not lost,
present, real, remaining, subsisting, surviving, undestroyed
Antonyms: dead, extinct, gone, DESTROYED

447)
Extenuate

449) Extinct

451)
Extravagant

PALLIATE
QUALITY, ENHANCE
OFFHAND
REDUCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lessen, mitigate
Synonyms: decrease, diminish, downplay, excuse, justify, make
allowances, minimize, moderate, palliate, qualify, reduce, soften
Antonyms: ENHANCE

GONE, ARRIVING
EXISTING
USED
VANISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dead, obsolete
Syn: abolished, archaic, asleep, bygone, deceased, defunct,
departed, disappeared, doused, ended, exanimate, exterminated,
extinguished, fallen, gone, inactive, late, lifeless, lost, out, outmoded,
superseded, terminated, unknown, vanished, vanquished, void
Antonyms: alive, EXISTING, extant, living

DEVELOPING
WONDERFUL
DISAPPEARING
ECONOMICAL, REAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: indulgent, wasteful
Syn: absurd, bizarre, costly, crazy, exaggerated, excessive,
exorbitant, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, garish, gaudy,
grandiose,immoderate,implausible, lavish, ornate, ostentatious,
pretentious, prodigal, profligate, reckless, ridiculous,
showy,spendthrift.
Ant: close, ECONOMICAL, moderate, provident, reasonable,
saving, stingy, thrifty, unpretentious

453) Extrinsic

455)
Exultation

457)
Fabricate

REPULSIVE
OUTSIDE, EFFECTIVE
EXPRESSIVE
INHERENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foreign
Synonyms: acquired, alien, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous,
gained, imported, outer, outside, outward, superficial
Antonyms: essential, integral, interior, intrinsic, necessary,
INHERENT

ECSTASY, FRUGALITY
MOURNING
SEVERE
INTERFERENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: celebration, reveling
Synonyms: crowing, delight, elation, glee, gloating, glory,
happiness, high spirits, joy, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation,
merriment, rejoicing, satisfaction, transport, triumph
Antonyms: discouragement, MOURNING

DAMAGE, DESTROY
DISINTEGRATE
IMPLICATE
ASSEMBLE
Part of Speech: verb Def: manufacture

Synonyms: assemble, brainstorm, build, compose, concoct,
construct, contrive, create, devise, dream up, erect, fashion, form,
formulate, frame, invent, join, make, mix, organize, prefab,
produce, put together, shape, structure, think up.
Antonyms: break, demolish, DESTROY, ruin, wreck

459)
Facsimile

REPRODUCTION
SINCERE, ORIGINAL
FACT-FINDING
ENGINEERED
Part of Speech: noun
Def: reproduction
Synonyms: carbon, carbon copy, clone, copy, copycat, dead ringer,
double, duplicate, likeness, miniature, mirror, photocopy, photostat,
print, reduplication, replica, replication, repro, ringer, spitting
image, stat, transcript, twin
Antonyms: ORIGINAL

461)
Factitious

ORIGINAL
GENUINE
ARTIFICIAL
MANUAL, REAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unnatural
Synonyms: artificial, false, sham
Notes: factitious refers to 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what
is genuine, while fictitious is 'made up, contrived' as opposed to
what is real; a factitious story might be designed to serve a purpose,
but a fictitious story is intended to deceive Antonym: GENUINE

463) Fallacy

BLUNDER
ERROR, ABANDON
TRUTH
ELUSION
Def: illusion, misconception
Synonyms: aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil,
deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion,
equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, flaw, heresy, illogicality,
inconsistency, inexactness, misapprehension, mistake, notion,
paradox, perversion, preconception, quibbling, quirk,
Ant:certainty, fact, honesty, reality, right, TRUTH

465) False

467) Fatigue

469) Feasible

TRUE, GENUINE
CORRECT
PROPER
ERRONEOUS
Definition: wrong, made up

Synonyms:apocryphal, beguiling, bogus, casuistic, deceitful, fake,
fallacious, faulty, fictitious, fishy,
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable
to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not
in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
Antonyms: accurate, actual, correct, TRUE

VITALITY, WEARINESS
SOLEMN
ENCHANT
BURDEN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tiredness
Synonyms: brain fag, burnout, debility, dullness, enervation, ennui,
exhaustion, faintness, fatigation, feebleness, heaviness, languor,
lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, overtiredness, weakness, weariness
Antonyms: energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor, VITALITY

IMPOSSIBLE
IRRATIONAL
IMPRACTICABLE
OBVIOUS,ATTAINABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: possible, doable
Synonyms: achievable, advantageous, appropriate, attainable,
beneficial, breeze, cinch, expedient, fit, fitting, likely, performable,
pie, practicable, practical, probable, profitable, pushover, realizable,
reasonable, snap, suitable, viable.
Antonyms: impossible, inconceivable, unfeasible, unlikely,
unpractical, IMPRACTICABLE

471) Fecund

HARD, UNPLOUGHED
SOLID
BARREN
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: productive
Synonyms: breeding, fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, generating,
pregnant, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rich,
spawning, teeming
Antonyms: impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive,
BARREN

473)
Felicitous

SAD
HAPPY, FRIGID
COLD
AMBITIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: appropriate, suitable
Synonyms: applicable, apposite, apropos, apt, convincing, fit,
fitting, germane, happy, inspired, just, meet, neat, opportune, pat,
pertinent, proper, propitious, relevant, seasonable, telling, timely.
Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, infelicitous, inopportune,
unfitting, unsuitable, SAD

475) Fend

HOSTILITY
LAXITY, FRIENDSHIP
NATIVE
COMPENSATION
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defend
Synonyms: bulwark, cover, dodge, guard, oppose, parry, protect,
repel, resist, safeguard, screen, secure, shield
Antonyms: surrender, yield , FRIENDSHIP

477) Fervent

479) Fetid

481) Fiasco

FIERY
ARDOUR, POISONOUS
APATHETIC
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: enthusiastic, excited
Synonyms: animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager,
earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, glowing, heartfelt, hearty,
impassioned, intense, passionate, perfervid, pious, religious,
responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm,
warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous
Ant: cool, discouraged, impassive, APATHETIC

STINKY
FOUL, PUTRID
FORWARD
FRESH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foul, rancid
Synonyms: corrupt, fusty, grody, icky, loathsome, lousy,
malodorous, mephitic, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rank,
reeking, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, smelly, stenchy,
stinking, stinky, strong, yecchy, yucky
Antonyms: aromatic, clean, fragrant, pure, sweet, FRESH

CAMEO, MANSION
POLLUTION
SUCCESS
GAMBLE
Part of Speech: noun Def: catastrophe

Synonyms: abortion, blunder, botched situation, breakdown,
debacle, disaster, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, embarrassment,
error, failure, farce, flap, flop, mess, miscarriage, route, ruin,
screwup, stunt, washout
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, SUCCESS,
wonder

WILD

483) Fierce

485) Flaccid

487)
Flamboyant

DOCILE, CALM
TIMID
VIOLENT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: violent, menacing

Syn: angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous,blustery, boisterous,
brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral,
ferocious, fiery, flipped, furious, malevolent, malign, murderous,
passionate, powerful, raging, raving, relentless
Antonyms: calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame,
tender, unthreatening, CALM

FLABBY
LAX, FIRM
OBSOLETE
SLOPPY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: drooping
Synonyms: debilitated, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, flabby,
flimsy, inelastic, irresilient, lax, limp, loose, nerveless, quaggy,
sapped, slack, soft, weak, weakened
Antonyms: FIRM, taut, tight

EXCITED
QUIET, ANGRY
MULTI-COLOURED
AGGRESSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: extravagant, theatrical

Synonyms: baroque, bombastic, brilliant, camp, colorful, dashing,
dazzling, elaborate, exciting, flaming, flashy, florid, gassy, gaudy,
glamorous, jazzy, luscious, ornate, ostentatious, pretentious, rich,
rococo, showy, splashy, sporty, swank,
Ant: calm, moderate, modest, restrained, QUIET

489) Flicker

QUIVER
GLOW, DEFORMITY
PRESAGE
QUIET
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spark, glimmer

Synonyms: beam, flare, flash, gleam, oscillation, quivering, ray,
scintillation, twinkle, vibration
Antonym: GLOW

TIED
HIGH

491) Flow

493) Fluster

ACCESS, EBB
FLY

Part of Speech: noun


Def: issue, abundance
Synonyms: breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course,
current, deluge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion,
electricity,emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement,
oozing, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence,
spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession
Antonyms: trickle, EBB

UPSET, DISCONCERT
ARRANGE
DISOBEY
ACCLAIM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: perturbation, upset

Synonyms: agitation, brouhaha, commotion, disturbance, dither,


flap, flurry, flutter, furor, ruffle, turmoil
Antonyms: calm, calmness, comfort, peace, ARRANGE

495)
Foreigner

497) Forlorn

499) Fragile

NATIONAL
STRANGER, NATIVE
ALIEN
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person from another country
Synonyms: alien, fresh off the boat, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer,
newcomer, outlander, outsider, stranger
Antonyms: citizen, local, national, NATIVE

HAPPY, GLOOMY
JOYOUS
CREDIBLE
DEJECTED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: hopeless, inconsolable

Syn: abandoned, alone, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, depressed,
deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate. Notes: lonely adds to
solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome
heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even
more isolated and sad Ant: cheerful, comforted, consolable,
JOYOUS

BRITTLE
STRONG, ABRASION
HORRID
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: breakable, dainty
Synonyms: brittle, crisp, crumbly, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fine,
flimsy, fracturable, frail, frangible, friable, infirm, insubstantial,
shatterable, shivery, slight, unsound, weak, weakly
Antonyms: durable, firm, STRONG, tough, unbreakable

SANE
CANDID

501) Frantic

503) Frigid

505) Fructify

OPEN, MAD
CONFUSED

Part of Speech: adjective Def: distressed, distracted



Syn: agitated, angry, berserk, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged,
excited, flipped out, fraught, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, insane,
rabid, raging, raving, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird,
Notes: frantic pertains to a mental state or condition, to a frame of mind,
whereas frenetic pertains rather to a type of behavior or conduct
Antonyms: calm, collected, composed, docile, peaceful, tranquil, SANE

SEXY
FRIED, BORDER
COOLING-MACHINE
LOVABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extremely cold
Synonyms: Siberian, antarctic, arctic, chill, chilly, cool, freezing,
frost-bound, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, hyperboreal, ice-cold,
icebox, icy, refrigerated, snappy, three-dog night, wintry
Antonyms: hot, warm, SEXY

ENRICH, FRUITFUL
HACK
UPGRADE
STERILIZE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fertilize
Synonyms: fecundate, impregnate, pollinate
Antonyms:
STERILIZE

507)
Frugality

509)
Fulminate

511) Fungible

SHOWY, EXHIBITION
EXTRAVAGANCE
VISAGE
ECONOMY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: economizing
Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation,
economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness,
moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony,
penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess,
thrift, thriftiness
Ant: generosity, lavishness, EXTRAVAGANCE

MURMUR
CLAMOUR
EFFICACIOUS
VAIN, COOPERATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize harshly
Synonyms: animadvert, berate, blow up, bluster, castigate, censure,
condemn, curse, declaim, denounce, denunciate, execrate, explode,
fume, intimidate, inveigh against, menace, protest, rage, rail,
reprobate, thunder, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, defend, flatter, praise, support, MURMUR

CORROSIVE
IRIDESCENT, UNIQUE
RETROGRADE
DISCURSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: identical, transposable

Synonyms: changeable, commutable, compatible, converse,
convertible, correspondent, equivalent, exchangeable, fungible ,
interconvertible, mutual, reciprocal, reciprocative, same,
substitutable, synonymous, workalike
Antonyms: different, dissimilar, UNIQUE

513) Gainsay

515) Gallant

517)
Garrulity

LOOSE
HARD, FIX
AFFIRM
RELIABLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: contradict
Synonyms: combat, contravene, controvert, cross, deny, disaffirm,
disagree, disclaim, disprove, dispute, fight, impugn, negate,
negative, oppose, refute, repudiate, resist, traverse, withstand
Antonyms: agree, concur, go along, HARD

BOLD
FINE, FROLIC
COWARD
VALIANT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: brave, splendid

Syn: attentive, bold, considerate, courageous, courteous, courtly,
daring, dashing, dauntless, dignified, doughty, fearless, glorious,
gracious, grand, gritty, honorable, intrepid, lofty, magnanimous,
noble, plucky, quixotic, stately, stouthearted, suave, urbane, valiant,
valorous
Antonyms: afraid, COWARD, fearful, timid,

RETICENCE
GAUDY, SUPERB
ABETTOR
ORNATE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: loquacity
Synonyms: chattiness, garrulousness, glibness, grandiloquence,
logorrhea, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness,
verbosity, volubility, wordiness
Antonyms: RETICENCE

519) Gauche

521)
Generous

523)
Germane

MISTAKE
ABUSIVE
ATTRACTIVE
GUILE, GAUNT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tactless, unsophisticated
Synonyms: awkward, bumbling, clumsy, crude, graceless, green,
halting, ignorant, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit,
oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, wooden
Antonyms: elegant, graceful, mannerly, polished, refined,
sophisticated, tactful, tasteful, ATTRACTIVE

MAGNANIMOUS
VISUAL, VIVID
STINGY
KINDLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: giving, big-hearted
Synonyms: acceptable, altruistic, benevolent, big, bounteous,
bountiful, charitable, considerate,easy, equitable, greathearted,
helpful, honest,honorable, kindly, lavish, liberal, lofty, loose,
magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, prodigal, profuse,
reasonable, thoughtful, tolerant, ungrudging.
Ant: greedy, mean, miserly, selfish, STINGY

TOTAL, RELATED
UNRELANTED
BRAVE
COWARDLY
Def: appropriate
Syn: akin, allied, applicable, applicative, applicatory, apposite,
apropos, apt, cognate, kindred, legit, material, pertinent,
proper,related, relating, relevant, Notes: germane and relevant
indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material
means pertinent and necessary
Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, irrelevant, unfitting,
UNRELANTED, unsuitable

525) Giddy

527) Gist

529) Glib

DIZZY
SILLY, CONFUSED
STRONG
SERIOUS
Def: silly, impulsive
Syn: bemused, brainless, bubbleheaded, capricious, careless,
changeable, ditzy, dizzy, erratic, fickle, flighty, flustered, frivolous,
gaga, heedless, inconstant, irresolute, punchy, reckless, reeling,
scatterbrained, skittish, slaphappy, unsettled, unstable, unsteady,
vacillating, volatile, whimsical, whirling, wild, woozy
Ant:calm, careful, level-headed,sensible, SERIOUS

CIRCUMLOCUTION
PITH, FORCE
EXPEDITE
ESSENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: meaning, essence
Syn: basis, bearing, bottom line, burden, core, drift, force, heart,
idea, import, kernel, keynote, marrow, matter, nitty gritty, nuts and
bolts, pith, point, punch line, quintessence, score, sense, short,
significance, soul, spirit, subject, substance, summary, tenor, theme,
thrust, topic, upshot
Antonym: CIRCUMLOCUTION

DEAF
HANDICAPPED
DUMB, HESITANT
FACILE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: slick, smooth-talking

Synonyms: artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip,
fluent, garrulous, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready,
suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble
Antonyms: inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, tongue-tied,
uncommunicative, DUMB

531) Glut

533) Gnome

535)
Grandiloque
nce

LIMIT
SUPPLY, DEARTH
DEMAND
SURPLUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overabundance
Synonyms: excess, nimiety, oversupply, plenitude, saturation,
superfluity, surfeit, surplus.
Antonyms: insufficiency, lack, need, want, DEARTH

GLOOM
CASUAL
SMALL
GIANT, FAIRY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: troll
Synonyms: elf, fairy
GIANT

Antonym:

CIVIL, POMPOSITY
JARRING
SIMPLICITY
COMPLEXITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bombast
Synonyms: boastful, claptrap, eloquence, fustian, grandiosity,
magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity
Notes: magniloquence refers to a language that is lofty and
extravagant, whereas grandiloquence refers to a language that is
pompous or bombastic Antonym: SIMPLICITY

537) Gratify

539)
Gratuitous

541) Greedy

DEFEAT, DISTRESS
FRUSTRATE
DISCOURAGE
DELIGHT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give pleasure; satisfy
Synonyms: appease, arride, coddle, content, delectate, delight, do
one proud, do the trick, enchant, favor, gladden, humor, indulge,
make happy, oblige, pamper, please, recompense, requite, thrill
Antonyms: annoy, disappoint, disturb, FRUSTRATE, offend, pain,
upset

NEEDLESS
GRATEFULLNESS
FILTHY, IMPURITY
WARRANTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: free
Syn: chargeless, complimentary, costless, gratis, spontaneous,
unpaid, voluntary, Notes: grateful means feeling or showing
gratitude or feeling thankful; gratified means having received what
was desired; gratuitous means costing nothing or free - unnecessary
or unwarranted - without cause
Antonyms: costly, expensive, WARRANTED

RAVENOUS
VORACIOUS
DULL, LAVISH
GRASPING
Def: desiring excessively
Syn: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, covetous, eager,
edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby,
grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, itchy,
miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, piggish, prehensile,
ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, voracious
Ant: abstemious, benevolent, LAVISH

543) Grim

545)
Grotesque

547)
Gruesome

SERIOUS
SATISFYING
DELIGHTFUL
PAINFUL, HARSH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance

Syn: austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed,
cruel, crusty, dogged,ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding,
formidable, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, gruesome,
merciless, morose, ominous, relentless,
Ant:bright, cheerful, hopeful, DELIGHTFUL

ARCHAIC
WHIMSICAL
GRACEFUL
MILD, BIZARRE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: ugly, misshapen

Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, absurd, antic, bizarre, deformed,
distorted, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fantastic,
flamboyant, freakish, grody, incongruous, ludicrous, malformed,
monstrous, odd, outlandish, preposterous, queer, ridiculous, strange,
surrealistic, uncanny, weird.
Antonyms: beautiful, nice, pretty, GRACEFUL

DISGUSTING
ATTRACTIVE
GRISLY, STERN
HIDEOUS
Definition: horrible, awful
Syn: abominable, appalling, daunting, fearful, frightful, ghastly,
grim, grisly, grody, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific,
horrifying, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid
Notes: grueling means characterized by physical effort to the point
of exhaustion; gruesome means shockingly repellent, inspiring
horror
Ant: beautiful, pleasant, pretty , ATTRACTIVE

549) Guile

551) Gullible

553) Gusto

INGRATITUDE
INGENUOUSNESS
INCORRECT, ARTLESS
CUNNING
Part of Speech: noun
Def: slyness, cleverness
Synonyms: artfulness, artifice, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning,
deceit, deception, dirty dealing, dishonesty, dissemblance,
dissimulation, duplicity, foul play, jive, ruse, sellout, sharp practice,
treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness
Antonyms: artlessness, frankness, honesty, naivety, openness,
sincerity, ARTLESS

FISH
CREDULOUS
SHREWD, TRAVELLER
BIRD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: naive, trusting

Syn: believing, biting, credulous, foolish, innocent, silly, simple,
sucker, susceptible, swallowing whole, taken in, trustful,
unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed
Antonyms: astute, discerning, SHREWD perceptive, suspicious,
unbelieving, untrusting.

SADNESS, DISTASTE
DISCOLOUR
GLOOM
DELICIOUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: great enthusiasm
Synonyms: appetite, appreciation, ardor, brio, delectation, delight,
enjoyment, exhilaration, fervor, heart, liking, palate, passion,
pleasure, relish, savor, taste, verve, zeal, zest
Antonyms: apathy, reluctance, unenthusiasm, DISTASTE

555) Habitual

557) Haggard

559) Halcyon

IRREGULAR
CUSTOMARY, DEBAR
SCHISM
NORMAL
Definition: usual, established
Synonyms: accepted, accustomed, addicted, addicting, automatic,
chronic, confirmed, cyclic.
Notes: habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed
practice; customary means in accordance with convention or
custom; usual means normally experienced, or observed
Ant: infrequent, inhabitual, intermittent, occasional, rare,
unestablished, IRREGULAR

PLUMP
VAST, MAIDENLY
SHREWD
GAUNT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: worn, weakened
Synonyms: ashen, careworn, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded,
fagged, fatigued, fretted, gaunt, ghastly, lank, lean, pale, pallid,
pinched, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin,
tired, wan, wasted, weak, wearied, wrinkled
Antonyms: fresh, healthy, hearty, strong, unworn, PLUMP

MARTIAL
SERENE, TRANQUIL
BRAVE
RELAXED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: calm, peaceful
Synonyms: at peace, balmy, bucolic, gentle, golden, happy,
harmonious, palmy, pastoral, quiet, serene, soothing, still, sunny,
tranquil, untroubled Antonym: MARTIAL

561)
Haphazard

DELIBERATE
CARELESS, RANDOM
CASUAL
IMMEDIATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without plan or organization
Syn: accidental, aimless, arbitrary, careless, casual, chance,
designless, desultory, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, fluke,
incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, loose, offhand, purposeless,
random, reckless, slapdash, slipshod.
Antonyms: careful, designed, intentional, methodical, organized,
planned, DELIBERATE

RANT, EROSION
CALLOUS

563)
Harangue

565) Hard

SILENCE
UPROAR

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: long lecture
Synonyms: address, chewing out, declamation, diatribe, discourse,
exhortation, hassle, jeremiad, oration, philippic, reading out, screed,
sermon, speech, spouting, tirade
Antonyms: SILENCE

SOFT, SMOOTH
DELICATE
EASY
LESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rocklike
Synonyms: adamantine, callous, compact, compacted, compressed,
concentrated, consolidated, dense, firm, hardened, impenetrable,
indurate, indurated, inflexible, iron, packed, rigid, rocky, set, solid,
stiff, stony, strong, thick, tough.
Antonyms: flexible, malleable, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding, SOFT

567)
Harmony

569) Hawk

SUCCESS
CONFLICT, JOY
SOLACE
ACCORD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social agreement
Synonyms: accord, affinity, amicability, amity, compatibility,
concord, conformity, consensus, consistency, cooperation,
correspondence, empathy, friendship, good will, kinship, sympathy,
tranquility, unanimity, understanding, unity
Antonyms: clash, disagreement, discord, fighting, CONFLICT

PEACEFUL
PIGEON, FIGHTER
DOVE
BRAVE
Definition: a warlike person
Synonyms: belligerent, chauvin, chauvinist, jingo, jingoist,
militarist, war hawk, warmonger
Notes: falcon probably comes ultimately from Germanic falkon; a
falcon's wings are longer and more pointed than hawk wings and
they are fast, frenzied fliers as opposed to hawks which have a flapsoar pattern of flying
Antonyms: DOVE

FOOT
TOES

571) Head

BOTTOM, TOIL
APTITUDE

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: most important; chief

Synonyms: arch, champion, first, foremost, front, highest, leading,
main, pioneer, preeminent, premier, prime, principal, stellar,
supreme, topmost
Antonyms: auxiliary, inferior, lower, second, secondary, trivial,
unimportant, TOIL

573) Hearsay

GOSSIP
ROBUST, SOBERING
FACT
INFORMATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unsubstantiated information
Synonyms: clothesline, comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, mere talk,
report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk.
Antonyms: evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth, FACT

SOCIALISM,INTOXICATION

575)
Hedonism

577) Hefty

ASCETICISM
SURREALISM

REVIVALISM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sensualism
Synonyms: debauchery, enjoyment, epicureanism, gratification,
indulgence, pleasure, ASCETICISM

MASSIVE
LIGHT, TIGHT
AMPLE
STUBBORN
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: big, bulky
Synonyms: ample, awkward, beefy, brawny, burly, colossal,
cumbersome, extensive, fat, forceful, heavy, hulking, husky, large,
major, massive, muscular, ponderous, powerful, robust, sizable,
strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, thumping, tremendous,
unwieldy, vigorous, weighty
Antonyms: slight, small, thin, LIGHT

579) Heinous

581) Heretic

583) Hibernal

ODIOUS, ATROCIOUS
EXCUSABLE
COAX
WICKED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying, monstrous
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, bad, beastly,
crying, cursed, evil, flagitious, flagrant, godawful, grave, hateful,
hideous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive,
outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking,
unspeakable, vicious,villainous
Ant: glorious, lovely, magnificent, EXCUSABLE

HERESY
HERMIT, PIOUS
DEVOTED
INDULGENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: schismatic
Synonyms: apostate, cynic, pagan, sectarian, skeptic
Antonym: PIOUS

SUMMER-LIKE
NATURAL
PERMANENT, PURE
CASUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cold, snowy
Synonyms: biting, bleak, brumal, chilly, cutting, desolate, dismal,
freezing, frigid, frosty, frozen, harsh, hibernal , hiemal, icebox, icy,
raw, snappy, three-dog night
Antonyms: hot, summery, SUMMER-LIKE

585) Hide

SEARCH
SHOW, SEEK
FIND
CLOAK
Def: conceal; remain unseen
Syn: adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage,
cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, Notes: skin is the
general term for an animal's outer covering; hide is the tough skin
of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is
untanned skin of fur-bearing animals Antonyms: bare, disclose,
divulge, exhibit, expose, open, SEEK

LAUGHER, HUMOUR
GLOOM

587) Hilarity

589) Hirsute

RAMBLE
SHORTCOMING

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: laughter
Synonyms: amusement, cheerfulness, entertainment, fun,
merriment, mirthfulness
Antonym: GLOOM

WIDE
CALM, SIMPLE
STRONG
BALD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hairy
Synonyms: bearded, furry, shaggy, woolly
Antonym:
BALD

591) Hoard

593) Homage

DEPOSIT
SUPPLY, SATISFY
ACCUMULATE
SAVE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stockpile
Syn: abundance, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation,
amassment, backlog, cache, collection, conglomeration, cumulation,
fund, garner, heap, mass, pile, reserve, reservoir, stock,
Notes: a hoard is a collection or the action that creates one; a horde
is a crowd, sometimes unfriendly Antonyms: debt, SUPPLY

CONTRACT
CONTEMPT
WASTE, WORSHIP
TRIBUTE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: devotion, admiration
Synonyms: adoration, adulation, allegiance, awe, deference, duty,
esteem, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, genuflection, honor, kneeling,
loyalty, obeisance, praise, respect, reverence, service, tribute,
worship
Antonyms: dishonor, disloyalty, disrespect, faithlessness, scorn,
CONTEMPT

FRANTIC, DISSUADING
COMPULSORY
NO RESULTS

595)
Hortatory

RESIDENCE
UNFRIENDLY

597) Hostile

599) Hubbub

FRIENDLY
OPPOSED
HUMID, CRUEL
AGGRESSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: antagonistic, mean
Syn: adverse, alien, allergic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent,
bitter, catty, competitive, contentious, contrary, disapproving, dour,
hateful, ill-disposed, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious,
malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, oppugnant,
pugnacious, scrappy,spiteful,
Ant: agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, FRIENDLY

COMMOTION
UPROAR
GREAT, CLAMOR
CALM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: commotion, disorder
Synonyms: babel, bedlam, clamor, confusion, din, disturbance, fuss,
hassle, hell broke loose, hue and cry, hurly-burly, jangle, noise,
pandemonium, racket, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, todo, tumult, turmoil, uproar, whirl
Antonyms: CALM, order, peace

VALE
SCORN
NDR

601)
Hummock

FURY, WICKEDNESS
STOCK

603) Hunch

605)
Husbandry

607)
Hyperbole

HINDRANCE
SLAVERY, KINGLY
EMPIRICAL
FOOD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feeling, idea
Syn: anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue,
expectation, forecast, foreknowledge,
forewarning,glimmer,impression, inkling, instinct, intuition,
misgiving, notion, portent, preapprehension, precognition,
presagement, prescience, presentiment, suspicion,
Antonyms: proof, reality, truth, EMPIRICAL

TIMIDNESS
COURAGE, THRIFTY
MATRIMONIAL
WASTEFULNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: farming
Synonyms: agriculture, land management, tillage Antonym:
WASTEFULNESS

DOWNTRODDEN
UNDERESTIMATE
CONTEMPT, CUPIDITY
EXAGGERATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggeration
Synonyms: amplification, big talk, coloring, distortion,
embellishment, embroidering, enlargement, magnification,
metaphor, overstatement.
Antonyms: understatement, UNDERESTIMATE

609)
Hypocrisy

611)
Hypothetical

613)
Hysterical

BUSY
NAVE, CANDOUR
AWARE
FRAUD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deceitfulness, pretense
Syn:affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception,
dishonesty, display,dissembling, dissimulation, duplicity, falsity,
fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, mockery,
pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, quackery,
sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness
Ant: honesty, righteousness, sincerity, CANDOUR

THEORETICAL
AXIOMATIC
ACCURATE,IMAGINARY
CONJECTUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: guessed, assumed
Syn: academic, assumptive, casual, concocted, conditional,
conjecturable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, debatable,
disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite,
indeterminate, postulated,presumptive,
Ant: calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, proven, real,
reliable, AXIOMATIC

CONTROLLED
EMOTIONAL
RAVING, WILD
INSINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: very upset, excited

Syn:agitated, berserk, blazing, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious,
distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming,
furious, impassioned, impetuous, in a fit, incensed, irrepressible,
mad, maddened, nervous,passionate, possessed, rabid, raging,
rampant, raving,seething.
Antonyms: calm, CONTROLLED, serene

615) Ignoble

617)
Ignominy

619) Illicit

MEAN
DISHONOURABLE
FAMILIAR
TRANQUIL, WORTHY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowly, unworthy
Syn: abject, base, baseborn, coarse, common, corrupt, craven,
dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful,
dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean,
menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, poor, rotten, scurvy,
servile, shabby, shameful
Ant: dignified, grand, high, honorable, WORTHY

DISTINCTION
SHAME, INDISPOSE
LOGIC
DISHONOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offensive behavior
Synonyms: baseness, disgrace, lowness, meanness, sordidness
Antonym: DISTINCTION

LEGAL, LAWFUL
DELUSIVE
LEGITIMATE
SHAMEFUL
Def: not legal; forbidden
Syn: adulterous, bootleg, clandestine, contraband, furtive, guilty,
illegal, illegitimate, immoral.
Notes: elicit means to call forth emotions, feelings, and responses
or to bring out or draw out, while illicit means contrary to or
forbidden by law - unlawful; literally, illegitimate is 'not lawful' and
illicit is 'not allowed'
Ant: blessed, legal, legitimate, licit, LAWFUL

621) Imbecile

623) Imp

625)
Impartial

IDIOTIC
CLEAR, HERETIC
BEWITCHED
FOOL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid, foolish
Synonyms: asinine, backward, deranged, dim-witted, dull, fatuous,
feeble-minded, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, ludicrous, moronic, simple,
simple-minded, slow, thick, witless
Antonyms: brainy, intelligent, smart, CLEAR

DEMON
ROGUE
ANGEL, PEDESTRIAN
IDIOT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mischievous child, small person


Synonyms: brat, demon, devil, deviling, devilkin, elf, fiend, gamin,
gnome, gremlin, hellion, minx, pixie, puck, rascal, rogue, scamp,
sprite, troll, tyke, urchin, villain
Antonym: ANGEL

UNBIASED
SLUGGISH, ABSURD
BIASED
FAIR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: fair, unprejudiced
Syn:candid, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable,
evenhanded, impersonal, just, neutral, nondiscriminating,
nondiscriminatory, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unbigoted,
uncolored, unslanted, without favor
Antonyms: biased, discriminating, favoring, partial, prejudiced,
unfair, unjust, BIASED

627)
Impecunious

629)
Imperceptible

631)
Implicate

HARSH, POLITE
WEALTHY
POOR
FAULTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: poverty-stricken
Synonyms: beggared, destitute, dirt poor, homeless, impoverished,
indigent, insolvent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor,
strapped, unprosperous
Antonyms: moneyed, rich, WEALTHY

SUBTLE
NOTICEABLE
EXPLICIT, SOLICIT
IGNORABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hard to sense; faint
Synonyms: ephemeral, evanescent, fine, gradual, impalpable,
imponderable, inappreciable, inaudible, inconsiderable,
indiscernible, indistinct, insensible, insignificant, invisible,
microscopic, minute, momentary, shadowy, slight,
Ant: apparent, conspicuous, distinct, evident, noticeable, obvious,
perceptible, NOTICEABLE

INVOLVE
HINTED, EXTRICATE
LAZY
ENTANGLE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: imply, involve
Syn: accuse, affect, associate, blame, charge, cite, compromise,
concern, connect, embroil, entangle, frame, hint, impute, include,
incriminate, inculpate, insinuate, link, mean, mire, name, suggest,
Antonyms: defend, pardon, support, EXTRICATE

633)
Impudent

635)
Incarcerate

637)
Inclement

DISCOURTEOUS
COURTEOUS
KIND, HELPFUL
OFFENSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold, shameless
Synonyms: arrant, audacious, barefaced, blatant, boldfaced, brassy,
brazen, bumptious, contumelious, forward, fresh, immodest,
impertinent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presumptuous,
procacious, rude, unabashed, unblushing.
Antonyms: humble, modest, polite, COURTEOUS

MOBILIZE
IMPERSONATE
TREAT, LIBERATE
IMPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put in jail, confinement
Synonyms: bastille, commit, confine, constrain, coop up, detain,
hold, immure, impound, imprison, intern, jail, lock up, put away,
railroad, restrain, restrict, send up the river, settle, slough.
Antonyms: free, let go, release, LIBERATE

PLEASANT
SERENE, BEAUTIFUL
ATTRACTIVE
GLOOMY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bitter, nasty (weather)
Synonyms: brutal, cold, foul, hard, harsh, intemperate, raw,
rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stormy, tempestuous, violent,
wintry
Antonyms: clear, mild, nice, sunny, PLEASANT

REDUCTION,DEDUCTION

639)
Induction

641)
Inevitable

643)
Inflexible

PRODUCTION
CONSTRUCTION

SEDUCTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taking in, initiation
Synonyms: consecration, draft, entrance, greetings, inaugural,
inauguration, installation, instatement, institution, introduction,
investiture, ordination, selection
Antonyms: blackballing, expulsion, rejection, DEDUCTION

UNAVOIDABLE
EATABLE
UNCERTAIN,MUTILATED
HALF-BAKED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: certain; cannot be avoided
Syn: assured, binding, compulsory, decided, decreed, destined,
determined, doomed, fated, fateful, fixed, foreordained, imminent,
impending, in the bag, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable,
inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable,
Ant: avoidable, doubtful, escapable, fortuitous, preventable,
UNCERTAIN, unlikely, unsure

SOFT, TENDER
YIELDING
OBEDIENT
RIGID
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: stubborn
Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, determined, dogged, firm, fixed,
immovable, immutable, implacable, indomitable, inexorable,
intractable, iron, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, resolute, rigid,
rigorous, set, staunch, steadfast, steely, stiff, strict, stringent,
unadaptable, unbending
Ant: flexible, reasonable, willing, YIELDING

645)
Ingenuous

647) Inimical

649) Iniquity

FRANK
INSINCERE
WANDERING
ANNOY, ARTLESS
Def: honest, trustful
Syn: artless, candid, childlike, frank, guileless, innocent, naive,
natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square,
straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial,
undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated,
Notes: ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid'
or 'nave'
Antonyms: deceitful, dishonest, sly, INSINCERE

RELATED
FRIENDLY, NEUTRAL
CHEERFUL
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: antagonistic, contrary
Synonyms: adverse, antipathetic, destructive, disaffected, harmful,
hostile, hurtful, inimicable, injurious, noxious, opposed, oppugnant,
pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, unwelcoming
Antonyms: FRIENDLY, hospitable, kind

CRUELTY
INJUSTICE
EQUITABLE
INTENSITY, QUAIL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sin, evil
Synonyms: abomination, baseness, crime, evildoing, heinousness,
immorality, infamy, injustice, miscreancy, misdeed, offense,
sinfulness, unfairness, unrighteousness, wickedness, wrong.
Notes: inequity is 'injustice, unfairness'; iniquity refers to
'immorality, sin, wickedness'
Antonyms: good, goodness, virtue, EQUITABLE

651) Innocent

653) Insanity

655) Insipid

SINFUL
GUILTY, DEADLY
CORRUPTION
SINLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blameless
Syn: above suspicion, angelic, chaste, clean, cleanhanded, clear,
crimeless,exemplary,faultless, free of, good, guiltless, honest,
immaculate, impeccable, impeccant, in the clear, inculpable,
irreproachable, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit,
Antonyms: bad, blamable, corrupt, evil, GUILTY, sinful

SANITY
NORMALITY
LUCIDITY, SOBRIETY
CRAZINESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: mental illness; foolishness
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, alienation, craziness, delirium,
delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy,
hallucination, hysteria, inanity, irrationality, irresponsibility, lunacy,
madness, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unbalance,
witlessness
Antonyms: balance, SANITY, soundness, wellness

STUPID
TASTY, DISCREET
FEAST
INHALE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: dull, uninteresting
Synonyms: anemic, arid, banal, beige, bland, characterless,
colorless, commonplace, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, inane,
innocuous,jejune, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, nebbish, nothing,
ordinary, prosaic, prosy, slight, spiritless, stale,
Antonyms: exciting, exhilarating, interesting, pleasing, TASTY

BANKRUPT
INTUITION
XXXXX

WEALTHY
TRANSLATE, POOR

657) Insovent

659) Inspired

OVERWHELMED
DISPIRITED
SKEPTICAL,MOTIVATED
DISILLUSIONED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: encourage, stimulate

Syn: affect, animate, carry, cause, commove, elate, embolden,
endue, enkindle, exalt,excite,exhilarate, galvanize, hearten, imbue,
impress, infect, inflame, influence, inform, infuse, inspirit, instill,
invigorate, motivate, occasion, produce, provoke
Antonyms: discourage, dissuade, DISPIRITED

WATER-COLOUR
JOINING
NDR

661) Intaglio

CAMEO, APPENDIX
SILLY

663)
Intransigent

665) Inundate

667)
Inveterate

SURRENDERING
CORRIGIBLE,URGENT
NON-TRANSFERABLE
POROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncompromising
Synonyms: adamant, inflexible, obstinate, resolute, stubborn,
tenacious
Notes: intractable means stubborn or obstinate; intransigent is
this, but implies being more intense and refusing to compromise or
change
Antonyms: SURRENDERING

DRAIN
FLOOD, CABAL
FLOW
SWAMP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: drown, overwhelm
Synonyms: deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow,
overrun, submerge, swamp, whelm
Antonyms: DRAIN

STUPID, UNEDUCATED
IGNORANT
INEXPERIENCED
SPINELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: long-standing, established
Syn: abiding, accustomed, addicted, chronic, confirmed,
continuing, customary, enduring, entrenched, fixed, habitual,
habituated, hardened, inbred, incorrigible, incurable, indurated,
ineradicable, ingrained, innate, lifelong,obstinate, old, perennial,
permanent, persistent, persisting.
Antonyms: short-lived, INEXPERIENCED

ENRAGED,UNCIVILIZED

669) Iracible

671) Irksome

673)
Irrelevant

MODERATE
EVEN-TEMPERED

ILL-TEMPERED
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms: angry, cantankerous, crabby, cranky, huffy, ornery,
surly
Antonym: EVENTEMPERED

BORING
IRRITATING, TRAGIC
HUMOROUS
INTERESTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: annoying
Synonyms: aggravating, boring, bothersome, burdensome,
irritating, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, troubling, vexing
Antonyms: INTERESTING

IMMATERIAL
PERTINENT
UNCONNECTED
FRAGILE, BORING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beside the point
Syn: extraneous, foreign, garbage, immaterial, impertinent,
inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inappurtenant, inapropos,
inapt, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, outside,
pointless, remote, trivial, unapt, unconnected, unimportant,
unnecessary, unrelated
Ant: appropriate, necessary, PERTINENT, related,

675)
Irrepressible

677) Isolation

679) Jaded

SUBDUABLE
HOSTILE, BORE
ALLURING
UNRELIABLE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: effervescent, vivacious

Synonyms: boisterous, bubbling, buoyant, ebullient, enthusiastic,
insuppressible, rebellious,
rhapsodical,tumultous/tumultuous,unconstrained, uncontainable,
uncontrollable, unmanageable, unquenchable, unrestrainable,
unrestrained.
Ant: depressed, despondent, grave, hopeless, serious, SUBDUABLE

SECLUSION
SEGREGATION
HARDIHOOD,HARDNES
ASSOCIATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seclusion
Synonyms: aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, concealment,
confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, monkhood,
privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness,
remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, segregation, sequestration,
solitude, withdrawal
Antonym: ASSOCIATION

BARDED, DECORATED
DULLED
STIMULATED
INDIFFERENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exhausted, indifferent
Synonyms: been around, blas, bored, dulled, fagged, fatigued, had
it, mellow, sated, satiated, sick of, spent, surfeited, tired, tired-out,
up to here, wearied, weary, worn.
Antonyms: fresh, unused, STIMULATED

681) Jargon

683) Jaunty

685) Jejune

LANGUAGE
TERMINOLOGY
SLANG, SILLY
VERNACULAR
Part of Speech: noun Def: specialized language; dialect

Syn: abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk,
buzzwords, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian,
gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo
jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver,
parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole.
Antonyms: standard, LANGUAGE

SEDATE
AIRY, SPRIGHTLY
AGED
SELF-SATISFIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lively
Synonyms: airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree,
careless, cocky, dapper,dashing, debonair, devilish, easy, exhilarated,
flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, gamesome, gay, hilarious,
impetuous, impish, impudent, jocose, joking, jolly, jovial, light,
natty, nervy, perky.
Antonyms: depressed, lethargic, lifeless, SEDATE

PLENTIFUL
SCANTY, MOURN
VENOM
STICKY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: immature
Synonyms: arid, banal, barren, bland, childish, dull, empty, flat,
inane, innocuous, insipid, juvenile, meager, sterile, trite, unexciting,
vapid Antonym: PLENTIFUL

687) Jettison

689) Jocular

OVERBOARD
WASHED, DISCLOSE
SALVAGE
INEVITABLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: eject; throw overboard

Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, cashier, cast, cast off, deep-six,
discard, dump, expel, heave, hurl, maroon, reject, shed, slough,
throw away, unload
Antonyms: take in, take on, SALVAGE

HUMOROUS
PROFESSIONAL
SERIOUS, COMBINED
CHEERFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: funny, playful
Syn: amusing, blithe, camp, cheerful, comic, comical, crazy, daffy,
droll, facetious, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jesting,
jokey, joking, jolly, joshing, jovial, joyous, laughable, lighthearted,
lively, ludicrous,merry,mischievous, pleasant, roguish, sportive,
teasing, wacky,
Antonyms: morose, SERIOUS, unfunny

SAD, UNHAPPY
ALOOF

691) Jubilant

GLOOMY
ECSTATIC

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: happy
Synonyms: celebrating, doing handsprings, elated, enraptured,
euphoric, excited, exuberant, exultant, exulting, flipping, glad,
gleeful, joyous, overjoyed, pleased, rejoicing, thrilled, tickled,
triumphal, triumphant
Antonyms: depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, GLOOMY

693)
Jurisdiction

695) Juvenile

697) Kernel

INDEPENDENCE
YOUNG, NUCLEUS
HARD
AUTHORITY
Part of Speech: noun Def: area of authority

Syn: administration, arbitration, area, authority, bounds, circuit,
command, compass, confines, control, discretion, district, dominion,
empire, extent, field, influence, judicature, limits, magistracy, might,
orbit, power, prerogative, province, purview, range, reach, reign,
right, rule, Antonym: INDEPENDENCE

YOUTHFUL
CONTROL, MATURE
BLIND
JOVIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: childish
Syn: adolescent, babyish, beardless, blooming, boyish, budding,
callow, childlike, developing, formative, fresh, girlish, green,
growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior,
pubescent, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe,
unweaned.
Antonyms: adult, grown-up, MATURE

NUCLEUS, CORE
SURROUNDINGS
ANNOY
BELL-SOUND
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: seed, essence
Syn:atom, bit, center, core, crux, fruit, germ, gist, grain, heart, hub,
keynote, marrow, matter, meat, morsel, nub, nubbin, nut, part,
piece, pith, root.
Notes: a kernel is the inner and usually edible part of a seed or
grain, while a colonel is a commissioned military rank
Antonym: SURROUNDINGS

699) Kindle

701) Knotty

703) Kudos

EXTINGUISH
IGNITE
SOFT, ROUSE
EXCITE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: start a fire
Synonyms: blaze, burn, fire, flame, flare, glow, ignite, inflame, light,
set alight, set fire
Antonyms: EXTINGUISH, put out

TOUGH
EASY, CARE
QUESTION
DIFFICULT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: troublesome
Synonyms: baffling, complex, complicated, difficult, effortful,
elaborate, formidable, hard, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy,
mystifying, nodulous, perplexing, problematical, puzzling, ramified,
reticular, rough, rugged, sophisticated, terrible, thorny, tough,
tricky, uphill
Antonyms: simple, uncomplicated, EASY

PRAISE
ESTEEM, APPLAUSE
UNKIND
CRITICISM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: praise, acclaim
Synonyms: PR, applause, credit, distinction, eminence, esteem,
fame, flattery, glory, honor, illustriousness, laudation, notability,
plaudits, plum, preeminence, prestige, prominence, puff, raves,
regard, renown, repute, strokes
Antonyms: blame, CRITICISM

705)
Labyrinthine

STRAIGHTFORWARD
TORTUOUS
COMPLEX
LIGHT, ENTANGLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mazelike
Synonyms: complex, convoluted, elaborate, intricate, mazy,
meandering, serpentine, sinuous, tangled, tortuous, twisting,
wandering, winding, zigzag
Antonyms: simple, straight, STRAIGHTFORWARD

INSENSITIVITY,ARMOUR

707)
Laceration

709)
Lackadaisical

PREOCCUPATION
HEALING

PALPITATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cut, wound
Synonyms: gash, injury, lesion, pierce, rip, slash, slice, slit, stab,
tear
Antonym: HEALING

INTELLIGENT, DULL
AMBITIOUS
MONTHLY
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: careless, indifferent
Syn: abstracted, apathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy,
dull, energyless, enervated, faineant, halfhearted, idle, inattentive,
incurious, indolent, inert, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy,
lethargic, limp, listless, moony, passive
Antonyms: active, careful, caring, energetic, enthusiastic, hardworking , AMBITIOUS

HIGH, PRECURSOR
NATURAL
NO RESULTS

FOLLOWER
PRETENTIOUS

711) Ladida

713)
Lampoon

715)
Languish

RIDICULE
SATIRIZE, PIERCE
PRAISE
ENFORCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: parody, satire
Synonyms: burlesque, caricature, invective, pasquil, pasquinade,
pastiche, ridicule, roast, skit, squib, takedown, takeoff
Antonym: PRAISE

SINK
THRIVE, VISAGE
CONGEALED
WEAKEN
Part of Speech: verb Def: droop; become dull, listless

Syn: brood, conk out, decline, desire, despond, deteriorate, die on
vine, dwindle, ebb, fade, fag, fag out, fail, faint, grieve, hanker,
hunger, knock out, long, pine, repine, rot, sicken, sigh, snivel,
sorrow, suffer, tucker, waste, waste away, weaken, wilt, wither,
yearn
Antonyms: flourish, grow, improve, THRIVE

717)
Languorous

719) Latent

721)
Laudation

STILLNESS,LABORIOUS
WEAKNESS
EXHAUSTION
FRENETIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: languid
Syn: apathetic, blahs, comatose, dopey, easy, energyless, enervated,
faint, feeble, flagging, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, infirm,
leaden, leisurely, lethargic, limp, listless, lymphatic, moony, nebbish,
phlegmatic, pining, sluggish, snoozy, spiritless, supine, torpid,
Antonym: FRENETIC

HIDDEN
FORBIDDING
OBVIOUS, ARTIFICIAL
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dormant, hidden
Syn: abeyant, concealed, contained, covert, idle, immature, implied,
in abeyance, inactive, inert, inferential, inferred, inherent, intrinsic,
invisible, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, secret,
sleeping, smoldering, suppressed, tacit, torpid, underlying,
unexposed, unrealized, veiled,
Ant:active, apparent, clear, manifest, OBVIOUS

REDUCTION
PASSIVE, CRITICISM
SIMPLIFICATION
TRANSLATE, POOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: praise
Syn: acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation,
approbation, approval, boost, bravo, celebration, cheer, cheering,
citation, commendation, cry, devotion, encomium, esteem, eulogy,
exaltation, extolment, flattery, glorification, glory, homage, ovation
Antonym: CRITICISM

723) Laish??

725) Laxity

727) Leeward

STINGY
EXTRAVAGANT
GLOOM, CRUDE
WASTE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: profuse; splendid
Syn: abundant, bountiful, copious, excessive, extravagant,
exuberant, free, generous, gorgeous, grand, immoderate, impressive,
inordinate, intemperate, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, opulent,
plush, posh, prodigal, profligate, profusive, prolific, riotous,
sumptuous, thriftless,
Ant: economical, scanty, scarce, small, STINGY

HARSH, STRICTNESS
POLITE
HARDNESS
SHYNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: looseness
Synonyms: indecision, indifference, indulgence, laxness, leniency
Antonym: STRICTNESS,

WINDWARD
TOWARDS
GUARDIAN, PATRON
DOWNWARD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lee
Synonyms: calm, leeside, peaceful, protected, quiet, safe, screened,
secure, serene, sheltered, shielded, smooth, still, undisturbed
Antonyms: downwind, stormy, WINDWARD, windy

729) Lend

731)
Lethargy

HIRE, PAWN
CHEAT
BORROW
DONATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: loan, accommodate
Synonyms: add, advance, afford, allow, bestow, confer, contribute,
entrust, extend, furnish, give, grant, impart, lay on one, let, oblige,
permit, present, provide, shark, stake, supply, trust
Antonyms: BORROW

DROWNSINESS
TORPOR, TEDIOUS
VIGILANCE
LISTLESSNESS
Part of Speech: noun Def: laziness, sluggishness

Syn: apathy, coma, disinterest, disregard, drowsiness, hebetude,
heedlessness, idleness, impassivity, inaction, inanition, indifference,
indolence, inertia, inertness, insouciance,languor, lassitude,
listlessness, passiveness, phlegm, sleep
Ant: activity, busyness, energy, life, liveliness, vigor, vitality,
vivaciousness, VIGILANCE

EXEMPTION, CREDIBILITY

733) Liability

ACCOUNTABILITY
RESPONSIBILITY

ASSUMPTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: answerability, responsibility
Synonyms: accountability, accountableness, amenability,
amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability,
debt, duty, indebtedness, obligation, onus, owing, subjection,
susceptibility
Antonyms: irresponsibility, CREDIBILITY

735)
Lilliputian

737) Limpid

739) Listless

IMPROPER
DWARF, HEALTHY
SOCIALIZED
GIGANTIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tiny
Synonyms: bitsy, bitty, diminutive, dwarf, infinitesimal,
insignificant, little, microscopic, midget, mini, miniature, minikin,
minimum, minuscular, minuscule, minute, negligible, petite, pintsized, pocket, puny, pygmy, slight, teensy, teeny, trifling,
Antonym: GIGANTIC

CLEAR, STRAIGHT
TRANSPARENT
COWARD
TURBID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clear, comprehensible
Syn: bright, comprehensible, crystalline, definite, distinct, filmy,
intelligible, lucid, luculent, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, pure,
thin, translucent, transparent, transpicuous,
Notes: languid is limp or listless; limpid means clear or calm
Ant: incomprehensible, muddy, obscure, TURBID

LANGUID, APATHETIC
ACTIVE
GOBBLE
TIRED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: spiritless, without energy
Syn: absent, abstracted, apathetic, bored, careless, dormant,
dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, energyless, enervated, faint, heavy,
heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent,
inert, lackadaisical, lagging, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless,
limp, lymphatic, passive,
Ant: ACTIVE, alert, attentive, energetic, lively.

SIMILE, METAPHOR
HYPERBOLE
NDR

UNDERSTATEMENT
FLOWER

741) Litotes

743) Livid

745) Loiter

FADED
SHINING
UNDISCOLOURED
POLISHED, BLUISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pale, ashen
Synonyms: ashy, blanched, bloodless, colorless, discolored, dusky,
gloomy, greyish, grisly, leaden, lurid, murky, pallid, pasty, wan,
waxen
Notes: lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly
graphic, while livid means very angry or furious
Ant: blushing, brilliant, flushed, radiant, FADED

HURRY, BUSY
DELAY
LINGER
WANDERER
Part of Speech: verb Def: hang around; stroll

Synonyms: amble, dabble, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, drag, flag,
fritter away, halt, hover, idle, lag, linger, loaf, loll, lounge, pass time,
pause, poke, procrastinate, ramble, saunter, shamble, shuffle,
slacken, slough, tarry, trail, traipse, wait,
Antonyms: HURRY, leave, rush, vamoose

747) Loom

749)
Loquacious

751) Loved

CLEAR, BOOM
LOOSE
MALAISE
REB
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: appear, often imposingly

Syn: approach, await, brew, bulk, dawn, dominate, emanate,
emerge, figure, gather, hover, impend, impress, issue, lower, menace,
mount, near, overhang, overshadow, overtop, portend, rear, rise,
show, soar, threaten, top, tower
Antonym: CLEAR

GABBY, GARRULOUS
BITTER
LIQUID
TACITURN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: talkative
Syn: babbling, chattering, chatty, fluent, gabby, garrulous, gossipy,
jabbering, motormouth, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble,
wordy.
Note: loquacious means very talkative, full of trivial conversation;
articulate means expressing yourself easily, characterized by clear
expressive language Ant: quiet, restrained, TACITURN

REFUSED
DEFAMED
DISTRACTED
AVERTED, HATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: desired
Synonyms: adored, beloved, cherished, precious Antonym:
HATED

753) Lucid

DISTINCT, GLORY
NOISY
OBSCURE
ACCURATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evident, obvious
Synonyms: apprehensible, clear, comprehendible, comprehensible,
distinct, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable,
limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent,
transpicuous, unambiguous, unblurred, understandable
Antonyms: clouded, OBSCURE, unclear, vague

SWEET, TASTELESS
SOUR

755) Luscious

757) Luxury

BITTER
DELICIOUS

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: delicious, delectable
Syn: adorable, ambrosial, appetizing, choice, darling, delish,
deluxe, distinctive, divine, exquisite, flamboyant, flavorsome,
heavenly, honeyed, lush, luxurious, mellow, nectarious, opulent,
ornate, palatable, palatial, piquant, rich, savory, scrumptious,
succulent, sumptuous.
Antonyms: nasty, SOUR, unappetizing, unsavory

POVERTY, DUBLICITY
AUSTERITY
SADNESS
EXTRAVAGANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: great pleasure, indulgence

Syn: affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance,
extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, immoderation,
intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness,
satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat.
Antonyms: AUSTERITY, economy, frugality

759)
Machiavellia
n
761)
Magnanimou
s

763) Magnify

LEARNED
DOUBTFUL, ASIAN
RULER
NAVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scheming
Synonyms: artful, astute, calculating, conniving, contriving, crafty,
cunning, deceitful, devious, expedient, opportunist, plotting, shrewd,
sly, underhanded, unscrupulous, wily
Antonym:
NAVE

MEAN, NOBLE
SCANTY
SWALLOW
VAST
Definition: giving and kind
Syn: altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, bountiful, charitable,
considerate, forgiving, free, generous, great, handsome, kindly,
knightly, liberal, lofty, loose, munificent, noble, selfless, ungrudging.
Notes: magnanimous means noble and generous in spirit;
munificent means very liberal in giving or bestowing - very
generous - lavish
Antonyms: petty, stingy, suspicious, MEAN

INDUCE, DIMINISH
DESTROY
SHRINK
INTENSITY
Part of Speech: verb
Def: enlarge, intensify
Syn: aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, bless, boost, deepen,
dignify, dilate, distend, enhance, ennoble, eulogize, exalt, expand,
extend, glorify, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, intensate, jack up,
jump up, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, redouble, rise, rouse,
sweeten, swell
Ant: decrease, DIMINISH, lessen, weaken

765) Malady

767)
Malevolent

769) Malign

WELL-BEING
DISEASE, RETAIN
FALLACIOUS
INADEQUACY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease
Synonyms: ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, cancer,
complaint, condition, contagion, debility,
disability,disorder,distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, illness, infection,
infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus
Antonym: WELL-BEING

KINDLY, VACUOUS
AMBIVALENT
PRIMITIVE
VINDICTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hateful
Syn: baleful, catty, despiteful, dirty, evil, hellish, hostile, lousy,
malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous,
pernicious,poison,rancorous, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough,
vengeful, vicious.
Notes:while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious
usually means petty and spiteful
Ant: amiable, harmless, KINDLY, liking, loving
DENY, LETHAL
ANSWER
RESPONSE
PRAISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hurtful, injurious
Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic, bad, baleful, baneful,
deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful,
hateful, hostile, inimical, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malignant,
noxious, pernicious, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked
Antonyms: aiding, benign, helpful, nice, PRAISE

GUIDANCE, MISGUIDANCE

CONDUCTION

NO RESULTS

HAND-WRITTEN
CONVECTION
Antonyms:

771)
Manduction

773)
Manumission

LIBERTY, RELEASE
SECRET
TERMINATION
ENSLAVEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom
Synonyms: emancipation, liberation, release, rescue
Antonym: ENSLAVEMENT

REFRESHING
OVERWHELMING
NO RESULTS

775)
Marcescence

DEFEATING
WILTING, ORBITING
Antonym:

KIOSK, FORT-WALL
SLOW
NO RESULTS

MARKET
SWEET
Antonym:

777) Martlet

779)
Masticate

781)
Mawkish

CONCEAL, GOBBLE
REVIEW
REFUSE
REMEMBER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: chew
Synonyms: chomp, crunch, crush, gnash, grind, knead
Antonym: GOBBLE

CLEVER, SHREWD
INTELLIGENT
WHISH
SATIATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sentimental, emotional
Synonyms: bathetic, cloying, feeble, gooey, gushing, gushy,
maudlin, mushy, nauseating, romantic, schmaltzy, sickening, teary
Antonyms: calm, serious, unemotional, INTELLIGENT

783)
Mediocre

785)
Melancholy

787)
Mendacity

AVERAGE
CONTEMPLATE
OUTSTANDING
CONGEAL, INFERIOR
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: average, commonplace
Synonyms: characterless, colorless, common, conventional, decent,
dull, fairish, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate,
mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary,
passable, pedestrian, standard, tolerable, undistinguished,
unexceptional, uninspired,vanilla
Ant:exceptional, OUTSTANDING, superior,

CHEERFULNESS
SADNESS, MILD
MATURE
DEJECTION
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressed, sad
Syn:dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal,
dispirited, doleful, dolorous, downbeat, downcast, downhearted,
dragged, droopy,funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, joyless, lachrymose,
lugubrious, moody, moony, mournful, pensive, saddened, saddening,
somber, wistful, woebegone
Ant: cheerful, happy, joyful, CHEERFULNESS

DECEPTION, GIST
RESTORE
TRUSTFULNESS
REPAIR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insincerity
Synonyms: deceit, deception, falsehood, falsification, fraud, lie,
lying, prevarication, untruth, untruthfulness
Antonyms: sincerity, TRUSTFULNESS

789)
Meticulous

SLOVENLY
MERETRICIOUS
SHAGGY, MUTUAL
COMPLEX
Def: detailed, perfectionist
Syn: accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, exact,
fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking,
particular, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous.
Notes: meticulous first meant 'fearful' or 'timid' and now means
'exact, finicky, or precise'; scrupulous means 'conscientious or
principled'
Antonyms: careless, messy, sloppy, SLOVENLY

DESTRUCTIVE-GROWTH

791) Mildew

793) Minor

HEALTHY-GROWTH
MILL-NOISE

MORNING-DEW
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fungus
Synonyms: blight, mold, mould, must, mustiness
HEALTHY-GROWTH

Antonym:

HEAVY, TALL
MAJOR
BIG
NEGLIGIBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: insignificant, small
Synonyms: accessory, below the mark, bush-league, casual,
dependent, dinky, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inferior, junior,
lesser, light, low, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, secondary,
slight, smaller, subordinate,subsidiary, tacky, trifling, trivial,
unimportant, younger
Ant: adult, greater, large, MAJOR, significant

795)
Misdemeanou
r

797) Mitigate

799) Modesty

MISDEED, MERIT
CORRUPT
RECIPROCAL
DEMERIT
NO RESULTS

Antonym:

APPEASE, AGGRAVATE
EXCLUSION
OCCASION
DIMINISH
Part of Speech: verb Def: check, diminish, lighten

Synonyms: abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm,
dull, ease, extenuate, lessen, meet halfway, moderate, modify,
mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, reduce, relieve, remit, soften,
soothe, subdue, temper, tranquilize, weaken
Antonyms: AGGRAVATE, incite, increase, intensify, irritate,
worsen

RELEGATION
COYNESS, DECOY
OSTENTATION
PEERING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shyness
Syn: bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency,
delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness,
inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness,
unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue
Antonyms: arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego,
pride, OSTENTATION

801) Moist

803)
Momentous

DRY, CRISP
WET
BRITTLE
MUGGY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wet, wettish
Synonyms: clammy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, dripping, drippy,
drizzly, humid, irriguous, muggy, not dry, oozy, rainy, soggy, teary,
watery
Antonyms: DRY

SHORT-LIVED
HEAVY, MOMENTUM
FRIVOLOUS
TIMELY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: important; serious
Syn: big, consequential, considerable, critical, crucial, decisive,
epochal, eventful, fateful, grave, heavy, historic, material,
meaningful, memorable, notable, vital, weighty Notes: momentary
means fleeting, brief; momentous means significant and having
great consequence
Ant: immaterial, insignificant, FRIVOLOUS

BARBAROUS
UNEVENNESS
NO RESULTS

805) Monism

POSSESSION
TRANQUILLITY,DUALITY

Antonym:

807) Moot

809) Morose

811) Motile

STRICT, DIFFICULT
NOT DISPUTABLE
DISPUTABLE
ARGUABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, arguable
Synonyms: contestable, controversial, debatable, disputable,
dubious, open, problematic, questionable, suspect, uncertain,
undecided, unresolved, unsettled
Antonyms: decided, definite, proven, resolved, NOT DISPUTABLE

HARMLESS
DECENT, CHEERFUL
UNUSUAL
SULLEN
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: depressed, pessimistic
Syn: acrimonious, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish,
crabbed, crabby, cross, dolorous, dour, down, frowning, gloomy,
glum, grouchy, gruff, melancholy, moody, moping, perverse,
perversive, saturnine, snappish, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly,
taciturn, testy
Ant: CHEERFUL, friendly, optimistic, uplifted

COMPLEX
UNKNOWN
AFRAID, MORAL
IMMOBILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: movable, travelling

Synonyms: adaptable, ambulatory, changeable, fluid, free,
itinerant, liquid, locomotive, loose, migrant, migratory, motile ,
motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, peripatetic, portable,
roaming, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile, wandering
Ant:fixed, IMMOBILE, stationary, unmovable

813)
Mutinous

815) Myth

817) Nag

REBELLIOUS
HOSTILE,REGRETFUL
HARMFUL
OBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rebellious
Synonyms: anarchistic, contumacious, defiant, disloyal,
disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic,
insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, radical, rebel,
revolutionary, rioting, riotous, subversive, traitorous, treasonable,
ungovernable, unmanageable
Antonym: OBEDIENT

PARABLE
STORY, FACT
INNATE
FABLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictitious story, often ancient
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication,
fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, illusion, imagination,
invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale,
tradition
Antonyms: fact, non-fiction, truth, FACT

HARASS
ANNY, GROUCH
REST
SOOTHE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: harass, bother
Synonyms: annoy, badger, bait, berate, egg, find fault, fuss, goad,
harry, heckle, hector, hound, importune, irk, irritate, needle, pester,
pick at, plague, prod, provoke, ride, scold, tease, torment, upbraid,
urge,
Antonyms: assuage, please, SOOTHE

NASTY, FAVOURABLE
MATURE
NDR

MIGRATORY
ODOURLESS
Antonym:

819) Nascent

821) Native

823)
Nefarious

ALIEN, FOREIGNER
NEWCOMER
STRANGER
DWELLER
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: innate, inherent

Synonyms: congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional, endemic,
essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, implanted, inborn,
inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherited, instinctive, intrinsic,
inveterate, inwrought, natal, natural
Antonyms: ALIEN, foreign, outside

LACKING, IMPERIOUS
BENIGN
NEGLECTED
CRUEL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, sinful
Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, base, corrupt, degenerate,
depraved, detestable, dreadful, evil, execrable, flagitious, foul,
glaring, gross, heinous, horrible, infernal, iniquitous, monstrous,
odious, opprobrious, outrageous, perverse, putrid, rank, rotten,
shameful, treacherous, vicious, vile,
Ant: honorable, respectable, virtuous, BENIGN

825)
Neophyte

827)
Niggardly

829) Noble

VETERAN
NOVICE, UNKNOWN
NEWLY BORN
AMATEUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginner
Synonyms: abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, colt, fledgling,
freshman, greenhorn, new boy/girl, new kid on the block, newcomer,
novice, recruit, tenderfoot, trainee.
Antonym: VETERAN

PARSIMONIOUS
GENEROUS
NOURISH, NOTION
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stingy
Synonyms: chintzy, closefisted, illiberal, mean, mingy, miserly,
narrow, niggardly , parsimonious, penurious, skimpy, skinflint,
tight, ungenerous
Antonyms: GENEROUS, giving

EXALTED
HARD, COMMON
GRAND
ARISTOCRATIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dexterous, smart
Synonyms: active, adept, adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, clever,
deft, handy, light, lissome, lithe, lively, proficient, prompt, quick,
ready, skillful, sprightly, spry, swift, vigilant.
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, lumbering, slow, undexterous,
unhandy, COMMON

831) Noisome

833)
Nominate

835)
Nostalgic

SONOROUS
DISTURBING
SWEET-SMELLING
VOCIFEROUS, UNTRUE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: immoral, bad, offensive

Syn: baneful, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, disgusting, fetid, foul,
harmful, horrid, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, insalutary,
loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, mischievous, nauseating, noxious,
pernicious, poisonous, putrid, repulsive, stinking, unhealthy,
unwholesome, vile, yucky
Ant: good, moral, upright, SWEET-SMELLING

DEFINE, EXCLUSION
WITHDRAW
NEGLECT
PROPOSE
Def:designate,select
Syn: appoint, assign, call, choose, cognominate, commission, decide,
denominate, draft, elect, elevate, empower, intend, make, mean,
name,offer, present, proffer, propose, purpose, recommend, slate,
slot, specify, submit, suggest, tab, tap, tender
Note nominate means 'call the name of',while denominate means'to
give a name to'
Antonyms: ignore, pass over, WITHDRAW

WILFUL, AIRY
FORGETFUL
AMBITIOUS
LONGING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: longingly remembering

Synonyms: cornball, down memory lane, drippy, homesick, like
yesterday, lonesome, longing, mushy, regretful, sentimental, sloppy,
syrupy, wistful, yearning
Antonym: AIRY

837)
Notorious

839) Novice

841) Nuptials

UGLY, DETESTFUL
FAMOUS
INACTIVE
RENOWNED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: known for a trait, often an
Synonyms: blatant, dishonorable, disreputable, flagrant, glaring,
infamous, leading, noted, obvious, opprobrious, overt, patent,
popular, prominent, questionable, scandalous, shady, shameful,
unadmirable one belled, undisputed, wanted, wicked
Antonym: RENOWNED

PIONEER
EXPERT, OLD
ORIGINAL
ROOKIE
Part of Speech: noun Def: person just learning something

Syn: amateur, apprentice, beginner, colt, cub, fledgling, greenhorn,
gremlin, learner, neophyte, newcomer, novitiate, plebe, postulant,
prentice.
Notes: an amateur is someone who pursues a study or sport as a
pastime; a novice is someone who is new to a field or activity
Antonyms: EXPERT, professional

DIFFERENT
DIVORCE, MARRIAGE
DIVERT
WEDDING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: marriage ceremony
Synonyms: bridal, espousal, marriage, matrimony, spousal,
wedding
Antonyms: DIVORCE

843)
Obdurate

845) Obesity

847)
Objective

RECALCITRANT
OBTUSE, YIELDING
NEGLECT
OPTIMIST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: pigheaded, stubborn
Syn: adamant, bullhead, callous, cold fish, dogged, firm, fixed,
hanging tough, hard, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable,
indurate, inexorable, inflexible, iron, mean, mulish, obstinate,
perverse, relentless, rigid, tough, unbending, uncooperative,
unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible,
Ant: amenable, gentle, submissive, YIELDING

FATNESS, LEANNESS
TALLNESS
ARISTOCRACY
CORPULENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: corpulence
Synonyms: bulk, chubbiness, chunkiness, fatness, overweight,
paunchiness, plumpness, portliness, rotundness, stoutness
Antonym: LEANNESS

PERSONAL, FAMILIAR
DELETED
INTIMATE
IMPARTIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fair, impartial
Synonyms: cold, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate,
equitable, evenhanded, impersonal, judicial, just,
nondiscriminatory, nonpartisan, straight, strictly business,
unbiased, uncolored, unemotional, uninvolved, unprejudiced,
unprepossessed
Ant: partial, prejudiced, subjective, PERSONAL

849) Oblation

GIFT, OPTION
REJECTION
FEED
ACCEPTANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Eucharist offering
Synonyms: gift, offering, presentation, sacrifice Antonyms:
REJECTION

FORCE, COERCE
ACQUIT
NO RESULTS

ALLURE
CONSTRAIN

851) Obligue

853) Oblivion

FORGETFULNESS
DECEIT, CHEAT
REMEMBRANCE
DUTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental blankness
Syn: abeyance, amnesia, carelessness, disregard, forgetfulness,
inadvertence, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, neglect,
obliviousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness,
unmindfulness
Antonyms: awareness, consciousness, understanding,
FORGETFULNESS

855)
Obnoxious

857)
Obsequious

859)
Obsession

OFFENSIVE
PLEASANT, RETAIN
CONTAIN
OBVIOUS
Def: offensive, repulsive
Syn: abhorrent, abominable, annoying, awful, beastly, big mouth,
detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, foul,
hateable, hateful, heel, horrid, insufferable, invidious,
Notes: noxious means injurious to physical or mental health;
obnoxious means very offensive, objectionable, or unpleasant
Ant: agreeable, delightful, kind, PLEASANT

OBEDIENT
FUNERALS, BOLD
SEQUENCE
PROFILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: groveling, submissive
Syn: abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable,
compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning,
ingratiating, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate,respectful,servile,
slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subordinate,
subservient, sycophantic, toadying,
Ant: arrogant, BOLD, brazen, presumptuous

PASSION
COMPULSION
OCCUPATION
LIBERTY, WHIM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fixation; consumption with belief, desire

Synonyms: attraction, complex, compulsion, concrete idea, crush,
delusion, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, fetish, infatuation, mania,
must, neurosis, passion, phantom, phobia, preoccupation
Antonyms: indifference, WHIM

861)
Obstreperous

863) Obtuse

865) Occlude

UNRULY, NOISE
QUIET
PLAIN
THUNDEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: noisy
Synonyms: blusterous, boisterous, booming, clamorous, disorderly,
loud, piercing, rambunctious, riotous, rowdy, screaming, strepitous,
tumultous, unmanageable, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild
Antonym: QUIET

FAIR, SHREWD
DIFFICULT
COMPLEX
RANDOM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slow to understand
Synonyms: dense, dopey, dull*, dumb, imperceptive, insensitive,
opaque, slow on uptake, stolid, thick, uncomprehending,
unintelligent
Notes: acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of
more than 90 degrees
Antonyms: bright, intelligent, quick, SHREWD

CONCLUDE
INTRODUCE, SHUT
OPEN
OUTWARD
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: block, prevent
Synonyms: choke, clog, close, close out, congest, curb, fill, hinder,
impede, leave out, lock out, obstruct, plug, seal, shut, stop up,
stopper, throttle
Antonyms: allow, help, permit, OPEN

867) Odd

869) Odium

871) Ominous

STRANGE
SIMPLE, WISE
EVEN
WEIRD
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:unusual, abnormal
Syn: atypical, bizarre, character, crazy, curious, deviant, different,
eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fantastic, freakish, freaky, funny,
idiosyncratic, irregular, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer,
rare, remarkable, singular, strange, uncanny, uncommon,
unconventional, unique,
Ant: common, conventional, EVEN, ordinary.

HATRED, SWIFT
CONTAMINATED
CRUX
LIKING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shame, dishonor
Syn: abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, blame, blot, blur, brand,
censure, condemnation, detestation, disapproval, discredit,
disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dislike, dispprobation,
disrepute,enmity, hate, malice, obloquy, onus, opprobrium, rebuke,
reprobation, resentment, slur, spot, stain, stigma
Antonyms: approval, honor, regard, LIKING

THREATENING
PROMISING
GUEST, SENSE
SINISTER
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: menacing, foreboding
Syn: apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous,
dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful,
forbidding, gloomy, grim, hostile, impending, inhospitable, malefic,
malificent, malign, minatory, perilous, portentous, precursive,
prescient, prophetic,
Ant: auspicious, happy, lucky, PROMISING

873)
Omnipotent

POWERFUL
AUTHENTIC
GENUINE, STRONG
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all-powerful
Synonyms: almighty, divine, godlike, mighty, supreme, unlimited,
unrestricted
Notes: omnipresent means present in all places at the same time;
omniscient means infinitely wise or all-knowing; omnipotent means
having unlimited power
Antonyms: impotent, WEAK

STRAIGHTFORWARD
PLAIN

875) Onerous

877) Opaque

EASY, COMPLEX
ARDUOUS

Part of Speech: adjective


Def:difficult; require hard labor
Synonyms: arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing,
cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering,
exacting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, harsh,
intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering,
overtaxing,
Antonyms: common, EASY, light, trivial

MISTY, COVERED
CLEAR
TRANSPARENT
ABSTRUSE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: clouded, muddy

Syn: blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy,
foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless,
misty, muddied, murky, nontranslucent, nubilous, obfuscated,
shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid
Antonyms: clear, lucid, translucent, TRANSPARENT, unclouded

879)
Opponent

881)
Opportunist

883) Opposite

COLLEAGUE
FOE, RIVAL
CONTESTANT
ENEMY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person with whom one competes
Syn: adversary, antagonist, aspirant, assailant, bidder, candidate,
challenger, competitor, con, contestant, counteragent, dark horse,
disputant, dissentient, enemy, entrant, foe, litigant, match, opposer,
opposition, oppugnant, player, rival
Antonyms: ally, associate, COLLEAGUE, helper

MAN OF VISION
DETERMINED,LOOSER
MAN OF PRINCIPLE
TIMESERVER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vacillator
Synonyms: bounder, carpetbagger, ingrate, timeserver, trimmer
Antonym: MAN OF PRINCIPLE

AGREEING
CONTRARY, PLAIN
RARELY
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unlike, conflicting; completely different

Syn: adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetical,
contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, contrasted, corresponding,
counter, crosswise, diametric, fronting, hostile, inconsistent,
independent, inimical
Antonyms: compatible, like, similar, AGREEING

885)
Optimistic

887) Optional

889) Ordeal

UNFAVOURABLE
FAVOURABLE
PROMISING, ASSURED
EXPECTANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believing positively
Syn: assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident,
encouraged, expectant, happy, high, hopeful, hoping, idealistic,
merry, positive
Notes: hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means
expecting the best
Antonyms: dejected, depressed, doubtful, gloomy, hopeless,
pessimistic, UNFAVOURABLE
COMPULSORY
DESIRE, WILL
LIKING
VOLUNTARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: possible; available as choice
Synonyms: alternative, arbitrary, discretional, discretionary,
elective, extra, facultative, noncompulsory, nonobligatory, open,
unforced, unrestricted, volitional, voluntary
Antonyms: COMPULSORY, forced, required

TRIAL, TEST
DELIGHT
PROVOKE
MISERY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trouble, suffering
Synonyms: affliction, agony, anguish, calamity, calvary, cross,
crucible, difficulty, distress, nightmare, test, torment, torture, trial,
tribulation, visitation
Antonyms: happiness, pleasure, DELIGHT

VACILLATE,DESICCATE

ATTENTION
NO RESULTS

NEGLIGENCE
EMERGENCE

891)
Oscitation

893) Outstrip

895)
Overbearing

COOPERATE
COMPLETE, FOLLOW
COVER
DIVERSION
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: surpass
Synonyms: best, defeat, exceed, excel, outdo, overtake, pass, top,
transcend, win
Antonym: FOLLOW

OBSEQUIOUS
IMPRUDENT
PRUDENT, FECUND
HIGH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant, domineering
Syn: ascendant, autocratic, bossy, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful,
dogmatic, egotistic, haughty, imperative,
imperial,imperious,insolent, magisterial, officious, oppressive,
overweening, paramount, peremptory, preponderant, prevalent,
proud, regnant, sniffy, snotty, sovereign, stuffy.
Antonyms: kind, modest, nice, OBSEQUIOUS

EXCESSIVE,CONCEITED

897)
Overweening

899) Pacify

901)
Palatable

ABUNDANCE
HUMBLE

SHORTAGE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant
Synonyms: brash, cavalier, conceited, egotistical, haughty,
highhanded, insolent, lordly, pompous, presumptuous, pushy,
supercilious, vain
Antonyms: modest, unassuming, HUMBLE

INSULT, INJURE
OFFEND
AGGRAVATE
SOOTHE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: make peaceful; appease
Syn: allay, ameliorate, assuage, calm, chasten, compose, con,
conciliate, cool, dulcify, grease, moderate, mollify, pacificate,
placate, propitiate, qualify, quell, quiet, relieve, repress, silence,
soften, soothe, square, still, stroke, subdue, tame, temper, tranquilize
Antonyms: agitate, incite, irritate, OFFEND

DELICIOUS
DISTASTEFUL
PLAN, DEVICE
SAVORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: delicious, agreeable
Syn: acceptable, aperitive, appetizing, attractive, cool, copacetic,
delectable, delightful, divine, enjoyable, fair, heavenly, luscious,
mellow, peachy, pleasant, relishing, sapid, saporific, saporous,
satisfactory, savory, scrumptious, sweetened, tasteful, tasty,
tempting, toothsome
Ant: disagreeable, distasteful, DISTASTEFUL

TO AND FRO
THREAT
NO RESULTS

COVER, AREA
PARSIMONY

903)
Palladium

905) Palpitate

907) Parallel

CENSURE
CEASE, ENLIGHTEN
CROOKED
CONTINUE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: beat at a rapid pace, like a heart


Synonyms: flutter, pitpat, pitter-patter, pound, pulsate, pulse,
quiver, shiver, throb, tremble, vibrate
Antonyms: be still, CEASE

DILATED, DIAGONAL
DIVERGENT
STRAIGHT
OPPOSITE
Def (adj): aligned, side-by-side
Syn: alongside, coextending, running alongside
Antonym: crooked, separate, skewed, zigzag
Def( noun) : complement, correlation
Syn: analogy, comparison, correlate,
Antonyms: difference, divergence, opposite.
Def (verb): be alike
Syn: agree, assimilate, collimate, collocate.
Antonyms: differ, distort, diverge, DIVERGENT

909) Pariah

OUTCAST, FATHER
IDOL
OROTUND
PROLOGUE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social outcast

Synonyms: castaway, deportee, derelict, displaced person, exile,
expatriate, fugitive, leper, outsider, persona non grata, rascal,
refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif
Antonym: IDOL

FRUGALITY
SPENDING,ASSOCIATION

911)
Parsimony

Part of Speech: noun


Def: stinginess
Synonyms: frugality, meanness, miserliness, niggardliness,
providence, selfishness
Antonym: GENEROSITY

MOTHERLY
YOUNGSTER, INFANT
NO RESULTS

913)
Peternity

EXPENDITURE
GENEROSITY

OFFSPRING
ELDERLY

915)
Peccadillo

917) Peer

919) Pellucid

BLUNDER, SALOON
TAIL-LESS
CRITICAL
SUDDEN-FIGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: small fault
Synonyms: bad habit, impropriety, indiscretion, minor fault, minor
infraction, minor sin, misdemeanor, petty offense, small infraction,
venial sin, vice
Antonym:
BLUNDER

EQUIVALENT
EQUAL, CERTAIN
UNEQUAL
EXAMINE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is another's equal

Synonyms: associate, coequal, companion, compeer, like, match,
rival
Antonyms: inferior, superior, UNEQUAL

TRANSPARENT
EXTEMPORE
LIMPID, FOGGY
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clear
Synonyms: bright, comprehensible, crystalling, explicit, limpid,
luminous, plain, simple, translucent, transparent
Antonym: FOGGY

921)
Penurious

923) Percuss

925)
Peremptory

MISERLY, POOR
TIMID
OPPORTUNIST
GENEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stingy
Synonyms: avaricious, cheap, chintzy, close-fisted, costive,
curmudgeonly, economical, frugal,greedy, hoarding, miserly,
parsimonious, pennywise, pinchpenny, saving, scrimping, sparing,
thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving
Antonym: GENEROUS

CRASS, COUNTERFOIL
SIMILAR
RESEMBLING
BANG
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: strike
Syn: bang, bash, bat, batter, beat, belt, blast, blitz, buffet, bump,
clap, clip, clobber, clout, club, crack, cudgel, cuff, dab, ding, flail,
flax, flog, hook, jab, kick, knock, lace, lambaste, lather, lob, nail,
pellet, pelt, percuss, pop, pound, punch, rap, slap, smack, sock,
stone, swat, tap, thrash, thump, thwack.
Antonym: BANG

FINAL, DEBATABLE
CARRIAGE
ENDING
INTRODUCTORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overbearing, authoritative

Syn: absolute, arbitrary, assertive, autocratic, binding, bossy,
categorical, certain, commanding, decided, dictatorial, dogmatic,
domineering, final, finished, firm, fixed, imperative, imperial,
imperious, intolerant, obstinate, positive.
Ant: easy-going, indulgent, lax, DEBATABLE

927)
Perfunctory

PERFECTION
NEGLECTFUL
PERFUMED
THOROUGH,OFFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:automatic, unthinking
Synonyms: apathetic, careless, cool, cursory, disinterested, heedless,
impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical,
mechanical, negligent, offhand, routine, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly,
standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware,
Antonyms: careful, precise, THOROUGH

APOGEE, STATUS
HOSTILITY
NO RESULTS

NATIVE
OBJECTIONABLE

929) Parigee

931)
Peripatetic

MOVABLE
MOBILE, GLOBAL
MUNDANE
STATIONARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: constantly traveling
Synonyms: ambulant, itinerant, itinerate, migrant, mobile,
nomadic, perambulant, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant,
wandering, wayfaring
Antonyms: fixed, settled, STATIONARY

933)
Permissible

935)
Perpetual

937)
Perspicuity

APPROVED
PROHIBITED
LAWFUL, OFFICIAL
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: allowable, legal
Synonyms: acceptable, admissible, approved, authorized, bearable,
endorsed, lawful, legalized, legit, legitimate, licit, permitted, proper,
sanctioned, tolerable, tolerated, unforbidden, unprohibited
Antonyms: illegal, PROHIBITED, unpermissible

JUST, DISCONTINUE
MOMENTARY
ORDINARY
CONTINUING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: continual, lasting
Syn: abiding, ceaseless, constant, continued, continuous, endless,
enduring, eternal, going on, immortal, imperishable, incessant,
perennial, permanent, persistent, recurrent, recurring, reoccurring,
repeated, repeating, unchanging, undying, unending, unfailing,
Ant:, fleeting, MOMENTARY, temporary

COMPLEXITY
VAGUENESS,LUCIDITY
SMOOTHNESS
AWARENESS
Definition: clarity
Syn: accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness,
cognizability,decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness,
evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, limpidness.
Notes: perspicacity means shrewdness and applies to people;
perspicuity means easily understood and applies to things
Antonym: VAGUENESS

939) Pert

941)
Pertinent

943) Petulant

IMPUDENT, BOLD
FAVOURABLE
STUBBORN
POLITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lively, bold
Synonyms: animated, audacious, brash, brazen, breezy, bright,
brisk, dapper, daring, dashing, disrespectful, flippant, forward,
fresh, gay, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jaunty, keen, nervy,
perky, presumptuous, smart, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, wise
Antonyms: dull, humble, lifeless, POLITE

INDIFFERENT
IRRELEVANT
UNCONCERNED
AFFILIATE, RELATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: relevant, suitable
Syn: admissible, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt,
connected, fit, fitting, germane, legit, material, opportune, pat,
pertaining, proper
Notes: relevant means 'worthy of raising in the context of
discussion'; pertinent means 'applicable to the point at issue'
Ant: inappropriate, IRRELEVANTt, unsuitable

UPCOMPLAINING
PEEVISH, DECAYING
AESTHETIC
PROMINENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crabby, moody
Synonyms: captious, caviling, complaining, cross, crybaby,
displeased, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, impatient,
irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, pouting, querulous, snappish,
sour, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ungracious, waspish, whining,
whiny
Ant: good-natured, happy, UPCOMPLAINING

945)
Phlegmatic

947) Placate

COUGHING
HONOURABLE
EXCITABLE
LEARNED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unemotional
Synonyms: along for the ride, apathetic, cold, cool, deadpan,
desensitized, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, flat,
frigid, groggy, indifferent, lethargic, lifeless, listless, passionless,
passive, sluggish, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable,
unfeeling, uninvolved, unresponsive Antonym: LEARNED

APPEASE
QUIET, APPLICABLE
PLEASED
ENRAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: soothe, pacify

Synonyms: appease, assuage, calm, cheer, comfort, conciliate,
humor, make peace, mollify, pacify, play up to, pour oil on,
propitiate, reconcile, satisfy, soothe, sweeten, tranquilize, win over
Antonyms: agitate, upset, worry, ENRAGE

NEO-PLATONISM
ADVERSITY,DIRECTNESS

949)
Pleonasm

SUCCINCTNESS
OPPOSITION

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: wordiness
Synonyms: circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion,
garrulity, logorrhea, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity,
redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage,
verboseness, verbosity, windiness.
Antonym:
SUCCINCTNESS

951) Polemic

FRIENDSHIP
AGREEMENT, AMITY
COOPERATION
DELICATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: argumentative
Synonyms: belligerent, combative, contentious, contrary,
controversial, disputatious, eristic, factious, litigious, opinionated,
polemical, pugnacious, quarrelsome, salty, scrappy, spiky,
Antonym: AGREEMENT

MONOTHEISM
POLYGLOT, POLYGYNY

953)
Polygamy

955)
Portentous

POLYANDRY
MONOTONY

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: plural marriage
Synonyms: bigamy, polyandry, polygyny
POLYANDRY ???

Antonym:

ENCOURAGING
PRESERVE, FLOURISH
BLUNT
DISCOURAGING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:exciting;foreboding
Synonyms: alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, augural,
destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful,
impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous,
phenomenal, premonitory, prophetic, remarkable, suggestive,
threatening
Antonym: ENCOURAGING

957)
Precarious

959)
Precipitate

961)
Precocious

DANGEROUS
SAFE, CAUTIOUS
EASY
FAVOURITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: tricky, doubtful
Syn: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous,
delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hazardous, iffy,
impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, perilous, problematic,
risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touchy, uncertain,
unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled
Ant: certain, definite, firm, stable, SAFE

EXPEDITE, CAUTIOUS
FOREWARN
DISSOLVE
REVERSE
Defi: hurry, speed
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, cast, dispatch, expedite, fling,
further, hasten, hurl, launch, let fly, press, push forward, quicken,
throw, trigger
Notes: precipitous 'hasty, sudden and dramatic' is used in relation
to physical or natural objects; precipitate 'done with great haste'
relates to human actions or processes
Antonyms: check, slow, wait, CAUTIOUS

SENSIBLE
INTELLIGENT
RETARDED, BUSY
OVERBURDENED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exceptionally smart, ahead of age in understanding

Synonyms: advanced, aggressive, ahead of time, beforehand, bold,
brassy, bright, developed, early, flippant, forward, fresh, intelligent,
mature, nervy, premature, presumptuous, pushy, quick.
Antonyms: stupid, RETARDED

963)
Predilection

965)
Prefatory

967) Prelude

PROPOSAL, PREVIOUS
ANTAGONISM
BOISTEROUS
DIALECTICAL
Definition: inclination, preference toward something

Synonyms: bias, druthers, fancy, flash, fondness, groove, inclining,
leaning, liking, love, mindset, partiality, penchant, predisposition,
proclivity, proneness, propensity, tendency, type, weakness
Notes: a propensity is a tendency while a predilection is a
partiality
Ant: antipathy, disinterest, dislike, ANTAGONISM

CONCLUSION
IN PROGRESS
CONVINCING
SUMMARY, WISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: opening
Synonyms: beginning, initiative, introductory, preliminary
Antonym: CONCLUSION

AFTERMATH
CONCLUSION
CRUX, TRAGIC
ESSENTIAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning of event

Synonyms: commencement, exordium, foreword, intro,
introduction, overture, preamble, preface, preliminary, prelusion,
preparation, proem, prolegomenon, prologue.
Antonyms: ending, epilogue, postlude, AFTERMATH

969)
Preposterous

LUDICROUS
MONSTROUS, TIMID
REASONABLE
UNREASONABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ridiculous, bizarre

Syn: absurd, asinine, crazy, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant,
extreme, fantastic, foolish, impossible, incredible, insane, irrational,
laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, outrageous, senseless,
shocking, silly
Antonyms: REASONABLE, sensible

HUMILITY, FORWARDNESS

971)
Presumption

973)
Prevalent

RESERVATION
FRANKNESS

DETERMINATION
Part of Speech: noun
Def: belief, hypothesis
Synonyms: anticipation, apriorism, assumption, basis, chance,
conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, plausibility, posit,
postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, probability, reason,
shot, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis
Antonyms: reality, truth, HUMILITY

COMMON
EXTENSIVE, SCARCE
FASHION
ANCIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: accepted, widespread
Syn: accustomed, common, commonplace, current, customary,
established, everyday, extensive, faddy, frequent, general, habitual,
latest, natural, new, normal, ongoing, popular, prevailing, rampant,
regnant, regular, rife, stylish, swinging, trendy, typic, typical,
ubiquitous, universal, wonted
Antonyms: isolated, limited, SCARCE

975) Prim

977) Prissy

979) Probity

RATIONAL, PRUDISH
CORRECT
FORMAL
INFORMAL
Part of Speech: adjective Def: particular, fussy

Syn: ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional,
correct, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, nice,
orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper,
prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spruce, stickling, stiff,
straight, stuffy, tidy.
Antonyms: INFORMAL, rumpled

PROPER
PURITANICAL
CASUAL, GREAT
NORMAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: particular and fussy

Syn: epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, overnice, pansified,
persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish,
puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, stuffy.
Antonyms: informal, unconcerned , CASUAL

CORRUPTIBILITY
SEARCH, CAUTION
DIFFICULTY
CHANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fairness, honesty
Synonyms: equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice,
morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, sincerity,
trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth
Antonyms: deceit, dishonesty, unfairness, CORRUPTIBILITY

981)
Procrastinati
on

983)
Prodigious

985) Progress

DEFERMENT
INVITE, CANCEL
NDR

PROMPTNESS
SHYNESS

ENORMOUS
STUPENDOUS
EXTENT, DIFFICULT
TRIVIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: huge, enormous
Syn: big, fantastic, giant, gigantic, gross, immeasurable, immense,
inordinate, jumbo, large, mammoth, massive, mighty, monstrous,
monumental, mortal, stupendous, towering, tremendous, vast
Antonyms: little, small, tiny, TRIVIAL

REVERSION, ADVANCE
MOVEMENT
SILENCE
CONFORMITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: advancement, gain

Syn: advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break,
breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution,
evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus,
improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march,
Ant: decrease, deterioration, REVERSION

987) Prohibit

ACCEPT, PERMIT
AGREE
GRANT
FORBID
Part of Speech: verb Def: make impossible; stop

Syn: ban, block, constrain, cork, debar, disallow, enjoin, forbid,
forfend, gridlock, halt, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, interdict,
kill, nix, obstruct, outlaw, pass on, preclude, prevent, proscribe,
restrain, restrict, veto, zing
Antonyms: allow, favor, PERMIT, push

989) Prolong

CONTRACT
QUICKEN, SHORTEN
ACCELERATE
EXTEND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: extend, draw out
Synonyms: carry on, continue, delay, drag out, hold, hold up,
increase, lengthen, make longer, pad, perpetuate, protract, spin out,
stall, stretch. Antonyms: abbreviate, SHORTEN

991)
Promiscuous

INDISCRIMINATE
SELECTIVE, SHARP
PERPLEX
ALTERNATIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indiscriminately sexually active
Synonyms: abandoned, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, immoral,
indiscriminate, lax, libertine, licentious, oversexed, profligate,
pushover, unbridled, unchaste, undiscriminating, unrestricted,
wanton, wild
Antonyms: chaste, cold, cool, frigid, SELECTIVE

993)
Prophylactic

995)
Propitious

997) Prosaic

CAUSING DISEASE
CAUSING HEALTH
DANGEROUS
USEFUL, DIVINE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: protective
Synonyms: contraceptive, preventative, preventive Antonym:
CAUSING DISEASE

FAVOURABLE
UNFAVOURABLE
TIMELY, IMPORTANT
VITAL
Part of Speech: adjective Def: full of promise; favorable

Syn: advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, brave, bright,
dexter, encouraging, favoring, fortunate, happy, hopeful, lucky,
opportune, pat, promising, prosperous, rosy, seasonable, timely,
Notes: auspicious implies success in the future while propitious
means favorable conditions are present; Ant: inauspicious,
UNFAVOURABLE

IMAGINATIVE
REAL, PICTURE
BORING
EXALTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unimaginative
Syn: actual, banal, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace,
diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, hackneyed, irksome,
lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, monotonous, mundane,
nothing, ordinary, platitudinous, practicable, practical, prose, prosy,
routine,
Ant: creative, IMAGINATIVE, interesting.

999) Protean

1001)
Prototype

1003) Provide

AMATEUR, CATHOLIC
UNCHANGING
RAPID
UNFAVOURABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: versatile
Synonyms: able, accomplished, adaptable, adroit, ambidextrous,
conversant, dexterous, elastic, facile, functional, gifted, handy,
ingenuous, many-sided, mobile, multifaceted, plastic, pliable,
puttylike, ready, resourceful, skilled, skillful, talented, variable,
varied, various
Antonym: UNCHANGING

FAVOUR
CANVASS, REPEAT
DUPLICATE
OUTLANDISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: original, example
Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, archetype, criterion,
first, forerunner, ideal, mock-up, model, norm, paradigm, pattern,
precedent, precursor, predecessor, standard, type

OFFER, DELIVER
ASSIST
SUPPLY
DEPRIVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: supply, support
Synonyms: accommodate, add, administer, afford, arrange, bestow,
bring, care, cater, contribute, dispense, equip, favor, feather, feed,
fit, fit out, fix up, fix up with, furnish, give, grant, hand over, heel,
impart, implement, indulge, keep, lend, line, look after, maintain,
minister, outfit, prepare, present, procure, produce, proffer,
provision, ration, ready, render, replenish, serve, stake, stock, stock
up, store, sustain, take care of, transfer, turn out, yield
Antonyms: deprive, remove, take

1005)
Provincial

1007)
Proximity

1009) Prudish

SOPHISTICATED
OFFICIAL
PAROCHIAL
PRIVATE, NARROW
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: countrified; limited
Synonyms: bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown,
homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded,
parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, smallminded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated
Antonyms: citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern

QUICK, REMOTENESS
SLOWLY
LAZY
KINSHIP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nearness to something
Synonyms: adjacency, appropinquity, closeness, concurrence,
contiguity, contiguousness, immediacy, juxtaposition, propinquity,
togetherness
Antonyms: distance, remoteness

PRISSY, PRIM
FORMAL
MORAL
TOLERANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy and strict in behavior
Synonyms: Victorian, affected, artificial, austere, bigoted,
conventional, demure, fastidious, finicky*, genteel, illiberal,
mincing, narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest,
overnice, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, proper,
puritanical, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, severe, simpering, square,
squeamish, starchy, stern, stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight*
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound
judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in
speech, conduct or dress
Antonyms: bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing

1011) Pudgy

1013)
Pugnacious

1015)
Pulchritude

CHUBBY, THIN
PLUMP
MENTAL
DIFFICULT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slightly fat
Synonyms: chubby, hefty, plump, plumpish, rotund, round, stout,
thick-bodied, tubby
Antonyms: skinny, slight, thin

HOSTILE
PATIVE
AGGRESSIVE
PUNCHING, PACIFIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: belligerent
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, bellicose,
brawling, cantankerous, chip on shoulder, choleric, combative,
contentious, defiant, disputatious, have a bone to pick, hottempered, irascible, irritable, itching to fight, militant, petulant,
pushing, pushy*, quarrelsome, ready to fight, rebellious, salty,
scrappy, self-assertive, truculent, warlike
Antonyms: easy-going, kind, laid-back, nice
BEAUTY
BEHAVIOUR
DISCIPLINE,UGLINESS
FAIRESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beauty
Synonyms: adorableness, allure, allurement, attraction, elegance,
exquisiteness, glamor, good looks, handsomeness, loveliness,
physical attractiveness, prettiness, shapeliness

1017)
Pungent

1019)
Pusillanimity

1021) Pushy

SPICY, MILD
CRAZY
IRREGULAR
STRAIGHT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: highly flavored
Synonyms: acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, effluvious, hot, nosey,
odoriferous, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned,
sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking, strong, tangy, tart,
whiffy, zesty
Notes: having a sharp taste is pungent and having a pleasingly
sharp taste is piquant; pungent first meant 'keenly painful or
distressing'
Antonyms: blah, bland, dull, flavorless, tasteless
MAGNANIMITY
TIMIDITY, BLUNT
RESTORE
LOVE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cowardice
Synonyms: chickenheartedness, cold feet, cowardliness, cravenness,
dastardliness, faint-heartedness, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness,
funk, gutlessness, mousiness, unmanliness, wimpiness

SUBMISSIVE
AGGRESSIVE
BOSSY, RUDE
MILITANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, offensive
Synonyms: ambitious, assertive, bold, brash, bumptious, forceful,
loud, militant, obnoxious, obtrusive, officious, presumptuous,
pushful, pushing, self-assertive
Antonyms: modest, quiet, shy, unassuming

1023) Putrefy

1025)
Quandary

1027) Queasy

DECAY, DRIFT
PRESERVE
MYSTIFY
SPOIL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rot
Synonyms: break down, corrupt, crumble, decay, decompose,
deteriorate, disintegrate, go bad, molder, putresce, spoil, stink, taint,
turn

DIFFICULTY
DILEMMA
CONFIDENCE
GULL, PLIGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delicate situation
Synonyms: Catch-22, bewilderment, bind, clutch, corner*,
difficulty, dilemma, double trouble, doubt, embarrassment, hangup, impasse, mire, perplexity, pickle, plight, predicament, puzzle,
spot*, strait, uncertainty, up a tree
Antonyms: advantage, certainty, solution

QUEER
SQUEAMISH
EASY, DIFFICULT
VOMIT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not feeling well; not comfortable


Synonyms: anxious, bilious, concerned, fidgety, green around gills,
groggy, ill, ill at ease, indisposed, nauseated, pukish, qualmish,
queer, restless, rocky, sick, sick as a dog, sickly, squeamish, troubled,
uncertain, uncomfortable, under the weather, uneasy, unwell, upset,
worried
Antonyms: comfortable, healthy, satisfied

1029)
Querulous

1031)
Quiescent

1033) Rabid

COMPLAINING
CONTENDED
ALLAY, LITIGIOUS
QUITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grouchy, hard to please

Synonyms: bearish, bemoaning, cantankerous, captious, carping,
censorious, complaining, critical, cross, crying, deploring,
discontented, dissatisfied, edgy, fault-finding, fretful, grousing,
grumbling, grumbly, huffy irascible, irritable, lamenting, out of
sorts peevish, petulant, plaintive, scrappy, snappy, sour, testy, thinskinned touchy, uptight, wailing, waspish, waspy, whimpering,
whining, whiny
Antonyms: cheerful, easy-going, happy
QUIET, DEPARTURE
TURBULENT
QUARTERLY
ODOROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inactive

Synonyms: asleep, at rest, deactivated, dormant, fallow, idle,
immobile, in abeyance, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive,
quiet, slumbering, stagnant, still
Antonyms: active

MAD, ALLIED
SANE
PARDON
WISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very angry; maniacal
Synonyms: berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy,
delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical,
fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic,
frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant,
irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed,
overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling,
smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous
Antonyms: delighted, happy, pleased
* = informal/non-formal usage

CONTINUAL, HARD
DURABLE
NO RESULTS

STURDY
EASY

1035)
Ramshakle

1037)
Ratification

1039)
Receded

NEGATION
CONSTRAINT, LACK
DISTRUST
ACCEPTANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: acceptance
Synonyms: approval, authorization, confirmation, enactment,
permission, sanction

BLOOMED,ADVANCED
INCREASED
DIMINISHED
REBUILT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: withdraw; diminish
Synonyms: abate, back, close, decline, decrease, depart, die off,
diminish, drain away, draw back, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall
back, flow back, go away, go back, lessen, reduce, regress, retire,
retract, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return, shrink,
sink, subside, taper, wane
Antonyms: advance, forge, forward, increase

1041)
Reckless

1043)
Recreant

1045)
Rectitude

HEEDLESS, CARELESS
CAUTIOUS
DEPRAVE
RASH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irresponsible in thought, deed
Synonyms: adventuresome, adventurous, any which way,
audacious, brash, breakneck, carefree, careless, daredevil, daring,
desperate, devil-may-care, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy,
harebrained, hasty, headlong, heedless, helter-skelter, hopeless,
hotheaded, ill-advised, imprudent, inattentive, incautious,
inconsiderate, indiscreet, kooky, madcap, mindless, negligent,
overventuresome, playing with fire, precipitate, rash, regardless,
temerarious, thoughtless, uncareful, venturesome, venturous, wild
Notes: feckless means ineffective or having no real worth or
RECENT,reckless
LATE means marked by
LOYAL
purpose;
unthinking boldness or with
defiant
disregard for danger or consequences
MISCREANT
HALF-CREATED
rash
(the
adjective)
suggests imprudence and lack of forethought;
Part of
Speech:
adjective
reckless
implies
disregard
ofpossible
Definition: cowardly
consequences

Antonyms:
cautious,arrant,
responsible,
wary
Synonyms: careful,
afraid, apostate,
base, cowering,
craven,
dastardly, defecting, disloyal, faithless, false, falsehearted, fearful,
frightened, gutless, hesitant, low, mean-spirited, perfidious,
pigeonhearted, scared, skulking, sneaking, spiritless, timid,
timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, unmanly, vile, yellow*,
yielding
Antonyms: brave, courageous, loyal
FIRMNESS
DECEPTION
SMOOTHNESS
ATHEISM, REALITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uprightness
Synonyms: decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, probity,
righteousness, virtue
Antonyms: dishonesty, infamy

1047) Refrain

1049)
Releases

1051)
Relinquish

REACT, FEIGN
AVOID
BURDEN
INDULGENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chorus of musical piece
Synonyms: burden, melody, music, song, strain, theme, tune,
undersong
Notes: refrain means to choose not to do something or partake of
something; restrain means to immobilize by force or to forbid an
action

LIBERATES
CLOSES, CONFINES
PROVIDES
STRENGTHENS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delivery; dispensation
Synonyms: absolution, acquittal, acquittance, charge, clemency,
commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption,
exoneration, floater, freedom, freeing, let-off, liberation, liberty,
lifeboat, lifesaver, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, walkout
Antonyms: check, collection, gathering, hold

KEEP, POSSESS
CLAIM
PERSIST
STICK
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up, let go
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast, cast off,
cede, cut loose, desert, discard, ditch*, drop, drop like hot potato,
drop out, dump*, forbear, forgo, forsake, forswear, hand over, kick,
kiss good-bye, lay aside, leave, opt out, quit, quit cold turkey,
release, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire from, sacrifice, shed,
stand down, surrender, swear off, take the oath, take the pledge,
vacate, waive, withdraw, yield
Antonyms: hold, keep, take

UNGREATFUL
WRETCHED,ARROGANT

1053)
Remorseful

1055)
Renown

1057) Repress

UNREPLENTENT
SHAMELESS

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: guilty, ashamed
Synonyms: apologetic, attritional, chastened, compunctious,
conscience-stricken, contrite, guilt-ridden, mournful, penitent,
penitential, regretful, repentant, rueful, sad, self-reproachful,
sorrowful, sorry
Antonyms: callous, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, unashamed,
unmerciful

STARDOM, REMODEL
CELEBRATED
EMINENCE
ANONYMITY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fame
Synonyms: acclaim, celebrity, distinction, eminence, glory, honor,
illustriousness, kudos, luster, mark, note, notoriety, preeminence,
prestige, prominence, prominency, rep, reputation, repute, stardom,
clat
Antonyms: anonymity, obscurity, unimportance

QUELL, CRUSH
CENSURE
RAISE
SUPPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep back, hold in
Synonyms: black out, bottle, chasten, check, collect, compose,
control, cool*, cork, crush, curb, gridlock, hinder, hold back, inhibit,
jam up, keep in, keep in check, keep under wraps, kill*, lock,
master, muffle, overcome, overpower, quash, quelch, quell, rein,
restrain, shush, silence, simmer down, smother, squelch, stifle,
subdue, subjugate, suppress, swallow, throw cold water on, tie up
Antonyms: allow, let go, permit

1059)
Reprisal

1061)
Repugnance

1063)
Reserved

EXEMPTION
FORGIVENESS
FORGET, PARDON
REVENGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: revenge
Synonyms: avengement, avenging, counterblow, counterstroke, eye
for an eye, paying back, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance
Antonyms: kindness, sympathy

REBUKE, RE-CAST
COMPATIBLE
NUANCE
OGRE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aversion
Synonyms: abhorrence, antipathy, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred,
hostility, objection, revulsion

LIKEABLE, TALKATIVE
POPULAR
COMPANIONABLE
TACITURN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep, hold back
Synonyms: conserve, defer, delay, duck*, have, hoard, hold, keep
back, keep out, lay up, maintain, plant, possess, postpone, preserve,
put away, put by, put off, retain, save, set aside, squirrel, squirrel
away, stash, stockpile, store, store up, stow away, withhold
Antonyms: distribute, give, let go, offer

1065)
Resilient

1067) Restive

UNYIELDING
FLEXIBLE, TIMID
PLIABLE
IRREPRESSIBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bouncy, flexible
Synonyms: airy, buoyant, effervescent, elastic, expansive, hardy,
irrepressible, plastic, pliable, quick to recover, rebounding, rolling
with punches, rubbery, snapping back, springy, stretchy, strong,
supple, tough, volatile
Antonyms: hard, inflexible, rigid, stiff

PLACID, WAYWARD
IMPATIENT
DEPENDANT
MOTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: impatient, nervous
Synonyms: agitated, balky, contrary, edgy, fidgety, fractious,
fretful, froward, ill at ease, jittery, jumpy, nervy, obstinate, on edge,
ornery*, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, restless, stubborn, tense,
uneasy, unruly, unyielding, uptight
Notes: restive means impatient or fidgety under pressure or
restraint; restless is being uneasy, unquiet, or unable to relax or rest
Antonyms: calm, collected, patient, relaxed
REVIVE, EXHAUST
EXAMINE
NO RESULTS

1069)
Resusciate

DEFEND
RELAXED

RETAINABLE, GRASP
SPOILED
AMAZING
FORGETFUL
NDR

1071)
Retentive

1073) Retract

1075)
Retrogressive

CONFIRM, WITHDRAW
RETREAT
RECALL
DISOBEY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take back; renege on

Synonyms: abjure, back, back down, back off, back out of, call off,
cancel, change one's mind, countermand, deny, disavow, disclaim,
disown, draw in, eat one's words, eliminate, exclude, fall back,
forget it, forswear, go back on, have change of heart, nig, pull back,
pull in, recall, recant, recede, reel in, renege, renounce, repeal,
repudiate, rescind, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, reverse, revoke,
rule out, sheathe, suspend, take back, take in, unsay, welsh,
withdraw
PROGRESSIVE
ADVANCING
Notes:
recant means to formally reject
or disavow a formerly held
belief, while retract means to takeFORWARDING,BACKWARD
back or to draw back or in
FURTHERING
Antonyms:
corroborate,
Part of Speech:
adjectiveemphasize, reaffirm, repeat
Definition: backward
Synonyms: astern, behind, inverted, rearward, regressive,
retrograde

1077) Revere

1079) Revile

1081) Rigid

AWAKENING
PROGRESS, RESPECT
EPOCH
DISHONOUR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: have a high opinion of
Synonyms: admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, be in awe of,
cherish, defer to, deify, enjoy, esteem, exalt, hold in awe, honor, look
up to, love, magnify, pay homage, prize, put on pedestal, regard,
respect, think highly of, treasure, value, venerate, worship
Antonyms: despise, disregard

PRAISE, INSULT
SCOLD
DISPARAGE
LAMBASTE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: scold
Synonyms: abuse, admonish, berate, blame, castigate, censure,
chide, criticize, denigrate, denounce, disparage, give a talking to,
lambaste, lay down the law, lecture, rake over the coals, ream,
reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, scorn, tongue-lash, vilify,
vituperate

FLEXIBLE
SOFT, BRITTLE
SILKY
STIFF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stiff, strict, severe
Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, austere, bullheaded, changeless,
chiseled, dead set, definite, determined, exact, firm, fixed, hard,
hard-line, harsh, incompliant, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible,
intransigent, invariable, locked in, obdurate, rigorous, set, set in
stone, single-minded, solid, static, stern, strait-laced, stringent,
tough nut to crack, unalterable, unbending, unbreakable,
unchanging, uncompromising, undeviating, unmoving,
unpermissive, unrelenting, unyielding
Antonyms: bending, flexible, lenient, limber, pliable, pliant, soft,
yielding

EXACTLY,COMPLETELY

1083)
Roughly

1085)
Rotundity

1087) Rubble

POINTEDLY
COARSELY

LARGELY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: about
Synonyms: approximately, around, in the ball park, in the
neighborhood, more or less, practically, pretty near, somewhere
around

PLUMP, HEALTH
CHARMING
FATNESS
SLIMNESS
Synonyms:
-nouns
rotundity; roundness; cylindricity; sphericity, spheroidity;
globosity., cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll,
roller; rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle., cone, conoid; pear
shape, egg shape, bell shape., sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder;
spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid; drop,
spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill,
marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution).
-verbs
render spherical; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a ball; give
UNBROKEN
STONE
GARBAGE
rotundity; round.
FAIR SKIN
UGLY LOOK, GUILT
-adjectives
rotund;
round (circular);
cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid;
Part
of Speech:
noun
columnar,
lumbriciform;
conic,
spheroidal;
Definition: remains conical;
spherical,

globular,
globated,
globous,fill,
globose;
Synonyms:
brash, debris,
scree egg shaped, bell shaped, pear
shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform; campaniform,
campanulate, campaniliform; fungiform, bead-like, moniliform,
pyriform, bulbous; tres atque rotundus; round as an orange, round
as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a
cannon ball.

1089) Ruddy

1091)
Rudimentary

1093)
Rupture

WAN, HEALTHY
BEAUTIFUL
IMAGINATIVE
POWERFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pinkish, blushing
Synonyms: blooming, blowsy, bronzed, crimson, florid, flush,
flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, redcomplexioned, reddish, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, sanguine,
scarlet
Antonyms: pale

DEVELOPED
QUIESCENT
ELEMENTARY
BASIC, CRUDE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: basic, fundamental
Synonyms: abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental,
elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, larval, nutsand-bolts, primary, primitive, simple, simplest, uncompleted,
undeveloped, vestigial
Antonyms: additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra,
nonessential

UNITE, SPLIT
CRACK
FISSURE
DESPAIR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, split
Synonyms: breach, burst, cleavage, cleft, crack, division, fissure,
fracture, hernia, herniation, parting, rent, schism, tear
Antonyms: closing, closure

1095)
Ruthless

1097)
Sacrilegious

COLD, BRUTAL
USELESS
MERCIFUL
UNFEELING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mean, heartless
Synonyms: adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded,
cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard,
hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, ironfisted,
killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, rancorous,
relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern,
stony, surly, unappeasable, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful,
unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, without
pity
Antonyms: compassionate, considerate, gentle, giving, kind, nice,
PIOUS
IMPIOUS, PROFANE
sympathetic
UNHOLY
DANGEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: profane
Synonyms: atheistic, blasphemous, desecrating, dirty*, filthy*, foul,
godless, heathen, impious, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent,
irreverential, obscene, pagan, sinful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy,
violating

CRUEL
GLOOMY

1099) Sadistic

SEVERE, NASTY
HAPPINESS

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: cruel, perverted
Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fiendish, perverse, ruthless, vicious
Antonyms: humane, kind, merciful

1101)
Sagacious

1103)
Salacious

1105) Salient

WISE, SHREWD
SMART
HARMLESS
STUPID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: smart, judicious
Synonyms: acute, apt, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted,
clever, cool*, discerning, discriminating, far-sighted, foxy*, gnostic,
heady, hip*, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, knowledgeable,
perceptive, perspicacious, prudent, rational, sage, sapient, savvy*,
sensible, sharp, shrewd, smooth, sophic, wise, witty
Antonyms: careless, foolish, ignorant, stupid

FRIGID, LUSTFUL
LECHEROUS
SUCCEED
SYMPATHETIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lascivious
Synonyms: bawdy, carnal, erotic, fast*, horny, hot*, indecent,
lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lubricious, lustful,
nasty, obscene, orgiastic, prurient, raunchy, sensual, smutty, steamy,
suggestive, voluptuous, wanton
Notes: salacious means characterized by lust or suggestive of or
tending to moral looseness, while salubrious means favorable to
health or promoting health
INSIGNIFICANT
CLIMATIC
WORRISOME
AWESOME, RADICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: noticeable, important
Synonyms: arresting, arrestive, conspicuous, famous, impressive,
intrusive, jutting, marked, moving, notable, obtrusive, obvious,
outstanding, pertinent, projecting, prominent, pronounced,
protruding, remarkable, signal, significant, striking, weighty
Antonyms: inconspicuous, unimportant, unnoticeable

1107)
Saltation

1109) Salvage

1111)
Sanctimoniou
s

PUNGENT, SWEET
GREETING
NDR

CHANGELESS
ODDITY

Part of Speech: verb


Definition: save, rescue
Synonyms: deliver, get back, glean, ransom, reclaim, recover,
redeem, regain, restore, retrieve, salve
Antonyms: endanger, harm, hurt, injure, lose, waste

PREACHY, PIOUS
HYPOCRITICAL
UNCTUOUS
DETESTFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: self-righteous
Synonyms: Pecksniffian, bigoted, canting, deceiving, false, goodygoody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, pharisaical,
pietistic, pious, preachy, self-satisfied, smug, stuffy, unctuous
Antonyms: humble, meek, modest

1113)
Sarcastic

1115) Satiety

1117) Scarcity

INSULTING
MILD, HAPPY
MOCKING
PLEASANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, mocking in speech
Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere,
backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic,
chaffing, contemptuous, contumelious, corrosive, cussed, cutting,
cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil,
hostile, irascible, ironical, mean, mordant, needling, offensive,
ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful,
scurrilous, severe, sharp, smart-alecky, snarling, sneering, taunting,
trenchant, twitting, weisenheiming
Notes: sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while
COOLNESS,
PLEASURE
sardonic
means
'bitterly scornful, EMPTINESS
cynically disdainful'
Antonyms:
WARMTH kind, nice
CONFUSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: satiation
Synonyms: engorgement, feeding, filling, glut, gratification,
indulgence, overfilling, repletion, saturation, slaking, surfeit

DEFICIENCY
DESSERT, AVIDITY
DECLENSION
PLETHORA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deficiency
Synonyms: dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy,
infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness,
shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want
Antonyms: abundance, commonness, excess, surplus

1119) Scoff

1121) Scowl

1123)
Scurrility

SNEER, SOOTHE
RESPECT
ASSIST
SUPPORT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make fun of; despise
Synonyms: belittle, boo, contemn, deride, dig at, disbelieve,
discount, discredit, disdain, flout, gibe, jeer, knock*, laugh at, make
light of, mock, pan, poke fun at, pooh-pooh, rag, rally, reject, revile,
ride, ridicule, scorn, show contempt, sneer, tease
Antonyms: be nice, praise

FROWN, SMILE
ATTACK
DISCOURAGE
ENCOURAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: frown
Synonyms: black look, dirty look, evil eye, glower, grimace
Antonyms: grin, smile

VITUPERATION
POLITENESS
BRIGHT, PHYSICAL
RUDENESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obscenity
Synonyms: X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness,
blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word,
evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty,
impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness,
licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography,
profaneness, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrilousness,
sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness,
vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong

1125) Secular

1127)
Sedentary

1129) Seldom

RELIGIOUS, ATHEIST
COMMUNIST
CAPITALIST
MUNDANE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not spiritual or religious
Synonyms: civil, earthly, laic, laical, lay, material, materialistic,
nonclerical, nonreligious, of this world, profane, temporal,
unsacred, worldly
Notes: sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect
or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or
to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature
Antonyms: godly, holy, religious, spiritual
MIGRATORY
SETTLED, PREYING
INQUISITIVE
SMUG
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: motionless, lazy
Synonyms: desk, desk-bound, idle, inactive, seated, settled, sitting,
sluggish, stationary, torpid
Antonyms: activated, active, energetic, mobile, moving

RARELY, DAILY
OFTEN
NEVER
SCARCELY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: infrequently
Synonyms: a few times, every now and then, from time to time,
hardly, hardly ever, in a few cases, inhabitually, irregularly, little,
not often, not very often, occasionally, on and off, once in a blue
moon, once in a while, rarely, scarcely, scarcely ever,
semioccasionally, sometimes, sporadically, uncommonly, unoften,
unusually, whimsically
Antonyms: frequently, often, usually

1131) Senility

1133) Serene

1135) Shrewd

YOUTH, CONFUSION
PUNCTUALITY
FEEBLENESS
OLD AGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: old age
Synonyms: age, anility, decline, dotage, feebleness, second
childhood, senectitude, senescence
Antonyms: adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth

IMPURE, AGITATED
SHOWY
COMPLICATED
CALMNESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: calm, undisturbed
Synonyms: at peace, clear, collected, comfortable, composed,
content, cool as a cucumber, cool*, dispassionate, easy, easygoing,
fair, halcyon, imperturbable, laid-back*, limpid, patient, peaceful,
pellucid, phlegmatic, placid, poised, quiescent, quiet, reconciled,
resting, satisfied, sedate, self-possessed, smooth, still, stoical,
tranquil, unflappable, unruffled, untroubled
Antonyms: agitated, disturbed, excited, troubled
TURBID
NAVE, MUFFLED
MUMDANE
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, intelligent
Synonyms: acute, argute, artful, astucious, astute, brainy, cagey,
calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, cutting*, deep*, discerning,
discriminating, farsighted, foxy*, heady, in the know, ingenious,
inside, judicious, keen, knowing, on the inside, on top of,
penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, piercing, probing, profound,
prudent, quick-witted, sagacious, savvy*, sensible, shark, sharp,
slick*, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, streetwise, tricky, underhand,
up on, wily, wise, wised up
Antonyms: foolish, frivolous, naive, stupid, unthinking

1137) Shy

1139)
Simulated

1141)
Sluggish

BOLD, IMPUDENT
COURAGEOUS
OUTSPOKEN
BASHFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: quiet and self-conscious
Synonyms: afraid, apprehensive, averse, backward, bashful,
cautious, chary, circumspect, conscious, coy, demure, diffident,
disinclined, distrustful, fearful, hesitant, humble, indisposed,
introvert, introverted, loath, loner, modest, nervous, recessive,
reluctant, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-effacing, shamefaced,
sheepish, shrinking, skittish, suspicious, timid, unassertive,
unassured, uneager, uneffusive, unresponsive, unsocial, unwilling,
wary
Antonyms: confident, extroverted, unashamed, unreserved, unshy
FEIGN
GENUINE, WIRE
IMITATE
SEPARATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend, imitate
Synonyms: act, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, borrow, cheat,
concoct, copy, counterfeit, crib*, deceive, disguise, dissemble, do, do
a take-off, do like, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, favor,
feature, feign, fence, gloss over, invent, knock off, lie, lift, make
believe, mimic, mirror, misrepresent, phony, pirate, play, playact,
pose, prevaricate, put on an act, put on*, replicate, reproduce,
resemble, steal
Antonyms: be real
QUICK, SHARP
ALERT
VIGILANT
LISTLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, slow-moving
Synonyms: apathetic, blah*, comatose, dopey, down, dragging,
draggy, drippy, heavy, hebetudinous, inactive, indolent, inert, laidback*, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless,
lumpish, mooney, off, phlegmatic, pokey, slack, sleepyheaded,
slothful, slow, sluggard, slumberous, stagnant, stiff, sullen, torpid,
unresponsive
Antonyms: active, alert, energetic, fast, lively, spirited

1143) Smear

1145) Smooth

1147)
Sophisticated

PLASTER, DAUB
MEDIATE
POLISH
SPREAD
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rub on, spread over
Synonyms: apply, bedaub, besmirch, blur, coat, cover, dab, daub,
defile, dirty, discolor, overlay, overspread, patch, plaster, slop,
smudge, soil, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish

UGLY
AWKWARD, HARD
ROUGH
GLASSY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: level, unwrinkled; flowing


Synonyms: bland, continuous, creamy, easy, effortless, equable,
even, flat, fluent, fluid, flush, frictionless, gentle, glassy, glossy,
hairless, horizontal, invariable, lustrous, mild, mirrorlike,
monotonous, peaceful, plain, planate, plane, polished, quiet, regular,
rhythmic, rippleless, serene, shaven, shiny, silky, sleek, soft,
soothing, stable, steady, still, tranquil, unbroken, undeviating,
undisturbed, uneventful, uniform, uninterrupted, unruffled,
untroubled, unvarying, velvety
RUSTIC, RURAL
CIVIL irregular, rough, uneven,
Antonyms:
broken, coarse, intermittent,
wrinkled
DOMESTIC
URBANE

1149) Sordid

1151)
Spasmodic

MISERLY, GENEROUS
HELPFUL
OPEN
VULGAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cosmopolitan, cultured



Synonyms: adult, artificial, been around, blas, bored, citified,
cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned,
experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laidback*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined,
schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise,
studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise
to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise
TOGETHER
FREQUENT,
MODEL
Antonyms: naive, uncultivated, uncultured,
unrefined,
NATURE
PASSIVE
unsophisticated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: twitching, erratic
Synonyms: bits and pieces, changeable, choppy, convulsive,
desultory, fitful, fits and starts, intermittent, irregular, jerky, onagain-off-again, periodic, shaky, spastic, sporadic, spotty, spurtive,
uncertain
Antonyms: resting, uninterrupted

INFLAMMATION
ENERGETIC,SLUGGISH

1153)
Splenetic

ILL-TEMPERED
COMPLACENT

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: nasty in behavior, speech
Synonyms: acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting,
bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting,
indignant, irascible, irate, ireful, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant,
rancorous, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, splenetic , tart, testy, trenchant,
wrathful
Antonyms: kind, kindly, peaceable

1155)
Stagnant

EFFERVESCENCE
MOBILITY, PROGRESS
INERTIA
STATIONARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: motionless, dirty
Synonyms: brackish, dead, dormant, filthy, foul, idle, immobile,
inactive, inert, lifeless, listless, passive, putrid, quiet, sluggish, stale,
standing, static, stationary, still, unmoving
Antonyms: moving

SUMPTUOUS
STORE
NDR

HEAVY, SATIATE
HUNGRY

1157) Starve

1159) Stigma

STAIN, BLOT
SMELLY
DISTINCTION
DISGRACE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shame
Synonyms: bar sinister, besmirchment, black mark, blame, blemish,
blot, brand, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, imputation, lost face,
mark, odium, onus, reproach, scar, slur, spot, stain, taint
Antonyms: credit, pride

1161) Stout

1163)
Stringent

1165) SubRosa

IMITATIVE
MODERATE, HUMID
EMACIATED
STOCKY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overweight

Synonyms: big, bulky, burly, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavy, obese,
plenitudinous, plump, porcine, portly, rotund, substantial, thickbodied, tubby, upholstered, weighty, zaftig
Antonyms: skinny, thin, underweight

MAGNANIMOUS
LENIENT
VEHEMENT, GENERAL
PIERCING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rigid, tight
Synonyms: acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the
numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on,
demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting,
forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad,
picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict,
tough, unpermissive, valid
Notes: stringent often means simply ' strict , strictly regulated' and
also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is
permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which
SWEET-SMELLING
FOUL-SMELLING
something
is enforced
Antonyms:
PRIVATELYflexible, inexact, tolerant
PUBLICLY, LEGALLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sneaky, secretive
Synonyms: artful, calculating, cautious, circumspect, clandestine,
cloaked, conspiratorial, covert, crafty*, creepy*, cunning, disguised,
elusive, evasive, foxy, guileful, hidden, hush-hush, insidious, masked,
scheming, shifty, skulking, slinking, sly, stealthy, sub-rosa ,
surreptitious, tricky*, under wraps, under-the-table, undercover,
underhand, underhanded, wily
Antonyms: aboveboard, forthright, honest, open, truthful

1167)
Succinct

1169)
Supercilious

1171)
Supervise

CONCISE, BRIEF
WORDY
ENTIRE
CONCLUSION
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brief, to the point
Synonyms: blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compact,
compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, curt, cut to the
bone, in a nutshell, in few words, laconic, pithy, short, summary,
terse
Antonyms: lengthy, long-winded, wordy

HAUGHTY, ARROGANT
COURTEOUS
LAVISH
EXTRANEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant, stuck-up
Synonyms: bossy, cavalier, cocky*, condescending, contemptuous,
disdainful, egotistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, imperious, insolent,
lofty, nervy, overbearing, patronizing, proud, putting on airs,
scornful, snobby, superior, uppity, vainglorious
Antonyms: humble, modest

IGNORE, SHYAWAY
MISDIRECT
CONCEAL
MANAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: manage people, project
Synonyms: administer, be in charge, be in driver's seat, be in the
saddle, be on duty, be responsible for, boss, call the play, call the
shots, chaperon, conduct, control, crack the whip, deal with, direct,
handle, inspect, keep an eye on, look after, overlook, oversee,
preside over, quarterback, ride herd on, run, run the show, run
things, sit on top of, superintend, survey, take care of
Antonyms: serve

OPEN, BRAVE
INNOCENT
NO RESULTS

CONCISE
FEARFUL

1173)
Subreptitious

1175) Swear

1177)
Synchronized

SUPPORT, REJECT
DENY
PRAISE
PLEDGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: declare under oath
Synonyms: affirm, assert, attest, avow, covenant, cross one's heart,
depend on, depose, give one's word, give witness, have confidence in,
maintain, make an affidavit, pledge oneself, plight, promise, rely on,
say so, state, state under oath, swear by, swear to God, swear up and
down, take an oath, testify, trust, vouch, vow, warrant

NOISY, DISCORDANT
CONSEQUENT
FOLLOWING
CONNECTED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: coordinate

Synonyms: adjust, agree, atune, harmonize, integrate, keep time
with, match, mesh, organize, pool, proportion, pull together, put in
sync, set

1179) Taboo

PROHIBITED
ILLICIT, MUSICAL
LIMITATION
APPROVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not allowed, permitted
Synonyms: anathema, banned, beyond the pale, disapproved,
forbidden, frowned on, illegal, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed,
prohibited, proscribed, reserved, restricted, ruled out, unacceptable,
unmentionable, unthinkable
Antonyms: acceptable, allowed, mentionable, ok

RECIPROCITY
TALKATIVE,FLAMBOYANCE

ENDORSEMENT
TRANQUILLITY

1181)
Taciturnity

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: reserve
Synonyms: aloofness, backwardness, calmness, caution, coldness,
constraint, control, coyness, demureness, diffidence, formality,
inhibition, modesty, quietness, reluctance, repression, reservation,
restraint, reticence, secretiveness, self-control, self-restraint,
shyness, silence, suppression, uncommunicativeness,
unresponsiveness

1183) Tame

HAUGHTY, WILD
NAUGHTY
NAVE
BLAND
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: domesticated, compliant


Synonyms: acclimatized, amenable, biddable, bridled, broken,
busted, civilized, cultivated, disciplined, docile, domestic, fearless,
gentle, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harmless, harnessed,
housebroken, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient,
overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained,
unafraid, unresisting, yoked
Antonyms: unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild

1185) Tedious

NAUGHTY, LIVELY
HAUGHTY
HEARTY
DEADLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, monotonous
Synonyms: annoying, arid, banal, boring, bromidic, drab, dragging,
draggy, dreary, drudging, dry, dull as dishwater, dusty, endless,
enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid,
irksome, laborious, lifeless, long-drawn-out, mortal, pabulum, poky,
prosaic, prosy, slow, snooze, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting,
uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome
Antonyms: entertaining, exciting, interesting
STUBBORN
GRIPING

1187)
Tenacious

1189)
Tenderness

YIELDING, FIRM
CLINGING

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: strong, unyielding

Synonyms: adamant, bound, clinging, coherent, cohesive,
determined, dogged, fast, firm, forceful, inflexible, intransigent,
iron, meaning business, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, persevering,
persistent, persisting, pertinacious, possessive, purposeful,
relentless, resolute, retentive, set, solid, spunky, stalwart, staunch,
steadfast, stout, strong-willed, stubborn, sturdy, sure, tight, tough,
true, unforgetful, unshakable, unswerving
Antonyms: surrendering, weak, yielding
HOOLIGANISM
BARBARITY
ROUGHNESS,CRUELTY
KINDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: affection
Synonyms: benevolence, courtesy, fondness, friendship, gentleness,
kindness, love, lovingness, softheartedness, sympathy, warmth
Antonyms: animosity, hatred, hostility, ill will, ruthlessness

1191)
Tentative

1193)
Testimony

1195) Tome

PERMANENT, FINAL
SUCCESSIVE
INTERVAL
CONDITIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conditional, experimental
Synonyms: acting, ad interim, conjectural, contingent, dependent,
iffy, indefinite, makeshift, not final, not settled, on trial, open for
consideration, probationary, provisional, provisionary, provisory,
speculative, subject to change, temporary, test, trial, unconfirmed,
undecided, unsettled
Antonyms: certain, decisive, definite, final, sure

REFUTATION, PROOF
EVIDENCE
SILENCE
DECLARATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: declaration about truth; proof

Synonyms: affidavit, affirmation, attestation, avowal, confirmation,
corroboration, data, demonstration, deposition, documentation,
evidence, facts, grounds, illustration, indication, information,
manifestation, profession, statement, submission, substantiation,
support, testament, verification, witness

TOMB, TRACT
PLAYTHING
ALIVE
DEAD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large, scholarly book

Synonyms: classic, great work, magnum opus, novel, opus,


publication, reference book, schoolbook, textbook, title, tradebook,
volume, work, writing

1197)
Tortuous

1199)
Traduce

1201)
Traitorous

ILLEGAL
PAINFUL, ZIGZAG
INDIRECT
DIRECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very twisted
Synonyms: anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked,
curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering,
meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting,
vermiculate, winding, zigzag
Notes: tortuous is 'winding, crooked, full of twists and turns' and
torturous (based on 'torture') is 'painful, characterized by
suffering'
Antonyms: direct, straight, untwisted
EXTOL, SLANDER
ACCOMMODATE
PURCHASE
EXHAUST
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: violate
Synonyms: calumniate, defame, denigrate, disgrace, malign,
slander, slur, smear, vilify

BACKSTABBING
TREASONOUS
BELOVED,NOTORIOUS
LOYAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disloyal
Synonyms: apostate, betraying, double-crossing, faithless,
perfidious, recreant, subversive, treacherous, treasonable,
treasonous, two-faced, two-timing, undutiful, unfaithful, unpatriotic,
untrue, wormlike

1203)
Transient

1205)
Traverse

1207)
Tremulous

PERMANENT, PASSING
TRUTHFUL
FORCEFUL
MOMENTARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: temporary, brief
Synonyms: changeable, deciduous, emigrating, ephemeral,
evanescent, flash, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fugacious,
fugitive, going by, impermanent, insubstantial, migrating,
momentary, moving, passing, provisional, short, short-lived, shortterm, temporal, transmigratory, unstable, vacating, volatile
Antonyms: enduring, incessant, lasting, long-lasting, neverending,
permanent, persistent, undying
ASSIST, CROSS
NEGOTIATE
HINDER
END
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cross over; travel

Synonyms: bisect, bridge, cover, crisscross, cross, cut across,
decussate, do, go across, go over, intersect, move over, negotiate,
pace, pass over, pass through, perambulate, peregrinate, ply,
quarter, range, roam, span, track, transverse, travel over, tread,
walk, wander

NERVOUS, TIMID
TREMBLING
ORDINARY
STEADY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shaking
Synonyms: palpitating, quavering, quivering, shaky, shivering,
shivery, trembling, wobbly
Antonyms: stable, steady, unwavering

1209)
Trepidation

1211) Trite

1213) Truant

FEARLESSNESS
ANXIETY, FEAR
UNEASINESS
QUICKNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anxiety, worry
Synonyms: agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, butterflies,
cold feet, cold sweat, consternation, creeps, dismay, disquiet,
disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps,
horror, jitters, nervousness, palpitation, panic, perturbation, shock,
terror, trepidity, uneasiness, worriment
Antonyms: calm, contentment, happiness

ROUTINE, DULL
COMMON
CHEAP
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: silly, commonplace
Synonyms: banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, clich, clichd,
common, cornball, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, familiar tune,
flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, old
hat, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made,
routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock,
threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, used-up, vapid,
warmed-over, well-worn, worn, worn-out
Antonyms: desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent,
relevant, uncommon
SEDULOUS, BEND
TENTATIVE
DELINQUENT
TALKATIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: absent
Synonyms: AWOL, absent without leave, astray, away, cutting
class, gone, hooky, missing, no-show, not present, playing hooky,
skipping school

1215)
Trumpery

1217) Tumult

1219)
Turbulence

WASTEAGE, TREASURY
DEFEAT
VAGUE
WORTHLESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception
Synonyms: falsehood, malarky, nonsense, rubbish, trash, trickery

SERENITY
TURMOIL, CLAMOUR
CONFUSION
COMMOTATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uproar, confusion

Synonyms: ado, affray, agitation, altercation, babel, bedlam, brawl,
clamor, commotion, convulsion, din, disorder, disturbance, dither,
excitement, ferment, fight, fracas, fuss, hassle*, jangle, lather,
maelstrom, noise, outbreak, outcry, pandemonium, paroxysm,
pother, quarrel, racket, riot, row, ruction, seething, stir, strife,
turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unsettlement, upheaval, upturn,
wildness
Notes: tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion
AGITATION,
CALM
TURMOIL
and
agitation for
people and things;
tumultuous can describe things
and
people
ROUGHNESS
SEPARATION
Antonyms:
calmness,
order,
peace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disorder
Synonyms: agitation, commotion, conflict, confusion, disturbance,
frenzy, instability, tempestuousness, tumult, turmoil, unrest,
unruliness
Antonyms: calm, calmness, quietness, stillness, tranquility

1221) Turgid

1223)
Turpitude

1225)
Ubiquity

BOMBASTIC
SWOLLEN, THRIFTY
SHRUNKEN
PUNCTUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: swollen
Synonyms: bloated, distended, inflated, puffy, tumescent, tumid
Notes: turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid
means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical
bodies

VIRTUE, WICKEDNESS
GENEROSITY
GRATITUDE
FOOLISHNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: depravity
Synonyms: baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement,
debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness,
licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness,
wickedness

ABSENCE
OMNIPRESENCE
AMAZING, REST
PERVASIVENSES
Definition: ever-present
Synonyms: all-over, everywhere, omnipresent, pervasive,
ubiquitary, universal, wall-to-wall
Antonyms: rare, scarce

1227)
Ulterior

1229)
Uncouth

1231)
Undulating

TIPPED, SPARKLING
STATED
RAMPAGING
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; pertaining to a hidden goal


Synonyms: ambiguous, buried, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark,
enigmatic, equivocal, guarded, hidden, implied, obscure, obscured,
personal, privy, remote, secondary, selfish, shrouded, under cover,
under wraps, undisclosed, undivulged, unexpressed, unsaid
Antonyms: expressed, known, overt, public

RUDE, ROUDY
AWKWARD
UGLY
DELICATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy, uncultivated
Synonyms: awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, clownish, coarse,
crass, crude, discourteous, disgracious, gawky, graceless, gross,
heavy-handed, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite,
inelegant, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, oafish, raunchy, raw, rough,
rude, rustic, strange, tacky*, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized,
ungainly, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, unpolished, unrefined,
unseemly, vulgar
Antonyms: agile, couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated
SMOOTH, UNEVEN
ADULATION
RESPECT
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rise and fall
Synonyms: billow, flow, heave, oscillate, ripple, roll, surge, swell,
swing, wave, wobble

1233)
Unfeigned

1235)
Unimpeachab
le

1237)
Unkempt

ORIGINAL, CLEAR
MORTAL
MODERN
PRETENDED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sincere
Synonyms: genuine, heartfelt, honest, natural, real, true,
unaffected, unassumed
Antonyms: insincere, pretended

FAULTY, FRUITFUL
DEVASTATING
FLEXIBLE
STRAIGHT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: blameless
Synonyms: clean, faultless, impeccable, inculpable, irreproachable,
spotless, unassailable, unblemished, uncorrupted, unquestionable,
untainted, untarnished
Antonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable,
impeachable, reproachable

SLOVENLY, SLOPPY
NEGLECTED
APPROVED
NEAT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shabby, sloppy

Synonyms: bedraggled, coarse, crude, dilapidated, dirty,
disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled, disordered, grubby, grungy,
messed up, messy, mussed up, neglected, rough, rumpled, scruffy,
shaggy, slipshod, slovenly, tousled, unclean, uncombed, unfastidious,
ungroomed, unimproved, unneat, unpolished, untidy, vulgar
Antonyms: kempt, neat, tidy, trim

1239)
Unrealistic

1241)
Unseemly

1243)
Untenable

NATURAL, VISIONARY
REASONABLE
ACTUAL
IMAGINATIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not believable or practical
Synonyms: blue sky, floating, gone*, half-baked, impossible,
impracticable, impractical, improbable, ivory-tower, nonrealistic,
nonsensical, not applicable, not sensible, on cloud nine, quixotic,
reachy, romantic, silly, starry-eyed, theoretical, unreal, unworkable
Antonyms: believable, practical, pragmatic, realistic, reasonable,
sensible

IMPROPER
POLITELY
CONCLUSIVE,PROPER
RECOGNIZED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: improper; in bad taste
Synonyms: cheap, coarse, crude, discreditable, disreputable, in
poor taste, inappropriate, inapt, incorrect, indecent, indecorous,
indelicate, inelegant, inept, malapropos, malodorous, out of keeping,
out of place, poor, raffish, rough, rowdy, rude, ruffian, tawdry,
unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undignified, ungodly, unrefined,
unsuitable, untoward, vulgar, wrong
Antonyms: appropriate, due, fitting, proper, seemly, suited
UNSTABLE, WEAK
INVERTED
SUPPORTABLE
DELICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indefensible
Synonyms: flawed, illogical, unsound, unsupportable

1245) Urban

1247)
Urbanity

1249) Utterly

RUSTIC, RURAL
CIVIL
DOMESTIC
CIVIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: city
Synonyms: burghal, central, citified, civic, civil, downtown, innercity, metropolitan, municipal, nonrural, oppidan, popular, public,
town, village
Notes: urban refers to a city; urbane means polished and smooth,
as in a person's demeanor
Antonyms: country, rural, suburban

RUSTIC, CRUDENESS
CRUELTY
SOCIABILITY
CIVILITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: elegance
Synonyms: breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture,
delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, elegancy, exquisiteness,
felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur,
lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness,
polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint,
rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry,
tastefulness
COMPLETELY
ENTIRELY
ABSOLUTELY, EMPTY
PARTIALLY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: completely
Synonyms: absolutely, all, all in all, altogether, entirely, exactly,
extremely, fully, in toto, just, perfectly, plumb, purely, quite,
thoroughly, to the core, to the nth degree, totally, well, wholly
Antonyms: incompletely, uncertain

1251)
Vacillation

1253)
Vainglorious

1255)
Valetudinaria
n

STEADFASTNESS
HESITATION
DEPRESSION
BEGINNING, HONOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irresolution
Synonyms: doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, inconstancy, indecision,
indecisiveness, irresoluteness, tentativeness, uncertainty

MAJESTIC, USELESS
VICTORY
MODEST
BOASTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boastful, proud
Synonyms: arrogant, blowing one's own horn, boasting, bragging,
cavalier, cocky*, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-andmighty, high-handed, huffy, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous,
pretentious, puffed up, self-important, snobbish, snooty, strutting,
stuck-up, swaggering, vain

FAREWELL, VALID
FREEDOM-FIGHTER
ROBUST
WELCOME
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hypochondriac
Synonyms: morbid person, neurotic, obsessive person, valetudinary

1257) Valor

1259) Vanity

1261)
Vaunted

BRAVERY, HEROISM
VALUABLE
CHEAP
COWARDICE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bravery
Synonyms: backbone*, boldness, courage, dash*, defiance, derringdo, determination, fearlessness, fight, firmness, fortitude, gallantry,
grit, guts*, hardihood, heart, heroism, indomitableness, intestinal
fortitude, intrepidity, invincibility, mettle, moxie*, nerve, pluck,
prowess, resolution, sand*, spirit, spunk, starch, stomach*, tenacity,
valiance, valiancy

CHASTITY
KINDNESS, MODESTY
VULGARITY
ARROGANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: conceit, egotism
Synonyms: affectation, airs, arrogance, big-headedness,
conceitedness, display, ego trip, narcissism, ostentation, pretension,
pride, self-admiration, self-love, self-worship, show*, showing off,
smugness, vainglory
Antonyms: modesty

BOASTING
BRAGGING, UGLY
DISTORTED
BELITTLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: exhibit
Synonyms: boast, brag, crow, display, flaunt, gasconade, prate,
strut

1263)
Vengeance

1265)
Veracious

1267) Vex

RETALIATION, GRAZE
FORGIVENESS
REVEAL
REVENGE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation for another's act
Synonyms: avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score,
eye for an eye, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital,
retribution, return, revenge, settling of score, tit for tat,
vengefulness, wrath
Antonyms: forgiveness, pardon

HONEST, TIMID
ANTIDOTE
REVEAL
ACCURATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: true
Synonyms: accurate, credible, dependable, direct, ethical, factual,
faithful, frank, genuine, high-principled, honest, just, kosher*, legit,
like it is, on the level, on the line, on the up and up, open, reliable,
right, righteous, straight-arrow, straightforward, strict, true-blue,
trustworthy, truthful, undeceptive, up front, valid, veridical
Antonyms: false, untrue

CAJOLE, CONSOLE
SOOTHE
SPROUT
PROVOKE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: distress, bother
Synonyms: abrade, afflict, aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, be at,
chafe, depress, displease, disquiet, disturb, eat*, embarrass,
exasperate, fret, gall*, get in one's hair, get under one's skin, give a
bad time, give a hard time, grate on, harass, harry, hassle, infuriate,
irk, irritate, molest, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, perplex, pester,
pique, plague, provoke, put out, rasp, ride, rile, tease, tick off,
torment, trouble, turn off, upset, worry
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, please, soothe

1269) Vim

1271) Violent

1273)
Virtuous

WITLESS
VIGORLESS
COLOURFUL
AIMLESS, ENDLESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: life
Synonyms: activity, dash, drive, energy, enthusiasm, fire, force,
kick, oomph, passion, pep, pepper, push, spirit, strength, vigor,
vinegar, vitality, zeal, zing
Antonyms: languor, lifelessness

TAME, HUMBLE
GENTLE
HARMLESS
SEVERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: destructive
Synonyms: agitated, aroused, berserk, bloodthirsty, brutal,
coercive, crazy, cruel, demoniac, desperate, distraught, disturbed,
enraged, fierce, fiery, forceful, forcible, frantic, fuming, furious,
great, headstrong, homicidal, hotheaded, hysterical, impassioned,
impetuous, inflamed, intemperate, mad, maddened, maniacal,
mighty, murderous, passionate, potent, powerful, raging, riotous,
rough, savage, strong, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained,
urgent, vehement, vicious, wild
Antonyms: gentle, passive, peaceful
VICIOUS, VULGAR
MISERLY
INSINCERE
MORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: good, ethical; innocent
Synonyms: blameless, celibate, chaste, clean-living, effective,
effectual, efficient, excellent, exemplary, faithful, guiltless, highprincipled, honest, honorable, in the clear, incorruptible, inculpable,
irreprehensible, kosher*, legit, moral, moralistic, noble, on the level,
on the up and up, praiseworthy, principled, pure, regular, rightminded, righteous, spotless, straight, true-blue, unsullied, untainted,
untarnished, up front, upright, wholesome, without reproach,
worthy
Antonyms: bad, sinful, unethical, vile, wicked

1275)
Vivacious

1277)
Vocation

1279)
Voluntary

DULL, LIVELY
QUICKNESS
NICE
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lively, spirited
Synonyms: active, alert, animate, animated, bouncy, brash, breezy,
bubbling, cheerful, ebullient, effervescent, exuberant, frolicsome,
full of life, gay, happy, high-spirited, jolly, jumping, keen,
lighthearted, merry, playful, rocking, scintillating, sparkling,
sportive, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, vibrant, vital, zesty
Antonyms: boring, dispirited, dull, unattractive, unhappy

WILDERNESS
IDLENESS, REST
DROWSY
OCCUPATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: life's work
Synonyms: art, business, calling, career, craft, do*, dodge*, duty,
employment, field, game, handicraft, job, lifework, line of business,
line*, mission, mtier, nine-to-five, occupation, office, post,
profession, pursuit, racket, role, thing*, trade, undertaking
Antonyms: entertainment, fun, pastime

INVOLUNTARY
INSTINCTIVE
COMPELLED
COERCIVE, OPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: willing

Synonyms: autonomous, chosen, deliberate, designful, discretional,
elected, free, free-willed, freely, gratuitous, honorary, independent,
intended, intentional, opted, optional, spontaneous, unasked,
unbidden, uncompelled, unconstrained, unforced, unpaid,
unprescribed, volitional, volunteer, willed, willful, wished, witting
Antonyms: forced, involuntary, obligatory, unwilling

1281) Vomit

SWALLOW, INGEST
DEPLORE
ENDURE
DISGORGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disgorge
Synonyms: be seasick, be sick, bring up*, dry heave, eject, emit,
expel, gag, heave, hurl, puke, regurgitate, retch, ruminate, spew, spit
up, throw up, upchuck

1283)
Vulnerable

EXPOSED,UNGUARDED
DELICIOUS
SUSCEPTIBLE
INVINCIBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open to attack
Synonyms: accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable,
naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting
duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded,
unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open
Antonyms: closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure

1285) Wallow

GROVEL, TUMBLE
GRUMBLE
FLOUNDER
ABSTAIN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: slosh around in
Synonyms: bathe in, be immersed, blunder, flounder, get stuck,
immerse, lie, loll, lurch, move around in, reel, roll, roll about, roll
around in, splash around, sprawl, stagger, stumble, sway, toss,
totter, tumble, wade, welter

1287) Wanton

1289)
Wavering

1291)
Wealthy

DISCREET
ENTIRE, TOTAL
REVOLVE
MALICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extravagant, lustful
Synonyms: X-rated, abandoned, fast*, lax, lewd, libertine,
libidinous, licentious, outrageous, profligate, promiscuous,
shameless, speedy*, unprincipled, unscrupulous, wayward
Antonyms: clean, decent, moral, righteous

STRAIGHT, TIGHT
STRONG
POOR
OSCILLATING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shift back and forth; be indecisive
Synonyms: be irresolute, be unable to decide, blow hot and cold,
change, deliberate, dilly-dally, dither, falter, flicker, fluctuate, halt,
hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, oscillate, palter, pause, pussyfoot
around, quiver, reel, run hot and cold, seesaw, shake, stagger, sway,
teeter, totter, tremble, trim, undulate, vacillate, vary, waffle, wave,
weave, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo
Notes: waver is a verb meaning to vacillate or be indecisive; a
waiver is a relinquishment of a claim, privilege, or right
WICKED
FAMOUS, ILL
POOR
HARMFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rich; having a lot of money
Synonyms: affluent, booming, comfortable, having it made, in the
money, independent, loaded, made of money, moneyed, of
independent means, opulent, pecunious, prosperous, rolling in it,
substantial, upscale, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Antonyms: deprived, lacking, needy, poor, poverty-stricken,
wanting

1293)
Whimsical

1295)
Wholesome

1297) Wile

ERRATIC, IMPULSIVE
RUMOUR
ECCENTRIC
PREDICTABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: playful, fanciful
Synonyms: amusing, arbitrary, capricious, chancy, chimerical,
comical, curious, dicey, droll, eccentric, erratic, fantastic, flaky*,
freakish, funny, kinky*, mischievous, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer*,
quizzical, singular, uncertain, unpredictable, unusual, waggish,
wayward, weird*
Antonyms: behaving, reasonable, sensible

ROBUST, ROUGH
WEAK
COMPLETE
POWERFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy, decent
Synonyms: all there, beneficial, clean, edifying, ethical, exemplary,
fit, good, hale, health-giving, healthful, helpful, honorable, hygienic,
in fine feather, in the pink, innocent, invigorating, moral, nice,
normal, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, pure, respectable,
restorative, right, righteous, safe, salubrious, salutary, sane,
sanitary, sound, strengthening, together, virtuous, well, worthy
Antonyms: bad, impure, indecent, unhealthy, unwholesome
ART, GUILE
RESIGN
ARTLESSNESS
CUNNING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cunning
Synonyms: angle, artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery,
con*, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, deception, device,
dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, feint, flimflam, fraud, gambit,
game, gimmick, guile, hoax, horseplay, imposition, little game, lure,
maneuver, monkey business, monkeyshines, plot, ploy, racket, ruse,
scam*, scheming, setup, shenanigans*, skullduggery, slant, slyness,
stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist
Antonyms: naivety, stupidity

1299)
Wizened

1301)
Wonder

1303) Yank

SHREWD, FOOLISH
SMOOTH
WISEACRE
ZOOMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dried, shriveled up
Synonyms: diminished, gnarled, lean, macerated, mummified, old,
reduced, shrunk, shrunken, wilted, withered, worn, wrinkled
Antonyms: moist, smooth, unwrinkled

EXPECTATION
SURPRISE,POSSIBILITY
PROBABILITY
AMAZEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amazement

Synonyms: admiration, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, concern,
confusion, consternation, curiosity, doubt, fascination, fear,
incredulity, jar, jolt, marveling, perplexity, perturbation,
puzzlement, reverence, shock, skepticism, start, stupefaction, stupor,
surprise, suspicion, uncertainty, wondering, wonderment
Antonyms: expectation
JERK, JOGGLE
SNATCH
PULL
PUSH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pull hard and fast
Synonyms: draw, evulse, extract, hitch, jerk, lug, snap, snatch, tear,
tug, twitch, vellicate, wrench
Antonyms: push

1305) Yield

1307) Yonder

1309) Zeal

SUSTAIN, PRODUCE
SUBMIT
COLLAPSE
EARNINGS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: production of labor
Synonyms: crop, earnings, harvest, income, output, outturn,
produce, profit, return, revenue, takings, turnout
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give in, surrender
Synonyms: abandon, abdicate, admit defeat, back down, bend, bow,
break, buy, call it quits, capitulate, cave in, cede, collapse, come to
terms, crumple, defer, fold, fold up, give oneself over, give up, give
way, go, hand over, knuckle, knuckle under, lay down arms, leave,
let go, part with, relax, relent, relinquish, resign, sag, submit,
REMOTE,suffer
FATHER
NATIVE
succumb,
defeat, throw in the
towel
Antonyms:
refuse, reject
Part of
DISTANT deny, oppose, prevent,CLOSE
Speech:
verb adverb
Part of Speech:
Definition:
allow
Definition: grant,
faraway

Synonyms:
accept,distant,
acknowledge,
admit, agree,
Synonyms: accede,
away, beyond,
farther,acquiesce,
further, remote,
yon
assent,
bow,
break,
comply,
concede,
concur,
consent,
defer,
fail, fit
Antonyms: close, near, nearby
in, go along with, go with the flow, permit, play the game, surrender,
toe the line, toe the mark, waive
Antonyms: counter, disallow, disapprove, veto

LITHE, APATHY
VERBATIM
APATHY
EAGERNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiasm
Synonyms: alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion,
diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise,
fanaticism, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination,
initiative, intensity, intentness, keenness, mania, passion,
perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, stick-to-itiveness,
urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, what-it-takes, yen, zest
Notes: zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment
or added interest
Antonyms: apathy, indifference, lethargy

1311) Zealous

1313) Zest

ARDENT, EAGER
ENTHUSIASTIC
DEVOTED
APATHETIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: enthusiastic
Synonyms: afire, antsy*, ardent, avid, burning, coming on strong,
dedicated, devoted, eager, earnest, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid,
fireball, fired, frenetic, gung-ho, hot*, impassioned, itchy, keen,
obsessed, passionate, possessed, pushy*, rabid, ripe, self-starting,
spirited, wild-eyed
Notes: jealous means envious or fearful of being replaced by a
rival; zealous means marked by active interest and enthusiasm
Antonyms: apathetic, indifferent, lethargic, unenthusiastic
RELUCTANCE
RELISH
PLEASURE
GUEST, FERVOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taste, flavor
Synonyms: bite, body, charm, flavoring, get-up-and-go, ginger,
guts*, interest, kick*, nip, piquancy, punch*, pungency, relish, salt,
savor, seasoning, smack*, snap*, spice, tang, zap, zip
Notes: zeal pertains to a keen interest while zest is keen enjoyment
or added interest
Antonyms: blandness, dullness

2) Abbreviate

4) Abject

6) Abolish

ABBRIDGE
EXPAND, ACHIVE
ACCEPT
CONDENSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: shorten
Synonyms: abridge, abstract, boil down, clip, compress, condense,
contract, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut out, digest,
encapsulate, get to the meat, pare, prune, put in a nutshell, reduce,
summarize, take out, trim
Antonyms: amplify, enlarge, EXPAND, extend, increase, lengthen

WRETCHED
MISERABLE, EXACT
SERVILE
DIGNIFIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless, downtrodden
Synonyms: base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable,
dishonorable, fawning, forlorn, groveling, hangdog, humiliated, low,
miserable, outcast, pitiable, servile, submissive, worthless, wretched
Antonyms: commendable, exalted, excellent, magnificent, noble,
proud, worthy, DIGNIFIED.

REPEAL
ELIMINATE, NULLIFY
NEGATE
CONSERVE
Definition: do away with or put an end to (VERB)


Synonyms: abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, disestablish,
eradicate, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, nix, obliterate, overthrow,
overturn, prohibit, quash, repeal, repudiate, scrub, squelch, subvert,
supersede, void, zap
Antonyms: confirm, continue, enact, CONSERVE, institute,
legalize, promote, ratify, support, uphold

8) Aborigine

SETTLER
INDIGENE, NATIVE
BELOVED
IMMIGRANT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: first inhabitant


Synonyms: aboriginal, autochthon, bushman, indigene, native,
primitive
Antonym: IMMIGRANT.

10) Abrupt

12) Absolve

14) Abstruse

GRUFF
RUDE, BLUNT
HURT
GRADUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rude or brief in manner


Synonyms: blunt, brusque, crude, crusty, curt, direct, discourteous,
gruff, impetuous, impolite, matter-of-fact, rough, short, snappy,
snippy, uncivil, ungracious
Antonyms: calm, kind, nice, GRADUAL

FREE
TOTAL, ABSORB
SOLUTION
BLAME
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: free from responsibility, duty


Synonyms: acquit, bleach,clear,exculpate, excuse, exempt,
exonerate, forgive, free, go easy on, launder, liberate, lifeboat, loose,
pardon, release, relieve, sanitize, spare, vindicate.
Antonyms: bind, blame, charge, condemn, convict, impeach,
incriminate, obligate, punish, ABSORB

PROFOUND
SUMMARY, ABSTRACT
THEORETICAL
SUPERFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: difficult to understand
Synonyms: Greek to me, abstract, clear as dishwater, complex,
complicated, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, hidden, incomprehensible,
intricate, involved, muddy, obscure, perplexing, profound, puzzling,
recondite, subtle, unfathomable, vague
Antonyms: clear, concrete, easy, lucid, obvious, plain, simple,
SUPERFICIAL.

16) Abundant

18) Accepted

20) Accord

AMPLE
ENOUGH, GREAT
SCANT
COPIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ridiculous, senseless
Synonyms: batty, campy, crazy, daffy, dippy,fooling around, foolish,
freaky, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational, jokey,
joshing, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty,
preposterous, screwy, silly, stupid, tomfool, unreasonable, wacky
Antonyms: certain, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, wise,
SCANT

FOLLOWED
NOTED, PROVIDED
CONSIDERED
REJECTED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: receive something given physically

Synonyms: acquire, gain, get, obtain, secure, take, welcome
Notes: accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave
out'
Antonyms: deny, discard, refuse, REJECTED.

SOLUTION
ACT, DISSENT
CONCORD
AGREEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: agreement, mutual understanding (often written)

Synonyms: accordance, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity,
congruence, correspondence, deal, harmony, okay, pact, rapport,
reconciliation, sympathy, treaty.
Antonyms: antagonism, denial, disagreement, DISSENT,
opposition, refusal

22) Acme

24) Acrid

ACUTE
EATABLE, TOP
NADIR
ACE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pinnacle of achievement or physical object
Synonyms: apogee, capstone, climax, culmination, height, high
point, highest point, meridian, optimum, peak, summit, top,
ultimate, vertex, zenith
Antonyms: NADIR

SOUR
FGURE, ACQUIT
SMOOTH
COMPLEX
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bitter, sour to taste
Synonyms: acid, amaroidal, astringent, biting, burning, caustic,
harsh, irritating, pungent, sharp, stinging
Antonyms: delicious, savory, sweet, SMOOTH

INTELLIGENCE
UNFAMILIARITY

26) Acumen

IMBECILITY, POTENTIALITY

ENERGY

Def: ability to understand


Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance,
cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination,
farsightedness, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition,
judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity,
refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness,
smarts.
Antonyms: denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness,
stupidity, IMBECILITY

28) Adage

30) Addition

32) Adipose

MOTTO
HARANGUE, PROVERB
ZENITH
MAXIM
Definition: saying or proverb


Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm, axiom, byword, dictum, maxim,
motto, precept, saw
Antonyms: HARANGUE

SUBTRACTION, ENUMERATION
MULTIPLICATION
DIVISION
INCREASE
Def: process of conjoining, adding
Synonyms: accession, adding, adjoining, affixing,
annexation,attachment,augmentation, enlargement, extension,
inclusion, increasingNotes: an addition is something that, when
added, an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of
the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added' Antonyms:
decrease, reduction, shrinkage, SUBTRACTION, withdrawal

FAITHFUL
RECREATED
MISCREANT, CRAVEN
EMACIATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fatty


Synonyms: adipocerous, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous
Antonyms: EMACIATED

34)Adroit

36)Adrift

38) Advent

SKILFUL
CLEVER, LOVE
UNSKILFUL
EXPERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very able or skilled


Syn: adept, apt, artful, clean, clever, cunning, cute, deft, dexterous,
expert, good, handy, hot tamale, ingenious, masterful, nimble, on the
ball, proficient, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, savvy, sharp,
skillful, slick, smart, wizard
Ant: awkward, clumsy, dense, inept, UNSKILFUL

RUDDERLESS
AIMLESS, ASTRAY
DETACHED
ANCHORED
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: floating out of control


Synonyms: afloat, drifting, loose, unanchored, unmoored
Antonyms: ANCHORED, stable, tied down

ARRIVAL
FESTIVAL, OCCASION
FORTHCOMING
DEPARTURE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning or arrival of something anticipated

Synonyms: appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance,
occurrence, onset, visitation
Antonyms: DEPARTURE, end

40) Advocate

42)
Affectation

44) Affiliate

SUPPORT
INQUIRE, ENDORSE
OPPOSE
DEFEND
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person supporting an idea or cause publicly

Synonyms: apostle, attorney, backer, campaigner, champion,
counsel, defender, exponent, expounder, lawyer, pleader, promoter,
proponent, proposer, speaker, spokesperson, supporter, upholder
Antonyms: antagonist, assailant, enemy, OPPOSE, opposition,
protestor

SELECTION
PRETENTION
PERSONAL, LOVE
NATURAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression


Synonyms: air, airs, appearance, artificiality, facade, false front,
front,imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension,
pretentiousness, show, showing off, simulation
Antonyms: NATURAL, simplicity

SPURN
INCORPORATE
ASSOCIATE, UNITE
LOVING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: organization that is associated with another


Synonyms: affil, associate, branch, offshoot, partner, sibling,
Antonyms: SPURN

46) Aggravate

ASSUAGE
TOTAL, GRIEVOUS
COLLECT
DISSIPATE
Def: annoy
Synonyms: be at, be on the back of, bother, bug, dog, exasperate,
gall, get, grate, hack, irk, irritate, nag, needle, nettle, peeve, pester,
pick on, pique, provoke, tease, vex, wig
Notes: to aggravate is to make something worse, while to
exacerbate is to increase something's bitterness or harshness
Ant: appease, gladden, ASSUAGE, mollify, soften

QUICKNESS
AFFILIATION,ATHLETIC

48)Agility

50) Alacrity

ACTIVENESS
AWKWARDNESS

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: physical or mental nimbleness, deftness

Syn: activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, briskness,
celerity, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, friskiness,
litheness, promptness, quickness,quickwittedness,sharpness,
sprightliness,spryness,suppleness, swiftness
Antonyms: clumsiness, stiffness, AWKWARDNESS

EAGERNESS
QUICKNESS, CUSTOM
ASSOCIATION
SLOWNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: liveliness; promptness
Synonyms: alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, dispatch,
eagerness, enthusiasm, expedition, fervor, gaiety, hilarity,
promptitude, quickness, readiness, speed, sprightliness, zeal
Antonyms: apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference,
reluctance, SLOWNESS, unwillingness

52)Alive

54) Alleviate

56)Allure

PASSIVE
DEAD, ASLEEP
DROWSY
ANIMATE
Definition: being animately existent


Synonyms: animate, around, awake, breathing, cognizant,
conscious, dynamic, existing, extant, functioning, growing, knowing,
live, living, mortal, operative, running, subsisting, viable, vital,
working, zoetic
Antonyms: DEAD , deceased, inanimate, lifeless

DIMINISH
RELIEVE, HUMILIATE
REDUCE
WORSEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: relieve; lessen
Synonyms: allay, assuage, ease, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify,
pour oil on, soft-pedal, take the edge off, take the sting out
Antonyms: aggravate, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify,
WORSEN.

CAPTIVATIVE
FASCINATE
CHANT, ADORN
REPEL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appeal


Synonyms: attraction, bedroom eyes, charisma, charm, come-hither
look, come-on, enchantment, enticement, glamor, inveiglement, lure,
magnetism, seductiveness, temptation, the jazz
Antonyms:
REPEL

58) Altruism

60) Amateur

62)
Ambivalent

ALTOGETHER
FALSEHOOD,IMPURE
SELF-CENTERED
TRYST
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unselfish concern
Synonyms: benevolence, charity, humanitarianism, kindness,
magnanimity, philanthropy, public spirit, selflessness, social
conscience
Antonyms: SELFCENTERED

NOVICE, APPRENTICE
INEVITABLE
CONFUSED
PROFESSIONAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: casual participant
Syn: Sunday driver, abecedarian, apprentice, aspirant, beginner,
dabbler, dilettante, greenhorn, ham, hopeful, layperson, learner,
neophyte, novice, probationer, putterer, recruit, tenderfoot, tyro.
Notes: an amateur is someone who pursues a study or sport as a
pastime; a novice is someone who is new to a field. Antonyms:
PROFESSIONAL

WAVERING
CONTRADICTORY
MIXED, DECISIVE
MODEST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: conflicting
Synonyms: clashing, contradictory, debatable, doubtful, equivocal,
fluctuating, hesitant, inconclusive, irresolute, mixed, opposed,
uncertain, undecided, unresolved, unsure, vacillating, warring,
wavering
Antonyms: certain, definite, resolved, settled, sure, unequivocal,
DECISIVE

64)
Ambulatory

66) Amiably

68) Amoral

BEDRIDDEN
RESCUE, PRIMARY
CONGENIAL
ESSENTIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: changing position; able to move under own power


Synonyms: ambulant, itinerant, nomadic, perambulant,
perambulatory, peripatetic, roving, vagabond, vagrant
Antonyms: steady, stiff, unchanging, BEDRIDDEN

SOFT
ADDICTED, HATEFUL
LOVABLE
CORDIALLY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: willingly, assenting; pleasantly; in keeping

Syn: affably, affirmatively, amiably , amicably, benevolently,
charmingly, cheerfully, convivially, favorably, genially, graciously,
happily, kindly, obligingly, peacefully, pleasingly, politely,
satisfactorily, well, wonderfully
Antonyms: dissenting, unpleasantly, HATEFUL

ELEVATED
UNFAITHFUL
IMMORAL, FORMAL
ETHICAL
Definition: immoral, uncontrolled

Syn: abandoned, amoral , animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched,
depraved, desirous, disorderly, dissolute, fast, fleshly, impure,
incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,
lickerish, lubricious, lustful, profligate, reprobate, salacious, satyric,
scabrous.
Antonyms: chaste, controlled, good, ETHICAL

70) Amplify

72)
Analogous

74)
Anathematize

EXPLAINED
DECREASE,IDENTIFY
INTENSIFY
SUPPLY
Part of Speech: verb
Def:increase in size or effect
Synonyms: add, augment, beef up, boost, build up, deepen,
elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, heighten,
hike up, inflate, intensify,lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise,
strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen. Antonyms:
abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, DECREASE,
lessen,shorten,

DIVERSED
SIMILAR, COMPLEX
IMMORAL
DOMINEERING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: agreeing, similar
Synonyms: akin, alike, comparable, consonant, convertible,
correspondent, corresponding, equivalent, homologous,
interchangeable, kindred, like, parallel, related, resembling.
Antonyms: disagreeing, disparate, dissimilar, unalike, unlike,
unrelated, DIVERSED

INDICATE
IRRITATE, REGULATE
FEEBLE
BLESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: curse
Synonyms: accurse, anathemize, comminate, damn,
excommunicate, execrate, imprecate, maledict
Antonyms: BLESS.

76) Anemic

78) Animate

80) Animus

ENERGETIC
LISTLESS
HAZARDOUS, POLITE
HOSTILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak and pale


Synonyms: bloodless, feeble, frail, infirm, pallid, sickly, wan,
watery
Antonyms: flushed, strong, ENERGETIC

SPIRITED
VIGOROUS
BORING, DYNAMIC
EXCITING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring to life


Synonyms: activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize,
enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform,
inspirit, instigate, invigorate, kindle, revive, revivify, rouse, spark,
spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vitalize, vivify
Antonyms: deaden, discourage, kill, BORING

FAVOUR
HATRED, GRUDGE
CLOSE
CRUEL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hostility
Synonyms: bile, mind, spirit, temper
Notes: anima is the source of the female part of personality and
animus is the source of the male part
Antonym: FAVOUR

82) Anomaly

84)
Antecedent

86) Antipathy

IRREGULARITY
REGULARITY
DEVIATION, ASSOCIATION
DEPRESSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deviation from normal, usual


Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation,
eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity,
oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy
Antonyms: conformity, normality, REGULARITY, standard, usual,
usualness

PRECEDING,ATTACHED
CONSEQUENT
ANTE-CHAMBER
INNERMOST
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: prior
Synonyms: anterior, earlier, foregoing, former, past, precedent,
preceding, precursory, preliminary, previous
Antonyms: after, following, CONSEQUENT

FONDNESS, AVERSION
LOATHING
REPUGNANCE
ANTICIPATORY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: strong dislike, disgust
Synonyms: abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism,
aversion, avoidance, contrariety, distaste, dyspathy, enmity, escape,
eschewal, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, rancor, repellency,
repugnance, repulsion
Antonyms: admiration, appreciation, approval, esteem, rapport,
regard, respect, FONDNESS

88) Antithesis

90)
Apocalyptic

92) Apogee

SIMILARITY
QUITE, DIFFERENT
REGULAR
CONTRARY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exact opposite


Synonyms: antipode, antipole, contra, contradictory, contrary,
contrast, converse, counter, flip side, inverse, other side, reverse
Antonyms: same, SIMILARITY

HIGH-SOUNDING
TREE, APPEALING
POETIC
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fateful
Synonyms: ominous, oracular, predictive, prophetic, revealing,
CONCEALED

ELEVATION
PERIGEE, POSTING
TURBAN
PEDIGREE
Definition: pinnacle
Synonyms: acme, apex, climax, crest, peak, summit, zenith
Notes: apogee is the point where an orbiting body is at its farthest
from the Earth (from Greek meaning 'far from the Earth' (apo'away' and ge 'earth')); perigee is the point where the orbiting body
is closest to Earth
Antonyms:
PERIGEE

94) Apposite

96) Arduous

98) Aromatic

INAPPROPRIATE
INTEMPERATE
IRREGULAR,CHAMPION
INCONSISTENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pertinent
Synonyms: germane, relevant, suitable, timely
Antonyms: INAPPROPRIATE

DIFFICULT
EASY, GLUTTONY
EXERTION
EXHAUSTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: difficult, hard to endure
Synonyms: backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing,
formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, no
picnic, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe,
strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill
Antonyms: EASY, facile, motivating

BITTER
ODOURLESS
SWEAT, PUNGENT
CHARMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: distinctive smelling


Synonyms: ambrosial, balmy, fragrant, odoriferous, perfumed,
pungent, redolent, savory, scented, spicy, sweet, sweet-smelling
Antonyms: acrid, bland, unsavory, ODOURLESS

100) Artificial

102) Asperity

104) Astute

SOLID, TRUTHFUL
AUTHENTHIC
NATURAL
BEAUTIFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake; imitation


Synonyms: bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked,
false, falsie, hyped up, manufactured, mock, plastic, sham,
simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural,
unreal
Antonyms: genuine, NATURAL, real

SEVERITY,POLITENESS
ROUGHNESS
COMPLEXITY
SMOOTHNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Def: harshness; bad temper
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, churlishness, crabbiness,
crossness, difficulty, disagreeableness, irascibility, irritability,
meanness, moroseness, peevishness, roughness, sharpness, sourness,
sullenness, tartness
Antonyms: calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness, SMOTHNESS

ORDINARY
SIMPLE, ROUGH
COARSE
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: perceptive
Synonyms: adroit, brainy, bright, calculating, canny, clever, crafty,
discerning, foxy, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, not born
yesterday, on the ball, perspicacious, sagacious, savvy, sharp, sharp
as a tack, shrewd, sly
Antonyms: asinine, idiotic, ignorant, imbecile, obtuse, shallow,
stupid, unintelligent, SIMPLE

106) Attract

REPULSE
REJECT, REPEL
DISTRACT
ABSORB
Definition: draw attention
Synonyms: allure, appeal to, bait, beckon, beguile, bewitch, bring,
captivate, charm, court, drag, draw, enchant, endear, engage,
enthrall, entice, entrance, exert influence, fascinate, freak out, grab,
hook, induce, intrigue, inveigle, invite, kill, knock out, lure,
magnetize, mousetrap, pull, score, seduce, slay, solicit, spellbind,
steer, vamp, wile
Antonyms: REPEL, repulse,

CONDEMN
UNFAVOURABLE

CONSPICUOUS
SPICY, BLESSED

MAGNANIMOUS

AMBIGUOUS
OPERATIONAL

108)
Auspicious
EXIGUOUS,DEPENDENT

110)
Autonomous

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: representative, self-governing

Synonyms: autonomous , common, communal, constitutional,
egalitarian, equal, free, friendly, individualistic, informal, just,
libertarian,orderly, popular, populist, self-ruling, socialist
Antonyms: DEPENDENT

112) Avantgarde

114) Avidity

116) Axiom

UP-TO-DATE
OLD-FASHIONED
GRAVE-DIGGERS
BOASTING, RISE-UP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unconventional, forward-looking


Synonyms: experimental, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal,
new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art,
vanguard
Antonyms: conservative, conventional, OLD-FASHIONED

OVER-ACTIVE
CARELESSNESS
GREEDY, STUPIDITY
SHARPNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: eagerness


Synonyms: avarice, cupidity, enthusiasm, fervor, greediness, intense
desire, longing
Antonyms: apathy, indifference, CARELESSNESS

MAXIM
ANGLE, ABSURDITY
HEIGHT
GRACE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: principle

Synonyms: adage, aphorism, apothegm, device, dictum,
fundamental, law, maxim, moral, postulate, precept, proposition,
proverb, saying, theorem, truism, truth
Antonyms: ABSURDITY, ambiguity, foolishness, nonsense,
paradox

118) Banish

120)
Bagatelle

122) Banal

EXILE
EMBRACE, EXPEL
FINISH
DEPORT
Part of Speech: verb
Def: expel from place or situation
Synonyms: ban, cast out, deport, discard, discharge, dislodge,
dismiss, dispel, drive away, eject, eliminate, eradicate, evict, exclude,
excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expulse, proscribe, relegate,
remove, rusticate, sequester, shake off, shut out, transport
Antonyms: allow, keep, welcome, EMBRACE

SACK
RETICULE,NARRATION
MARSUPIAL
IMPORTANT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trinket


Synonyms: game, knickknack, toy, trifle
Antonyms:
IMPORTANT

BLATANT
BLANT, ORIGINAL
CURSING
COLOURLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: commonplace
Synonyms: bland, bromidic, common, conventional, cornball,
cornfed, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, hokey,
insipid, mundane, noplace, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pabulum,
pedestrian, platitudinous, square, stale, stereotyped, unimaginative,
unoriginal, vapid.
Antonyms: fresh, new, ORIGINAL

124) Bang

126) Baroque

128) Base

RING
BELL, WHIMPER
TWANG
FREEDOM
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: suddenly, with force


Synonyms: abruptly, hard, head on, headlong, noisily, precisely,
smack, straight, suddenly
Antonyms: slowly, WHIMPER

CULTURED
EMBELLISHED
DIFFICULT, DULL
SIMPLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: decorative, especially architecture


Synonyms: bizarre,
convoluted, elaborate, embellished, extravagant, flamboyant, florid,
gilt, grotesque, ornamented, ornate, overdecorated, rich, rococo
Antonyms: plain, unadorned, SIMPLE

ROOF
HEIGHT
TOP
CLIMAX, STAND
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vulgar, low
Synonyms: abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, contemptible,
corrupt, depraved, despicable, dishonorable, disreputable, foul,
humble, ignoble, indelicate, loathsome, lowly, mean, menial, paltry,
pitiful, plebeian, poor, scandalous, servile, shoddy, sleazy, sordid,
sorry, squalid, trashy, ugly, vile,
Antonyms: good, honest, moral, noble, CLIMAX

130) Bauble

132) Bay

134) Belie

PLAYTHING
VALUABLE, MODEST
BESIEGE
INFERIOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trinket
Synonyms: curio, doodad, gewgaw, gimcrack, knickknack, novelty,
trifle, whatnot, VALUABLE

DELTA
PLATEAU, SILENCE
SHORE
BURROW
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shoreline indentation


Synonyms: anchorage, arm, basin, bayou, bight, cove, estuary,
fiord, firth, gulf, harbor, inlet, lagoon, loch, mouth, narrows, sound,
strait
Antonym: PLATEAU.

ARGUE
JUSTIFY, ADMIRE
APPROVE
DENY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disprove


Synonyms: confute, contradict, contravene, controvert, deny,
disaffirm, disagree, explode, gainsay, negate, negative, oppose,
repudiate
Antonyms: attest, prove, JUSTIFY

136) Bellicose

138)
Benefactor

140) Benign

TRANSFORMED
DAZZLING, NOVEL
TORMENT
PEACEFUL
Definition: belligerent
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, battleful,
combative, hostile, pugnacious, quarrelsome, threatening, warlike
Notes: bellicose orients 'prone to fighting' toward an individual
while belligerent refers to an organized body, - a person is bellicose,
a nation is belligerent. Antonyms: calm, easygoing, pacific,
pacifistic, passive, PEACEFUL

SUB-DIVISOR
BENEFICIARY
BENEDICTION,BENEFIT
BENEFICENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: closing prayer
Synonyms: amen, approbation, approval, beatitude, benedictus,
benison, blessing, consecration, favor, grace, gratitude, invocation,
laying on of hands, okay, orison, praise, sanctification, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: anathema, execration, BENEFICIARY

MALEVOLENT
BEGINNING, NOVICE
SYMPATHETIC
NIGHTLY
Definition: kindly
Synonyms: amiable, beneficent, benevolent, benignant,
complaisant, congenial, favorable, friendly, generous, genial, gentle,
good, gracious, kind, liberal, merciful, mild, obliging, sympathetic
Notes: benign refers to a trait or characteristic; benignant to a
tendency or disposition
Antonyms: hateful, hostile, hurtful, injurious, malignant, unkind,
MALEVOLENT

142)
Bequeath

144) Berserk

146) Bewitch

BENEATH
MISUSE, USURP
DISHONESTY
DEFEAT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give in a will
Synonyms: bestow, commit, devise, endow, entrust, grant, hand
down, hand on, impart, leave, leave to, legate, pass on, transmit, will
Antonyms: take, USURP

CALM
CRAZED, INSANE
MANIACAL
UNRIVALLED
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize hatefully
Synonyms: bawl out, blister, call down, castigate, censure, chew
out, chide, cuss out, eat out, jaw, jump all over, rail at, rate, rebuke,
reprimand, reproach, reprove, revile, scold, scorch, upbraid,
vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, hail, praise, CALM

DISENCHANT
RAPTURE, PROFIT
AVAIL
ENCHANT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: charm
Synonyms: allure, attract, bedevil, beguile, captivate, capture,
control, dazzle, draw, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, entrance,
fascinate, hex, hypnotize, knock dead, slay, spellbind, take, trick,
vamp, voodoo, wile
Antonyms: DISENCHANT, disgust, turn off

148) Bigotry

150) Bizarre

152) Bland

CHAUVINISM
PREJUDICE
TOLERANCE
REMORSE, RACISM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intolerance, prejudice

Synonyms: bias, discrimination, dogmatism, fanaticism, injustice,
narrow-mindedness, partiality, provincialism, racialism, racism,
sectarianism, sexism, unfairness
Antonyms: broad-mindedness, fairness, open-mindedness,
TOLERANCE

NORMAL
WEIRD, QUEER
CONCEALED
APPROVED
Definition: strange, wild
Synonyms: bugged out, comical, curious, eccentric,
extraordinary,fantastic,freakish, grody, grotesque, kooky, ludicrous,
odd, oddball, offbeat, outlandish, peculiar, queer, ridiculous, weird
Notes: a bazaar is a shop or market while bizarre means odd or
unusual, macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring
horror;bizarre=unusual/odd
Antonyms: NORMAL, reasonable, usual

TASTELESS
DULL, TIMIT
STIMULATING
BORING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: tasteless; undistinctive

Synonyms: banal, boring, dull, flat, flavorless, humdrum, insipid,
monotonous, nerdy, nothing, pabulum, sapless, tame, tedious,
unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting, unstimulating, vanilla, vapid,
waterish, watery, weak, wimpy,
Antonyms: delicious, distinctive, sharp, tasty, STIMULATING

154) Blas

156) Bleak

158) Bliss

UNCARING
ARDENT, APATHETIC
FORMAL
SUPERFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nonchalant

Synonyms: apathetic, bored, cloyed, disenchanted, disentranced,


glutted, indifferent, jaded, knowing, lukewarm, mundane, satiated,
sophisticate, sophisticated, surfeited, unconcerned, unexcited,
uninterested, unmoved, weary, worldly
Antonyms: enthusiastic, excited, ARDENT

CHEERFUL
ERUPT, DISMAL
DESOLATE
WEAK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: barren
Synonyms: austere, bare, blank, blighted, bombed, bulldozed,
burned, chilly,cleared, cold,deforested, desert, deserted, desolate,
dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, scorched, stripped,
unpopulated, unsheltered, wild, windswept
Antonyms: appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny,
CHEERFUL

MERGE
DISSEMINATE, DULL
SUFFERING
ECSTASY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ecstasy
Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness, euphoria, felicity, gladness,
happiness, joy, paradise, rapture
Antonyms: grief, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, upset , DULL

160)
Blooming

162)
Boisterous

164) Boorish

FADING
FLOWERING
QUIET, MILD
FLOURISHING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flower; flourish
Synonyms: be in flower, bear fruit, blossom, blow, bud, burgeon,
burst, develop, effloresce, fructify, germinate, grow, open, prosper,
sprout, succeed, tassel out, thrive, wax
Antonyms: shrink, shrivel, wither, FADING

CALM
ROARING, TODAY
AIRY
NOISY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: noisy and mischievous
Synonyms: bouncy, brawling, clamorous, disorderly, effervescent,
impetuous, loud, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, riotous,
rollicking, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, unrestrained,
unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild
Antonyms: CALM, quiet, restrained, silent

UNTROUBLED,JUVENILE
CIVILIZED
UNCIVILZED
WELL-MANNERED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, awkward
Synonyms: barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, cloddish, clodhopping,
clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gruff, inurbane, loutish,
lowbred, oafish, ornery, rude, swinish, ugly, uncouth, ungracious,
unpoised, unpolished, unrefined,
Antonyms: charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined,
sophisticated ,WELL-MANNERED

166) Brawl

168) Brevity

170) Brief

AGREE
POLISH, GLAZE
MODEST
SCUFFLE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: nasty fight
Synonyms: affray, altercation, argument, battle, bickering, broil,
clash, disorder, dispute, donnybrook, feud, fight, fracas, fray, fuss,
hassle, melee, quarrel, rhubarb, riot, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle,
squabble, tumult, uproar, wrangle
Antonyms: peace, truce ,AGREE

PROLIXITY
CLOWN, RUSTIC
SPOIL
SHORTNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shortness, briefness


Synonyms: conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness,
curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness,
pointedness, succinctness, terseness, transience, transitoriness
Antonyms: lengthiness, longevity, permanence , PROLIXITY

LONG, EXPANDED
ELABORATE
DETAILED
BLANK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: short, compressed


Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, boiled down, breviloquent,
brusque, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, hasty,
laconic, limited, little, pithy, sharp, skimpy, small, snippy, succinct,
surly, terse, to the point
Antonyms: lengthy, long , ELABORATE

172) Brusque

174) Bucolic

SWEEP, SUDDEN
OBSEQUIOUS
IMMEDIATE
HUSK
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: curt, surly


Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, crusty, discourteous, gruff,
hasty, impolite, sharp, short, snappy, snippy, tart, terse, unmannerly
Antonyms: courteous, kind, polite, tactful , OBSEQUIOUS

RUSTIC, PASTORAL
VINDICTIVE
URBAN
UNEDUCATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rural or rustic


Synonyms: Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, countrified, country,
pastoral
Antonym: URBAN

EXAMINE
DIG OUT

176) Burry

EXHUME, DRAW
ENCLOSE

178) Busy

180)
Cadaverous

BULLY
CURB, INDOLENCE
OCCUPIED
ENGAGED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: engaged, at work

Synonyms: active, assiduous, at it, buried, diligent, employed,
engaged, engrossed, having a full plate, hustling, industrious,
occupied, overloaded, persevering, slaving, snowed, swamped, tied
up, unavailable, working
Antonyms: idle, quiet, unbusy, unemployed, unengaged ,
INDOLENCE

SANGUINE
BURNISHED, LUCID
JARGON
DEPENDABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pale, corpselike
Synonyms: ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive,
dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly,
ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick,
skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted
Antonyms: flushed, lifelike, lively , SANGUINE

INABILITY
BRAVE

182) Calibre

DISTINCT, YIELDING
TEMPERAMENT

184) Callow

HOLLOW
SALLOW
EXPERIENCED
CLIMB, FERTILE
Definition: immature
Synonyms: crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune,
jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, puerile, raw, sophomore,
tenderfoot, unfledged, unripe, untrained, untried, young
Notes: callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while
shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge
Ant: EXPERIENCED, initiated, sophisticated

RAPPORT,SOCIABILITY

186)
Camaraderie

188) Candor

FRIENDSHIP
HOSTILITY

LEADERSHIP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendship
Synonyms: cheer, companionability, companionship, comradeship,
conviviality, esprit de corps, fellowship, gregariousness, intimacy,
jollity, sociability, togetherness
Antonyms: bad blood, dislike, hate , HOSTILITY

DISHONESTY
HONESTY, PERFUME
OPENNESS
FLAVOUR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complete honesty


Synonyms: artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness,
frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, openness,
outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, truthfulness,
unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity
Ant: artifice, deception, falsehood, DISHONESTY

190)
Capricious

192) Captive

194) Carnage

CONSISTENT,ADAMANT
PERMANENT
CONTINUOUS
TEMPORARY
Part of Speech: adjective Def: given to sudden behavior change

Synonyms: arbitrary, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety,
effervescent, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, freakish, impulsive,
inconstant, lubricious, mercurial,moody,mutable, odd, queer,
unpredictable, unreasonable, unstable, vagarious
Antonyms: constant, dependable, sensible, staid, steadfast, steady ,
CONSISTENT

ENCHANT
ARREST, DAZZLE
TANTALIZE
DISGUST
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: physically held by force


Synonyms: bound, caged, confined, enslaved, ensnared, imprisoned,
incarcerated, incommunicado, jailed, penned, restricted,
subjugated, under lock and key
Antonyms: free, independent, loose , DISGUST

MASSACRE, PARODY
DELIVERANCE
REBUKE
SLAUGHTER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: massacre
Synonyms: annihilation, blitz, blood, butchering, butchery, crime,
extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing,
liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine,
search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, warfare, wasting
Antonyms: DELIVERANCE

196)
Carnivorous

198) Cascade

200)
Castigate

VEGETARIAN
MERRY-MAKING
FLESH-EATING
DEJECTED, PASSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eating animal flesh


Synonyms: cannibal, flesh-eating, hungry, omnivorous, predatory,
rapacious
Antonyms: vegetarian , VEGETARIAN

RAPIDS
TRICKLE, FALL
DIAMOND
BUNCH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something falling, especially water

Synonyms: avalanche, cataract, chute, deluge, downrush, falls,
flood, force, fountain, outpouring, precipitation, rapids, shower,
spout, torrent, watercourse, waterfall
Antonyms: TRICKLE

PRAISE
OPINE, EXHORT
SQUEAL
COMPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Def: criticize severely
Synonyms: baste, bawl out, beat, berate, blister, cane, censure,
chasten, chastise,correct, criticize, discipline, drub, excoriate, flay,
flog, lambaste, lash, lay out, lean on, penalize, pummel, punish, rail,
rate, ream, rebuke,reprimand,scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge,
thrash,upbraid, whip
Antonyms: compliment, laud, PRAISE

202) Casual

204)
Cataclysm

206)
Categorical

INFORMAL
RESERVE, OFFHAND
RELATION
NON-CHALANT
Definition: chance, random
Synonyms: accidental, adventitious,contingent, extemporaneous,
extempore, fluky, fortuitous, impromptu, improvised, impulsive,
incidental, infrequent, spontaneous, uncertain, unexpected
Notes: casual means suited for everyday use, informal or occurring
by chance - while causal means involving or constituting a cause
Antonyms: deliberate, painstaking, RESERVE

PEACE, DELUGE
QUIBBLE
CONJECTURE
STIMULATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disaster
Synonyms: calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion,
crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, holy
mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess,
upheaval, waterloo, woe
Antonyms: boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder ,
PEACE

BRANDED
CLASSIFIED, TRAGIC
SATIRICAL
QUALIFIED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: explicit, unconditional
Synonyms: absolute, certain, definite, definitive, direct, downright,
emphatic, express, forthright, no holds barred, positive, specific,
sure, ultimate, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmitigated.
Antonyms: ambiguous, conditional, equivocal, implied, qualified,
questionable, tentative, uncategorical, vague , QUALIFIED

208) Cautious

LOOSE, RECKLESS
WAVERING
DISHONEST
WATCHFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, guarded
Synonyms: alert, cagey, calculating, chary, circumspect,
considerate, gingerly, heedful, judicious, politic, provident, prudent,
pussyfoot, safe, shrewd, tentative, vigilant, wary, watchful
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, imprudent, incautious, rash,
thoughtless, uncareful, unguarded, unobservant, RECKLESS

MOURNING
MATRIMONY, CELEBRITY

210) Celibacy

212) Censor

CHERISHING
ASSOCIATION

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: abstinence from sexual activity

Synonyms: abstention, chastity, continence, frigidity, impotence,


maidenhood, purity, singleness, virginity, virtue
Antonyms: promiscuousness, MATRIMONY

ACCEPT
BAN, ALLOW
SUPPRESS
PURGE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: forbid; ban; selectively remove
Synonyms: abridge, black out, blacklist, bleach, bleep, conceal,
control, cork, criticize, cut, decontaminate, delete, edit, examine,
excise, expurgate, exscind, inspect, launder, narrow, oversee, purge,
purify, repress, restrain, restrict, review, revile, sanitize, suppress,
withhold
Antonyms: ALLOW, endorse, permit, sanction

214)
Centrifugal

CENTRIPETAL
ATTRACTED, LASTING
IMPORTANT
MATHEMATICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: radiating from a central point


Synonyms: deviating, diffusive, divergent, diverging, eccentric,
efferent, outward, radial, spiral, spreading
Notes: centrifugal force pulls away or pushes outward; centripetal
draws toward or pulls inward
Antonyms: CENTRIPETAL

216) Chaffing

CAPITALISTIC
HAPPILY, SNEERING
SERIOUS
LIGHT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: joke, ridicule
Synonyms: banter, deride, fun, jeer, jolly, josh, kid, mock, rag,
rally, razz, rib, scoff, taunt, tease
Notes: to chafe means to rub until sore or worn; to chaff means to
tease good-naturedly
Antonyms ; SERIOUS

218) Cheerful

SANGUINE
LUSTRE, GRIN
SATURNINE
FIERY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy
Synonyms: airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, bright, bucked, buoyant,
cheery, chipper, effervescent, enlivening, hilarious,
hopeful,jaunty,jocund, jolly, joyful, lighthearted, lively, merry,
peppy, perky, rosy, sanguine, snappy, sparkling, sprightly, upbeat,
vivacious, winsome, zappy, zingy, zippy
Ant: cheerless, depressed, gloomy, SATURNINE

SERIOUSLY
QUIETLY, LIVELY
B

HEARTLESSLY
GLOOMY

VELVET-LIKE
PROMINENT
E

CONVINCING
OBEDIENT, ROUGH

220) Cheerly

222) Chenille

224) Cherry

HARD
SOFT, WRONG
SMALL
REDDISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bright red color
Synonyms: blooming, blushing, bright red, cerise, claret, crimson,
dark red, erubescent, incarnadine, reddish, rosy, rubescent,
rubicund, ruddy
Antonyms: HARD

226) Chic

BITTER
MODERN, STYLISH
OLD
LATEST
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fashionable
Synonyms: current, dap, dapper, dashing, elegant, exclusive,
faddish, last word, latest thing, mod, modern, modish, natty, sharp,
smart, stylish, swank, trendy, voguish, with-it
Antonyms: dull, old-fashioned, out-moded, unfashionable , OLD

SOFTDRINK, POLITE
SOFTF OOD

SMALL QUANTITY
HUGE AMOUNT

ECONOMICAL

UNNATURAL
IMAGINARY

228) Chicken
food
REALISTIC,WONDERFUL

230)
Chimerical

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: fabulous


Synonyms: absurd, delusive, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, imaginary,
mythical, unfounded, unreal, utopian, visionary, wild
Antonym; REALISTIC

232) Churlish

ACCOMMODATING
POLITE, HELPFUL
HAPPY
RELIGIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crude, boorish
Synonyms: base, blunt, brusque, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed,
crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff,
grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, sullen,
surly, ugly, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly,
unpolished, unsociable, vulgar
Antonyms: gentle, nice, pleasant, POLITE

234)
Circumlocuti
on

AMASS, AMBIGUITY
EFFUSION
SIMPLICITY
COMPLEXITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: indirect speech
Synonyms: beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness,
discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase,
periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology, verbality,
verbiage, wordiness
Antonyms: conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness,
SIMPLICITY

236)
Clandestine

OPEN, SURREPTITOUS
CONCOURSE
PERPETRATE
CONCEALED
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mark off, delimit


Synonyms: bar, bound, confine, define, delineate, demarcate,
encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, hamper, hem in, limit,
nail down, outline, prelimit, restrain, restrict, surround, trammel
Antonyms: free, loose, OPEN

238)
Clemency

240)
Cognizant

242) Come

CORPORAL
COMPROMISE
SENSIBILITY,INTOLERANCE
TRANSFORMATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forgiveness
Synonyms: caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness,
fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence,
justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness,
mercy, mildness, moderation, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance,
toleration
Antonyms: no mercy , INTOLERANCE

RUMINATE
UNAWARE, ABRIDGE
INCAUTIOUS
CONSCIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aware
Synonyms: acquainted, alive, apprehensive, au courant, awake,
conscious, conversant, down with, familiar, grounded, informed,
judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive, savvy,
sensible, sentient, versed, wise to, with it, witting
Antonyms: ignorant, UNAWARE, unfamiliar, uninformed,
unknowledgeable, unwitting

PLAY
FAST, GO
GOT
APPROACH
Part of Speech: verb
Def: advance, approach
Synonyms: appear, arrive, attain, be accessible, be at disposal, be
convenient, be handy, be obtainable, be ready, become, burst, check
in, enter, get, get in, happen, hit, hit town, make it, materialize,
move, near, occur, originate, reach, show
Antonyms: depart, go, leave, recede, retreat, GO

244)
Commend

246)
Competent

248)
Compliant

SUSPEND
ADMONISH, HATE
DISLIKE
PRAISE
Part of Speech: verb Def: recommend, praise

Synonyms: acclaim, accredit, advocate, applaud, approve, boost,
build, build up, compliment, countenance, endorse, eulogize, extol,
kudize, laud, pat on the back, puff up, sanction, speak highly of,
stroke, support
Antonyms: censure, criticize, disapprove, rebuke, reprimand,
DISLIKE

DULL
DELIGENT
INEFFICIENT
NOBLE, SKILFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: able
Synonyms: adapted, adequate, appropriate, capable, clever,
complete, crisp, decent, dynamite, efficient, endowed, enough, equal,
fireball, fit, fool, good, polished, proficient, qualified, satisfactory,
savvy, skilled, sufficient, suitable.
Antonyms: inadequate, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inept,
unable, INEFFICIENT

DEFECTIVE, ADAMANT
ELEMANTRY
APPRECIATIVE
REJECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obedient


Synonyms: docile, easy, flexible, manageable, meek, submissive,
tractable, willing, yielding
Antonyms: recalcitrant, ADAMANT

250)
Concluding

252) Confess

254) Conquer

INFERENCE
INCIPIENT
PREMISE, NADIR
ENDING
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: finish, come to an end


Synonyms: achieve, bring down curtain, call it a day, cease, cinch,
clinch, close, close out, complete, consummate, crown, desist, draw
to close, end, halt, stop, terminate, ultimate, wrap up
Antonyms: begin, commence, introduce, preface, start, INCIPIENT

DENY
REFUSE, CONTEST
CONTEND
ADMIT
Part of Speech: verb
Def: admit, confirm
Synonyms: acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow,
blow, chirp, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, evince, fink,
grant, manifest, narrate, post, profess, prove, recognize, relate,
reveal, snitch, squeal, unload, vent, weasel
Antonyms: conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate,
secrete, DENY

CONCUR
TRIUMPH, ATTACK
CAPITAL
CAPITULATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: defeat, overcome
Synonyms: beat, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, control, crush,
discomfit, drub, foil, frustrate, humble, lick, master,
outwit,overpower,override, overthrow, prevail, quell, rout, subdue,
surmount, thwart, trash, triumph, vanquish, whip, map, worst
Antonyms: capitulate, fail, give up, lose, retreat, succumb,
surrender, yield, CAPITULATE

256)
Considerable

258)
Conspicuous

260)
Controvert

INADEQUATE
INATTENTIVE
USUAL, COMMON
SIGNIFICANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abundant, large
Synonyms: ample, appreciable, astronomical, big, comfortable,
commodious, extensive, goodly, great, hefty, huge, lavish, major,
marked, much, noticeable, plentiful, pretty, reasonable, respectable,
sizable, substantial, tidy, tolerable
Antonyms: inconsiderable, insignificant, little, slight, small,
undistinguished, INADEQUATE

INDIFFERENT
HARMLESS
INSIGNIFICANT
UNKNOWN, EVIDENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obvious, easily seen


Synonyms: apparent, clear, discernible, distinct, evident, manifest,
noticeable, patent, perceptible, plain, visible
Antonyms: concealed, hidden, imperceptible, inconspicuous,
obscure, secret, unnoticeable, unremarkable, unseen,
INSIGNIFICANT

AGREE
DENY, PRESUME
DEVOUR
CONFINE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inhibit
Synonyms: astringe, choke, circumscribe, clench, compress,
concentrate, condense, confine, constringe, contract, cramp, curb,
limit, narrow, pinch, restrain, restrict, shrink, squeeze, strangle,
strangulate, tense, tighten, tuck. Antonyms: expand, free, loosen,
open, release, AGREE

262) Copious

264)
Corpulence

266)
Consummate

PLENTIFUL, LITTLE
ACCOMMODATIVE
ABUNDANT
HUGE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abundant
Synonyms: ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, extensive,
exuberant, full, galore, generous, heavy, lavish, liberal, lush,
luxuriant, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolix,
replete, rich, superabundant, verbose, wordy
Antonyms: lacking, meager, needing, needy, poor, rare, scarce,
wanting, LITTLE

SLENDER
CHEERFUL, GUILT
POVERTY
INTERFERENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overweight
Synonyms: adiposity, breadth, bulkiness, corpulence , distension,
flab, flesh, fleshiness, girth, grossness, heaviness, heftiness, inflation,
largeness, plumpness, portliness, protuberance, pudginess,
rotundity, size, stoutness, tumidity,
Antonyms: skinniness, slimness, thinness, underweight, SLENDER

COPULATE
NOVICE
INSEMINATE
MATE, MIX
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: ultimate, best
Synonyms: able, absolute, complete, conspicuous, faultless, finished,
flawless, gifted, ideal, impeccable, inimitable, matchless, peerless,
perfect, perfected, polished, ripe, skilled, superb, superlative,
talented, trained, transcendent, unmitigated, unqualified,
unsurpassable, utter,
Ant: incomplete, unfinished, worst, INSEMINATE

268) Cordial

270) Court

272) Coy

ANTIPATHIC
NON-SERIOUS
INDIFFERENT
AWKWARD,GRACIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: friendly, sociable
Synonyms: affable,affectionate,agreeable, amicable, cheerful,
clubby, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial,
glowing, gracious, happy, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial.
Antonyms: aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent,
inhospitable, uncordial, unfriendly, unpleasant, INDIFFERENT

TRIBUNAL
CLAIM, SUPPLY
ACCEPT
REJECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: yard, garden of building


Synonyms: cloister, close, compass, courtyard, curtilage, enclosure,
forum, patio, piazza, plaza, quad, quadrangle, square, street
Antonym: REJECT

MODEST
DEMURE, BRAZEN
TIMID
BOISTEROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very modest
Synonyms: backward, bashful, blushing, coquettish, demure,
diffident, evasive, flirtatious, humble, kittenish, overmodest,
prudish, rabbity, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shrinking, shy,
skittish, timid, unassertive
Antonyms: aggressive, forward, immodest, impudent, unshy,
BRAZEN

274) Craven

276)
Credulous

278) Cryptic

GREEDY
GENEROUS
COWARD
TACKY, BRAVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: weak, timid
Synonyms: cowardly, dastardly, fearful, gutless, lily-livered,
poltroonish, pusillanimous, scared, timorous, wimpish, wimpy,
wussy.
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, heroic, strong, BRAVE

INNOCENT
UNBELIEVING
CREDULENT
WORTH, CREDITABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gullible, naive
Synonyms: accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable,
overtrusting, simple, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning,
unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary
Notes: credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible'
Antonyms: skeptical, suspecting, UNBELIEVING

ARTIFICIAL, CANDID
SUPERFICIAL
ATTRACTIVE
MYSTERIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic,
dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, incomprehensible,
murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, occult, oracular,
puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear,
unfathomable, uninformative.
Antonyms: clear, obvious, plain, CANDID

280) Culpable

282) Cupidity

284) Curtail

ARROGANT
INNOCENT, CULPRIT
INFORMAL
VAGABOND
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: responsible for action
Synonyms: amiss, answerable, at fault, blamable, blameful,
blameworthy, caught, censurable, demeritorious, dirty, guilty,
impeachable, indictable, liable, off base, punishable, reprehensible,
responsible, sinful, unholy, wrong
Antonyms: blameless, inculpable, innocent, not guilty, right,
INNOCENT,

CURIOSITY
WINE-WORSHIPPING
ATROCITY, CLARITY
GENEROSITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: greed, strong desire
Synonyms: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity,
covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger,
infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning
Antonyms: dislike, distaste, GENEROSITY

TRIM
REDUCE, MUTTER
ATTACH
EXTEND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cut short; abridge


Synonyms: abbreviate, chop, clip, contract, cramp, cut, decrease,
diminish, dock, downsize, halt, lessen, lop, minify, pare down, put in
nutshell, reduce, retrench, roll back, shorten, slash, trim, truncate
Antonyms: extend, increase, lengthen, EXTEND

286) Dainty

288) Damp

290) Dapper

HARDWORKING
VIGOROUS
THREAD BEAR
HARSH, EXQUISITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: delicate, fragile, fine
Synonyms: airy, attractive, beautiful, bonny, charming, choice,
comely, cute, delectable, delightful,
diaphanous,elegant,ethereal,exquisite, fair, frail, graceful,
lacy,lovely, neat, nice, palatable, petite, pleasing, precious, pretty,
rare, refined, savory, select, soft, subtle, superior, sweet,
Ant: clumsy, coarse, harsh, heavy, VIGOROUS

SOGGY
MOIST, DEEP
BURRIED
ARID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wet, humid


Synonyms: clammy, cloudy, dank, dewy, drenched, dripping,
drippy, drizzly, irriguous, misty, moist, muggy, oozy, saturated,
soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, steam bath, steamy, sticky,
vaporous, waterlogged, wettish
Antonyms: arid, dessicated, dried, dry, ARID

UNTIDY
MOIST, USEFUL
INEVITABLE
HINDER
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: well-groomed, neat
Synonyms: bandbox, brisk, chic, classy, clean, dainty, dashing,
doggy, jaunty, natty, nice, nifty, nimble, nobby, posh, prim, rakish,
ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, smart, snazzy, snug, spiff, spiffy, spruce,
spry, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, trim
Antonyms: dirty, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, scruffy, shabby,
sloppy, tousled, UNTIDY

292)
Dauntless

294) Dead

296) Dearth

COURAGEOUS
STRONG, STIRRED
FAMOUS
COWARDLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: bold, courageous
Synonyms: aweless, brave, daring, doughty, fearless, gallant, game,
heroic, indomitable, intrepid, invincible, lionhearted, resolute,
stouthearted, unafraid, unconquerable, undaunted, unfearing,
unflinching, valiant, valorous
Antonyms: afraid, daunted, discouraged, fearful, frightened,
intimidated, scared, COWARDLY

SLOW
FAST, QUICK
DYE
RISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: no longer alive
Synonyms: asleep, bloodless, breathless, buried, cadaverous, cold,
defunct, departed, erased, expired, extinct, gone, inanimate, inert,
late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, offed, perished,
reposing, stiff, unanimated, wasted
Antonyms: alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living,
subsisting, QUICK

SCARCITY,ABUNDANCE
EXTRAVAGANCE
SUFFICIENCY
SHORTAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: insufficiency, scarcity
Synonyms: absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness,
famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need,
paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness,scantness,shortage,
slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want
Antonyms: ABUNDANCE, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency

298) Debar

ENERGY
ENTITLE, RECITE
DEVIATE
DENY
Part of Speech: verb
Def: prohibit
Synonyms: blackball, deny, deprive, exclude, forbid, hinder,
preclude, prevent, refuse, reject, suspend
Notes: debar means to bar from a place or prevent from exercising
a right; disbar means to expel from the bar or legal profession
Antonym: ENTITLE

PROTECTION
STRENGTHENING
Antonym: STRENGTHENING

SECURING
OCCUPYING,WEAKNESS

300)
Debilitating

302)
Deciduous

HILLY, EVERGREEN
DECISIVE
DIVISIBLE
HUNGRY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not around for long
Synonyms: brief, deciduous , ephemeral, evanescent,
fleeting,fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, of short
duration, over in a heartbeat, passing, quick, short, temporary,
transient, transitory
Antonyms: enduring, ethereal, lasting, lengthy, permanent,
EVERGREEN

304)
Defection

306) Deficit

308)
Degenerate

UNITE
STRENGTHEN
JOIN, SEPARATE
DESERTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abandonment
Synonyms: alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction,
desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, estrangement,
failing, failure, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreancy,
rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, severance, sundering,
tergiversation, withdrawal
Antonyms: joining, JOIN,

SUPERFLUOUS
SURPLUS, EXPLICIT
IMPLICIT
SHORTFALL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shortage of something needed, required
Synonyms: arrears, dead horse, defalcation, default, deficiency,
dues, inadequacy, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, paucity, red
ink, scantiness, shortcoming, shortfall, underage
Antonyms: enough, excess, plenty, superfluousness, SURPLUS,

DISINTEGRATE
ENRICH, IMPROVE
CONSECRATE
SPOIL
Def: corrupt, deteriorated
Synonyms: base, debased, debauched, decadent, demeaned,
depraved, dissolute, effete, fallen, flatitious, mean, miscreant,
nefarious, overripe, perverted, retrogressive, vicious, villainous,
Notes: to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a
scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to be lowered, or
reduced in value';
Antonyms: moral, upright, virtuous, IMPROVE

310)
Deleterious

312) Deluge

314) Demon

FATAL
NOURISHING, VITAL
INJURIOUS
PERNICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: harmful, damaging


Synonyms: bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful,
injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial,
prejudicious, ruining, ruinous
Antonyms: aiding, assisting, helpful, NOURISHING,

ECSTATIC
RAVAGE, ARROGANT
DEARTH
INUNDATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: downpour, flood of something


Synonyms: avalanche, barrage, cataclysm, cataract, drencher, flux,
inundation, niagara, overflowing, overrunning, pour, rush, spate,
torrent
Antonym:
DEARTH

GIANT
GENTLE, ANGEL
SATAN
HOBGOBLIN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: evil, devilish being or influence


Synonyms: Satan, archfiend, beast, brute, fiend, goblin, hellion,
imp, incubus, little devil, malignant spirit, monster, rascal, rogue,
succubus, vampire, villain
Antonyms: angel, god, ANGEL

316) Demure

318)
Deprecate

320) Derision

SEDATE
CLOSE, INDECOROUS
OPEN
SHY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reserved, affected
Syn: backward, bashful, blushing, close, coy, decorous, diffident,
earnest, humble, modest, nice, prim, prissy, proper, prudish,
reticent, retiring, sedate, serious, shy, skittish, sober, solemn, staid
Note:demur is verb 'to object or voice opposition' while demure is
adj meaning 'modest, shy'
Ant: aggressive, bold, extroverted, INDECOROUS

UPHOLD
RECOMMEND
APPROVE, AGREE
REDUCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: belittle, condemn


Synonyms: cut down to size, depreciate, derogate, detract,
disapprove of, discommend, discountenance, disesteem, disfavor,
disparage, expostulate, frown, mudsling, not go for, object.
Antonyms: approve, build up, commend, compliment, endorse,
laud, praise, APPROVE

CONTEMPT
RIDICULE, DIVISION
SEGREGATION
RESPECT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult, disrespect
Synonyms: Bronx cheer, backhanded compliment, brickbat,
comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, disdain, disparagement, jab,
jest, laughter, mockery, object of ridicule, pilgarlic, raillery, ridicule,
satire, scoffing, scorn, slap, sneering
Antonyms: adulation, commendation, compliment, flattery, praise,
RESPECT

322)
Descendant

324) Deserted

326)
Despicable

ANCESTOR
ANCIENT, ISSUE
SOPHISTICATED
BROOD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person in line of ancestry


Synonyms: brood, child, children, heir, issue, kin, offshoot,
offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed,
Antonyms: ascendant, predecessor, ANCESTOR

SYMPATHIZER
FAVOURITE
FLATTERER
LOYALIST, CULPRIT
Definition: abandon, defect
Syn:abscond, apostatize, beach, betray, bolt, chuck, decamp, depart,
escape, fly, forsake, jilt,leave, light, maroon, quit, relinquish,
renounce, resign, strand,tergiversate, vacate Notes: impoverished
stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's';that rich
gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in
two of them
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, stay, LOYALIST

WORTHY
CONTEMPTIBLE
EARN, PURITY
VANE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hateful; beyond contempt
Synonyms: abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, contemptible,
degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, down,
ignominious, infamous, insignificant, loathsome, low, mean, pitiful,
reprehensible, shameful, sordid, vile,
Antonyms: desirous, honorable, likeable, loveable, respectable,
virtuous, WORTHY

328)
Desultory

330) Devious

332) Devotion

DISCONNECTED
LACKING ORDER
PERTINENT, RANDOM
FREQUENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: random
Synonyms: aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard,
orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without
purpose
Antonym:
PERTINENT,

INDIRECT
DIRECT, RANDOM
ABNORMAL
ZIGZAG
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, crafty
Syn: artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, duplicitous, errant,
erring, evasive, fishy, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere,
oblique,obliquitous, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd,
sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous.
Antonyms: artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward,
trustworthy, truthful, DIRECT

LOYALTY
DISREGARD, REGARD
DEDICATION
DENY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: commitment; loyalty
Synonyms: adherence, adoration, affection, allegiance, ardor,
attachment, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference,
devotement, devoutness, earnestness, enthusiasm, faithfulness,
fealty, fervor, fidelity, intensity, piety, sanctity, service, sincerity,
spirituality, worship, zeal
Ant:apathy,carelessnes,indifference, DISREGARD,

334)
Dexterity

336)
Diacritical

338) Didactic

FACILITY
PURITY, CLUMSINESS
ADROITNESS
FAMILIARITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: aptitude, ability

Synonyms: address, adroitness, aptness, art, artistry, cleverness,
craft, cunning, deftness, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, facility,
finesse, handiness, ingenuity, knack, mastery, neatness, nimbleness,
proficiency, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, tact, touch
Antonyms:awkwardness, CLUMSINESS, ineptness

SCATHING
MORDANT, CRITIQUE
ORDINARY
MORDENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: distinguishing
Synonyms: discriminating, marking
Antonym:
ORDINARY

MISLEADING
WARBLING
ALLEGIANCE
UNFAIR, IGNORABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: educational
Synonyms: academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening,
exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral,
moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive,
schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly,
teachy
Antonym: MISLEADING

340)
Diffidence

342) Dilate

344)
Dilettante

ACUTENESS
SHYNESS, HINDRANCE
SHARPNESS
BOLDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hesitancy; lack of confidence


Synonyms: backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear,
hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness,
reluctance, reserve, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness,
timorousness, unassertiveness
Antonyms: BOLDNESS, confidence

INFLATE
EXPAND, DELAY
PERFORMANCE
CONTRACT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stretch, widen
Synonyms: amplify, augment, be profuse, broaden, develop,
distend, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, extend, increase,
inflate, lengthen, prolong, protract, swell
Antonyms: compress, constrict, contract, lessen, reduce,
CONTRACT

STUPID
RAPID, TIDY
PROFESSIONAL
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amateurish
Synonyms: artsy fartsy, dabbling, half-baked, rookie, tenderfoot,
unaccomplished, ungifted, unskilled
Antonyms: professional, STUPID

346) Diminish

348) Din

350) Disabuse

DECREASE
INCREASE
LOWER
RISE, FINISH
Part of Speech: verb
Def:become or cause to be less
Synonyms: abate, abbreviate, attenuate, become smaller, close,
contract, curtail, cut, decrease, depreciate, drain, dwindle, ebb,
extenuate, lower, minify, moderate, recede, reduce, retrench,shrink,
shrivel, slacken, subside, taper, temper, wane
Antonyms: develop, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, INCREASE,
lengthen, prolong

CLAMOR
RACKET, UPROAR
FEEBLE
SILENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: loud, continuous noise
Synonyms: babel, bedlam, boisterousness, brouhaha, buzz, clamor,
clangor, clash, clatter, commotion, confusion, crash, disquiet, jangle,
music, outcry, pandemonium, percussion, racket, row, shout, sound,
stridency, tintamarre, tintinnabulation, tumult, uproar
Antonym: SILENCE

IMPOSE
DECEIVE, UNTIE
CRUSH
ENFORCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: free from belief


Synonyms: correct, debunk, disenchant, disillusion, enlighten,
expose, free, liberate, rectify, rid
Antonym: DECEIVE

352)
Disconsolate

354) Discount

356) Disdain

DESERTED
JOYOUS, FREE
ALONE
FRUSTRATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: depressed, unhappy
Synonyms: bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, crushed,
dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited,
distressed, doleful, downcast, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, inconsolable,
melancholy, miserable, ripped, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone,
woeful, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, consoled, happy, JOYOUS

PROFIT
ACCOUNT, INTEREST
PREMIUM
DEDUCTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reduction in cost
Synonyms: abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, cut
rate, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback,
exemption, markdown, modification, percentage, premium,
qualification, rebate, remission, rollback, salvage, something off,
subtraction, tare
Antonyms: increase, premium, rise, PREMIUM

HAUGHTTINESS
ERRONEOUS
RESPECT, CONTEMPT
DESPISE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: hate; indifference
Synonyms: antipathy, arrogance, aversion, contempt, contumely,
derision, despisal, despisement, disparagement, hatred, haughtiness,
hauteur, insolence, loftiness, ridicule, scorn, sneering,
snobbishness,superbity, superciliousness
Antonyms: admiration, esteem, favor, like, love, praise, RESPECT

358) Dissipate

360) DistaffSide

362) Docile

ACCUMULATE
DISTIL, PERCOLATE
EMANATE
LAVISH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: expend, spend
Synonyms: be wasteful with, burn up, consume, deplete, indulge
oneself, kiss goodbye, lavish, misspend, misuse, run through,
squander, throw away, trifle away, use up, waste
Antonyms: ACCUMULATE, collect, gather, hoard, save

OBSERVE, CONVERSE
SPEAR-SIDE
FRIENDLY-SIDE
BLUNT-SIDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: women's side of family
Synonyms: womanhood, womankind, womenfolk, womenfolks
Antonyms: SPEAR-SIDE

SMOOTH, HUMBLE
AUTHORITATIVE
LITTORAL
VENIAL
Part of Speech: adjective Def: compliant, submissive

Synonyms: accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable,
biddable, complacent, cool, docious, ductile, gentle, humble,
manageable, meek, mellow, obedient, pliable, pliant, resigned, tame,
teachable, tractable, usable, willing,yielding
Ant: determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate,
AUTHORITATIVE

364)
Dogmatic

366) Droll

368) Dull

PEREMPTORY
SPELLBOUND,SIMPLE
UNSCRUPULOUS
UNCERTAIN
Def: dictatorial, opinionated
Syn: arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, bigoted, bullheaded, cocksure,
despotic, doctrinaire, domineering, egotistical, emphatic, fanatical,
fascistic, imperious, intolerant, obdurate, obstinate, peremptory,
pigheaded, prejudiced, stubborn, tenacious, tyrannical, unequivocal,
Ant: amenable, doubting, flexible, indecisive, manageable, obedient,
UNSCRUPULOUS

TOY, ROLLER
WHIMSICAL
CUSTOMARY
SHOUT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amusing, farcical
Synonyms: absurd, camp, campy, clownish, comic, comical,
diverting, eccentric, entertaining, funny, gelastic, humorous, jocular,
joshing, laffer, laughable, ludicrous, odd, preposterous, quaint,
queer, quizzical, ridiculous, riot, risible, waggish, whimsical
Antonyms: dramatic, serious, traumatic, unfunny, CUSTOMARY

PALE
WISE, SHINING
COLOURFUL
FOOLISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unintelligent
Synonyms: addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy,
daft, dense, dim, doltish, dumb, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent,
insensate, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse, scatterbrained,
shallow, simple, sluggish, stolid, stupid, tedious, unintellectual,
vacuous, wearisome, witless
Ant: intelligent, keen, sharp, smart, SHINING

370) Dunce

372) Durable

374) Dwarf

FOOL
IDIOT, LOVER
GENIUS
LUNATIC
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stupid person
Synonyms: ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, buffoon, dimwit,
dolt, donkey, dope, dork, dullard, dunderhead, fool, goof, idiot,
ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, knucklehead, lame-brain, lightweight,
moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, pinhead,
scatterbrain, schnook, simpleton, twit
Antonyms: brain, GENIUS

SOUND
STOUT, WEAK
STRONG
PERMANENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: sturdy, long-lasting
Synonyms: abiding, constant, dependable, diuturnal, enduring, fast,
firm, fixed, impervious, lasting, perdurable, perduring, permanent,
persistent, reliable, resistant, sound, stable, stout, strong,
substantial, tenacious, tough
Antonyms: fragile, impermanent, poorly made, temporary,
undependable, unsturdy, WEAK

HIGH
BIG, TALL
GIANT
MEDIUM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: miniature, tiny
Synonyms: baby, diminutive, low, petite, pocket, small, undersized
Notes: a dwarf is smaller and not proportioned like an average
person; a midget is smaller but is proportioned like an average fullgrown person; a pygmy is perfectly proportioned but smaller than
a midget
Antonyms: big, giant, huge, large, TALL

376) Dwindle

378)
Dysfunctional

380) Earnest

WITHER, SHRINK
FURNISH
DIMINISH
THRIVE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: waste away; taper off
Synonyms: abate, bate, become smaller, close, contract, decay,
decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, diminish, drain,drop,
ebb, fade,fall, grow less, lessen, peter out, pine, shrink, shrivel, sink,
slack off, subside, taper,wane, weaken,wither
Antonyms: develop, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, increase, save,
swell, THRIVE

ABNORMAL
DISTURBING
NORMAL, SICK
TROUBLED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: socially impaired


Synonyms: broken, debilitated, decayed, defective, deteriorated,
flawed, inhibited, maladjusted, malfunctional, sick, undermined,
unfit, wounded
Antonyms: NORMAL,

HONEST
INTENT, LEGAL
WELL-KNOWN
INSINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very enthusiastic
Synonyms: ardent, busy, devoted, diligent, eager, fervent, fervid,
heartfelt, impassioned, industrious, keen, passionate, perseverant,
purposeful, sedulous, sincere, urgent, vehement, warm,
wholehearted, zealous
Antonyms: flippant, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unpassionate,
unpurposeful, INSINCERE

382)
Ebullient

384)
Effeminate

386)
Egregious

RESTRAINED
OBSCURE
EXUBERANT, TIMID
LENIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: enthusiastic
Synonyms: agitated, bouncy, brash, buoyant, chipper, chirpy,
effervescent, effusive, elated, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, frothy,
gushing, irrepressible, vivacious, zestful, zippy
Antonyms: apathetic, disinterested, unenthusiastic, RESTRAINED

WOMANISH
EFFIGY, MANLY
BLANK
WARM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having female qualities


Synonyms: epicene, feminine, womanish, womanlike, womanly
Antonyms: manly, masculine, MANLY

CONSUMMATE
ENCHAIN, ORDINARY
ACQUIT
DISORDERLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: outstandingly bad; outrageous



Syn: arrant, atrocious, capital, deplorable, flagrant, glaring,
grievous, heinous, infamous, insufferable, intolerable, monstrous,
nefarious, notorious, outright, preposterous, scandalous
Antonyms: little, minor, secondary, ORDINARY

388) Embitter

390) Embroil

392)
Endogenous

REVERE
EMBALM, ALLEVIATE
VOID
HARM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: upset, alienate
Synonyms: acerbate, acidulate, aggravate, anger, annoy, bitter,
bother, disaffect, disillusion, envenom, exacerbate, exasperate,
irritate, make bitter, make resentful, poison, sour, venom,worsen
Antonyms: calm, comfort, make happy, pacify, ALLEVIATE

ENTANGLE
PERTURBATION
HARMONIZE
LOWER, CONFUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: involve in dispute; complicate


Synonyms: cause trouble, compromise, confound, confuse, derange,
disorder, disturb, disunite, encumber, enmesh, ensnare, entangle,
implicate, incriminate, involve, mire, muddle, perplex, snarl, tangle,
trouble
Antonyms: exclude, uncomplicate, HARMONIZE

ENDOGAMOUS
EXOGENOUS
EXOPATHIC,EXOSMOSIS
EXOGAMOUS

Antonym:
EXOGENOUS

394) Enervate

396) Engross

398) Ennoble

RELAX
STRENGTHEN
MITIGATE
GRAPPLING, WEAKEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tire, wear out
Synonyms: debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue,
incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary
Notes: enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' and innervate
means 'supply with energy'
Antonyms: activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven,
STRENGTHEN

INVOLVE
ENTANGLE
INCREASE
IMMERSE, WEARY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold one's attention


Synonyms: absorb, apply, arrest, assimilate, attract, be hung,
bewitch, busy, captivate, consume, corner, engage, engulf,
enrapture, enthrall, fascinate, fill, grip, hog, immerse, involve,
monopolize, occupy, preoccupy
Antonyms: forget, ignore, reject, repulse, WEARY

DIGNITY
EXALT, DEGRADE
QUIBBLE
IMPROVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: honor

Synonyms: dignify, exalt, praise
Ant: DEGRADE

400) Entice

402)
Ephemeral

404) Equable

REPEL
LURE, CHARM
DISPOSSESS
COAX
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: allure; persuade


Synonyms: attract, bait, bat eyes at, beguile, cajole, coax, decoy,
draw, entrap, inveigle, lead on, lure, prevail on, seduce, tempt, toll,
turn on, wheedle
Antonyms: disgust, dissuade, REPEL, repulse, turn away, turn off

TEMPORARY
TEMPTATION
EVERLASTING
POLITE, CIRCULAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: momentary, passing


Synonyms: brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious,
fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient,
transitory, unenduring, volatile
Ant: enduring, eternal, everlasting, interminable, lasting, long,
permanent, EVERLASTING

NON-UNIFORM
UNEQUAL
UNEQUATED
EXTREME, IDENTICAL
Definition: steady, calm
Synonyms: agreeable, consistent, constant, imperturbable,
methodical, orderly, placid, regular, serene, stabile,
stable,temperate,tranquil, unchanging, unexcitable, unflappable,
uniform,
Notes: equable means steady or unvarying and far from
extremes;equitable means fair and impartial
Ant: changeable, excitable, fluctuating, irregular, spasmodic,
vacillating, variable, NON-UNFORM

406)
Equilibrium

408)
Equivocal

410)
Erroneous

STABILITY
SYMMETRY
SUPPLY, DEMAND
IMBALANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: balance; evenness
Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure, cool, coolness,
counterbalance, counterpoise, equanimity, equipoise, poise, polish,
rest, serenity, stability, stasis, steadiness, steadying, symmetry
Antonyms: IMBALANCE, unevenness

EVADE
CLEAR, UNIVERSAL
AMAZING
CONVENTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, uncertain
Syn: ambiguous, ambivalent,clouded,disreputable, dubious, evasive,
fishy, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled,
muzzy, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, suspect, suspicious,
tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unexplicit, unintelligible, vague.
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain,
CLEAR

CORRECT
ACCURATE
MUNDANE
ASTRAY, FAULTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wrong, incorrect
Synonyms: all off, amiss, askew, awry, defective, fallacious, false,
faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, invalid, misguided, mistaken, off,
specious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, untrue, wrong number
Antonyms: correct, right, true, valid, ACCURATE

412)
Erudition

414) Esoteric

416) Etiolate

IGNORANCE
EVICT, SCHOLARSHIP
DUBIOUS
DEMOLISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: higher education
Synonyms: bookishness, brains, cultivation, culture, enlightenment,
intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy,
lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarliness, scholarship, science,
studiousness
Antonyms: IGNORANCE

EXTERNAL
FAMILIAR, NATIVE
PLEASANT
CONCENTRIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, abstruse, acroamatic,
arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner,
inscrutable, mystic, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret
Antonyms: common, FAMILIAR, known, obvious, public,
unmysterious

TAIL-END
MOBILIZE
LUBRICATE, WHITEN
STAIN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: weaken


Synonyms: blanch, bleach, diminish, enervate, exhaust, fade, faint,
pale, sicken, wan, whiten
Antonym: STAIN

418)
Euphemistic

420)
Euphoria

422)
Evanescent

EUPHUISTIC
TREE-LIKE
TRANSCENDENTAL
FINAL, BAWDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: polite
Synonyms: affected, delicate, euphemious, extenuative, figurative,
indirect, inoffensive, metaphorical, mild, refined, softened, vague
Antonym: BAWDY

STRIDENT
LETHARGIC,LITERARY
SIGNIFICANT
MUSICAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: extreme happiness


Synonyms: bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, elation, exaltation,
exhilaration, exultation, frenzy, glee, health, high spirits,
intoxication, joy, joyousness, jubilation, madness, rapture,
relaxation, transport
Ant: depression, despair, misery, LETHARGIC
EVENING
PERMANENT
SPREADING OVER
NASCENT, ODOROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: transient
Synonyms: brief, disappearing, fading, fleeting, momentary,
passing, short-lived, temporary, tenuous, vanishing
Antonyms: PERMANENT

424) Exalt

426) Excited

428)
Excoriate

ENNOBLE
GLORIFY, EXTOL
DEPRECIATE
SIMPLIFY
Definition: promote, praise
Synonyms: acclaim, advance, aggrandize, apotheosize, applaud,
bless, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, ennoble, erect, eulogize,
extol, glorify, halo, honor, idolize, intensify, laud, magnify, raise,
revere, sublime, transfigure,
Notes: exalt means to elevate, praise, or raise a person or thing;
exult means to rejoice greatly
Ant: castigate, condemn, criticize, DEPRECIATE

COOL, IMPASSIVE
COMPOSED
CALM
INCITED
Part of Speech: verb Def: inspire; upset


Synonyms: accelerate, agitate, amaze, anger, animate, annoy,
arouse, astound, awaken, bother, disturb, electrify, fluster, foment,
galvanize, goad, infuriate, jar, jolt, kindle, madden, mock, move,
offend, precipitate, taunt, tease, thrill, titillate,vex.
Ant: calm, COMPOSED, deaden,lull, moderate,

PRAISE
ENHANCE, VANISH
SPOILED
ENCOURAGE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: scrape layers off


Synonyms: abrade, chafe, flay, fret, gall, peel, rub, scarify, scratch,
skin, strip
Antonym: PRAISE

430)
Exculpate

432) Execrate

434) Exhibit

ACCUMULATE
RELAX, INCREASE
RELEASE
BLAME
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: forgive
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, condone, discharge,
disculpate, dismiss, excuse, exonerate, explain, free, justify, pardon,
rationalize, release, remit, vindicate, Notes: to exculpate is 'to free
from accusation or blame' while exonerate is literally 'to free from
a burden'
Antonyms: blame, condemn, sentence, BLAME

CURSE
EXPRESS, DISOBEY
HATE
ACCLAIM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hate
Synonyms: abhor, abominate, accurse, anathematize, censure,
condemn, curse, damn, denounce, deplore, despise, detest, excoriate,
imprecate, loathe, objurgate, reprehend, reprobate, reprove, revile,
vilify
Antonyms: like, love, ACCLAIM

CONCEAL
PREVENT
WITHDRAW
CONCEDE, REVEAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: viewing; presentation
Synonyms: display, exhibition, exposition, fair, illustration, model,
performance, show
Antonyms: concealment, cover, hiding, CONCEAL

436) Exhume

438) Exodus

440)
Exorbitant

DECIPHER
DIG, INTEGRATE
ADMIT
ENTER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dig up, especially the dead
Synonyms: disclose, disembalm, disentomb, disinhume, disinter,
resurrect, reveal, unbury, uncharnel, unearth
Antonyms: bury, ENTER

RESTORATION
RETURN
HOME-COMIMG
INFLUX,WITHDRAWAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving
Synonyms: departure, egress, egression, emigration, evacuation,
exit, exiting, flight, going out, journey, migration, offgoing,
retirement, retreat, withdrawal
Antonyms: arrival, entrance, INFLUX

MODERATE
ENORMOUS
EXCESSIVE,BARBARIC
IMPORTANT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: extravagant, excessive

Synonyms: absonant, dear, enormous, exacting, expensive,
extortionate, extreme, high, highway robbery, immoderate,
inordinate, outrageous, overboard, preposterous, pricey, towering,
undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, wasteful
Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive, low, MODERATE, reasonable,
sensible

442) Exotic

444)
Expurgate

446)
Extemporane
ous

UGLY
REGIONAL, LOCAL
CONVENTIONAL
STRANGE
Part of Speech: adjective Def: not native or usual; mysterious

Synonyms: alien, alluring, avant garde, bizarre, colorful, curious,
different, enticing, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extrinsic,
fascinating, foreign, glamorous, imported, introduced, outlandish,
peculiar, peregrine, romantic, strange, striking, unfamiliar, unusual,
Ant: familiar, normal, ordinary, CONVENTIONAL

STAIN, ADMIT
ENTERTAIN
RENEW
COUNTERFEIT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: censor, cut
Synonyms: bleep, blip, blue pencil, bowdlerize, clean up, cleanse,
decontaminate, lustrate, purge, purify, sanitize, screen, scrub,
squash, sterilize
Antonyms: allow, permit, ENTERTAIN

OFFHAND
INSULTING
DELIGHTFUL,FAMOUS
REHEARSAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unrehearsed, improvised
Synonyms: automatic, casual, expedient, extempore, immediate,
impromptu, improv, improvisatory, improviso, informal, jamming,
makeshift, offhand, snap, spontaneous, loud, tossed off, unplanned,
unprepared, unstudied.
Antonyms: planned, prepared, read, rehearsed, written,
REHEARSAL

448) Exterior

450)
Extraneous

452)
Extricate

INTERNAL, INNER
INTERIOR
INWARD
OUTER
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: outside
Synonyms: exoteric, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial,
extraterritorial, extrinsic, foreign, marginal, outdoor, outer,
outermost, outlying, outmost, outward, over, peripheral, superficial,
surface
Antonyms: central, INTERIOR, middle

ESSENTIAL
SUPERFLUOUS
INACTIVE, AMAZING
EXTRAORDINARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unneeded; irrevelant
Synonyms: accidental, additional, adventitious, extra, foreign,
immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite,
inappropriate,incidental, peripheral, pointless, redundant,
superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential
Antonyms: appropriate, basic, ESSENTIAL, integral, necessary,
needed, pertinent, relevant

ENTANGLE
RELEASE, MANIFEST
PALPABLE
SEPARATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get out of a situation; relieve of responsibility

Synonyms: clear, deliver, detach, difference, differentiate,
disburden, discumber, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage,
disentangle, disinvolve, extract, liberate, loose, loosen, release,
remove, rescue, resolve, separate, sever, untie, withdraw.
Antonyms: ENTANGLE, involve

454)
Extrovert

456) Fable

458)
Fabulous

BOASTER, MIXER
INTROVERT
SOCIAL
GREGARIOUS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sociable person
Synonyms: exhibitionist, gregarious person, showboat
Antonyms: INTROVERT

ALLEGORY
FACT, PEEVISH
FORGE
PARABLE
Definition: fantasy, story

Synonyms: allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication,
falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash,
invention, legend, lie, myth, parable, romance, tale, whopper, yarn
Notes: a fable is a short instructional tale, while a fairytale (or
fairy tale) is told as amusement
Antonyms: truth, FACT

LITERARY
COMMONPLACE
REAL, POOR
AMAZING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amazing, wonderful
Synonyms: aces, astonishing, astounding, awesome, best,
breathtaking, extravagant, fab, fantastic, fictitious, greatest,
immense, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous,
outrageous, phenomenal, primo, unbelievable, unreal.
Ant: common, normal, ordinary, simple, POOR

460) Fact

462)
Fallacious

464)
Falsehood

FABLE
STORY, ILLUSION
FICTION
EVENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: verifiable truth; reality
Synonyms: actuality, appearance, authenticity, basis, bottom line,
case, certainty, certitude, evidence, experience, genuineness, gospel,
intelligence, law, palpability, permanence, scene, scripture, solidity,
Antonyms: fabrication, lie, FICTION

ERRONEOUS
JEALOUS, FAULTY
0
1
Definition: false, wrong
Synonyms: beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive,
delusory, erroneous, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory,
incorrect, invalid, irrational, phony, reasonless, sophistical
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable
to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous;
Antonyms: correct, real, TRUE, truthful

FAMILIARITY
FAME, INJUSTICE
FANCY
TRUTH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lie
Synonyms: canard, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation,
distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication,
fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fiction,
figment, fraud, mendacity, perjury, pretense, prevarication,
untruism, untruth, yarn
Antonyms: TRUTH

466)
Fantastic

468) Fatuous

470) Feckless

PRACTICAL, USEFUL
THEORETICAL
WORTHY
EXCEPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strange, different; imaginary Syn:
absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric,
erratic, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative,
implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, unbelievable, unlikely,
unreal, weird.
Antonyms: common, commonplace, conventional, customary,
familiar, ordinary, plain, PRACTICAL

PRE-DESTINED
IMPATIENT
PURPOSEFUL
GRATUITOUS, FITFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stupid
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, birdbrained, boneheaded, brainless,
dense, dull, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, inane, insensate, jerky,
lamebrained, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, mindless, moronic, puerile,
sappy, silly, simple, vacuous, witless
Antonyms: aware, bright, intelligent, keen, sensible, smart
,PURPOSEFUL

SPOTLESS
GENUINE, SMOOTH
EFFICIENT
PURE
Definition: without purpose
Synonyms: aimless, carefree, careless, feeble, fustian, futile,
hopeless, incautious, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual,
irresponsible,meaningless, reckless, shiftless, uncareful, useless,
weak, wild,
Notes: feckless means ineffective or having no real worth; reckless
means marked by unthinking boldness or with defiant disregard for
danger
Ant: competent, effective, effectual, EFFICIENT

472) Feeble

474)
Felonious

476)
Ferocious

OBSCENE
STRONG, MIGHTY
DARING
MINUTE
Def: not strong; ineffective
Synonyms: aged, ailing, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering,
dopey, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated,
exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, impotent,
insufficient, lame, languid, paltry, poor, puny, sapless, tame, thin,
unconvincing, vitiated, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy, woozy,
Ant: able, effective, healthy, hearty, STRONG

CRIMINAL
FICTITIOUS
WICKED
POPULAR, MORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: criminal
Synonyms: base, corrupt, evil, illegal, illicit, lawbreaking,
villainous, wrongful, MORAL

SAVAGE
FIERCE, CRUEL
SYMPATHETIC
DOCILE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: violent, barbaric
Syn: barbarous, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful,
implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous,
pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, relentless, ruthless, savage,
tigerish, truculent, voracious, wild, wolfish
Antonyms: gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender,
SYMPATHETIC

478) Festive

MERRY
JUBILANT, JOYOUS
HOLIDAY
SOMBER
Part of Speech: adjective Def: decorated, celebratory

Syn: blithe, bouncy, carnival, carnivalesque, cheery, chipper,
chirpy, convivial, festal, gala, gay, gleeful, grooving, happy, hearty,
holiday, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, juiced up,
jumping, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, perky, rocking, snappy,
swinging, upbeat, zippy
Ant: depressed, gloomy, SOMBER, undecorated

OBJECT OF LOVE/HATE

480) Fetish

482) Fickle

OBJECT OF BENEFIT
OBJECT OF DISPUTE

OBJECT OF HARM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obsession
Synonyms: bias, desire, fixation, leaning, luck, mania, partiality,
penchant, periapt, predilection, prejudice, preoccupation,
prepossession, proclivity, propensity, stimulant
Antonym: OBJECT OF BENEFIT

CONTINUE
CONSTANT
PERPETUAL,CONNECT
CAPRICIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: vacillating, blowing hot and
cold
Syn: arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, coquettish,
faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, lubricious,
mercurial, mutable, quicksilver, sneaking, ticklish, unfaithful.
Antonyms: aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable,
steady, CONSTANT

484) Filthy

486)
Flagitious

488) Flexible

FOUL
RHETORICAL
CLEAN, REFLECT
GRIMY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dirty, polluted
Syn: begrimed, black, blackened, cruddy, crummy, disheveled, fecal,
feculent, foul, grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene,
offensive, putrid, repulsive, revolting, scummy, sleazy, slimy,
slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smoky, soily, sooty, squalid, unkempt,
unwashed, verminous, vile,
Antonyms: CLEAN, pure, sterile, unpolluted

PENNON
DEFEATED
BENEFICIAL
HEATED, SINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: corrupt
Synonyms: atrocious, criminal, flagrant, heinous, infamous, rotten,
scandalous, vicious, villainous, wicked
Antonyms: BENEFICIAL

BRITTLE
RIGID, HARD
SOLID
MEEK
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: pliable, bendable
Synonyms: adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible,
extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty,
limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy,
springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractile,
whippy, willowy, yielding
Ant: brittle, inflexible, resistant, RIGID, stiff.

490) Flippant

492) Flurry

494) Flux

CONSIDERATE
SAUCY, PERT
CROSS
RUDE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irreverent
Synonyms: brassy, breezy, cocky, disrespectful, flighty, fresh,
frivolous, glib, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, nervy,
offhand, pert, playful, rude, smart-alecky, superficial
Antonyms: courteous, respectful, reverent, serious,
CONSIDERATE

PELT
SOLACE, SEDATE
SOOTHE
PUNGENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: commotion, burst

Synonyms: ado, agitation, brouhaha, bustle, confusion, disturbance,
excitement, ferment, flap, flaw, fluster, flutter, furor, fuss, gust,
haste, hurry, outbreak, pother, spell, spurt, squall, turbulence,
turmoil, whirl, whirlwind
Antonyms: calm, calmness, quiet, SOOTHE

STILLNESS
MOTION, SWERVE
WINCE
GLIDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of constant change
Synonyms: alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity, instability,
modification, motion, mutability, mutation, transition, unrest
Antonyms: constancy, stability, steadiness, STILLNESS

496) Forge

498) Foster

500)
Frangible

CONTINUE
DISSOLVE
QUIET, INVITE
PREVENT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: counterfeit
Synonyms: coin, copy, design, duplicate, fabricate, fake, falsify,
fashion, feign, frame, imitate, invent, make, produce, reproduce,
scratch, trace, transcribe, trump up
Antonym:
DISSOLVE

CURB
CONTROL, CHECK
REPRESS
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: promote, support
Synonyms: advance, back, champion, cherish, cultivate, encourage,
feed, foment, forward, further, harbor, nurse, nurture, serve,
stimulate, uphold
Antonyms: condemn, discourage, REPRESS

FRAGILE, TANGIBLE
TRACTABLE
UNSUITABLE
UNBREAKABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fragile
Synonyms: breakable, brittle, crumbly, dainty, delicate, feeble,
flimsy, frail, friable, weak
Antonym: UNBREAKABLE

DRIBBLE
SIGNIFICANT
CRIB, LIGHT-TALK
DAWDLE
Antonyms:SIGNIFICANT

502) Fribble

504)
Frivolous

506) Frugal

PALTRY
SUPERFICIAL
FROLIC, SERIOUS
ALERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: trivial, silly
Syn: barmy, childish, facetious, featherbrained, flighty, flip,
flippant, foolish, gay, harebrained, idiotic, idle, impractical, juvenile,
light, minor, niggling, nonserious, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful,
pointless, puerile, scatterbrained, unprofound, volatile, whimsical
Ant:grave, mature, sensible, SERIOUS, thoughtful.

CHARITABLE
EXTRAVAGANT
GENEROUS
GAUDY, THRIFTY
Part of Speech: adjective Def: economical

Syn: Spartan, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, discreet, meager,
meticulous, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, preserving, provident,
prudent, scrimping, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tightwad, unwasteful,
wary
Antonyms: generous, lavish, spendthrifty, uneconomical, wasteful ,
EXTRAVAGANT

508) Fugitive

510) Fume

512) Furtive

EVANESCENT
CAPTIVE, UNKEMPT
SMART
EXALTED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: fleeing, transient

Synonyms: avoiding, brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant,
erratic, escaping, evading, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious,
impermanent, lamster, momentary, moving, on the lam, passing,
planetary temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering,
wanted
Ant: confronting, facing, permanent, CAPTIVE,

FROWN
CHAFE, COMPLY
DUPE
SMELL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get very upset about

Synonyms: anger, blow up, boil, bristle, burn, chafe, chomp at the
bit, get hot, get steamed up, rage, rant, rave, seethe.
Antonyms: be calm, be happy, COMPLY

HIDDEN
RELEASE, OPEN
CLOSED
CONCEDED
Part of Speech: adjective Def: sneaky, secretive

Syn: artful, calculating, cautious, clandestine, cloaked,
conspiratorial, covert,cunning,disguised, elusive, evasive, foxy,
guileful, hidden, insidious, masked, scheming, shifty, skulking,
slinking, sly, stealthy, sub-rosa, surreptitious, under wraps,
undercover, underhand, underhanded, wily
Ant:aboveboard, forthright, honest, OPEN truthful

514) Gall

516) Garbled

518)
Gasconade

AUDACITY, HUMILITY
PRUDENCE
IRRITATE
BOLDNESS
Part of Speech: noun Def: nerve, brashness

Syn: acrimony, animosity, arrogance, bitterness, brass, brazenness,
cheek, conceit, confidence, crust cynicism, effrontery, haughtiness,
hostility, impertinence, impudence, insolence, malevolence, malice,
overbearance, pomposity, presumption, rancor, sauciness, spite,
venom
Antonyms: modesty, reservations, IRRITATE

DISTORTED
CONFUSED
TWISTED
IMPURE, CLEAR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mix up, misrepresent

Synonyms: belie, color, confuse, corrupt, distort, doctor, falsify,
jumble, misinterpret, mislead, misquote, misstate, mutilate, obscure,
pervert, slant, tamper with, twist, warp
Antonyms: decipher, order, pronounce, represent, translate,
unscramble, CLEAR

MODESTY
SEIZURE
CLEANLINESS
ILLUSIVE, RUDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boast
Synonyms: avowal, bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado,
exaggeration, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension,
pride, pride and joy, rodomontade,swank, treasure, vaunt
Antonyms: MODESTY

520)
Gaucherie

522) Genuine

524)
Germinate

TACT
CULMINATE
DWINDLE
QUIET, BOORISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social error
Synonyms: blooper, blooper, blunder, botch, breach, break, bungle,
colossal blunder, error, flop, flub, gaffe, gaffe, goof, hash,
impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion, mess, misconduct,
misjudgment, misstep, mistake, offense, oversight, slip, solecism.
Antonym: TACT

ROTTEN
BOGUS
UNSOUND
IMPURE, FACTUAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: authentic, real
Syn: absolute, accurate, actual, authenticated, bona fide, certain,
certified, demonstrable, exact, existent, factual, honest, indubitable,
legit, legitimate, literal, palpable, precise, sterling, unadulterated,
unalloyed, unimpeachable, unvarnished, valid, veritable
Ant: counterfeit, false, illegitimate, sham, BOGUS

SHOOT, SPROUT
ALIEN
DECAY
DEVELOP
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: grow
Synonyms: bud, develop, generate, live, originate, pullulate, shoot,
sprout, swell, vegetate
Antonyms: halt, slow, stop, thwart , DECAY

526) Gingerly

528) Glamour

530) Glossy

LIGHTLY, CAREFULLY
DEFINITELY
DELICATELY
ROUGHLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful
Synonyms: calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate,
dainty, delicate, discreet, fastidious, guarded, hesitant, reluctant,
safe, squeamish, suspicious, timid, wary
Antonyms: careless, rash, rough, uncareful, uncautious,
ROUGHLY

SILENCE, INCUBATE
MURMUR
WHISPER
CHARM
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sophisticated style

Synonyms: allure, allurement, animal magnetism, appeal,
attraction, beauty, bewitchment, charisma, charm, color,
enchantment, fascination, interest, magnetism, prestige, ravishment,
romance.
Antonyms: drab, dullness, plainness, ugliness , SILENCE

SHINING
DULL, FLAT
APPARENT
GLASSY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shiny
Synonyms: bright, brilliant, burnished, chatoyant, glassy, glazed,
gleaming, glistening, lustrous, polished, reflecting, silken, silky,
sleek, slick, smooth
Antonyms: drab, DULL, mate, muted

532) Gluttony

534) Gossip

536)
Grandiose

VORACITY
FRAGILITY, GARB
DEVOID
ABUNDANCE
Synonyms:
-nouns: greed; greediness; voracity., epicurism; edacity, gulosity,
crapulence; guttling, guzzling;
-adjectives gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing; edacious,
omnivorous, crapulent, swinish., pampered; overfed, overgorged.
Antonym: FRAGILITY

TACITURNITY
RUMOUR, ODIOUS
SHRINK
BABBLE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: talk about others; rumor
Synonyms: account, babble, blather, blether, calumny, chatter,
chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation,
earful, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, meddling, news, prate,
prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale,
talk, wire
Antonyms: fact, TACITURNITY

GRAND
IMITATION
POMPOUS
PRESSIVE, SIMPLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: theatrical, extravagant

Syn: affected, ambitious, august, bombastic, cosmic, egotistic,
flamboyant, fustian, grand, impressive, lofty, lordly, magnificent,
majestic, monumental, noble, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious,
royal, splashy, stately, unfathomable.
Ant: calm, moderate, small, SIMPLE

WRETCHED, INGRATITUDE

538)
Gratitude

540) Gratuity

542)
Gregarious

UNFAITHFULNESS
APPRECIATION

WICKEDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appreciation
Synonyms: acknowledgment, appreciativeness, grace, gratefulness,
honor, indebtedness, obligation, praise, recognition, requital,
response, responsiveness, sense of obligation, thankfulness, thanks,
thanksgiving
Antonyms: ingratitude, thanklessness, UNFAITHFULNESS

ANNUITY
STIPEND
DISCOUNT, WAGES
RETIREMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gift, tip
Synonyms: alms, benefaction, bonus, boon, bounty, contribution,
donation, fringe benefit, largesse, offering, perquisite, present,
recompense, reward, salve, sweetener, token
Antonym:
WAGES

SOCIAL, AFFABLE
FRIENDLY
CHEAP
ANTISOCIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly

Synonyms: affable, clubby, companionable, convivial, cordial, fun,
outgoing, sociable, social
Antonyms: cold, cool, introverted, unfriendly, unhospitable,
unsociable, ANTISOCIAL

544) Grisly

546) Grudge

548) Grumpy

PLEASANT
BOORISH, GRIM
HORRID
UGLY
Definition: horrifying
Synonyms: abominable, appalling, awful, bloody, disgusting,
dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly,grim, grody, gruesome, hideous,
horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening,
terrible, terrifying, yucky Notes: grisly (from Germanic gri- 'fear,
terror') is 'gruesome' while grizzly means 'streaked with gray'
Antonyms: nice, pleasing, pretty, PLEASANT

ILL-WILL
GOODWILL
ESSENCE
GUILE, RESENTMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hard feelings
Syn: animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, bone to
pick, dislike, enmity,grievance, hate, hatred, injury, injustice,
malevolence,malice, maliciousness, malignancy, peeve, pique,rancor,
resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom
Ant: favor, forgiveness, good will , GOODWILL

GRUDGE
AFFABLE, LUMP
FAST
GORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in a bad mood
Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, crotchety, disgruntled,
dissatisfied, griping, grouchy, grumbling, irritable, peevish, pettish,
petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent
Antonyms: happy, nice, pleasant , AFFABLE

550) Guilty

INNOCENT
PURE, VIRTUOUS
ANGELIC
CULPABLE
Definition: blameworthy; found at fault
Syn: accusable, caught, censurable, censured, chargeable,
condemned, contrite, convictable, convicted, culpable, delinquent,
depraved,doomed, erring, evil, felonious, impeached, incriminated,
iniquitous, judged, liable, licentious, offending, proscribed,
regretful, remorseful, reprehensible, responsible, rueful, sentenced,
sheepish,
Ant: guiltless, INNOCENT, moral, right, sinless.

RIGIDITY
STUPIDITY
NO RESULTS

STICKING, GUESS
LUMP

552)
Grumption

554) Gusty

POPULATED, DIRTY
FLURRY
COURAGE
CALM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: windy
Synonyms: airy, blowy, blustering, blustery, breezy, hearty, robust,
squally, stormy, tempestuous
Antonyms: CALM, quiet

556)
Hackneyed

558) Hail

560) Hamper

CLICHED, BANAL
TRANSFERRED
DELAYED
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clichd, tired

Synonyms: antiquated, banal, common, commonplace,


conventional, everyday, familiar tune, hokey, obsolete, old, outdated,
outmoded, overworked, quotidian, stale, stereotyped, stock,
threadbare, timeworn, tripe, trite, unoriginal.
Antonyms: fresh, new, ORIGINAL, uncommon

SUMMON
SIGNAL, IGNORE
THROW
COME
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: torrent

Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, broadside, cannonade,
hailstorm, pelting, rain, salvo, shower, storm, volley
Antonym: IGNORE

HINDER, OBSTRUCT
SUPPLY
PRIOR
PROMOTE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: basket for storage

Synonyms: bassinet, carton, crate, creel, laundry basket, pannier
Antonym: PROMOTE

562) Hapless

564) Harass

566)
Hardworking

LUCKY, AMIABLE
FOTUNATE
FRIGID
WOEFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unfortunate
Synonyms: behind the eightball, cursed, hexed, infelicitous, jinxed,
jonah, loser, luckless, miserable, poor fish, sad sack, snakebit,
unhappy, unlucky, untoward, voodooed, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: fortuitous, FOTUNATE, lucky, well-off

SOOTHE
PESTER, CLOSELY
LAUDABLE
ANNY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: badger
Syn: annoy, attack, bait, bedevil, beleaguer,bother, bullyrag, despoil,
distress, disturb, exasperate, exhaust, fatigue, foray, gnaw, harry,
hassle, heckle, hound, intimidate, irk, irritate, jerk around,
macerate, maraud, noodge, perplex, persecute, pester, plague, raid,
ride, strain, stress, worry
Antonyms: aid, assist, facilitate, help, SOOTHE

DILIGENT, SLOTH
PERSEVERING
INDUSTRIAL
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conscientious
Synonyms: assiduous, dedicated, diligent, persevering, sedulous
Antonyms: lazy, SLOTH

568) Haughty

570) Hazy

572)
Headstrong

PITIABLE
SCARED, HUMBLE
COWARDLY
DISOBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arrogant
Synonyms: assuming, conceited, contemptuous, detached,
disdainful, distant, egotistic, egotistical, high, high and mighty,
imperious, indifferent, lofty, overbearing, overweening, proud,
reserved, scornful, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up,
supercilious, superior, uppity
Antonyms: humble, meek, shy, timid, HUMBLE

FOGGY
VAGUE, CLEAR
CLARIFY
BLEARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cloudy
Syn: bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, clouded, crepuscular, dim,
dull, dusky, faint, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, fumy, fuzzy, gauzy,
indefinite,indistinct, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, obscure,
opaque, overcast, rimy, screened, shadowy,smoggy, smoky, soupy,
steaming, unclear, vague, vaporous, veiled
Antonyms: CLEAR, sunny, uncloudy, unhazy

OBSTINATE
STUBBORN
WILFUL, PEAK
SUBMISSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stubborn
Syn: bullheaded, contrary, determined, foolhardy, froward,
heedless, imprudent, impulsive, intractable, mule, mulish, murder,
obstinate, rash, reckless, refractory, uncontrollable, ungovernable,
unruly, unyielding, willful
Antonyms: calm, docile, moderate, obedient, submissive, tolerant,
SUBMISSIVE

574) Hectic

576) Heed

578) Hegira

INFIDEL
DISBELIEVER
FRANTIC, FEVERISH
CALM
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: frantic, turbulent
Synonyms: animated, boisterous, burning, chaotic, confused,
disordered, excited, exciting, fervid, fevered, feverish, flurrying,
flustering, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hassle, heated, madhouse,
nutsy, restless, riotous, tumultuous, unsettled, wild, woolly, zoolike
Antonyms: CALM, easeful, leisurely, unhurried

REGARD
OBSERVE, FOLLOW
NOTICE
IGNORE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: care, thought
Syn: application, attention, carefulness, caution, cognizance,
concentration, concern,consideration, debate, deliberation, ear,
heedfulness, interest, listen up, mark, note, notice, observance,
observation, regard, remark, respect, study
Antonyms: carelessness, disregard, heedlessness, inattention,
indifference, neglect, IGNORE

OASIS
RETURN
CALM, NOISE
ARRIVAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leaving
Syn: abandonment, decampment, desertion,egress, egression,
embarkation, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus,
expatriation, farewell, flight, getaway, going, migration,
parting,passage, powder, quitting, recession, removal, retirement,
retreat, sailing, separation, stampede, start.
Antonyms: arrival, coming, entrance, RETURN

580) Hearsay

582)
Heterogeneou
s

584)
Hibernate

INNATE, INBRED
ACQUIRED
EFFECTED
POLISHED
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unsubstantiated information
Synonyms: clothesline, comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, mere talk,
report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, talk of the town, word of
mouth
Antonyms: evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth, ACQUIRED

HOMOGENOUS
SIMILAR, DIFFERENT
COLOURFUL
NATURAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: assorted, miscellaneous
Synonyms: amalgamate, composite, confused, conglomerate,
contrary, contrasted, different, discordant, discrepant, disparate,
dissimilar, divergent, diverse, diversified, incongruous, jumbled,
mingled, mixed, mongrel, mosaic, motley, unallied, unlike,
unrelated, variegated
Ant: HOMOGENOUS, identical, pure, single

AESTIVATE
CONNOTE
IMITATE, IMPLICATE
INVOLVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie dormant; sleep through cold weather
Synonyms: hide, hole up, immure, lie torpid, sleep, vegetate, winter
Antonym: AESTIVATE

586)
Hilarious

588)
Hindrance

590)
Histrionic

FUNNY, DELIRIOUS
HYSTERICAL
CONFUSED
SOLEMN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very funny
Synonyms: amusing, comical, convivial, entertaining, exhilarated,
frolicsome, gay, gleeful, happy, humorous, jocular, jolly, jovial,
joyful, joyous, laughable, lively, merry, mirthful, noisy, priceless,
riot, rollicking, scream, uproarious, witty
Ant: grave, serious, somber, tragic, SOLEMN

AGREEMENT
COOPERATION
PERSUASION, AID
OBSTACLE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: obstruction, difficulty
Syn: albatross, baggage, ball and chain, bar, barrier, catch, check,
clog, crimp, cumbrance, deterrent, drag, drawback, encumbrance,
excess baggage, foot dragging, gridlock, handicap, hitch, impedance,
impediment, interference
Ant: advance, AID, assistance, encouragement, expedition, help,
promotion, push

STRAIGHTFORWARD
HOARD, HANG
FATTEN
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overly dramatic
Synonyms: melodramatic, overacting, overplayed, theatrical,
thespian
Antonym: HANG

592) Holy

594) Hoot

596) Host

DIVINE
HOARY
DUPE, PROFANE
SAINTLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: religious, sacred
Syn: angelic, believing, blessed, chaste, clean, consecrated,
dedicated, devoted, devotional, devout, divine, faithful,
faultless,glorified,godlike, godly, good, hallowed, humble,
immaculate, innocent, just, messianic, unworldly, upright,
venerable, venerated, virtuous
Ant: depraved, immoral, irreligious, PROFANE

HONOUR
UPROAR, JOSTLE
TINT
INSULT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cry
Synonyms: boo, catcall, heckle, hiss, howl, jeer, razz, scoff at, scorn,
scream, shout down, whistle Antonym: HONOUR

ACCOMPLICE
ENLARGED
SPREAD, DIFFUSED
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who entertains, performs


Synonyms: anchor, anchor person, emcee, entertainer, innkeeper,
keeper, manager, moderator, owner, person of the house, presenter,
proprietor
Antonyms: guest, visitor, DIFFUSED

598) Hover

600) Huddle

602) Hump

FLUTTER
OCCUPY
DRIFT, SHED
LEAVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hang, float over
Synonyms: be suspended, brood over, dance, drift, flicker, flit,
flitter, flutter, fly, hang about, linger, poise, wait nearby, waver
Antonyms: lie, rest, settle, LEAVE

BUNCH, GATHER
JUMBLE
SCATTER
CLUMP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assemblage, crowd, often disorganized

Synonyms: bunch, chaos, cluster, clutter, confab, conference,
confusion, disarray, discussion, disorder, gathering, group, heap,
jumble, mass, meeting, muddle
Antonyms: SCATTER

PROTUBERANCE
TUMULT
DEPRESSION
FEEBLE, MOUND
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swelling, projection
Synonyms: bulge, bump, convexedness, convexity, dune, elevation,
eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, hill, hummock, hunch, knap,
knob, knurl, kyphosis, mound, prominence, protrusion,
protuberance, ridge, swell, tumescence
Antonyms: DEPRESSION

604) Hurt

606) Hybrid

608)
Hypercritical

CURE
TREAT, HEAL
INJURE
CRIPPLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: physically or mentally injured
Syn: aching, aggrieved, agonized, battered, bleeding, bruised,
buffeted, burned, busted up, contused, crushed, cut, damaged,
disfigured, distressed, disturbed, grazed, harmed, hit, impaired, in
pain, indignant, lacerated, marred.
Antonyms: comforted, cured, healed, healthy, ok, pleased,
remedied, well, HEAL

MONGREL
MIXTURE, PURE
SINCERE
COMPOSITION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: composite, mixture
Synonyms: amalgam, bastard, combination, compound, cross,
crossbreed, half-blood, half-breed, half-caste, incross,
miscegenation, mongrel, mule, outcross
Antonyms: homogeneous, pedigreed, PURE, purebred,
thoroughbred, unmixed

DECEPTIVE
DISHONEST
IMITATION, DISLIKED
TOLERANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: captious
Synonyms: carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding,
faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hard to please, niggling, nit-picking,
overcritical, persnickety
Antonym: DISLIKED

610)
Hypocritical

612)
Hypothesis

614) Ignite

0
INSINCERE, AMIABLE
INSULTING
SINCERE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, pretending
Syn: affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious,
deceptive, deluding, dissembling,double, duplicitous, faithless, false,
feigning, fishy, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, lying, moralistic, oily,
pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, smooth, snide, specious,
spurious, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable
Ant:actual, authentic, SINCERE, honest, just, real,

FACT, THEORY
CONCLUSION
SUPPRESSED
ASSUMPTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: theory
Syn: antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution,
axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data,
deduction, demonstration, derivation,explanation,foundation,
ground, guess, inference, lemma, philosophy, plan,
Antonyms: calcualtion, measurement, proof, reality, truth, FACT

KINDLY
EXITE, AGITATE
EXTINGUISH
ROUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: set on fire
Synonyms: burn, burst into flames, catch fire, enkindle, fire, flare
up, inflame, kindle, light, put match to, set alight, set fire to, start
up, take fire, touch off
Antonyms: EXTINGUISH, put out

616)
Ignominious

618) Illegible

HONOURABLE
INSULTING,DEJECTED
FAVOURABLE
CIVILIZED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: humiliating
Synonyms: discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, embarrassing,
inglorious, shameful Antonym: HONOURABLE

CLEAR
IMITABLE, CLEAN
READABLE
OBSCURE
Definition: unreadable
Synonyms: cacographic, crabbed, cramped, difficult to read, faint,
indistinct, obscure, scrawled, unclear, undecipherable, unintelligible
Notes: eligible means qualified for or allowed or worthy of being
chosen while illegible means hard to read or not legible; illegible
refers to bad handwriting, unreadable refers to poor writing Ant:
decipherable, READABLE, understandable

DECEPTIVE
EXCLUDING, NOT CERTAIN

620) Illusive

TRANSPARENT
NOT DECEPTIVE

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: deceptive
Synonyms: apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, false,
illusory, imaginary, misleading, mocking, seeming, sham, unread
Antonyms: real, NOT DECEPTIVE

622)
Immaculate

624) Impair

626)
Impeccable

UP-TO-DATE
SIGNIFICANT
UNTIDY, EXPRESSIVE
FLAWLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very clean; unspoiled

Synonyms: bright, clean, errorless, exquisite, faultless, flawless,
impeccable, irreproachable, neat, pure, snowy, spotless, spruce,
stainless, taintless, trim, unexceptionable, unsoiled.
Antonyms: dirty, filthy, foul, tainted, unclean, unsterile, UNTIDY

ENFEEBLE, IMPROVE
HEEDLESS
PAMPER
DEMOLISH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: harm, hinder
Synonyms: blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate,
decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, ding,
disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, reduce,
rough up, spoil, tarnish, total, tweak, undermine, unfit, vitiate,
weaken, worsen
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, IMPROVE

GOOD
SOUND, FAULTY
CANDID
CORRECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: above suspicion; flawless
Syn: accurate, aces, clean, correct, errorless, exact, exquisite,
faultless, fleckless, immaculate, incorrupt, infallible, innocent,
irreproachable, nice, perfect, precise, pure, right, sinless, stainless,
ten, unblemished, unerring, unflawed.
Ant: blemished, corrupt, defective, FAULTY

628) Impede

630)
Impervious

632) Imprint

DEMOTE
PROMOTE, EXALT
SOAR
DISAPPROVE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: obstruct, hinder
Synonyms: bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off,
cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit,
disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze, flag one, freeze, hamper,
interfere, oppose, rattle, restrain, retard.
Antonyms: advance, aid, assist, facilitate, forward, help, support,
PROMOTE

INGRESSIVE
POROUS, PASSAGE
OOZE
IMPULSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable to be penetrated
Synonyms: closed to, hermetic, immune, impassable, impassive,
impenetrable, impermeable, imperviable, inaccessible, invulnerable,
resistant, sealed, tight, unaffected, unapproachable, unmoved,
unpierceable,
Antonyms: exposed, open, penetrable, responsive, sensitive,
vulnerable, POROUS

REMOVE
ERASE
EXTINGUISH
REFUTE, EMBOSE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impression; symbol
Synonyms: banner, dent, design, effect, emblem, heading, impress,
indentation, influence, mark, name, print, sign, signature, stamp,
trace, trademark
Antonyms: ERASE

634)
Incandescenc
e

636) Incite

638)
Indestructible

ICINESS
ARDOUR, IMPEL
NDR

GLOW
BRIGHTNESS

INDUCE, PROVOKE
INSTIGATE
INCULCATE
CALM
Part of Speech: verb Def: encourage, provoke

Syn: abet, activate, actuate, agitate, animate, arouse, coax, craze,
drive, encourage, excite, exhort, foment, force, forward, further,
goad, impel, induce, inflame, influence, inspire, inspirit, instigate,
motivate, persuade, prick, promote,
Antonyms: delay, deter, discourage, prohibit, CALM

IMMORTAL
REBIRTH, FRAGILE
FRAGMENTARY
ENTITY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: lasting, unable to be destroyed
Synonyms: abiding, deathless, durable, enduring, everlasting,
immortal, immutable, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible,
indissoluble, inexterminable, inextinguishable, inextirpable,
irrefragable, irrefrangible, nonperishable, permanent, perpetual,
unalterable, unbreakable
Antonyms: breakable, destructible, FRAGILE

SLUGGISH
PRUDENCE
NO RESULTS

VAIN, ACTIVE
FIXED

640) Inert

642) Infallible

644)
Ingenuity

DUBIOUS
MISTAKING, ERRING
UNRELIABLE
PERFECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: unerring, dependable
Syn: acceptable, accurate, agreeable, apodictic, authoritative,
certain, correct, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, exact,
faultless, flawless, foolproof, handy, helpful, impeccable,
incontrovertible, inerrable, inerrant, perfect, positive, reliable,
satisfactory, satisfying, sure,
Antonyms: erring, fallible, faulty, ERRING

SKILLFULNESS
CUNNING
SENTIMENTAL
CERTAIN, DULLNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cleverness
Synonyms: ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, brightness,
brilliance, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption,
intelligence, inventiveness, resourcefulness, shrewdness, skill,
smartness, talent, wisdom, wit
Antonym:
DULLNESS

646) Inhibit

648)
Iniquitous

650) Innate

REFRAIN
DISCARD, ACTIVATE
SURRENDER
GUARD
Part of Speech: verb
Def: restrict, prevent
Synonyms: arrest, avert, bar, bit, bridle, check, constrain, cramp,
curb, discourage, enjoin, faze, forbid, frustrate, hang up, hinder,
impede, interdict, keep in, obstruct, outlaw, prohibit, repress,
restrain, sandbag, stop, stymie, suppress, ward,
Ant: aid, allow, approve, assist, free, ACTIVATE

INQUIRY
ENQUIRY, FREE
UNJUST
INQUISITIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unjust
Synonyms: evil, sinful, unfair, vicious, wicked
Antonym:
UNJUST

INBORN
ACQUIRED
SOBRIETY
PLOT, INHERENT
Definition: inherited, native
Synonyms: congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional,
elemental, essential, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indigenous,
ingrained, inherent, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, natural, normal,
Notes: the word innate means 'inborn' and should apply to living
things; inherent is 'essential, intrinsic'and applies to nonliving
things like ideas
Antonyms: ACQUIRED, extrinsic, learned

652)
Inquisitive

654)
Insatiable

656) Insolent

UNINTERESTED
DULL, INDOLENT
CAREFUL
CURIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: curious
Syn: analytical, challenging, forward,impertinent, inquiring,
inquisitorial, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome,
meddling, nosy, peering, personal, poking, presumptuous, probing,
prying, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, sifting, snooping,
speculative
Ant: incurious, indifferent, UNINTERESTED

DIMINISHABLE
GREEDY, GLOWING
SUCCULENT
LIMITLESS
Part of Speech: adjective Def: voracious, wanting

Synonyms: clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent,
gluttonous, greedy,importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate,
pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable,
unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, urgent.
Antonyms: fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable, satisfied,
DIMINISHABLE

PROUD, HUMBLE
ASHAMED
IGNORANT
INSULTING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold, disrespectful
Syn: abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy, brazen, breezy,
contemptuous, contumelious, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful,
fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate,
insulting, nervy, offensive, overbearing, peremptory, pert,
procacious, rude, smart, uncivil
Ant: cowardly, HUMBLE, modest, polite,

658)
Insouciant

660) Instill

662)
Interpolate

NONCHALANCE
UNCONCERNED
DEER, CHEAP
FRETFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easygoing, casual

Synonyms: airy, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, free and easy,
gay, heedless, jaunty, lighthearted, nonchalant, thoughtless,
unconcerned, untroubled, unworried
Antonyms: anxious, nervous, FRETFUL

EXTRACT
ERADICATE
EXPRESS, EXPAND
IMBUNE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: implant, introduce
Syn: catechize, diffuse, disseminate, engender, engraft, imbue,
impart, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix,
infuse, inject, inoculate, inseminate, insert, insinuate, inspire,
interject, intermix, program, suffuse.
Antonyms: dislodge, halt, stop, uproot, EXTRACT

INTRODUCE
STUDIED, DELETE
SOLVE
INSERTION
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: add
Synonyms: admit, annex, append, enter, fill in, include, inject,
insert, insinuate, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interlope,
interpose, introduce, intrude, throw in
Antonyms: erase, remove, subtract , DELETE

664) Intrepid

666) Inured

668)
Invincible

DOUGHTY
FEARFUL, MUTINY
VORACIOUS
FEARLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brave, nervy
Synonyms: audacious, bodacious, bold, courageous, daring,
dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, heroic,
impavid, lionhearted, nerveless, plucky, resolute, stalwart, unafraid,
undaunted, unflinching, valiant, valorous
Antonyms: cowardly, meek, timid, FEARFUL

ACCUSTOMED
SENSITIVE, INSIGHT
WORTHLESS
HABITUAL
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: accustom
Synonyms: acclimate, familiarize, habituate, harden, make ready,
season, toughen, train
Antonym: SENSITIVE

INVULNERABLE
VISIBLE, WANTON
ANCIENT
CONQUERABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indestructible
Synonyms: bulletproof, impassable, impregnable, indomitable,
insuperable, inviolable,invulnerable, irresistible, powerful, strong,
unassailable, unattackable, unbeatable, unconquerable,
undefeatable, untouchable, unyielding
Antonyms: beatable, breakable, CONQUERABLE, destructible,

670) Irk

672)
Irrational

ANNOY
IOTA, AMUSE
EXODUS
IRRITATE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: aggravate; rub the wrong way
Synonyms: abrade, annoy, bother, discommode, disturb, fret, gall,
harass, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make waves, miff,
nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, trouble, vex
Antonyms: delight, please, AMUSE

LOGICAL
UNREASONABLE
ABSURD, CRAZY
USELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: illogical, senseless
Synonyms: aberrant, absurd, brainless, cockamamie, crazy,
delirious, demented, disconnected, disjointed, distraught, fallacious,
injudicious, insane, invalid, kooky, loony, mad, mindless,
nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, raving,
Antonyms: LOGICAL, rational, reasonable, reflective, sensible,
sound, stable

REPLACEABLE
ILLEGIBLE,APPLICABLE

674)
Irreparable

DEMOLISHED
CORRECTABLE

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: unable to be fixed
Syn: beyond repair, broken, cureless, destroyed, hopeless,
impossible, incorrigible, incurable, irrecoverable, irredeemable,
irremediable, irremedial, irreplaceable, irretrievable, irreversible,
ruined, uncorrectable, unrecoverable
Antonyms: fixable, mendable, repairable, reparable,
CORRECTABLE

676)
Irreverent

678) Itinerant

680) Jagged

PIOUS, PROFANE
UNCIVIL
IMPIOUS
FAMOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disrespectful
Synonyms: aweless, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, flippant, fresh,
iconoclastic, impertinent, impious, impudent, insolent, irreverential,
mocking, profane, rude, sacrilegious, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy
Antonyms: religious, respectful, reverent, PIOUS

WANDERING
STATIONARY
INCURSION, EVEN
MOVABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: roaming
Synonyms: afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy,
journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, peripatetic, ranging,
roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant,
wandering, wayfaring
Antonyms: permanent, settled, STATIONARY

SERRATED
SMOOTH, UNEVEN
ROUGH
HINDERED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ragged, notched

Synonyms: asperous, barbed, broken, cleft, craggy, denticulate,
harsh, indented, irregular, pointed, ridged, rough, rugged, scabrous,
serrated, snaggy, spiked, toothed, uneven, unlevel, unsmooth
Antonyms: even, SMOOTH

682)
Jaundiced

684) Jealousy

686)
Jeopardy

STOPPED, YOUNG
UNBIASED
PESSIMISTIC
PLEASURE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: tainted, prejudiced
Synonyms: biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, disapproving,
distorted,envious,grudging, hostile, intolerant, jealous, opprobrious,
partial, partisan, preconceived, prepossessed, resentful, skeptical,
spiteful, suspicious, tendentious, unfair, unfriendly, unindifferent,
warped, yellow
Antonyms: clean, fresh, UNBIASED, unprejudiced

SUSPICION
GENEROSITY
ALLIANCE
BIT, ENVY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: envy
Synonyms: backbiting, begrudging, covetousness, enviousness, evil
eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudgingness, jaundiced eye,
resentfulness, resentment, spite
Antonym: GENEROSITY

PERIL
VULNERABILITY
BRAVERY, THREAT
SAFETY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: danger, trouble
Synonyms: accident, chance, endangerment, exposure, hazard,
insecurity, liability, peril, precariousness, risk, venture, vulnerability
Antonyms: protection, SAFETY

688) Jittery

690) Jovial

CONFUSED, BOLD
STRONG
HARDY
TIMID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nervous

Synonyms: anxious, apprehensive, edgy, excitable, fidgety, highstrung, jumpy, on edge, on pins and needles, panicky, quivering,
restless, shaky, skittish, spooked, tense, trembling, uneasy,uptight
Antonym: BOLD

GENERAL, SAGACITY
GLOOMY
FIXED
CHEERFUL
Definition: happy
Syn: affable, airy, amiable, animated, bantering, blithe, blithesome,
bouncy, buoyant, chaffing, cheery, chipper,
companionable,convivial,cordial, daffy, facetious, festal, festive,
jocose, jocund,jokey, jolly, joshing, jubilant, larking, lighthearted,
Notes: jovial refers to a mood or disposition, jocular to a conduct
or manner
Antonyms: sad, unhappy, GLOOMY

PRUDENT, SENSIBLE
ACCUSED

692)
Judicious

TIMELY
UNWISE

Definition: wise, thoughtful


Syn: accurate, acute, astute, calculating, careful, cautious, considered,
discerning, discreet, efficacious, expedient, prudent, sane, sapient
Notes: judicial means 'pertaining to judges or the courts' and judicious
means 'prudent, carefully considered'; judicial refers to judgment as it is
exercised by the court, judicious to judgment as exercised by an
individual Ant: foolish, hasty, idiotic, injudicious, irrational, nonsensical,
reckless, senseless, UNWISE

694) Just

696)
Juxtaposition
s

698) Key

FAIR
UNJUST
OUTFLOW
SOOTHE, UNIFORM
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: fair, impartial
Syn: aloof, blameless, condign, conscientious, decent, dependable,
dispassionate, due, equal, equitable, ethical, evenhanded, good,
honest, honorable, lawful, nonpartisan, objective, pure, reliable,
right, righteous, rightful, rigid, scrupulous, strict, tried,
true,trustworthy
Antonyms: inequitable, partial, unfair, UNJUST

UNITY, OPPOSITION
SEPARATION
DIFFERENCE
CONFIRMATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adjacency
Synonyms: abutment, contact, nearness, proximity, touching
Antonym: SEPARATION

SOLUTION
STRANGERS, CLASS
MYSTERY
RESOLUTION
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: essential, important
Synonyms: basic, chief, crucial, decisive, fundamental,
indispensable, leading, main, major, material, pivotal, primary,
principal, vital
Antonyms: inessential, insignificant, nonessential, unimportant,
MYSTERY

700) Kith

RELATIVE
SON, STRANGERS
OUTFIT
NATIVES
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blood relative
Synonyms: affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin,
extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinsfolk, kinship,
kinsperson, member, people, race, relation, relationship
Notes: your family or relatives are kin ; your friends, neighbors,
and acquaintances are kith
Antonym: STRANGERS

IGNORANCE, ILLITERACY

702)
Knowledge

704)
Laborious

FOOLISHNESS
AWARENESS

BACKWARDNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's understanding; information

Syn: ability, accomplishments, acquaintance,
apprehension, attainments, awareness, cognition,comprehension,
consciousness, discernment, doctrine, dogma, education,
enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, grasp, insight,
instruction,
Antonyms: IGNORANCE

DILIGENT, LAZY
FRIVOLITY
MENIAL
ARDUOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hard, difficult
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, effortful,
fatiguing, forced, heavy, herculean, labored, onerous, operose,
ponderous, rough go, stiff, strained, strenuous, tiresome, toilsome,
tough, tough job, wearing, wearisome,
Antonyms: easy, effortless, facile, simple, trivial, LAZY

706) Lacerate

708)
Lachrymose

710) Laconic

HEAT, HEAL
TEAR
AFFLICT
DESTROY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tear, cut; wound
Synonyms: claw, gash, harm, hurt, injure, jag, lance, maim,
mangle, mutilate, puncture, rend, rip, score, serrate, slash, stab,
torment, torture
Antonym: HEAL

JOYFUL, TEARFUL
WEEPING
GLOOMY
AMAZING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crying
Synonyms: sad, tearful, teary, weeping, weepy
JOYFUL

Antonym:

CURT, TERSE
WORDY
ROBUST
TEASING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: short, to the point
Synonyms: breviloquent, brief, brusque, compact, compendiary,
compendious, concise, crisp, curt, pithy, sententious, short and
sweet, succinct, terse
Antonyms: long-winded, verbose, WORDY

INSULT
ACKNOWLEDGE
DISAGREE
EXPLOSION, PRAISE

NO RESULTS

Antonym: PRAISE

712) Lambast

714) Languid

716) Languor

CHEERFUL
PROGRESSIVE
FASHIONABLE,GLOOMY
VIGOROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: drooping, dull, listless
Syn: apathetic, blahs, comatose, dopey, easy, enervated, faint,
feeble, lackadaisical, languishing, languorous, lazy, leaden, lethargic,
limp, moony, sluggish, snoozy, spiritless, supine, torpid, weary
Notes: languid is limp or listless; limpid means clear or calm
Antonyms: alert, animated, energetic, lively, spirited, vivacious,
CHEERFUL

INTOXICANT
SHREWD, LODGING
CELERITY
ANIMAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lethargy
Synonyms: apathy, dullness, fatigue, idleness, inaction, inactivity,
laziness, listlessness, sluggishness, tiredness, torpor, weakness
Antonym: CELERITY

718)
Lascivious

720)
Laudable

LEWD, LUSTFUL
CHASTE
CALUMNIOUS
IMMORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sexually aroused; displaying excessive interest in
sex
Syn: bawdy, blue, bodily, carnal, coarse, crude, fleshly, immoral,
indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,
licentious,lubricious,lustful, nasty, obscene,ribald, scurrilous,
sensual, smutty, steamy, unchaste, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton
Antonyms: chaste, decent, moral, CHASTE

NEGLIGIBLE, ADMIRABLE
COMMENDABLE
PRAISEWORTHY
BLAMEFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: admirable
Synonyms: commendable, creditable, deserving, estimable,
excellent, mean, meritable, meritorious, of note, praisable,
praiseworthy, stellar, terrific, thankworthy, worthy
Notes: laudable means deserving praise; laudatory means
expressing praise
Antonyms: bad, BLAMEFUL

PRAISING,ACCEPTABLE

722)
Laudatory

SEDATIVE
DEFAMATORY

ESSENTIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: complimentary
Synonyms: acclamatory, adulatory, approbative, approbatory,
approving, commendatory, encomiastic, eulogistic, flattering,
laudative, panegyrical, praiseful
Notes: laudable means deserving praise; laudatory means
expressing praise
Antonyms: blaming, castigating, DEFAMATORY

724) Lax

726) Lechery

728)
Legendary

SLACK, CASUAL
BRIGHT
COMFORTABLE
STRICT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slack, remiss
Synonyms: behindhand, broad, careless, casual, delinquent, derelict,
disregardful, flaccid, forgetful, general, imprecise, inaccurate,
indefinite, indifferent, inexact, lenient, neglectful, negligent,
nonspecific, oblivious, regardless, shapeless, slipshod, sloppy, soft,
unmindful, vague,
Antonyms: hard, rigid, STRICT, tight

PURITY
EXCESSIVENESS
SEXUALITY,COMFORT
ABDUCTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lewdness
Synonyms: carnality, debauchery, lasciviousness, libertinism,
licentiousness, lust, lustfulness, raunchiness, salaciousness,
wantonness
Antonym: PURITY

PRACTICAL
HISTORICAL
MYTHOLOGICAL
LEVY, OLD
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: fictitious but well known
Synonyms: allegorical, apocryphal, created, customary, doubtful,
dubious, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fanciful, figmental, imaginary,
imaginative, improbable, invented, mythical, mythological, related,
romantic, storied, told, traditional, unhistoric, unreal, unverifiable
Antonyms: factual, real, true, HISTORICAL

730)
Lethargic

732) Levity

734)
Licentious

LISTLESS
INVIGORATING
LABORIOUS, SLOTHFUL
SLUGGISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lazy, sluggish
Syn: apathetic, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant,
draggy, drowsy, dull, enervated, impassive, indifferent, inert,
languorous, listless, moony, nebbish, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy,
slow, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stretchy,
stupefied, supine, torpid, wimpy
Ant: active, INVIGORATING, lively, vivacious

SERIOUSNESS
FLIPPANCY, HOLD
RESTRICTION
FRIVOLITY
Part of Speech: noun
Def: funniness, silliness
Synonyms: absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness,
festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity,
giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs,
lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling,
triviality, volatility, wit
Antonyms: gravity, SERIOUSNESS

VOLUPTUOUS
LIBERTINE, CHASTE
DEBAUCHEE
IMMORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: immoral, uncontrolled
Synonyms: abandoned, amoral, animal, carnal, corrupt,
debauched, depraved,desirous,disorderly, dissolute, fast, fleshly,
impure, incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine,
libidinous, lickerish, promiscuous, reprobate, salacious, satyric,
scabrous, sensual, uncurbed,
Ant: CHASTE, controlled, good, innocent, moral

736) Limber

738) Linger

740) Lithe

AGILE, NIMBLE
INFLEXIBLE
RELAX
SLAKEN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flexible
Synonyms: agile, deft, elastic, graceful, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
loose, nimble, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, spry, supple
Antonyms: rigid, stiff, straight, unbending, INFLEXIBLE

DEPART, PERSIST
DAWDLE
DELAY
ATTACH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: loiter, delay
Synonyms: amble, be dilatory, crawl, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drift,
falter, hesitate, hobble, idle, lag, loll, lumber, mope, mosey, plod,
poke, procrastinate, putter, remain, saunter, shuffle, slouch, stagger,
stay, stop, stroll, tarry, tool, totter, trail, traipse, trifle, trudge,
vacillate, wait,
Antonyms: go, hurry, leave, rush, DEPART

LIMBER, LAZY
BENDING
SMALL
STIFF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flexible, graceful and slender
Synonyms: agile, lean, lightsome, limber, lissome, loose, nimble,
pliable, pliant, slight, slim, spare, supple, thin
Antonyms: awkward, fat, STIFF, thick

742) Livelong

744) Loath

746) Longing

LONG LIFE
SHORT LIFE
ALIVE, DEAD
PART OF
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lasting
Synonyms: constant, continuing, deep-rooted, enduring, for life,
inveterate, lifetime, livelong , long-lived, old, perennial, permanent,
persistent
Antonyms: short-lived, temporary, tenuous, PART OF

DETEST, EAGER
BURDEN
FLEXIBLE
PROMISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: against, averse
Synonyms: afraid, counter, disinclined, hesitant, indisposed,
opposed, remiss, resisting, uneager
Notes: loath is an adjective meaning 'unwilling, reluctant,
disinclined'; whereas loathe is a verb meaning 'to dislike intensely,
to feel revulsion toward, to despise'
Antonyms: approving, for, unopposed, EAGER

CRAVING
AVERSION
SADNESS, ANALYSE
LENGTHY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: strong desire
Synonyms: ambition, aspiration, coveting, craving, fire in the belly,
hankering, hunger, hungering, itch, pining, thirst, urge, wish,
yearning, yen
Antonyms: dislike, hate, hatred, AVERSION

748)
Lopsided

UNEVEN, ALONE
BALANCED
SLANTED
DISTORTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: leaning, falling to one side; larger on one side
Synonyms: askew, asymmetrical, awry, cockeyed, crooked,
disproportional, disproportionate, inclinatory, irregular,
nonsymmetrical, overbalanced, squint, tilting, unbalanced, unequal,
uneven, unsteady, warped
Antonyms: even, level, straight, BALANCED

GENETIC
SEX-APPEAL
ATHEIST
MONOCLE, RAVINE
NDR
Antonym:

750)
Lorgnette

752) Loyal

UNFAITHFUL
REBELLIOUS
UNFRIENDLY, STEADfast
COURAGEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: faithful, dependable
Synonyms: allegiant, ardent, attached, behind one, believing,
coming through, constant, devoted, dutiful, firm, patriotic, resolute,
staunch, steadfast, steady, true, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing,
unswerving, unwavering
Antonyms: disloyal, undependable, unfaithful, REBELLIOUS

754)
Lugubrious

DESPONDENT
DISCONSOLATE
BLUE, LEWD
BLITHE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hopeless
Synonyms: atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal,
dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal,
gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad,
sinister, sombre, threatening
Antonyms: hopeful, optimistic, BLITHE

SPLENDOUR
LIE, HIDE
NO RESULTS

GLOOM
GLOSS
Antonym:

756) Lustre

758) Macabre

GRUESOME
ATTRACTIVE
SPLENDOUR, TRASH
MORBID
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: eerie; deathlike
Syn: cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly,
ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible,
horrid,lurid,morbid, offensive, scary, spookish, spooky, terrible,
Notes: macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror;
bizarre means odd or unusual
Ant: common, living, normal, ATTRACTIVE

760) Madness

762) Magnate

764) Main

CLEVERNESS, SANITY
SHREWDNESS
CUNNINGNESS
LUNACY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insanity
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, craziness, delirium, delusion,
dementia, derangement, fanaticism, foolishness, hysteria,
irrationality, lunacy, madness, mania, mental disorder, mental
illness, neurosis, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, stupidity,
unbalance
Antonym: SANITY

METAL
POOR, DAUB
ATTRACT
REPEL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: important
person, usually in business
Syn: aristocrat, bigwig, businessperson,capitalist, captain of
industry, chief, figure, financier, industrialist, leader, merchant,
mogul, name, noble, notable, peer, personage, plutocrat, tycoon
Antonyms: lowly, POOR

LAME, SUBSTANCE
GLOOM
RESTORE
FOREMOST
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: principal, predominant
Synonyms: capital, cardinal, central, chief,
Notes: main means most important element, while a mane is long
coarse hair growing along the top and sides of an animal's neck or
the growth of hair covering the head of a human being
Antonyms: auxiliary, extra, insignificant, minor, secondary,
subordinate, unimportant, RESTORE

ASSISTANT,SUPERVISOR

766)
Malefactor

768)
Malicious

770)
Malignant

PERFORMER
MALINGERER

BENEFACTOR
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: criminal
Syn: con, convict, culprit, delinquent, evildoer, felon, hellhound,
hoodlum, jailbird, lawbreaker, outcast, outlaw, prisoner, rapscallion,
rascal, rogue, rounder, ruffian, scamp, scoundrel, sinner, thug,
transgressor, varlet, villain, wretch, wrongdoer
Antonym: BENEFACTOR

BOASTFUL
INDIFFERENT
KIND, GENEROUS
VICIOUS
Definition: hateful
Syn: awful, baleful, beastly, bitter, catty, cussed, deleterious,
despiteful, detrimental, envious, evil, injurious, jealous, low,
malevolent, malign, malignant, mean, mischievous, nasty, noxious,
ornery, pernicious, petty, poisonous, rancorous, resentful, spiteful,
uncool, vengeful, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked
Ant: benevolent, friendly, good, kind, GENEROUS

VIRULENT
BENIGN, PRUNE
SWALLOW
DEADLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: diseased
Synonyms: cancerous, deadly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal,
mortal, pestilential, poisonous
Antonyms: BENIGN, harmless, uncancerous

772) Mangy

774)
Marauder

BRAVERY, DISEASED
SMALL
DOG
CLEAN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scruffy
Synonyms: decrepit, dirty, Impoverished, indigent, mean, poor,
ragtag, shabby, shoddy, sick, squalid, tattered
Antonyms: kempt, neat, CLEAN

GUARD, LOOTER
REFRACTORY
TALKATIVE
FAILURE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pillager, raider
Synonyms: bandit, buccaneer, corsair, freebooter, looter, outlaw,
pirate, plunderer, ravager, robber, thief
Antonym: GUARD

STRICT-DISCIPLINARIAN

776) Martinet

LOOSE-DISCIPLINARIAN

MUSICAL-INSTRUMENT
SWEET-DISH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disciplinarian
Synonyms: authoritarian, bully, despot, drill sergeant, drillmaster,
enforcer, hard master, slavedriver, stickler, taskmaster, tyrant
Antonym: LOOSE-DISCIPLINARIAN

778) Mask

DEFACE, CONCEAL
EXPOSE
HIDDEN
DISGUISE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false face, cover
Synonyms: affectation, appearance, aspect, beard, blind,
camouflage, concealment, disguise, disguisement, dissembling,
dissimulation,domino, facade, fig leaf, front, guise, hood,
masquerade, pose, posture, pretense, pretext, screen,semblance,
simulation, veneer, visage, visor, window dressing Antonym:
EXPOSE

MATRON, VELVET
SUNNY
SHADY
VESPER
NO RESULTS

Antonym:

780) Matin
SCANTY, DISSOLVE
AMPLE
BENIGN
SPARSE
NO RESULTS

782) Meagre

Antonyms:

784) Meek

786)
Mellifluous

788) Menial

ARROGANT
DIFFUSE
BOORISH, DOCILE
MILD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy; compliant
Syn: acquiescent, deferential, docile, forbearing, gentle, humble,
lenient, longanimous, lowly, manageable, mild, milquetoast, modest,
nothing, orderly, pabulum, passive, patient, peaceful, plain,
resigned, serene, tame, timid, tolerant, unassuming, unpretentious,
unresisting, weak
Ant: bold, emboldened, immodest, ARROGANT

MUTUAL, COMMON
HOARSE
CONTENTED
WITTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: smooth and sweet sounding

Synonyms: agreeable, dulcet, euphonic, fluid, harmonic, honeyed,
mellifluent, mellow, pleasing, resonant, songful, soothing,
symphonious, tuned, tuneful
Antonym: HOARSE

HUMBLE, SERVILE
NOTION
NOBLE
DEGRADING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lowly, low-status
Synonyms: abject, base, baseborn, boring, common, degrading,
demeaning, dull, fawning, grovelling, humble, humdrum, ignoble,
ignominious, low, mean, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry,
subservient, sycophantic, unskilled, vile
Antonyms: elevated, skilled, superior, NOBLE

790) Miasmic

792) Militant

794)
Minuscule

SULTRY
SALUBRIOUS
OPPRESSIVE
HEARSAY, ZEALOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: catching, spreading
Syn: communicable, contagious, contaminating, corrupting,
defiling, diseased, epidemic, infective, mephitic, miasmic ,
noxious,pestilent,pestilential, poisoning, polluting, toxic,
transmittable, virulent
Notes: diseases spread by contact are contagious and those spread
by air or water are infectious
Ant:antiseptic, germless, harmless, SALUBRIOUS
RELIGIOUS,SPIRITUAL
COMBATIVE
PACIFIST
AGGRESSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, combative
Syn: active, assertive, assertory, bellicose, belligerent, combating,
contending, contentious, embattled, fighting, gladiatorial, martial,
militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy,
truculent, vigorous, warlike, warring
Ant: compliant, peaceful, peaceloving, PACIFIST

MAJUSCULE
RETICULE, MINIMAL
MAXIMUM
MANIKIN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very small
Synonyms: diminutive, insignificant, microscopic, minute, small,
tiny, unimportant
Notes: a majuscule is a capital letter; a minuscule is a lowercase
one
Antonyms: huge, MAJUSCULE

796) Miserly

798) Malady

800)
Modicum

GENEROUS, LIBERAL
SPENDTHRIFT
CHARITABLE
SCROOGEOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: greedy, stingy
Synonyms: abject, avaricious, beggarly, cheapskate, churlish, close,
covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious,
penurious, skinflint, sordid, tightfisted, ungenerous
Antonyms: GENEROUS, giving, liberal

ROBUST, HEALTHY
WEAK
STRONG
WRONG
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease
Synonyms: ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, cancer,
complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder,
distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, illness, infection, infirmity,
inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus
Antonym: HEALTHY

BIG
A LARGE AMOUNT
COLOSSAL, HUGE
A SMALL AMOUNT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bit, small amount
Synonyms: atom, crumb, dash, drop, fraction, fragment, grain,
inch, iota, jot, little, minim, mite, molecule, ounce, particle, pinch,
scrap, shred, smidge, speck, tinge, touch, trifle, whit
Antonyms: lot, A LARGE AMOUNT

802) Mollify

804)
Monandry

TWIST, CONTINUE
TERMINATE
HARDSHIP
HARDEN
Part of Speech: verb
Def: pacify, soothe
Syn: abate, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, assuage, blunt,
calm, compose, conciliate, cushion, decrease, diminish, dulcify, ease,
lessen, lighten, lull, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, pacify,
placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, relieve, soften
Antonyms: agitate, depress, exasperate, harass, incite, provoke,
trouble, upset, worry, HARDEN

MONASTERY, WEEKLY
POLYANDRY
POLYGAMY
DRIPPING
NO RESULTS

Antonym:

PROLGUE,CATALOGUE

806)
Monologue

DIALOGUE
RECLUSE

EPILOGUE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: speech by one person

Synonyms: address, descant, discourse, disquisition, harangue,
lecture, sermon, soliloquy, speech, stand-up bit, talk
Notes: monologue comes from Greek and soliloquy from Latin,
but both mean 'speaking alone' Antonyms: DIALOGUE

808)
Moribund

810) Mortal

VITAL, CREATIVE
DYING
SUPERFLUOUS
DISABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dying
Synonyms: at death's door, declining, done for, doomed, expiring,
fading, fated, going, mortal, passing, perishing
Antonym: VITAL

ETERNAL, SPIRITUAL
IMMORTAL
DIVINE
TRANSITORY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: deadly
Syn: bitter, deathly, destructive, dire, extreme, fatal, grave, great,
grievous, grim, intense, last, lethal, malignant, monstrous,
mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous,
relentless, remorseless, ruthless.
Antonyms: invigorating, lifegiving, permanent, refreshing,
IMMORTAL

EXCELLENT, SUPERIOR

812)
Mundane

HEAVENLY
WORDLY

EXTRAORDINARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ordinary
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, earthly, everyday, lowly, normal,
prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly
Antonyms: exciting, extraordinary, HEAVENLY, supernatural,
wonderful

814)
Munificent

816) Nadir

818) Naivete

LIBERAL
MANIPULATE
STINGY, OBSESS
OBVIOUS
Definition: giving, generous
Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, big, bounteous, bountiful,
charitable, free, handsome, kind, lavish, liberal, loose,
magnanimous, openhanded, philanthropic, rich, unsparing,
unstinting
Notes:magnanimous means noble and generous in spirit;
munificent means very liberal in giving or bestowing - very
generous - lavish
Antonyms: careful, greedy, mean, selfish, STINGY
PROGRESS, LIBERTY
ZENITH
MODERNITY
DEPRESSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lowest point
Synonyms: all-time low, base, bottom, floor, low point, record low,
rock bottom, zero level
Notes:zenith derived from Arabic samt ar-ras 'the way or road
above one's head'; zenith technically is the point directly above the
observer and nadir is the point directly below
Antonym: ZENITH

WISDOM, NOVEL
IGNORANCE
CREDULITY
THOUGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: innocence, gullibility
Synonyms: artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity,
frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness,
openness, simplicity
Antonyms: experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication,
WISDOM

820) Nasty

822)
Nebulous

824) Negation

TERRIBLE, AWFUL
NAUGHTY
UNPLEASANT
ENJOYABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disgusting, offensive
Synonyms: awful, beastly, dirty, disagreeable, fierce, filthy, foul,
gross, grubby, hellish, horrible, horrid, icky, impure, loathsome,
lousy, malodorous, mephitic, obnoxious, obscene,ornery, outrageous,
soiled, squalid, stinking, tough, unappetizing, unclean, uncleanly,
ungodly,
Ant: great, magnificent, pleasing, ENJOYABLE

STARS, CURVED
HOME-SICKNESS
CRYSTAL-CLEAR
UNDER-AGE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: confused, obscure
Synonyms: ambiguous, amorphous, cloudy, dark, dim, hazy,
imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, murky,
shadowy, shapeless, uncertain, unclear, unformed, vague
Antonyms: apparent, definite, obvious, plain, CRYSTAL-CLEAR

AFFIRMATION
CONTRADICT
NEGATIVE, PROPOSAL
VIOLATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: contradiction, denial
Synonyms: antithesis, antonym, blank, cancellation, contrary,
converse, counterpart, disavowal, disclaimer, gainsaying, inverse,
negatory, neutralization,nothingness,nullification, nullity, opposite,
opposition,proscription,refusal, rejection, renunciation, repudiation,
reverse
Antonyms: allowance, approval, AFFIRMATION

826) Neurotic

828) Nimble

830)
Nocturnal

ANXIOUS, DISTURBED
QUITE
FLOODED
RATIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mentally maladjusted
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, anxious, basket case, bundle of
nerves, choked, clutched, compulsive, deviant, disordered,
disoriented, distraught, disturbed, hysteric, inhibited, manic,
nervous, nervous wreck, obsessive, overwrought, psychoneurotic,
unhealthy, unstable, upset, uptight
Antonyms: adjusted, balanced, sane, RATIONAL

AGILE, SLOW
ACTIVE
SWIFT
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: dexterous, smart
Synonyms: active, adept, adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, clever,
deft, handy, light, lissome, lithe, lively, proficient, prompt, quick,
ready, skillful, sprightly, spry, swift, vigilant.
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, lumbering, SLOW, undexterous,
unhandy

NIGHTY, DAILY
FALLOW
ANNUAL
UNNECESSARY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happening at night
Synonyms: after dark, late, night, night-loving, nightly, nighttime
Notes: nocturnal means belonging to or active during the night;
diurnal means belonging to or active during the day
Antonym: DAILY

832) Nominal

834)
Nonchalant

836) Notion

HUGE, CLEAR
REAL
SOLID
IGNORABLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: supposed, theoretical
Synonyms: alleged, apparent, as advertised, formal, given,
honorary, mentioned, named, ostensible, pretended, professed,
puppet, purported, seeming, simple, stated, suggested.
Notes: nominal means insignificantly small; minimal means the
least possible or smallest in amount and degree Ant: actual, real,
HUGE

EXCITED
COOL, EXCLAIM
LOUD
TYPICAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: easygoing, laid back
Syn: airy, aloof, apathetic, calm, careless, casual, cold, collected,
composed, cool, detached, disimpassioned, disinterested,
dispassionate, easy, effortless, happy, impassive, imperturbable,
incurious, indifferent, mellow, neglectful, negligent, neutral,
offhand, placid, serene, smooth.
Antonyms: intense, jumpy, nervous, EXCITED

BELIEF, STINGY
MISAPPREHENSION
FATE
CONCEPT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, idea
Synonyms: angle, apprehension, approach, assumption, awareness,
clue, comprehension, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness,
consideration, cue, discernment, flash, image, imagination,
impression, inclination, indication, inkling, insight, intellection,
intimation, intuition, Antonym: MISAPPREHENSION

838) Novel

840) Noxious

842) Nurture

TRADITIONAL
CUSTOMARY, OLD
ANCIENT
ORIGINAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: new, original
Synonyms: atypical, breaking new ground, contemporary,
different, far cry, fresh, innovative, modernistic, neoteric,
newfangled, odd, offbeat, peculiar, rare, recent, singular, strange,
uncommon, unfamiliar, unique, unusual
Antonyms: common, customary, familiar, old, ordinary, overused,
used, usual, TRADITIONAL

NASAL
NEXUS, NOTARY
SANITARY
SNEEZING
Definition: deadly, injurious
Syn: baneful, corrupting, dangerous, deleterious, destructive,
detrimental, fetid, foul, harmful, hurtful, insalubrious, insalutary,
noisome,
Notes: noxious means injurious to physical or mental health;
obnoxious means very offensive, objectionable, or unpleasant
Antonyms: curing, good, healthy, helpful, hygienic, pure, sterile,
wholesome, SANITARY

NOURISH
FOSTER
NEGLECT, RUIN
SUSTAIN
Part of Speech: noun Def: development, nourishment

Syn: breeding, care, diet, discipline, edibles, education, feed, food,
instruction, nutriment, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands,
victuals
Notes: cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture
means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with
nourishment
Ant: deprivation, ignorance, neglect, NEGLECT

844) Obese

846) Obey

848)
Objurgation

FAT, THIN
OBLIQUE
EXPLODE
OBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very overweight
Synonyms: adipose, avoirdupois, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavy,
outsize, paunchy, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout
Antonyms: emaciated, skinny, underweight, THIN

ATTRACT, DISOBEY
REPEL
DIFFUSE
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Def: conform, give in
Synonyms: abide by, accede, accept, accord, acquiesce, adhere to,
agree, answer, assent, comply, concur, discharge, embrace, execute,
follow, fulfill, heed, keep, mind, observe, perform, respond, serve,
submit, surrender.
Antonyms: DISOBEY, mutiny, rebel

REBUKE
ELEGY, HATE
PRAISE
DEJECTION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: condemnation

Synonyms: accusation, animadversion, arraignment, attack,
attribution, castigation, censure, charge, chiding, complaint,
criticism, denunciation, depreciation, diatribe
Antonyms: applause, commendation, exaltation, exculpation,
exoneration, PRAISE, thanks

850)
Obligatory

852) Oblique

854) Obloquy

COMPULSORY
PROMISE
DEVOTEDLY, CASUAL
OPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: essential, required
Synonyms: binding, coercive, compulsatory, compulsory, de
rigueur, enforced, imperative, imperious, mandatory, necessary,
requisite, unavoidable
Antonyms: nonessential, OPTIONAL, unrequired, voluntary

STRAIGHTFORWARD
INDIRECT, HEIGHT
CLEAR
CONVERTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slanting; at an angle
Synonyms: angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry,
bent, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining,
leaning, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping,
strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping. Antonym:
STRAIGHTFORWARD

HATE, PRAISE
CIRCLE
CURE
COMPULSORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: calumny
Synonyms: abuse, animadversion, aspersion, bad press, censure,
criticism, defamation, disgrace, humiliation, ignominy, insult,
invective, reproach, slander, vituperation
Antonym: PRAISE

856) Obscene

858) Obsess

860) Obsolete

DECENT, INDECENT
LEWD
AFFAIR
VULGAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indecent, offensive, immoral

Syn: atrocious, barnyard, bawdy, coarse, crude, disgusting, evil,
filthy, foul, gross, heinous, hideous, horrible, immodest, improper,
impure, lascivious, lewd, licentious, loathsome, lustful, nasty,
noisome, outrageous, porno, profane
Ant: clean, DECENT, innocent, moral, upright

HAUNT, HARASS
DIVERT
NOTICE
REACH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: preoccupy
Synonyms: beset, consume, dominate, engross, grip, harass, haunt,
hold, infatuate, possess, torment
Antonym: DIVERT

CONDUCTIVE
RARE, USELESS
RECENT
EXTINCT
Part of Speech: adjective Def: no longer in use, in vogue

Syn: anachronistic, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique,
archaic, dated, dead, dinosaur, discarded, disused, done for, dusty,
extinct, fossil, kaput, moldy, outmoded, stale, superannuated
Notes: things that are no longer used are obsolete ;things that are
becoming obsolete are obsolescent
Ant: contemporary, current, modern, RECENT

AGREEING,ACCEPTING

862)
Obstinate

864) Obvious

ACCOMMODATING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: stubborn, determined
Syn: adamant, cantankerous, contradictory, contrary,
contumacious, convinced, dogged, dogmatic, firm, hard, hardened,
immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, mulish,
obdurate, opinionated, opinionative, unflinching, unyielding.
Ant: agreeable, amenable, flexible, YIELDING

OBSCURE
EXPLICIT, PLAIN
CLEAR
EVIDENT
Definition: apparent, understandable
Syn: accessible, barefaced, bright, clear, conclusive, conspicuous,
discernible, distinct, distinguishable, evident, explicit,
exposed,glaring, noticeable, observable, open, overt, palpable,
Notes: oblivious means lacking all memory or lacking active
conscious awareness, while obvious means easily perceived or
understood
Ant: ambiguous, indefinite, OBSCURE, unclear,

MEDIOCRACY
RULE-BY-ONE
NDR

866)
Ochlocracy

YIELDING
STUBBORN

TECHNOCRACY
RULE-BY-MANY
Ant

868) Odious

FAMILIAR, PLEASANT
INSIGNIFICANT
CACOPHONY
DETESTFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: hateful, horrible
Syn: abhorrent, abominable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, foul,
hateable, horrid, loathsome, mean, obnoxious, offensive, ornery,
pain in the neck, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting,
unpleasant, vile
Antonyms: agreeable, delightful, great, likeable, loveable, pleasing,
PLEASANT

INTRUSIVE
ALOOF, ALIGHT

870) Officious

872)
Omission

MEDDLESOME
RESPONSIBLE

Part of Speech: adjective Def: self-important, dictatorial



Syn: busy, impertinent, inquisitive, interfering, intrusive, meddlesome,
meddling, obtrusive,
Notes: an official (noun) is one who holds or is invested with an office or
a referee or umpire in a game or sport - (adjective)having official
authority or of or relating to an office; officious means marked by
excessive eagerness in offering services or advice where they are neither
requested nor needed Ant: modest, shy, ALOOF

INSERTION, UNWRAP
SOLEFUL
LUSH
REMOVAL
Part of Speech: noun
Def: something forgotten
Syn: blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm,
default, disregard, disregardance, elision, excluding, exclusion,
failing, failure, gap, ignoring, inadvertence, inadvertency, lack,
lapse, missing, neglect, passing over, preclusion, preterition,
prohibition,
Ant: addition, inclusion, INSERTION

874)
Omniscient

876) Onrush

878) Opiate

IGNORANT
INFALLIBLE
EXALTED, ANCIENT
INFORMED
Def: all-knowing

Synonyms: all-seeing, almighty, infinite, knowledgeable,
pansophical, preeminent, wise
Notes: omnipresent means present in all places at the same time;
omniscient means infinitely wise or all-knowing; omnipotent means
having unlimited power
Antonyms: stupid, unknowing, IGNORANT

FLOW, OBSTRUCTION
FORCE
BLOCKED
VIOLENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rush
Synonyms: attack, avalanche, blitz, charge, dash, deluge, flood,
flow, flux, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, onslaught, push,
race, scramble, stampede, storm, stream, surge, swiftness
Antonym: OBSTRUCTION

SLEEPY, DULLNESS
ENERGETIC
DISPARATE
STIMULANT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drug
Synonyms: anodyne, depressant, dope, dormitive, downer,
hypnotic, narcotic, opium, sedative, soporific, tranquilizer
Antonym: STIMULANT

880)
Opportune

882)
Opprobrium

FAVOURABLE
CASUAL, CHOICE
LUCKY
AWKWARD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: advantageous, lucky
Synonyms: appropriate, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable,
felicitous, fit, fitting, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, helpful, pat,
proper, propitious, seasonable, suitable, timely, timeous
Antonyms: disadvantageous, inauspicious, inopportune, unlucky,
unsuitable, AWKWARD

PRAISE, HATRED
LIKING
SHAME
INSULT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disgrace
Synonyms: black eye, blemish, debasement, debasing, degradation,
discredit, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humiliation, ignominy, ill
repute, infamy, obloquy, shame, stain, stigma, tarnish
Antonym: PRAISE

SUBDUE
SUBJUGATE
DEPRESS, CLUTCH
LIBERATE
NRD

884) Opress

886)
Optimum

OPTIMAL, WORST
UTMOST
IDEAL
OPTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: best
Synonyms: ace, capital, choice, choicest, excellent, flawless,
greatest, highest, ideal, matchless, maximum, optimal, peak,
peerless, perfect, select, solid gold, superlative
Antonyms: least, poorest, WORST

POVERTY
AFFLUENCY,GOOD LUCK

888)
Opulence

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: wealth
Synonyms: abundance, affluence, belongings, excess, fortune,
goods, lap of luxury, lavishness, luxury, means, money, plenitude,
possessions, property, prosperity, prosperousness, riches, stocks and
bonds, substance, substantiality
Antonym: POVERTY

RHAPSODY
CACOEPY, HARPY
NDR

890)
Orthoepy

INTERFERENCE
HINDRANCE

SYMPHONY
HERESY

892)
Ostentatious

894) Outwit

896) Overt

MODEST, BOASTFUL
CENTRE
HEIGHT
DISOBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: flashy, showy
Syn: boastful, classy, conspicuous, dashing, egotistic, exhibitionistic,
extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, flaunted, fussy, garish, gaudy,
gay, glittery, grandiose, highfaluting, jaunty, loud, obtrusive,
peacocky, pompous, pretentious, splashy, tony, uptown, vain, vulgar
Antonyms: MODEST, plain, quiet, reserved

LAUGHT, VICTORY
DEFEAT
WIN
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get the better of; figure out before another

Synonyms: baffle, bewilder, cap, cheat, circumvent, confuse,
deceive, defeat, defraud, dupe, end-run, fake out, finagle, goose,
gull, hoax, hoodwink, mislead, outdo, outfox, outgeneral, outguess,
outjockey, outmaneuver, outthink,
Antonym: DEFEAT

DEEP, SHALLOW
SECRET
UNWRITTEN
OPEN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obvious, unconcealed
Syn: apparent, clear, definite, manifest, observable, open, patent,
plain, public, visible
Notes: covert (concealed, covered, hidden) is the opposite of overt
(apparent, open to view, plain) overt means apparent or open to
view or plain or public; avert means to prevent or turn away
Antonyms: concealed, hidden, private, SECRET

898)
Overwhelm

900) Pageant

SWAMP, TRAVEL
GATHER
REINSTATE
SHATTER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flood, beat physically
Synonyms: bury, conquer, crush, defeat, deluge, destroy, drown,
drub, engulf, inundate, massacre, overcome, overflow, overpower,
overrun, overthrow, rout, smother, submerge, swamp, thrash,
Antonyms: underwhelm, REINSTATE

DISPLAY
FLEXIBLE
DRABNESS, HEAVY
SPECTACLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spectacle or contest
Synonyms: celebration, charade, display, exhibition, exposition,
extravaganza, fair, motorcade, parade, pomp, procession, ritual,
show Antonym: DRABNESS

RIGID, PALE
RUDDY
NO RESULTS

902) Palid

PAL
PALL

904) Palliate

906) Paltry

EXTENUATE
DELICIOUS
AGGRAVATE, BUY
APPEASE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gloss over; cover up

Syn: abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, camouflage, cloak, conceal,
condone, cover, diminish, disguise, dissemble, ease, exculpate,
excuse, extenuate,gloze, hide, justify, lessen, lighten, mask,
minimize, mitigate, moderate, mollify, prettify, relieve.
Antonyms: accuse, blame, condemn, AGGRAVATE

WORTHY, MEAN
PERMEATE
BOON
NEEDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: poor; worthless
Syn: base, beggarly, cheap, common,contemptible, derisory,
despicable, inconsiderable, ineffectual, insignificant, limited, low,
mean, measly, minor, miserable, narrow, petty, piddling, pitiful,
puny, set, shabby, shoddy, slight, small, trashy, trifling, trivial,
unconsequential, unimportant, vile.
Ant: important, rich, significant, WORTHY

OBLIQUITY, CONTRAST

908)
Parallelism

DISPARITY
ACCEPTANCE

DIVERGENCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: likeness
Syn: affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogousness, analogy,
appearance, carbon, clone, comparableness, comparison,
conformity, copy, correspondence, counterpart, delineation,
depiction, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form,
guise, identity, image.
Antonym: DIVERGENCE

GENEROUS,HEREDITARY

910)
Parsimonious

912) Patchy

914) Paucity

RELIGIOUS-MINDED
PATRIMONY

SELFISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: penny-pinching
Synonyms: avaricious, chintzy, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean,
miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, scrimpy, selfish, skinflint,
sparing, tightfisted, tightwad
Antonyms: generous, lavish, liberal, GENEROUS

CLEAR, SIMPLE
UNIFORM
ATTRACTIVE
REPAIRED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: spotty, not consistent
Synonyms: erratic, fitful, irregular, random, sketchy, uneven,
variable, varying
Antonyms: consistent, continuous, regular, unspotted, UNIFORM

SURPLUS, SCARCITY
PRESENCE
RICHNESS
DEARTH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lack, scarcity
Synonyms: absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness,
insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity,
scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness,
sparseness, sparsity
Antonyms: abundance, affluence, plenty, SURPLUS

916) Pedigree

918)
Pejorative

920)
Penchant

ILLEGITIMACY
LINEAGE
REFINE, CONSPIRE
BLOODLINE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: purebred
Synonyms: full-blooded, pedigreed, pure-blood, thoroughbred
Antonyms: base-born, lowly, ILLEGITIMACY

CRITICAL
DOWNGRADED
DECORATED
MELIORATE,MILITANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: negative, belittling

Synonyms: debasing, deprecatory, depreciatory, derisive,
derogatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, disadvantageous,
disparaging, irreverent, rude, slighting, uncomplimentary,
unpleasant
Ant: complimentary, positive, DECORATED

LIKING, AFFINITY
ATTACHMENT
IMMEDIATE
DISLIKE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fondness, inclination

Synonyms: affection, affinity, attachment, bias, disposition,
druthers, inclining, itch, leaning, liking, partiality, predilection,
predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, taste, tendency, tilt,
weakness, yen
Antonyms: DISLIKE, hate, hatred, indifference

922) Penury

AFFLUENCE
DELICACY
PAUPER,DEGENERATE
POVERTY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: poverty
Synonyms: barrenness, dearth, destitution, indigence, insufficiency,
need, privation, scantiness
Antonyms: AFFLUENCE, wealth

PRE-GREEK
POST-GREEK
LUNAR, APHELION
ANTI-HELLENIST
NO RESULTS

924)
Perihelion

926)
Perennial

PIERCING
PERMANENT
PREJUDICED
SEVERE, SEASONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: enduring, perpetual
Syn: abiding, annual, ceaseless, chronic, constant, continual,
continuing, deathless, durable, eternal, everlasting, immortal,
imperishable, incessant, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, longstanding,
old, perdurable, permanent, persistent, recurrent, seasonal,
sustained, unceasing, unchanging.
Antonyms: changing, intermittent, SEASONAL

928)
Pernicious

930) Perilous

932)
Permeable

INNOCUOUS
HEALTHY
HYGIENIC, FINE
FEEBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, hurtful
Synonyms: baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious,
destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous,
injurious, killing, lethal, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign,
malignant, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, noisome, noxious, offensive,
pestiferous, pestilent
Ant: helpful, innocuous, kind, lovable, HEALTHY

HAZARDOUS
DANGEROUS
SACRED, SECURE
RISKY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dangerous
Synonyms: chancy, delicate, dicey, dynamite, exposed, hazardous,
insecure, loaded, on thin ice, playing with fire, precarious, risky,
rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touchy, treacherous, uncertain,
unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable,
Antonyms: ok, safe, SECURE

IMPENETRABLE
PERVADE
TRANSFERABLE
DELICATE,PROMISING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: absorbent, penetrable

Synonyms: absorptive, accessible, enterable, passable, pervious,
porose, porous, spongelike, spongy
Antonyms: IMPENETRABLE, unpermeable

934)
Pernicious

DEADLY
DELETERIOUS
LETHAL, DANGEROUS
HARMLESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, hurtful
Synonyms: baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious,
destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous,
injurious, killing, lethal, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign,
malignant, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, nefarious, sinister, toxic,
venomous, virulent, wicked
Ant: helpful, innocuous, lovable, HARMLESS

DULL-WITTED
LUCID, PENETRATING
NO RESULTS

SHARP-WITTED
BRIGHT

936)
Perspicatious

938)
Persuasive

CONVINCING
LOGICAL
DISAGREEABLE
FORCEFUL, DUBIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: effective, influential
Syn: actuating, alluring, cogent, compelling, conclusive, convictive,
convincing, credible, effectual, efficacious, efficient,
eloquent,energetic, enticing, forceful, forcible, impelling, impressive,
inducing, inspiring, inveigling, logical
Antonyms: dampening, discouraging, disheartening, dissuasive,
ineffective, DUBIOUS

940)
Pertinacious

942)
Pessimist

944)
Philistine

SUPERFICIAL
ESSENTIAL
REVENGEFUL
HOSTILE, EXPERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: resolute
Synonyms: attentive, determined, dogged, persistent, tenacious
Antonym: SUPERFICIAL

PERILOUS
HOPEFUL
CYNICAL, DEPRESSED
SUPPRESSED
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who expects bad outcome

Synonyms: complainer, crepehanger, cynic, defeatist, depreciator,
downer, gloomy, killjoy, misanthrope, party pooper, sourpuss, wet
blanket, worrier.
Antonyms: optimist, HOPEFUL

WEST ASIAN
BRIGHTEN
CULTURED, LOVER
SPARING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: coarse
Syn: barbarian, barbaric, base, bawdy, boorish, brutish, cheap,
churlish, common, crass, crude, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, immodest,
impolite, improper, impure, incult, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, low,
lowbred, mean, nasty, obscene, offensive, raffish, raw, ribald, rough,
roughneck. Antonym: CULTURED

946) Piquant

948) Platonic

950) Pliant

SHARP, POIGNANT
INSIPID
QUESTIONING
WITTY
Part of Speech: adjective Def: flavorful, biting

Syn: interesting, lively, peppery, poignant, provocative, pungent,
racy, savory, sharp, snappy, sparkling, spicy, spirited, stimulating,
stinging,
Notes: having a sharp taste is pungent and having a pleasingly
sharp taste is piquant ; pungent first meant 'keenly painful or
distressing'
Antonyms: bland, dull, INSIPID
SENTUAL, LUNATIC
COURAGEOUS
EXCITED
MORAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: expressing nonphysical love

Synonyms: ideal, idealistic, intellectual, quixotic, spiritual,
transcendent, visionary
Antonyms: physical, SENTUAL

RIGID, GENEROUS
TIMID
LONELY
SHARP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: yielding under influence
Synonyms: compliant, docile, obedient, pliable, tractable, yielding
Antonym: RIGID

952) Poltroon

954)
Ponderous

956) PostScript

HERO, REGIMENT
CANVAS
CLOTH
BOX
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chicken
Synonyms: coward, craven, dastard, milksop, varlet, weakling,
yellowbelly
Antonym: HERO

SIMPLE
THOUGHTLESS
EMPTY, LIGHT
DIFFICULT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: heavy, cumbersome
Synonyms: awkward, bulky, burdensome, clumsy, cumbrous, dull,
graceless, hefty, huge, laborious, lifeless, lumbering, massive,
onerous, oppressive, substantial, troublesome, unhandy, unwieldy,
weighty
Antonyms: airy, buoyant, delicate, light, unburdensome, SIMPLE

INTRODUCTION
LEARNER, DELAYED
SALUTATION
PRE-DAWN
ddddddd

958) Precede

ADVANCE, FOLLOW
LEAVE
RETURN
CONCEAL
Definition: go ahead of

Syn: antecede, antedate, anticipate, forerun, foreshadow, guide,
harbinger, head, herald, introduce, lead, light the way, outrank,
pace, pave the way, pioneer, predate, preexist, preface,
Antonyms: FOLLOW, go after

960) Preclude

962)
Predicament

ADMIT, HINDER
DEBAR
CASUAL
DISAGREE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: inhibit; make impossible

Synonyms: avert, cease, check, debar, deter, discontinue, exclude,
forestall, forfend, hinder, impede, interrupt, make impracticable,
obviate, prevent, prohibit, quit, restrain, stop, ward
Antonyms: allow, permit, support, ADMIT

FIRMNESS
CONFIDENCE
COMFORT,CERTAINTY
DILEMMA
Part of Speech: noun
Def: difficult situation

Syn: asperity, circumstance, clutch, condition, crisis, deadlock,
dilemma, emergency, exigency, hardship, hole, hot water, imbroglio,
impasse, juncture, large order, lot, muddle, pass,perplexity, pickle,
pinch, plight, position, posture, puzzle.
Antonyms: fix, good fortune, solution, COMFORT

964)
Preeminent

966)
Prejudice

SUPERIOR,DOMINANT
PEERLESS
FOREMOST
INFERIOR
Part of Speech: adjective Def: most important; superior

Syn: capital, chief, consummate, distinguished, dominant, excellent,
foremost, incomparable, main, major, matchless, outstanding,
paramount, peerless, predominant, principal, renowned, stellar,
supreme, surpassing, towering, transcendent, ultimate, unequalled,
unmatchable.
Antonyms: inferior, low, INFERIOR, unknown

BIAS, BIGOTRY
PREDISPOSE
SWAY
OBJECTIVITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief without basis, information; intolerance

Syn: ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion,
bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment,
discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity
Antonyms: fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance,
OBJECTIVITY

FORETHOUGHT
UNINTENTIONAL
DELIBERATE
NDR
PROFOUND,INTRODUCTION

968) Prepense

970) Presage

972)
Pretentious

974) Pride

INDICATION, BENEFIT
FULFILMENT
RASH
SHORTAGE
Part of Speech: noun
Def: prediction, indication
Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice,
bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger,
intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion,
presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning
Antonym: FULFILMENT

SHOWINESS,IMMORAL
UNREASONABLE
UNASSURING
UNASSUMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: snobbish, conceited
Synonyms: affected, arty, assuming, aureate, bombastic,
conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned,
flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, magniloquent,
mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous,
rhetorical, showy, specious
Antonyms: humble, modest, UNASSUMING

HUMBLENESS
HUMILITY
DARING, SHAME
DELIGHT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: self-esteem

Synonyms: delight, dignity, ego, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face,
gratification, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, pridefulness, repletion,
satisfaction, sufficiency
Antonyms: HUMILITY

976) Primeval

978) Pristine

980)
Proclivity

PRIMITIVE, MODERN
PREHISTORIC
TREMENDOUS
ZENITH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ancient
Synonyms: earliest, early, first, old, original, prehistoric, primal,
primary, primitive, primordial, pristine
Antonyms: MODERN, new

PURE, UNSPOILED
PEAK
RELIGIOUS
CULTIVATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clean, pure; primeval
Synonyms: earliest, early, first, immaculate, intact, natural,
original, primal, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless,
stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, uncorrupted,
undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied,
untainted, untarnished.
Antonym: CULTIVATED

FAVOURITISM
JOINING
INSULT, ACCLIVITY
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inclination, tendency

Synonyms: bias, cup of tea, disposition, druthers, facility, inclining,
leaning, liableness, penchant, predilection, predisposition,
proneness, propensity, thing for, type, weakness
Antonyms: disinclination, ACCLIVITY

982) Prodigal

984) Profane

986)
Progressive

FRUGAL, RECKLESS
PREFACE
HASTY
SENSATIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wasteful
Synonyms: dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate,
improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift,
squandering, wanton
Antonyms: careful, thrifty, FRUGAL

RESPECTFUL
PIOUS, DARING
HOLY
OBSCENE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion

Syn: abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, foul, godless, heathen,
idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent,
irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory,
raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty.
Antonyms: clean, moral, sacred, PIOUS

ADVANCING
REGRESSIVE
SEPARATING
HEADING, COMPANY
Part of Speech: adjective
Def:liberal; growing
Synonyms: accelerating, advanced, advancing, broad, continuing,
continuous, developing, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising,
escalating, gradual, graduated, increasing, intensifying, lenient,
modern, ongoing, onward, radical
Antonyms: conservative, moderate, REGRESSIVE

988) Prolific

990) Prolix

992) Prompt

BARREN
PRODUCTIVE
CREATIVE, FERTILE
USELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fruitful, productive

Synonyms: abounding, abundant, bountiful, breeding, copious,
creative, fecund, fertile, generating, generative, luxuriant, profuse,
proliferant, rank, reproducing, reproductive, rich, spawning,
swarming, teeming, yielding
Ant: barren, fruitless, impotent, BARREN

FOOLISH, PITHY
LUCID
CALLOUS
CONFUSED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy
Synonyms: diffuse, lengthy, rambling, tedious, verbose
Antonym: PITHY

STIMULATE, ASSIST
DEFEND
INSTANT
DISSUADE
Part of Speech: adjective
Def: early, responsive
Synonyms: alert, apt, brisk, eager, efficient, expeditious, immediate,
instant, instantaneous, on time, precise, punctual, quick, rapid,
ready, smart, speedy, swift, timely, unhesitating, vigilant, watchful,
willing
Antonyms: late, negligent, slow, tardy, DISSUADE

FORTUNE,REMOTENESS

994)
Propinquity

996)
Proponent

998)
Proselyte

CLOSENESS
DIVERSITY

ASSOCIATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proximity
Synonyms: adjacency, closeness, contiguity, nearness
Antonym: REMOTENESS

COMPOUND
INGREDIENT
EXPONENT,ESSENTIAL
OPPONENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who advocates, supports cause


Synonyms: advocate, backer, champion, defender, enthusiast,
exponent, expounder, friend, partisan, patron, protector, second,
seconder, spokesperson, subscriber, supporter, upholder, vindicator
Antonyms: enemy, foe, OPPONENT

DULL, TRANSLATE
FAVOUR
HEIGHTEN
RENEGADE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: convert
Synonyms: disciple, follower, neophyte
Antonym:
RENEGADE

1000) Protg

CORTEGE
PRODUCING, PATRON
CARNAGE
PROTOTYPE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dependent, pupil
Synonyms: apprentice, charge, discovery, star student, student,
ward
Notes:prodigy refers to a person with exceptional talents, protg
is a male who is guided or helped by someone, and protge is the
female version Antonym: PATRON

1002)
Protract

PROLONG
DEFEND
EXTENT, RELEASE
SHORTEN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: extend, draw out
Synonyms: continue, cool*, defer, delay, drag on, drag out, draw,
elongate, hold off, hold up, keep going, lengthen, pad, postpone,
procrastinate, prolong, prolongate, put off, put on hold, spin out,
stall, stretch, stretch out
Antonyms: abbreviate, curtail

1004)
Provident

DISTANT, RETIRED
FORESIGHTED
RASH
RELAX
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, frugal
Synonyms: canny, cautious, discreet, economical, expedient, farsighted, foresighted, judicious, penny-pinching, politic, prepared,
prudent, sagacious, saving, shrewd, sparing, thrifty, tight,
unwasteful, vigilant, well-prepared, wise
Antonyms: careless, improvident, spendthrift, wasteful

1006)
Provocation

1008)
Prudent

1010)
Psychotic

DESTRUCTION
PEACE,PACIFICATION
VOCATION
INCITEMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: incitement, stimulus
Synonyms: affront, annoyance, bothering, brickbat, casus belli,
cause, challenge, dare, defy, grabber, grievance, grounds,
harassment, incentive, indignity, inducement, injury, instigation,
insult, irking, justification, motivation, offense, provoking, reason,
taunt, vexation, vexing
Antonyms: prevention, repression, suppression

CAUTIOUS
FRUGAL, THRIFTY
EXTRAVAGANT
COOL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wise, sensible in action and thought


Synonyms: advisable, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect,
discerning, discreet, economical, far-sighted, frugal, hedging one's
bets, judgmatic, judicious, leery, playing safe, politic, provident,
reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, shrewd, sound, sparing,
tactical, thinking twice, thrifty, vigilant, wary
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound
judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in
speech, conduct or dress
SANE, MENTAL
SPIRITUAL
Antonyms:
careless, imprudent, incautious,
unwise
HUMANE
BRUTAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mentally deranged
Synonyms: certifiable, crazy, demented, distracted, flipped-out,
insane, lunatic, mad, manic-depressive, mental, non compos mentis,
nuts, off one's rocker, over the edge, psycho, psychopathic,
schizophrenic, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

1012) Puerile

1014)
Puissant

MOANING
PANTING, RIFE
MATURE
CHILDISH
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: childish
Synonyms: babyish, babylike, callow, foolish, green*, immature,
inane, inexperienced, infantile, irresponsible, jejune, juvenile, naive,
petty, ridiculous, silly, trivial, unfledged, ungrown, weak, young
Antonyms: adult, mature

HEALTHY
INDIFFERENT
WEAK, STRONG
PATIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strong
Synonyms: able, able-bodied, active, athletic, big*, capable,
durable, enduring, energetic, firm, fixed, forceful, forcible, hale,
hard as nails, hardy, hearty*, heavy*, heavy-duty, in fine feather,
mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, reinforced, robust, rugged,
secure, sinewy, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stark, staunch, steady,
stout, strapping, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tough*, unyielding,
vigorous, well-built, well-founded, well-made
PUNCTUAL,PUNCTURED

1016)
Punctilious

CARELESS
POINTED

METICULOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, finicky
Synonyms: ceremonious, conscientious, conscionable, conventional,
exact, formal, formalistic, fussy, good eye, heedful, meticulous, nice,
observant, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking,
particular, persnickety, precise, proper, punctual, right on,
scrupulous, strict
Antonyms: careless, easy-going, informal, uncaring

1018)
Punitive

1020)
Pusillanimou
s

REWARDING
PUNISHING
HARSH, CORRECTIVE
WITTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerning punishment
Synonyms: castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in
retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory,
revengeful, vindictive
Notes: penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means
'serving to punish'
Antonyms: beneficial, rewarding

TIMID, COURAGEOUS
SHARP
POOR
INTELLIGENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: afraid, chicken, cowardly, gutless, tame, timid, timorous

FORMAL
REMARKABLE, DISPUTED

1022)
Putative

COMPROMISED
UNDISPUTED

Part of Speech: adjective


Definition: commonly believed
Synonyms: accepted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, hypothetical,
imputed, presumed, presumptive, reported, reputed, supposed,
suppositional, suppositious
Antonyms: proven, real, true

1024) Quaint

1026) Quaver

1028) Quell

ORDINARY, USUAL
CASUAL
INFORMAL
CHARMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strange, odd
Synonyms: bizarre, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, fanciful,
fantastic, freakish, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, laughable, oddball,
off the beaten track, offbeat, original, outlandish, peculiar, queer,
singular, special, unusual, weird*, whimsical
Antonyms: common, conventional, regular, usual

URGE, STEADY
SHAKY
CUDDLE
SWIFT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sway
Synonyms: falter, note, oscillate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver,
shudder, tremble, tremor, trill, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble

PRAISE
RECOMMEND
INCITE, CONTRACT
SUPPRESS
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defeat, suppress

Synonyms: annihilate, conquer, crush, extinguish, hush up, kill,
overcome, overpower, put down, put the lid on, queer, quench, shut
down, silence, sit on, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, subjugate,
vanquish
Antonyms: succeed, win

1030)
Quiescence

1032) Quiver

1034) Raffish

TRANQUILLITY
REPOSE, CALM
TURBULENCE
VITALITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: repose
Synonyms: calm, dormancy, inaction, inactivity, quiet, rest

REST, QUAKE
VIBRATE
DELAY
TREMBLE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shaking, vibration
Synonyms: convulsion, flash, glimmer, glitter, oscillation,
palpitation, pulsation, shake, shimmer, shiver, shudder, sparkle,
spasm, throb, tic, tremble, tremor, twinkle
Antonyms: quiet, stillness

REPUTABLE
COMMONER
RIGHT, WASTEFUL
SWEET
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unmindful of social conventions
Synonyms: bohemian*, careless, casual, coarse, dashing, devil-maycare, disreputable, fast*, gay, jaunty, rakish, sporty, tasteless,
tawdry, unconventional, uncouth, vulgar, wild
Antonyms: behaved, couth, proper

1036) Rancor

1038) Rear

FARM, AFFECTION
LOUD
FLAY
HEAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bitterness, hatefulness
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism,
antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bile, dudgeon, enmity, grudge,
hardness of heart, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill
will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness,
resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite,
spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness,
variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence
Antonyms: kindness, love, respect, sympathy
FRONT, FOREGROUND
FOREHEAD
FORWARD
BACKWARD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: back, end
Synonyms: aft, after, astern, backward, behind, dorsal, following,
hind, hinder, hindermost, hindmost, last, mizzen, posterior, postern,
rearmost, rearward, retral, reverse, stern, tail
Notes: one rears children and raises crops
Antonyms: beginning, front

REFORMED

BACK-SLIDING
DIVISION,RECIPROCATION
RECITATION
NDR

1040)
Recidivist

EXPOSED,CONDITIONAL

1042)
Recondite

1044) Rectify

1046)
Refractory

REFORM
SIMPLE

REFORMULATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, academic, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic,
concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, esoteric, hard, heavy*,
hermetic, hidden, involved, little-known, mystic, mystical, occult,
orphic, pedantic, profound, scholarly, secret
Antonyms: obvious, plain, simple, straightforward

CORRECT, FALSIFY
CONFUSE
MODIFY
AMEND
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: correct a situation; make something right

Synonyms: adjust, amend, clean up, clean up act, debug, dial back,
doctor, emend, fix, fix up, go over, improve, launder, make good,
make up for, mend, pay one's dues, pick up, put right, recalibrate,
redress, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, scrub, shape up,
square, straighten out, straighten up, turn things around
Antonyms: damage, ruin, worsen
PERMEABLE
PASSABLE
REFRACTION
MANAGEABLE,WHOLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stubborn
Synonyms: disobedient, headstrong, mulish, obstinate,
unmanageable, unruly

1048)
Regenerate

1050)
Relegate

1052)
Reminisce

REVIVE, RENOVATE
DISSIPATE
STUFFED
PASSIONATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: breathe new life into
Synonyms: change, exhilarate, inspirit, invigorate, produce, raise
from the dead, reanimate, reawaken, reconstruct, recreate,
reestablish, refresh, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, renew, renovate,
reproduce, restore, revive, revivify, uplift
Antonyms: destroy, kill, ruin

PROMOTE, DEMOTE
RETROGRESS
TOIL
RELAY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: assign, transfer
Synonyms: accredit, charge, commend, commit, confide, consign,
credit, delegate, entrust, hand over, pass on, refer, turn over
Notes: as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to
represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or
authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for
decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in rank
Antonyms: assume, hold, keep
REMIND, RETRACE
FORGET
CURTAIL
REMAKE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go over in one's memory
Synonyms: bethink, call up, cite, hark back, live in the past, look
back, mind, muse over, recall, recollect, remember, remind, retain,
retrospect, review, revive, think back
Antonyms: forget, repress

1054)
Renegade

1056) Replete

1058)
Reprimand

NEGATE, NOVICE
RENEWAL
GOAD
LOYAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rebellious
Synonyms: apostate, backsliding, disloyal, dissident, heterodox,
mutinous, outlaw, radical, reactionary, rebel, recreant,
revolutionary, runaway, schismatic, traitorous, unfaithful,
untraditional
Antonyms: obedient, passive, submissive

REPEAT, PET
REPEL
ATTRACT
EMPTY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: full, well-stocked
Synonyms: abounding, abundant, alive, awash, brimful, brimming,
charged, chock-full, complete, crammed, crowded, filled, full up,
glutted, gorged, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, loaded, luxurious,
overfed, overflowing, packed, plenteous, rife, sated, satiated, stuffed,
swarming, teeming, thronged, well-provided
Antonyms: empty, needy, wanting

ENCOURAGE
RECOMMEND
RELEASE, PRAISE
REPROACH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: oral punishment
Synonyms: admonishment, admonition, bawling out, blame, calling
down, castigation, censure, chiding, comeuppance, dressing-down,
going over, grooming, hard time, lecture, piece of one's mind,
ragging, rap, rebuke, reprehension, reproof, scolding, slap on wrist,
talking-to, telling-off, tongue-lashing, what for
Antonyms: forgiveness, praise, reward

1060) Repose

1062)
Repugnant

1064)
Resident

COMPOSE, REST
AGITATE
DEPOSE
OPPOSE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: restfulness; calm
Synonyms: ease, inaction, inactivity, leisure, peace, quiet, quietness,
quietude, refreshment, relaxation, relaxing, renewal, requiescence,
respite, rest, restoration, sleep, slumber, stillness, tranquillity
Antonyms: agitation, disturbance, upset, worry

LIKING, LOVING
CARING
PLEASING
REPULSIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, obnoxious; hostile
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, adverse, against, alien,
antagonistic, antipathetic, averse, conflicting, contradictory,
counter, creepy*, different, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful,
extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, foul, hateful, horrid, in opposition,
incompatible, inconsistent, inconsonant, inimical, invidious,
loathsome, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, odious,
offensive, opposed, opposite, repellent, revolting, revulsive,
sickening, unconformable, unfitted, unfriendly, vile
Antonyms: friendly, good, nice, pleasant
DWELLER, NATIVE
PUNCTUAL
PERMANENT
TRANSITORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person living in a particular place


Synonyms: citizen, denizen, dweller, habitant, householder,
indweller, inhabitant, inmate, liver, local, lodger, native, occupant,
resider, squatter, suburbanite, tenant, urbanite

1066) Respite

1068)
Restoration

1070) Retain

BREAK
CONTINUATION
PAUSE, INGREDIENT
RELAXATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pause, suspension in activity

Synonyms: acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather,
breathing space, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay,
deliverance, discharge, downtime, ease, exculpation, five,
forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interregnum,
interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup, lull, moratorium,
pardon, postponement, protraction, recess, relaxation, release,
relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten, time, time out, truce
Antonyms: continuation
LEXICON, BALM
HOARDING
DEPREDATION
ERADICATION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the act of restoring
Synonyms: alteration, cure, healing, rebuilding, reclamation,
recovery, reestablishment, reformation, rehabilitation, rejuvenation,
remaking, remodeling, renewal, renovation, return, revival

REJECT, REFUSE
SPARE
RENOUNCE
REJECT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold on to physically or mentally


Synonyms: absorb, bear in mind, cling to, clutch, contain, detain,
enjoy, grasp, hand onto, have, hold, hold fast, husband, keep, keep
in mind, keep possession, maintain, memorize, mind, own, possess,
preserve, put away, recall, recognize, recollect, remember,
reminisce, reserve, restrain, retrospect, save, withhold
Antonyms: free, let go, lose, release, spend

1072)
Reticent

1074)
Retrograde

1076)
Reverberate

DISCRETION
FRANKNESS, REPORT
ORDER
RESERVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secretive, quiet
Synonyms: bashful, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, dried up,
dummied up, hesitant, mum, reserved, restrained, shy, silent,
taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, unforthcoming,
unspeaking, uptight*
Antonyms: communicative, forward, unrestrained

DECLINING
REDUCED, WITHERED
INSULTING
PROGRESSING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reverting
Synonyms: backward, catabolic, contrary, declining, deteriorating,
inverse, inverted, lapsing, receding, reversed, sinking, slipping,
worsening
Antonyms: forward, positive

RESOUND, ECHO
EARNEST
SILENCE
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: vibrate in sound

Synonyms: echo, react, rebound, recoil, redound, reecho, resound,
ring
Antonyms: quieten

1078) Reverie

1080) Rife

1082) Robust

DAY-DREAMING
ABSTRACTION
CANCEL, ALERTNESS
MUSING
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daydream
Synonyms: absent-mindedness, absorption, abstraction, castlebuilding, castles in the air, contemplation, detachment, dreaminess,
dreaming, fantasy, fool's paradise, head trip, inattention,
meditation, mind trip, muse, musing, pensiveness, phantasy, pipe
dream, preoccupation, study, thought, trance, trip*, woolgathering
Antonyms: nightmare

RAMPANT
COMMON, CASUAL
DIRECT
SCANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overflowing

Synonyms: abounding, abundant, alive, common, current,
epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous,
numerous, pandemic, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent,
profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, swarming,
teeming, thronged, ubiquitous, universal, widespread
Antonyms: low, scarce
IDOLIZE
LOWER PART
AUTOMATIC, WEAK
RESTORED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: healthy, strong
Synonyms: able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, booming, brawny,
built, concentrated, fit, fit as fiddle, flourishing, full-bodied, hale,
hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, in fine fettle, in good health, in good
shape, in the pink, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful,
powerhouse, prospering, prosperous, roaring, robustious,
robustuous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping,
sturdy, thriving, tiger, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zappy,
zippy
Antonyms: flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak

1084) Rotund

1086) Rout

1088)
Rubicund

REMAINING, GIRTH
CRAMMED
ANGULAR
EXCOMMUNICATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fat
Synonyms: beefy, big, broad, burly, chunky, dumpy, elephantine,
fleshy, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, obese, overweight, plump,
plumpish, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, round, solid, stout, tubby,
weighty

FAILURE, DEFEAT
SUCCESS
DISEASE
DECAY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overwhelming defeat

Synonyms: beating, clobbering, comedown, confusion, debacle,
disaster, drubbing, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow,
retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, shutout, thrashing, trashing, upset,
vanquishment, walkover, washout, waxing, whipping
Notes: a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming
defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks
buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the
form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an
WANTED,
established DANGEROUS
line of travel or access -INDICATIVE
or a road, course, or way for
PALLID
travel
from one place to another DETESTFUL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flushed
Synonyms: colored, florid, healthy, red, reddish, rosy, rubescent,
ruddy

1090)
Rudeness

1092) Rueful

1094) Rustic

INCIVILITY
AFFILIATION
CRUDENESS
HOSTILITY,COURTESY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impoliteness
Synonyms: acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity,
bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness,
crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery,
grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence,
intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness,
shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness,
unmannerliness, vulgarity
CONTENT, DOLEFUL
AMBITIOUS
ACTIVE
PASSIONATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: regretful
Synonyms: apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, mournful,
remorseful, repentant, sad, sorrowful, sorry

RURAL, FARM
COUNTRY
BACKWARD
URBAN
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: country, rural
Synonyms: Arcadian, agrarian, agricultural, artless, austere,
bucolic, countrified, homely, homespun, homey, honest, natural,
outland, pastoral, picturesque, plain, primitive, provincial, simple,
sylvan, unaffected, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, verdant
Antonyms: city, metropolitan, suburban, urban

1096)
Sacerdotal

1098)
Sacrosanct

1100) Sag

FRANK
LAYMAN, REGION
RELIGIOUS-MINDED
PRIESTLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: religious
Synonyms: apostolic, clerical, ministerial, priestly, sacred

SACRED
HALLOWED
DIVINE, UNHOLY
TRANSPARENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sacred
Synonyms: blessed, consecrated, divine, godly, hallowed, holy,
pious, pure, religious, revered, sacramental, saintly, sanctified,
spiritual, unprofane, venerated

SINK, DROP
RISE
DROOP
HIGH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drop, decline

Synonyms: basin, cant, concavity, depression, dip, distortion,
downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, droop, fall, fall-off,
hollow, list, settling, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinking, slant, slip,
slump, tilt
Antonyms: increase, rise

1102) Sage

ROGUE, FOOL
EGOIST
SNUB
EXPERT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wise

Synonyms: astute, aware, careful, clever, contemplative, cunning,
discerning, educated, enlightened, experienced, foresighted,
informed, insightful, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, knowing,
knowledgeable, learned, perceptive, reflective, sagacious, sapient,
scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sound, thoughtful,
understanding
EXPERIENCED PERSON

1104) SaladDays

1106) Sallow

MORNING
HARVESTING TIME

MONDAY-TUESDAY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: best time of life
Synonyms: bloom, flower of life, heyday of youth, prime of life,
school days, springtime of life, tender age, younger days, youth

SICKLY
PALLID, WAN
RUDDY
DEEP
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pale, unhealthy

Synonyms: anemic, ashen, ashy, bilious, colorless, dull, greenishyellow, jaundiced, muddy, pallid, pasty, wan, waxy, yellowish
Antonyms: colorful, dark, flushed, healthy

1108)
Salubrious

1110) Sanctify

1112)
Sanguine

BITTER, CHRONIC
RECOVERY
CUNNIG
MIASMIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: health-giving
Synonyms: beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic,
invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome
Notes: salacious means characterized by lust or suggestive of or
tending to moral looseness, while salubrious means favorable to
health or promoting health
Antonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome

VENERATE
POLLUTE
PATRONIZE, CLEANSE
PURIFY
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold in highest esteem


Synonyms: absolve, anoint, bless, cleanse, consecrate, dedicate,
deify, enshrine, glorify, hallow, purify, set apart, worship
Antonyms: desecrate, dishonor, disrespect

OPTIMISTIC, HOPEFUL
PESSIMISTIC
SECLUDE
PRAISE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happy; optimistic

Synonyms: animated, assured, buoyant, cheerful, confident,
enthusiastic, expectant, hopeful, lively, positive, secure, self-assured,
self-confident, spirited, undoubtful, upbeat
Notes: sanguinary means accompanied by bloodshed or eagerness
to resort to violence and bloodshed, while sanguine means
confidently optimistic and cheerful or inclined to a healthy reddish
color
Antonyms: depressed, pessimistic, sad, unhappy

1114)
Sardonic

1116) Scanty

1118) Schism

SWEET, NASTY
BITTER
AGREEABLE
CONTEMPTUOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sarcastic
Synonyms: acerbic, arrogant, biting, bitter, carping, caustic,
cynical, derisive, disrespectful, evil, irascible, mean, mocking,
mordant, nasty, offensive, salty, satirical, scorching, scornful, sharp,
smart-alecky, sneering, taunting, wise*
Notes: sarcastic means 'derisive, tauntingly contemptuous,' while
sardonic means 'bitterly scornful, cynically disdainful'

SKIMPY
PLENTIFUL
SPARSE, UGLY
INADEQUATE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inadequate
Synonyms: bare, barely sufficient, close, deficient, exiguous, failing,
insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare,
restricted, scant, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare,
sparing, sparse, stingy, thin, tight, wanting
Notes: scanty means barely adequate or sufficient; scant means
less than the correct or full amount; skimpy means containing little
excess
Antonyms: abundant, ample, plentiful
TOGETHER, UNION
SCATTERED
JOINTLY
ALLIANCE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: separation
Synonyms: alienation, break, breakup, difference, disagreement,
discord, dissension, disunion, division, divorce, faction, fissure,
fracture, gap, parting, rift, rupture, secession, splinter group, split

1120) Scold

1122) Scream

1124)
Scurrilous

PRAISE, REJECT
ENAMOUR
REBUKE
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: find fault with
Synonyms: abuse, admonish, asperse, berate, blame, castigate,
cavil, censure, chasten, chide, criticize, denounce, disparage, dress
down, expostulate, give a talking-to, jump on, keep aft, lay down the
law, lecture, light into, nag, objurate, preach, put down, rail, rake
over the coals, rate, ream, rebuke, recriminate, reprimand,
reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, take to task, taunt, tell off,
upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: compliment, flatter, praise
CRY, GIGGLE
WAIL
SEDIMENT
CREEP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outcry
Synonyms: cry, high-pitched shout, holler*, howl, screech, shriek,
wail, yell, yelp

DECENT, SAVAGE
DESCENT
VOLATILE
DASHING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: foul-mouthed, vulgar
Synonyms: abusive, coarse, contumelious, defamatory, dirty, filthy,
foul, gross, indecent, infamous, insulting, invective, lewd, low, nasty,
obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, raunchy,
ribald, salacious, scabrous, scandalous, shameless, slanderous,
smutty, truculent, vituperative, vituperatory, vituperous
Antonyms: clean, polite, upright

1126) Sedate

1128)
Sedulous

1130) Senile

SEDENTARY
SEDITION, MOROSE
FRENETIC
SATIRE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: calm, collected
Synonyms: cold sober, composed, cool, cool as cucumber, decorous,
deliberate, demure, dignified, dispassionate, earnest, grave,
imperturbable, laid-back*, no-nonsense, placid, proper, quiet,
seemly, serene, serious, sober, solemn, somber, staid, steady,
tranquil, unflappable, unruffled
Antonyms: agitated, excitable, excited, lively, upset

PERSEVERING
DELIBERATE
PIOUS, WRONG
INDOLENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: assiduous
Synonyms: active, busy, determined, diligent, hard-working,
industrious, laborious, persevering, plugging, tireless

SNAKY, WORM
DOWNCAST
JUVENILE
RIDE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: failing in physical and mental capabilities due to old
age
Synonyms: aged, ancient, anile, decrepit, doddering, doting,
enfeebled, feeble, imbecile, in second childhood, infirm, old,
senescent, shattered, sick, weak
Antonyms: alert, well, young

1132)
Sententious

1134) Shallow

1136) Shrill

SYNTAX
STRIDENT, STERN
PROLIX
LAXITY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compact
Synonyms: aphoristic, concise, pithy, pointed

HIGH, HIDDEN
DEEP
HOLLOW
TRIVIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not deep
Synonyms: cursory, depthless, empty, flat, hollow, inconsiderable,
sand bar, shelf, shoal, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial,
unsound
Notes: callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while
shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge
Antonyms: deep

WEAK, MUFFLED
INAUDIBLE
BLUNT
INTENSE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: high-pitched, harsh in sound


Synonyms: acute, argute, blaring, blatant, cacophonous, clanging,
clangorous, deafening, discordant, ear-piercing, earsplitting, high,
metallic, noisy, penetrating, piercing, piping, raucous, screeching,
sharp, strident, thin, treble
Antonyms: low, soft

1138)
Similitude

1140) Slacken

1142) Slur

COMPARISON
DIFFERENCE
ILLUSTRATION
MISMATCH,EQUALITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: semblance
Synonyms: alikeness, copy, likeness, replica, representation,
resemblance, similarity, simulation

FOLLOW
PEEPED UP
FAST, SLOW
SWIFT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: decrease
Synonyms: abate, diminish, ease, flag, let up, loose, loosen, mitigate,
moderate, reduce, relax, relent, remit, retard, sag, slack, slake, slow,
soften, subside, temper, untighten, weaken
Antonyms: tighten

VIRTUE, PROMISE
CREDIT
REMEMBRANCE
INSULT
Main Entry:
slur [slur] Show IPA
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult

Synonyms: accusation, affront, animadversion, aspersion, bar
sinister, black eye, blemish, blot, blur, brand, brickbat, calumny,
dirty dig, discredit, disgrace, dump, expose, hit, innuendo,
insinuation, knock, obloquy, odium, onus, put-down, rap, reflection,
reproach, slam, smear, stain, stigma, stricture, zinger
Antonyms: compliment, flattery, praise

1144) Smile

GRIN, FROWN
CRY
SHOUT
BEAM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put on a happy expression
Synonyms: be gracious, beam, express friendliness, express
tenderness, grin, laugh, look amused, look delighted, look happy,
look pleased, simper, smirk
Antonyms: frown, glower

1146)
Solicitude

SOLITARY, COMPANY
NONCHALANT
SERIOUSNESS
NONE OF THESE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: worry, anxiety
Synonyms: TLC, attention, attentiveness, care, compunction,
concern, concernment, considerateness, consideration, disquiet,
disquietude, heed, presentiment, qualm, regard, scruple, tender
loving care, unease, uneasiness, watchfulness
Antonyms: calm, contentedness, ease, peacefulness

POROUS, DREAMY
ORIFICE

1148)
Soporific

STIMULATING
FICTION

1150) Sparse

1152)
Specious

1154)
Spurious

ASSUALT, DENSE
POINTED
DEFICIENT
SPAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very few and scattered
Synonyms: dispersed, exiguous, few and far between, inadequate,
infrequent, meager, occasional, poor, rare, scant, scanty, scarce,
scrimpy, skimpy, spare, sporadic, thin, uncommon
Antonyms: full, lush, plentiful

COMMODIOUS, SPICY
ARGUMENTATIVE
DOUBTFUL
AUTHENTIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: misleading
Synonyms: apparent, apparently right, beguiling, captious,
casuistic, colorable, deceptive, delusive, empty, erroneous, fallacious,
false, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, inaccurate, incorrect, likely,
nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, plausible, presumable,
presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophistic, sophistical,
sophisticated, spurious, unsound, untrue, vain, wrong
Antonyms: real, true, valid, credible
FALSE, GENUINE
SIMPLE
SYSTEMATIC
BOGUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: counterfeit, fake
Synonyms: affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard*, bent,
bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy*, ersatz, faked,
false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe,
mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, put-on, sham*,
simulated, specious, substitute, unauthentic, ungenuine, unreal
Antonyms: authentic, genuine, real, true

1156) Stale

1158)
Sterilize

1160) Stodgy

NEW, FRESH
LATEST
CURRENT
TASTELESS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: old, decayed
Synonyms: dried, dry, faded, fetid, flat, fusty, hard, insipid,
malodorous, musty, noisome, parched, rank, reeking, smelly, sour,
spoiled, stagnant, stenchy, stinking, tasteless, watery, weak, zestless
Antonyms: fresh, new

QUIETEN, RILE
SAVE
FERTILIZE
LENIENT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make clean or unproductive


Synonyms: alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean,
decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix, fumigate,
incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay
Antonyms: dirty

GRITTY, MUDDY
EATABLE
DIGESTIBLE
CLOUDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, stuffy

Synonyms: banausic, boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored,
monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, ponderous, staid,
tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired,
uninteresting, weighty
Antonyms: adventurous, exciting, ready, willing

1162)
Stringent

1164)
Stubborn

1166)
Subsistence

MUSICAL
PLEASANT
MELODIOUS
STABLE, LOUD
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: rigid, tight
Synonyms: acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the
numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on,
demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting,
forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad,
picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict,
tough, unpermissive, valid
Notes: stringent often means simply ' strict , strictly regulated' and
also 'tight or constricted' and emphasizes the narrowness of what is
permitted, while strict emphasizes the sternness with which
SUBORN is enforced
OBSTINATE
something
Antonyms:
flexible, inexact, tolerant
DUCTILE, STUB
FIFE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obstinate, unyielding

Synonyms: adamant, balky, bullheaded, cantankerous,
contumacious, cussed, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, hardheaded,
headstrong, inexorable, inflexible, insubordinate, intractable,
mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ornery*, persevering, persistent,
pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant,
refractory, relentless, rigid, self-willed, set in one's ways, singleminded, steadfast, stiff-necked, tenacious, tough, unbending,
unmanageable, unreasonable, unshakable, untoward, willful
NOURISHMENT
DEPRIVATION
Antonyms:
broad-minded, complacent,
compliant, giving, willing,
yielding
CARE, PURPOSE
LIVELIHOOD
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: provisions for survival
Synonyms: affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter,
bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food,
fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood,
living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension,
property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance,
support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal

1168)
Succinctness

1170)
Superficial

1172) Supine

SERIOUSNESS, INNER
SONOROUS
REDUNDANCY
TERSENESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shortness, briefness
Synonyms: conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness,
curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness,
pointedness, succinctness , terseness, transience, transitoriness
Antonyms: lengthiness, longevity, permanence

ARTIFICIAL, DEEP
SHALLOW
REAL
EXTERNAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without depth, detail
Synonyms: apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, depthless,
desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous,
general, glib, half-baked, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive,
lightweight, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, ostensible,
outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, quick-fix,
seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep, slapdash, slight,
smattery, summary, surface, tip of the iceberg, trivial, uncritical,
warped
Notes: superficial means not deep or penetrating emotionally or
SUPERIOR, LUPINE
PROSTRATE
intellectually
or of little substance or
significance, while superfluous
means
more than is wanted or is sufficient
PAINFUL
FOOD or rendered unnecessary
by
superabundance
Part
of Speech: adjective
Antonyms:
analytical,
Definition: lying
downcareful,
deep,
detailed,
genuine, thorough
Synonyms: decumbent, flat, flat on one's back, horizontal, level,
procumbent, prone, prostrate, reclining, recumbent, stretched out
Notes: prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is
also true for prostrate , but only in expressing adoration or begging
for protection; supine is lying on your back
supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face
downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while
recumbent is lying flat in any position

1174) Surfeit

1176)
Sycophant

1178)
Synthetic

SUPERIOR, FINED
HIGH
UNDERFED
TALL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: excess
Synonyms: bellyful, glut, overabundance, overflow, overfullness,
overindulgence, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plenitude, plethora,
profusion, remainder, repletion, satiety, satisfaction, saturation,
superabundance, superfluity, surplus, up to here
Notes: plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is
too much of a good thing
Antonyms: base, core, lack, main, necessity, need, want
CRITIC, PROOF
WITNESS
DAIS
LIBERRAL
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who caters to another


Synonyms: adulator, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker,
brownnoser, doormat, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, groupie,
groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, lackey, minion, parasite, politician,
puppet, slave

COSMETIC, PLASTIC
AFFABLE
NATURAL
ARTIFICIAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: artificial
Synonyms: constructed, counterfeit, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious,
fake, false, hokey, made, makeshift, manufactured, mock, phony,
plastic, unnatural
Antonyms: genuine, natural, real

1180)
Taciturn

1182)
Talented

1184)
Tautology

RESERVED, CHATTY
GROWN UP
SCHEME
AGREE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncommunicative
Synonyms: aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, closemouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, laconic, mum,
mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing,
speechless, tight-lipped, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn
Antonyms: communicative, fluent, talkative, wordy

FOOLISH
BAD WORKMAN
NOVICE, IGNORANT
BRILLIANT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: gifted
Synonyms: able, accomplished, adept, adroit, artistic, brilliant,
capable, clever, cut out for, endowed, expert, having a knack,
ingenious, intelligent, masterly, proficient, shining at, skilled, smart

REPETITION
BREVITY, VACUITY
SLAVERY
TIMITNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indirect speech

Synonyms: beating around the bush, circumambages, diffuseness,
discursiveness, euphemism, gassiness, indirectness, periphrase,
periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, roundabout, tautology , verbal
evasion, verbality, verbiage, wordiness
Antonyms: conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, terseness

1186)
Temerity

1188) Tender

1190)
Tantalize

CAUTION
COLLECTIVITY
RASHNESS, BOLDNESS
GRATITUDE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nerve, audacity
Synonyms: assurance, boldness, brass, carelessness, daring,
effrontery, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hastiness,
heedlessness, impertinence, impetuosity, imprudence, impudence,
impulsiveness, indiscretion, intrepidity, intrusiveness,
overconfidence, pluck, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation,
presumption, rashness, recklessness, rudeness, thoughtlessness,
venturesomeness
Notes: temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or
hesitancy
COMPASSIONATE
FRAIL,
PAINFUL
Antonyms:
care, caution, cowardice,
forethought,
hesitation
FRAGILE
RETRACT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fragile, soft

Synonyms: breakable, dainty, delicate, effete, feeble, frail, supple,
weak
Antonyms: hard, rough, tough

PROVOKE, UNRAVEL
EXCITE
GRATIFY
ABUSE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: provoke, tease
Synonyms: annoy, badger, baffle, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, charm,
entice, fascinate, frustrate, gnaw, harass, harry, keep hanging, lead
on, make mouth water, pester, plague, taunt, thwart, titillate,
torment, torture, worry
Antonyms: disenchant, repulse, turn off

1192) Terrible

1194)
Threnody

1196) Torsion

HORRIBLE,AWESOME
DELIGHTFUL
HIDEOUS
ALARMING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, horrible
Synonyms: abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awful, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous,
disturbing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful,
ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrid,
horrifying, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious,
offensive, petrifying, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious,
severe, shocking, unfortunate, unnerving, unpleasant, unwelcome,
vile
Antonyms: good, great, nice, wonderful
PARODY, TRAGEDY
PAEAN
LONG-JUMP
SCENERY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: song
Synonyms: dirge, elegy, poem, requiem

STRAIGHTENING
TALK, TURN
EMOTION
TENSION
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: labyrinth; confusion
Synonyms: bewilderment, convolution, entanglement, hodgepodge,
imbroglio, intricacy, jungle, knot, meander, meandering, mesh,
miscellany, morass, muddle, network, perplexity, puzzle, quandary,
skein, snarl, tangle, torsion , twist, uncertainty, web, winding

1198)
Tractable

1200) Tragic

1202)
Tranquillity

INEXORABLE
COUNTABLE
PLATEAU, LEVEL
HILLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: manageable
Synonyms: acquiescent, amenable, biddable, complaisant,
compliant, controllable, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, going
along with, governable, hanging loose, malleable, meek, obedient,
persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, putty in hands, rolling with
punches, subdued, submissive, tame, tractile, willing, workable,
yielding
Antonyms: intractable, obstinate, stubborn, uncontrollable,
unmanageable, unruly
FUNNY, COMIC
LIGHT
HUMOROUS
CATASTROPHE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: catastrophic, very bad
Synonyms: adverse, anguished, appalling, awful, calamitous,
cataclysmic, crushing, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate,
destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn,
grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heart-rending, heartbreaking,
ill-fated, ill-starred, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful,
pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible,
unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful
DEARNESS, WEEPING
AWAKENESS
CALMNESS
PERMANENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stillness
Synonyms: calm, calmness, hush, inaction, inactivity, lull,
noiselessness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiet,
quietness, quietude, serenity, still, tranquility, untroubledness

1204)
Transparent

1206) Treason

1208)
Trenchant

TRANSLUCENT,VAGUE
BLIND
OPAQUE
OBVIOUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: see-through

Synonyms: cellophane, clear, crystal-clear, crystalline, diaphanous,
filmy, gauzy, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid,
pellucid, permeable, plain, sheer, thin, tiffany, translucent,
transpicuous, vitreous
Notes: translucent means light passes through but without clarity;
transparent means light passes through with clarity
Antonyms: blocked, cloudy, dark, opaque
COFFER
EXCUSE, FEALTY
CONCLUSION
WORRY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disloyalty
Synonyms: breach of faith, crime, deceit, deceitfulness, deception,
disaffection, dishonesty, duplicity, faithlessness, lse- majest,
mutiny, perfidy, revolt, revolutionary, sedition, seditious act,
seditiousness, subversion, traitorousness, treachery
Antonyms: allegiance, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty

SHARP, ENERGETIC
COWARD
LACKING CONFIDENCE
LACKING BITE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sarcastic, scathing
Synonyms: acerbic, acid, acidulous, acute, astringent, biting,
caustic, clear, clear-cut, crisp, critical, crushing, cutting, distinct,
driving, dynamic, effective, effectual, emphatic, energetic, explicit,
forceful, forcible, graphic, hurtful, impressive, incisive, intense,
keen, mordant, penetrating, piquant, pointed, potent, powerful,
pungent, razor-sharp, salient, salty, sardonic, sententious, severe,
sharp, significant, strong, tart, to the point, unequivocal, unsparing,
vigorous, weighty, well-defined
Antonyms: frivolous, gentle, impotent, kind, nice, weak

1210) Tribute

1212)
Triumph

1214)
Truculent

PRAISE, GRATITUDE
CONDEMNATION
ACCLAIM
COMPLIMENT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: testimonial, praise
Synonyms: accolade, acknowledgment, applause, appreciation,
citation, commendation, compliment, encomium, esteem, eulogy,
gift, gratitude, honor, laudation, memorial, offering, panegyric,
recognition, recommendation, respect, salutation, salvo
Antonyms: accusation, blame, criticism

DEFEAT, SURRENDR
GIVE UP
RETREAT
VICTORY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme happiness
Synonyms: celebration, elation, exultance, exultation, festivity, joy,
jubilance, jubilation, jubilee, merriment, pride, rejoicing, reveling
Antonyms: sadness, sorrow, unhappiness

PEACEFUL
AGGRESSIVE, FAKE
RESOLUTE
DESIROUS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: belligerent, hateful
Synonyms: abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered,
barbarous, bellicose, browbeating, brutal, bullying, caustic,
combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cross, defiant,
ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hostile, inhuman, inhumane,
intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordacious, mordant,
obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude,
savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying,
terrorizing, trenchant, violent, vituperative, vituperous
Antonyms: cooperative, gentle, mild, nice, tame

1216)
Tumbledown

1218) Turbid

1220)
Turbulent

UPROAR, CLAMOUR
DILAPIDATED
UNSTABLE
STURDY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ruinous
Synonyms: annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, crippling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting,
dilapidated, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful,
harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous,
noxious, pernicious, ramshackle, rundown, shattering, suicidal,
unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful

VOGUE, OBEDIENT
MUDDY
CLUMSY
CLEAR
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cloudy
Synonyms: confused, dark, dense, heavy, impure, muddled, muddy,
murky, obscure, polluted, roily, sedimentary, thick, unclear,
unsettled
Notes: turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid
means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical
bodies
Antonyms: clear
DISTURBED, TOPPLE
CALM
SPOTLESS
RAGING
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unsettled, raging (referring to weather)

Synonyms: agitated, bitter, blustering, blustery, boiling, bumpy,
choppy, coarse, confused, destructive, disordered, disturbed, fierce,
foaming, furious, howling, inclement, moiling, noisy, restless,
riotous, roaring, rough, ruffled, rugged, stirred up, stormful,
storming, stormy, swirling, tempestuous, thunderous, tremulous,
tumultous/ tumultuous, unstable, violent, wild
Antonyms: calm, mild, moderate, settled

1222)
Turmoil

1224) Tyro

1226)
Ugliness

TUMULT, CHAOS
FERMENT
TRANQUILLITY
RAPID
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chaos
Synonyms: agitation, ailment, anxiety, anxiousness, bedlam, bustle,
commotion, confusion, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress,
disturbance, dither, ferment, flap, flurry, free-for-all, fuss, hassle*,
hectic, hubbub, lather, mix-up, noise, pandemonium, pother,
restiveness, restlessness, riot, row, ruckus, stir, strife, to-do, topsyturvy, trouble, tumult, turbulence, unrest, uproar, violence, whirl
Notes: tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion
and agitation for people and things; tumultuous can describe things
and people
EXPERT
Antonyms: calm, harmony, order,THREE-PRONGED
peace
TIMID, BRAVE
HUNTER
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginner
Synonyms: abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, buckwheater, cadet,
colt, greenhorn, learner, neophyte, new kid on the block, newcomer,
novice, novitiate, pupil, recruit, rookie, starter, student, tenderfoot,
trainee

BANAL, SMOOTH
SHRIVEL
PULCHRITUDE
GROTESQUE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unattractiveness
Synonyms: disfigurement, hideousness, homeliness, monstrousness,
offensiveness, plainness, repulsiveness, unseemliness, unsightliness
Antonyms: attraction, attractiveness, beauty, fairness,
handsomeness

1228)
Umbrage

1230)
Unctuous

1232)
Unearth

COMMANDER
PRIDE, REMOTE
CAPSIZE
SHYNESS
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal displeasure
Synonyms: anger, annoyance, chagrin, exasperation, fury, grudge,
high dudgeon, huff, indignation, injury, ire, irking, irritation, miff,
nettling, offense, pique, provoking, rage, resentment, sense of injury,
vexation, wrath
Antonyms: happiness, like, love, pleasure

ROUGH, SMOOTH
REFINED
OVERTURN
SOPHITICATED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: oily
Synonyms: fatty, greasy, oleaginous, slick

DISCLOSE, RECTIFY
CREATE
CONCEAL
EXPLORE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dig up
Synonyms: ascertain, bring to light, catch on, delve, determine,
discover, disinter, dredge up, excavate, exhibit, exhume, expose,
ferret, find, find out, hear, hit upon, learn, reveal, root, see, see the
light, show, spark, spotlight*, strike, stumble on, turn up, unbury,
uncover, uproot
Antonyms: bury

1234)
Ungainly

1236)
Universal

1238)
Unmarred

CLUMSY, SIMPLE
DECORATED
GRACEFUL
HEALTHY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clumsy
Synonyms: awkward, gawky, graceless, klutzy, lumbering,
uncoordinated, ungraceful
Antonyms: agile, coordinated, graceful

LOCAL, NATIONAL
SUBSIDIARY
REGIONAL
HEAVENLY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: worldwide, entire
Synonyms: accepted, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-over,
astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive,
cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean,
extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane,
omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping,
terrestrial, total, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted,
usual, whole, widespread, worldly
Antonyms: confined, local, partial, particular
SPOILED, MARRED
DESTROYED
DAMAGED
RESERVED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: good
Synonyms: acceptable, ace*, admirable, agreeable, bad*, boss*,
bully, capital, choice, commendable, congenial, crack*, deluxe,
entire, excellent, exceptional, favorable, first-class*, first-rate,
flawless, gnarly, gratifying, great, honorable, intact, marvelous,
neat*, nice, perfect, pleasing, positive, precious, prime*, rad,
recherch, reputable, satisfactory, satisfying, select, shipshape,
sound, spanking, splendid, sterling, stupendous, super, supereminent, super-excellent, superb, superior, tip-top, unblemished,
unbroken, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured,

1240) Unruly

1242)
Unsullied

1244)
Unwitting

WILD, MANAGEABLE
DISORDERLY
GOVERNED
OBEDIENT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disobedient
Synonyms: assertive, bawdy, disorderly, drunken, forward,
fractious, headstrong, heedless, impervious, impetuous, imprudent,
impulsive, incorrigible, inexorable, insubordinate, intemperate,
intractable, lawless, mean, mutinous, obstreperous, opinionated,
ornery, out of control, out of line, perverse, quarrelsome, rash,
rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy,
turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unyielding,
violent, wayward, wild, willful
Antonyms: compliant, obedient, yielding
SPOTLESS, CLEAR
SKILLED
EXPERT
TARNISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clean
Synonyms: chaste, immaculate, pristine, pure, spotless,
unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, unsoiled, untarnished
Antonyms: sullied, tarnished

INTERNATIONAL
INTERNAL
TRANSPARENT
BRAVE, EMOTIONAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without fully realizing
Synonyms: accidental, aimless, chance, comatose, forgetful,
haphazard, ignorant, inadvertent, incognizant, inconversant,
innocent, involuntary, numb, oblivious, senseless, unacquainted,
unaware, unconscious, undesigned, unfamiliar, uninformed,
uninstructed, unintended, unintentional, unknowing, unmeant,
unmindful, unplanned, unsuspecting, unthinking
Antonyms: conscious, intentional, realizing, witting

1246) Urbane

1248) Usurp

1250)
Vaccillate

POLITE, DISTURBED
DISCOURTEOUS
RAISE
POLISHED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: civilized
Synonyms: affable, balanced, bland, civil, cosmopolitan, courteous,
cultivated, cultured, debonair, elegant, genteel, gracious, mannerly,
metropolitan, obliging, poised, polished, polite, refined, smooth,
sophisticated, suave, well-bred, well-mannered
Notes: urban refers to a city; urbane means polished and smooth,
as in a person's demeanor
Antonyms: uncivilized, uncouth, unsophisticated
INHERIT, ASSUME
ORIGIN
CUSTOM
GRAB
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take over
Synonyms: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge
in, butt in, clap hands on, commandeer, cut out, displace, elbow in,
get hands on, grab, grab hold of, highjack, infringe upon, lay hold
of, muscle in, preempt, seize, squeeze in, supplant, swipe, take, work
in, worm in, wrest
Antonyms: give in, relinquish, surrender

WAVER
UNOCCUPIED
RESOLVE, DECRY
OSCILLATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go back and forth

Synonyms: alternate, be indecisive, be irresolute, change, change
mind, dither, fence-straddle, fluctuate, hedge, hem and haw,
hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, pussyfoot around, reel, rock, run hot
and cold, seesaw, shilly-shally, stagger, straddle, sway, swing, waffle,
waver, whiffle, yo-yo
Antonyms: remain, stay

1252) Vague

1254)
Valedictory

1256)
Validate

CONFUSING
FUZZY, CERTAIN
HAZY
SUSPECT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not definite or clear
Synonyms: ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, bewildering,
bleary, blurred, cloudy, dark, dim, doubtful, dreamlike, dubious,
enigmatic, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, generalized, hazy, ill-defined,
impalpable, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct,
inexplicable, lax, loose, misunderstood, muddy, nebulous, obscure,
perplexing, problematic, puzzling, questionable, shadowy,
superficial, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, undetermined, unexplicit,
unintelligible, unknown, unsettled, unspecified, unsure
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, sure
SALUTATORY
BIDDING
FAREWELL,DEFECTIVE
EFFECTIVE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: farewell

Synonyms: departing, final, goodbye, last, parting, terminal
Notes: a closing address is valedictory and valedictorian means
'farewell'; a welcoming address is salutatory
Antonyms: welcoming

LEGALISE, SPURIOUS
DISPROVE
DISALLOW
CORROBORATE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ascertain the truth, authenticity of something

Synonyms: John Hancock, approve, authenticate, authorize, bear
out, certify, confirm, constitute, corroborate, endorse, give stamp of
approval, give the go-ahead, give the green light, give the nod,
justify, legalize, legitimize, make binding, make legal, make stick,
okay*, ratify, rubber-stamp, sanction, set seal on, sign off on,
substantiate, verify
Antonyms: refuse, reject, veto

1258)
Vanguard

1260)
Vanquish

REAR, ADVANCE
NEGLECT
SABOTAGE
FRONT
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forefront

Synonyms: front, lead, leaders, leading
Antonyms: followers, rear

DEBASE, WITHDRAW
SURRENDER
CHARGE
DEFEAT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defeat soundly
Synonyms: bear down, beat, conquer, crush, humble, overcome,
overpower, overturn, overwhelm, put down, quell, reduce, repress,
rout, subdue, subjugate, subvert, surmount, trample, triumph over
Antonyms: fail, lose, surrender

INDIFFERENCE,APATHY

1262)
Vehemence

HAPLESSNESS
PASSION

COWARDICE
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intensity
Synonyms: ferociousness, fervor, fierceness, frenzy, impetuosity,
violence

1264) Venial

1266) Verbose

1268) Vilify

CORRUPT, CLEAN
NERVOUS
STAID
SLIGHT
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pardonable
Synonyms: all right, allowable, defensible, excusable, explainable,
forgivable, justifiable, minor, not serious, not too bad, okay,
permissible, slight, tolerable, trivial, understandable
Notes: venal is 'corruptible, unscrupulous'; venial is 'forgivable;
not criminal'

COMPACT, BRIEF
CONCISE
BOSOM
VERBAL
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy, long-winded
Synonyms: bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air,
fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious,
magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix,
redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative,
talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking
Antonyms: concise, succinct

LAUD, DEFAME
SMEAR
SLANDER
ACCEPT
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: criticize very harshly

Synonyms: abuse, asperse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, berate, blister,
call down, caluminate, censure, curse, cuss, damn, debase, decry,
defame, denigrate, denounce, dig*, disparage, dress down, dump on,
give a black eye, jinx, knock*, libel, malign, mistreat, mudsling, pan,
put a whammy on, put down*, rag on, rap, revile, rip up, roast, run
down, scorch, skin alive, slam*, slander, slur, smear, speak ill of, tear
down, tear into, traduce, vituperate, voodoo
Antonyms: compliment, praise

1270)
Vindicate

1272) Virtue

1274)
Virulence

CENSURE
ERADICATE
FAVOUR, INDICATE
CENSOR
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: prove one's innocence
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, advocate, argue, assert, bear out, claim,
clear, confute, contend, corroborate, defend, disculpate, disprove, do
justice to, establish, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, extenuate, free,
free from blame, guard, justify, maintain, plead for, protect, prove,
rationalize, refute, rehabilitate, second, shield, substantiate, support,
uphold, warrant, whitewash
Antonyms: accuse, blame, convict, punish, sentence
VICE, FRAUD
WICKEDNESS
CRIME
INTEGRITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: honor, integrity
Synonyms: advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity,
consideration, credit, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, faith,
faithfulness, fineness, fortitude, generosity, good point, goodness,
high-mindedness, hope, ideal, incorruptibility, innocence, justice,
kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity,
quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance,
trustworthiness, uprightness, value, worth, worthiness
Antonyms: dishonor, evil, immorality, vice
MALIGNANCY
ROBUST
BENEVOLENCE
TWIST, DEATH
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: resentment
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance,
antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure,
dudgeon, embitterment, exacerbation, exasperation, fog*, fury, gall,
grudge, huff, hurt, ill feeling, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation,
malice, malignity, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation,
pique*, rage, rancor, rancorousness, resentfulness, rise, spite,
umbrage, vehemence, vexation, virulency, wrath

1276) Vividly

1278)
Vociferate

1280)
Voluptuous

UNINTENTIONALLY
UNIMPRESSIVELY
UNSCRUPULOUSLY
UNWILLINGLY
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: clearly
Synonyms: distinctly, graphically, perceptibly, sharply, strongly

BORE, PLOUGH
LEVEL
DRAW
WHISPER
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: holler
Synonyms: bawl, bellow, call, clamor, cry, howl, protest, shout,
shriek, utter, yell

VOLUNTARY
ASCETIC, INDULGENT
LUMP-SUM
VOLUBLE
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: given to sensual pleasure; pleasurable to the senses

Synonyms: appealing, attractive, delightful, desirable, enticing,
erotic, fleshly, hedonist, hedonistic, indulgent, lubricious, luxurious,
pleasing, salacious, self-indulgent, sensuous, sexy, sybaritic, wanton
Antonyms: flat, underdeveloped

1282) Vouch

1284) Waive

1286) Wane

REPUDIATE
RESPONSIBLE
CARE, CROUCH
AFFIRM
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give assurance
Synonyms: act as a witness, affirm, answer for, assert, asseverate,
assure, attest to, avert, avow, back, be responsible for, bear
testimony, certify, confirm, contend, corroborate, cosign, declare,
get behind, give an affidavit, guarantee, maintain, okay*, predicate,
profess, prove, put forth, rubber-stamp, say so, sign for, sponsor,
stand up for, substantiate, support, swear to, swear up and down,
testify, uphold, verify, vow, warrant, witness
Antonyms: deny, disavow, refute, reject, renounce
YIELD, RENOUNCE
DEMAND
RESPOND
RELINQUISH
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up; let go

Synonyms: abandon, allow, cede, defer, delay, disclaim, disown,
dispense with, forgo, grant, hand over, hold off, hold up, leave,
neglect, postpone, prorogue, put off, refrain from, reject, relinquish,
remit, remove, renege, renounce, reserve, resign, set aside, shelve,
stay, surrender, suspend, table, turn over, yield
Antonyms: claim
WIDEN, FATTEN
PROSPER
SWELL
REDUCE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: diminish, lessen
Synonyms: abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down,
die out, dim, draw to a close, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade, fade
away, fail, fall, fall short, let up, moderate, peter out, relent, shrink,
sink, slack off, slacken, subside, taper off, waste away, weaken, wind
down, wither
Notes: wane means to gradually decrease in strength or size, while
wax means to increase in size or strength
Antonyms: grow, increase, raise, rise

1288) Warp

1290) Wax

1292) Wean

SWIM, WOOF
CAUTIOUS
EQUIP
SOON
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bend, distort
Synonyms: bastardize, brutalize, color, contort, corrupt, crook,
curve, debase, debauch, deform, deprave, deviate, misrepresent,
misshape, pervert, swerve, torture, turn, twist, vitiate, wind
Notes: the warp are parallel strands; strands threaded over and
under are weft or woof
Antonyms: straighten

CANDLE
DARKNESS, HONEY
WANE
VAIN
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become large, fuller

Synonyms: augment, become, build, come, develop, dilate, enlarge,
expand, fill out, get bigger, get to, grow, grow full, heighten,
increase, magnify, mount, multiply, rise, run, swell, turn, upsurge
Notes: wane means to gradually decrease in strength or size, while
wax means to increase in size or strength
Antonyms: shrink
WED, WITHDRAW
ATTACH
RELUCTANCE
SUCKLE
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: detach
Synonyms: discourage, halt, remove, unaccustom
Notes: the etymological notion of wean is 'becoming accustomed'
and we use it as a verb meaning 'to cause to give up something'; the
verb ween means 'to think, suppose, or imagine something'

1294)
Wholesale

1296) Wicked

1298) Wise

TOTAL, PARTIAL
RETAIL
RETAIN
GLUTTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all-inclusive
Synonyms: broad, bulk, complete, comprehensive, extensive, farreaching, general, in bulk, in quantity, in the mass, indiscriminate,
large-scale, mass, overall, quantitative, sweeping, total, wideranging, widespread
Antonyms: part, partial, retail

FAITHFUL
PIOUS, NICE
RELIGIOUS
DEJECTED
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: corrupt, bad
Synonyms: abandoned, abominable, amoral, arch, atrocious, bad
news, base, contemptible, debased, degenerate, depraved, devilish,
dissolute, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, gross, guilty,
heartless, heinous, immoral, impious, impish, incorrigible, indecent,
iniquitous, irreligious, low-down, mean, mischievous, nasty,
naughty, nefarious, profane, reprobate, rotten, scandalous,
shameful, shameless, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous,
vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, worthless
Antonyms: decent, good, moral, nice
STUPID, IDIOT
MAD
FOOLISH
SMART
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intelligent, reasonable
Synonyms: astute, aware, calculating, careful, clever, cogitative,
contemplative, crafty, cunning, discerning, discreet, educated,
enlightened, erudite, experienced, foresighted, grasping, informed,
insightful, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable,
perceptive, perspicacious, politic, prudent, rational, reflective,
sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sensing, sharp,
shrewd, smart, sophic, sound, tactful, taught, thoughtful,
understanding, wary, well-informed, witty
Antonyms: foolish, ignorant, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable,
unwise

1300) Woeful

1302) Woo

1304) Yearn

SMILING, CHEERFUL
DEMANDING
LIVELY
GLOOMY
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: terrible, sad
Synonyms: afflicted, agonized, anguished, appalling, awful, bad,
calamitous, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, disappointing,
disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful,
feeble, gloomy, grieving, grievous, grim, heartbreaking,
heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy*,
mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
plaintive, poor, racked, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tortured,
tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched
Antonyms: glad, happy, joyful
PURSUE, COURT
SHUN
UNJUST
COAX
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: seek as romantic partner

Synonyms: address, aim for, beg, bill and coo, butter up, caress,
charm, chase, court, cultivate, curry favor, date, entreat, go steady,
importune, keep company, make advances, make love, press one's
suit with, propose, pursue, run after, rush, seek in marriage, seek
the hand of, set one's cap for, solicit, spark*, spoon
Antonyms: ignore
DESIRE, UNJUST
STIFF
LOATHE
THIRST
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire strongly

Synonyms: ache, be desirous of, be eager for, be passionate, chafe,
covet, crave, dream, hanker, have a crush on, have a yen for, hunger,
itch, languish, long, lust, pine, set one's heart on, thirst, want, wish
for
Antonyms: dislike, hate

1306) Yoke

1308) Yummy

1310) Zealot

INDEPENDENCE
FREEDOM
COLONIAL
CRUNCH, STRAIN
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bondage, bond

Synonyms: burden, chain, coupling, enslavement, helotry, knot,
ligament, ligature, link, nexus, oppression, peonage, serfdom,
service, servility, servitude, slavery, tie
Notes: a yoke is a crossbar joining animals or something
figuratively holding things together; a yolk is the yellow of an egg

DELICIOUS
HUMOROUS
DISGUSTING
HEAVENLY, TRAGIC
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: delicious ( )

Synonyms: ambrosial, appetizing, choice, delectable, delightful,
divine, enticing, fit for a king, good, heavenly, juicy, luscious,
mouthwatering, nectarous, out of this world, palatable, piquant,
pleasant, rich, sapid, savory, scrumptious, spicy, succulent, super,
sweet, tasteful, tasty, tempting, toothsome

DEVOTEE, BIGOT
MODERATE
PLIANT
FANATIC
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enthusiast
Synonyms: activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac,
militant, nut, radical, ultra*, young Turk
Antonyms: moderate

1312) Zenith

PINNACLE, NADIR
AFFORD
NAUGHT
INFINITY
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: top
Synonyms: acme, altitude, apex, apogee, cap, capper, capstone,
climax, crest, crown, culmination, elevation, eminence, height, high
noon, high point, meridian, payoff, peak, pinnacle, roof, summit,
tiptop, topper, vertex
Notes: zenith derived from Arabic samt ar-ras 'the way or road
above one's head'; zenith technically is the point directly above the
observer and nadir is the point directly below
Antonyms: bottom, nadir

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