ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
William Shakespeare
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All's Well That Ends Well Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
William Shakespeare
PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit 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 Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.
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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 PERSONS REPRESENTED ................................................................................................ 3 ACT I ................................................................................................................................ 5 ACT II ............................................................................................................................. 29 ACT III ............................................................................................................................ 65 ACT IV ............................................................................................................................ 89 ACT V ........................................................................................................................... 119 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 141
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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1 Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult, and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to
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PERSONS REPRESENTED KING OF FRANCE.% THE DUKE OF FLORENCE. BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon. LAFEU, an old Lord. PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram. Several young French LORDS, that serve with Bertram in the Florentine War. STEWARD, CLOWN, A PAGE,
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COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, Mother to Bertram. HELENA, a Gentlewoman protected by the Countess. AN OLD WIDOW of Florence. DIANA, daughter to the Widow. VIOLENTA, neighbour and friend to the Widow. MARIANA, neighbour and friend to the Widow. LORDS attending on the KING; OFFICERS; SOLDIERS, etc., FRENCH and FLORENTINE.
Thesaurus attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, nursing, care, appearing, observation; (adj) concomitant, attendant, ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, inattention. diana: (n) princess Diana, Lucretia, princess of Wales, satellite, orb of night, moon, lady Diana Frances spencer; (adj) Dian. follower: (n) backer, devotee, fan, admirer, adherent, cohort, apostle,
partisan, believer, attendant; (adj) lover. ANTONYMS: (n) detractor, rebel, superior, disbeliever, cynic, leader. neighbour: (adj) neighboring, neighbouring, neighborly, adjacent, contiguous; (v) abut, populate, adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n) neighbourhood. parolles: (n) pistol, drawcansir, swashbuckler, sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso.
protected: (adj) guarded, immune, secured, sheltered, saved, covered, shielded, obtected, cosseted; (v) protect, private. ANTONYMS: (adj) vulnerable, harsh, insecure, exposed, susceptible. serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate, function, do; (n, v) officiate.
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ACT I
SCENE 1. ROUSILLON. A ROOM IN THE COUNTESS'S PALACE.% [Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black.] COUNTESS. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. BERTRAM. And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew; but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. LAFEU. You shall find of the king a husband, madam;--you, sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times good, must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it where there is such abundance. COUNTESS. What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?
Thesaurus abundance: (adj) plenty; (n) plenitude, childbirth, presentation; (adj) slavery, repression, subjugation. weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob, store, richness, profusion, amplitude, unfailing. evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, exuberance, affluence, treasure, blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet, enough; (adj, n) riches. ANTONYMS: ever; (adv) everlastingly, whimper; (n) tear. (n) scarcity, shortage, insufficiency, worthiness: (n) merit, virtue, forevermore, perpetually, ever and lack, aridity, scarceness, paucity, again, for all time, until the end of praiseworthiness, deservingness, time. ANTONYMS: (adv) emptiness, fruitlessness, bareness. roadworthiness, respectability, anew: (adv) again, newly, lately, quotability, nobility; (adj) dignity, temporarily, suddenly. respect; (adj, n) honor. ANTONYMS: recently, over again, once more, once o'er: (adv) on, upon, across. again, new; (adj) only yesterday, the subjection: (n) conquest, oppression, (n) shamefulness, unworthiness, other day, just now. captivity, bondage, confinement, immorality. delivering: (adv) deliverly; (n) servitude, dependence, enslavement,
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LAFEU. He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope; and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time.% COUNTESS. This young gentlewoman had a father--O, that 'had!' how sad a passage 'tis!-whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work. Would, for the king's sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of the king's disease. LAFEU. How called you the man you speak of, madam? COUNTESS. He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be so-Gerard de Narbon. LAFEU. He was excellent indeed, madam; the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly; he was skilful enough to have liv'd still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality. BERTRAM. What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of? LAFEU. A fistula, my lord. BERTRAM. I heard not of it before. LAFEU. I would it were not notorious.--Was this gentlewoman the daughter of Gerard de Narbon? COUNTESS. His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking. I have those
Thesaurus admiringly: (adv) admire, lovingly, respectfully, reverently, approvingly, enthusiastically, affectionately, indulgently, kindly, dotingly, tenderly. ANTONYMS: (adv) disrespectfully, ill. bequeathed: (adj) hereditary. fistula: (n) canal, sinus, pipe, passage, fistulas, vessel, fistule, fistulous withers, gut, tubule. gentlewoman: (n) lady, madam, dame, woman, noblewoman, doll,
bird, adult female, noble, chick, ma'am. heard: (n) hearing. immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, undying, endless, monumental; (adj, v) deathless, imperishable, celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, forgettable, perishable, temporary. mourningly: (adv) lamentingly, sorrowingly. overlooking: (adj) commanding,
dominating, ascendent, autocratic, bossy; (n) oversight, omission, neglect, general supervision; (adv) neglectingly, beside. persecuted: (adj) downtrodden, aggrieved, laden, mistreated, wronged. skilful: (adj) adroit, practised, experienced, cunning, expert, dextrous, clever, adept, proficient, practiced, good.
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hopes of her good that her education promises; her dispositions she inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity,--they are virtues and traitors too: in her they are the better for their simpleness; she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness.% LAFEU. Your commendations, madam, get from her tears. COUNTESS. 'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in. The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena,--go to, no more, lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than to have. HELENA. I do affect a sorrow indeed; but I have it too. LAFEU. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy to the living. COUNTESS. If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it soon mortal. BERTRAM. Madam, I desire your holy wishes. LAFEU. How understand we that? COUNTESS. Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Thesaurus birthright: (n) patrimony, inheritance, mourning, plaint, regret, complaint, heritage, claim, right of cry, crying, wail, moan, condolence. ANTONYM: (n) celebration. primogeniture, tradition, legacy, demand, due, entitlement, heirloom. remembrance: (n, v) recollection, blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate, mind; (n) commemoration, memorial, beatified, blissful, blame, blasted, recall, relic, monument, keepsake, reminiscence, recognition; (adj, n) blamed, golden, glorious, favored. brine: (n) deep, sea, ocean, salt water, memento. simpleness: (n) simplicity, ease, saltwater, seawater, non freeze liquid, watery waste, solution; (adj, v) restraint, chasteness, easiness, pickle; (v) souse. quality, simple mindedness. lamentation: (n) dirge, grief, unclean: (adj) foul, impure, nasty,
dirty, grubby, muddy, squalid, grimy, sordid, dingy, soiled. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, hygienic, pure, uncontaminated. virtuous: (adj) upright, pure, righteous, good, moral, just, honorable, honest, respectable, decent, pious. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sinful, corrupt, impure, unethical, decadent, degenerate, irreverent.
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Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will, That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down, Fall on thy head! Farewell.--My lord, 'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord, Advise him.% LAFEU. He cannot want the best That shall attend his love. COUNTESS. Heaven bless him!--Farewell, Bertram. [Exit COUNTESS.] BERTRAM. The best wishes that can be forg'd in your thoughts [To HELENA.] be servants to you! Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. LAFEU. Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of your father. [Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU.] HELENA. O, were that all!--I think not on my father; And these great tears grace his remembrance more Than those I shed for him. What was he like? I have forgot him; my imagination Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. I am undone: there is no living, none, If Bertram be away. It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light
Thesaurus bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, courtier: (n) aristocrat, official, sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, attendant, suckling. praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) furnish: (v) afford, provide, blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, contribute, render, offer, condemn, disapprove, damn, accommodate, supply, outfit, yield, decorate; (n, v) give. ANTONYM: (v) disallow, deny. collateral: (n) warranty, guarantee, divest. mortgage, guaranty, security, pledge, pluck: (adj, n) nerve; (v) cull, jerk, bond; (adj) secondary, indirect, gather, pick, fleece, grab; (n) grit, courage, boldness; (n, v) pull. oblique, subsidiary. ANTONYMS: (adj) primary, chief, fundamental, ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, gutlessness; (v) undercharge. principal, lineal.
radiance: (n) gleam, glory, brilliance, luster, lustre, beam, brightness, effulgence, sparkle, light; (adj, n) brilliancy. ANTONYMS: (n) darkness, gloominess. servants: (n) staff, suite. undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand, decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v) accursed, to be pitied, devoted. wishes: (n) desires, requirements, requests, needs, will.
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Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though a plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart's table,--heart too capable Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy Must sanctify his relics. Who comes here? One that goes with him: I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.% [Enter PAROLLES.] PAROLLES. Save you, fair queen! HELENA. And you, monarch! PAROLLES. No. HELENA. And no. PAROLLES. Are you meditating on virginity? HELENA. Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me ask you a
Thesaurus evils: (n) mala. sanctify: (v) purify, hallow, enshrine, supererogatory. ANTONYMS: (adj) hawking: (v) angling, fishing, peddle, anoint, honor, reconsecrate, lustrate; indispensable, important, essential, shooting; (n) Stephen hawking, (adj, v) ordain, bless; (n) edify, basic, pertinent. virginity: (n) maidenhood, pucelage, colportage, peddlery, vendition, convert. Stephen William hawking, vending. steely: (adj) stern, rocky, inexorable, chastity, purity, maidenhead, idolatrous: (adj) loving, profane, stony, icy, unbending, stiff, iron, pudicity, virtue, freshness, heathen, heretical, idolatrical, idolish, austere, rugged, tough. ANTONYM: virginhood, innocence, spirit. (adj) irresolute. withal: (adv) nevertheless, idolous, pagan. mated: (adj) uniform, married, superfluous: (adj, v) spare; (adj) notwithstanding, however, even so, all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) complementary, alike. ANTONYM: needless, extra, excess, excessive, (adj) unmated. likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, unnecessary, surplus, pointless, meditating: (n) conception. superabundant, supernumerary, enough.
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question. Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him? PAROLLES. Keep him out.% HELENA. But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant in the defence, yet is weak: unfold to us some warlike resistance. PAROLLES. There is none: man, setting down before you, will undermine you and blow you up. HELENA. Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers-up!--Is there no military policy how virgins might blow up men? PAROLLES. Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase; and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with it! HELENA. I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin. PAROLLES. There's little can be said in't; 'tis against the rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself; and should be buried in highways, out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate
Thesaurus barricado: (v) block, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude, bar. infallible: (adj) sure, inevitable, positive, inerrable, unfailing, absolute, confident, definite, dependable; (adj, v) unerring; (n) sterling. ANTONYMS: (adj) fallible, faulty. politic: (adj, v) tactful; (adj) discreet, judicious, circumspect, shrewd, prudent, suave, calculating, tricky, cute, chary. ANTONYMS: (adj)
injudicious, unwise, impolitic, wrap, conceal. valiant: (adj) brave, courageous, foolish. sanctified: (adj) consecrated, sacred, intrepid, fearless, heroic, audacious, blessed, holy, divine, justified, gallant, daring, dauntless, stout, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) afraid, elected, adopted, unearthly, consecrate, dedicated. ANTONYM: despicable. (adj) secular. warlike: (adj) military, belligerent, unfold: (v) spread, open, extend, bellicose, pugnacious, combative, develop, stretch, spread out, reveal, aggressive, armigerous, hostile, display, stretch out; (adj, v) expound, unfriendly, unpacific, militant. explain. ANTONYMS: (v) fold, block, ANTONYMS: (adj) harmonizing, stagnate, stop, hide, withhold, check, friendly.
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offendress %against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but lose by't: out with't! within ten years it will make itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the principal itself not much the worse: away with it! HELENA. How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking? PAROLLES. Let me see: marry, ill to like him that ne'er it likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with't while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion; richly suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears; it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a wither'd pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a wither'd pear. Will you anything with it? HELENA. Not my virginity yet. There shall your master have a thousand loves, A mother, and a mistress, and a friend, A phoenix, captain, and an enemy, A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear: His humble ambition, proud humility, His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
Thesaurus concord: (n) agreement, accordance, unity, harmony, union, unison, alliance, tune; (n, v) concert, peace; (v) agree. ANTONYMS: (n) discord, conflict, war, disunity, disarray; (v) disagree. jarring: (adj, n) harsh, dissonant, inconsistent; (adj) rough, inharmonious, strident, grating, jolting, raucous, cacophonous, bumpy. ANTONYMS: (adj) soft, usual.
likes: (n) kind, sort, type. mites: (n) family Trombidiidae, family acaridae, Trombidiidae. ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not. paring: (adj) clipping, driblet, shiver; (n) shaving, splinter, chip, rind, flinders, grazing; (adj, n) sliver; (v) pare. peevish: (adj) fretful, fractious, morose, testy, irascible, moody, captious, petulant, cross, cantankerous, touchy.
self-love: (n) egoism, vanity, pride, arrogance. toothpick: (n) strip, pick, picktooth. traitress: (n) traitor. vendible: (adj) salable, saleable, vendable, merchantable, sellable, hireling, mercenary, venal; (n) commodity, merchandise. withered: (adj) wizened, sear, shriveled, thin, shrunken, dry, dried up, wilted, faded, wizen; (v) lame. ANTONYM: (adj) plump.
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His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he-I know not what he shall:--God send him well!-The court's a learning-place;--and he is one,-PAROLLES. What one, i' faith? HELENA. That I wish well.--'Tis pity-PAROLLES. What's pity? HELENA. That wishing well had not a body in't Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born, Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, Might with effects of them follow our friends And show what we alone must think; which never Returns us thanks.% [Enter a PAGE.] PAGE. Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you. [Exit PAGE.] PAROLLES. Little Helen, farewell: if I can remember thee, I will think of thee at court. HELENA. Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star. PAROLLES. Under Mars, I.
Thesaurus blinking: (adj) flickering, bally, blooming; (adj, n) winking; (n) shimmer, blink, wink, twinkling, nictation, blink of an eye, nictitation. charitable: (adj) kind, clement, gentle, benevolent, liberal, bountiful, philanthropic, generous, humane, kindly, lenient. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncharitable, mean, nasty, tightfisted, inhumane, selfish, miserly, hard, cruel, commercial, cheap. exit: (n) departure, door, egress, outlet,
going, gate, way out; (v) leave, go, go out, die. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, entry, entrance, greeting; (v) arrive, come. farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, salutation, welcome. fond: (adj) affectionate, caring, devoted, tender, loving, amorous, delicate, adoring, doting, ardent,
attached. ANTONYMS: (adj) aversion, cold, rough. poorer: (adj) lesser, substandard, subordinate, of inferior quality, not as good as, lower, junior, minor. ANTONYMS: (adj) superior, higher. stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate. wishing: (n) wish, want, velleity, option, need, privation, lack, deprivation, deficiency, choice; (adj) desirous.
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HELENA. I especially think, under Mars.% PAROLLES. Why under Mars? HELENA. The wars hath so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars. PAROLLES. When he was predominant. HELENA. When he was retrograde, I think, rather. PAROLLES. Why think you so? HELENA. You go so much backward when you fight. PAROLLES. That's for advantage. HELENA. So is running away, when fear proposes the safety: but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. PAROLLES. I am so full of business I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the which my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's counsel, and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends: get thee a good
Thesaurus acutely: (adv) sharply, keenly, predominant: (adj) paramount, chief, severely, astutely, piercingly, shrilly, overriding, prevailing, main, cleverly; (adj, adv) intensely, supreme, ruling, sovereign, principal; (adj, v) prevalent, regnant. extremely, gravely, critically. ANTONYMS: (adv) chronically, ANTONYMS: (adj) minor, subsidiary, mildly, slightly, faintly, vaguely, peripheral, sparse. retrograde: (adj) regressive, backward, unexceptionally. naturalize: (v) adopt, naturalise, retral, deteriorating; (v) retreat, fall endenizen, acclimatize, back, retire, regress, decline, lapse, revert. ANTONYMS: (v) progress; accommodate, change, cultivate, (adj) direct. enfranchise, nationalize, acclimate, adapt. ANTONYM: (v) denaturalize. thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one
thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage. unthankfulness: (n) thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, ungratefulness. valour: (n) valor, valiancy, valiance, heroism, courage, bravery, valorousness, prowess, daring, pluck, spirit. wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) flourish, rise, rally.
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husband, %and use him as he uses thee: so, farewell. [Exit.] HELENA. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. What power is it which mounts my love so high,-That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose What hath been cannot be: who ever strove To show her merit that did miss her love? The king's disease,--my project may deceive me, But my intents are fix'd, and will not leave me. [Exit.]
SCENE 2. PARIS. A ROOM IN THE KING'S PALACE [Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING OF FRANCE, with letters; Lords and others attending.] KING. The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears; Have fought with equal fortune, and continue A braving war. FIRST LORD. So 'tis reported, sir.
Thesaurus ascribe: (v) assign, impute, accredit, facing, attempt, confronting, coping arrogate, attach, lay, refer, with, grappling, face, tackling. anthropomorphize, blame, lay claim, deceive: (v) cheat, circumvent, claim. bamboozle, pretend, hoax, fool, backward: (adj, adv) late, behindhand; cozen, trick, beguile; (n, v) dupe; (n) (adj) tardy, retarded, reluctant, coy, fraud. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, slow, laggard, dilatory; (adv) behind, inform, undeceive, protect. backwardly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) fated: (adj) inevitable, destined, ahead; (adv) onward; (adj) quick, certain, predestined, damned, developing, advanced, confident, unavoidable, predestinate, cursed, brilliant, bold. intended, forthcoming, sure. braving: (n) try, effort, endeavour, merit: (n, v) deserve; (adj, n)
excellence, worth, desert; (n) virtue, credit, significance, value, goodness, quality; (v) rate. ANTONYMS: (n) demerit, disgrace, fault, insignificance, mediocrity, commonness. mounts: (adj) mounted. weigh: (v) press, study, measure, matter, consider, count, deliberate, contemplate, assess; (n, v) balance, poise. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, neglect.
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KING. Nay, 'tis most credible; we here receive it, A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria, With caution, that the Florentine will move us For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend Prejudicates the business, and would seem To have us make denial.% FIRST LORD. His love and wisdom, Approv'd so to your majesty, may plead For amplest credence. KING. He hath arm'd our answer, And Florence is denied before he comes: Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see The Tuscan service, freely have they leave To stand on either part. SECOND LORD. It well may serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. KING. What's he comes here? [Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES.] FIRST LORD. It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord, Young Bertram. KING. Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,
Thesaurus credence: (n) confidence, belief, acceptance, trust, dependence, reliance, faith, credit, ambo, certainty, confessional. ANTONYMS: (n) disbelief, doubt, mistrust, skepticism, rejection. credible: (adj) convincing, likely, plausible, reasonable, faithful, specious, conceivable, persuasive, possible, probable; (adj, n) authentic. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbelievable, incredible, unconvincing, unlikely,
impossible, doubtful, inaccurate, magnificence, stateliness, greatness, unrealistic. king, royalty, highness. dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; simplicity. (adj) precious, intimate, sweet. speedy: (adj, v) rapid, prompt, fleet, gentlemen: (n) sirs, messieurs. swift; (adj) fast, agile, ready, gentry: (n) aristocracy, gentility, immediate, cursory, hurried, brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) leisurely, gentlefolk, nobility, elite, peerage, squirearchy, second estate, society, plodding. wherein: (adv) in what, in which, upper class. majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, where. nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness,
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Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral parts Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.% BERTRAM. My thanks and duty are your majesty's. KING. I would I had that corporal soundness now, As when thy father and myself in friendship First tried our soldiership! He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act. It much repairs me To talk of your good father. In his youth He had the wit which I can well observe To-day in our young lords; but they may jest Till their own scorn return to them unnoted, Ere they can hide their levity in honour So like a courtier: contempt nor bitterness Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, His equal had awak'd them; and his honour, Clock to itself, knew the true minute when Exception bid him speak, and at this time His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him He us'd as creatures of another place; And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks, Making them proud of his humility, In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man Might be a copy to these younger times; Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now But goers backward.
Thesaurus humbled: (adj) humble, humiliated, crushed, depressed, dispirited, abased, broken in, abject, ashamed; (n) humbler; (v) apart. knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, wist. levity: (n) flightiness, frivolity, flippancy, buoyancy, lightness, giddiness, inconstancy, frivolousness, humorousness, jocosity; (n, v) fickleness. ANTONYMS: (n) gravity, seriousness. repairs: (n) upkeep.
scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride, slight; (n) contempt, derision, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value, approve, admire, accept; (n) admiration, commendation, humility. sharpness: (n, v) keenness, edge; (n) severity, bitterness, asperity, acumen, poignancy, pungency, quickness, perspicacity; (adj, n) roughness. ANTONYMS: (n) dullness, haziness,
softness, slowness, indistinctness, gentleness, evenness, courtesy, blandness, stupidity, kindness. soldiership: (n) acquisition, slacking, skill, shirking, goofing off, goldbricking, attainment, acquirement, accomplishment. soundness: (n) health, solidity, reliability, validity, integrity, reasonableness, constancy, strength, stability, steadiness, security. ANTONYM: (n) unsoundness.
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BERTRAM. His good remembrance, sir, Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; So in approof lives not his epitaph As in your royal speech.% KING. Would I were with him! He would always say,-Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them To grow there, and to bear,--'Let me not live,'-This his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,--'Let me not live' quoth he, 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies Expire before their fashions:'--This he wish'd: I, after him, do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room. SECOND LORD. You're lov'd, sir; They that least lend it you shall lack you first. KING. I fill a place, I know't.--How long is't, Count, Since the physician at your father's died? He was much fam'd. BERTRAM. Some six months since, my lord.
Thesaurus apprehensive: (adj) anxious, fearful, miracle, wonder, success. disdain: (n, v) despise, contemn, uneasy, alarmed, worried, timid, doubtful, shy, insecure, jealous; (adj, slight, ridicule; (n) contempt, n) nervous. ANTONYMS: (adj) derision, arrogance, haughtiness, pride; (v) scoff, disparage. assured, unworried, calm, unafraid, ANTONYMS: (n) humility, cocksure, trusting, serene, unconcerned, fearless, carefree, admiration, reverence, worship, approval, regard; (v) approve, brave. catastrophe: (n) disaster, adversity, admire, praise, accept, participate. tragedy, cataclysm, misfortune, bale, ears: (n) antenna. denouement, misery, misadventure, melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) woe, finale. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed,
dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess, depression. ANTONYMS: (n) happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery, satisfied. physician: (n) doctor, medico, doc, medic, quack, surgeon, leech, houseman, MD, allergist, intern. plausive: (adj) favorable, approbatory, approbative. quoth: (v) quod.
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KING. If he were living, I would try him yet;-Lend me an arm;--the rest have worn me out With several applications:--nature and sickness Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count; My son's no dearer.% BERTRAM. Thank your majesty. [Exeunt. Flourish.]
SCENE 3. ROUSILLON. A ROOM IN THE PALACE. [Enter COUNTESS, STEWARD, and CLOWN.] COUNTESS. I will now hear: what say you of this gentlewoman? STEWARD. Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours; for then we wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. COUNTESS. What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah: the complaints I have heard of you I do not all believe; 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours. CLOWN. 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.
Thesaurus clearness: (n) clarity, brightness, (adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive, abandon, bigheadedness, pretension, distinctness, perspicuity, lucidity, humane, attractive, honest, pleasing, decadence, boldness. fragrant; (v) unclog. slowness: (n) dilatoriness, lethargy, explicitness, sharpness, simplicity, knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard, purity, limpidity, intelligibility. lateness, backwardness, ANTONYMS: (n) ambiguity, opacity, crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag, awkwardness, deliberation, dullness, dirtiness, vagueness, unclearness, scallywag, scoundrel, varlet. sluggishness, stupidity, indolence; modesty: (n) reserve, bashfulness, (adj, n) delay. ANTONYMS: (n) haste, obscureness, indistinctness, clutter, haziness, mustiness. humility, diffidence, humbleness, quickness, rapidity, intelligence, foul: (adj, v) nasty, base, corrupt, demureness, coyness, gentleness, cleverness, nimbleness, speediness, coarse; (adj) filthy, disgusting, evil, continence; (adj, n) decency, honesty. promptness, punctuality, vigor. unclean, putrid; (n, v) defile, soil. ANTONYMS: (n) arrogance, yours: (adj) own. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure; immodesty, spectacle, flamboyance,
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COUNTESS. Well, sir.% CLOWN. No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are damned: but if I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel the woman and I will do as we may. COUNTESS. Wilt thou needs be a beggar? CLOWN. I do beg your good will in this case. COUNTESS. In what case? CLOWN. In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no heritage: and I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue of my body; for they say bairns are blessings. COUNTESS. Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry. CLOWN. My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. COUNTESS. Is this all your worship's reason? CLOWN. Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons, such as they are. COUNTESS. May the world know them?
Thesaurus beggar: (n) mendicant, mumper, damned: (adj) accursed, doomed, pauper, tramp, sponger, joker, poor blasted, condemned, damn, cussed, man, cadger, bloke; (v) beg, wretched, infernal, hateful, pauperize. ANTONYM: (n) giver. goddamned; (adv) damnably. blessing: (n) benediction, approval, ANTONYM: (adj) saved. mercy, felicity, benison, benefit, luck, devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, advantage, boon, bless, godsend. monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, ANTONYMS: (n) curse, misfortune, deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. ANTONYM: (n) angel. disaster, condemnation, adversity, flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; desecration, refusal, veto, (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, disadvantage. blessings: (n) blessing, godsend. frame, person, mankind, humanity,
meat. heritage: (n) bequest, heirloom, birthright, legacy, patrimony, estate, dower, heirship, tradition, appanage, ancestry. madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd. till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to.
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CLOWN. I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry that I may repent.% COUNTESS. Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness. CLOWN. I am out of friends, madam, and I hope to have friends for my wife's sake. COUNTESS. Such friends are thine enemies, knave. CLOWN. Y'are shallow, madam, in great friends: for the knaves come to do that for me which I am a-weary of. He that ears my land spares my team, and gives me leave to in the crop: if I be his cuckold, he's my drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my flesh and blood is my friend; ergo, he that kisses my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage; for young Charbon the puritan and old Poysam the papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in religion, their heads are both one; they may joll horns together like any deer i' the herd. COUNTESS. Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouth'd and calumnious knave? CLOWN. A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next way: For I the ballad will repeat, Which men full true shall find; Your marriage comes by destiny, Your cuckoo sings by kind. COUNTESS. Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon.
Thesaurus anon: (adv) directly, immediately, early, readily, soon, instantly, again, forthwith, promptly, shortly, rath. ballad: (n) song, folk song, carol, poem, ballade, recitative, solfeggio, pastoral, recitativo, ditty, bravura. calumnious: (adj) libelous, slanderous, calumniatory, libellous, scandalous, abusive, denigrative, denigratory, derogatory, detractory, harmful. cuckold: (v) deceive, cheat on, cheat, delude, cuckoldize, abandon, chouse,
cornute, cozen; (n) hubby, cokewold. papalist. drudge: (n, v) slave, work; (v) toil, fag, puritan: (adj) blue, puritanic, moil, dig, grub, sweat, plod, grind; puritanical, Methodist, formalist, (n) hack. ANTONYMS: (v) dawdle, religionist; (n) precisian, devotee, sanyasi, yogi; (v) coquette. putter, loaf, idle, lounge. ergo: (adv) consequently, accordingly, wickedness: (n) depravity, sin, therefore, then, thus, so, as a sinfulness, iniquity, harm, ill, vice, consequence, as a result. evilness, corruption, immorality, hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades. crime. ANTONYMS: (n) goodness, papist: (adj, n) Roman, Romanist; (adj) kindness, piety, righteousness, Romish, popish, papistical, papistic, benevolence, religiousness, Roman Catholic; (n) Catholic, obedience, good.
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STEWARD. May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to you; of her I am to speak.% COUNTESS. Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her; Helen I mean. CLOWN. [Sings.] Was this fair face the cause, quoth she Why the Grecians sacked Troy? Fond done, done fond, Was this King Priam's joy? With that she sighed as she stood, With that she sighed as she stood, And gave this sentence then:-Among nine bad if one be good, Among nine bad if one be good, There's yet one good in ten. COUNTESS. What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah. CLOWN. One good woman in ten, madam, which is a purifying o' the song: would God would serve the world so all the year! we'd find no fault with the tithewoman, if I were the parson: one in ten, quoth 'a! an we might have a good woman born before every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well: a man may draw his heart out ere he pluck one. COUNTESS. You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you! CLOWN. That man should be at woman's command, and yet no hurt done!-- Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of
Thesaurus blazing: (adj) flaming, afire, burning, ardent, aflame, glaring, bright, blatant, alight, passionate; (n) blaze. ANTONYMS: (adj) freezing, quiet. corrupt: (adj, v) adulterate, taint, infect, rotten, canker; (adj, n, v) contaminate, poison; (v) bribe, debase, defile; (adj) impure. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, pure, principled, ethical, honorable, wholesome, virtuous, uncorrupt, truthful; (v) purify; (adj, v) clean. earthquake: (n) tremor, shock, quake,
temblor, cataclysm, upheaval, seaquake, avalanche; (adj) thunderstorm, volcano, seismic. lottery: (n) drawing, raffle, sweepstakes, draft, chance, allotment, tombola, draw, bet, brag, cassino. mend: (adj, v) improve; (v) correct, cure, heal, doctor, better, amend, restore, convalesce; (n, v) fix, patch. ANTONYMS: (v) worsen, tear, smash, decline, deteriorate; (n) fracture.
parson: (n) cleric, clergyman, rector, pastor, curate, preacher, ecclesiastic, divine, priest, vicar, father. purifying: (adj) purging, purgatorial, antiseptic, expurgatory, ablutionary, remedial; (v) cathartic, abstergent; (n) purification. song: (adj, v) lay; (n, v) ditty, chant; (n) air, strain, cry, warble, canto, poem; (v) sing; (adj) ballad. surplice: (n) robe, Geneva gown frock, gown, pallium.
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humility over the black gown of a big heart.--I am going, forsooth:the business is for Helen to come hither. [Exit.] COUNTESS. Well, now.% STEWARD. I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely. COUNTESS. Faith I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds: there is more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid her than she'll demand. STEWARD. Madam, I was very late more near her than I think she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears; she thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son: Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no god, that would not extend his might only where qualities were level; Diana no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surprise, without rescue in the first assault, or ransom afterward. This she delivered in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in; which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal; sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to know it. COUNTESS. You have discharged this honestly; keep it to yourself; many likelihoods informed me of this before, which hung so tottering in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon. [Exit STEWARD.] Even so it was with me when I was young:
Thesaurus acquaint: (v) inform, familiarize, tell, advise, present, introduce, warn, bring out, report, accustom, communicate. ANTONYMS: (v) hide, mislead, misrepresent, withhold, falsify, conceal. afterward: (adv, conj) then, after that; (adv) thereafter, afterwards, later, subsequently, later on, next, soon; (adj) following; (n) future. ANTONYMS: (adv) now, previously, before.
betwixt: (n) midst; (prep) among, unlawfully, illegitimately. amid; (adv) atwixt. misdoubt: (n) scruple, distrust, e'er: (adv) ever, forever. suspicion, qualm, jealousy; (v) dread. exclaim: (v) call out, call, shout, cry owing: (adj) due, unpaid, unsettled, out, ejaculate, clamor, outcry, scream, outstanding, overdue, owed, payable, shout out, speak, vociferate. undischarged, indebted, fulfilling hung: (n) hanging; (v) Heng; (adj) obligation, lawful. ANTONYM: (adj) fatigued, puzzled, decorated. settled. lawfully: (adv) justly, legally, tottering: (adj) unsteady, ramshackle, rightfully, licitly, statutorily, fairly, easily shaken, tottery, sick, rocky, broken, trembling, cracked; (v) validly, de jure, officially, rightly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) drooping; (n) convulsion.
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If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong; Our blood to us, this to our blood is born; It is the show and seal of nature's truth, Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth: By our remembrances of days foregone, Such were our faults:--or then we thought them none. [Enter HELENA.] Her eye is sick on't;--I observe her now.% HELENA. What is your pleasure, madam? COUNTESS. You know, Helen, I am a mother to you. HELENA. Mine honourable mistress. COUNTESS. Nay, a mother. Why not a mother? When I said a mother, Methought you saw a serpent: what's in mother, That you start at it? I say I am your mother; And put you in the catalogue of those That were enwombed mine. 'Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds: You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan, Yet I express to you a mother's care:-God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, That this distemper'd messenger of wet,
Thesaurus curd: (v) cake; (n) curdle, foodstuff, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) crud, cottage cheese; (adj) grume, quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, jam, pap, poultice, pudding, rob. harshness, unkindness, severity, honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, mercilessness, ruthlessness, venerable, glorious, honorable, impatience, inhumanity. messenger: (n, v) herald; (n) harbinger, distinguished, above-board, good, worthy, right, noble. runner, emissary, bearer, maiden: (n) maid, girl, demoiselle, ambassador, precursor, courier, damosel, wench, fille, lass, miss; (adj) carrier, apostle, errand. mistress: (n) dame, concubine, first, initiatory, unmarried. mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, madame, inamorata, lady, lover, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept
woman, missis. remembrances: (adj) abord, devoir, respects, welcome; (n) remembrance. seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk, stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark, imprint, signet; (adj) conclude. ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal. serpent: (n) snake, ophidian, viper, snake in the grass, reptile, rattlesnake, colubrid, contrafagotto, cor anglais, hautboy; (v) goose.
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The many-colour'd iris, rounds thine eye? Why,--that you are my daughter? HELENA. That I am not.% COUNTESS. I say, I am your mother. HELENA. Pardon, madam; The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother: I am from humble, he from honour'd name; No note upon my parents, his all noble; My master, my dear lord he is; and I His servant live, and will his vassal die: He must not be my brother. COUNTESS. Nor I your mother? HELENA. You are my mother, madam; would you were,-So that my lord your son were not my brother,-Indeed my mother!--or were you both our mothers, I care no more for than I do for heaven, So I were not his sister. Can't no other, But, I your daughter, he must be my brother? COUNTESS. Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law: God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother So strive upon your pulse. What! pale again? My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see The mystery of your loneliness, and find Your salt tears' head. Now to all sense 'tis gross
Thesaurus fondness: (n) affection, attachment, love, taste, regard, appetite, tenderness, partiality, endearment, liking, relish. ANTONYMS: (n) aversion, indifference, neglect, antipathy, detachment, hatred. humble: (v) demean, humiliate, mortify; (n, v) disgrace, debase; (adj, n, v) abase; (adj) base, lowly, unassuming, docile, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) impressive, arrogant, haughty, imposing,
conceited, pompous, snooty, overbearing, presumptuous, proud, exalted. iris: (n) diaphragm, flag, pupil, rainbow, gladdon, blue flag, white, tulip, comet, tortoise shell, peacock. loneliness: (n) desolation, aloneness, isolation, solitariness, lonesomeness, bleakness, forlornness, desolateness, temperament, unhappiness; (adj, n) solitude. ANTONYMS: (n) inclusion, cheerfulness, hopefulness.
pulse: (n, v) throb; (n) pulsation, impulse, heartbeat, legume, rhythm, pounding, cadence; (v) pulsate, palpitate, pound. rounds: (n) patrol, beat, route, patient rounds. strive: (v) endeavor, contend, contest, struggle, fight, attempt, combat, strain, work, aspire, aim. vassal: (n) feudatory, liegeman, liege, serf, helot, dependent, subject, liege subject, follower, bondman, homager.
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You love my son; invention is asham'd, Against the proclamation of thy passion, To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true; But tell me then, 'tis so;--for, look, thy cheeks Confess it, one to the other; and thine eyes See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours, That in their kind they speak it; only sin And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue, That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so? If it be so, you have wound a goodly clue; If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee, As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, To tell me truly.% HELENA. Good madam, pardon me! COUNTESS. Do you love my son? HELENA. Your pardon, noble mistress! COUNTESS. Love you my son? HELENA. Do not you love him, madam? COUNTESS. Go not about; my love hath in't a bond Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose The state of your affection; for your passions Have to the full appeach'd. HELENA. Then I confess,
Thesaurus affection: (n) charity, attachment, obstinacy: (n) stubbornness, firmness, disgustingly, shamefully, rankly, fondness, heart, love, disease, nature, totally, uncouthly, obscenely. bullheadedness, determination, ANTONYM: (adv) appealingly. feeling, affectionateness, tenderness, contumacy, mulishness, impenitence, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) disgust, hellish: (adj, v) diabolic, satanic; (adj) resolve, resoluteness, impenitency, pertinacity. ANTONYMS: (n) neglect, malice, loathing, dislike, infernal, diabolical, fiendish, detachment, coldness, roughness. demonic, beastly, wicked, unholy, cooperation, compliance. goodly: (adv) benignly, kindly, detestable; (v) mephistophelian. proclamation: (n) announcement, invention: (n) fabrication, conception, decree, edict, annunciation, notice, strongly, rightly, graciously, virtuously, soundly, uprightly; (adj) fiction, imagination, creation, statement, promulgation, report, sizable, handsome, respectable. discovery, device, innovation, publication, manifesto, propagation. grossly: (adv) rudely, roughly, excogitation, artifice; (n, v) forgery. shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, ANTONYM: (n) truth. commonly, heavily, bluntly, bequeath, leave.
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Here %on my knee, before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son:-My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: Be not offended; for it hurts not him That he is lov'd of me: I follow him not By any token of presumptuous suit; Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; Yet never know how that desert should be. I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love, And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, Let not your hate encounter with my love, For loving where you do; but if yourself, Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, Did ever, in so true a flame of liking, Wish chastely, and love dearly, that your Dian Was both herself and love; O, then, give pity To her whose state is such that cannot choose But lend and give where she is sure to lose; That seeks not to find that her search implies, But, riddle-like, lives sweetly where she dies! COUNTESS. Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,-To go to Paris? HELENA. Madam, I had.
Thesaurus captious: (adj, n, v) critical; (adj) peevish, cantankerous, irritable, hypercritical, faultfinding, fastidious, fretful, querulous, caviling; (adj, n) exacting. ANTONYMS: (adj) praising, commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering. chastely: (adv) continently, innocently, immaculately, purely, morally, decently, modestly, simplely, cleanly, refinedly, spotlessly. dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously,
darlingly, sweetly, petly, expensively, belovedly, intimately, highly, heartfeltly, lovely. presumptuous: (adj) arrogant, audacious, forward, assuming, insolent, impertinent, assumptive, familiar, haughty, proud; (adj, n) bold. ANTONYMS: (adj) respectful, shy, timid, humble, modest. sweetly: (adv) pleasantly, sweet, mildly, melodically, melodiously, softly, syrupily, beautifully,
pleasingly, dulcetly, fairly. ANTONYMS: (adv) discordantly, horribly, sharply, harshly, unkindly. vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, ineffectual, unproductive, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, humble, useful, responsible, worthwhile, effective.
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COUNTESS. Wherefore? tell true.% HELENA. I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear. You know my father left me some prescriptions Of rare and prov'd effects, such as his reading And manifest experience had collected For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me In heedfullest reservation to bestow them, As notes whose faculties inclusive were More than they were in note: amongst the rest There is a remedy, approv'd, set down, To cure the desperate languishings whereof The king is render'd lost. COUNTESS. This was your motive For Paris, was it? speak. HELENA. My lord your son made me to think of this; Else Paris, and the medicine, and the king, Had from the conversation of my thoughts Haply been absent then. COUNTESS. But think you, Helen, If you should tender your supposed aid, He would receive it? He and his physicians Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him; They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools, Embowell'd of their doctrine, have let off The danger to itself?
Thesaurus bestow: (v) give, confer, grant, impart, manifest: (adj) evident, distinct, conspicuous, clear, patent, plain; (v) contribute, donate, apply, award; (adj, v) accord, allow, present. display, demonstrate, exhibit, ANTONYMS: (v) deprive, refuse, evidence; (n, v) declare. ANTONYMS: (v) hide; (adj) hidden, withhold, retrieve, withdraw. faculties: (n) mother wit. obscure, secret, inconspicuous, inclusive: (adj) included, broad, veiled, furtive, avoidable, ambiguous; (adv) absent. comprehensive, sweeping, overall, reservation: (n) limitation, booking, total, general, whole, extensive, complete; (v) include. ANTONYMS: condition, subscription, qualification, (adj) local, narrow, sketchy, elite, modesty, exception, constraint, order, misgiving; (adj) reserved. partial, restricted.
ANTONYM: (n) enthusiasm. unlearned: (adj) ignorant, unenlightened, illiterate, uninformed, unlettered, unread, uninstructed, unconditioned, nescient, innate, unknowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) conditioned, cultured, educated. virgin: (adj) pure, new, chaste, innocent, fresh, untouched, intact, virginal; (adj, n) vestal; (n) maid, girl. ANTONYMS: (adj) defiled, sullied.
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HELENA. There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the greatest Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall, for my legacy, be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour But give me leave to try success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure. By such a day and hour.% COUNTESS. Dost thou believe't? HELENA. Ay, madam, knowingly. COUNTESS. Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave, and love, Means, and attendants, and my loving greetings To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home, And pray God's blessing into thy attempt: Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this, What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss. [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus attendants: (n) entourage, followers, ANTONYMS: (adv) accidentally, disapproving, callous. retinue, tendance, persons present, unintentionally, unwittingly, openly. pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, legacy: (n) devise, heritage, suite. invite, plead, beseech, appeal, heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, inheritance, heirloom, estate, will, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject. Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian gift, leftover, legacies, endowment, Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) profession: (n) employment, birthright. celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery. loving: (adj) fond, devoted, amorous, declaration, occupation, affirmation, knowingly: (adj, adv, v) wittingly; kind, friendly, ardent, attached, calling, career, vocation, job, position, (adv) intentionally, consciously, admiring, gentle, fatherly; (adj, v) assertion, assurance. ANTONYM: (n) tender. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, designedly, shrewdly, on purpose, denial. purposely, wisely, wilfully, uncaring, malicious, cruel, unloving, ingeniously; (adv, v) by design. rough, paternal, indifferent, distant,
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ACT II
SCENE 1. PARIS. A ROOM IN THE KING'S PALACE.% [Flourish. Enter the KING, with young LORDS taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and ATTENDANTS.] KING. Farewell, young lord; these war-like principles Do not throw from you:--and you, my lord, farewell;-Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all, The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, And is enough for both. FIRST LORD. It is our hope, sir, After well-enter'd soldiers, to return And find your grace in health. KING. No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart Will not confess he owes the malady That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords; Whether I live or die, be you the sons
Thesaurus besiege: (v) beset, beleaguer, surround, blockade, attack, compass, hem in, press, importune, assail, bombard. ANTONYMS: (v) help, please. confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor. gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty, ability, talent; (n) donation, flair,
bestowal; (n, v) award, present, boon; personally, myself, themselves, (adj, n) capacity. ANTONYMS: (n) yourself. stretch: (adj, n, v) strain; (adj, v) extend, penalty, forfeiture, failing. grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, elongate, lengthen; (n) extent, expanse; (v) prolong, draw; (n, v) run, embellish, beautify, decorate, embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) spread, range. ANTONYMS: (v) elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. shorten, shrink, withdraw, narrow, ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, relax; (adj) inflexible. awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, throw: (n, v) cast, pitch, push; (v) shed, heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, hurl, heave, chuck, flip, pass, hurtle; (n) shot. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, demean. itself: (adj) herself, self, oneself, help, receive, clarify, encourage.
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Of worthy Frenchmen; let higher Italy,-Those bated that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy,--see that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, That fame may cry you aloud: I say farewell.% SECOND LORD. Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty! KING. Those girls of Italy, take heed of them; They say our French lack language to deny, If they demand: beware of being captives Before you serve. BOTH. Our hearts receive your warnings. KING. Farewell.--Come hither to me. [The king retires to a couch.] FIRST LORD. O my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! PAROLLES. 'Tis not his fault; the spark-SECOND LORD. O, 'tis brave wars! PAROLLES. Most admirable: I have seen those wars. BERTRAM. I am commanded here and kept a coil with, 'Too young' and next year' and ''tis too early.'
Thesaurus admirable: (adj) fine, outstanding, beautiful, great, commendable, lovely, good, creditable, praiseworthy, worthy, grand. ANTONYMS: (adj) appalling, poor, unworthy, despicable, contemptible, detestable, dishonorable, rotten, unimpressive, loathsome, low. aloud: (adv) loud, out loud, strong, out, audibly, hard, forte. ANTONYMS: (adv) softly, inaudibly, quietly.
bated: (adj) weak, faint, decreased. beware: (v) look out, caution, be careful, guard, pay attention, take care, watch out, mind, keep, care, careful. ANTONYMS: (v) risk, disregard, invite. bidding: (n) behest, order, dictate, charge, bid, request, call, dictation, direction, fiat; (adj) imperative. coil: (n, v) spiral, curl, roll, circle, loop, reel; (v) round, wind, involve; (adj, v) twist; (adj) coiling. ANTONYMS: (v)
uncoil, untwist, unwind, straighten. commanded: (adj) lawful. heed: (n, v) consideration, concern, regard, mind, attention, notice; (n) caution, advertence, advertency; (v) attend, hear. ANTONYMS: (n, v) disregard; (n) inattentiveness. hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither. inherit: (v) heir, come into, get, to inherit, own, receive, come in for, to succeed, follow, descend, accede.
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PAROLLES. An thy mind stand to it, boy, steal away bravely.% BERTRAM. I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, Till honour be bought up, and no sword worn But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away. FIRST LORD. There's honour in the theft. PAROLLES. Commit it, count. SECOND LORD. I am your accessary; and so farewell. BERTRAM. I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body. FIRST LORD. Farewell, captain. SECOND LORD. Sweet Monsieur Parolles! PAROLLES. Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals.--You shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it: say to him I live; and observe his reports for me. FIRST LORD. We shall, noble captain. PAROLLES. Mars dote on you for his novices!
Thesaurus accessary: (n) accessory, abettor, figure, ensign, symbol. leaving, segregation, dying, rupture; entrenched: (adj) ingrained, (adj) valedictory. ANTONYMS: (n) abetter, accomplice, crook, felon, outlaw, malefactor, criminal, established, inveterate, set, steadfast, joining, meeting, connection, confederate, supplement. unwavering, constant, rooted, Reunion. bought: (n) crook, hook. immovable, fixed, firm. ANTONYM: sparks: (n) fire. cicatrice: (n) cicatrix, callus, symptom, (adj) mild. steal: (v) purloin, abstract, sneak, filch, lustrous: (adj, v) bright, splendent; scar tissue, keloid. pinch, creep, misappropriate, rob, dote: (adj, v) drivel; (v) maturate, fond, (adj) glossy, brilliant, lucid, shiny, pilfer; (n) bargain; (n, v) snatch. doat; (adj) ramble, wander, rave, tortured: (adj) anguished, suffering, shining, light, luminous, sleek, radiant. ANTONYM: (adj) unhealthy. agonized, excruciate, excruciated, trifle. emblem: (n) flag, type, device, parting: (n) adieu, division, leave, gnarled, hagridden, miserable, allegory, character, crest, sign, badge, departure, disunion, goodbye, woeful, hurt.
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[Exeunt LORDS.] What will ye do? BERTRAM. Stay; the king-PAROLLES. Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to them; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time; there do muster true gait; eat, speak, and move, under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.% BERTRAM. And I will do so. PAROLLES. Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men. [Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES.] [Enter LAFEU.] LAFEU. Pardon, my lord [kneeling], for me and for my tidings. KING. I'll fee thee to stand up. LAFEU. Then here's a man stands that has bought his pardon. I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy; And that at my bidding you could so stand up. KING. I would I had; so I had broke thy pate, And ask'd thee mercy for't.
Thesaurus adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale, gathering; (n, v) draft. ANTONYM: (v) demobilize. valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio, adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon noble: (adj, n) grand, glorious, voyage. ANTONYM: (n) greeting. patrician; (adj) imposing, impressive, fellows: (n) fellow, membership, elevated, majestic, generous, high; (adj, v) dignified, great. ANTONYMS: faculty. gait: (n, v) pace, step, tread, footstep, (adj) shameful, humble, dishonorable, rate, stride, action; (n) walk, carriage, lowly, lowborn, disgraceful, movement, velocity. unimpressive, ignoble, modest, petty; muster: (v) assemble, gather, (n) lady. sinewy: (adj) muscular, brawny, wiry, congregate, collect, convene, rally, marshal, accumulate; (n) levy, beefy, tough, powerful, tendinous,
strong, robust, stringy, fibrous. ANTONYM: (adj) stout. spacious: (adj) broad, extensive, large, wide, ample, commodious, vast, capacious, comprehensive, open, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) cramped, narrow, airless, overcrowded. tidings: (n) intelligence, information, message, report, word, advice, communication, dispute, wind, statement, tiding.
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LAFEU. Good faith, across; But, my good lord, 'tis thus: will you be cured Of your infirmity? KING. No.% LAFEU. O, will you eat No grapes, my royal fox? yes, but you will My noble grapes, and if my royal fox Could reach them: I have seen a medicine That's able to breathe life into a stone, Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pipin, nay, To give great Charlemain a pen in his hand And write to her a love-line. KING. What 'her' is that? LAFEU. Why, doctor 'she': my lord, there's one arriv'd, If you will see her,--now, by my faith and honour, If seriously I may convey my thoughts In this my light deliverance, I have spoke With one that in her sex, her years, profession, Wisdom, and constancy, hath amaz'd me more Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her,-For that is her demand,--and know her business? That done, laugh well at me. KING. Now, good Lafeu,
Thesaurus breathe: (n, v) respire, subsist, imply; unfaithfulness, unreliability, (n) breath, bespeak; (adj, n, v) live; (v) dishonesty. convey: (v) communicate, channel, exhale, exist, emit, rest, be. ANTONYMS: (v) suffocate, hide, bring, conduct, transfer, fetch, choke, asphyxiate, drain, die, inhale. express, transmit, bear, transport, constancy: (n) allegiance, devotion, take. ANTONYMS: (v) keep, resolution, fidelity, loyalty, maintain, withhold, retain, refrain, steadfastness, faithfulness, hold, absorb, receive. deliverance: (n) salvation, rescue, steadiness, firmness, perseverance, unchangeableness. ANTONYMS: (n) release, freedom, escape, inconstancy, inconsistency, emancipation, delivery, relief, changefulness, instability, disloyalty, liberation, liberty, salvage.
ANTONYMS: (n) downfall, suppression. grapes: (v) clam, chupatty, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, chowder; (n) vintage. infirmity: (adj, n) frailty, foible, imbecility; (n) feebleness, impotence, disability, decrepitude, illness, sickness, disease, weakness. ANTONYMS: (n) health, wellness, strength.
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Bring in the admiration; that we with the May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took'st it.% LAFEU. Nay, I'll fit you, And not be all day neither. [Exit LAFEU.] KING. Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. [Re-enter LAFEU with HELENA.] LAFEU. Nay, come your ways. KING. This haste hath wings indeed. LAFEU. Nay, come your ways; This is his majesty: say your mind to him. A traitor you do look like; but such traitors His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, That dare leave two together: fare you well. [Exit.] KING. Now, fair one, does your business follow us? HELENA. Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was My father; in what he did profess, well found. KING. I knew him.
Thesaurus admiration: (n) esteem, adoration, appreciation, reverence, estimation, amazement, liking, awe, compliment; (adj, n) regard; (v) laud. ANTONYMS: (n) disdain, criticism, disapproval, contempt, abhorrence, loathing, disgust, despising, dishonor, disparagement, detestation. fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment, board, table, charge, chow, menu, traveller; (v) come, eat. ANTONYM: (v) stop.
haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, infrequently, uncommonly, hardly, rush; (n) celerity, expedition, scarcely, not often, once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS: (adv) often, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, seldom. traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, patience, forethought, caution. profess: (v) assert, feign, affirm, avow, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) state, pretend, claim, confess, allege, aver; (n, v) protest. ANTONYM: (v) insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalist, patriot. repress. re-enter: (v) return, come back. wings: (n) insignia, agency. seldom: (adj) scarce, rare, few, wondering: (adj) inquisitive, infrequent; (adv) occasionally, speculative, suspicious.
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HELENA. The rather will I spare my praises towards him. Knowing him is enough. On his bed of death Many receipts he gave me; chiefly one, Which, as the dearest issue of his practice, And of his old experience the only darling, He bade me store up as a triple eye, Safer than mine own two, more dear: I have so: And, hearing your high majesty is touch'd With that malignant cause wherein the honour Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power, I come to tender it, and my appliance, With all bound humbleness.% KING. We thank you, maiden: But may not be so credulous of cure,-When our most learned doctors leave us, and The congregated college have concluded That labouring art can never ransom nature From her inaidable estate,--I say we must not So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, To prostitute our past-cure malady To empirics; or to dissever so Our great self and our credit, to esteem A senseless help, when help past sense we deem. HELENA. My duty, then, shall pay me for my pains: I will no more enforce mine office on you; Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts A modest one to bear me back again.
Thesaurus bade: (v) bid, command, bad. credulous: (adj) gullible, unsuspecting, simple, unsuspicious, unquestioning, green, trusting, unwary, innocent, believing, illogical. ANTONYMS: (adj) suspicious, wary, disbelieving, suspecting, skeptical, cynical, untrusting, shrewd, rational, smart, mistrustful. deem: (v) believe, assume, consider, count, hold, think, feel, view, suppose, regard, imagine.
ANTONYMS: (v) disregard, doubt. working, busy, toiling. dissever: (v) divide, break, cleave, malignant: (adj) malevolent, carve up, split, separate, sever, malicious, evil, malefic, fatal, spiteful, disconnect, parcel, split up, divorce. virulent, sinister, mischievous, ANTONYM: (v) unite. pernicious, venomous. entreating: (adj) beseeching, senseless: (adj) foolish, mindless, imploring, suppliant, begging, preposterous, pointless, irrational, supplicant, imploratory, asking absurd, stupid, insensible, idiotic, submissively, pleading, piteous. fatuous, purposeless. ANTONYMS: gave: (v) deliver, allow, allot, provide, (adj) meaningful, wise, conscious, furnish, impart, administer; (n) gives. provoked, prudent, useful, labouring: (adj) drudging, work, worthwhile.
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KING. I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful. Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give As one near death to those that wish him live: But what at full I know, thou know'st no part; I knowing all my peril, thou no art.% HELENA. What I can do can do no hurt to try, Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes. Great floods have flown From simple sources; and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. KING. I must not hear thee: fare thee well, kind maid; Thy pains, not used, must by thyself be paid: Proffers, not took, reap thanks for their reward. HELENA. Inspired merit so by breath is barred: It is not so with Him that all things knows, As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows: But most it is presumption in us when The help of heaven we count the act of men. Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent: Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. I am not an impostor, that proclaim
Thesaurus babes: (n) babies, babe. jeopardy, chance; (v) imperil, expose, fits: (v) epilepsy, bustle, racket, fuss, compromise. ANTONYM: (n) hubbub, megrims, rout, subsultus, security. presumption: (n) effrontery, staggers. impostor: (n) fraud, cheat, hypocrite, confidence, assurance, premise, fake, imposter, sham, charlatan, arrogance, guess, conjecture, surmise, deceiver, faker, cheater, pretender. insolence, impertinence, belief. pains: (n) nisus, labor, trouble, effort, ANTONYM: (n) respect. exertion, labour, pain, care, struggle, proclaim: (v) declare, assert, advertise, attempt, strain. broadcast, promulgate, enunciate, peril: (n, v) hazard, risk, endanger, herald, decree, divulge, notify, menace, adventure; (n) danger, annunciate.
reap: (v) harvest, gain, glean, gather, obtain, cut, receive, earn, acquire; (adj, v) mow; (adj) clip. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, scatter. weakest: (adj) ridiculous, suggestion, supposes, notions, plainly, irrational, incongruous, project, foolish, fatuity, inconsistent. writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, judicial writ, injunction, order, act, prescription, scripture, writing, ukase.
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Myself against the level of mine aim; But know I think, and think I know most sure, My art is not past power nor you past cure.% KING. Art thou so confident? Within what space Hop'st thou my cure? HELENA. The greatest grace lending grace. Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring; Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp; Or four-and-twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass; What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly, Health shall live free, and sickness freely die. KING. Upon thy certainty and confidence What dar'st thou venture? HELENA. Tax of impudence,-A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame,-Traduc'd by odious ballads; my maiden's name Sear'd otherwise; ne worse of worst extended, With vilest torture let my life be ended. KING. Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak; His powerful sound within an organ weak: And what impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves another way. Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate
Thesaurus boldness: (n) prowess, face, daring, valor, nerve, assurance, heroism, audaciousness, spirit, cheek, valour. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, shyness, timidity, meekness, reticence. diurnal: (adj) journal, quotidian, diary, everyday, cyclical, cyclic, ephemeral. divulged: (adj) out of the closet, exposed. infirm: (adj, n, v) feeble; (adj, v) faint, weak, sickly, debilitated; (adj) impotent, fragile, decrepit, ill,
delicate, shaky. ANTONYMS: (adj) execrable, disgusting, abhorrent, whole, well, hearty. abominable, heinous, forbidding. murk: (n) darkness, fog, dark, ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant, murkiness, haze, cloud, mirk, delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice. cloudiness; (adj, n) obscurity; (n, v) sleepy: (adj) drowsy, dozy, slow, lazy, mist; (v) darken. ANTONYM: (n) hypnotic, inactive, comatose, dull, heavy, dreamy; (adv) asleep. light. occidental: (adj) Hesperian, ponent, ANTONYMS: (adj) awake, energetic, occiduous; (n) westerner, inhabitant, vigorous, clear, lively, refreshed. dweller, denizen, artificial language. thievish: (adj) pilfering, dishonest, odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious; dishonorable, furacious, thiefly, theft (adj) detestable, hideous, nasty, prone.
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Worth name of life in thee hath estimate: Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all That happiness and prime can happy call; Thou this to hazard needs must intimate Skill infinite or monstrous desperate. Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try: That ministers thine own death if I die.% HELENA. If I break time, or flinch in property Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die; And well deserv'd. Not helping, death's my fee; But, if I help, what do you promise me? KING. Make thy demand. HELENA. But will you make it even? KING. Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven. HELENA. Then shalt thou give me, with thy kingly hand What husband in thy power I will command: Exempted be from me the arrogance To choose from forth the royal blood of France, My low and humble name to propagate With any branch or image of thy state: But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow. KING. Here is my hand; the premises observ'd, Thy will by my performance shall be serv'd;
Thesaurus flinch: (v) cower, quail, recoil, recede, infinite: (adj) absolute, eternal, blench, shrink; (n, v) cringe, start, endless, countless, immense, retreat, jump, jerk. incalculable, boundless, innumerable, forth: (adv) away, along, onward, immeasurable, everlasting, spaceless. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, limited, ahead, before, on, off, on the high road, on the road, on the way, under restricted, small, tiny, slight. kingly: (adj, adv) stately; (adj) August, way. hazard: (n, v) chance, venture, noble, regal, imperial, sovereign, majestic, royal; (adv) royally, endanger, peril, adventure, bet, wager; (n) danger, fortune, jeopardy, majestically, regally. accident. ANTONYMS: (n) safety, monstrous: (adj) huge, atrocious, security; (v) protect. heinous, monster, immense, gigantic,
grievous, ugly, flagitious, dreadful; (adj, v) grotesque. ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, minute, beautiful, good, small, lovely, attractive. physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, remedy; (v) heal. sceptre: (n) sovereignty, verge, wand, bauble, mace, brink. unpitied: (v) unlamented, unbewailed.
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So make the choice of thy own time, for I, Thy resolv'd patient, on thee still rely. More should I question thee, and more I must,-Though more to know could not be more to trust,-From whence thou cam'st, how tended on.--But rest Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.-Give me some help here, ho!--If thou proceed As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed.% [Flourish. Exeunt.]
SCENE 2. ROUSILLON. A ROOM IN THE COUNTESS'S PALACE. [Enter COUNTESS and CLOWN.] COUNTESS. Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding. CLOWN. I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I know my business is but to the court. COUNTESS. To the court! why, what place make you special, when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court! CLOWN. Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand, and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all men.
Thesaurus breeding: (n) education, upbringing, of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate, good manners, usage. ANTONYM: (n) vulgarity. nurture, manners, reproduction, love. lent: (n) Quadragesima, Lententide. undoubted: (adj) unquestionable, generation, propagation, culture, fostering, cultivation, multiplication. lowly: (adj) base, lower, low, inferior, undisputed, indisputable, ANTONYMS: (n) unsophistication, baseborn; (adv) meekly, meanly, undeniable, sure, positive, true, vulgarity. modestly, poorly, softly, humbly. unquestioned, indubitable, definite, deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, ANTONYMS: (adj) noble, privileged, unchallenged. whence: (adv) wherefrom, hence, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, high, aristocratic, refined, exalted, doing, document, title, fact. comfortable. because, for, why, wherefore, how, ANTONYM: (n) failure. manners: (n) conduct, etiquette, then, then thence so, how comes it, kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace, propriety, behavior, deportment, how happens it. touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss manner, courtesy, custom, decorum,
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COUNTESS. Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.% CLOWN. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks--the pin-buttock, the quatchbuttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock. COUNTESS. Will your answer serve fit to all questions? CLOWN. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffety punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for Mayday, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin. COUNTESS. Have you, I, say, an answer of such fitness for all questions? CLOWN. From below your duke to beneath your constable, it will fit any question. COUNTESS. It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands. CLOWN. But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall do you no harm to learn. COUNTESS. To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier? CLOWN. O Lord, sir!--There's a simple putting off. More, more, a hundred of them.
Thesaurus bountiful: (adj) ample, abundant, plentiful, generous, liberal, profuse, fruitful, luxuriant, lush, rich, openhanded. ANTONYMS: (adj) sparse, miserly, wanting, spare, scarce, scanty, scant, lean, lacking, insufficient, barren. buttock: (n) posterior, seat, croup, tail, rump, bottom, breech, posteriors, dorsum, loin, backside. forefinger: (n) index finger, index, forefingers, paw, thumb, hand,
exponent, antenna, feeler. groats: (n) shred, grain, barley groats, cereal, food grain, shelling. pancake: (n) hot cake, flapjack, bliny, hotcake, battercake, blini, blintz, blintze, flapcake; (v) ashcake; (n, v) crash. quean: (n) jade, Trull, bitch, drab, hussy, minx, girl, slut, trollop, rig, demirep. scolding: (n) rebuke, lecture, castigation, admonition, reproof,
objurgation, chiding, dressing, jobation, scold, rating. ANTONYMS: (n) compliment, approval. trifle: (n, v) play; (adj, n, v) trinket; (v) dally, fiddle, flirt, fool, frivol; (n) nothing, triviality, detail; (adj, n) bagatelle. wrangling: (n) quarrel, bickering, controversy, polemics, discussion, haggle, haggling, dispute, strife, altercation, jangle.
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COUNTESS. Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.% CLOWN. O Lord, sir!--Thick, thick; spare not me. COUNTESS. I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat. CLOWN. O Lord, sir!--Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. COUNTESS. You were lately whipped, sir, as I think. CLOWN. O Lord, sir!--Spare not me. COUNTESS. Do you cry 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and 'spare not me'? Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very sequent to your whipping. You would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to't. CLOWN. I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my--'O Lord, sir!' I see thing's may serve long, but not serve ever. COUNTESS. I play the noble housewife with the time, to entertain it so merrily with a fool. CLOWN. O Lord, sir!--Why, there't serves well again. COUNTESS. An end, sir! To your business. Give Helen this, And urge her to a present answer back: Commend me to my kinsmen and my son: This is not much. CLOWN. Not much commendation to them.
Thesaurus commendation: (n, v) acclaim, homely: (adj) plain, common, rustic, anxiously, miserably, unhappily, applause, praise; (n) approval, artless, home, snug, homelike, carefully, despondently. domestic; (adj, adv) ugly; (adv) sequent: (adj) subsequent, consequent, citation, approbation, tribute, credit, plainly, simplely. ANTONYMS: (adj) successive, serial, sequential, plaudit, acclamation, admiration. ANTONYMS: (n) disapproval, sophisticated, striking, following, ensuant, resulting, resultant, chronological; (n) sequel. criticism, censure, demotion. uncomfortable, bleak. entertain: (v) amuse, delight, bear, kinsmen: (n) kin, kindred, family, whipped: (v) whipt. whipping: (n) flagellation, beating, cherish, beguile, admit, kinsfolk, people, affinity. accommodate, harbor, hold, distract; merrily: (adv) gaily, cheerfully, thrashing, licking, lashing, flogging, (n, v) interest. ANTONYMS: (v) blithely, cheerily, gladly, gleefully, overcasting, debacle, slaughter, disregard, ignore, banish, forget, tire, mirthfully, brightly, jovially, joyfully, overlocking; (adj) snappy. gayly. ANTONYMS: (adv) sadly, displease.
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COUNTESS. Not much employment for you: you understand me? CLOWN. Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.% COUNTESS. Haste you again. [Exeunt severally.]
SCENE 3. PARIS. THE KING'S PALACE. [Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES.] LAFEU. They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. PAROLLES. Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times. BERTRAM. And so 'tis. LAFEU. To be relinquish'd of the artists,-PAROLLES. So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus. LAFEU. Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--
Thesaurus authentic: (adj) genuine, actual, undetermined. fruitfully: (adv) prolifically, straight, right, real, accurate, valid, believable, bona fide, true; (adj, v) beneficially, richly, plentifully, authoritative. ANTONYMS: (adj) prolificly, effectively, fertilely, bogus, fake, unrealistic, false, lucratively, plenteously, fecundly, bountifully. ANTONYM: (adv) spurious, phony, counterfeit, dishonest, unauthorized, fruitlessly. persons: (n) folk, public, society, unbelievable, imitation. causeless: (adj) adventitious, world. seeming: (adj) ostensible, superficial, accidental, groundless, uncaused, reasonless, casual, aimless, illusory, outward, probable, fortuitous, gratuitous, indeterminate, deceptive, specious; (adj, n)
appearance, semblance; (n) aspect, show. ANTONYMS: (adj) actual, deep, inner. supernatural: (adj) mystical, preternatural, weird, superhuman, eerie, uncanny, unnatural, mysterious, ghostly, divine; (n) occult. ANTONYM: (adj) normal. trifles: (n) jests, nonsense, nugae, trivia.
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PAROLLES. Right; so I say.% LAFEU. That gave him out incurable,-PAROLLES. Why, there 'tis; so say I too. LAFEU. Not to be helped,-PAROLLES. Right; as 'twere a man assured of a,-LAFEU. Uncertain life and sure death. PAROLLES. Just; you say well: so would I have said. LAFEU. I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. PAROLLES. It is indeed: if you will have it in showing, you shall read it in,--What do you call there?-LAFEU. A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. PAROLLES. That's it; I would have said the very same. LAFEU. Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me, I speak in respect,-PAROLLES. Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange; that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the,--
Thesaurus acknowledge: (v) recognize, confess, accept, profess, own, admit, concede, appreciate, notice, declare, approve. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, overlook, reject, repudiate, snub, refuse, renounce, abjure, disavow, disregard, refute. dolphin: (n) porpoise, blackfish, beluga, mooring dolphin, common blackfish, killer, orca, pile mooring, grampus, mahimahi, common dolphin.
earthly: (adj, n) terrestrial; (adj) carnal, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent. worldly, conceivable, human, geotic, novelty: (adj) news; (n) freshness, secular, terrene, temporal, telluric, mutation, newness, trinket, curiosity, sublunary. ANTONYMS: (adj) originality, oddity, bauble; (n, v) spiritual, divine, ethereal, immortal, change, difference. tedious: (adj) tiresome, boring, dreary, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, celestial. slow, heavy, humdrum, irksome, heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, lifeless; (adj, v) monotonous, arid, dry. ANTONYMS: (adj) exciting, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, varied, easy, readable, lively, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, entertaining, enthralling, brisk, miserable, infernal, hellish, concise, exotic, pleasant.
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LAFEU. Very hand of heaven.% PAROLLES. Ay; so I say. LAFEU. In a most weak,-PAROLLES. And debile minister, great power, great transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a further use to be made than alone the recov'ry of the king, as to be,-LAFEU. Generally thankful. PAROLLES. I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king. [Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants.] LAFEU. Lustic, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's able to lead her a coranto. PAROLLES. 'Mort du vinaigre!' is not this Helen? LAFEU. 'Fore God, I think so. KING. Go, call before me all the lords in court.-[Exit an ATTENDANT.] Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense Thou has repeal'd, a second time receive The confirmation of my promis'd gift,
Thesaurus confirmation: (n) ratification, remedial, good, nourishing. pleased, gratified, relieved, under ANTONYMS: (adj) unhealthful, approval, corroboration, testimony, obligation, appreciatory, welcome. ANTONYMS: (adj) worried, sanction, demonstration, agreement, unsanitary, unhealthy. authentication, check, endorsement, maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass, unappreciative, unthankful, sorry. evidence. ANTONYMS: (n) opposite, lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, tooth: (n) palate, denticle, trident, question, repudiation, retraction, maiden, housemaid, handmaid. sprocket, saw, premolar, nap, incisor, preserver: (n) defender, protector, grain, eyetooth; (adj) nib. withdrawal, condemnation, denial. coranto: (n) couranto. transcendence: (n) supremacy, custodian, conservative, keeper, debile: (adj) feeble, weak, creaky. conservator, savior, patron, restorer, transcendency, extravagation, healthful: (adj) healthy, hale, flotation device; (adj) third person. excellence, domination, beingness, thankful: (adj) appreciative, indebted, existence, favourable position, salubrious, beneficial, hygienic, sanitary, wholesome, salutary, beholden, obliged, contented, priority, high quality, mastery.
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Which but attends thy naming. [Enter several LORDS.] Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice I have to use: thy frank election make; Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.% HELENA. To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress Fall, when love please!--marry, to each, but one! LAFEU. I'd give bay Curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys', And writ as little beard. KING. Peruse them well: Not one of those but had a noble father. HELENA. Gentlemen, Heaven hath through me restor'd the king to health. ALL. We understand it, and thank heaven for you. HELENA. I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest That I protest I simply am a maid.-Please it, your majesty, I have done already: The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me-'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refus'd, Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; We'll ne'er come there again.'
Thesaurus beard: (v) defy, dare; (adj, v) brave; regal; (adj, n) prince. ANTONYMS: mouth, gall, insolence, impudence. (adj, n) hair; (n) whiskers, moustache, ANTONYMS: (n) respect, cowardice, (adj) dependent, ineffective, useless. sloven, facial hair; (n, v) camouflage, therein: (adv) in this, in there. timidity, humbleness, meekness, disguise, mask. ANTONYM: (n) reticence, seriousness; (v) praise. whisper: (n, v) murmur, hum, cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, mumble, suggestion, hint, inkling; (v) shaven. blush: (n, v) glow, color; (v) redden, breathe, hiss; (n) rustle, trace, breath. posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet. crimson; (n) red, bloom, rosiness, none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, ANTONYM: (n) information. ruddiness, redness; (adj) bashful; zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, youthful: (adj) immature, fresh, green, (adv) blushingly. ANTONYMS: (v) any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever. juvenile, vernal, adolescent, childish, blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness. sovereign: (n) ruler, king, lord, new, tender, sappy, beardless. cheek: (n) audacity, nerve, brass, emperor; (adj) independent, ANTONYMS: (adj) adult, mature, boldness, impertinence, face, lip, autonomous, imperial, royal, free, experienced, sophisticated, late.
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KING. Make choice; and, see: Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.% HELENA. Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, And to imperial Love, that god most high, Do my sighs stream.--Sir, will you hear my suit? FIRST LORD. And grant it. HELENA. Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. LAFEU. I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace for my life. HELENA. The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes, Before I speak, too threateningly replies: Love make your fortunes twenty times above Her that so wishes, and her humble love! SECOND LORD. No better, if you please. HELENA. My wish receive, Which great Love grant; and so I take my leave. LAFEU. Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk to make eunuchs of. HELENA. [To THIRD LORD.] Be not afraid that I your hand should take; I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:
Thesaurus altar: (n) shrine, Communion table, sanctuary, table, structure, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, construction, examination hall, holy of Holies. deny: (v) controvert, rebuff, contradict, disavow, gainsay, reject, oppose, refuse, disown, abnegate, renounce. ANTONYMS: (v) affirm, claim, acknowledge, declare, maintain, agree, spoil, accept, accede, allow, argue. flames: (n) fire, blaze, firestorm,
mute: (adj) dumb, silent, inarticulate, hellhole. fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune, dummy, tongueless; (v) muffle, dampen, deaden, hush; (adj, v) quiet, personal narrative, life, journal. honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj) talkative, speaking, spoken; (v) amplify. homage, celebrity, accolade, reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, threateningly: (adv) sinisterly, celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, ominously, seriously, warningly, v) dishonor; (v) disrespect. perilously, gloomily, dangerously, imperial: (adj) majestic, grand, minatorily, grimly, minaciously, dignified, imperious, purple, stately, loweringly. August, regal, noble, lordly; (adj, n) twenty: (adj) vigesimal; (n) large beard. integer, twenty dollar bill.
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Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed! LAFEU. These boys are boys of ice: they'll none have her: Sure, they are bastards to the English; the French ne'er got 'em.% HELENA. You are too young, too happy, and too good, To make yourself a son out of my blood. FOURTH LORD. Fair one, I think not so. LAFEU. There's one grape yet,--I am sure thy father drank wine.—But if thou beest not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen; I have known thee already. HELENA. [To BERTRAM.] I dare not say I take you; but I give Me and my service, ever whilst I live, Into your guiding power.--This is the man. KING. Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife. BERTRAM. My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness, In such a business give me leave to use The help of mine own eyes. KING. Know'st thou not, Bertram, What she has done for me? BERTRAM. Yes, my good lord; But never hope to know why I should marry her.
Thesaurus beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, offer, grant, reject. dare: (n, v) venture; (v) defy, brave, hazard, confront, risk, resist, make bold; (n) adventure, daring, defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) avoid, flee, pass, refrain, retreat, obey. drank: (v) absorb. fortune: (n) estate, fate, fluke, destiny, luck, accident, means, assets, riches,
abundance, doom. ANTONYM: (n) design. fourteen: (adj, n) XIV. grape: (n) grapes, grapevine, vine, raisin, table grape, muscadine, fox grape, edible fruit, common grape vine, bullace grape. guiding: (adj) scouting, directive, leading, controlling, guidance, directional, guide, direction, management, steering, sovereign. liege: (n) feudatory, liegeman, vassal,
lord, liege Lord, subject, Luik; (adj) loyal, staunch, true, steady. marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get married, link, conjoin, wive, splice, tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage. ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate, split. youth: (n) youngster, young person, lad, juvenile, boy, adolescence, kid, younker, stripling, juvenility; (adj, n) young. ANTONYMS: (n) adulthood, adult, ripeness, maturity, aged.
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KING. Thou know'st she has rais'd me from my sickly bed.% BERTRAM. But follows it, my lord, to bring me down Must answer for your raising? I know her well; She had her breeding at my father's charge: A poor physician's daughter my wife!--Disdain Rather corrupt me ever! KING. 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off In differences so mighty. If she be All that is virtuous,--save what thou dislik'st, A poor physician's daughter,--thou dislik'st Of virtue for the name: but do not so: From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour: good alone Is good without a name; vileness is so: The property by what it is should go, Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair; In these to nature she's immediate heir; And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn Which challenges itself as honour's born, And is not like the sire: honours thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our fore-goers: the mere word's a slave, Debauch'd on every tomb; on every grave
Thesaurus additions: (n) accompaniments, accessions, embellishments, trappings. confound: (v) bewilder, baffle, nonplus, perplex, astonish, puzzle, amaze, astound, mistake; (adj, v) confuse, stupefy. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, clarify, comfort, lose, distinguish; (n) understanding. dignified: (adj) exalted, majestic, noble, grand, lofty, respectable, solemn, distinguished, lordly, high;
(adj, v) great. ANTONYMS: (adj) forefather, ancestor, patriarch, pater. tomb: (n) sepulchre, sepulcher, crypt, undignified, foolish, dishonorable, boisterous, unceremonious, pit, sepulture, vault, monument, entomb, mausoleum; (n, v) bury; (v) unseemly, vulgar, poor, lowly, modest, base. inter. sickly: (adj, adv) poorly; (n) invalid; vileness: (n) evil, enormity, (adj) sick, ailing, pale, sallow, repulsiveness, loathsomeness, indisposed, morbid, diseased; (adj, n, nefariousness, evilness, wickedness, v) infirm; (adj, v) faint. ANTONYMS: sliminess, meanness, hideousness; (adj) healthy, bitter, robust. (adj) scandal. ANTONYMS: (n) sire: (v) generate, engender, beget, purity, goodness, pleasantness. procreate, mother, get, make; (n)
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A lying trophy; and as oft is dumb Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said? If thou canst like this creature as a maid, I can create the rest: virtue and she Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.% BERTRAM. I cannot love her, nor will strive to do 't. KING. Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose. HELENA. That you are well restor'd, my lord, I am glad: Let the rest go. KING. My honour's at the stake; which to defeat, I must produce my power. Here, take her hand, Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift; That dost in vile misprision shackle up My love and her desert; that canst not dream We, poising us in her defective scale, Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know It is in us to plant thine honour where We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt: Obey our will, which travails in thy good; Believe not thy disdain, but presently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right Which both thy duty owes and our power claims Or I will throw thee from my care for ever, Into the staggers and the careless lapse Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate
Thesaurus dower: (n) dowry, dowery, inheritance, jointure, endowment, heritage, patrimony; (v) to bar dower, endue, bestow, contribute. misprision: (v) evasion, arriere pensee, suppression, white lie; (n) misdemeanor, misfeasance, contempt. obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, good, conformable, tame, acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, amenable, subservient. ANTONYMS:
(adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious, crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, resistant. scornful: (adj) disdainful, haughty, arrogant, sarcastic, disparaging, derisive, mocking, abusive, scathing, opprobrious, insulting. ANTONYMS: (adj) approving, complimentary, humble, sympathetic, admiring. shackle: (n, v) hamper, chain, handcuff, gyve, cramp, tether; (v) bind, hobble, manacle, confine; (n)
bond. ANTONYMS: (v) free, facilitate, release. staggers: (v) fuss, rout, racket, bustle, hubbub, subsultus; (n) epilepsy. unworthy: (adj) undeserving, base, disgraceful, ignoble, low, contemptible, despicable, ugly, unmerited, unseemly, shameful. ANTONYMS: (adj) deserving, valuable, honorable, estimable, reputable.
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Loosing upon thee in the name of justice, Without all terms of pity. Speak! thine answer! BERTRAM. Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit My fancy to your eyes: when I consider What great creation, and what dole of honour Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now The praised of the king; who, so ennobled, Is as 'twere born so.% KING. Take her by the hand, And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise A counterpoise; if not to thy estate, A balance more replete. BERTRAM. I take her hand. KING. Good fortune and the favour of the king Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast Shall more attend upon the coming space, Expecting absent friends. As thou lov'st her, Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. [Exeunt KING, BERTAM, HELENA, Lords, and Attendants.] LAFEU. Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you. PAROLLES. Your pleasure, sir?
Thesaurus counterpoise: (n) balance, inappropriate, inexpedient, equilibration, poise, equilibrium, impractical, futile, detrimental, equipoise; (n, v) counterweight; (v) inconvenient, foolish. gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, offset, counteract, compensate, countervail; (adj) ballast. courteous, compassionate, kind, dole: (v) dispense; (n) mite, grant, accommodating, civil; (adj, n) pittance, grief, distribution, blow, benevolent, congenial, gentle. ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, care, anxiety, cark, charity. expedient: (adj) fit, advisable, boorish, discourteous, reserved, rude, becoming, desirable, adequate, apt, abrupt, critical, unkind, hardhearted, convenient, suitable; (n) contrivance, harsh, poor. resource, artifice. ANTONYMS: (adj) replete: (adj) fraught, profuse,
excessive, inordinate, exuberant, overmuch, satisfied; (v) fill, take, satiate, cloy. ANTONYM: (adj) hungry. solemn: (adj, n, v) serious; (adj, v) sober, important, sedate, devout, formal, demure; (adj) heavy, dignified, sacred; (adj, n) earnest. ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous, cheerful, unceremonious, funny, playful, flippant, relaxed.
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LAFEU. Your lord and master did well to make his recantation.% PAROLLES. Recantation!--my lord! my master! LAFEU. Ay; is it not a language I speak? PAROLLES. A most harsh one, and not to be understood without bloody succeeding. My master! LAFEU. Are you companion to the Count Rousillon? PAROLLES. To any count; to all counts; to what is man. LAFEU. To what is count's man: count's master is of another style. PAROLLES. You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old. LAFEU. I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee. PAROLLES. What I dare too well do, I dare not do. LAFEU. I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee; when I lose thee again I care not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and that thou art scarce worth.
Thesaurus counts: (adj) details, particulars, items. dissuade: (v) discourage, deter, advise, remonstrate, divert, expostulate, dehort, hinder, repress, reason, detain. ANTONYMS: (v) persuade, encourage, induce, influence. manifoldly: (adv) variously, multiplely, multifariously, multitudinously, multiplexly, variedly, sundrily, diversely, severally, frequently, thickly. scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient,
infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, bearable, fair, middling, reasonable, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. adequate, respectable, endurable, ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, sufferable; (adj, v) satisfactory. ANTONYMS: (adj) intolerable, common, adequate, strong, usual, extensive. exceptional, unbearable, succeeding: (adj) following, unsatisfactory, bad, inadequate, subsequent, after, consecutive, appalling, inadmissible. vent: (n) exit, opening, flue, chimney, posterior, ensuing, consequent, successive, consequential; (adj, adv) escape, blowhole; (n, v) discharge, later; (v) succeed. ANTONYMS: (adj) air, release; (v) emit, ventilate. ANTONYMS: (n) door, closure; (v) outgoing, preceding. tolerable: (adj) passable, mediocre, block, suppress.
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PAROLLES. Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,-LAFEU. Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if-Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well: thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give me thy hand.% PAROLLES. My lord, you give me most egregious indignity. LAFEU. Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. PAROLLES. I have not, my lord, deserved it. LAFEU. Yes, good faith, every dram of it: and I will not bate thee a scruple. PAROLLES. Well, I shall be wiser. LAFEU. E'en as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o' th' contrary. If ever thou beest bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the default, he is a man I know. PAROLLES. My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation. LAFEU. I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal: for doing I am past; as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave. [Exit.]
Thesaurus bate: (v) abate, curtail, discount, deduct, dequantitate, douse, contain, drench, detract; (n) battue, bath. casement: (n) embrasure, casement cloth. dram: (n) drachma, nip, ankus, spot, dynamic random access memory, snifter, blast, apothecaries' weight; (n, v) potion; (v) drench, swill. egregious: (adj) rank, glaring, flagrant, crying, infamous, outrageous, peculiar, absurd, eccentric; (v)
extravagant; (adj, v) preposterous. impossible, unsupportable, heavy, ANTONYMS: (adj) petty, slight, obnoxious. ANTONYM: (adj) trivial, measly, little, minor. bearable. indignity: (n) dishonor, contumely, scruple: (adj, v) hesitate, demur, pause; (n) hesitation, qualm, misgiving, humiliation, contempt, outrage, distrust, objection; (n, v) mistrust; (v) disdain, offence, disgrace, degradation; (n, v) insult, abuse. falter, question. ANTONYMS: (n) honor, glory, pride. vexation: (adj, n) annoyance, nuisance; insupportable: (adj, v) insufferable, (n) irritation, worry, aggravation, intolerable; (adj) indefensible, displeasure, chagrin, chafe, anger, unbearable, excruciating, frustration, botheration. unjustifiable, unendurable,
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PAROLLES. Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!--Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with any convenience, an he were double and double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I would have of-- I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.% [Re-enter LAFEU.] LAFEU. Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you; you have a new mistress. PAROLLES. I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good lord: whom I serve above is my master. LAFEU. Who? God? PAROLLES. Ay, sir. LAFEU. The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of thy sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'd beat thee: methink'st thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. PAROLLES. This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord. LAFEU. Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you
Thesaurus garter: (n) cestus, halter, running knot, fruit, pomegranate tree. unwarranted. ANTONYMS: (adj) saucy: (adj, n) pert; (adj) bold, surcingle, noose, knot, lasso, rightful, fair, just. suspender, star, wreath, crown. impudent, audacious, insolent, fresh, unfeignedly: (adv) sincerely, truely, heraldry: (n) blazon, blazonry, forward, impertinent, flippant, rude, honestly, straightly, really, frankly, brazen. ANTONYM: (adj) respectful. truly, heartily, authentically, bearing, crest, emblem, charge, scurvy: (adj) contemptible, paltry, research, inquiry, coat of arms, authenticly, naturally. vagabond: (n, v) tramp; (adj, n) heraldic bearing, enquiry. miserable, sordid, low, abject, kernel: (n) gist, heart, essence, center, ignoble, dirty, scabby; (v) base, vagrant; (v) roam, stray, wander, range, ramble; (n) outcast, bum, inwardness, quintessence, grain, scurfy. wanderer, nomad. ANTONYMS: (n) marrow, substance, content, nucleus. undeserved: (adj) unfair, unearned, master's: (n) postgraduate degree. unjust, inequitable, undue, excessive, inhabitant, resident; (adj) settled. pomegranate: (n) fruit tree, edible wrongs: (n) mala. iniquitous, wrong, unreasonable,
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commission. You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. I leave you. [Exit.] PAROLLES. Good, very good, it is so then.--Good, very good; let it be concealed awhile.% [Enter BERTRAM.] BERTRAM. Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever! PAROLLES. What's the matter, sweet heart? BERTRAM. Although before the solemn priest I have sworn, I will not bed her. PAROLLES. What, what, sweet heart? BERTRAM. O my Parolles, they have married me!-I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. PAROLLES. France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits The tread of a man's foot:--to the wars! BERTRAM. There's letters from my mother; what the import is I know not yet. PAROLLES. Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars! He wears his honour in a box unseen That hugs his kicksy-wicksy here at home, Spending his manly marrow in her arms, Which should sustain the bound and high curvet Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions!
Thesaurus fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, implication, moment, significance, kernel, core, content, center, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, value; (v) imply. ANTONYMS: (n, v) backbone; (adj) quiddity. fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, v) export; (n) insignificance, steed: (n) horse, mount, charger, fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) inconsequence, triviality. knight, courser, warhorse, pony, manly: (adj) manlike, masculine, calm, passionless, dispassionate, stallion, mare. indifferent, placid, gentle, cool; (adv) manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv) sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal, easygoing. manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely; implacable, engaged, dedicated, forfeited: (adj) forfeit, lost, (adj, adv) stately. ANTONYMS: (adj) committed, betrothed, bespoken, weak, unmanly, cowardly; (adv) disfranchised, confiscated, affianced, inveterate. tread: (n, v) pace, walk, rate, march, appropriated, condemned. unmanfully. import: (n, v) matter, sense, denote; (n) marrow: (adj, n) gist, pith, tramp; (n) gait, stride, footstep, quintessence; (n) substance, heart, footfall, track; (v) trample. meaning, effect, connotation,
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France is a stable; we that dwell in't, jades; Therefore, to the war! BERTRAM. It shall be so; I'll send her to my house, Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, And wherefore I am fled; write to the king That which I durst not speak: his present gift Shall furnish me to those Italian fields Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.% PAROLLES. Will this caprichio hold in thee, art sure? BERTRAM. Go with me to my chamber and advise me. I'll send her straight away: to-morrow I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow. PAROLLES. Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: A young man married is a man that's marr'd: Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 4. THE SAME. ANOTHER ROOM IN THE SAME. [Enter HELENA and CLOWN.] HELENA. My mother greets me kindly: is she well?
Thesaurus balls: (n) guts, family jewels, intestinal favor, not liked. repentance, remorse; (adj, n) sadness, dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, misery; (adj, n, v) distress. fortitude, nerve, spirit, tenacity, ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight, valor, audacity, prowess. live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, bravely: (adv) courageously, fearlessly, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) happiness, peace, hopefulness, valiantly, boldly, intrepidly, wander. cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm, hush: (adj, n, v) calm, silence, quiet, content; (v) rejoice. dauntlessly, gallantly, audaciously, still, lull; (n) peace; (v) shut up, gag, wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore; (adv, undauntedly, heroically, doughtily. ANTONYMS: (adv) timidly, fearfully, quieten, muffle; (adj, v) soothe. n) why; (n) reason, proof; (adv) ANTONYMS: (n) noise, turmoil; (v) execrably, nervously. accordingly, consequently, so, detested: (adj) despised, unpopular, wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then. Louden. sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve; disliked, loathed, not accepted, (v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache, unloved, scorned, reviled, out of
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CLOWN. She is not well, but yet she has her health: she's very merry, but yet she is not well: but thanks be given, she's very well, and wants nothing i' the world; but yet she is not well.% HELENA. If she be very well, what does she ail that she's not very well? CLOWN. Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things. HELENA. What two things? CLOWN. One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her quickly! The other, that she's in earth, from whence God send her quickly! [Enter PAROLLES.] PAROLLES. Bless you, my fortunate lady! HELENA. I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes. PAROLLES. You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them on, have them still. O, my knave,--how does my old lady? CLOWN. So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I would she did as you say. PAROLLES. Why, I say nothing. CLOWN. Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to
Thesaurus earth: (n) world, dust, ground, land, successful; (adj, n) blessed. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, lair, dry land, terra firma, clay, creation, ball, country. disadvantaged, disastrous, enter: (v) enroll, embark, chronicle, unfavorable, underprivileged, book, record, input, arrive, come, inauspicious, unenviable, pierce, register, penetrate. unsatisfactory. ANTONYMS: (v) depart, exit, delete, merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful, stop, refrain, erase, egress, abstain, glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome, lighthearted, festive; (adj, n) cancel, exclude, disembark. fortunate: (adj) favorable, lucky, convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) auspicious, advantageous, favored, gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight. happy, prosperous, fortuitous, well, shakes: (n) hangover, jitters,
nervousness, tension, anxiety. tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, dialect, clapper, glossa, natural language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) flowing. undoing: (n) ruin, destruction, loss, curse, cancellation, reverse, bane, doom, collapse, annulment, disaster. ANTONYMS: (n) building, creation. whither: (adv) hither, thither, whereunto, whereto, for. wrinkles: (n) crow's feet.
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have nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which is within a very little of nothing.% PAROLLES. Away! thou art a knave. CLOWN. You should have said, sir, before a knave thou art a knave; that is before me thou art a knave: this had been truth, sir. PAROLLES. Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee. CLOWN. Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and much fool may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure and the increase of laughter. PAROLLES. A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.-Madam, my lord will go away to-night: A very serious business calls on him. The great prerogative and right of love, Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge; But puts it off to a compell'd restraint; Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets; Which they distil now in the curbed time, To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy And pleasure drown the brim. HELENA. What's his will else? PAROLLES. That you will take your instant leave o' the king, And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
Thesaurus brim: (n) rim, periphery, verge, edge, lip, hem, rand, margin, perimeter, brink, limit. curbed: (adj) checked, restrained, restricted, silent, small, temperate, cramped, continent, chequered, checkered, pent-up. distil: (v) distill, condense, drop, cleanse, pull, educe, dribble, purify, sublimate, refine, sanitize. drown: (v) drench, submerge, overwhelm, choke, engulf, flood,
swamp, inundate, suffocate, asphyxiate; (adj, n, v) sink. ANTONYMS: (v) float, swim, amplify, dry. fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown, idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v) deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull. ANTONYM: (n) savant. instant: (adj, n) present; (adj) immediate, prompt; (n) flash, minute, jiffy, point, second; (adj, v) exigent; (adj, n, v) pressing, urgent.
ANTONYMS: (n) age, eternity; (adj) considered, delayed, slow. prerogative: (n) franchise, claim, power, immunity, liberty, perquisite, right, influence, concession, due, authority. witty: (adj, v) smart, clever, sharp, brilliant; (adj) amusing, funny, facetious, jocular, intelligent, quick, comic. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, unamusing, unfunny, thick.
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Strengthen'd with what apology you think May make it probable need.% HELENA. What more commands he? PAROLLES. That, having this obtain'd, you presently Attend his further pleasure. HELENA. In everything I wait upon his will. PAROLLES. I shall report it so. HELENA. I pray you.-Come, sirrah. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 5. ANOTHER ROOM IN THE SAME. [Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM.] LAFEU. But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier. BERTRAM. Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. LAFEU. You have it from his own deliverance. BERTRAM. And by other warranted testimony.
Thesaurus apology: (n, v) excuse; (n) amends, regret, defense, justification, reason, explanation, vindication, alibi, acknowledgment; (v) apologize. ANTONYMS: (n) blame, reprehension, accusation, shamelessness, epitome. commands: (n) orders, instructions, information, guidelines. lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, master, God, seignior, nobility, Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n)
lady. lordship: (n) ownership, supremacy, domain, dominance, manor, worship, authority, power, dynasty, grandeeship, headship. probable: (adj) likely, plausible, possible, potential, presumable, feasible, hopeful, convincing, believable, to be expected, specious. ANTONYMS: (adj) improbable, implausible, unbelievable. soldier: (n) warrior, fighter,
serviceman, champion, ranker, military personnel, swordsman, trooper, cavalryman, guardsman, janissary. testimony: (n, v) attestation, witness; (n) declaration, proof, evidence, testimonial, confirmation, statement, affidavit, affirmation, profession. warranted: (adj) legitimate, secured, bonded, legal, locked, mistaken, necessary; (v) privileged, sanctioned, allowed; (n) securer.
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LAFEU. Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting.% BERTRAM. I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in knowledge, and accordingly valiant. LAFEU. I have, then, sinned against his experience and transgressed against his valour; and my state that way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent. Here he comes; I pray you make us friends; I will pursue the amity [Enter PAROLLES.] PAROLLES. [To BERTRAM.] These things shall be done, sir. LAFEU. Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? PAROLLES. Sir! LAFEU. O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, is a good workman, a very good tailor. BERTRAM. [Aside to PAROLLES.] Is she gone to the king? PAROLLES. She is. BERTRAM. Will she away to-night? PAROLLES. As you'll have her.
Thesaurus amity: (n) friendship, concord, companionship, benevolence, peace, harmony, friendliness, brotherhood, fellowship, sympathy, camaraderie. ANTONYMS: (n) hostility, discord, antagonism, war, animosity. assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch; (v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, affirm, promise, ascertain; (adj, v) ensure. ANTONYMS: (v) alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve, undermine.
dial: (n) face, disc, control, selector, gnomon, pendulum, hourglass, clock, gauge; (v) telephone, operate. friends: (n) circle, associates, connections, links, support group, acquaintances. lark: (n) joke, fun, trick, prank, antic, caper, game; (n, v) romp, frolic, gambol; (v) rollick. pursue: (v) follow, dog, prosecute, hunt, course, tail, stalk, persist, hound, haunt, go after. ANTONYMS:
(v) shun, eschew, avoid, discourage, lead, precede, find. repent: (v) deplore, bewail, rue, mourn, lament, atone, sorry, bemoan, feel remorse, grieve, be sorry. tailor: (v) sew, fashion, shape, accommodate, design, cut, adjust, fit; (n) snip, dressmaker, sartor. workman: (n) laborer, working man, worker, employee, hand, operative, artisan, working person, lather, mechanic, artificer.
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BERTRAM. I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure, Given order for our horses; and to-night, When I should take possession of the bride, End ere I do begin.% LAFEU. A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner; but one that lies three-thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.-- God save you, Captain. BERTRAM. Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur? PAROLLES. I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure. LAFEU. You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs and all, like him that leapt into the custard; and out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer question for your residence. BERTRAM. It may be you have mistaken him, my lord. LAFEU. And shall do so ever, though I took him at his prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this of me, there can be no kernal in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes; trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures.--Farewell, monsieur; I have spoken better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil. [Exit.] PAROLLES. An idle lord, I swear.
Thesaurus custard: (n) cream, creme brulee, creme caramel, creme anglais, caramel custard, dowset. displeasure: (n) resentment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dislike, discontent, exasperation, disfavor, annoyance, offense, pique, disapproval. ANTONYMS: (n) satisfaction, pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, delight, contentment, equanimity, approval. leapt: (adj) sprung.
nothings: (n) honeyed words, interesting, untamed, inspiring, conversation. brilliant, colorful, rebellious, lively. swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, thrice: (adv) three times, thirdly. affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, unkindness: (n) heartlessness, avow, depone, depose, aver. callousness, thoughtlessness, ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, deny, compliment. diskindness, insensitivity, tame: (v) break, subdue, soften, unpleasantness, unfriendliness, domesticate; (adj) meek, docile, unkindliness, insensitiveness. bland, domestic, gentle, slow; (adj, v) ANTONYMS: (n) goodwill, moderate. ANTONYMS: (adj) diplomacy, gentleness, humanity, exciting, bright, unmanageable, thoughtfulness.
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BERTRAM. I think so.% PAROLLES. Why, do you not know him? BERTRAM. Yes, I do know him well; and common speech Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. [Enter HELENA.] HELENA. I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Spoke with the king, and have procur'd his leave For present parting; only he desires Some private speech with you. BERTRAM. I shall obey his will. You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, Which holds not colour with the time, nor does The ministration and required office On my particular. Prepared I was not For such a business; therefore am I found So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you: That presently you take your way for home, And rather muse than ask why I entreat you: For my respects are better than they seem; And my appointments have in them a need Greater than shows itself at the first view To you that know them not. This to my mother: [Giving a letter.] 'Twill be two days ere I shall see you; so I leave you to your wisdom.
Thesaurus clog: (n, v) block, bar, glut; (v) choke, obstruct, foul, hinder, encumber, back up; (n) obstruction, patten. ANTONYMS: (v) free, clear, open, unblock. entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject. marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy, curiosity, phenomenon, amazement, miracle, portent, marl, surprise,
admiration; (v) admire. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) nightmare. ministration: (n) aid, ministry, assist, help, relief, succor, succour, assistance, service, comfort, mercy. muse: (v) meditate, ponder, deliberate, consider, cogitate, reflect, brood, ruminate, speculate, think, mull. ANTONYM: (v) wander. obey: (v) comply, listen, keep, fulfill, hear, conform, abide by, serve, comply with; (n, v) mind, heed.
ANTONYMS: (v) disobey, defy, break, transgress, infringe, challenge, deny. unsettled: (adj) changeable, undecided, doubtful, uneasy, outstanding, variable, unpaid, unresolved; (adj, v) unfixed, indefinite, undetermined. ANTONYMS: (adj) confident, definite, decided, well, sure, happy, constant, conclusive, certain, calmed, calm.
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HELENA. Sir, I can nothing say But that I am your most obedient servant.% BERTRAM. Come, come, no more of that. HELENA. And ever shall With true observance seek to eke out that Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd To equal my great fortune. BERTRAM. Let that go: My haste is very great. Farewell; hie home. HELENA. Pray, sir, your pardon. BERTRAM. Well, what would you say? HELENA. I am not worthy of the wealth I owe; Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal What law does vouch mine own. BERTRAM. What would you have? HELENA. Something; and scarce so much:--nothing, indeed.-I would not tell you what I would, my lord:--Faith, yes;-Strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss. BERTRAM. I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.
Thesaurus fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready, favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly; (v) optative. observance: (n) ceremony, commemoration, observation, rite, fulfillment, obedience, manner, compliance, discharge, conformity, custom. ANTONYMS: (n) breaking, disobedience, disregard, nonobservance, inattention, omission.
sunder: (n, v) divide, sever, part, toward: (prep) to, towards, share, divorce; (v) separate, dissever, approaching, headed for, just before, tear, detach, cleave; (n) fragment. of, in the direction of; (adv, prep) on; thief: (n) burglar, bandit, pirate, (adv) about, around, by. ANTONYMS: (prep) from, away. plunderer, filcher, stealer, pickpocket, pilferer, crook, brigand, vouch: (v) guarantee, secure, promise, despoiler. certify, attest, pledge, swear, testify, timorous: (adj, v) fearful, shy; (adj, adv, protest, confirm, affirm. v) cowardly; (adj) afraid, nervous, ANTONYMS: (v) deny, disavow, diffident, bashful, apprehensive, refute. anxious, craven, coy. ANTONYMS: (adj) brave, fearless.
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HELENA. I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.% BERTRAM. Where are my other men, monsieur?--Farewell, [Exit HELENA.] Go thou toward home, where I will never come Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum:-Away, and for our flight. PAROLLES. Bravely, coragio! [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus break: (n, v) crack, fracture, breach, discover, understand, apprehend, burst, rupture, stop, pause; (n) hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj) interruption, respite, suspension; (v) heard. infringe. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, home: (n) domicile, abode, house, honor, lose, make, observe, resume, residence, base, place, dwelling, stay, strengthen; (n, v) mend; (n) family, habitation; (adj) domestic; (adj, n) household. ANTONYMS: (adj) continuation, misfortune. flight: (adj, n) herd, flying, bevy, external, national, public, away, drove; (n) escape, run, exodus, foreign; (adv) out. evasion, elopement, departure; (n, v) never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always, not avolation. ever, by no means, at all times, not at hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out, all, not, NE. ANTONYMS: (adv)
always, forever. shake: (n, v) jolt, beat, jar, quiver, wave; (v) agitate, excite, disturb; (adv, v) brandish; (adj, v) quake, totter. ANTONYMS: (v) soothe, steady. sword: (n) blade, sabre, brand, broadsword, falchion, cutlass, saber, steel, glaive, backsword, cutlas. where: (adv) there, here, wherever, whither, in which, wherein, in what; (adv, pron) anywhere; (pron) everywhere; (n) point, spot.
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SCENE 1. FLORENCE. A ROOM IN THE DUKE'S PALACE.% [Flourish. Enter the DUKE OF FLORENCE, attended; two French Lords, and Soldiers.] DUKE. So that, from point to point, now have you heard The fundamental reasons of this war; Whose great decision hath much blood let forth, And more thirsts after. FIRST LORD. Holy seems the quarrel Upon your grace's part; black and fearful On the opposer. DUKE. Therefore we marvel much our cousin France Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom Against our borrowing prayers. SECOND LORD. Good my lord,
Thesaurus attended: (adj) attent, fraught, tended to. black: (adj) sable, dark, ebony, colored, bleak, dirty, evil, nigger, darkie, unclean; (adj, n) blackamoor. ANTONYMS: (v) whiten; (adj) spotless, snowy, saintly, pale, optimistic, merry, light, angelic, ivory, bright. blood: (n) birth, gore, nature, origin, kindred, lineage, descent, family, beau, pedigree; (adj) juice.
borrowing: (n) lending, loan, lend, pledging, borrow, business borrowing, misappropriation, pawn, installment plan, acceptance, appropriation. cousin: (n) nephew, cousins, friend, cousinship, relation, akin, relative, full cousin, companion. fundamental: (adj, n) essential; (n) base, basis, root; (adj) cardinal, key, basic, rudimentary, elementary, chief, significant. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor,
advanced, trivial, unimportant, superfluous, subsequent, peripheral, marginal, irrelevant, actual, special. opposer: (n) antagonist, foe, adversary, enemy, opposition, foeman, Antichrist, dueler, withstander, resister, obstructer. reasons: (n) proof. shut: (v) seal, bar, fasten, obstruct, lock, exclude; (adj) closed, cut; (n) shutting, end, finish. ANTONYMS: (v) admit, undo.
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The reasons of our state I cannot yield, But like a common and an outward man That the great figure of a council frames By self-unable motion; therefore dare not Say what I think of it, since I have found Myself in my incertain grounds to fail As often as I guess'd.% DUKE. Be it his pleasure. FIRST LORD. But I am sure the younger of our nature, That surfeit on their ease, will day by day Come here for physic. DUKE. Welcome shall they be; And all the honours that can fly from us Shall on them settle. You know your places well; When better fall, for your avails they fell: To-morrow to th' field. [Flourish. Exeunt.]
SCENE 2. ROUSILLON. A ROOM IN THE COUNTESS'S PALACE. [Enter COUNTESS and CLOWN.] COUNTESS. It hath happened all as I would have had it, save that he comes not along with her.
Thesaurus avails: (n) Vail. shake. ANTONYMS: (v) decline, inward; (adj) inner, internal, deep. ease: (v) alleviate, assuage, relieve, struggle, deteriorate, wilt, pine, fade, settle: (adj, n, v) fix, establish, confirm; allay; (n) convenience, rest, leisure, (n, v) place, set; (v) resolve, clarify, flounder, decrease, dwindle. relief, satisfaction; (adj, v) facilitate; honours: (n) first, honors, degree, pay, regulate, adjudicate, agree. (n, v) relax. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (v) float, wander, academic degree. discomfort, formality, awkwardness, incertain: (adj) ambivalent, prolong, owe, bungle, open, provoke, worry, toil, problem, pain, changeable, diffident, doubtful, rise, weaken, worsen, complicate. maladroitness; (v) aggravate, worsen, dubious, uncertain, unsure. surfeit: (n) overabundance, excess, outward: (adj) external, apparent, impede. repletion, satiety, plethora, overflow, flourish: (n, v) display; (v) thrive, congestion; (v) cloy, gorge, satiate, extrinsic, outer, superficial, surface, prosper, boast, wave, brag, wield, outside, ostensible, foreign, outdoor; pall. ANTONYMS: (n) shortage, boom, grow; (adj, v) bloom; (adv, v) (adv) out. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) need, necessity, deficit; (v) deplete.
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CLOWN. By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man.% COUNTESS. By what observance, I pray you? CLOWN. Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song. COUNTESS. Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come. [Opening a letter.] CLOWN. I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court. Our old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court. The brains of my Cupid's knocked out; and I begin to love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach. COUNTESS. What have we here? CLOWN. E'en that you have there. [Exit.] COUNTESS. [Reads.] 'I have sent you a daughter-in-law; she hath recovered the king and undone me. I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the "not" eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it before the report come. If there be breadth enough in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty to you. Your unfortunate son, BERTRAM.' This is not well, rash and unbridled boy, To fly the favours of so good a king;
Thesaurus bedded: (adj) lay, laminal, laminar, codfish. rash: (adj, n) foolhardy, hasty, layered, foliate, foliated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unstratified, precipitate, eruption; (adj) imprudent, bedless. reckless, impetuous, heedless, breadth: (n) width, spread, amplitude, audacious, sudden; (adj, adv) thoughtless. ANTONYMS: (adj) wideness, size, length, latitude, extent, area, broadness, stretch. cautious, careful, sensible, wise, ANTONYMS: (n) length, longitude, considered, deliberate, prudent, emptiness, thinness. modest, slow, responsible, patient. ling: (n) burbot, heath, eelpout, cusk, ruff: (n, v) ruffle, trump, disturbance; (n) collar, neckband, fraise, blacktail, broom, lota lota, Scots heather, choker, neck ruff, sandpiper; (v) Calluna vulgaris, caltrop, cod,
crossruff. troth: (n) faith, engagement, betrothal, plight, vow, loyalty, espousal, fidelity, truth, verity, veracity. unbridled: (adj) wild, unchecked, licentious, reinless, ungoverned, violent, unmuzzled, ungovernable, rampant, rakish, disorderly. wedded: (adj, v) marital, connubial, matrimonial, conjugal, wed; (adj) nuptial, bridal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached.
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To pluck his indignation on thy head By the misprizing of a maid too virtuous For the contempt of empire.% [Re-enter CLOWN.] CLOWN. O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two soldiers and my young lady. COUNTESS. What is the matter? CLOWN. Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I thought he would. COUNTESS. Why should he be killed? CLOWN. So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does: the danger is in standing to 't; that's the loss of men, though it be the getting of children. Here they come will tell you more: for my part, I only hear your son was run away. [Exit.] [Enter HELENA and the two GENTLEMEN.] SECOND GENTLEMAN. Save you, good madam. HELENA. Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone. FIRST GENTLEMAN. Do not say so. COUNTESS. Think upon patience.--Pray you, gentlemen,-I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief
Thesaurus comfort: (n, v) ease, allay, support, aid, alleviate; (n) consolation, relief, amenity, assistance; (adj, n, v) assuage; (v) cheer. ANTONYMS: (n) discomfort, aggravation, agony; (v) alarm, annoy, frighten, afflict, aggravate, bother, burden, disappoint. contempt: (n, v) scorn; (v) despise; (n) disrespect, derision, mockery, disregard, ridicule, shame, slight, reproach, discourtesy. ANTONYMS:
(n) approval, admiration, regard, honor, esteem. grief: (adj, n, v) affliction; (n) dolor, anguish, distress, agony, pain, wound, chagrin, concern; (n, v) regret; (adj) sore. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, happiness, comfort, content, peace. indignation: (n) anger, resentment, displeasure, grudge, umbrage, rage, outrage, exasperation, choler, dudgeon; (adj, n) wrath.
ANTONYMS: (n) contentment, pleasure. killed: (n) casualty; (adj) fallen. soldiers: (n) military, troop, force, the military, troops, defense force, military service, militia, soldiery, Territorial Army, armed forces. yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, abroad, thither, further away, at that place; (adj) distant, yond, furious, fierce.
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That the first face of neither, on the start, Can woman me unto 't.--Where is my son, I pray you? FIRST GENTLEMAN. Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence: We met him thitherward; for thence we came, And, after some despatch in hand at court, Thither we bend again.% HELENA. Look on this letter, madam; here's my passport. [Reads.] 'When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to, then call me husband; but in such a "then" I write a "never." This is a dreadful sentence. COUNTESS. Brought you this letter, gentlemen? FIRST GENTLEMAN. Ay, madam; And for the contents' sake, are sorry for our pains. COUNTESS. I pr'ythee, lady, have a better cheer; If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety. He was my son: But I do wash his name out of my blood, And thou art all my child.--Towards Florence is he? FIRST GENTLEMAN. Ay, madam. COUNTESS. And to be a soldier?
Thesaurus begotten: (adj) generated, biological, communique, mission, consignment, sending, forwarding; (v) transmit, create. bend: (n, v) bow, turn, arch, arc, crook, expedite, quicken, send. twist, elbow; (adj, n, v) curve; (v) dreadful: (adj) bad, awful, alarming, stoop, crouch; (adj, v) flex. atrocious, fearful, terrible, ANTONYMS: (n, v) square; (v) align, abominable, appalling, direful, grisly; (adj, v) dread. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbend, leave. contents: (n) substance, content, wonderful, great, lovely, fantastic, matter, inside, subject matter, list, marvelous, admirable, successful, volume, synopsis, conspectus, cargo, nice, joyous, honorable, fair. moiety: (n) mediety, portion, part, catalogue. despatch: (n) shipment, expedition, parcel, section, piece, bit, division,
cut, class. thence: (adv) therefore, thus, therefrom, thereof, consequently, then, so, thereafter, thenceforth, since, on account of. unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before. wash: (adj, n, v) soak; (n, v) paint; (v) clean, scrub, mop, moisten, lave, scour, bathe; (n) washing, ablution. ANTONYM: (v) soil.
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FIRST GENTLEMAN. Such is his noble purpose: and, believe 't, The duke will lay upon him all the honour That good convenience claims.% COUNTESS. Return you thither? SECOND GENTLEMAN. Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed. HELENA. [Reads.] 'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.' 'Tis bitter. COUNTESS. Find you that there? HELENA. Ay, madam. SECOND GENTLEMAN. 'Tis but the boldness of his hand haply, which his heart was not consenting to. COUNTESS. Nothing in France until he have no wife! There's nothing here that is too good for him But only she; and she deserves a lord That twenty such rude boys might tend upon, And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him? SECOND GENTLEMAN. A servant only, and a gentleman Which I have sometime known. COUNTESS. Parolles, was it not?
Thesaurus consenting: (adj) agreeable, yielding, haply: (adv) accidentally, by accident, refined, courteous, chivalrous, civil, submissive, consentant, compliant, maybe, by luck, casually, proper, decent, exact, clean, gentle, affirmative, accepting; (v) complying, fortuitously, mayhap, perchance, inoffensive. chosen. incidentally, perhaps, peradventure. sometime: (adv) someday, once, one convenience: (n) contrivance, hourly: (adv) always, by the hour, day, formerly, sooner or later; (adj) accommodation, opportunity, utility, daily, often, constantly, continually, quondam, erstwhile, former, old, late; frequently; (adj) horary, continual, (adj, adv) sometimes. occasion, fitness, comfort, leisure, appliance, availability; (adj) ephemeral; (n) an hour. thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that convenient. ANTONYMS: (n) rude: (adj, n) rough, impudent, coarse, point, in that respect, at that place, in abrupt, bold; (adj) blunt, that location; (adj) further, ulterior, uselessness, distance, hardship, unsuitability, clumsiness, discourteous, impolite, brutal, crude, remoter, succeeding, more distant. mean. ANTONYMS: (adj) polite, remoteness.
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SECOND GENTLEMAN. Ay, my good lady, he.% COUNTESS. A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness. My son corrupts a well-derived nature With his inducement. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Indeed, good lady, The fellow has a deal of that too much Which holds him much to have. COUNTESS. You are welcome, gentlemen. I will entreat you, when you see my son, To tell him that his sword can never win The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you Written to bear along. FIRST GENTLEMAN. We serve you, madam, In that and all your worthiest affairs. COUNTESS. Not so, but as we change our courtesies. Will you draw near? [Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen.] HELENA. 'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.' Nothing in France until he has no wife! Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France; Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I That chase thee from thy country, and expose Those tender limbs of thine to the event
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temptation, bait, impetus, occasion, hardhearted, rubbery, hard, rough, motive, goad. ANTONYMS: (n) uncaring, healthy, mature, unfeeling, cold, experienced; (v) withdraw. disincentive, deterrent. tainted: (adj, v) rotten, rancid, bad, welcome: (adj) pleasant, acceptable, musty, reasty, vitiated; (adj) rank, pleasing, agreeable; (n, v) accept; (n) hospitality, reception; (v) receive, contaminated, faulty, putrid, dirty. ANTONYMS: (adj) unadulterated, greet, invite, hail. ANTONYMS: (adj) unchanged, untarnished, clean. unwelcome, unwanted, unacceptable, tender: (n, v) offer, proffer, bid; (adj, v) displeasing, disagreeable, affectionate; (adj) painful, sensitive, unpleasant; (v) reject, evict, bar; (n) soft, loving, sore; (v) propose, unfriendliness, goodbye. present. ANTONYMS: (adj)
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Of %the none-sparing war? and is it I That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers, That ride upon the violent speed of fire, Fly with false aim: move the still-peering air, That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord! Whoever shoots at him, I set him there; Whoever charges on his forward breast, I am the caitiff that do hold him to it; And though I kill him not, I am the cause His death was so effected: better 'twere I met the ravin lion when he roar'd With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere That all the miseries which nature owes Were mine at once. No; come thou home, Rousillon, Whence honour but of danger wins a scar, As oft it loses all. I will be gone: My being here it is that holds thee hence: Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although The air of paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all: I will be gone, That pitiful rumour may report my flight To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day! For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away. [Exit.]
SCENE 3. FLORENCE. BEFORE THE DUKE'S PALACE.
Thesaurus caitiff: (n) coward, villain, scoundrel, miscreant, dastard, ruffian, rascal, budmash, brute, barbarian; (adv) cowardly. effected: (adj) completed, complete, finished, fulfilled, done, realized, conventional, constituted, established. leaden: (adj) heavy, gray, sluggish, grey, inert, torpid, grave, languid, drab, burdensome, livid. ANTONYM: (adj) bright.
piercing: (adj, n) sharp, cutting; (adj, v) keen, penetrating, biting, bitter, harsh, shrill; (adj) high, raw, loud. ANTONYMS: (adj) quiet, dull, soft, hot. pitiful: (adj, n) abject; (adj) pathetic, lamentable, piteous, contemptible, miserable, distressing, mean, wretched, poor, sad. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, heartwarming, admirable, cheerful, fine, happy, impressive.
ravin: (n, v) ravine; (n) spoliation, game. rumour: (n, v) rumor; (n) hearsay, fame, news, story, reputation, scuttlebutt, tale; (v) bruit. smoky: (adj) murky, hazy, fumid, vaporous, opaque, muddy, famish, burnt; (v) sooty, smutty, dusty. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, fresh, clear. sportive: (adj) frolicsome, jocund, gay, jolly, cheerful, lively, merry, rollicking, mirthful, vivacious, blithe.
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[Flourish. Enter the DUKE OF FLORENCE, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Lords, Soldiers, and others.] DUKE. The general of our horse thou art; and we, Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence Upon thy promising fortune.% BERTRAM. Sir, it is A charge too heavy for my strength; but yet We'll strive to bear it, for your worthy sake To the extreme edge of hazard. DUKE. Then go thou forth; And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm, As thy auspicious mistress! BERTRAM. This very day, Great Mars, I put myself into thy file; Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove A lover of thy drum, hater of love. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 4. ROUSILLON. A ROOM IN THE COUNTESS'S PALACE. [Enter COUNTESS and STEWARD.] COUNTESS. Alas! and would you take the letter of her?
Thesaurus auspicious: (adj) lucky, favorable, propitious, happy, prosperous, providential, successful, opportune; (adj, n) fortunate, helpful; (adj, v) auspicial. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfortunate, inopportune, unfavorable, untimely, ominous, unlucky, insignificant. drum: (adj, n) barrel; (n) cask, tympan, cylinder, timbrel, tambour, tambourine; (v) beat, roll, bone up, ram.
hater: (n) individual, someone, somebody, person, human, mortal, soul, misanthrope, loather, francophobe, abominator. horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin, junk, charger, knight, pony, rider, trestle, eohippus, dog. lover: (n) dear, darling, fan, devotee, beau, buff, love, admirer, beloved, amorist, man. promising: (adj) auspicious, bright, favorable, propitious, encouraging,
favourable, hopeful, promise, budding, optimistic, probable. ANTONYMS: (adj) hopeless, inauspicious, threatening, unfavorable, unlikely, depressing. prosperous: (adj, n) lucky, auspicious, fortunate; (adj) flourishing, favorable, opulent, easy, comfortable, affluent, advantageous, successful. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressed, unsuccessful, failing, underprivileged, impoverished.
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Might you not know she would do as she has done, By sending me a letter? Read it again.% STEWARD. [Reads.] 'I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone: Ambitious love hath so in me offended That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon, With sainted vow my faults to have amended. Write, write, that from the bloody course of war My dearest master, your dear son, may hie: Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far His name with zealous fervour sanctify: His taken labours bid him me forgive; I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth From courtly friends, with camping foes to live, Where death and danger dog the heels of worth: He is too good and fair for death and me; Whom I myself embrace to set him free.' COUNTESS. Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!-Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much As letting her pass so; had I spoke with her, I could have well diverted her intents, Which thus she hath prevented. STEWARD. Pardon me, madam: If I had given you this at over-night, She might have been o'er ta'en; and yet she writes, Pursuit would be but vain. COUNTESS. What angel shall
Thesaurus barefoot: (adj) shoeless, unshod, bare footed. ANTONYM: (adj) shoed. courtly: (adj) civil, stately, polite, elegant, gallant, dignified, respectful, noble, formal; (adj, n) refined; (adv) wooly. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, unrefined, unpolished, uncivil, churlish, impolite, rough. despiteful: (adj) malicious, malevolent, vicious, malignant, nasty, mischievous, malign, catty, revengeful, vindictive, hateful.
diverted: (adj) abstracted, entertained, (n, v) clump, march. sainted: (adj) saintlike, holy, beatific, pleased, inattentive, sidetracked, unfocused, preoccupied. angelical, angelic, sacred, cherubic, fervour: (n) ardour, fervidness, good. fervency, fervor, ardor, enthusiasm, stings: (adj) stung. zealous: (adj) keen, enthusiastic, eagerness, zest, elan, ardency, fire. pilgrim: (n) hadji, passenger, fervent, ardent, avid, devoted, journeyer, palmer, traveler, strenuous, vehement, glowing, fiery; (adj, n) passionate. ANTONYMS: wanderer, conventual, monk, (adj) indifferent, apathetic, mendicant, lay brother, hajji. plod: (v) tramp, trudge, toil, slog, unenthusiastic, cool, halfhearted, drudge, labor, pad, grind, footslog; moderate.
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Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive, Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath Of greatest justice.--Write, write, Rinaldo, To this unworthy husband of his wife: Let every word weigh heavy of her worth, That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief, Though little he do feel it, set down sharply. Dispatch the most convenient messenger:-When, haply, he shall hear that she is gone He will return; and hope I may that she, Hearing so much, will speed her foot again, Led hither by pure love: which of them both Is dearest to me I have no skill in sense To make distinction:--provide this messenger:-My heart is heavy, and mine age is weak; Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.% [Exeunt.]
SCENE 5. WITHOUT THE WALLS OF FLORENCE. [Enter an old WIDOW of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, MARIANA, and other CITIZENS.] WIDOW. Nay, come; for if they do approach the city we shall lose all the sight. DIANA. They say the French count has done most honourable service. WIDOW. It is reported that he has taken their greatest commander; and that with his
Thesaurus commander: (n) chief, leader, commandant, head, governor, chieftain, commanding officer, conductor, major, skipper, master. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, follower, subordinate. convenient: (adj) comfortable, commodious, handy, appropriate, expedient, timely, fit, useful, nearby, opportune; (adj, n) advantageous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwieldy, fixed, useless, distant, troublesome,
unsuited, remote, unsuitable, unadaptable, unuseful, inappropriate. count: (v) compute, weigh, consider, estimate, matter; (n, v) calculate, tally, number, total; (n) calculation, computation. ANTONYMS: (v) guess, except, estimate, disregard, dismiss, abandon, ignore, subtract. delights: (n) delices. reported: (adj) narrative, reputed. reprieve: (n, v) pause, postponement,
pardon, stay; (n) relief, delay, abatement, remission, grace; (v) remit, adjournment. ANTONYM: (n) charge. skill: (n) artifice, capacity, capability, knack, ability, faculty, finesse, cleverness, expertise; (adj, n) craft, cunning. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, incompetence, uselessness, stupidity, ineptness, tactlessness, inexperience, ignorance, inaccuracy, delay, drawback.
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own hand he slew the duke's brother. [A tucket afar off.] We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way: hark! You may know by their trumpets.% MARIANA. Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. WIDOW. I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited by a gentleman his companion. MARIANA. I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl.--Beware of them, Diana; their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go under; many a maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you are, though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is so lost. DIANA. You shall not need to fear me. WIDOW. I hope so.--Look, here comes a pilgrim. I know she will lie at my house: thither they send one another; I'll question her.-[Enter HELENA in the dress of a pilgrim.] God save you, pilgrim! Whither are bound? HELENA. To Saint Jaques-le-Grand. Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?
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parallel, agreeable, cooperative, favorable. earl: (n) baron, jarl, peer, thane, viscount, banneret, chief, lord. hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look. lust: (n, v) desire, hunger, itch; (n) craving, greed, libido, lecherousness, cupidity, lewdness; (v) covet, crave. maidenhood: (n) maidenhead, chastity, virginity, maidhood, celibacy, purity, childhood,
maidenship, freshness, virginhood. seduced: (adj) profaned, infatuated, fascinated. slew: (n) wad, turning, sight, heap, stack, lot, flock; (v) rotate, slue, swerve, veer. solicited: (adj) requested. tokens: (n) decorations, discriminating marks, indications, indicia, insignia, signs, appearances, badges. tucket: (n) flourish, brandish. twigs: (n) sprays.
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WIDOW. At the Saint Francis here, beside the port.% HELENA. Is this the way? WIDOW. Ay, marry, is't. Hark you! They come this way. [A march afar off.] If you will tarry, holy pilgrim, But till the troops come by, I will conduct you where you shall be lodg'd; The rather for I think I know your hostess As ample as myself. HELENA. Is it yourself? WIDOW. If you shall please so, pilgrim. HELENA. I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure. WIDOW. You came, I think, from France? HELENA. I did so. WIDOW. Here you shall see a countryman of yours That has done worthy service. HELENA. His name, I pray you. DIANA. The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?
Thesaurus ample: (adj) abundant, big, broad, copious, large, plentiful, heavy, liberal, roomy, affluent, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) small, meager, insufficient, scarce, sparse, scant, cramped, narrow, partial, sketchy, slender. countryman: (n) peasant, villager, rustic, native, churl, compatriot, carle, fellow countryman, clown, hick, swain. ANTONYMS: (n) foreigner, outlander.
hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look. leisure: (n) idleness, convenience, vacation, inactivity, rest, repose, relaxation, recreation, pastime, opportunity; (adj) idle. ANTONYM: (n) work. tarry: (v) linger, loiter, stay, remain, delay, lag, dally, dawdle, bide, rest; (adj) pitchy. ANTONYMS: (v) complete, finish. worthy: (adj) noble, good, meritorious,
valuable, estimable, respectable, deserving, worthwhile, virtuous, honorable; (adj, n) celebrity. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, unrespected, disreputable, mediocre, petty, poor, unimpressive, insignificant, dishonorable, despicable; (n) nobody.
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HELENA. But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him: His face I know not.% DIANA. Whatsoe'er he is, He's bravely taken here. He stole from France, As 'tis reported, for the king had married him Against his liking: think you it is so? HELENA. Ay, surely, mere the truth; I know his lady. DIANA. There is a gentleman that serves the count Reports but coarsely of her. HELENA. What's his name? DIANA. Monsieur Parolles. HELENA. O, I believe with him, In argument of praise, or to the worth Of the great count himself, she is too mean To have her name repeated; all her deserving Is a reserved honesty, and that I have not heard examin'd. DIANA. Alas, poor lady! 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife Of a detesting lord. WIDOW. Ay, right; good creature, wheresoe'er she is
Thesaurus bondage: (n) thrall, thraldom, thralldom, slavery, captivity, enslavement, duress, restraint, yoke, vassalage; (adj, n) villenage. ANTONYMS: (n) independence, emancipation, freedom. coarsely: (adv) grossly, rudely, harshly, roughly, crudely, commonly, vulgarly, bluntly, uncouthly, inelegantly, offensively. ANTONYMS: (adv) politely, evenly, finely, smoothly, tastefully.
detesting: (adj) abhorring, detestable, abhorrent; (n) execration, loathing. hears: (v) hear. liking: (n, v) inclination; (n) fancy, appetite, taste, fondness, predilection, affection, partiality, admiration, approval, appreciation. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, aversion, hatred, indifference, detachment, dissatisfaction, antipathy. nobly: (adv) generously, magnificently, grandly, greatly,
splendidly, honorably, heroically, aristocratically, bravely, magnanimously, courageously. ANTONYMS: (adv) immorally, poorly, timidly. reserved: (adj, n) cold, distant, frigid; (adj) coy, reticent, diffident, bashful, aloof, retiring, quiet, shy. ANTONYMS: (adj) open, forthcoming, uninhibited, relaxed, warm, communicative, talkative, free, definite, cordial, forward.
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Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her A shrewd turn, if she pleas'd.% HELENA. How do you mean? May be, the amorous count solicits her In the unlawful purpose. WIDOW. He does, indeed; And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honour of a maid; But she is arm'd for him, and keeps her guard In honestest defence. MARIANA. The gods forbid else! WIDOW. So, now they come:-[Enter, with a drum and colours, a party of the Florentine army, BERTRAM, and PAROLLES.] That is Antonio, the Duke's eldest son; That, Escalus. HELENA. Which is the Frenchman? DIANA. He; That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow. I would he lov'd his wife: if he were honester He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman? HELENA. I like him well.
Thesaurus amorous: (adj) amatory, romantic, amative, affectionate, passionate, fond, warm, ardent, erotic, tender, impassioned. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, hateful, repulsed, unfriendly, cool. eldest: (adj) elder, older, oldest, eigne; (n) offspring, progeny, doyen. forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve,
authorize, stand. v) sagacious, knowing, crafty, gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, prudent. ANTONYMS: (adj) foolish, courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, gullible, naive, soft, candid, dim, heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. innocent, guileless, obtuse, ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, indiscriminate. unlawful: (adj) illegal, illegitimate, selfish. gods: (n) gallery. illicit, lawless, wrongful, prohibited, plume: (n) feather, plumage, quill, improper, unauthorized, criminal, outlaw, irregular. ANTONYMS: (adj) panache, aigrette, crest, feathering; (v) pride, pluck, dress, preen. legal, legitimate, authorized, honest, shrewd: (adj) sharp, astute, keen, rightful. piercing, clever, cunning, bright; (adj,
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DIANA. 'Tis pity he is not honest? yond's that same knave That leads him to these places; were I his lady I would poison that vile rascal.% HELENA. Which is he? DIANA. That jack-an-apes with scarfs. Why is he melancholy? HELENA. Perchance he's hurt i' the battle. PAROLLES. Lose our drum! well. MARIANA. He's shrewdly vex'd at something. Look, he has spied us. WIDOW. Marry, hang you! MARIANA. And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier! [Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Officers, and Soldiers.] WIDOW. The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound, Already at my house. HELENA. I humbly thank you: Please it this matron and this gentle maid To eat with us to-night; the charge and thanking Shall be for me: and, to requite you further,
Thesaurus humbly: (adv) lowly, meanly, modestly, submissively, low, shyly, lowlily, naturally, regretfully, remorsefully, repentantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) conceitedly, haughtily, pompously, ostentatiously, unrepentantly, affluently, brashly, pretentiously. leads: (n) slating, pieced leads, slates, pile driving leads, tiling. matron: (n) lady, head nurse, dame, housewife, dowager, woman, wife,
Donna Belle, matriarch, married woman; (v) matronhood. ANTONYM: (n) patron. places: (n) chairs, seating, spaces. requite: (adj, v) pay, gratify, satisfy; (v) recompense, reciprocate, compensate, reward, remunerate, reimburse, return, refund. shrewdly: (adv) sagaciously, smartly, brightly, sharply, craftily, cunningly, perceptively, cleverly, artfully, cannily, wisely. ANTONYMS: (adv)
foolishly, innocently, ineptly, naively. troop: (n) group, corps, gang, crowd, band, brigade, crew, herd, swarm, horde; (n, v) flock. vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, honorable, good, delightful, admirable, noble.
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I will bestow some precepts of this virgin, Worthy the note.% BOTH. We'll take your offer kindly. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 6. CAMP BEFORE FLORENCE. [Enter BERTRAM, and the two French Lords.] FIRST LORD. Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his way. SECOND LORD. If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no more in your respect. FIRST LORD. On my life, my lord, a bubble. BERTRAM. Do you think I am so far deceived in him? FIRST LORD. Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge, without any malice, but to speak of him as my kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment. SECOND LORD. It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some great and trusty business, in a main danger fail you. BERTRAM. I would I knew in what particular action to try him.
Thesaurus bubble: (v) babble, foam, froth, burble, effervesce, seethe, gurgle, fizz; (n) blister, bladder, vesicle. coward: (n) cur, pantywaist, sneak, dastard, milksop, weakling, milquetoast; (adj) gutless, chickenhearted, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted. ANTONYMS: (n) daredevil, stalwart; (adj) brave. deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided. entertainment: (n) distraction, diversion, enjoyment, show,
pleasure, recreation, fun, reception, venom, ill will, hatred, malevolence, pastime; (adj, n) party; (n, v) cruelty, envy, hate, spleen. regalement. ANTONYMS: (n) job, ANTONYMS: (n) goodwill, boredom, discomfort. benevolence, affection, goodness. kinsman: (n) relation, relative, kin, reposing: (adj) calm, asleep. trusty: (adj) trustworthy, honest, kindred, kinswoman, description, forefather, countryman, detail, faithful, dependable, responsible, consanguinity; (v) confederate. constant, loyal, true, authentic, solid, liar: (n) deceiver, fibber, fabricator, sure. ANTONYMS: (adj) falsifier, trickster, prevaricator, con untrustworthy, inconstant, corrupt, artist, phony, lie, impostor, swindler. disloyal. malice: (n) spite, animosity, enmity,
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SECOND LORD. None better than to let him fetch off his drum, which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.% FIRST LORD. I with a troop of Florentines will suddenly surprise him; such Iwill have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy; we will bind and hoodwink him so that he shall suppose no other but that he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship present at his examination; if he do not, for the promise of his life, and in the highest compulsion of base fear, offer to betray you, and deliver all the intelligence in his power against you, and that with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never trust my judgment in anything. SECOND LORD. O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum; he says he has a stratagem for't: when your lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted, if you give him not John Drum's entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed. Here he comes. FIRST LORD. O, for the love of laughter, hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch off his drum in any hand. [Enter PAROLLES.] BERTRAM. How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your disposition. SECOND LORD. A pox on 't; let it go; 'tis but a drum. PAROLLES. But a drum! Is't but a drum? A drum so lost!--There was excellent command! to charge in with our horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers.
Thesaurus counterfeit: (adj, n, v) sham; (n, v) hamper, obstruct, curb, handicap, copy, duplicate; (adj, v) mock, falsify; delay; (n, v) bar; (adj) posterior, hind. (adj) false, artificial, assumed; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (v) help, facilitate, imitation; (v) forge, ape. assist, prompt, encourage, promote, ANTONYMS: (adj) genuine, real, allow, support, accelerate. authentic, true, actual; (n) original. hoodwink: (v) beguile, bamboozle, forfeit: (n) penalty, deprivation, cost; cheat, fool, deceive, delude, gull, take (v) abandon, forgo, relinquish, waive; in, betray, swindle, mislead. (n, v) sacrifice, pawn; (adj) confiscate, inclining: (adj) oblique, shelving; (n) lost. ANTONYMS: (n) retention; (v) leaning, tendency, disposition, claim, redeem, receive, maintain. movement, proclivity, sentiment, hinder: (v) impede, resist, check, propensity, predilection, partiality.
rend: (v) pull, lacerate, break, divide, rive, tear, disrupt, mangle; (n, v) rip, split, slash. sorely: (adv) severely, tenderly, madly, very, greatly, highly, most, distressingly, extremely, hard, sensitively. stratagem: (n) scheme, ruse, plan, trick, dodge, ploy; (n, v) contrivance, maneuver, deceit, intrigue; (adj, n) artifice. tents: (n) encampment.
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SECOND LORD. That was not to be blamed in the command of the service; it was a disaster of war that Caesar himself could not have prevented, if he had been there to command.% BERTRAM. Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is not to be recovered. PAROLLES. It might have been recovered. BERTRAM. It might, but it is not now. PAROLLES. It is to be recovered: but that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would have that drum or another, or hic jacet. BERTRAM. Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur, if you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into his native quarter, be magnanimous in the enterprise, and go on; I will grace the attempt for a worthy exploit; if you speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it and extend to you what further becomes his greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your worthiness. PAROLLES. By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it. BERTRAM. But you must not now slumber in it. PAROLLES. I'll about it this evening: and I will presently pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation; and, by midnight, look to hear further from me.
Thesaurus condemn: (v) censure, reproach, castigate, attaint, deplore, sentence, excoriate, upbraid, knock, doom, criticize. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, approve, commend, free, pardon, absolve, acquit, clear, exonerate, release, support. dishonour: (v) discredit, disgrace, attaint, shame, degrade, desecrate, violate, rape, outrage; (n) stigma, opprobrium. greatness: (n) excellence, dimension,
dignity, bulk, size, enormousness, creature, person, human being, body. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) immortal; (adj) bigness, enormity, grandness, magnitude, fame. ANTONYMS: (n) eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect, obscurity, austerity, commonness, spiritual. slumber: (n, v) rest, doze, snooze, nap, mildness, moderation, simplicity. magnanimous: (adj) generous, great, drowse, repose, catnap; (v) be asleep, kip, take a nap; (n) siesta. noble, bountiful, exalted, big, utmost: (adj, n) maximum, extreme, handsome, lofty, large, charitable, considerate. ANTONYMS: (adj) uttermost, furthermost, best, highest; (adj, adv) farthest; (adj, v) supreme; miserly, unforgiving, petty. mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, (adj) last, furthest; (adj, n, v) greatest. deathly, earthly; (n) man, individual, ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, worst.
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BERTRAM. May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it? PAROLLES. I know not what the success will be, my lord, but the attempt I vow.% BERTRAM. I know thou art valiant; and, to the possibility of thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell. PAROLLES. I love not many words. [Exit.] FIRST LORD. No more than a fish loves water.--Is not this a strange fellow, my lord? that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be done; damns himself to do, and dares better be damned than to do't. SECOND LORD. You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it is that he will steal himself into a man's favour, and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. BERTRAM. Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of this, that so seriously he does address himself unto? FIRST LORD. None in the world: but return with an invention, and clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we have almost embossed him,--you shall see his fall to-night: for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect. SECOND LORD. We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him. He was first smok'd by the old Lord Lafeu: when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this very night.
Thesaurus clap: (n, v) blast, boom, slam, rumble; (n) applause, clapping, gonorrhoea, smash; (v) acclaim, applaud, hit. ANTONYMS: (v) hiss, jeer. confidently: (adv) hopefully, surely, securely, assuredly, intrepidly, boldly, courageously, certainly, sanguinely, bravely, definitely. ANTONYMS: (adv) powerlessly, weakly, hesitantly, anxiously, uncertainly, timidly, despairingly, tentatively, pessimistically,
office, favoritism, benignity; (v) irresolutely, awkwardly. disguise: (n, v) cloak, mask, conceal, choose, prefer, privilege, facilitate, masquerade, veil, camouflage, color; approve. (n) guise, concealment; (v) hide, parted: (adj) divided, separate, dissemble. ANTONYMS: (n) distributed, separated, divisible, revelation; (v) unmask, uncover, disunited, compounder, compound, show, expose, display, disclose, dividable. sprat: (n) sardine, sprit, herring. clarify, reveal. embossed: (adj) raised, brocaded, subscribe: (v) confirm, sign, stamped, decorated, prominent, contribute, ratify, subscribe to, bossy; (n) relief. underwrite, agree, buy, donate, favour: (n) relief, goodness, assistance, endorse, accept.
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FIRST LORD. I must go look my twigs; he shall be caught.% BERTRAM. Your brother, he shall go along with me. FIRST LORD. As't please your lordship: I'll leave you. [Exit.] BERTRAM. Now will I lead you to the house, and show you The lass I spoke of. SECOND LORD. But you say she's honest. BERTRAM. That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once, And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her, By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind, Tokens and letters which she did re-send; And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature; Will you go see her? SECOND LORD. With all my heart, my lord. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 7. FLORENCE. A ROOM IN THE WIDOW'S HOUSE. [Enter HELENA and WIDOW.] HELENA. If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
Thesaurus coxcomb: (n) cockscomb, fop, beau, blunder; (adj, n) failing, blemish; (n, crooked. v) blame, crime. ANTONYMS: (n) lass: (n) girl, lassie, damsel, young dandy, exquisite, dude, blood, buck, comb, crest, sheik. strength, virtue, capability, woman, young girl, fille, miss, Jeune fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet, innocence, perfection, credit, ease; (v) fille, bobbysocker, bobbysoxer, reasonable, dispassionate, average, praise, absolve. woman. fine, impartial; (adj, v) bright; (adj, honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere, wondrous: (adj) marvelous, adv) clean; (n) blonde. ANTONYMS: good, equitable, artless, heartfelt, miraculous, marvellous, astonishing, (adj) biased, unjust, exceptional, dark, guileless, frank, forthright, faithful. tremendous, fantastic, phenomenal, ANTONYMS: (adj) lying, misleading, extraordinary, rattling; (adv) partial, mismatched, unwarranted, foul, imbalanced, prejudiced, poor. guarded, corrupt, disloyal, wonderfully, marvellously. fault: (adj, n, v) deficiency; (n) error, unwholesome, discourteous, blot, delinquency, flaw, break, disreputable, fictional, crafty,
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I know not how I shall assure you further, But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.% WIDOW. Though my estate be fallen, I was well born, Nothing acquainted with these businesses; And would not put my reputation now In any staining act. HELENA. Nor would I wish you. First give me trust, the count he is my husband, And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken Is so from word to word; and then you cannot, By the good aid that I of you shall borrow, Err in bestowing it. WIDOW. I should believe you; For you have show'd me that which well approves You're great in fortune. HELENA. Take this purse of gold, And let me buy your friendly help thus far, Which I will over-pay, and pay again When I have found it. The count he woos your daughter Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, Resolv'd to carry her: let her in fine, consent, As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it, Now his important blood will naught deny That she'll demand: a ring the county wears, That downward hath succeeded in his house From son to son, some four or five descents Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds
Thesaurus acquainted: (adj) knowledgeable, informed, aware, cognizant, conversant, hand and glove, intimate, thick; (adv) abreast; (v) inform, acquaint. downward: (adv) underneath, under, below, downwards, downwardly, beneath, down below; (adj) downcast, sloping, depressed, downright. ANTONYMS: (adv) up; (adj) rising. naught: (n) cipher, nothing, null, aught, nix, nought, zip, cypher, nada;
(adj, n, pron) nil; (n, pron) zilch. envelop, encircle, beset. purse: (n) bag, pouch, money, staining: (n) maculation, dyeing, handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook, dirtying, tarnish, dapple, stain, pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease. soiling, detection, bleeding, catching, reputation: (n) name, prestige, patch. wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light, distinction, face, celebrity, credit, character; (n, v) honor, esteem, licentious, unchaste, lewd, report; (adj, n) renown. ANTONYMS: debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; (n, (n) infamy, dishonor, obscurity. v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. ANTONYMS: siege: (n) blockade, envelopment, (adj) moral, wise, nice, kind, gentle, encirclement, investment, besieging; decent, clean, careful, observant, (v) beleaguer, encompass, environ, justifiable, involuntary.
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In most rich choice; yet, in his idle fire, To buy his will, it would not seem too dear, Howe'er repented after.% WIDOW. Now I see The bottom of your purpose. HELENA. You see it lawful then: it is no more But that your daughter, ere she seems as won, Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter; In fine, delivers me to fill the time, Herself most chastely absent; after this, To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns To what is pass'd already. WIDOW. I have yielded: Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent. Every night he comes With musics of all sorts, and songs compos'd To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves; for he persists, As if his life lay on 't. HELENA. Why, then, to-night Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed, Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed, And lawful meaning in a lawful act; Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact: But let's about it. [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus appoints: (v) appoint. assay: (v) test, attempt, seek, essay, survey, assess, appraise, endeavor; (n) examination; (n, v) experiment, estimate. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, overlook. chide: (n, v) censure, reprimand, blame; (v) rebuke, admonish, chasten, lecture, scold, reproach, chastise, reprove. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, laud, commend, compliment, approve.
deceit: (n) guile, artifice, deception, graph; (v) conspire. sinful: (adj) wicked, impious, bad, falsehood, ruse, pretense, fraud, trickery; (adj, n) cunning, craft, art. iniquitous, ungodly, depraved, ANTONYMS: (n) sincerity, immoral, profane, criminal, wrong, unholy. ANTONYMS: (adj) pious, truthfulness, fairness, frankness, loyalty, straightforwardness, virtuous, moral, right, pure. unworthiness: (n) baseness, uprightness, truth. eaves: (n) arch, balcony, cupola, dome, despicability, despicableness, penthouse, eave, overhang, attic, loft, badness, unworth, shamefulness, projection, roof space. ignominiousness, disgracefulness, plot: (n, v) plan, intrigue, cabal, plat, bad. ANTONYM: (n) worthiness. scheme, design, chart; (n) lot, patch,
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ACT IV
SCENE 1. WITHOUT THE FLORENTINE CAMP.% [Enter First LORD with five or six SOLDIERS in ambush.] FIRST LORD. He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner. When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will; though you understand it not yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand him, unless some one among us, whom we must produce for an interpreter. FIRST SOLDIER. Good captain, let me be the interpreter. FIRST LORD. Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice? FIRST SOLDIER. No, sir, I warrant you. FIRST LORD. But what linsey-woolsey has thou to speak to us again? FIRST SOLDIER. E'en such as you speak to me.
Thesaurus captain: (n) head, master, leader, guide, commodore, commander, boss, skipper, chieftain; (v) govern, manage. ANTONYM: (n) minion. interpreter: (n) commentator, interpretive program, exponent, explainer, translator, mouthpiece, ambassador, prophet, bagman, expounder, program. sally: (n) foray, quip, sortie, crack, joke, wisecrack, coupe de main, attack, onset, jaunt, excursion.
speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v) except with, further; (adv, conj) save; (conj) without, if not; (n) converse, say, deliver, articulate, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n) provisionally; (adj) not necessary. warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license, language. terrible: (adj) horrible, dreadful, assure, sanction, empower; (n) authority, authorization, security; (v) horrid, monstrous, abominable, justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) ghastly, dire, appalling, fearful, awful, hideous. ANTONYMS: (adj) break; (v) debar. yourselves: (pron) themselves, myself, lovely, pleasant, great, laudable, excellent, superb, mild, slight, minor, herself. brilliant, insignificant. unless: (adv) but, if, yet, besides,
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FIRST LORD. He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages, therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy; not to know what we speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: choughs' language, gabble enough, and good enough. As for you, interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, ho! here he comes; to beguile two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the lies he forges.% [Enter PAROLLES.] PAROLLES. Ten o'clock. Within these three hours 'twill be time enough to go home. What shall I say I have done? It must be a very plausive invention that carries it ;they begin to smoke me: and disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door. I find my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it, and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my tongue. FIRST LORD. [Aside.] This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue was guilty of. PAROLLES. What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum: being not ignorant of the impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it: they will say Came you off with so little? and great ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the instance? Tongue, I must put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy myself another of Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils. FIRST LORD. [Aside.] Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?
Thesaurus beguile: (v) attract, charm, enchant, ANTONYMS: (adj) wary, cautious, allure, captivate, bluff, entrap, careful, cowardly, sensible, slow. enthrall, lure, fascinate; (n, v) cheat. gabble: (adj, n, v) babble; (v) chatter, ANTONYMS: (v) protect, irritate, irk, cackle, chat, blab, chitchat, maunder, clack, palaver; (n, v) jabber, twaddle. bore, advise, guard, annoy, repel. couch: (n) bed, sofa, settee, divan; (adj, impossibility: (n) impossibleness, v) lie; (v) express, put, frame, lower, option, nonexistence, absurdity, repose; (adj) recline. inability, impracticability, alternative, foolhardy: (adj) rash, audacious, choice, contradiction, contradiction in reckless, bold, unwise, terms, doubtfulness. ANTONYMS: (n) possibility, probability. presumptuous, hasty, desperate, brash, madcap; (adj, n) adventurous. mule: (n) ass, donkey, jackass, hinny,
mules, scuff, bullhead, slipper; (adj) hybrid, crossbreed, Metis. neighbouring: (adj) adjoining, contiguous, vicinal, abutting; (v) adjoin. prattle: (n, v) gossip, babble, chat, gab, jabber, chitchat; (adj, n, v) chatter, prate, palaver; (v) cackle, clack. smack: (adv, n, v) slap, bang; (n, v) savor, knock, kiss, hit, buss, wallop; (n) flavor, blow; (adj, n) dash. strangers: (n) stranger.
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PAROLLES. I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.% FIRST LORD. [Aside.] We cannot afford you so. PAROLLES. Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in stratagem. FIRST LORD. [Aside.] 'Twould not do. PAROLLES. Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped. FIRST LORD. [Aside.] Hardly serve. PAROLLES. Though I swore I leap'd from the window of the citadel,-FIRST LORD. [Aside.] How deep? PAROLLES. Thirty fathom. FIRST LORD. [Aside.] Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. PAROLLES. I would I had any drum of the enemy's; I would swear I recovered it.
Thesaurus afford: (v) offer, yield, provide, give, cutting: (adj) biting, keen, caustic, supply, get, furnish, impart, deliver, bitter, acrimonious, incisive, raw; originate, sustain. ANTONYM: (v) (adj, n) acute; (n) cut, slip; (adj, v) satirical. ANTONYMS: (adj) blunt, withhold. baring: (n) uncovering, denudation, complimentary, flattering, kind, pleasant, hot, consoling; (n) disforestation, exposure, husking. believed: (adj) whispered, alleged, extension, freedom, expansion, thought, held. addition. breaking: (n) breakage, breach, fathom: (n, v) plumb; (v) penetrate, violation, infringement, discern, bottom, understand, contravention, smash, rift, scutching, comprehend, know, make out, shift, intermission; (v) deaden. measure; (n) probe, gauge.
ANTONYMS: (v) confuse, misunderstand, Miss. garments: (n) attire, clothing, dress, apparel, raiment, outfit, costume, garb, array, gear, anything worthless. recovered: (adj) cured, retrieved, well, well again, healthier, aged, improved, whole, better, corned. ANTONYM: (adj) worse. stripped: (adj) naked, nude, exposed, fleeced, undressed, unclothed, stark, desolate, denuded, bald, stript.
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FIRST LORD. [Aside.] You shall hear one anon.% PAROLLES. A drum now of the enemy's! [Alarum within.] FIRST LORD. Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo. ALL. Cargo, cargo, cargo, villianda par corbo, cargo. PAROLLES. O, ransom, ransom! Do not hide mine eyes. [They seize and blindfold him.] FIRST SOLDIER. Boskos thromuldo boskos. PAROLLES. I know you are the Muskos' regiment, And I shall lose my life for want of language: If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch, Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll discover that which shall undo the Florentine. SECOND SOLDIER. Boskos vauvado:-I understand thee, and can speak thy tongue. Kerelybonto:--Sir, Betake thee to thy faith, for seventeen poniards Are at thy bosom. PAROLLES. O!
Thesaurus alarum: (n) alarm, alert, bell, alarm cargo: (n) burden, freight, wares, bell, alarm-bell, alerts, beat of drum, goods, merchandise, payload, shipment, weight, lading, haul; (adj, cry, sound of trumpet, signaling, n) load. signal of distress. blindfold: (adv) blindly; (v) mystify, mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n) hoodwink, muffle; (adj) reckless, excavation, pit, fund, land mine, blindfolded, blinded, unsighted; (n) vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my, blinder. delve. bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, ransom: (v) redeem, repair, extricate; thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; (n, v) rescue, blackmail, repurchase; (v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. (n) deliverance, ransom money, ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority. assessment, benevolence, excise.
seize: (v) catch, capture, grab, arrest, clutch, get, apprehend, receive, annex, clasp; (n, v) grapple. ANTONYMS: (v) baulk, relinquish, restore, surrender, give, remove. seventeen: (n) large integer. undo: (v) loosen, open, annul, cancel, separate, disentangle, untie, unfold, reverse, disconnect, nullify. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, close, do, wrap, tangle, validate, knot, lock, permit, unite, approve.
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FIRST SOLDIER. O, pray, pray, pray!-Manka revania dulche.% FIRST LORD. Oscorbi dulchos volivorco. FIRST SOLDIER. The General is content to spare thee yet; And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform Something to save thy life. PAROLLES. O, let me live, And all the secrets of our camp I'll show, Their force, their purposes: nay, I'll speak that Which you will wonder at. FIRST SOLDIER. But wilt thou faithfully? PAROLLES. If I do not, damn me. FIRST SOLDIER. Acordo linta.-Come on; thou art granted space. [Exit, with PAROLLES guarded.] FIRST LORD. Go, tell the Count Rousillon and my brother We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled Till we do hear from them. SECOND SOLDIER. Captain, I will.
Thesaurus camp: (n) faction, encampment, base, barracks, cantonment, laager, side; (v) pitch, tent, camp out; (adj) campy. damn: (adj, adv, v) bloody; (v) curse, imprecate, beshrew, blaspheme, cuss, slam, convict; (adj) blasted, cursed; (n) damnation. ANTONYMS: (v) bless, laud, glorify, exalt, commend, praise. faithfully: (adv) exactly, accurately, sincerely, staunchly, precisely, truly, authentically, dutifully, literally,
steadfastly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unfaithfully, approximately, falsely, insincerely, carelessly, inaccurately. gather: (n, v) fold, tuck; (v) convene, garner, congregate, compile, assemble, accumulate, collect, meet, flock. ANTONYMS: (v) disperse, scatter, spread, distribute, disband, decrease, part, smooth. granted: (adj, v) assumed; (adj) fixed, approved, settled, privileged, legal,
decided, acknowledged, arranged; (v) disposed; (adv) yes. secrets: (n) secrecy. spare: (adj, v) free, reserve, save, thin; (adj) slender, slight, additional, lean; (adj, n) extra, excess; (v) exempt. ANTONYMS: (n) shortfall, original; (adj) principal, fat, basic, abundant, stout; (v) need, include. woodcock: (n) shore bird, shorebird, snipe, limicoline bird.
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FIRST LORD. 'A will betray us all unto ourselves;-Inform 'em that.% SECOND SOLDIER. So I will, sir. FIRST LORD. Till then I'll keep him dark, and safely lock'd. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 2. FLORENCE. A ROOM IN THE WIDOW'S HOUSE. [Enter BERTRAM and DIANA.] BERTRAM. They told me that your name was Fontibell. DIANA. No, my good lord, Diana. BERTRAM. Titled goddess; And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, In your fine frame hath love no quality? If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, You are no maiden, but a monument; When you are dead, you should be such a one As you are now, for you are cold and stern; And now you should be as your mother was When your sweet self was got. DIANA. She then was honest.
Thesaurus addition: (n) accession, accessory, dark: (adj) dismal, black, cheerless, unhurtly. ANTONYMS: (adv) increase, extension, addendum, obscure, dim, mysterious, murky, harmfully, hazardously, loosely. gloomy; (n) evening, night, shadow. self: (n) ego, person, me, individual, accretion, attachment, appendage, annex, extra; (n, prep) accumulation. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, sunny, being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; ANTONYMS: (n) removal, (adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally. fair, sunlit, clear, pallid, pale, cheerful, white, versed; (n) day. sweet: (adj) fresh, mellow, lovable, estimation, deduction, exclusion, frame: (n, v) construct, design, decline, erosion, loss, setback. dear, pleasant, musical, melodious, betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell, grass, fabricate, make, fashion, border, pleasing, sugary; (adj, v) lovely; (adj, build, forge; (v) draft, erect, contrive. n) beloved. ANTONYMS: (adj) dupe, reveal, mislead, disclose, safely: (adv) surely, safe, certainly, accuse, befool, bamboozle. discordant, bitter, acid, sharp, acidic, ANTONYMS: (v) protect, undeceive, cautiously, soundly, strongly, sure, pungent, salty, harsh, detestable, hide, defend, withhold. steadily, harmlessly, unharmedly, cacophonous, dry.
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BERTRAM. So should you be.% DIANA. No: My mother did but duty; such, my lord, As you owe to your wife. BERTRAM. No more of that! I pr'ythee, do not strive against my vows: I was compell'd to her; but I love thee By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever Do thee all rights of service. DIANA. Ay, so you serve us Till we serve you; but when you have our roses You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us with our bareness. BERTRAM. How have I sworn? DIANA. 'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. What is not holy, that we swear not by, But take the Highest to witness: then, pray you, tell me, If I should swear by Jove's great attributes I lov'd you dearly, would you believe my oaths When I did love you ill? This has no holding, To swear by him whom I protest to love That I will work against him: therefore your oaths Are words and poor conditions; but unseal'd,-At least in my opinion.
Thesaurus bareness: (n) nakedness, nudity, persuasion. mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v) austerity, starkness, emptiness, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned. prick: (n, v) puncture, stab, cock, nudeness, bleakness, baldness, ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout; (adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v) mimic, twinge, spur, bite; (v) impale, pierce, blankness, barrenness, plainness. ANTONYMS: (n) lushness, clothed, ape, taunt. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, needle; (n) Dick, pricking. natural; (v) praise, applaud, respect, witness: (n, v) testimony, attest, cheerfulness, warmth. constraint: (n) compulsion, force, evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness, approve. plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, onlooker, observer; (v) observe, restraint, confinement, obligation, notice, see, view. ANTONYMS: (v) restriction, duress, enforcement, intelligible, apparent, manifest, pressure, limitation; (adj, n) reserve. obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, deny, participate, refute. ANTONYMS: (n) freedom, boldness, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) liberation, option, openness, elaborate, unclear, multicolored,
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BERTRAM. Change it, change it; Be not so holy-cruel. Love is holy; And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts That you do charge men with. Stand no more off, But give thyself unto my sick desires, Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever My love as it begins shall so persever.% DIANA. I see that men make hopes in such a case, That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring. BERTRAM. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me. DIANA. Will you not, my lord? BERTRAM. It is an honour 'longing to our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors; Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world In me to lose. DIANA. Mine honour's such a ring: My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors; Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world In me to lose. Thus your own proper wisdom Brings in the champion honour on my part Against your vain assault.
Thesaurus assault: (n, v) storm, violence, raid, charge, onset, rape, thrust; (v) assail; (n) aggression, rush, offensive. ANTONYMS: (v) defend, protect, resist; (n) defense. forsake: (v) abandon, ditch, relinquish, abdicate, fail, leave, forgo, chuck, disclaim; (n, v) drop; (adj, v) quit. ANTONYM: (v) support. integrity: (adj, n) honesty, fairness, candor, honor; (n) probity, completeness, righteousness, justice,
unity, entireness, fidelity. ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty, wickedness, injustice, division, decadence, badness, immorality, corruption. jewel: (n) gemstone, darling, diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure, ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou, precious stone; (adj) brilliant. lend: (v) grant, give, advance, impart, bestow, contribute, borrow, bring, add, confer; (n) lending.
obloquy: (n) libel, censure, aspersion, blame, defamation, disgrace, infamy, disparagement, shame, vilification; (adj, n) odium. recover: (v) reclaim, get back, recuperate, retrieve, regain, pick up, get well, restore, heal, convalesce, mend. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, die, decline, aggravate, abandon, worsen, scatter.
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BERTRAM. Here, take my ring: My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine, And I'll be bid by thee.% DIANA. When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window; I'll order take my mother shall not hear. Now will I charge you in the band of truth, When you have conquer'd my yet maiden-bed, Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me: My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them When back again this ring shall be deliver'd; And on your finger in the night, I'll put Another ring; that what in time proceeds May token to the future our past deeds. Adieu till then; then fail not. You have won A wife of me, though there my hope be done. BERTRAM. A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [Exit.] DIANA. For which live long to thank both heaven and me! You may so in the end.-My mother told me just how he would woo, As if she sat in's heart; she says all men Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid: Only, in this disguise, I think't no sin
Thesaurus buried: (adj) hidden, covert, interred, underground, inhumed, profound, covered, ulterior; (v) perdu, imbed, embed. ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, overt. fail: (adj, v) fade, decline, cease; (v) abort, die, break, bust, want, disappoint, deteriorate, default. ANTONYMS: (v) succeed, triumph, win, thrive, procure, accomplish, achieve, attain, boom, complete, continue.
finger: (v) feel, handle, touch, thumb, indicate, point; (n) digit, dactyl, forefinger, pointer; (n, v) hand. ANTONYM: (v) clear. hour: (n) clock, o'clock, hours, time, hr, term, nonce, moment, occasion, dawn, dusk. knock: (n, v) hit, blow, bang, bump, tap, strike, whack, bash, punch, cuff; (n) crash. ANTONYMS: (n) improvement, boost; (v) encourage, bolster, approve.
midnight: (n) dark, noon, hour. ring: (n, v) encircle, peal, call, loop, jingle; (v) resound, echo, reverberate; (n) gang, band, rim. token: (n) memento, souvenir, note, keepsake, sign, relic, stamp, signal, indication; (adj) nominal; (n, v) trace. ANTONYM: (adj) great. wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling, suit of clothes, the soft impeachment, entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case; (adj) amatory.
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To cozen him that would unjustly win. [Exit.]
SCENE 3. THE FLORENTINE CAMP.% [Enter the two FRENCH LORDS, and two or three SOLDIERS.] FIRST LORD. You have not given him his mother's letter? SECOND LORD. I have deliv'red it an hour since: there is something in't that stings his nature; for on the reading, it he changed almost into another man. FIRST LORD. He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking off so good a wife and so sweet a lady. SECOND LORD. Especially he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you. FIRST LORD. When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the grave of it. SECOND LORD. He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition. FIRST LORD. Now, God delay our rebellion: as we are ourselves, what things are we!
Thesaurus chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, tuned: (adj) keyed, adjusted, musical, abnormal, debauched, deviant, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, reprobate, unnatural. ANTONYMS: tempered, melodious. (adj) normal, moral, unchanged. unchaste: (adj) impure, loose, severe, continent, spotless, decent. ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, renown: (n, v) fame; (n) glory, immoral, immodest, wanton, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, distinction, eminence, notoriety, debauched, carnal, dirty, obscene, dirty, defiled, impure, tainted. kudos, name, popularity, prestige, sensual, shameless. cozen: (v) cheat, do, defraud, deceive, prominence, honor. ANTONYMS: (n) unjustly: (adv) wrongly, wrongfully, infamy, commonness; (adj) jockey, con, befool, betray, gouge, wickedly, iniquitously, inequitably, chouse, chisel. anonymity. undeservedly, illegally, foully, fleshes: (n) flesh. sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone, injuriously, unrighteously, perverted: (adj) perverse, immoral, unjustifiedly. ANTONYMS: (adv) intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch; (n, v) twitter, squeak. distorted, kinky, corrupt, twisted, rightly, reasonably.
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SECOND LORD. Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves till they attain to their abhorred ends; so he that in this action contrives against his own nobility, in his proper stream, o'erflows himself.% FIRST LORD. Is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his company to-night? SECOND LORD. Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour. FIRST LORD. That approaches apace: I would gladly have him see his company anatomized, that he might take a measure of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had set this counterfeit. SECOND LORD. We will not meddle with him till he come; for his presence must be the whip of the other. FIRST LORD. In the meantime, what hear you of these wars? SECOND LORD. I hear there is an overture of peace. FIRST LORD. Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded. SECOND LORD. What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel higher, or return again into France? FIRST LORD. I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether of his counsel.
Thesaurus abhorred: (adj) disgusted, unpopular. apace: (adj, adv) speedily, quickly; (adv) fast, rapidly, hastily, soon, promptly; (adj) forthwith, immediately, incontinently, shortly. ANTONYM: (adv) slowly. attain: (v) make, reach, achieve, acquire, gain, strike, catch, arrive at, find, obtain, come to. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, fail, abandon, surrender, differ. damnable: (adj) cursed, damned,
abominable, hateful, accursed, devilish, infernal, disgusting, sinful, deplorable, offensive. ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, laudable, praiseworthy. ends: (n) tops, crook, band, bend, bind, limits, clippings, curve, trimmings, boundaries. gladly: (adv, v) happily; (adv) gleefully, contentedly, cheerfully, fain, joyfully, jovially, cheerily, delightedly, gladsomely, readily. ANTONYMS:
(adv) reluctantly, unwillingly, sadly, resentfully, miserably. meddle: (v) intervene, interfere, intrude, monkey, interpose, fiddle, pry, dabble, interlope; (n) interference; (adj) moil. ANTONYM: (v) disregard. overture: (n, v) offer, advance; (n) prelude, approach, introduction, preface, opening, presentation, feeler, bid, motion. ANTONYMS: (n) finale, conclusion, postscript.
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SECOND LORD. Let it be forbid, sir: so should I be a great deal of his act.% FIRST LORD. Sir, his wife, some two months since, fled from his house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques-le-Grand: which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing, the tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath; and now she sings in heaven. SECOND LORD. How is this justified? FIRST LORD. The stronger part of it by her own letters, which makes her story true, even to the point of her death: her death itself which could not be her office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by the rector of the place. SECOND LORD. Hath the count all this intelligence? FIRST LORD. Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from point, to the full arming of the verity. SECOND LORD. I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this. FIRST LORD. How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses! SECOND LORD. And how mightily, some other times, we drown our gain in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample. FIRST LORD. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would
Thesaurus arming: (n) arms, militarisation, soundly, devoutly, eagerly. ANTONYMS: (adv) feebly, mobilization, militarization, mobilisation, armed, outfitting, languorously. mightily: (adv) powerfully, equipping. comforts: (n) amenities, bread and vigorously, strongly, greatly, butter, convenience, conveniences. potently, fiercely, sturdily, violently, groan: (n, v) grumble, murmur, cry, robustly, puissantly, vastly. sigh, mutter, squeak, rumble, scrape; ANTONYMS: (adv) weakly, slightly. (v) howl, complain; (n) complaint. mingled: (adj) miscellaneous, complex, heartily: (adv) cordially, sincerely, indiscriminate, heterogeneous, enthusiastically, warmly, strongly, medley, confused, eclectic, motley, different; (v) blended, blent. earnestly, vigorously, ardently,
residing: (adj) residentiary, situated, permanently fixed, placed, residential, located. sanctimony: (n) hypocrisy, cant, holiness, sanctity. verity: (n) reality, veracity, actuality, fact, accuracy, troth, fidelity, faithfulness, belief, true statement, betrothal. ANTONYM: (n) falsity. virtues: (n) brawn, sinew, qualities, nerve, manner, habit, disposition, custom.
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despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.-[Enter a Servant.] How now? where's your master? SERVANT. He met the duke in the street, sir; of whom he hath taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next morning for France. The duke hath offered him letters of commendations to the king.% SECOND LORD. They shall be no more than needful there, if they were more than they can commend. FIRST LORD. They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness. Here's his lordship now. [Enter BERTRAM.] How now, my lord, is't not after midnight? BERTRAM. I have to-night despatch'd sixteen businesses, a month's length apiece; by an abstract of success: I have conge'd with the duke, done my adieu with his nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy; and between these main parcels of despatch effected many nicer needs: the last was the greatest, but that I have not ended yet. SECOND LORD. If the business be of any difficulty and this morning your departure hence, it requires haste of your lordship. BERTRAM. I mean the business is not ended, as fearing to hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this dialogue between the fool and the soldier?--Come, bring forth this counterfeit module has deceived me like a double-meaning prophesier. SECOND LORD. Bring him forth.
Thesaurus apiece: (adj, adv) each; (adj) one by one; (pron) all, both, each one; (adv) individually, singly, for each, for each one, from each one, to each one. ANTONYM: (adv) together. cherished: (adj) dear, precious, loved, treasured, prized, intimate, wanted, valued, pet, valuable, close. ANTONYMS: (adj) unremarkable, hated, distant. commend: (v) approve, exalt, acclaim, praise, applaud, recommend,
endorse, entrust, extol, compliment, cite. ANTONYMS: (v) rebuke, criticize, censure, reproach, keep, chastise, reprimand, deny, disparage, refuse, smear. entertained: (adj) diverted, pleased. hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter, afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity, time to come, great beyond, future life. needful: (adj) necessary, essential, indispensable, required, needed,
mandatory, exigent, needy; (adj, v) requisite; (n) necessity, almighty dollar. parcels: (n) post, correspondence, baggage, appurtenances, letters. prophesier: (n) soothsayer, prophet. sixteen: (n) large integer. tartness: (n) sourness, acrimony, acerbity, sharpness, asperity, bitterness, sour, moroseness; (adj) irritability, susceptibility, petulance. ANTONYM: (n) kindness.
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[Exeunt SOLDIERS.] Has sat i' the stocks all night, poor gallant knave.% BERTRAM. No matter; his heels have deserved it, in usurping his spurs so long. How does he carry himself? FIRST LORD. I have told your lordship already; the stocks carry him. But to answer you as you would be understood: he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk; he hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster of his setting i' the stocks: and what think you he hath confessed? BERTRAM. Nothing of me, has he? SECOND LORD. His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his face; if your lordship be in't, as I believe you are, you must have the patience to hear it. [Re-enter SOLDIERS, with PAROLLES.] BERTRAM. A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of me; hush, hush! FIRST LORD. Hoodman comes! Porto tartarossa. FIRST SOLDIER. He calls for the tortures: what will you say without 'em? PAROLLES. I will confess what I know without constraint; if ye pinch me like a pasty I can say no more. FIRST SOLDIER. Bosko chimurcho.
Thesaurus confession: (n) admission, quiet; (v) allusive, covert. ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, distinct, acknowledgment, recognition, acknowledgement, concession, audible, slight. pasty: (adj) pale, gluey, gummy, wan, divulgence, disclosure, shrift, penance, profession, admission of glutinous, doughy, bloodless, white, guilt. ANTONYMS: (n) disavowal, adhesive, sallow; (n, v) pie. ANTONYMS: (adj) rosy, dark. refutation. friar: (n) monk, conventual, cenobite, pinch: (n, v) nip, arrest, twinge, abbot, monastic, palmer, pilgrim, lay squeeze; (n) emergency, crisis, exigency; (v) compress, lift, wring, brother, religious, prior, beadsman. muffled: (adj) hushed, muted, hollow, constrict. inarticulate, faint, soft, subdued, low, plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict,
hassle, annoy, badger, pester, disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj, n, v) bother. ANTONYM: (v) comfort. porto: (n) Oporto. supposes: (adj) ridiculous, regulation, project, preposterous, plainly, suggestion, notions, irrational, absurd, fatuity, foolish. usurping: (adj) encroaching. wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab.
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FIRST LORD. Boblibindo chicurmurco.% FIRST SOLDIER. You are a merciful general:--Our general bids you answer to what I shall ask you out of a note. PAROLLES. And truly, as I hope to live. FIRST SOLDIER. 'First demand of him how many horse the duke is strong.' What say you to that? PAROLLES. Five or six thousand; but very weak and unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation and credit, and as I hope to live. FIRST SOLDIER. Shall I set down your answer so? PAROLLES. Do; I'll take the sacrament on 't, how and which way you will. BERTRAM. All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this! FIRST LORD. You are deceived, my lord; this is Monsieur Parolles, the gallant militarist (that was his own phrase),that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practice in the chape of his dagger. SECOND LORD. I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean; nor believe he can have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly. FIRST SOLDIER. Well, that's set down.
Thesaurus apparel: (n, v) garb, attire, garment, array, vesture; (n) clothing, finery, costume, clothes; (v) adorn, clothe. dagger: (n) bodkin, sword, blade, obelisk, knife, stiletto, dirk, cutlass, grapheme, saber, skean. knot: (n) bow, cluster, lump, gang, joint; (v) entangle, knit, bind; (n, v) tie, loop, tangle. ANTONYMS: (v) unravel, undo, unknot, disentangle. merciful: (adj) humane, gracious, lenient, compassionate, kind,
clement, benign, kindly, gentle, beneficent, forgiving. ANTONYMS: (adj) pitiless, merciless, unforgiving, spiteful, harsh, impatient, severe, hardhearted. militarist: (n) warmonger, adult, grownup, war hawk. sacrament: (n) token, penance, rite, ritual, liturgy, symbol, communion, baptism, Eucharist, confirmation, ceremony. scarf: (n) neckerchief, handkerchief,
stole, necktie, cravat, kerchief, mantilla, shawl, wrap, tie, stock. scattered: (adj) dissipated, thin, disordered, disconnected, confused, sparse, sporadic, distributed, rare, diffuse; (v) disperse. unserviceable: (adj) unusable, unprofitable, impractical, ineffectual, not serviceable, disserviceable, harmful, injurious, inoperable, unuseable. ANTONYM: (adj) serviceable.
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PAROLLES. 'Five or six thousand horse' I said--I will say true—or thereabouts, set down,-for I'll speak truth.% FIRST LORD. He's very near the truth in this. BERTRAM. But I con him no thanks for't in the nature he delivers it. PAROLLES. Poor rogues, I pray you say. FIRST SOLDIER. Well, that's set down. PAROLLES. I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the rogues are marvellous poor. FIRST SOLDIER. 'Demand of him of what strength they are a-foot.' What say you to that? PAROLLES. By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a hundred and fifty, Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick, and Gratii, two hundred fifty each; mine own company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll; half of the which dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks lest they shake themselves to pieces. BERTRAM. What shall be done to him? FIRST LORD. Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my condition, and what credit I have with the duke.
Thesaurus duke: (n) lord, prince, hand, nobleman, fist, chief; (v) pass, box, deliver. marvellous: (adj) fantastic, extraordinary, terrific, tremendous, wondrous, marvelous, wonderful, tall, miraculous, improbable, thumping. pieces: (n) debris, trash. poll: (n) head, ballot, pate, crown; (n, v) vote, canvass, canvas, list; (v) parrot, pollard, muster.
rotten: (adj, v) decayed, musty; (adj) foul, poor, fetid, lousy, putrid, off, ill, shabby, wretched. ANTONYMS: (adj) fresh, superior, unrotten, good, incorruptible, honest, lovely, fair, great, respectful. snow: (n) cocaine, precipitation, snowfall, bark, barque; (v) overwhelm, beguile, hoodwink, bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false. thanks: (n) acknowledgment,
gratitude, blessing, grace, praise, gratefulness, recognition, credit, benediction, thankfulness; (int) thank you. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, blame. themselves: (pron) myself, itself, yourself; (n) yourselves. thereabouts: (adj, adv) about; (adv) nearly, generally, around, approximately, in the region of, more or less, something like, almost, so; (adv, n) hereabouts.
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FIRST SOLDIER. Well, that's set down. 'You shall demand of him whether one Captain Dumain be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the duke, what his valour, honesty, expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to corrupt him to a revolt.' What say you to this? what do you know of it? PAROLLES. I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of the inter'gatories: demand them singly.% FIRST SOLDIER. Do you know this Captain Dumain? PAROLLES. I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay. [FIRST LORD lifts up his hand in anger.] BERTRAM. Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls. FIRST SOLDIER. Well, is this captain in the Duke of Florence's camp? PAROLLES. Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy. FIRST LORD. Nay, look not so upon me; we shall hear of your lordship anon. FIRST SOLDIER. What is his reputation with the duke? PAROLLES. The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer of mine; and writ to me
Thesaurus brains: (n) cleverness, intellect, intelligence, sense, mind, wisdom, pate, wit, wits, reason; (adj, n) head. ANTONYM: (n) stupidity. dumb: (adj) mute, speechless, dense, dim, silent, dull, slow, stupid, inarticulate, foolish, obtuse. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, communicative, intelligent, loquacious, sharp, smart, speaking, brilliant, talkative. expertness: (n) expertise, dexterity,
ability, skill, craft, professionalism, skillfulness, knack, faculty, proficiency, cleverness. falls: (n) cataract, waterfall, chute, angel, torrent, Victoria, twin, force, body of water, Guaira, Niagara. honesty: (adj, n) candor, justice, fidelity, equity; (n) integrity, fairness, candidness, probity, frankness, rectitude, faith. ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty, wickedness, treachery, deceit, deception, deviousness,
decadence, affectation, caution, evasiveness, injustice. lousy: (adj) bad, rotten, crappy, nasty, mean, filthy, cheap, lamentable, unclean, atrocious, shitty. ANTONYM: (adj) great. sums: (n) estimate, calculation, arithmetic. tile: (n) roof, thatch, bonnet, pantile, castor, ceiling, roofing tile, wimple, tiling, paving stone; (v) cover. whether: (pron) where.
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this other day to turn him out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket.% FIRST SOLDIER. Marry, we'll search. PAROLLES. In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there or it is upon a file, with the duke's other letters, in my tent. FIRST SOLDIER. Here 'tis; here's a paper. Shall I read it to you? PAROLLES. I do not know if it be it or no. BERTRAM. Our interpreter does it well. FIRST LORD. Excellently. FIRST SOLDIER. [Reads.] 'Dian, the Count's a fool, and full of gold,--' PAROLLES. That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again. FIRST SOLDIER. Nay, I'll read it first by your favour. PAROLLES. My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds.
Thesaurus advertisement: (n) declaration, advert, active, employed, industrious, corneous. sadness: (n, v) melancholy, bill, circular, proclamation, notice, energetic, meaningful, productive, advertising, ad, publication, placard, worthwhile, diligent; (v) change, run, despondency; (adj, n) grief, distress; (n) misery, sorrow, desolation, regret, propaganda. work. allurement: (n) temptation, attraction, lascivious: (adj) libidinous, carnal, gloom, mourning, affliction. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, amusement, enticement, lure, decoy, invitation, erotic, licentious, bawdy, impure, lusty, lustful; (adj, v) dissolute; (adj, solicitation, agacerie, bribe, wile, cheerfulness, laughter, contentment, adv) fleshly; (v) wanton. ANTONYM: comfort, cheer, hopefulness. glamour. idle: (adj) lazy, indolent, inactive, free, (adj) ascetic. whale: (n) monster, leviathan, blower, ruttish: (adj) horny, libidinous, unfounded, fruitless, baseless, behemoth, hulk, heavyweight, narwhal, narwal; (v) thrash, beat; groundless, frivolous, empty, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lustful, disengaged. ANTONYMS: (adj) (adj) cachalot. erotic, aroused, salacious, aflame,
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BERTRAM. Damnable! both sides rogue! FIRST SOLDIER. [Reads.] 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it: After he scores, he never pays the score; Half won is match well made; match, and well make it; He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before; And say a soldier, 'Dian,' told thee this: Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss; For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it, Who pays before, but not when he does owe it. Thine, as he vow'd to thee in thine ear, PAROLLES.% BERTRAM. He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme in his forehead. SECOND LORD. This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist, and the armipotent soldier. BERTRAM. I could endure anything before but a cat, and now he's a cat to me. FIRST SOLDIER. I perceive, sir, by our general's looks we shall be fain to hang you. PAROLLES. My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to die, but that, my offences being many, I would repent out the remainder of nature: let me live, sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or anywhere, so I may live. FIRST SOLDIER. We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely; therefore, once more to
Thesaurus dungeon: (n, v) keep; (n) prison, cell, jail, penitentiary, fastness, oubliette, Bastille, bridewell, detention, house of correction. endure: (adj, n, v) continue, support; (n, v) bear, suffer, stand, be; (v) accept, undergo, allow, stay, tolerate. ANTONYMS: (v) perish, die, break, fall, discontinue, crumble, end, enjoy, resign, quit, collapse. forehead: (n) brow, front, foreland, lineament, mut, phiz, physiognomy,
visage, eyebrow, skull; (adv) discover, see, grasp, find, know, observe, sense, appreciate; (adj, v) foremost. linguist: (n) polyglot, lexicologist, discern. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, bilingual, lexicographer, talker, observe, ignore. rhyme: (n) poetry, verse, poem, song, philologist, glottologist, Hebraist, firth, linguistic scientist, phonetician. alliteration, numbers, rhythm; (n, v) manifold: (adj) diverse, different, rime, measure; (v) poetize, versify. many, various, multiplex, multiplied, rogue: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, imp, frequent; (v) duplicate, copy, miscreant, crook, cheat, impostor, multiply; (n) diversity. swindler, cad, villain, scoundrel. mell: (n) melada. swears: (n) swearing. perceive: (v) comprehend, apprehend,
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this Captain Dumain: you have answered to his reputation with the duke, and to his valour: what is his honesty? PAROLLES. He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking them he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will be swinedrunk; and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bedclothes about him; but they know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but little more to say, sir, of his honesty; he has everything that an honest man should not have; what an honest man should have he has nothing.% FIRST LORD. I begin to love him for this. BERTRAM. For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon him for me; he's more and more a cat. FIRST SOLDIER. What say you to his expertness in war? PAROLLES. Faith, sir, has led the drum before the English tragedians,--to belie him I will not,--and more of his soldiership I know not, except in that country he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile-end to instruct for the doubling of files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of this I am not certain. FIRST LORD. He hath out-villanied villainy so far that the rarity redeems him. BERTRAM. A pox on him! he's a cat still.
Thesaurus bedclothes: (n) bedspread, cover, inebriety, ebriety, drinking, drink, linen, bed linen, bed clothing, litter, intoxication, crapulence, grogginess, clothes, throw, spread, quilt, puff. insobriety, tipsiness, alcohol belie: (v) falsify, contradict, negate, addiction. instruct: (v) charge, educate, teach, misrepresent, betray, calumniate, defame, dissemble, color, distort, advise, enlighten, direct, drill, garble. ANTONYMS: (v) indicate, inform, command, indoctrinate, verify, prove, affirm, attest, reveal. tutor. cloister: (n) abbey, priory, monastery, rarity: (n) rareness, curiosity, arcade, friary, piazza, nunnery, infrequency, curio, peculiarity, circus, veranda; (v) encircle, insulate. dearth, scarcity, tenuity, paucity, drunkenness: (n) alcoholism, scarceness, antique. ANTONYM: (n)
frequency. straw: (n) rush, stalk, drinking straw, chaff, fig, bran; (adj) feather, cobweb, mote, gossamer; (v) strew. villainy: (n) evil, infamy, crime, villany, misdeed, baseness, enormity, atrocity, evildoing, evilness, injustice. volubility: (adj, n) fluency; (n) eloquence, articulateness, gab, gift of gab, smoothness, communicativeness, readiness; (adj) flippancy.
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FIRST SOLDIER. His qualities being at this poor price, I need not to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.% PAROLLES. Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders and a perpetual succession for it perpetually. FIRST SOLDIER. What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain? SECOND LORD. Why does he ask him of me? FIRST SOLDIER. What's he? PAROLLES. E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is; in a retreat he outruns any lackey: marry, in coming on he has the cramp. FIRST SOLDIER. If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray the Florentine? PAROLLES. Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon. FIRST SOLDIER. I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure. PAROLLES. [Aside.] I'll no more drumming; a plague of all drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy the count, have I run into this danger: yet who would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?
Thesaurus ambush: (n, v) ambuscade, trap, buzzing, stress, tapping, throb. quarts, quarto, quarter. attack, assault; (v) wait, waylay, lackey: (n) flunkey, sycophant, butler, reputed: (adj) supposed, renowned, intercept, lurk, bushwhack, surprise; attendant, bootlicker, toady, truckler, famous, conjectural, assumed, famed, (n) lying in wait. ANTONYMS: (v) waiter, servant, footman, flatterer. eminent, prominent, alleged, wellretreat, surrender, release; (n) suit. perpetually: (adv) eternally, known, distinguished. ANTONYM: cramp: (v) restrict, constrict, confine, (adj) known. everlastingly, always, incessantly, bind, limit, hamper; (n, v) spasm, continually, endlessly, permanently, supposition: (n, v) conjecture; (n) pinch; (n) crick, pain, constraint. unceasingly, ceaselessly, ever; (adj, assumption, hypothesis, ANTONYMS: (v) allow, permit, adv) forever. ANTONYMS: (adv) presumption, premise, speculation, liberate; (n) release. erratically, sporadically. surmise, guess, supposal, thought, drumming: (n) roll, drums, sound, quart: (n) quartile, quartic, imagination. ANTONYMS: (n) fact, thump, pulse, barrelling, percussion, quartilunar, quartole, quartlet, knowledge, proof, reality, practice.
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FIRST SOLDIER. There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the general says you that have so traitorously discovered the secrets of your army, and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve the world for no honest use; therefore you must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.% PAROLLES. O Lord! sir, let me live, or let me see my death. FIRST SOLDIER. That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends. [Unmuffling him.] So look about you; know you any here? BERTRAM. Good morrow, noble captain. SECOND LORD. God bless you, Captain Parolles. FIRST LORD. God save you, noble captain. SECOND LORD. Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu? I am for France. FIRST LORD. Good Captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon? an I were not a very coward I'd compel it of you; but fare you well. [Exeunt BERTRAM, Lords, etc.] FIRST SOLDIER. You are undone, captain: all but your scarf; that has a knot on't yet. PAROLLES. Who cannot be crushed with a plot?
Thesaurus behalf: (n) sake, part, interest, behoof, defense, lieu, good, stead, score, service, side. compel: (v) force, coerce, pressure, necessitate, enforce, command, oblige, require, make, obligate, press. ANTONYMS: (v) impede, deter, check, block, request, prevent. crushed: (adj) beaten, subdued, low, conquered, flattened, dispirited, compressed, overwhelmed, shattered; (v) victimized; (n)
crushing. ANTONYMS: (adj) pernicious, contagious, noisome, victorious, euphoric. harmful, vexing, vexatious, greeting: (n) welcome, salutation, destructive, irritating, bothersome, address, greet, compliments, pesky. acknowledgment, accost, hello, hullo, sonnet: (n) ode, verse, poem, elegy, nod; (v) salute. ANTONYM: (n) canzonet, eclogue, lay, Anacreontic, poesy, quatorzain; (v) poetize. goodbye. headsman: (n) headman, executioner, traitorously: (adv) disloyally, falsely, hangman, chieftain. treacherously, false, treasonously, morrow: (n) morning, future, mean unfaithfully, perfidiously, untruely, treasonably. ANTONYM: (adv) solar day, day. pestiferous: (adj) annoying, faithfully.
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FIRST SOLDIER. If you could find out a country where but women were that had received so much shame, you might begin an impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France too: we shall speak of you there. [Exit.] PAROLLES. Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great, 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more; But I will eat, and drink, and sleep as soft As captain shall: simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass. Rust, sword! cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive. There's place and means for every man alive. I'll after them. [Exit.]
SCENE 4. FLORENCE. A ROOM IN THE WIDOW'S HOUSE.% [Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA.] HELENA. That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you! One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful, Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel: Time was I did him a desired office, Dear almost as his life; which gratitude
Thesaurus braggart: (n) boaster, braggadocio, v) chosen; (v) consenting. foolery: (n) folly, tomfoolery, blowhard, bragger, vaunter, egoist; (v) magniloquent, Thrasonic; (adj) foolishness, buffoonery, clowning, boastful, vainglorious, braggy. inanity, romp, gambol, frolic, burst: (adj, n, v) crack; (adj, v) split, imbecility, lunacy. blow up, explode, splinter, detonate; gratitude: (n) appreciation, thanks, (n, v) rupture, blast; (adj, n) flash; (v) thank, acknowledgement, break out, belch. ANTONYMS: (v) acknowledgment, appreciativeness, attach, join, connect, fasten, trickle. feeling, appreciate, grateful, desired: (adj) coveted, desirable, thanksgiving, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) ingratitude, favorite, wanted, welcome, needed, beloved, required, most wanted; (adj, ungratefulness.
impudent: (adj, n) bold, daring; (adj) disrespectful, audacious, impertinent, brassy, barefaced, brazen, insolent, brash, cheeky. ANTONYMS: (adj) polite, cowardly. surety: (n) collateral, pledge, hostage, guarantee, earnest, guaranty, guarantor, certainty, assurance, sponsor, bail. throne: (v) enthrone; (n) can, stool, place, fecal matter, potty, chair, cathedra, lavatory, crapper, pot.
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Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth, And answer, thanks: I duly am informed His grace is at Marseilles; to which place We have convenient convoy. You must know I am supposed dead: the army breaking, My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding, And by the leave of my good lord the king, We'll be before our welcome.% WIDOW. Gentle madam, You never had a servant to whose trust Your business was more welcome. HELENA. Nor you, mistress, Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower, As it hath fated her to be my motive And helper to a husband. But, O strange men! That can such sweet use make of what they hate, When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts Defiles the pitchy night! so lust doth play With what it loathes, for that which is away: But more of this hereafter.--You, Diana, Under my poor instructions yet must suffer Something in my behalf. DIANA. Let death and honesty Go with your impositions, I am yours Upon your will to suffer.
Thesaurus convoy: (v) accompany; (n, v) conduct, coadjutor. ANTONYMS: (n) indemnification, indemnity; (v) guide, attend, guard; (n) detractor, enemy. compensate, reimburse. peep: (n, v) glance, peek, look, gaze, ANTONYMS: (v) penalize, receive; accompaniment, procession, fleet, glint, squeal; (n) glimpse, cheep; (v) (n) penalty. safeguard, column, train. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave, chirp, peer, pry. ANTONYMS: (v) trusting: (adj) credulous, stare, gaze; (n) examination. ignore, desert. unsuspecting, naive, confident, flinty: (adj) rocky, unyielding, grim, pitchy: (adj) tarry, dusky, dark, confiding, simple, innocent, gullible, unfeeling, stern, stony, severe, hard, fuliginous, jet, murky, obscure, pitch reliant, give, easy to fool. ANTONYMS: (adj) distrustful, cruel, obdurate, heartless. dark, inky, black, achromatic. helper: (n, v) assistant, aid, assistance; recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n) suspicious, doubtful, hesitant, (n) acolyte, attendant, ally, associate, compensation, amends, atonement, protective, shrewd, disingenuous, supporter, colleague, auxiliary, payment, consideration, smart, jaded.
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HELENA. Yet, I pray you: But with the word the time will bring on summer, When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns, And be as sweet as sharp. We must away; Our waggon is prepar'd, and time revives us: All's well that ends well: still the fine's the crown; Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.% [Exeunt.]
SCENE 5. ROUSILLON. A ROOM IN THE COUNTESS'S PALACE. [Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and CLOWN.] LAFEU. No, no, no, son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced by the king than by that red-tail'd humble-bee I speak of. COUNTESS. I would I had not known him! It was the death of the most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had praise for creating: if she had partaken of my flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I could not have owed her a more rooted love. LAFEU. 'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
Thesaurus doughy: (adj) soggy, pale, soft, mushy, behoove, owned, possessed; (n) livid, colorless; (v) spongy. aught. ANTONYM: (adj) paid. herb: (n) plant, wort, herbage, praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, amaranth, cottonweed, agueweed, drypis, dittany, dill, digitalis, compliment, honor, glory, acclaim; (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) dayflower. misled: (adj) fooled, undirected, false, criticism, disparagement; (v) bewildered, confused, erroneous, reprimand, disparage, reproach, mistaken, misleading, misdirected, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, led astray, incorrect. denigrate, sully. owed: (adj) due, outstanding, unpaid, rooted: (adj, v) fixed; (adj) ingrained, payable, deserved, fitting; (v) ought, immovable, inveterate, firm, set,
frozen, riveted, irremovable; (v) imbedded, posited. saffron: (n) yellow, crocus sativus, orange yellow, yellowness, seasoner, seasoning, flavouring, flavourer, saffron crocus, flavorer; (adj) topaz. unbaked: (adj) immature, callow. villanous: (adj) vile. waggon: (n) wagon, cart, lorry, wain, dray, station wagon, beach wagon, beach waggon, station waggon, bandwagon, milkwagon.
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CLOWN. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or, rather, the herb of grace.% LAFEU. They are not salad-herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs. CLOWN. I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much skill in grass. LAFEU. Whether dost thou profess thyself,--a knave or a fool? CLOWN. A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's. LAFEU. Your distinction? CLOWN. I would cozen the man of his wife, and do his service. LAFEU. So you were a knave at his service, indeed. CLOWN. And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service. LAFEU. I will subscribe for thee; thou art both knave and fool. CLOWN. At your service. LAFEU. No, no, no. CLOWN. Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as great a prince as you are.
Thesaurus bauble: (adj) gimcrack; (n) trinket, grass: (v) denounce, betray; (n) forage, Chimonanthus praecox, Cretan ornament, trifle, bagatelle, gaud, cannabis, hay, pasture, fink, sward, dittany, winter sweet, wild bangle, novelty; (adj, n) toy, gewgaw, pasturage; (adj, n) green, marijuana. marjoram, thyme, Crete dittany, ANTONYM: (n) patriot. plaything. Japanese allspice. distinction: (n) discrimination, indeed: (adv) certainly, exactly, in salad: (n) coleslaw, sauce, pasta salad, contrast, difference, rank, reality, surely, of course, assuredly, mash, gallimaufry, fruit salad, as a matter of fact, admittedly; (adj, dissimilarity, demarcation, prestige, mingled yarn, dish, miscellany, adv) really, much; (n) yes. celebrity, reputation, consequence, herring salad, crab Louis. variation. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (adv) possibly, wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, mediocrity, resemblance, likeness, doubtfully. married woman, spouse, consort, marjoram: (n) Origanum, Acocanthera helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, indistinction, insult, disgrace, commonness, obscurity. spectabilis, bay leaves, sage, viscountess.
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LAFEU. Who's that? a Frenchman? CLOWN. Faith, sir, 'a has an English name; but his phisnomy is more hotter in France than there.% LAFEU. What prince is that? CLOWN. The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of darkness; alias, the devil. LAFEU. Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of; serve him still. CLOWN. I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in his court. I am for the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp to enter: some that humble themselves may; but the many will be too chill and tender; and they'll be for the flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire. LAFEU. Go thy ways, I begin to be a-weary of thee; and I tell thee so before, because I would not fall out with thee. Go thy ways; let my horses be well looked to, without any tricks. CLOWN. If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be jades' tricks, which are their own right by the law of nature. [Exit.] LAFEU. A shrewd knave, and an unhappy.
Thesaurus alias: (n) pseudonym, pen name, nom de plume, name, assumed name, nickname, stage name, soubriquet, title, nom de Guerre; (adv) also called. chill: (adj, v) cool; (adj, n) cold; (adj) bleak, icy, chilly, frosty, depressing; (v) freeze, dispirit, damp; (n) coolness. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) warm; (n) warmth, warmness; (v) encourage, hearten, inspirit, thaw; (adj) hot, gregarious, friendly, sociable.
gate: (n) door, mouth, entry, doorway, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n) port, exit, goal, barrier, approach, understatement, modesty. prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign, inlet, threshold. nobility: (n) aristocracy, greatness, duke, king, chief, maharaja, dignity, lord, noblesse, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke. magnanimousness, baronage, gentry, tricks: (n) actions, behavior, thing, nobleman; (adj) generosity; (adj, n) clowning around, fooling, magic, magnanimity. ANTONYM: (n) plunder, possession, activities. woodland: (n) forest, timber, wood, baseness. pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, jungle, timberland, greenwood, ostentation, show, ceremony, glory, woods, silva, backwoods, grove, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, park.
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COUNTESS. So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much sport out of him; by his authority he remains here, which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and indeed he has no pace, but runs where he will.% LAFEU. I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death, and that my lord your son was upon his return home, I moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter; which, in the minority of them both, his majesty out of a self-gracious remembrance did first propose: His highness hath promised me to do it; and, to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against your son, there is no fitter matter. How does your ladyship like it? COUNTESS. With very much content, my lord; and I wish it happily effected. LAFEU. His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able body as when he numbered thirty; he will be here to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such intelligence hath seldom failed. COUNTESS. It rejoices me that I hope I shall see him ere I die. I have letters that my son will be here to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain with me till they meet together. LAFEU. Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might safely be admitted. COUNTESS. You need but plead your honourable privilege. LAFEU. Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but, I thank my God, it holds yet. [Re-enter CLOWN.]
Thesaurus amiss: (adj, adv) wrong; (adj) bad, loftiness, nobility, greatness, haywire, faulty, astray, guilty; (adv) eminence, size, stateliness, majesty, badly, poorly, awry, wrongly, adrift. high, grandeur. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) right; (adv) ladyship: (n) madam. patent: (adj) overt, evident, apparent, perfectly, properly, suitably, appropriately, correctly, well; (adj) manifest, plain, clear, conspicuous, open, palpable, explicit; (n) letters okay, correct, good. conceived: (adj) formed. patent. ANTONYMS: (adj) fitter: (n) adjuster, machinist, sartor, inconspicuous, obscure, subtle, cutter, mounter, erector; (adj) unobtrusive, veiled, ambiguous, suitable, healthier. furtive, questionable. highness: (n) excellency, altitude, plead: (v) entreat, implore, beg, adjure,
petition, ask, appeal, defend, invoke, sue; (n, v) allege. ANTONYMS: (v) answer, demand. propose: (v) bid, nominate, design, plan, proffer, move, intend, mean, aim, suggest; (n, v) advance. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, improvise, oppose. sauciness: (n) pertness, impudence, insolence, gall, cheek, flippancy, perkiness, archness, cheekiness, effrontery, sauce.
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CLOWN. O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of velvet on's face; whether there be a scar under it or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a half, but his right cheek is worn bare.% LAFEU. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. CLOWN. But it is your carbonadoed face. LAFEU. Let us go see your son, I pray you; I long to talk with the young noble soldier. CLOWN. Faith, there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine hats, and most courteous feathers, which bow the head and nod at every man. [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus belike: (adv) probably, likely, presumably, perhaps, believably, in all probability. courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable, attentive, gracious, decorous, chivalrous, bland, thoughtful, urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite, boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff, improper, vulgar, unhelpful, neglectful, graceless. delicate: (adj) accurate, tender, dainty,
refined, breakable, fragile, beautiful, dye, bailment. brittle, soft, nice, frail. ANTONYMS: patch: (v) piece; (n) plot, fleck, darn, (adj) inelegant, robust, heavy, sturdy, blot, freckle, bed, maculation, field; (n, v) botch, repair. tough, careless, inaccurate, rough, scar: (n, v) mark, blemish, seam, stain, well, substantial, unscrupulous. dozen: (adj, n) XII; (n) dozens, boxcars. brand; (n) cicatrix, cicatrice, defect, feathers: (n) plumage, fur, indument, scratch, injury; (v) disfigure. ANTONYM: (v) enhance. garment, garb, fine hair, clothing, velvet: (adj) velvety, down; (n) profit, dress, apparel, attire, array. livery: (adj) liverish, bilious; (n) gain, velour, velours, revenue, clothing, accouterment, uniform, prosperity, receipts, satin, wealth. complexion, legal transfer, color, hue,
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ACT V
SCENE 1. MARSEILLES. A STREET.% [Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two ATTENDANTS.] HELENA. But this exceeding posting day and night Must wear your spirits low: we cannot help it. But since you have made the days and nights as one, To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, Be bold you do so grow in my requital As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;-[Enter a GENTLEMAN.] This man may help me to his majesty's ear, If he would spend his power.--God save you, sir. GENTLEMAN. And you. HELENA. Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.
Thesaurus bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious, manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless, spirited, heroic, daring, courageous, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) timid, modest, afraid, meek, shy, light, courteous, discreet, faint, fearful, abashed. exceeding: (prep) beyond, more than, greater than; (adj) excessive, transcendent, extraordinary, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing, Olympian; (v) exceed.
gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind, frame of mind, liqueur, strong drink, hard drink; (adj) cheer, geniality, affable, balmy, mild, feeble, compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) good humor; (v) wine. tame. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, loud, unroot: (v) eradicate. wear: (n) clothing, clothes, apparel, fierce, caustic, violent, rough, attire, garb; (v) endure, fatigue, hardhearted, abrupt, heavy, steep, sheer. waste, bear, tire, fray. ANTONYMS: nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night. (v) refresh, reject, rebuild, please, posting: (n) post, placard, poster, freshen, disrobe, delight, cheer, refuse; (n) improvement. entry, notice, position, transmittal, transmission, transmitting, job, place. spirits: (n) alcohol, booze, humor,
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GENTLEMAN. I have been sometimes there.% HELENA. I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen From the report that goes upon your goodness; And therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions, Which lay nice manners by, I put you to The use of your own virtues, for the which I shall continue thankful. GENTLEMAN. What's your will? HELENA. That it will please you To give this poor petition to the king; And aid me with that store of power you have To come into his presence. GENTLEMAN. The king's not here. HELENA. Not here, sir? GENTLEMAN. Not indeed. He hence remov'd last night, and with more haste Than is his use. WIDOW. Lord, how we lose our pains! HELENA. All's well that ends well yet, Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. I do beseech you, whither is he gone?
Thesaurus adverse: (adj) unfavorable, contrary, untoward, hostile, harmful, adversary, repugnant, counter, pernicious, noisome; (adj, n) opposite. ANTONYMS: (adj) helpful, fortunate, aiding, beneficial, positive, advantageous, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, harmless. goaded: (adj) provoked, forced, motivated, unvoluntary, aggravated, compulsive, determined, involuntary.
hence: (adv) consequently, for that sharp: (adj, n, v) keen, acute, bitter; (adj) intelligent, intense, incisive; (adj, reason, therefore, thereby, away, v) biting, acid, acrid, severe, harsh. thus, for, then, because, henceforth, ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, mild, gentle, as a result. petition: (n, v) appeal, request, desire, sweet, rounded, bland, round, claim; (v) ask, beg, crave, apply; (n) smooth, blurred, naive, kind. store: (n, v) stock, hoard, bank, cache, application, entreaty, invocation. presume: (v) dare, consider, believe, supply; (n) shop, market, business; (v) accumulate, garner, keep. think, infer, guess, expect, esteem, ANTONYMS: (v) spend, delete; (n) conclude, suppose, conjecture. ANTONYMS: (v) appreciate, despair, dearth. speculate.
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GENTLEMAN. Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon; Whither I am going.% HELENA. I do beseech you, sir, Since you are like to see the king before me, Commend the paper to his gracious hand; Which I presume shall render you no blame, But rather make you thank your pains for it: I will come after you with what good speed Our means will make us means. GENTLEMAN. This I'll do for you. HELENA. And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd, Whate'er falls more.--We must to horse again;-Go, go, provide. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 2. ROUSILLON. THE INNER COURT OF THE COUNTESS'S PALACE. [Enter CLOWN and PAROLLES.] PAROLLES. Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to you, when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure.
Thesaurus clothes: (n) apparel, clothing, dress, garb, wardrobe, vestment, garment, cloth, thing, gown, wear. familiarity: (adj, n) acquaintance; (n) intimacy, closeness, experience, casualness, conversancy, knowledge, conversance, naturalness, nearness, friendship. ANTONYMS: (n) unfamiliarity, formality, abnormality, distance, animosity. fresher: (n) fresh, lowerclassman, underclassman, neophyte, fledgeling,
entrant, fledgling. mood: (adj, n) humor, frame of mind; (n) atmosphere, climate, disposition, attitude, air, feeling, mode, temper, temperament. muddied: (adj) dingy, dirty, quaggy, foul, drear, grimy, mirky, marshy, lousy, infected, impure. render: (v) interpret, explain, give, offer, furnish, pay, construe, return, provide, impart, translate. smell: (n, v) odor, scent, savor,
perfume, stink, stench; (v) nose; (n) fragrance, bouquet, savour, odour. somewhat: (adv) slightly, a little, fairly, a bit, reasonably, pretty, moderately, sort of; (adv, v) little; (adv, pron) partly; (adj, adv) something. ANTONYMS: (adv) considerably, very, unreasonably, totally, hugely, completely, closely, massively, absolutely, wholly.
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CLOWN. Truly, Fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it smell so strongly as thou speak'st of: I will henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering. Pr'ythee, allow the wind.% PAROLLES. Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake but by a metaphor. CLOWN. Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my nose; or against any man's metaphor. Pr'ythee, get thee further. PAROLLES. Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper. CLOWN. Foh, pr'ythee stand away. A paper from Fortune's close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look here he comes himself. [Enter LAFEU.] Here is a pur of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's cat (but not a musk-cat), that has fallen into the unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his distress in my similes of comfort, and leave him to your lordship. [Exit.] PAROLLES. My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched. LAFEU. And what would you have me to do? 'tis too late to pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who of herself is a good lady, and would not have knaves thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for you: let the justices make you and fortune friends; I am for other business. PAROLLES. I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.
Thesaurus cruelly: (adv) harshly, ferociously, fiercely, viciously, inhumanly, mercilessly, pitilessly, heartlessly, roughly, unkindly; (adj, adv) bitterly. ANTONYMS: (adv) kindly, mercifully, sympathetically, tamely, peacefully, humanely, compassionately, sensitively, respectfully, innocently, genially. decayed: (adj) spoiled, corrupt, dilapidated, rank, rusty, rotting, decaying, rotted, putrid; (adj, v)
wasted; (v) stale. ANTONYMS: (adj) matured, restored, strengthened. fishpond: (n) pond, dew pond, pool. henceforth: (adv) hence, in future, after this; (adj) following. nobleman: (n) patrician, aristocrat, lord, peer, marquis, nobility, grandee, baron, duke, armiger, burgrave. pare: (v) cut, peel, trim, truncate, flay, curtail, whittle, shave, skin, sharpen, husk. ANTONYM: (v) expand.
rascally: (adj) dirty, contemptible, abject, mean, mischievous, scoundrelly, roguish, scabby, scurvy, shabby, paltry. similes: (n) imagery, images, metaphors. sluttish: (adj) slatternly, loose, untidy, easy, light, promiscuous, blowsy, blowzy, foul, dirty; (v) unkempt. stink: (adj, n, v) stench; (n, v) smell, odor; (n) malodour, fetor, malodor, niff, odour, foetor; (v) fume, Pong.
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LAFEU. You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't: save your word.% PAROLLES. My name, my good lord, is Parolles. LAFEU. You beg more than word then.--Cox' my passion! give me your hand:--how does your drum? PAROLLES. O my good lord, you were the first that found me. LAFEU. Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee. PAROLLES. It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace, for you did bring me out. LAFEU. Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once both the office of God and the devil? one brings the in grace, and the other brings thee out. [Trumpets sound.] The king's coming; I know by his trumpets.--Sirrah, inquire further after me; I had talk of you last night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall eat: go to; follow. PAROLLES. I praise God for you. [Exeunt.]
SCENE 3. THE SAME. A ROOM IN THE COUNTESS'S PALACE. [Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, Lords, Gentlemen, Guards, etc.] KING. We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem
Thesaurus esteem: (n) deference, admiration; (n, lying, deceit, defamation, doit, small change, denomination. v) respect, value, consideration, save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, denigration, dishonesty, slander, account; (v) appreciate, deem, adore, libel, treachery. ANTONYM: (n) maintain, preserve, free, protect, admire, count. ANTONYMS: (v) liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) except; truth. scorn, hate, disdain, insult, despise, passion: (n) affection, fire, fervor, love, (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) abominate, abhor, dislike, reject; (n) feeling, anger, enthusiasm, heat, waste, squander, use, abandon, craving, desire; (n, v) ardor. disesteem, disapproval. endanger, capture, asphyxiate, inquire: (v) demand, ask, explore, ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, hate, aggravate, destroy. sooth: (n) verity, soothsaying, fact, enquire, inspect, research, consult, serenity, meekness, hatred, doubt, pry, request, wonder; (n, v) question. dislike, calmness, moderation. truth, reality. ANTONYM: (v) answer. penny: (n) change, coin, centime, lies: (n) fabrication, falsehood, lie, copper, groat, subunit, money, mite,
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Was made much poorer by it: but your son, As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know Her estimation home.% COUNTESS. 'Tis past, my liege: And I beseech your majesty to make it Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth, When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force, O'erbears it and burns on. KING. My honour'd lady, I have forgiven and forgotten all; Though my revenges were high bent upon him, And watch'd the time to shoot. LAFEU. This I must say,-But first, I beg my pardon,--the young lord Did to his majesty, his mother, and his lady, Offence of mighty note; but to himself The greatest wrong of all: he lost a wife Whose beauty did astonish the survey Of richest eyes; whose words all ears took captive; Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve Humbly call'd mistress. KING. Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.--Well, call him hither;-We are reconcil'd, and the first view shall kill All repetition:--let him not ask our pardon; The nature of his great offence is dead, And deeper than oblivion do we bury
Thesaurus astonish: (adj, v) astound; (adj, n, v) appraisal, attention; (n, v) esteem, obliviousness, silence, remission, surprise; (adj) astonishing, surprised; consideration, regard, reputation, pardon; (n, v) amnesty; (adj) (v) flabbergast, daze, confound, credit. ANTONYMS: (n) calculation, nonbeing. ANTONYMS: (n) dazzle, stun, alarm, nonplus. disbelief, doubt. consciousness, fame. ANTONYMS: (v) expect, bore. forgiven: (v) conciliatory, placable. perfection: (n) maturity, ideal, blaze: (n, v) flash, glare, flame, mark, mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, consummation, paragon, scintillation; (n) fire, light, burning, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, completeness, finish, completion, inflammation, sheen; (adj, v) burn. large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. crown, flawlessness, development, ne burns: (n) George Burns, Nathan ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, plus ultra. ANTONYMS: (n) Birnbaum, Robert Burns. insignificant. imperfection, fault, abandonment, estimation: (n) deference, assessment, oblivion: (n) limbo, Lethe, void, ugliness, deterioration. took: (adj) taken; (v) receive. calculation, approximation, absolution, forgiveness,
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Th' incensing relics of it; let him approach, A stranger, no offender; and inform him, So 'tis our will he should.% GENTLEMAN. I shall, my liege. [Exit GENTLEMAN.] KING. What says he to your daughter? have you spoke? LAFEU. All that he is hath reference to your highness. KING. Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me That sets him high in fame. [Enter BERTRAM.] LAFEU. He looks well on 't. KING. I am not a day of season, For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail In me at once: but to the brightest beams Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth; The time is fair again. BERTRAM. My high-repented blames, Dear sovereign, pardon to me. KING. All is whole; Not one word more of the consumed time. Let's take the instant by the forward top;
Thesaurus clouds: (n) exhaust, fumes, gas, smoke, vapors. consumed: (adj) exhausted, finished, used up, worn, depleted, obsessed, possessed, lost, tired, immersed, gone. fame: (n, v) credit, celebrity, report, reputation, renown, cry; (n) distinction, bruit, honor, prestige, buzz. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, obscurity, anonymity, ignominy, dishonor, commonness, oblivion,
skid, rundle, line, clog, round; (v) criticism. inform: (v) acquaint, impart, advise, said. enlighten, announce, tell, familiarize, stranger: (n) foreigner, outsider, explain, advertise, apprise, warn. newcomer, outlander, immigrant, offender: (n) delinquent, malefactor, intruder, unknown, tramontane, trespasser; (adj) foreign, strange. criminal, convict, felon, crook, ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native, wrongdoer, malfeasant, perpetrator, outlaw, villain. associate, resident, familiar. relics: (n) relic, rood, rosary, thurible, sunshine: (n) sunlight, sun, day, light, reliquary, remainder, remain, fair weather, gladness, shine, glee, leavings, remains, remnants, patera. sunbeam, delight, brightness. spoke: (n) bar, rung, radius, rule, shoe,
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For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them. You remember The daughter of this lord? BERTRAM. Admiringly, my liege: at first I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart Durst make too bold herald of my tongue: Where the impression of mine eye infixing, Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me, Which warp'd the line of every other favour; Scorned a fair colour, or express'd it stolen; Extended or contracted all proportions To a most hideous object: thence it came That she whom all men prais'd, and whom myself, Since I have lost, have lov'd, was in mine eye The dust that did offend it.% KING. Well excus'd: That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away From the great compt: but love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offence, Crying, That's good that's gone. Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious things we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave: Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust: Our own love waking cries to see what's done, While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon. Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.
Thesaurus inaudible: (adj) indistinct, imperceptible, inarticulate, noiseless, quiet, faint, out of hearing, muffled, silent, unheard, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) audible, obvious. knell: (n, v) knoll; (v) chime, call, resound, circle, environ, call up, echo, band, encircle, be around. noiseless: (adj) quiet, silent, soundless, hushed, voiceless, mute, stealthy, dumb, soft, calm, tranquil. ANTONYM: (adj) heavy.
offend: (v) irritate, affront, insult, contravene, injure, disgust, infringe, displease, abuse, wound, anger. ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight, praise, attract. remorseful: (adj) penitent, regretful, apologetic, sorry, repentant, regret, sad, rueful, bad, compunctious, compassionate. ANTONYMS: (adj) glad, unremorseful. sender: (n) communicator, shipper, transmitter, register, senders, sending
entity, consignor, merchant, player. shameful: (adj) scandalous, dishonorable, opprobrious, shocking, ignominious, disreputable, despicable; (adj, v) foul, base, gross, black. ANTONYMS: (adj) honorable, noble, dignified, admirable, faultless, reputable, glorious, compassionate, praiseworthy, commendable, excellent. waking: (adj) wakeful; (n) awakening, wakefulness, consciousness.
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Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin: The main consents are had; and here we'll stay To see our widower's second marriage-day.% COUNTESS. Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless! Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse! LAFEU. Come on, my son, in whom my house's name Must be digested, give a favour from you, To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter, That she may quickly come.-[BERTRAM gives a ring to LAFEU.] By my old beard, And every hair that's on 't, Helen, that's dead, Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this, The last that e'er I took her leave at court, I saw upon her finger. BERTRAM. Hers it was not. KING. Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye, While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to it.-This ring was mine; and when I gave it Helen I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood Necessitied to help, that by this token I would relieve her. Had you that craft to 'reave her Of what should stead her most? BERTRAM. My gracious sovereign, Howe'er it pleases you to take it so, The ring was never hers.
Thesaurus craft: (n) trade, ability, artfulness, guile, fraud, shift, occupation, vessel, skill; (adj, n) cunning, art. ANTONYMS: (n) naivety, clumsiness, avocation, hobby, incompetence, incompetency, inaptitude, inability, honesty, honestness; (v) destroy. creature: (n) being, brute, animal, tool, individual, person, body, entity, human, puppet, somebody. digested: (adj) mature, digestible.
gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, (n) apathy, dullness, lifelessness. speaking: (n) talk, discourse, speech, accord. hers: (pron) she, his; (adj) own. public speaking, reading, oral relieve: (n, v) ease, assuage, mitigate, presentation, recital, recitation, alleviate, allay, calm, redress; (v) free, disputation; (v) speak; (adj) expressive. ANTONYMS: (adj) help, console, excuse. ANTONYMS: (v) burden, aggravate, exacerbate, nonspeaking, silent. stead: (n) behalf, room, lieu, spot, harbor, enforce, include, upset, depress. location, station, space, seat, position, sparkle: (n, v) flicker, flash, shimmer, office, locality. spark, shine, blaze, fizz, gleam, glitter; (v) blink, glare. ANTONYMS:
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COUNTESS. Son, on my life, I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it At her life's rate.% LAFEU. I am sure I saw her wear it. BERTRAM. You are deceiv'd, my lord; she never saw it: In Florence was it from a casement thrown me, Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought I stood engag'd: but when I had subscrib'd To mine own fortune, and inform'd her fully I could not answer in that course of honour As she had made the overture, she ceas'd, In heavy satisfaction, and would never Receive the ring again. KING. Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's, Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know That you are well acquainted with yourself, Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety That she would never put it from her finger Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,-Where you have never come,--or sent it us Upon her great disaster.
Thesaurus disaster: (n) calamity, blow, accident, adversity, casualty, cataclysm, debacle, destruction, misfortune, misadventure, fiasco. ANTONYMS: (n) success, blessing, joy, miracle, opportunity, wonder, order. heavy: (adj, n) dull; (adj) deep, fat, dense, grave, dark, full, gross, thick, bulky; (adj, adv) hard. ANTONYMS: (adj) slim, easy, thin, slight, skinny, puny, gentle, insubstantial, animated, nimble, entertaining.
multiplying: (adj) cumulative; (n) recompense. ANTONYMS: (n) generation, calculation. displeasure, discontent, aggravation, mystery: (n) arcanum, enigma, sorrow, dismay, anxiety. thrown: (adj) puzzled, confused, mysteriousness, secrecy, puzzle, craft, perplexity, poser, inscrutability, thrown and twisted, upset, whodunit; (adj, n) secret. disconcerted, unnerved, terrified, ANTONYMS: (n) explanation, scared out of your wits, mystified, frightened; (n) reminder. openness. satisfaction: (n, v) pleasure, ANTONYM: (adj) calm. tinct: (n, v) tint; (v) tinge, dye, imbue, gratification, contentment, content; (n) enjoyment, joy, complacency, bepaint, stain, wash, colour, hue, amends, reparation, redress, come to, comprehend.
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BERTRAM. She never saw it.% KING. Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour; And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so:-And yet I know not:--thou didst hate her deadly. And she is dead; which nothing, but to close Her eyes myself, could win me to believe More than to see this ring.--Take him away. [Guards seize BERTRAM.] My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall, Shall tax my fears of little vanity, Having vainly fear'd too little.--Away with him;-We'll sift this matter further. BERTRAM. If you shall prove This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence, Where she yet never was. [Exit, guarded.] KING. I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings. [Enter a GENTLEMAN.] GENTLEMAN. Gracious sovereign, Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not: Here's a petition from a Florentine, Who hath, for four or five removes, come short To tender it herself. I undertook it,
Thesaurus conjectural: (adj) hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposed, supposititious, putative, suppositious, doubtful, reputed; (v) speculative, supposable. ANTONYMS: (adj) proven, unquestionable, truthful, real, demonstrated, concrete, certain, factual. dismal: (adj) cheerless, dejected, dreary, gloomy, desolate, disconsolate, depressing, melancholy,
black, dim, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj) fears: (n) worries, uncertainties, bright, happy, lively, uplifting, doubts, qualms, misgivings. sunny, pleasant, light, cheery, strong, sift: (v) screen, filter, investigate, soulful, wonderful. riddle, sieve, examine, sprinkle, falsely: (adv) incorrectly, fraudulently, separate, sort; (n, v) scrutinize, deceptively, dishonestly, wrongly, analyze. vainly: (adv) uselessly, futilely, erroneously, misleadingly, deceitfully, unfaithfully, spuriously, fruitlessly, conceitedly, in vain, fictitiously. ANTONYMS: (adv) worthlessly, abortively, bootlessly, arrogantly, unproductively; (adj, adv) honestly, truthfully, faithfully, foolishly. ANTONYMS: (adv) authentically, correctly, naturally, rightly. fruitfully, successfully, effectively.
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Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech Of the poor suppliant, who by this, I know, Is here attending: her business looks in her With an importing visage; and she told me In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern Your highness with herself.% KING. [Reads.] 'Upon his many protestations to marry me, when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won me. Now is the count Rousillon a widower; his vows are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow him to his country for justice: grant it me, O king; in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer flourishes, and a poor maid is undone. DIANA CAPULET.' LAFEU. I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll this: I'll none of him. KING. The heavens have thought well on thee, Lafeu, To bring forth this discovery.--Seek these suitors:-Go speedily, and bring again the count. [Exeunt Gentleman, and some Attendants.] I am afeard the life of Helen, lady, Was foully snatch'd. COUNTESS. Now, justice on the doers! [Enter BERTRAM, guarded.] KING. I wonder, sir, since wives are monsters to you. And that you fly them as you swear them lordship, Yet you desire to marry.--What woman's that?
Thesaurus afeard: (adj) afraid. suer; (adj) beseeching, supplicatory, commerce. flourishes: (n) added extras, seducer: (n) gallant, lady killer, ladies' imploring, humbly entreating. thereto: (adv) thereunto, moreover; trappings, superfluities, trimmings, man, undoer, whoremonger, (adj) likeness, accurate, coincidence, accompaniments, additions, seductor, tempter, charmer, embellishments. debauchee, dissolute person, flirt. correct, correctness, deportment, foully: (adv) filthily, vilely, uncleanly, speedily: (adj, adv) quickly, quick, detail, exact, expected. immediately; (adv) rapidly, promptly, visage: (n) face, look, mug, nastily, sordidly, squalidly, offensively, grossly, dingily, hastily, swiftly, fast, apace, hurriedly, physiognomy, expression, kisser, revoltingly; (adv, v) shamefully. fleetly. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, appearance, aspect, brow, smiler, ANTONYM: (adv) attractively. eventually. forehead. importing: (n) importation, suppliant: (n) petitioner, applicant, widower: (n) adult male, widowman, mercantilism, commercialism, besieger, postulant, prayer, lover, man.
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[Re-enter WIDOW and DIANA.] DIANA. I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine, Derived from the ancient Capulet; My suit, as I do understand, you know, And therefore know how far I may be pitied.% WIDOW. I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour Both suffer under this complaint we bring, And both shall cease, without your remedy. KING. Come hither, count; do you know these women? BERTRAM. My lord, I neither can nor will deny But that I know them: do they charge me further? DIANA. Why do you look so strange upon your wife? BERTRAM. She's none of mine, my lord. DIANA. If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and that is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me, Either both or none. LAFEU. [To BERTRAM] Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you are no husband for her.
Thesaurus cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit, terminate, break, break off, close, conclude, discontinue, abstain. ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start, commence, persist, stay. complaint: (n) charge, ailment, disease, affection, whine, disorder, wail, complain, plaint, protest, sickness. ANTONYMS: (n) compliment, commendation, health. embodied: (adj) incarnate, corporate, corporeal, corporal, bodied,
personified, incorporated, combined, correspond; (n) lawsuit, plea, action, case; (v) adapt, accommodate, tangible, associated, in person. remedy: (n, v) cure, redress, heal, help, become; (n, v) answer. ANTONYM: medicine, relief; (v) rectify, amend, (v) clash. relieve, correct; (n) drug. women: (n) sex, gentle sex. ANTONYM: (n) poison. wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful, suffer: (v) encounter, stand, accept, sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic, piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor, undergo, brook, experience, have, endure, abide, sustain; (adj, v) allow. unhappy, forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (v) enjoy, rejoice, fine, strong, fortunate, overjoyed, flourish. nice, admirable, good, cheery, joyous, suit: (adj, v) fit, please; (adj, n, v) lucky, comfortable.
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BERTRAM. My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour Than for to think that I would sink it here.% KING. Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour Than in my thought it lies! DIANA. Good my lord, Ask him upon his oath, if he does think He had not my virginity. KING. What say'st thou to her? BERTRAM. She's impudent, my lord; And was a common gamester to the camp. DIANA. He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so He might have bought me at a common price: Do not believe him. O, behold this ring, Whose high respect and rich validity Did lack a parallel; yet, for all that, He gave it to a commoner o' the camp, If I be one. COUNTESS. He blushes, and 'tis it: Of six preceding ancestors, that gem, Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,
Thesaurus ancestors: (n) family, ancestor, lineage, pedigree, parents, majority, intimates, genealogy, family tree, associates, relatives. behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook. commoner: (n) burgher, layman, plebeian, common man, common person, proletary, proletaire,
democrat, roturier, republican, pleb. prior, past, precedent, prevenient; deeds: (n) works, activity, actions, (adv) forward; (prep) before. ANTONYMS: (adj) following, conduct, background, events, happenings, performance, activities. succeeding, next, present. gamester: (n) sportsman, player, testament: (n) testimonial, testimony, reveler, dicer, hazarder. parchment, paper, settlement, oath: (n) expletive, malediction, evidence, tribute, gospel, guarantee; imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, (n, v) volition; (v) discretionary swearing, pledge, assurance, pleasure. asseveration; (v) swear. upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up, preceding: (adj, adv) anterior, earlier; onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on (adj) foregoing, former, previous, that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at.
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Hath it been ow'd and worn. This is his wife; That ring's a thousand proofs.% KING. Methought you said You saw one here in court could witness it. DIANA. I did, my lord, but loath am to produce So bad an instrument; his name's Parolles. LAFEU. I saw the man to-day, if man he be. KING. Find him, and bring him hither. [Exit an ATTENDANT.] BERTRAM. What of him? He's quoted for a most perfidious slave, With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debauch'd: Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth: Am I or that or this for what he'll utter, That will speak anything? KING. She hath that ring of yours. BERTRAM. I think she has: certain it is I lik'd her, And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth: She knew her distance, and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine, Her infinite cunning with her modern grace,
Thesaurus cunning: (adj) crafty, canny, adroit, ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, wily, sly, shrewd, tricky, artful; (n) unwillingness, aloofness, disinterest, craftiness, craft, cleverness. lethargy, listlessness, patience, ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, honest, gloom, reluctance. loath: (adj) unwilling, disinclined, stupid, unimaginative, gullible, ingenuous, straightforward, candid, reluctant, loth, indisposed, backward, sincere; (n) frankness, hesitant, antipathetic, antipathetical, loathe, shy of. ANTONYMS: (adj) straightforwardness. eagerness: (n, v) desire, aspiration; (n) eager, willing, disposed, keen. perfidious: (adj) false, unfaithful, enthusiasm, avidity, cupidity, readiness, passion, keenness, faithless, treacherous, dishonest, ambition, fervor, avidness. Punic, insidious, deceitful, untrue,
traitorous, lying. ANTONYM: (adj) loyal. spots: (n) damp, drifter, floater, floating policy, muscae volitantes, Musca volitans. worn: (adj) haggard, tired, tattered, threadbare, ragged, drawn, jaded, fatigued, exhausted, faded, wasted. ANTONYMS: (adj) new, smart, unused, unworn, pristine, original.
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Subdu'd me to her rate: she got the ring; And I had that which any inferior might At market-price have bought.% DIANA. I must be patient: You that have turn'd off a first so noble wife May justly diet me. I pray you yet,-Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband,-Send for your ring, I will return it home, And give me mine again. BERTRAM. I have it not. KING. What ring was yours, I pray you? DIANA. Sir, much like The same upon your finger. KING. Know you this ring? this ring was his of late. DIANA. And this was it I gave him, being a-bed. KING. The story, then, goes false you threw it him Out of a casement. DIANA. I have spoke the truth. BERTRAM. My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.
Thesaurus false: (adj, n) bastard; (adj, adv) premium, adscript, perfect, higher, counterfeit, deceitful; (adj) untrue, quality, senior; (adj, n) superscript; (n) boss. dishonest, erroneous, sham, justly: (adv) accurately, fairly, assumed, artificial, fictitious, deceptive. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, correctly, honestly, lawfully, genuine, faithful, factual, correct, properly, exactly, uprightly, natural, truthful, honest, valid, just, legitimately, impartially, purely. ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly, loyal. inferior: (adj) secondary, bad, humble, unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly, poor, junior, petty, lesser, cheap, unlawfully, sinfully, falsely, base, feeble, vulgar. ANTONYMS: immorally. (adj) better, choice, excellent, lose: (v) drop, forfeit, mislay, miss,
sacrifice, fall behind, fail, to lose, forget, clear, hurt. ANTONYMS: (v) find, secure, recover, earn, obtain, acquire, get, win, beat, keep, succeed. virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence, quality, attribute; (n) honor, goodness, honesty, morality, decency, probity, efficacy. ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt, vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor, immorality, evil, demerit, inadequacy, disadvantage.
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KING. You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you.-[Re-enter Attendant, with PAROLLES.] Is this the man you speak of? DIANA. Ay, my lord.% KING. Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true I charge you, Not fearing the displeasure of your master,-Which, on your just proceeding, I'll keep off,-By him and by this woman here what know you? PAROLLES. So please your majesty, my master hath been an honourable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have. KING. Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman? PAROLLES. Faith, sir, he did love her; but how? KING. How, I pray you? PAROLLES. He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman. KING. How is that? PAROLLES. He loved her, sir, and loved her not. KING. As thou art a knave and no knave.-- What an equivocal companion is this!
Thesaurus boggle: (adj) blunder, hesitate, trip, problematic, apocryphal, double. precious, liked, adored, respected, hum and haw, dacker; (n) flounder, ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, treasured, esteemed, valued; (n) struggle; (v) flabbergast, botch, unequivocal, definite, obvious, plain, darling. ANTONYM: (adj) hated. proceeding: (n) matter, transaction, shrink, scruple. unquestionable, certain, direct. companion: (adj, n) associate; (n) feather: (n) pen, feathering, pinion, affair, procedure, lawsuit, nib, plumage, quill, kind, spline; (n, proceedings; (v) deed, act; (n, v) colleague, buddy, mate, peer, chum, v) plume; (adj, n, v) fringe; (v) fledge. measure; (adv, n) happening; (adj, adv, partner, fellow, comrade, assistant, brother. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, gentleman: (n) gent, Mr, male, v) going on. purpose: (n, v) plan, intention, design, stranger, adversary. patrician, sir, adult male, esquire, equivocal: (adj) ambiguous, indefinite, sahib, gentlemen; (adj) gentilhomme, project, resolve, purport, end, object; (n) mind, effect, motive. ANTONYM: doubtful, dubious, questionable, gentlemanly. loved: (adj) beloved, pet, cherished, (n) weakness. elusive, cryptic, precarious,
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PAROLLES. I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.% LAFEU. He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator. DIANA. Do you know he promised me marriage? PAROLLES. Faith, I know more than I'll speak. KING. But wilt thou not speak all thou know'st? PAROLLES. Yes, so please your majesty; I did go between them, as I said; but more than that, he loved her,--for indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan, and of limbo, and of furies, and I know not what: yet I was in that credit with them at that time that I knew of their going to bed; and of other motions, as promising her marriage, and things which would derive me ill-will to speak of; therefore I will not speak what I know. KING. Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say they are married: but thou art too fine in thy evidence; therefore stand aside.-This ring, you say, was yours? DIANA. Ay, my good lord. KING. Where did you buy it? or who gave it you? DIANA. It was not given me, nor I did not buy it. KING. Who lent it you?
Thesaurus derive: (v) stem, acquire, draw, deduct, come, result, extract, educe, infer, gain, elicit. ANTONYM: (v) invent. furies: (n) Eumenides. ill-will: (n) enmity. limbo: (n) oblivion, incarceration, purgatory, bilboes, durance vile, entombment, coarctation, limbus, intermediate repository, obscurity, jail. married: (adj) wedded, conjugal,
demagog, demagogue, eulogist; (v) matrimonial, connubial, nuptial, united, mixed, connected, marrying, oratrix, oratress. attached, unite. ANTONYMS: (adj) promised: (adj) pledged, affianced, unmarried, unattached, divorced, betrothed, busy, devoted, employed, public. greatly interested, intended, naughty: (adj) mischievous, impish, involved; (v) benempt, named. spoken: (adj) verbal, expressed, blue, improper, disobedient, insubordinate, wicked, evil, lewd, speaking, speak, unwritten, vocal, dark, unruly. ANTONYMS: (adj) voiced, talk, said, informal, conversational. ANTONYMS: (adj) decent, behaved, obedient, clean. orator: (n) elocutionist, speechmaker, written, unspoken, tacit, formal, speaker, lecturer, Cicero, speechifier, silent.
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DIANA. It was not lent me neither.% KING. Where did you find it then? DIANA. I found it not. KING. If it were yours by none of all these ways, How could you give it him? DIANA. I never gave it him. LAFEU. This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off and on at pleasure. KING. This ring was mine, I gave it his first wife. DIANA. It might be yours or hers, for aught I know. KING. Take her away, I do not like her now; To prison with her: and away with him.-Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring, Thou diest within this hour. DIANA. I'll never tell you. KING. Take her away. DIANA. I'll put in bail, my liege.
Thesaurus aught: (n) nil, zero, anything, ought, strenuous, particular, burdensome, cypher, nix, cipher, naught, null, zip; tough, uneasy, awkward, testing. (adj) any. found: (v) erect, build, base, form, bail: (n) pledge, surety, security, construct, constitute, appoint, handle, guarantee, bond, ballium, institute, set up, create, ground. assurance, undertaking; (v) deliver, ANTONYMS: (v) abolish, disband; (adj) lost. consign. easy: (adj) convenient, gentle, familiar, glove: (n) boxing glove, gloves, mitt, graceful, at ease, light, lenient, clear, mitten, baseball mitt, baseball glove, contented, cozy; (adj, adv) soft. handwear, wristband, sleeve, ANTONYMS: (adj) arduous, mittens, batting glove. pleasure: (n) fun, enjoyment, laborious, demanding, hard,
delectation, joy, comfort, happiness, mirth, inclination; (n, v) contentment, content; (adj, n, v) gratification. ANTONYMS: (n) irritation, nuisance, boredom, ache, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, pain, sadness, worry, anguish. prison: (n) calaboose, confinement, lockup, penitentiary, jug, chokey, college, prison house, limbo, confine, custody.
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KING. I think thee now some common customer.% DIANA. By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you. KING. Wherefore hast thou accus'd him all this while? DIANA. Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty: He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't: I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not. Great King, I am no strumpet, by my life; I am either maid, or else this old man's wife. [Pointing to LAFEU.] KING. She does abuse our ears; to prison with her. DIANA. Good mother, fetch my bail.--Stay, royal sir; [Exit WIDOW.] The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for, And he shall surety me. But for this lord Who hath abus'd me as he knows himself, Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him: He knows himself my bed he hath defil'd; And at that time he got his wife with child. Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick; So there's my riddle:--One that's dead is quick; And now behold the meaning. [Re-enter WIDOW with HELENA.] KING. Is there no exorcist
Thesaurus abuse: (n, v) affront, insult, outrage, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, reproach, harm, wrong; (v) mistreat, get, attract; (adj, n) feint. injure, violate; (adj, v) maltreat, guilty: (adj) culpable, faulty, wicked, profane. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect; hangdog, criminal, chargeable, sinful, (v) compliment, protect, nurture, blameworthy; (n) guilt, culprit; (adj, laud, honor, help, flatter; (n) v) condemned. ANTONYMS: (adj) compliments, kindness, flattery. blameless, aggressive, proud. exorcist: (n) charmer, wizard, sorcerer, jeweller: (n) goldsmith, silversmith, mage, necromancer, magician, faith jewelry maker. healer, quack, witch doctor, warlock, meaning: (n) intent, gist, implication, shaman. design, essence, consequence, fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, significance, content, intention,
connotation, aim. ANTONYM: (n) triviality. quit: (adj, n, v) leave; (v) go, drop, break, cease, give up, depart, end, discontinue; (adj, v) discharge; (n, v) part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy, enter, maintain, start, come, arrive. strumpet: (n) courtesan, punk, harlot, hussy, slut, adulteress, wench, whore, loose woman, advoutress, fornicatress.
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Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes? Is't real that I see? HELENA. No, my good lord; 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see-The name, and not the thing.% BERTRAM. Both, both; O, pardon! HELENA. O, my good lord, when I was like this maid; I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring, And, look you, here's your letter. This it says, 'When from my finger you can get this ring, And are by me with child, &c.'-- This is done: Will you be mine now you are doubly won? BERTRAM. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. HELENA. If it appear not plain, and prove untrue, Deadly divorce step between me and you!-O my dear mother, do I see you living? LAFEU. Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:-- Good Tom Drum [to PAROLLES], lend me a handkercher: so, I thank thee; wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones. KING. Let us from point to point this story know, To make the even truth in pleasure flow:-If thou beest yet a fresh uncropped flower,
Thesaurus alone: (adj) forlorn, individual, lonely, lonesome; (adj, adv) only, apart; (adv) solely, entirely, exclusively, separately, individually. ANTONYMS: (adj) overshadowed, ordinary, mobbed, equaled, crowded, accompanied, common, grouped, surpassed; (adv) jointly; (n) foe. divorce: (v) detach, disunite, separate, break up, divide, isolate, disjoin, disjoint; (n) separation, divorcement; (n, v) rupture. ANTONYMS: (n)
wedding, union; (v) unite, associate, espouse, join, marry. doubly: (adv) twice, twofold, two times, in two ways, dualistically. pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive, acquit, spare; (n) amnesty, forgiveness, grace; (adj, v) justify, exonerate, exculpate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) blame; (v) punish, castigate, condemn, convict; (n) intolerance. shadow: (n) ghost, darkness, apparition, follower, gloom,
reflection; (n, v) eclipse, trace, tail, hint; (v) follow. ANTONYMS: (v) brighten, lead; (n) brightness, pallor. sport: (n, v) play, pastime, jest, diversion, romp, joke, disport, gambol; (n) fun, amusement, recreation. ANTONYMS: (n) work; (v) conceal. uncropped: (adj) unclipped, uncut, unsevered, unplanted, undivided, intact. ANTONYM: (adj) cropped.
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[To DIANA.] Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower; For I can guess that, by thy honest aid, Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid. Of that and all the progress, more and less, Resolvedly more leisure shall express: All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. [Flourish.] The king's a beggar, now the play is done; All is well-ended if this suit be won, That you express content; which we will pay With strife to please you, day exceeding day: Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts; Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.% [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus bitter: (adj, v) acrimonious, acrid; (adj) slow, unexpressed, roundabout, unsaid, uncertain, indirect; (n) local. sharp, acid, malicious, caustic, guess: (n, v) surmise, estimate, virulent, sour, resentful, keen, acerbic. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, forecast; (v) suppose, deem, reckon, divine, believe, foretell; (n) charitable, hot, sugary, kind, wonderful, warm, pleasant, nice, assumption, supposition. husband: (v) conserve, economize, agreeable, gentle. express: (adj) explicit, direct, definite, preserve, save; (n) consort, hubby, distinct, especial; (n, v) declare; (v) man, fellow, lover, master, mate. ANTONYMS: (n) wife, bachelor. demonstrate, convey, articulate, display, mean. ANTONYMS: (v) patience: (n) endurance, fortitude, suppress, hide, retain; (adj) vague, longanimity, equanimity, tolerance,
resignation, restraint, composure, sufferance; (n, v) moderation, calmness. ANTONYMS: (n) impatience, eagerness, intolerance, annoyance. strife: (n) discord, disagreement, dissension, conflict, competition, feud, fight; (adj, n, v) dispute, debate; (n, v) controversy; (adj, n) quarrel. ANTONYMS: (n) accord, cooperation, calm, peace.
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GLOSSARY abandoned: (adj) immoral, profligate, deserted, stranded, empty, shameless, wicked, lonely, depraved, corrupt, licentious. ANTONYMS: (adj) inhabited, orderly, overcrowded, used, pure, virtuous, upright, seemly, reserved, principled, moral abhorred: (adj) disgusted, unpopular ability: (n) hand, power, faculty, dexterity, aptitude, capacity, expertise, flair, genius; (adj, n) cleverness; (adj, n, v) talent. ANTONYMS: (n) inability, injury, incompetence, ineptitude, paralysis, limitation, weakness, stupidity, ineptness, ignorance, impotence able: (adj) dexterous, competent, clever, ingenious, accomplished, gifted, effective, fit, expert; (adj, n) talented, efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj) incapable, incompetent, weak, untrained, inept, delicate, feeble, infirm, clumsy, ineffective, ineffectual above: (adv, prep) beyond, aloft, on, in excess of; (adv) up, supra, on top; (adj) preceding, former; (adj, prep) past; (prep) surpassing. ANTONYMS: (prep) beneath, under, deficient, underneath; (adj) inferior, following absent: (adj) wanting, inattentive, not present, preoccupied, lost, missing, faraway, nonexistent, absentminded, out; (adj, adv) off. ANTONYMS: (adj) alert, attendant, attending, existing, here, real, attentive; (adv) in, visible abstract: (adj) theoretical; (n) abridgement, epitome, summary, abridgment, precis; (v) abridge, filch, purloin; (n, v) digest, extract. ANTONYMS: (adj) concrete, real, literal, material, physical, specific, objective; (v) expand, lengthen, strengthen, insert
abundance: (adj) plenty; (n) plenitude, store, richness, profusion, amplitude, exuberance, affluence, treasure, enough; (adj, n) riches. ANTONYMS: (n) scarcity, shortage, insufficiency, lack, aridity, scarceness, paucity, emptiness, fruitlessness, bareness abuse: (n, v) affront, insult, outrage, reproach, harm, wrong; (v) mistreat, injure, violate; (adj, v) maltreat, profane. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect; (v) compliment, protect, nurture, laud, honor, help, flatter; (n) compliments, kindness, flattery accessary: (n) accessory, abettor, abetter, accomplice, crook, felon, outlaw, malefactor, criminal, confederate, supplement accomplished: (adj) proficient, able, skillful, gifted, finished, experienced, completed, adept, fine, versed, competent. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfinished, amateur, untrained, unskilled, unseasoned, unable, inexpert, green, clumsy, bad, mediocre accordingly: (adv) therefore, thus, so, then, ergo, as a result, correspondingly, according, appropriately, as a consequence, properly. ANTONYM: (adv) unsuitable accuse: (v) charge, incriminate, arraign, denounce, defame, criminate, indict, fault, betray, condemn, inculpate. ANTONYMS: (v) absolve, exculpate, exonerate, praise, support, clear acknowledge: (v) recognize, confess, accept, profess, own, admit, concede, appreciate, notice, declare, approve. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, overlook, reject, repudiate, snub, refuse, renounce, abjure, disavow, disregard, refute acquaint: (v) inform, familiarize, tell,
advise, present, introduce, warn, bring out, report, accustom, communicate. ANTONYMS: (v) hide, mislead, misrepresent, withhold, falsify, conceal acquaintance: (n) connection, friend, acquaintanceship, mate, awareness, associate, buddy, friendship, intercourse, companion; (n, v) knowledge. ANTONYMS: (n) ignorance, inexperience, unfamiliarity, animosity, enemy acquainted: (adj) knowledgeable, informed, aware, cognizant, conversant, hand and glove, intimate, thick; (adv) abreast; (v) inform, acquaint acquired: (adj) acquisitive, acquisite, extrinsic, noninheritable, derivative action: (n, v) achievement, deed; (n) battle, play, performance, movement, accomplishment, agency, activity, fight, effect. ANTONYMS: (n) inaction, inactivity, inactiveness, ambush, stillness actor: (n, v) doer, performer; (n) player, agent, thespian, comedian, entertainer, mimic, histrion, artiste, impersonator. ANTONYMS: (n) fan, spectator acts: (n) Acts of the Apostles, revelations, Epistles, apocalypse, act, advanced communications technology satellite, evangelists, gospels acutely: (adv) sharply, keenly, severely, astutely, piercingly, shrilly, cleverly; (adj, adv) intensely, extremely, gravely, critically. ANTONYMS: (adv) chronically, mildly, slightly, faintly, vaguely, unexceptionally addition: (n) accession, accessory, increase, extension, addendum, accretion, attachment, appendage, annex, extra; (n, prep) accumulation.
142 ANTONYMS: (n) removal, estimation, deduction, exclusion, decline, erosion, loss, setback additions: (n) accompaniments, accessions, embellishments, trappings address: (n, v) lecture, accost, discourse; (n) abode, residence, speech, skill, allocution, sermon; (v) greet, speak. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, avoid, evade, overlook, pass, shun, slight, cut, disregard; (n) tactlessness adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale, valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio, adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYM: (n) greeting admirable: (adj) fine, outstanding, beautiful, great, commendable, lovely, good, creditable, praiseworthy, worthy, grand. ANTONYMS: (adj) appalling, poor, unworthy, despicable, contemptible, detestable, dishonorable, rotten, unimpressive, loathsome, low admiration: (n) esteem, adoration, appreciation, reverence, estimation, amazement, liking, awe, compliment; (adj, n) regard; (v) laud. ANTONYMS: (n) disdain, criticism, disapproval, contempt, abhorrence, loathing, disgust, despising, dishonor, disparagement, detestation admiringly: (adv) admire, lovingly, respectfully, reverently, approvingly, enthusiastically, affectionately, indulgently, kindly, dotingly, tenderly. ANTONYMS: (adv) disrespectfully, ill admitted: (v) admitting, understood, of course; (adj) acknowledged, undisputed, known, orthodox advanced: (adj) progressive, senior, higher, precocious, modern, new, late, superior, ripe, cultured, developed. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, fundamental, slow, traditional, simple, obsolete, neurotic, behind, after, backwards, incomplete advantage: (n) privilege, behalf, profit, good, preponderance, account, lead, virtue, expediency, perk; (n, v) boot. ANTONYMS: (n, v) disadvantage; (n) drawback, difficulty, detriment, hindrance, minus, restriction, obstacle, loss, inferiority, inconvenience adverse: (adj) unfavorable, contrary, untoward, hostile, harmful, adversary, repugnant, counter,
All's Well That Ends Well pernicious, noisome; (adj, n) opposite. ANTONYMS: (adj) helpful, fortunate, aiding, beneficial, positive, advantageous, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, harmless advertisement: (n) declaration, advert, bill, circular, proclamation, notice, advertising, ad, publication, placard, propaganda advice: (n) warning, counsel, caution, report, exhortation, council, tidings, counselling, notice, intelligence, instruction. ANTONYMS: (n) misrepresentation, deceit, deception, lie, falsehood, betrayal, warning advise: (v) recommend, propose, warn, inform, acquaint, suggest, notify, announce, tell, offer, forewarn. ANTONYMS: (v) betray, deceive, delude, fool, trick afar: (adv) off, away, far away, distantly, beyond, Afar off, in the distance, by far, apart; (adj) outlying, far. ANTONYMS: (adv) close, nearby, near; (prep) within afeard: (adj) afraid affairs: (n) dealings, concern, circumstances, transaction, occupation, duty, matters, matter, personal business, gear, finances affect: (v) move, impress, pretend, act, strike, fake, feign, stir, dispose; (n) sentiment; (n, v) regard affection: (n) charity, attachment, fondness, heart, love, disease, nature, feeling, affectionateness, tenderness, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) disgust, neglect, malice, loathing, dislike, detachment, coldness, roughness afford: (v) offer, yield, provide, give, supply, get, furnish, impart, deliver, originate, sustain. ANTONYM: (v) withhold afraid: (adj) fearful, timid, shy, apprehensive, anxious, worried, scared, frightened, nervous, terrified; (adj, adv) cowardly. ANTONYMS: (adj) brave, venturesome, calm, confident, cool, courageous, eager, unafraid, valiant, bold, carefree afterward: (adv, conj) then, after that; (adv) thereafter, afterwards, later, subsequently, later on, next, soon; (adj) following; (n) future. ANTONYMS: (adv) now, previously, before 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: (prep) for; (adj) eager aged: (adj) senile, elderly, older, hoary, ripe, venerable, ancient, senior, decrepit, antique, antiquated. ANTONYMS: (adj) youthful, new, fresh, green, unripe, unseasoned, smooth alarum: (n) alarm, alert, bell, alarm bell, alarm-bell, alerts, beat of drum, cry, sound of trumpet, signaling, signal of distress alias: (n) pseudonym, pen name, nom de plume, name, assumed name, nickname, stage name, soubriquet, title, nom de Guerre; (adv) also called alive: (adj) live, vivacious, living, sensible, delicate, snappy, animated, lively, spry, responsive; (n) life. ANTONYMS: (adj) deceased, inanimate, unanimated, dispirited, dull, inactive, lethargic, lifeless, listless, nonfunctioning, sluggish allow: (adj, v) admit, accord; (v) agree, permit, grant, accede, acquiesce, afford, authorize, bear; (n, v) give. ANTONYMS: (v) prohibit, deny, reject, refuse, keep, prevent, disallow, disapprove, withstand, hold, outlaw allurement: (n) temptation, attraction, enticement, lure, decoy, invitation, solicitation, agacerie, bribe, wile, glamour almost: (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv) nearly, all but, near, nigh; (adv, prep) just about, approximately; (adv) just, mostly, virtually, most. ANTONYMS: (adv) surely, exactly, definitely, certainly alone: (adj) forlorn, individual, lonely, lonesome; (adj, adv) only, apart; (adv) solely, entirely, exclusively, separately, individually. ANTONYMS: (adj) overshadowed, ordinary, mobbed, equaled, 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) across, separate, apart, far aloud: (adv) loud, out loud, strong, out, audibly, hard, forte. ANTONYMS: (adv) softly, inaudibly, quietly
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cool ample: (adj) abundant, big, broad, copious, large, plentiful, heavy, liberal, roomy, affluent, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) small, meager, insufficient, scarce, sparse, scant, cramped, narrow, partial, sketchy, slender ancestors: (n) family, ancestor, lineage, pedigree, parents, majority, intimates, genealogy, family tree, associates, relatives ancient: (adj) old, obsolete, antiquated, former, past, archaic, antique, primitive, bygone, hoary; (adj, n) elder. ANTONYMS: (adj) contemporary, young, recent, fresh, new, present, youthful, current anew: (adv) again, newly, lately, recently, over again, once more, once again, new; (adj) only yesterday, the other day, just now angel: (n, v) sponsor, support; (n) backer, cherub, messenger, patron, benefactor, saint; (adj) Dulcinea, goddess; (adj, n) darling. ANTONYMS: (n) fiend, devil, jerk, demon anger: (n) fury, rage, displeasure, resentment, indignation; (v) incense, offend, irritate, exasperate; (adj) angry; (n, v) wrath. ANTONYMS: (v) placate, pacify, tickle; (n) pleasure, composure, glee, affection, serenity, goodwill, forbearance; (n, v) calm angle: (n, v) hook, incline, tilt; (v) lean; (n) view, viewpoint, aspect, position, point of view, pitch, perspective 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, pron) same answer: (n, v) respond, retort; (v) counter, serve, resolve, acknowledge, correspond; (n) solution, defence, return, reaction. ANTONYMS: (n, v) question; (v) ask, differ, fail, ignore; (n) request, problem, invitation, poison antiquity: (n) ancientness, ancientry, past, relic, status quo, artefact, artifact, oldness, old age, hoariness; (adj, n) age. ANTONYMS: (n) today, newness, modernity anything: (adv) any, somewhat; (n) thing, aught, everything, something,
143 any part; (adj) whatsoever; (pron) suchlike anywhere: (adv, n) anyplace; (adv) someplace, wherever, everywhere apace: (adj, adv) speedily, quickly; (adv) fast, rapidly, hastily, soon, promptly; (adj) forthwith, immediately, incontinently, shortly. ANTONYM: (adv) slowly apiece: (adj, adv) each; (adj) one by one; (pron) all, both, each one; (adv) individually, singly, for each, for each one, from each one, to each one. ANTONYM: (adv) together apology: (n, v) excuse; (n) amends, regret, defense, justification, reason, explanation, vindication, alibi, acknowledgment; (v) apologize. ANTONYMS: (n) blame, reprehension, accusation, shamelessness, epitome apparel: (n, v) garb, attire, garment, array, vesture; (n) clothing, finery, costume, clothes; (v) adorn, clothe appear: (v) occur, seem, sound, come out, turn up, show, emerge, break, arrive, feel, arise. ANTONYMS: (v) vanish, hide, stop, sink, recede, go, depart appointments: (n) installation, schedule, upholstery, fixture, furnishings, furniture, movements, possession, actions, arrangements, activities appoints: (v) appoint apprehensive: (adj) anxious, fearful, uneasy, alarmed, worried, timid, doubtful, shy, insecure, jealous; (adj, n) nervous. ANTONYMS: (adj) assured, unworried, calm, unafraid, cocksure, trusting, serene, unconcerned, fearless, carefree, brave approach: (n) access, entry, means, advent, coming, entrance, arrival; (n, v) advance; (v) accost, address; (adv, v) near. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, withdrawal, leaving, distancing; (v) end, withdraw, finish, distance, depart, conclude, close arched: (adj, v) bowed, arcuate; (adj) bent, vaulted, convex, arciform, arced, domed, hooked, hunched, crooked argument: (n) proof, debate, matter, controversy, hassle, independent variable, contention, difference, justification, discussion, fight. ANTONYMS: (n) harmony, concord, accord, consensus, accusation, defense arming: (n) arms, militarisation,
144 mobilization, militarization, mobilisation, armed, outfitting, equipping arms: (n) armament, coat of arms, weaponry, ammunition, shield, ordnance, order, munition, hardware, blazon; (adj) armed army: (n) troop, host, armed forces, battery, swarm, navy, multitude, force, flock; (adj, n) military; (adj) array ascribe: (v) assign, impute, accredit, arrogate, attach, lay, refer, anthropomorphize, blame, lay claim, claim assault: (n, v) storm, violence, raid, charge, onset, rape, thrust; (v) assail; (n) aggression, rush, offensive. ANTONYMS: (v) defend, protect, resist; (n) defense assay: (v) test, attempt, seek, essay, survey, assess, appraise, endeavor; (n) examination; (n, v) experiment, estimate. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, overlook assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch; (v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, affirm, promise, ascertain; (adj, v) ensure. ANTONYMS: (v) alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve, undermine assured: (adj, v) certain, sure; (adj) confident, guaranteed, positive, definite, assertive, confirmed, convinced, reliable, safe. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncertain, doubtful, unsure, troubled, timid, questionable, hesitant, confused, halting, unlikely astonish: (adj, v) astound; (adj, n, v) surprise; (adj) astonishing, surprised; (v) flabbergast, daze, confound, dazzle, stun, alarm, nonplus. ANTONYMS: (v) expect, bore attain: (v) make, reach, achieve, acquire, gain, strike, catch, arrive at, find, obtain, come to. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, fail, abandon, surrender, differ attempt: (n, v) endeavor, offer, struggle, assay, essay, attack; (n) effort, trial; (v) undertake, chance, aim. ANTONYMS: (n) success, fulfillment, achievement, accomplishment; (v) succeed, fulfill, achieve, accomplish, perform attempts: (adj) trying attend: (n, v) tend, escort, nurse, conduct; (v) assist, serve, minister, aid, look, partake, follow. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave,
All's Well That Ends Well ignore, disregard, desert, abandon attendant: (n) companion, follower, assistant, escort, subordinate, employee, guide, varlet; (adj) accompanying, concomitant, incidental. ANTONYMS: (n) superior, boss; (adj) absent, unrelated, significant attendants: (n) entourage, followers, retinue, tendance, persons present, suite attended: (adj) attent, fraught, tended to attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, nursing, care, appearing, observation; (adj) concomitant, attendant, ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, inattention attorney: (n) advocate, counsel, counselor, agent, legal representative, barrister, counsellor, solicitor, factor, prosecutor, ambulance chaser attributed: (adj) credited. ANTONYM: (adj) unofficial aught: (n) nil, zero, anything, ought, cypher, nix, cipher, naught, null, zip; (adj) any auspicious: (adj) lucky, favorable, propitious, happy, prosperous, providential, successful, opportune; (adj, n) fortunate, helpful; (adj, v) auspicial. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfortunate, inopportune, unfavorable, untimely, ominous, unlucky, insignificant austere: (adj) ascetic, stern, severe, harsh, plain, rigorous, rigid, abstemious, stark, astringent, stiff. ANTONYMS: (adj) ornate, luxurious, frivolous, hedonistic, extravagant, lush, elaborate, spending, sunny, warm, indulgent authentic: (adj) genuine, actual, straight, right, real, accurate, valid, believable, bona fide, true; (adj, v) authoritative. ANTONYMS: (adj) bogus, fake, unrealistic, false, spurious, phony, counterfeit, dishonest, unauthorized, unbelievable, imitation authority: (n) ascendancy, sanction, warrant, administration, authorization, professional, judge, hold, domination, dominance; (adj, n) rule. ANTONYMS: (n) novice, neophyte, weakness, apprentice, servility, servitude, refusal, powerlessness, insecurity, inferiority, indecisiveness avails: (n) Vail
away: (adj, adv) abroad, absent; (adj, adv, int) out; (adj) distant; (adv) aside, aloof, afar, way, by, forth; (adv, int) off. ANTONYMS: (adj) adjacent, neighboring, nearby, near, close; (adv) intermittently, haltingly, discontinuously, in awhile: (adj) in transitu, en passant; (adv) briefly babes: (n) babies, babe backward: (adj, adv) late, behindhand; (adj) tardy, retarded, reluctant, coy, slow, laggard, dilatory; (adv) behind, backwardly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) ahead; (adv) onward; (adj) quick, developing, advanced, confident, brilliant, bold bade: (v) bid, command, bad bail: (n) pledge, surety, security, handle, guarantee, bond, ballium, assurance, undertaking; (v) deliver, consign balance: (n, v) counterbalance, adjust, poise, settle; (v) offset, compensate, contrast; (n) symmetry, Libra, remainder, excess. ANTONYMS: (v) unbalance, neglect, surmise, suppose, guess; (n) asymmetry, inequality, instability, irrationality, nervousness, bias ballad: (n) song, folk song, carol, poem, ballade, recitative, solfeggio, pastoral, recitativo, ditty, bravura balls: (n) guts, family jewels, intestinal fortitude, nerve, spirit, tenacity, valor, audacity, prowess band: (n) cluster, set, party, swathe, lace, knot, collar, circle, strip, zone, company. ANTONYMS: (v) disperse, divide, scatter, disband bare: (adj) naked, austere, bald, stark, bleak, exposed, desolate, plain; (adj, v) empty, vacant; (v) show. ANTONYMS: (adj) cultivated, ornate, concealed, elaborate, adorned, decorated, dressed, clothed, embellished; (v) cover, conceal barefoot: (adj) shoeless, unshod, bare footed. ANTONYM: (adj) shoed barely: (adv) merely, just, nakedly, scantily, simply, nudely, baldly, purely, narrowly; (adj, adv) scarcely, only. ANTONYMS: (adj) enough, amply, sufficiently, abundantly; (adv) much, thoroughly, well, easily, obviously, clearly, strongly bareness: (n) nakedness, nudity, austerity, starkness, emptiness, nudeness, bleakness, baldness, blankness, barrenness, plainness.
William Shakespeare ANTONYMS: (n) lushness, clothed, cheerfulness, warmth baring: (n) uncovering, denudation, disforestation, exposure, husking barricado: (v) block, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude, bar base: (adj) abject, mean, dishonorable, low, vile, ignoble, bad, contemptible; (n) foundation; (n, v) ground; (v) found. ANTONYMS: (n) top, summit, frill, ceiling, apex; (adj) noble, honest, good, principled, grand, pleasant bate: (v) abate, curtail, discount, deduct, dequantitate, douse, contain, drench, detract; (n) battue, bath bated: (adj) weak, faint, decreased battle: (n, v) fight, struggle, combat, contest, war, conflict, clash, brawl; (v) wrestle; (n) fighting, warfare. ANTONYMS: (n) peace, agreement, truce, concord, armistice, accord, surrender bauble: (adj) gimcrack; (n) trinket, ornament, trifle, bagatelle, gaud, bangle, novelty; (adj, n) toy, gewgaw, plaything beam: (n) ray, timber, balance beam; (n, v) blaze, glow, flash, smile; (adj, v) shine; (v) grin, air, radiate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scowl; (v) darken, dim, dull, frown; (n) darkness bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit, abide, allow, wear, comport, tolerate, convey, teem. 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. ANTONYM: (n) shaven beat: (n, v) pulse, throb, tick, flap, knock; (v) batter, whip, trounce, pulsate, bat; (n) round. ANTONYMS: (v) protect, help, divide, cede, aid, separate, surrender; (adj) invigorated, energized; (n) caress, pat beaten: (adj) overpowered, routed, conquered, overcome, prostrate, frothy, trounced, worsted; (v) beat, lose, fail. ANTONYMS: (adj) heartened, uplifted, triumphant, encouraged, loose beauty: (n) attractiveness, beaut, charm, pulchritude, loveliness, exquisiteness, grace, grandeur, looker, good looks; (adj) beautiful.
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: (v) halt, stay, lower, stop, reduce, clash becomes: (v) become bedclothes: (n) bedspread, cover, linen, bed linen, bed clothing, litter, clothes, throw, spread, quilt, puff bedded: (adj) lay, laminal, laminar, layered, foliate, foliated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unstratified, bedless before: (adv) ahead, ago, in front, previously, already, forth; (adv, prep) fore, afore; (adj) preceding, prior; (adj, adv) earlier. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) later, behind, afterward, after; (adv) subsequently, ahead; (adj) subsequent beggar: (n) mendicant, mumper, pauper, tramp, sponger, joker, poor man, cadger, bloke; (v) beg, pauperize. ANTONYM: (n) giver begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate, become, enter, rise, originate, undertake, create, dawn, set out. ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease, terminate, die, delay, complete, conclude begotten: (adj) generated, biological, create beguile: (v) attract, charm, enchant, allure, captivate, bluff, entrap, enthrall, lure, fascinate; (n, v) cheat. ANTONYMS: (v) protect, irritate, irk, bore, advise, guard, annoy, repel behalf: (n) sake, part, interest, behoof, defense, lieu, good, stead, score, service, side behind: (adj, n) back, rear; (adj, adv) backward, late; (adv) backwards, later, aback, beyond; (n) backside, can; (prep) abaft. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) early; (adv) fore; (adj) prompt behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook belie: (v) falsify, contradict, negate, misrepresent, betray, calumniate, defame, dissemble, color, distort, garble. ANTONYMS: (v) indicate, verify, prove, affirm, attest, reveal believe: (n) belief, believing; (v)
145 assume, conceive, consider, reckon, guess, accredit, to believe, understand; (n, v) trust. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, doubt, question, suspect, reject, discredit, deny, despair believed: (adj) whispered, alleged, thought, held believing: (adj) faith, believe, faithful, basic cognitive process, gullible, Catholic, religious, loyal, certain, Christian, credent belike: (adv) probably, likely, presumably, perhaps, believably, in all probability below: (adv, prep) under, underneath; (adj) low; (adj, adv) after; (adv) down, infra, downstairs, at a lower place, downwards, down below; (prep) less than. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over; (prep) more; (adv) upstairs bend: (n, v) bow, turn, arch, arc, crook, twist, elbow; (adj, n, v) curve; (v) stoop, crouch; (adj, v) flex. ANTONYMS: (n, v) square; (v) align, unbend, leave beneath: (adv, prep) below, under; (adj) low, inferior; (adv) downward, infra, at a lower place; (prep) lower than, less than, unworthy of, unbefitting. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over; (adv) higher bent: (adj) curved, arched, deformed, crooked; (n) propensity, inclination, fancy, leaning, flair, gift, curvature. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, inability, aversion; (adj) undetermined, undecided, uncurved, uncaring, rigid, unbent bequeathed: (adj) hereditary beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, offer, grant, reject beside: (adv) on, abreast, aside, closely, nearly; (prep) about; (adv, prep) besides; (adj) adjacent; (n) while, at; (adj, prep) near besides: (adv) as well, moreover, too, furthermore, again, as well as, anyway, additionally; (prep) apart from, beside; (adj, adv) more besiege: (v) beset, beleaguer, surround, blockade, attack, compass, hem in, press, importune, assail, bombard. ANTONYMS: (v) help, please best: (adj, n) supreme, most, elite; (adj) superior, great, leading, choice, superlative; (v) beat, outdo; (adj, n, v) top. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) worst;
146 (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. ANTONYMS: (v) deprive, refuse, withhold, retrieve, withdraw betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell, grass, dupe, reveal, mislead, disclose, accuse, befool, bamboozle. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) worse; (adj, n) inferior; (v) worsen, deteriorate; (adj) lesser, lower, tinier, ill, unhealthy, smaller, sicker betwixt: (n) midst; (prep) among, amid; (adv) atwixt beware: (v) look out, caution, be careful, guard, pay attention, take care, watch out, mind, keep, care, careful. ANTONYMS: (v) risk, disregard, invite bidding: (n) behest, order, dictate, charge, bid, request, call, dictation, direction, fiat; (adj) imperative bind: (adj, v) attach, fix, fasten, affix; (n) band; (v) bandage, lace, fetter, bundle, truss, combine. ANTONYMS: (v) untie, unbind, free, unfasten, unravel, permit, loosen, loose, let; (n, v) release; (n) pleasure birth: (n) beginning, genesis, ancestry, descent, extraction, start, onset, parentage, origin; (v) delivery; (n, v) parturition. ANTONYMS: (n) death, bereavement, ending, finale, finish, passing, end, decease, conclusion, demise birthright: (n) patrimony, inheritance, heritage, claim, right of primogeniture, tradition, legacy, demand, due, entitlement, heirloom bitter: (adj, v) acrimonious, acrid; (adj) sharp, acid, malicious, caustic, virulent, sour, resentful, keen, acerbic. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, charitable, hot, sugary, kind, wonderful, warm, pleasant, nice, agreeable, gentle black: (adj) sable, dark, ebony, colored, bleak, dirty, evil, nigger, darkie, unclean; (adj, n) blackamoor. ANTONYMS: (v) whiten; (adj) spotless, snowy, saintly, pale,
All's Well That Ends Well optimistic, merry, light, angelic, ivory, bright blame: (v) arraign, chide; (n, v) reprimand, censure, attack, charge, reproach, rap, rebuke, fault; (n) onus. ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise; (v) absolve, exonerate, commend, clear, acquit; (n) vindication, exoneration, honor, absolution, glory blamed: (adj) goddamned, goddamn, damned, goddam, infernal, damnable, ageless, answerable, beatified, blessed, aeonian blaze: (n, v) flash, glare, flame, mark, scintillation; (n) fire, light, burning, inflammation, sheen; (adj, v) burn blazing: (adj) flaming, afire, burning, ardent, aflame, glaring, bright, blatant, alight, passionate; (n) blaze. ANTONYMS: (adj) freezing, quiet bleak: (adj) austere, bare, barren, cold, dreary, murky, black, desolate, raw, bald, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, lush, sunny, hopeful, encouraging, cheery, bright, sheltered, soulful, cozy, populated bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, condemn, disapprove, damn, disallow, deny blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed, sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted, fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, condemned, damned, disapproved, unhappy, unholy, secular blessing: (n) benediction, approval, mercy, felicity, benison, benefit, luck, advantage, boon, bless, godsend. ANTONYMS: (n) curse, misfortune, disaster, condemnation, adversity, desecration, refusal, veto, disadvantage blessings: (n) blessing, godsend blest: (adj) blessed, fortunate, beatified, blissful, blame, blasted, blamed, golden, glorious, favored blindfold: (adv) blindly; (v) mystify, hoodwink, muffle; (adj) reckless, blindfolded, blinded, unsighted; (n) blinder blinking: (adj) flickering, bally, blooming; (adj, n) winking; (n) shimmer, blink, wink, twinkling, nictation, blink of an eye, nictitation blood: (n) birth, gore, nature, origin, kindred, lineage, descent, family, beau, pedigree; (adj) juice bloody: (adj) brutal, bleeding, ruddy, bloodthirsty, sanguineous,
sanguine, savage, bloodstained, damned, raw; (adv) damn. ANTONYMS: (adj) easy, soft blow: (n) beat, knock, shock, wallop, gust, jolt; (adj, n, v) gasp, puff; (n, v) blast, slap; (v) squander. ANTONYMS: (n, v) calm; (v) save, conserve, store, stillness, inhale, come, arrive; (n) luck, comfort, caress blowing: (n) processing, insufflation, bravado; (v) fanning, blow out; (adj) windy, breezy blown: (adj) puffy, panting, swollen, winded, inflated, moving, high, haughty lofty, late; (v) puffing and blowing; (n) blowen blush: (n, v) glow, color; (v) redden, crimson; (n) red, bloom, rosiness, ruddiness, redness; (adj) bashful; (adv) blushingly. ANTONYMS: (v) blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness body: (n) cadaver, corpse, organization, cluster, set, carcass, figure, consistency, aggregate, association; (adj, n) mass. ANTONYMS: (n) handful, mind, minority, soul, few boggle: (adj) blunder, hesitate, trip, hum and haw, dacker; (n) flounder, struggle; (v) flabbergast, botch, shrink, scruple bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious, manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless, spirited, heroic, daring, courageous, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) timid, modest, afraid, meek, shy, light, courteous, discreet, faint, fearful, abashed boldness: (n) prowess, face, daring, valor, nerve, assurance, heroism, audaciousness, spirit, cheek, valour. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, shyness, timidity, meekness, reticence bondage: (n) thrall, thraldom, thralldom, slavery, captivity, enslavement, duress, restraint, yoke, vassalage; (adj, n) villenage. ANTONYMS: (n) independence, emancipation, freedom bones: (n) bone, frame, corpse, dry bones, framework, maraca, physician, finger cymbals, tymbal, wreck, timbrel boot: (n, v) kick; (n) boots, Wellingtons, bang, gain, jackboot, buskin, kicking, charge, shoe, bootikin boots: (n) Bootes, bell boy, bootblack, counterjumper, boy, shoeblack, footwear
William Shakespeare born: (adj) native, natural, congenital, inbred, inborn, innate, inherent, untutored; (v) be born, to be born, arise. ANTONYMS: (adj) learned, unborn, acquired, trained borrowing: (n) lending, loan, lend, pledging, borrow, business borrowing, misappropriation, pawn, installment plan, acceptance, appropriation bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; (v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority bottom: (n) basis, backside, bed, behind, foot, footing, back, foundation, posterior, floor; (n, v) ground. ANTONYMS: (n) pinnacle, summit, peak, roof, apex, ceiling, middle; (adj) highest bought: (n) crook, hook bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border, bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n) boundary, barrier, compass. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, amble, crawl, limp, permit; (adj) permitted, released, unbound, allowed, unlikely bountiful: (adj) ample, abundant, plentiful, generous, liberal, profuse, fruitful, luxuriant, lush, rich, openhanded. ANTONYMS: (adj) sparse, miserly, wanting, spare, scarce, scanty, scant, lean, lacking, insufficient, barren bounty: (adj, n) largesse; (n) abundance, bounteousness, premium, blessing, prize, munificence, beneficence, generosity; (v) benefaction; (n, v) gift. ANTONYMS: (n) miserliness, fine, insufficiency, penalty, meanness braggart: (n) boaster, braggadocio, blowhard, bragger, vaunter, egoist; (v) magniloquent, Thrasonic; (adj) boastful, vainglorious, braggy brains: (n) cleverness, intellect, intelligence, sense, mind, wisdom, pate, wit, wits, reason; (adj, n) head. ANTONYM: (n) stupidity branch: (n, v) fork; (n) wing, jump, affiliate, ramus, member, stem, limb, agency, stick, subdivision. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) cowardly, frightened, pathetic,
gutless, afraid, cautious, fainthearted, meek, mousy, nervous; (v) skip bravely: (adv) courageously, fearlessly, valiantly, boldly, intrepidly, dauntlessly, gallantly, audaciously, undauntedly, heroically, doughtily. ANTONYMS: (adv) timidly, fearfully, execrably, nervously braving: (n) try, effort, endeavour, facing, attempt, confronting, coping with, grappling, face, tackling breach: (n, v) break, rupture, fissure, split; (n) rift, opening, trespass, crack, infringement; (v) contravene, violate. ANTONYMS: (n) bridge, connection, upholding, adherence, accord, mend; (v) obey, observe, seal, uphold, honor breadth: (n) width, spread, amplitude, wideness, size, length, latitude, extent, area, broadness, stretch. ANTONYMS: (n) length, longitude, emptiness, thinness break: (n, v) crack, fracture, breach, burst, rupture, stop, pause; (n) interruption, respite, suspension; (v) infringe. 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 breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration, puff, soul, aspiration, respite, airflow; (v) breathe, respire; (adj, n) whisper breathe: (n, v) respire, subsist, imply; (n) breath, bespeak; (adj, n, v) live; (v) exhale, exist, emit, rest, be. ANTONYMS: (v) suffocate, hide, choke, asphyxiate, drain, die, inhale breathing: (adj) animate, live, living, respiratory, alive, above ground; (v) breathe, respire; (n) respiration, instant, moment. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, breathless, dead breed: (n) variety, race, kind, ancestry, sort, order, species; (v) engender, multiply, beget, bear. ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, eradicate, ignore, kill, neglect, quell breeding: (n) education, upbringing, nurture, manners, reproduction, generation, propagation, culture, fostering, cultivation, multiplication. ANTONYMS: (n) unsophistication, vulgarity
147 brief: (adj) concise, transient, little, abridge, short-lived, abrupt; (adj, n) abstract, summary; (n) epitome, report; (v) notify. ANTONYMS: (adj) permanent, lengthy, rambling, wordy, prolonged, extended, lasting, civil; (adv) civilly; (v) secrete, hide bright: (adj) alive, vivid, intelligent, apt, shining, brilliant, lustrous, luminous, light, beaming, shiny. ANTONYMS: (adj) cloudy, stupid, gloomy, dim, unintelligent, dreary, dark, overcast, shadowy, thick, leaden brim: (n) rim, periphery, verge, edge, lip, hem, rand, margin, perimeter, brink, limit brine: (n) deep, sea, ocean, salt water, saltwater, seawater, non freeze liquid, watery waste, solution; (adj, v) pickle; (v) souse bring: (v) convey, get, take, bear, carry, put, conduct, return, reduce, set, bring in. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, free, leave, lose, remove, avoid broad: (adj) wide, sweeping, comprehensive, vast, general, extensive, large, ample, free, big; (n) female. ANTONYMS: (adj) specific, thin, restricted, polite, minor, limited, exclusive, dogmatic, decent, cultured, confined broke: (adj) bankrupt, poor, insolvent, impecunious, penniless, impoverished, skint, bust, destitute, strapped, ruined. ANTONYMS: (adj) solvent, wealthy, affluent broken: (adj) torn, tame, damaged, intermittent, uneven, imperfect, rugged, rough, out of order; (adj, v) busted, ruined. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbroken, intact, wild, whole, working, uplifted, uninterrupted, triumphant, running, indomitable, incessant brooch: (n) broach, jewelry; (n, v) clasp; (v) fasten brother: (n) fellow, blood brother, associate, counterpart, crony, comrade, buddy, peer, chum, sidekick, monk. ANTONYMS: (n) enemy, opposer, opponent brows: (n) brow bubble: (v) babble, foam, froth, burble, effervesce, seethe, gurgle, fizz; (n) blister, bladder, vesicle build: (n, v) make, shape; (v) erect, establish, raise, rise, found, base, fabricate, fashion; (n) frame. ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, dismantle, raze, overturn, obliterate,
148 decrease, decelerate, ruin, disassemble bunting: (n) banner, buntlin, cloth, fabric, material, textile, buntine, standard, ensign, flag, finch burden: (n, v) bother, weight, pack, burthen, trouble, clog, strain; (n) anxiety, bale, responsibility; (v) afflict. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, overt burns: (n) George Burns, Nathan Birnbaum, Robert Burns burst: (adj, n, v) crack; (adj, v) split, blow up, explode, splinter, detonate; (n, v) rupture, blast; (adj, n) flash; (v) break out, belch. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, join, connect, fasten, trickle bury: (v) inter, overwhelm, lay to rest, hide, mask, secrete, conceal, cloak, entomb, suppress; (n) burial. ANTONYMS: (v) exhume, unearth, uncover, dig, disclose, distract, expose, ignore, reveal, air, remember business: (n) subject, matter, event, vocation, job, profession, affair, work, corporation, occupation; (adj, n) trade. ANTONYMS: (adj) charitable, private; (n) pleasure, avocation, fun, entertainment, hobby buttock: (n) posterior, seat, croup, tail, rump, bottom, breech, posteriors, dorsum, loin, backside caesar: (n) dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar, king caitiff: (n) coward, villain, scoundrel, miscreant, dastard, ruffian, rascal, budmash, brute, barbarian; (adv) cowardly calendar: (n) agenda, the calendar, schedule, diary, journal, timetable, program, Calendar year, system, organization; (n, v) list call: (n, v) appeal, shout, bellow, name, yell, howl, request, appoint; (v) bid, summon; (n) call option. ANTONYMS: (v) whisper, mutter, cancel, listen, stop, suppose, murmur; (n) dismissal, give, grant, silence called: (adj) named, titled, chosen, known as; (v) nempt, ycleped calls: (n) securities, puts, bonds, preferred stock, common stock
All's Well That Ends Well calumnious: (adj) libelous, slanderous, calumniatory, libellous, scandalous, abusive, denigrative, denigratory, derogatory, detractory, harmful came: (v) arrive, come camp: (n) faction, encampment, base, barracks, cantonment, laager, side; (v) pitch, tent, camp out; (adj) campy camping: (n) bivouac, camp, encampment, bivouacking, inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation, campsite, camping site, tenting, campground capable: (adj) competent, adequate, apt, adept, accomplished, fit, gifted, qualified, proficient, trained; (adj, n) efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj) incapable, inept, unable, helpless, lacking, bad, unimaginative, unqualified, untrained captain: (n) head, master, leader, guide, commodore, commander, boss, skipper, chieftain; (v) govern, manage. ANTONYM: (n) minion captious: (adj, n, v) critical; (adj) peevish, cantankerous, irritable, hypercritical, faultfinding, fastidious, fretful, querulous, caviling; (adj, n) exacting. ANTONYMS: (adj) praising, commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering capulet: (n) capellet care: (adj, n, v) anxiety; (n, v) attention, charge, worry; (n) caution, bother, concern, apprehension, aid, custody; (v) attend. ANTONYMS: (n) carelessness, recklessness, 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, prudent, meticulous, thoughtful, diligent, attentive, thorough, wary, guarded, methodical, strict cargo: (n) burden, freight, wares, goods, merchandise, payload, shipment, weight, lading, haul; (adj, n) load carp: (v) complain, criticize, quibble, grumble, gripe, object, whine, knock, cavil, censure, moan. ANTONYMS: (v) compliment, please, assuage, accept, rejoice carried: (adj) conveyed, imported
carry: (v) convey, bring, take, conduct, acquit, behave, accept, transport, comport, hold, pack. ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, lose, censor, fail, hold, conceal case: (n) example, box, bin, cover, jacket, shell, bag, affair, briefcase, business; (adj, n) eccentric casement: (n) embrasure, casement cloth catalogue: (n, v) list, schedule, register; (n) bill, roll, inventory, prospectus, table, menu; (v) sort, range catastrophe: (n) disaster, adversity, tragedy, cataclysm, misfortune, bale, denouement, misery, misadventure, woe, finale. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, miracle, wonder, success caught: (adj) fixed, guilty, accomplished, wedged, trapped, interested, exposed, defenseless, culpable; (v) seize, get. ANTONYM: (adj) loose cause: (n) case, action, account; (n, v) occasion, allow; (v) breed, do, induce, beget, motivate, provoke. ANTONYMS: (n) effect, result, outcome; (v) foil, deter, forestall, prevent, stop, halt, quell, retard causeless: (adj) adventitious, accidental, groundless, uncaused, reasonless, casual, aimless, fortuitous, gratuitous, indeterminate, undetermined caution: (n) advice, carefulness, warning, wariness, precaution, vigilance, prudence, admonition, commandment; (v) warn, advise. ANTONYMS: (n) carelessness, rashness, incaution, honesty, foolishness, encouragement, irresponsibility, openness, approval; (v) dare, approve cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit, terminate, break, break off, close, conclude, discontinue, abstain. ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start, commence, persist, stay ceremony: (n) courtesy, celebration, ceremonial, parade, pomp, rite, ceremonies, manners, custom, ritual, pageant. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, understatement certain: (adj) definite, sure, assured, absolute, reliable, indisputable, dependable, unquestionable, undeniable, unavoidable, unequivocal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsure, doubtful, questionable, hesitant, debatable, erratic, faulty, indistinct, vague, doubting,
William Shakespeare undecided certainty: (n) assurance, sureness, certain, trust, confidence, fact, reliability, surety, security, reality, certitude. ANTONYMS: (n) doubt, unpredictability, indecisiveness, skepticism, unknown, idealism, vagueness, fantasy, feeling, hesitation, insecurity chair: (n, v) chairman; (n) bench, president, chairperson, throne, couch, armchair, electric chair, chairwoman; (v) moderate, lead chamber: (n) hall, bedchamber, cavity, cell, council, compartment, assembly, apartment, ventricle, dormitory, cubicle champion: (n) partisan, backer, hero, fighter, champ, warrior, victor, defender; (adj, n) ace; (n, v) support; (v) defend. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, counter; (n) loser, detractor, attacker, opponent; (adj) worst, poorest, lousy change: (n, v) shift, barter, twist, cash; (v) alter, alternate, adapt, convert; (n) alteration, modification, variation. ANTONYMS: (v) leave, maintain, idle, hold, establish, standardize; (n) stability, bills, constancy, preservation, uniformity changed: (adj) transformed, varied, switched, change, transform, converted, distorted, affected, changeling, disguised, inverse. ANTONYM: (adj) unchanged charbon: (n) anthrax pneumonia, bacillus anthracis charge: (n, v) blame, care, burden, commission, command, attack, bill, load, tax; (n) accusation; (v) bid. ANTONYMS: (v) request, discharge, plead, beg, compensate, aid, credit, calm; (n, v) retreat, absolve, unload charges: (n) expenditure, dues charitable: (adj) kind, clement, gentle, benevolent, liberal, bountiful, philanthropic, generous, humane, kindly, lenient. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncharitable, mean, nasty, tightfisted, inhumane, selfish, miserly, hard, cruel, commercial, cheap charter: (n, v) permit, let; (v) rent, lease, take, engage, get; (n) authority, license, law, code. ANTONYMS: (v) cancel, buy, purchase chase: (v) pursue, trail, follow, track, stalk, expel, banish, go after; (n, v) hunt, search; (n) game. ANTONYMS: (v) escape, lead, find,
precede chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, severe, continent, spotless, decent. ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, dirty, defiled, impure, tainted chastely: (adv) continently, innocently, immaculately, purely, morally, decently, modestly, simplely, cleanly, refinedly, spotlessly check: (n, v) control, bridle, arrest, curb, stop, limit, block, halt, bar; (v) agree, restrain. 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. ANTONYMS: (n) respect, cowardice, timidity, humbleness, meekness, reticence, seriousness; (v) praise cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet cherished: (adj) dear, precious, loved, treasured, prized, intimate, wanted, valued, pet, valuable, close. ANTONYMS: (adj) unremarkable, hated, distant chide: (n, v) censure, reprimand, blame; (v) rebuke, admonish, chasten, lecture, scold, reproach, chastise, reprove. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, laud, commend, compliment, approve chief: (adj, n) principal, head, cardinal, capital, arch, essential, paramount; (n) administrator, boss, executive, leader. ANTONYMS: (adj) associate, secondary, junior, smallest, inessential, unimportant, least, trivial; (n) subordinate, underling, inferior chiefly: (adv) principally, primarily, above all, especially, headly, mostly, largely, primely, predominantly; (adj, adv) mainly, particularly. ANTONYM: (adv) partially child: (n) baby, babe, bairn, infant, kid, toddler, tot, girl, brat, juvenile, minor. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, parent children: (n) child, offspring, descendant, family, seed, boy, babies, descendants, birth, relatives, people chill: (adj, v) cool; (adj, n) cold; (adj) bleak, icy, chilly, frosty, depressing;
149 (v) freeze, dispirit, damp; (n) coolness. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) warm; (n) warmth, warmness; (v) encourage, hearten, inspirit, thaw; (adj) hot, gregarious, friendly, sociable choice: (n) vote, alternative, selection, option, preference, pick, pleasure, volition; (adj, n) favorite, election; (adj) excellent. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, fair, poor, worst, ordinary, inappropriate; (n) coercion, dearth, restriction, dislike choose: (v) adopt, elect, select, pick, prefer, take, appoint, assign, decide, excerpt; (n) picking. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, waver, decline, forgo, spurn, dislike, elect christian: (adj) Catholic, scriptural, pietist, monotheistic, divine, evangelical, Christianly, moral, theist; (n) Christianity, devotee cicatrice: (n) cicatrix, callus, symptom, scar tissue, keloid citizens: (n) people, population, inhabitants, populace, public, commonwealth, country, the general public, the public, the populace city: (adj) municipal, urban, civic, public; (n) borough, the City, burgh, village, metropolis, municipality, state. ANTONYMS: (adj) suburban, country, private clap: (n, v) blast, boom, slam, rumble; (n) applause, clapping, gonorrhoea, smash; (v) acclaim, applaud, hit. ANTONYMS: (v) hiss, jeer clean: (adj, adv) fair; (v) cleanse, brush, bathe, disinfect; (adj) antiseptic, blank, pure, chaste, unblemished; (n, v) wash. ANTONYMS: (adj) filthy, unclean, muddy, unhygienic, tainted, unwholesome, syrupy, full; (v) soil, contaminate, pollute clearness: (n) clarity, brightness, distinctness, perspicuity, lucidity, explicitness, sharpness, simplicity, purity, limpidity, intelligibility. ANTONYMS: (n) ambiguity, opacity, dirtiness, vagueness, unclearness, obscureness, indistinctness, clutter, haziness, mustiness clog: (n, v) block, bar, glut; (v) choke, obstruct, foul, hinder, encumber, back up; (n) obstruction, patten. ANTONYMS: (v) free, clear, open, unblock cloister: (n) abbey, priory, monastery, arcade, friary, piazza, nunnery, circus, veranda; (v) encircle, insulate
150 clothes: (n) apparel, clothing, dress, garb, wardrobe, vestment, garment, cloth, thing, gown, wear clouds: (n) exhaust, fumes, gas, smoke, vapors clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor, harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic, comic, acrobat; (v) antic coarsely: (adv) grossly, rudely, harshly, roughly, crudely, commonly, vulgarly, bluntly, uncouthly, inelegantly, offensively. ANTONYMS: (adv) politely, evenly, finely, smoothly, tastefully coherent: (adj) rational, consistent, lucid, tenacious, clear, orderly, comprehensible, connected, coherence, sound, reasonable. ANTONYMS: (adj) incoherent, illogical, disjointed, rambling, confused, irrational, nonsensical, incomprehensible, contradictory, unintelligible, confusing coil: (n, v) spiral, curl, roll, circle, loop, reel; (v) round, wind, involve; (adj, v) twist; (adj) coiling. ANTONYMS: (v) uncoil, untwist, unwind, straighten cold: (n) chilliness, chill; (adj) chilly, frigid, distant, indifferent, aloof, callous, icy, apathetic, impassive. ANTONYMS: (adj) warm, friendly, hot, prepared, burning, affectionate, loving, soporific, fervid; (n) heat, warmth collateral: (n) warranty, guarantee, mortgage, guaranty, security, pledge, bond; (adj) secondary, indirect, oblique, subsidiary. ANTONYMS: (adj) primary, chief, fundamental, principal, lineal college: (adj, n) school; (n) academy, Alma mater, association, institute, society, institution, university, academe; (adj) collegiate, academic colour: (n) coloration, coloring, colors, semblance, vividness, pretext, pretence, colouring, guise; (v) redden, discolor. ANTONYMS: (n) colorlessness; (v) discolor colours: (n) banner, ensign, emblem, colour, colouring, standard, flag, color, tone comfort: (n, v) ease, allay, support, aid, alleviate; (n) consolation, relief, amenity, assistance; (adj, n, v) assuage; (v) cheer. ANTONYMS: (n) discomfort, aggravation, agony; (v) alarm, annoy, frighten, afflict, aggravate, bother, burden, disappoint comfortable: (adj, v) easy, snug; (adj)
All's Well That Ends Well pleased, pleasing, prosperous, agreeable, pleasurable, congenial, rich, enjoyable, homely. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, tense, formal, unpleasant, unhappy, unaccustomed, intimidating, difficult, anxious, broke, destitute comforted: (adj) thankful, pleased, comfortable, calmed comforts: (n) amenities, bread and butter, convenience, conveniences coming: (n) advent, approach, appearance, arrival, return; (adj, n) approaching; (adj) forthcoming, imminent, future, impending; (adj, v) instant. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, follow, contradict, countermand, revoke, recall, oppose; (n) beg, plead, plea commanded: (adj) lawful commander: (n) chief, leader, commandant, head, governor, chieftain, commanding officer, conductor, major, skipper, master. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, follower, subordinate commands: (n) orders, instructions, information, guidelines commend: (v) approve, exalt, acclaim, praise, applaud, recommend, endorse, entrust, extol, compliment, cite. 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. ANTONYMS: (n) disapproval, criticism, censure, demotion commission: (n) mission, job, delegation, mandate, appointment, work; (n, v) warrant, assign; (v) accredit, designate, entrust. ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, retract; (n) salary commit: (v) consign, assign, charge, confide, dedicate, apply, entrust, submit, intrust, leave, give. ANTONYMS: (v) stop, desist, divest, end, idle, withhold, wait, cease, keep, refuse common: (adj) coarse, mutual, vulgar, mean, mediocre, ignoble, plebeian, base; (adj, n) cheap,
habitual; (adj, n, v) usual. ANTONYMS: (adj) uncommon, rare, unusual, characteristic, specific, unique, extraordinary, exclusive, aristocratic, infrequent, refined commoner: (n) burgher, layman, plebeian, common man, common person, proletary, proletaire, democrat, roturier, republican, pleb communicate: (v) express, impart, advertise, advise, carry, convey, transmit, commune, apprise; (adj, v) announce, intimate. ANTONYMS: (v) excommunicate, conceal, suppress companion: (adj, n) associate; (n) colleague, buddy, mate, peer, chum, partner, fellow, comrade, assistant, brother. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, adversary company: (adj, n) society, business; (n) band, association, collection, cohort, brigade, troop, club, partnership; (v) accompany. ANTONYMS: (n) isolation, enmity, host, hostess, absence compel: (v) force, coerce, pressure, necessitate, enforce, command, oblige, require, make, obligate, press. ANTONYMS: (v) impede, deter, check, block, request, prevent complaint: (n) charge, ailment, disease, affection, whine, disorder, wail, complain, plaint, protest, sickness. ANTONYMS: (n) compliment, commendation, health composition: (n) texture, construction, constitution, alloy, amalgam, composing, compost, compound, compromise, harmony, combination compulsion: (n) force, enforcement, urge, constraint, pressure, restraint, necessity, duress, obligation, requirement, oppression. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, coaxing, disinclination concealed: (adj) covert, clandestine, blind, occult, secret, mysterious, obscure, buried, invisible, secreted, surreptitious. ANTONYMS: (adj) unconcealed, available, overt, open, divulged, Shown, revealed, disclosed, uncovered, noticeable, mainstream conceived: (adj) formed concerns: (n) dealings, affairs concluded: (adj, adv) finished, done, completed, ended; (adj) over, closed, terminated, accomplished, all over, consummate, set concord: (n) agreement, accordance,
William Shakespeare unity, harmony, union, unison, alliance, tune; (n, v) concert, peace; (v) agree. ANTONYMS: (n) discord, conflict, war, disunity, disarray; (v) disagree condemn: (v) censure, reproach, castigate, attaint, deplore, sentence, excoriate, upbraid, knock, doom, criticize. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, approve, commend, free, pardon, absolve, acquit, clear, exonerate, release, support condition: (n) position, status, provision, standing, clause, circumstances, term, predicament, rank; (n, v) aspect; (v) provide. ANTONYMS: (v) disqualify; (n) option conditions: (n) climate, environment, situation, circumstances, setting, surroundings, terms, provisions, ambiance, background, bound conduct: (v) bring, direct, carry, show; (n, v) act, administration, manage, administer, carriage, bearing; (adj, v) acquit. ANTONYMS: (v) mismanage, leave, follow confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor confessed: (adj) known confession: (n) admission, acknowledgment, recognition, acknowledgement, concession, divulgence, disclosure, shrift, penance, profession, admission of guilt. ANTONYMS: (n) disavowal, refutation confident: (adj) bold, brave, secure, sanguine, audacious, forward, fearless; (adj, v) certain, positive, sure; (adj, n) hopeful. ANTONYMS: (adj) insecure, timid, pessimistic, frightened, anxious, unsure, hesitant, unintelligent, doubtful, diffident, bland confidently: (adv) hopefully, surely, securely, assuredly, intrepidly, boldly, courageously, certainly, sanguinely, bravely, definitely. ANTONYMS: (adv) powerlessly, weakly, hesitantly, anxiously, uncertainly, timidly, despairingly, tentatively, pessimistically, irresolutely, awkwardly confirmation: (n) ratification, approval, corroboration, testimony, sanction, demonstration, agreement,
authentication, check, endorsement, evidence. ANTONYMS: (n) opposite, question, repudiation, retraction, withdrawal, condemnation, denial confirmed: (adj) inveterate, assured, habitual, constant, settled, definite, established, affirmed, fixed, ingrained, corroborated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unproven, unconfirmed, undecided, uncommitted, questionable, infrequent, dubious, mild, unfaithful confound: (v) bewilder, baffle, nonplus, perplex, astonish, puzzle, amaze, astound, mistake; (adj, v) confuse, stupefy. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, clarify, comfort, lose, distinguish; (n) understanding conjectural: (adj) hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposed, supposititious, putative, suppositious, doubtful, reputed; (v) speculative, supposable. ANTONYMS: (adj) proven, unquestionable, truthful, real, demonstrated, concrete, certain, factual consenting: (adj) agreeable, yielding, submissive, consentant, compliant, affirmative, accepting; (v) complying, chosen consequence: (n) effect, outcome, import, result, importance, product, account, concern, event, aftermath; (n, v) weight. ANTONYMS: (n) cause, inconsequence, insignificance, antecedent, unimportance, triviality, source, meaninglessness constable: (n) police officer, policeman, alderman, burgomaster, Petty constable, portreeve, alguazil, gendarme, tipstaff, peon, patrolman constancy: (n) allegiance, devotion, resolution, fidelity, loyalty, steadfastness, faithfulness, steadiness, firmness, perseverance, unchangeableness. ANTONYMS: (n) inconstancy, inconsistency, changefulness, instability, disloyalty, unfaithfulness, unreliability, dishonesty constraint: (n) compulsion, force, restraint, confinement, obligation, restriction, duress, enforcement, pressure, limitation; (adj, n) reserve. ANTONYMS: (n) freedom, boldness, liberation, option, openness, persuasion consumed: (adj) exhausted, finished, used up, worn, depleted, obsessed, possessed, lost, tired, immersed,
151 gone contempt: (n, v) scorn; (v) despise; (n) disrespect, derision, mockery, disregard, ridicule, shame, slight, reproach, discourtesy. ANTONYMS: (n) approval, admiration, regard, honor, esteem content: (n) meaning, matter, capacity, contents, subject; (n, v) contentment; (v) appease, please, satisfy, suffice; (adj) happy. ANTONYMS: (n, v) discontent; (adj) tormented, unhappy, dissatisfied, rebellious, discontented, troubled; (adj, v) upset; (n) unhappiness, sadness; (v) trouble contented: (adj) content, happy, comfortable, quiet, cheerful, smug, complacent, satisfied, easy, proud, delighted. ANTONYMS: (adj) discontented, unhappy, depressed, unsatisfied, sad, anxious contents: (n) substance, content, matter, inside, subject matter, list, volume, synopsis, conspectus, cargo, catalogue continue: (v) remain, keep, sustain, carry on, endure, persevere, bide, proceed, maintain; (adj, v) prolong; (n, v) hold. ANTONYMS: (v) end, cease, discontinue, halt, renounce, hesitate, complete, fail, desist, finish, neglect contract: (n, v) compact, charter, bargain; (v) concentrate, condense, catch, shrink, constrict; (adj, v) abridge, narrow, shorten. ANTONYMS: (v) widen, stretch, lengthen, transmit, swell, renege, open, increase, grow, give, extend contracted: (adj) insular, contract, constricted, tight, bound, close, narrow-minded, confined, brief; (v) shrunk; (adj, v) selfish. ANTONYM: (adj) expanded contrary: (adj, n) contradictory, reverse; (adj) adverse, conflicting, unfavorable, perverse, cross, disobedient, alien, different, obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj) similar, harmonious, helpful, obliging, compatible, complaisant, concordant, parallel, agreeable, cooperative, favorable convenience: (n) contrivance, accommodation, opportunity, utility, occasion, fitness, comfort, leisure, appliance, availability; (adj) convenient. ANTONYMS: (n) uselessness, distance, hardship, unsuitability, clumsiness, remoteness
152 convenient: (adj) comfortable, commodious, handy, appropriate, expedient, timely, fit, useful, nearby, opportune; (adj, n) advantageous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwieldy, fixed, useless, distant, troublesome, unsuited, remote, unsuitable, unadaptable, unuseful, inappropriate conversation: (n) talk, conference, communication, colloquy, confabulation, discussion, language, discourse, speech, talking, palaver convey: (v) communicate, channel, bring, conduct, transfer, fetch, express, transmit, bear, transport, take. ANTONYMS: (v) keep, maintain, withhold, retain, refrain, hold, absorb, receive convoy: (v) accompany; (n, v) conduct, guide, attend, guard; (n) accompaniment, procession, fleet, safeguard, column, train. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave, ignore, desert cool: (adj, v) chill, assuage, soothe; (adj) chilly, cold, collected, composed, fine, aloof; (v) quench; (n) poise. ANTONYMS: (v) heat; (adj) hot, agitated, excited, friendly, feverish, enthusiastic, tepid, temperate, bad, upset copy: (n, v) counterfeit, duplicate, pattern, trace; (v) imitate, ape, follow; (adj, n, v) model; (n) imitation, transcription, reproduction. ANTONYMS: (v) create, originate; (n) master coranto: (n) couranto corporal: (adj) bodily, carnal, physical, animal, somatic, bodied, collective, embodied; (adv) fleshly; (n) noncom, sergeant. ANTONYMS: (adj) mental, intangible, cerebral corrupt: (adj, v) adulterate, taint, infect, rotten, canker; (adj, n, v) contaminate, poison; (v) bribe, debase, defile; (adj) impure. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, pure, principled, ethical, honorable, wholesome, virtuous, uncorrupt, truthful; (v) purify; (adj, v) clean cost: (n, v) price; (n) charge, amount, expense, toll, expenditure, payment, disbursement, worth, damage, fee couch: (n) bed, sofa, settee, divan; (adj, v) lie; (v) express, put, frame, lower, repose; (adj) recline council: (n) assembly, congress, convocation, convention, consultation, synod, meeting, legislature, diet, committee,
All's Well That Ends Well chamber counsel: (v) advise, consult, admonish, confer, warn; (n, v) caution, advocate; (n) barrister, advisement, consultation, admonition. ANTONYMS: (v) betray, trick, deceive, conceal, oppose; (n) warning counsellor: (n) counselor, advocate, adviser, councillor, advisor, mentor, pleader, attorney, lawyer, consultant, solicitor count: (v) compute, weigh, consider, estimate, matter; (n, v) calculate, tally, number, total; (n) calculation, computation. ANTONYMS: (v) guess, except, estimate, disregard, dismiss, abandon, ignore, subtract counterfeit: (adj, n, v) sham; (n, v) copy, duplicate; (adj, v) mock, falsify; (adj) false, artificial, assumed; (adj, n) imitation; (v) forge, ape. ANTONYMS: (adj) genuine, real, authentic, true, actual; (n) original counterpoise: (n) balance, equilibration, poise, equilibrium, equipoise; (n, v) counterweight; (v) offset, counteract, compensate, countervail; (adj) ballast countess: (n) count, noblewoman, peeress, noble country: (n) nation, home, land, place, area, territory, commonwealth, soil, kingdom, realm; (adj) rustic. ANTONYMS: (adj) urban, metropolitan; (adj, n) city; (n) metropolis countryman: (n) peasant, villager, rustic, native, churl, compatriot, carle, fellow countryman, clown, hick, swain. ANTONYMS: (n) foreigner, outlander counts: (adj) details, particulars, items county: (n) canton, state, area, country, shire, commune, arrondissement, district, mofussil, precinct, realm courage: (n) audacity, fortitude, boldness, nerve, spirit, backbone, valor, heroism, gallantry, mettle, chivalry. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, faintheartedness, weakness, wimpiness, yellowness course: (n, v) stream, flow; (n) bearing, route, career, track, path, road, channel; (adj, n) current; (v) chase. ANTONYM: (v) trickle court: (n) forum, bar, close, field, tribunal, passage, judicatory, judge; (v) romance, attract; (n, v) invite.
ANTONYMS: (v) shun, reject, ignore, spurn, disregard, discourage courteous: (adj, v) civil; (adj) affable, attentive, gracious, decorous, chivalrous, bland, thoughtful, urbane, mannerly, gentlemanly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, impolite, boorish, insulting, unmannerly, gruff, improper, vulgar, unhelpful, neglectful, graceless courtesy: (adj, n) civility, complaisance; (n) propriety, chivalry, comity, politeness, gallantry, decency, attention, breeding, etiquette. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, unrefined, unpolished, uncivil, churlish, impolite, rough cousin: (n) nephew, cousins, friend, cousinship, relation, akin, relative, full cousin, companion coward: (n) cur, pantywaist, sneak, dastard, milksop, weakling, milquetoast; (adj) gutless, chickenhearted, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted. ANTONYMS: (n) daredevil, stalwart; (adj) brave coxcomb: (n) cockscomb, fop, beau, dandy, exquisite, dude, blood, buck, comb, crest, sheik cozen: (v) cheat, do, defraud, deceive, jockey, con, befool, betray, gouge, chouse, chisel craft: (n) trade, ability, artfulness, guile, fraud, shift, occupation, vessel, skill; (adj, n) cunning, art. ANTONYMS: (n) naivety, clumsiness, avocation, hobby, incompetence, incompetency, inaptitude, inability, honesty, honestness; (v) destroy cramp: (v) restrict, constrict, confine, bind, limit, hamper; (n, v) spasm, pinch; (n) crick, pain, constraint. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, permit, liberate; (n) release create: (v) cause, make, bring about, produce, constitute, form, establish, generate, build, beget, institute. ANTONYMS: (v) terminate, ruin, demolish, end, disband
William Shakespeare created: (adj) create, composed, shaped, produced, wrought, legendary, mythical, fictitious, bent, romantic, fashioned creating: (v) create; (n) making creation: (n) world, production, invention, composition, conception, fabrication, foundation, formation, founding, piece, creature. ANTONYMS: (n) end, annihilation creature: (n) being, brute, animal, tool, individual, person, body, entity, human, puppet, somebody credence: (n) confidence, belief, acceptance, trust, dependence, reliance, faith, credit, ambo, certainty, confessional. ANTONYMS: (n) disbelief, doubt, mistrust, skepticism, rejection credible: (adj) convincing, likely, plausible, reasonable, faithful, specious, conceivable, persuasive, possible, probable; (adj, n) authentic. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbelievable, incredible, unconvincing, unlikely, impossible, doubtful, inaccurate, unrealistic credit: (n) credence, recognition, belief, commendation, appreciation, advance, fame; (v) accredit; (n, v) reputation; (adj, n) worth, merit. ANTONYMS: (n, v) discredit; (n) cash, blame, fault, disrepute, disgrace, withdrawal; (v) disbelieve, question, mistrust, distrust credulous: (adj) gullible, unsuspecting, simple, unsuspicious, unquestioning, green, trusting, unwary, innocent, believing, illogical. ANTONYMS: (adj) suspicious, wary, disbelieving, suspecting, skeptical, cynical, untrusting, shrewd, rational, smart, mistrustful crop: (adj, v) clip, reap, shave; (v) browse, top, graze, cultivate, cut; (n, v) fruit, harvest; (n) craw crow: (n, v) brag, cry, snigger; (v) exult, triumph, cackle, chuckle, talk big; (n) gasconade, crowing; (adj) raven crown: (n, v) top, cover; (v) cap, complete; (n) apex, pinnacle, crest, summit, peak, kingdom, acme. ANTONYMS: (n) base, bottom; (v) dishonor, dethrone, begin, commence, start, depose cruelly: (adv) harshly, ferociously, fiercely, viciously, inhumanly, mercilessly, pitilessly, heartlessly, roughly, unkindly; (adj, adv) bitterly. ANTONYMS: (adv) kindly,
mercifully, sympathetically, tamely, peacefully, humanely, compassionately, sensitively, respectfully, innocently, genially crushed: (adj) beaten, subdued, low, conquered, flattened, dispirited, compressed, overwhelmed, shattered; (v) victimized; (n) crushing. ANTONYMS: (adj) victorious, euphoric cuckold: (v) deceive, cheat on, cheat, delude, cuckoldize, abandon, chouse, cornute, cozen; (n) hubby, cokewold cuckoo: (n) nut, fathead, goose, jackass, zany, goof, ani, coucal; (v) chirrup, cheep, chirp cunning: (adj) crafty, canny, adroit, wily, sly, shrewd, tricky, artful; (n) craftiness, craft, cleverness. ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, honest, stupid, unimaginative, gullible, ingenuous, straightforward, candid, sincere; (n) frankness, straightforwardness cupid: (adj) Hyperion, narcissus, peri, Hebe, the Graces, Venus, houri; (n) angel, Adonis, Amor, Apollo curbed: (adj) checked, restrained, restricted, silent, small, temperate, cramped, continent, chequered, checkered, pent-up curd: (v) cake; (n) curdle, foodstuff, crud, cottage cheese; (adj) grume, jam, pap, poultice, pudding, rob cure: (n, v) correct, medicine, help; (n) antidote, salve, therapy, treatment; (v) treat, pickle, preserve, restore. ANTONYMS: (n) poison; (v) injure, hurt, harm, wound, damage, exacerbate curious: (adj) odd, unusual, abnormal, strange, peculiar, interested, quizzical, quaint, queer, inquiring, inquisitive. ANTONYMS: (adj) incurious, ordinary, apathetic, uninterested, unconcerned, typical, indifferent, everyday, disinterested, conventional, common curiously: (adv) inquisitively, peculiarly, unusually, strangely, nosily, pryingly, queerly, funnily, weirdly; (adj, adv) singularly, particularly. ANTONYMS: (adv) ordinarily, typically custard: (n) cream, creme brulee, creme caramel, creme anglais, caramel custard, dowset customer: (n) patron, buyer, client, shopper, purchaser, guest, subscriber, fellow, passenger, visitor, John. ANTONYMS: (n)
153 consultant, vendor, supplier cutting: (adj) biting, keen, caustic, bitter, acrimonious, incisive, raw; (adj, n) acute; (n) cut, slip; (adj, v) satirical. ANTONYMS: (adj) blunt, complimentary, flattering, kind, pleasant, hot, consoling; (n) extension, freedom, expansion, addition dagger: (n) bodkin, sword, blade, obelisk, knife, stiletto, dirk, cutlass, grapheme, saber, skean damn: (adj, adv, v) bloody; (v) curse, imprecate, beshrew, blaspheme, cuss, slam, convict; (adj) blasted, cursed; (n) damnation. ANTONYMS: (v) bless, laud, glorify, exalt, commend, praise damnable: (adj) cursed, damned, abominable, hateful, accursed, devilish, infernal, disgusting, sinful, deplorable, offensive. ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, laudable, praiseworthy damned: (adj) accursed, doomed, blasted, condemned, damn, cussed, wretched, infernal, hateful, goddamned; (adv) damnably. ANTONYM: (adj) saved dance: (v) caper, bop, to dance, cavort, play, skip, to show courage, step; (n, v) hop, jump, shake dane: (n) Danish, dansker danger: (n) risk, peril, hazard, chance, jeopardy, threat, trouble, precariousness, slipperiness, disaster, insecurity. ANTONYMS: (n) security, ease, privilege dangerous: (adj, n) critical; (adj) severe, serious, grave, adventurous, unhealthy, precarious, hazardous, perilous, threatening, chancy. ANTONYMS: (adj) stable, secure, protected, unhazardous, slight, weak, harmless, friendly, favorable, calm, pleasant dare: (n, v) venture; (v) defy, brave, hazard, confront, risk, resist, make bold; (n) adventure, daring, defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) avoid, flee, pass, refrain, retreat, obey daring: (adj, n) bold, courageous, adventurous; (adj) audacious, venturesome, intrepid; (n) bravery, audacity, boldness, courage, adventurousness. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, timidity; (adj) timid, cautious, dull, afraid, chicken, fearful, unadventurous, wimpy dark: (adj) dismal, black, cheerless, obscure, dim, mysterious, murky, gloomy; (n) evening, night, shadow.
154 ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, sunny, fair, sunlit, clear, pallid, pale, cheerful, white, versed; (n) day darkly: (adv) murkily, dimly, obscurely, duskily, somberly, shadily, mistily, secretly, dismally, heavily, overcastly. ANTONYM: (adv) openly darkness: (n) dark, shade, shadow, blindness, gloom, blackness, duskiness, murk, cloud, blackout, dimness. ANTONYMS: (n) brightness, lightness, glow, comprehension, knowledge, day, clearness date: (n) appointment, engagement, period, meeting, epoch, assignation, dating, day of the month; (n, v) escort; (v) register, determine 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. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) living; (adj) alive, animate, live, spirited, responsive, working, partial, operative; (adv) partly, partially deal: (v) administer, allot, conduct, truck, distribute, apportion; (n, v) buy, trade, contract; (n) agreement, arrangement. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) worthless, inexpensive, valueless, despised, modest, loathed, hateful, distant; (n) rival, foe, enemy dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; (adj) precious, intimate, sweet dearly: (adv) affectionately, preciously, darlingly, sweetly, petly, expensively, belovedly, intimately, highly, heartfeltly, lovely death: (n) expiration, end, close, exit, fate, mortality, departure, cessation, decease, dissolution; (adj) quietus. ANTONYMS: (n) existence, delivery, living, nascency, being, survival, life, beginning debile: (adj) feeble, weak, creaky
All's Well That Ends Well decayed: (adj) spoiled, corrupt, dilapidated, rank, rusty, rotting, decaying, rotted, putrid; (adj, v) wasted; (v) stale. ANTONYMS: (adj) matured, restored, strengthened deceit: (n) guile, artifice, deception, falsehood, ruse, pretense, fraud, trickery; (adj, n) cunning, craft, art. ANTONYMS: (n) sincerity, truthfulness, fairness, frankness, loyalty, straightforwardness, uprightness, truth deceive: (v) cheat, circumvent, bamboozle, pretend, hoax, fool, cozen, trick, beguile; (n, v) dupe; (n) fraud. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, inform, undeceive, protect deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided decision: (n) conclusion, determination, verdict, sentence, arbitration, ruling, choice, will, constancy; (n, v) judgment, award. ANTONYMS: (n) indecision, indecisiveness, tie, changeableness, indetermination, stalemate, standoff, deadlock, draw, coercion deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, behavior, action, exploit, covenant, doing, document, title, fact. ANTONYM: (n) failure deeds: (n) works, activity, actions, conduct, background, events, happenings, performance, activities deem: (v) believe, assume, consider, count, hold, think, feel, view, suppose, regard, imagine. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard, doubt deep: (adj) thick, profound, strong, rich, broad, sound, absorbed, wide, abstruse, dark; (adj, v) intense. 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 default: (n, v) omission, oversight; (n) deficit, delinquency, defalcation, lack, want, neglect, fault; (v) laches, fail. ANTONYMS: (v) satisfy; (n) satisfaction defective: (adj) bad, faulty, imperfect, broken, lacking, incomplete, unsound, vicious, inaccurate, rotten, wanting. ANTONYMS: (adj) sound, flawless, unbroken, adequate, intact, capable, dependable, fine defence: (n) advocacy, safeguard, defense, defend, defensive, alibi, umbrella, vindication, fort, bastion, denial. ANTONYM: (n) prosecution
delay: (adj, v) defer, linger; (n, v) arrest, wait, check, stay; (n) deferment, interruption; (v) postpone, reserve, adjourn. ANTONYMS: (n, v) rush; (n) decisiveness, promptness; (v) advance, hurry, begin, hasten, go, expedite, speed, prompt delicate: (adj) accurate, tender, dainty, refined, breakable, fragile, beautiful, brittle, soft, nice, frail. ANTONYMS: (adj) inelegant, robust, heavy, sturdy, tough, careless, inaccurate, rough, well, substantial, unscrupulous delights: (n) delices deliver: (v) consign, bear, carry, save, rescue, abandon, send, pronounce, hand over, bring; (adj, v) utter. ANTONYMS: (v) capture, confine, imprison, hold, oppress, enslave, restrain, retain, collect, withhold, shackle deliverance: (n) salvation, rescue, release, freedom, escape, emancipation, delivery, relief, liberation, liberty, salvage. ANTONYMS: (n) downfall, suppression delivering: (adv) deliverly; (n) childbirth, presentation; (adj) unfailing demand: (v) ask, require, ask for, beg; (n, v) need, request, command, appeal, requisition, sale; (n) requirement. ANTONYMS: (v) grant, offer, obviate, give, eliminate, cede, beg, present, request; (n) response, plea demands: (n) strain, weight, stress, anxiety demonstrate: (v) authenticate, present, establish, exhibit, attest, show, argue, denote, explain, manifest; (adj, v) display. ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, mask, hide, distort, disguise, confute, approve, misrepresent, accept, confuse denial: (adv, n) negation; (n) abnegation, repulse, renunciation, no, contradiction, abjuration, rejection, negative, refusal; (v) deny. ANTONYMS: (n) acceptance, declaration, affirmation, confession, admission, agreement, provision, prosecution, approval, permission, affirmative deny: (v) controvert, rebuff, contradict, disavow, gainsay, reject, oppose, refuse, disown, abnegate, renounce. ANTONYMS: (v) affirm,
William Shakespeare claim, acknowledge, declare, maintain, agree, spoil, accept, accede, allow, argue departure: (n, v) decease, demise; (n) exit, leave, deviation, divergence, depart, parting, aberration, passing, takeoff. 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. ANTONYM: (v) invent description: (n) account, type, picture, depiction, explanation, brand, delineation, story, recital, report; (adj, n) kind desert: (adj, n, v) waste; (v) escape, forsake, relinquish, ditch, defect, leave; (adj, v) desolate; (adj, n) worth, merit; (adj) barren. 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 deserved: (v) merited, richly deserved; (adj) appropriate, due, fitting, just, earned, suitable, rightful, adequate, required design: (n, v) purpose, aim, scheme, sketch, conceive; (n) conception, drawing, device, idea, arrangement; (v) contrive. ANTONYMS: (n) chance, fortuity, accident, destruction; (v) improvise desire: (n) ambition, aspiration, craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire, seek. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) aversion, reality, revulsion, apathy; (v) spurn, abhor, answer, command, insist desired: (adj) coveted, desirable, favorite, wanted, welcome, needed, beloved, required, most wanted; (adj, v) chosen; (v) consenting despair: (n) disappointment, desolation, dejection, melancholy, gloom, desperation, depression, dismay, discouragement, pessimism, sorrow. ANTONYMS: (n) happiness, hopefulness, expectation, joy, cheer, cheerfulness, resilience, elation, joyfulness despatch: (n) shipment, expedition, communique, mission, consignment, sending, forwarding; (v) transmit,
expedite, quicken, send desperate: (adj) despairing, dire, critical, abject, dangerous, in despair, grave, awful, despondent, drastic; (adj, v) forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) hopeful, optimistic, rational, promising, minor, cautious, casual, careful, trivial, secure, satisfied despiteful: (adj) malicious, malevolent, vicious, malignant, nasty, mischievous, malign, catty, revengeful, vindictive, hateful detested: (adj) despised, unpopular, disliked, loathed, not accepted, unloved, scorned, reviled, out of favor, not liked detesting: (adj) abhorring, detestable, abhorrent; (n) execration, loathing devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. ANTONYM: (n) angel devoted: (adj, v) addicted, ardent, fond; (adj) affectionate, constant, loyal, pious, faithful, reliable, zealous; (adj, prep) consecrated. ANTONYMS: (adj) disloyal, indifferent, unfaithful, neglectful, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unattached, lukewarm, inconstant, halfhearted, disobedient dial: (n) face, disc, control, selector, gnomon, pendulum, hourglass, clock, gauge; (v) telephone, operate dialogue: (n, v) talk; (n) colloquy, conversation, interview, interlocution, chat, conference, discussion, dialog, talks, communication diana: (n) princess Diana, Lucretia, princess of Wales, satellite, orb of night, moon, lady Diana Frances spencer; (adj) Dian diet: (n) convocation, council, convention, nurture, food, nutriment, assembly, viands, meal, dieting; (v) lose weight. ANTONYMS: (adj) fattening; (n, v) binge; (v) stuff, overeat, indulge, gorge; (n) overindulgence difference: (n) conflict, disagreement, controversy, contention, distinction, discrepancy, dissimilarity, divergence, quarrel, discord; (n, v) change. ANTONYMS: (n) sameness, resemblance, correspondence, agreement, concurrence, understanding, parity, normality, likeness, accord, consistency differences: (n) difference; (v) agree, straighten out
155 difficulty: (n) trouble, bother, asperity, jam, barrier, difficultness, fix, hardship; (n, v) hindrance, obstacle; (adj, n) strait. ANTONYMS: (n) simplicity, advantage, help, assurance, easiness, accommodation, effortlessness, gentleness, reassurance, agreement, resolution digested: (adj) mature, digestible dignified: (adj) exalted, majestic, noble, grand, lofty, respectable, solemn, distinguished, lordly, high; (adj, v) great. ANTONYMS: (adj) undignified, foolish, dishonorable, boisterous, unceremonious, unseemly, vulgar, poor, lowly, modest, base dignity: (n) degree, prestige, glory, decorum, face, distinction, honor, majesty, eminence, solemnity; (adj, n) decency. ANTONYMS: (n) lowliness, indecency, impropriety, simplicity, cheerfulness, austerity 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) roundabout, circuitous, oblique, sideways, unplanned, devious, dishonest; (v) request, follow, divert, get disaster: (n) calamity, blow, accident, adversity, casualty, cataclysm, debacle, destruction, misfortune, misadventure, fiasco. ANTONYMS: (n) success, blessing, joy, miracle, opportunity, wonder, order discharged: (adj) released, exempt, clear, freer, free, fired, finished, drained, dismissed, defunct, deadened discord: (n, v) conflict, clash; (n) disagreement, variance, division, difference, dissension, dissonance, strife, split, contention. ANTONYMS: (n) agreement, harmony, unity, accord, concordance, consent, silence, concord; (v) match discover: (v) discern, disclose, ascertain, find, perceive, catch, expose, hear, determine, sense, detect. ANTONYMS: (v) overlook, ignore, disregard, confuse, conceal, lose discovered: (adj) revealed, disclosed,
156 exposed, naked, detected, determined, observed, open, unconcealed, bare. ANTONYM: (adj) concealed disdain: (n, v) despise, contemn, slight, ridicule; (n) contempt, derision, arrogance, haughtiness, pride; (v) scoff, disparage. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, admiration, reverence, worship, approval, regard; (v) approve, admire, praise, accept, participate disease: (n, v) ailment; (n) illness, sickness, condition, complaint, affection, ill, disorder, affliction, bug; (adj, n) infirmity. ANTONYM: (n) health disgrace: (adj, n, v) dishonor; (n, v) discredit, shame, stain, blemish, blot, slur, reproach; (v) degrade, debase; (n) degradation. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, esteem, credit; (v) glorify, dignify, praise; (n) merit, grace, pride, rise, worthiness disguise: (n, v) cloak, mask, conceal, masquerade, veil, camouflage, color; (n) guise, concealment; (v) hide, dissemble. ANTONYMS: (n) revelation; (v) unmask, uncover, show, expose, display, disclose, clarify, reveal dishonour: (v) discredit, disgrace, attaint, shame, degrade, desecrate, violate, rape, outrage; (n) stigma, opprobrium dismal: (adj) cheerless, dejected, dreary, gloomy, desolate, disconsolate, depressing, melancholy, black, dim, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, happy, lively, uplifting, sunny, pleasant, light, cheery, strong, soulful, wonderful disobedience: (n) contumacy, intractableness, rebelliousness, breach, recalcitrance, rebellion, refusal, noncompliance, mutiny, contravention, defiance. ANTONYMS: (n) compliance, meekness, conformity, devotion, order, fulfillment, loyalty displeasure: (n) resentment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dislike, discontent, exasperation, disfavor, annoyance, offense, pique, disapproval. ANTONYMS: (n) satisfaction, pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, delight, contentment, equanimity, approval disposition: (n) attitude, character, disposal, tendency, predisposition, inclination, propensity, bias,
All's Well That Ends Well arrangement, direction, aptitude dissever: (v) divide, break, cleave, carve up, split, separate, sever, disconnect, parcel, split up, divorce. ANTONYM: (v) unite dissolved: (adj) adulterate, gone, liquified, broken dissuade: (v) discourage, deter, advise, remonstrate, divert, expostulate, dehort, hinder, repress, reason, detain. ANTONYMS: (v) persuade, encourage, induce, influence distance: (n, v) remove; (n) space, way, gap, aloofness, interval, altitude, measure, mileage; (adj, n) length; (v) dissociate. ANTONYMS: (v) associate, attach, involve; (n) proximity, nearness, intimacy, closeness, warmth, bias, lovingness distil: (v) distill, condense, drop, cleanse, pull, educe, dribble, purify, sublimate, refine, sanitize distinction: (n) discrimination, contrast, difference, rank, dissimilarity, demarcation, prestige, celebrity, reputation, consequence, variation. ANTONYMS: (n) mediocrity, resemblance, likeness, indistinction, insult, disgrace, commonness, obscurity distress: (n, v) pain, torment, trouble, concern, torture, upset, worry; (n) anguish, agony; (adj, n) difficulty, grief. ANTONYMS: (n, v) comfort; (v) please, soothe, relieve; (n) peace, encouragement, straightforwardness, solace, relieving, relief, prosperity diurnal: (adj) journal, quotidian, diary, everyday, cyclical, cyclic, ephemeral diverted: (adj) abstracted, entertained, pleased, inattentive, sidetracked, unfocused, preoccupied divine: (adj) sacred, wonderful, blessed, holy, exquisite; (n) clergyman; (v) guess, conjecture, augur, anticipate; (adj, n) almighty. ANTONYMS: (adj) imperfect, profane, earthly, dreadful, physical, ugly, secular divorce: (v) detach, disunite, separate, break up, divide, isolate, disjoin, disjoint; (n) separation, divorcement; (n, v) rupture. ANTONYMS: (n) wedding, union; (v) unite, associate, espouse, join, marry divulged: (adj) out of the closet, exposed doctor: (v) cure, mend, repair,
remedy, attend, adulterate, fix, heal; (n) doc, Dr; (adj) doctorly. ANTONYMS: (v) purify, clean, distill, harm, hurt, injure, wound doctrine: (n) creed, philosophy, belief, dogma, credo, conviction, lesson, canon, faith, gospel, school doing: (n) act, do, deed, making, performance, execution, perpetration, acting; (v) to make, to do; (adj) current. ANTONYM: (n) failure dole: (v) dispense; (n) mite, grant, pittance, grief, distribution, blow, care, anxiety, cark, charity dolphin: (n) porpoise, blackfish, beluga, mooring dolphin, common blackfish, killer, orca, pile mooring, grampus, mahimahi, common dolphin done: (adj, adv) finished, ended; (adj) complete, completed, over, made, gone, accomplished, concluded, through, cooked. ANTONYMS: (adj) unsettled, disapproved, incomplete, rare, raw, rejected, uncooked, undone, unfulfilled, unsanctioned door: (n) threshold, mouth, entrance, doorway, entry, opening, access, entryway, way out, portal, hatch. ANTONYM: (n) entrance dote: (adj, v) drivel; (v) maturate, fond, doat; (adj) ramble, wander, rave, trifle double: (adj, n) twin; (adj) dual, duple, twofold; (v) fold, bend, geminate; (adj, v) reduplicate; (n) substitute, mate, image. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) single; (v) decrease, divide, halve; (adj) multivalent, univalent, lone doubling: (n) folding, duplication, repetition, artifice, twisting, furring, gemination, plication, reduplication, duplicity; (v) guile doubly: (adv) twice, twofold, two times, in two ways, dualistically doubt: (n, v) suspicion, question, query, dispute; (n) disbelief, misgiving, incertitude, apprehension, uncertainty; (adj, n) skepticism; (v) suspect. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, confidence, conclusiveness, belief, certitude, faith, approval; (v) accept, believe, consider, swallow doughy: (adj) soggy, pale, soft, mushy, livid, colorless; (v) spongy dower: (n) dowry, dowery, inheritance, jointure, endowment, heritage, patrimony; (v) to bar dower, endue, bestow, contribute
William Shakespeare downward: (adv) underneath, under, below, downwards, downwardly, beneath, down below; (adj) downcast, sloping, depressed, downright. ANTONYMS: (adv) up; (adj) rising dozen: (adj, n) XII; (n) dozens, boxcars dram: (n) drachma, nip, ankus, spot, dynamic random access memory, snifter, blast, apothecaries' weight; (n, v) potion; (v) drench, swill drank: (v) absorb draw: (n, v) drag, pull, delineate, tie, design, puff; (v) depict, describe, derive, bring; (n) attraction. ANTONYMS: (v) repel, deposit, shove, shorten, thrust, cut, curtail, contract, alienate; (n) repulsion, win dreadful: (adj) bad, awful, alarming, atrocious, fearful, terrible, abominable, appalling, direful, grisly; (adj, v) dread. ANTONYMS: (adj) wonderful, great, lovely, fantastic, marvelous, admirable, successful, nice, joyous, honorable, fair dress: (n, v) attire, costume, clothe, apparel, clothing, array, trim, garb, rig, cover; (n) dressing. ANTONYMS: (n, v) undress; (v) uncover, disrobe, rumple, strip, wrinkle drily: (adv) parchedly, thirstily, waterlessly, monotonously, stalely, driedly, sharply, sardonically, tediously, hardly, plainly drink: (n, v) beverage, draught, swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion, intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib, swig. ANTONYMS: (v) regurgitate, sip, abstain drive: (n, v) ride, push, force, crusade, urge, thrust, campaign, cause; (v) compel, chase, actuate. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, inertia, lethargy, walk, indifference; (v) discourage, repress, stop, prevent, inhibit, dissuade driven: (v) drive, impel, operate, propel; (adj) impelled, compulsive, motivated, involuntary, dynamic, successful; (n) drove drop: (n, v) decline, dribble, deposit, decrease, jump, ebb; (adj, n, v) collapse; (v) droop, sink, cast, drip. ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase; (v) lift, pour, sharpen, raise, recuperate; (n) growth, mass, lot, upswing, elevation drown: (v) drench, submerge, overwhelm, choke, engulf, flood,
swamp, inundate, suffocate, asphyxiate; (adj, n, v) sink. ANTONYMS: (v) float, swim, amplify, dry drudge: (n, v) slave, work; (v) toil, fag, moil, dig, grub, sweat, plod, grind; (n) hack. ANTONYMS: (v) dawdle, putter, loaf, idle, lounge drum: (adj, n) barrel; (n) cask, tympan, cylinder, timbrel, tambour, tambourine; (v) beat, roll, bone up, ram drumming: (n) roll, drums, sound, thump, pulse, barrelling, percussion, buzzing, stress, tapping, throb drums: (n) drumming drunkenness: (n) alcoholism, inebriety, ebriety, drinking, drink, intoxication, crapulence, grogginess, insobriety, tipsiness, alcohol addiction duke: (n) lord, prince, hand, nobleman, fist, chief; (v) pass, box, deliver duly: (adv) rightfully, correctly, punctually, proper, precisely, well, ex officio, accordingly, fairly, appropriately, properly. ANTONYMS: (adv) improperly, unsuitable, unlawfully dumb: (adj) mute, speechless, dense, dim, silent, dull, slow, stupid, inarticulate, foolish, obtuse. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, communicative, intelligent, loquacious, sharp, smart, speaking, brilliant, talkative dungeon: (n, v) keep; (n) prison, cell, jail, penitentiary, fastness, oubliette, Bastille, bridewell, detention, house of correction dust: (v) sprinkle, clean, spray, wipe, spread; (n) dirt, earth, relics, grit, remains, soil. ANTONYMS: (n) newness; (v) dirty dutchman: (n) Netherlander, mynheer, make up piece; (adj) dago, tenderfoot, slant, wop, greaser, Polak, mick, easterner duty: (n) function, commitment, obligation, chore, assignment, office, dues, job, responsibility, must; (n, v) charge. ANTONYMS: (n) disobedience, option dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) wander each: (adv) apiece, either, individually; (adj) every, various, singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone, an, anybody, everyone
157 eagerness: (n, v) desire, aspiration; (n) enthusiasm, avidity, cupidity, readiness, passion, keenness, ambition, fervor, avidness. ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, unwillingness, aloofness, disinterest, lethargy, listlessness, patience, gloom, reluctance earl: (n) baron, jarl, peer, thane, viscount, banneret, chief, lord early: (adv) betimes, soon; (adj) initial, primitive, young, prompt, first, quick; (n) beginning, morning, prior. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) late, later; (adj) delayed, slow, tardy, conclusive, latter, middle; (adv) belatedly, tardily, expectedly ears: (n) antenna earth: (n) world, dust, ground, land, lair, dry land, terra firma, clay, creation, ball, country earthly: (adj, n) terrestrial; (adj) carnal, worldly, conceivable, human, geotic, secular, terrene, temporal, telluric, sublunary. ANTONYMS: (adj) spiritual, divine, ethereal, immortal, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, celestial earthquake: (n) tremor, shock, quake, temblor, cataclysm, upheaval, seaquake, avalanche; (adj) thunderstorm, volcano, seismic ease: (v) alleviate, assuage, relieve, allay; (n) convenience, rest, leisure, relief, satisfaction; (adj, v) facilitate; (n, v) relax. ANTONYMS: (n) discomfort, formality, awkwardness, worry, toil, problem, pain, maladroitness; (v) aggravate, worsen, impede easily: (adv) lightly, smoothly, facilely, fluently, readily, plainly, comfortably, uncomplicatedly, calmly, slowly, conveniently. ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly, unquestionably, laboriously, difficultly, barely, arduously, affectedly, inconveniently, seriously, formally easy: (adj) convenient, gentle, familiar, graceful, at ease, light, lenient, clear, contented, cozy; (adj, adv) soft. ANTONYMS: (adj) arduous, laborious, demanding, hard, strenuous, particular, burdensome, tough, uneasy, awkward, testing eats: (n) grub, chuck, food, meat, meal, diet, nurture, eat, dinner, board, feed eaves: (n) arch, balcony, cupola, dome, penthouse, eave, overhang,
158 attic, loft, projection, roof space edge: (n, v) bound, verge, hem, skirt, line; (n) boundary, margin, brink, blade, extremity, limit. ANTONYMS: (n) center, disadvantage, obstacle, handicap, mainstream, end; (v) interior, dull, blunt, speed education: (n) discipline, instruction, teaching, cultivation, breeding, school, culture, nurture, knowledge, background, learning. ANTONYM: (n) illiteracy e'er: (adv) ever, forever effect: (n, prep) consequence; (v) accomplish, achieve, bring about, create, complete, cause, do; (n) product, sequel; (n, v) result. ANTONYMS: (n) reason, cause; (v) impede, fail effected: (adj) completed, complete, finished, fulfilled, done, realized, conventional, constituted, established effects: (n) goods, property, stuff, chattels, gear, effect, possessions, personal effects, commodity, baggage, special effects egregious: (adj) rank, glaring, flagrant, crying, infamous, outrageous, peculiar, absurd, eccentric; (v) extravagant; (adj, v) preposterous. ANTONYMS: (adj) petty, slight, trivial, measly, little, minor either: (adj) whatever; (adv) too, also, neither, besides, likewise; (n) or; (det) any; (conj) other eldest: (adj) elder, older, oldest, eigne; (n) offspring, progeny, doyen election: (n) choice, ballot, poll, vote, volition, selection, preference, option, doom, predestination, referendum else: (adv) besides, yet, to boot, in addition, moreover; (pron) another; (n) or; (adj) different, other, further, additional emblem: (n) flag, type, device, allegory, character, crest, sign, badge, figure, ensign, symbol embodied: (adj) incarnate, corporate, corporeal, corporal, bodied, personified, incorporated, combined, tangible, associated, in person embossed: (adj) raised, brocaded, stamped, decorated, prominent, bossy; (n) relief embrace: (v) comprise, adopt, comprehend, contain, admit, espouse, include; (n, v) clasp, hug,
All's Well That Ends Well grip, bosom. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, exclude, spurn, shun, renounce, release, loose, disbelieve eminent: (adj) high, celebrated, elevated, brilliant, illustrious, noble, big, famous, renowned, conspicuous, dignified. ANTONYMS: (adj) undistinguished, obscure, low, unremarkable, common, uncelebrated, unimportant, insignificant, humble, ordinary empire: (adj, n) rule, authority, control; (n) kingdom, domain, realm, reign, nation, sway, command, territory employment: (n, v) business, employ, use, trade, calling, profession; (adj, n) work, career; (n) occupation, duty, service encounter: (n) collision, conflict, battle, action, confrontation, brush; (n, v) combat, contest, rencounter; (v) confront, face. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, surrender, evade, avoid, yield; (n) shunning, avoidance, withdrawal encourage: (v) abet, advance, comfort, urge, promote, foster, further, aid, boost, advocate; (adj, v) back. ANTONYMS: (v) dishearten, prevent, deter, hurt, obstruct, stop, dampen, hinder, aggravate, bully, constrain ended: (adj) concluded, finished, over, done, completed, closed, through, terminated, consummate, all over; (adj, v) past endless: (adj) constant, perpetual, interminable, continuous, ceaseless, eternal, uninterrupted, everlasting, incessant, vast, unrelenting. ANTONYMS: (adj) temporary, restricted, limited, intermittent, ending, finishing, sporadic, mortal, inconstant, few, slight 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. ANTONYMS: (v) perish, die, break, fall, discontinue, crumble, end, enjoy, resign, quit, collapse enemy: (n) antagonist, opponent, foe, opposition, competitor, enmity, assailant, foeman, hostile, besieger; (adj, n) rival. ANTONYMS: (n) ally, friend, supporter, benefactor, defender, fan
enforce: (v) compel, constrain, carry out, implement, impose, execute, apply, drive, dispense, effect; (n, v) force. ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, relax, neglect, forget, exempt, disregard, abandon english: (n) English language, Englishwoman, Britain, Englishman, side, the English, English people; (adj) Anglican; (v) Anglify enough: (adj) ample, adequate, competent, decent; (n) adequacy, sufficiency, fill; (adv) rather, amply, adequately; (adv, n) plenty. ANTONYMS: (adj) insufficient, deficient, wanting, scant; (adv) insufficiently, inadequately; (n) insufficiency, deficiency, inadequacy, shortage entail: (v) imply, involve, demand, mean, need, induce, evoke, implicate, require, to bar an entail, draw down enter: (v) enroll, embark, chronicle, book, record, input, arrive, come, pierce, register, penetrate. 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. ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, apathy, laziness, passiveness, sloth, idleness entertain: (v) amuse, delight, bear, cherish, beguile, admit, accommodate, harbor, hold, distract; (n, v) interest. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard, ignore, banish, forget, tire, displease entertained: (adj) diverted, pleased entertainment: (n) distraction, diversion, enjoyment, show, pleasure, recreation, fun, reception, pastime; (adj, n) party; (n, v) regalement. ANTONYMS: (n) job, boredom, discomfort entirely: (adv) fully, absolutely, utterly, wholly, altogether, all, thoroughly, perfectly, clean, solely; (adj, adv) completely. ANTONYMS: (adv) partially, incompletely, unenthusiastically, hardly, slightly, somewhat entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject entreating: (adj) beseeching, imploring, suppliant, begging, supplicant, imploratory, asking
William Shakespeare submissively, pleading, piteous entrenched: (adj) ingrained, established, inveterate, set, steadfast, unwavering, constant, rooted, immovable, fixed, firm. ANTONYM: (adj) mild equal: (v) compare, equalize, equate; (adj, v) agree, correspond, even, equivalent; (adj) comparable; (n) compeer; (adj, n, v) rival, parallel. ANTONYMS: (adj) different, repressive, uneven, disproportionate, inconsistent, unlike, dissimilar, discriminating, diverse; (v) differ, disproportion equivocal: (adj) ambiguous, indefinite, doubtful, dubious, questionable, elusive, cryptic, precarious, problematic, apocryphal, double. ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, unequivocal, definite, obvious, plain, unquestionable, certain, direct ergo: (adv) consequently, accordingly, therefore, then, thus, so, as a consequence, as a result error: (n) blunder, fault, mistake, delusion, lapse, oversight, miss, guilt, crime, defect; (adj, n) wrong. ANTONYMS: (n) correctness, fact, accuracy escape: (v) elude, avoid, evade, circumvent, bolt; (n, v) break, dodge, leak, run; (n) avoidance, evasion. ANTONYMS: (n, v) return; (v) remain, catch, stay, face, block, attend; (n) incarceration, imprisonment, endurance, abidance especially: (adv) particularly, chiefly, expressly, peculiarly, specifically, above all, exceedingly, principally, exceptionally, extraordinarily, unusually. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) scorn, hate, disdain, insult, despise, abominate, abhor, dislike, reject; (n) disesteem, disapproval estimation: (n) deference, assessment, calculation, approximation, appraisal, attention; (n, v) esteem, consideration, regard, reputation, credit. ANTONYMS: (n) calculation, disbelief, doubt eternal: (adj) constant, perpetual,
ceaseless, everlasting, lasting, continual, aeonian, immortal, boundless, deathless, enduring. ANTONYMS: (adj) mortal, finite, brief, ephemeral, fleeting, terminable, ending, fragile, inconstant evening: (n) even, dusk, dark, eve, twilight, sunset, eventide, nightfall, sundown, night, period. ANTONYMS: (n) daybreak, sunrise, sunup, morning event: (n) effect, case, consequence, occurrence, incident, result, contingency, product, fact, happening, circumstance. ANTONYM: (n) insignificancy ever: (adj, adv) always, continually; (adj) constantly, still, forever; (adv) never, e'er, before, once, perpetually; (n) Evers. ANTONYM: (adv) erratically everlasting: (adj) eternal, ceaseless, endless, constant, continual, perpetual, immortal, deathless, ageless, aeonian; (adj, n) lasting. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, ephemeral, fleeting, mortal, ending, terminating, inconstant, fragile, perishable evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, ever; (adv) everlastingly, forevermore, perpetually, ever and again, for all time, until the end of time. ANTONYMS: (adv) temporarily, suddenly every: (adj) each, total, whole, any, thorough; (n) everybody, everyone, everything; (adv) apiece, either; (pron) every one everything: (pron) anything, something, whatever thing, no matter which; (n) whole, everyone, all things, everybody, entirety, universe, thing evidence: (n) proof, confirmation, data, testimony, sign, attestation, demonstration; (v) demonstrate, certify, attest; (n, v) mark. ANTONYMS: (v) disprove, confute; (n) conviction evil: (adj) bad, criminal, corrupt, wicked, destructive, depraved; (adj, n) ill, detriment; (n) adversity, disaster, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) goodness, righteousness, morality; (adj) kindhearted, righteous, benign, moral, pure, upright, virtuous, sinless evils: (n) mala exact: (adj, n) correct; (v) demand, claim, command, ask; (n, v) require;
159 (adj, v) close, direct; (adj) precise, detailed, faithful. ANTONYMS: (adj) wrong, vague, imprecise, approximate, inexact, rough, careless, thoughtless, indeterminate; (v) tender, give examination: (n, v) search, test; (n) audit, check, exam, investigation, study, exploration, survey, testing; (adj, n) examen. ANTONYM: (n) neglect example: (n) exemplar, illustration, instance, sample, lead, paradigm, prototype, pattern, design, guide, precedent exceeding: (prep) beyond, more than, greater than; (adj) excessive, transcendent, extraordinary, exceptional, prodigious, surpassing, Olympian; (v) exceed excellent: (adj, n) estimable, worthy, capital; (adj) superior, admirable, beautiful, distinctive, superb, great, good, splendid. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, abysmal, awful, mediocre, terrible, imperfect, inadequate, middling, shoddy, bad, used except: (adj, conj, prep) save; (v) exclude, demur, omit, elide; (adv, conj, prep) but; (adv, prep) besides; (prep) excepting, excluding, aside from; (conj, n) without. ANTONYMS: (prep) including; (v) receive, admit excess: (n) extravagance, dissipation, plethora, abundance, exaggeration, overindulgence, surfeit, overabundance, overplus; (adj) extra, unnecessary. ANTONYMS: (n) lack, restraint, moderation, shortfall, dearth, temperance, deficit, insufficiency, justice, scarcity, abstinence excessive: (adj) exaggerated, intense, superfluous, undue, exorbitant, unreasonable, immoderate, enormous, profuse, extravagant, extreme. ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, affordable, deficient, underdone, insignificant, insufficient, thrifty, skimpy, meager, basic, small exclaim: (v) call out, call, shout, cry out, ejaculate, clamor, outcry, scream, shout out, speak, vociferate exit: (n) departure, door, egress, outlet, going, gate, way out; (v) leave, go, go out, die. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, entry, entrance, greeting; (v) arrive, come exorcist: (n) charmer, wizard, sorcerer, mage, necromancer,
160 magician, faith healer, quack, witch doctor, warlock, shaman expectation: (n) expectancy, belief, hope, possibility, outlook, trust, confidence, arithmetic mean, thought, suspense; (n, v) prospect. ANTONYMS: (n) despair, hopelessness, discouragement, distrust expedient: (adj) fit, advisable, becoming, desirable, adequate, apt, convenient, suitable; (n) contrivance, resource, artifice. ANTONYMS: (adj) inappropriate, inexpedient, impractical, futile, detrimental, inconvenient, foolish experience: (v) endure, suffer, examine, meet, live, know, receive; (adj, v) see; (n) event, episode, happening. ANTONYMS: (n) inexperience, greenness, naivete, inability, ignorance expertness: (n) expertise, dexterity, ability, skill, craft, professionalism, skillfulness, knack, faculty, proficiency, cleverness exploit: (n, v) act, achievement, feat, action; (n) accomplishment, adventure, effort; (v) exercise, apply, use, employ. ANTONYM: (v) waste express: (adj) explicit, direct, definite, distinct, especial; (n, v) declare; (v) demonstrate, convey, articulate, display, mean. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, retain; (adj) vague, slow, unexpressed, roundabout, unsaid, uncertain, indirect; (n) local extend: (v) enlarge, broaden, widen, dilate, amplify, augment, go, continue, spread, draw out; (adj, v) stretch. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, shorten, narrow, shrink, limit, contract, curtail, hold, reduce, abridge, keep extreme: (adj) deep, excessive, enormous, supreme, terrible, uttermost, ultimate, utmost, intense, immoderate; (n) edge. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) mild, slight; (adj) middle, reasonable, near, limited, close, conventional, ordinary, normal, insignificant eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby blues, guard, propensity, eyen face: (adj, n, v) front; (v) confront, audacity; (n, v) look, aspect, top; (n) side, expression, countenance, exterior, facade. ANTONYMS: (n, v) back; (n) timidity, nobody, underside, shyness, rear; (v) evade, elude, hide, withdraw, submit faculties: (n) mother wit
All's Well That Ends Well fail: (adj, v) fade, decline, cease; (v) abort, die, break, bust, want, disappoint, deteriorate, default. ANTONYMS: (v) succeed, triumph, win, thrive, procure, accomplish, achieve, attain, boom, complete, continue failed: (adj) unsuccessful, failing, abortive, bankrupt, fruitless, futile, declining, deteriorating, ineffective, insolvent fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready, favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly; (v) optative fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet, reasonable, dispassionate, average, fine, impartial; (adj, v) bright; (adj, adv) clean; (n) blonde. ANTONYMS: (adj) biased, unjust, exceptional, dark, partial, mismatched, unwarranted, foul, imbalanced, prejudiced, poor faith: (n) confidence, belief, conviction, trust, credence, credit, creed, assurance, cult, expectation, dependence. ANTONYMS: (n) disbelief, distrust, dubiosity, skepticism, despair, uncertainty, doubt, independence faithfully: (adv) exactly, accurately, sincerely, staunchly, precisely, truly, authentically, dutifully, literally, steadfastly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unfaithfully, approximately, falsely, insincerely, carelessly, inaccurately fall: (n, v) decline, dip, rain, decrease, plunge, dive; (n) downfall, descent, autumn; (v) descend, sink. ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase, win, climb, triumph; (n) ascent, improvement, rising; (v) ascend, advance, conquer, elevate fallen: (adj) drop, decline, prostrate, flat, destroyed, down, lapsed, alight, degenerate, lose, get. ANTONYMS: (adj) esteemed, honorable, honored, lauded, prestigious falls: (n) cataract, waterfall, chute, angel, torrent, Victoria, twin, force, body of water, Guaira, Niagara false: (adj, n) bastard; (adj, adv) counterfeit, deceitful; (adj) untrue, dishonest, erroneous, sham, assumed, artificial, fictitious, deceptive. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, genuine, faithful, factual, correct, natural, truthful, honest, valid, just, loyal falsely: (adv) incorrectly, fraudulently, deceptively,
dishonestly, wrongly, erroneously, misleadingly, deceitfully, unfaithfully, spuriously, fictitiously. ANTONYMS: (adv) honestly, truthfully, faithfully, authentically, correctly, naturally, rightly fame: (n, v) credit, celebrity, report, reputation, renown, cry; (n) distinction, bruit, honor, prestige, buzz. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, obscurity, anonymity, ignominy, dishonor, commonness, oblivion, criticism familiar: (adj) conversant, everyday, usual, ordinary, commonplace; (adj, n) customary, common, intimate, habitual, accustomed; (n) companion. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, strange, foreign, unaccustomed, new, unknown, ignorant, formal, shy, rare, distant familiarity: (adj, n) acquaintance; (n) intimacy, closeness, experience, casualness, conversancy, knowledge, conversance, naturalness, nearness, friendship. ANTONYMS: (n) unfamiliarity, formality, abnormality, distance, animosity famous: (adj) celebrated, splendid, distinguished, renowned, illustrious, famed, capital, prominent, well-known, fine, stunning. ANTONYMS: (adj) infamous, ordinary, anonymous, insignificant, obscure, inglorious, undistinguished fancy: (n, v) desire, fantasy, caprice, dream, wish, daydream; (v) imagine, consider; (adj, v) conceive; (n) conception, conceit. ANTONYMS: (n) reality, certainty, actuality, conviction; (adj) unadorned, common; (v) hate, demonstrate, detest, disapprove, test fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment, board, table, charge, chow, menu, traveller; (v) come, eat. ANTONYM: (v) stop farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, salutation, welcome fashion: (n) mode, craze, fad, manner, method, way; (n, v) cut, construct, style; (v) contrive, make. ANTONYM: (v) destroy fated: (adj) inevitable, destined, certain, predestined, damned, unavoidable, predestinate, cursed, intended, forthcoming, sure
William Shakespeare father: (n) dad, begetter, creator, abba, patriarch, beginner, founder, padre; (n, v) sire; (v) engender, generate. ANTONYMS: (n) disciple, follower fathom: (n, v) plumb; (v) penetrate, discern, bottom, understand, comprehend, know, make out, measure; (n) probe, gauge. ANTONYMS: (v) confuse, misunderstand, Miss fault: (adj, n, v) deficiency; (n) error, blot, delinquency, flaw, break, blunder; (adj, n) failing, blemish; (n, v) blame, crime. 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, consternation, care, anguish; (n, v) apprehension, doubt, concern, reverence. ANTONYMS: (n) fearlessness, reassurance, confidence, courage, valor, calm, boldness, security, equanimity, peace; (v) brave fears: (n) worries, uncertainties, doubts, qualms, misgivings feather: (n) pen, feathering, pinion, nib, plumage, quill, kind, spline; (n, v) plume; (adj, n, v) fringe; (v) fledge feathers: (n) plumage, fur, indument, garment, garb, fine hair, clothing, dress, apparel, attire, array feed: (v) eat, dine, browse, encourage, board, diet, nourish, fatten; (n, v) nurture, provender; (n) aliment. ANTONYMS: (v) thwart, crave, desire, sap feel: (v) experience, finger, handle, consider, find; (n, v) sense, sound; (n) feeling, texture, atmosphere, air. ANTONYMS: (v) observe, doubt, question, mistrust, ignore, disregard, disbelieve, challenge fellow: (adj, n) comrade, associate; (n) boy, equal, brother, peer, chap, colleague, compeer, buddy; (adj, n, v) concomitant. ANTONYMS: (n) female, woman, girl, foe, enemy, antagonist, competitor fellows: (n) fellow, membership, faculty felt: (v) mat, tangle, snarl, braid, entangle, lace, perceive; (adj) sensed, perceived, conscious, sensible fervour: (n) ardour, fervidness, fervency, fervor, ardor, enthusiasm,
eagerness, zest, elan, ardency, fire fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, get, attract; (adj, n) feint field: (n) area, battlefield, ground, place, domain, discipline, range, realm, battleground, section, compass fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, v) fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, passionless, dispassionate, indifferent, placid, gentle, cool; (adv) easygoing 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. ANTONYMS: (n, v) withdrawal, retreat; (n) fear, surrender, agreement; (v) compromise, favor, submit figure: (n, v) form, design, cast, estimate, shape, image; (v) count, cipher; (adj, n) appearance; (n) character, cost. ANTONYM: (v) estimate file: (n) document, roll, series; (v) rasp, order, scrape; (n, v) list, procession, string, record; (adj, n) rank. ANTONYM: (v) blunt files: (n) archives fill: (v) block, clog, stuff, line, charge, execute, accomplish, complete, brim, fulfill; (n) crowd. ANTONYMS: (v) empty, free, deplete, unpack, unload, notch, deflate, desert filthy: (adj) unclean, dingy, nasty, foul, disgusting, squalid, bawdy, muddy, grimy, grubby, vile. ANTONYMS: (adj) decent, pleasant, attractive find: (v) catch, detect, encounter, come across, feel, attain, ascertain; (n) detection, disclosure, search, discovery. ANTONYMS: (v) misplace, search, fail; (n) loss fine: (adj) delicate, dainty, agreeable, nice, thin, elegant, capital, excellent, brave; (n) penalty; (v) punish. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, thick, wide, coarse, unsatisfactory, substantial, wretched, unpleasant, unimpressive, dark, cloudy finger: (v) feel, handle, touch, thumb, indicate, point; (n) digit, dactyl, forefinger, pointer; (n, v) hand. ANTONYM: (v) clear fire: (v) eject, dismiss, kindle, ignite;
161 (n, v) discharge, blaze, flame, explode; (n) ardor, conflagration, fervor. ANTONYMS: (v) hire, defuse, deflate, employ, dampen, detain; (n) laziness fish: (n) bird, eel, fishing, Pisces, anchovy, chondrichthian, alewife, shellfish; (v) seek, hunt, pursue fishpond: (n) pond, dew pond, pool fistula: (n) canal, sinus, pipe, passage, fistulas, vessel, fistule, fistulous withers, gut, tubule fitness: (n) adequacy, propriety, aptness, appropriateness, capability, physical fitness, correspondence, health, fittingness, correctness, convenience. ANTONYMS: (n) unsuitability, inability, unfitness, illness fits: (v) epilepsy, bustle, racket, fuss, hubbub, megrims, rout, subsultus, staggers fitter: (n) adjuster, machinist, sartor, cutter, mounter, erector; (adj) suitable, healthier five: (n) fives, quintuplet, quint, Phoebe, basketball team, fin, squad, ace, digit; (adj, n) v; (adj) quinary flame: (adj, n) fire, sweetheart; (adj, v) burn, glow; (n, v) flash; (n) ardour, burning, fervor, enthusiasm, combustion, sheen flames: (n) fire, blaze, firestorm, hellhole flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, frame, person, mankind, humanity, meat fleshes: (n) flesh flight: (adj, n) herd, flying, bevy, drove; (n) escape, run, exodus, evasion, elopement, departure; (n, v) avolation flinch: (v) cower, quail, recoil, recede, blench, shrink; (n, v) cringe, start, retreat, jump, jerk flinty: (adj) rocky, unyielding, grim, unfeeling, stern, stony, severe, hard, cruel, obdurate, heartless florence: (n) Firenze flourish: (n, v) display; (v) thrive, prosper, boast, wave, brag, wield, boom, grow; (adj, v) bloom; (adv, v) shake. ANTONYMS: (v) decline, struggle, deteriorate, wilt, pine, fade, flounder, decrease, dwindle flourishes: (n) added extras, trappings, superfluities, trimmings, accompaniments, additions, embellishments follow: (v) chase, adopt, adhere, succeed, accompany, abide by,
162 comprehend, ensue, track; (adj, v) catch, grasp. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, lead, head, disobey, deny, ignore, misunderstand, predate, exceed, defy, break follower: (n) backer, devotee, fan, admirer, adherent, cohort, apostle, partisan, believer, attendant; (adj) lover. ANTONYMS: (n) detractor, rebel, superior, disbeliever, cynic, leader folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity, craziness, density, freak; (adj, n) irrationality, trifling. ANTONYM: (n) sense fond: (adj) affectionate, caring, devoted, tender, loving, amorous, delicate, adoring, doting, ardent, attached. ANTONYMS: (adj) aversion, cold, rough fondness: (n) affection, attachment, love, taste, regard, appetite, tenderness, partiality, endearment, liking, relish. ANTONYMS: (n) aversion, indifference, neglect, antipathy, detachment, hatred fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown, idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v) deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull. ANTONYM: (n) savant foolery: (n) folly, tomfoolery, foolishness, buffoonery, clowning, inanity, romp, gambol, frolic, imbecility, lunacy foolhardy: (adj) rash, audacious, reckless, bold, unwise, presumptuous, hasty, desperate, brash, madcap; (adj, n) adventurous. ANTONYMS: (adj) wary, cautious, careful, cowardly, sensible, slow foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy, dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly. ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible, shrewd, prudent, visionary, diplomatic, levelheaded, sane, rational, mature, judicious foot: (n) base, feet, foundation, footing, pes, paw, basis, leg, measure; (v) hoof, pay. ANTONYMS: (v) owe; (n) head forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, authorize, stand force: (n, v) drive, squeeze, pressure, thrust; (n) energy, strength, agency; (v) coerce, push, press, compel. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, ineffectiveness, inertia, apathy,
All's Well That Ends Well moderation; (v) request, wheedle, pull, push, restrain, prevent fore: (adv) ahead, before; (adj, adv) forward; (n) bow, head, forefront, stem; (adj, n) front; (adj) anterior, foremost, frontal. ANTONYMS: (adv) aft, behind, rear; (adj) back forefinger: (n) index finger, index, forefingers, paw, thumb, hand, exponent, antenna, feeler forehead: (n) brow, front, foreland, lineament, mut, phiz, physiognomy, visage, eyebrow, skull; (adv) foremost foreign: (adj) extraneous, extrinsic, alien, exterior, external, exotic, strange, oversea, adventitious, unfamiliar, stranger. ANTONYMS: (adj) familiar, domestic, internal, relevant, national, natural forfeit: (n) penalty, deprivation, cost; (v) abandon, forgo, relinquish, waive; (n, v) sacrifice, pawn; (adj) confiscate, lost. ANTONYMS: (n) retention; (v) claim, redeem, receive, maintain forfeited: (adj) forfeit, lost, disfranchised, confiscated, appropriated, condemned forget: (v) leave, miss, blank out, bury, to forget, overlook, neglect, ignore, fail, unlearn, abandon. ANTONYMS: (v) mind, attend forgiven: (v) conciliatory, placable forgotten: (adj) lost, disregarded, elapsed, past, abandoned, gone, Gone With the Wind, irrecoverable, lapsed, disoriented, no more. ANTONYM: (adj) remembered forsake: (v) abandon, ditch, relinquish, abdicate, fail, leave, forgo, chuck, disclaim; (n, v) drop; (adj, v) quit. ANTONYM: (v) support forth: (adv) away, along, onward, ahead, before, on, off, on the high road, on the road, on the way, under way fortunate: (adj) favorable, lucky, auspicious, advantageous, favored, happy, prosperous, fortuitous, well, successful; (adj, n) blessed. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, disadvantaged, disastrous, unfavorable, underprivileged, inauspicious, unenviable, unsatisfactory fortune: (n) estate, fate, fluke, destiny, luck, accident, means, assets, riches, abundance, doom. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) backward; (adj) posterior, timid, reverse, abashed, late, formal; (adv) behind, rearward, back, aft foul: (adj, v) nasty, base, corrupt, coarse; (adj) filthy, disgusting, evil, unclean, putrid; (n, v) defile, soil. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure; (adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive, humane, attractive, honest, pleasing, fragrant; (v) unclog foully: (adv) filthily, vilely, uncleanly, nastily, sordidly, squalidly, offensively, grossly, dingily, revoltingly; (adv, v) shamefully. ANTONYM: (adv) attractively found: (v) erect, build, base, form, construct, constitute, appoint, institute, set up, create, ground. ANTONYMS: (v) abolish, disband; (adj) lost four: (n) quaternary, foursome, tetrad, quaternion, quadruplet, square, quarter, quad, air, age of man; (adj, n) IV fourteen: (adj, n) XIV fourth: (adv) fourthly; (n) interval, third, after part, common fraction, fourth part, quartern, second; (adj) quaternary frame: (n, v) construct, design, fabricate, make, fashion, border, build, forge; (v) draft, erect, contrive france: (n) Frances, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, regional operations in Germany, Anatole France frank: (adj) candid, blunt, sincere, honest, downright, direct, fair, straightforward, plain, open, hearty. ANTONYMS: (adj) guarded, devious, tactful, disingenuous, insincere, hesitant, hypocritical, evasive free: (adj, v) exempt, liberate, discharge; (adj, adv, v) loose; (v) excuse, extricate, relieve, disentangle, ease; (adj, n) frank; (adj) liberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) restricted, imprisoned, repressive, secure, strict, stuck, confined, tangled, compelled, dependent; (v) confine freely: (adv) loosely, frankly, openly, generously, independently,
William Shakespeare gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, free, sparely; (adj, adv) spontaneously. ANTONYMS: (adv) reluctantly, deceitfully, accurately, meagerly, parsimoniously, secretly, stingily, unwillingly; (adj) restricted french: (adj) Gallic, Frankish, Gallican, Gallian; (v) to take French leave; (n) Frenchman, romance language, French people, Daniel Chester French, profanity, the French frenchman: (n) French person, Gaul, frog, Norman, Parisian, Frenchwoman, savoyard, Breton, Angevine, Angevin, monsieur fresh: (adj) clean, bracing, novel, bright, recent, original, airy, bold, pure, green; (adj, v) brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) stale, decayed, hot, tired, worn, rotten, off, musty, muggy, humid, exhausted fresher: (n) fresh, lowerclassman, underclassman, neophyte, fledgeling, entrant, fledgling friar: (n) monk, conventual, cenobite, abbot, monastic, palmer, pilgrim, lay brother, religious, prior, beadsman friend: (adj, n) associate, comrade, companion, fellow, ally; (n) acquaintance, colleague, boyfriend, crony, brother, mate. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfriendly, distant, disagreeable, aggressive, aloof, formal, frosty, belligerent, curt, reserved, impersonal friends: (n) circle, associates, connections, links, support group, acquaintances fruitfully: (adv) prolifically, beneficially, richly, plentifully, prolificly, effectively, fertilely, lucratively, plenteously, fecundly, bountifully. ANTONYM: (adv) fruitlessly full: (adj, n) complete, absolute, entire; (adj) abundant, flush, broad, extensive, ample, total, enough; (adj, adv, n) crowded. ANTONYMS: (adj) lacking, starving, hungry, sketchy, incomplete, thin, deserted, partial, restricted, weak; (v) wane fundamental: (adj, n) essential; (n) base, basis, root; (adj) cardinal, key, basic, rudimentary, elementary,
chief, significant. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor, advanced, trivial, unimportant, superfluous, subsequent, peripheral, marginal, irrelevant, actual, special furies: (n) Eumenides furnish: (v) afford, provide, contribute, render, offer, accommodate, supply, outfit, yield, decorate; (n, v) give. ANTONYM: (v) divest further: (adj, adv) farther, more; (v) advance, encourage, foster, forward; (adj) extra, additional; (n, v) promote; (adv) again, also. ANTONYMS: (v) impede, thwart, discourage, damage, regress, deteriorate, prevent, hinder; (adj) near future: (adj) unborn, prospective, coming, intended, to come, potential, impending, approaching; (n) hereafter, fate, time to come. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, earlier, near, nearby gabble: (adj, n, v) babble; (v) chatter, cackle, chat, blab, chitchat, maunder, clack, palaver; (n, v) jabber, twaddle gain: (n, v) profit, benefit, win, catch, advance; (v) derive, earn, get, attain, reach; (n) earnings. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, deficit, disadvantage, setback; (n, v) decrease; (v) reduce, scatter, collapse gait: (n, v) pace, step, tread, footstep, rate, stride, action; (n) walk, carriage, movement, velocity galen: (n) Hippocrates gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, selfish gamester: (n) sportsman, player, reveler, dicer, hazarder garments: (n) attire, clothing, dress, apparel, raiment, outfit, costume, garb, array, gear, anything worthless garter: (n) cestus, halter, running knot, surcingle, noose, knot, lasso, suspender, star, wreath, crown gate: (n) door, mouth, entry, doorway, port, exit, goal, barrier, approach, inlet, threshold gather: (n, v) fold, tuck; (v) convene, garner, congregate, compile, assemble, accumulate, collect, meet, flock. ANTONYMS: (v) disperse, scatter, spread, distribute, disband, decrease, part, smooth gave: (v) deliver, allow, allot,
163 provide, furnish, impart, administer; (n) gives general: (adj, v) common, frequent; (adj) comprehensive, national, universal, ecumenical, current, commonplace, public; (n) chief, commander. 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. ANTONYMS: (adv) rarely, specifically, locally, occasionally, particularly, unusually gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind, affable, balmy, mild, feeble, compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) tame. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, loud, fierce, caustic, violent, rough, hardhearted, abrupt, heavy, steep, sheer gentleman: (n) gent, Mr, male, patrician, sir, adult male, esquire, sahib, gentlemen; (adj) gentilhomme, gentlemanly gentlemen: (n) sirs, messieurs gentlewoman: (n) lady, madam, dame, woman, noblewoman, doll, bird, adult female, noble, chick, ma'am gentry: (n) aristocracy, gentility, gentlefolk, nobility, elite, peerage, squirearchy, second estate, society, upper class german: (n) German language, Jerry, Teuton, Hun, Yiddish, High German; (adj) Teutonic, Germanic; (adj, n) Alman getting: (n) acquiring, reception, acquisition, attainment, contracting, appropriation, taking, reaching; (prep) receiving; (v) acquire, receive. ANTONYM: (n) rejection gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty, ability, talent; (n) donation, flair, bestowal; (n, v) award, present, boon; (adj, n) capacity. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, forfeiture, failing gifts: (n) money, generosity, contributions, charity, caliber, aid, munificence, bounty. ANTONYM: (n) meanness give: (v) extend, commit, donate, endow, contribute, dispense, deliver, convey, grant; (adj, v) bestow, accord. ANTONYMS: (v)
164 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) taken, unwilling gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, accord glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay, blithe, delighted, festive, content, delightful, genial, bright, willing. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, apologetic, dismayed, unwilling, disappointed, sorry gladly: (adv, v) happily; (adv) gleefully, contentedly, cheerfully, fain, joyfully, jovially, cheerily, delightedly, gladsomely, readily. ANTONYMS: (adv) reluctantly, unwillingly, sadly, resentfully, miserably gloss: (adj, n, v) polish; (n, v) glaze, comment, burnish, veneer, shine, color; (v) annotate; (n) brightness, annotation, finish. ANTONYMS: (v) overemphasize, exaggerate glove: (n) boxing glove, gloves, mitt, mitten, baseball mitt, baseball glove, handwear, wristband, sleeve, mittens, batting glove goaded: (adj) provoked, forced, motivated, unvoluntary, aggravated, compulsive, determined, involuntary goddess: (n) divinity, God, beauty, nymph; (adj, n) idol; (adj) duck, darling, angel, Dulcinea, ladylove, inamorata gods: (n) gallery going: (n) exit, leaving, parting, expiration, disappearance, action; (v) go, course, to go; (adj) working, running. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, Reunion gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth, bullion, treasure, yellow, amber; (adj) aureate, gilt, golden gone: (adj, prep) past; (adj) deceased, bygone, departed, desperate, lost, late; (adj, v) exhausted, extinct; (adj, adv) absent, away. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, remaining, found, alive goodly: (adv) benignly, kindly, strongly, rightly, graciously, virtuously, soundly, uprightly; (adj) sizable, handsome, respectable goodness: (adj, n) generosity, kindness, gentleness; (n) good, excellence, benefit, virtue, worth,
All's Well That Ends Well morality; (adj) favor, beneficence. ANTONYMS: (n) evil, wickedness, badness, corruptness, bad, immorality, corruption gown: (n) robe, clothing, cassock, vestment, wrapper, overclothes, outerwear, uniform, tunic, clothes; (v) clothe grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, embellish, beautify, decorate, embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, demean gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, courteous, compassionate, kind, accommodating, civil; (adj, n) benevolent, congenial, gentle. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, reject, refuse, maintain, prohibit, disagree, retrieve, take, withhold, withdraw granted: (adj, v) assumed; (adj) fixed, approved, settled, privileged, legal, decided, acknowledged, arranged; (v) disposed; (adv) yes grape: (n) grapes, grapevine, vine, raisin, table grape, muscadine, fox grape, edible fruit, common grape vine, bullace grape grapes: (v) clam, chupatty, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, chowder; (n) vintage grass: (v) denounce, betray; (n) forage, cannabis, hay, pasture, fink, sward, pasturage; (adj, n) green, marijuana. ANTONYM: (n) patriot gratitude: (n) appreciation, thanks, thank, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, appreciativeness, feeling, appreciate, grateful, thanksgiving, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) ingratitude, ungratefulness grave: (adj) solemn, serious, critical, earnest, dangerous, sedate, sad, grand; (adj, v) severe, acute; (v) engrave. ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous, funny, cheerful, carefree, slight, nonchalant, trivial, stable, minor, insignificant, favorable great: (adj) eminent, gigantic, big, distinguished, large, extensive,
extreme, grand, chief, ample, massive. ANTONYMS: (adj) awful, insignificant, tiny, mild, poor, minor, useless, ordinary, slight, weak, unknown greater: (adj) larger, more, major, higher, superior, most, great, bigger, increased, considerable, not inconsiderable. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, smaller, small, lower greatest: (adj) top, superlative, biggest, utmost, largest, extreme, first; (adj, n) maximum, most; (adj, v) paramount, supreme. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, secondary greatly: (adv) badly, enormously, considerably, extremely, highly, vastly, immensely, mightily, hugely; (adj, adv) far, deeply. ANTONYMS: (adv) mildly, hardly, superficially, poorly, lightly, insignificantly, barely, moderately greatness: (n) excellence, dimension, dignity, bulk, size, enormousness, bigness, enormity, grandness, magnitude, fame. ANTONYMS: (n) obscurity, austerity, commonness, mildness, moderation, simplicity greeting: (n) welcome, salutation, address, greet, compliments, acknowledgment, accost, hello, hullo, nod; (v) salute. ANTONYM: (n) goodbye grief: (adj, n, v) affliction; (n) dolor, anguish, distress, agony, pain, wound, chagrin, concern; (n, v) regret; (adj) sore. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, happiness, comfort, content, peace groan: (n, v) grumble, murmur, cry, sigh, mutter, squeak, rumble, scrape; (v) howl, complain; (n) complaint groats: (n) shred, grain, barley groats, cereal, food grain, shelling gross: (adj) coarse, boorish, big, crude, fat, common, blunt, disgusting, bulky; (n) aggregate; (adj, v) foul. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, small, remaining, refined, tiny, partial, delicate, cultivated, chaste, sensitive; (v) lose grossly: (adv) rudely, roughly, commonly, heavily, bluntly, disgustingly, shamefully, rankly, totally, uncouthly, obscenely. ANTONYM: (adv) appealingly ground: (n, v) base, land, floor; (v) found, establish; (adj, n, v) bottom; (n) earth, reason, field, soil, dirt. ANTONYMS: (n) sea, figure; (v) launch, top
William Shakespeare grounds: (n) cause, reason, account, basis, motive, justification, foundation, evidence, field, rationale; (adj, n) dregs. ANTONYM: (n) effect grow: (v) expand, advance, augment, enlarge, come, emerge, spring, become, farm, turn, get. ANTONYMS: (v) decrease, weaken, shrink, decline, drop, collapse, struggle, wane, plummet, dwindle, deteriorate guarded: (adj) wary, careful, chary, circumspect, cagey, vigilant, watchful, conditional, discreet, gingerly, conservative. ANTONYMS: (adj) frank, careless, trusting, reckless, open, unwary, natural guess: (n, v) surmise, estimate, forecast; (v) suppose, deem, reckon, divine, believe, foretell; (n) assumption, supposition guide: (n, v) escort, conduct, govern, channel, control, usher, cicerone; (n) directory, attendant; (v) drive, bring. ANTONYM: (v) follow guiding: (adj) scouting, directive, leading, controlling, guidance, directional, guide, direction, management, steering, sovereign guilty: (adj) culpable, faulty, wicked, hangdog, criminal, chargeable, sinful, blameworthy; (n) guilt, culprit; (adj, v) condemned. ANTONYMS: (adj) blameless, aggressive, proud hair: (n) coat, coma, haircloth, pile, locks, filament, fleece, fur, hairbreadth, down, forelock half: (adj) moiety, part, short, defective; (n) semi, mediety, halve, division, piece, first half; (adv) partly. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) all; (adj) fully, complete hand: (v) give, pass, commit, bestow, afford, communicate, consign; (n) deal, worker, aid, applause. ANTONYMS: (n) boss, foot; (v) take hands: (n) custody, keeping, personnel, safekeeping, hold, shift, workforce, men, manpower, guardianship, full complement handsome: (adj) fair, beautiful, fine, generous, charming, comely, attractive, bountiful, considerable, bonny, prepossessing. ANTONYMS: (adj) ugly, unattractive, meager, ungenerous, measly, plain hang: (adj, n, v) suspend; (v) dangle, depend, drape, float, fall, hover, append, string up; (n, v) delay; (adj)
hung haply: (adv) accidentally, by accident, maybe, by luck, casually, fortuitously, mayhap, perchance, incidentally, perhaps, peradventure happen: (n, v) betide; (v) arise, befall, develop, go, come, fall, chance, come about, occur, get. ANTONYM: (v) disappear happily: (adv) fortunately, joyously, joyfully, merrily, luckily, gladly, blissfully, cheerfully, felicitously, providentially, successfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) miserably, unhappily, sadly, unfortunately, unsuccessfully, reluctantly, gloomily, discontentedly, despondently, negatively, grudgingly happiness: (n) delight, merriment, ecstasy, welfare, gladness, luck, cheerfulness, blessedness, bliss, felicity, contentment. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) sad, depressed, dejected, sorrowful, miserable, unlucky, sorry, reluctant, irritable, unfortunately, gloomy hard: (adj, n) austere, rough; (adj, v) grave, severe, acute; (adj) bad, difficult, strong, callous, cruel, tough. ANTONYMS: (adj) easy, kind, soggy, tender, merciful, yielding, simple; (adv) lightly, gently, lackadaisically; (adj, adv) flexible hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look harm: (adj, n, v) damage, hurt; (adj, n) evil, detriment, injury; (n, v) abuse, wound, blemish, disadvantage; (n) bruise; (adj, v) injure. ANTONYMS: (n, v) benefit, respect, help; (n) reparation, service; (v) enable, spoil, protect, defend, repair harsh: (adj, v) sharp, bitter; (adj, n) grating, coarse, austere, discordant; (adj) grim, cruel, crude, unkind, stern. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, soft, harmonious, pleasant, lenient, kind, melodious, sweet, mild, lush, friendly haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch,
165 rush; (n) celerity, expedition, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, patience, forethought, caution hasten: (adj, n, v) speed, quicken; (v) expedite, advance, hurry, hie, dash, rush; (n, v) further, forward, dispatch. ANTONYMS: (v) linger, retard, amble hate: (v) abhor, detest, loathe, abominate; (n) enmity, abhorrence, detestation, hatred, animosity, antipathy, aversion. ANTONYMS: (n, v) like; (v) adore, cherish, admire; (n) attraction, liking, delight, adoration hater: (n) individual, someone, somebody, person, human, mortal, soul, misanthrope, loather, francophobe, abominator having: (n) estate, possession, acceptance, enjoyment hawking: (v) angling, fishing, peddle, shooting; (n) Stephen hawking, colportage, peddlery, vendition, Stephen William hawking, vending hazard: (n, v) chance, venture, endanger, peril, adventure, bet, wager; (n) danger, fortune, jeopardy, accident. ANTONYMS: (n) safety, security; (v) protect head: (n) captain, boss, froth, foam, crown, chieftain; (n, v) point, lead; (adj, n, v) front; (v) capital, direct. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) subordinate; (n) end, beginning, foot, mouth, rear, tail, body, underling, base; (adj) minor heads: (n) conspectus, contents, prospectus, syllabus, synopsis, public, textbook, people, outlines, head stick headsman: (n) headman, executioner, hangman, chieftain health: (n) condition, fitness, welfare, pledge, strength, form, hygiene, sanitation, salubrity, shape; (adj) sanitary healthful: (adj) healthy, hale, salubrious, beneficial, hygienic, sanitary, wholesome, salutary, remedial, good, nourishing. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhealthful, unsanitary, unhealthy hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out, discover, understand, apprehend, hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj) heard heard: (n) hearing hearing: (n) audition, ear, auditory sense, trial, consultation, reach, auscultation, inquiry; (n, v) earshot,
166 sound; (adj, n) audience hears: (v) hear heart: (adj, n) core, gist, marrow; (n) spirit, center, essence, basis, kernel, crux, breast, hub. ANTONYMS: (n) body, surface heartily: (adv) cordially, sincerely, enthusiastically, warmly, strongly, earnestly, vigorously, ardently, soundly, devoutly, eagerly. ANTONYMS: (adv) feebly, languorously hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades heat: (adj, n) fever, excitement, passion; (v) bake, burn; (n) warmth, fervor, summer, estrus; (n, v) fire; (adj) flush. ANTONYMS: (n) cold, chill, coldness, anestrus, apathy, coolness, dryness, indifference heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, miserable, infernal, hellish, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial sphere, space, skies, area, vault of heaven heavy: (adj, n) dull; (adj) deep, fat, dense, grave, dark, full, gross, thick, bulky; (adj, adv) hard. ANTONYMS: (adj) slim, easy, thin, slight, skinny, puny, gentle, insubstantial, animated, nimble, entertaining heed: (n, v) consideration, concern, regard, mind, attention, notice; (n) caution, advertence, advertency; (v) attend, hear. ANTONYMS: (n, v) disregard; (n) inattentiveness heel: (n) blackguard, dog, counter, cad, villain, scoundrel, shoe, sole, bounder, tree rest; (v) lean height: (n) apex, crest, altitude, pinnacle, peak, top, culmination, level, zenith, summit, climax. ANTONYMS: (n) shortness, nadir, depth, trough, deepness, base, dip held: (adj) absorbed, confined, kept, apprehended, seized, supposed, reputed, tenable, thought, trapped; (v) detain helen: (n) Helen of Troy hellish: (adj, v) diabolic, satanic; (adj) infernal, diabolical, fiendish, demonic, beastly, wicked, unholy, detestable; (v) mephistophelian
All's Well That Ends Well help: (n, v) assist, assistance, support, benefit, favor, avail, cure, assistant; (v) facilitate, ease, alleviate. ANTONYMS: (n) hindrance, detriment, interference, damage, disadvantage, disservice, manager; (v) worsen, aggravate, halt, hurt helper: (n, v) assistant, aid, assistance; (n) acolyte, attendant, ally, associate, supporter, colleague, auxiliary, coadjutor. ANTONYMS: (n) detractor, enemy 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 herald: (n) forerunner, courier, messenger; (v) declare, foretell, announce, bode, proclaim, introduce, foreshadow; (n, v) augur. ANTONYMS: (v) follow; (n) successor heraldry: (n) blazon, blazonry, bearing, crest, emblem, charge, research, inquiry, coat of arms, heraldic bearing, enquiry herb: (n) plant, wort, herbage, amaranth, cottonweed, agueweed, drypis, dittany, dill, digitalis, dayflower hercules: (adj, n) atlas; (n) atlantes, Caryatides, Samson, Alcides, giant, Goliath, Herakles, Cyclops, Persides; (adj) superman herd: (n, v) crowd; (adj) bevy, many; (adj, n, v) swarm; (n) drove, gang, crew, collection, covey, multitude, mob hereafter: (adv) thereafter, from now on, hence, henceforth, hereinafter, afterwards; (n) afterlife, futurity, time to come, great beyond, future life heritage: (n) bequest, heirloom, birthright, legacy, patrimony, estate, dower, heirship, tradition, appanage, ancestry hers: (pron) she, his; (adj) own herself: (adj) oneself, self, himself, myself, yourself, yourselves, themselves, ourselves, itself hesperus: (n) Hesper, Vesper, evening star hide: (n, v) cover, disguise, shelter, veil; (adj, v) obscure; (n) fur, fell, coat; (v) bury, mask; (adj, n, v) darken. ANTONYMS: (v) show,
expose, express, divulge, unearth, amplify, advertise, clarify hideous: (adj) dreadful, frightful, fearful, ghastly, horrid, ugly, repulsive, lurid, horrible, grisly, grim. ANTONYMS: (adj) lovely, pleasant, beautiful, wonderful high: (adj, v) elevated; (adj) great, expensive, distinguished, lofty, tall, exalted, heavy, dear; (n) chief; (v) bad. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) low; (adj) deep, short, sober, reasonable, sad, resonant, lowly, husky, unimportant; (n) depression higher: (adj) greater, upper, major, senior, over, more, better, advanced, bigger; (prep) above, upon. ANTONYMS: (adj) basic, junior, lower highest: (adj, n) most; (adj) best, chief, foremost, first, supreme, topmost, extreme, utmost, top, uppermost. ANTONYMS: (adj) bottom, minor highly: (adv) greatly, extremely, much, loftily, exceedingly, mightily, eminently, toweringly, too, largely; (adj, adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adv) insignificantly, poorly, simply, slightly, ill highness: (n) excellency, altitude, loftiness, nobility, greatness, eminence, size, stateliness, majesty, high, grandeur himself: (pron) herself, themselves, yourself, itself; (adj) myself; (n) yourselves hind: (adj, n) rear; (adj) after, posterior, hindermost; (n) doe, clown, peasant, roe, countryman, servant; (v) hinder hinder: (v) impede, resist, check, hamper, obstruct, curb, handicap, delay; (n, v) bar; (adj) posterior, hind. ANTONYMS: (v) help, facilitate, assist, prompt, encourage, promote, allow, support, accelerate hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither hold: (n, v) keep, grip, grasp, entertain; (v) endure, detain, adhere, bear, have, contain, comprise. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, disagree, lose, free, deny, remove, lack; (n) separation, repulsion hole: (adj, n) gap; (n) aperture, den, hollow, crack, pocket, break, lair, pit, fix, depression. ANTONYMS: (n) mansion, mend holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly, religious, blessed, hallowed, spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv)
William Shakespeare saintly; (adv) sacredly. ANTONYMS: (adj) irreligious, unholy home: (n) domicile, abode, house, residence, base, place, dwelling, family, habitation; (adj) domestic; (adj, n) household. ANTONYMS: (adj) external, national, public, away, foreign; (adv) out homely: (adj) plain, common, rustic, artless, home, snug, homelike, domestic; (adj, adv) ugly; (adv) plainly, simplely. ANTONYMS: (adj) sophisticated, striking, uncomfortable, bleak honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere, good, equitable, artless, heartfelt, guileless, frank, forthright, faithful. ANTONYMS: (adj) lying, misleading, guarded, corrupt, disloyal, unwholesome, discourteous, disreputable, fictional, crafty, crooked honestly: (adj, adv) justly, sincerely, candidly, fairly, genuinely, really; (adv) openly, directly, faithfully, plainly, truthfully. ANTONYMS: (adv) misleadingly, deceitfully, unfairly, insincerely, hesitantly, untruthfully, guardedly, ambiguously, politely honesty: (adj, n) candor, justice, fidelity, equity; (n) integrity, fairness, candidness, probity, frankness, rectitude, faith. 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. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dishonor; (v) disrespect honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, venerable, glorious, honorable, distinguished, aboveboard, good, worthy, right, noble honours: (n) first, honors, degree, academic degree hoodwink: (v) beguile, bamboozle, cheat, fool, deceive, delude, gull, take in, betray, swindle, mislead hope: (n, v) trust, desire; (n) aspiration, faith, belief, expectation, confidence, expectancy, anticipation; (v) confide, anticipate. ANTONYMS: (n) reality, past,
pessimism, distrust, independence hoping: (adj) desirous, expectant, optimistic, eager 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 host: (n) horde, flock, army, mob, troop, multitude, throng, emcee, mass, swarm; (adj, n) legion. ANTONYMS: (n) guest, few hour: (n) clock, o'clock, hours, time, hr, term, nonce, moment, occasion, dawn, dusk hourly: (adv) always, by the hour, daily, often, constantly, continually, frequently; (adj) horary, continual, ephemeral; (n) an hour 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. ANTONYM: (adj) public housewife: (n) homemaker, mistress, housekeeper, matron, wife, hostess, hussif, dame, woman of the house, lady of the house, busy bee humble: (v) demean, humiliate, mortify; (n, v) disgrace, debase; (adj, n, v) abase; (adj) base, lowly, unassuming, docile, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) impressive, arrogant, haughty, imposing, conceited, pompous, snooty, overbearing, presumptuous, proud, exalted 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. ANTONYM: (n) pride humbly: (adv) lowly, meanly, modestly, submissively, low, shyly, lowlily, naturally, regretfully, remorsefully, repentantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) conceitedly,
167 haughtily, pompously, ostentatiously, unrepentantly, affluently, brashly, pretentiously humility: (n) diffidence, modesty, submission, shyness, meekness, lowliness, timidity, trait, humiliation, resignation; (adj) veneration. ANTONYMS: (n) haughtiness, affectation, conceit, arrogance hundred: (adj) a hundred, one hundred, many; (adj, n) c; (n) cent, centred, riding, lathe, soke, tithing, carbon hung: (n) hanging; (v) Heng; (adj) fatigued, puzzled, decorated hunger: (n, v) thirst, want, wish, itch; (n) craving, appetite, eagerness, famine; (v) crave, ache; (adj) hungry. ANTONYMS: (n) moderation, aversion, dislike, apathy hurt: (adj, n, v) damage, detriment; (adj, n) evil; (n, v) wound, pain, ache, distress; (n) disadvantage, lesion; (v) afflict; (adj, v) injure. 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. ANTONYMS: (n) wife, bachelor hush: (adj, n, v) calm, silence, quiet, still, lull; (n) peace; (v) shut up, gag, quieten, muffle; (adj, v) soothe. ANTONYMS: (n) noise, turmoil; (v) Louden idle: (adj) lazy, indolent, inactive, free, unfounded, fruitless, baseless, groundless, frivolous, empty, disengaged. ANTONYMS: (adj) active, employed, industrious, energetic, meaningful, productive, worthwhile, diligent; (v) change, run, work idolatrous: (adj) loving, profane, heathen, heretical, idolatrical, idolish, idolous, pagan ignorance: (n) illiteracy, nescience, folly, unwisdom, innocence, denseness, ignorancy, stupidity, obtuseness, tabula rasa, unawareness. ANTONYMS: (n) intelligence, acquaintance, education ignorant: (adj) unconscious, unwitting, rude, illiterate, uneducated, blind, dull, unaware, uninformed, unlearned, innocent. ANTONYMS: (adj) conscious, versed, cultured, educated, informed, wary, literate, aware,
168 polite ill-will: (n) enmity image: (n, v) picture, fancy, design; (n) impression, conception, effigy, idea, form, resemblance, epitome; (v) depict. ANTONYM: (n) reality immediate: (adj) close, sudden, direct, near, quick, present, fast, proximate, forthwith, instant, immediately. ANTONYMS: (adj) slow, gradual, deliberate, consecutive, mediate, delayed, remote, far, distant, vague, considered immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, undying, endless, monumental; (adj, v) deathless, imperishable, celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, forgettable, perishable, temporary imperial: (adj) majestic, grand, dignified, imperious, purple, stately, August, regal, noble, lordly; (adj, n) beard import: (n, v) matter, sense, denote; (n) meaning, effect, connotation, implication, moment, significance, value; (v) imply. ANTONYMS: (n, v) export; (n) insignificance, inconsequence, triviality important: (adj, v) grave; (adj) fundamental, significant, crucial, key, serious, remarkable, chief, earnest, central, heavy. ANTONYMS: (adj) insignificant, trivial, minor, irrelevant, low, worthless, frivolous, secondary, little, superfluous, inconsequential importing: (n) importation, mercantilism, commercialism, commerce impossibility: (n) impossibleness, option, nonexistence, absurdity, inability, impracticability, alternative, choice, contradiction, contradiction in terms, doubtfulness. ANTONYMS: (n) possibility, probability impostor: (n) fraud, cheat, hypocrite, fake, imposter, sham, charlatan, deceiver, faker, cheater, pretender impression: (n) feeling, idea, imprint, conception, depression, notion, mark, image, dent, feel, opinion. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, hump, lump impudent: (adj, n) bold, daring; (adj) disrespectful, audacious, impertinent, brassy, barefaced, brazen, insolent, brash, cheeky. ANTONYMS: (adj) polite, cowardly inaudible: (adj) indistinct,
All's Well That Ends Well imperceptible, inarticulate, noiseless, quiet, faint, out of hearing, muffled, silent, unheard, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) audible, obvious incertain: (adj) ambivalent, changeable, diffident, doubtful, dubious, uncertain, unsure inclining: (adj) oblique, shelving; (n) leaning, tendency, disposition, movement, proclivity, sentiment, propensity, predilection, partiality inclusive: (adj) included, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, overall, total, general, whole, extensive, complete; (v) include. ANTONYMS: (adj) local, narrow, sketchy, elite, partial, restricted increase: (n, v) extend, gain, accrue, augmentation, extension; (adj, n, v) augment; (v) grow, expand, aggrandize, enhance; (n) addition. ANTONYMS: (n, v) decrease; (n) reduction, contraction, decline; (v) reduce, diminish, drop, deteriorate, damage, abate, contract indeed: (adv) certainly, exactly, in reality, surely, of course, assuredly, as a matter of fact, admittedly; (adj, adv) really, much; (n) yes. ANTONYMS: (adv) possibly, doubtfully indignation: (n) anger, resentment, displeasure, grudge, umbrage, rage, outrage, exasperation, choler, dudgeon; (adj, n) wrath. ANTONYMS: (n) contentment, pleasure indignity: (n) dishonor, contumely, humiliation, contempt, outrage, disdain, offence, disgrace, degradation; (n, v) insult, abuse. ANTONYMS: (n) honor, glory, pride inducement: (n) enticement, attraction, cause, incitement, impulse, temptation, bait, impetus, occasion, motive, goad. ANTONYMS: (n) disincentive, deterrent infallible: (adj) sure, inevitable, positive, inerrable, unfailing, absolute, confident, definite, dependable; (adj, v) unerring; (n) sterling. ANTONYMS: (adj) fallible, faulty inferior: (adj) secondary, bad, humble, poor, junior, petty, lesser, cheap, base, feeble, vulgar. ANTONYMS: (adj) better, choice, excellent, premium, adscript, perfect, higher, quality, senior; (adj, n) superscript; (n) boss
infinite: (adj) absolute, eternal, endless, countless, immense, incalculable, boundless, innumerable, immeasurable, everlasting, spaceless. ANTONYMS: (adj) finite, limited, restricted, small, tiny, slight infirm: (adj, n, v) feeble; (adj, v) faint, weak, sickly, debilitated; (adj) impotent, fragile, decrepit, ill, delicate, shaky. ANTONYMS: (adj) whole, well, hearty infirmity: (adj, n) frailty, foible, imbecility; (n) feebleness, impotence, disability, decrepitude, illness, sickness, disease, weakness. ANTONYMS: (n) health, wellness, strength inform: (v) acquaint, impart, advise, enlighten, announce, tell, familiarize, explain, advertise, apprise, warn informed: (adj) cognizant, educated, conscious, knowledgeable, familiar, apprised, wise, conversant, experienced, sensible; (adv) abreast. ANTONYMS: (adj) uninformed, unconcerned ingenious: (adj) adroit, artful, clever, cunning, deft, expert, creative, imaginative, cute, acute, able. ANTONYMS: (adj) impulsive, naive, unoriginal, inept inherit: (v) heir, come into, get, to inherit, own, receive, come in for, to succeed, follow, descend, accede inheritance: (adj, n) heritage; (n) heredity, heirloom, birthright, bequest, legacy, dowry, estate, appanage, heirship; (v) descent inhibited: (adj) guarded, timid, diffident, bashful, retiring, reticent, controlled, quiet, silent, sober, forced. ANTONYMS: (adj) outgoing, extrovert, natural inner: (adj) interior, mental, inward, intrinsic, inside, central, middle, within, in, privy, clandestine. ANTONYMS: (adj) outer, superficial, exterior innocent: (adj) chaste, artless, clear, ingenuous, innocuous, guileless, guiltless, ignorant, unsophisticated, spotless, naive. 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. ANTONYM: (v) answer instance: (n) exemplar, case, time,
William Shakespeare 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. ANTONYMS: (n) age, eternity; (adj) considered, delayed, slow instruct: (v) charge, educate, teach, advise, enlighten, direct, drill, inform, command, indoctrinate, tutor instruction: (n) charge, direction, education, guidance, prescription, guideline, teaching, information, injunction; (n, v) advice, counsel. ANTONYM: (n) plea instructions: (n) direction, injunction, directions, charge, instruction, orders, book of instructions, guide, instruction manual, commission, directive instrument: (n) channel, deed, tool, pawn, apparatus, agency, document, expedient, appliance, gear; (n, v) implement insupportable: (adj, v) insufferable, intolerable; (adj) indefensible, unbearable, excruciating, unjustifiable, unendurable, impossible, unsupportable, heavy, obnoxious. ANTONYM: (adj) bearable integrity: (adj, n) honesty, fairness, candor, honor; (n) probity, completeness, righteousness, justice, unity, entireness, fidelity. ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty, wickedness, injustice, division, decadence, badness, immorality, corruption intelligence: (n) cleverness, intellect, news, tidings, understanding, acumen, mentality, knowledge, brains, comprehension, brainpower. ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity, emotion, slowness, foolishness, ineptness interpreter: (n) commentator, interpretive program, exponent, explainer, translator, mouthpiece, ambassador, prophet, bagman, expounder, program invention: (n) fabrication, conception, fiction, imagination, creation, discovery, device, innovation, excogitation, artifice; (n, v) forgery. ANTONYM: (n) truth iris: (n) diaphragm, flag, pupil, rainbow, gladdon, blue flag, white, tulip, comet, tortoise shell, peacock
issue: (v) emanate, arise, emerge; (n) aftermath, progeny, consequence, effect; (n, v) egress, release, exit, result. ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, trickle, withhold; (n) resolution italian: (n) dago, romance language, Oscan, Guinea, greaseball, Etruscan, Italian cloth; (adj) Ausonian italy: (n) Italia, Italian Republic, bergamot, bergamot orange itself: (adj) herself, self, oneself, personally, myself, themselves, yourself jarring: (adj, n) harsh, dissonant, inconsistent; (adj) rough, inharmonious, strident, grating, jolting, raucous, cacophonous, bumpy. ANTONYMS: (adj) soft, usual jewel: (n) gemstone, darling, diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure, ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou, precious stone; (adj) brilliant jeweller: (n) goldsmith, silversmith, jewelry maker john: (n) can, bathroom, convenience, customer, privy, loo, lav, lavatory, Saint John the Apostle, Saint John; (adj, n) toilet join: (v) unite, connect, associate, combine, graft, assemble, attach, affiliate, meet, get together; (n, v) link. ANTONYMS: (v) separate, secede, detach, undo, disjoin, exclude, leave, disconnect, diverge, refrain, untie jove: (n) Jovian, Jovinianist, thunderer judges: (n) judge, adjudicators, jury judgment: (n, v) decision, belief, discernment, condemnation, sense, discrimination; (n) determination, discretion, opinion, assessment, adjudication. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, request, tastelessness justice: (adj, n) equity, right, integrity, honesty; (n) judge, impartiality, judicature, jurist, morality, justness; (adj) just. ANTONYMS: (n) unfairness, wickedness justified: (adj) correct, right, proper, elected, adopted, due, righteous, sanctified, unearthly, regenerated, even. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfounded, unjustified, unreasonable, wrong, unworthy justly: (adv) accurately, fairly, correctly, honestly, lawfully, properly, exactly, uprightly, legitimately, impartially, purely. ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly,
169 unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly, unlawfully, sinfully, falsely, immorally keep: (n, v) hold; (v) preserve, retain, defend, guard, maintain, continue, have, save, confine, observe. 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. ANTONYM: (adj) broken kernel: (n) gist, heart, essence, center, inwardness, quintessence, grain, marrow, substance, content, nucleus kill: (n, v) assassinate, destroy; (v) erase, annihilate, eliminate, extinguish, finish, blast, decimate, execute, eradicate. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) unkind, cruel, hardhearted, mean, merciless, nasty, spiteful, uncaring, upsetting, callous, disagreeable kindly: (adj) kind, amiable, genial, charitable; (adv) sympathetically, benevolently, tenderly; (adj, n) benign, gentle, sympathetic, benevolent. ANTONYMS: (adv) harshly, nastily, callously, cruelly, sharply, disagreeably, grumpily, malevolently; (adj) upsetting, unfeeling, sour king: (n) mogul, sovereign, chief, crown, tycoon, baron, ruler, magnate, majesty, rex, power. ANTONYM: (n) queen kingly: (adj, adv) stately; (adj) August, noble, regal, imperial, sovereign, majestic, royal; (adv) royally, majestically, regally kinsman: (n) relation, relative, kin, kindred, kinswoman, description, forefather, countryman, detail, consanguinity; (v) confederate kinsmen: (n) kin, kindred, family, kinsfolk, people, affinity kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace, touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate, love
170 knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard, crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, varlet knee: (n) bracket, articulation, joint, kneel, knee joint, genu, articulatio genus, scythe, zigzag, sickle, bend knell: (n, v) knoll; (v) chime, call, resound, circle, environ, call up, echo, band, encircle, be around knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, wist knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub knock: (n, v) hit, blow, bang, bump, tap, strike, whack, bash, punch, cuff; (n) crash. ANTONYMS: (n) improvement, boost; (v) encourage, bolster, approve knot: (n) bow, cluster, lump, gang, joint; (v) entangle, knit, bind; (n, v) tie, loop, tangle. ANTONYMS: (v) unravel, undo, unknot, disentangle knowing: (adj, v) canny, crafty, wise; (adj, n) clever; (adj) conscious, aware, ingenious, intelligent, bright, conversant, smart. ANTONYMS: (adj) naive, uncomprehending, unconscious knowingly: (adj, adv, v) wittingly; (adv) intentionally, consciously, designedly, shrewdly, on purpose, purposely, wisely, wilfully, ingeniously; (adv, v) by design. ANTONYMS: (adv) accidentally, unintentionally, unwittingly, openly knowledge: (n) information, comprehension, science, lore, understanding, intelligence, grasp, erudition, acquaintance; (n, v) cognition; (adj, n) art. ANTONYMS: (n) foolishness, inexperience known: (adj) familiar, knew, conscious, certain, famous, know, eminent, plain, accepted, published, acknowledged. ANTONYMS: (adj) unknown, secret, unidentified, unfamiliar labour: (n, v) travail, labor, toil; (v) grind, fag, drudge; (n) exertion, employment, confinement, childbed, business labouring: (adj) drudging, work, working, busy, toiling lack: (n, v) deficiency, need, destitution; (n) default, defect, dearth, absence, insufficiency, deficit, poverty; (v) fail. ANTONYMS: (n) abundance, excess, provision, adequacy, affluence, sufficiency, plethora, supply; (v) have, own, possess
All's Well That Ends Well lackey: (n) flunkey, sycophant, butler, attendant, bootlicker, toady, truckler, waiter, servant, footman, flatterer lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. ANTONYM: (n) Lord ladyship: (n) madam laid: (adj) layed, lay, place, placed, put, situated, arranged, determined, dictated, hardened, ordered lamentation: (n) dirge, grief, mourning, plaint, regret, complaint, cry, crying, wail, moan, condolence. ANTONYM: (n) celebration land: (n) country, earth, soil, kingdom, field, nation, estate, domain; (v) disembark, debark, get. ANTONYMS: (adj) aquatic, amphibious; (n) sea; (v) lose, depart, embark language: (n) speech, expression, lingo, diction, tongue, idiom, jargon, conversation, word, words, terminology lark: (n) joke, fun, trick, prank, antic, caper, game; (n, v) romp, frolic, gambol; (v) rollick lascivious: (adj) libidinous, carnal, erotic, licentious, bawdy, impure, lusty, lustful; (adj, v) dissolute; (adj, adv) fleshly; (v) wanton. ANTONYM: (adj) ascetic lass: (n) girl, lassie, damsel, young woman, young girl, fille, miss, Jeune fille, bobbysocker, bobbysoxer, woman late: (adj, adv) dilatory, fresh, behindhand, backward; (adj) former, deceased, dead, slow, delayed, modern; (adv) belatedly. 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 latter: (adj) later, last, terminal, recent, posterior, final, following, the latter, past, other, eventual. ANTONYMS: (adj) prior, earlier lattice: (n) grill, grille, grid, net, fretwork, network, gridiron, wicket, web, netting; (v) trellis laugh: (n, v) joke, giggle, chortle, titter, snicker; (v) smile; (n) jest, gag, jape, laughter, cackle. ANTONYM: (v) weep laughter: (n) amusement, fun,
guffaw, merriment, chortle, chuckle, mirth, hilarity, giggle, derision, happiness. ANTONYMS: (n) sadness, gloom, despair, boredom, misery, despondency lawful: (adj) legal, just, rightful, constitutional, true, right, justifiable, licit, regular; (n, v) allowable; (adj, v) permissible. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlawful, prohibited, unconstitutional lawfully: (adv) justly, legally, rightfully, licitly, statutorily, fairly, validly, de jure, officially, rightly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unlawfully, illegitimately lead: (n, v) guide; (v) conduct, direct, contribute, go, control, conduce, govern, chair, bring; (n) clue. ANTONYMS: (v) follow, trail, descend; (n) disadvantage, inferiority leaden: (adj) heavy, gray, sluggish, grey, inert, torpid, grave, languid, drab, burdensome, livid. ANTONYM: (adj) bright leads: (n) slating, pieced leads, slates, pile driving leads, tiling leapt: (adj) sprung learn: (v) get, find, ascertain, hear, find out, have, determine, con, acquire, tell; (n, v) know. ANTONYM: (v) reject learned: (adj) educated, knowledgeable, scholarly, academic, cultured, literary, bookish, lettered; (adj, v) enlightened, wise, knowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) innate, unconditioned, foolish, unlearned least: (n) minimum; (adj) smallest, minimal, littlest, lowest, insignificant, minutest, negligible; (adj, n) smallest amount; (adv) at least, fully. ANTONYMS: (adj) maximum, greatest; (adj, adv) most leave: (v) depart, go, abandon, desert, lead; (adj, v) forsake, quit; (n) furlough, permission, holiday; (n, v) escape. ANTONYMS: (v) enter, arrive, stay, remain, come, approach, change, reposition, disinherit, occupy, participate leaves: (n) departure, leaving, plants, trees, vegetation left: (adj) gone, absent, port, odd, remaining, larboard, gauche, sinister; (n) left hand, left wing, mitt. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n) right; (adj) remaining, center, starboard, present legacy: (n) devise, heritage, inheritance, heirloom, estate, will,
William Shakespeare gift, leftover, legacies, endowment, birthright legs: (v) pegs, trotters, pins; (n) patience, pedestal, stamina leisure: (n) idleness, convenience, vacation, inactivity, rest, repose, relaxation, recreation, pastime, opportunity; (adj) idle. ANTONYM: (n) work lend: (v) grant, give, advance, impart, bestow, contribute, borrow, bring, add, confer; (n) lending lending: (n) lend, loaning, borrowing, usury, disposal, disposition length: (n, v) extent; (n) distance, range, duration, size, measurement, longness, dimension, depth, compass, quantity. ANTONYMS: (n) shortness, width, breadth, brevity, conciseness lent: (n) Quadragesima, Lententide less: (adj) inferior, wanting, minor, secondary, subordinate, deficient, minus, few; (adj, adv) lesser, lower; (adv) below. ANTONYMS: (adj) additional; (prep) plus letter: (n) epistle, mail, character, communication, alphabetic character, dispatch, note, message, memorandum, type, memo letters: (n) erudition, literature, correspondence, lore, script, scholarship, post, print, mail, letter, polite literature letting: (n) lease, rental, let, renting, hire, leasing, rent, belongings, permission; (adj) lenient level: (adj, adv, v) equal; (adj, adv, n, v) flat; (n) grade, degree; (adj, v) flatten; (n, v) floor; (adj) horizontal; (v) dismantle, raze, aim, demolish. ANTONYMS: (adj) slanting, unequal, angled, unsteady, askew, rough, shaky; (adj, v) uneven; (v) raise, build, crumple levity: (n) flightiness, frivolity, flippancy, buoyancy, lightness, giddiness, inconstancy, frivolousness, humorousness, jocosity; (n, v) fickleness. ANTONYMS: (n) gravity, seriousness liar: (n) deceiver, fibber, fabricator, falsifier, trickster, prevaricator, con artist, phony, lie, impostor, swindler liege: (n) feudatory, liegeman, vassal, lord, liege Lord, subject, Luik; (adj) loyal, staunch, true, steady lies: (n) fabrication, falsehood, lie, lying, deceit, defamation, denigration, dishonesty, slander,
libel, treachery. ANTONYM: (n) truth life: (adj, n) animation; (n) energy, spirit, activity, dash, enthusiasm, being, biography, existence, exuberance, live. ANTONYMS: (n) death, apathy, extinction, nonexistence, lifelessness light: (adj) fair, facile, faint; (adj, v) clear; (n, v) fire, glow, flame; (v) kindle, inflame, ignite; (n) illumination. ANTONYMS: (adj) heavy, fattening, nauseating, testing, stale; (n) darkness, shade, gloom, night; (v) extinguish, darken likes: (n) kind, sort, type liking: (n, v) inclination; (n) fancy, appetite, taste, fondness, predilection, affection, partiality, admiration, approval, appreciation. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, aversion, hatred, indifference, detachment, dissatisfaction, antipathy limbo: (n) oblivion, incarceration, purgatory, bilboes, durance vile, entombment, coarctation, limbus, intermediate repository, obscurity, jail limit: (v) restrict, circumscribe, restrain, check; (n, v) border, curb, confine, boundary, close; (n, prep, v) extent; (n) edge. ANTONYMS: (v) broaden, extend, increase, derestrict, allow, encourage, express, promote; (n) minimum, extension, freedom line: (n) cord, house, course, family, lineage, breed, field, ancestry, row; (adj, n) file; (n, v) order ling: (n) burbot, heath, eelpout, cusk, broom, lota lota, Scots heather, Calluna vulgaris, caltrop, cod, codfish linguist: (n) polyglot, lexicologist, bilingual, lexicographer, talker, philologist, glottologist, Hebraist, firth, linguistic scientist, phonetician lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj) worthy, great card, tiger; (n) Leo, cat, king of beasts, curiosity, luminary, spectacle list: (n) catalogue, catalog, inclination, index, calendar, enumeration; (n, v) file, tilt, schedule; (v) enter, itemize little: (adj, adv) small; (adj) diminutive, insignificant, short, tiny, some, brief, petty, minute, exiguous; (adv) rather. ANTONYMS: (adj) enormous, large, important, huge, high, giant, older, old, tall; (adv) frequently, well live: (adj) alive, living; (adj, v) reside,
171 active, dwell, stay; (n, v) subsist; (v) exist, be, abide, endure. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, inactive, silent, dummy, blank, recorded; (v) die, perish, expire livelihood: (n) subsistence, existence, job, maintenance, support, living, sustenance, bread, keep, bread and butter, career livery: (adj) liverish, bilious; (n) clothing, accouterment, uniform, complexion, legal transfer, color, hue, dye, bailment lives: (n) life, living, estate, existence, earnest living living: (adj) alive, live, extant, animated, active, fresh, animate, quick; (n) livelihood, life, being. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n) death, leisure loath: (adj) unwilling, disinclined, reluctant, loth, indisposed, backward, hesitant, antipathetic, antipathetical, loathe, shy of. ANTONYMS: (adj) eager, willing, disposed, keen lodge: (n, v) cabin, place, house; (adj, v) live, dwell, reside, inhabit; (n) cottage; (v) quarter, accommodate, fix. ANTONYMS: (v) dislodge, evict loneliness: (n) desolation, aloneness, isolation, solitariness, lonesomeness, bleakness, forlornness, desolateness, temperament, unhappiness; (adj, n) solitude. ANTONYMS: (n) inclusion, cheerfulness, hopefulness long: (v) yearn, desire, hanker, languish, ache, wish; (adj, n) extensive; (n, v) hunger; (adj) extended, lengthy; (n) length. ANTONYMS: (adj) short, brief, concise longer: (adj) longest, better, lengest; (adv) farther; (n) yearner, thirster longing: (n, v) desire, aspiration; (adj) eager, wistful, nostalgic; (n) nostalgia, wish, hankering, urge, appetite; (adj, n) yearning. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) back, study; (n) perusal looks: (n) aspect, countenance, expression, manner, complexion, fashion, costume, garb loosing: (adj) disengaging, detaching lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, master, God, seignior, nobility,
172 Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n) lady lordship: (n) ownership, supremacy, domain, dominance, manor, worship, authority, power, dynasty, grandeeship, headship lose: (v) drop, forfeit, mislay, miss, sacrifice, fall behind, fail, to lose, forget, clear, hurt. ANTONYMS: (v) find, secure, recover, earn, obtain, acquire, get, win, beat, keep, succeed losing: (v) lose; (n) loss; (adv) losingly, behind; (adj) unbeneficial. ANTONYM: (adj) lucrative loss: (adj, n) detriment, damage, injury, harm; (n) defeat, deprivation, deficit, destruction, forfeit, forfeiture, bereavement. ANTONYMS: (n) retrieval, appearance, victory, recovery, gaining, income, gain, accumulation, win, benefit, fortune losses: (n) loss, losings, damage, detriment, victims, fatalities, financial loss, harm, wounded, toll, net loss lost: (adj, v) forlorn, extinct, gone, missing, helpless; (adj) hopeless, bewildered, forgotten, disoriented, broken; (n) loss. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, found, existing, won, saved, aware lottery: (n) drawing, raffle, sweepstakes, draft, chance, allotment, tombola, draw, bet, brag, cassino lousy: (adj) bad, rotten, crappy, nasty, mean, filthy, cheap, lamentable, unclean, atrocious, shitty. ANTONYM: (adj) great love: (n) desire, fondness, affection, dear, liking, benevolence, charity, honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v) worship. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike; (n) abhorrence, hatred, aversion, detestation, detachment, indifference; (v) abhor; (adv) roughly loved: (adj) beloved, pet, cherished, precious, liked, adored, respected, treasured, esteemed, valued; (n) darling. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, uncaring, malicious, cruel, unloving, rough, paternal, indifferent, distant,
All's Well That Ends Well disapproving, callous lower: (adj, v) debase, frown, abase, scowl; (adj, n, v) degrade, diminish, humble; (v) dip, drop, cut; (adj, n) inferior. ANTONYMS: (v) raise, improve, glorify, augment, straighten, upgrade, uplift; (adj) higher, senior, over, superior lowest: (adj) least, bottom, smallest, last, minimal, nethermost, under, lowermost, undermost, poorest; (adj, n) minimum lowly: (adj) base, lower, low, inferior, baseborn; (adv) meekly, meanly, modestly, poorly, softly, humbly. ANTONYMS: (adj) noble, privileged, high, aristocratic, refined, exalted, comfortable luck: (n) fortune, fate, accident, destiny, hazard, lot, advantage, providence, portion, happiness; (n, v) chance. ANTONYM: (n) design lump: (n, v) heap, knot, chunk, block; (n) gob, tumor, hunk, bit, bulge; (adj, n) clod; (adj, n, v) mass. ANTONYM: (v) divide lust: (n, v) desire, hunger, itch; (n) craving, greed, libido, lecherousness, cupidity, lewdness; (v) covet, crave lustrous: (adj, v) bright, splendent; (adj) glossy, brilliant, lucid, shiny, shining, light, luminous, sleek, radiant. ANTONYM: (adj) unhealthy lying: (adj) false, deceptive, mendacious, untrue, misleading, fraudulent; (n) lie, falsehood, fabrication, deceit, dishonesty. ANTONYMS: (n) honesty, truthfulness; (adj) truthful madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd magnanimous: (adj) generous, great, noble, bountiful, exalted, big, handsome, lofty, large, charitable, considerate. ANTONYMS: (adj) miserly, unforgiving, petty maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass, lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, maiden, housemaid, handmaid maiden: (n) maid, girl, demoiselle, damosel, wench, fille, lass, miss; (adj) first, initiatory, unmarried maidenhood: (n) maidenhead, chastity, virginity, maidhood, celibacy, purity, childhood, maidenship, freshness, virginhood main: (adj) grand, great, leading, head, principal, prominent, basic,
capital, central; (adj, n) essential, cardinal. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor, secondary, supplementary, auxiliary, subsidiary, peripheral, dependent, extra, side, trivial, marginal majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, magnificence, stateliness, greatness, king, royalty, highness. ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, simplicity malice: (n) spite, animosity, enmity, venom, ill will, hatred, malevolence, cruelty, envy, hate, spleen. ANTONYMS: (n) goodwill, benevolence, affection, goodness malignant: (adj) malevolent, malicious, evil, malefic, fatal, spiteful, virulent, sinister, mischievous, pernicious, venomous manifest: (adj) evident, distinct, conspicuous, clear, patent, plain; (v) display, demonstrate, exhibit, evidence; (n, v) declare. ANTONYMS: (v) hide; (adj) hidden, obscure, secret, inconspicuous, veiled, furtive, avoidable, ambiguous; (adv) absent manifold: (adj) diverse, different, many, various, multiplex, multiplied, frequent; (v) duplicate, copy, multiply; (n) diversity manifoldly: (adv) variously, multiplely, multifariously, multitudinously, multiplexly, variedly, sundrily, diversely, severally, frequently, thickly manly: (adj) manlike, masculine, manful, virile, brave, gallant; (adv) manfully, boldly, hardily, virilely; (adj, adv) stately. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, unmanly, cowardly; (adv) unmanfully manners: (n) conduct, etiquette, propriety, behavior, deportment, manner, courtesy, custom, decorum, good manners, usage. ANTONYM: (n) vulgarity manor: (n) land, mansion, manor house, castle, hall, residence, estate, seigniory, demesne, manse, dominion march: (n, v) hike, parade, trek, ramble, journey, tramp, course; (n) demonstration; (v) process, pace, stride marjoram: (n) Origanum, Acocanthera spectabilis, bay leaves, sage, Chimonanthus praecox, Cretan dittany, winter sweet, wild marjoram, thyme, Crete dittany,
William Shakespeare Japanese allspice marriage: (adj, n) bridal, nuptial; (n) matrimony, espousal, union, wedlock, intermarriage, alliance, coupling; (n, v) match; (v) marry. ANTONYM: (n) separation married: (adj) wedded, conjugal, matrimonial, connubial, nuptial, united, mixed, connected, marrying, attached, unite. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached, divorced, public marrow: (adj, n) gist, pith, quintessence; (n) substance, heart, kernel, core, content, center, backbone; (adj) quiddity marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get married, link, conjoin, wive, splice, tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage. ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate, split mars: (v) grim visaged war; (n) solar system, terrestrial planet, Red Planet, Bellona marseilles: (n) Marseille marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy, curiosity, phenomenon, amazement, miracle, portent, marl, surprise, admiration; (v) admire. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) nightmare marvellous: (adj) fantastic, extraordinary, terrific, tremendous, wondrous, marvelous, wonderful, tall, miraculous, improbable, thumping master: (n) captain, instructor, lord; (v) control, conquer, command, dominate, defeat; (adj, n) original, head, ace. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, servant, novice, amateur master's: (n) postgraduate degree match: (n, v) mate, meet, pair, fellow; (v) agree, harmonise, accord, correspond, harmonize; (adj, n, v) parallel; (n) peer. ANTONYMS: (v) contradict, conflict, disagree, jar, differ; (n) difference mated: (adj) uniform, married, complementary, alike. ANTONYM: (adj) unmated matron: (n) lady, head nurse, dame, housewife, dowager, woman, wife, Donna Belle, matriarch, married woman; (v) matronhood. ANTONYM: (n) patron matter: (n) business, substance, issue, material, affair, concern, incident, article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n) import mayday: (n) signal, warning mean: (adj, n) middle, low,
contemptible, average, medium, common; (v) design; (n, v) imply, denote; (adj) ignoble, hateful. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, kind, extravagant, charitable, luxurious, rich, expansive, extreme, great; (n) maximum, minimum meaning: (n) intent, gist, implication, design, essence, consequence, significance, content, intention, connotation, aim. ANTONYM: (n) triviality means: (n) instrument, agency, income, assets, manner, funds, capital, channel, property, resource, resources. ANTONYM: (n) poverty meant: (adj) destined, implied, sincere, preordained, intentional, predestined; (v) intend, designate meantime: (adv) meanwhile, in the meantime, simultaneously; (n) interval, interlude, while, at times, whiles, mean, instrument measure: (n) amount, criterion, extent, measurement, estimate, degree, beat, benchmark, quantity, meter; (n, v) act. ANTONYMS: (v) guess, estimate meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core, kernel, heart, substance, marrow, crux, matter, beef meddle: (v) intervene, interfere, intrude, monkey, interpose, fiddle, pry, dabble, interlope; (n) interference; (adj) moil. ANTONYM: (v) disregard medicine: (n) drug, medication, medicament, therapy, physic, treatment, remedy, cathartic, medical science, preparation; (v) medicate meditating: (n) conception meet: (v) find, converge, assemble, gather, fulfill, congregate, answer, cross, confront, intersect; (adv, v) encounter. ANTONYMS: (v) diverge, disperse, separate, part, leave, differ, disband melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess, depression. ANTONYMS: (n) happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery, satisfied mell: (n) melada melted: (adj) molten, fluid, liquified, dissolved, liquefied, baked, fluent, touched, limpid, sorry, flowing mend: (adj, v) improve; (v) correct, cure, heal, doctor, better, amend,
173 restore, convalesce; (n, v) fix, patch. ANTONYMS: (v) worsen, tear, smash, decline, deteriorate; (n) fracture merciful: (adj) humane, gracious, lenient, compassionate, kind, clement, benign, kindly, gentle, beneficent, forgiving. ANTONYMS: (adj) pitiless, merciless, unforgiving, spiteful, harsh, impatient, severe, hardhearted mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) quarter. 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 merit: (n, v) deserve; (adj, n) excellence, worth, desert; (n) virtue, credit, significance, value, goodness, quality; (v) rate. ANTONYMS: (n) demerit, disgrace, fault, insignificance, mediocrity, commonness merrily: (adv) gaily, cheerfully, blithely, cheerily, gladly, gleefully, mirthfully, brightly, jovially, joyfully, gayly. ANTONYMS: (adv) sadly, anxiously, miserably, unhappily, carefully, despondently merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful, glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome, lighthearted, festive; (adj, n) convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight messenger: (n, v) herald; (n) harbinger, runner, emissary, bearer, ambassador, precursor, courier, carrier, apostle, errand metal: (n) gallium, calcium, europium, chromium, cm, cobalt, curium, dysprosium, erbium, caesium, cadmium. ANTONYM: (adj) nonmetallic metaphor: (n) figure of speech, analogy, parable, simile, image, trope, figure, fable, comparison, symbol, metonymy midnight: (n) dark, noon, hour might: (n) power, energy, ability, influence, strength, puissance, vehemence, intensity; (v) may, can, could. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, feebleness, meekness mightily: (adv) powerfully,
174 vigorously, strongly, greatly, potently, fiercely, sturdily, violently, robustly, puissantly, vastly. ANTONYMS: (adv) weakly, slightly mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, insignificant militarist: (n) warmonger, adult, grownup, war hawk military: (n) armed forces, force, army, troop, personnel; (adj) militant, warlike, soldierly, militaristic, armed, combatant. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmilitary, unarmed milk: (v) squeeze, drain, tap, bleed, anodyne, balm; (n) buttermilk, colostrum, foremilk; (adj) gluten, chalk mind: (n, v) intellect, notice, regard; (v) care, look, attend, beware, keep, listen, look after; (n) disposition. 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 minister: (n) envoy, priest, deputy, divine, ambassador, churchman, clergyman, cleric, curate, ecclesiastic; (v) supply ministration: (n) aid, ministry, assist, help, relief, succor, succour, assistance, service, comfort, mercy minority: (n) nonage, infancy, inferiority, adolescence, tender age, subordinacy, teens, youth, legal status, legal immaturity, early childhood. ANTONYM: (adj) mainstream minute: (n, v) note; (adj) little, delicate, microscopic, small, atomic; (n) jiffy, flash, moment, second, memorandum. ANTONYMS: (adj) huge, big, gigantic, significant, cursory, immeasurable, tremendous, important, colossal, giant, large minutes: (n) record, transactions, records, memorandum, journal, minute, report, proceeding, legal proceeding, judicial proceeding, Hansard misdoubt: (n) scruple, distrust,
All's Well That Ends Well suspicion, qualm, jealousy; (v) dread misery: (adj, n) grief; (n, v) distress; (n) affliction, agony, anguish, woe, hardship, evil, ill, infelicity, suffering. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, ecstasy, cheerfulness, fun, hopefulness, peace, contentment, pleasure, wealth, sport, cheer misled: (adj) fooled, undirected, false, bewildered, confused, erroneous, mistaken, misleading, misdirected, led astray, incorrect misprision: (v) evasion, arriere pensee, suppression, white lie; (n) misdemeanor, misfeasance, contempt miss: (v) lose, fail, jump, omit, overlook, long, forget; (n) maid, girl; (adj, v) fault; (n, v) want. ANTONYMS: (v) perceive, attend, achieve, have, succeed, hit, make, see, find, take; (n) success mistaken: (adj) wrong, erroneous, false, misguided, inaccurate, fallacious, untrue, misleading, confused, improper, error. ANTONYMS: (adj) accurate, wise, right mistress: (n) dame, concubine, madame, inamorata, lady, lover, fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept woman, missis mites: (n) family Trombidiidae, family acaridae, Trombidiidae mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v) ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout; (adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v) mimic, ape, taunt. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, natural; (v) praise, applaud, respect, approve modern: (adj) new, fashionable, late, advanced, current, latest, recent, novel, present, contemporary, stylish. ANTONYMS: (adj) ancient, antiquated, traditional, prehistoric, conservative, neurotic, primordial, past, stale, dated modest: (adj) humble, lowly, moderate, gentle, low, meek, chaste, decent, unassuming; (adj, n) bashful, diffident. ANTONYMS: (adj) pretentious, arrogant, spectacular, conceited, showy, proud, pompous, elaborate, grand, conspicuous, ostentatious modesty: (n) reserve, bashfulness, humility, diffidence, humbleness, demureness, coyness, gentleness, continence; (adj, n) decency, honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) arrogance, immodesty, spectacle, flamboyance, abandon,
bigheadedness, pretension, decadence, boldness module: (n) component, modulus, faculty, part, mental faculty, cartridge, paradigm, subarray, monad, entrance number, program unit moiety: (n) mediety, portion, part, parcel, section, piece, bit, division, cut, class monarch: (n) sovereign, lord, emperor, ruler, czar, despot, autocrat, tsar, tzar, Danaus Plexippus; (adj) prince money: (n) currency, capital, kale, funds, means, lucre, assets, legal tender, pelf, cash, dough monstrous: (adj) huge, atrocious, heinous, monster, immense, gigantic, grievous, ugly, flagitious, dreadful; (adj, v) grotesque. ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, minute, beautiful, good, small, lovely, attractive monumental: (adj) monstrous, immense, great, majestic, grand, tremendous, large, enormous, monolithic, mammoth, vast. ANTONYMS: (adj) small, minor, tiny mood: (adj, n) humor, frame of mind; (n) atmosphere, climate, disposition, attitude, air, feeling, mode, temper, temperament moral: (n) lesson, meaning; (adj) good, decent, right, honest, virtuous, proper, chaste, upright, righteous. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, unwholesome, unethical, amoral, decadent, wrong, unjust, sinful, irreverent, dishonorable, degenerate morgan: (n) Daniel Morgan, Henry Morgan, Lewis Henry Morgan, Morgan unit, sir Henry Morgan, Thomas hunt Morgan morning: (n) dawn, sunrise, morn, forenoon, daylight, first light, am, dayspring, aurora, cockcrow, dawning. ANTONYMS: (n) sunset, nighttime, nightfall morris: (n) Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Esther Hobart Mcquigg slack Morris, William Morris, Esther Morris morrow: (n) morning, future, mean solar day, day mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, deathly, earthly; (n) man, individual, creature, person, human being, body. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) immortal; (adj) eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect, spiritual
William Shakespeare mortality: (n) fatality, flesh, death rate, death, humanity, mankind, demise, mortality rate, morbidity; (adj) caducity, fugacity mother: (n) mamma, mommy, origin, mama, ma, mammy, mummy; (n, v) father; (v) engender, generate, beget motion: (n) action, movement, gesticulation, play, exercise, passage; (n, v) wave, sign, signal; (v) beckon, gesticulate. ANTONYMS: (n) inertia, motionlessness, inactivity, stillness; (v) dismiss mounts: (adj) mounted mourningly: (adv) lamentingly, sorrowingly mouth: (n) lip, lips, aperture, edge, entrance, snout, entry; (n, v) grimace; (v) articulate, pronounce, speak move: (v) excite, go, affect, carry, touch, instigate, travel; (n, v) act, drive, transfer, maneuver. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, restore, refrain, remain, rest, withdraw, stop, repel, come, leave moved: (adj) affected, excited, touched, disordered, enthused, gone, tense, inspired, stimulated, overcome, interested. ANTONYM: (adj) uninspired muddied: (adj) dingy, dirty, quaggy, foul, drear, grimy, mirky, marshy, lousy, infected, impure muffled: (adj) hushed, muted, hollow, inarticulate, faint, soft, subdued, low, quiet; (v) allusive, covert. ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, distinct, audible, slight mule: (n) ass, donkey, jackass, hinny, mules, scuff, bullhead, slipper; (adj) hybrid, crossbreed, Metis multiplying: (adj) cumulative; (n) generation, calculation murk: (n) darkness, fog, dark, murkiness, haze, cloud, mirk, cloudiness; (adj, n) obscurity; (n, v) mist; (v) darken. ANTONYM: (n) light muse: (v) meditate, ponder, deliberate, consider, cogitate, reflect, brood, ruminate, speculate, think, mull. ANTONYM: (v) wander muster: (v) assemble, gather, congregate, collect, convene, rally, marshal, accumulate; (n) levy, gathering; (n, v) draft. ANTONYM: (v) demobilize mute: (adj) dumb, silent, inarticulate, dummy, tongueless; (v) muffle, dampen, deaden, hush; (adj, v) quiet, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj)
talkative, speaking, spoken; (v) amplify myself: (pron) me, itself, herself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) I, yourselves; (adv) in person, for myself, in my opinion. ANTONYMS: (adv) universally, generally mystery: (n) arcanum, enigma, mysteriousness, secrecy, puzzle, craft, perplexity, poser, inscrutability, whodunit; (adj, n) secret. ANTONYMS: (n) explanation, openness nail: (n, v) arrest, capture; (v) catch, collar, apprehend, hook, strike, hit, fasten, nab; (adj, n) pin. ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, detach name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize, list, enumerate, identify, cite, mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n) epithet. ANTONYMS: (n) nobody, indecency naming: (n) appointment, identification, denomination, appellation, nomination, indication, delegacy, assignment, mention; (adj, n) appellative; (adj) designating narrow: (adj, adv, v) close; (adj) limited, insular, little, illiberal; (v) limit, contract, lessen, constrict, shrink; (adj, v) confined. ANTONYMS: (adj) wide, broad, comprehensive, extensive, worldwide, substantial, deep; (v) widen, extend, broaden, increase nation: (n) state, country, kingdom, people, community, commonwealth, land, a people, body politic, nationality, tribe native: (adj, n) aboriginal, natural; (adj) inherent, inborn, innate, congenital, inbred, indigenous, domestic; (n) autochthon, aborigine. ANTONYMS: (n) stranger, migrant, foreigner; (adj) foreign, learned, acquired, nonnative, overseas, adopted; (adj, n) immigrant, imported naturalize: (v) adopt, naturalise, endenizen, acclimatize, accommodate, change, cultivate, enfranchise, nationalize, acclimate, adapt. ANTONYM: (v) denaturalize 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
175 naughty: (adj) mischievous, impish, blue, improper, disobedient, insubordinate, wicked, evil, lewd, dark, unruly. ANTONYMS: (adj) decent, behaved, obedient, clean 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, far, further, actual, exact; (v) leave nearest: (adj) proximate, immediate, close, near, next, adjoining, intimate, direct, adjacent; (adj, adv) nighest; (adv) fore. ANTONYM: (adj) distant neatly: (adv) sprucely, tidily, cleanly, adroitly, precisely, smartly, tastefully, gracefully, properly, nattily; (adj, adv) dexterously. ANTONYMS: (adv) messily, shabbily, untidily, clumsily, loosely, inelegantly, awkwardly nebuchadnezzar: (n) Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II necessity: (n) demand, need, lack, exigency, essential, compulsion, emergency, distress, must, constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS: (n) inessential, treat, unimportance, luxury need: (adj, n, v) lack, want; (n, v) demand, desire, deficiency, must, destitution; (n) necessity, requirement; (v) require, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) obviate, dislike, have; (n) option, luxury, glut, unimportance, affluence, prosperity needful: (adj) necessary, essential, indispensable, required, needed, mandatory, exigent, needy; (adj, v) requisite; (n) necessity, almighty dollar needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully, indispensably, by necessity, inescapably, of necessity, ineluctably; (n) must, requirement, necessity; (adj) needed ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not neighbour: (adj) neighboring, neighbouring, neighborly, adjacent, contiguous; (v) abut, populate, adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n) neighbourhood neighbouring: (adj) adjoining, contiguous, vicinal, abutting; (v) adjoin neither: (conj) either, no-one, not either, nor, nother nest: (n) den, lair, hole, burrow, home, beehive; (adj) brood, hive,
176 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. ANTONYMS: (adv) always, forever news: (n) advice, message, information, intelligence, tidings, story, report, notice, communication, gossip; (adj) new next: (adj) nearest, adjacent, contiguous, following, future, coming, ensuing, after; (adv, conj) then, afterward; (adj, v) subsequent. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) previous, previously, preceding; (adj) outgoing, distant; (adv) before nice: (adj) fastidious, dainty, fine, good, lovely, kind, likable, delicious, difficult, precise; (adj, n) neat. ANTONYMS: (adj) horrible, nasty, unlikable, rough, mean, loathsome, approximate, unsavory, unfriendly, inelegant, bad night: (n) dark, dusk, darkness, gloaming, twilight, nighttime, Nox, eventide, period; (adj) nocturnal, gloomy. ANTONYMS: (n) day, light, sunrise nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night nine: (n) niner, club, ball club, baseball club, ennead, Nina from Carolina, three times three, ten, nightspot, clubhouse, queen nobility: (n) aristocracy, greatness, dignity, lord, noblesse, magnanimousness, baronage, gentry, nobleman; (adj) generosity; (adj, n) magnanimity. ANTONYM: (n) baseness noble: (adj, n) grand, glorious, patrician; (adj) imposing, impressive, elevated, majestic, generous, high; (adj, v) dignified, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) shameful, humble, dishonorable, lowly, lowborn, disgraceful, unimpressive, ignoble, modest, petty; (n) lady nobleman: (n) patrician, aristocrat, lord, peer, marquis, nobility, grandee, baron, duke, armiger, burgrave nobly: (adv) generously, magnificently, grandly, greatly, splendidly, honorably, heroically, aristocratically, bravely, magnanimously, courageously. ANTONYMS: (adv) immorally, poorly, timidly noise: (n, v) clatter, echo; (n) clamor, hubbub, racket, sound, disturbance, uproar, din, buzz, clang. ANTONYMS: (n) silence, quiet,
All's Well That Ends Well quietness, sense noiseless: (adj) quiet, silent, soundless, hushed, voiceless, mute, stealthy, dumb, soft, calm, tranquil. ANTONYM: (adj) heavy none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever nose: (n) hooter, neb, nozzle, proboscis, honker, bow, odour; (v) wind, pry, scent; (n, v) sniff notable: (adj) conspicuous, celebrated, illustrious, eminent, memorable, extraordinary, renowned, famous, remarkable; (n) luminary, celebrity. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, unknown, obscure, unimpressive, undistinguished; (n) nobody, nonentity note: (n, v) comment, mind, remark, mention, heed, mark, look, report; (n) indication, annotation; (v) detect. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) disgrace, invoice notes: (n) data, commentary, currency, paper, comments, remarks, annotation, information, ready money, observations, newspaper nothing: (adv, n) naught; (adj, n) nil, null; (n) nobody, cipher, nihil, nonentity, trifle, nix, aught, cypher. ANTONYMS: (pron) anything, everything, some; (n) all nothings: (n) honeyed words, conversation notorious: (adj, v) notable; (adj) known, infamous, illustrious, disreputable, flagrant, egregious, prominent, celebrated, noted; (adj, n) errant. ANTONYMS: (adj) anonymous, reputable, famous novelty: (adj) news; (n) freshness, mutation, newness, trinket, curiosity, originality, oddity, bauble; (n, v) change, difference nursery: (n) greenhouse, cradle, nursery school, hothouse, seminary, seedbed, nest, day nursery, creche, hotbed, glasshouse oath: (n) expletive, malediction, imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, swearing, pledge, assurance, asseveration; (v) swear obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, good, conformable, tame, acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, amenable, subservient. ANTONYMS: (adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious, crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, resistant obey: (v) comply, listen, keep, fulfill,
hear, conform, abide by, serve, comply with; (n, v) mind, heed. ANTONYMS: (v) disobey, defy, break, transgress, infringe, challenge, deny object: (n) cause, intent, meaning, mark, subject, objective, substance; (n, v) aim, end, intention; (v) except. ANTONYMS: (v) agree, approve, praise; (n) notion oblivion: (n) limbo, Lethe, void, absolution, forgiveness, obliviousness, silence, remission, pardon; (n, v) amnesty; (adj) nonbeing. ANTONYMS: (n) consciousness, fame obloquy: (n) libel, censure, aspersion, blame, defamation, disgrace, infamy, disparagement, shame, vilification; (adj, n) odium observance: (n) ceremony, commemoration, observation, rite, fulfillment, obedience, manner, compliance, discharge, conformity, custom. ANTONYMS: (n) breaking, disobedience, disregard, nonobservance, inattention, omission observe: (n, v) comment, notice, note; (v) commemorate, mind, guard, mention, mark, see, discover; (int, v) look. ANTONYMS: (v) feel, disregard, break, overlook, disobey, disrespect, Miss, violate obstinacy: (n) stubbornness, firmness, bullheadedness, determination, contumacy, mulishness, impenitence, resolve, resoluteness, impenitency, pertinacity. ANTONYMS: (n) cooperation, compliance occidental: (adj) Hesperian, ponent, occiduous; (n) westerner, inhabitant, dweller, denizen, artificial language o'clock: (n) period, hours odious: (adj, v) hateful, obnoxious; (adj) detestable, hideous, nasty, execrable, disgusting, abhorrent, abominable, heinous, forbidding. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant, delightful, agreeable, lovable, nice o'er: (adv) on, upon, across offence: (n) insult, injury, guilt, error, delinquency, fault, misdeed, infraction, infringement, attack, offense offend: (v) irritate, affront, insult, contravene, injure, disgust, infringe, displease, abuse, wound, anger. ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight, praise, attract offended: (adj) angry, affronted,
William Shakespeare aggrieved, pained, wronged, annoyed, insulted, shocked, vexed, resentful, injured. ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, proud, unconcerned offender: (n) delinquent, malefactor, criminal, convict, felon, crook, wrongdoer, malfeasant, perpetrator, outlaw, villain offer: (v) give, bestow, put, tender, extend, impart, introduce, advance, propose; (n) proposal, proposition. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold, take offered: (adj) presented, accessible, existing, obtainable, available, ready, on hand, to be had, unsolicited office: (n) function, position, agency, commission, appointment, division, place, bureau, post, job; (n, v) duty officer: (n) police officer, administrator, constable, commander, military officer, bureaucrat, official, officeholder, executive, agent, employee. ANTONYM: (n) underling officers: (n) executive committee, staff often: (adj, adv) oft; (adv) much, again and again, repeatedly, ofttimes, oftentimes, many times, always, commonly, again; (adj) frequent. ANTONYMS: (adv) seldom, infrequently, never once: (adv, n) formerly; (adv) before, ever, previously, one time, at one time, already, erst; (adj, adv) erstwhile; (adj) former; (n) whilom. ANTONYM: (adv) future open: (adj, n) frank, candid; (adj, n, v) clear; (adj) obvious, exposed, artless, free, honest, guileless, forthright, naked. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) shut; (v) close, end; (adj) devious, secretive, concealed, furtive, restricted, limited, reserved, secret opinion: (adj, n, v) judgment, feeling, notion; (n) idea, belief, conjecture, advice, guess, impression, view; (n, v) meaning opposer: (n) antagonist, foe, adversary, enemy, opposition, foeman, Antichrist, dueler, withstander, resister, obstructer orator: (n) elocutionist, speechmaker, speaker, lecturer, Cicero, speechifier, demagog, demagogue, eulogist; (v) oratrix, oratress order: (n, v) command, direct, decree, dictate, sort, rank, array, commission, charge; (n) instruction,
edict. ANTONYMS: (n, v) request; (n) mayhem, confusion, chaos, mess, anarchy, disorderliness, disarray; (v) disturb, deregulate, supply organ: (n) instrument, member, limb, apparatus, harmonium, agency, part, mechanism, medium, means, journal others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave, LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission otherwise: (adv) besides, differently, or else, yet, alias, nevertheless, on the other hand, in addition; (adj, adv) other; (n) or; (adj) different ourselves: (pron) myself, herself, itself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) me, yourselves, usself outward: (adj) external, apparent, extrinsic, outer, superficial, surface, outside, ostensible, foreign, outdoor; (adv) out. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) inward; (adj) inner, internal, deep overlooking: (adj) commanding, dominating, ascendent, autocratic, bossy; (n) oversight, omission, neglect, general supervision; (adv) neglectingly, beside overture: (n, v) offer, advance; (n) prelude, approach, introduction, preface, opening, presentation, feeler, bid, motion. ANTONYMS: (n) finale, conclusion, postscript owed: (adj) due, outstanding, unpaid, payable, deserved, fitting; (v) ought, behoove, owned, possessed; (n) aught. ANTONYM: (adj) paid owing: (adj) due, unpaid, unsettled, outstanding, overdue, owed, payable, undischarged, indebted, fulfilling obligation, lawful. ANTONYM: (adj) settled owner: (n) proprietor, possessor, holder, lord, landowner, landholder, boss, proprietary, landlord, keeper, employer. ANTONYMS: (n) tenant, seller pace: (n, v) walk, gait, rate, march, stride, footstep; (n) speed, tempo, rapidity, tread, celerity page: (n) footboy, waiter, attendant, boy, note, bellhop, pageboy, folio, varlet; (v) paginate, summon paid: (adj, v) compensated; (adj) salaried, paying, nonrecreational, profitable, remunerated, remunerative, mercenary, settled, prepaid, apaid. ANTONYMS: (adj) owing, due, unprofitable; (adv) voluntary pains: (n) nisus, labor, trouble, effort, exertion, labour, pain, care, struggle, attempt, strain
177 palace: (n) castle, mansion, hall, alcazar, chateau, palazzo, house, palaces, regime, fortress, serai pale: (adj) faint, wan, dull, weak, light, bloodless, pallid; (adj, v) dim; (n) boundary, confine; (v) blanch. ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, rosy, brown, well, glowing, vivid, healthy, clear, colorful; (v) redden, darken pancake: (n) hot cake, flapjack, bliny, hotcake, battercake, blini, blintz, blintze, flapcake; (v) ashcake; (n, v) crash paper: (n) article, newspaper, discourse, newsprint, publication, journal, essay, periodical, report, magazine, certificate papist: (adj, n) Roman, Romanist; (adj) Romish, popish, papistical, papistic, Roman Catholic; (n) Catholic, papalist paradise: (n) Elysium, bliss, Eden, Zion, promised land, Garden of Eden, Elysian Fields, ecstasy, nirvana, Valhalla, utopia. ANTONYM: (n) misery parallel: (v) compare; (n, v) match, duplicate; (adj, n) equivalent; (adj) even, like, comparable, alike; (n) analogy, likeness; (adj, adv) level. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) skew; (adj) dissimilar, conflicting, different, independent, separate, oblique, uneven; (n) dissimilarity, contrast, difference parcels: (n) post, correspondence, baggage, appurtenances, letters pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive, acquit, spare; (n) amnesty, forgiveness, grace; (adj, v) justify, exonerate, exculpate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) blame; (v) punish, castigate, condemn, convict; (n) intolerance pare: (v) cut, peel, trim, truncate, flay, curtail, whittle, shave, skin, sharpen, husk. ANTONYM: (v) expand paring: (adj) clipping, driblet, shiver; (n) shaving, splinter, chip, rind, flinders, grazing; (adj, n) sliver; (v) pare paris: (n) genus Paris, French capital, City of Light, capital of France parolles: (n) pistol, drawcansir, swashbuckler, sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso parson: (n) cleric, clergyman, rector, pastor, curate, preacher, ecclesiastic, divine, priest, vicar, father part: (adj, n) constituent; (n) piece, article, section; (v) break, disjoin, divide, divorce; (n, v) branch,
178 division, character. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite, meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly parted: (adj) divided, separate, distributed, separated, divisible, disunited, compounder, compound, dividable particular: (n) detail, item; (adj) fastidious, fussy, finicky, exact, individual, careful, definite, delicate, detailed. ANTONYMS: (adj) careless, easy, vague, ordinary, collective, generalized, slapdash, universal, strong, normal, indeterminate parting: (n) adieu, division, leave, departure, disunion, goodbye, leaving, segregation, dying, rupture; (adj) valedictory. ANTONYMS: (n) joining, meeting, connection, Reunion parts: (n) faculty, nous, quick parts, sagacity, wit, surroundings; (adj) ingenuity, cleverness, capacity, turn, talents party: (n) company, band, group, assembly, crew, association, gathering, crowd, clique, meeting, celebration pass: (adj, n, v) run; (v) flow, give, deliver, lead, happen, overtake, proceed; (adj, v) move; (n, v) offer, live. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, make, take, veto; (n) failing, rejection, exclusion passage: (n, v) course, journey; (n) gangway, corridor, hall, channel, entry, way, entrance, lobby, duct. ANTONYMS: (n) rejection, room passion: (n) affection, fire, fervor, love, feeling, anger, enthusiasm, heat, craving, desire; (n, v) ardor. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) future, present; (prep) within; (adj) current, contemporary, modern, upcoming, following, subsequent, later; (n) prospect pasty: (adj) pale, gluey, gummy, wan, glutinous, doughy, bloodless, white, adhesive, sallow; (n, v) pie. ANTONYMS: (adj) rosy, dark patch: (v) piece; (n) plot, fleck, darn, blot, freckle, bed, maculation, field; (n, v) botch, repair patent: (adj) overt, evident, apparent,
All's Well That Ends Well manifest, plain, clear, conspicuous, open, palpable, explicit; (n) letters patent. ANTONYMS: (adj) inconspicuous, obscure, subtle, unobtrusive, veiled, ambiguous, furtive, questionable patience: (n) endurance, fortitude, longanimity, equanimity, tolerance, resignation, restraint, composure, sufferance; (n, v) moderation, calmness. ANTONYMS: (n) impatience, eagerness, intolerance, annoyance patient: (adj) forbearing, passive, calm, enduring, resigned, uncomplaining, tolerant, stoical, lenient, meek, persistent. ANTONYMS: (adj) intolerant, annoyed, eager, harsh peace: (adj, n) calm, quiet; (n) harmony, hush, repose, ease, amity, agreement, rest, pacification, order. ANTONYMS: (n) noise, chaos, conflict, uproar, commotion, agitation, war, distress, suffering, disruption, turbulence pear: (n) bosc, Bartlett, Pyrus communis, pome, bulb, seckel, fruit tree, false fruit, edible fruit, Bartlett pear peep: (n, v) glance, peek, look, gaze, glint, squeal; (n) glimpse, cheep; (v) chirp, peer, pry. ANTONYMS: (v) stare, gaze; (n) examination peevish: (adj) fretful, fractious, morose, testy, irascible, moody, captious, petulant, cross, cantankerous, touchy penny: (n) change, coin, centime, copper, groat, subunit, money, mite, doit, small change, denomination perceive: (v) comprehend, apprehend, discover, see, grasp, find, know, observe, sense, appreciate; (adj, v) discern. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, observe, ignore perfect: (adj, n, v) consummate, complete; (adj, n) absolute, full, entire; (adj) exact, utter, thorough, faultless, integral, exquisite. ANTONYMS: (adj) flawed, faulty, wrong, inferior, misshapen, incorrect, defective, used, everyday, unhappy, partial perfection: (n) maturity, ideal, consummation, paragon, completeness, finish, completion, crown, flawlessness, development, ne plus ultra. ANTONYMS: (n) imperfection, fault, abandonment, ugliness, deterioration
perfidious: (adj) false, unfaithful, faithless, treacherous, dishonest, Punic, insidious, deceitful, untrue, traitorous, lying. ANTONYM: (adj) loyal performance: (n) discharge, execution, fulfillment, observance, accomplishment, operation, implementation; (n, v) action, achievement, deed, efficiency. ANTONYM: (n) omission performer: (n) musician, doer, artiste, comedian, player, conjurer, juggler, magician, executant, thespian, agent peril: (n, v) hazard, risk, endanger, menace, adventure; (n) danger, jeopardy, chance; (v) imperil, expose, compromise. ANTONYM: (n) security perpetual: (adj) incessant, continual, constant, endless, eternal, everlasting, lasting, ceaseless, immortal, continuous, perennial. ANTONYMS: (adj) temporary, intermittent, transitory, mortal, unstable, finite, inconstant, occasional, sporadic perpetually: (adv) eternally, everlastingly, always, incessantly, continually, endlessly, permanently, unceasingly, ceaselessly, ever; (adj, adv) forever. ANTONYMS: (adv) erratically, sporadically persecuted: (adj) downtrodden, aggrieved, laden, mistreated, wronged persons: (n) folk, public, society, world perspective: (n) aspect, prospect, view, outlook, angle, lookout, panorama, viewpoint, horizon, opinion, standpoint perverted: (adj) perverse, immoral, distorted, kinky, corrupt, twisted, abnormal, debauched, deviant, reprobate, unnatural. ANTONYMS: (adj) normal, moral, unchanged pestiferous: (adj) annoying, pernicious, contagious, noisome, harmful, vexing, vexatious, destructive, irritating, bothersome, pesky petition: (n, v) appeal, request, desire, claim; (v) ask, beg, crave, apply; (n) application, entreaty, invocation philosophical: (v) sedate, meditative, deliberative, platonic, museful, introspective, contemplative, pensive; (adj) cool; (adj, v) reflective, thoughtful. ANTONYMS: (adj) practical, nonphilosophical,
William Shakespeare emotional, realistic phoenix: (n) perfection, capital of Arizona, chimera, genus phoenix, hydra, ideal, jewel, Minotaur, monster physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, remedy; (v) heal physician: (n) doctor, medico, doc, medic, quack, surgeon, leech, houseman, MD, allergist, intern pick: (n) alternative, best, option, selection, choice; (adj, n) cream, elite; (adj, v) select; (v) opt, harvest, gather. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, refuse picking: (n) option, selection, alternative, gathering, collection, choice, harvesting, leavings, collecting, indefinite quantity; (v) choose pieces: (n) debris, trash piercing: (adj, n) sharp, cutting; (adj, v) keen, penetrating, biting, bitter, harsh, shrill; (adj) high, raw, loud. ANTONYMS: (adj) quiet, dull, soft, hot pile: (n, v) heap, stack, mass, pack, jam; (n) congeries, mound, bunch, accumulation; (v) amass; (adj, n) nap. ANTONYM: (v) unload pilgrim: (n) hadji, passenger, journeyer, palmer, traveler, wanderer, conventual, monk, mendicant, lay brother, hajji pilgrimage: (n, v) expedition, excursion; (v) trip, tour, peregrination, ramble, discursion, circuit; (n) hajj, haj, career pinch: (n, v) nip, arrest, twinge, squeeze; (n) emergency, crisis, exigency; (v) compress, lift, wring, constrict pitchy: (adj) tarry, dusky, dark, fuliginous, jet, murky, obscure, pitch dark, inky, black, achromatic pitiful: (adj, n) abject; (adj) pathetic, lamentable, piteous, contemptible, miserable, distressing, mean, wretched, poor, sad. ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, heartwarming, admirable, cheerful, fine, happy, impressive pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n) mercy, commiseration, condolence, sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v) sympathize, compassionate, feel sorry for. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) remove, divest, lift, dismantle places: (n) chairs, seating, spaces plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict, hassle, annoy, badger, pester, disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj, n, v) bother. ANTONYM: (v) comfort plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, intelligible, apparent, manifest, obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate, unclear, multicolored, mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned plant: (v) fix, set, embed, graft, establish, constitute; (n, v) place; (n) manufactory, factory, equipment, herb. ANTONYMS: (v) dismantle, remove plausive: (adj) favorable, approbatory, approbative play: (n, v) act, frolic, pastime, game, sport, exercise, joke, bet, wager; (v) enact; (adj, v) perform. ANTONYMS: (n) tightness; (v) avoid, leave, real plead: (v) entreat, implore, beg, adjure, petition, ask, appeal, defend, invoke, sue; (n, v) allege. ANTONYMS: (v) answer, demand please: (v) delight, charm, amuse, entertain, oblige, enchant, enrapture; (adj, v) gratify, enjoy, like; (adj) glad. ANTONYMS: (v) displease, annoy, irritate, anger, distress, sicken, disappoint, dissatisfy, sadden, repel, appall pleasure: (n) fun, enjoyment, delectation, joy, comfort, happiness, mirth, inclination; (n, v) contentment, content; (adj, n, v) gratification. ANTONYMS: (n) irritation, nuisance, boredom, ache, displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery, pain, sadness, worry, anguish plod: (v) tramp, trudge, toil, slog, drudge, labor, pad, grind, footslog; (n, v) clump, march plot: (n, v) plan, intrigue, cabal, plat, scheme, design, chart; (n) lot, patch, graph; (v) conspire pluck: (adj, n) nerve; (v) cull, jerk, gather, pick, fleece, grab; (n) grit, courage, boldness; (n, v) pull. ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, gutlessness; (v) undercharge plume: (n) feather, plumage, quill, panache, aigrette, crest, feathering; (v) pride, pluck, dress, preen
179 plunge: (n, v) drop, dive, fall, jump; (v) douse, duck, submerge, crash, dunk, plummet; (adj, v) immerse. ANTONYMS: (n, v) rise; (v) hesitate; (n) improvement pocket: (v) take, appropriate, steal, lift, catch; (n, v) sack, pouch; (n) cavity, hole, hollow; (adj) digest. ANTONYM: (v) return point: (n, v) grade, head, nib, level, aim, degree; (n) peak, article, dot; (adj, n) edge; (v) direct. ANTONYM: (n) middle poison: (adj, v) contaminate, taint; (n, v) envenom, drug, empoison; (adj) toxic, poisonous; (v) defile, intoxicate; (n) bane, venom. ANTONYMS: (n) cure; (v) clean policy: (n) course, plan, insurance, approach, tactics, game, system, principle, line, politics, polity politic: (adj, v) tactful; (adj) discreet, judicious, circumspect, shrewd, prudent, suave, calculating, tricky, cute, chary. ANTONYMS: (adj) injudicious, unwise, impolitic, foolish poll: (n) head, ballot, pate, crown; (n, v) vote, canvass, canvas, list; (v) parrot, pollard, muster pomegranate: (n) fruit tree, edible fruit, pomegranate tree pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, ostentation, show, ceremony, glory, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n) understatement, modesty poor: (adj) bad, miserable, piteous, destitute, pitiful, insufficient, penniless, pathetic; (adj, v) meager; (adj, n) paltry, mean. ANTONYMS: (adj) wealthy, excellent, privileged, admirable, good, adequate, satisfactory, outstanding, favorable, dignified, comfortable poorer: (adj) lesser, substandard, subordinate, of inferior quality, not as good as, lower, junior, minor. ANTONYMS: (adj) superior, higher porridge: (v) oatmeal, hasty pudding, mince pie, oyster, pineapple, mango; (n) burgoo, pap, plash, loblolly, podge port: (adj, n) larboard; (n) haven, pier, carriage, demeanor, asylum, mien, wharf, embrasure, gate; (adj) left. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) starboard porto: (n) Oporto possession: (n) occupation, ownership, keeping, goods, substance, tenure, property, grasp, estate, domain; (n, v) acquisition.
180 ANTONYMS: (n) vacancy, sale possibility: (n) opportunity, chance, likelihood, opening, probability, expectancy, potential, eventuality, occasion, odds, prospect. ANTONYM: (n) impossibility possible: (adj) imaginable, likely, feasible, practicable, earthly, maybe, probable, practical, potential, tolerable, thinkable. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlikely, compulsory, actual, implausible, unrealistic, unattainable post: (n, v) place, position, stake, station; (n) office, function, pillar, attitude; (v) locate, enter, lay posting: (n) post, placard, poster, entry, notice, position, transmittal, transmission, transmitting, job, place pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter, stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem, infuse; (n, v) overflow. ANTONYMS: (v) drizzle, trickle power: (n, v) might, ability, influence, dominion, faculty; (n) potency, energy, control, authority, domination, strength. ANTONYMS: (n) powerlessness, helplessness, weakness, inability, subjugation, moderation, calmness, meekness, inferiority, feebleness, ease powerful: (adj) potent, muscular, strong, hard, able, brawny, vigorous, energetic, intense; (adj, adv) mighty; (adj, prep) forcible. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, mild, unimportant, calm, faint, frail, gentle, ineffective, modest, insignificant, lightweight practice: (n, v) exercise, drill, discipline, use; (n) fashion, convention, habitude, habit, experience, form, observance. ANTONYMS: (n) theory, innovation; (v) perform praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, compliment, honor, glory, acclaim; (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, disparagement; (v) reprimand, disparage, reproach, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, denigrate, sully praised: (adj) bepuffed, popular, renowned prattle: (n, v) gossip, babble, chat, gab, jabber, chitchat; (adj, n, v) chatter, prate, palaver; (v) cackle, clack pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, invite, plead, beseech, appeal,
All's Well That Ends Well importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject preceding: (adj, adv) anterior, earlier; (adj) foregoing, former, previous, prior, past, precedent, prevenient; (adv) forward; (prep) before. ANTONYMS: (adj) following, succeeding, next, present precisely: (adv) accurately, correctly, strictly, truly, specifically, meticulously, minutely, literally, scrupulously, rigorously; (adj, adv) just. ANTONYMS: (adv) clumsily, indistinctly, approximately, inaccurately, imprecisely, wrongly, randomly, carelessly, poorly, wrong, haphazardly predominant: (adj) paramount, chief, overriding, prevailing, main, supreme, ruling, sovereign, principal; (adj, v) prevalent, regnant. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor, subsidiary, peripheral, sparse premises: (n) precinct, terms, lemma, facts, station, starting point, principle, building, residence, house, postulate prentice: (n) novice, learner, beginner, tyro, tiro, disciple, labor, assimilator; (adj) inexperienced, crude preparation: (n) concoction, provision, training, readiness, practice, homework, formulation, planning, prep, instruction, drill prepared: (adj) willing, disposed, fitted, fain, finished, ready, ripe, primed, competent, inclined, efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj) spontaneous, unarmed, reluctant, unwilling prerogative: (n) franchise, claim, power, immunity, liberty, perquisite, right, influence, concession, due, authority presence: (n) front, manner, mien, bearing, carriage, figure, air, comportment, demeanor, company; (n, v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n) absence, nonattendance present: (adj, n, v) gift, grant; (n, v) donation, display; (adj, v) confer, bestow; (v) introduce, give, prefer, offer, perform. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, withhold, consume, take; (adj) missing, lost, dated, historical; (adj, n) past, future; (n) history presently: (adv) instantly, directly, currently, before long, shortly, soon, now, at present, readily, just, actually. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, now, formerly
preserve: (v) maintain, keep, save, guard, hold, defend, uphold, keep up; (n) jam, jelly, conserves. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, discontinue, damage, lose, attack, endanger, use, end preserver: (n) defender, protector, custodian, conservative, keeper, conservator, savior, patron, restorer, flotation device; (adj) third person presume: (v) dare, consider, believe, think, infer, guess, expect, esteem, conclude, suppose, conjecture. ANTONYMS: (v) appreciate, despair, speculate presumption: (n) effrontery, confidence, assurance, premise, arrogance, guess, conjecture, surmise, insolence, impertinence, belief. ANTONYM: (n) respect presumptuous: (adj) arrogant, audacious, forward, assuming, insolent, impertinent, assumptive, familiar, haughty, proud; (adj, n) bold. ANTONYMS: (adj) respectful, shy, timid, humble, modest pretence: (n) deceit, pretext, dissimulation, pretense, affectation, falsehood, deception, hypocrisy, bluff, appearance, pretension pretty: (adj) fair, graceful, lovely, handsome, attractive, charming, good-looking, picturesque, dainty; (n) nice; (adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adj) plain, unattractive, modern, inelegant; (adv) extremely prevented: (adj) disallowed, barred, banned. ANTONYM: (adj) legitimate prey: (n) chase, game, victim, immolation, quarry, target, mark, capture; (n, v) plunder, raven; (v) eat. ANTONYMS: (n) hunter, predator price: (v) appraise, assess; (adj, n) worth, merit; (n) cost, charge, expense, figure, fee; (n, v) estimate, amount prick: (n, v) puncture, stab, cock, twinge, spur, bite; (v) impale, pierce, needle; (n) Dick, pricking pride: (n) arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, lordliness, assumption, insolence, disdain, hauteur; (n, v) boast; (v) plume. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace, shame, baseness priest: (adj, n) clergyman, divine; (n) minister, ecclesiastic, churchman, pastor, celebrant, parson, cleric, presbyter, chaplain prime: (adj, n) chief, best, paramount,
William Shakespeare essential; (adj) first, head, fundamental, primary, early; (n) flower; (v) ground. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) secondary, inferior; (adj) new, marginal; (n) nadir prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign, duke, king, chief, maharaja, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke principal: (adj, n) chief, master, cardinal, primary, leading, capital, prime, main; (adj) grand; (n) manager, leader. ANTONYMS: (adj) secondary, subordinate, peripheral, trivial, marginal, side prison: (n) calaboose, confinement, lockup, penitentiary, jug, chokey, college, prison house, limbo, confine, custody private: (adj) clandestine, personal, secret, individual, hidden, inner, exclusive, intimate, esoteric; (adj, v) covert, close. ANTONYMS: (adj) official, nationalized, community, communal, shared, civic, state, open, external, commercial, collective privilege: (n) liberty, prerogative, immunity, freedom, grant, franchise, exemption, concession, claim; (n, v) license, permit. ANTONYM: (n) insult probable: (adj) likely, plausible, possible, potential, presumable, feasible, hopeful, convincing, believable, to be expected, specious. ANTONYMS: (adj) improbable, implausible, unbelievable proceeding: (n) matter, transaction, affair, procedure, lawsuit, proceedings; (v) deed, act; (n, v) measure; (adv, n) happening; (adj, adv, v) going on process: (n, v) action, course, function, act; (n) proceeding, operation, method, procedure, formula, outgrowth; (v) refine. ANTONYM: (v) contaminate proclaim: (v) declare, assert, advertise, broadcast, promulgate, enunciate, herald, decree, divulge, notify, annunciate proclamation: (n) announcement, decree, edict, annunciation, notice, statement, promulgation, report, publication, manifesto, propagation produce: (n, v) effect, gain, make, cause; (v) bring, present, procreate, bring about, generate, breed, construct. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, consume, halt profess: (v) assert, feign, affirm, avow, state, pretend, claim, confess,
allege, aver; (n, v) protest. ANTONYM: (v) repress profession: (n) employment, declaration, occupation, affirmation, calling, career, vocation, job, position, assertion, assurance. ANTONYM: (n) denial profitable: (adj) helpful, beneficial, fruitful, advantageous, good, lucrative, useful, gainful, desirable, fat, valuable. ANTONYMS: (adj) dependent, disadvantageous, unhelpful, fruitless progress: (v) proceed, continue, go on; (n) headway, improvement, furtherance, betterment, course, growth, development; (n, v) gain. ANTONYMS: (n) decline, deterioration, regression, impasse, decrease, decay; (n, v) retreat; (v) recede, return, deteriorate, stay project: (n, v) design, jut, scheme; (v) hurl, contrive, overhang, protrude, shoot, bulge; (n) device, idea promise: (n, v) covenant, guarantee, contract, vow, bargain; (v) augur, assure; (n) engagement, assurance, plight, word promised: (adj) pledged, affianced, betrothed, busy, devoted, employed, greatly interested, intended, involved; (v) benempt, named promising: (adj) auspicious, bright, favorable, propitious, encouraging, favourable, hopeful, promise, budding, optimistic, probable. ANTONYMS: (adj) hopeless, inauspicious, threatening, unfavorable, unlikely, depressing proper: (adj) due, decent, modest, agreeable, fitting, legitimate, right; (adj, v) correct, fit, becoming; (adj, n) just. ANTONYMS: (adj) inappropriate, wrong, unseemly, rude, unconventional, unsuitable, false, relaxed, vulgar, unreasonable, undue property: (n) characteristic, capital, peculiarity, feature, character, belongings, goods, wealth; (adj, n) attribute, quality; (n, v) possession prophesier: (n) soothsayer, prophet prophet: (n) augur, oracle, vaticinator, seer, predictor, diviner, forecaster, visionary, foreteller, priest, clairvoyant propose: (v) bid, nominate, design, plan, proffer, move, intend, mean, aim, suggest; (n, v) advance. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, improvise, oppose prosperous: (adj, n) lucky,
181 auspicious, fortunate; (adj) flourishing, favorable, opulent, easy, comfortable, affluent, advantageous, successful. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressed, unsuccessful, failing, underprivileged, impoverished prostitute: (n) courtesan, harlot, bawd, hooker, fancy woman, cocotte, whore, tart; (adj, v) pervert; (v) profane, abuse protected: (adj) guarded, immune, secured, sheltered, saved, covered, shielded, obtected, cosseted; (v) protect, private. ANTONYMS: (adj) vulnerable, harsh, insecure, exposed, susceptible protest: (n) demonstration, objection, complaint, challenge, question; (v) assert, object, complain, remonstrate, demur; (n, v) moan. ANTONYMS: (n, v) support, praise; (n) approval, acceptance; (v) approve, agree proud: (adj) lofty, disdainful, haughty, exalted, egotistical, gallant, pompous, lordly, majestic, overbearing; (adj, v) dignified. ANTONYMS: (adj) humble, modest, ashamed, embarrassed, sorrowful, disappointed, miserable prove: (v) attest, manifest, evidence, establish, show, examine, verify, essay, check, corroborate; (adj, v) confirm. ANTONYMS: (v) refute, undermine provide: (v) contribute, furnish, offer, cater, supply, afford, equip, administer, accommodate, allow, fit. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold, divest, neglect, take, buy publish: (adj, v) disclose, announce, communicate; (v) proclaim, divulge, issue, circulate, notify, broadcast, print, advertise pudding: (n) dessert, sweet, duff, flummery, custard; (adj) pap, jam, curd, clay, butter, dough pull: (n, v) draw, drag, pluck, tug, wrench, jerk; (v) draught, haul, attract, pick; (n) attraction. ANTONYMS: (v) repel, shove, leave; (n) repulsion, repulsiveness pulse: (n, v) throb; (n) pulsation, impulse, heartbeat, legume, rhythm, pounding, cadence; (v) pulsate, palpitate, pound punk: (n) hoodlum, hood, touchwood, prostitute, spunk, hooligan, harlot, tinder, strumpet, rowdy; (adj) bum pure: (adj) absolute, natural, faultless, innocent, immaculate, perfect, good,
182 clean; (adj, n) chaste, genuine; (adj, v) mere. ANTONYMS: (adj) contaminated, dishonored, diluted, tainted, wicked, practical, polluted, flawed, marred, unsaturated, unchaste purifying: (adj) purging, purgatorial, antiseptic, expurgatory, ablutionary, remedial; (v) cathartic, abstergent; (n) purification puritan: (adj) blue, puritanic, puritanical, Methodist, formalist, religionist; (n) precisian, devotee, sanyasi, yogi; (v) coquette purpose: (n, v) plan, intention, design, project, resolve, purport, end, object; (n) mind, effect, motive. ANTONYM: (n) weakness purse: (n) bag, pouch, money, handbag, sac, currency, pocketbook, pelf; (v) wrinkle, pucker, crease pursue: (v) follow, dog, prosecute, hunt, course, tail, stalk, persist, hound, haunt, go after. ANTONYMS: (v) shun, eschew, avoid, discourage, lead, precede, find puts: (n) stocks, securities, preferred stock, common stock, bonds putting: (n) placing, putt, botong, swing, puts, miniature golf, golf stroke, golf shot, placing into standby qualities: (n) character, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, quality, role, self, part, traits, individuality quality: (adj, n) character, faculty; (n) class, characteristic, condition, grade, feature, distinction, description, mark, peculiarity. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap; (n) drawback, inferiority, mediocrity quart: (n) quartile, quartic, quartilunar, quartole, quartlet, quarts, quarto, quarter quarter: (n) part, district, neighbourhood, division, mercy, neighborhood, region, direction, portion; (n, v) place; (v) lodge. ANTONYM: (v) evict quean: (n) jade, Trull, bitch, drab, hussy, minx, girl, slut, trollop, rig, demirep queen: (n) king, lady, sovereign, monarch, dame, pansy, queer, faggot, princess, fairy, czarina question: (n, v) query, distrust, interrogate, matter, challenge, demand; (n) inquiry; (v) investigate, inquire, contest, examine. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, resolution; (n, v) trust; (v) praise,
All's Well That Ends Well reply, believe, accept quick: (adj) bright, hasty, agile, nimble, intelligent, clever, speedy, active, immediate, instant; (adj, v) prompt. ANTONYMS: (adj) leisurely, dull, dim, thick, unintelligent, thorough, inept, unobservant, lengthy, long, permanent quickly: (adv) promptly, rapidly, expeditiously, readily, speedily, swiftly, suddenly, hastily; (adj, adv) immediately, shortly; (adv, n) instantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, gradually, permanently, later, eventually, thoroughly quit: (adj, n, v) leave; (v) go, drop, break, cease, give up, depart, end, discontinue; (adj, v) discharge; (n, v) part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy, enter, maintain, start, come, arrive quite: (adj, adv) altogether, fully, sheer, just; (adv) all, absolutely, completely, entirely, exactly, enough, well. ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly, slightly, insufficiently, partially quoth: (v) quod radiance: (n) gleam, glory, brilliance, luster, lustre, beam, brightness, effulgence, sparkle, light; (adj, n) brilliancy. ANTONYMS: (n) darkness, gloominess raising: (n) bringing up, nurture, elevation, lift, raise, culture, heave, ascent, ascension, upbringing, rearing ransom: (v) redeem, repair, extricate; (n, v) rescue, blackmail, repurchase; (n) deliverance, ransom money, assessment, benevolence, excise rare: (adj) uncommon, thin, unusual, seldom, scarce, precious, exceptional, infrequent, few, choice, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) common, frequent, usual, plentiful, commonplace, recurrent rarity: (n) rareness, curiosity, infrequency, curio, peculiarity, dearth, scarcity, tenuity, paucity, scarceness, antique. ANTONYM: (n) frequency 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 rash: (adj, n) foolhardy, hasty, precipitate, eruption; (adj)
imprudent, reckless, impetuous, heedless, audacious, sudden; (adj, adv) thoughtless. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, careful, sensible, wise, considered, deliberate, prudent, modest, slow, responsible, patient rate: (n) worth, pace; (v) assess, estimate, evaluate, appreciate, compute, appraise, count, calculate; (n, v) value rather: (adv) a little, enough, fairly, pretty, moderately, considerably, very, relatively, kind of, instead, kinda. ANTONYMS: (adv) extremely, absolutely; (adj) complete ravin: (n, v) ravine; (n) spoliation, game reach: (n, v) fetch, stretch; (adj, v) overtake, pass, extend; (v) obtain, achieve, make, attain, get; (n) compass. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, differ, fail read: (v) say, decipher, understand, learn, construe, perceive, gather, indicate, demonstrate, translate, comprehend. ANTONYM: (v) write reading: (n, v) read; (n) recital, learning, interpretation, lection, construction, version, study, perusal, erudition, exegesis real: (adj, n, v) actual; (adj, n) true, pure, authentic; (adj) physical, material, natural, concrete, positive, literal, native. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) pretend; (adj) imaginary, artificial, fake, apparent, mock, insubstantial, imitation, fantasy, false, bogus reap: (v) harvest, gain, glean, gather, obtain, cut, receive, earn, acquire; (adj, v) mow; (adj) clip. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, scatter reason: (n) account, intellect, occasion, object, understanding, argument, purpose; (n, v) cause; (v) argue, debate; (adj, n) rationality. ANTONYMS: (n) inconsistency, disincentive reasons: (n) proof reave: (v) pillage, plunder, ransack, despoil, rifle, snatch, strip, displume, deplume, foray, rave rebellion: (n) revolt, insurrection, mutiny, disobedience, uprising, unrest, revolution, outbreak, defiance, insurgency, commotion. ANTONYMS: (n) consent, compliance recantation: (n) retraction, withdrawal, revocation, repeal, rescission, disavowal, backdown, abolition, retractation,
William Shakespeare abandonment, disclaimer receipts: (n) proceeds, earnings, revenue, gain, profit, gross, gate, profit and loss account, box office, gains, emolument receive: (v) get, admit, assume, have, welcome, bear, obtain, adopt, make, greet, embrace. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, disburse, lose, mail, present, spend, dispatch received: (adj) acknowledged, conventional, standard, accredited, acceptable, orthodox, canonical, normative; (v) receiving, current, ascertained. ANTONYMS: (adj) unconventional, nonstandard recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n) compensation, amends, atonement, payment, consideration, indemnification, indemnity; (v) compensate, reimburse. ANTONYMS: (v) penalize, receive; (n) penalty recover: (v) reclaim, get back, recuperate, retrieve, regain, pick up, get well, restore, heal, convalesce, mend. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, die, decline, aggravate, abandon, worsen, scatter recovered: (adj) cured, retrieved, well, well again, healthier, aged, improved, whole, better, corned. ANTONYM: (adj) worse recovery: (n) resurrection, convalescence, rescue, reclamation, retrieval, improvement, cure, deliverance, recuperation, revival, healing. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, return, slump, deterioration, disappearance, downfall rector: (n) minister, pastor, president, manager, principal, governor, clergyman, curate, parson, director, priest re-enter: (v) return, come back reference: (n, v) mention, quote, connection; (n) citation, quotation, allusion, recommendation, bearing, innuendo; (v) cite, refer regiment: (n) corps, battalion, legion, host, brigade, division, multitude, cohort; (v) control, organize, regulate relics: (n) relic, rood, rosary, thurible, reliquary, remainder, remain, leavings, remains, remnants, patera relieve: (n, v) ease, assuage, mitigate, alleviate, allay, calm, redress; (v) free, help, console, excuse. ANTONYMS: (v) burden, aggravate, exacerbate, harbor, enforce, include, upset, depress
religion: (n) piety, faith, creed, cult, sect, denomination, church, devotion, paganism, persuasion, holiness religious: (adj, v) devout; (adj) sacred, divine, saintly, holy, godly, scrupulous, devoted; (n) monk, nun, friar. ANTONYMS: (adj) irreverent, irreligious, slapdash, atheistic, impious, uncommitted remain: (n, v) abide, endure, continue, last; (v) bide, linger, stay, keep, persist, live, hold. ANTONYMS: (v) leave, depart, change, move, go, become, stop remainder: (n) excess, leftover, overplus, end, residue, oddment, balance, rest, surplus; (adj, n) remnant; (adv) after remains: (n) debris, corpse, relic, carcass, body, rest, clay, vestige; (adj, n) remainder, remnant; (n, v) trace remedy: (n, v) cure, redress, heal, help, medicine, relief; (v) rectify, amend, relieve, correct; (n) drug. ANTONYM: (n) poison remember: (v) commemorate, recognize, recollect, recall, consider, memorize, think, mind, call to mind, retain, bear in mind. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, neglect, overlook remembrance: (n, v) recollection, mind; (n) commemoration, memorial, recall, relic, monument, keepsake, reminiscence, recognition; (adj, n) memento remembrances: (adj) abord, devoir, respects, welcome; (n) remembrance remorseful: (adj) penitent, regretful, apologetic, sorry, repentant, regret, sad, rueful, bad, compunctious, compassionate. ANTONYMS: (adj) glad, unremorseful removed: (adj) distant, remote, separate, far, detached, abstracted, absent, apart, aloof, separated, outlying. ANTONYMS: (adj) connected, together, worldly rend: (v) pull, lacerate, break, divide, rive, tear, disrupt, mangle; (n, v) rip, split, slash render: (v) interpret, explain, give, offer, furnish, pay, construe, return, provide, impart, translate renown: (n, v) fame; (n) glory, distinction, eminence, notoriety, kudos, name, popularity, prestige, prominence, honor. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, commonness; (adj) anonymity repairs: (n) upkeep
183 repeated: (adj) continual, recurrent, frequent, persistent, repeat, double, habitual, chronic, again, common, continuous. ANTONYMS: (adj) temporary, rare, unique, alternate, unusual, spasmodic repent: (v) deplore, bewail, rue, mourn, lament, atone, sorry, bemoan, feel remorse, grieve, be sorry replete: (adj) fraught, profuse, excessive, inordinate, exuberant, overmuch, satisfied; (v) fill, take, satiate, cloy. ANTONYM: (adj) hungry report: (n, v) account, gossip, name, record; (n) description, notice, recital, story, notification; (v) describe, recount reported: (adj) narrative, reputed reports: (n) correspondence, data, intelligence, news reposing: (adj) calm, asleep represented: (adj) delineate, depicted, representing, drawn, painted, pictured, diagrammatic reprieve: (n, v) pause, postponement, pardon, stay; (n) relief, delay, abatement, remission, grace; (v) remit, adjournment. ANTONYM: (n) charge reputation: (n) name, prestige, distinction, face, celebrity, credit, character; (n, v) honor, esteem, report; (adj, n) renown. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, dishonor, obscurity reputed: (adj) supposed, renowned, famous, conjectural, assumed, famed, eminent, prominent, alleged, well-known, distinguished. ANTONYM: (adj) known required: (adj) compulsory, essential, obligatory, indispensable, mandatory, needed, needful, prerequisite, bound, require, desired. ANTONYMS: (adj) free, undesirable, voluntary, inessential requite: (adj, v) pay, gratify, satisfy; (v) recompense, reciprocate, compensate, reward, remunerate, reimburse, return, refund rescue: (n, v) release, ransom, salvage; (n) deliverance, delivery, relieve; (v) extricate, recover, free, save, redeem. ANTONYMS: (n) involvement, loss, abandonment, downfall; (n, v) capture; (v) endanger, lose, aggravate reservation: (n) limitation, booking, condition, subscription, qualification, modesty, exception,
184 constraint, order, misgiving; (adj) reserved. ANTONYM: (n) enthusiasm reserved: (adj, n) cold, distant, frigid; (adj) coy, reticent, diffident, bashful, aloof, retiring, quiet, shy. ANTONYMS: (adj) open, forthcoming, uninhibited, relaxed, warm, communicative, talkative, free, definite, cordial, forward residence: (n) home, house, dwelling, lodging, accommodation, domicile, occupancy, place, mansion, habitation, manse. ANTONYM: (n) vacancy residing: (adj) residentiary, situated, permanently fixed, placed, residential, located resistance: (n) endurance, impedance, hindrance, friction, obstacle, immunity, insubordination, defiance, renitency; (v) rebellion; (n, v) interference. ANTONYMS: (n) obedience, agreement, susceptibility, acceptance, receptivity, frailty, friendliness, vulnerability, defeatism, attack, softness respect: (adj, n, v) regard, worship; (n, v) esteem, heed, notice, reverence; (v) observe, keep, appreciate; (n) homage, deference. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scorn, dishonor, disregard; (n) cheek, insolence, impudence, disdain; (v) despise, humiliate, break, taint respects: (adj) abord, welcome; (n) compliments, greeting, compliment, baisemains, devoir, duty rest: (adj, n) remnant, remainder, residue; (n, v) pause, balance, nap, relaxation, sleep; (n) recess, leisure; (v) remain. ANTONYMS: (n) activity, agitation, intensification; (v) change, stand, deteriorate retreat: (v) retire, withdraw, depart; (n) refuge, departure, asylum, den, lair, retirement; (n, v) resort, return. ANTONYMS: (n) raid, development, extension, arrival, company; (v) progress, remain retrograde: (adj) regressive, backward, retral, deteriorating; (v) retreat, fall back, retire, regress, decline, lapse, revert. ANTONYMS: (v) progress; (adj) direct return: (v) recur, reimburse, restore; (n, v) pay, restitution, recompense, refund, restoration, render, retort; (n) proceeds. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, confiscation, abolition, recovery, loss, disappearance,
All's Well That Ends Well penalty; (v) keep, depart, take, remove returning: (adj) regressive, return, reversive, recurrent, coming back, ebbing, flowing back, new, newly appointed, newly elected, next. ANTONYMS: (adj) outgoing, unique, occasional reveal: (v) divulge, expose, disclose, impart, betray, detect, convey, exhibit, display, discover, express. ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, hide, cover, suppress, withhold revenge: (n) retribution, vengeance, reprisal, retaliation, repayment, grudge, punishment; (v) retaliate, repay, requite, vindicate revolt: (n, v) mutiny, rebellion, insurrection; (v) sicken, nauseate, rebel, repel, repulse, offend; (adj, v) shock; (n) uprising. ANTONYMS: (n) attraction; (v) please, delight reward: (n, v) recompense, return, compensation, guerdon, wage, meed, prize, bribe; (v) repay, requite; (n) payment. ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, sentence; (v) dishonor, penalize rhyme: (n) poetry, verse, poem, song, alliteration, numbers, rhythm; (n, v) rime, measure; (v) poetize, versify rich: (adj, n) copious, luxurious; (adj) productive, fruitful, full, deep, prolific, opulent, fat, affluent; (adj, v) fertile. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, impoverished, destitute, broke, light, plain, lean, delicate, infertile, weak, barren richly: (adv) wealthily, copiously, opulently, lavishly, abundantly, sumptuously, affluently, profusely, amply, plentifully, fully. ANTONYMS: (adv) meagerly, poorly, simply, barely ride: (n, v) outing; (adj, v) bestride; (n) run, lift, jaunt; (v) mount, bait, float, rag, tease, harass rightly: (adv) correctly, rightfully, properly, accurately, appropriately, exactly, fitly, straightly, fairly, really; (adv, v) adequately. ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly, inappropriately, incorrectly, immorally, unjustly, partially, sinfully, unfairly, falsely rights: (n) human rights, citizenship, possession, copyright, due, exclusive rights, nationality, official document, patent, government grant ring: (n, v) encircle, peal, call, loop, jingle; (v) resound, echo, reverberate; (n) gang, band, rim
rock: (adj, n) stone; (n) boulder, calculus, cliff; (n, v) sway, jar; (v) waver, toss, jolt, shake, cradle rogue: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, imp, miscreant, crook, cheat, impostor, swindler, cad, villain, scoundrel room: (n) chamber, occasion, house, apartment, opportunity, hall, opening, compartment, expanse, extent; (v) board. ANTONYM: (n) walkway rooted: (adj, v) fixed; (adj) ingrained, immovable, inveterate, firm, set, frozen, riveted, irremovable; (v) imbedded, posited rose: (adj) pink, rosaceous, risen, roseate; (n) pink wine, blush wine, rose wine, rosette, brier; (v) flush, redden rotten: (adj, v) decayed, musty; (adj) foul, poor, fetid, lousy, putrid, off, ill, shabby, wretched. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, silky, soft, sophisticated, refined, polished, precise, exact, pleasant, glossy, even rounds: (n) patrol, beat, route, patient rounds royal: (adj, adv) regal, majestic; (adj) imperial, magnificent, kingly, noble, brilliant, sovereign, purple, August, princely rude: (adj, n) rough, impudent, coarse, abrupt, bold; (adj) blunt, discourteous, impolite, brutal, crude, mean. ANTONYMS: (adj) polite, refined, courteous, chivalrous, civil, proper, decent, exact, clean, gentle, inoffensive ruff: (n, v) ruffle, trump, disturbance; (n) collar, neckband, fraise, blacktail, choker, neck ruff, sandpiper; (v) crossruff rule: (n, v) control, order, govern, decree, influence, line, dominion, regulate, reign; (n) law, ordinance. ANTONYMS: (v) request; (n) option rumour: (n, v) rumor; (n) hearsay, fame, news, story, reputation, scuttlebutt, tale; (v) bruit running: (adj) operative, working, continual, moving; (adj, v) active; (n) course, motion, run, operation, administration; (adj, n) functioning runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness, Montezuma's revenge
William Shakespeare rush: (n, v) charge, flood, dash, flow, gush, race, run, speed, attack; (adj, n, v) burst; (n) onrush. ANTONYMS: (v) delay, dawdle, linger, wander, amble, hesitate, crawl, trickle; (n) shortage, slowness, unimportance ruttish: (adj) horny, libidinous, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lustful, erotic, aroused, salacious, aflame, corneous sacked: (adj) pillaged, raped, despoiled, desolate, devastated, desolated, blasted, plundered, ransacked, molested, made uninhabitable sacrament: (n) token, penance, rite, ritual, liturgy, symbol, communion, baptism, Eucharist, confirmation, ceremony sadly: (adv) pitifully, dolefully, unfortunately, mournfully, sorrowfully, woefully, dejectedly, pathetically, wretchedly, forlornly; (adj, adv) seriously. ANTONYMS: (adv) cheerfully, contentedly, gladly, joyfully, fortunately, luckily, enthusiastically sadness: (n, v) melancholy, despondency; (adj, n) grief, distress; (n) misery, sorrow, desolation, regret, gloom, mourning, affliction. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, amusement, cheerfulness, laughter, contentment, comfort, cheer, hopefulness safely: (adv) surely, safe, certainly, cautiously, soundly, strongly, sure, steadily, harmlessly, unharmedly, unhurtly. ANTONYMS: (adv) harmfully, hazardously, loosely safety: (n) guard, security, refuge, safe, bingle, base hit, sanctuary, asylum, preservation, cover, shelter. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, hazard, instability saffron: (n) yellow, crocus sativus, orange yellow, yellowness, seasoner, seasoning, flavouring, flavourer, saffron crocus, flavorer; (adj) topaz saint: (v) canonize; (n) holy man, evangelist, apostle, jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack, holy person, ideal, apotheosis; (adj) sacred sainted: (adj) saintlike, holy, beatific, angelical, angelic, sacred, cherubic, good sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive, ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n) object, account, design, purpose, saki salad: (n) coleslaw, sauce, pasta
salad, mash, gallimaufry, fruit salad, mingled yarn, dish, miscellany, herring salad, crab Louis sally: (n) foray, quip, sortie, crack, joke, wisecrack, coupe de main, attack, onset, jaunt, excursion salt: (adj) salty, saline, briny, brackish, pungent; (v) cure, pickle; (n) salinity, common salt, alkali; (adj, n) spice salvation: (n) redemption, rescue, delivery, preservation, savior, deliverance, liberation, expiation, propitiation; (adj, n) justification; (adj) conversion. ANTONYMS: (n) damnation, destruction same: (adj) identical, equal, like, corresponding, equivalent, similar, uniform, even, consistent, matching; (adv) equally. ANTONYMS: (adj) different, varying, another, unlike, other, varied sanctified: (adj) consecrated, sacred, blessed, holy, divine, justified, elected, adopted, unearthly, consecrate, dedicated. ANTONYM: (adj) secular sanctify: (v) purify, hallow, enshrine, anoint, honor, reconsecrate, lustrate; (adj, v) ordain, bless; (n) edify, convert sanctimony: (n) hypocrisy, cant, holiness, sanctity satan: (n) Lucifer, devil, deuce, the Devil, Old Nick, Belial, fiend, Prince of Darkness, Dickens, archfiend, daemon satisfaction: (n, v) pleasure, gratification, contentment, content; (n) enjoyment, joy, complacency, amends, reparation, redress, recompense. ANTONYMS: (n) displeasure, discontent, aggravation, sorrow, dismay, anxiety satisfy: (v) please, persuade, meet, satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj, v) content, fill, suffice, do. ANTONYMS: (v) intensify, displease, disappoint, disgruntle, frustrate sauciness: (n) pertness, impudence, insolence, gall, cheek, flippancy, perkiness, archness, cheekiness, effrontery, sauce saucy: (adj, n) pert; (adj) bold, impudent, audacious, insolent, fresh, forward, impertinent, flippant, rude, brazen. ANTONYM: (adj) respectful save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, maintain, preserve, free, protect, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep)
185 except; (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander, use, abandon, endanger, capture, asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy saved: (adj) protected, economized, rescued, blessed scar: (n, v) mark, blemish, seam, stain, brand; (n) cicatrix, cicatrice, defect, scratch, injury; (v) disfigure. ANTONYM: (v) enhance scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient, infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, common, adequate, strong, usual, extensive scarf: (n) neckerchief, handkerchief, stole, necktie, cravat, kerchief, mantilla, shawl, wrap, tie, stock scattered: (adj) dissipated, thin, disordered, disconnected, confused, sparse, sporadic, distributed, rare, diffuse; (v) disperse scene: (n, v) aspect, view, outlook, lookout; (n) background, display, spectacle, picture, environment, panorama, perspective sceptre: (n) sovereignty, verge, wand, bauble, mace, brink scolding: (n) rebuke, lecture, castigation, admonition, reproof, objurgation, chiding, dressing, jobation, scold, rating. ANTONYMS: (n) compliment, approval scope: (n, v) range, drift; (n) purview, domain, room, expanse, area, compass, horizon, oscilloscope; (v) view scores: (n) lots, flock, oodles, scads, slews, multitude, crowd, many, legion, lot, army scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride, slight; (n) contempt, derision, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value, approve, admire, accept; (n) admiration, commendation, humility scornful: (adj) disdainful, haughty, arrogant, sarcastic, disparaging, derisive, mocking, abusive, scathing, opprobrious, insulting. ANTONYMS: (adj) approving, complimentary, humble, sympathetic, admiring scratch: (n, v) mark, graze, notch, scrape, nick, scrabble, dent, scar; (v) rub, chafe, rake. ANTONYM: (v) soothe scratched: (adj) hurt, abraded, sgraffito, raw, dented, spoiled,
186 damaged, injured scruple: (adj, v) hesitate, demur, pause; (n) hesitation, qualm, misgiving, distrust, objection; (n, v) mistrust; (v) falter, question scurvy: (adj) contemptible, paltry, miserable, sordid, low, abject, ignoble, dirty, scabby; (v) base, scurfy seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk, stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark, imprint, signet; (adj) conclude. ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal search: (v) grope, rummage, ransack, pry; (n) pursuit, exploration, examination, inquiry, inspection; (n, v) inquire, research season: (v) mature, flavor, salt, mellow, moderate; (adj, v) harden, inure, habituate; (n) opportunity, spell, space second: (n) instant, jiffy, flash, minute, sec; (v) back, endorse, help; (n, v) support; (adj) latter, further. ANTONYMS: (adj) top, former; (n) age secrets: (n) secrecy seduced: (adj) profaned, infatuated, fascinated seducer: (n) gallant, lady killer, ladies' man, undoer, whoremonger, seductor, tempter, charmer, debauchee, dissolute person, flirt seek: (n, v) ask, inquire; (v) hunt, endeavor, attempt, look, aspire, pursue, beg, quest, explore. ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) actual, deep, inner seen: (adj) visible, clad, beseen, accomplished, discovered, appearing; (v) observe, perceive, conceive, comprehend, understand seize: (v) catch, capture, grab, arrest, clutch, get, apprehend, receive, annex, clasp; (n, v) grapple. ANTONYMS: (v) baulk, relinquish, restore, surrender, give, remove seldom: (adj) scarce, rare, few, infrequent; (adv) occasionally, infrequently, uncommonly, hardly, scarcely, not often, once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS: (adv) often, seldom self: (n) ego, person, me, individual,
All's Well That Ends Well being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; (adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally self-love: (n) egoism, vanity, pride, arrogance sell: (v) deal, handle, dispose, betray, give, promote, realize, merchandise, dispose of; (n, v) cheat; (adj) sold. ANTONYMS: (v) buy, wholesale send: (v) pass, deliver, forward, convey, dispatch, mail, post, give, carry, divert, project. ANTONYM: (v) keep sender: (n) communicator, shipper, transmitter, register, senders, sending entity, consignor, merchant, player sending: (n) forwarding, dispatch, transmission, transmittal, send, despatch, mailing, transport, dispatching, dispatchment, conveyance sense: (n) perception, meaning, common sense, sensation, logic, understanding, impression, feeling; (n, v) feel, intellect, mind. ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity, garbage, ludicrousness, nonsense, foolishness, gibberish, illogicality, irrationality, numbness, certainty; (v) observe senseless: (adj) foolish, mindless, preposterous, pointless, irrational, absurd, stupid, insensible, idiotic, fatuous, purposeless. ANTONYMS: (adj) meaningful, wise, conscious, provoked, prudent, useful, worthwhile sent: (adj) dispatched, imported, ecstatic, blissful, fascinated, intoxicated; (v) transmit. ANTONYM: (adj) unsent sentence: (v) condemn, convict, judge, damn; (n) finding, phrase, conviction, punishment; (n, v) decision, doom, condemnation. ANTONYMS: (n) reward, absolution; (v) absolve, acquit sequent: (adj) subsequent, consequent, successive, serial, sequential, following, ensuant, resulting, resultant, chronological; (n) sequel serious: (adj, n, v) grave; (adj) heavy, austere, great, hard, dangerous, critical; (adj, v) sedate, important, momentous, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) lighthearted, mild, flippant, cheerful, humorous, minor, slight, playful, trivial, unimportant, brisk seriously: (adv) earnestly, soberly, severely, solemnly, badly, deeply,
staidly, sincerely, thoughtfully, greatly, weightily. ANTONYMS: (adv) frivolously, playfully, cheerfully, slightly, teasingly, jovially, nonchalantly, lightheartedly, briskly, mildly, lightly serpent: (n) snake, ophidian, viper, snake in the grass, reptile, rattlesnake, colubrid, contrafagotto, cor anglais, hautboy; (v) goose servant: (n) manservant, domestic, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey, retainer, boy, footman, flunky, menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master, mistress servants: (n) staff, suite serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate, function, do; (n, v) officiate service: (n, v) overhaul, serve, refit, assist; (n) aid, employment, assistance, avail, ministration, ceremony; (v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n) disservice, damage, hindrance, uselessness setting: (n) scene, scenery, adjustment, position, background, mount, backdrop, environment, scope, mounting, set settle: (adj, n, v) fix, establish, confirm; (n, v) place, set; (v) resolve, clarify, pay, regulate, adjudicate, agree. ANTONYMS: (v) float, wander, prolong, owe, bungle, open, provoke, rise, weaken, worsen, complicate seventeen: (n) large integer several: (adj, v) diverse, divers, sundry; (adj, n) a few, some; (adj) various, individual, different, particular, special, numerous. ANTONYMS: (adj) joint, all, none severally: (adv) separately, respectively, singly, variously, sundrily, independently, particularly, several, distinctly, apart; (adj, adv) one by one severed: (adj) cut off, cut, broken, separate, Severn, disconnected, rent off, disrupt, disengaged, torn, disrupted shackle: (n, v) hamper, chain, handcuff, gyve, cramp, tether; (v) bind, hobble, manacle, confine; (n) bond. ANTONYMS: (v) free, facilitate, release shadow: (n) ghost, darkness, apparition, follower, gloom, reflection; (n, v) eclipse, trace, tail, hint; (v) follow. ANTONYMS: (v) brighten, lead; (n) brightness, pallor
William Shakespeare shake: (n, v) jolt, beat, jar, quiver, wave; (v) agitate, excite, disturb; (adv, v) brandish; (adj, v) quake, totter. ANTONYMS: (v) soothe, steady shakes: (n) hangover, jitters, nervousness, tension, anxiety shaking: (adj, n) quivering, tremor, jarring; (n) quiver, palpitation, quake; (adj) quaking, shaky, flutter, unsteady, shivering shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, bequeath, leave shallow: (adj) superficial, low, cursory, petty, little, sketchy, flimsy, frivolous, simple, surface, perfunctory. ANTONYMS: (adj) bottomless, profound, intense, pensive, serious, inner, weighty shame: (n, v) disgrace, dishonor, discredit, humiliate, degrade, chagrin; (n) humiliation, modesty, scandal, insult; (v) abash. ANTONYMS: (n) pride, glorification, making, worthiness; (v) acknowledge, glorify, respect, dignify shameful: (adj) scandalous, dishonorable, opprobrious, shocking, ignominious, disreputable, despicable; (adj, v) foul, base, gross, black. ANTONYMS: (adj) honorable, noble, dignified, admirable, faultless, reputable, glorious, compassionate, praiseworthy, commendable, excellent shape: (n, v) cast, mold, fashion, mould, model, make, design; (n) pattern, figure; (v) determine, influence sharp: (adj, n, v) keen, acute, bitter; (adj) intelligent, intense, incisive; (adj, v) biting, acid, acrid, severe, harsh. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, mild, gentle, sweet, rounded, bland, round, smooth, blurred, naive, kind sharpness: (n, v) keenness, edge; (n) severity, bitterness, asperity, acumen, poignancy, pungency, quickness, perspicacity; (adj, n) roughness. ANTONYMS: (n) dullness, haziness, softness, slowness, indistinctness, gentleness, evenness, courtesy, blandness, stupidity, kindness shed: (v) discard, drop, moult, scatter, exuviate, molt, cast off, dismiss; (n) shack, hut, cabin. ANTONYMS: (v) keep, cover; (adj) persistent shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover,
guard, safeguard, buffer; (v) preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n) protection. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, exposure; (v) endanger, attack, reveal shift: (n, v) change, exchange, turn, interchange, quibble, switch, move; (v) remove, budge, convert, alter. ANTONYMS: (v) restore, leave, straighten; (n) preservation, stillness shoes: (n) footwear, shoe, place, position, situation, post, plaza, property, lieu, home, blank space shoot: (v) discharge, flash, drive, dart, dash, send, photograph; (n) scion, branch; (n, v) sprout, hunt. ANTONYM: (v) trickle short: (adj, v) concise, close; (adj) scarce, curt, brusque, sharp, compendious, laconic, deficient, scanty, diminutive. ANTONYMS: (adj) long, high, lengthy, unabridged, sufficient, slender, rangy, rambling, overlong, extended, plentiful shot: (n) injection, gunshot, go, fling, shoot, crack, ball, picture, bang, jab, discharge show: (adj, n, v) present, appearance; (n, v) exhibit, produce, broadcast, indicate, parade; (v) point out; (n) presentation, ostentation; (adj, v) guide. ANTONYMS: (v) disprove, hide, withhold, suppress, disappear, cover, absorb; (n) concealment showing: (n) display, screening, exhibit, revelation, viewing, appearance, exhibition, exposition, presentation, exposure; (adj) exhibiting shown: (adj) manifest, revealed, exhibited, ostensible, avowed, declared, denoted, given away; (v) appear, represent, indicate. ANTONYM: (adj) hidden shrewd: (adj) sharp, astute, keen, piercing, clever, cunning, bright; (adj, v) sagacious, knowing, crafty, prudent. ANTONYMS: (adj) foolish, gullible, naive, soft, candid, dim, innocent, guileless, obtuse, indiscriminate shrewdly: (adv) sagaciously, smartly, brightly, sharply, craftily, cunningly, perceptively, cleverly, artfully, cannily, wisely. ANTONYMS: (adv) foolishly, innocently, ineptly, naively shut: (v) seal, bar, fasten, obstruct, lock, exclude; (adj) closed, cut; (n) shutting, end, finish. ANTONYMS: (v) admit, undo
187 sick: (adj) ill, queasy, poorly, ailing, weary, diseased, sickly, morbid; (adj, v) indisposed, unwell; (adj, n) invalid. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, fond, wholesome sickly: (adj, adv) poorly; (n) invalid; (adj) sick, ailing, pale, sallow, indisposed, morbid, diseased; (adj, n, v) infirm; (adj, v) faint. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, bitter, robust sickness: (n, v) disease, indisposition, malady, disorder, distemper, ailment; (n) complaint, qualm, nausea, disgust, queasiness siege: (n) blockade, envelopment, encirclement, investment, besieging; (v) beleaguer, encompass, environ, envelop, encircle, beset sift: (v) screen, filter, investigate, riddle, sieve, examine, sprinkle, separate, sort; (n, v) scrutinize, analyze sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show, aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, see; (n) view, prospect, scene similes: (n) imagery, images, metaphors simple: (adj, n) plain, humble, innocent, rustic; (adj) homely, elementary, natural; (adj, v) pure, clear, mere, downright. ANTONYMS: (adj) complex, complicated, compound, elaborate, difficult, multiple, obscure, ornate, problematical, sophisticated, confusing simpleness: (n) simplicity, ease, restraint, chasteness, easiness, quality, simple mindedness simply: (adj, adv) only, exclusively, barely; (adv) just, alone, directly, purely, absolutely, easily, plainly; (adj) straightforward. ANTONYMS: (adv) elaborately, ornately, majestically, covertly, dishonestly, incoherently, obscurely, pretentiously since: (adv, conj, prep) because, seeing that; (adv, prep) afterwards, before; (adv, conj) for, as; (adj, adv) ago; (conj) whereas; (prep) from, of; (adv) after sinewy: (adj) muscular, brawny, wiry, beefy, tough, powerful, tendinous, strong, robust, stringy, fibrous. ANTONYM: (adj) stout sinful: (adj) wicked, impious, bad, iniquitous, ungodly, depraved, immoral, profane, criminal, wrong, unholy. ANTONYMS: (adj) pious, virtuous, moral, right, pure
188 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) double, multiple, divorced, attached, dual, involved, widowed, general, common; (n) record singly: (adv) one by one, separately, independently, severally, solely, respectively; (adj, adv) alone, only, merely; (adj) single, particularly. ANTONYM: (adv) multiply sinister: (adj) dark, forbidding, black, menacing, wicked, baleful, threatening, malevolent, malign, inauspicious, vicious. ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, hospitable, good, normal, favorable sink: (n, v) sag, dip; (v) decline, fall, set, descend, drop, fell, subside, settle; (adj, n, v) droop. ANTONYMS: (v) rise, float, improve, increase, recover, drift, ascend, raise sire: (v) generate, engender, beget, procreate, mother, get, make; (n) forefather, ancestor, patriarch, pater sister: (n) nurse, nun, brother, sisters, older sister, mate, twin, pair, fellow companion, double, match. ANTONYM: (n) brother sixteen: (n) large integer size: (n, v) measure, gauge, dimensions; (n) extent, bulk, quantity, capacity, largeness, dimension, glue, magnitude. ANTONYM: (n) slenderness skilful: (adj) adroit, practised, experienced, cunning, expert, dextrous, clever, adept, proficient, practiced, good skill: (n) artifice, capacity, capability, knack, ability, faculty, finesse, cleverness, expertise; (adj, n) craft, cunning. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, incompetence, uselessness, stupidity, ineptness, tactlessness, inexperience, ignorance, inaccuracy, delay, drawback skin: (n) hide, fur, rind, coating, shell, hull; (v) pare, scrape, excoriate, flay; (n, v) bark slave: (n) servant, bondman, thrall, bondsman, bondwoman, captive, vassal; (n, v) labor; (v) drudge, work; (adj, n) inferior. ANTONYMS: (adj) free; (v) slack sleep: (n, v) nap, repose, doze, kip,
All's Well That Ends Well slumber, catnap; (adj, n, v) lie; (v) hibernate, nod; (n) dream; (adj, v) lodge. ANTONYMS: (v) awaken; (n) alertness, agitation sleepy: (adj) drowsy, dozy, slow, lazy, hypnotic, inactive, comatose, dull, heavy, dreamy; (adv) asleep. ANTONYMS: (adj) awake, energetic, vigorous, clear, lively, refreshed slew: (n) wad, turning, sight, heap, stack, lot, flock; (v) rotate, slue, swerve, veer slight: (adj, adv) light; (adj) thin, flimsy, slender, fragile, petty, little; (adv, n, v) neglect; (n, v) insult, scorn; (v) ignore. ANTONYMS: (adj) considerable, major, obvious, thickset, severe, wide, fat, intense, heavy, likely; (v) acknowledge slip: (adj, n, v) lapse, miss; (adj, n) fault, blunder; (n, v) slide, drop, mistake, escape, skid, trip; (n) cutting. ANTONYM: (n) invoice slow: (adj, v) slack; (adj) dull, sluggish, heavy, stupid, lazy, indolent, inactive; (adj, adv) easy, behind; (adj, n) gradual. ANTONYMS: (adj) intelligent, rapid, bright, speedy, alert, brisk, quick, prompt, hasty, rushed; (v) accelerate slowly: (adj, adv, v) slow; (adv) deliberately, sluggishly, tediously, dully, gradually, unhurriedly, slackly, lethargically, belatedly; (adj, adv) lento. ANTONYMS: (adv) fast, hurriedly, promptly, rapidly, immediately, briefly, intelligently, vigorously, brightly, nimbly, punctually slowness: (n) dilatoriness, lethargy, lateness, backwardness, awkwardness, deliberation, dullness, sluggishness, stupidity, indolence; (adj, n) delay. ANTONYMS: (n) haste, quickness, rapidity, intelligence, cleverness, nimbleness, speediness, promptness, punctuality, vigor slumber: (n, v) rest, doze, snooze, nap, drowse, repose, catnap; (v) be asleep, kip, take a nap; (n) siesta sluttish: (adj) slatternly, loose, untidy, easy, light, promiscuous, blowsy, blowzy, foul, dirty; (v) unkempt smack: (adv, n, v) slap, bang; (n, v) savor, knock, kiss, hit, buss, wallop; (n) flavor, blow; (adj, n) dash smell: (n, v) odor, scent, savor, perfume, stink, stench; (v) nose; (n)
fragrance, bouquet, savour, odour smoke: (n) fumes, cigarette, cigar, smog, fog; (n, v) reek, fumigate, puff; (v) exhale, cure; (adj) tobacco smoky: (adj) murky, hazy, fumid, vaporous, opaque, muddy, famish, burnt; (v) sooty, smutty, dusty. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, fresh, clear snow: (n) cocaine, precipitation, snowfall, bark, barque; (v) overwhelm, beguile, hoodwink, bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false sold: (adj) depleted, interested; (v) to market soldier: (n) warrior, fighter, serviceman, champion, ranker, military personnel, swordsman, trooper, cavalryman, guardsman, janissary soldiers: (n) military, troop, force, the military, troops, defense force, military service, militia, soldiery, Territorial Army, armed forces soldiership: (n) acquisition, slacking, skill, shirking, goofing off, goldbricking, attainment, acquirement, accomplishment sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) single, singular, one, exclusive, individual, only, alone, solitary. ANTONYM: (adj) common solely: (adj, adv) exclusively, merely, only, alone, barely; (adv) just, but, entirely, wholly, purely, completely solemn: (adj, n, v) serious; (adj, v) sober, important, sedate, devout, formal, demure; (adj) heavy, dignified, sacred; (adj, n) earnest. ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous, cheerful, unceremonious, funny, playful, flippant, relaxed solicited: (adj) requested something: (n) what, object, thing, article, entity, substance, somebody; (adv, n) somewhat; (adv) rather, a little, kinda. ANTONYM: (pron) nothing sometime: (adv) someday, once, one day, formerly, sooner or later; (adj) quondam, erstwhile, former, old, late; (adj, adv) sometimes 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. ANTONYM: (adv) regularly somewhat: (adv) slightly, a little, fairly, a bit, reasonably, pretty, moderately, sort of; (adv, v) little;
William Shakespeare (adv, pron) partly; (adj, adv) something. ANTONYMS: (adv) considerably, very, unreasonably, totally, hugely, completely, closely, massively, absolutely, wholly song: (adj, v) lay; (n, v) ditty, chant; (n) air, strain, cry, warble, canto, poem; (v) sing; (adj) ballad sonnet: (n) ode, verse, poem, elegy, canzonet, eclogue, lay, Anacreontic, poesy, quatorzain; (v) poetize soon: (adv) shortly, presently, anon, immediately, directly, at once, before long, betimes, quickly, promptly; (adj, adv) early. 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 sorely: (adv) severely, tenderly, madly, very, greatly, highly, most, distressingly, extremely, hard, sensitively sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve; (v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache, repentance, remorse; (adj, n) sadness, misery; (adj, n, v) distress. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight, happiness, peace, hopefulness, cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm, content; (v) rejoice sorry: (adj) pathetic, sorrowful, remorseful, contrite, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, penitent, paltry, base, sad. ANTONYMS: (adj) glad, happy, admirable, unremorseful, fine sorts: (n) varieties, sorting, running pi, batter soul: (n) creature, human, person, personification, ghost, individual, mind, essence, life, self; (adj, n) heart. ANTONYMS: (n) surface, body sound: (n, v) chime, echo, peal; (adj) reasonable, complete, healthy, sensible, sane, rational; (adj, v) fit, fast. ANTONYMS: (adj) illogical, unsound, confused, unreliable, flawed, flimsy, silent, weak, unreasonable; (n) silence; (v) devoice soundness: (n) health, solidity, reliability, validity, integrity, reasonableness, constancy, strength, stability, steadiness, security. ANTONYM: (n) unsoundness sour: (adj, n) morose, harsh; (adj, v) acid; (adj) bitter, rancid, gruff, grim,
glum, dour; (adj, n, v) severe; (v) ferment. ANTONYMS: (adj) kindly, pleasant, bland, amiable, fresh, mature, mild, kind; (v) sweeten, enhance sovereign: (n) ruler, king, lord, emperor; (adj) independent, autonomous, imperial, royal, free, regal; (adj, n) prince. ANTONYMS: (adj) dependent, ineffective, useless sovereignty: (n) reign, empire, rule, realm, power, autonomy, independence, dominion, majesty, monarchy, control. ANTONYMS: (n) restriction, subjugation space: (n) gap, scope, opening, period, place, void, margin, latitude, extent, emptiness, distance. ANTONYM: (n) mess spacious: (adj) broad, extensive, large, wide, ample, commodious, vast, capacious, comprehensive, open, great. ANTONYMS: (adj) cramped, narrow, airless, overcrowded spanish: (n) Spanish people, romance language, Castilian spare: (adj, v) free, reserve, save, thin; (adj) slender, slight, additional, lean; (adj, n) extra, excess; (v) exempt. ANTONYMS: (n) shortfall, original; (adj) principal, fat, basic, abundant, stout; (v) need, include sparkle: (n, v) flicker, flash, shimmer, spark, shine, blaze, fizz, gleam, glitter; (v) blink, glare. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, dullness, lifelessness sparks: (n) fire speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v) converse, say, deliver, articulate, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n) language speaking: (n) talk, discourse, speech, public speaking, reading, oral presentation, recital, recitation, disputation; (v) speak; (adj) expressive. ANTONYMS: (adj) nonspeaking, silent special: (adj) particular, rare, limited, individual, especial, different, distinguished, distinct, express, private, separate. ANTONYMS: (adj) general, basic, collective, everyday, unremarkable, vague, normal, Standard, common, public, universal speech: (n) lecture, expression, language, conversation, sermon, diction, communication; (n, v) delivery, discourse, say, saying speed: (n, v) hurry, hasten, rush, race,
189 dispatch; (v) quicken, run, dash, expedite; (n) velocity, rapidity. ANTONYMS: (n) amble, tardiness; (v) decelerate, hinder, linger, delay, crawl speedily: (adj, adv) quickly, quick, immediately; (adv) rapidly, promptly, hastily, swiftly, fast, apace, hurriedly, fleetly. ANTONYMS: (adv) later, eventually speedy: (adj, v) rapid, prompt, fleet, swift; (adj) fast, agile, ready, immediate, cursory, hurried, brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) leisurely, plodding spend: (v) expend, exhaust, squander, pay out, blow, deplete, pass, wear, lead; (adj, v) waste; (n) outlay. ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, earn, hoard, keep spirit: (n, v) courage, mind; (n) mood, ghost, apparition, disposition, energy, essence, soul, phantom; (adj, n) animation. ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, body, cowardice, surface, sluggishness, lifelessness, defeatism spirits: (n) alcohol, booze, humor, frame of mind, liqueur, strong drink, hard drink; (adj) cheer, geniality, good humor; (v) wine spoil: (n, v) ruin; (v) rot, corrupt, mar, deface, sack; (adj, v) impair, damage, injure, harm, indulge. ANTONYMS: (v) improve, conserve, enliven, help, abuse, beautify, deny, neglect, correct, respect, clean spoke: (n) bar, rung, radius, rule, shoe, skid, rundle, line, clog, round; (v) said spoken: (adj) verbal, expressed, speaking, speak, unwritten, vocal, voiced, talk, said, informal, conversational. ANTONYMS: (adj) written, unspoken, tacit, formal, silent sport: (n, v) play, pastime, jest, diversion, romp, joke, disport, gambol; (n) fun, amusement, recreation. ANTONYMS: (n) work; (v) conceal sportive: (adj) frolicsome, jocund, gay, jolly, cheerful, lively, merry, rollicking, mirthful, vivacious, blithe spots: (n) damp, drifter, floater, floating policy, muscae volitantes, Musca volitans sprat: (n) sardine, sprit, herring square: (n) area, rectangle; (adj) rectangular, fair, honest; (adj, v) even, correspond, agree; (v) settle; (adv, n) foursquare; (adj, adv) just.
190 ANTONYMS: (adj) round, underhand, trendy, fresh, activist, relaxed stable: (adj, adv) firm; (adj) reliable, stationary, fixed, fast, lasting, constant, durable, secure, solid, sound. ANTONYMS: (adj) shaky, wobbly, dangerous, volatile, precarious, rickety, tenuous, temperamental, fickle, temporary; (adv) loosely staggers: (v) fuss, rout, racket, bustle, hubbub, subsultus; (n) epilepsy stain: (n, v) spot, blemish, tarnish, blot, dye, smear, disgrace, mark, soil, dirt, defile. ANTONYMS: (v) enhance, dignify, clean staining: (n) maculation, dyeing, dirtying, tarnish, dapple, stain, soiling, detection, bleeding, catching, patch stake: (n, v) risk, chance, venture, bet, wager, post, pole, gamble, support; (n) interest, shaft stall: (n) bench, barn, compartment, stand, carrel, hut, stalling, cabin, kiosk; (n, v) delay; (v) procrastinate. ANTONYM: (v) advance stand: (v) endure, undergo; (n) rack, booth, attitude, base, pedestal; (n, v) live, position; (adj, v) suffer, tolerate. ANTONYMS: (v) sit, lie, yield, forbid; (n) top standing: (n) fame, position, importance, prestige, place, reputation, footing; (adj) erect, motionless, continuance; (n, v) stand. ANTONYMS: (adj) seated, moving, horizontal, falling, temporary stands: (n) bleachers, stood, grandstand, standing, stop, covered stand, standpoint, stall, sales booth, reviewing stand, rack star: (n, v) asterisk; (n) ace, luminary, personality, headliner, leading, lead, idol, asterism; (adj, n) principal, champion. ANTONYMS: (n) nonentity, failure, villain; (adj) insignificant, lousy stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate start: (n) onset, origin; (v) begin, originate, drive, commence, embark, spring, enter; (n, v) launch, shock. ANTONYMS: (n, v) finish, stop; (v) conclude, halt, terminate, arrive; (n) conclusion, demise, departure, middle, culmination state: (n) nation, position, kingdom, status, country; (n, v) say, show, place; (adj) national; (v) express, expound. ANTONYMS: (adj)
All's Well That Ends Well private; (n) monarchy; (v) conceal, refute stay: (adj, n, v) remain; (n, v) rest, prop, stop, delay, abide, continue, pause, endure, halt, support. ANTONYMS: (v) change, abscond, depart, move, disappear, become, go stead: (n) behalf, room, lieu, spot, location, station, space, seat, position, office, locality steal: (v) purloin, abstract, sneak, filch, pinch, creep, misappropriate, rob, pilfer; (n) bargain; (n, v) snatch steed: (n) horse, mount, charger, knight, courser, warhorse, pony, stallion, mare steely: (adj) stern, rocky, inexorable, stony, icy, unbending, stiff, iron, austere, rugged, tough. ANTONYM: (adj) irresolute step: (n) stage, degree, rank, level, gait, gradation, footprint; (n, v) walk, measure, stride; (v) tread steward: (n) flight attendant, waiter, keeper, warden, attendant, curator, caretaker, administrator, janitor, chamberlain, stewardess sticks: (n) backwoods, firewood, frontier, outskirts, suburb, town, wilderness, brushwood, high sticks; (adj) distant stings: (adj) stung stink: (adj, n, v) stench; (n, v) smell, odor; (n) malodour, fetor, malodor, niff, odour, foetor; (v) fume, Pong stir: (adj, n, v) move, bustle; (v) rouse, arouse, affect, agitate, inspire; (adj, n) movement; (n) commotion, excitement, disturbance. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, retire, stultify, bore, steady, stifle, suppress; (n) quiet, peace; (n, v) calm stocks: (n) stock, bilboes, provisions, securities, whipping post, inventory, store, supplies, supply, bonds, instrument of punishment stole: (n) wrap, stolen, scarf, stolon, stealing, robe, alb, tunicle, surplice, alba, cassock stomach: (adj, v) brook, digest; (v) endure, stand, abide, bear, suffer, tolerate, take; (n) abdomen, appetite stop: (int, n, v) hold, stand; (adj, n, v) stay, cease; (n, v) check, end, close, block, bar, arrest; (v) obstruct. ANTONYMS: (n, v) continue; (v) begin, encourage, permit, prolong, persevere, expedite, accelerate; (n) continuation, proceed, go store: (n, v) stock, hoard, bank, cache, supply; (n) shop, market, business;
(v) accumulate, garner, keep. ANTONYMS: (v) spend, delete; (n) dearth story: (n, v) history, tale, narrative; (n) recital, narration, report, account, level, legend, novel, stage. ANTONYM: (n) fact straight: (adj) erect, honest, upright, even, fair, perpendicular, correct; (adj, adv, v) direct; (adj, adv, n) right; (adj, adv) level, flat. ANTONYMS: (adj) diluted, zigzag, winding, curly, curved, curvy, twisted, wavy, knotted, askew; (adv) indirectly strange: (adj) foreign, peculiar, unusual, abnormal, outlandish, irregular, odd, new, mysterious, extraordinary, curious. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, normal, familiar, typical, usual, conventional, explicable, sensible, mainstream, known, human stranger: (n) foreigner, outsider, newcomer, outlander, immigrant, intruder, unknown, tramontane, trespasser; (adj) foreign, strange. ANTONYMS: (n) pal, native, associate, resident, familiar strangers: (n) stranger stratagem: (n) scheme, ruse, plan, trick, dodge, ploy; (n, v) contrivance, maneuver, deceit, intrigue; (adj, n) artifice straw: (n) rush, stalk, drinking straw, chaff, fig, bran; (adj) feather, cobweb, mote, gossamer; (v) strew stream: (adj, n, prep, v) current, course; (n, prep, v) flood; (n, v) brook, run, crowd, jet, gush; (n) river; (v) pour, swarm. ANTONYMS: (n) shortage; (v) drizzle street: (n) road, avenue, way, highway, route, lane, neighborhood, path, track, boulevard, Main Street strength: (n, v) power; (n) energy, firmness, endurance, stability, potency, health, soundness; (adj, n, v) might; (adj, n) vigor, intensity. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) shorten, shrink, withdraw, narrow, relax; (adj) inflexible
William Shakespeare stretched: (adj) extended, stiff, tight, tense, stretched out, strained, expanded, outstretched, elongated, outspread, prolonged. ANTONYMS: (adj) loose, short strife: (n) discord, disagreement, dissension, conflict, competition, feud, fight; (adj, n, v) dispute, debate; (n, v) controversy; (adj, n) quarrel. ANTONYMS: (n) accord, cooperation, calm, peace strike: (n, v) hit, beat, bang, knock, assault, slap, clap, rap, smash; (v) impress, move. ANTONYMS: (n) defense; (v) extinguish, defend stripped: (adj) naked, nude, exposed, fleeced, undressed, unclothed, stark, desolate, denuded, bald, stript strive: (v) endeavor, contend, contest, struggle, fight, attempt, combat, strain, work, aspire, aim strong: (adj) intense, able, firm, stable, steady, solid, hard, lusty; (adj, v) deep, sound; (adj, n, v) steadfast. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, pale, unconvincing, slight, feeble, frail, bland, faint, delicate, mild, lightweight stronger: (adj) reprobate, insensible, reproof, iniquity, hardening, shameless, graceless, immoralities, ministry; (v) Milman, misery strongly: (adv) firmly, vigorously, robustly, violently, solidly, vehemently, sturdily, hardily, mightily, energetically, severely. ANTONYMS: (adv) mildly, dimly, faintly, feebly, gently, loosely, slightly, submissively, thinly, languorously, impassively strumpet: (n) courtesan, punk, harlot, hussy, slut, adulteress, wench, whore, loose woman, advoutress, fornicatress stuck: (adj) stranded, jammed, delayed, fast; (adj, adv) aground; (n) stuck ware, thrust, sticking; (v) sticked, fasten, attach. ANTONYMS: (adj) unstuck, loose style: (n, v) name, call, entitle, cut; (adj, n) manner, sort, kind; (n) form, pattern, method, mode. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, tastelessness, coarseness, crudeness subjection: (n) conquest, oppression, captivity, bondage, confinement, servitude, dependence, enslavement, slavery, repression, subjugation submit: (v) comply, obey, acquiesce, give in, present, hand in, put forward, hand over, propose, give;
(n, v) resign. ANTONYMS: (v) resist, persevere, defy, overpower, face, disobey, conquer subscribe: (v) confirm, sign, contribute, ratify, subscribe to, underwrite, agree, buy, donate, endorse, accept succeed: (v) follow, arrive, prosper, prevail, manage, supplant, ensue, supersede, do, achieve, flourish. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, precede, lose, botch, restore, neglect, Miss, deteriorate succeeding: (adj) following, subsequent, after, consecutive, posterior, ensuing, consequent, successive, consequential; (adj, adv) later; (v) succeed. ANTONYMS: (adj) outgoing, preceding success: (n) conquest, prosperity, achievement, hit, passing, victory, effectiveness, accomplishment, triumph, coup, achiever. ANTONYMS: (n) flop, disappointment, prevention, debacle, defeat, fruitlessness, poverty, dissatisfaction, inefficiency, criticism succession: (n) series, run, round, chain, string, lineage, row, continuation, concatenation, course, reversion suddenly: (adj, adv) quickly, rapidly, immediately, presto; (adv) hastily, short, all at once, sudden, sharply, unexpectedly, instantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) increasingly, predictably, slowly, gently, progressively, sensibly, eventually suffer: (v) encounter, stand, accept, undergo, brook, experience, have, endure, abide, sustain; (adj, v) allow. ANTONYMS: (v) enjoy, rejoice, flourish suffice: (v) satisfy, do, answer, content, fulfill, be sufficient, qualify, function, be enough, suit, fulfil suggest: (v) offer, imply, indicate, propose, submit, advise, intimate, hint, counsel, proffer, point. ANTONYMS: (v) contraindicate, oppose, reject suit: (adj, v) fit, please; (adj, n, v) correspond; (n) lawsuit, plea, action, case; (v) adapt, accommodate, become; (n, v) answer. ANTONYM: (v) clash suited: (adj, v) proper, fit, fitted, adapted, convenient; (adj) appropriate, good, apt, eligible, capable, useful. ANTONYMS: (adj) incompatible, wrong, inappropriate
191 sums: (n) estimate, calculation, arithmetic sunder: (n, v) divide, sever, part, share, divorce; (v) separate, dissever, tear, detach, cleave; (n) fragment sunshine: (n) sunlight, sun, day, light, fair weather, gladness, shine, glee, sunbeam, delight, brightness superfluous: (adj, v) spare; (adj) needless, extra, excess, excessive, unnecessary, surplus, pointless, superabundant, supernumerary, supererogatory. ANTONYMS: (adj) indispensable, important, essential, basic, pertinent supernatural: (adj) mystical, preternatural, weird, superhuman, eerie, uncanny, unnatural, mysterious, ghostly, divine; (n) occult. ANTONYM: (adj) normal suppliant: (n) petitioner, applicant, besieger, postulant, prayer, lover, suer; (adj) beseeching, supplicatory, imploring, humbly entreating suppose: (v) infer, guess, speculate, divine, presume, conjecture, reckon, imagine, estimate, consider, assume. ANTONYMS: (v) disbelieve, know, measure, despair, doubt, speculate supposed: (adj) hypothetical, reputed, alleged, assumed, imaginary, putative, apparent, ostensible, suppositional, supposititious, suppositious. ANTONYM: (adj) actual supposes: (adj) ridiculous, regulation, project, preposterous, plainly, suggestion, notions, irrational, absurd, fatuity, foolish supposition: (n, v) conjecture; (n) assumption, hypothesis, presumption, premise, speculation, surmise, guess, supposal, thought, imagination. ANTONYMS: (n) fact, knowledge, proof, reality, practice sure: (adj) secure, reliable, safe, indisputable, dependable, assured, positive; (adj, v) steady, firm; (adv) certainly; (adj, adv) for certain. 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. ANTONYMS: (adv) questionably, uncertain, weakly surety: (n) collateral, pledge, hostage,
192 guarantee, earnest, guaranty, guarantor, certainty, assurance, sponsor, bail surfeit: (n) overabundance, excess, repletion, satiety, plethora, overflow, congestion; (v) cloy, gorge, satiate, pall. ANTONYMS: (n) shortage, need, necessity, deficit; (v) deplete surplice: (n) robe, Geneva gown frock, gown, pallium surprise: (n) fright, amazement, wonder, astonishment; (n, v) alarm, shock, jolt; (v) amaze, startle, astonish, stun. ANTONYMS: (n) expectation; (v) encourage, comfort suspected: (adj) supposed, doubted, suspicious, suspicion, inspiring distrust, distrusted sustain: (adj, n, v) support; (v) keep, carry, maintain, preserve, hold, continue, endure, have; (n, v) bear, suffer. ANTONYMS: (v) stop, abstain, discontinue, halt, negate, undermine, quit, end, destroy, neglect, sap swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, avow, depone, depose, aver. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute, deny, compliment swears: (n) swearing sweet: (adj) fresh, mellow, lovable, dear, pleasant, musical, melodious, pleasing, sugary; (adj, v) lovely; (adj, n) beloved. 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. ANTONYMS: (adv) discordantly, horribly, sharply, harshly, unkindly sword: (n) blade, sabre, brand, broadsword, falchion, cutlass, saber, steel, glaive, backsword, cutlas sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal, implacable, engaged, dedicated, committed, betrothed, bespoken, affianced, inveterate syllable: (n) antepenultimate, antepenult, penultima, penultimate, articulate, utter, linguistic unit, solfa syllable, speech sound, syllabe, language unit tailor: (v) sew, fashion, shape, accommodate, design, cut, adjust, fit; (n) snip, dressmaker, sartor tainted: (adj, v) rotten, rancid, bad, musty, reasty, vitiated; (adj) rank,
All's Well That Ends Well contaminated, faulty, putrid, dirty. ANTONYMS: (adj) unadulterated, unchanged, untarnished, clean taken: (adj) occupied, full, interpreted, appropriated, seized, overcome, affected, besotted; (v) take, get, receive. ANTONYMS: (adj) given, free taking: (adj) fetching, attractive, contagious, winning, catching, fascinating, captivating; (n) capture, receipt, angry mood, acharnement. ANTONYM: (n) rejection talk: (n, v) discourse, gossip, converse, lecture, chatter, chat, address; (v) articulate, speak, prattle; (n) language. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse; (n) silence tame: (v) break, subdue, soften, domesticate; (adj) meek, docile, bland, domestic, gentle, slow; (adj, v) moderate. ANTONYMS: (adj) exciting, bright, unmanageable, interesting, untamed, inspiring, brilliant, colorful, rebellious, lively tarry: (v) linger, loiter, stay, remain, delay, lag, dally, dawdle, bide, rest; (adj) pitchy. ANTONYMS: (v) complete, finish tartness: (n) sourness, acrimony, acerbity, sharpness, asperity, bitterness, sour, moroseness; (adj) irritability, susceptibility, petulance. ANTONYM: (n) kindness taught: (adj) instructed, educated, schooled, instruct, well-bred, scholarly, provided; (v) firm, fast, close, taut team: (n, v) pair, band; (n) company, gang, squad, organization, party, side, troop, couple; (adj) rank. ANTONYMS: (n) teammate; (v) separate tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily function, bodily process, body process, lacerations tedious: (adj) tiresome, boring, dreary, slow, heavy, humdrum, irksome, lifeless; (adj, v) monotonous, arid, dry. 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. ANTONYMS: (v) request, misunderstand, estimate, listen, figure, guess, withhold, conceal, suppress, confuse tend: (v) incline, lean, nurse, guard, attend, run, nurture, contribute, gravitate, go, nourish. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, abandon tender: (n, v) offer, proffer, bid; (adj, v) affectionate; (adj) painful, sensitive, soft, loving, sore; (v) propose, present. ANTONYMS: (adj) hardhearted, rubbery, hard, rough, uncaring, healthy, mature, unfeeling, cold, experienced; (v) withdraw tenderness: (n) fondness, soreness, love, affection, sympathy; (adj, n) clemency, mildness, compassion, gentleness, softness, delicacy. ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure, dryness, hatred, strength, detachment tent: (n) awning, marquee, pavilion, canopy, collapsible shelter, tabernacle, attention, pack tent, parasol, pop tent; (n, v) camp tents: (n) encampment terms: (n) conditions, provision, stipulation, terminology, price, proposition, lemma, cost, footing, damage, specifications terrible: (adj) horrible, dreadful, horrid, monstrous, abominable, ghastly, dire, appalling, fearful, awful, hideous. ANTONYMS: (adj) lovely, pleasant, great, laudable, excellent, superb, mild, slight, minor, brilliant, insignificant testament: (n) testimonial, testimony, parchment, paper, settlement, evidence, tribute, gospel, guarantee; (n, v) volition; (v) discretionary pleasure testimony: (n, v) attestation, witness; (n) declaration, proof, evidence, testimonial, confirmation, statement, affidavit, affirmation, profession thank: (v) give thanks, recognize, bless, thanks, give thanks to, convey, acknowledged, remercy, impart thankful: (adj) appreciative, indebted, beholden, obliged, contented, pleased, gratified, relieved, under obligation, appreciatory, welcome. ANTONYMS: (adj) worried, unappreciative, unthankful, sorry thanks: (n) acknowledgment, gratitude, blessing, grace, praise, gratefulness, recognition, credit, benediction, thankfulness; (int)
William Shakespeare thank you. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, blame theft: (n) stealing, larceny, thievery, burglary, embezzlement, thieving, peculation, defalcation, depredation, latrociny, misappropriation. ANTONYM: (n) return themselves: (pron) myself, itself, yourself; (n) yourselves thence: (adv) therefore, thus, therefrom, thereof, consequently, then, so, thereafter, thenceforth, since, on account of thereabouts: (adj, adv) about; (adv) nearly, generally, around, approximately, in the region of, more or less, something like, almost, so; (adv, n) hereabouts therefore: (adv) thence, so, hence, accordingly, as a result, thus, for that reason; (conj) since, because, then, ergo therein: (adv) in this, in there thereto: (adv) thereunto, moreover; (adj) likeness, accurate, coincidence, correct, correctness, deportment, detail, exact, expected thick: (adj) compact, stupid, crowded, slow, opaque, dull, heavy, stocky, deep, close, familiar. ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, intelligent, sparse, bright, slight, clever, transparent, diluted, fine, clear, runny thief: (n) burglar, bandit, pirate, plunderer, filcher, stealer, pickpocket, pilferer, crook, brigand, despoiler thievish: (adj) pilfering, dishonest, dishonorable, furacious, thiefly, theft prone thing: (n) affair, occurrence, object, event, concern, something, article, happening, substance, occasion, being things: (n) gear, belongings, equipment, garb, garment, clothes, paraphernalia, goods, life, property, palliament thinking: (n) consideration, idea, opinion, reasoning, intellection, cogitation, conception, contemplation; (adj) intelligent, thoughtful, meditative third: (n) second, tierce, three, third part, terzetto, hot corner, third base; (adv) thirdly; (adj) triple, thrid, tertial thirty: (n) large integer, termination; (adj) thretty thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that point, in that respect, at that place,
in that location; (adj) further, ulterior, remoter, succeeding, more distant 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. ANTONYMS: (n) thing, vacuity, vacancy, concrete, thoughtlessness, inattention, impulsiveness, certainty, neglect, trust thoughts: (n) mind, opinion, depth of thought, feelings, reflection, ideas, workings of the mind, view, stance, position, considered opinion thousand: (adj, n) one thousand, k, m; (n) grand, g, thou, cat Valium, constant of gravitation, grounds, curtilage; (adj) a thousand threaten: (v) intimidate, loom, bully, endanger, offer, imperil, jeopardize, peril, foreshadow, portend; (n, v) threat. ANTONYMS: (v) guard, protect, relieve, save, alleviate, reassure, recede, strengthen threateningly: (adv) sinisterly, ominously, seriously, warningly, perilously, gloomily, dangerously, minatorily, grimly, minaciously, loweringly thrice: (adv) three times, thirdly thrive: (adj, v) prosper; (v) flourish, grow, advance, blossom, succeed, increase, bloom, get ahead, boom; (adj) luxuriate. ANTONYMS: (v) deteriorate, fail, languish, struggle, decrease throne: (v) enthrone; (n) can, stool, place, fecal matter, potty, chair, cathedra, lavatory, crapper, pot throw: (n, v) cast, pitch, push; (v) shed, hurl, heave, chuck, flip, pass, hurtle; (n) shot. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, help, receive, clarify, encourage thrown: (adj) puzzled, confused, thrown and twisted, upset, disconcerted, unnerved, terrified, scared out of your wits, mystified, frightened; (n) reminder. ANTONYM: (adj) calm thrust: (n, v) poke, stab, jab, drive, shove, force, punch, boost, cast, dig; (v) ram. ANTONYM: (n) inertia
193 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 tile: (n) roof, thatch, bonnet, pantile, castor, ceiling, roofing tile, wimple, tiling, paving stone; (v) cover till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to times: (n) present time, modern times, contemporary world, multiplication, time, period, era, many years duration, epoch, present, arithmetic operation timorous: (adj, v) fearful, shy; (adj, adv, v) cowardly; (adj) afraid, nervous, diffident, bashful, apprehensive, anxious, craven, coy. ANTONYMS: (adj) brave, fearless tinct: (n, v) tint; (v) tinge, dye, imbue, bepaint, stain, wash, colour, hue, come to, comprehend title: (n, v) call, style, designation, term, designate; (adj, n) claim, right; (n) caption, denomination, appellation, epithet. ANTONYM: (n) possession together: (adv) in concert, conjointly, at the same time, at once, simultaneously, mutually, in unison, all together, at the same moment; (adj) united, stable. ANTONYMS: (adv) separately, individually, independently, apart, alone; (adj) separate, upset, unstable, separated, imbalanced, scatterbrained token: (n) memento, souvenir, note, keepsake, sign, relic, stamp, signal, indication; (adj) nominal; (n, v) trace. ANTONYM: (adj) great tokens: (n) decorations, discriminating marks, indications, indicia, insignia, signs, appearances, badges told: (v) related, narrated; (adj) numbered, oral, spoken, legendary, verbal, manifest tolerable: (adj) passable, mediocre, bearable, fair, middling, reasonable, adequate, respectable, endurable, sufferable; (adj, v) satisfactory. ANTONYMS: (adj) intolerable, exceptional, unbearable, unsatisfactory, bad, inadequate, appalling, inadmissible toll: (n, v) ring, chime; (n) price, fee, tax, cost, charge, impost, due, tariff;
194 (v) peal tomb: (n) sepulchre, sepulcher, crypt, pit, sepulture, vault, monument, entomb, mausoleum; (n, v) bury; (v) inter tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, dialect, clapper, glossa, natural language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) flowing took: (adj) taken; (v) receive tooth: (n) palate, denticle, trident, sprocket, saw, premolar, nap, incisor, grain, eyetooth; (adj) nib toothpick: (n) strip, pick, picktooth torture: (n, v) pain, distress, agonize, afflict; (n) agony, anguish, suffering, excruciation, grief; (v) rack, excruciate. ANTONYMS: (n) relief, alleviation, content, ecstasy, joy, pleasure; (v) relieve, alleviate tortured: (adj) anguished, suffering, agonized, excruciate, excruciated, gnarled, hagridden, miserable, woeful, hurt tottering: (adj) unsteady, ramshackle, easily shaken, tottery, sick, rocky, broken, trembling, cracked; (v) drooping; (n) convulsion touch: (v) hit, affect, border, adjoin, strike, reach; (n, v) contact, stroke, tinge, regard, tap. ANTONYMS: (v) shrink, secrete, separate, diverge, abstain, leave; (n) lot touched: (adj) insane, cracked, tinged, not right, daft, crazy, nutty; (v) compassionate, sympathetic, pitiful, mucid. ANTONYMS: (adj) untouched, sane, unemotional, unmoved, well toward: (prep) to, towards, approaching, headed for, just before, of, in the direction of; (adv, prep) on; (adv) about, around, by. ANTONYMS: (prep) from, away towards: (prep) to, facing, until, opposite to, till, unto, upon; (n, prep) against; (adv) about, by; (n) at traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalist, patriot traitorously: (adv) disloyally, falsely, treacherously, false, treasonously, unfaithfully, perfidiously, untruely, treasonably. ANTONYM: (adv) faithfully traitress: (n) traitor transcendence: (n) supremacy, transcendency, extravagation, excellence, domination, beingness, existence, favourable position,
All's Well That Ends Well priority, high quality, mastery travel: (adj, n, v) go, pass, run; (adj, v) proceed; (v) roam, move, ride, sail; (n) stroke, tour; (n, v) voyage. ANTONYMS: (v) remain, settle traveller: (n) passenger, tourist, wanderer, voyager, wayfarer, mover, itinerant, courier, entrant, swimmer, outlander tread: (n, v) pace, walk, rate, march, tramp; (n) gait, stride, footstep, footfall, track; (v) trample trial: (n) test, examination, experiment, hardship, essay, hearing, audition, attempt; (n, v) affliction, adversity; (adj, n) distress. 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. ANTONYMS: (n) frankness, honesty, misunderstanding, seriousness, truthfulness; (adj) real, genuine, innocent tricks: (n) actions, behavior, thing, clowning around, fooling, magic, plunder, possession, activities tried: (adj) reliable, tested, trustworthy, dependable, proven, proved, experienced, practiced, just, conquered, believable. ANTONYMS: (adj) untried, unreliable trifle: (n, v) play; (adj, n, v) trinket; (v) dally, fiddle, flirt, fool, frivol; (n) nothing, triviality, detail; (adj, n) bagatelle trifles: (n) jests, nonsense, nugae, trivia triple: (adj) threefold, ternary, triplex, trine, tripartite, Ternate, triplasian; (adj, n) thribble; (n) triad, safety, threesome trivial: (adj) trifling, frivolous, little, small, commonplace, superficial, petty, paltry, inconsiderable, piddling, slight. ANTONYMS: (adj) important, vital, major, urgent, profound, crucial, consequential, considerable, enormous, mature, serious troop: (n) group, corps, gang, crowd, band, brigade, crew, herd, swarm, horde; (n, v) flock troops: (n) soldiery, garrison, army, force, military, personnel, horse, man, cavalry, military personnel, troop trophy: (n) prize, cup, monument,
tablet, slab, hatchment, booty, whatsis, whatchamacallit, loot, swag troth: (n) faith, engagement, betrothal, plight, vow, loyalty, espousal, fidelity, truth, verity, veracity true: (adj, n) genuine, authentic; (adj) right, faithful, even, correct, accurate, honest, straight, truthful; (adj, v) actual. 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. ANTONYMS: (adv) insincerely, dubiously, doubtfully, apparently, inaccurately, indefinite, dishonestly, mildly, wrongly trumpets: (n) Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, pitcher plant, yellow trumpet trust: (n, v) credit, rely, hope; (n) confidence, faith, reliance, belief, cartel, assurance; (v) believe, confide. ANTONYMS: (n, v) distrust, doubt, mistrust; (v) disbelieve, keep, hold, despair; (n) disbelief, suspicion, independence trusting: (adj) credulous, unsuspecting, naive, confident, confiding, simple, innocent, gullible, reliant, give, easy to fool. ANTONYMS: (adj) distrustful, suspicious, doubtful, hesitant, protective, shrewd, disingenuous, smart, jaded trusty: (adj) trustworthy, honest, faithful, dependable, responsible, constant, loyal, true, authentic, solid, sure. ANTONYMS: (adj) untrustworthy, inconstant, corrupt, disloyal truth: (n) exactness, actuality, sincerity, verity, fidelity, fact, correctness, genuineness, faithfulness, certainty, honesty. ANTONYMS: (n) dishonesty, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, lie, inaccuracy, idealism, falsity, disloyalty, fallacy, invention tucket: (n) flourish, brandish tuned: (adj) keyed, adjusted, musical, tempered, melodious turk: (n) effendi, Ottoman turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil, round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout; (v) revolve. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, Miss, stagnation; (v) unbend
William Shakespeare twenty: (adj) vigesimal; (n) large integer, twenty dollar bill twice: (adv) doubly, bis, two times, in two ways, once more; (adj) twenty twigs: (n) sprays twill: (adj, v) curl, wrinkle; (adj) corded, crisp; (v) braid, plexus, felt, plat, plait, mesh; (n) cloth tyranny: (adj, n) dictatorship, autocracy; (n) absolutism, despotism, oppression, cruelty, monocracy, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, autarchy, Caesarism. ANTONYMS: (n) democracy, liberty unbaked: (adj) immature, callow unbridled: (adj) wild, unchecked, licentious, reinless, ungoverned, violent, unmuzzled, ungovernable, rampant, rakish, disorderly unchaste: (adj) impure, loose, immoral, immodest, wanton, debauched, carnal, dirty, obscene, sensual, shameless unclean: (adj) foul, impure, nasty, dirty, grubby, muddy, squalid, grimy, sordid, dingy, soiled. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, hygienic, pure, uncontaminated uncropped: (adj) unclipped, uncut, unsevered, unplanted, undivided, intact. ANTONYM: (adj) cropped under: (adj) lower, down, nether, bottom, inferior, low, subject; (adv, prep) beneath, underneath; (adv) downstairs, infra. ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over, above; (adv) primary, higher, major undermine: (v) weaken, subvert, cave, damage, sabotage, break, impair, derail; (adj, v) mine, dig; (n, v) overthrow. ANTONYMS: (v) bolster, boost, confirm, stabilize, inflate, support understand: (v) interpret, hear, see, catch, learn, translate, grasp, construe, gather; (adj, v) realize, take. ANTONYMS: (v) misinterpret, misconstrue, misunderstand, disbelieve, mistake, reject, deny, Miss understood: (adj) tacit, implicit, implied, silent, assumed, accepted, appreciated, unstated, undeclared; (v) of course, admitted. ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, spoken, written, explained undertake: (v) attempt, take on, try, covenant, guarantee, accept, tackle, contract, take, begin, engage. ANTONYMS: (v) forego, abstain, forget, relinquish
undertaking: (n) promise, attempt, project, venture, adventure, endeavor, job, effort; (n, v) task, labor, business undeserved: (adj) unfair, unearned, unjust, inequitable, undue, excessive, iniquitous, wrong, unreasonable, unwarranted. ANTONYMS: (adj) rightful, fair, just undo: (v) loosen, open, annul, cancel, separate, disentangle, untie, unfold, reverse, disconnect, nullify. ANTONYMS: (v) attach, close, do, wrap, tangle, validate, knot, lock, permit, unite, approve undoing: (n) ruin, destruction, loss, curse, cancellation, reverse, bane, doom, collapse, annulment, disaster. ANTONYMS: (n) building, creation undone: (adj) ruined, unfinished, sunk, done for, finished, behindhand, decayed; (adj, v) doomed; (v) accursed, to be pitied, devoted undoubted: (adj) unquestionable, undisputed, indisputable, undeniable, sure, positive, true, unquestioned, indubitable, definite, unchallenged unfeignedly: (adv) sincerely, truely, honestly, straightly, really, frankly, truly, heartily, authentically, authenticly, naturally unfold: (v) spread, open, extend, develop, stretch, spread out, reveal, display, stretch out; (adj, v) expound, explain. ANTONYMS: (v) fold, block, stagnate, stop, hide, withhold, check, wrap, conceal unfortunate: (adj) inauspicious, sad, hapless, bad, inopportune, disastrous, adverse, deplorable, infelicitous, untoward, lamentable. ANTONYMS: (adj) lucky, auspicious, good, opportune, joyous, timely, appropriate, successful, easy, privileged unhappy: (adj) gloomy, dismal, depressed, melancholy, sad, miserable, sorrowful, distressed, disconsolate, infelicitous, low. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, cheerful, satisfied, pleased, glad, euphoric, fortunate, contented, joyful, timely, lucky unjustly: (adv) wrongly, wrongfully, wickedly, iniquitously, inequitably, undeservedly, illegally, foully, injuriously, unrighteously, unjustifiedly. ANTONYMS: (adv) rightly, reasonably unkindness: (n) heartlessness,
195 callousness, thoughtlessness, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, diskindness, insensitivity, unpleasantness, unfriendliness, unkindliness, insensitiveness. ANTONYMS: (n) goodwill, diplomacy, gentleness, humanity, thoughtfulness unknown: (adj, n) secret, alien; (adj) hidden, unfamiliar, unidentified, obscure, nameless, foreign, anonymous; (n) stranger, foreigner. ANTONYMS: (adj) familiar, recognized, famous, documented, identified, transparent; (n) native unlawful: (adj) illegal, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, wrongful, prohibited, improper, unauthorized, criminal, outlaw, irregular. ANTONYMS: (adj) legal, legitimate, authorized, honest, rightful unlearned: (adj) ignorant, unenlightened, illiterate, uninformed, unlettered, unread, uninstructed, unconditioned, nescient, innate, unknowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) conditioned, cultured, educated unless: (adv) but, if, yet, besides, except with, further; (adv, conj) save; (conj) without, if not; (n) provisionally; (adj) not necessary unpitied: (v) unlamented, unbewailed unroot: (v) eradicate unserviceable: (adj) unusable, unprofitable, impractical, ineffectual, not serviceable, disserviceable, harmful, injurious, inoperable, unuseable. ANTONYM: (adj) serviceable unsettled: (adj) changeable, undecided, doubtful, uneasy, outstanding, variable, unpaid, unresolved; (adj, v) unfixed, indefinite, undetermined. ANTONYMS: (adj) confident, definite, decided, well, sure, happy, constant, conclusive, certain, calmed, calm unsuitable: (adj) improper, inapplicable, unfit, incorrect, unbecoming, inopportune, undesirable, inapt, wrong, inconvenient, incompatible. ANTONYMS: (adj) appropriate, proper, applicable, decent, befitting, fitting unthankfulness: (n) thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, ungratefulness until: (prep, v) to; (conj, prep) unto; (adj) up to; (adv) so far, yet, before,
196 meanwhile; (prep) pending, while, during, awaiting unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before unworthiness: (n) baseness, despicability, despicableness, badness, unworth, shamefulness, ignominiousness, disgracefulness, bad. ANTONYM: (n) worthiness unworthy: (adj) undeserving, base, disgraceful, ignoble, low, contemptible, despicable, ugly, unmerited, unseemly, shameful. 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 urge: (v) push, press, advocate, persuade, impel, induce; (n, v) spur, drive, force; (n) impulse; (adj, v) incite. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, hate, aversion, disinclination; (v) dissuade, oppose, demand, prevent, restrain used: (adj) exploited, old, accustomed, worn, spent, victimized, wont, tried, decrepit, second hand, exhausted. ANTONYMS: (adj) new, unused, spanking, misused usurping: (adj) encroaching utmost: (adj, n) maximum, extreme, uttermost, furthermost, best, highest; (adj, adv) farthest; (adj, v) supreme; (adj) last, furthest; (adj, n, v) greatest. ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, worst vagabond: (n, v) tramp; (adj, n) vagrant; (v) roam, stray, wander, range, ramble; (n) outcast, bum, wanderer, nomad. ANTONYMS: (n) inhabitant, resident; (adj) settled vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, ineffectual, unproductive, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, humble, useful, responsible, worthwhile, effective vainly: (adv) uselessly, futilely, fruitlessly, conceitedly, in vain, worthlessly, abortively, bootlessly, arrogantly, unproductively; (adj, adv) foolishly. ANTONYMS: (adv) fruitfully, successfully, effectively valiant: (adj) brave, courageous, intrepid, fearless, heroic, audacious, gallant, daring, dauntless, stout, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) afraid,
All's Well That Ends Well despicable valour: (n) valor, valiancy, valiance, heroism, courage, bravery, valorousness, prowess, daring, pluck, spirit vassal: (n) feudatory, liegeman, liege, serf, helot, dependent, subject, liege subject, follower, bondman, homager velvet: (adj) velvety, down; (n) profit, gain, velour, velours, revenue, prosperity, receipts, satin, wealth vendible: (adj) salable, saleable, vendable, merchantable, sellable, hireling, mercenary, venal; (n) commodity, merchandise vent: (n) exit, opening, flue, chimney, escape, blowhole; (n, v) discharge, air, release; (v) emit, ventilate. ANTONYMS: (n) door, closure; (v) block, suppress venture: (n, v) hazard, chance, stake, peril, attempt, gamble, adventure; (adj, n, v) dare; (n) speculation, danger; (v) endanger verbal: (adj) oral, literal, unwritten, vocal, wordy, talkative, lexical, nominal, oral law, oral testimony, prolix. ANTONYMS: (adj) numerical, silent verity: (n) reality, veracity, actuality, fact, accuracy, troth, fidelity, faithfulness, belief, true statement, betrothal. ANTONYM: (n) falsity vessel: (n) ship, pot, jar, duct, vas, boat, craft, container, bowl, barrel, canal vexation: (adj, n) annoyance, nuisance; (n) irritation, worry, aggravation, displeasure, chagrin, chafe, anger, frustration, botheration view: (n, v) sight, scene, regard, opinion, judgment, prospect, outlook, thought; (adj, v) observe, see; (n) idea. ANTONYMS: (v) disbelieve, mistrust vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, honorable, good, delightful, admirable, noble vileness: (n) evil, enormity, repulsiveness, loathsomeness, nefariousness, evilness, wickedness, sliminess, meanness, hideousness; (adj) scandal. ANTONYMS: (n) purity, goodness, pleasantness villainy: (n) evil, infamy, crime, villany, misdeed, baseness, enormity, atrocity, evildoing,
evilness, injustice villanous: (adj) vile violent: (adj, n) rough, furious, tempestuous, severe, turbulent, boisterous, powerful; (adj, v) vehement; (adj) raging, intense, sharp. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, calm, nonviolent, mild, passive, moderate, pleasant, slight, refined, relaxed, friendly virgin: (adj) pure, new, chaste, innocent, fresh, untouched, intact, virginal; (adj, n) vestal; (n) maid, girl. ANTONYMS: (adj) defiled, sullied virginity: (n) maidenhood, pucelage, chastity, purity, maidenhead, pudicity, virtue, freshness, virginhood, innocence, spirit virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence, quality, attribute; (n) honor, goodness, honesty, morality, decency, probity, efficacy. ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt, vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor, immorality, evil, demerit, inadequacy, disadvantage virtues: (n) brawn, sinew, qualities, nerve, manner, habit, disposition, custom virtuous: (adj) upright, pure, righteous, good, moral, just, honorable, honest, respectable, decent, pious. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sinful, corrupt, impure, unethical, decadent, degenerate, irreverent visage: (n) face, look, mug, physiognomy, expression, kisser, appearance, aspect, brow, smiler, forehead voice: (n) speech, vox; (v) enunciate, pronounce, speak, say, vocalize, express, utter, articulate; (n, v) sound. ANTONYMS: (v) devoice, block volubility: (adj, n) fluency; (n) eloquence, articulateness, gab, gift of gab, smoothness, communicativeness, readiness; (adj) flippancy vouch: (v) guarantee, secure, promise, certify, attest, pledge, swear, testify, protest, confirm, affirm. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, disavow, refute waggon: (n) wagon, cart, lorry, wain, dray, station wagon, beach wagon, beach waggon, station waggon, bandwagon, milkwagon wait: (n, v) pause, hold, stop; (v) expect, anticipate, stay, await, lurk,
William Shakespeare ambush, remain; (adj, v) tarry. ANTONYMS: (n) act, continuation, doing; (v) interrupt, leave, begin, depart, continue; (intj) hurry waiting: (n) abeyance, suspense, expectancy, hold, time lag, postponement; (adj) ready and waiting, ready, expectant; (adv) to come, in the making waking: (adj) wakeful; (n) awakening, wakefulness, consciousness walls: (n) brickwork, buttresses, defenses, masonry, ramparts, fortifications want: (n, v) lack, desire, miss, wish; (n) poverty, deficiency, deprivation, famine, necessity, destitution, shortage. ANTONYMS: (n, v) hate; (n) glut, despise, luxury, option, prosperity, supply; (v) disinterest, answer wanted: (adj) welcome, cherished, precious, treasured, marketable, invited, necessary, needed, desirable, desired, loved. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwanted, unwelcome wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light, licentious, unchaste, lewd, debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; (n, v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, wise, nice, kind, gentle, decent, clean, careful, observant, justifiable, involuntary wants: (n) need, necessities ward: (n) charge, protection, custody, care, quarter, neighborhood, district, defense, keep; (adj, v) shelter; (v) protect warlike: (adj) military, belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, combative, aggressive, armigerous, hostile, unfriendly, unpacific, militant. ANTONYMS: (adj) harmonizing, friendly warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license, assure, sanction, empower; (n) authority, authorization, security; (v) justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) break; (v) debar warranted: (adj) legitimate, secured, bonded, legal, locked, mistaken, necessary; (v) privileged, sanctioned, allowed; (n) securer wash: (adj, n, v) soak; (n, v) paint; (v) clean, scrub, mop, moisten, lave, scour, bathe; (n) washing, ablution. ANTONYM: (v) soil waters: (n) Clara Erskine Clement, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, body
fluid, liquid body substance, Ethel waters, body of water, bodily fluid, boot ways: (n) behavior, process, shipway, slipway, means, childbearing, conduct, construction, demeanor, direction, traveling weak: (adj, n) frail; (adj) flat, watery, fragile, flimsy, faint, thin, light, sickly, soft, nerveless. ANTONYMS: (adj) concentrated, firm, brave, safe, forceful, effective, healthy, intense, determined, powerful, robust weakest: (adj) ridiculous, suggestion, supposes, notions, plainly, irrational, incongruous, project, foolish, fatuity, inconsistent weakness: (adj, n) failing, fault, debility, defect, infirmity, fragility, feebleness, deficiency, imperfection, foible; (n) flaw. ANTONYMS: (n) power, dislike, intensity, supremacy, determination, advantage, brightness, superiority, resistance, robustness, energy wealth: (adj, n) abundance, plenty, affluence, opulence; (n, v) money, gold; (n) treasure, property, fortune, capital; (adj) richness. ANTONYMS: (n) penury, scarcity, dearth, want, need, lack wear: (n) clothing, clothes, apparel, attire, garb; (v) endure, fatigue, waste, bear, tire, fray. ANTONYMS: (v) refresh, reject, rebuild, please, freshen, disrobe, delight, cheer, refuse; (n) improvement wearing: (adj) tiring, exhausting, tiresome, wearying, trying; (n) detrition, corrasion, attrition, abrasion, eroding, ablation. ANTONYMS: (adj) refreshing, undemanding, pleasant wedded: (adj, v) marital, connubial, matrimonial, conjugal, wed; (adj) nuptial, bridal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached week: (n) period, minute, second, hour, rag, day, calendar week, year, sevennight, Wyke, workweek weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob, blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet, whimper; (n) tear weigh: (v) press, study, measure, matter, consider, count, deliberate, contemplate, assess; (n, v) balance, poise. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, neglect weight: (n, v) load, burden, charge, heaviness, bias; (n) significance, consequence, importance, pressure, stress, influence. ANTONYMS: (n)
197 lightness, benefit, advantage, unimportance, meaninglessness, powerlessness, weakness, feebleness; (v) unburden welcome: (adj) pleasant, acceptable, pleasing, agreeable; (n, v) accept; (n) hospitality, reception; (v) receive, greet, invite, hail. 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 whale: (n) monster, leviathan, blower, behemoth, hulk, heavyweight, narwhal, narwal; (v) thrash, beat; (adj) cachalot 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 whether: (pron) where while: (adv, conj) whereas, as, although; (n) time, spell, period, moment, interval; (adv) when; (conj) though; (prep) during whilst: (conj) whereas, as, though, albeit, at the same time as, even as; (prep) during; (adj) pending whip: (n, v) lash, strap, goad; (v) flog, flagellate, beat, punish, thrash, trounce, stir, wallop. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, return whipped: (v) whipt whipping: (n) flagellation, beating, thrashing, licking, lashing, flogging, overcasting, debacle, slaughter, overlocking; (adj) snappy whisper: (n, v) murmur, hum, mumble, suggestion, hint, inkling; (v) breathe, hiss; (n) rustle, trace, breath. ANTONYM: (n) information white: (adj, n) pale; (adj) clean, blank, snowy, ashen, wan, achromatic, pure, pallid; (v) whiten; (n)
198 Caucasian. 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) incomplete, broken, partial, imperfect, unhealthy, deficient, destroyed, fractional, impaired, half, sick wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious, evil, vile, depraved, mischievous, immoral, unholy, nasty, naughty. ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, pure, pious, moral, kind, admirable, kindhearted, helpful, decent, assisting, aiding wickedness: (n) depravity, sin, sinfulness, iniquity, harm, ill, vice, evilness, corruption, immorality, crime. ANTONYMS: (n) goodness, kindness, piety, righteousness, benevolence, religiousness, obedience, good widow: (n) woman, relict, widower, adult female, widow woman, war widow, nobbled line; (adj) widowed, additional; (v) leave behind widower: (n) adult male, widowman, man wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, married woman, spouse, consort, helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, viscountess wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) flourish, rise, rally wind: (n, v) twist, turn; (v) meander, curl, bend, twine, curve, weave, crook; (n) air, gust. ANTONYMS: (v) unwind; (n) breeze window: (n) casement, pane, skylight, gap, Ventian window, clearstory, transom, windowpane, rosette, clerestory, embrasure wing: (n) pinion, limb, arm, fender, flank, pennon, Ala, extension, feather; (v) fly, soar. ANTONYM: (n) headquarters wings: (n) insignia, agency wins: (n) Windows Internet name service wisdom: (n) judiciousness, knowledge, sapience, sagacity, sense, prudence, discernment, insight, learning, depth, reasonableness. ANTONYMS: (n)
All's Well That Ends Well stupidity, folly, inexperience, ignorance, flippancy, banality wise: (adj) reasonable, sensible, sound, rational, sagacious, intelligent, prudent, shrewd, discreet; (adj, n) knowing; (n) method. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwise, stupid, ignorant, mistaken, illogical, reckless, naive, irrational, dense wish: (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) want, hope, need, inclination, longing, aspiration, aim; (v) like, choose; (n) pleasure. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) hatred, coercion, disinclination, aversion wishes: (n) desires, requirements, requests, needs, will wishing: (n) wish, want, velleity, option, need, privation, lack, deprivation, deficiency, choice; (adj) desirous withal: (adv) nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, even so, all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, enough withered: (adj) wizened, sear, shriveled, thin, shrunken, dry, dried up, wilted, faded, wizen; (v) lame. ANTONYM: (adj) plump within: (adv, n, prep) inside; (adv, prep) in; (adv) indoors, internally, inwardly, inly; (adj, n) interior; (prep) into, on, between; (adj) inwards. ANTONYMS: (prep) beyond, out without: (adv, n, prep) outside; (adj, adv) except; (adj) lacking, save barring; (prep) out of, sans; (n) minus, provisionally; (adv) save, beyond; (adv, prep) besides. ANTONYMS: (prep) with, having; (adv) inside witness: (n, v) testimony, attest, evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness, onlooker, observer; (v) observe, notice, see, view. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, participate, refute witty: (adj, v) smart, clever, sharp, brilliant; (adj) amusing, funny, facetious, jocular, intelligent, quick, comic. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, unamusing, unfunny, thick wives: (n) woman woman: (n) girl, female, lady, dame, madam, mistress, matron, maid, gentlewoman, Donna, petticoat. ANTONYMS: (n) man, gentleman women: (n) sex, gentle sex wonder: (adj, n) prodigy; (n) astonishment, admiration, amazement, surprise, miracle,
phenomenon, muse; (v) admire, reflect, question. ANTONYMS: (n) expectation, belief, disapproval; (v) know, believe, anticipate, decide wondering: (adj) inquisitive, speculative, suspicious wondrous: (adj) marvelous, miraculous, marvellous, astonishing, tremendous, fantastic, phenomenal, extraordinary, rattling; (adv) wonderfully, marvellously woodcock: (n) shore bird, shorebird, snipe, limicoline bird woodland: (n) forest, timber, wood, jungle, timberland, greenwood, woods, silva, backwoods, grove, park wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling, suit of clothes, the soft impeachment, entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case; (adj) amatory word: (n) news, tidings, password, expression, report, vocable, statement, term; (v) formulate, phrase; (n, v) advice words: (n) speech, expression, row, text, fracas, argument; (n, v) altercation, squabble, tiff, dispute, quarrel workman: (n) laborer, working man, worker, employee, hand, operative, artisan, working person, lather, mechanic, artificer works: (n) plant, workings, mill, manufactory, deeds, whole caboodle, kit and caboodle, kit and boodle, industrial plant, full treatment, distillery world: (n) cosmos, nature, creation, earth, public, sphere, society, realm, globe, macrocosm; (adj) global worn: (adj) haggard, tired, tattered, threadbare, ragged, drawn, jaded, fatigued, exhausted, faded, wasted. ANTONYMS: (adj) new, smart, unused, unworn, pristine, original worse: (adj) worser, subordinate, waur, worsened, warre, unrelieved, minor, lesser, junior, poorer; (n) badness. ANTONYMS: (adj) improved, healthier, higher worst: (v) whip, trounce, defeat, overcome, vanquish, pip, rack up; (adj, v) best, rout; (adj) floor, lick. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) best; (adj) highest, first, secondary worth: (adj, n) value, dignity; (n) cost, virtue, price, importance, excellence, quality, import, goodness, benefit. ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, disadvantage, hopelessness, detriment, disgrace, inferiority,
William Shakespeare triviality, uselessness, inefficiency worthiness: (n) merit, virtue, praiseworthiness, deservingness, roadworthiness, respectability, quotability, nobility; (adj) dignity, respect; (adj, n) honor. ANTONYMS: (n) shamefulness, unworthiness, immorality worthy: (adj) noble, good, meritorious, valuable, estimable, respectable, deserving, worthwhile, virtuous, honorable; (adj, n) celebrity. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, unrespected, disreputable, mediocre, petty, poor, unimpressive, insignificant, dishonorable, despicable; (n) nobody wound: (n, v) bruise, cut, harm, pain, damage, scratch, stab, sting; (n) injury; (v) offend, injure. ANTONYMS: (v) heal, appease, aid, cure, repair wrangling: (n) quarrel, bickering, controversy, polemics, discussion, haggle, haggling, dispute, strife, altercation, jangle wreck: (n, v) smash, shipwreck, wrack; (v) damage, spoil, demolish, destroy, devastate; (n) crash, ruins, destruction. ANTONYMS: (v) build, preserve, create, repair, assist; (n) creation wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful, sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic, piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor, unhappy, forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) fine, strong, fortunate, overjoyed, nice, admirable, good, cheery, joyous, lucky, comfortable wrinkles: (n) crow's feet writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, judicial writ, injunction, order, act, prescription, scripture, writing, ukase write: (v) pen, indite, draw up, correspond, spell, record, publish, compile, draw, outline, type wrong: (adj, n) evil, ill, injury, injustice; (adj, n, v) damage, injure; (adj) improper, false, incorrect, bad, inappropriate. ANTONYMS: (adj) correct, good, proper, honest, appropriate, just, true; (adv) correctly; (n) justice, virtue; (v) sympathize wrongs: (n) mala yarn: (n) story, thread, tale, narration, twine, anecdote, string, fable, relation, worsted, fiction yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, abroad, thither, further 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. ANTONYMS: (adj) old, mature, adult, ripe, older, late; (adj, n) aged younger: (adj) Jr, little, petty, young, juvenile, Mickey Mouse, minor, minuscule, niggling, picayune, unskilled yours: (adj) own yourself: (adv) herself, themselves, itself, myself, ourselves, yourselves, physically yourselves: (pron) themselves, myself, herself youth: (n) youngster, young person, lad, juvenile, boy, adolescence, kid, younker, stripling, juvenility; (adj, n) young. ANTONYMS: (n) adulthood, adult, ripeness, maturity, aged youthful: (adj) immature, fresh, green, juvenile, vernal, adolescent, childish, new, tender, sappy, beardless. ANTONYMS: (adj) adult, mature, experienced, sophisticated, late zealous: (adj) keen, enthusiastic, fervent, ardent, avid, devoted, strenuous, vehement, glowing, fiery; (adj, n) passionate. ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, apathetic, unenthusiastic, cool, halfhearted, moderate
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