A complicated system of administrative agencies and officials; the officials themselves

Syn:  -

Ant:  -

a.       (noun) A support or reinforcement

(verb) To support or reinforce

Syn:  mainstay, shore up, brace, bolster

To persuade or obtain by flattery or deceit.

Syn:  wheedle, inveigle, beguile

Ant:  dissuade

Unfeeling or insensitive

Syn:  hardboiled, hardnosed

Ant:  thin-skinned, tenderhearted

A false statement deliberately made up to injure a person.

Syn:  libel, aspersion, slander

Ant:  adulation

Fair and impartial; Frank or outspoken; Informal or unposed

Syn:  unbiased, impromptu, objective

Ant:  reticent, disingenuous, artful, evasive, equivocal, ambiguous

Foul-tempered and quarrelsome.

Syn:  peevish, irascible,  choleric,  ornery, curmudgeon

Ant:  amiable, affable, docile, imperturbable, genial, amenable

Quick to find petty faults or raise trifling objections; overly demanding or fussy.

Syn: caviling, carping, censorious, pettifogging

Ant:  laudatory, unexacting

Broad or widely inclusive; General or universal; worldwide.

Syn:  ecumenical

Ant:  provincial, parochial, narrow