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(adj.) giving assistance or support;
Synonyms: additional, back-up.
Antonyms: main, primary, principal.
(n.) a helper, aid.
Synonyms: reserve, accessory. |
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(adj.) frank, sincere; impartial; unopposed.
Synonyms: forthright, plainspoken, unbiased.
Antonyms: insincere, evasive, misleading, artful. |
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(n.) a small room or compartment.
Synonyms: enclosure, hole-in-the-wall.
Antonyms: vast hall, auditorium. |
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(n.) work that is hard and tiresome.
Synonyms: toil, labor, grind.
Antonyms: play, frolic, amusement, recreation, fun. |
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(n.) a representative or messenger (as of a government)
Synonyms: agent, ambassador, emissary, minister. |
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(v.) to elevate; to increase in intensity.
Synonyms: climb, raise, ascend, mount.
Antonyms: decrease, lessen, descend, defuse. |
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(n.) a means to an end; (adj.) advantageous, useful.
Synonyms: Contrivance, device.
(adj.) advantageous, useful.
Synonym: serviceable.
Antonyms: inconvenient, untimely, disadvantageous. |
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(v.) to pretend.
Synonyms: fake, sham, affect, simulate. |
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(n.) a natural quality, talent, or skill; a distinctive style.
Synonyms: aptitude, bent, knack, gift, style, panache.
Antonyms: inability, incapacity. |
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(adj.) causing sorrow or pain, serious.
Synonyms: painful, heartrending, onerous, flagrant.
Antonyms: joyful, uplifting, cheery, upbeat, comforting. |
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(adj.) composed of different kinds, diverse.
Synonyms: miscellaneous, mixed, variegated.
Antonyms: uniform, homogeneous, of a piece. |
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(n.) a vast number( as of people); a throng.
Synonyms: crowd, mass, multitude, host, swarm.
Antonyms: few, handful. |
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(v.) to force, drive forward.
Synonyms: crowd, mass, multitude, host, swarm.
Antonyms: discourage, check, restrain, curb. |
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(adj.) disbelieving, skeptical.
Synonyms: dubious, mistrustful, doubting.
Antonyms:believing, trustful, gullible. |
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(v.) to write or engrave, to enter a name on a list.
Synonyms: imprint, enroll, enlist.
Antonyms: erase, rub out, delete, efface, obliterate. |
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(n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person.
Synonyms: soliloquy, recitation.
Antonyms: dialogue, conversation, colloquy. |
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(n.) a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or situation.
Synonyms: prediction, projection. |
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(adj.) with a harsh, grating sound.
Synonyms: scratchy, scraping, abrasive, gravelly.
Antonyms: sonorous, smooth, satiny, silky, mellow.
(n.) a harsh sound. |
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(adj.) offensive, disagreeable, distasteful.
Synonyms: hateful, odious, revolting, repulsive.
Antonyms: pleasing, attractive, tempting, wholesome. |
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(v.) to sink a ship by cutting holes in it; to get rid of something in a decisive way; to run hastily, sucrry.
Synonyms: abandon, discard, scrap, ditch, dump.
Antonyms: keep afloat, salvage, rescue, preserve.
(n.) a pail. |
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