Verb, Noun

1. to scrape or abrade witha rough instrument

2. to scrape or rub roughly 

3. to grate upon or irrate

4. to utter with a grating sound

 5. to scrape or grate

6. to make a grating sound

7. an act of rasping

8. a rasping sound

9. a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.

10. (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation

Syn. mar, Ant. zephyr

analogy cause:effect rasp:roughhewn

Verb

1. to separate 

2. to become separate

 Syn. Mar Ant. harmony

Analogy decreasing intensity Sunder:Deface

Adjective

1. having or showing little or no interest in anything

Syn. pacified, Ant. impassioned

Analogy decreasing intensity listless:pacified

Charlatan

Noun

1. a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he/she possesses

Syn. devious, Ant. Sage

Analogy cause:effect devious:charalatan

Noun, Verb

1. A defeat attended with disorderly flight

2. any overwhelming defeat.

3. a tumultuos or disorderly crowd of people

4. therabble or mob

5. a disturbance of the peace by 3 or more people in a manner that suggests an intention to riot, but do not carry out the intention.

6.a large, formal evening party or social gathering

7. a company or a band of people 

8. to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight

9. to defeat decisively

Syn. Quash, Ant. Pacify

Analogy increasing intensity rout:quash

Adjective

1. pleasing to the taste 

2. pleasing or desirable, as fame or power

Syn. Aureole, Ant. Shroud

Analogy noun:closely related adjective teeth:toothsome

Noun 

1. a very small amount

Syn. smattering, Ant. lode

Analogy increasing intensity smidgen:smattering

Verb

1. to decrease seriously the abundance or supply of

Syn. Siphon Ant. Larder

Analogy increasing intensity deplete:siphon

Adjective

1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood

2. characterized by or expressing gloom

Syn. Brood, Ant. exult

Analogy decreasing intensity morose:pensive

Noun

1. harsh discordance of sound

2. a discordant and meanlingless mixture of sounds

3. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.

Syn. quash,Ant. Sunder

analogy decreasing intensity cacophony:rasp

Verb, Adjective

1. to join together or unite

2. to unite by overlapping and binding the ends

3. to unite by butting and cemeting

4. to unite or join

Syn. Swaddle, Ant. exult

Analogy noun closely related adjective makeshift:spliced

Noun 

1. a temporany expediant or substitute 

2. serving as or of the nature of, a makeshift.

Syn. provisional,Ant. decorum

Analogy Noun closely related adjective

Makeshift:splice

Noun, Verb

1. a slight, superficial, introductory knowledge of something

2. slight or superficial

3. to speak

4. to dabble in

5. slight or superficial knowledge

Syn. Smidgen, Ant. larder

Analogy part:whole smattering:sageness 

Verb

1. to linger aimlessly

2. to move in a slow idle manner

3. to waste or dawdle or over work

4. to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner

Syn. pensive, Ant. exult

Analogy increasing intensity loiter:listless

Adjective

1. impudent, insolent

Syn. wayward, Ant.

Analogy increasing intensity cheeky:devious

Noun 

1. descent to a lower positions or standing

2. something causing ruin or failure

3. a fall, as of rain or snow

4. a trap using falling weight for killing, injuring prey.

Syn.

Analogy cause effect quashed:downfall

Verb, Noun, Adjective

2. to spread out, expand, or extend

2. form with an oblique angle

3. to amke with splay or splay

4. to make with a splay or splay

5. to have an oblique or slanting direction

6. to spread or flare

7. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another

8. spread out

9. clumsy or awkward

10. oblique

Syn. trample, Ant. staunch

analogy decreasing intensity splay:serpentine

Adjective

1. sharp or biting to the taste or smell

2. extremely or sharply stinging or bitter.

Syn. cheeky, Ant. fray

analogy increasing intensity acrid:foment

Noun, Verb

1. a fight, battle, or skirmish

2. a compertion or contest

3. a noisy quarrel or brawl

4. fright

5. to frighten

6. to fight or brawl

Syn. quash Ant. decorum

analogy increasing intensity fray:quash

Verb

1. to damage or spoil to a extent 

2. to disfigure, deface, or scar

Syn. deface, Ant. decorum

 analogy category/example deface:mar

Verb, Adjective

1. a past participle of rive

2. rent or split apart

3. split radially, as a log

5.to tear or rend apart

6. to separate by striking

7. to rend, harrow, or distress

8.to split (wood) radially from a log

9. to become rent or split apart

Syn. sunder, Ant. Splice

analogy increasing intensity rive:quash

Harmony

Noun

1. agreement

2. a consistent, orderly or pleasing arrangement of parts

3. any simultaneous

4. an arrangement of the contents of the Gospels.

Syn. Steadfast, Ant. sunder

analogy decreasing intensity harmony:stauchness

Noun, Verb

1. a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the of the blade

2. chisel plow

3. the constellation Caelum

4. to cut shape, fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel

5. to cheat or swindle someone

6. to get (something) by cheating or trickery

7. to work with a chisel

8. to trick

Syn. devious, Ant. splice

analogy tool:object it is used with chisel tenement

Adjective, Noun

1. pleasant to the ear

2. pleaseant or agreeable to the eye or the feelings

3. sweet to the taste of smell

4. an organ stop resembling the dulciana

Syn. toothsome, Ant. rasp

analogy noun:closely related adjective dulcet:zephyr

Adjective

1. denoting wood or stone that is not smooth

2. not sophisticated, polished, or elegant

3. denoting or possessing attractively strong or bony facial features

Syn. rive, Ant. dulcet

analogy effect:cause roughhewn:rasp