Other forms: siroccos

1. n. a hot, stifling wind blowing from the Libyan deserts into southern Europe

2. n. any wind like this

Synonyms: sandstorm

Antonyms:

Other forms: highhandedly (adv.), highhandedness (n.)

1. adj. acting or done without thought for that others want ot think

2. adj. arrogant and arbitrary

Synonyms: arrogant, arbitrary, autoritarian, overbearing, tyrannical

Antonyms: humble, democratic

Other forms: recurred, recurring

1. vb. to occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

- (of a thought, image, or memory) to come back to the mind

- go back to (something) in thought of speech

Synonyms: persist, reappear, return, repeat, reiterate

Antonyms: halt, stop, disappear

Other forms: larders

1. n. a room or large cupboard for storing food

2. n. a supply of food

Synonyms: pantry, storage

Antonyms:

Other forms: fervently, ferventness

1. adj. having or displaying a passionate intensity.

2. adj. hot; burning; glowing

Synonyms: ardent, earnest, passionate, zealous

Antonyms: apathetic, insincere, calm, cold

Other forms: elicited, eliciting, elicits, elicitation, elicitor

1. v. to evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions. 

Synonyms: educe, evoke, extract

Antonyms: suppress, repress, soothe, placate

Other forms: aureola

1. n. a circle of light or brightness surrounding something, especially as depicted in art around the head or body of a person represented as holy

Synonyms: halo, corona

Antonyms:

Other forms: steadfastly, steadfastness

1. adj. resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.

2. adj. fixed in direction; steadily directed

3. adj. firmly established, as an institution or a state ofaffairs

4. adj. firmly fixed in place or position.

Synonyms: dedicated, faithful, relentless, unwavering, unyielding

Antonyms: dishonest, disloyal, unreliable, wavering

Other forms: authorized, authorizing, authorizable, authorizer

1. to give official permission for or approval to

2. to give authority, or official power to

Synonyms: empower, enable, entitle

Antonyms: refuse, reject

Other forms:

1. a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm

2. a wide or profound difference between people

3. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite:

Synonyms: chasm, crevasse, depth, void

Antonyms: filling, full

Other forms: profounder, profoundest, profoundly, profoundness

1. adj. (of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense

2. adj. (of a person or statement) having or showing great knowledge or insight

3. n. the vast depth of the ocean or of the mind

Synonyms: deep, intelligent, philosophical, serious

Antonyms: light, superficial, unimportant, unintelligent

Other forms: syphon, siphonal, siphonic, siphonless, siphonlike

1. a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. Once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Synonyms: drain, funnel, pump, tube

Antonyms:

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Other forms: 

1. a person who carries a ceremonial torch.

2. a leader in a movement, campaign, etc.

Synonyms: torch holder

Antonyms:

Other forms: impassionedly, impassionedness

1. adj. filled with intense feeling or passion

2. adj. filled with or showing great emotion

Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fierce, fiery, zealous, passionate, intense

Antonyms: apathetic, calm, cold, unenthusiastic 

Other forms: fomenter, unfomented

1. vb. to instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action)

2. vb. to bathe (a part of the body) with warm or medicated lotions.

Synonyms: abet, arouse, brew, insight

Antonyms: deter, discourage

Other forms:

1. n. a straight line or direct route between two places

Synonyms: shortcut, straightaway

Antonyms: detour

Other forms: pensively, pensiveness

1. adj. expressing or revealing deep or serious thought, usually marked by some sadness

2. adj. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Other forms: exultingly, self-exulting

1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant

Synonyms: rejoice, clebrate, cheer, jubilate

Antonyms: grieve, mourn, conceal, hide

Other forms: caviler/caviller, cavilingly/cavillingly

1. vb. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily

     ex: She finds something to cavil at in everything I say

2. n. an irritating, trivial, annoying, and unnecessary objection

Synonyms: carp, criticize

Antonyms: praise, admire

Other forms: uproariously, uproariousness

1. adj. characterized by or provoking loud noise or uproar.

2. adj. very funny, as a person or situation

Synonyms: boisterous, clamorous

Antonyms: quiet, shy

Other forms: broodless, unbrooded

1. n. a family of young animals, especially of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth

2. vb. to think deeply about something that makes one unhappy

3. vb. to (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them

4. adj. (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding

Synonyms: offspring, breed

Antonyms: parent, child

Other forms:

1. n. the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks

2. n. an area lying beyond what is visible or known

Synonyms: outback 

Antonyms: metropolis

Other forms: primly, primness

1. adj. stiffly formal and respectable; feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper

2. vb. to purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression

Synonyms: tidy, proper, formal

Antonyms: untidy, informal, rumpled

Other forms: trampler, untrampled

1. vb. to tread on and crush

2. n. an act or the sound of trampling

Synonyms: crush, flatten, injure

Antonyms: aid, asist, cure, heal, help

Other forms: sluicelike, undersluice, unsluiced

1. n. a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate

2. n. an act of rinsing or showering with water

3. vb. wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water

Synonyms: channel, gush, gate, flush

Antonyms: