ANT: Hint, insinuate, sketch, suggest, adumbrate.
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KEY: Charge.
SYN: Direct, enjoin, advise, admonish, arraign, inculpate, entrust, commit, load, accuse, impeach, attack, assault, impute, carry.
ANT: Clear, free, discharge, acquit, liberate.
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KEY: Chargeable.
SYN: Attributable, ascribable, imputable.
ANT: Not attributable, not ascribable, not imputable.
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KEY: Charity, [See BENEVOLENCE].
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KEY: Charitable.
SYN: Kind, benign, benevolent, beneficent, liberal, considerate, forgiving, compassionate, placable, inexacting, inextreme.
ANT: Uncharitable, unkind, harsh, selfish, churlish, illiberal, censorious, unforgiving, uncompassionate, implacable, extreme, exacting, retaliative, revengeful.
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KEY: Charlatan, [See QUACK], Charm \v.\
SYN: Bewitch, enchant, fascinate, lay, soothe, mesmerize, delight, enrapture, transport, entice, allure, entrance, captivate, subdue.
ANT: Disenchant, disillusionize, excite, rouse, disturb, annoy, Irritate, alarm, terrify, repel, disgust.
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KEY: Charm \n.\
SYN: Spell, incantation, enchantment, fascination, attraction, allurement.
ANT: Disenchantment, repulsion, fear.
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KEY: Chary.
SYN: Careful, cautions, calculating, frugal, shy, wary, sparing, slow, saving, reluctant.
ANT: Liberal, lavish, profuse, eager.
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KEY: Chase \v.\
SYN: Pursue, hunt, follow, drive, prosecute.
ANT: Abandon, relinquish, discard, dismiss, avoid, elude, evade.
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KEY: Chaste.
SYN: Pure, modest, uncontaminated, spotless, immaculate, undented, virtuous, incorrupt, simple, unaffected, nice.
ANT: Impure, corrupt, meretricious, gaudy, flashy, overdecorated.
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KEY: Chasten.
SYN: Purify, discipline, chastise, correct, castigate, improve, spiritualize, afflict, refine.
ANT: Indulge, sensualize, brutalize, degrade, corrupt, pamper, carnalize, spoil, demoralize.
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KEY: Chat, [See BABBLE].
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KEY: Chattels.
SYN: Effects, goods, wares, movables, furniture.
ANT: Freehold.
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KEY: Chatter.
SYN: Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle.
ANT: Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation.
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KEY: Cheap.
SYN: Common, inexpensive, uncostly, mean, vile, worthless, low-priced.
ANT: Rare, costly, worthy, expensive, honorable, noble, high.
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KEY: Cheat \v.\
SYN: Overreach, fleece, silence, trick, gull, cozen, juggle, defraud, swindle, dupe, beguile, deceive, deprive, hoodwink, prevaricate, dissemble, shuffle, inveigle.
ANT: Enlighten, guide, remunerate, compensate, undeceive, disabuse.
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KEY: Cheat \n.\
SYN: Deception, fraud, imposition, trick, artifice, illusion, imposture, swindle, finesse, deceit, lie, fiction.
ANT: Troth, reality, verity, fact, certainty, genuineness, verification, honesty, authenticity.
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KEY: Check \n.\
SYN: Repulse, hindrance, set back, rebuff.
ANT: Encouragement, freedom, liberty.
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KEY: Check \v.\
SYN: Curb, restrain, stop, stay, repress, hinder, impede, inhibit, cohibit, bridle, control, obstruct.
ANT: Loose, liberate, instigate, accelerate, license, indulge, allow, abet.
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KEY: Cheer \v.\ [See ENCOURAGE].
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KEY: Cheer \n.\
SYN: Hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality.
ANT: Dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth, inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociableness.
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KEY: Cheerful.
SYN: Lively, gay, bright, happy, bonny, merry, joyful, pleasant, buoyant, sunny, enlivening, in good spirits, sprightly, blithe, joyous.
ANT: Lifeless, dull, gloomy, unhappy, dejected, depressed, sullen, joyless, melancholy, depressing, dispiriting.
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KEY: Cheerfulness, [See CHEERFUL].
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KEY: Cheerless, [See CHEERFUL].
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KEY: Cherish.
SYN: Foster, nurse, promote, nourish, nurture, comfort, protect, entertain, value, encourage.
ANT: Stifle, abandon, discard, discourage, check.
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KEY: Chew.
SYN: Masticate, munch, eat.
ANT: Gorge, bolt whole.
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KEY: Chicanery.
SYN: Artifice, subtlety, sophistry, subterfuge, prevarication, shift, trickery, dodge, quibble, mystification, pettifogging, underhandedness.
ANT: Openness, candor, fairness, cogency, demonstrativeness, soundness.
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KEY: Chide.
SYN: Rate, scold, trounce, reprove, reprimand, rebuke, blame, admonish, objurgate.
ANT: Applaud, flatter, compliment.
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KEY: Chief \a.\
SYN: Chef, the head, [See CAPITAL].
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KEY: Chief \n.\ [See CHIEFTAIN].
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KEY: Chiefly, [See MAINLY].
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KEY: Chieftain.
SYN: Captain, general, chief, commander, head man, leader.
ANT: Follower, attendant, retainer, subaltern, vassal, satellite, minion, adherent.
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KEY: Childish.
SYN: Weak, silly, puerile, infantine, imbecile, foolish, trifling, paltry, trivial.
ANT: Strong, resolute, manly, wise, judicious, sagacious, chivalrous, profound, politic.
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KEY: Chimerical, [See VISIONARY].
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KEY: Chivalrous.
SYN: Courageous, generous, knightly, gallant, heroic, adventurous, valiant, spirited, handsome, high-minded.
ANT: Unhandsome, dirty, sneaking, pettifogging, scrubby, dastardly, recreant, ungenerous, ungentlemanly.
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KEY: Choice \n.\
SYN: Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative.
ANT: Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance, indifference, refuse.
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KEY: Choice \a.\
SYN: Select, exquisite, precious, dainty, cherished, valuable, excellent, rare.
ANT: Common, ordinary, Inferior, cheap, valueless, despicable, trumpery.
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KEY: Choke.
SYN: Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle.
ANT: Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit, ventilate.
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KEY: Choler, [See ANGER].
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KEY: Choleric.
SYN: Hasty, testy, impetuous, irascible.
ANT: Cool, phlegmatic, serene, placid, dispassionate, stoical.
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KEY: Choose.
SYN: Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick out.
ANT: Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore, decline.
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KEY: Chronicle \v.\
SYN: Record, register.
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KEY: Chronicle \n.\ [See ANNALS].
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KEY: Chuckle.
SYN: Grin, crow, cackle.
ANT: Cry, wail, grumble, whimper, whine.
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KEY: Churchyard.
SYN: Buryingground, burial place, cemetery, God's acre, necropolis, graveyard.
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KEY: Churlish.
SYN: Illiberal, niggardly, inhospitable, unsociable, unneighborly.
ANT: Liberal, bountiful, hospitable neighborly, sociable.
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KEY: Cipher.
SYN: Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.) straw, pin, rush, molehill.
ANT: Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton, colossus, star.
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KEY: Circuit.
SYN: Tour, circumference.
ANT: Line, straightness, directness.
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KEY: Circuitous.
SYN: Indirect, tortuous, devious, serpentine, round about, sinuous, winding.
ANT: Linear, direct, straight.
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KEY: Circular.
SYN: Round, spherical.
ANT: Lineal, direct.
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KEY: Circulate.
SYN: Disseminate, disuse, propagate, publish, notify, spread, travel.
ANT: Suppress, avert, hush, cease, stagnate.
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KEY: Circumference.
SYN: Periphery, enclosure, circuit, outline, boundary.
ANT: Diameter, crossing, bisection, transection, transversion.
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KEY: Circumlocution.
SYN: Periphrasis, verbosity, inconciseness, insuccinctness, ambiguousness, anfractuosity.
