(n) something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assitant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic;

(adj) added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity

 SYN: (n) associate, addition, accessory

(n) the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends

SYN: ringleader, initiator, brometer

ANT: follower, imitator, emulator

(v) to howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; (n) a harsh or noisy cry; a racket

SYN: (v) whine; (n) wail, screech

(adj) absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible

SYN: fanciful visionary, quixotic, pie-in-the-sky

ANT : realistic, down-to-earth, practicable

(n) an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact or fiction

SYN: accomplished fact

ant : n/a

(adj) narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative

SYN: intolerant, inflexible

ANT: open-minded, tolerant, liberal, progressive

(n) any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.

SYN: chain of command, pecking order

(n) a religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship

SYN: ceremony, observance

(n) something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion

syn: optical illusion

(n) a patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand

syn: bog, quagmire

ant: solid ground, bedrock , terra firma

(adj) offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or  injurious

syn: fetid, noxious, vile, loathsome

ant: wholesome, pleasant, sweet-smelling

(adj) forgetful, unaware

syn: insensible

ant: aware, mindful, cognizant,alert

(n) a base coward

syn: craven, dastard, 'chicken'

ant: hero, stalwart, galiant

(n) a convert, a disciple

syn:novice, neophyte

ant: master,teacher, guide, guru

(adj) resembling but not actually  being; seemingly but not actually or completely

syn: kind of semi-, as if

ant:  totally, completely, actually, in fact

(n) good-humored ridicule; teasing

SYN: banter, persiflage

(n) a short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter

SYN: thumbnail sketch, anecdote

ANT: epic, full-length treatment

(adj) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language

SYN: bawdy, risque

ANT: seemly, proper , decorous

(adj) lying flat on one's back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive

SYN: prone, prostrate; inert

ANT: upright, erect, perpendicular, vertical