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KEY: Beguile, [See BEFOOL].
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KEY: Behalf.
SYN: Side, interest, advantage, aid, bestead.
ANT: [See BESTEAD].
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KEY: Behavior.
SYN: Conduct, bearing, demeanor, proceeding, comportment, action, manner, deportment.
ANT: Misdemeanor, misbehavior, misconduct.
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KEY: Behest.
SYN: Injunction, command, instruction, mandate, commission, requirement, trust.
ANT: Option, liberty, non-interference, discretion.
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KEY: Behind, [See BEFORE].
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KEY: Behold.
SYN: Look, discern, regard, view, descry, look upon, gaze, contemplate, observe, see, scan, survey.
ANT: Overlook, disregard, ignore, miss, blink, wink, connive.
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KEY: Beholden.
SYN: Bound, obliged, indebted, thankful, grateful.
ANT: Unindebted, unobliged, unbound, unthankful, ungrateful.
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KEY: Beholder.
SYN: Spectator, observer, bystander, witness, looker-on.
ANT: [See BEHOLD].
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KEY: Belief.
SYN: Assent, faith, trust, credence, avowal, assurance, admission, conviction, opinion, permission, creed, reliance, concession, confidence.
ANT: Dissent, unbelief, distrust, denial, misgiving, disavowal, rejection, disbelief.
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KEY: Bellicose.
SYN: Quarrelsome, pugnacious, belligerent, irascible, contentious.
ANT: Peaceful, peaceable, unquarrelsome, pacific, unwarlike, unexcitable, good-tempered, genial.
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KEY: Belligerent.
SYN: Contending, engaging, fighting, opposed, adverse, rival, conflicting, antagonist, assailant, hostile.
ANT: Neutral, pacific, peaceful, nonbelligerent, appeased, reconciled.
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KEY: Bellow, [See BAWL].
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KEY: Belonging.
SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, cognate, congenial, obligatory, accompanying.
ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, Irrelevant, impertinent, alien, uncongenial, discretional, optional, uninvolved, unimplied, independent.
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KEY: Belong to.
SYN: Pertain to, appertain to, regard, relate to.
ANT: Not to belong to, not to appertain to, not to relate to.
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KEY: Beloved.
SYN: Cared for, cherished, loved.
ANT: Hated, loathed.
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KEY: Below.
SYN: Under, beneath, adown, underneath.
ANT: Above, over, aloft.
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KEY: Bend.
SYN: Curve, deviate, incline, tend, swerve, diverge, mold, persuade, influence, bias, dispose, direct, lower, subordinate to, lean, deflect, bow, condescend, yield, stoop, submit.
ANT: Proceed, continue, extend, advance, stand, stiffen, break, crush, resist.
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KEY: Beneath.
SYN: Below, underneath, under, adown.
ANT: Above, over, overhead, aloft.
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KEY: Benediction.
SYN: Blessing, commendation, approval, benison, gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving.
ANT: Curse, malediction, disapproval, censure, obloquy, execration, ingratitude.
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KEY: Benefaction.
SYN: Grant, gratuity, boon, donation, aims, present, gift, endowment, bequest, favor, presentation.
ANT: Deprivation, reservation, disfavor, presumption, confiscation, disendowment.
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KEY: Benefactor.
SYN: Friend, supporter, contributor, upholder, well-wisher, favorer, well-doer, patron.
ANT: Foe, opponent, disfavorer, antagonist, rival, backfriend, oppressor.
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KEY: Beneficial.
SYN: Profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious.
ANT: Prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental.
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KEY: Beneficent.
SYN: Bountiful, benevolent, benignant.
ANT: Hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal, oppressive, cruel.
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KEY: Benefit.
SYN: Boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing.
ANT: Evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury, privation.
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KEY: Benevolence.
SYN: Kindness, goodwill, charity, philanthropy, kindliness, kind-heartedness, benignity, beneficence, liberality.
ANT: Unkindness, harshness, barbarity, niggardliness, maleficence, malignity, illiberality, ill-will, churlishness.
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KEY: Benevolent, [See BENEFICIENT].
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KEY: Benignant, [See BENEFICIENT].
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KEY: Benison, [See BENEDICTION].
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KEY: Bent.
SYN: Inclination, angle, direction, bias, determination, disposition, intention, prepossession, propensity, predilection, turn, leaning.
ANT: Indisposition, aversion.
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KEY: Bequeath.
SYN: Give, grant, leave by will, devise, will, bestow, impart, demise, leave \n.\ Legacy, inheritance.
ANT: Withhold, alienate \n.\ Disinheritance, transference, abalienation, dispossession.
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KEY: Bereave.
SYN: Rob, deprive, divest, dispossess, impoverish, reduce, spoil, strip.
ANT: Replenish, compensate, reinstate, satisfy, enrich, benefit.
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KEY: Bereavement.
SYN: Destitution, affliction, deprivation, loss.
ANT: Gift, blessing, donation, benefaction, compensation, reparation, restoration, reinstatement, substitution, restitution, consolation.
ANT: [See [BENEFACTION and BENEFIT].
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KEY: Bereft.
SYN: Robbed, deprived, destitute, denied, spoiled.
ANT: Endowed, enriched, compensated, consoled, possessed.
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KEY: Beseech.
SYN: Entreat, pray, solicit, ask, implore, crave, request, supplicate, petition, beg.
ANT: Insist, demand, exact, intimidate, command, coerce.
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KEY: Beseem.
SYN: Befit, suit, belong, appertain.
ANT: Unbeseem, disgrace.
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KEY: Beseeming.
SYN: Befitting, belonging, suitable, appertaining, consistent, compatible, requisite, decent, graceful.
ANT: Unbefitting, unseemly, unsuitable, improper, indecent, ungraceful.
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KEY: Bound.
SYN: Hem, surround, environ, encircle, besiege, beleaguer, embarrass.
ANT: Liberate, abandon.
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KEY: Beside.
SYN: Close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together, moreover.
ANT: Separate, apart, inclusively.
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KEY: Besiege.
SYN: Beset, beleaguer, sit, invest.
ANT: Abandon, (Phrase, “Raise the siege”).
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KEY: Besmear, [See BEDAUB].
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KEY: Besotted.
SYN: Intoxicated, steeped, stupefied, drunk, drenched, doltish, gross, prejudiced.
ANT: Sober, temperate, clear, unbiased, unprejudiced, enlightened, refined.
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KEY: Bespatter.
SYN: Besprinkle, befoul, bedaub, revile, vilify, asperse.
ANT: Absterge, sponge, cleanse, purify, vindicate, defend, clear.
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KEY: Bespeak.
SYN: Betoken, foreorder, forestall, provide, prearrange, indicate, evidence.
ANT: Belie, resign, countermand.
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KEY: Bestead \v.\
SYN: Convenience, serve, uphold, assist, accommodate, benefit.
ANT: Thwart, damage, incommode, oppose, injure.
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KEY: Bestead \n.\
SYN: Interest, behalf, advantage, benefit, part, side.
ANT: Injury, disadvantage, opposition, detriment, damage.
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KEY: Bestir. Commonly used reflexively for, to stir one's self, [See STIR].
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KEY: Bestir \n.\ [See STIR].
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KEY: Bestow.
SYN: Confer, give, present, award, accord, grant.
ANT: Withhold, withdraw, reserve, alienate, transfer, appropriate, usurp, seize.
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KEY: Better \v.\
SYN: Meliorate, improve, amend, emend, ameliorate, rectify, reform.
ANT: Make worse.
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KEY: Betide.
SYN: Befall, occur, happen.
ANT: [See BEFALL].
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KEY: Betimes.
SYN: Early, beforehand, preparedly, readily.
ANT: Behindhand, slowly, sluggishly, belatedly.
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KEY: Betoken.
SYN: Teach, indicate, proclaim, presage, augur, portend, foreshow, signify, forebode, evidence, declare, manifest, involve, imply.
