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AS YOU LIKE IT
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

William Shakespeare

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As You Like It
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

William Shakespeare

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Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered
trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and
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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR
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3
ACT I
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31
ACT III
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87
ACT V
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125
GLOSSARY
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By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
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William Shakespeare

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PERSONS REPRESENTED
DUKE, living in exile
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AMIENS,
JAQUES,

}

Lord attending on the Duke in his
Banishment
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CHARLES, his Wrestler
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Servant to Oliver
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SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar
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SILVIUS, Shepherd
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A person representing HYMEN
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CELIA, Daughter to Frederick
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AUDREY, a Country Wench
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Thesaurus
attending: (v) attend; (n) presence,
nursing, care, appearing, observation;
(adj) concomitant, attendant,
ministrant, in attendance, ancillary
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belonging: (adj) appertaining,
appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n)
household, family, appendage,
appurtenance, intimacy, commodity,
closeness
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charles: (n) Jacques Charles, prince

Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar
detestation, detachment, indifference;
(v) abhor; (adv) roughly
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living: (adj) alive, live, extant,
oliver: (n) king Oliver
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represented, representant; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n)
representation, imitation; (v) mock,
pseudo, simulating; (prep) in place of,
death, leisure
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upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up,
dear, liking, benevolence, charity,
honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v)
onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on
worship
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(n) abhorrence, hatred, aversion,

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ACT I

SCENE I
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[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM
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As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,--bequeathed me by will but
poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his
blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness
...
Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that
nature gave me, his countenance seems to take from me: he lets me feed with
his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines
my gentility with my education
...
rebel, rise
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plentifully: (adv) plenteously,
rudeness
...
ANTONYM: (adv)
auspiciously, opportunely, rosily,
tawnily
...

mutiny: (n, v) insurrection, rebellion; rustically: (adv) simplely, rurally,

homely, unsophisticatedly, roughly,
pastorally, crudely, vulgarly, rusticly,
savagely, unpolishedly
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unkept: (adj) humbled, discontinuous,
low, broken in, impoverished,
busted, destroyed financially,
disordered, rugged, confused,
crushed
...
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ADAM
...

ORLANDO
...

[ADAM retires]
[Enter OLIVER
...

Now, sir! what make you here?
ORLANDO
...

OLIVER
...

Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy
brother of yours, with idleness
...

Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile
...

Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion
have I spent that I should come to such penury?
OLIVER
...

O, sir, very well: here in your orchard
...

Know you before whom, sir?

Thesaurus
awhile: (adj) in transitu, en passant;
(adj, n, pron) nil; (n, pron) zilch
...

penury: (n, v) need, destitution, lack,
enslavement, captivity, slavery, yoke,
hogs: (n) Suidae, boars, family Suidae, want, deficiency; (n) poverty,
vassalage, thrall, easement, serfhood,
stock
...
ANTONYM: (n)
idleness: (n) lethargy, laziness, torpor, scarcity
...

unworthy: (adj) undeserving, base,
inactivity, idling, unemployment,
affluence, luxury
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ANTONYMS: (n) energy,
improvident, generous, lavish,
contemptible, despicable, ugly,
activity, bustle, liveliness,
wasteful, excessive, exuberant,
unmerited, unseemly, shameful
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naught: (n) cipher, nothing, null,
profligate
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reputable
...

Ay, better than him I am before knows me
...
The courtesy of
nations allows you my better in that you are the first-born; but the same
tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us: I
have as much of my father in me as you, albeit; I confess, your coming before
me is nearer to his reverence
...

What, boy!
ORLANDO
...

OLIVER
...

I am no villain: I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Bois: he was my
father; and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains
...

ADAM
...

OLIVER
...

ORLANDO
...
My father charged you in his will to
give me good education: you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and
hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities: the spirit of my father grows
strong in me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore, allow me such
exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father
left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes
...

betwixt: (n) midst; (prep) among,
amid; (adv) atwixt
...

ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide,
dispute, conceal, repress, harbor
...

ANTONYMS: (v) perish, die, break,

fall, discontinue, crumble, end, enjoy, mind; (n) commemoration, memorial,
resign, quit, collapse
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reminiscence, recognition; (adj, n)
fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune,
memento
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hiding: (n) covering, concealment,
thousand, gramme, gram, gm,
concealing, beating, screening,
gigabyte, Gb, curtilage
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thrashing, flogging, rout, burial,
villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue,
drubbing, ambush
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crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion
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OLIVER
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ORLANDO
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OLIVER
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ADAM
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--God
be with my old master! he would not have spoke such a word
...
]
OLIVER
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Holla, Dennis!
[Enter DENNIS
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Calls your worship?
OLIVER
...

So please you, he is here at the door and importunes access to you
...

Call him in
...
]--'Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the
wrestling is
...
]
CHARLES
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Thesaurus
becomes: (v) become
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ANTONYMS: (n) arrival,
entry, entrance, greeting; (v) arrive,
come
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neither: (conj) either, no-one, not
either, nor, nother
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ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight,
praise, attract
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rankness: (n) foulness,
malodourousness, overgrowth, scent,
smell, exuberance, odour, odor, body
odor, plenty, profusion
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ANTONYMS: (v)
flourish, rise, rally
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wrestling: (n) grapple, grappling,
rassling, bout, event, clamshell,
athletics, boxing, braving, pugilism;
(adj) fighting
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Good Monsieur Charles!--what's the new news at the new court?
CHARLES
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OLIVER
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O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves her,--being
ever from their cradles bred together,--that she would have
followed her exile, or have died to stay behind her
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OLIVER
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They say he is already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with
him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many
young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as
they did in the golden world
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What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?
CHARLES
...
I am given, sir,
secretly to understand that your younger brother, Orlando, hath a disposition
to come in disguis'd against me to try a fall
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ANTONYMS: (v) hide, inconsiderately, rashly, negligently,
unwarily
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thoroughly, diligently, carefully,
acquit: (adj, v) release; (v) exculpate,
warily, laboriously, thoughtfully,
exonerate, discharge, excuse, clear,
attentively, daintily, methodically,
pardon, free, conduct, forgive,
discreetly, economically
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ANTONYMS: (v)
enrich: (v) decorate, adorn, fertilize,
condemn, damn, censure, blame,
beautify, ornament, develop, fatten,
endow, better, cultivate; (n)
sentence
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
impoverish, cheapen, degenerate,
reduce, deplete, deteriorate
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merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful,
glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome,
lighthearted, festive; (adj, n)
convivial, jovial
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wrestle: (v) struggle, scuffle, fight,
strive, battle, wrench, tussle, contest,
scramble, clash; (n, v) grapple
...
Your brother is but young and tender; and, for your love, I would be
loath to foil him, as I must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore, out
of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you withal; that either you might
stay him from his intendment, or brook such disgrace well as he shall run
into; in that it is thing of his own search, and altogether against my will
...

Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt find I will most
kindly requite
...
I'll
tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of
ambition, an envious emulator of every man's good parts, a secret and
villainous contriver against me his natural brother: therefore use thy
discretion: I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger
...
I speak but
brotherly of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush
and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder
...

I am heartily glad I came hither to you
...
If ever he go alone again I'll never wrestle for prize more: and so,
God keep your worship!
[Exit
...

Farewell, good Charles
...
Yet
he's gentle; never schooled and yet learned; full of noble device; of all sorts
enchantingly beloved; and, indeed, so much in the heart of the world, and
especially of my own people, who best know him, that I am altogether

Thesaurus
anatomize: (n, v) analyze; (v) dissect,
resolve, anatomise, decompose, sift,
analyse, parse, cut up, dismember;
(n) winnow
...

enchantingly: (adv) fascinatingly,
bewitchingly, enthrallingly,
charmingly, entrancingly, lovely,
attractively, appealingly, beguilingly,

pleasantly, delightfully
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(adv) unpleasantly
...

trap, decoy, deceive, entice, inveigle, requite: (adj, v) pay, gratify, satisfy; (v)
delude, frame; (n, v) tangle
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reward, remunerate, reimburse,
gamester: (n) sportsman, player,
return, refund
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herein: (adv) here, therein
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William Shakespeare

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misprised: but it shall not be so long; this wrestler shall clear all: nothing
remains but that I kindle the boy thither, which now I'll go about
...
]

SCENE II
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[Enter ROSALIND and CELIA
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I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry
...

Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I
were merrier? Unless you could teach me to forget a banished father, you
must not learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure
...

Herein I see thou lov'st me not with the full weight that I love thee; if my
uncle, thy banished father, had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so
thou hadst been still with me, I could have taught my love to take thy father
for mine; so wouldst thou, if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously
tempered as mine is to thee
...

Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to rejoice in yours
...

You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is like to have; and, truly,
when he dies thou shalt be his heir: for what he hath taken away from thy
father perforce, I will render thee again in affection: by mine honour, I will;
and when I break that oath, let me turn monster; therefore, my sweet Rose,
my dear Rose, be merry
...

arouse, burn, flame, awaken, incite,
enkindle, stir; (n, v) light
...

rejoice: (v) cheer, gladden, triumph,
calm, extinguish, quench, stifle
...

amusement, happiness, delight, joy,
ANTONYMS: (v) lament, mourn,
hilarity, cheerfulness, festivity,
gladness, exhilaration
...

(n) gloom, sadness, misery
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
improperly, sinfully
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ANTONYM: (adj)
untempered
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ROSALIND
...

Marry, I pr'ythee, do, to make sport withal: but love no man in good earnest,
nor no further in sport neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in
honour come off again
...

What shall be our sport, then?
CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...
]
ROSALIND
...


Thesaurus
bestowed: (adj) presented, conferred,
awarded, accurate
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
sparse, miserly, wanting, spare,

length, expanse, area, extent; (n) face
...

devise: (v) contrive, conceive, invent,
vigorously, strongly, greatly,
plan, create, concoct, design, arrange, potently, fiercely, sturdily, violently,
frame, formulate, excogitate
...

flout: (n, v) deride, jeer, gibe, taunt,
ANTONYMS: (adv) weakly, slightly
...
ANTONYMS: (v) observe, (adj) mislaid, inept, inappropriate,
notice
...

there
...

lineaments: (v) exposition, tract,
sports: (n) athletics; (adj) sporting
...

Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but Nature's, who perceiveth
our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses, and hath sent this
natural for our whetstone: for always the dullness of the fool is the
whetstone of the wits
...

Mistress, you must come away to your father
...

Were you made the messenger?
TOUCHSTONE
...

ROSALIND
...

Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they were good pancakes, and
swore by his honour the mustard was naught: now, I'll stand to it, the
pancakes were naught and the mustard was good: and yet was not the knight
forsworn
...

How prove you that, in the great heap of your knowledge?
ROSALIND
...

TOUCHSTONE
...

CELIA
...

TOUCHSTONE
...

ANTONYMS: (n) brightness,
intensity, brilliance, excitement,
intelligence, shine, asperity,
animation, gloss, clarity, variation
...

knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard,
crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag,
scallywag, scoundrel, varlet
...

messenger: (n, v) herald; (n) harbinger,
runner, emissary, bearer,
ambassador, precursor, courier,
carrier, apostle, errand
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whetstone: (n) oilstone, rub, friction,
fault, imperfection, chance,
caoutchouc, failing, hindrance,
whetstone test, unevenness
...

wits: (n) intellect, mind, wit, brains,
common sense, presence,
percipience, observation, mother wit,
right mind, judgment
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CELIA
...

One that old Frederick, your father, loves
...

My father's love is enough to honour him enough: speak no more of him:
you'll be whipp'd for taxation one of these days
...

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly
...

By my troth, thou sayest true: for since the little wit that fools have was
silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

[Enter LE BEAU
...
What's the news?
LE BEAU
...


Thesaurus
foolery: (n) folly, tomfoolery,
foolishness, buffoonery, clowning,
inanity, romp, gambol, frolic,
imbecility, lunacy
...
ANTONYMS: (adv)
sensibly, solemnly, shrewdly,
prudently, responsibly, judiciously,
carefully, rationally
...

pigeons: (n) order Columbiformes,
Columbiformes
...

swearing: (n) curse, expletive,
profanity, oath, abuse, blasphemy,
swearword, execration, adjuration,

asseveration; (v) swear
...

wisely: (adv) judiciously, prudently,
sagaciously, cleverly, discreetly,
shrewdly, smartly, learnedly,
astutely, sharply, perspicaciously
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CELIA
...

What colour, madam? How shall I answer you?
ROSALIND
...
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TOUCHSTONE
...

CELIA
...

TOUCHSTONE
...

Thou losest thy old smell
...

You amaze me, ladies; I would have told you of good wrestling, which you
have lost the sight of
...

Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling
...

I will tell you the beginning, and, if it please your ladyships, you may see the
end; for the best is yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming to
perform it
...

Well,--the beginning, that is dead and buried
...

There comes an old man and his three sons,-CELIA
...


Thesaurus
amaze: (adj, v) astonish, surprise; (v)
abundance, doom
...

laid: (adj) layed, lay, place, placed, put,
puzzle, dazzle, discombobulate,
alarm; (adj) astonished
...

dictated, hardened, ordered
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit,
bawd
...

fortune: (n) estate, fate, fluke, destiny, accomplish, do, achieve, complete,
luck, accident, means, assets, riches,
carry out, behave, make, play,

appear
...

shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require,
bequeath, leave
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ANTONYM: (n) fact
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LE BEAU
...

'Be it known unto all men by these presents,'-LE BEAU
...
Yonder they lie;
the poor old man, their father, making such pitiful dole over them that all the
beholders take his part with weeping
...

Alas!
TOUCHSTONE
...

Why, this that I speak of
...

Thus men may grow wiser every day! It is the first time that ever I heard
breaking of ribs was sport for ladies
...

Or I, I promise thee
...

But is there any else longs to see this broken music in his sides? is there yet
another dotes upon rib-breaking?-- Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?
LE BEAU
...


Thesaurus
bills: (n) currency, folding money
...

breaking: (n) breakage, breach,
pitiful: (adj, n) abject; (adj) pathetic,
violation, infringement,
lamentable, piteous, contemptible,
contravention, smash, rift, scutching, miserable, distressing, mean,
shift, intermission; (v) deaden
...
ANTONYMS:
cousin: (n) nephew, cousins, friend,
(adj) generous, heartwarming,
cousinship, relation, akin, relative,
admirable, cheerful, fine, happy,
full cousin, companion
...

dole: (v) dispense; (n) mite, grant,
promise: (n, v) covenant, guarantee,
contract, vow, bargain; (v) augur,
pittance, grief, distribution, blow,
assure; (n) engagement, assurance,
care, anxiety, cark, charity
...


ribs: (n) dinner, chest, bosom
...
ANTONYMS: (n) work;
(v) conceal
...

yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther,
abroad, thither, further away, at that
place; (adj) distant, yond, furious,
fierce
...

Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it
...
Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO, CHARLES, and
Attendants
...

Come on; since the youth will not be entreated, his own peril on his
forwardness
...

Is yonder the man?
LE BEAU
...

CELIA
...

DUKE FREDERICK
...

Ay, my liege; so please you give us leave
...

You will take little delight in it, I can tell you, there is such odds in the men
...
Speak to him, ladies; see if you can move him
...

Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau
...

Do so; I'll not be by
...
]
LE BEAU
...


Thesaurus
challenger: (n) rival, contestant,
contender, opponent, foe, champion,
enemy, adversary, antagonist,
participant, nominee
...

dissuade: (v) discourage, deter, advise,
remonstrate, divert, expostulate,
dehort, hinder, repress, reason,
detain
...

fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready,
favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv)

gladly, lief, readily, willingly; (v)
odds: (n) likelihood, probability,
optative
...

impudence, presumption, cockiness, ANTONYM: (n) unlikelihood
...

hither: (adv) here, whither,
jeopardy, chance; (v) imperil, expose,
compromise
...

liege: (n) feudatory, liegeman, vassal,
security
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ORLANDO
...
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ROSALIND
...

No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I come but in, as others do, to
try with him the strength of my youth
...

Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your years
...
We pray you, for your own sake, to embrace
your own safety and give over this attempt
...

Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore be misprised: we will make
it our suit to the duke that the wrestling might not go forward
...

I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts: wherein I confess me
much guilty to deny so fair and excellent ladies anything
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...
Pray heaven, I be deceived in you!

Thesaurus
beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask,
request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal,
solicit, plead
...

deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided
...

gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good,
courteous, compassionate, kind,

accommodating, civil; (adj, n)
benevolent, congenial, gentle
...

hers: (pron) she, his; (adj) own
...
ANTONYMS: (n) celebration,
joy; (v) revel, rejoice, celebrate,

applaud, praise, compliment
...

ANTONYMS: (v) excuse, exonerate,
pardon, reward, commend
...

wherein: (adv) in what, in which,
where
...

Your heart's desires be with you
...

Come, where is this young gallant that is so desirous to lie with his mother
earth?
ORLANDO
...

DUKE FREDERICK
...

CHARLES
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

I would I were invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the leg
...
]
ROSALIND
...

If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down
...
Shout
...

No more, no more
...

Yes, I beseech your grace; I am not yet well breathed
...

desires: (n) requirements, needs
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
undesirous, reluctant, undesiring,
unconcerned
...


entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore,
pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure,
crave, bid
...

gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring,
courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly,
heroic, dashing, courteous, fine
...

mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v)
ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout;
(adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v) mimic,

ape, taunt
...

thunderbolt: (n) bolt of lightning,
lightning, thunder, thunderclap,
bombshell, surprise, flash, shackle,
quarrel, streak of lightning, streak
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
break; (v) debar
...

How dost thou, Charles?
LE BEAU
...
%
DUKE FREDERICK
...
[CHARLES is borne out
...

Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Bois
...

I would thou hadst been son to some man else
...
But
fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth; I would thou hadst told me of another
father
...
]
CELIA
...

I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,
His youngest son;--and would not change that calling
To be adopted heir to Frederick
...

My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,
And all the world was of my father's mind:
Had I before known this young man his son,
I should have given him tears unto entreaties
Ere he should thus have ventur'd
...

Gentle cousin,
Let us go thank him, and encourage him:

Thesaurus
borne: (adj) weak, wanting, spoony,
soft, sappy, shallow, little, limited
...

ANTONYM: (n) failure
...

enemy: (n) antagonist, opponent, foe,
opposition, competitor, enmity,
assailant, foeman, hostile, besieger;
(adj, n) rival
...

worthy, right, noble
...
ANTONYM: (v) stop
...
ANTONYM: (adj) hated
...
ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor,
lordly, majestic, overbearing; (adj, v)
dignified
...

honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, humble, modest, ashamed,
venerable, glorious, honorable,
embarrassed, sorrowful,
distinguished, above-board, good,
disappointed, miserable
...
--Sir, you have well deserv'd:
If you do keep your promises in love
But justly, as you have exceeded promise,
Your mistress shall be happy
...

Gentleman,
[Giving him a chain from her neck
...
-Shall we go, coz?
CELIA
...
--Fare you well, fair gentleman
...

Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts
Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up
Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block
...

He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes:
I'll ask him what he would
...

CELIA
...

Have with you
...

[Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA
...

What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?
I cannot speak to her, yet she urg'd conference
...

unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly,
woman, missis
...

feeling, anger, enthusiasm, heat,
lifeless: (adj) inanimate, dull, insipid,
craving, desire; (n, v) ardor
...
ANTONYMS:
defunct, inactive, flat, exanimate,
(adj) fulfilled, satisfied, undesirous,
dreary, tedious, inert, lackluster
...

contented
...

destination, quintin, bull's-eye, tilting
mistress: (n) dame, concubine,
properly, exactly, uprightly,
at the ring, Quintel, target, fan
...

madame, inamorata, lady, lover,

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O poor Orlando! thou art overthrown:
Or Charles, or something weaker, masters thee
...
]
LE BEAU
...
Albeit you have deserv'd
High commendation, true applause, and love,
Yet such is now the duke's condition,
That he misconstrues all that you have done
...

ORLANDO
...

Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;
But yet, indeed, the smaller is his daughter:
The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,
And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,
To keep his daughter company; whose loves
Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters
...
--Sir, fare you well!
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you
...

commendation: (n, v) acclaim,
applause, praise; (n) approval,
citation, approbation, tribute, credit,
plaudit, acclamation, admiration
...

conceive: (v) think, imagine,
comprehend, design, apprehend,

realize, discover, cogitate, appreciate,
invent, catch
...

displeasure: (n) resentment,
discomfort, dissatisfaction, dislike,
discontent, exasperation, disfavor,
annoyance, offense, pique,
disapproval
...


humorous: (adj) comical, funny, comic,
droll, playful, hilarious, jocose,
farcical, jocular; (adj, n) facetious,
witty
...

malice: (n) spite, animosity, enmity,
venom, ill will, hatred, malevolence,
cruelty, envy, hate, spleen
...

masters: (n) Edgar lee Masters
...


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ORLANDO
...
]
Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;
From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:-But heavenly Rosalind!
[Exit
...
A ROOM IN THE PALACE
...
]
CELIA
...

Not one to throw at a dog
...

No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs, throw some of
them at me; come, lame me with reasons
...

Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one should be lamed with
reasons and the other mad without any
...

But is all this for your father?
ROSALIND
...
O, how full of briers is this workingday world!

Thesaurus
bounden: (adj) bound, indebted,
compulsory, binding
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly,
miserable, infernal, hellish,
unappealing, dreadful, turbulent
...


lamed: (adj) lame, impeded, injured,
disabled
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap, hated,
shabby
...

smoke: (n) fumes, cigarette, cigar,
smog, fog; (n, v) reek, fumigate, puff;
(v) exhale, cure; (adj) tobacco
...
ANTONYMS: (v) explain,
help, receive, clarify, encourage
...

word: (n) news, tidings, password,
expression, report, vocable,
statement, term; (v) formulate,
phrase; (n, v) advice
...

They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in holiday foolery; if we walk
not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them
...

I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart
...

Hem them away
...

I would try, if I could cry hem and have him
...

Come, come, wrestle with thy affections
...

O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself
...

O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in despite of a fall
...

The duke my father loved his father dearly
...

Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly? By this kind of
chase I should hate him, for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate not
Orlando
...

No, 'faith, hate him not, for my sake
...

Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?

Thesaurus
affections: (n) bosom
...
ANTONYMS: guarantee
...

flippant, halfhearted, uncertain,
dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously, insincere, unimportant, nonchalant,
darlingly, sweetly, petly,
lethargic, apathetic, unenthusiastic,
expensively, belovedly, intimately,
indifferent, frivolous
...

deserve: (v) rate, warrant, gain, earn,
succeed, occur, transpire, turn out,
to deserve, demand, justify, bear; (n,
befall, come after, stem
...

ANTONYMS: (v) forerun, preface,

antecede, dwindle, recede
...

ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, aversion,
hatred, indifference, detachment,
dissatisfaction, antipathy
...

trodden: (adj) trampled, damaged,
beaten, compressed, packed down
...


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ROSALIND
...
--Look, here
comes the duke
...

With his eyes full of anger
...
]
DUKE FREDERICK
...

ROSALIND
...

You, cousin:
Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
So near our public court as twenty miles,
Thou diest for it
...

I do beseech your grace,
Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
If with myself I hold intelligence,
Or have acquaintance with mine own desires;
If that I do not dream, or be not frantic,-As I do trust I am not,--then, dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn
Did I offend your highness
...

Thus do all traitors;
If their purgation did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace itself:-Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not
...

high, grandeur
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n)
cleansing, cleanup, clearing, purging,
elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency
...

ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness,
suffice: (v) satisfy, do, answer,
unfamiliarity, animosity, enemy
...

make up; (adj, n) abide; (n) agree
...

despatch: (n) shipment, expedition,
highness: (n) excellency, altitude,
integer, twenty dollar bill
...

Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:
Tell me whereon the likelihood depends
...

Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough
...

So was I when your highness took his dukedom;
So was I when your highness banish'd him:
Treason is not inherited, my lord:
Or, if we did derive it from our friends,
What's that to me? my father was no traitor!
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much
To think my poverty is treacherous
...

Dear sovereign, hear me speak
...

Ay, Celia: we stay'd her for your sake,
Else had she with her father rang'd along
...

I did not then entreat to have her stay;
It was your pleasure, and your own remorse:
I was too young that time to value her;
But now I know her: if she be a traitor,
Why so am I: we still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together;
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable
...

She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,
Her very silence, and her patience

Thesaurus
coupled: (adj) conjugate, linked,
unseparated
...

likelihood: (n) chance, odds,
conjugated, attached, fixed, twin,
autonomous, imperial, royal, free,
paired
...

probability, eventuality, expectation, regal; (adj, n) prince
...

likeliness, prospect, expectancy,
treacherous: (adj) unfaithful, deceitful,
deduct, come, result, extract, educe,
verisimilitude, appearance, option
...
ANTONYM: (v)
ANTONYM: (n) improbability
...

unreliable, unsafe, Punic, fraudulent,
inseparable: (adj) indissoluble,
doubt, query; (n) suspicion,
faithless
...
ANTONYM: (v) believe
...


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Speak to the people, and they pity her
...
%
CELIA
...

DUKE FREDERICK
...
--You, niece, provide yourself:
If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,
And in the greatness of my word, you die
...
]
CELIA
...

I charge thee be not thou more griev'd than I am
...

I have more cause
...

Thou hast not, cousin;
Pr'ythee be cheerful: know'st thou not the duke
Hath banish'd me, his daughter?
ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) depressed,
gloomy, sad, depressing, grim,
hopeless, miserable, morose, somber,
dejected, unwelcoming
...

ANTONYM: (n) savant
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
obscurity, austerity, commonness,
mildness, moderation, simplicity
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) revocable,
superficial, provisional, flexible,

impermanent
...

outstay: (v) overstay, outlast, last out,
abide, outsit, outride, bide
...
ANTONYMS: (n) blame,
cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy
...

Therefore devise with me how we may fly,
Whither to go, and what to bear with us:
And do not seek to take your charge upon you,
To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me out;
For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,
Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee
...

Why, whither shall we go?
CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...


Thesaurus
boar: (n) pig, swine, dog, wild boar,
hog, Sus scrofa, entire horse, stallion,
sow, horse, hart
...

mannish: (adj) male, manly,
unwomanly
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) civilian, peaceful, movement; (n) commotion,
unarmed
...

outface: (v) brave, dip slope, gaze,
ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, retire,
outscout, stare down
...

(v) blur, slander, defile, besmirch,
umber: (n) brown, umbre, burnt
asperse, defame; (n) blot, stain
...

chromatic
...

What shall I call thee when thou art a man?
ROSALIND
...

But what will you be call'd?
CELIA
...
%
ROSALIND
...

He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;
Leave me alone to woo him
...
Now go we in content
To liberty, and not to banishment
...
]

Thesaurus
banishment: (n) expulsion, ostracism, ANTONYMS: (v) show, expose,
dependence
...

ouster, proscription, relegation,
express, divulge, unearth, amplify,
pursuit: (n) quest, hunt, search,
ejection, deportation, dismissal,
advertise, clarify
...

hoops, Perrie, riches, studs, fortune,
job, business, performance,
clownish: (adj) loutish, zany,
fineness, earrings, decoration
...

liberty: (adj, n) freedom, franchise; (n) wealth: (adj, n) abundance, plenty,
awkward, churlish, rude, rustic,
affluence, opulence; (n, v) money,
uncouth, clumsy, gawky, buffoonish, license, leave, independence,
gold; (n) treasure, property, fortune,
clowlike
...
ANTONYMS:
permission, scope, release
...

domination, constraint, suppression, need, lack
...
THE FOREST OF ARDEN
...
]
DUKE SENIOR
...
'
Sweet are the uses of adve7rsity;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Thesaurus
chiding: (n) scolding, rebuke, blame,
reprehension, rap, censure,
upbraiding, wigging, brawl,
admonition; (adv) scoldingly
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) agreeable, civil,
courteous, nice, polite
...

flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney,

compliment, adulation, taffy, palaver,
praise, gloze, sweet talk, sycophancy,
soft soap
...

jewel: (n) gemstone, darling,
diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure,
ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou,
precious stone; (adj) brilliant
...
ANTONYMS: (n)

understatement, modesty
...
ANTONYMS: (v) increase,
enlarge, grow, stretch, swell, bloom,
rise, inflate
...


32

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Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything
...
%
AMIENS
...

DUKE SENIOR
...

FIRST LORD
...

To-day my lord of Amiens and myself
Did steal behind him as he lay along
Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:
To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,
That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,
Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord,
The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans,
That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
Almost to bursting; and the big round tears
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase: and thus the hairy fool,
Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,

Thesaurus
dappled: (adj) speckled, motley,
n, v) droop; (v) decline, die, decay,
pathetic, doleful, lamentable, abject,
ache; (n, v) pine, yearn, wither
...

spotted, dotted, multicolored,
paltry, pitiable
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n)
stones: (n) shingle, grit
...

forked: (adj) bifurcate, divided,
v) low spirits; (n) gloominess,
pertinacity, contumacy, resoluteness,
depression
...

optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery, ANTONYMS: (n) compliance,
furcate, tined, forky
...

satisfied
...

languish: (adj, v) flag, drop, fail; (adj, piteous: (adj) miserable, pitiful,
swears: (n) swearing
...
%
DUKE SENIOR
...

O, yes, into a thousand similes
...

DUKE SENIOR
...

We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
Upon the sobbing deer
...

contemplation: (n) consideration,
reflection, thought, attention,
cogitation, musing, introspection,
speculation, animus, deliberation; (n,
v) study
...

ANTONYMS: (n) calm, fearlessness,

courage, confidence, security
...

ANTONYM: (adj) lean
...

moralize: (v) moralise, preach, lecture,
preachify, advocate, moral,
sermonise
...

sobbing: (adj) crying, weeping, weepy,

tearful; (n) lamentation, shortness of
breath, shit, prick, motherfucker, tear,
lament
...

ANTONYM: (n) celebration
...


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DUKE SENIOR
...
%
FIRST LORD
...

[Exeunt
...
A ROOM IN THE PALACE
...
]
DUKE FREDERICK
...

FIRST LORD
...

The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
Saw her a-bed; and in the morning early
They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress
...

My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing
...

clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor,
harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic,
comic, acrobat; (v) antic
...

ANTONYMS: (v) advance, further,
permit, promote
...


secretly: (adv) privately, confidentially,
quietly, stealthily, surreptitiously,
furtively, in secret, darkly,
secretively, clandestinely, occultly
...

sinewy: (adj) muscular, brawny, wiry,
beefy, tough, powerful, tendinous,
strong, robust, stringy, fibrous
...

sufferance: (n) allowance, patience,
permission, forbearance, leave,

toleration, suffering, resignation,
acceptance; (n, v) tolerance; (adj, v)
supportance
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, cheery; (n)
cheeriness
...


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And she believes, wherever they are gone,
That youth is surely in their company
...

Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither:
If he be absent, bring his brother to me,
I'll make him find him: do this suddenly;
And let not search and inquisition quail
To bring again these foolish runaways
...
]

SCENE III
...

[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting
...

Who's there?
ADAM
...

Know you not, master, to some kind of men
Their graces serve them but as enemies?
No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master,
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you
...

fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in,
convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch,
get, attract; (adj, n) feint
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible,
shrewd, prudent, visionary,
diplomatic, levelheaded, sane,

rational, mature, judicious
...

prizer: (n) priser
...
ANTONYM:
(adj) secular
...

virtuous: (adj) upright, pure,
righteous, good, moral, just,
honorable, honest, respectable,
decent, pious
...

wherever: (adv) anywhere,
wheresoever, everywhere, where'er;
(n) anyplace
...

Why, what's the matter?
ADAM
...

This is no place; this house is but a butchery:
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it
...

Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?
ADAM
...

ORLANDO
...


Thesaurus
bears: (n) fissiped, badgers, Carnivora,
order Carnivora
...
ANTONYMS:
(adj) restrained, orderly, calm,
dignified, silent, tranquil, gentle,
placid
...


ANTONYMS: (v) smother, give,
steel, glaive, backsword, cutlas
...

dishonorable, furacious, thiefly, theft
diverted: (adj) abstracted, entertained, prone
...

depressed, melancholy, sad,
lodging: (n) abode, apartment,
miserable, sorrowful, distressed,
accommodation, housing, hostel,
disconsolate, infelicitous, low
...

satisfied, pleased, glad, euphoric,
sword: (n) blade, sabre, brand,
fortunate, contented, joyful, timely,
broadsword, falchion, cutlass, saber,
lucky
...

But do not so
...
Let me be your servant;
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty:
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;
I'll do the service of a younger man
In all your business and necessities
...

O good old man; how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion;
And having that, do choke their service up
Even with the having: it is not so with thee
...

thrifty: (adj) careful, economical,
strangle, smother, obstruct
...

sagaciously
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) wasteful,
behalf, part, role, berth, station, site,
mutinous, disaffected, defiant,
spendthrift, profligate, extravagant,
seat
...

lusty: (adj) energetic, stout, lustful,
unregarded: (v) unnoticed, unnoted,
insurgent, stubborn, unruly,
malcontent
...

docile, conventional, obedient,
to, unperceived, unseen, unthought
ANTONYM: (adj) feeble
...

conformist, content, conforming,

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And ere we have thy youthful wages spent
We'll light upon some settled low content
...

Master, go on; and I will follow thee
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty
...

At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;
But at fourscore it is too late a week:
Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well and not my master's debtor
...
]

SCENE IV
...

[Enter ROSALIND in boy's clothes, CELIA dressed like a shepherdess, and
TOUCHSTONE
...

O Jupiter! how weary are my spirits!
TOUCHSTONE
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...


Thesaurus
apparel: (n, v) garb, attire, garment,
array, vesture; (n) clothing, finery,
costume, clothes; (v) adorn, clothe
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
timid, wimpy, weak, spineless,
pusillanimous, fearful, fainthearted,
afraid, despicable
...

camisole
...

payment, consideration,
hose: (n) stocking, pipe, tights,
indemnification, indemnity; (v)
hosepipe, hosiery, fire hose, airline,
compensate, reimburse
...

wash
...

shepherdess: (n) sheepman,
petticoat: (adj, n) female; (n)
sheepherder, herdess, herder,
underskirt, skirt, she, woman, her,
cowherd
...

For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear you: yet I should bear no
cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse
...

Well, this is the forest of Arden
...

Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I; when I was at home I was in a better
place; but travellers must be content
...

Ay, be so, good Touchstone
...

[Enter CORIN and SILVIUS
...

That is the way to make her scorn you still
...

O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!
CORIN
...

SILVIUS
...

Into a thousand that I have forgotten
...

mirage, desire, invention, vision,
assumption, supposition
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous,
maggot, fad, hallucination, fiction
...

fact, existence
...
ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, lad, juvenile, boy, adolescence, kid,
elapsed, past, abandoned, gone,
praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value,
younker, stripling, juvenility; (adj, n)
Gone With the Wind, irrecoverable,
approve, admire, accept; (n)
young
...

ANTONYM: (adj) remembered
...
adult, ripeness, maturity, aged
...

O, thou didst then never love so heartily:
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not lov'd:
Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,
Wearing thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,
Thou hast not lov'd:
Or if thou hast not broke from company
Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,
Thou hast not lov'd: O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!
[Exit SILVIUS
...

Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,
I have by hard adventure found mine own
...

And I mine
...
' We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is
mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly
...

Thou speak'st wiser than thou art 'ware of
...

Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine own wit till I break my shins
against it
...

risk, jeopardize
...

folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, billing, clinging, interosculant
...
ANTONYM: (n) creature, person, human being, body
...

hearer: (n) audience, listener,
eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect,

spiritual
...

shepherd: (n) clergyman, sheepman,
minister, herdsman, sheepherder,
priest, presbyter; (v) lead, conduct,
guide, guard
...

wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling,
suit of clothes, the soft impeachment,
entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case;
(adj) amatory
...

Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion
Is much upon my fashion
...

And mine: but it grows something stale with me
...

I pray you, one of you question yond man
If he for gold will give us any food:
I faint almost to death
...

Holla, you clown!
ROSALIND
...

CORIN
...

Your betters, sir
...

Else are they very wretched
...

Peace, I say
...

CORIN
...

ROSALIND
...

forsake, relinquish, ditch, defect,
leave; (adj, v) desolate; (adj, n) worth, kinsman: (n) relation, relative, kin,
merit; (adj) barren
...

pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave,
productive, fertile
...

dull; (adj, v) weak; (v) languish, pass
ANTONYM: (v) reject
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) distinct,
stale: (adj, n) musty, moldy; (adj) old,
clear, obvious, loud, considerable,
commonplace, hackneyed, insipid,

trite, corny, flat, stagnant; (adj, v) dry
...

wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful,
sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic,
piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor,
unhappy, forlorn
...


42

As You Like It

Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd,
And faints for succour
...

Fair sir, I pity her,
And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,
My fortunes were more able to relieve her:
But I am shepherd to another man,
And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:
My master is of churlish disposition,
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality:
Besides, his cote, his flocks, and bounds of feed,
Are now on sale; and at our sheepcote now,
By reason of his absence, there is nothing
That you will feed on; but what is, come see,
And in my voice most welcome shall you be
...

What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?
CORIN
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...
I like this place,
And willingly could waste my time in it
...

Assuredly the thing is to be sold:

Thesaurus
bounds: (n) boundary, border, limit,
bound, margin, borderline, end,
bourn, Bourne, brink, edge
...

cote: (n) cot, sty, booth, shanty, hut,
hutch, byre, neighborhood, kennel
...

mend: (adj, v) improve; (v) correct,
cure, heal, doctor, better, amend,
restore, convalesce; (n, v) fix, patch
...

pasture: (v) graze, browse, crop; (n)
grass, grazing land, pasturage, field,
ley, lea; (n, v) feed, forage
...
ANTONYM: (v)
lengthen
...

swain: (n) boyfriend, fellow, love,
rustic, flame, hind, man; (adj, n) lover,
sweetheart, admirer; (adj) suitor
...

ANTONYMS: (adv) grudgingly,
reluctantly, uncooperatively,
unenthusiastically
...
%
[Exeunt
...
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
...
]
AMIENS
...

JAQUES
...

AMIENS
...

JAQUES
...
More, I pr'ythee, more
...
More, I pr'ythee, more
...

My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle,
bollock
...

faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct,
greenwood: (n) timber, timberland,
silky, soft, sophisticated, refined,
exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing,
woodland, chase, frith, Holt, Hurst,
polished, precise, exact, pleasant,
dependable, devoted, sound, devout; park, weald
...

(adj, v) constant
...
ANTONYM: (v) rock
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) smart, weasel: (n) muishond, informer,
perfidious, backstabbing, cheating,
inexact, loose
...

whittret, vare, troublemaker, shorttail
feeder: (n) eater, affluent, feed, filler, rough: (adj, n) hard, grating, jagged;
weasel; (v) equivocate, evade, hedge,
(adj, n, v) harsh; (adj) raw, gross,
tributary, glutton, forehearth,
pussyfoot, dodge
...

I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to sing
...
Call you them stanzas?
AMIENS
...
%
JAQUES
...
Will you sing?
AMIENS
...

JAQUES
...
Come, sing; and you that will not, hold your tongues
...

Well, I'll end the song
...

JAQUES
...
He is too
disputable for my company: I think of as many matters as he;
but I give heaven thanks, and make no boast of them
...

[Sings
...
]
Who doth ambition shun,
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleas'd with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither
...

ANTONYMS: (n) satisfaction,
contentment, sloth, laziness, lethargy
...

boast: (v) bluster, brag, blow, crow,
gasconade, show off, rodomontade,
exult; (n, v) vaunt, pride; (n)

arrogance
...

compliment: (n, v) praise, honor; (v)
laud, flattery, applaud, greet,
adulation, congratulate, belaud; (n)
eulogy, tribute
...

heartily: (adv) cordially, sincerely,
enthusiastically, warmly, strongly,

earnestly, vigorously, ardently,
soundly, devoutly, eagerly
...

methinks: (adv) meseems
...

stanza: (n) couplet, quatrain, strophe,
stave, line, octave, antistrophe, sestet,
poetry, envoy, canto
...
%
JAQUES
...

AMIENS
...

JAQUES
...

AMIENS
...

'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle
...

AMIENS
...

[Exeunt severally
...
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
...
ANTONYM: (n) snack
...

invention: (n) fabrication, conception,
fiction, imagination, creation,
discovery, device, innovation,
excogitation, artifice; (n, v) forgery
...


invocation: (v) entreaty, obsecration,
intractable, perverse, rigid,
solicitation; (n) prayer,
determined, persistent, refractory,
implementation, intercession,
tenacious, obdurate, inveterate
...

irresolute, flexible, amenable, docile,
rail: (n) balustrade, handrail, railing,
easygoing, malleable, agreeable,
fence, banister, track, guardrail, path; accommodating, cooperative, feeble
...

verse: (n) rhyme, poem, stanza, poesy,
sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone,
strain, measure, song, paragraph,
intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch;
clause, couplet, vertex
...

stubborn: (adj) contrary, hard,

46

As You Like It

[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM
...

Dear master, I can go no further: O, I die for food! Here lie I down, and
measure out my grave
...
%
ORLANDO
...
If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either
be food for it or bring it for food to thee
...
For my sake be comfortable: hold death awhile at the arm's end: I
will here be with thee presently; and if I bring thee not something to eat, I'll
give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my
labour
...
--Yet
thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear thee to some shelter; and thou
shalt not die for lack of a dinner if there live anything in this desert
...
]

SCENE VII
...

[A table set
...
]
DUKE SENIOR
...

FIRST LORD
...

DUKE SENIOR
...

hearten, inspire, lighten; (n, v)
conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfcomfort, delight, cry; (adj, v)
esteem, pride, assumption, egotism,
embolden; (n) consolation
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
uncheerfulness, hiss, pessimism,
humility, timidity, selflessness,
raspberry; (v) depress, discourage,
humbleness, reserve
...

cheerily: (adv) merrily, pleasantly,
valediction, adios, parting, goodbye,
separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon
cheerfully, joyfully, gaily, brightly,
happily, mirthfully, jovially, sunnily, voyage
...
ANTONYMS: (adv) nastily,
salutation, welcome
...

nearer: (adj) adjacent, narre, hither;
(adv) more rapidly, sooner, quicker,
nigher, NER, faster, earlier, Neer
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) refined, couth,
polite, sophisticated, pleasant,
proper, genteel
...

Go, seek him; tell him I would speak with him
...

He saves my labour by his own approach
...
]
DUKE SENIOR
...

A fool, a fool!--I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool;--a miserable world!-As I do live by food, I met a fool,
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms,--and yet a motley fool
...
'
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags;
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine;
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale
...

dial: (n) face, disc, control, selector,
gnomon, pendulum, hourglass, clock,
gauge; (v) telephone, operate
...
ANTONYMS:
(n) agreement, harmony, unity,

accord, concordance, consent, silence,
concord; (v) match
...

intermission: (n) rest, pause, lull,
cessation, suspension, interruption,
abeyance, disruption, gap,
discontinuance, respite
...

merrily: (adv) gaily, cheerfully,
blithely, cheerily, gladly, gleefully,
mirthfully, brightly, jovially, joyfully,
gayly
...

morrow: (n) morning, future, mean
solar day, day
...

ANTONYM: (adj) homogeneous
...

thereby: (adv) whereby, hereby
...
--O noble fool!
A worthy fool!--Motley's the only wear
...

What fool is this?
JAQUES
...
-O that I were a fool!
I am ambitious for a motley coat
...

Thou shalt have one
...

It is my only suit,
Provided that you weed your better judgments
Of all opinion that grows rank in them
That I am wise
...
And why, sir, must they so?
The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squandering glances of the fool
...

absurd, stupid, insensible, idiotic,
mangled: (adj, prep) lacerated, rent;
fatuous, purposeless
...

worthwhile
...

squandering: (n, v) waste; (adj)
remainder: (n) excess, leftover,
prodigal, profligate, extravagant,
lavish; (n) extravagance, dissipation,
overplus, end, residue, oddment,
balance, rest, surplus; (adj, n)
prodigality, damage, lavishness; (v)
remnant; (adv) after
...
ANTONYMS: (n)

economy; (adj) parsimonious
...

worthy: (adj) noble, good, meritorious,
valuable, estimable, respectable,
deserving, worthwhile, virtuous,
honorable; (adj, n) celebrity
...


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49

To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,
If they will patiently receive my medicine
...

Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do
...

What, for a counter, would I do but good?
DUKE SENIOR
...

JAQUES
...
ANTONYMS: (n) fear,
anxiety, fearfulness, timidity
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle,
humane, refined
...
ANTONYM: (v)
retain
...

license: (n, v) permit, allow, licence;
(n) allowance, freedom, permission,
liberty, authority, authorization,
certificate; (v) certify
...

mischievous: (adj) bad, injurious,
detrimental, naughty, deleterious,

impish, harmful, playful, maleficent,
arch; (adj, v) hurtful
...

sensual: (adj, v) luxurious, voluptuous;
(adj, adv) fleshly; (adj) animal,
lascivious, sexy, sexual, libidinous,
lewd, gross, licentious
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
calm; (n) honesty
...


50

As You Like It

Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies,
Unclaim'd of any man
...
]
ORLANDO
...
%
JAQUES
...

ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...

Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress:
Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
ORLANDO
...
But forbear, I say;
He dies that touches any of this fruit
Till I and my affairs are answered
...

An you will not be answered with reason, I must die
...

What would you have? your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness
...

I almost die for food, and let me have it
...
ANTONYMS:
(n) severity, harshness, fierceness,
complaisance, courteousness,
civilization
...

abruptness, rage, callousness,
despiser: (n) contemner
...

forbear: (v) refrain, desist, help,
nurture: (v) foster, cherish, bring up,
tolerate, abide, eschew, endure,
grow, nourish, care, maintain,
relinquish; (n) predecessor,
educate, nurse; (n) education,
breeding
...

gentleness: (adj, n) kindness, courtesy, neglect
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) light,
refreshing, relaxing, undemanding
...
ANTONYMS:
(adj) simple, smooth, easy,
straightforward, unpointed, solvable,
dull
...

Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table
...

Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:
I thought that all things had been savage here;
And therefore put I on the countenance
Of stern commandment
...

DUKE SENIOR
...

ORLANDO
...
There is an old poor man
Who after me hath many a weary step
Limp'd in pure love: till he be first suffic'd,--

Thesaurus
bells: (n) addition, approval,
v) harsh; (n) back; (adj, n) rear
...

effect, administration
...

flexible
...
savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious;
creeping: (n) creep, crawl, locomotion, (adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel,
tire out; (adj) tired, exhausted,
spreading; (v) lentor; (adj) reptile,
bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n)
fatigued, aweary, beat, languid; (n, v)
slow, reptant, reptatory, serpiginous, brute; (n) vandal
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
moving
...

energetic, fresh, lively, untiring,
drops: (n) tear
...


52

As You Like It

Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,-I will not touch a bit
...

Go find him out
...

ORLANDO
...
]
DUKE SENIOR
...

JAQUES
...
At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school
...
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth
...

blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate,
beatified, blissful, blame, blasted,
blamed, golden, glorious, favored
...

capon: (n) chicken, volaille, stot,
poulet, steer, gelding, ox, rooster,

fowl, hen, pullet
...

nauseant, heaving, forcing out
...

sniveling pitiful, Snively, tearful,
eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby whiney, singing, peevish; (v) fretful,
lamenting; (n) sniveling
...

furnace: (n) forge, heater, blast
woeful: (adj) sad, lamentable,
furnace, fireplace, hearth, stove,
sorrowful, pitiful, wretched, pitiable,
oven, kiln, electric furnace, cupola,
doleful, woebegone, deplorable,
crematorium
...
ANTONYMS:
puking: (n) vomiting, disgorgement,
(adj) happy, joyful, glad,
regurgitation, emesis, ejection,
praiseworthy, laudable
...
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound
...
%
[Re-enter ORLANDO with ADAM
...

Welcome
...

ORLANDO
...

ADAM
...

DUKE SENIOR
...
-Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing
...
]
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,

Thesaurus
childishness: (n) youngness, navet,
boyhood, boyism, frivolity,
puerilism, ridiculousness, stupidity,
childhood
...

eventful: (adj) fateful, weighty, lively,
important, momentous, memorable,
notable, hectic, significant; (n)
stirring; (v) full of incident
...

manly: (adj) manlike, masculine,

manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv)
wizen, insipid, drawn grain, wearish
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
musical interval, simple fraction
...

thribble, double, dual, high, voce di
pouch: (n, v) bag; (n) pocket, poke,
testa, shrill; (adj, v) triple; (v) sing
...

estimable, August, respectable, aged,
shank: (n) haft, hilt, cannon, shaft,
distinguished, sacred, worthy, of
stem, leg, pole, helm, heft, serif, scale
...
ANTONYMS:
shrunk: (adj) contracted, wizened,
(adj) unworthy, unimpressive,
withered, shrivelled, shriveled,
undignified, disreputable
...

Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly
...

Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! etc
...

If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,-As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,
And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
Most truly limn'd and living in your face,-Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke
That lov'd your father
...
--Good old man,
Thou art right welcome as thy master is;
Support him by the arm
...

[Exeunt]

Thesaurus
breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration, puff, steadfastly, truely
...

soul, aspiration, respite, airflow; (v)
(adv) unfaithfully, approximately,
loving: (adj) fond, devoted, amorous,
breathe, respire; (adj, n) whisper
...

cove, den, cell, grot, nest; (v)
feigning: (v) feign; (n) pretending,
tender
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
pretense, dissimulation, dissembling, uncaring, malicious, cruel, unloving,
hump; (v) withstand
...

disapproving, callous
...

faithfully: (adv) exactly, accurately,
harden, set; (n) frost, congelation; (n, residual; (n) balance, rest, leftover,
v) arrest, stop; (adj) frozen
...

authentically, dutifully, literally,

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55

ACT III

SCENE I
...
%
[Enter DUKE FREDERICK, OLIVER, LORDS and ATTENDANTS
...

Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:
But were I not the better part made mercy,
I should not seek an absent argument
Of my revenge, thou present
...

Thy lands, and all things that thou dost call thine
Worth seizure, do we seize into our hands,
Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother's mouth
Of what we think against thee
...

O that your highness knew my heart in this!
I never lov'd my brother in my life
...
ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy,
out; (adj, adv) off
...

alert, attendant, attending, existing, revenge: (n) retribution, vengeance,
here, real, attentive; (adv) in, visible
...

light, Standard candle; (v) examine, seize: (v) catch, capture, grab, arrest,
illuminate
...

annex, clasp; (n, v) grapple
...

seizure: (n) arrest, confiscation,
capture, seizing, apprehension,
appropriation, attachment,
convulsion, detention; (adj, n) attack,
assumption
...

twelvemonth: (n) calendar year, civil
year, financial year, common year,
amount of time, time period, period
of time, bissextile year, class, yr,
period
...

More villain thou
...
%
[Exeunt
...
The Forest of Arden
...
]
ORLANDO
...

O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books,
And in their barks my thoughts I'll character,
That every eye which in this forest looks
Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where
...

[Exit
...
]
CORIN
...

Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good life; but in respect that it is a
shepherd's life, it is naught
...
ANTONYMS: (adv)
shape, inscribe, engrave, whittle,
slash, hew; (n) carving
...

chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin,
huntress: (n) hunter
...

single, lonely, lone, sole,
ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton,
unaccompanied, isolated; (adj, n)
lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, recluse; (n) hermit
...

expediently: (adv) opportunely,
outgoing
...

unexpressive: (adj) inexpressive,
impassive, deadpan, blank, stolid,
incommunicative, taciturn, vacant
...

ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt,
vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor,
immorality, evil, demerit,
inadequacy, disadvantage
...
Now in respect it is in the
fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious
...
Hast any philosophy in thee,
shepherd?
CORIN
...
%
TOUCHSTONE
...
Wast ever in court, shepherd?
CORIN
...

TOUCHSTONE
...

CORIN
...

Truly, thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side
...

For not being at court? Your reason
...

Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never saw'st good manners; if thou
never saw'st good manners, then thy manners must be wicked; and
wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation
...


Thesaurus
damnation: (n) damn, condemnation,
wisdom, pundit, mechanist
...

parlous: (adj, v) hazardous, perilous;
dry
...

vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low;
extremely, highly
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind,
necessitarian, moralist, theorist,

nice, lovely, lovable, gentle,
honorable, good, delightful,
admirable, noble
...

wickedness: (n) depravity, sin,
sinfulness, iniquity, harm, ill, vice,
evilness, corruption, immorality,
crime
...


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As You Like It

CORIN
...
You told me you salute not at the court, but you kiss your hands;
that courtesy would be uncleanly if courtiers were shepherds
...

Instance, briefly; come, instance
...

Why, we are still handling our ewes; and their fells, you know, are greasy
...

Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not the grease of a mutton as
wholesome as the sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow: a better instance, I say;
come
...

Besides, our hands are hard
...

Your lips will feel them the sooner
...

CORIN
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
Mend the instance, shepherd
...

You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest
...

Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!
God make incision in thee! thou art raw
...

salute: (v) greet, hail, kiss, accost,
mutton: (n) lamb, em, mouton, mut,
acknowledge, buss; (n) salutation,
binturong, potpourri, pulvil,
bow, salaam; (n, v) address,
viverrine, cacomixle, civet cat,
sheep, pork, red meat, white meat,
beef, area unit; (v) pilot bread
...

compliment
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish,
gratifying
...

whit: (n) iota, atom, shred, scintilla,
rude, unrefined, unpolished, uncivil, odorless
...

smidgen, tittle, jot, bit, particle,
incision: (n) dent, cut, gash, groove,
smidgin; (adj) dab
...


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CORIN
...
%
TOUCHSTONE
...
If thou be'st not damned for
this, the devil himself will have no shepherds; I cannot see else how thou
shouldst 'scape
...

Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother
...
]
ROSALIND
...

Her worth, being mounted on the wind,
Through all the world bears Rosalind
...

Let no face be kept in mind
But the fair of Rosalind
...

I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners, and suppers, and sleeping
hours excepted
...

ROSALIND
...

For a taste:--

Thesaurus
bawd: (n) prostitute, fancy woman,
concatenation, mating
...

blasted, condemned, damn, cussed,
betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell, grass, wretched, infernal, hateful,
goddamned; (adv) damnably
...

accuse, befool, bamboozle
...

enviousness, desire, heartburning,
copulation: (n) sexual intercourse,
resentment, envies, heartburn,
jealousy, hatred; (adj) jealous
...

knowledge, conjugation, relation,
excepted: (v) except; (adj) let off,
congress, ass, cohabitation,

excused
...
ANTONYM: (v)
smooth
...

rhyme: (n) poetry, verse, poem, song,
alliteration, numbers, rhythm; (n, v)
rime, measure; (v) poetize, versify
...


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If a hart do lack a hind,
Let him seek out Rosalind
...

Winter garments must be lin'd,
So must slender Rosalind
...

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
Such a nut is Rosalind
...

This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you infect
yourself with them?
ROSALIND
...
%
TOUCHSTONE
...

ROSALIND
...
Then it will be the
earliest fruit in the country: for you'll be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that's
the right virtue of the medlar
...

You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge
...
]
ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

spring, tear, hasten, sprint; (adj, v) fly; twinge, spur, bite; (v) impale, pierce, sheaf: (n) fagot, faggot, bunch, bale,
(n, v) trot; (n) gait
...

package, bundle, truss, stack, parcel,
garments: (n) attire, clothing, dress,
reap: (v) harvest, gain, glean, gather,
fardel, packet
...
(adj, v) mow; (adj) clip
...

lissom, flimsy, faint
...

prepared, good, grown, perfect,
short, substantial, good, adequate,
medlar: (n) Mespilus germanica, tree,
matured, finished, consummate; (adj, stout, thick
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) green, whether: (pron) where
...

unripe, immature, dry, poisonous,

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For %it is unpeopled? No;
Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show:
Some, how brief the life of man
Runs his erring pilgrimage,
That the streching of a span
Buckles in his sum of age
...

Therefore heaven nature charg'd
That one body should be fill'd
With all graces wide-enlarg'd:
Nature presently distill'd
Helen's cheek, but not her heart;
Cleopatra's majesty;
Atalanta's better part;
Sad Lucretia's modesty
...

Heaven would that she these gifts should have,
And I to live and die her slave
...

O most gentle Jupiter!--What tedious homily of love have you wearied your
parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have patience, good people!'

Thesaurus
dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, worship, worshippers
...

currently, before long, shortly, soon,
erring: (adj) devious, sinful, fallible,
now, at present, readily, just,
actually
...

quintessence: (n) heart, epitome,
transgression
...

synod: (n) council, congress,
disquisition, pandect, pastoral,
preaching; (v) preach
...

unpeopled: (adj) unpopulated
...

wearied: (adj) jaded, tired, spent,
fatigued, weary, prostrate, limp,
haggard, shattered, worn, fatigate
...

How now! back, friends; shepherd, go off a little:--go with him, sirrah
...

Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and
baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage
...
]
CELIA
...

O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of them had in them more
feet than the verses would bear
...

That's no matter; the feet might bear the verses
...

Ay, but the feet were lame, and could not bear themselves without the verse,
and therefore stood lamely in the verse
...

But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name should be hanged and
carved upon these trees?
ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

Is it a man?

Thesaurus
baggage: (n) bag, bags, trunk, pack,
uncarved
...

disabledly, weakly, haltingly, poorly,
bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit,
hobblingly, paralytically, infirmly,
abide, allow, wear, comport, tolerate, faintly, unsatisfactorily
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
retreat: (v) retire, withdraw, depart; (n)
release, avoid, destroy, dodge, take,
refuge, departure, asylum, den, lair,
retirement; (n, v) resort, return
...

ANTONYMS: (n) raid, development,
carved: (adj) cut, incised, sculptured;
extension, arrival, company; (v)
(v) graven, engraved, stamped, fixed, progress, remain
...
ANTONYM: (adj)
scrip: (n) scrape, satchel, security,

pouch, pocket, sack, bag, knapsack,
poke, sac, provisional share
certificate
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
expectation, belief, disapproval; (v)
know, believe, anticipate, decide
...


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CELIA
...

Change you colour?
ROSALIND
...

O lord, lord! it is a hard matter for friends to meet; but mountains may be
removed with earthquakes, and so encounter
...

Nay, but who is it?
CELIA
...

Nay, I pr'ythee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell me who it is
...

O wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful wonderful! and yet again
wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!
ROSALIND
...
I pr'ythee tell me who is it? quickly, and speak apace
...
I pr'ythee take the cork out of thy mouth that I
may drink thy tidings
...

So you may put a man in your belly
...

Is he of God's making? What manner of man?
Is his head worth a hat or his chin worth a beard?

Thesaurus
apace: (adj, adv) speedily, quickly;
(adv) fast, rapidly, hastily, soon,
promptly; (adj) forthwith,
immediately, incontinently, shortly
...

caparisoned: (adj) clad
...

concealed: (adj) covert, clandestine,
blind, occult, secret, mysterious,
obscure, buried, invisible, secreted,

surreptitious
...

cork: (n, v) plug; (n) bung, stopper,
phellem, bobber, bob, bobfloat; (v)
cap, stop, close; (adj) cobweb
...


stammer: (v) falter, hesitate, stumble,
bumble, fumble, mumble, utter,
verbalize, waver, halt, splutter
...

vehemence: (n) force, violence, fury,
passion, eagerness, strength,
impetuosity, enthusiasm, fierceness,
heat, fervor
...


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CELIA
...
%
ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

Orlando
...

Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and hose?-- What did he when
thou saw'st him? What said he? How look'd he? Wherein went he? What
makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he? How parted he with
thee? and when shalt thou see him again? Answer me in one word
...

You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a word too great for any
mouth of this age's size
...

ROSALIND
...

disunited, compounder, compound,
maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass,
summit, forehead, eyebrow, edge,
dividable
...
ANTONYM: (n) lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin,
particulars: (n) specification, data,
trough
...

nicety, minutiae, terms,
catechism: (n) interrogation, creed,
mocking: (adj) derisive, ironic, jeering, consideration, workings, fine points,
education, question, test; (v)
mock, quizzical, sarcastic, taunting,
ins and outs
...

derisory, teasing, sardonic, sneering
...

speak, chin up, confer, bring up
...

freshly: (adv) recently, lately, saucily, parted: (adj) divided, separate,
ANTONYMS: (adj) worried,
impertinently, lively, modernly,
distributed, separated, divisible,
unappreciative, unthankful, sorry
...

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover:--but
take a taste of my finding him, and relish it with good observance
...
%
ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...
He was
furnished like a hunter
...

O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart
...

I would sing my song without a burden: thou bring'st me out of tune
...

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak
...

CELIA
...
--Soft! comes he not here?
ROSALIND
...

[CELIA and ROSALIND retire
...
]

Thesaurus
called: (adj) named, titled, chosen,
compliance, discharge, conformity,
gusto, liking, palate, enthusiasm,
known as; (v) nempt, ycleped
...
ANTONYMS: (n) breaking,
enjoyment; (adj, n) flavor; (v) bask,
furnished: (adj) fitted, arranged,
like
...

disobedience, disregard,
slink: (n, v) sneak; (v) creep, lurk, slip,
privileged, instruct, carrying
nonobservance, inattention,
weapons, equipt, enlightened; (v)
prowl, steal, glide, slide; (n) flinch,
omission
...

fight shy, shy
...

forbidding, minacious
...
incommodiously
...


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JAQUES
...
%
ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...

ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...

ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...

Yes, just
...

I do not like her name
...

There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened
...

What stature is she of?
ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...
Have you not been acquainted with
goldsmiths' wives, and conned them out of rings?

Thesaurus
acquainted: (adj) knowledgeable,
informed, aware, cognizant,
conversant, hand and glove, intimate,
thick; (adv) abreast; (v) inform,
acquaint
...

desire: (n) ambition, aspiration,
craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n, v)
fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire,
seek
...

pleasing: (adj, n) acceptable; (adj)
amiable, lovable, amusing, attractive,
gratifying, lovely, pleasant,
charming, delightful, inviting
...

reading: (n, v) read; (n) recital,
learning, interpretation, lection,

construction, version, study, perusal,
erudition, exegesis
...

sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive,
ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n)
object, account, design, purpose, saki
...

strangers: (n) stranger
...


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ORLANDO
...
%
JAQUES
...
Will you sit
down with me? and we two will rail against our mistress the world, and all
our misery
...

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most
faults
...

The worst fault you have is to be in love
...

'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue
...

JAQUES
...

ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...

ORLANDO
...

JAQUES
...

ORLANDO
...

[Exit JAQUES
...
]

Thesaurus
adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale,
valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio,
adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon
voyage
...

breather: (n) rest, breathing space,
respite, break, intermission, recess,
lull, pause, suspension, truce,
interval
...
ANTONYMS: (v) praise,

laud, commend, compliment,
spry, alert, expeditious, energetic,
clever, lithe; (adj, v) light
...

cipher: (n) zero, nothing, number, nil,
ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy,
nobody, null; (n, v) figure, cypher,
stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit
...
tarry: (v) linger, loiter, stay, remain,
ANTONYMS: (n) infinity; (v) encode, delay, lag, dally, dawdle, bide, rest;
(adj) pitchy
...

drowned: (adj) prostrate, sunken; (v)
complete, finish
...

longer: (adj) longest, better, lengest;
because, for, why, wherefore, how,
(adv) farther; (n) yearner, thirster
...


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ROSALIND
...
--Do you hear, forester?
ORLANDO
...

I pray you, what is't o'clock?
ORLANDO
...
%
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

By no means, sir
...
I'll tell
you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal,
and who he stands still withal
...

I pr'ythee, who doth he trot withal?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath not the gout: for the
one sleeps easily because he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because

Thesaurus
detect: (v) find, discover, discern,
notice, observe, spot, see, ascertain,
trace, identify, distinguish
...

divers: (adj, v) sundry, various,
separate; (adj) several, many, diverse,
miscellaneous, not a few, varied; (v)
diversified; (n) diver
...

gout: (n) taste, relish, arthritis, go-out;
(v) cephalalgia, earache, otalgia,
odontalgia, neuralgia, lumbago,
sciatica
...

lacquey: (n) lackey
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) diligent, active,

prompt, vigorous, industrious, keen,
productive
...
ANTONYM: (adj) respectful
...

trot: (n, v) run; (n) crib, canter, pony,
gait, ride, lope; (v) gallop, general,
frequent, household
...


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he feels no pain; the one lacking the burden of lean and wasteful learning,
the other knowing no burden of heavy tedious penury
...
%
ORLANDO
...

With a thief to the gallows; for though he go as softly as foot can fall, he
thinks himself too soon there
...

Who stays it still withal?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe
upon a petticoat
...

Are you native of this place?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...
I have heard him read many lectures against

Thesaurus
coney: (n) rabbit, cony, leporid,
lagomorph, grouper, rock hyrax,
lapin, collared pika, rock rabbit,
bunny rabbit, cottontail
...

dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide,
live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy,
continue, be, settle
...


dwelling: (n) domicile, home,
girdle, stayed, staying, foundation,
residence, house, place,
corselette, sash, slip, corselet
...

recess, break, rest, stay, day of rest,
finer: (adj) superior, advanced, bigger, sabbath, dies non, outing
...

gallows: (n) gibbet, gallous, gallowsprodigal, lavish, profligate, ruinous,
bitts, hanging, noose, scaffold, halter, uneconomical, spendthrift, thriftless,
tree, rope, gallowstree, bough
...

kindled: (adj) enkindled, lighted, lit,
ANTONYMS: (adj) economical,
burning
...


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it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy
offences as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal
...

Can you remember any of the principal evils that he laid to the charge of
women?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...
There is a man
haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" on
their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all,
forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger, I
would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of
love upon him
...

I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me your remedy
...

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a
man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner
...

What were his marks?
ROSALIND
...

giddy: (adj, v) flighty; (adj) dizzy, faint,
silly, changeable, vertiginous,
featherbrained, light, fickle,
capricious; (adv) careless
...

quotidian: (adj) everyday, daily,
diurnal, routine, mundane, usual,
workaday, banal, hackneyed; (v)

weekly, tertian
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
count, report, convey
...

dubious, uncertain, doubtful,
taxed: (adj) laden
...

untied: (adj) unfastened, unchained,
untrammeled, unchecked,
unconfined, unprevented,
unshackled, unlaced, unbound,
unhindered, uncaught, unrestrained, unfettered, free, unsewed, open,
unlaced, unfastened, unconstrained
...

unquestionable: (adj) incontrovertible, ANTONYMS: (adj) tied, laced
...
But you are no such
man; you are rather point-device in your accoutrements, as loving yourself
than seeming the lover of any other
...

Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love
...

Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you love believe it; which, I
warrant, she is apter to do than to confess she does: that is one of the points
in the which women still give the lie to their consciences
...

I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of Rosalind, I am that he, that
unfortunate he
...

But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...
Yet I
profess curing it by counsel
...

Did you ever cure any so?
ROSALIND
...
He was to imagine me his love, his mistress;
and I set him every day to woo me: at which time would I, being but a
moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing and liking;
proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for

Thesaurus
accoutrements: (n) accouterments,
unchangeable, consistent,
macho, manly, masculine
...

immutable, certain, invariable,
chimerical, unusual, beautiful,
apish: (v) aping, mimicking; (adj)
lasting
...

inconstant: (adj) erratic, changeable,
anthropoidal, mock, mannered,
rectification, vulcanization,
preservation; (adj) curative, remedial, flighty, fickle, variable, faithless,
imitative
...

fitful, giddy, inconsistent, uncertain,
effeminate: (adj) womanish, delicate,
slippery
...

ladylike, cissy, easy, voluptuous; (adj, sooth: (n) verity, soothsaying, fact,
unsettled, unstable, mercurial
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
truth, reality
...
And thus I cured him; and this way will I
take upon me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's heart, that there
shall not be one spot of love in 't
...

I would not be cured, youth
...

I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind, and come every day to
my cote and woo me
...

Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me where it is
...

Go with me to it, and I'll show it you: and, by the way, you shall tell me
where in the forest you live
...

With all my heart, good youth
...

Nay, you must call me Rosalind
...
]

SCENE III
...

[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES at a distance observing them
...
retract, disown, give up, relinquish,
refuge, haven
...

spew, drool, spike, spatter; (n)
mellow, whole, better, pickle cured, loathe: (v) detest, hate, abominate,
broach, saliva, cape; (n, v) skewer
...

execrate, despise, loathing, dislike,
entertain: (v) amuse, delight, bear,
disgust, disdain, contempt, nauseate
...
beau, candidate, complainant,
cherish, beguile, admit,
accommodate, harbor, hold, distract; monastic: (adj) monachal, cloistral,
gallant, boyfriend, applicant,
(n, v) interest
...

monasterial, monastical, monkish,
disregard, ignore, banish, forget, tire, cloistered, clerical; (n) monk, brother, weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob,
displease
...

blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet,
forswear: (v) abjure, renounce,
nook: (n) angle, niche, recess, hole,
whimper; (n) tear
...

Come apace, good Audrey; I will fetch up your goats, Audrey
...

Your features! Lord warrant us! what features?
TOUCHSTONE
...
%
JAQUES
...

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded
with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a
great reckoning in a little room
...

AUDREY
...

No, truly: for the truest poetry is the most feigning; and lovers are given to
poetry; and what they swear in poetry may be said, as lovers, they do feign
...

Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me poetical?
TOUCHSTONE
...

AUDREY
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) dependable,
predictable, stable, steady, steadfast,
placid, logical, fixed, consistent,
serious
...


goats: (n) suborder Ruminantia,
Ruminantia, giraffes, deer, frank
Capra, genus Capra, bison, antelopes,
family Bovidae, camels, Capra
...

poet: (n) singer, songster, elegist,
author, Gilbert, maker, lyricist, muse,
versifier; (adj) poet laureate,
Shakespearean
...

poetry: (n) verse, poesy, song, rhyme,

style, poetics, epos, poems, stanza,
doggerel, tuneful Nine
...

swear: (v) declare, assure, assert,
affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise,
avow, depone, depose, aver
...


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TOUCHSTONE
...
%
JAQUES
...

Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods make me honest!
TOUCHSTONE
...

AUDREY
...

TOUCHSTONE
...

But be it as it may be, I will marry thee: and to that end I have been with Sir
Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next village; who hath promised to meet me
in this place of the forest, and to couple us
...

[Aside]
I would fain see this meeting
...

Well, the gods give us joy!
TOUCHSTONE
...
A man may, if he were of a fearful heart, stagger in this attempt; for
here we have no temple but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts
...
It is said,--"Many
a man knows no end of his goods;" right! many a man has good horns and
knows no end of them
...
Horns? Ever to poor men alone?--No, no; the noblest deer hath

Thesaurus
dowry: (n) dot, inheritance, gift,
to come, great beyond, future life
...

foulness: (n) filthiness, dirtiness,
execrable, disgusting, abhorrent,
corruption, contamination, dirt,
abominable, heinous, forbidding
...

delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice
...

renowned
...


sluttishness: (n) slovenliness, sluttery
...

unclean: (adj) foul, impure, nasty,
dirty, grubby, muddy, squalid,
grimy, sordid, dingy, soiled
...


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them as huge as the rascal
...
Here comes Sir Oliver
...
]
Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met
...

Is there none here to give the woman?
TOUCHSTONE
...
%
MARTEXT
...

JAQUES
...
]
Proceed, proceed; I'll give her
...

Good even, good Master 'What-ye-call't': how do you, sir? You are very well
met: God 'ild you for your last company: I am very glad to see you:--even a
toy in hand here, sir:--nay; pray be covered
...

Will you be married, motley?
TOUCHSTONE
...

JAQUES
...
ANTONYMS: (v) encourage,
graduate, knight bachelor, widower,
push, help, foster, spur, assist, aid,
unbridle, facilitate; (n) incentive,
old bachelor, spinster, adult male,
agamist
...

(n) husband
...

pauperize
...

lawful: (adj) legal, just, rightful,
curb: (n, v) control, limit, bridle; (v)
constitutional, true, right, justifiable,
licit, regular; (n, v) allowable; (adj, v)
restrict, suppress, contain, conquer,

permissible
...

nibbling: (n) rate cutting, feeding,
eating
...

wedlock: (n, v) marriage, matrimony;
(n) union, wedding, polygyny,
bigamy, intermarriage, exogamy,
endogamy, polyandry, misalliance
...
%
TOUCHSTONE
...

JAQUES
...

TOUCHSTONE
...

Farewell, good Master Oliver!--Not-"O sweet Oliver,
O brave Oliver,
Leave me not behind thee
...
"
[Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE, and AUDREY
...

'Tis no matter; ne'er a fantastical knave of them all shall flout me out of my
calling
...
]

SCENE IV
...

BEFORE A COTTAGE
...
ANTONYMS:
(adj) cowardly, frightened, pathetic,
gutless, afraid, cautious, fainthearted,
meek, mousy, nervous; (v) skip
...

ANTONYMS: (v) betray, trick,

deceive, conceal, oppose; (n)
warning
...
ANTONYMS: (v) blame,
accuse, chide, discipline, include,
reprimand, castigate; (n) accusation
...

ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate,

split
...

wainscot: (n) wainscoting, panel,
plinth, wall, panelling, parietes,
skirting board, wainscotting, lining,
paneling
...
ANTONYM: (v) clarify
...
]
ROSALIND
...
%
CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep
...

His very hair is of the dissembling colour
...

Something browner than Judas's: marry, his kisses are Judas's own children
...

I' faith, his hair is of a good colour
...

An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour
...

And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread
...

He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun of winter's sisterhood
kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them
...

But why did he swear he would come this morning, and comes not?
CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

dissembling: (adj) dissimulating,
sacredly, holy, Godly, scrupulously,
browner: (n) browning dish
...

chastity: (n) honor, purity, abstinence, pretence, deceit, chicanery, feigning, sanctity: (n) sanctitude, godliness,
virtue, innocence, chasteness,
hypocrisy, misrepresentation,
sacredness, devotion, piety,
continence, modesty, cleanliness,
pretending
...

holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly,
sanctimony, religion, innocence
...

religious, blessed, hallowed,
spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv) sisterhood: (n) sorority, family
lewdness, adultery
...
ANTONYMS: relationship, relationship, Women's
commonplace; (n) chestnut tree,
(adj) irreligious, unholy
...

banality; (adj) bay, trite, castaneous
...

Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer; but for his verity in
love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut
...

Not true in love?
CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...
He attends here in
the forest on the duke, your father
...

I met the duke yesterday, and had much question with him
...
But what talk we of fathers when there is such a man as Orlando?
CELIA
...
--Who
comes here?
[Enter CORIN
...

Mistress and master, you have oft enquired
After the shepherd that complain'd of love,
Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,
Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
That was his mistress
...

thwart; (adj, adv) crosswise; (adv)
puny: (adj) weak, petty, feeble, frail,
condescending, derisive, sneering
...

admiring, humble, approving, warm, paltry, trivial
...

muscular, brawny, strong,
concavity; (adj) cavernous, biconcave, goblet: (n) bowl, chalice, cup, mug,
significant, fit, huge, enormous,
cupped, dipped, arched, indented;
grail, beaker, basin, tumbler,
robust, considerable
...

rummer, flask; (v) glass
...

ANTONYM: (adj) curved
...

tapster: (n) barman, barkeeper, tapper,
confirmer: (n) confirmator
...


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CELIA
...

If you will see a pageant truly play'd
Between the pale complexion of true love
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,
Go hence a little, and I shall conduct you,
If you will mark it
...

O, come, let us remove:
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love
...

[Exeunt
...
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
...
]
SILVIUS
...
The common executioner,
Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,
Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
But first begs pardon
...
]

Thesaurus
actor: (n, v) doer, performer; (n)
player, agent, thespian, comedian,
entertainer, mimic, histrion, artiste,
impersonator
...

bitterness: (n) acerbity, animosity,
gall, malice, resentment, enmity,
acridity, acidity, bitter, rancor,
sharpness
...


conduct: (v) bring, direct, carry, show; abased, broken in, abject, ashamed;
(n, v) act, administration, manage,
(n) humbler; (v) apart
...
ANTONYMS: (v) mismanage, ceremony, pomp, representation,
leave, follow
...

glimmer, glare, color, sparkle, beam; pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive,
(v) burn, flare, kindle
...

exonerate, exculpate
...

crushed, depressed, dispirited,

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PHEBE
...

Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:
'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,
That eyes,--that are the frail'st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,-Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers!
Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;
And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:
Now counterfeit to swoon; why, now fall down;
Or, if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,
Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers
...
%
SILVIUS
...

PHEBE
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
daredevil, stalwart; (adj) brave
...

counterfeit: (adj, n, v) sham; (n, v)
frown: (adj, v) lower; (adj, n) scowl; (n,
copy, duplicate; (adj, v) mock, falsify; v) pout, grimace, glower, glare; (adj)
(adj) false, artificial, assumed; (adj, n) black looks, gloam, glout; (v) sulk,
imitation; (v) forge, ape
...
ANTONYM: (v) approve
...

authentic, true, actual; (n) original
...

dastard, milksop, weakling,
milquetoast; (adj) gutless,
ANTONYMS: (v) heal, enable, repair,
chickenhearted, pusillanimous,
protect, help
...

scar: (n, v) mark, blemish, seam, stain,
brand; (n) cicatrix, cicatrice, defect,
scratch, injury; (v) disfigure
...

swoon: (adj, n, v) faint; (adj, n)
collapse; (n) fainting, syncope,
prostration, deliquium; (v) conk,
black out, pass out, die; (adj) puff
...
%
ROSALIND
...
-You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,
Like foggy south, puffing with wind and rain?
You are a thousand times a properer man
Than she a woman
...

bugle: (v) trumpet, clarion, pibroch,
slogan; (n) horn, ophicleide,
trombone, herb, cornopean, cornet,
bugleweed
...

ANTONYMS: (v) grieve, mourn,
bemoan
...

puffed; (n) expansion, snorting
...

fiber, fabric, dental floss
...

tangle: (v) entangle, embroil, enmesh,
inky: (adj) black, ebon, sable,
embrangle, ruffle, mat; (n) maze,
confusion; (n, v) jumble, muddle,
atramentous, jetty, dusky, gloomy,
knot
...

puffing: (adj) gasping, breathless,
straighten
...

So take her to thee, shepherd;--fare you well
...

Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together:
I had rather hear you chide than this man woo
...

He's fall'n in love with your foulness, and she'll fall
in love with my anger
...
--Why look
you so upon me?
PHEBE
...

ROSALIND
...
--If you will know my house,
'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by
...
-Come, sister
...

Come to our flock
...
]
PHEBE
...

Sweet Phebe,-PHEBE
...

bitter: (adj, v) acrimonious, acrid; (adj)
sharp, acid, malicious, caustic,
virulent, sour, resentful, keen,
acerbic
...

falser: (n) wrong
...

assemble
...
ill-will: (n) enmity
...

impertinence, mole, bechamel, salad,
ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure;
billingsgate, aioli
...

curl; (adj, n) feather
...

Sweet Phebe, pity me
...

Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius
...

Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:
If you do sorrow at my grief in love,
By giving love, your sorrow and my grief
Were both extermin'd
...

Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?
SILVIUS
...

PHEBE
...

Silvius, the time was that I hated thee;
And yet it is not that I bear thee love:
But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
I will endure; and I'll employ thee too:
But do not look for further recompense
Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd
...

So holy and so perfect is my love,
And I in such a poverty of grace,
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps: lose now and then
A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon
...

assemble, pick up, to gather
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) meager,
was, over, whilom, heretofore,
previously, before, erewhile, at one
trying, burdensome, bothersome,
sparse
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve;
time
...

neighbourly: (adj) amicable, friendly,
misery; (adj, n, v) distress
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight,
gracious, obliging, attentive, benign,
courteous, complaisant, helpful; (adv) happiness, peace, hopefulness,
unhappiness, dismay, displeasure
...

cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm,
content; (v) rejoice
...

Know'st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile?
SILVIUS
...
%
PHEBE
...

It is a pretty youth:--not very pretty:-But, sure, he's proud; and yet his pride becomes him:
He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him
Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue
Did make offence, his eye did heal it up
...

There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him
In parcels as I did, would have gone near
To fall in love with him: but, for my part,
I love him not, nor hate him not; and yet
I have more cause to hate him than to love him:
For what had he to do to chide at me?
He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black;
And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:
I marvel why I answer'd not again:

Thesaurus
cottage: (n) cabin, bungalow, crib, hut, correct
...

peevish: (adj) fretful, fractious,
villa, lodge, shanty, chalet, country
disfigure, exacerbate
...

morose, testy, irascible, moody,
erewhile: (adv, n) whilom; (adj)
curiosity, phenomenon, amazement,
captious, petulant, cross,
beforehand, ere, afore, yet,
miracle, portent, marl, surprise,
cantankerous, touchy
...
ANTONYMS: redness: (n) red, blush, glow, crimson,
(v) disregard; (n) nightmare
...

carmine, catarrh, cellulitis, cerise,
faster: (adv) sooner, fleet, swift, quick, mingled: (adj) miscellaneous, complex, mastoiditis, colitis, enteritis
...

indiscriminate, heterogeneous,
heal: (v) mend, recover, doctor,
medley, confused, eclectic, motley,
moderate, OK, usual, passable,
different; (v) blended, blent
...


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But that's all one; omittance is no quittance
...

Phebe, with all my heart
...

I'll write it straight,
The matter's in my head and in my heart:
I will be bitter with him and passing short:
Go with me, Silvius
...
]

Thesaurus
bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit,
thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one
agreeable, gentle
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
momentary, cursory, brief; (n)
gigabyte, Gb, curtilage
...

fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse,
(n) bull
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
bitter: (adj, v) acrimonious, acrid; (adj) intended, lengthy, long; (n) birth,
flourish, rise, rally
...

taunting: (n) twit, taunt, ridicule,
virulent, sour, resentful, keen,
correspond, spell, record, publish,
acerbic
...

sarcastic, jeering, unkind; (adj, n)
charitable, hot, sugary, kind,
wonderful, warm, pleasant, nice,
satirical
...
THE FOREST OF ARDEN
...
]
JAQUES
...

ROSALIND
...

JAQUES
...

ROSALIND
...

JAQUES
...

ROSALIND
...

JAQUES
...
ANTONYMS: (n) trunk,
abhorrent, detestable, dreadful,
commend, allow, endorse, laud,
average, minimum, head, leniency
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
blessing, commendation; (n, v)
faculty
...

appealing, commendable, laudable, emulation: (n) mimicry, rivalry,
laughable, jolly, gay, lighthearted,
delightful, desirable, enjoyable,
contest, simulation, contention, strife, frolicsome, playful, pleased, dizzy;
likable
...
ANTONYM: (adj)
censure: (n, v) accuse, reprimand,
imitating
...

extremity: (n) end, member,
post: (n, v) place, position, stake,
reproach, attack, animadversion,
abuse; (n) accusation, condemnation; boundary, bound, close, appendage,
station; (n) office, function, pillar,
(v) carp, condemn, berate
...

limit, limb, ending, fringe,

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musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the
soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's,
which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine
own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects: and,
indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often
rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness
...

A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold
your own lands to see other men's; then to have seen much and to have
nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands
...

Yes, I have gained my experience
...

And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have a fool to make me
merry than experience to make me sad; and to travel for it too
...
]
ORLANDO
...

Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse
...

Farewell, monsieur traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits; disable all
the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your nativity, and
almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will scarce
think
you
have
swam
in
a
gondola
...
]
Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been all this while? You a lover!-An you serve me such another trick, never come in my sight more
...

My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise
...

(v) deglutition, epulation, gulp,
nascency, delivery, genesis, cradle,
disable: (adj, v) disqualify; (v)
nascence, birthing, origin, childbirth, manducation
...
ANTONYM: (n) death
...

sundry: (adj) several, different,
off, restrain, disarm, unfit
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
assist, help, rehabilitate, activate
...

(n) sundries
...

foolish
...

lisp: (v) enunciate, mince, enounce,
rumination: (n) contemplation,
wraps: (n) concealment, veil of
breathe, lipse
...


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ROSALIND
...
%
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head; a
better jointure, I think, than you make a woman: besides, he brings his
destiny with him
...

What's that?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...

brotherhood, appanage, alimony
...

the wink; (v) simper, ogle
...

slander: (n, v) scandal, insult,
humour: (n) fun, wit, witticism, body
calumniate; (adj, v) defame, asperse;
(n) defamation, aspersion, obloquy,
fluid, temper, mood, amiability,
drollery, disposition; (adj) humorous; disparagement; (adj, n) abuse; (v)
(v) gratify
...
ANTONYMS: (n, v)
jointure: (n) dower, join, union,
acclaim; (v) compliment; (n)
inheritance, heritage, estate,
acclamation
...

tardy: (adj, adv, v) late; (adj, v) slow,
remiss; (adj, adv) backward, dilatory,
behindhand; (adj) belated, slack,
overdue, delayed, sluggish
...


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to consent
...

I would kiss before I spoke
...

Nay, you were better speak first; and when you were gravelled for lack of
matter, you might take occasion to kiss
...

ORLANDO
...

Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter
...

Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit
...

I take some joy to say you are, because I would be talking of her
...

Well, in her person, I say I will not have you
...

Then, in mine own person, I die
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
puts: (n) stocks, securities, preferred
favorite, pet; (adj) precious, loved,
dishonesty, wickedness, treachery,
stock, common stock, bonds
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
decadence, affectation, caution,
interchange, quibble, switch, move;
(v) remove, budge, convert, alter
...

evasiveness, injustice
...

petition, adjuration, supplication,
suit, demand, desire, invocation; (v)
of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate,
warn: (v) counsel, caution, admonish,
solicitation
...

advise, inform, alert, threaten, exhort,
honesty: (adj, n) candor, justice,
occasion: (n, v) cause; (n) case, event,
forewarn, tell, notify
...

candidness, probity, frankness,
about, create, beget, make, induce
...

No, faith, die by attorney
...
Troilus had his brains dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he
did what he could to die before; and he is one of the patterns of love
...

But these are all lies; men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten
them, but not for love
...

I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind; for, I protest, her frown
might kill me
...

By this hand, it will not kill a fly
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

Ay, and twenty such
...

What sayest thou?
ROSALIND
...

brains: (n) cleverness, intellect,
intelligence, sense, mind, wisdom,
pate, wit, wits, reason; (adj, n) head
...

club: (n) association, society, stick, bat,
circle, Billy, meeting, baton, gang; (v)
bludgeon, beat
...

ANTONYMS: (v) allow, permit,
liberate; (n) release
...

eaten: (v) eat
...

protest: (n) demonstration, objection,
complaint, challenge, question; (v)

assert, object, complain, remonstrate,
demur; (n, v) moan
...

videlicet: (adv) namely, viz, scilicet, in
other words, by name, expressly,
specifically, especially; (v) to wit;
(adv, n) that is to say; (n) id EST
...

ANTONYM: (v) soil
...

I hope so
...

Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?--Come, sister, you shall
be the priest, and marry us
...

Pray thee, marry us
...

I cannot say the words
...

You must begin,--'Will you, Orlando'-CELIA
...

I will
...

Ay, but when?
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...
'
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...


Thesaurus
actions: (n) proceedings, behaviour,
deeds, deportment, background,
behavior, events, activities
...

ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, retract;
(n) salary
...


ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, loosely,
sluggishly; (n) binge; (adj) sluggish,
loose, unattached, plodding; (adj, adv)
leisurely; (v) gorge, eat
...

ANTONYMS: (n) son, boy
...
ANTONYMS: (n) reality,

past, pessimism, distrust,
independence
...

runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness,
Montezuma's revenge
...

ANTONYM: (n) brother
...

So do all thoughts; they are winged
...

Now tell me how long you would have her, after you have possessed her
...

For ever and a day
...

Say "a day," without the "ever
...
I will be more jealous of thee than a
Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain;
more new-fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey: I
will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you
are disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou are
inclined to sleep
...

But will my Rosalind do so?
ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

ORLANDO
...

subject, prepared, liable, game,
keyhole: (n) hole, mousehole,
cloth
...

chimney: (n) fireplace, smokestack,
ANTONYMS: (adj) ailing,
pigeonhole, porthole, loophole, free
shaft, flue, hearth, vent, lamp
indisposed, unlikely, disinclined,
throw line, peephole, knothole,
chimney, chimneys, nostril, throat,
reluctant, impervious
...

fountain: (n, v) fount, well; (n) jet,
monkey: (n) imp, primate, scamp,
weasand
...

meddle, tamper, trifle, cuckoo, echo
...
ANTONYM:
covetous, suspicious, jealousy,
parakeet, macaw, copycat, cockateel,
(adj) tranquil
...

disposed: (adj) prone, apt, ready,
jaundiced, attentive
...

Nay, you might keep that check for it, till you met your wife's wit going to
your neighbour's bed
...

And what wit could wit have to excuse that?
ROSALIND
...
You shall never take her without
her answer, unless you take her without her tongue
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

I must attend the duke at dinner; by two o'clock I will be with thee again
...

Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you would prove; my friends
told me as much, and I thought no less:--that flattering tongue of yours won
me:--'tis but one cast away, and so,--come death!--Two o'clock is your hour?
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...


Thesaurus
beware: (v) look out, caution, be
adulatory, fulsome, bland, candied,
smooth, encouraging; (n) flattery
...
ANTONYMS: (v) risk,
unflattering, unattractive, wounding,
uncomplimentary, negative; (adv)
disregard, invite
...

sort, order, species; (v) engender,
hollow: (adj, n) blank; (n) cavity,
depression, cave, dell; (adj) empty,
multiply, beget, bear
...

excavate, dent, scoop
...

lover: (n) dear, darling, fan, devotee,
beau, buff, love, admirer, beloved,
amorist, man
...

unfaithful: (adj) false, disloyal,
faithless, inaccurate, fickle,
treacherous, untrustworthy,
traitorous, recreant, untrue,
perfidious
...

yours: (adj) own
...

With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my Rosalind: so, adieu!
ROSALIND
...
]
CELIA
...
%
ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...

ROSALIND
...
-I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a
shadow, and sigh till he come
...

And I'll sleep
...
]

SCENE II
...


Thesaurus
bottomless: (adj) limitless, infinite,
deep, unlimited, profound,
immeasurable, fathomless,
boundless, unfounded, groundless,
unplumbed
...

conceived: (adj) formed
...


ANTONYMS: (v) confuse,
misunderstand, Miss
...
ANTONYMS: (n) sense,
calmness, order
...

pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter,
stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem,

infuse; (n, v) overflow
...

rascally: (adj) dirty, contemptible,
abject, mean, mischievous,
scoundrelly, roguish, scabby, scurvy,
shabby, paltry
...

spleen: (n) spite, anger, resentment,
rage, lien, malice, bitterness, rancour,
huff, grudge, rancor
...


96

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[Enter JAQUES and Lords, in the habit of Foresters
...

Which is he that killed the deer?
LORD
...
%
JAQUES
...
--Have you no
song, forester, for this purpose?
LORD
...

JAQUES
...

[Sings
...

Then sing him home:
[The rest shall bear this burden
...

Thy father's father wore it;
And thy father bore it;
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn,
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn
...
]

SCENE III
...


Thesaurus
bore: (v) dig, tire, pierce, tap, annoy,
(n) summit, brow, cockscomb, acme,
perforate; (n, v) bother, plague; (n)
pinnacle, zenith; (v) cap
...
ANTONYMS: (v) ANTONYMS: (n) base, bottom, nadir,
fascinate, excite, hypnotize, engage,
trough
...

reynard, brocket, cervid, ruminant,
conqueror: (n) champion, winner,
roe, roebuck, hart
...
ANTONYM: (n) ritual, addiction, clothes; (n, v) use
...

loser
...

leather: (n) fur, fleece, skin, buckskin,
fell, pelt, doeskin; (v) drub, thresh,
thrash; (n, v) hit
...

tune: (n) song, strain, air, harmony,
note, concord; (v) adjust, regulate,
string, tune up; (n, v) chant
...


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[Enter ROSALIND and CELIA
...

How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock?
And here much Orlando!
CELIA
...
Look,
who comes here
...
]
SILVIUS
...
]
I know not the contents; but, as I guess
By the stern brow and waspish action
Which she did use as she was writing of it,
It bears an angry tenor: pardon me,
I am but as a guiltless messenger
...

Patience herself would startle at this letter,
And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all:
She says I am not fair; that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix
...

SILVIUS
...


Thesaurus
errand: (n) chore, mission, job, task,
amaze, shake, threaten, electrify
...

assignment, embassy, duty, charge,
upset, apprehensive, restless
...

guiltless: (adj) innocent, clean,
vaporer, walker, braggadocio, ruffler, composed, calm, easy, relaxed,
irreproachable, clear, faultless,
ruffian, roisterer, pretension,
tranquil, assured, carefree, brave,
unsullied, stainless, pure, inculpable, pedestrian, mere brag
...

tenor: (n) purport, meaning,
waspish: (adj) petulant, peevish,
immaculate, spotless
...

soprano
...

startle: (n, v) start, jump; (v) frighten, troubled: (adj, v) concerned, solicitous;
(adj) distressed, anxious, worried,
scare, astonish, shock, astound,

98

As You Like It

ROSALIND
...

I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand,
A freestone-colour'd hand: I verily did think
That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands;
She has a huswife's hand: but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter:
This is a man's invention, and his hand
...

Sure, it is hers
...

Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style;
A style for challengers: why, she defies me,
Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain
Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention,
Such Ethiop words, blacker in their effect
Than in their countenance
...

So please you, for I never heard it yet;
Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty
...

She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes
...
]
'Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,
That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?'
Can a woman rail thus?
SILVIUS
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
decency
...

baseball mitt
...

design, coin
...

railing: (n) balustrade, rail, barrier,
guardrail, banister, fence, pale,
paling, breastwork, handrail; (adj, n)
invective
...


William Shakespeare

99

ROSALIND
...
'-Meaning me a beast
...
'
SILVIUS
...

Alas, poor shepherd!
ROSALIND
...
--Wilt thou love such a woman?-What, to make thee an instrument, and play false strains upon thee! Not to
be endured!--Well, go your way to her, --for I see love hath made thee a tame
snake,--and say this to her;--that if she love me, I charge her to love thee; if

Thesaurus
godhead: (adj, n) divinity, the Deity;
(n) godhood, godship, churchman,
ecclesiastic, almighty, cleric, creator,
divine; (adj) God
...

mild: (adj, n) kindly, gracious; (adj)
easy, lenient, benign, docile, humble,
clement, sweet, balmy, delicate
...

brilliant, colorful, rebellious, lively
...

wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance;
ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal
...

strains: (n) tension, tenseness
...

domesticate; (adj) meek, docile,
bland, domestic, gentle, slow; (adj, v)
moderate
...
--If you be a true
lover, hence, and not a word; for here comes more company
...
]
[Enter OLIVER
...

Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?
CELIA
...

But at this hour the house doth keep itself;
There's none within
...

If that an eye may profit by a tongue,
Then should I know you by description;
Such garments, and such years: 'The boy is fair,
Of female favour, and bestows himself
Like a ripe sister: the woman low,
And browner than her brother
...

It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are
...

Orlando doth commend him to you both;
And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
He sends this bloody napkin:--are you he?
ROSALIND
...

(adj) whispering, humming, droning, purlieus: (n) neighborhood, environs,
endorse, entrust, extol, compliment,
cite
...

confines, skirt, vicinity, boundary,
neighbour: (adj) neighboring,
criticize, censure, reproach, keep,
suburbs, environment, entourage,
bound; (adj) vicinage
...

inquire: (v) demand, ask, explore,
adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n)
position, grade, class, line, file; (v)
arrange, classify; (n) gradation
...

pry, request, wonder; (n, v) question
...

olive tree, wood, olive tree, olive
clean
...

green, chromatic color, chromatic

William Shakespeare

101

OLIVER
...
%
CELIA
...

OLIVER
...


Thesaurus
bald: (adj) hairless, simple, austere,
meager, raw, barefaced, stark, plain,
nude, naked; (adj, v) threadbare
...

gilded: (adj, v) gilt; (adj) rich, gold,
golden, deluxe, gilden, fortunate,
garish, advantageous, aurated,
luxurious
...

capture; (n, v) plunder, raven; (v) eat
...

sleeping: (adj) asleep, inactive, latent,
serrated, jagged, crenelated,
sleepy, vegetive, vegetative; (n)
crenelate, crenellated, crenellate,
embattled, notched; (n) fancier
...

quiescence, quiescency, short sleep
...

musical time, maneuvering alongside snake: (n) serpent, ophidian, viper,
constrictor, hydra, elapid; (v) wind,
another vessel, cardiac pacing
...


102

As You Like It

CELIA
...
%
OLIVER
...

ROSALIND
...

Twice did he turn his back, and purpos'd so;
But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
And nature, stronger than his just occasion,
Made him give battle to the lioness,
Who quickly fell before him; in which hurtling
From miserable slumber I awak'd
...

Are you his brother?
ROSALIND
...

Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?
OLIVER
...

ROSALIND
...
ANTONYMS: (v) demolish,
destroy, ruin, waste, wreck, fail
...

kindness: (n) generosity, clemency,
compassion, grace, good will,
graciousness, humanity, goodness,
affection; (adj, n) courtesy, gentleness
...

ANTONYMS: (adv) discordantly,
disservice
...

offer, furnish, pay, construe, return, unnatural: (adj) affected, artificial,
provide, impart, translate
...

abnormal, eccentric, uncanny, stilted,
slumber: (n, v) rest, doze, snooze, nap, mannered, anomalous
...

commonplace, genuine, sincere
...

By and by
...

Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound,
And, after some small space, being strong at heart,
He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
To tell this story, that you might excuse
His broken promise, and to give this napkin,
Dy'd in his blood, unto the shepherd-youth
That he in sport doth call his Rosalind
...
]
CELIA
...

Many will swoon when they do look on blood
...

There is more in it:--Cousin--Ganymede!
OLIVER
...


Thesaurus
array: (adj, n) arrangement; (n, v) line,
attire, garb, range, apparel, display;
(v) dress, adorn, deck, clothe
...

bled: (v) bleed; (n) bulla
...

flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence;
(n) mortality, beef, form, figure,

frame, person, mankind, humanity,
meat
...
ANTONYMS: (adv)
harshly, nastily, callously, cruelly,
sharply, disagreeably, grumpily,
malevolently; (adj) upsetting,
unfeeling, sour
...

ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native,
associate, resident, familiar
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
pristine, sure, resolute, healed,
decided, mended
...

I would I were at home
...

We'll lead you thither:-I pray you, will you take him by the arm?
OLIVER
...

ROSALIND
...
Ah, sir, a body would think this was well counterfeited
...
--Heigh-ho!-OLIVER
...

ROSALIND
...

OLIVER
...

ROSALIND
...

CELIA
...
-Good sir, go with us
...

That will I, for I must bear answer back
How you excuse my brother, Rosalind
...

I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend my
counterfeiting to him
...
]

Thesaurus
assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch;
design, puff; (v) depict, describe,
(v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, derive, bring; (n) attraction
...
ANTONYMS: (v) alarm,
shove, shorten, thrust, cut, curtail,
contract, alienate; (n) repulsion, win
...

brother: (n) fellow, blood brother,
trust, credence, credit, creed,
associate, counterpart, crony,
assurance, cult, expectation,
dependence
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
disbelief, distrust, dubiosity,
enemy, opposer, opponent
...


lack: (n, v) deficiency, need,
destitution; (n) default, defect,
dearth, absence, insufficiency, deficit,
poverty; (v) fail
...

testimony: (n, v) attestation, witness;
(n) declaration, proof, evidence,
testimonial, confirmation, statement,
affidavit, affirmation, profession
...
THE FOREST OF ARDEN
...
]
TOUCHSTONE
...

AUDREY
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
But, Audrey, there is
a youth here in the forest lays claim to you
...

Ay, I know who 'tis: he hath no interest in me in the world: here comes the
man you mean
...
]
TOUCHSTONE
...


Thesaurus
enter: (v) enroll, embark, chronicle,
gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind,
resignation, restraint, composure,
sufferance; (n, v) moderation,
book, record, input, arrive, come,
affable, balmy, mild, feeble,
compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) calmness
...

ANTONYMS: (v) depart, exit, delete, tame
...

wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious,
cancel, exclude, disembark
...

evil, vile, depraved, mischievous,
meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core,
contravention, breach, breaking
...

forest: (v) afforest, reforest; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, pure,
kernel, heart, substance, marrow,
woodland, jungle, wood, timberland, crux, matter, beef
...

longanimity, equanimity, tolerance,
assisting, aiding
...

Good even, Audrey
...

God ye good even, William
...

And good even to you, sir
...

Good
even,
gentle
friend
...
How old are you, friend?

cover

thy

WILLIAM
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
Is thy name William?
WILLIAM
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
Wast born i' the forest here?
WILLIAM
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
Art rich?
WILLIAM
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
Art thou wise?
WILLIAM
...


Thesaurus
covered: (adj) veiled, concealed,
covert, coated, secret, wrapped, thick,
obscured, masked, shrouded; (adj,
prep) cloaked
...

excellent: (adj, n) estimable, worthy,
capital; (adj) superior, admirable,
beautiful, distinctive, superb, great,
good, splendid
...

fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet,
inelegant; (adv) extremely
...
ANTONYMS:
acknowledged, remercy, impart
...

pretty: (adj) fair, graceful, lovely,
knowing; (n) method
...
ANTONYMS:
irrational, dense
...

Why, thou say'st well
...
' The heathen philosopher,
when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips when he put it into
his mouth; meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open
...

I do, sir
...

Give me your hand
...

No, sir
...

Then learn this of me:--to have is to have; for it is a figure in rhetoric that
drink, being poured out of cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty the
other; for all your writers do consent that ipse is he; now, you are not ipse, for
I am he
...

Which he, sir?
TOUCHSTONE
...
Therefore, you clown, abandon,--which
is in the vulgar, leave,--the society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this
female,--which in the common is woman,--which together is abandon the
society of this female; or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better
understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life
into death, thy liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with thee, or in
bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction; will o'er-run thee
with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways; therefore tremble and
depart
...

brandish, change bands, flap; (n)
boorish: (adj) loutish, vulgar, churlish, vintage
...

gruff, discourteous, rough, rude,
bastinado: (n) cudgel; (v) bastinade,
infidel, idolater, paynim, heretic; (adj)
crude, unrefined, coarse, barbaric
...

tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v) quiver,
dress
...

bondage: (n) thrall, thraldom,
grape: (n) grapes, grapevine, vine,
shudder, thrill, palpitate; (adj, v)
totter, quake; (n) throb; (v) flutter,
thralldom, slavery, captivity,
raisin, table grape, muscadine, fox
quail, falter
...

vine, bullace grape
...


108

As You Like It

AUDREY
...

WILLIAM
...

[Exit
...
]
CORIN
...

Trip, Audrey, trip, Audrey;--I attend, I attend
...
]

SCENE II
...

[Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER
...

Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her? that but seeing
you should love her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should grant? and
will you persever to enjoy her?
OLIVER
...

ORLANDO
...
Let your wedding be to-morrow: thither will I invite

Thesaurus
consenting: (adj) agreeable, yielding,
n) distress; (n) pauperism,
wedding ceremony, wedlock,
remarriage, espousal; (adj, n) nuptial
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling,
chosen
...

entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case;
thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that
(adj) amatory
...

ANTONYMS: (n) seriousness,
remoter, succeeding, more distant
...

poverty: (n, v) lack, destitution,
matrimonial; (n) matrimony,
penury, need, indigence, want; (adj,
nuptials, marriage ceremony,

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109

the duke and all's contented followers
...

[Enter ROSALIND
...

God save you, brother
...

And you, fair sister
...
]
ROSALIND
...

It is my arm
...

I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion
...

Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady
...

Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swoon when he show'd me
your handkercher?
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

(adj) great
...

support, suite
...

immoderate, meretricious, rakish,
stole, necktie, cravat, kerchief,
contented: (adj) content, happy,
licentious, lewd, wasteful,
mantilla, shawl, wrap, tie, stock
...

lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj)
maimed; (adj) bruised, injured,
complacent, satisfied, easy, proud,
delighted
...
ANTONYM:
(adj) unaffected
...

spectacle
...

ORLANDO
...
But
O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at the height of heart-heaviness, by
how much I shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes for
...

Why, then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?
ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...
Know of me then,--for
now I speak to some purpose,--that I know you are a gentleman of good
conceit: I speak not this that you should bear a good opinion of my
knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are; neither do I labour for a greater
esteem than may in some little measure draw a belief from you, to do
yourself good, and not to grace me
...
If you do love Rosalind so
near the heart as your gesture cries it out, when your brother marries Aliena,
shall you marry her:-- I know into what straits of fortune she is driven; and it
is not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set her before
your eyes to-morrow, human as she is, and without any danger
...

Speak'st thou in sober meanings?
ROSALIND
...

Therefore put you in your best array, bid your friends; for if you will be

Thesaurus
damnable: (adj) cursed, damned,
nuptial: (adj, n) bridal, marriage; (adj)
disesteem, disapproval
...

deplorable, offensive
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
praiseworthy
...

v) respect, value, consideration,
wrath: (n) rage, resentment, ire, fury,
timely, advantageous
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
madness, choler, irritation; (adj)
illusionist, wizard, conjuror,
angry
...
love, composure, serenity
...
Look, here comes
a lover of mine, and a lover of hers
...
]
PHEBE
...
%
ROSALIND
...

PHEBE
...

SILVIUS
...

PHEBE
...

ORLANDO
...

ROSALIND
...

SILVIUS
...

PHEBE
...

ORLANDO
...


Thesaurus
care: (adj, n, v) anxiety; (n, v) attention, revengeful, vindictive, hateful
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
united, mixed, connected, marrying,
attached, unite
...

v) disregard, dislike; (v) loathe,
mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n)
abhor
...

seem: (v) appear, feel, seeming, loom,
nasty, mischievous, malign, catty,

expect, show, beseem, sound, glitter,
glisten, gleam
...

writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari,
judicial writ, injunction, order, act,
prescription, scripture, writing,
ukase
...

And I for no woman
...

It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance;-And so am I for Phebe
...

And so am I for Ganymede
...

And so am I for Rosalind
...

And so am I for no woman
...

[To ROSALIND
...

[To PHEBE
...

If this be so, why blame you me to love you?
ROSALIND
...

To her that is not here, nor doth not hear
...

Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling of Irish wolves
against the moon
...

humble, submissiveness, lowliness,
duty: (n) function, commitment,
glorification, idolization, homage,
obscureness, humblesse,
praise; (adj, n) devotion, passion
...
ANTONYM: (n) pride
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
cleanliness, virtue, honor, perfection,
repulsion, disgust, disdain
...

pureness, sanctity, chastity, elegance;
blame: (v) arraign, chide; (n, v)
howling: (n) howl, cry; (adj) fierce,
(adj, n) clearness
...
wonderful, wondrous; (adj, n)
clutter, dirtiness, corruption,
ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise; (v)
weeping, sniveling
...

absolve, exonerate, commend, clear, humbleness: (n) submission,

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I will help you if I can;-[to PHEBE]
I would love you if I could
...
-[to PHEBE]
I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I'll be
married to-morrow:-[to ORLANDO]
I will satisfy you if ever I satisfied man, and you
shall be married to-morrow:-[to SILVIUS]
I will content you if what pleases you contents you,
and you shall be married to-morrow
...

[to SILVIUS]
As you love Phebe, meet;-and as I love no woman, I'll meet
...
%
SILVIUS
...

PHEBE
...

ORLANDO
...

[Exeunt
...
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
...
ANTONYMS: (n, v)
discontent; (adj) tormented, unhappy,
dissatisfied, rebellious, discontented,
troubled; (adj, v) upset; (n)
unhappiness, sadness; (v) trouble
...


fail: (adj, v) fade, decline, cease; (v)
hungry, insistent, pensive, unsure,
abort, die, break, bust, want,
dissatisfied, ashamed
...

ANTONYMS: (v) succeed, triumph,
satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj, v)
win, thrive, procure, accomplish,
content, fill, suffice, do
...

disappoint, disgruntle, frustrate
...

sure; (v) convinced
...

(adj) frustrated, anxious, disgruntled,

114

As You Like It

[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
...

To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will we be married
...

I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no dishonest desire to desire
to be a woman of the world
...

[Enter two PAGES
...

Well met, honest gentleman
...

By my troth, well met
...

SECOND PAGE
...

FIRST PAGE
...

I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two gipsies on a
horse
...
]
It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
Sweet lovers love the spring
...

jolly, blissful, blithe
...

despairing, unpleasant, staid, sorry,
clap: (n, v) blast, boom, slam, rumble;
colportage, peddlery, vendition,
disappointed, depressed, heavy
...
roundly: (adv) bluntly, fully,
smash; (v) acclaim, applaud, hit
...

grating, strident, guttural, rough,
spherically, plumply, entirely, round,
ding: (n, v) ring, chime, dingdong, din, throaty; (v) coarse; (adj, v) hollow,
completely, globularly
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
spitting: (n) spiting, expectoration,
sound, tinkle
...

ejection, sizzle, projection, forcing
folks: (n) people, folk, tribe, relations, joyful: (adj) gay, glad, elated, cheerful, out, expulsion, saliva
...

This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that a life was but a flower,
In the spring time, etc
...
%
TOUCHSTONE
...

FIRST PAGE
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
God be
with you; and God mend your voices! Come, Audrey
...
]

SCENE IV
...

[Enter DUKE Senior, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, and CELIA
...

Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy
Can do all this that he hath promised?

Thesaurus
began: (v) Gan
...

count: (v) compute, weigh, consider,
estimate, matter; (n, v) calculate, tally,
number, total; (n) calculation,
computation
...

crowned: (adj) laureled, fulfilled,
browbound, incoronate, successful
...

hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out,
discover, understand, apprehend,
hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj)
heard
...

ANTONYM: (adj) broken
...

ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n)
disgrace, invoice
...

spring: (n, v) leap, bound, hop,
fountain, skip, caper, bounce, dive,
dance; (n) source; (v) originate
...


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ORLANDO
...
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[Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE
...

Patience once more, whiles our compact is urg'd:-[To the DUKE
...

That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her
...

[To ORLANDO
...

That would I, were I of all kingdoms king
...

[To PHEBE
...

That will I, should I die the hour after
...

But if you do refuse to marry me,
You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?
PHEBE
...

ROSALIND
...
]
You say that you'll have Phebe, if she will?

Thesaurus
bargain: (adj, n, v) cheap; (n, v)
compress; (n, v) contract; (adj) dense, affirm
...

whiles: (n) while
...

sparse, bulky, large, cumbersome,
spontaneous, voluntary, ready,
ANTONYM: (adj) inflated
...

enthusiastic, unforced, obliging; (adj,
refuse: (v) deny, reject, decline,
v) consenting
...

disallow, rebuff, turn down; (adj, n)
unwilling, reluctant, compulsory,
ANTONYMS: (v) deprive, refuse,
waste, trash; (n) offal, litter; (n, v)
disagreeable, unprepared, forced,
dross
...

unenthusiastic, unhelpful
...

Though to have her and death were both one thing
...

I have promis'd to make all this matter even
...

[Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA
...

I do remember in this shepherd-boy
Some lively touches of my daughter's favour
...

My lord, the first time that I ever saw him
Methought he was a brother to your daughter:
But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
Of many desperate studies by his uncle,
Whom he reports to be a great magician,
Obscured in the circle of this forest
...

There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are
coming to the ark
...

[Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
...

Salutation and greeting to you all!

Thesaurus
desperate: (adj) despairing, dire,
flood: (n, v) flow, torrent, pour,
keen, busy, gay, fresh, jovial
...

grave, awful, despondent, drastic;
inactive, unexciting, lifeless,
(adj, v) forlorn
...

hopeful, optimistic, rational,
subdued
...

address, greet, compliments,
denying, recusative, noncompliant
...

acknowledgment, accost, hello, hullo, toward: (prep) to, towards,
favour: (n) relief, goodness, assistance, nod; (v) salute
...

lively: (adj, adv) jolly, sprightly; (adj, v) (adv) about, around, by
...

approve
...

Good my lord, bid him welcome
...
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TOUCHSTONE
...
I have trod a
measure; I have flattered a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth
with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have had four quarrels, and
like to have fought one
...

And how was that ta'en up?
TOUCHSTONE
...

JAQUES
...

DUKE SENIOR
...

TOUCHSTONE
...
I press in here, sir, amongst the rest
of the country copulatives, to swear and to forswear; according as marriage
binds and blood breaks:--A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but
mine own; a poor humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will; rich
honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor-house; as your pearl in your foul
oyster
...

By my faith, he is very swift and sententious
...

According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases
...

But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the quarrel on the seventh
cause?

Thesaurus
according: (adj) pursuant, consonant,
equal, agreeable, harmonious,
conformable, consistent,
corresponding, respondent; (adv)
correspondingly, accordingly
...

dulcet: (adj, n) sweet; (adj) musical,
melodious, harmonious, melodic,
honied, candied, mellifluous,
canorous, mellow, honeyed
...


ill-favoured: (adj) ill-favored
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
miser: (n) stinginess, curmudgeon,
agreement, reconciliation,
acceptance, concord, consensus; (v)
hunks, muckworm, niggard,
skinflint, cheapskate, parsimony,
agree
...

oyster: (v) clam, ostracize, frumenty,
laconic, brief, aphoristic, short, terse,
oatmeal, chowder, damper; (n)
pointed, compact, compressed,
huitre, shellfish, blue point, capiz,
pregnant
...

quarrel: (adj, n, v) dispute; (n, v) fight, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand,
decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v)
feud, brawl, row, altercation, argue,
conflict, squabble; (n) dissension,
accursed, to be pitied, devoted
...

Upon a lie seven times removed;--bear your body more seeming, Audrey:--as
thus, sir, I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard; he sent me word, if
I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was: this is called the
Retort courteous
...
If again, it
was not well cut, he disabled my judgment: this is called the Reply churlish
...
If again, it was not well cut, he would say I lie: this is
called the Countercheck quarrelsome: and so, to the Lie circumstantial, and
the Lie direct
...

And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?
TOUCHSTONE
...

JAQUES
...

O, sir, we quarrel in print by the book, as you have books for good manners: I
will name you the degrees
...
All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and
you may avoid that too with an 'If'
...
Your 'If' is the only peace-maker;--much virtue in 'If
...

Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at anything, and yet a fool
...

ANTONYM: (adj) concrete
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite,
boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff,
improper, vulgar, unhelpful,

neglectful, graceless
...

knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, wist
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) actual,
nomination
...

belligerent, combative, cantankerous, valiant: (adj) brave, courageous,
aggressive, disputatious, ugly,
intrepid, fearless, heroic, audacious,
currish, termagant; (adj, n)
gallant, daring, dauntless, stout,
contentious; (adj, v) fretful
...
ANTONYMS: (adj) afraid,
ANTONYMS: (adj) agreeable,
despicable
...

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he
shoots his wit
...
]
[Still MUSIC
...

Then is there mirth in heaven,
When earthly things made even
Atone together
...

ROSALIND
...
]
To you I give myself, for I am yours
...
]
To you I give myself, for I am yours
...

If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter
...

If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind
...

If sight and shape be true,
Why then, my love, adieu!
ROSALIND
...
]
I'll have no father, if you be not he;-[To ORLANDO
...

thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; inconceivable, celestial
...

heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss,
performance, introduction, display,
ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority
...

celestial
...

shape: (n, v) cast, mold, fashion,
garb, wardrobe, vestment, garment,
join: (v) unite, connect, associate,
mould, model, make, design; (n)
cloth, thing, gown, wear
...

link
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, see;
secede, detach, undo, disjoin,
(n) view, prospect, scene
...
]
Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she
...

Peace, ho! I bar confusion:
'Tis I must make conclusion
Of these most strange events:
Here's eight that must take hands
To join in Hymen's bands,
If truth holds true contents
...
]
You and you no cross shall part:
[To OLIVER and CELIA
...
]
You to his love must accord,
Or have a woman to your lord:-[To TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY
...

Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,
Feed yourselves with questioning,
That reason wonder may diminish,
How thus we met, and these things finish
...
]
Wedding is great Juno's crown;
O blessed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town;
High wedlock then be honoured;
Honour, high honour, and renown,
To Hymen, god of every town!

Thesaurus
blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed,
cross: (adj) crabby, angry, grumpy,
strange: (adj) foreign, peculiar,
grouchy, cantankerous; (v) intersect,
sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted,
unusual, abnormal, outlandish,
cover, thwart, baffle; (adj, v) traverse; irregular, odd, new, mysterious,
fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
extraordinary, curious
...

assist, separate, remain, help, stay,
typical, usual, conventional,
bond: (n) association, alliance, deed,
unmix, aid
...

bind; (n, v) cement, band, link
...

celebrate, dignify
...

v) dishonor; (v) disrespect
...

O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!
Even daughter, welcome in no less degree
...

[To SILVIUS
...

[Enter JAQUES DE BOIS
...

Let me have audience for a word or two;
I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,
That bring these tidings to this fair assembly:-Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day
Men of great worth resorted to this forest,
Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,
In his own conduct, purposely to take
His brother here, and put him to the sword:
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;
Where, meeting with an old religious man,
After some question with him, was converted
Both from his enterprise and from the world;
His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,
And all their lands restored to them again
That were with him exil'd
...

DUKE SENIOR
...

First, in this forest, let us do those ends

Thesaurus
combine: (v) associate, blend, fuse,
escape
...
ANTONYMS: (v) detach,
large, great; (adj, adv) powerful
...

insignificant
...

persuasive, strong, efficacious; (adj, n)
ANTONYMS: (v) disengage, release, effective, effectual
...


purposely: (adj, adv) designedly,
advisedly, knowingly; (adv)
intentionally, on purpose, by design,
consciously, by choice, calculatedly,
explicitly; (adj) wittingly
...

restored: (adj) new, healthy,
comfortable, convalescent
...

ANTONYM: (adj) ongoing
...

Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity,
And fall into our rustic revelry:-Play, music!--and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall
...

Sir, by your patience
...

He hath
...

To him will I: out of these convertites
There is much matter to be heard and learn'd
...
--So to your pleasures;
I am for other than for dancing measures
...

nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) modest,
straightforward, unceremonious,

quiet, unassuming, natural,
innocent, guileless, obtuse,
deferential, relaxed, meek
...

rustic: (n) countryman, peasant; (adj) thrown: (adj) puzzled, confused,
rural, pastoral, boorish, country,
thrown and twisted, upset,
bucolic, provincial, hick, agrestic,
disconcerted, unnerved, terrified,
countrified
...

urbane, cultured, city, sophisticated
...

piercing, clever, cunning, bright; (adj, wrangling: (n) quarrel, bickering,
v) sagacious, knowing, crafty,
controversy, polemics, discussion,
prudent
...


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DUKE SENIOR
...
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JAQUES
...

[Exit
...

Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,
As we do trust they'll end, in true delights
...
]

Thesaurus
begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate,
ensue, flow, issue, arise, emanate;
(adj, v) pass, run, extend
...

ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease,
regress, return, retreat
...

stop, delay, abide, continue, pause,
delights: (n) delices
...
ANTONYMS:
pastime: (n) game, avocation,
(v) change, abscond, depart, move,
entertainment, recreation, hobby,
disappear, become, go
...

right, faithful, even, correct, accurate,
proceed: (v) move, advance, originate, honest, straight, truthful; (adj, v)

actual
...

trust: (n, v) credit, rely, hope; (n)
confidence, faith, reliance, belief,
cartel, assurance; (v) believe, confide
...


William Shakespeare

125

EPILOGUE
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ROSALIND
...
If it be true that good wine
needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue
...
What a case am I in, then, that am neither a good epilogue
nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me: my way is to
conjure you; and I'll begin with the women
...
If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had
beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied
not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet
breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell
...
]

Thesaurus
bushes: (n) underbrush, thicket,
undergrowth, minor league
...

curtsy: (n, v) bob, curtsey; (adj, n, v)
courtesy, kowtow; (v) nod, kneel,
bow submission, recognize; (n)
obeisance; (adj) salaam, kotow
...
ANTONYMS: (n) foreword, prologue: (n) preface, introduction,
preface, prelude, prologue,
preamble, foreword, Prolog,
introduction
...

ANTONYMS: (n) conclusion,
indicate, suggest, adumbrate,
connote, signify, ingratiate, instill,
postscript
...

perceive: (v) comprehend, apprehend, smirk, prudish, nice
...
ANTONYMS: (v) Miss,
indecorous, ungraceful, plain,
observe, ignore
...


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127

GLOSSARY
abandon: (v) relinquish, renounce,
resign, vacate, waive, evacuate,
desert, give up, leave, depart, throw
away
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) inhabited,
orderly, overcrowded, used, pure,
virtuous, upright, seemly, reserved,
principled, moral
able: (adj) dexterous, competent,
clever, ingenious, accomplished,
gifted, effective, fit, expert; (adj, n)
talented, efficient
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
nice, lovable, admirable, alluring,
appealing, commendable, laudable,
delightful, desirable, enjoyable,
likable
absence: (n) absenteeism, deficiency,
lack, default, dearth, want,
nonattendance, scarcity, paucity,
shortage, privation
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) alert, attendant,
attending, existing, here, real,
attentive; (adv) in, visible
abused: (adj) maltreated, physically

abused, downtrodden, perverted,
dull
accent: (v) emphasize, emphasise,
punctuate, accentuate; (n) dialect,
emphasis, idiom, importance,
speech, articulation, pronunciation
...
ANTONYMS: (n) exit, outlet,
egress, exclusion; (v) seal
accord: (n) agreement, consensus,
harmony; (n, v) consent, concord,
assent; (adj, v) agree; (v) give,
bestow, suit, grant
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
hide, mislead, misrepresent,
withhold, falsify, conceal
acquaintance: (n) connection, friend,
acquaintanceship, mate, awareness,
associate, buddy, friendship,
intercourse, companion; (n, v)
knowledge
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
condemn, damn, censure, blame,
sentence
acres: (n) land, acres and perches,
roods and perches, landed estate,
leasehold, homestead, glebe, manor,
freehold, fief, feoff
actions: (n) proceedings, behaviour,
deeds, deportment, background,
behavior, events, activities
actor: (n, v) doer, performer; (n)
player, agent, thespian, comedian,
entertainer, mimic, histrion, artiste,
impersonator
...
ANTONYM: (n) greeting
admired: (adj) respected, admirable,
estimable, favorite, pet, beloved,
honored, August, loved, accepted,
popular
...

ANTONYM: (adj) native
adoration: (n) admiration, adulation,
cult, appreciation, reverence,
glorification, idolization, homage,
praise; (adj, n) devotion, passion
...
ANTONYMS: (n)
stillness, passiveness, inactivity,
inaction, avoidance, inertia, bore
affairs: (n) dealings, concern,
circumstances, transaction,
occupation, duty, matters, matter,
personal business, gear, finances
affection: (n) charity, attachment,
fondness, heart, love, disease,
nature, feeling, affectionateness,
tenderness, kindness
...

ANTONYMS: (v) aid, comfort,
encourage, help, soothe
again: (adv) more, then, repeatedly,
anew, encore, furthermore, yet, also,
often, once again, once more
against: (adj, adv) counter; (prep)
toward, versus, from; (pref) by; (v)
oppose; (adv, prep) on; (n)
opposition; (adj) unwilling,
repugnant; (adv) athwart
...
ANTONYMS: (v) prohibit,
deny, reject, refuse, keep, prevent,
disallow, disapprove, withstand,
hold, outlaw
almost: (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj,
adv) nearly, all but, near, nigh; (adv,
prep) just about, approximately;
(adv) just, mostly, virtually, most
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) overshadowed,
ordinary, mobbed, equaled,

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crowded, accompanied, common,
grouped, surpassed; (adv) jointly;
(n) foe
along: (adv) ahead, alongside,
forwards, forth, throughout,
lengthwise, onward, before; (prep)
beside, from; (n) at
...
ANTONYMS: (adv)
incompletely, partially
always: (adv) continuously,
whenever, permanently, ever,
usually, eternally, unceasingly; (adj)
perpetual, still, eternal; (adj, adv)
without exception
...
ANTONYM: (v) expect
ambition: (n) aim, hope, goal, drive,
ambitiousness, wish, dream,
purpose, target, objective, intention
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
fulfilled, undemanding,
unambitious, slothful, simple,
satisfied, lazy, humble, facile, easy,
content
among: (prep) between, amidst, mid,
in, amongst, in the middle of, inter,
in the midst of, with, within, middle
...
ANTONYMS:
(v) placate, pacify, tickle; (n)
pleasure, composure, glee, affection,
serenity, goodwill, forbearance; (n,
v) calm
angry: (adj) anger, furious, provoked,
incensed, vehement, fierce, irate,
raging, maddened, shirty,
indignation
...

ANTONYMS: (adj) refined, mineral,
genteel, mental, rational,
intellectual, vegetable, delicate,
factual, spiritual; (n) plant
animals: (n) beast, nature, natural
world, flora and fauna, stock,
animal kingdom
anon: (adv) directly, immediately,
early, readily, soon, instantly, again,
forthwith, promptly, shortly, rath
another: (adj) second, more,
alternative, additional, new, further,
fresh, extra; (adj, v) other; (adj, pron)
some other; (n) the other
...

ANTONYMS: (n, v) question; (v)
ask, differ, fail, ignore; (n) request,
problem, invitation, poison
answers: (n) replies; (adj) answering
antique: (adj) old, antiquated,
obsolete, aged, antiquarian, musty,
quaint, outmoded, antediluvian,
outdated; (n) relic
...

ANTONYM: (adv) slowly
apart: (adj, adv) aloof; (adv) aside,
asunder, especially; (adj) alone,
distant, detached, isolated, only;
(adj, v) separate; (v) segregate
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
vanish, hide, stop, sink, recede, go,
depart
applause: (n, v) acclaim, praise; (n)
admiration, approval, eulogy,
compliment, plaudit,
commendation, clapping, clap,
ovation
...
ANTONYMS: (n) departure,
withdrawal, leaving, distancing; (v)
end, withdraw, finish, distance,
depart, conclude, close
april: (n) Apr
argument: (n) proof, debate, matter,
controversy, hassle, independent
variable, contention, difference,
justification, discussion, fight
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
unarmed, unprotected, armless,
unprepared, peaceful
array: (adj, n) arrangement; (n, v)
line, attire, garb, range, apparel,
display; (v) dress, adorn, deck,
clothe
...

ANTONYMS: (adv) erectly,
uprightly, vertically
assembly: (n) gathering, meeting,
congregation, collection, convention,
fabrication, multitude, chamber,
convocation, assembling, body
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve,
undermine
athwart: (adj, adv, n, prep) across;
(adv, prep) aslant, cross; (adj, adv,
prep) thwart; (adj, adv) crosswise;
(adv) sideways, obliquely,
transversely, traverse, overthwart,
crossways
attempt: (n, v) endeavor, offer,
struggle, assay, essay, attack; (n)
effort, trial; (v) undertake, chance,
aim
...

ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave,
ignore, disregard, desert, abandon
attendants: (n) entourage, followers,
retinue, tendance, persons present,
suite
attending: (v) attend; (n) presence,
nursing, care, appearing,
observation; (adj) concomitant,
attendant, ministrant, in attendance,
ancillary
...

ANTONYMS: (v) associate, tackle,
face, validate, participate, invite,
seek, embrace, court, permit,
encourage
away: (adj, adv) abroad, absent; (adj,
adv, int) out; (adj) distant; (adv)
aside, aloof, afar, way, by, forth;
(adv, int) off
...
ANTONYMS: (adj)
married; (n) husband
baggage: (n) bag, bags, trunk, pack,
gear, equipment, stuff, effects,
suitcases, woman, thing
bald: (adj) hairless, simple, austere,
meager, raw, barefaced, stark, plain,
nude, naked; (adj, v) threadbare
...
ANTONYMS: (v)
disperse, divide, scatter, disband
bandy: (v) exchange, agitate, band,
shuttlecock, argue, debate, shuffle,
brandish, change bands, flap; (n)
bander
banishment: (n) expulsion, ostracism,
ouster, proscription, relegation,
ejection, deportation, dismissal,
expatriation; (adj, n) exclusion; (adj)
excommunication
bankrupt: (v) ruin, break,
impoverish, deprive; (adj) broke,
destitute, poor, impoverished; (n)
bankruptcy, failure, insolvency
...
ANTONYM: (n) snack
bare: (adj) naked, austere, bald, stark,
bleak, exposed, desolate, plain; (adj,
v) empty, vacant; (v) show
...

ANTONYM: (adj) inflated
bars: (n) grinding media, gymnastics,
parallel bars
base: (adj) abject, mean,
dishonorable, low, vile, ignoble,
bad, contemptible; (n) foundation;
(n, v) ground; (v) found
...
ANTONYM: (adj) fathered
bastinado: (n) cudgel; (v) bastinade,

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stick law, rap on the knuckles,
switch, bang, birch, wipe, cob, comb,
dress
battle: (n, v) fight, struggle, combat,
contest, war, conflict, clash, brawl;
(v) wrestle; (n) fighting, warfare
...

ANTONYMS: (v) release, avoid,
destroy, dodge, take, eradicate,
evade, kill, refuse, erase; (n) bull
beard: (v) defy, dare; (adj, v) brave;
(adj, n) hair; (n) whiskers,
moustache, sloven, facial hair; (n, v)
camouflage, disguise, mask
...

ANTONYMS: (n) hag, plainness,
shortcoming, flaw, witch, dog,
disadvantage, detraction,
repulsiveness, eyesore,
awkwardness
become: (v) grow, suit, be, match,
come about, arise, get, sit, to
become, fall; (adj) becoming
...

ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) later,
behind, afterward, after; (adv)
subsequently, ahead; (adj)
subsequent
began: (v) Gan
beggar: (n) mendicant, mumper,
pauper, tramp, sponger, joker, poor
man, cadger, bloke; (v) beg,
pauperize
...

ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease,
terminate, die, delay, complete,
conclude
beginning: (n) commencement,
derivation, birth, start, opening,
origin, begin, onset, debut, kickoff;
(adj) original
...
ANTONYMS: (adj,
adv) early; (adv) fore; (adj) prompt
beholding: (n) fusion, seeing, visual
perception, look
belief: (n) feeling, doctrine,
supposition, opinion, idea, thought,
impression, trust, view, confidence,
assumption
...

ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, doubt,
question, suspect, reject, discredit,
deny, despair
bell: (n, v) chime; (n) gong,
Alexander Graham Bell, ring,
doorbell, handbell, tocsin, alarum,
Alexander Bell, buzz, angelus
bells: (n) addition, approval,
matrimony, marriage, approbation,
wedding
belly: (n) stomach, inside, pregnancy,
maw, bowels, intestines, waist,
corporation; (v) balloon, swell, bloat
belonging: (adj) appertaining,
appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n)
household, family, appendage,
appurtenance, intimacy,
commodity, closeness
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
detested, despised, disliked
benefits: (n) relief, assistance,
encouragement, fringe benefit,
reimbursement, help, income
beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask,
request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal,
solicit, plead
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n) worst;
(v) lose, surrender; (adj) minimum,
lowest, least, inferior, incorrect,
fewest; (n) loser; (adv) insincerely
bestow: (v) give, confer, grant,
impart, contribute, donate, apply,
award; (adj, v) accord, allow,
present
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ANTONYMS: (v) protect,
undeceive, hide, defend, withhold
better: (adj, v) improve, mend; (adj,
adv, v) best; (v) recover, ameliorate,
emend, reform, advance, enhance,
surpass; (n) bettor
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ANTONYMS: (v) risk,
disregard, invite
bill: (n, v) placard; (n) beak, card,
advertisement, poster, invoice,
receipt, act, bank note, check; (v)
advertise
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ANTONYMS: (n) death,
bereavement, ending, finale, finish,
passing, end, decease, conclusion,
demise
bite: (n, v) nip, cut, taste, hurt, pain;
(v) pinch, chew, erode, gnaw, eat;
(n) morsel
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ANTONYMS: (adj) mild,
charitable, hot, sugary, kind,
wonderful, warm, pleasant, nice,
agreeable, gentle
bitterness: (n) acerbity, animosity,
gall, malice, resentment, enmity,
acridity, acidity, bitter, rancor,
sharpness
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ANTONYMS: (v) whiten; (adj)
spotless, snowy, saintly, pale,
optimistic, merry, light, angelic,
ivory, bright
blame: (v) arraign, chide; (n, v)
reprimand, censure, attack, charge,
reproach, rap, rebuke, fault; (n)
onus
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ANTONYMS: (adj) full, expressive,
used, understanding, thoughtful,
incomplete, marked, filled, excited,
lively, aware
bleak: (adj) austere, bare, barren,
cold, dreary, murky, black, desolate,
raw, bald, bitter
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ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky,
condemned, damned, disapproved,

unhappy, unholy, secular
blessing: (n) benediction, approval,
mercy, felicity, benison, benefit,
luck, advantage, boon, bless,
godsend
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ANTONYMS: (adj) sighted,
uncovered, understanding, sharp,
seeing, revealed, quick, perceptive,
open, controlled, cautious
block: (n, v) arrest, barricade, stop,
clog; (n) pad; (v) hinder, plug,
encumber, lock, obstruct; (adj, n)
lump
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ANTONYMS: (adj) easy, soft
blossom: (adj, n, v) flower, blow; (n,
v) bud; (n) blooming, heyday,
efflorescence; (v) prosper, flourish,
thrive, progress, unfold
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) calm; (v) save,
conserve, store, stillness, inhale,
come, arrive; (n) luck, comfort,
caress
blue: (adj) depressed, down, gloomy,
low, spicy, livid, naughty, sapphire,
sad, downhearted, downcast
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ANTONYMS: (v)
blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness
boar: (n) pig, swine, dog, wild boar,
hog, Sus scrofa, entire horse,
stallion, sow, horse, hart
board: (v) get on, lodge; (n) panel,

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bench, meal, office, sign, court,
plank, embark; (n, v) table
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ANTONYMS: (n)
deprecation; (v) downplay, lack
body: (n) cadaver, corpse,
organization, cluster, set, carcass,
figure, consistency, aggregate,
association; (adj, n) mass
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ANTONYMS: (adj) restrained,
orderly, calm, dignified, silent,
tranquil, gentle, placid
bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious,
manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless,
spirited, heroic, daring, courageous,
stalwart
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ANTONYMS: (v) nibble, unbolt,
loosen, amble, snack, wait, open,
unfasten, stroll, saunter, unscrew
bond: (n) association, alliance, deed,
agreement, bail, attachment, joint;
(v) bind; (n, v) cement, band, link
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ANTONYMS: (n) independence,
emancipation, freedom
bonnet: (n) cap, protection, chapeau,
tile, wimple, beret, lid, cowling,
castor, poke bonnet, sunbonnet
bonny: (adj) fine, comely, bonnie,
lovely, neat, beautiful, bunny, Idzo,
pleasant, dainty, becoming
book: (v) order, reserve, inscribe,
apply, write; (n) account book,
pamphlet, journal, volume; (n, v)
list, record
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ANTONYMS: (adj) gallant,
refined, cultured, courteous,
charming, sophisticated, humane
bore: (v) dig, tire, pierce, tap, annoy,
perforate; (n, v) bother, plague; (n)
auger, well, gimlet
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ANTONYMS: (adj) learned,
unborn, acquired, trained
borne: (adj) weak, wanting, spoony,
soft, sappy, shallow, little, limited
borrow: (v) adopt, lend, appropriate,
to borrow, assume, take, accept,
acquire, plagiarize, cadge, get
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ANTONYMS: (n) outside,
exteriority
bottle: (n) container, jug, flask, cruet,
vial, pot, phial, jar, decanter, carboy;
(n, v) can
bottom: (n) basis, backside, bed,
behind, foot, footing, back,
foundation, posterior, floor; (n, v)
ground
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
shallow, bottomed, limited,
restricted
bought: (n) crook, hook
bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border,
bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n)
boundary, barrier, compass
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ANTONYMS: (n) center, middle
bountiful: (adj) ample, abundant,
plentiful, generous, liberal, profuse,
fruitful, luxuriant, lush, rich,

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ANTONYMS: (n) emotion, moron,
body, dummy, imbecile, idiot,
physicality
brains: (n) cleverness, intellect,
intelligence, sense, mind, wisdom,
pate, wit, wits, reason; (adj, n) head
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ANTONYMS: (n) composite, trunk;
(v) converge, merge
brave: (adj, n) bold, hardy; (adj)
audacious, fearless, courageous,
virile, intrepid, valiant; (adj, v)
endure; (v) defy, face
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ANTONYMS:
(adv) timidly, fearfully, execrably,
nervously
bravery: (n) courage, fortitude,
audacity, valor, boldness, mettle,
nerve, manhood, valiancy, heart,
heroism
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ANTONYMS: (v) obey,
honor, lose, make, observe, resume,
stay, strengthen; (n, v) mend; (n)
continuation, misfortune
breaking: (n) breakage, breach,
violation, infringement,
contravention, smash, rift,
scutching, shift, intermission; (v)
deaden
breaks: (n) lot, destiny, opportunity,
chance
breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration,
puff, soul, aspiration, respite,

airflow; (v) breathe, respire; (adj, n)
whisper
breathed: (adj) unvoiced, inaudible,
breathing, aphonic
breather: (n) rest, breathing space,
respite, break, intermission, recess,
lull, pause, suspension, truce,
interval
breed: (n) variety, race, kind,
ancestry, sort, order, species; (v)
engender, multiply, beget, bear
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ANTONYMS: (n) unsophistication,
vulgarity
brief: (adj) concise, transient, little,
abridge, short-lived, abrupt; (adj, n)
abstract, summary; (n) epitome,
report; (v) notify
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
permanently, endlessly, slowly,
thoroughly, verbosely
bright: (adj) alive, vivid, intelligent,
apt, shining, brilliant, lustrous,
luminous, light, beaming, shiny
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ANTONYMS: (v) drop,
free, leave, lose, remove, avoid
broke: (adj) bankrupt, poor,
insolvent, impecunious, penniless,
impoverished, skint, bust, destitute,
strapped, ruined
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unbroken, intact, wild, whole,
working, uplifted, uninterrupted,
triumphant, running, indomitable,
incessant
brook: (v) endure, abide, stomach,
stand, tolerate, digest, suffer,
support, undergo; (n, v) creek; (n)
stream
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ANTONYMS: (n)
enemy, opposer, opponent
brotherly: (adj) brotherlike,
sympathetic, cordial, neighborly,
harmonious, amicable, affectionate,
sisterly, fatherly; (adv)
sympathetically, fraternally
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ANTONYM:
(n) trough
browner: (n) browning dish
brows: (n) brow
brutish: (adj) brutal, barbarous,
bestial, brute, savage, fierce, boorish,
ferocious, cruel, indelicate; (adj, adv)
beastly
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ANTONYMS: (v) relieve,
lighten, free, disburden, alleviate,
relax; (n, v) help; (n) tranquility,
relaxation, peace, pleasure
buried: (adj) hidden, covert, interred,
underground, inhumed, profound,
covered, ulterior; (v) perdu, imbed,
embed
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ANTONYMS: (v) smother,
give, subdue, help, quench, repay,
stifle, extinguish, wet
bursting: (adj) explosive, teeming,
chock-full, full, complete,
paroxysmal, exploding, disruptive,
detonating, crowded; (n) outbreak
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
charitable, private; (n) pleasure,
avocation, fun, entertainment,
hobby
busy: (adj) brisk, engaged, assiduous,
occupied, agile, meddlesome,
industrious, crowded, officious, live;
(v) occupy
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ANTONYMS: (v) release; (n)
freedom, liberation
call: (n, v) appeal, shout, bellow,
name, yell, howl, request, appoint;
(v) bid, summon; (n) call option
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
incapable, inept, unable, helpless,
lacking, bad, unimaginative,
unqualified, untrained
caparisoned: (adj) clad
capon: (n) chicken, volaille, stot,
poulet, steer, gelding, ox, rooster,
fowl, hen, pullet
capricious: (adj) fanciful, whimsical,
irregular, freakish, arbitrary, fickle,
changeable, impulsive, volatile,
variable, unpredictable
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ANTONYMS:
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thoughtlessness, rashness,
negligence, vagueness, unconcern;
(n, v) disregard, dislike; (v) loathe,
abhor
careless: (adj) forgetful, inattentive,
insouciant, haphazard, cursory,
reckless, lax, unwary, sloppy; (adj,
adv) thoughtless; (adj, v) heedless
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
thoroughly, diligently, carefully,
warily, laboriously, thoughtfully,
attentively, daintily, methodically,
discreetly, economically
carol: (n, v) chant; (n) canticle, song,
canzonet, ballad, strain, Christmas
carol, hymn, cantata; (v) warble,
sing
cart: (n) car, carriage, handcart,
barrow, applecart, wagon; (v) haul,
drag, bear, take, transfer
carve: (v) cut up, cut, mold, incise,
shape, inscribe, engrave, whittle,
slash, hew; (n) carving
carved: (adj) cut, incised, sculptured;
(v) graven, engraved, stamped,
fixed, imprinted
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ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, receive,
subtract, reject, take, gather, catch,
retain, keep
catch: (n, v) capture, hook, haul,
hitch, trick, grab, snatch; (v) get,
apprehend, intercept; (n) pawl
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ANTONYMS: (n) effect, result,
outcome; (v) foil, deter, forestall,
prevent, stop, halt, quell, retard
cave: (n) lair, hole, grotto, hollow,
cove, den, cell, grot, nest; (v)
undermine, calve
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ANTONYMS: (v) approve,
commend, allow, endorse, laud,
permit, sanction; (n) approval,
blessing, commendation; (n, v)
compliment
certain: (adj) definite, sure, assured,
absolute, reliable, indisputable,
dependable, unquestionable,
undeniable, unavoidable,
unequivocal
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
doubtfully, possibly, equivocally,
perhaps
chain: (n) network, rope, cable, band,
catena, range; (adj, n, v) tether; (v)
bind, fetter; (adj, v) tie; (n, v)
handcuff
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ANTONYM:
(n) supporter
change: (n, v) shift, barter, twist, cash;
(v) alter, alternate, adapt, convert;
(n) alteration, modification,
variation
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ANTONYMS: (adj) fixed, stable,
unchangeable, consistent,
predictable, regular, dependable,
immutable, certain, invariable,
lasting

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chapel: (n) chantry, worship, shrine,
kirk, temple, house of God, house of
worship, meetinghouse, oratory,
place of worship, tabernacle
charge: (n, v) blame, care, burden,
commission, command, attack, bill,
load, tax; (n) accusation; (v) bid
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ANTONYMS: (v) cancel, buy,
purchase
chase: (v) pursue, trail, follow, track,
stalk, expel, banish, go after; (n, v)
hunt, search; (n) game
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ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton,
lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral,
dirty, defiled, impure, tainted
chastity: (n) honor, purity,
abstinence, virtue, innocence,
chasteness, continence, modesty,
cleanliness, austerity; (adj) honesty
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ANTONYMS: (v)
help, hurry, allow, disagree,
disregard, encourage, expedite,
ignore, overlook; (n) furthering,
spur
cheek: (n) audacity, nerve, brass,
boldness, impertinence, face, lip,
mouth, gall, insolence, impudence
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ANTONYMS: (n) sadness, boo,
uncheerfulness, hiss, pessimism,
raspberry; (v) depress, discourage,
dissuade, complain, jeer
cheerful: (adj, v) buoyant; (adj)
breezy, merry, optimistic, pleasant,

glad, blithe, carefree, bright, lively,
happy
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ANTONYMS:
(adv) nastily, sulkily, seriously,
miserably, sadly
chestnut: (adj, n) auburn,
commonplace; (n) chestnut tree,
sweet chestnut, wood, anecdote,
joke, banality; (adj) bay, trite,
castaneous
chide: (n, v) censure, reprimand,
blame; (v) rebuke, admonish,
chasten, lecture, scold, reproach,
chastise, reprove
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ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor,
parent
childish: (adj) childlike, naive,
babyish, immature, simple, puerile,
infantile, juvenile, silly, frivolous,
young
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ANTONYMS: (n)
maturity, sense
children: (n) child, offspring,
descendant, family, seed, boy,
babies, descendants, birth, relatives,
people
chimney: (n) fireplace, smokestack,
shaft, flue, hearth, vent, lamp
chimney, chimneys, nostril, throat,
weasand
chin: (n) jaw, Kuki, jawbone,
lineament, rap, jowl; (v) elevate,
speak, chin up, confer, bring up
choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle,
back up, clog up, gag, suffocate,
foul, strangle, smother, obstruct
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) ignored, involuntary
christian: (adj) Catholic, scriptural,

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pietist, monotheistic, divine,
evangelical, Christianly, moral,
theist; (n) Christianity, devotee
church: (n) cathedral, abbey, chapel,
meetinghouse, denomination,
minster, place of worship, kirk,
Fane, Christian church, Christianity
churlish: (adj) rude, rough, impolite,
loutish, gruff, curt, abrupt, brusque,
blunt, brutish, discourteous
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ANTONYMS: (n) infinity;
(v) encode, decode, code, scramble
circle: (n) association, field, range,
beat, set; (n, v) ring, band, compass,
turn, whirl; (v) encircle
circumstance: (n) affair, incident,
matter, event, occasion, chance,
accident, opportunity, adventure,
casualty, fact
circumstantial: (adj) particular,
detailed, incidental, thorough,
presumptive, precise, coincidental,
elaborate, exact, special, specific
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ANTONYMS: (adj) suburban,
country, private
civet: (n) balm, bearcat, bergamot,
binturong, potpourri, pulvil,
viverrine, cacomixle, civet cat,
cacomistle, bassarisk
civil: (adj) courteous, civic, gracious,
affable, obliging, municipal,
mannerly, public, civilised, courtly,
domestic
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ANTONYMS: (n)
rudeness, incivility, coarseness
claim: (n, v) call, charge, need,
requisition; (n) allegation, privilege;
(v) assert, exact, ask, want, arrogate
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ANTONYM:
(adj) tranquil
clap: (n, v) blast, boom, slam, rumble;
(n) applause, clapping, gonorrhoea,
smash; (v) acclaim, applaud, hit
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ANTONYMS: (adj) filthy, unclean,
muddy, unhygienic, tainted,
unwholesome, syrupy, full; (v) soil,
contaminate, pollute
clear: (adj) clean, certain, distinct;
(adj, v) acquit, absolute, free, net,
absolve, empty; (adj, n) open; (v)
exculpate
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) drop; (n)
descent; (v) wane, dismount,
plummet
clock: (n) chronometer, horologe,
alarm, alarm clock, clepsydra, ticker,
cuckoo clock, clock radio; (n, v)
time, stopwatch; (v) measure
cloth: (n) drapery, fabric, clothes,
clothing, rag, stuff, linen, tapestry,
silk, flannel; (v) napkin
clothes: (n) apparel, clothing, dress,
garb, wardrobe, vestment, garment,
cloth, thing, gown, wear
clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor,
harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic,
comic, acrobat; (v) antic
clownish: (adj) loutish, zany,
awkward, churlish, rude, rustic,
uncouth, clumsy, gawky,
buffoonish, clowlike
club: (n) association, society, stick,
bat, circle, Billy, meeting, baton,
gang; (v) bludgeon, beat
clubs: (n) spades
coat: (v) cloak, blanket; (n, v) sheath,
plaster; (n) coating, fur, film, crust,
jacket, layer, bark
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ANTONYM: (v) uncock
cold: (n) chilliness, chill; (adj) chilly,
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callous, icy, apathetic, impassive
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ANTONYMS:
(n) colorlessness; (v) discolor
combine: (v) associate, blend, fuse,
affiliate, attach, piece, aggregate,
unite, incorporate; (n, v) league; (n)
cartel
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ANTONYMS: (n)
discomfort, aggravation, agony; (v)
alarm, annoy, frighten, afflict,
aggravate, bother, burden,
disappoint
comfortable: (adj, v) easy, snug; (adj)
pleased, pleasing, prosperous,
agreeable, pleasurable, congenial,
rich, enjoyable, homely
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ANTONYMS: (n)
departure, exit, leaving, departing;
(adj) distant, retreating, past
command: (n, v) order, charge, call,
control, decree; (n) instruction,
bidding, direction, behest; (v) direct,
commission
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ANTONYMS: (v)
rebuke, criticize, censure, reproach,
keep, chastise, reprimand, deny,
disparage, refuse, smear
commendation: (n, v) acclaim,
applause, praise; (n) approval,
citation, approbation, tribute, credit,
plaudit, acclamation, admiration
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ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, retract;
(n) salary
common: (adj) coarse, mutual,
vulgar, mean, mediocre, ignoble,
plebeian, base; (adj, n) cheap,
habitual; (adj, n, v) usual
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ANTONYMS: (adj) loose, sprawling,
sparse, bulky, large, cumbersome,
long, lengthy, unwieldy; (v) expand,
loosen
company: (adj, n) society, business;
(n) band, association, collection,
cohort, brigade, troop, club,
partnership; (v) accompany
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ANTONYMS: (v) praise,
applaud, cheer, recommend, rejoice,
laud, approve, agree, accept
complexion: (n, v) tint; (n) cast,
character, appearance, look, hue,
aspect, flush, glow, dye, fashion
compliment: (n, v) praise, honor; (v)
laud, flattery, applaud, greet,
adulation, congratulate, belaud; (n)
eulogy, tribute
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ANTONYM: (adj) curved
concealed: (adj) covert, clandestine,
blind, occult, secret, mysterious,
obscure, buried, invisible, secreted,
surreptitious
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ANTONYMS: (n)
humility, timidity, selflessness,
humbleness, reserve
conceive: (v) think, imagine,
comprehend, design, apprehend,
realize, discover, cogitate,
appreciate, invent, catch
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ANTONYMS: (v) disqualify; (n)
option
conduct: (v) bring, direct, carry,
show; (n, v) act, administration,
manage, administer, carriage,
bearing; (adj, v) acquit
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ANTONYMS: (v) suppress,
hide, dispute, conceal, repress,
harbor
confines: (n) boundary, bound,
barrier, compass, limit, limits, range,
frontier; (adj) environs, alentours;
(adj, n) neighborhood
confirmer: (n) confirmator
conjure: (v) invoke, entreat, arouse,
juggle, bewitch, beseech, bid,
conjure up, evoke, implore, bring up
conqueror: (n) champion, winner,
subjugator, vanquisher, hero,
superior, defeater, subduer, invader,
colonist, Alexander
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ANTONYMS: (v) refuse,
reject, protest, object, differ, oppose;
(n, v) veto; (n) refusal, opposition,
dissent, disagreement
consenting: (adj) agreeable, yielding,
submissive, consentant, compliant,

affirmative, accepting; (v)
complying, chosen
consider: (v) think, regard, view,
cogitate, deliberate, calculate,
conceive, reckon, reflect, assume; (n,
v) study
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
irregular, intermittent, changeable,
variable, inconstant, erratic,
episodic, fickle, temporary, disloyal,
inconsistent
contemplation: (n) consideration,
reflection, thought, attention,
cogitation, musing, introspection,
speculation, animus, deliberation;
(n, v) study
content: (n) meaning, matter,
capacity, contents, subject; (n, v)
contentment; (v) appease, please,
satisfy, suffice; (adj) happy
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
discontented, unhappy, depressed,
unsatisfied, sad, anxious
contents: (n) substance, content,
matter, inside, subject matter, list,
volume, synopsis, conspectus, cargo,
catalogue
contract: (n, v) compact, charter,
bargain; (v) concentrate, condense,
catch, shrink, constrict; (adj, v)
abridge, narrow, shorten
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ANTONYMS: (v)
demolish, destroy, ruin, waste,
wreck, fail
contriver: (n) inventor, schemer,
deviser, plotter, human, soul,
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individual, mortal
cope: (v) contend, make do, combat,
struggle, surmount, do, deal, get by,
get along, grapple; (n) coping
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ANTONYMS: (v)
betray, trick, deceive, conceal,
oppose; (n) warning
count: (v) compute, weigh, consider,
estimate, matter; (n, v) calculate,
tally, number, total; (n) calculation,
computation
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ANTONYMS: (v)
reject, oppose, discourage,
disapprove, prohibit
counter: (adj, n) converse; (n, v)
reply; (n) bench, reverse, numerator;
(v) contradict, resist, react, retort,
respond; (adj) antagonistic
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
genuine, real, authentic, true, actual;
(n) original

country: (n) nation, home, land,
place, area, territory,
commonwealth, soil, kingdom,
realm; (adj) rustic
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ANTONYMS: (v) separate,
unhook, detach, disconnect, divide,
unbuckle, undo; (n) individual,
single
coupled: (adj) conjugate, linked,
united, double, joined, associated,
conjugated, attached, fixed, twin,
paired
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cowardice, faintheartedness,
weakness, wimpiness, yellowness
courageous: (adj, n) bold; (adj)
audacious, fearless, valiant, gallant,
intrepid, spirited, heroic,
undaunted, manly, confident
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ANTONYMS: (v) shun, reject,
ignore, spurn, disregard, discourage
courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable,
attentive, gracious, decorous,
chivalrous, bland, thoughtful,
urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly
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ANTONYMS:
(n) rudeness, discourtesy,
unkindness, informality,
impoliteness, disservice,
brusqueness, incivility, vulgarity,
crudeness, neglect
courtier: (n) aristocrat, official,
attendant, suckling
courtly: (adj) civil, stately, polite,
elegant, gallant, dignified,
respectful, noble, formal; (adj, n)
refined; (adv) wooly
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ANTONYMS:
(v) reveal, expose, uncover, exclude,
ignore, abandon, strip, free, forget,
omit; (n) exposure
covered: (adj) veiled, concealed,
covert, coated, secret, wrapped,
thick, obscured, masked, shrouded;
(adj, prep) cloaked
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ANTONYMS: (n)
daredevil, stalwart; (adj) brave
cramp: (v) restrict, constrict, confine,
bind, limit, hamper; (n, v) spasm,
pinch; (n) crick, pain, constraint
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) discredit; (n)
cash, blame, fault, disrepute,
disgrace, withdrawal; (v) disbelieve,
question, mistrust, distrust
creeping: (n) creep, crawl,
locomotion, spreading; (v) lentor;
(adj) reptile, slow, reptant,
reptatory, serpiginous, moving
crest: (n, v) crown, top, peak, climax;
(n) summit, brow, cockscomb, acme,
pinnacle, zenith; (v) cap
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ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, cheerful,
happy; (v) uncross, assist, separate,
remain, help, stay, unmix, aid
crow: (n, v) brag, cry, snigger; (v)
exult, triumph, cackle, chuckle, talk
big; (n) gasconade, crowing; (adj)
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crown: (n, v) top, cover; (v) cap,
complete; (n) apex, pinnacle, crest,
summit, peak, kingdom, acme
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
merciful, gentle, sympathetic,
humane, liberal, compassionate,
charitable, friendly, caring,
considerate, libertarian
cruelty: (n) brutality, cruelness,
oppression, barbarity, ferociousness,
tyranny, violence, atrocity, ferocity,
mercilessness, harshness
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ANTONYMS: (v)
encourage, push, help, foster, spur,
assist, aid, unbridle, facilitate; (n)
incentive, encouragement
cure: (n, v) correct, medicine, help; (n)
antidote, salve, therapy, treatment;
(v) treat, pickle, preserve, restore
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ANTONYMS: (n) fad,
innovation, phenomenon, rage,
rarity
damnable: (adj) cursed, damned,
abominable, hateful, accursed,
devilish, infernal, disgusting, sinful,
deplorable, offensive
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ANTONYM: (adj) saved
dance: (v) caper, bop, to dance,
cavort, play, skip, to show courage,
step; (n, v) hop, jump, shake
dancing: (n) choreography,
Terpsichore, saltation, break
dancing, ceremonial dance,
galloping, hoofing, Pavan; (adj)
morrice; (adv) adance; (v) saltant
danger: (n) risk, peril, hazard, chance,
jeopardy, threat, trouble,
precariousness, slipperiness,
disaster, insecurity
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ANTONYMS: (adj) stable, secure,
protected, unhazardous, slight,
weak, harmless, friendly, favorable,
calm, pleasant
dappled: (adj) speckled, motley,
flecked, dapple, freckled, spotty,
spotted, dotted, multicolored,
brindled, brindle
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ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, sunny,
fair, sunlit, clear, pallid, pale,
cheerful, white, versed; (n) day
dashed: (v) ashamed, cut up, sunk;
(adj) broken, done for, dejected,
discouraged, dotted
daughter: (n) child, son, maiden,
young woman, daughterly, lass,
unmarried woman, damsel, miss,
missy, virgin
days: (n) period, life, time, age,
existence, generation, years, being,
era, living, lifetime
dead: (adj) lifeless, defunct, cold,
inanimate, idle, gone, fallen, numb,
deceased, vapid; (adv) right
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ANTONYMS: (n)
purchase; (v) misdirect, receive,
neglect, mishandle, mismanage,
take, ignore, hold, gather, disregard
dear: (adj, adv) close, near; (adj, n)
darling; (adj) costly, expensive,
lovely, precious, affectionate,
adorable, cherished; (n) love
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ANTONYMS: (n) existence,
delivery, living, nascency, being,
survival, life, beginning
debtor: (n) obligor, defaulter,
borrower, debitor, bankrupt,
deadbeat, debit, welsher, levanter,
lame duck, stag
deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided
december: (n) celestial latitude
deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat,
behavior, action, exploit, covenant,
doing, document, title, fact
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ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial, high,
weak, soft, light, open, frivolous,
lightweight, narrow,
straightforward, simple
deer: (n) caribou, buck, fawn, stag,
reynard, brocket, cervid, ruminant,
roe, roebuck, hart
defence: (n) advocacy, safeguard,
defense, defend, defensive, alibi,
umbrella, vindication, fort, bastion,
denial
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) rush; (n)
decisiveness, promptness; (v)
advance, hurry, begin, hasten, go,
expedite, speed, prompt
delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement,
rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish,
amuse, please, captivate, transport,
enrapture
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ANTONYMS: (v) affirm,
claim, acknowledge, declare,
maintain, agree, spoil, accept,
accede, allow, argue
depart: (v) go, deviate, decease,
diverge, start, stray, wander, leave,
die, vary, part
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ANTONYMS: (n)
appearance, conformity, greeting,
ingress, influx, homecoming,
regularity, entrance, birth, coming,
advance
derive: (v) stem, acquire, draw,
deduct, come, result, extract, educe,
infer, gain, elicit
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ANTONYMS: (v) stay, support,
remain, inhabit, assist, aid, help,
keep; (adj) cultivated, productive,
fertile
deserve: (v) rate, warrant, gain, earn,
to deserve, demand, justify, bear; (n,
v) reward; (n) richly deserve, worth
desire: (n) ambition, aspiration,
craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n,
v) fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire,
seek
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
undesirous, reluctant, undesiring,
unconcerned
desolation: (n) devastation, misery,
destruction, depression, grief,
wretchedness, bleakness, loneliness,
waste, ruin; (adj, n) desertion
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ANTONYMS: (adj) hopeful,
optimistic, rational, promising,
minor, cautious, casual, careful,
trivial, secure, satisfied
despiser: (n) contemner
despite: (conj) although, albeit; (n)
contempt, scorn, ill will, malice,
disdain; (adv) though; (prep) in
spite of, notwithstanding, regardless
of
despiteful: (adj) malicious,
malevolent, vicious, malignant,
nasty, mischievous, malign, catty,
revengeful, vindictive, hateful
destiny: (n) fate, chance, fortune,
kismet, luck, lot, destination,
portion, weird, life; (n, v) doom
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ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, ignore,
overlook
device: (n) emblem, apparatus,
appliance, artifice, trick, figure,
contraption, invention, gimmick,
equipment, plan
devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost,
monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub,
deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag
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ANTONYMS: (n) sameness,
resemblance, correspondence,
agreement, concurrence,
understanding, parity, normality,
likeness, accord, consistency
ding: (n, v) ring, chime, dingdong,
din, veto; (v) jingle, peal, dong,
strike, sound, tinkle
dinner: (n) banquet, lunch, dinner
party, meal, party, beanfeast,
spread; (v) tiffin, dejeuner, bever;
(adj) dinnerly
direct: (v) aim, address, charge,
dictate, head; (n, v) channel,
command, control; (adj, adv)
straight; (adj, v) level; (adj)
immediate
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ANTONYMS: (v) strengthen, aid,
assist, help, rehabilitate, activate
disabled: (adj) handicapped, invalid,
helpless, incapacitated, game,
wrecked, weakened, mutilated,
mangled, unavailable, paralytic
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ANTONYMS: (v) hire, load, hold,
detain, convict, delegate, charge,
assign, enlist, incarcerate; (n)
burdening
discord: (n, v) conflict, clash; (n)
disagreement, variance, division,
difference, dissension, dissonance,
strife, split, contention
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ANTONYMS: (n)
tactlessness, rashness, indiscretion,
foolishness, vulgarity, openness,
clumsiness
disdainful: (adj) supercilious,
haughty, scornful, arrogant, proud,
cavalier, derogatory, lordly,
condescending, derisive, sneering
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ANTONYM:
(v) retain
disgrace: (adj, n, v) dishonor; (n, v)
discredit, shame, stain, blemish,
blot, slur, reproach; (v) degrade,
debase; (n) degradation
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ANTONYMS: (adj) truthful,
principled, sincere, sporting,
aboveboard, straightforward,
trustworthy, open, moral, fair, legal
dislike: (n) disapproval, disaffection,
antipathy, disdain, disfavor,
revulsion; (n, v) hate, disinclination,
aversion, distaste; (v) detest
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ANTONYMS: (n)
satisfaction, pleasure, enjoyment,
happiness, delight, contentment,
equanimity, approval
disposed: (adj) prone, apt, ready,
subject, prepared, liable, game,
inclined, fain, likely, minded
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ANTONYMS: (v)
persuade, encourage, induce,
influence
distance: (n, v) remove; (n) space,
way, gap, aloofness, interval,
altitude, measure, mileage; (adj, n)
length; (v) dissociate
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) comfort;
(v) please, soothe, relieve; (n) peace,
encouragement,
straightforwardness, solace,
relieving, relief, prosperity
ditty: (n) ballad, canzonet, canticle,
bravura, cantata, carol, tune,
pastoral, recitative, recitativo,
solfeggio
divers: (adj, v) sundry, various,
separate; (adj) several, many,
diverse, miscellaneous, not a few,
varied; (v) diversified; (n) diver
diverted: (adj) abstracted,
entertained, pleased, inattentive,
sidetracked, unfocused, preoccupied
divide: (n, v) cut, part, distribute,
share, split; (v) dissociate,
dismember, separate, dispense,
disconnect, detach
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ANTONYM: (n)
failure
dole: (v) dispense; (n) mite, grant,
pittance, grief, distribution, blow,
care, anxiety, cark, charity
done: (adj, adv) finished, ended; (adj)
complete, completed, over, made,
gone, accomplished, concluded,
through, cooked
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ANTONYM: (n) entrance

doublet: (n) pair, couple, waistcoat,
CHUDDER, barbe, gabardine,
double, jacket, jubbah, oilskins,
camisole
doubt: (n, v) suspicion, question,
query, dispute; (n) disbelief,
misgiving, incertitude,
apprehension, uncertainty; (adj, n)
skepticism; (v) suspect
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ANTONYMS: (adj) semi, limited,
incomplete, questionable, slight;
(adv) hardly
dowry: (n) dot, inheritance, gift,
alimony, dowery, portion, jointure,
grant, share, endowment, heritage
draw: (n, v) drag, pull, delineate, tie,
design, puff; (v) depict, describe,
derive, bring; (n) attraction
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ANTONYMS: (adj) rested, robust,
refreshed, hale, fresh, vigorous,
carefree
dream: (n) aspiration, ambition,
reverie, desire, fantasy, figment,
nightmare; (n, v) vision, sleep; (v)
muse, imagine
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) undress; (v)
uncover, disrobe, rumple, strip,
wrinkle
dressed: (adj) attired, clad, garbed,
appareled, spruced up, spiffed up,
covered, polished, garmented; (v)
clothed, habited
drew: (n) move, John Drew
drink: (n, v) beverage, draught,
swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion,
intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib,
swig
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase; (v) lift,
pour, sharpen, raise, recuperate; (n)
growth, mass, lot, upswing,
elevation
drops: (n) tear
drowned: (adj) prostrate, sunken; (v)
drenched, drent
duke: (n) lord, prince, hand,
nobleman, fist, chief; (v) pass, box,
deliver
dulcet: (adj, n) sweet; (adj) musical,
melodious, harmonious, melodic,
honied, candied, mellifluous,
canorous, mellow, honeyed
dull: (adj) dreary, dense, sluggish,
dismal, slack, torpid; (adj, v) blunt,
stupid; (v) deaden, dampen; (adj, n)
cold
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ANTONYMS: (n) brightness,
intensity, brilliance, excitement,
intelligence, shine, asperity,
animation, gloss, clarity, variation
duty: (n) function, commitment,
obligation, chore, assignment, office,
dues, job, responsibility, must; (n, v)
charge
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ANTONYM: (v)
wander
dwelling: (n) domicile, home,
residence, house, place,
accommodation, address, building,
lodge, habitation; (adj, n) dwell
each: (adv) apiece, either,
individually; (adj) every, various,
singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone,
an, anybody, everyone
earliest: (adj) earlier, early, initial,
primordial, matutinal, original,
primitive, aboriginal, chief,
foremost, opening
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ANTONYMS: (v)
spend, cost, scatter
earnest: (adj, v) devout; (adj) eager,
solemn, heartfelt, diligent, studious,
sincere, intense, ardent, staid; (n)
guarantee
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ANTONYMS: (adj) spiritual, divine,
ethereal, immortal, impossible,
improbable, inconceivable, celestial
ease: (v) alleviate, assuage, relieve,
allay; (n) convenience, rest, leisure,
relief, satisfaction; (adj, v) facilitate;
(n, v) relax
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ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly,
unquestionably, laboriously,
difficultly, barely, arduously,
affectedly, inconveniently, seriously,
formally
east: (n) orient, e, Levant, easting,
east side, EST, cardinal compass
point; (adj) eastern; (adv) eastwards
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
arduous, laborious, demanding,
hard, strenuous, particular,
burdensome, tough, uneasy,
awkward, testing
eaten: (v) eat
education: (n) discipline, instruction,
teaching, cultivation, breeding,
school, culture, nurture, knowledge,
background, learning
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
macho, manly, masculine
effigies: (n) likeness, counterpart,
copy, facsimile
eggs: (n) seed, ball, ballock, roe,
bollock
egypt: (n) Arab Republic of Egypt,
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eight: (n) eighter, eleven, nine, ten,
team, queen, ogdoad, octonary,
octet, ace, octad
either: (adj) whatever; (adv) too, also,
neither, besides, likewise; (n) or;
(det) any; (conj) other
elder: (adj) older, big, adult; (n) dean,
doyen, patriarch, ancient, boss,
elderberry, superior, presbyter
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ANTONYMS: (v)
reject, exclude, spurn, shun,
renounce, release, loose, disbelieve
employ: (v) use, apply, exploit,
consume, wield, hire, engage,
exercise, work, busy, utilize
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ANTONYMS: (adj) unemployed,
unoccupied, idle
empty: (adj, v) clear, discharge,
destitute, void; (adj) hollow, bare,
blank, barren, abandoned; (v)
deplete, pour
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ANTONYM: (adv) unpleasantly
encounter: (n) collision, conflict,
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(n, v) combat, contest, rencounter;
(v) confront, face
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ANTONYMS: (v) dishearten,
prevent, deter, hurt, obstruct, stop,
dampen, hinder, aggravate, bully,
constrain
ends: (n) tops, crook, band, bend,
bind, limits, clippings, curve,
trimmings, boundaries
endure: (adj, n, v) continue, support;
(n, v) bear, suffer, stand, be; (v)
accept, undergo, allow, stay,
tolerate
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ANTONYMS: (n) ally,
friend, supporter, benefactor,
defender, fan
enforcement: (n) execution,
constraint, compulsion, duress,
carrying out, performance, force,
coaction, press, effect,
administration
engage: (v) contract, book, employ,
retain, absorb, charter, draw, rent;
(n, v) attract, enlist, betroth
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ANTONYMS: (v) need, suffer,
loathe, lack, hate, detest, despise,
want
enough: (adj) ample, adequate,
competent, decent; (n) adequacy,
sufficiency, fill; (adv) rather, amply,
adequately; (adv, n) plenty
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ANTONYMS: (v)

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impoverish, cheapen, degenerate,
reduce, deplete, deteriorate
ensue: (v) come, arise, happen, result,
succeed, occur, transpire, turn out,
befall, come after, stem
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ANTONYMS: (v) depart, exit,
delete, stop, refrain, erase, egress,
abstain, cancel, exclude, disembark
enterprise: (n) business, company,
concern, endeavor, activity,
adventure, energy, effort, courage,
venture, endeavour
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ANTONYMS: (v)
disregard, ignore, banish, forget,
tire, displease
entrap: (v) enmesh, catch, ensnare,
trap, decoy, deceive, entice, inveigle,
delude, frame; (n, v) tangle
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ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject
entreaty: (n) plea, prayer, request,
petition, adjuration, supplication,
suit, demand, desire, invocation; (v)
solicitation
envious: (adj) covetous, invidious,
jaundiced, malicious, begrudge,
greedy, resentful, grudging, green,
begrudging, enviable
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ANTONYM: (n) generosity
epilogue: (n) epilog, ending,
afterword, end, close, closing,
conclusion, finale, peroration,
speech, sequel
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ANTONYMS: (adj) different,
repressive, uneven,
disproportionate, inconsistent,
unlike, dissimilar, discriminating,

diverse; (v) differ, disproportion
equally: (adv) evenly, equivalently,
levelly, alike, justly, as, parallelly,
uniformly, similarly; (adj, adv, conj)
as well; (adj) even
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
unexceptionally, customarily,
usually, commonly, frequently,
generally
estate: (n) land, order, demesne, rank,
domain, property, acres, substance,
state, asset, assets
esteem: (n) deference, admiration; (n,
v) respect, value, consideration,
account; (v) appreciate, deem, adore,
admire, count
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ANTONYMS: (adj) dull,
insignificant, ordinary, slow, empty
ever: (adj, adv) always, continually;
(adj) constantly, still, forever; (adv)
never, e'er, before, once, perpetually;
(n) Evers
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
poor, abysmal, awful, mediocre,
terrible, imperfect, inadequate,
middling, shoddy, bad, used
excepted: (v) except; (adj) let off,
excused
excuse: (n, v) pardon, palliate; (v)
absolve, exculpate, condone, acquit,
justify, forgive; (n) alibi, pretext,
evasion
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ANTONYMS: (adj,
v) nonexempt; (adj) liable, taxable,
bound; (v) enforce, blame, include
exercises: (n) military exercises,
athletics
exile: (n, v) expatriate; (v) banish,
deport, drive out, expel, proscribe;
(n) expulsion, deportation, refugee,
deportee, outcast
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ANTONYMS:
(n) arrival, entry, entrance, greeting;
(v) arrive, come
expediently: (adv) opportunely,
advantageously, beneficially,
makeshiftly, usefully, handily,
becomingly, adequately, properly,
fittingly, fitly
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ANTONYMS: (n)
inexperience, greenness, naivete,
inability, ignorance
express: (adj) explicit, direct, definite,
distinct, especial; (n, v) declare; (v)
demonstrate, convey, articulate,
display, mean
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ANTONYMS: (n) weakness,
mildness, scarcity
extracted: (v) descended, extraught
extraordinary: (adj) odd, exceptional,
curious, rare, special, phenomenal,

amazing, astonishing, unusual,
strange, abnormal
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ANTONYMS: (n) trunk,
average, minimum, head, leniency
exult: (v) rejoice, triumph, cheer,
glory, chuckle, crow, jubilate, brag,
boast, celebrate; (n, v) delight
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ANTONYMS: (n, v)
back; (n) timidity, nobody,
underside, shyness, rear; (v) evade,
elude, hide, withdraw, submit
faction: (n) crew, cabal, group, band,
set, party, division, junto,
dissension, clan; (n, v) feud
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ANTONYMS: (v) succeed, triumph,
win, thrive, procure, accomplish,
achieve, attain, boom, complete,
continue
fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready,
favorable, heart and soul, prone;
(adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly;
(v) optative
faint: (adj, n, v) swoon; (adj) dim,
feeble, dizzy, indistinct, vague, soft,
dull; (adj, v) weak; (v) languish, pass
out
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ANTONYMS: (adj) biased, unjust,
exceptional, dark, partial,
mismatched, unwarranted, foul,
imbalanced, prejudiced, poor
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moderately, honestly, completely,
purely, impartially, somewhat,
righteously, lightly, rightly,
squarely
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ANTONYMS: (n)
disbelief, distrust, dubiosity,
skepticism, despair, uncertainty,
doubt, independence
faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct,
exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing,
dependable, devoted, sound,
devout; (adj, v) constant
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ANTONYMS:
(adv) unfaithfully, approximately,
falsely, insincerely, carelessly,
inaccurately
falcon: (n) caracara, thug, freebooter,
mosstrooper, peregrine falcon,
harpy, Merlin, land shark, shark,
hobby, dacoit
fall: (n, v) decline, dip, rain, decrease,
plunge, dive; (n) downfall, descent,
autumn; (v) descend, sink
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) standing, increasing,
burgeoning
false: (adj, n) bastard; (adj, adv)
counterfeit, deceitful; (adj) untrue,
dishonest, erroneous, sham,
assumed, artificial, fictitious,
deceptive
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ANTONYMS: (n) reality, certainty,
actuality, conviction; (adj)

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unadorned, common; (v) hate,
demonstrate, detest, disapprove, test
fantastical: (adj, v) fanciful; (adj)
antic, chimerical, unusual, beautiful,
unreal, strange, grotesque, odd,
extraordinary; (v) fancy
fantasy: (n) dream, illusion, delusion,
mirage, desire, invention, vision,
maggot, fad, hallucination, fiction
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ANTONYM:
(v) stop
farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave,
valediction, adios, parting, goodbye,
separation, departure, aloha; (int)
bon voyage
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ANTONYM: (v) destroy
fast: (adj, v) firm; (adj) dissolute,
instant, agile, staunch, quick,
hurried, fixed, rapid; (adv) soon,
hard
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ANTONYMS: (n) disciple,
follower
fathom: (n, v) plumb; (v) penetrate,
discern, bottom, understand,
comprehend, know, make out,
measure; (n) probe, gauge
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ANTONYMS: (n)
strength, virtue, capability,
innocence, perfection, credit, ease;
(v) praise, absolve
favour: (n) relief, goodness,
assistance, office, favoritism,
benignity; (v) choose, prefer,
privilege, facilitate, approve
fear: (n) awe, dismay, alarm, fright,

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consternation, care, anguish; (n, v)
apprehension, doubt, concern,
reverence
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ANTONYMS: (adj) rational, calm,
confident, bold, unimpressed,
charming, fearless, courageous,
reassuring, unafraid, wonderful
feature: (n) article, aspect, detail,
character, characteristic, peculiarity,
lineament, facet, appearance,
quality; (n, v) mark
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ANTONYMS: (v) thwart,
crave, desire, sap
feeder: (n) eater, affluent, feed, filler,
tributary, glutton, forehearth,
devourer, diner; (v) commissary,
caterer
feeding: (n) alimentation, eating,
nourishment, grazing, dining,
browsing, feed supply, banqueting,
supplying, ingestion, intake
feel: (v) experience, finger, handle,
consider, find; (n, v) sense, sound;
(n) feeling, texture, atmosphere, air
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ANTONYMS: (v) construct,
erect, raise, build

fellow: (adj, n) comrade, associate;
(n) boy, equal, brother, peer, chap,
colleague, compeer, buddy; (adj, n,
v) concomitant
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ANTONYMS: (adj) masculine,
manly, androgynous, manlike; (n)
man, boy
fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in,
convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch,
get, attract; (adj, n) feint
fields: (n) field, domains, plain,
notification fields, rotation,
alternation of crops, grounds
fifth: (n) interval, twenty percent,
common fraction, fifth part; (adv)
fifthly; (v) decimate
fifty: (adj, n) l; (n) half a hundred,
fifty dollar bill, cubic decimeter,
cubic decimetre
fight: (n, v) battle, dispute, contest,
quarrel, engagement, feud,
squabble, argue, struggle, clash;
(adj, n, v) brawl
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ANTONYM: (v)
estimate
fill: (v) block, clog, stuff, line, charge,
execute, accomplish, complete, brim,
fulfill; (n) crowd
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ANTONYMS: (adj) light,
insufficient
find: (v) catch, detect, encounter,
come across, feel, attain, ascertain;
(n) detection, disclosure, search,
discovery
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ANTONYM: (v) clear
fire: (v) eject, dismiss, kindle, ignite;
(n, v) discharge, blaze, flame,
explode; (n) ardor, conflagration,
fervor
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ANTONYMS: (adj) assertive,
critical, unflattering, unattractive,
wounding, uncomplimentary,
negative; (adv) partially
flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney,
compliment, adulation, taffy,
palaver, praise, gloze, sweet talk,
sycophancy, soft soap
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ANTONYM: (v) disperse
flood: (n, v) flow, torrent, pour,
stream, glut, rush, gush; (v) drench,
inundate, drown; (n, prep) tide
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ANTONYMS: (v) decline,
struggle, deteriorate, wilt, pine,
fade, flounder, decrease, dwindle
flout: (n, v) deride, jeer, gibe, taunt,
scoff, mock, sneer; (v) defy, scorn,
jest, scout
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ANTONYMS: (n) drought; (v)
trickle
flux: (v) dissolve, thaw, course, fuse,
melt; (n) tide, current, flood, torrent,
afflux, lapse
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ANTONYMS: (adj) precise, sunny
foil: (n, v) thwart, defeat, balk; (v)
baffle, bilk, cross, elude, avert,
prevent; (n) contrast, blade
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ANTONYMS: (v)
guide, lead, head, disobey, deny,
ignore, misunderstand, predate,
exceed, defy, break
followers: (n) adherents, people,
entourage, claque, faithful, disciples,
supporters, multitude, attendants,
support, suite
folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness,
tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity,
craziness, density, freak; (adj, n)
irrationality, trifling
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
aversion, cold, rough
food: (n, v) fare; (n) edible, board,
nourishment, diet, sustenance,
aliment, dish, foodstuff, meat,
nurture
fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown,
idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v)
deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull
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shrewd, prudent, visionary,
diplomatic, levelheaded, sane,
rational, mature, judicious
foolishly: (adv) idiotically,
ridiculously, stupidly, indiscreetly,
silly, insanely, injudiciously,
preposterously, absurdly,
senselessly; (adj, adv) madly
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ANTONYMS: (v) owe; (n) head
forbear: (v) refrain, desist, help,
tolerate, abide, eschew, endure,
relinquish; (n) predecessor,
progenitor, forebear
force: (n, v) drive, squeeze, pressure,
thrust; (n) energy, strength, agency;
(v) coerce, push, press, compel
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ANTONYMS: (v) mind, attend
forgotten: (adj) lost, disregarded,
elapsed, past, abandoned, gone,
Gone With the Wind, irrecoverable,
lapsed, disoriented, no more
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
informal, relaxed, unceremonious,
unofficial, chatty, cosy, natural,
casual, nonformal, friendly, flexible
former: (adj) previous, antecedent,
anterior, bygone, earlier, prior,
foregoing, original, deceased, past;

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ANTONYM: (n) design
fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune,
personal narrative, life, journal
forward: (adj, prep) bold; (adj, adv)
onward; (adj) audacious; (adj, n, v)
promote; (v) expedite, dispatch;
(adv) fore, along, ahead; (adv, n, v)
further; (adj, adv, n) early
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ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure;
(adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive,
humane, attractive, honest, pleasing,
fragrant; (v) unclog
foulness: (n) filthiness, dirtiness,
corruption, contamination, dirt,
squalor, squalidity, impurity,
pollution, nastiness, indecency
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ANTONYMS: (v) abolish, disband;
(adj) lost
fountain: (n, v) fount, well; (n) jet,
font, source, reservoir, origin,
derivation, repository, root, squirt
four: (n) quaternary, foursome,
tetrad, quaternion, quadruplet,
square, quarter, quad, air, age of
man; (adj, n) IV
fourth: (adv) fourthly; (n) interval,

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third, after part, common fraction,
fourth part, quartern, second; (adj)
quaternary
france: (n) Frances, Jacques Anatole
Francois Thibault, regional
operations in Germany, Anatole
France
free: (adj, v) exempt, liberate,
discharge; (adj, adv, v) loose; (v)
excuse, extricate, relieve,
disentangle, ease; (adj, n) frank; (adj)
liberal
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ANTONYMS: (v) thaw, boil,
unblock, warm, dissolve, begin,
soften
fresh: (adj) clean, bracing, novel,
bright, recent, original, airy, bold,
pure, green; (adj, v) brisk
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ANTONYMS:
(n) foe, stranger, rival, nemesis,
adversary, antagonist
friendly: (adj, n) favorable; (adj)
amiable, affectionate, decent, goodnatured, kind, convivial,
companionable, benevolent,
amicable; (adj, adv) comradely
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ANTONYMS: (n) hostility,
animosity, antagonism, conflict,
formality, rivalry, hatred,
detachment, distance, isolation
fright: (n, v) dismay, alarm, scare,
affright; (n) awe, fear, dread, terror,
horror, consternation, apprehension
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n) mainstream;
(n) center
frown: (adj, v) lower; (adj, n) scowl;
(n, v) pout, grimace, glower, glare;
(adj) black looks, gloam, glout; (v)
sulk, gnash
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
lacking, starving, hungry, sketchy,
incomplete, thin, deserted, partial,
restricted, weak; (v) wane
furnace: (n) forge, heater, blast
furnace, fireplace, hearth, stove,
oven, kiln, electric furnace, cupola,
crematorium
furnished: (adj) fitted, arranged,
privileged, instruct, carrying
weapons, equipt, enlightened; (v)
provide, furnish, begone, beset
further: (adj, adv) farther, more; (v)
advance, encourage, foster, forward;
(adj) extra, additional; (n, v)
promote; (adv) again, also
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ANTONYMS:
(n) loss, deficit, disadvantage,
setback; (n, v) decrease; (v) reduce,
scatter, collapse
gained: (adj) extrinsic
gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring,
courageous, chivalrous, bold,
manly, heroic, dashing, courteous,
fine
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n)
particular; (adj) narrow, individual,
restricted, specialist, detailed,
personal, localized, local, precise,
limited
generally: (adj, adv) usually; (adv)
commonly, broadly, regularly,
ordinarily, altogether,
approximately, generically,
normally, comprehensively,
popularly
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ANTONYMS: (n)
vulgarity, rudeness
gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind,
affable, balmy, mild, feeble,
compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj,
v) tame
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ANTONYMS: (n) severity,
harshness, fierceness, cruelty,
ferocity, brusqueness, abruptness,
rage, callousness, sharpness,
roughness
gently: (adv) tenderly, slowly,
mildly, soft, slow, kindly, delicately,
softly, lightly, meekly, quietly
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ANTONYM: (n) rejection
giddiness: (n) flightiness, frivolity,
vertigo, silliness, frivolousness,
levity, lightness, capriciousness,
rashness, symptom, swimming
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ANTONYMS: (adj) serious, dull
gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty,
ability, talent; (n) donation, flair,
bestowal; (n, v) award, present,
boon; (adj, n) capacity
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ANTONYM:
(n) meanness
gilded: (adj, v) gilt; (adj) rich, gold,
golden, deluxe, gilden, fortunate,
garish, advantageous, aurated,
luxurious
girl: (n) damsel, gal, lady, young
woman, maid, lass, fille, wench,
daughter, bride, virgin
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ANTONYMS: (v)
withdraw, take, withhold, retain,
receive, keep, get, hide, conceal,
starve, withstand
given: (adj) apt, disposed, prone,
specified, liable, inclined, granted,
fixed, conditional; (n) assumption,
particular
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tightfisted, malevolent, mean, stiff,

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glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay,
blithe, delighted, festive, content,
delightful, genial, bright, willing
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ANTONYMS: (n)
unhappiness, dismay, displeasure
glass: (n) bottle, drink, goblet, cup,
drinking glass, spectacles, glasses,
field glass, bowl; (v) glaze; (adj, n)
ice
glean: (v) cull, garner, reap, harvest,
gather, extract, accumulate,
winnow, assemble, pick up, to
gather
gloves: (n) gauntlet, mitten, mittens,
gauntlets, scarf, ornament, handbag,
belt, batting glove, boxing glove,
baseball mitt
glow: (n, v) flush, gleam, shine,
glimmer, glare, color, sparkle, beam;
(v) burn, flare, kindle
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ANTONYMS: (n) arrival,
Reunion
gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth,
bullion, treasure, yellow, amber;
(adj) aureate, gilt, golden
golden: (adj) aureate, fortunate,
gilded, auspicious, gold, gilt, lucky,
advantageous, fair, favorable,
favored
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) present, remaining, found,
alive
goose: (n) goof, fathead, cuckoo,
barnacle, fool, jackass, brent, brant,
goosecap; (n, v) spur; (v) serpent
gout: (n) taste, relish, arthritis, go-out;
(v) cephalalgia, earache, otalgia,
odontalgia, neuralgia, lumbago,
sciatica
grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish,
deck, embellish, beautify, decorate,
embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n)
elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency
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ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious,
boorish, discourteous, reserved,
rude, abrupt, critical, unkind,
hardhearted, harsh, poor
grant: (adj, v) bestow, allow, confer;
(n, v) award, gift, boon; (v) concede,
afford, admit, acknowledge; (adj, n,
v) present
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
frivolous, funny, cheerful, carefree,
slight, nonchalant, trivial, stable,
minor, insignificant, favorable
graze: (n, v) browse, scrape, touch;
(v) rub, chafe, eat, shave, brush,
crop, crease; (n) cut
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ANTONYM: (adj) lean
great: (adj) eminent, gigantic, big,
distinguished, large, extensive,
extreme, grand, chief, ample,

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massive
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
inferior, smaller, small, lower
greatest: (adj) top, superlative,
biggest, utmost, largest, extreme,
first; (adj, n) maximum, most; (adj,
v) paramount, supreme
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ANTONYMS: (n)
obscurity, austerity, commonness,
mildness, moderation, simplicity
grecian: (adj) Hellenic, Achaian,
classical; (n) cheat
greek: (adj, n) Grecian; (n) Hellene,
Greece, Achaian, blackleg, welsher,
leg, eolian, drivel; (adj) Hebrew,
incomprehensible
green: (adj) callow, immature, young,
jealous, youthful, emerald, crude,
juvenile, gullible, inexperienced;
(adj, v) raw
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ANTONYM:
(n) goodbye
grief: (adj, n, v) affliction; (n) dolor,
anguish, distress, agony, pain,
wound, chagrin, concern; (n, v)
regret; (adj) sore
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ANTONYMS: (v) rejoice,
celebrate, encourage
groaning: (adj) moaning, groaningly,
inarticulate
gross: (adj) coarse, boorish, big,
crude, fat, common, blunt,
disgusting, bulky; (n) aggregate;
(adj, v) foul
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ANTONYMS: (n) sea, figure; (v)
launch, top
grow: (v) expand, advance, augment,
enlarge, come, emerge, spring,
become, farm, turn, get
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ANTONYMS: (n)
weakening, reduction, decline,
nondevelopment, shrinking,
contraction, collapse, fall, loss,
disappearance, retreat
guess: (n, v) surmise, estimate,
forecast; (v) suppose, deem, reckon,
divine, believe, foretell; (n)
assumption, supposition
guiltless: (adj) innocent, clean,
irreproachable, clear, faultless,
unsullied, stainless, pure,
inculpable, immaculate, spotless
guilty: (adj) culpable, faulty, wicked,
hangdog, criminal, chargeable,
sinful, blameworthy; (n) guilt,
culprit; (adj, v) condemned
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ANTONYM: (n) innovation
hair: (n) coat, coma, haircloth, pile,
locks, filament, fleece, fur,
hairbreadth, down, forelock
hairy: (adj) hirsute, bushy,
dangerous, downy, woolly, bristly,
fleecy, rough, fuzzy, shaggy, fluffy
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n) all;
(adj) fully, complete
hand: (v) give, pass, commit, bestow,
afford, communicate, consign; (n)
deal, worker, aid, applause
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ANTONYMS:
(n) sadness, despair, grief, misery,
dissatisfaction, seriousness,
dullness, discontent, dejection,
gloominess, displeasure
happy: (adj) felicitous, contented,
gay, buoyant, content, gleeful,
gratified, pleasant, glad, carefree;
(adj, n) auspicious
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ANTONYMS: (adj) easy,
kind, soggy, tender, merciful,
yielding, simple; (adv) lightly,
gently, lackadaisically; (adj, adv)
flexible
hardly: (adj, adv) barely, scarcely;
(adv) severely, harshly, roughly,
badly, toughly, laboriously,
arduously, cruelly, heavily
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) benefit,
respect, help; (n) reparation, service;
(v) enable, spoil, protect, defend,
repair
hart: (n) deer, buck, drake, reynard,
gander, fox, dog, cock, boar, roe,
stallion
harvest: (n, v) fruit; (v) gain, glean,
gather, amass, get, reap, pick; (n)
ingathering, profit, produce
hate: (v) abhor, detest, loathe,

abominate; (n) enmity, abhorrence,
detestation, hatred, animosity,
antipathy, aversion
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ANTONYM: (adj)
precious
haunches: (n) buttocks
having: (n) estate, possession,
acceptance, enjoyment
hawking: (v) angling, fishing, peddle,
shooting; (n) Stephen hawking,
colportage, peddlery, vendition,
Stephen William hawking, vending
head: (n) captain, boss, froth, foam,
crown, chieftain; (n, v) point, lead;
(adj, n, v) front; (v) capital, direct
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ANTONYM: (adj) unheaded
heal: (v) mend, recover, doctor,
recuperate, cicatrize, get well, fix,
restore, convalesce; (n, v) remedy;
(n) correct
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ANTONYM: (v) tidy
hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out,
discover, understand, apprehend,
hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj)
heard
heard: (n) hearing
hearer: (n) audience, listener,
eavesdropper, observer, perceiver,
earwitness, attendant, attendee,
attender, audient, beholder
hearing: (n) audition, ear, auditory
sense, trial, consultation, reach,
auscultation, inquiry; (n, v) earshot,
sound; (adj, n) audience
heart: (adj, n) core, gist, marrow; (n)
spirit, center, essence, basis, kernel,
crux, breast, hub
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ANTONYMS: (adv) feebly,
languorously
heathen: (adj, n) gentile, ethnic; (n)
infidel, idolater, paynim, heretic;
(adj) heathenish, irreligious, giaour,
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heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss,
Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian
Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj)
celestial
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ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly,
miserable, infernal, hellish,
unappealing, dreadful, turbulent
heavy: (adj, n) dull; (adj) deep, fat,
dense, grave, dark, full, gross, thick,
bulky; (adj, adv) hard
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ANTONYMS: (n) shortness, nadir,
depth, trough, deepness, base, dip
heir: (n) beneficiary, successor,
offspring, inheritor, heiress,
receiver, progeny, heritor,
descendant, scion, issue
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ANTONYMS: (n) hindrance,
detriment, interference, damage,
disadvantage, disservice, manager;
(v) worsen, aggravate, halt, hurt
helping: (n) portion, share, plateful,
serving, part, quota, drumstick; (adj)
auxiliary, assistant, aiding, assisting
hence: (adv) consequently, for that
reason, therefore, thereby, away,
thus, for, then, because, henceforth,
as a result
henceforth: (adv) hence, in future,
after this; (adj) following
hercules: (adj, n) atlas; (n) atlantes,
Caryatides, Samson, Alcides, giant,
Goliath, Herakles, Cyclops, Persides;
(adj) superman
hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now
on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter,
afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity,
time to come, great beyond, future
life
herein: (adv) here, therein
hero: (n) character, protector, leader,
demigod, warrior, protagonist,
combatant, fighter, defender,
bomber; (adj, n) worthy
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
exposed, open, active, noticeable,
overt, revealing, known, explicit,
mainstream, transparent, visible
hide: (n, v) cover, disguise, shelter,
veil; (adj, v) obscure; (n) fur, fell,
coat; (v) bury, mask; (adj, n, v)
darken
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n) low; (adj)
deep, short, sober, reasonable, sad,
resonant, lowly, husky,
unimportant; (n) depression
highness: (n) excellency, altitude,
loftiness, nobility, greatness,
eminence, size, stateliness, majesty,
high, grandeur
himself: (pron) herself, themselves,
yourself, itself; (adj) myself; (n)
yourselves
hire: (v) employ, charter, enlist, take,
rent, take on, retain; (n, v) wage; (n)
employment, salary, engagement
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
smooth, mellow, velvety, high
hogs: (n) Suidae, boars, family
Suidae, stock
hold: (n, v) keep, grip, grasp,
entertain; (v) endure, detain, adhere,
bear, have, contain, comprise
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) convex, sincere, true, full,
meaningful, cramped, valid; (n)
hump, bump, hill, lump
holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly,
religious, blessed, hallowed,
spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv)
saintly; (adv) sacredly
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) external, national, public,
away, foreign; (adv) out
homily: (n) sermon, discourse,
lecture, speech, preachment, oration,
disquisition, pandect, pastoral,
preaching; (v) preach
honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere,
good, equitable, artless, heartfelt,
guileless, frank, forthright, faithful
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ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty,
wickedness, treachery, deceit,
deception, deviousness, decadence,
affectation, caution, evasiveness,
injustice
honey: (n) dear, love, beloved, nectar,
sweetheart, dearest, duck, molasses,
sugar, baby; (v) sweeten
honour: (n) fame, award, dignity,
homage, celebrity, accolade,
reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect,
celebrate, dignify
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ANTONYMS: (n) reality, past,
pessimism, distrust, independence
horn: (n) car horn, antler, klaxon,

cornet, French horn, ivory, foghorn,
cornu, alarm, trumpet, arm
horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin,
junk, charger, knight, pony, rider,
trestle, eohippus, dog
horses: (n) stock, equidae, domestic
animals, cattle, extinct animals,
asses, pigs, sheep, family equidae,
farm animals, force
hose: (n) stocking, pipe, tights,
hosepipe, hosiery, fire hose, airline,
trunk hose; (v) water, cheat; (n, v)
wash
hour: (n) clock, o'clock, hours, time,
hr, term, nonce, moment, occasion,
dawn, dusk
hours: (n) period, duty period; (adv)
o'clock
house: (adj, n, v) family; (adj, n)
home; (v) accommodate; (n)
dwelling, firm, abode, domicile,
edifice, habitation, housing; (n, v)
lodge
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
insignificant, miniature, small,
affordable, compact, measly, minor,
minute, slight, slim
hugely: (adv) extremely, immensely,
tremendously, vastly, greatly,
massively, mightily, awfully,
stupendously, colossally,
exceedingly
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) nonhuman, otherworldly,
heavenly, immortal
humbled: (adj) humble, humiliated,
crushed, depressed, dispirited,
abased, broken in, abject, ashamed;
(n) humbler; (v) apart
humbleness: (n) submission,
obscurity, modesty, meekness, trait,
humble, submissiveness, lowliness,
obscureness, humblesse,
abstruseness
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
serious, tragic, humorless, dull
humour: (n) fun, wit, witticism, body
fluid, temper, mood, amiability,
drollery, disposition; (adj)
humorous; (v) gratify
hundred: (adj) a hundred, one
hundred, many; (adj, n) c; (n) cent,
centred, riding, lathe, soke, tithing,
carbon
hungry: (adj) eager, avid, famished,
starving, esurient, greedy, ravenous,
desirous, meager, starveling; (v)
starve
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ANTONYMS: (adj) unhurt,
unaffected, healed; (v) encourage,
please, protect, repair, defend; (n, v)
help; (n) reparation, pleasure
husband: (v) conserve, economize,
preserve, save; (n) consort, hubby,
man, fellow, lover, master, mate
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
active, employed, industrious,
energetic, meaningful, productive,
worthwhile, diligent; (v) change,
run, work
idleness: (n) lethargy, laziness,
torpor, inactivity, idling,
unemployment, sloth, inaction,
inertia, faineance, idlesse
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ANTONYMS: (adj) feasible,

achievable, manageable, bearable,
attainable, on, tolerable, probable,
hopeful, easy, consistent
inch: (n) in, bit, column inch, morsel;
(v) crawl, creep, ease; (adj) tatter,
mite, seed, shive
incision: (n) dent, cut, gash, groove,
score, scratch, furrow, slice; (n, v)
crack, split; (v) fissure
inclined: (adj, v) given; (adj) prone,
willing, oblique, apt, predisposed,
ready, minded, likely, liable, bowed
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unending, loyal, regular
incontinent: (adj) frail, gay,
immoderate, meretricious, rakish,
licentious, lewd, wasteful,
abandoned, lascivious, lecherous
inconvenient: (adj) inopportune,
awkward, disadvantageous,
bothersome, improper, unfavorable,
troublesome, hard, inapt, untoward,
unfortunate
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ANTONYMS: (adv) possibly,
doubtfully
indented: (adj) concave, hollow,
serrated, jagged, crenelated,
crenelate, crenellated, crenellate,
embattled, notched; (n) fancier
indirect: (adj) collateral, incidental,
crooked, devious, oblique,
roundabout, secondary, side,
tortuous, winding, disingenuous
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ANTONYM: (adj) healthy
inherited: (adj) inborn, genetic,
familial, ancestral, transmissible,
congenital, inherent, incarnate,
transmitted, instinctive, intuitive
injure: (n, v) damage, harm, impair;
(v) contuse, disfigure, maim, bruise,
blemish, wound, insult; (adj, v)
abuse
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ANTONYMS: (n)
reparation, justice, help, defense,
benefit
inky: (adj) black, ebon, sable,
atramentous, jetty, dusky, gloomy,
murky, pitchy, atramental,
atramentous spots
inland: (adj) interior, domestic, inner,
inside, national, Mediterranean,
home, indoor, native, intrinsic; (n)
hinterland
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
culpable, responsible, wicked, wary,
experienced, corrupt, worldly,
unfair, meaningful, offensive, jaded
inquire: (v) demand, ask, explore,
enquire, inspect, research, consult,
pry, request, wonder; (n, v)
question
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
separable, dividable, isolatable
insinuate: (v) imply, hint, intimate,
indicate, suggest, adumbrate,
connote, signify, ingratiate, instill,
denote
instance: (n) exemplar, case, time,
illustration, sample, affair, pattern,
chance, cause; (v) exemplify,
illustrate
instant: (adj, n) present; (adj)
immediate, prompt; (n) flash,
minute, jiffy, point, second; (adj, v)
exigent; (adj, n, v) pressing, urgent
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ANTONYMS: (adv) later, slowly,
gradually
instead: (adv) instead of,
alternatively, as an alternative, in
place of, more willingly, to
compensate for, sooner, preferably,
otherwise, on the other hand; (n)
lieu
instrument: (n) channel, deed, tool,

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pawn, apparatus, agency,
document, expedient, appliance,
gear; (n, v) implement
insult: (n, v) contumely, affront,
abuse, flout, outrage, wound, taunt;
(n) disgrace, indignity, contempt; (v)
cut
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ANTONYMS: (n)
indifference, apathy, boredom,
distraction, hostility, detachment,
inattention, repulsion; (v) repel,
appall
interim: (adj) transitory, acting,
provisional, impermanent, transient;
(n) interval, interlude, pause, while,
lag; (adv) meantime
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ANTONYM: (n) continuation
invent: (v) devise, form, create,
excogitate, concoct, imagine,
contrive; (n, v) forge, fabricate,
design, coin
invention: (n) fabrication, conception,
fiction, imagination, creation,
discovery, device, innovation,
excogitation, artifice; (n, v) forgery
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ANTONYMS: (adj) obvious,
conspicuous, noticeable, palpable
invite: (v) tempt, allure, bid, call,
entice, ask, summon, attract, receive,
solicit; (n) invitation
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
delightful, pleasant, refreshing,
soothing
irrevocable: (adj) irrecoverable, final,
irreparable, irremediable,
irredeemable, conclusive,
irreclaimable, unchangeable, fixed;
(adj, v) irretrievable, inevitable
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ANTONYM: (adj) trusting
jewel: (n) gemstone, darling,
diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure,
ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou,
precious stone; (adj) brilliant
jewels: (n) jewelry, gems, wealth,
hoops, Perrie, riches, studs, fortune,
fineness, earrings, decoration
join: (v) unite, connect, associate,
combine, graft, assemble, attach,
affiliate, meet, get together; (n, v)
link
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ANTONYMS: (adj) miserable,
sorrowful, unhappy, despairing,
unpleasant, staid, sorry,
disappointed, depressed, heavy
judge: (v) consider, think, evaluate,
believe, condemn, assess, calculate,
guess; (n) arbitrator, arbiter; (n, v)
umpire
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ANTONYMS: (n)
clumsiness, request, tastelessness
jumps: (n) fit, nervousness, tension,
anxiety, jitters
jupiter: (n) Jove, blazon, deity, father,
Zeus, solar system, thunderer
justice: (adj, n) equity, right,

integrity, honesty; (n) judge,
impartiality, judicature, jurist,
morality, justness; (adj) just
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ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly,
unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly,
unlawfully, sinfully, falsely,
immorally
keen: (adj, v) eager, fresh, biting,
brisk, avid; (adj) sharp, intense,
intelligent, enthusiastic, exquisite,
piercing
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ANTONYMS: (v) lose, neglect,
entrust, return, let, discontinue,
reimburse, allow, stop, destroy,
break
keeping: (n) care, conservation,
charge, guardianship, maintenance,
holding, observance, storage,
conformation, consistency,
conformity
kept: (adj) reserved, preserve,
retained, remain, store, reserve,
hold, lodge, keep, retain, detained
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ANTONYMS: (v)
revitalize, revive; (n) hunter
killed: (n) casualty; (adj) fallen
kind: (n) sort, form, class, variety,
breed; (adj, n) helpful, good,
humane, friendly, gentle; (adj)
generous
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ANTONYMS: (v) enkindle, dampen,
calm, extinguish, quench, stifle
kindled: (adj) enkindled, lighted, lit,
burning

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kindly: (adj) kind, amiable, genial,
charitable; (adv) sympathetically,
benevolently, tenderly; (adj, n)
benign, gentle, sympathetic,
benevolent
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ANTONYMS: (n)
miserliness, spite, nastiness,
callousness, cruelty, unfriendliness,
maliciousness, thoughtlessness,
sourness, severity, disservice
kindred: (adj) cognate, akin, similar,
allied, related; (n) kin,
consanguinity, relation, folk, folks,
kin group
king: (n) mogul, sovereign, chief,
crown, tycoon, baron, ruler,
magnate, majesty, rex, power
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) naive, uncomprehending,
unconscious
knowledge: (n) information,
comprehension, science, lore,
understanding, intelligence, grasp,
erudition, acquaintance; (n, v)
cognition; (adj, n) art
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unknown, secret, unidentified,
unfamiliar
labour: (n, v) travail, labor, toil; (v)
grind, fag, drudge; (n) exertion,
employment, confinement, childbed,
business
laboured: (adj) labored, forced,
arduous, hard, strained, difficult,
laborious, grievous, grave, weighty,
unnatural
labourer: (n) laborer, toiler, peon,
navvy, porter, docker, gravedigger,
hodman, hewer, digger, drudge
lack: (n, v) deficiency, need,
destitution; (n) default, defect,
dearth, absence, insufficiency,
deficit, poverty; (v) fail
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ANTONYMS: (adj) full, plentiful,
burdened, capable, adequate,
perfect, present, complete,
privileged; (prep) with, including
lacquey: (n) lackey
lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess,
countess, spouse, madam, ma'am,
milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw
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ANTONYMS: (n)
celebration, joy; (v) revel, rejoice,
celebrate, applaud, praise,
compliment
land: (n) country, earth, soil,
kingdom, field, nation, estate,
domain; (v) disembark, debark, get
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ANTONYMS: (v) thrive, change
large: (adj) ample, generous,
considerable, broad, handsome,
high, bulky, heavy, capacious,
roomy; (adj, n) extensive
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ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) early,
punctual; (adv) punctually,
promptly; (adj) ahead, existing,
alive, initial, middle, old, premature
lately: (adv) tardily, newly, freshly,
belatedly, slowly, latterly, deadly;
(adj, adv) anew, late, afresh; (adj)
recent
latin: (n) romancer, romance
language; (adj) classical, emotional
laugh: (n, v) joke, giggle, chortle,
titter, snicker; (v) smile; (n) jest, gag,
jape, laughter, cackle
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ANTONYM: (adj)
serious
lawful: (adj) legal, just, rightful,
constitutional, true, right, justifiable,
licit, regular; (n, v) allowable; (adj,
v) permissible
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ANTONYMS: (adj) diligent, active,
prompt, vigorous, industrious, keen,
productive
lead: (n, v) guide; (v) conduct, direct,
contribute, go, control, conduce,
govern, chair, bring; (n) clue
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ANTONYMS: (adj) secondary,
subordinate, following, junior,
innocent, last, lousy, unimportant,
worst; (adv) behind, losing
lean: (adj, v) gaunt; (adj) emaciated,
thin, bony, lank; (n, v) bend, tilt,
slant, list, careen; (n) inclination
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ANTONYM: (v) reject
learned: (adj) educated,
knowledgeable, scholarly, academic,
cultured, literary, bookish, lettered;
(adj, v) enlightened, wise, knowing
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ANTONYMS: (v) enter,
arrive, stay, remain, come,
approach, change, reposition,
disinherit, occupy, participate
leer: (n, v) glance; (n) grin, wink,
smirk, look, gaze, nudge, shrug, tip
the wink; (v) simper, ogle
left: (adj) gone, absent, port, odd,
remaining, larboard, gauche,
sinister; (n) left hand, left wing, mitt
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ANTONYMS:
(n) shortness, width, breadth,
brevity, conciseness
less: (adj) inferior, wanting, minor,
secondary, subordinate, deficient,
minus, few; (adj, adv) lesser, lower;
(adv) below
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ANTONYMS: (n) slavery,
domination, constraint, suppression,
dependence
license: (n, v) permit, allow, licence;
(n) allowance, freedom, permission,
liberty, authority, authorization,
certificate; (v) certify
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ANTONYM: (n)
truth
lieu: (n) office, position, locality,
stead, behalf, part, role, berth,
station, site, seat
life: (adj, n) animation; (n) energy,
spirit, activity, dash, enthusiasm,
being, biography, existence,
exuberance, live
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ANTONYMS: (adj) lively, stiff,
alive, interesting, awake, moving,
upright, bright, brilliant, firm,
inspiring
light: (adj) fair, facile, faint; (adj, v)
clear; (n, v) fire, glow, flame; (v)
kindle, inflame, ignite; (n)
illumination
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ANTONYM: (adj)
disliked
likelihood: (n) chance, odds,
probability, eventuality, expectation,
likeliness, prospect, expectancy,
verisimilitude, appearance, option
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ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, aversion,
hatred, indifference, detachment,
dissatisfaction, antipathy
limb: (n) arm, branch, member,
bough, extremity, offshoot, part, leg,

wing, appendage, edge
lineaments: (v) exposition, tract,
length, expanse, area, extent; (n) face
lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj)
worthy, great card, tiger; (n) Leo,
cat, king of beasts, curiosity,
luminary, spectacle
lioness: (n) lion, king of beasts
lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference
per second, chops, porch, portal,
portico, propylon, snout, door,
orifice
lisp: (v) enunciate, mince, enounce,
breathe, lipse
little: (adj, adv) small; (adj)
diminutive, insignificant, short, tiny,
some, brief, petty, minute, exiguous;
(adv) rather
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ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate,
inactive, silent, dummy, blank,
recorded; (v) die, perish, expire
lively: (adj, adv) jolly, sprightly; (adj,
v) active, cheerful; (adj) energetic,
agile, keen, busy, gay, fresh, jovial
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ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n)
death, leisure
loath: (adj) unwilling, disinclined,
reluctant, loth, indisposed,
backward, hesitant, antipathetic,
antipathetical, loathe, shy of
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ANTONYMS: (v) like,
admire, adore
lodging: (n) abode, apartment,
accommodation, housing, hostel,
residence, quarter, home,
lodgement, address, hospice
long: (v) yearn, desire, hanker,
languish, ache, wish; (adj, n)
extensive; (n, v) hunger; (adj)

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extended, lengthy; (n) length
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ANTONYMS: (n) apathy,
disinclination; (adj) satisfied,
unconcerned
look: (n, v) gaze, aspect, figure; (adj,
v) seem; (v) appear, expect; (n)
appearance, expression, view,
glance, guise
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ANTONYM: (n)
lady
lose: (v) drop, forfeit, mislay, miss,
sacrifice, fall behind, fail, to lose,
forget, clear, hurt
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
present, found, existing, won, saved,
aware
love: (n) desire, fondness, affection,
dear, liking, benevolence, charity,
honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v)
worship
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ANTONYM: (adj) hated
lover: (n) dear, darling, fan, devotee,
beau, buff, love, admirer, beloved,
amorist, man
loving: (adj) fond, devoted, amorous,
kind, friendly, ardent, attached,
admiring, gentle, fatherly; (adj, v)
tender
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ANTONYM: (n) sanity
lungs: (v) air pump, air blower,
ventilator, punkah; (n) blowpipe,
organ
lusty: (adj) energetic, stout, lustful,
corpulent, potent, virile, vigorous,
hearty, sturdy, bouncing, dynamic
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ANTONYMS: (n) sense,
calmness, order
magician: (n) enchanter, conjurer,
illusionist, wizard, conjuror,
thaumaturge, magicians, performer,
magus, necromancer, prestidigitator
maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass,
lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin,
maiden, housemaid, handmaid
main: (adj) grand, great, leading,
head, principal, prominent, basic,
capital, central; (adj, n) essential,
cardinal
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ANTONYMS: (n) undoing,
destruction
malice: (n) spite, animosity, enmity,
venom, ill will, hatred, malevolence,
cruelty, envy, hate, spleen
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ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, bungle
mangled: (adj, prep) lacerated, rent;
(adj) deformed, mutilated, lacerate,
disabled, broken, maimed, distorted,
damaged, blasted
manly: (adj) manlike, masculine,
manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv)
manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely;
(adj, adv) stately
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ANTONYM:
(n) vulgarity
mannish: (adj) male, manly,
unwomanly
mark: (adj, n, v) notice; (n, v) brand,
score, heed, label, blemish; (n) sign,
impression, character; (v)
characterize, distinguish
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ANTONYMS: (adj) plain,
imperceptible, unmarked, unclear,
obscure, inconspicuous, ordinary,
loose, slight
market: (n) fair, emporium,
marketplace, bazaar, grocery store;
(n, v) shop, trade; (v) demand, sell,
commercialize, exchange
marketable: (adj) merchantable,
saleable, salable, vendible,
interchangeable, in demand, sought
after, wanted, liquid, trafficable,
realizable
marks: (v) score; (n) first baron marks
of Broughton, footprint, imprints,
inscription, path, script, Simon
marks, symbols, trace, track
marriage: (adj, n) bridal, nuptial; (n)
matrimony, espousal, union,
wedlock, intermarriage, alliance,
coupling; (n, v) match; (v) marry
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unmarried, unattached, divorced,
public
marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get
married, link, conjoin, wive, splice,
tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage
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ANTONYMS: (adj) civilian,
peaceful, unarmed
marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy,
curiosity, phenomenon, amazement,

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miracle, portent, marl, surprise,
admiration; (v) admire
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ANTONYMS: (n)
underling, servant, novice, amateur
masters: (n) Edgar lee Masters
master's: (n) postgraduate degree
match: (n, v) mate, meet, pair, fellow;
(v) agree, harmonise, accord,
correspond, harmonize; (adj, n, v)
parallel; (n) peer
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
insubstantial, immaterial,
incorporeal, insignificant,
unimportant, abstract, heavenly,
intangible, ethereal
matter: (n) business, substance, issue,
material, affair, concern, incident,
article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n)
import
matters: (n) affairs, materials,
dealings, proceedings
mean: (adj, n) middle, low,
contemptible, average, medium,
common; (v) design; (n, v) imply,
denote; (adj) ignoble, hateful
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ANTONYM: (n)
triviality
means: (n) instrument, agency,
income, assets, manner, funds,
capital, channel, property, resource,
resources
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ANTONYMS: (v)
guess, estimate
measured: (adj) careful, moderate,
calculated, temperate, reasonable,
regular, rhythmic, metrical, sober,
rhythmical, leisurely
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ANTONYMS: (v)
diverge, disperse, separate, part,
leave, differ, disband
meeting: (n) confluence, convention,
concourse, assembly, conference,
congress, council, meet, caucus,
appointment, junction
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ANTONYMS: (n)
happiness, cheerfulness,
hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy,
bright, cheery, satisfied
mend: (adj, v) improve; (v) correct,
cure, heal, doctor, better, amend,
restore, convalesce; (n, v) fix, patch
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ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, harshness,
unkindness, severity, mercilessness,
ruthlessness, impatience,
inhumanity
mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare,
simple, pure; (n) loch, tarn,
boundary, absolute; (n, v)
downright; (adv) merely; (adj, v)
clear
merely: (adj, adv) only, barely,
purely, simply, exclusively; (adv)
but, absolutely, entirely, simplely,
completely, unmixedly
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
sadly, anxiously, miserably,
unhappily, carefully, despondently
merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful,
glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome,

lighthearted, festive; (adj, n)
convivial, jovial
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ANTONYM:
(adj) nonmetallic
methinks: (adv) meseems
middle: (n) heart, hub, core, center;
(adj, n) mean, median, mid; (adj)
intermediate, halfway, mediate,
central
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ANTONYMS: (n) weakness,
feebleness, meekness
mightily: (adv) powerfully,
vigorously, strongly, greatly,
potently, fiercely, sturdily, violently,
robustly, puissantly, vastly
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ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny,
weak, insignificant
mild: (adj, n) kindly, gracious; (adj)
easy, lenient, benign, docile,
humble, clement, sweet, balmy,
delicate
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ANTONYMS: (v) forget, neglect,
disregard, disobey, Miss, ignore; (n)
emotion, inattention; (adj) physical
mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n)
excavation, pit, fund, land mine,
vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my,
delve
mingled: (adj) miscellaneous,
complex, indiscriminate,
heterogeneous, medley, confused,
eclectic, motley, different; (v)
blended, blent
minute: (n, v) note; (adj) little,
delicate, microscopic, small, atomic;

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(n) jiffy, flash, moment, second,
memorandum
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ANTONYMS: (n) gloom, sadness,
misery
mischievous: (adj) bad, injurious,
detrimental, naughty, deleterious,
impish, harmful, playful, maleficent,
arch; (adj, v) hurtful
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) happy, generous, cheerful,
cheery, bright, fortunate, hopeful,
jubilant, luxurious, overjoyed,
heavenly
misery: (adj, n) grief; (n, v) distress;
(n) affliction, agony, anguish, woe,
hardship, evil, ill, infelicity,
suffering
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ANTONYM:
(adj) found
mistake: (n, v) miss, blunder, err,
slip; (n) failure, error,
misconception, misapprehension,
defect, demerit; (v) misapprehend
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ANTONYM: (v) believe
mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v)
ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout;
(adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v)
mimic, ape, taunt
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
respectful, approving,
complimentary, sympathetic; (n)
praise
modern: (adj) new, fashionable, late,
advanced, current, latest, recent,
novel, present, contemporary,
stylish
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
pretentious, arrogant, spectacular,
conceited, showy, proud, pompous,
elaborate, grand, conspicuous,
ostentatious
moment: (n, v) consequence, weight;
(adj, n) instant; (n) flash, jiffy,
minute, import, second, time, bit,
hour
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ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, minute,
beautiful, good, small, lovely,
attractive
moral: (n) lesson, meaning; (adj)
good, decent, right, honest, virtuous,
proper, chaste, upright, righteous
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ANTONYMS: (n) sunset,
nighttime, nightfall
morrow: (n) morning, future, mean
solar day, day
mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal,
deathly, earthly; (n) man,
individual, creature, person, human
being, body
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ANTONYM: (adj) homogeneous
mountains: (n) plenty, mountain
range, mountain chain
mounted: (adj) equestrian, mounting,
mounts, set, firm, affixed, decorated
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ANTONYMS: (v) stay, restore,
refrain, remain, rest, withdraw, stop,
repel, come, leave
murder: (n, v) massacre, carnage,
slaughter, homicide, butcher; (v)
kill, slay, destroy, execute, dispatch,
assassinate
murmuring: (n) murmuration,
murmur, complaint, grumble,
muttering, mutter, murmur vowel;
(adj) whispering, humming,
droning, murmurous
music: (n) melody, chorus, musical,
sound, composition, monody, folk
music, medicine, euphony,
drumming, ballet
mustard: (n) Chinese mustard,
charlock, Indian mustard, GAI Choi,
colza, eagerness, cruciferous
vegetable, rape, mustard greens,
field mustard, condiment
mutiny: (n, v) insurrection, rebellion;
(n) disobedience, uprising,
revolution, outbreak,
insubordination, defiance, rising; (v)
rebel, rise
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ANTONYMS: (adv) universally,
generally
name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize,
list, enumerate, identify, cite,
mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n)
epithet
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ANTONYMS: (n) stranger, migrant,
foreigner; (adj) foreign, learned,
acquired, nonnative, overseas,
adopted; (adj, n) immigrant,
imported
nativity: (n) birth, horoscope,
nascency, delivery, genesis, cradle,
nascence, birthing, origin,
childbirth, births
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
affected, refined, false, cultivated,
unnatural, paranormal,
supernatural, abnormal, forced,
exceptional, strained
nature: (n) disposition, essence,
quality, creation, breed,
temperament, type, attribute; (adj,
n) character, class, manner
naught: (n) cipher, nothing, null,
aught, nix, nought, zip, cypher,
nada; (adj, n, pron) nil; (n, pron)
zilch
near: (adj, adv, v) close, at hand; (adv,
prep) by, around, towards; (adj, v)
familiar, adjoining, approximate;
(adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv)
almost; (adj) imminent
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ANTONYMS: (adj) optional,
surplus, needless, unjustified,
dispensable, possible, unimportant,
voluntary, nonessential,

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inappropriate; (n) inessential
necessities: (n) supplies, necessity,
essential, wants, support,
subsistence, requirement, bread
necessity: (n) demand, need, lack,
exigency, essential, compulsion,
emergency, distress, must,
constraint, necessary
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) essential, worthwhile,
inevitable, justifiable
needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully,
indispensably, by necessity,
inescapably, of necessity,
ineluctably; (n) must, requirement,
necessity; (adj) needed
ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not
neglect: (n, v) disregard, slight,
default; (v) ignore, fail, overlook,
miss, forget, drop; (n) carelessness,
omission
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ANTONYM: (adj)
salubrious
neighbour: (adj) neighboring,
neighbouring, neighborly, adjacent,
contiguous; (v) abut, populate,
adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n)
neighbourhood
neighbourly: (adj) amicable, friendly,
gracious, obliging, attentive, benign,
courteous, complaisant, helpful;
(adv) neighboringly
neither: (conj) either, no-one, not
either, nor, nother
nest: (n) den, lair, hole, burrow,
home, beehive; (adj) brood, hive,
litter; (adj, n) herd; (v) embed
never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always,
not ever, by no means, at all times,
not at all, not, NE
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ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) previous,
previously, preceding; (adj)
outgoing, distant; (adv) before
nibbling: (n) rate cutting, feeding,
eating
nice: (adj) fastidious, dainty, fine,
good, lovely, kind, likable, delicious,
difficult, precise; (adj, n) neat
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ANTONYMS: (n) day,
light, sunrise
nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night
nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile,
brisk, spry, alert, expeditious,
energetic, clever, lithe; (adj, v) light
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ANTONYMS: (adj) shameful,
humble, dishonorable, lowly,
lowborn, disgraceful, unimpressive,
ignoble, modest, petty; (n) lady
nominate: (n, v) appoint, designate,
name, call; (v) constitute, establish,
make, institute, assign; (n) entitle,
nomination
none: (n) nought, naught, nobody,
zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither,
any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever
nook: (n) angle, niche, recess, hole,
coign, bay, compartment, oriel, cove,
refuge, haven
nose: (n) hooter, neb, nozzle,
proboscis, honker, bow, odour; (v)
wind, pry, scent; (n, v) sniff
note: (n, v) comment, mind, remark,
mention, heed, mark, look, report;
(n) indication, annotation; (v) detect
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ANTONYMS: (pron) anything,
everything, some; (n) all
notice: (n, v) note, mind, regard; (n)
advertisement, information,
declaration, attention; (adj, v) look,
attend; (v) find, detect
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ANTONYMS: (n, v)
neglect
oath: (n) expletive, malediction,
imprecation, promise, affidavit,
cuss, swearing, pledge, assurance,
asseveration; (v) swear
object: (n) cause, intent, meaning,
mark, subject, objective, substance;
(n, v) aim, end, intention; (v) except
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ANTONYMS: (n) breaking,
disobedience, disregard,
nonobservance, inattention,
omission
observation: (adj, n) observance; (n)
remark, comment, attention,
contemplation, perception,
conception; (n, v) inspection, notice,
note, consideration
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ANTONYM: (n) unlikelihood
odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious;
(adj) detestable, hideous, nasty,
execrable, disgusting, abhorrent,
abominable, heinous, forbidding
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ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight,
praise, attract
offer: (v) give, bestow, put, tender,
extend, impart, introduce, advance,
propose; (n) proposal, proposition
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
seldom, infrequently, never
olive: (n) Olea europaea, European
olive tree, wood, olive tree, olive
green, chromatic color, chromatic
colour, drupe; (adj) green, glaucous,
chromatic
oliver: (n) king Oliver
ominous: (adj) baleful, inauspicious,
ill, menacing, threatening, black,
sinister, minatory, unlucky,
forbidding, minacious
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ANTONYM: (adv) future
open: (adj, n) frank, candid; (adj, n, v)
clear; (adj) obvious, exposed, artless,
free, honest, guileless, forthright,
naked
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
final, last; (adj, n) closing; (n) exit,
finale, finish, ending, shutting,
postscript, conclusion
opinion: (adj, n, v) judgment, feeling,
notion; (n) idea, belief, conjecture,
advice, guess, impression, view; (n,
v) meaning
orchard: (n) park, garden, plantation,
arboretum, avenue, pinetum,
shrubbery, woodlet, parterre,
pinery, copse
order: (n, v) command, direct, decree,
dictate, sort, rank, array,
commission, charge; (n) instruction,
edict
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unusual, strange, peculiar,
outstanding, incredible, special,
famous, distinguished, abnormal,
particular, exotic
others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave,
LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission
ought: (n, v) need; (v) had better,
should, have, possessed, owned,
owed, behoove; (n) aught, zero,
duty
ourselves: (pron) myself, herself,
itself, oneself, themselves, yourself;
(n) me, yourselves, usself
outface: (v) brave, dip slope, gaze,
outscout, stare down
outstay: (v) overstay, outlast, last out,
abide, outsit, outride, bide
owner: (n) proprietor, possessor,
holder, lord, landowner, landholder,
boss, proprietary, landlord, keeper,
employer
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ANTONYMS:
(v) encourage, cheer; (n) joy, peace,
content, balm, ecstasy
pains: (n) nisus, labor, trouble, effort,
exertion, labour, pain, care, struggle,
attempt, strain
painted: (adj) colored, dyed,
coloured, motley, stained, tinted,
variegated, particoloured,
delineated, graphic; (v) depaint
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ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, rosy,
brown, well, glowing, vivid,
healthy, clear, colorful; (v) redden,
darken
palm: (n) medal, decoration, prize,
palm tree, victory, thenar, laurel
wreath; (v) filch, cabbage, rob; (adj)
totipalmate
panel: (n) pane, jury, control panel,
slab, control board, dashboard,
caisson, defendant, coffer, wall; (n,
v) empanel
paper: (n) article, newspaper,
discourse, newsprint, publication,
journal, essay, periodical, report,
magazine, certificate
parcels: (n) post, correspondence,
baggage, appurtenances, letters
pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive,
acquit, spare; (n) amnesty,
forgiveness, grace; (adj, v) justify,
exonerate, exculpate
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ANTONYMS:
(n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite,
meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly
parted: (adj) divided, separate,
distributed, separated, divisible,
disunited, compounder, compound,
dividable
particulars: (n) specification, data,
nicety, minutiae, terms,
consideration, workings, fine points,
ins and outs
partly: (adj) half, semi, quasi; (adv)
part, constituently, in part, sidely,
moderately, halfway, incompletely,
relatively
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ANTONYMS: (v) reject, make,
take, veto; (n) failing, rejection,
exclusion
passing: (adj) transient, ephemeral,
momentary, cursory, brief; (n)
overtaking, departure, expiration,
decease, passage, death
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ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, hate,
serenity, meekness, hatred, doubt,
dislike, calmness, moderation
past: (n) history, yesterday; (adj, adv,
prep) beyond; (adj) former, bygone,
old, prior, over, gone by; (adv)
before; (adv, pref) along
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ANTONYMS: (n)
impatience, eagerness, intolerance,
annoyance
patient: (adj) forbearing, passive,
calm, enduring, resigned,
uncomplaining, tolerant, stoical,
lenient, meek, persistent
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ANTONYM: (adv)
eagerly
payment: (n) compensation, charge,
cost, defrayal, bonus, recompense,
remuneration, expense, installment,
deposit, outlay
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ANTONYM: (n) dud
peasant: (n) farmer, churl, bucolic,
countryman, clown, cottar, cotter,
hind, provincial, rustic, muzjik
peevish: (adj) fretful, fractious,
morose, testy, irascible, moody,
captious, petulant, cross,
cantankerous, touchy
penalty: (n) fine, forfeit, forfeiture,
amercement, penalization, penance,
handicap, sentence, castigation; (n,
v) condemnation, judgment
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ANTONYMS: (n)
wealth, affluence, luxury
perceive: (v) comprehend,
apprehend, discover, see, grasp,
find, know, observe, sense,
appreciate; (adj, v) discern
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ANTONYMS: (adj) flawed, faulty,
wrong, inferior, misshapen,
incorrect, defective, used, everyday,
unhappy, partial
perforce: (n) on compulsion; (adv)
needs
perform: (v) execute, fulfill,
accomplish, do, achieve, complete,
carry out, behave, make, play,
appear
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ANTONYM: (adj)
odorless
peril: (n, v) hazard, risk, endanger,
menace, adventure; (n) danger,
jeopardy, chance; (v) imperil,
expose, compromise
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ANTONYMS: (v) discourage,
dissuade, deter, restrain, force
persuaded: (adj) sure, satisfied, easily
affected, impressible, positive,
delicate, sensible, intelligent, certain,
in no doubt, definite
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ANTONYMS: (n) whole,
chunk; (v) disassemble
pigeons: (n) order Columbiformes,
Columbiformes
piteous: (adj) miserable, pitiful,
pathetic, doleful, lamentable, abject,
compassionate, unfortunate, poor,
paltry, pitiable
pitiful: (adj, n) abject; (adj) pathetic,
lamentable, piteous, contemptible,
miserable, distressing, mean,
wretched, poor, sad
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ANTONYMS: (n) blame,
cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy
place: (n, v) post, order; (v) fix, lay,
arrange, locate, install; (adj, n, v)
rank, station; (n) domicile, office
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ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate,
unclear, multicolored, mottled,
ornate, concealed, attractive,
confused, fussy, obscure, patterned
plants: (n) flora, vegetation, trees,
industrial equipment, afforestation,
animals, birds, flora and fauna,
foliage, natural world, plantation
play: (n, v) act, frolic, pastime, game,
sport, exercise, joke, bet, wager; (v)
enact; (adj, v) perform
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ANTONYMS: (v) displease, annoy,
irritate, anger, distress, sicken,
disappoint, dissatisfy, sadden, repel,
appall
pleased: (adj) contented, glad,
delighted, content, joyful, thankful,
gratified, appreciative, overjoyed,
cheerful; (adj, v) elated
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unpleasant, unwelcome, infuriating,
disappointing, straight, hurtful,
maddening, displeasing, discordant,
harsh, frustrating
pleasure: (n) fun, enjoyment,
delectation, joy, comfort, happiness,
mirth, inclination; (n, v)
contentment, content; (adj, n, v)
gratification
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
meager, sparse
plentifully: (adv) plenteously,
bountifully, bounteously,
abundantly, profusely, richly, fully,
liberally, opulently, amply,
prolifically
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
insufficient, inadequate; (n) scarcity,
insufficiency; (adv) insufficiently
plucked: (v) ploughed; (adj) pulled,
unfeathered, featherless, moulting,
pilled
poet: (n) singer, songster, elegist,
author, Gilbert, maker, lyricist,
muse, versifier; (adj) poet laureate,
Shakespearean
poetical: (adj) imaginative, rhetorical,
poematic, figurative, inventive
poetry: (n) verse, poesy, song, rhyme,
style, poetics, epos, poems, stanza,
doggerel, tuneful Nine
points: (n) turnout, handicap,
interest, percentage, brownie points,
commendation, credit, eight points,
share, terms
poison: (adj, v) contaminate, taint; (n,
v) envenom, drug, empoison; (adj)
toxic, poisonous; (v) defile,
intoxicate; (n) bane, venom
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
injudicious, unwise, impolitic,
foolish
pomp: (n) grandeur, parade,
ostentation, show, ceremony, glory,
luxury, pageantry, magnificence,
state, splendor
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ANTONYMS: (adj) modest,
straightforward, unceremonious,
quiet, unassuming, natural,
deferential, relaxed, meek
poor: (adj) bad, miserable, piteous,
destitute, pitiful, insufficient,
penniless, pathetic; (adj, v) meager;
(adj, n) paltry, mean
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ANTONYM: (n)
whole
possessed: (adj) mad, obsessed,
frantic, hysterical, furious, fanatical,
infatuated, insane; (v) ought, owed,
behoove
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) unlikely, compulsory, actual,
implausible, unrealistic,
unattainable
post: (n, v) place, position, stake,
station; (n) office, function, pillar,
attitude; (v) locate, enter, lay
potent: (adj) forcible, influential,
forceful, cogent, hard, mighty,
persuasive, strong, efficacious; (adj,
n) effective, effectual
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ANTONYMS: (v) drizzle, trickle
poured: (adj) concrete
poverty: (n, v) lack, destitution,

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penury, need, indigence, want; (adj,
n) distress; (n) pauperism,
impoverishment, squalor,
deprivation
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ANTONYMS:
(n) powerlessness, helplessness,
weakness, inability, subjugation,
moderation, calmness, meekness,
inferiority, feebleness, ease
powers: (n) authority, capacity,
strength, administration
practise: (v) execute, practice,
perform, exercise, drill, do, rehearse,
learn, take, work out, read
praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter,
celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend,
compliment, honor, glory, acclaim;
(n) applause
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ANTONYM: (v) reject
precious: (adj, n) beloved; (adj)
valuable, costly, cherished,
invaluable, expensive, golden,
choice, inestimable, exquisite; (n)
darling
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ANTONYM: (v) perform
prepared: (adj) willing, disposed,
fitted, fain, finished, ready, ripe,
primed, competent, inclined,
efficient
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ANTONYMS: (n)
absence, nonattendance
present: (adj, n, v) gift, grant; (n, v)
donation, display; (adj, v) confer,
bestow; (v) introduce, give, prefer,
offer, perform
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ANTONYMS: (adv) later,
now, formerly
press: (n, v) crush, crowd, squeeze,
pack; (adj, v) force; (v) push, urge,
coerce, exhort, mash, compress
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) plain, unattractive, modern,
inelegant; (adv) extremely
prey: (n) chase, game, victim,
immolation, quarry, target, mark,
capture; (n, v) plunder, raven; (v)
eat
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ANTONYMS: (n)
modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace,
shame, baseness
priest: (adj, n) clergyman, divine; (n)
minister, ecclesiastic, churchman,
pastor, celebrant, parson, cleric,
presbyter, chaplain
princess: (n) queen, duchess, begum,
czarina, maharani, monarch,
archduchess, lady, patrician,
maharanee, mopsey
principal: (adj, n) chief, master,
cardinal, primary, leading, capital,
prime, main; (adj) grand; (n)
manager, leader
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
official, nationalized, community,
communal, shared, civic, state, open,

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external, commercial, collective
prize: (v) appreciate, esteem, value,
cherish, admire; (n) plunder, award,
booty, premium; (n, v) treasure,
honor
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ANTONYMS: (v) discontinue,
recede, regress, return, retreat
prodigal: (adj) extravagant,
improvident, generous, lavish,
wasteful, excessive, exuberant,
liberal, profuse, dissipated; (adj, n)
profligate
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ANTONYM: (v) repress
profit: (n, v) gain, produce, net,
increase, help; (adj, n, v) benefit,
advantage; (n) account, earnings,
lucre; (adj, n) good
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ANTONYMS: (adj) shallow, trivial,
lightweight, stupid, simple, mild,
facile, slight, insignificant, prosaic
prologue: (n) preface, introduction,
preamble, foreword, Prolog,
overture, proem, preliminary,
beginning, prolegomena, opening
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ANTONYM: (n) contradiction
proper: (adj) due, decent, modest,
agreeable, fitting, legitimate, right;
(adj, v) correct, fit, becoming; (adj, n)
just
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
improperly, incorrectly,
inappropriately, unlawfully,
unsuitably, unduly, informally,
indecently, dishonorably, badly,
jokingly
property: (n) characteristic, capital,
peculiarity, feature, character,
belongings, goods, wealth; (adj, n)
attribute, quality; (n, v) possession
protest: (n) demonstration, objection,
complaint, challenge, question; (v)
assert, object, complain,
remonstrate, demur; (n, v) moan
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ANTONYMS: (adj) humble, modest,
ashamed, embarrassed, sorrowful,
disappointed, miserable
prove: (v) attest, manifest, evidence,
establish, show, examine, verify,
essay, check, corroborate; (adj, v)
confirm
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ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold,
divest, neglect, take, buy
providently: (adv) foresightedly,
circumspectly, prudently, thriftily,
sparingly, frugally, economically,
farsightedly, cautiously, wisely,
sagaciously
public: (n) folk, people, populace;
(adj) national, overt, civic,
communal, popular; (adj, v) general,
open; (adj, n) community
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ANTONYMS: (v) excuse, exonerate,
pardon, reward, commend

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puny: (adj) weak, petty, feeble, frail,
tiny, small, minute, measly, runty,
paltry, trivial
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ANTONYMS: (v)
sell, lose; (n) loss, sale
pure: (adj) absolute, natural, faultless,
innocent, immaculate, perfect, good,
clean; (adj, n) chaste, genuine; (adj,
v) mere
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ANTONYMS: (n) coarseness,
impurity, contamination, clutter,
dirtiness, corruption, mustiness
purlieus: (n) neighborhood, environs,
confines, skirt, vicinity, boundary,
suburbs, environment, entourage,
bound; (adj) vicinage
purpose: (n, v) plan, intention,
design, project, resolve, purport,
end, object; (n) mind, effect, motive
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ANTONYM: (adv) unintentionally
purse: (n) bag, pouch, money,
handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook,
pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease
pursuit: (n) quest, hunt, search,
persecution, chase, career, interest,
job, business, performance,
employment
push: (n, v) press, thrust, impel, jolt,
force, jab, nudge, crowd, prod, poke;
(v) jostle
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ANTONYMS: (n) agreement,
reconciliation, acceptance, concord,
consensus; (v) agree
quarrelsome: (adj) argumentative,
belligerent, combative,
cantankerous, aggressive,
disputatious, ugly, currish,
termagant; (adj, n) contentious; (adj,
v) fretful
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ANTONYMS: (n) certainty,
resolution; (n, v) trust; (v) praise,
reply, believe, accept
quick: (adj) bright, hasty, agile,
nimble, intelligent, clever, speedy,
active, immediate, instant; (adj, v)
prompt
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
slowly, gradually, permanently,
later, eventually, thoroughly
quiet: (adj, adv, v) still; (adj, n, v) lull,
hush, pacify, compose, appease,
assuage; (adj, v) moderate, cool; (adj,
adv) gentle, motionless
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ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy,
enter, maintain, start, come, arrive

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quite: (adj, adv) altogether, fully,
sheer, just; (adv) all, absolutely,
completely, entirely, exactly,
enough, well
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) smart, elegant, smooth, new,
even
rail: (n) balustrade, handrail, railing,
fence, banister, track, guardrail,
path; (v) inveigh, vituperate,
fulminate
railing: (n) balustrade, rail, barrier,
guardrail, banister, fence, pale,
paling, breastwork, handrail; (adj, n)
invective
rain: (n, v) stream, hail; (n)
precipitation, wet, pelting, flow,
downpour, rainwater; (v)
precipitate, shower, rain down
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) downgrade; (v)
lessen, demote, decrease, level,
reduce, dismantle, knock; (n)
lowering, reduction, descent
rank: (n, v) range, order, place,
position, grade, class, line, file; (v)
arrange, classify; (n) gradation
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ANTONYMS: (adj) common,
frequent, usual, plentiful,
commonplace, recurrent
rascal: (n) villain, rapscallion,
monkey, miscreant, knave,
scoundrel, scamp, rogue, varlet,
vagabond, brat
rascally: (adj) dirty, contemptible,
abject, mean, mischievous,
scoundrelly, roguish, scabby,
scurvy, shabby, paltry
rather: (adv) a little, enough, fairly,
pretty, moderately, considerably,

very, relatively, kind of, instead,
kinda
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ANTONYM: (v) write
reading: (n, v) read; (n) recital,
learning, interpretation, lection,
construction, version, study,
perusal, erudition, exegesis
ready: (v) prepare, fix; (adj, v) fit,
disposed, willing; (adj) quick,
prompt, nimble, apt; (adj, n)
available, dexterous
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ANTONYMS: (v) lose, scatter
reason: (n) account, intellect,
occasion, object, understanding,
argument, purpose; (n, v) cause; (v)
argue, debate; (adj, n) rationality
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
illogical, unfair, expensive,
unsatisfactory, inadequate,
excessive, intolerable, intemperate,
inexplicable, ridiculous, obsessional
reasons: (n) proof
rebellious: (adj) insubordinate,
mutinous, disaffected, defiant,
disobedient, contrary,
contumacious, insurgent, stubborn,
unruly, malcontent
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ANTONYMS: (v)
refuse, disburse, lose, mail, present,
spend, dispatch
reckoning: (n) calculation,
computation, bill, score, computing,
liquidation, clearance; (n, v) count,
enumeration, account, estimation
recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n)
compensation, amends, atonement,
payment, consideration,
indemnification, indemnity; (v)
compensate, reimburse
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ANTONYMS: (v) allow,
receive, permit, offer, dedicate,
approve, agree, admit, choose, pass,
affirm
refusing: (adj) negative, dismissive,
denying, recusative, noncompliant
rejoice: (v) cheer, gladden, triumph,
revel, jubilate, gratify, gloat, please;
(n, v) delight, glory, joy
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ANTONYMS: (n)
capture, discomfort, worry,
aggravation, grief, hindrance,
intensification, distress
relieve: (n, v) ease, assuage, mitigate,
alleviate, allay, calm, redress; (v)
free, help, console, excuse
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ANTONYMS: (adj) irreverent,
irreligious, slapdash, atheistic,
impious, uncommitted
religiously: (adv) conscientiously,
spiritually, devoutly, reverently,
sacredly, holy, Godly, scrupulously,
devotedly, morally, devotionally
relish: (n, v) enjoy, fancy, love; (n)
gusto, liking, palate, enthusiasm,
enjoyment; (adj, n) flavor; (v) bask,
like
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ANTONYM: (n) poison
remember: (v) commemorate,
recognize, recollect, recall, consider,
memorize, think, mind, call to mind,
retain, bear in mind
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
connected, together, worldly
render: (v) interpret, explain, give,
offer, furnish, pay, construe, return,
provide, impart, translate
reply: (n) echo, response, reaction,
repay; (n, v) return, rejoinder; (v)
respond, react, rejoin, retort,
counter
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ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, dishonor,
obscurity
request: (n, v) demand, bid, invite,
wish, appeal; (v) ask, order, pray,
call for; (n) prayer, application
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ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, uncertain,
uncommitted, timid, fickle, feeble,
indecisive, flexible, flippant,
hesitant, undecided
resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine,
solve, decide, dissolve, decompose,
settle; (n) determination, firmness,
decision, resolution
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) scorn, dishonor,
disregard; (n) cheek, insolence,
impudence, disdain; (v) despise,
humiliate, break, taint
rest: (adj, n) remnant, remainder,
residue; (n, v) pause, balance, nap,
relaxation, sleep; (n) recess, leisure;
(v) remain
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ANTONYMS: (v) remain, enter
retort: (n, v) answer, return, riposte;
(n) response, rejoinder, repartee,
comeback; (v) respond, repay,
rejoin, alembic
retreat: (v) retire, withdraw, depart;
(n) refuge, departure, asylum, den,
lair, retirement; (n, v) resort, return
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ANTONYMS: (n)
departure, confiscation, abolition,
recovery, loss, disappearance,
penalty; (v) keep, depart, take,
remove

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revenge: (n) retribution, vengeance,
reprisal, retaliation, repayment,
grudge, punishment; (v) retaliate,
repay, requite, vindicate
revenue: (n) receipts, proceeds,
profit, earnings, interest, return,
yield, gain, gate, returns, incomings
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ANTONYMS: (n) despise,
disrespect, irreverence, disdain,
disparagement, contempt; (v)
dishonor
reward: (n, v) recompense, return,
compensation, guerdon, wage,
meed, prize, bribe; (v) repay,
requite; (n) payment
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ANTONYMS: (adj) poor,
impoverished, destitute, broke,
light, plain, lean, delicate, infertile,
weak, barren
ridiculous: (adj) foolish,
preposterous, funny, laughable,
ludicrous, inane, nonsensical,
comical, farcical, amusing, comic
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
improperly, sinfully
ring: (n, v) encircle, peal, call, loop,
jingle; (v) resound, echo,
reverberate; (n) gang, band, rim
rings: (n) ornaments, necklaces,
jewels, costume jewelry, charms,
bracelets
ripe: (adj) adult, ready, advanced,
prepared, good, grown, perfect,
matured, finished, consummate;
(adj, v) mellow
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ANTONYM: (n)
walkway
root: (n) foundation, base, origin,
basis, radix, cause, derivation,
reason, fountainhead; (adj, n)
radical; (v) establish
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) fresh, superior, unrotten, good,
incorruptible, honest, lovely, fair,
great, respectful
rough: (adj, n) hard, grating, jagged;
(adj, n, v) harsh; (adj) raw, gross,
cruel, crude, gruff; (adj, v) hoarse;
(n, v) draft
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ANTONYMS: (adj) sharp, slender,
thin, square, harsh, reedy, evasive;
(prep) exactly
roundly: (adv) bluntly, fully,
roundedly, wholly, bluffly,
spherically, plumply, entirely,
round, completely, globularly
royal: (adj, adv) regal, majestic; (adj)
imperial, magnificent, kingly, noble,
brilliant, sovereign, purple, August,
princely
roynish: (adj) roinish
rude: (adj, n) rough, impudent,
coarse, abrupt, bold; (adj) blunt,
discourteous, impolite, brutal,
crude, mean
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
town, urbane, cultured, city,
sophisticated
rustically: (adv) simplely, rurally,
homely, unsophisticatedly, roughly,
pastorally, crudely, vulgarly,
rusticly, savagely, unpolishedly
sacred: (adj) holy, hallowed,
dedicated, consecrated, divine,
religious, pious, spiritual, inviolable,
blessed; (adj, v) solemn
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ANTONYMS: (n) joy, amusement,
cheerfulness, laughter, contentment,
comfort, cheer, hopefulness
safety: (n) guard, security, refuge,
safe, bingle, base hit, sanctuary,
asylum, preservation, cover, shelter
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ANTONYMS: (n) acquisition,
purchase
salute: (v) greet, hail, kiss, accost,
acknowledge, buss; (n) salutation,
bow, salaam; (n, v) address,
compliment
same: (adj) identical, equal, like,
corresponding, equivalent, similar,
uniform, even, consistent, matching;
(adv) equally
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ANTONYM:
(adj) secular
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sacredness, devotion, piety,
saintliness, purity, halidom,
sanctimony, religion, innocence
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) frustrated, anxious,
disgruntled, hungry, insistent,
pensive, unsure, dissatisfied,
ashamed
satisfy: (v) please, persuade, meet,
satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj,
v) content, fill, suffice, do
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ANTONYM:
(adj) respectful
savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious;
(adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel,
bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n)
brute; (n) vandal
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ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander,
use, abandon, endanger, capture,
asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy
saying: (adj, n, v) maxim; (n) axiom,
adage, phrase, dictum, idiom,
byword, aphorism, expression; (n, v)
saw, proverb
scape: (n) flower stalk, peduncle,
shaft, scapus, ray, perspective, Peter,
prick, prospect, barb, rotating shaft
scar: (n, v) mark, blemish, seam,
stain, brand; (n) cicatrix, cicatrice,
defect, scratch, injury; (v) disfigure
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ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful,
common, adequate, strong, usual,
extensive
scarf: (n) neckerchief, handkerchief,
stole, necktie, cravat, kerchief,
mantilla, shawl, wrap, tie, stock
scene: (n, v) aspect, view, outlook,

lookout; (n) background, display,
spectacle, picture, environment,
panorama, perspective
school: (v) educate, instruct, train,
coach; (n) class, sect, shoal, college,
herd, training, teaching
schooled: (adj) instructed, tutored,
expert, sophisticated, full-fledged,
taught, scholarly
scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n,
v) ridicule, neglect, disregard,
deride, slight; (n) contempt,
derision, mockery
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal
search: (v) grope, rummage, ransack,
pry; (n) pursuit, exploration,
examination, inquiry, inspection; (n,
v) inquire, research
searching: (adj) piercing, inquisitive,
probing, acute, exhaustive, curious,
inquiring, profound, exploratory;
(adj, v) cutting; (v) excruciating
second: (n) instant, jiffy, flash,
minute, sec; (v) back, endorse, help;
(n, v) support; (adj) latter, further
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n) known,
public; (adj) open, overt, apparent,
unrestricted, external, visible,
outermost, transparent, blatant
secretly: (adv) privately,
confidentially, quietly, stealthily,
surreptitiously, furtively, in secret,
darkly, secretively, clandestinely,
occultly
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ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant
seeking: (n) hunt, pursuit, hunting,
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zetetic; (prep) looking for
seem: (v) appear, feel, seeming, loom,
expect, show, beseem, sound, glitter,
glisten, gleam
seeming: (adj) ostensible, superficial,
illusory, outward, probable,
deceptive, specious; (adj, n)
appearance, semblance; (n) aspect,
show
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ANTONYMS: (v) baulk, relinquish,
restore, surrender, give, remove
seizure: (n) arrest, confiscation,
capture, seizing, apprehension,
appropriation, attachment,
convulsion, detention; (adj, n)
attack, assumption
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ANTONYM:
(v) keep
senior: (adj) older, old, major, elderly,
aged; (n) head, dean, doyen,
commander, ruler; (adj, n) superior
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) meaningful, wise, conscious,
provoked, prudent, useful,
worthwhile
sensual: (adj, v) luxurious,
voluptuous; (adj, adv) fleshly; (adj)
animal, lascivious, sexy, sexual,
libidinous, lewd, gross, licentious
sent: (adj) dispatched, imported,
ecstatic, blissful, fascinated,
intoxicated; (v) transmit
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ANTONYMS: (n) reward,
absolution; (v) absolve, acquit
sententious: (adj) pithy, concise,
laconic, brief, aphoristic, short, terse,
pointed, compact, compressed,
pregnant
servant: (n) manservant, domestic,
lackey, maid, employee, flunkey,
retainer, boy, footman, flunky,

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ANTONYMS: (n) disservice,
damage, hindrance, uselessness
servitude: (n) bondage, serfdom,
enslavement, captivity, slavery,
yoke, vassalage, thrall, easement,
serfhood, dependency
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) unsettled, exciting, temporary
seven: (adj, n) VII; (n) September,
septet, week, nine, knave, king, jack,
queen, digit, Sevener
seventeen: (n) large integer
seventh: (n) common fraction,
interval
severally: (adv) separately,
respectively, singly, variously,
sundrily, independently,
particularly, several, distinctly,
apart; (adj, adv) one by one
severe: (adj, n) rigid, austere,
inclement, rough, hard; (adj, v)
biting, cutting; (adj) rigorous, bad,
intense, heavy
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ANTONYMS:
(n) brightness, glare; (v) brighten,
clarify, expose
shadow: (n) ghost, darkness,
apparition, follower, gloom,
reflection; (n, v) eclipse, trace, tail,
hint; (v) follow
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ANTONYMS: (v) soothe,
steady
shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require,
bequeath, leave
shallow: (adj) superficial, low,
cursory, petty, little, sketchy, flimsy,
frivolous, simple, surface,
perfunctory
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ANTONYMS: (n) pride,
glorification, making, worthiness;
(v) acknowledge, glorify, respect,
dignify
shamed: (adj) dishonored, ashamed,
hangdog, guilty, discredited,
abashed, sheepish, embarrassed,
shamefaced, bullied, cowed
shank: (n) haft, hilt, cannon, shaft,
stem, leg, pole, helm, heft, serif,
scale
shape: (n, v) cast, mold, fashion,
mould, model, make, design; (n)
pattern, figure; (v) determine,
influence
share: (n, v) portion, allot, part,
distribute, apportion, deal, divide;
(v) participate, partake, dispense; (n)
dole
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ANTONYM: (v)
lengthen
sheep: (n) goat, ram, tup, ewe, cattle,
follower, Bovidae, stock, simple,
simpleton, family Bovidae
sheepcote: (n) sheep pen, fold,
sheepcot, crease, congregation,
plication, crimp, faithful, flexure,
folding, pen
shelter: (n, v) guard, refuge, harbor,
protect, shield; (adj, n, v) screen; (n)
protection, asylum, sanctuary,
security, hut
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ANTONYMS: (v) restore, leave,
straighten; (n) preservation, stillness
shining: (adj, v) brilliant; (adj)
lustrous, radiant, glossy, luminous,
glorious, glowing; (adj, n) lucid,
resplendent, clear; (v) shine
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ANTONYMS: (adv)
politely, pleasantly, verbosely, later
shoulder: (v) carry, push, hold, jostle,
sustain, support, assume, accept; (n,
v) elbow; (n) back, flange
shout: (n, v) cry, clamor, scream, yell,
roar, call, bellow, screech; (v) bawl,
hollo; (n) cheer
show: (adj, n, v) present, appearance;
(n, v) exhibit, produce, broadcast,
indicate, parade; (v) point out; (n)
presentation, ostentation; (adj, v)
guide
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ANTONYMS: (adj) foolish,
gullible, naive, soft, candid, dim,
innocent, guileless, obtuse,
indiscriminate
shrink: (adj, v) recoil; (n, v) flinch,
wince; (v) contract, shorten, lessen,
diminish, cower, reduce, quail,
decrease
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ANTONYMS:
(v) admit, undo
sick: (adj) ill, queasy, poorly, ailing,
weary, diseased, sickly, morbid;
(adj, v) indisposed, unwell; (adj, n)
invalid
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ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, central,
major, primary; (n) back, front,
center, middle; (v) straddle
sigh: (n, v) groan, suspire, murmur;
(v) breathe, languish, pine; (n)
breath, wail, whimper, whine,
suspiration
sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show,
aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot,
see; (n) view, prospect, scene
signior: (n) don, man, Mr, adult male,

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silence: (adj, n, v) calm, still; (int, n,
v) hush; (n, v) lull; (n) mum; (adj, v)
appease; (v) mute, allay, pacify,
muzzle; (int, v) shut up
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ANTONYMS: (adj) complex,
complicated, compound, elaborate,
difficult, multiple, obscure, ornate,
problematical, sophisticated,
confusing
simples: (n) galenicals, medicine,
physic
simply: (adj, adv) only, exclusively,
barely; (adv) just, alone, directly,
purely, absolutely, easily, plainly;
(adj) straightforward
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ANTONYM: (adj) stout
sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone,
intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch;
(n, v) twitter, squeak
single: (adj) celibate, odd, particular,
separate, solitary, isolated, sole,
lone, lonely, simple; (adj, n) one
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ANTONYM: (n) brother
sisterhood: (n) sorority, family
relationship, relationship, Women's
Liberation, cousinhood, society,
fellowship, order, kinship, sistership
sitting: (n) session, seat, seance,

meeting, seating, conference, posing;
(adj) seated, inactive; (v) incubation,
batching
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ANTONYM: (n) slenderness
skill: (n) artifice, capacity, capability,
knack, ability, faculty, finesse,
cleverness, expertise; (adj, n) craft,
cunning
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ANTONYMS: (n, v)
acclaim; (v) compliment; (n)
acclamation
slave: (n) servant, bondman, thrall,
bondsman, bondwoman, captive,
vassal; (n, v) labor; (v) drudge,
work; (adj, n) inferior
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ANTONYMS: (v) awaken; (n)
alertness, agitation
sleeping: (adj) asleep, inactive, latent,
sleepy, vegetive, vegetative; (n)
dormancy, noctambulism,
quiescence, quiescency, short sleep
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) stocky, fat, wide, considerable,
short, substantial, good, adequate,
stout, thick
slight: (adj, adv) light; (adj) thin,
flimsy, slender, fragile, petty, little;
(adv, n, v) neglect; (n, v) insult,
scorn; (v) ignore
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ANTONYM: (n) invoice
slowly: (adj, adv, v) slow; (adv)
deliberately, sluggishly, tediously,
dully, gradually, unhurriedly,
slackly, lethargically, belatedly; (adj,
adv) lento
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ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) big;
(adj) sizeable, colossal, considerable,
enormous, great, huge, bulky,
major, giant, important
smaller: (adj) littler, inferior, lesser,
less, little, shorter, lower, littlest,
subordinate
smell: (n, v) odor, scent, savor,
perfume, stink, stench; (v) nose; (n)
fragrance, bouquet, savour, odour
smile: (n) grin, grinning, smiling,
luck, facial expression; (v) laugh,
beam, chuckle, simper; (n, v)
grimace; (adv) smilingly
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ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, uneven,
wrinkled, peeling, jerky, ridged,
flaking, abrasive, coarse, prickly; (v)
wrinkle
snail: (v) sluggard, loiterer, lingerer,
pull together; (n) conch,
hodmandod, gastropod, garden
snail, edible snail, dodman; (adj)
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snake: (n) serpent, ophidian, viper,
constrictor, hydra, elapid; (v) wind,
twist, curl, weave; (n, v) sneak
sobbing: (adj) crying, weeping,
weepy, tearful; (n) lamentation,
shortness of breath, shit, prick,
motherfucker, tear, lament
sober: (adj, v) grave, sedate; (adj)
sane, earnest, quiet, solemn,
moderate, modest, serene, dull,
somber
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ANTONYMS: (adv) hoarsely,
roughly, loudly, clearly, harshly,
forte, severely, strongly, heavily,
convincingly, brightly
soil: (adj, n) dirt; (adj, v) smudge; (v)
pollute, dirty, contaminate, mire; (n,
v) grime; (n) land, dust, earth; (adj,
n, v) blot
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ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous,
cheerful, unceremonious, funny,
playful, flippant, relaxed
solitary: (adj) forlorn, only, alone,
single, lonely, lone, sole,
unaccompanied, isolated; (adj, n)
recluse; (n) hermit
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ANTONYM: (pron)
nothing
sometimes: (adv) from time to time,
occasionally, every now and then,
now and again, every so often, once,
sometime, once in a while, formerly;
(n) at times; (adj, adv) on and off
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ANTONYMS: (adv) now,
eventually, later, slowly
sooner: (adj, adv) rather, earlier,
before, preferably, instead; (adv)
first, before now, faster, previously,
beforehand; (adj) prior
sooth: (n) verity, soothsaying, fact,
truth, reality
sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve;
(v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache,
repentance, remorse; (adj, n)
sadness, misery; (adj, n, v) distress
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ANTONYMS: (adj) glad, happy,
admirable, unremorseful, fine
sorts: (n) varieties, sorting, running
pi, batter
so-so: (adj) middling, tolerable, fair,
moderate, OK, usual, passable,
ordinary; (adv) fairly, moderately,
rather
sought: (adj) required, quest, seeking,
popular
soul: (n) creature, human, person,
personification, ghost, individual,
mind, essence, life, self; (adj, n)
heart
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ANTONYMS: (adj) illogical,
unsound, confused, unreliable,
flawed, flimsy, silent, weak,
unreasonable; (n) silence; (v)
devoice
sounded: (adj) measured, oral
south: (n) confederacy, due south,
Dixie, Dixieland, s, souther, south
side; (adv) in the south, southwards;
(adj) southern, polar
sovereign: (n) ruler, king, lord,
emperor; (adj) independent,
autonomous, imperial, royal, free,
regal; (adj, n) prince
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ANTONYM: (n) mess
spare: (adj, v) free, reserve, save, thin;
(adj) slender, slight, additional, lean;
(adj, n) extra, excess; (v) exempt
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ANTONYM: (n) understatement
spectacles: (n) glasses, specs,
spectacle, eyeglass, goggles,
lorgnette, monocle, bifocals, dark
glasses, optical instrument, shades
speed: (n, v) hurry, hasten, rush, race,
dispatch; (v) quicken, run, dash,
expedite; (n) velocity, rapidity
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ANTONYM: (adj)
energetic
sphere: (n) region, range, province,
domain, realm, area, department,
round, ball, circle, globe
spirit: (n, v) courage, mind; (n) mood,
ghost, apparition, disposition,
energy, essence, soul, phantom; (adj,
n) animation
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ANTONYM: (n) affection
spoke: (n) bar, rung, radius, rule,
shoe, skid, rundle, line, clog, round;
(v) said
sport: (n, v) play, pastime, jest,
diversion, romp, joke, disport,
gambol; (n) fun, amusement,
recreation
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ANTONYMS: (n)
economy; (adj) parsimonious
staff: (n) club, pole, post, employees,
personnel, faculty, mace; (v) crutch,
prop; (n, v) rod, stick
stagger: (adj, adv, v) startle; (v)
astonish, reel, shock, hobble, shake,
flounder, totter; (n, v) lurch, pitch;
(adj, v) flabbergast
stairs: (n) stair, ladder, staircase,
stairway, flight of steps, flight, steps,
flight of stairs, escalator,
companionway, backstairs
stale: (adj, n) musty, moldy; (adj) old,
commonplace, hackneyed, insipid,
trite, corny, flat, stagnant; (adj, v)
dry
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ANTONYMS: (v) sit, lie, yield,
forbid; (n) top
stands: (n) bleachers, stood,
grandstand, standing, stop, covered
stand, standpoint, stall, sales booth,
reviewing stand, rack
stanza: (n) couplet, quatrain, strophe,
stave, line, octave, antistrophe,
sestet, poetry, envoy, canto
startle: (n, v) start, jump; (v) frighten,
scare, astonish, shock, astound,
amaze, shake, threaten, electrify
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
private; (n) monarchy; (v) conceal,
refute
stature: (n) height, altitude, standing,
tallness, prestige, figure, growth,
status, quality, rank, greatness
stay: (adj, n, v) remain; (n, v) rest,

prop, stop, delay, abide, continue,
pause, endure, halt, support
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ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly,
approving, lenient, funny, genial,
gentle, kindly, lax, liberal, cheerful,
flexible
sting: (n, v) bite, hurt, con, pain; (v)
prick, itch, irritate, prickle, goad,
provoke, smart
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ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, retire,
stultify, bore, steady, stifle,
suppress; (n) quiet, peace; (n, v)
calm
stomach: (adj, v) brook, digest; (v)
endure, stand, abide, bear, suffer,
tolerate, take; (n) abdomen, appetite
stone: (n) jewel, rock, pebble, gem,
calculus, gemstone, kernel,
concretion; (n, v) pit; (v) lapidate,
pelt
stones: (n) shingle, grit
stop: (int, n, v) hold, stand; (adj, n, v)
stay, cease; (n, v) check, end, close,
block, bar, arrest; (v) obstruct
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ANTONYMS: (v) spend, delete; (n)
dearth
story: (n, v) history, tale, narrative;
(n) recital, narration, report, account,
level, legend, novel, stage
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winding, curly, curved, curvy,
twisted, wavy, knotted, askew;
(adv) indirectly
strains: (n) tension, tenseness
straits: (n) pass, head, distress, sound,
isthmus, dire straits, destitution,
point, crack, chief, caput
strange: (adj) foreign, peculiar,
unusual, abnormal, outlandish,
irregular, odd, new, mysterious,
extraordinary, curious
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ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native,
associate, resident, familiar
strangers: (n) stranger
stream: (adj, n, prep, v) current,
course; (n, prep, v) flood; (n, v)
brook, run, crowd, jet, gush; (n)
river; (v) pour, swarm
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ANTONYMS: (n) frailty,
shortcoming, flaw, faintness,
powerlessness, moderation,
limitation, instability, impotence,
feebleness, disadvantage
stretch: (adj, n, v) strain; (adj, v)
extend, elongate, lengthen; (n)
extent, expanse; (v) prolong, draw;
(n, v) run, spread, range
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ANTONYMS: (adj) loose, short
stroke: (adj, n) blow; (n, v) touch,
caress, mark, buffet, lick, pat; (n)
beat, hit, knock, bang
strong: (adj) intense, able, firm,
stable, steady, solid, hard, lusty;
(adj, v) deep, sound; (adj, n, v)
steadfast
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ANTONYMS: (adj) compliant,
irresolute, flexible, amenable, docile,
easygoing, malleable, agreeable,
accommodating, cooperative, feeble
stubbornness: (n) firmness,
bullheadedness, inflexibility,
pertinacity, contumacy,
resoluteness, resolve, tenacity,
obstinance, impenitency,
determination
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ANTONYMS: (adj) spontaneous,
unstudied, casual
study: (n, v) examine, review, survey,
research; (v) learn, check,
contemplate, ponder, inquire; (n)
consideration, learning
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ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness,
tastelessness, coarseness, crudeness
subject: (n) matter, citizen, motif,
question, issue, affair, point,
national; (adj, v) exposed; (adj, n)
dependent, inferior
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ANTONYMS: (adj) loud, bright,
considerable, tactless,
overpowering, harsh, concrete, dark
successfully: (adv) victoriously,
prosperously, happily, thrivingly,
luckily, effectively, triumphantly,
efficiently, well, swimmingly,
rewardingly
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ANTONYM:
(v) rock
sudden: (adj) precipitous, quick,
abrupt, hasty, rash, unexpected,

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steep, unforeseen, drastic,
immediate, swift
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ANTONYMS: (adv) increasingly,
predictably, slowly, gently,
progressively, sensibly, eventually
sufferance: (n) allowance, patience,
permission, forbearance, leave,
toleration, suffering, resignation,
acceptance; (n, v) tolerance; (adj, v)
supportance
suffice: (v) satisfy, do, answer,
content, fulfill, be sufficient, qualify,
function, be enough, suit, fulfil
sugar: (n) darling, saccharide,
carbohydrate, love, beloved,
jaggary; (adj, n) dear; (v) saccharify,
sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate
suit: (adj, v) fit, please; (adj, n, v)
correspond; (n) lawsuit, plea, action,
case; (v) adapt, accommodate,
become; (n, v) answer
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ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, cheery;
(n) cheeriness
sundry: (adj) several, different,
diverse, assorted, miscellaneous,
many, varied, mixed, divers,
various; (n) sundries
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ANTONYM:
(adj) convex
suppers: (n) supper
supplied: (n) supplying; (adj)
adequate, ample, copious, complete,
fitted, impregnated, made pregnant,
offered, perfect, plenteous
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ANTONYMS: (adj) doubtful,
uncertain, unsure, hesitant,
humbled, dubious, indefinite,
wavering, wobbly, unconvinced;

(adv) doubtfully
surely: (adv) positively, definitely,
confidently, securely, undoubtedly,
clearly, firmly, assuredly,
absolutely; (adj, adv) really; (adv,
int) of course
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ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute,
deny, compliment
swearing: (n) curse, expletive,
profanity, oath, abuse, blasphemy,
swearword, execration, adjuration,
asseveration; (v) swear
swears: (n) swearing
sweat: (n, v) work, toil, struggle; (v)
perspire, drudge, exude; (n)
perspiration, lather, sudor, effort;
(adj) perspiring
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
discordant, bitter, acid, sharp, acidic,
pungent, salty, harsh, detestable,
cacophonous, dry
sweetly: (adv) pleasantly, sweet,
mildly, melodically, melodiously,
softly, syrupily, beautifully,
pleasingly, dulcetly, fairly
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
considered, leisurely, sluggish,
gradual, delayed, clumsy
swiftly: (adv) rapidly, speedily,
fleetly, promptly, expeditiously,
alertly, hastily, suddenly, readily;
(adj, adv) quickly, fast
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ANTONYMS: (v) decide, vote,
withdraw
taken: (adj) occupied, full,
interpreted, appropriated, seized,
overcome, affected, besotted; (v)
take, get, receive
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ANTONYM: (n) fact
talk: (n, v) discourse, gossip,
converse, lecture, chatter, chat,
address; (v) articulate, speak,
prattle; (n) language
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ANTONYM: (adj) silent
talks: (n) parley, discussion,
dialogue, diplomacy, arbitration,
mediation, conversation,
discussions, conference, meeting,
dialog
tall: (adj) elevated, high, exalted, big,
lanky, towering, eminent,
unbelievable, strapping, long,
gangling
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
exciting, bright, unmanageable,
interesting, untamed, inspiring,
brilliant, colorful, rebellious, lively
tangle: (v) entangle, embroil, enmesh,
embrangle, ruffle, mat; (n) maze,
confusion; (n, v) jumble, muddle,
knot
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ANTONYMS: (adj) early, punctual,
premature, speedy
tarry: (v) linger, loiter, stay, remain,
delay, lag, dally, dawdle, bide, rest;
(adj) pitchy
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ANTONYMS: (n) dislike,
tastelessness, disinclination, hate,
lot, coarseness, uncouthness; (v)
abstain, refrain
taught: (adj) instructed, educated,
schooled, instruct, well-bred,
scholarly, provided; (v) firm, fast,
close, taut
taunting: (n) twit, taunt, ridicule,
scorn, witty; (adj) mocking, gibelike,
sarcastic, jeering, unkind; (adj, n)
satirical
taxation: (n) revenue, tax revenue,
duty, excise, levy, capitation, tax
income, tariff, revenue
enhancement, pavage, assessment
taxed: (adj) laden
taxing: (adj) burdensome,
demanding, trying, arduous,
exacting, strenuous, heavy,
troublesome, tough, laborious, hard
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ANTONYMS: (adj) exciting, varied,
easy, readable, lively, entertaining,
enthralling, brisk, concise, exotic,
pleasant
teeth: (v) mortar and pestle, gristmill,
nutmeg grater, grater, file, arrastra,
rasp, mill, unguis, tentacle; (n) gear
teeth
tell: (n, v) disclose, impart, count; (v)
relate, reveal, recount, divulge,
explain, communicate; (adj, v)
declare, express
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ANTONYM:
(adj) untempered
temple: (n) church, place of worship,
shrine, Fane, house of worship,
pantheon, pagoda, synagogue,
brow, sanctuary, mosque
tender: (n, v) offer, proffer, bid; (adj,
v) affectionate; (adj) painful,
sensitive, soft, loving, sore; (v)
propose, present
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ANTONYMS: (adj) worried,
unappreciative, unthankful, sorry
thanks: (n) acknowledgment,
gratitude, blessing, grace, praise,
gratefulness, recognition, credit,
benediction, thankfulness; (int)
thank you
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) simple, smooth, easy,
straightforward, unpointed,
solvable, dull
thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one
thousand, gramme, gram, gm,
gigabyte, Gb, curtilage
though: (adj, conj) however; (conj)
still, notwithstanding, nevertheless,
albeit, whereas, while; (adv) even,
after all, tho'; (adv, conj) tho
thought: (n) idea, impression,
conception, belief, concept; (adj, n)
opinion, feeling, sentiment; (n, v)
consideration, reflection,
observation
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ANTONYMS: (adj) wasteful,
spendthrift, profligate, extravagant,
generous
throat: (n) orifice, pharynx, gorge,
mouth, muzzle, nozzle, sucker,
shaft, quarl, throat depth, nostril
throw: (n, v) cast, pitch, push; (v)
shed, hurl, heave, chuck, flip, pass,
hurtle; (n) shot
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ANTONYM: (adj) calm
thunderbolt: (n) bolt of lightning,
lightning, thunder, thunderclap,
bombshell, surprise, flash, shackle,
quarrel, streak of lightning, streak
thus: (adv) then, so, consequently,
hence, thence, accordingly, as a
result, ergo, thusly, for that reason,
as
tidings: (n) intelligence, information,
message, report, word, advice,
communication, dispute, wind,
statement, tiding
till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow,
hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller,
drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to
timber: (n) lumber, forest, plank,
beam, girder, rafter, tree, woodland,
timberland, boards, coulisse
times: (n) present time, modern
times, contemporary world,
multiplication, time, period, era,
many years duration, epoch,
present, arithmetic operation
toad: (n) batrachian, anuran,
salientian, crapaud, sneak, sheep
frog, robber frog, spadefoot,
spadefoot toad; (v) toady; (adj) satyr
together: (adv) in concert, conjointly,
at the same time, at once,
simultaneously, mutually, in unison,
all together, at the same moment;
(adj) united, stable
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
pristine, sure, resolute, healed,
decided, mended
touch: (v) hit, affect, border, adjoin,
strike, reach; (n, v) contact, stroke,
tinge, regard, tap
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
untouched, sane, unemotional,
unmoved, well
touchstone: (n) standard, criterion,
benchmark, measure, norm, gauge,
check, yardstick, measuring stick,
reagent; (n, v) test
toward: (prep) to, towards,
approaching, headed for, just before,
of, in the direction of; (adv, prep) on;
(adv) about, around, by
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ANTONYMS: (adj) country, private
tradition: (n) convention, habit,
practice, legend, institution, lore,
heritage, folklore, wont, routine,
story
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ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, forget; (n)
head
trained: (adj) experienced, skilled,
capable, competent, expert,
practiced, accustomed, educated,
efficient, skillful, professional
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ANTONYM: (v) stagnate
travel: (adj, n, v) go, pass, run; (adj, v)
proceed; (v) roam, move, ride, sail;
(n) stroke, tour; (n, v) voyage
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ANTONYMS: (adj) faithful, loyal,
honest, safe, true, genuine,
forthright, stable, harmless,
dependable, open
treble: (adj) threefold, ternary,
triplex, thribble, double, dual, high,
voce di testa, shrill; (adj, v) triple; (v)
sing
tree: (n) gallows, gibbet, stem,
pedigree, kurchee, quandong, poon,
platan, lemonwood, lancewood,
lacebark
trees: (n) foliage
tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v)
quiver, shudder, thrill, palpitate;
(adj, v) totter, quake; (n) throb; (v)
flutter, quail, falter
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ANTONYMS: (n) peace,
performance, happiness, ease,
opportunity; (adj) known, definite,
proven
trick: (n, v) deceive, cheat, fraud,
deceit, joke, sham, con; (n) prank,
deception, device; (v) mislead
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ANTONYMS: (n)
correction; (v) correct
trodden: (adj) trampled, damaged,
beaten, compressed, packed down
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ANTONYMS: (v) please,
help, assist, aid, placate, soothe,
comfort; (n) fitness, pleasure,
advantage, ease
troubled: (adj, v) concerned,
solicitous; (adj) distressed, anxious,
worried, uneasy, uncomfortable,
disconcerted, upset, apprehensive,
restless
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
inaccurate, untrue, bogus,
untrustworthy, unrealistic, mythical,
fraudulent, faithless, disloyal; (adv)
wrongly, dishonestly
truly: (adj, adv) really; (adv)
sincerely, in truth, exactly, in fact,
indeed, in reality, genuinely, right,
certainly, honestly
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ANTONYMS: (n, v)
distrust, doubt, mistrust; (v)
disbelieve, keep, hold, despair; (n)
disbelief, suspicion, independence
truth: (n) exactness, actuality,
sincerity, verity, fidelity, fact,
correctness, genuineness,
faithfulness, certainty, honesty
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ANTONYMS: (n) silence; (v) untune
turk: (n) effendi, Ottoman
turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil,
round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout;
(v) revolve
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ANTONYM: (adj)
unturned
turning: (n) turn, revolution, bend,
rotation, deviation, gyration,
conversion, veering; (adj) rotating,
revolving, rotary
twelvemonth: (n) calendar year, civil
year, financial year, common year,
amount of time, time period, period
of time, bissextile year, class, yr,
period
twenty: (adj) vigesimal; (n) large
integer, twenty dollar bill
twill: (adj, v) curl, wrinkle; (adj)
corded, crisp; (v) braid, plexus, felt,
plat, plait, mesh; (n) cloth
tyrant: (n) dictator, oppressor,
autocrat, disciplinarian, bully,
authoritarian, sovereign, czar,
monarch, suzerain, stickler
ugly: (adj, adv) surly; (adj) nasty,
repulsive, frightful, forbidding,
disagreeable, hideous, gruesome,
evil, offensive, shocking
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ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, hygienic,
pure, uncontaminated
uncleanly: (adv) foully, impurely,
grubbily, dirtily, dingily, squalidly,
muddily, grimily, messily; (adj)
impure; (v) slovenly
uncouth: (adj) rough, rude,
barbarous, vulgar, crude, awkward,
clumsy, gross, unrefined, ungainly,
common
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ANTONYMS:
(adv, prep) over, above; (adv)
primary, higher, major
underhand: (adj) stealthy, furtive,
clandestine, sly, underhanded,
sneaky, shifty, covert, crooked,
indirect; (adj, adv) underarm
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ANTONYMS: (v) misinterpret,
misconstrue, misunderstand,
disbelieve, mistake, reject, deny,
Miss
understanding: (n, v) intellect,
reason, intelligence, appreciation,
sense, apprehension, discernment,
judgment; (n) comprehension,
sympathy, deal
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ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, spoken,
written, explained
undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished,
sunk, done for, finished,
behindhand, decayed; (adj, v)
doomed; (v) accursed, to be pitied,
devoted
unexpressive: (adj) inexpressive,
impassive, deadpan, blank, stolid,
incommunicative, taciturn, vacant
unfaithful: (adj) false, disloyal,
faithless, inaccurate, fickle,
treacherous, untrustworthy,
traitorous, recreant, untrue,
perfidious
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ANTONYMS: (adj) lucky,
auspicious, good, opportune,
joyous, timely, appropriate,
successful, easy, privileged
ungentle: (adj) ignoble, rude, wild,
ungainly, untitled, boisterous, bluff,
lowborn
unhandsome: (adj) unchivalric,
unbecoming, awkward, illiberal,
indecorous, ungraceful, plain,

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unmanly, unknightly
unhappy: (adj) gloomy, dismal,
depressed, melancholy, sad,
miserable, sorrowful, distressed,
disconsolate, infelicitous, low
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
local, specific, idiosyncratic,
confined, isolated, narrow, rare
unkept: (adj) humbled,
discontinuous, low, broken in,
impoverished, busted, destroyed
financially, disordered, rugged,
confused, crushed
unknown: (adj, n) secret, alien; (adj)
hidden, unfamiliar, unidentified,
obscure, nameless, foreign,
anonymous; (n) stranger, foreigner
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ANTONYMS: (adj) natural, normal,
real, unaffected, commonplace,
genuine, sincere
unpeopled: (adj) unpopulated
unquestionable: (adj)
incontrovertible, indisputable, sure,
incontestable, indubitable, certain,
unequivocal, irrefutable, undoubted,
definite; (v) unimpeachable
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ANTONYM:
(adv) seasonably
untied: (adj) unfastened, unchained,
unshackled, unlaced, unbound,
unfettered, free, unsewed, open,

unconnected, rambling
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ANTONYMS: (adj) deserving,
valuable, honorable, estimable,
reputable
upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up,
onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on
that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at
usurper: (n) dictator, pretender, thief
usurping: (adj) encroaching
vacation: (n) leisure, leave, time off,
recess, break, rest, stay, day of rest,
sabbath, dies non, outing
valiant: (adj) brave, courageous,
intrepid, fearless, heroic, audacious,
gallant, daring, dauntless, stout,
stalwart
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ANTONYMS: (n) disadvantage,
futility, uselessness, insignificance,
detriment, inefficiency, inferiority;
(v) scorn, disregard, disrespect, hate
vehemence: (n) force, violence, fury,
passion, eagerness, strength,
impetuosity, enthusiasm, fierceness,
heat, fervor
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ANTONYMS: (adj) unworthy,
unimpressive, undignified,
disreputable
vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal,
retaliation, requital, avengement,
wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance;
(n, v) avenge, resentment
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ANTONYMS:
(n) end, middle; (v) retreat
verily: (adj, adv) really; (adv) indeed,
in reality, genuinely, quitely,
actually, selfly, truely, identically,
exactly; (adv, int) in truth
verity: (n) reality, veracity, actuality,
fact, accuracy, troth, fidelity,
faithfulness, belief, true statement,
betrothal
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable,
gentle, honorable, good, delightful,
admirable, noble
village: (n) neighborhood, settlement,
city, community, kraal, thorp, dorp,
campong, pueblo, small town; (adv)
town
villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue,
knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit,
crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion
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ANTONYMS: (adj) defiled,
sullied
virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence,
quality, attribute; (n) honor,
goodness, honesty, morality,
decency, probity, efficacy
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
bad, sinful, corrupt, impure,
unethical, decadent, degenerate,
irreverent
voice: (n) speech, vox; (v) enunciate,
pronounce, speak, say, vocalize,
express, utter, articulate; (n, v)
sound
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ANTONYMS: (adj) compulsory,
forced, instinctive, unwilling,
obligatory, welcome, professional;
(n) draftee; (adv) paid
vulgar: (adj) rude, coarse, plebeian,
nasty, common, foul, indecent,
gross, unrefined; (adj, n) low, vile
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ANTONYMS: (v) run, ride, stride
wander: (n, v) stroll, saunter, tramp,
drift; (v) stray, digress, err, travel,
roam, deviate; (adj, v) rave
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ANTONYMS: (n, v) hate;
(n) glut, despise, luxury, option,
prosperity, supply; (v) disinterest,
answer
wanting: (adj, v) missing; (adj)
deficient, lacking, absent, defective,
short, failing, insufficient, devoid,
poor, incomplete
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ANTONYM: (v) protect
warp: (v) distort, deform, contort,
falsify, garble, misrepresent; (n, v)
bend, buckle, turn, bias; (n)
distortion
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ANTONYMS: (n)
break; (v) debar
wash: (adj, n, v) soak; (n, v) paint; (v)
clean, scrub, mop, moisten, lave,
scour, bathe; (n) washing, ablution
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ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, save,
use, preserve, create, build; (n)
saving, possessions, hoarding,
development; (adj) cultivated
wasteful: (adj) improvident, profuse,
prodigal, lavish, profligate, ruinous,
uneconomical, spendthrift, thriftless,
destructive, uneconomic
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) concentrated, firm, brave, safe,
forceful, effective, healthy, intense,
determined, powerful, robust
weakness: (adj, n) failing, fault,
debility, defect, infirmity, fragility,
feebleness, deficiency, imperfection,
foible; (n) flaw
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ANTONYMS:
(n) penury, scarcity, dearth, want,
need, lack
wear: (n) clothing, clothes, apparel,
attire, garb; (v) endure, fatigue,
waste, bear, tire, fray
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
energetic, fresh, lively, untiring,
hopeful, refreshed; (v) refresh,
enliven, energize, activate, rally
weasel: (n) muishond, informer,
whittret, vare, troublemaker,
shorttail weasel; (v) equivocate,
evade, hedge, pussyfoot, dodge
weather: (v) survive, withstand,
resist, brave, stand, brave out, wear;
(n) climate, atmospheric condition,
downfall, inclemency
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ANTONYM: (n) celebration
weight: (n, v) load, burden, charge,
heaviness, bias; (n) significance,
consequence, importance, pressure,
stress, influence
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) unwelcome, unwanted,
unacceptable, displeasing,
disagreeable, unpleasant; (v) reject,
evict, bar; (n) unfriendliness,
goodbye
wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet,
trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut,
nymph, dame; (n, v) drab
went: (v) walked, proceeded
western: (adj) occidental, Hesperian,
occasive, occiduous, ponent,
westbound; (n) horse opera, western
sandwich, western movie, country,
cowboy picture
wheel: (v) revolve, spin, trundle,
gyrate, twirl; (n, v) turn, cycle, circle,
bicycle, bike; (n) gear
when: (adv, conj) once, as soon as;
(adv) then, because, than, since,
after; (conj) although, while, if;
(prep) during
whence: (adv) wherefrom, hence,
because, for, why, wherefore, how,
then, then thence so, how comes it,
how happens it
where: (adv) there, here, wherever,
whither, in which, wherein, in what;
(adv, pron) anywhere; (pron)
everywhere; (n) point, spot
wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore;
(adv, n) why; (n) reason, proof;
(adv) accordingly, consequently, so,
wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then
wherein: (adv) in what, in which,
where
wherever: (adv) anywhere,
wheresoever, everywhere, where'er;
(n) anyplace
whether: (pron) where
whetstone: (n) oilstone, rub, friction,
fault, imperfection, chance,
caoutchouc, failing, hindrance,
whetstone test, unevenness
while: (adv, conj) whereas, as,
although; (n) time, spell, period,
moment, interval; (adv) when; (conj)
though; (prep) during
whiles: (n) while
whining: (adj) whimpering, whiny,
sniveling pitiful, Snively, tearful,
whiney, singing, peevish; (v) fretful,
lamenting; (n) sniveling
whip: (n, v) lash, strap, goad; (v) flog,
flagellate, beat, punish, thrash,
trounce, stir, wallop
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ANTONYMS: (adj, n)
black; (adj) dark, rosy, red, dirty; (v)
blacken
whither: (adv) hither, thither,
whereunto, whereto, for
whole: (adj, v) entire; (adj, n) total,
integral, sum, aggregate, well; (adj,
adv, n) all; (adj) complete, healthy,
intact, full
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
unwholesome, unhealthy, impure,
indecent, sordid, warped, tainted,
decadent, deadly, unsavory
wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious,
evil, vile, depraved, mischievous,
immoral, unholy, nasty, naughty
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ANTONYMS: (n) goodness,
kindness, piety, righteousness,
benevolence, religiousness,
obedience, good
wide: (adj) broad, spacious, roomy,
extensive, comprehensive, large,
vast, ample, capacious, open,
sweeping
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ANTONYMS: (adj) calm,
orderly, manageable, sane,
domestic, cultivated, tame,
restrained, mild, sensible, passive
willing: (adj, adv) disposed; (adj)
spontaneous, voluntary, ready,
amenable, inclined, prepared,
enthusiastic, unforced, obliging;
(adj, v) consenting
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ANTONYMS: (adv) grudgingly,
reluctantly, uncooperatively,
unenthusiastically
wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken,
fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse,
tire; (n) wilting
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ANTONYMS:
(v) unwind; (n) breeze
wine: (n) vino, spirits, beer, saki,
sake, Macon, maconnais, alcohol,
liquor, dessert wine; (adj) mauve
winged: (adj) swift, rapid, speedy,
quick, flying, alate, sublime, lofty,
alated, aligerous, composed
winter: (n) wintertime, season, time
of year, hiems, frost, chill; (adj)
wintery, wintry; (v) spend
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ANTONYMS: (n)
stupidity, folly, inexperience,
ignorance, flippancy, banality
wise: (adj) reasonable, sensible,
sound, rational, sagacious,
intelligent, prudent, shrewd,
discreet; (adj, n) knowing; (n)
method
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ANTONYMS: (adv) stupidly,
recklessly, imprudently,
immaturely, illogically
wish: (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) want,
hope, need, inclination, longing,
aspiration, aim; (v) like, choose; (n)
pleasure
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ANTONYM: (adj)
ongoing
within: (adv, n, prep) inside; (adv,

prep) in; (adv) indoors, internally,
inwardly, inly; (adj, n) interior;
(prep) into, on, between; (adj)
inwards
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ANTONYMS: (prep) with, having;
(adv) inside
witness: (n, v) testimony, attest,
evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness,
onlooker, observer; (v) observe,
notice, see, view
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ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, joyful,
glad, praiseworthy, laudable
woman: (n) girl, female, lady, dame,
madam, mistress, matron, maid,
gentlewoman, Donna, petticoat
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ANTONYMS: (n)
expectation, belief, disapproval; (v)
know, believe, anticipate, decide
wonderful: (adj, n) marvelous,
astonishing, incredible; (adj)
excellent, remarkable, phenomenal,
amazing, fantastic, great, grand,
super
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ANTONYMS:
(adj) passive, unemployed,
inoperative, inactive, idle,
ineffective
world: (n) cosmos, nature, creation,
earth, public, sphere, society, realm,
globe, macrocosm; (adj) global
worse: (adj) worser, subordinate,
waur, worsened, warre, unrelieved,
minor, lesser, junior, poorer; (n)
badness
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ANTONYMS: (v)
disrespect, dishonor, despise,
deprecate, scorn; (n) disdain,
disparagement, contempt,
detestation
worst: (v) whip, trounce, defeat,
overcome, vanquish, pip, rack up;
(adj, v) best, rout; (adj) floor, lick
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ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance,
disadvantage, hopelessness,
detriment, disgrace, inferiority,
triviality, uselessness, inefficiency
worthy: (adj) noble, good,
meritorious, valuable, estimable,
respectable, deserving, worthwhile,
virtuous, honorable; (adj, n)
celebrity
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ANTONYMS: (v) heal, appease, aid,
cure, repair
wounded: (adj, v) hurt; (n) casualty,
maimed; (adj) bruised, injured,
bloody, aggrieved, saddened; (v)
stricken, wound, struck
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ANTONYMS: (n) happiness,
love, composure, serenity
wrestle: (v) struggle, scuffle, fight,
strive, battle, wrench, tussle, contest,
scramble, clash; (n, v) grapple
wrestler: (n) athlete, combatant,
lightweight, grappler, matman,
gladiator, prize fighter, pugilist,
heavyweight, bruiser, the fancy
wrestling: (n) grapple, grappling,
rassling, bout, event, clamshell,
athletics, boxing, braving, pugilism;
(adj) fighting
wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful,
sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic,
piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor,
unhappy, forlorn
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ANTONYMS: (adj)
correct, good, proper, honest,
appropriate, just, true; (adv)
correctly; (n) justice, virtue; (v)
sympathize
yesterday: (n) past, yesteryear, yore,
mean solar day, past times, solar
day, day, history, water under the
bridge; (adj) pass, stale
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ANTONYMS: (v) persevere,
survive, stand, withstand, repel,
reject, prevent, withhold, acquire,
oppose, veto
yonder: (adv) beyond, further,
farther, abroad, thither, further

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away, at that place; (adj) distant,
yond, furious, fierce
young: (n, v) offspring; (adj, n)
juvenile; (adj) immature, fresh,
adolescent, new, raw, baby, childish,
early; (n) progeny
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ANTONYMS: (n) adulthood,
adult, ripeness, maturity, aged
youthful: (adj) immature, fresh,
green, juvenile, vernal, adolescent,
childish, new, tender, sappy,
beardless

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