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KEY: Author.
SYN: Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause, constructor, agent, maker, composer, fabricator, committer, perpetrator, doer.
ANT: Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser.
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KEY: Authoritative.
SYN: Decisive, sure, conclusive, authentic, powerful, firm, potent, dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, arrogant, imperative, dogmatic, commanding.
ANT: Weak, inconclusive, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, vacillating, undecisive, bland, conciliatory, affable, lenient, persuasive.
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KEY: Authority.
SYN: Ground, justification, authenticity, genuineness, conclusiveness, decisiveness, control, direction, jurisdiction, government, regulation, power, right, rule, sway, sufferance, supremacy, dominion.
ANT: Groundlessness, spuriousness, indecision, inconclusiveness, inoperativeness, incompetency, weakness, usurpation, wrong.
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KEY: Authorize, [See EMPOWER].
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KEY: Autocracy, [See AUTOCRATIC].
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KEY: Autocratic.
SYN: Independent, arbitrary, despotic, irresponsible, absolute.
ANT: Dependent, subordinate, re sponsible, constitutional, limited.
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KEY: Auxiliary.
SYN: Helpful, abetting, aiding, accessory, promotive, conducive, assistant, ancillary, assisting, subsidiary, helping.
ANT: Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous, obstructive, retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome.
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KEY: Avail \v.\
SYN: Suffice, hold, stand, endure, answer, tell, profit, help, benefit, advantage, service, use, utility.
ANT: Fail, fall, disappoint, betray.
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KEY: Avail.
SYN: Profit, help, benefit, advantage, use, utility, service.
ANT: Disadvantage, hindrance, helplessness.
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KEY: Available.
SYN: Useful, appropriable, convertible, attainable, handy, conducive, applicable, procurable, advantage, helpful, profitable, suitable, serviceable.
ANT: Useless, inappropriate, inapplicable, unprocurable, inconducive, irrelevant, Inoperative, unavailable.
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KEY: Avarice.
SYN: Greed, cupidity, rapacity, penuriousness, niggardliness, miserliness, stinginess, covetousness, acquisitiveness, griping, greediness.
ANT: Large-heartedness, unselfishness, liberality, bountifulness, profuseness, squander, prodigality, extravagance, waste.
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KEY: Avaricious, [See LIBERAL].
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KEY: Avenge.
SYN: Vindicate, right, visit, retaliate.
ANT: Waive, don, forego, condone, remit, forgive, overlook.
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KEY: Avenue.
SYN: Approach, adit, access, entrance.
ANT: Exit, egress.
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KEY: Aver.
SYN: Assert, asseverate, affirm, depose, avouch, protest, oblige, declare.
ANT: Deny, contradict, contravene, disavow, disclaim, repudiate, gainsay, oppugn.
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KEY: Average.
SYN: Mean, medium, middle, mediocre.
ANT: Extreme, excess, defect, perfectness, perfection.
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KEY: Averse.
SYN: Hostile, disinclined, indisposed, repugnant, backward, unwilling, reluctant, loath.
ANT: Ready, disposed, eager, prone, inclined, desirous.
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KEY: Aversion.
SYN: Hatred, dislike, distaste, repugnance, uncongeniality, abhorrence, antipathy.
ANT: Love, desire, affection, liking, congeniality, sympathy, ardor, eagerness, avidity.
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KEY: Avidity.
SYN: Cupidity, avarice, desire, greed, longing, rapacity, eagerness.
ANT: Coldness, indifference, apathy, insensibility, antipathy, nausea, aversion, repugnance, loathing.
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KEY: Avocation.
SYN: Profession, calling, lot, employment, vocation, occupation, business, pursuit, line.
ANT: Holiday, leisure, idleness, self-abandonment, misemployment.
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KEY: Avoid.
SYN: Quit, shun, abandon, desert, forsake, relinquish, fly, eschew, elude, dodge, escape, shirk.
ANT: Seek, court, approach, accost, address, affect.
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KEY: Avouch.
SYN: Aver, protest, declare, propound, asseverate, profess.
ANT: Deny, contradict, oppose, oppugn, contravene, controvert, gainsay.
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KEY: Avow, [See AVOUCH].
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KEY: Awaken, [See BOUSE].
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KEY: Award.
SYN: Assign, apportion, attribute, accord, grant, distribute, divide, allot, give, determine, decree, order, adjudge.
ANT: Refuse, withhold, withdraw, retain, misappropriate, misapportion.
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KEY: Aware.
SYN: Conscious, sensible, informed, certified, assured, known, apprised, cognizant.
ANT: Unconscious, insensible, ignorant, unaware, uninformed.
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KEY: Away.
SYN: Far, afar, separate, detached, loose, abroad.
ANT: Close, near.
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KEY: Awe.
SYN: Fear, dread, veneration, reverence.
ANT: Fearlessness, contempt, disrespect, familiarity, irreverence.
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KEY: Awful.
SYN: Fearful, direful, appalling, terrible, alarming, dreadful, horrible, solemn, portentous, horrific.
ANT: Inocuous, informidable, unimposing, unastonishing, commonplace, unnoticeable, unalarming, alluring.
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KEY: Awhile.
SYN: Briefly, little.
ANT: Ever, always, forever, ever, more.
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KEY: Awkward.
SYN: Ungainly, clownish, clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, uncouth, rough, boorish, bungling, gawky.
ANT: Neat, clever, dexterous, skilful, adroit, handy.
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KEY: Awry.
SYN: Crooked, aslant, askew, atwist, bent, carved, distorted, twisted, wrong.
ANT: Right, straight, true, direct.
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KEY: Axiom.
SYN: Self-evident truth, aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim.
ANT: Nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness.
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KEY: Azure \a.\
SYN: Blue, cerulean, sky blue, bluish, blue-colored.
ANT: Orange, ochreous, orange-colored, orange-flame.
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KEY: Babble \v.\
SYN: Prate, prattle, dribble, chatter, gabble, twaddle, blab, cackle.
ANT: Enunciate, vociferate, hush, suppress.
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KEY: Babbler.
SYN: Blab, chatterbox, gossip, tattler, telltale.
ANT: Confident, confessor.
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KEY: Babbling.
SYN: Prating, blabbing, talkativeness, tattling, cackling, gossip, loquacity, garrulity.
ANT: Reticence, reserve, secretiveness, closeness, refrain, incommunicativeness, taciturnity.
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KEY: Babel.
SYN: Hubbub, confusion, clamor, jargon, din, discord, clang.
ANT: Elocution, articulation, monotony, distinctness, consecutiveness, intonation, enunciation, unisonousness.
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KEY: Backbiter.
SYN: Detractor, traducer, calumniator, slanderer, cynic, maligner, defamer.
ANT: Vindicator, upholder, palliator, advocate, mitigator, defender, befriender.
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KEY: Backslider.
SYN: Renegade, abjurer, recreant, apostate.
ANT: Professor, confessor, adherent, zealot, bigot.
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KEY: Backsliding, [See BACKSLIDER].
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KEY: Backwardness.
SYN: Reluctance, slowness, shyness, hesitation, unwillingness, repugnance.
ANT: Forwardness, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity.
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KEY: Backward, [See BACKWARDNESS].
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KEY: Bad, [See GOOD].
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KEY: Baffle.
SYN: Frustrate, counteract, estop, disconcert, elude, mock, thwart, confound, defeat, perplex, restrain, upset, foil, mar, balk, neutralize, dodge, counterfoil.
ANT: Point, aid, abet, enforce, promote, assist, advance, encourage.
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KEY: Bait.
SYN: Morsel, snare, decoy, enticement, allurement, inducement.
ANT: Warning, scarecrow, dissuasive, deterrent, prohibition, intimidation, threat.
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KEY: Balance.
SYN: Weigh, poise, pit, et, counterpoise, counteract, neutralize, equalize, estimate, redress, adjust.
ANT: Upset, tilt, cant, subvert, mispoise, overbalance.
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KEY: Balderdash.
SYN: Gasconade, flummery, rhodomontade, bombast, fustian, froth.
