LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
William Shakespeare
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Love's Labour's Lost Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
William Shakespeare
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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 PERSONS REPRESENTED ................................................................................................ 3 ACT I ................................................................................................................................ 5 ACT II ............................................................................................................................. 27 ACT III ............................................................................................................................ 41 ACT IV ............................................................................................................................ 51 ACT V ............................................................................................................................. 83 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 137
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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 Love’s Labour’s Lost 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 FERDINAND, King of Navarre BEROWNE, LONGAVILLE, Lords attending on the King DUMAINE, BOYET, Lords attending on the Princess of France MARCADÉ, DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, a fantastical Spaniard SIR NATHANIEL, a Curate HOLOFERNES, a Schoolmaster DULL, a Constable COSTARD, a Clown MOTH, Page to Armado A FORESTER THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE ROSALINE, Lady attending on the Princess MARIA, Lady attending on the Princess KATHARINE, Lady attending on the Princess JAQUENETTA, a country wench OFFICERS and Others, ATTENDANTS on the King and Princess.%
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Thesaurus attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, nursing, care, appearing, observation; (adj) concomitant, attendant, ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, inattention. country: (n) nation, home, land, place, area, territory, commonwealth, soil, kingdom, realm; (adj) rustic. ANTONYMS: (adj) urban, metropolitan; (adj, n) city; (n) metropolis.
fantastical: (adj, v) fanciful; (adj) antic, chimerical, unusual, beautiful, unreal, strange, grotesque, odd, extraordinary; (v) fancy. wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab.
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SCENE I. THE KING OF NAVARRE'S PARK [Enter the King, BEROWNE, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN.] KING. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs, And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors--for so you are That war against your own affections And the huge army of the world's desires-Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court shall be a little academe, Still and contemplative in living art. You three, Berowne, Dumain, and Longaville,
Thesaurus bate: (v) abate, curtail, discount, breathe, respire; (adj, n) whisper. esurient, edacious, avid, greedy, voraginous, ravenous; (n) fire. deduct, dequantitate, douse, contain, contemplative: (adj, v) reflective, drench, detract; (n) battue, bath. edict: (n) act, command, writ, pensive, wistful, meditative, brazen: (adj) audacious, impudent, introspective; (adj) broody, brooding, declaration, ruling, rule, regulation, speculative, ruminative, musing; (v) brassy, insolent, bold, brash, directive, order, dictate, law. museful. ANTONYMS: (adj) shallow, heirs: (n) family, posterity, issue. impertinent, blatant, flagrant, forward, saucy. ANTONYMS: (adj) spite: (n) malice, grudge, hatred, vacuous, blank, thoughtless, shy, abashed, prudish, reserved, disregarding, unreflective, satisfied. malevolence, rancour, venom, rancor, maliciousness, ill will, animosity; (n, quiet, discreet, respectful, ashamed, cormorant: (adj) avid, gastronome, covetous, avaricious; (n) v) pique. ANTONYMS: (v) please; (n) veiled, modest. breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration, puff, Phalacrocorax carbo, corvorant, scarf. benevolence, goodwill, love, soul, aspiration, respite, airflow; (v) devouring: (adv) devouringly; (adj) affection, harmony.
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Have sworn for three years' term to live with me, My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes That are recorded in this schedule here: Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names, That his own hand may strike his honour down That violates the smallest branch herein. If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do, Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.% LONGAVILLE. I am resolv'd; 'tis but a three years' fast: The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. DUMAINE. My loving lord, Dumain is mortified: The grosser manner of these world's delights He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves; To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die, With all these living in philosophy. BEROWNE. I can but say their protestation over; So much, dear liege, I have already sworn, That is, to live and study here three years. But there are other strict observances: As, not to see a woman in that term, Which I hope well is not enrolled there: And one day in a week to touch no food, And but one meal on every day beside; The which I hope is not enrolled there: And then to sleep but three hours in the night And not be seen to wink of all the day,--
Thesaurus banquet: (v) junket, revel, regale; (n) party, celebration, carousal, treat, entertainment, spread, dinner, reception. ANTONYM: (n) snack. dainty: (adj, v) nice; (adj, n, v) delicacy; (adj) fastidious, savory, tasteful, squeamish, particular, mincing, refined; (adj, n) tidbit; (n) luxury. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, vulgar, rough, inelegant, harsh, gross, awkward, accepting, heavy, careless, thick.
enrolled: (adj) listed, conscript. statement, affirmation. liege: (n) feudatory, liegeman, vassal, subscribe: (v) confirm, sign, lord, liege Lord, subject, Luik; (adj) contribute, ratify, subscribe to, loyal, staunch, true, steady. underwrite, agree, buy, donate, pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, endorse, accept. ostentation, show, ceremony, glory, wink: (n, v) twinkle, blink, flash; (n) instant, twinkling, trice; (v) sparkle, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n) nictitate, flicker, nictate, leer. wits: (n) intellect, mind, wit, brains, understatement, modesty. protestation: (n) protest, objection, common sense, presence, declaration, outcry, complaint, claim, percipience, observation, mother wit, demur, dissent, opposition, right mind, judgment.
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When I was wont to think no harm all night, And make a dark night too of half the day,-Which I hope well is not enrolled there. O! these are barren tasks, too hard to keep, Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep.% KING. Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these. BEROWNE. Let me say no, my liege, an if you please: I only swore to study with your Grace, And stay here in your court for three years' space. LONGAVILLE. You swore to that, Berowne, and to the rest. BEROWNE. By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest. What is the end of study? let me know. KING. Why, that to know which else we should not know. BEROWNE. Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense? KING. Ay, that is study's god-like recompense. BEROWNE. Come on, then; I will swear to study so, To know the thing I am forbid to know, As thus: to study where I well may dine, When I to feast expressly am forbid; Or study where to meet some mistress fine, When mistresses from common sense are hid; Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath,
Thesaurus barren: (adj, n) sterile; (adj) infertile, implicitly, indirectly, vaguely. payment, consideration, forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, indemnification, indemnity; (v) deserted, arid, void, dry, stark, meagre, fruitless, abortive; (n) waste. obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, compensate, reimburse. ANTONYMS: (adj) productive, lush, ANTONYMS: (v) penalize, receive; frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, (n) penalty. fruitful, developing, growing, tasks: (n) farm duties, household profitable, rewarding, rich, sheltered, authorize, stand. oath: (n) expletive, malediction, humid, populous. tasks, odd Jobs, errands. expressly: (adv) specially, particularly, imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, wont: (adj, n) use, custom, usage; (n) distinctly, specifically, explicitly, swearing, pledge, assurance, practice, tradition, cleanliness, asseveration; (v) swear. especially, utterly, clearly, precisely, assuetude, assuefaction, convention, telly, exactly. ANTONYMS: (adv) recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n) rut; (v) practise. ambiguously, conditionally, compensation, amends, atonement,
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Study to break it, and not break my troth. If study's gain be thus, and this be so, Study knows that which yet it doth not know. Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.% KING. These be the stops that hinder study quite, And train our intellects to vain delight. BEROWNE. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain: As painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth; while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Study me how to please the eye indeed, By fixing it upon a fairer eye; Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.
Thesaurus beguile: (v) attract, charm, enchant, sightedness, optics, beholding. falsely: (adv) incorrectly, fraudulently, allure, captivate, bluff, entrap, enthrall, lure, fascinate; (n, v) cheat. deceptively, dishonestly, wrongly, ANTONYMS: (v) protect, irritate, irk, erroneously, misleadingly, bore, advise, guard, annoy, repel. deceitfully, unfaithfully, spuriously, blinded: (adj) blindfolded, blinder, fictitiously. ANTONYMS: (adv) blindly, reckless, unsighted, honestly, truthfully, faithfully, blindfold, dizzy. authentically, correctly, naturally, delights: (n) delices. rightly. eyesight: (n) sight, seeing, godfather: (n) godchild, supporter, discernment, vision power, ability to patron, godparent, godmother, gangster, executive; (v) christen. make discerning judgments, view,
inherit: (v) heir, come into, get, to inherit, own, receive, come in for, to succeed, follow, descend, accede. ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not. pore: (n) stoma, interstice, emunctory, gully hole; (v) speculate, meditate, contemplate, concentrate, centre, engulf, engross. saucy: (adj, n) pert; (adj) bold, impudent, audacious, insolent, fresh, forward, impertinent, flippant, rude, brazen. ANTONYM: (adj) respectful.
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KING. How well he's read, to reason against reading! DUMAINE. Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding! LONGAVILLE. He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding.% BEROWNE. The spring is near, when green geese are a-breeding. DUMAINE. How follows that? BEROWNE. Fit in his place and time. DUMAINE. In reason nothing. BEROWNE. Something then in rime. LONGAVILLE. Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost That bites the first-born infants of the spring. BEROWNE. Well, say I am: why should proud summer boast Before the birds have any cause to sing? Why should I joy in any abortive birth? At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows; But like of each thing that in season grows; So you, to study now it is too late, Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.
Thesaurus abortive: (adj) fruitless, useless, futile, unsuccessful, vain, ineffective, disastrous, idle, rudimental, embryonic, premature. ANTONYMS: (adj) successful, complete, productive, fruitful, efficient, effectual, consummated, effective. boast: (v) bluster, brag, blow, crow, gasconade, show off, rodomontade, exult; (n, v) vaunt, pride; (n) arrogance. ANTONYMS: (n) deprecation; (v) downplay, lack.
envious: (adj) covetous, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, begrudge, greedy, resentful, grudging, green, begrudging, enviable. ANTONYMS: (adj) fulfilled, satisfied, undesirous, contented. first-born: (adj) older. geese: (n) ducks, goose, game birds, order Anseriformes, wildfowl, birds, Anatidae, Anseriformes, family Anatidae. o'er: (adv) on, upon, across.
proceeded: (v) proceed, yode. rime: (n, v) rhyme; (n) hoarfrost, hoar, cleft, rift, chink, crack, assonance, alliteration, consonance; (v) alliterate. unlock: (v) open, unfasten, disclose, unbar, reveal, free, release, disengage, unbolt, unclose, withdraw. ANTONYMS: (v) fasten, lock, close. weeds: (n) viduity, mourning band, garment, cypress, widowhood, dress; (adj) willow.
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KING. Well, sit out; go home, Berowne; adieu.% BEROWNE. No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you; And though I have for barbarism spoke more Than for that angel knowledge you can say, Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore, And bide the penance of each three years' day. Give me the paper; let me read the same; And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name. KING. How well this yielding rescues thee from shame! BEROWNE. 'Item. That no woman shall come within a mile of my court.'Hath this been proclaimed? LONGAVILLE. Four days ago. BEROWNE. Let's see the penalty. 'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty? LONGAVILLE. Marry, that did I. BEROWNE. Sweet lord, and why? LONGAVILLE. To fright them hence with that dread penalty. BEROWNE. A dangerous law against gentility! 'Item. If any man be seen to talk with a woman within the term of three years, he shall endure such public shame as the rest of the court can possibly
Thesaurus barbarism: (n) atrocity, barbarousness, barbarity, cruelty, savagery, Gothicism, vandalism, uncivilizedness, heathenism, vulgarism, savageness. ANTONYMS: (n) civility, nicety. bide: (v) abide, await, endure, bear, remain, last, dwell; (adj, v) tarry, wait; (adj) tolerate, stand. ANTONYMS: (v) go, move, hurry. dread: (n, v) apprehension, fear, panic; (n) anxiety, awe, consternation,
alarm, trepidation, dismay, confession, compunction, penalty, foreboding, terror. ANTONYMS: expiation, remorse, repentance, (adj) pleasing, welcomed, pleasant; punishment, reparation, hair shirt. (v) welcome, want; (n) reassurance, proclaimed: (adj) announced, fearlessness, confidence, security, indictive, declared publicly. yielding: (adj, v) flexible, pliable, ease, calm. fright: (n, v) dismay, alarm, scare, supple, tractable, pliant; (adj) affright; (n) awe, fear, dread, terror, compliant, submissive, soft, obedient, horror, consternation, apprehension. docile; (n) submission. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (n) calm, fearlessness, (adj) hard, firm, inflexible, solid, courage, confidence, security. rigid, obstinate, stiff, stubborn, penance: (n) atonement, sacrament, unyielding, rebellious.
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devise.' This article, my liege, yourself must break; For well you know here comes in embassy The French king's daughter, with yourself to speak-A mild of grace and complete majesty-About surrender up of Aquitaine To her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father: Therefore this article is made in vain, Or vainly comes th' admired princess hither. KING. What say you, lords? why, this was quite forgot.% BEROWNE. So study evermore is over-shot: While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. KING. We must of force dispense with this decree; She must lie here on mere necessity. BEROWNE. Necessity will make us all forsworn Three thousand times within this three years' space; For every man with his affects is born, Not by might master'd, but by special grace. If I break faith, this word shall speak for me: I am forsworn 'on mere necessity.' So to the laws at large I write my name; [Subscribes] And he that breaks them in the least degree Stands in attainder of eternal shame. Suggestions are to other as to me;
Thesaurus admired: (adj) respected, admirable, ANTONYMS: (adj) fit, strong, sound, estimable, favorite, pet, beloved, robust, powerful, healthy, hearty, honored, August, loved, accepted, sturdy. popular. ANTONYM: (adj) dispense: (v) allot, deal, administer, disreputable. assign, deal out, apportion, dole out, attainder: (n) cancellation, attainture, give, issue, diffuse, furnish. civil death, attaintment; (adj) taint. ANTONYMS: (v) prohibit, receive, bedrid: (adj) bedfast, infirm, ill, sicker, withhold. evermore: (adj, adv) always, forever, sick. decrepit: (adj) infirm, senile, feeble, ever; (adv) everlastingly, effete, seedy, worn, dilapidated, forevermore, perpetually, ever and shabby, old, rickety, frail. again, for all time, until the end of
time. ANTONYMS: (adv) temporarily, suddenly. forsworn: (adj) perjured, untrue. hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither. laws: (n) Pentateuch, Torah. vainly: (adv) uselessly, futilely, fruitlessly, conceitedly, in vain, worthlessly, abortively, bootlessly, arrogantly, unproductively; (adj, adv) foolishly. ANTONYMS: (adv) fruitfully, successfully, effectively.
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But I believe, although I seem so loath, I am the last that will last keep his oath. But is there no quick recreation granted? KING. Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; A man of complements, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny: This child of fancy, that Armado hight, For interim to our studies shall relate, In high-born words, the worth of many a knight From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate. How you delight, my lords, I know not, I; But, I protest, I love to hear him lie, And I will use him for my minstrelsy.% BEROWNE. Armado is a most illustrious wight, A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight. LONGAVILLE. Costard the swain and he shall be our sport; And so to study three years is but short. [Enter DULL, with a letter, and COSTARD.] DULL. Which is the duke's own person? BEROWNE. This, fellow. What wouldst?
Thesaurus enchanting: (adj) captivating, ANTONYMS: (adj) unknown, delightful, fascinating, bewitching, obscure, ordinary, undistinguished, lovely, alluring, magical, glamorous, lowly. adorable; (adj, v) charming, engaging. mint: (n) fortune, pile, heap, mass, ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, peck, lot, peppermint; (v) invent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, foul, manufacture, strike, stamp. ravish: (v) charm, enrapture, rape, everyday, dull, disenchanting, annoying, uninteresting, despicable. violate, delight, captivate, defile, illustrious: (adj, n) glorious, deflower, force, transport, enchant. celebrated, excellent, grand; (adj) ANTONYM: (v) disenchant. swain: (n) boyfriend, fellow, love, famous, bright, eminent, famed, distinguished, brilliant, well-known. rustic, flame, hind, man; (adj, n) lover,
sweetheart, admirer; (adj) suitor. tawny: (n) tan, buff; (adj, n) brown, auburn; (adj) luteous, golden, sallow, russet, chestnut, creamy, moderately black. umpire: (n, v) judge; (n) arbitrator, arbiter, mediator, ump, justice, moderator, intermediary; (v) arbitrate, adjudicate, mediate. wight: (n) human, soul, person, fellow, brute, someone, somebody, puppet, Isle of Wight, gaffer, elf.
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DULL. I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his Grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person in flesh and blood.% BEROWNE. This is he. DULL. Signior Arm--Arm--commends you. There's villainy abroad: this letter will tell you more. COSTARD. Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me. KING. A letter from the magnificent Armado. BEROWNE. How long soever the matter, I hope in God for high words. LONGAVILLE. A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience! BEROWNE. To hear, or forbear laughing? LONGAVILLE. To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately; or, to forbear both. BEROWNE. Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to climb in the merriness. COSTARD. The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner. BEROWNE. In what manner?
Thesaurus forbear: (v) refrain, desist, help, haughtily, harshly, wildly, immoderately, absolutely, tolerate, abide, eschew, endure, arrogantly, assertively, brashly. excessively, completely, hugely, relinquish; (n) predecessor, merriness: (n) humorousness, severely, wholly. reprehend: (n, v) chide, blame, progenitor, forebear. jocoseness, liveliness, merriment, heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, censure, reprimand; (v) upbraid, vivacity, cheerfulness, happiness, Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian mirth, exuberance, jocularity, levity. criticize, condemn, charge, reproach, Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) moderately: (adv) abstemiously, decry; (n) dispraise. celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery. signior: (n) don, man, Mr, adult male, quietly, modestly, pretty, meekly: (adv) humbly, submissively, temperately, soberly, slightly, calmly, signor. villainy: (n) evil, infamy, crime, tamely, compliantly, obediently, mildly, reasonably, restrainedly. docilely, peacefully, lowly, modestly, ANTONYMS: (adv) very, villany, misdeed, baseness, enormity, placidly, kindly. ANTONYMS: (adv) unreasonably, massively, atrocity, evildoing, evilness, injustice.
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COSTARD. In manner and form following, sir; all those three: I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with her upon the form, and taken following her into the park; which, put together, is in manner and form following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the manner of a man to speak to a woman, for the form,--in some form.% BEROWNE. For the following, sir? COSTARD. As it shall follow in my correction; and God defend the right! KING. Will you hear this letter with attention? BEROWNE. As we would hear an oracle. COSTARD. Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh. KING. 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god and body's fostering patron,' COSTARD. Not a word of Costard yet. KING. 'So it is,'-COSTARD. It may be so; but if he say it is so, he is, in telling true, but so.-KING. Peace! COSTARD. Be to me, and every man that dares not fight!
Thesaurus correction: (n) amendment, adjustment, alteration, chastisement, discipline, redress, castigation, modification, punishment, improvement, emendation. ANTONYMS: (n) fabrication, reward, award, persuasion. dominator: (n) boss. fostering: (n) breeding, rearing, nurturing, nurture, fosterage, encouragement, bringing up, promotion, development, elevation,
education. gullibility, severity, artlessness, hearken: (v) hark, harken, attend, ignorance; (adj, n) inexperience. listen, hear, heed, list, listen in, listen ANTONYMS: (n) difficulty, to, regard, look out. complexity, ambiguity, magnificence, oracle: (n) prophet, divination, sophistication, dishonesty, clutter, vaticinator, diviner, revelation, seer, warmth. sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) sibyl, Solomon, soothsayer, vision, authority. single, singular, one, exclusive, shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, individual, only, alone, solitary. ANTONYM: (adj) common. bequeath, leave. simplicity: (n) plainness, simpleness, vicegerent: (n) lieutenant, surrogate, easiness, ease, clarity, austerity, representative, delegate.
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KING. No words! COSTARD. Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.% KING. 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did commend the blackoppressing humour to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk. The time when? About the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper: so much for the time when. Now for the ground which; which, I mean, I upon; it is ycleped thy park. Then for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most preposterous event, that draweth from my snow-white pen the eboncoloured ink which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest. But to the place where, it standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy curious-knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,'-COSTARD. Me. KING. 'that unlettered small-knowing soul,'-COSTARD. Me. KING. 'that shallow vassal,'-COSTARD. Still me.-KING. 'which, as I remember, hight Costard,'--
Thesaurus beasts: (n) stock. beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, offer, grant, reject. graze: (n, v) browse, scrape, touch; (v) rub, chafe, eat, shave, brush, crop, crease; (n) cut. ANTONYM: (v) smooth. low-spirited: (adj) downcast, depressed, melancholy, dejected, despondent, downhearted, down in
the mouth, sad. minnow: (adj) midge, fly, gnat, insect, animalcule, worm, mite, monad, shrimp; (n) mummichog, Minny. nourishment: (n) food, alimentation, meal, meat, diet, feeding, nutrition, repast, sustenance, edible, fuel. physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, remedy; (v) heal. preposterous: (adj) absurd, irrational,
ludicrous, nonsensical, foolish, ridiculous, laughable, derisory, monstrous, inconsistent; (adj, v) extravagant. ANTONYMS: (adj) sensible, reasonable, impressive, plausible. secrets: (n) secrecy. unlettered: (adj) uneducated, ignorant, unlearned, analphabetic, unenlightened, uninformed, unread, nescient, uninstructed, uncultivated, untaught.
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COSTARD. O me.% KING. 'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed edict and continent canon, with--with,--O! with but with this I passion to say wherewith,'-COSTARD. With a wench. KING. 'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. Him, I,--as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,-have sent to thee, to receive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet Grace's officer, Antony Dull, a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and estimation.' DULL. Me, an't please you; I am Antony Dull. KING. 'For Jaquenetta,--so is the weaker vessel called, which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain,--I keep her as a vessel of thy law's fury; and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted and heart-burning heat of duty, DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.' BEROWNE. This is not so well as I looked for, but the best that ever I heard. KING. Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say you to this? COSTARD. Sir, I confess the wench. KING. Did you hear the proclamation?
Thesaurus aforesaid: (adj) aforenamed, said, salutation, respect, applause, flattery, meed: (n, v) compensation; (v) wage, hire; (n) prize, remuneration, foregoing, above-mentioned, same, acclamation, regards, approbation. contrary: (adj, n) contradictory, preceding, former, foresaid. recompense, guerdon, pay, dole, apprehended: (adj) arrested, seized, reverse; (adj) adverse, conflicting, pittance, reguerdon. proclamation: (n) announcement, understood, under arrest, in custody, unfavorable, perverse, cross, detained, appreciated, disobedient, alien, different, decree, edict, annunciation, notice, obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj) similar, statement, promulgation, report, comprehended. canon: (n) rule, regulation, principle, harmonious, helpful, obliging, publication, manifesto, propagation. doctrine, law, formula, standard, compatible, complaisant, concordant, repute: (n, v) reputation, report, esteem, respect, honor; (n) name, statute, code, act, criterion. parallel, agreeable, cooperative, compliments: (n) respects, character, celebrity, standing; (v) favorable. heard: (n) hearing. commendation, wish, greetings, count, regard as.
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COSTARD. I do confess much of the hearing it, but little of the marking of it.% KING. It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment to be taken with a wench. COSTARD. I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damosel. KING. Well, it was proclaimed 'damosel'. COSTARD. This was no damosel neither, sir; she was a 'virgin'. KING. It is so varied too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin'. COSTARD. If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid. KING. This maid not serve your turn, sir. COSTARD. This maid will serve my turn, sir. KING. Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast a week with bran and water. COSTARD. I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge. KING. And Don Armado shall be your keeper. My Lord Berowne, see him delivered o'er: And go we, lords, to put in practice that Which each to other hath so strongly sworn. [Exeunt KING, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN.]
Thesaurus bran: (adj) farina, sporule, flour, paddy, rice, meal; (n) stubble, cellulose, roughage, fiber, bren. confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor. damosel: (n) damozel, damsel, demoiselle, damoiselle, maid, maiden. marking: (n) earmark, crisscross,
brand, marker, maculation, grading, pronounce: (v) articulate, declare, stamping, authentication, lineation, affirm, say, assert, express, vocalize, proclaim; (n, v) allege; (adj, v) deliver, cairn, cross. mutton: (n) lamb, em, mouton, mut, utter. ANTONYM: (v) mumble. sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal, sheep, pork, red meat, white meat, beef, area unit; (v) pilot bread. implacable, engaged, dedicated, neither: (conj) either, no-one, not committed, betrothed, bespoken, either, nor, nother. affianced, inveterate. porridge: (v) oatmeal, hasty pudding, virginity: (n) maidenhood, pucelage, mince pie, oyster, pineapple, mango; chastity, purity, maidenhead, (n) burgoo, pap, plash, loblolly, pudicity, virtue, freshness, podge. virginhood, innocence, spirit.
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BEROWNE. I'll lay my head to any good man's hat These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn. Sirrah, come on.% COSTARD. I suffer for the truth, sir: for true it is I was taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [Exeunt.]
SCENE II. THE PARK. [Enter ARMADO and MOTH.] ARMADO. Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy? MOTH. A great sign, sir, that he will look sad. ARMADO. Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp. MOTH. No, no; O Lord, sir, no. ARMADO. How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal? MOTH. By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior. ARMADO. Why tough senior? Why tough senior?
Thesaurus affliction: (n, v) adversity; (n) distress, satisfied. happiness, peace, hopefulness, moth: (n) gelechiid, bombycid, regret, martyrdom, torment, curse, cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm, content; (v) rejoice. trial, bane, misadventure, sorrow, geometrid, helminth, lasiocampid, agony. ANTONYMS: (n) gift, sour: (adj, n) morose, harsh; (adj, v) lymantriid, arctiid, moth and rust, acid; (adj) bitter, rancid, gruff, grim, godsend, solace, blessing. moths, worm-eaten, lasiocampid melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) glum, dour; (adj, n, v) severe; (v) moth. gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, self-same: (adj) uniform, twin. ferment. ANTONYMS: (adj) kindly, dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve; pleasant, bland, amiable, fresh, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess, (v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache, mature, mild, kind; (v) sweeten, depression. ANTONYMS: (n) repentance, remorse; (adj, n) sadness, enhance. happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness, misery; (adj, n, v) distress. optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery, ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight,
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MOTH. Why tender juvenal? Why tender juvenal? ARMADO. I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.% MOTH. And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough. ARMADO. Pretty and apt. MOTH. How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or I apt, and my saying pretty? ARMADO. Thou pretty, because little. MOTH. Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt? ARMADO. And therefore apt, because quick. MOTH. Speak you this in my praise, master? ARMADO. In thy condign praise. MOTH. I will praise an eel with the same praise. ARMADO. What! That an eel is ingenious? MOTH. That an eel is quick.
Thesaurus appertaining: (adj) appertinent. ingenious: (adj) adroit, artful, clever, (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) condign: (v) merited, deserved, richly cunning, deft, expert, creative, criticism, disparagement; (v) deserved; (adj) suitable, opportune, imaginative, cute, acute, able. reprimand, disparage, reproach, ANTONYMS: (adj) impulsive, naive, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, just, due, rightful, right, proper, apt. congruent: (adj) similar, harmonious, unoriginal, inept. denigrate, sully. nominate: (n, v) appoint, designate, thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one appropriate, consentaneous, name, call; (v) constitute, establish, compatible, fitting, coinciding, thousand, gramme, gram, gm, make, institute, assign; (n) entitle, relevant, matching, felicitous, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage. apposite. ANTONYMS: (adj) wherefore: (adv, conj) therefore; (adv, nomination. praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, n) why; (n) reason, proof; (adv) unharmonious, incongruous, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, incompatible, discordant, accordingly, consequently, so, wherefor, hence, whence; (conj) then. disagreeable, disagreeing. compliment, honor, glory, acclaim;
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ARMADO. I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heat'st my blood.% MOTH. I am answered, sir. ARMADO. I love not to be crossed. MOTH. [Aside] He speaks the mere contrary: crosses love not him. ARMADO. I have promised to study three years with the duke. MOTH. You may do it in an hour, sir. ARMADO. Impossible. MOTH. How many is one thrice told? ARMADO. I am ill at reck'ning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster. MOTH. You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir. ARMADO. I confess both: they are both the varnish of a complete man. MOTH. Then I am sure you know how much the gross sum of deuce-ace amounts to. ARMADO. It doth amount to one more than two. MOTH. Which the base vulgar do call three.
Thesaurus crossed: (adj) crossbred, mixed, ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, small, thrice: (adv) three times, thirdly. varnish: (n, v) gloss, coat, paint, hybrid, interbred, decussated, remaining, refined, tiny, partial, intercrossed; (v) matted, disconcerted delicate, cultivated, chaste, sensitive; veneer, palliate; (n) lacquer, cover; (v) lose. (adv, v) color; (v) gild, furbish, dashed, unhinged, frustrated. duke: (n) lord, prince, hand, mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare, simple, whitewash. ANTONYM: (n) middle. nobleman, fist, chief; (v) pass, box, pure; (n) loch, tarn, boundary, vulgar: (adj) rude, coarse, plebeian, absolute; (n, v) downright; (adv) deliver. nasty, common, foul, indecent, gross, gamester: (n) sportsman, player, merely; (adj, v) clear. unrefined; (adj, n) low, vile. speaks: (n) talks. ANTONYMS: (adj) refined, reveler, dicer, hazarder. gross: (adj) coarse, boorish, big, crude, tapster: (n) barman, barkeeper, tapper, sophisticated, tasteful, polite, fat, common, blunt, disgusting, barkeep, skinker, mixologist, phone aesthetic, muted, fashionable, decent, bulky; (n) aggregate; (adj, v) foul. tapper, publican. artistic, pleasant, clean.
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ARMADO. True.% MOTH. Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here's three studied ere ye'll thrice wink; and how easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and study three years in two words, the dancing horse will tell you. ARMADO. A most fine figure! MOTH. [Aside] To prove you a cipher. ARMADO. I will hereupon confess I am in love; and as it is base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour of affection would deliver me from the reprobate thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised curtsy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should out-swear Cupid. Comfort me, boy: what great men have been in love? MOTH. Hercules, master. ARMADO. Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good repute and carriage. MOTH. Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great carriage, for he carried the town gates on his back like a porter; and he was in love. ARMADO. O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I do excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was Samson's love, my dear Moth?
Thesaurus cipher: (n) zero, nothing, number, nil, nobody, null; (n, v) figure, cypher, code; (v) calculate; (adj, n) nonentity. ANTONYMS: (n) infinity; (v) encode, decode, code, scramble. courtier: (n) aristocrat, official, attendant, suckling. curtsy: (n, v) bob, curtsey; (adj, n, v) courtesy, kowtow; (v) nod, kneel, bow submission, recognize; (n) obeisance; (adj) salaam, kotow. excel: (v) top, surpass, cap, outdo,
condemn, reproach; (adj, v) pass, eclipse, beat, transcend, lead, outshine; (adj, v) better. perverted; (n) scoundrel. ANTONYMS: (v) flunk, trail. samson: (adj) Hercules, atlas, Antaeus, hereupon: (adv) immediately, superman; (n) Samson post, strapper, whereupon, thereupon. dogshit, bullshit, bull, bruiser, bunk. methinks: (adv) meseems. scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, rapier: (n) bilbo, brand, blade, foil, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride, glaive, whinyard, saber, Glave, steel, slight; (n) contempt, derision, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, cimeter, broadsword. reprobate: (adj, n) profligate, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value, miscreant; (adj) depraved, immoral, approve, admire, accept; (n) corrupt, dissolute; (v) censure, admiration, commendation, humility.
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MOTH. A woman, master.% ARMADO. Of what complexion? MOTH. Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four. ARMADO. Tell me precisely of what complexion. MOTH. Of the sea-water green, sir. ARMADO. Is that one of the four complexions? MOTH. As I have read, sir; and the best of them too. ARMADO. Green, indeed, is the colour of lovers; but to have a love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason for it. He surely affected her for her wit. MOTH. It was so, sir, for she had a green wit. ARMADO. My love is most immaculate white and red. MOTH. Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours. ARMADO. Define, define, well-educated infant. MOTH. My father's wit my mother's tongue assist me! ARMADO. Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty, and pathetical!
Thesaurus complexion: (n, v) tint; (n) cast, character, appearance, look, hue, aspect, flush, glow, dye, fashion. define: (v) characterize, explain, clarify, bound, name, interpret, limit, construe, restrict, circumscribe, outline. ANTONYMS: (v) obscure, confuse, confound, conceal, tangle. immaculate: (adj) clear, clean, flawless, faultless, pure, spotless, perfect, blameless, neat, guiltless, impeccable. ANTONYMS: (adj) blameworthy,
blemished, damaged, flawed, grubby, soiled, tainted, untidy, messy, imperfect. infant: (n) child, babe, minor, nursling, youngster, chick, toddler, suckling, kid, pappoose; (adj, n) juvenile. invocation: (v) entreaty, obsecration, solicitation; (n) prayer, implementation, intercession, petition, rogation, benediction, apostrophe; (n, v) supplication. maculate: (v) foul, soil, befoul,
contaminate, attaint, sully, tarnish; (adj) impure, stain, unclean, stipple. masked: (adj) cloaked, covert, concealed, hidden, covered, camouflaged, secret, veiled, incognito, draped, furtive. ANTONYM: (adj) overt. tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, dialect, clapper, glossa, natural language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) flowing.
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MOTH. If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known; For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown. Then if she fear, or be to blame, By this you shall not know, For still her cheeks possess the same Which native she doth owe. A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of white and red.% ARMADO. Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar? MOTH. The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 'tis not to be found; or if it were, it would neither serve for the writing nor the tune. ARMADO. I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may example my digression by some mighty precedent. Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the park with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well. MOTH. [Aside] To be whipped; and yet a better love than my master. ARMADO. Sing, boy: my spirit grows heavy in love. MOTH. And that's great marvel, loving a light wench. ARMADO. I say, sing.
Thesaurus ballad: (n) song, folk song, carol, deflexion, divergence, difference. ANTONYMS: (n) consistency, poem, ballade, recitative, solfeggio, pastoral, recitativo, ditty, bravura. uniformity, regularity. blushing: (adj) rosy, coy, blushful, hind: (adj, n) rear; (adj) after, posterior, hindermost; (n) doe, clown, peasant, flushed, red, shy, bashful, overmodest, ruddy; (adv) blushingly, roe, countryman, servant; (v) hinder. ablush. ANTONYM: (adj) pale. marvel: (n, v) wonder; (n) prodigy, cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, curiosity, phenomenon, amazement, posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet. miracle, portent, marl, surprise, digression: (n, v) deviation, diversion; admiration; (v) admire. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, aside, excursion, (v) disregard; (n) nightmare. precedent: (n) example, prototype, divagation, aberrance, deflection,
case, case in point, instance, rule, original; (adj, n) antecedent; (adj) preceding, foregoing, anterior. rhyme: (n) poetry, verse, poem, song, alliteration, numbers, rhythm; (n, v) rime, measure; (v) poetize, versify. took: (adj) taken; (v) receive. whipped: (v) whipt. writ: (n) edict, assize, certiorari, judicial writ, injunction, order, act, prescription, scripture, writing, ukase.
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MOTH. Forbear till this company be past.% [Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA.] DULL. Sir, the Duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight nor no penance; but a' must fast three days a week. For this damsel, I must keep her at the park; she is allowed for the daywoman. Fare you well. ARMADO. I do betray myself with blushing. Maid! JAQUENETTA. Man? ARMADO. I will visit thee at the lodge. JAQUENETTA. That's hereby. ARMADO. I know where it is situate. JAQUENETTA. Lord, how wise you are! ARMADO. I will tell thee wonders. JAQUENETTA. With that face? ARMADO. I love thee. JAQUENETTA. So I heard you say.
Thesaurus betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell, grass, enrapture. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, dupe, reveal, mislead, disclose, dismay, dissatisfaction, sadness, nuisance, discontent; (v) depress, accuse, befool, bamboozle. ANTONYMS: (v) protect, undeceive, displease, sadden, irk; (n, v) bore. fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment, board, hide, defend, withhold. damsel: (n) demoiselle, damosel, table, charge, chow, menu, traveller; damozel, damoiselle, wench, maiden, (v) come, eat. ANTONYM: (v) stop. hereby: (adv) thereby, whereby. maid, girl, nymph, unmarried lodge: (n, v) cabin, place, house; (adj, v) woman, virgin. delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement, live, dwell, reside, inhabit; (n) rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish, amuse, cottage; (v) quarter, accommodate, fix. ANTONYMS: (v) dislodge, evict. please, captivate, transport,
maid: (n) damsel, chambermaid, lass, lassie, girl, domestic, amah, virgin, maiden, housemaid, handmaid. situate: (v) place, locate, put, lay, position, posit, deposit, lodge, localize, post; (adj, v) set. suffer: (v) encounter, stand, accept, undergo, brook, experience, have, endure, abide, sustain; (adj, v) allow. ANTONYMS: (v) enjoy, rejoice, flourish.
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ARMADO. And so, farewell.% JAQUENETTA. Fair weather after you! DULL. Come, Jaquenetta, away! [Exit with JAQUENETTA.] ARMADO. Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou be pardoned. COSTARD. Well, sir, I hope when I do it I shall do it on a full stomach. ARMADO. Thou shalt be heavily punished. COSTARD. I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they are but lightly rewarded. ARMADO. Take away this villain: shut him up. MOTH. Come, you transgressing slave: away! COSTARD. Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast, being loose. MOTH. No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison. COSTARD. Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation that I have seen, some shall see-MOTH. What shall some see?
Thesaurus desolation: (n) devastation, misery, destruction, depression, grief, wretchedness, bleakness, loneliness, waste, ruin; (adj, n) desertion. ANTONYMS: (n) ecstasy, joy, productiveness, fertileness, fecundity, cheer, fruitfulness, preservation, hopefulness, cheerfulness. fellows: (n) fellow, membership, faculty. merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful,
glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome, lighthearted, festive; (adj, n) convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight. pent: (adj) narrow, shut up, confined, cramped. rewarded: (v) crowned, honored, excessive, consummated; (adj) salaried, pleased, paid, happy, satisfied, remunerated, content. ANTONYM: (adj) frustrated. slave: (n) servant, bondman, thrall,
bondsman, bondwoman, captive, vassal; (n, v) labor; (v) drudge, work; (adj, n) inferior. ANTONYMS: (adj) free; (v) slack. stomach: (adj, v) brook, digest; (v) endure, stand, abide, bear, suffer, tolerate, take; (n) abdomen, appetite. transgressing: (n) violation. villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit, crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion. ANTONYMS: (n) heroine, hero.
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COSTARD. Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon. It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their words, and therefore I will say nothing. I thank God I have as little patience as another man, and therefore I can be quiet.% [Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD.] ARMADO. I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn,--which is a great argument of falsehood,--if I love. And how can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil; there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club, and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier. The first and second cause will not serve my turn; the passado he respects not, the duello he regards not; his disgrace is to be called boy, but his glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust, rapier! be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. [Exit.]
Thesaurus devise: (v) contrive, conceive, invent, plan, create, concoct, design, arrange, frame, formulate, excogitate. 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. extemporal: (adj) extemporaneous. guided: (adj) conducted, directed, led.
passado: (n) cut, lunge, pass, thrust; (v) passade. regards: (v) regard, esteem, respect, consideration, honor, motive; (adj) abord, devoir; (n) greeting, relation, duty. rust: (v) corrode, eat, oxidise, tarnish, oxidize, gnaw; (n) decay, corrosion, fungus, oxidation; (adj) rusty. seduced: (adj) profaned, infatuated, fascinated. subdue: (adj, n, v) conquer; (v)
overpower, crush, defeat, quell, quash, suppress, restrain; (n, v) reduce; (adj, v) repress; (adv, v) control. ANTONYMS: (v) incite, enliven, resist, submit. tread: (n, v) pace, walk, rate, march, tramp; (n) gait, stride, footstep, footfall, track; (v) trample. valour: (n) valor, valiancy, valiance, heroism, courage, bravery, valorousness, prowess, daring, pluck, spirit.
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SCENE II. THE KING OF NAVARRE'S PARK. A PAVILION AND TENTS AT A DISTANCE.% [Enter the PRINCESS OF FRANCE, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, LORDS, and other ATTENDANTS.] BOYET. Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits: Consider who the king your father sends, To whom he sends, and what's his embassy: Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem, To parley with the sole inheritor Of all perfections that a man may owe, Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen. Be now as prodigal of all dear grace As Nature was in making graces dear When she did starve the general world beside, And prodigally gave them all to you.
Thesaurus dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, parley: (v) negotiate, converse, confer, liberally, wastefully, unsparingly, consult; (n, v) talk, treat; (n) lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; bountifully, bounteously, thriftlessly, (adj) precious, intimate, sweet. conversation, interview, colloquy, improvidently. dowry: (n) dot, inheritance, gift, starve: (v) fast, crave, lust, hunger, meeting, consultation. prodigal: (adj) extravagant, alimony, dowery, portion, jointure, thirst, perish, be hungry, deprive, benumb; (adj, v) pinch; (adj) gripe. grant, share, endowment, heritage. improvident, generous, lavish, gave: (v) deliver, allow, allot, provide, wasteful, excessive, exuberant, ANTONYMS: (v) feed, eat. furnish, impart, administer; (n) gives. liberal, profuse, dissipated; (adj, n) summon: (v) assemble, convene, madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, profligate. ANTONYMS: (adj) demand, ask, invoke, evoke, invite, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel economical, cautious. muster, page, rally, convoke. prodigally: (adv) profligately, ANTONYM: (v) disband. keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd. profusely, generously, extravagantly,
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PRINCESS. Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not utt'red by base sale of chapmen's tongues. I am less proud to hear you tell my worth Than you much willing to be counted wise In spending your wit in the praise of mine. But now to task the tasker: good Boyet, You are not ignorant, all-telling fame Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow, Till painful study shall outwear three years, No woman may approach his silent court: Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course, Before we enter his forbidden gates, To know his pleasure; and in that behalf, Bold of your worthiness, we single you As our best-moving fair solicitor. Tell him the daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick dispatch, Importunes personal conference with his Grace. Haste, signify so much; while we attend, Like humble-visag'd suitors, his high will.% BOYET. Proud of employment, willingly I go. PRINCESS. All pride is willing pride, and yours is so. [Exit BOYET.] Who are the votaries, my loving lords, That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?
Thesaurus craving: (n) appetite, addiction, appetence, eagerness, hankering, yen, hunger; (n, v) desire, appetency; (adj, n) longing; (adj) eager. ANTONYMS: (n) disgust, hatred, distaste, repulsion, aversion, apathy, disinclination; (adj) unconcerned, disinterested. needful: (adj) necessary, essential, indispensable, required, needed, mandatory, exigent, needy; (adj, v) requisite; (n) necessity, almighty
dollar. outwear: (v) wear, outlast, beat, survive, surpass, surmount, deplete, hold out, wear out, outmatch, outstrip. signify: (n, v) intend, mark; (adj, n, v) import; (v) imply, indicate, denote, point, stand for, express, intimate, matter. virtuous: (adj) upright, pure, righteous, good, moral, just, honorable, honest, respectable,
decent, pious. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sinful, corrupt, impure, unethical, decadent, degenerate, irreverent. worthiness: (n) merit, virtue, praiseworthiness, deservingness, roadworthiness, respectability, quotability, nobility; (adj) dignity, respect; (adj, n) honor. ANTONYMS: (n) shamefulness, unworthiness, immorality. yours: (adj) own.
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FIRST LORD. Lord Longaville is one.% PRINCESS. Know you the man? MARIA. I know him, madam: at a marriage feast, Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized In Normandy, saw I this Longaville. A man of sovereign parts, he is esteem'd, Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,-If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,-Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a will; Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills It should none spare that come within his power. PRINCESS. Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so? MARIA. They say so most that most his humours know. PRINCESS. Such short-liv'd wits do wither as they grow. Who are the rest? KATHARINE. The young Dumain, a well-accomplish'd youth, Of all that virtue love for virtue lov'd; Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill, For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, And shape to win grace though he had no wit.
Thesaurus beauteous: (adj) pretty, lovely, fair, ANTONYMS: (adj) respectful, devious, pointed, thoughtful, polite, comely, good-looking, handsome, guarded, gentle. approving, complimentary, gloss: (adj, n, v) polish; (n, v) glaze, sympathetic; (n) praise. stunning. becomes: (v) become. stain: (n, v) spot, blemish, tarnish, blot, comment, burnish, veneer, shine, belike: (adv) probably, likely, color; (v) annotate; (n) brightness, dye, smear, disgrace, mark, soil, dirt, annotation, finish. ANTONYMS: (v) defile. ANTONYMS: (v) enhance, presumably, perhaps, believably, in all probability. overemphasize, exaggerate. dignify, clean. blunt: (adj, v) dull, deaden; (adj) bluff, maria: (n) Calophyllum longifolium, wither: (v) shrink, wilt, contract, plain, direct, forthright, frank, tree, part, region, female horse. shrivel, languish, droop, dry, waste, mocking: (adj) derisive, ironic, jeering, wane, atrophy, decay. ANTONYMS: candid, outspoken, round, abrupt. ANTONYMS: (v) hone, sharpen, (v) swell, strengthen, grow, blossom, mock, quizzical, sarcastic, taunting, point, accentuate, needle; (adj) derisory, teasing, sardonic, sneering. flourish.
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I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once; And much too little of that good I saw Is my report to his great worthiness.% ROSALINE. Another of these students at that time Was there with him, if I have heard a truth: Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRINCESS. God bless my ladies! Are they all in love, That every one her own hath garnished With such bedecking ornaments of praise? FIRST LORD. Here comes Boyet. [Re-enter BOYET.] PRINCESS. Now, what admittance, lord? BOYET. Navarre had notice of your fair approach, And he and his competitors in oath Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,
Thesaurus admittance: (n) access, accession, talk, colloquy, conversation, introduction, door, matriculation, discussion, homily. inlet, permit, entrance, entree, entry, gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, input. courteous, compassionate, kind, bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, accommodating, civil; (adj, n) sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, benevolent, congenial, gentle. praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, boorish, discourteous, reserved, rude, condemn, disapprove, damn, abrupt, critical, unkind, hardhearted, disallow, deny. harsh, poor. discourse: (n, v) address, lecture, ornaments: (n) stuff, trim, sermon, converse, harangue, chat; (n) ornamentation, equipments, dress,
disposition, custom, curios, condition, clothing, gaudery. truant: (n) deserter, hooky player, nonattender, fugitive, wrongdoer, idler, absentee, absenter, offender; (v) shirk; (adj) AWOL. voluble: (adj) loquacious, glib, talkative, garrulous, eloquent, flowing, chatty, conversational, articulate, flippant, wordy. ANTONYMS: (adj) taciturn, uncommunicative, gentle, reticent.
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Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt; He rather means to lodge you in the field, Like one that comes here to besiege his court, Than seek a dispensation for his oath, To let you enter his unpeeled house. Here comes Navarre.% [The LADIES mask.] [Enter KING, LONGAVILLE, DUMAINE, BEROWNE, and ATTENDANTS.] KING. Fair Princess, welcome to the court of Navarre. PRINCESS. 'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine. KING. You shall be welcome, madam, to my court. PRINCESS. I will be welcome then: conduct me thither. KING. Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath. PRINCESS. Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn. KING. Not for the world, fair madam, by my will. PRINCESS. Why, will shall break it; will, and nothing else. KING. Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
Thesaurus besiege: (v) beset, beleaguer, freedom, distribution, exemption, married, link, conjoin, wive, splice, tie, unite, couple; (n) marriage. surround, blockade, attack, compass, license, allocation, apportionment. ANTONYM: (n) prohibition. ANTONYMS: (v) divorce, separate, hem in, press, importune, assail, bombard. ANTONYMS: (v) help, ignorant: (adj) unconscious, unwitting, split. princess: (n) queen, duchess, begum, please. rude, illiterate, uneducated, blind, conduct: (v) bring, direct, carry, show; dull, unaware, uninformed, czarina, maharani, monarch, (n, v) act, administration, manage, unlearned, innocent. ANTONYMS: archduchess, lady, patrician, administer, carriage, bearing; (adj, v) (adj) conscious, versed, cultured, maharanee, mopsey. acquit. ANTONYMS: (v) mismanage, educated, informed, wary, literate, thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that leave, follow. aware, polite. point, in that respect, at that place, in dispensation: (n) allotment, release, ladyship: (n) madam. that location; (adj) further, ulterior, marry: (n, v) wed, espouse; (v) get disposal, assignment, division, remoter, succeeding, more distant.
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PRINCESS. Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise, Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance. I hear your Grace hath sworn out house-keeping: 'Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord, And sin to break it. But pardon me, I am too sudden bold: To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me. Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming, And suddenly resolve me in my suit. [Gives a paper.] KING. Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.% PRINCESS. You will the sooner that I were away, For you'll prove perjur'd if you make me stay. BEROWNE. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? ROSALINE. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE. I know you did. ROSALINE. How needless was it then To ask the question! BEROWNE. You must not be so quick. ROSALINE. 'Tis long of you, that spur me with such questions.
Thesaurus deadly: (adj, adv) deathly; (adj) baneful, lethal, fatal, destructive, mortal, pernicious, virulent, toxic; (adv) lifelessly, lethally. ANTONYMS: (adj) interesting, uplifting, readable, mild, healthy, healthful, benign, innocuous, exciting. ignorance: (n) illiteracy, nescience, folly, unwisdom, innocence, denseness, ignorancy, stupidity, obtuseness, tabula rasa,
unawareness. ANTONYMS: (n) decision, resolution. ANTONYMS: intelligence, acquaintance, education. (n) weakness, irresoluteness, needless: (adj, v) unnecessary, vacillation, cowardice, flexibility, superfluous; (adj) futile, dispensable, indecisiveness, indifference; (v) bootless, excessive, preventable, aggravate, complicate, exacerbate, meaningless, pointless, wanton, waver. unavailing. ANTONYMS: (adj) spur: (n) inducement, incentive, impulse, stimulus; (n, v) prod, prick, essential, worthwhile, inevitable, incite, prompt; (v) provoke, impel, justifiable. resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine, animate. ANTONYMS: (n) solve, decide, dissolve, decompose, discouragement, disincentive, settle; (n) determination, firmness, deterrent; (v) calm, delay, inhibit.
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BEROWNE. Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.% ROSALINE. Not till it leave the rider in the mire. BEROWNE. What time o' day? ROSALINE. The hour that fools should ask. BEROWNE. Now fair befall your mask! ROSALINE. Fair fall the face it covers! BEROWNE. And send you many lovers! ROSALINE. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE. Nay, then will I be gone. KING. Madam, your father here doth intimate The payment of a hundred thousand crowns; Being but the one half of an entire sum Disbursed by my father in his wars. But say that he or we,--as neither have,-Receiv'd that sum, yet there remains unpaid A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which, One part of Aquitaine is bound to us, Although not valued to the money's worth. If then the King your father will restore But that one half which is unsatisfied,
Thesaurus befall: (v) bechance, become, happen, fall, arise, come about, occur, betide, chance, transpire, pass. 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. mask: (n, v) cover, veil, hide, conceal, disguise, screen, camouflage; (v) dissemble; (n) guise, blind, curtain.
ANTONYMS: (v) unmask, enhance, surety: (n) collateral, pledge, hostage, reinforce, reveal, expose, amplify. guarantee, earnest, guaranty, mire: (n, v) bog, muck; (n) filth, marsh, guarantor, certainty, assurance, quagmire, dirt, sludge, clay; (adj, n, v) sponsor, bail. mud; (v) involve, bog down. till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, remains: (n) debris, corpse, relic, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, carcass, body, rest, clay, vestige; (adj, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to. n) remainder, remnant; (n, v) trace. valued: (adj) precious, appreciated, rider: (n) horseman, appendix, respected, dear, prized, priced, passenger, equestrian, supplement, treasured, value, esteemed, loved, codicil, provision, clause, addition, beloved. condition, corollary.
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We will give up our right in Aquitaine, And hold fair friendship with his majesty. But that, it seems, he little purposeth, For here he doth demand to have repaid A hundred thousand crowns; and not demands, On payment of a hundred thousand crowns, To have his title live in Aquitaine; Which we much rather had depart withal, And have the money by our father lent, Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is. Dear Princess, were not his requests so far From reason's yielding, your fair self should make A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast, And go well satisfied to France again.% PRINCESS. You do the king my father too much wrong, And wrong the reputation of your name, In so unseeming to confess receipt Of that which hath so faithfully been paid. KING. I do protest I never heard of it; And, if you prove it, I'll repay it back Or yield up Aquitaine. PRINCESS. We arrest your word. Boyet, you can produce acquittances For such a sum from special officers Of Charles his father. KING. Satisfy me so.
Thesaurus depart: (v) go, deviate, decease, diverge, start, stray, wander, leave, die, vary, part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, arrive, enter, come, abide, conform, continue, remain, appear, converge, return. faithfully: (adv) exactly, accurately, sincerely, staunchly, precisely, truly, authentically, dutifully, literally, steadfastly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unfaithfully, approximately, falsely, insincerely, carelessly,
inaccurately. reimburse, compensate, refund, friendship: (n) association, familiarity, render, requite, remunerate, return, redeem. ANTONYM: (v) penalize. affection, companionship, requests: (n) desires, requirements, friendliness, intimacy, company, attachment, relationship; (n, v) amity, needs, wants. concord. ANTONYMS: (n) hostility, yield: (n, v) produce, return, allow, give; (v) surrender, concede, submit, animosity, antagonism, conflict, give up, grant, cede; (n) output. formality, rivalry, hatred, ANTONYMS: (v) persevere, survive, detachment, distance, isolation. gelded: (adj) emasculated, cut, stand, withstand, repel, reject, castrated, cut down, gashed, down. prevent, withhold, acquire, oppose, repay: (v) recompense, reward, pay, veto.
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BOYET. So please your Grace, the packet is not come, Where that and other specialties are bound: To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.% KING. It shall suffice me; at which interview All liberal reason I will yield unto. Meantime receive such welcome at my hand As honour, without breach of honour, may Make tender of to thy true worthiness. You may not come, fair Princess, in my gates; But here without you shall be so receiv'd As you shall deem yourself lodg'd in my heart, Though so denied fair harbour in my house. Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell: To-morrow shall we visit you again. PRINCESS. Sweet health and fair desires consort your Grace! KING. Thy own wish wish I thee in every place. [Exeunt KING and his Train.] BEROWNE. Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart. ROSALINE. Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it. BEROWNE. I would you heard it groan. ROSALINE. Is the fool sick?
Thesaurus 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. consort: (n, v) associate, husband; (n) companion; (v) agree, affiliate, assort, accord, mix, keep company, socialize, group. ANTONYMS: (v) disagree, estrange, differ, dissociate, avoid; (n)
specialties: (n) specialty, specialities. foe, rival, antagonist, enemy. deem: (v) believe, assume, consider, suffice: (v) satisfy, do, answer, count, hold, think, feel, view, content, fulfill, be sufficient, qualify, suppose, regard, imagine. function, be enough, suit, fulfil. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard, doubt. tender: (n, v) offer, proffer, bid; (adj, v) desires: (n) requirements, needs. affectionate; (adj) painful, sensitive, groan: (n, v) grumble, murmur, cry, soft, loving, sore; (v) propose, sigh, mutter, squeak, rumble, scrape; present. ANTONYMS: (adj) (v) howl, complain; (n) complaint. hardhearted, rubbery, hard, rough, packet: (n) bundle, bale, container, uncaring, healthy, mature, unfeeling, cold, experienced; (v) withdraw. parcel, pack, wad, carton, mail boat, wrap, deck, envelope.
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BEROWNE. Sick at the heart.% ROSALINE. Alack! let it blood. BEROWNE. Would that do it good? ROSALINE. My physic says 'ay.' BEROWNE. Will you prick't with your eye? ROSALINE. No point, with my knife. BEROWNE. Now, God save thy life! ROSALINE. And yours from long living! BEROWNE. I cannot stay thanksgiving. [Retiring.] DUMAINE. Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same? BOYET. The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name. DUMAINE. A gallant lady! Monsieur, fare you well. [Exit.] LONGAVILLE. I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?
Thesaurus gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) except; whittle, cutter, tongue, pocketknife, (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, chopper. lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. waste, squander, use, abandon, ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, endanger, capture, asphyxiate, milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. selfish. aggravate, destroy. heir: (n) beneficiary, successor, ANTONYM: (n) Lord. sick: (adj) ill, queasy, poorly, ailing, weary, diseased, sickly, morbid; (adj, offspring, inheritor, heiress, receiver, pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, v) indisposed, unwell; (adj, n) invalid. progeny, heritor, descendant, scion, invite, plead, beseech, appeal, issue. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, fond, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject. donor. wholesome. knife: (adj, n) blade; (adj) cutlery, edge save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, tool; (v) stab; (n) sword, cleaver, maintain, preserve, free, protect,
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BOYET. A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.% LONGAVILLE. Perchance light in the light. I desire her name. BOYET. She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame. LONGAVILLE. Pray you, sir, whose daughter? BOYET. Her mother's, I have heard. LONGAVILLE. God's blessing on your beard! BOYET. Good sir, be not offended. She is an heir of Falconbridge. LONGAVILLE. Nay, my choler is ended. She is a most sweet lady. BOYET. Not unlike, sir; that may be. [Exit LONGAVILLE.] BEROWNE. What's her name in the cap? BOYET. Rosaline, by good hap. BEROWNE. Is she wedded or no? BOYET. To her will, sir, or so.
Thesaurus beard: (v) defy, dare; (adj, v) brave; choler: (n) anger, bile, resentment, (adj, n) hair; (n) whiskers, moustache, rage, madness, dander, spleen, sloven, facial hair; (n, v) camouflage, petulance, indignation, irritability, disguise, mask. ANTONYM: (n) ire. daughter: (n) child, son, maiden, shaven. blessing: (n) benediction, approval, young woman, daughterly, lass, mercy, felicity, benison, benefit, luck, unmarried woman, damsel, miss, advantage, boon, bless, godsend. missy, virgin. ANTONYMS: (n) curse, misfortune, perchance: (adv) maybe, possibly, by disaster, condemnation, adversity, chance, peradventure, accidentally, desecration, refusal, veto, incidentally, mayhap, chance, disadvantage. haphazard, probably, haply.
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. wedded: (adj, v) marital, connubial, matrimonial, conjugal, wed; (adj) nuptial, bridal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached.
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BEROWNE. You are welcome, sir. Adieu! BOYET. Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.% [Exit BEROWNE.--LADIES unmask.] MARIA. That last is Berowne, the merry mad-cap lord; Not a word with him but a jest. BOYET. And every jest but a word. PRINCESS. It was well done of you to take him at his word. BOYET. I was as willing to grapple as he was to board. MARIA. Two hot sheeps, marry! BOYET. And wherefore not ships? No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips. MARIA. You sheep and I pasture: shall that finish the jest? BOYET. So you grant pasture for me. [Offering to kiss her.] MARIA. Not so, gentle beast. My lips are no common, though several they be. BOYET. Belonging to whom?
Thesaurus adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale, valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio, adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYM: (n) greeting. belonging: (adj) appertaining, appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n) household, family, appendage, appurtenance, intimacy, commodity, closeness. ANTONYM: (n) antipathy. farewell: (int, n) adieu; (n) bye, leave, valediction, adios, parting, goodbye, separation, departure, aloha; (int) bon
voyage. ANTONYMS: (n) hello, love. lamb: (n) sheep, lambkin, dear, salutation, welcome. grapple: (n, v) grip, clasp, tackle, hogget, kid, mutton, inexperienced grasp; (v) fight, contend, grab, person, honey, white meat, pork; (adj) struggle; (adj, n, v) lock; (adj, n) hook; naive. (n) grappling. pasture: (v) graze, browse, crop; (n) jest: (n) gag, gibe, quip, game; (n, v) grass, grazing land, pasturage, field, jape; (v) banter, jeer, deride, gird, ley, lea; (n, v) feed, forage. sheep: (n) goat, ram, tup, ewe, cattle, sneer, clown. kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace, follower, Bovidae, stock, simple, touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss simpleton, family Bovidae. of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate,
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MARIA. To my fortunes and me.% PRINCESS. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree; This civil war of wits were much better us'd On Navarre and his book-men, for here 'tis abus'd. BOYET. If my observation,--which very seldom lies, By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes, Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected. PRINCESS. With what? BOYET. With that which we lovers entitle affected. PRINCESS. Your reason. BOYET. Why, all his behaviours did make their retire To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire; His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd, Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd; His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see, Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be; All senses to that sense did make their repair, To feel only looking on fairest of fair. Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye, As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy; Who, tend'ring their own worth from where they were glass'd, Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd. His face's own margent did quote such amazes
Thesaurus agate: (n) calcedony, heliotrope, personal narrative, life, journal. carnelian, gagate, achate, chalcedony. haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, disclosed: (adj) exposed, open, rush; (n) celerity, expedition, unconcealed, out of the closet, naked, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, manifest, discovered, ascertained, detailed. patience, forethought, caution. entitle: (v) dub, style, designate, impatient: (adj) eager, anxious, christen, empower, term, baptize, petulant, fidgety, vexed, keen, edgy, authorize; (n, v) title, name, quick, avid, irritable, fretful. denominate. ANTONYMS: (v) ANTONYMS: (adj) patient, enduring, disqualify, debar. unenthusiastic, calm, happy, relaxed, fortunes: (n) adventures, fortune, slow.
jangling: (n) janglery; (adj) harsh, dissonant, discordant, strident, cacophonic, cacophonous. jewels: (n) jewelry, gems, wealth, hoops, Perrie, riches, studs, fortune, fineness, earrings, decoration. peeping: (n) cheeping, tweeting, chirping; (adj) inquisitive. stumble: (adj, n, v) slip; (n, v) lurch, fall, err, stagger; (adj, v) blunder, flounder, fumble; (n) misstep; (v) hit, falter.
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That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes. I'll give you Aquitaine, and all that is his, An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.% PRINCESS. Come, to our pavilion: Boyet is dispos'd. BOYET. But to speak that in words which his eye hath disclos'd. I only have made a mouth of his eye, By adding a tongue which I know will not lie. ROSALINE. Thou art an old love-monger, and speak'st skilfully. MARIA. He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of him. ROSALINE. Then was Venus like her mother; for her father is but grim. BOYET. Do you hear, my mad wenches? MARIA. No. BOYET. What, then, do you see? ROSALINE. Ay, our way to be gone. BOYET. You are too hard for me. [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus adding: (n) addition, calculation, forefather. rough, paternal, indifferent, distant, grim: (adj) austere, glum, cheerless, reckoning. disapproving, callous. enchanted: (adj) bewitched, delighted, dour, ghastly, dreary, forbidding, pavilion: (n) marquee, kiosk, tent, charmed, fascinated, rapt, dark, dire, hard, dismal. porch, pergola, gazebo, hall, canopy, ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, bright, spellbound, blissful, happy, booth, place, rus in urbe. enamored, possessed; (v) entranced. sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive, funny, kindly, hospitable, pleasant, ANTONYMS: (adj) disenchanted, ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n) promising, simple, wonderful. loving: (adj) fond, devoted, amorous, unhappy. object, account, design, purpose, saki. grandfather: (n) gramps, grandad, skilfully: (adv) skillfully, adroitly, kind, friendly, ardent, attached, admiring, gentle, fatherly; (adj, v) grandpapa, grandpa, grandsire, cunningly, proficiently, deftly, granddaddy, ancestor, father's father, tender. ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, adeptly, expertly, handily, artfully, paternal grandfather, father, uncaring, malicious, cruel, unloving, goodly, ably.
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SCENE I. THE KING OF NAVARRE'S PARK.% [Enter ARMADO and MOTH.] ARMADO. Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing. MOTH [Singing.] Concolinel,-ARMADO. Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I must employ him in a letter to my love. MOTH. Master, will you win your love with a French brawl? ARMADO. How meanest thou? brawling in French? MOTH. No, my complete master; but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and sing a
Thesaurus brawl: (n, v) fight, quarrel, affray, enlargement: (n) magnification, (adj, adv) fiery. ANTONYMS: (adj) clash, dispute; (adj, n, v) row; (adj, n) amplification, expansion, increase, indifferent, mild, passionless, disturbance, tumult; (n) altercation, dilation, addition, development, unenthusiastic, cold, calm, strife; (v) bicker. distension, distention, growth, halfhearted, cool, lukewarm, weak, brawling: (adj) quarrelsome, blatant, extension. ANTONYMS: (n) uninterested. tenderness: (n) fondness, soreness, noisy, boisterous, active, belligerent, contraction, decrease, lessening, bawling, disorderly, pugnacious; (n) love, affection, sympathy; (adj, n) shrinkage, deterioration, drop, affray. erosion. clemency, mildness, compassion, canary: (n, v) fink, snitch, tattletale; (n) meanest: (adj) last, least. gentleness, softness, delicacy. informer, singer, canary bird, canary passionate: (adj, v) ardent, impetuous; ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure, dryness, yellow, yellowness, warbler, vocalist, (adj) hot, excited, burning, angry, hatred, strength, detachment. squealer. fervent, fierce, animated, earnest;
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note, sometime through the throat, as if you swallowed love with singing love, sometime through the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of your eyes, with your arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet, like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket, like a man after the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away. These are complements, these are humours; these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without these; and make them men of note,--do you note me?--that most are affected to these.% ARMADO. How hast thou purchased this experience? MOTH. By my penny of observation. ARMADO. But O--but O,-MOTH. 'The hobby-horse is forgot.' ARMADO. Call'st thou my love 'hobby-horse'? MOTH. No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love perhaps, a hackney. But have you forgot your love? ARMADO. Almost I had. MOTH. Negligent student! learn her by heart. ARMADO. By heart and in heart, boy. MOTH. And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.
Thesaurus colt: (n) novice, filly, foal, calf, horse, smell; (adj) redolent, scented, inadvertent, indifferent, slow, lax, untidy; (adj, v) remiss. ANTONYMS: odorous, stinking, rotten. beginner, kitten, pup, fledgling, (adj) strict, diligent, conscientious, snip: (n, v) cut; (v) slice, crop, trim, freshman, greenhorn. doublet: (n) pair, couple, waistcoat, nip, prune, pare, pinch, lop, sever; (n) careful, dutiful, prompt, prudent, CHUDDER, barbe, gabardine, responsible, sensible, cautious. clipping. purchased: (adj) boughten, not sometime: (adv) someday, once, one double, jacket, jubbah, oilskins, homemade; (prep) bribed. day, formerly, sooner or later; (adj) camisole. hackney: (n) hireling, carriage, rabbit: (n) cony, hare, lapin, bunny, quondam, erstwhile, former, old, late; (adj, adv) sometimes. grubber, taxicab, equipage, drudger; cottontail, leporide, shuttle, coward; (adj) trite. (adj) milch cow, seed plot, warren. spit: (v) drizzle, expectorate, sprinkle, negligent: (adj) neglectful, heedless, smelling: (n) smell, flavor, scent, spew, drool, spike, spatter; (n) broach, saliva, cape; (n, v) skewer. forgetful, reckless, inattentive, olfactory modality, sensing, sense of
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ARMADO. What wilt thou prove? MOTH. A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon the instant: by heart you love her, because your heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her, because your heart is in love with her; and out of heart you love her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her.% ARMADO. I am all these three. MOTH. And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all. ARMADO. Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter. MOTH. A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador for an ass. ARMADO. Ha, ha! what sayest thou? MOTH. Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited. But I go. ARMADO. The way is but short: away! MOTH. As swift as lead, sir. ARMADO. The meaning, pretty ingenious? Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow? MOTH. Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no.
Thesaurus ambassador: (n) emissary, minister, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, nonmetallic. get, attract; (adj, n) feint. swift: (adj, adv, v) fast; (adj) quick, messenger, envoy, agent, delegate, representative, embassador, herald, instant: (adj, n) present; (adj) fleet, speedy, alert, nimble, hasty, immediate, prompt; (n) flash, minute, prompt, sudden, hurried; (adj, v) ambassadress, deputy. dull: (adj) dreary, dense, sluggish, jiffy, point, second; (adj, v) exigent; rapid. ANTONYMS: (adj) considered, dismal, slack, torpid; (adj, v) blunt, (adj, n, v) pressing, urgent. leisurely, sluggish, gradual, delayed, stupid; (v) deaden, dampen; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (n) age, eternity; (adj) clumsy. cold. ANTONYMS: (adj) lively, wilt: (v) flag, shrivel, sag, weaken, considered, delayed, slow. sharp, stimulating, exciting, lustrous, metal: (n) gallium, calcium, europium, fade, languish, dry, wither, collapse, tire; (n) wilting. ANTONYMS: (v) interesting, exhilarating, varied, chromium, cm, cobalt, curium, glossy, glittery, luminous. dysprosium, erbium, caesium, flourish, rise, rally. fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, cadmium. ANTONYM: (adj)
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ARMADO. I say lead is slow.% MOTH. You are too swift, sir, to say so: Is that lead slow which is fir'd from a gun? ARMADO. Sweet smoke of rhetoric! He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain. MOTH. Thump then, and I flee. [Exit.] ARMADO. A most acute juvenal; volable and free of grace! By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face: Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place. My herald is return'd. [Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD.] MOTH. A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin. ARMADO. Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l’envoy; begin. COSTARD. No egma, no riddle, no l’envoy; no salve in the mail, sir. O! sir, plantain, a plain plantain; no l’envoy, no l’envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain. ARMADO. By virtue thou enforcest laughter; thy silly thought, my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling: O! pardon me, my stars. Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l’envoy, and the word l’envoy for a salve?
Thesaurus enigma: (adj, n) mystery, riddle; (n) puzzle, secret, perplexity, poser, question, problem, closed book, nut to crack, logogriph. ANTONYMS: (n) clearness, explanation. heaving: (v) tremor, twitter; (adj) swelling, full, full up, jammed; (n) murmur, forcing out, groan, grumble, mutter. ANTONYM: (adj) deserted. inconsiderate: (adj) headlong, unadvised, unthinking, unkind, indiscreet, negligent, tactless,
incautious, imprudent, heedless; (adj, unintelligible, abrade, bark, beat; (n) adv) thoughtless. ANTONYMS: (adj) tibia, shinbone, leg, alphabetic thoughtful, considerate, altruism, character, body part. spleen: (n) spite, anger, resentment, altruistic, caring, cautious, constructive, gentle, polite, tactful. rage, lien, malice, bitterness, rancour, plantain: (n) fleawort, common huff, grudge, rancor. ANTONYM: (n) plantain, hoary plantain, plantain affection. tree, ribwort, buckthorn, banana tree. stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate. salve: (n) ointment, balm, unguent, welkin: (n) sphere, empyrean, liniment, oil; (v) relieve, salvage, firmament, heavens, sky, vault of assuage, heal, soothe, appease. heaven, celestial sphere, heaven, shin: (v) clamber, shinny, make orbit, sphere of influence, surface.
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MOTH. Do the wise think them other? Is not l’envoy a salve? ARMADO. No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse to make plain Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain. I will example it: The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three. There's the moral. Now the l’envoy.% MOTH. I will add the l’envoy. Say the moral again. ARMADO. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three. MOTH. Until the goose came out of door, And stay'd the odds by adding four. Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my l’envoy. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three. ARMADO. Until the goose came out of door, Staying the odds by adding four. MOTH. A good l’envoy, ending in the goose; would you desire more? COSTARD. The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat. Sir, your pennyworth is good an your goose be fat. To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose: Let me see: a fat l’envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.
Thesaurus bargain: (adj, n, v) cheap; (n, v) sincere; (n) frankness, covenant, deal; (n) agreement, treaty, straightforwardness. arrangement, buy, chaffer; (v) epilogue: (n) epilog, ending, exchange, stipulate, agree. afterword, end, close, closing, ANTONYM: (adj) inflated. conclusion, finale, peroration, speech, came: (v) arrive, come. sequel. ANTONYMS: (n) foreword, cunning: (adj) crafty, canny, adroit, preface, prelude, prologue, wily, sly, shrewd, tricky, artful; (n) introduction. goose: (n) goof, fathead, cuckoo, craftiness, craft, cleverness. ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, honest, barnacle, fool, jackass, brent, brant, goosecap; (n, v) spur; (v) serpent. stupid, unimaginative, gullible, ingenuous, straightforward, candid, odds: (n) likelihood, probability,
possibility, chance, advantage, likeliness, chances, disparity, prospect; (v) dissension; (adj) odd. ANTONYM: (n) unlikelihood. pennyworth: (n) bargain. precedence: (n) lead, advantage, anteriority, pas, antecedency, preference, precession, superiority, supremacy; (adj, n) priority; (adj) rank. sold: (adj) depleted, interested; (v) to market.
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ARMADO. Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin? MOTH. By saying that a costard was broken in a shin. Then call'd you for the l’envoy.% COSTARD. True, and I for a plantain: thus came your argument in; Then the boy's fat l’envoy, the goose that you bought; And he ended the market. ARMADO. But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin? MOTH. I will tell you sensibly. COSTARD. Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l’envoy: I, Costard, running out, that was safely within, Fell over the threshold and broke my shin. ARMADO. We will talk no more of this matter. COSTARD. Till there be more matter in the shin. ARMADO. Sirrah Costard. I will enfranchise thee. COSTARD. O! marry me to one Frances: I smell some l’envoy, some goose, in this. ARMADO. By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person: thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound.
Thesaurus captivated: (adj) spellbound, charmed, modest, temperate, discreet, limited, rationally, pragmatically, enchanted, absorbed, enthralled, reasonable, subdued, unemotional, realistically, cleverly, politically, reticent, guarded. ANTONYMS: (adj) perceptibly, soundly, noticeably, engrossed, rapt, enamored, wisely. ANTONYMS: (adv) foolishly, delighted, beguiled, infatuated. unrestrained, open, flashy, immoral, ANTONYMS: (adj) unenthusiastic, ostentatious, wild, loud, theatrical, ludicrously, ridiculously, bored. outgoing, extravagant, emotional. unreasonably, illogically, madly, enfranchise: (v) emancipate, free, safely: (adv) surely, safe, certainly, irrationally, hastily, stupidly, deliver, absolve, acquit; (n) empower, cautiously, soundly, strongly, sure, irresponsibly, immaturely. threshold: (n) brink, beginning, outset, charter, license, privilege, warrant, steadily, harmlessly, unharmedly, liberation. ANTONYM: (v) unhurtly. ANTONYMS: (adv) entrance, entry, doorsill, doorstep, disenfranchise. harmfully, hazardously, loosely. doorway, edge, vestibule, border. restrained: (adj) reserved, quiet, sensibly: (adv) sanely, intelligently, ANTONYM: (n) end.
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COSTARD. True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose.% ARMADO. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and, in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:--[Giving a letter.] Bear this significant to the country maid Jaquenetta. [Giving money.] there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow. [Exit.] MOTH. Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu. COSTARD. My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew! [Exit MOTH.] Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings: three farthings, remuneration. 'What's the price of this inkle?' 'One penny.' 'No, I'll give you a remuneration.' Why, it carries it. Remuneration! Why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will never buy and sell out of this word. [Enter BEROWNE.] BEROWNE. O! My good knave Costard, exceedingly well met. COSTARD. Pray you, sir, how much carnation riband may a man buy for a remuneration? BEROWNE. What is a remuneration? COSTARD. Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing. BEROWNE. Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.
Thesaurus carnation: (n) crimson, gillyflower, pink, scarlet, red, carmine, clove pink, dianthus caryophyllus, rose du Barry, couleur de rose, vermilion. dependents: (n) clientele. durance: (n) captivity, dure, incarceration, imprisonment, immurement, duress. farthing: (n) craps, faro, ante, chuck, doit, small change; (adj) bulrush, pinch of snuff, peppercorn, old son, jot.
halfpenny: (adj) feather, bulrush, old purgation: (n) purification, abreaction, son, jot, pinch of snuff, peppercorn, katharsis, lustration, cleaning, rap; (n) bawbee, doit, farthing. cleansing, cleanup, clearing, purging, knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard, purge, colonic. crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag, riband: (n) ribbon, fascia, band, scallywag, scoundrel, varlet. ribband, spill, slip, shred, strip, lieu: (n) office, position, locality, stead, wreath, medal, list. behalf, part, role, berth, station, site, sequel: (n) sequence, result, issue, seat. aftermath, continuation, continuance, ounce: (n) crumb, modicum, atom, outcome, consequence, ending, upshot, outgrowth. ANTONYM: (n) morsel, bit, Oz, apothecaries' ounce, shred, little, a few; (adj, n) grain. prelude.
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COSTARD. I thank your worship. God be wi' you! BEROWNE. Stay, slave; I must employ thee: As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave, Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.% COSTARD. When would you have it done, sir? BEROWNE. O, this afternoon. COSTARD. Well, I will do it, sir! fare you well. BEROWNE. O, thou knowest not what it is. COSTARD. I shall know, sir, when I have done it. BEROWNE. Why, villain, thou must know first. COSTARD. I will come to your worship to-morrow morning. BEROWNE. It must be done this afternoon. Hark, slave, it is but this: The princess comes to hunt here in the park, And in her train there is a gentle lady; When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name, And Rosaline they call her: ask for her And to her white hand see thou do commend This seal'd-up counsel. [Gives him a shilling.] There's thy guerdon: go.
Thesaurus 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. employ: (v) use, apply, exploit, consume, wield, hire, engage, exercise, work, busy, utilize. ANTONYMS: (v) fire, dismiss, can, ignore, misuse, sack, underuse; (n)
unemployment. guerdon: (n) compensation, remuneration, recompense, meed, reguerdon, premium, prize, due, requital, consideration; (v) remunerate. hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, listen in; (n) look here, look you, look. sweetly: (adv) pleasantly, sweet, mildly, melodically, melodiously, softly, syrupily, beautifully, pleasingly, dulcetly, fairly.
ANTONYMS: (adv) discordantly, horribly, sharply, harshly, unkindly. worship: (n) adoration, veneration, adulation, cult, homage; (n, v) reverence, respect, honor, revere, adore, glorify. ANTONYMS: (v) disrespect, dishonor, despise, deprecate, scorn; (n) disdain, disparagement, contempt, detestation.
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% COSTARD. Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration; a 'leven-pence farthing better; most sweet gardon! I will do it, sir, in print. Gardon- remuneration! [Exit.]
BEROWNE. And I,-Forsooth, in love; I, that have been love's whip; A very beadle to a humorous sigh; A critic, nay, a night-watch constable; A domineering pedant o'er the boy, Than whom no mortal so magnificent! This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces, Sole imperator, and great general Of trotting 'paritors: O my little heart! And I to be a corporal of his field, And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! What! I love! I sue, I seek a wife! A woman, that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watch'd that it may still go right! Nay, to be perjur'd, which is worst of all; And, among three, to love the worst of all, A wightly wanton with a velvet brow, With two pitch balls stuck in her face for eyes; Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed, Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:
Thesaurus anointed: (adj) hallowed, divine, commanding, masterful, bossy, precisian, prig, martinet, stickler, greasy; (v) anoint. authoritative. ANTONYMS: (adj) mannerist, intellectual. ANTONYM: aright: (adv) correctly, right, well, true, subservient, yielding, meek, (n) dilettante. purblind: (adj) obtuse, opaque, dim, not Amis, satisfactorily, favorably, surrendering, weak, libertarian, justly, exactly, rightly, properly. reasonable. dumb, myopic, nearsighted, dense, beadle: (n) verger, catchpoll, almoner, eunuch: (n) eunuchate, gelding, man, dull, blinding, visually impaired; (v) functionary, sacristan, sexton, janitor, adult male. shortsighted. whining: (adj) whimpering, whiny, Suisse, tipstaff, officer, George Wells imperator: (n) anointed king, king, beadle. crowned head, imperium, protector, sniveling pitiful, Snively, tearful, domineering: (adj) dictatorial, stadholder, judge, president, majesty. whiney, singing, peevish; (v) fretful, pedant: (n) doctrinaire, scholastic, lamenting; (n) sniveling. overbearing, autocratic, arbitrary, dominant, lordly, imperious, bookworm, purist, pettifogger,
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And %I to sigh for her! to watch for her! To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague That Cupid will impose for my neglect Of his almighty dreadful little might. Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan: Some men must love my lady, and some Joan. [Exit.]
Thesaurus almighty: (adj) omnipotent, powerful, potent, great, supreme; (adj, n) divine; (n) lord, Jehovah, deity, God, godhead. ANTONYMS: (adj) ineffectual, insignificant, lay, powerless, lowly. 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. impose: (v) dictate, prescribe, enforce, exact, charge, clamp, deceive, enjoin, burden, set, lay. ANTONYM: (v) revoke. 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.
sigh: (n, v) groan, suspire, murmur; (v) breathe, languish, pine; (n) breath, wail, whimper, whine, suspiration. watch: (n, v) view, sentinel, clock, wake, regard, care; (v) observe, look, see; (n) sentry; (adj, n) surveillance. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, overlook, harm, hurt, glance. write: (v) pen, indite, draw up, correspond, spell, record, publish, compile, draw, outline, type.
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ACT IV
SCENE I. THE KING OF NAVARRE'S PARK.% [Enter the PRINCESS, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, LORDS, ATTENDANTS, and a FORESTER.] PRINCESS. Was that the King that spurr'd his horse so hard Against the steep uprising of the hill? BOYET. I know not; but I think it was not he. PRINCESS. Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind. Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch; On Saturday we will return to France. Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush That we must stand and play the murderer in? FORESTER. Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice; A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.
Thesaurus forester: (n) ranger, arboriculturist, killer, manslayer, murderess, executioner, thug, liquidator; (v) granger, sodbuster, husbandman, butcher; (n, v) slayer, terrorist. foster, foot, timberman, tree farmer, shoot: (v) discharge, flash, drive, dart, lumberjack, Forster. horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin, dash, send, photograph; (n) scion, branch; (n, v) sprout, hunt. junk, charger, knight, pony, rider, ANTONYM: (v) trickle. trestle, eohippus, dog. mounting: (n, v) mount; (adj, n) steep: (adj, v) immerse, soak; (v) douse, climbing; (n) ascent, setting, climb, dip, imbue, saturate; (adj, adv) frame, assembly, chassis, framework, excessive; (adj, n) abrupt; (adj) sheer, ascension; (adj, adv) rising. outrageous, exorbitant. ANTONYMS: murderer: (n) assassin, cutthroat, (adj) gradual, undulating,
inexpensive, flat, lenient, reasonable, cheap; (v) dip. uprising: (n) insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, insurgency, revolution, outbreak, sedition, disturbance, ascent; (adj, n) rising. ANTONYMS: (n) peace; (adj) content. yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther, abroad, thither, further away, at that place; (adj) distant, yond, furious, fierce.
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PRINCESS. I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot, And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot.% FORESTER. Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so. PRINCESS. What, what? First praise me, and again say no? O short-liv'd pride! Not fair? Alack for woe! FORESTER. Yes, madam, fair. PRINCESS. Nay, never paint me now; Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. Here, good my glass:-[Gives money] take this for telling true: Fair payment for foul words is more than due. FORESTER. Nothing but fair is that which you inherit. PRINCESS. See, see! my beauty will be sav'd by merit. O heresy in fair, fit for these days! A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill, And shooting well is then accounted ill. Thus will I save my credit in the shoot: Not wounding, pity would not let me do't; If wounding, then it was to show my skill, That more for praise than purpose meant to kill. And out of question so it is sometimes,
Thesaurus foul: (adj, v) nasty, base, corrupt, thereupon: (adv) hereupon, next, then, cure, heal, doctor, better, amend, coarse; (adj) filthy, disgusting, evil, restore, convalesce; (n, v) fix, patch. immediately, therefore, therewith, in unclean, putrid; (n, v) defile, soil. ANTONYMS: (v) worsen, tear, the sequel, close upon, upon which, ANTONYMS: (adj, v) clean, pure; smash, decline, deteriorate; (n) whereupon, accordingly. (adj) pleasant, fair, inoffensive, wounding: (n) wound, injury; (adj) fracture. humane, attractive, honest, pleasing, mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, hurtful, spiteful, traumatic, grievous, fragrant; (v) unclog. favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, offensive, stabbing, inflicting heresy: (n) paganism, heathenism, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) wounds, impertinent, harmful. quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, ANTONYMS: (adj) harmless, false doctrine, nonconformity, revisionism, unbelief, orientation, harshness, unkindness, severity, complimentary, kind, polite, apostasy, fallacy, schism, dissent. mercilessness, ruthlessness, sympathetic. mend: (adj, v) improve; (v) correct, impatience, inhumanity.
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Glory grows guilty of detested crimes, When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, We bend to that the working of the heart; As I for praise alone now seek to spill The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill.% BOYET. Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty Only for praise' sake, when they strive to be Lords o'er their lords? PRINCESS. Only for praise; and praise we may afford To any lady that subdues a lord. [Enter COSTARD.] BOYET. Here comes a member of the commonwealth. COSTARD. God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady? PRINCESS. Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads. COSTARD. Which is the greatest lady, the highest? PRINCESS. The thickest and the tallest. COSTARD. The thickest and the tallest! It is so; truth is truth. An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit, One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit. Are not you the chief woman? You are the thickest here.
Thesaurus bend: (n, v) bow, turn, arch, arc, crook, favor, not liked. lissom, flimsy, faint. ANTONYMS: twist, elbow; (adj, n, v) curve; (v) mistress: (n) dame, concubine, (adj) stocky, fat, wide, considerable, stoop, crouch; (adj, v) flex. madame, inamorata, lady, lover, short, substantial, good, adequate, ANTONYMS: (n, v) square; (v) align, fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept stout, thick. strive: (v) endeavor, contend, contest, unbend, leave. woman, missis. curst: (adj) darned, damned, deuced, outward: (adj) external, apparent, struggle, fight, attempt, combat, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, extrinsic, outer, superficial, surface, strain, work, aspire, aim. maledict, everlasting, damnable, outside, ostensible, foreign, outdoor; waist: (n) waistline, shank, middle, (adv) out. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) damn, accursed. belly, isthmus, hourglass, detested: (adj) despised, unpopular, inward; (adj) inner, internal, deep. undersurface; (adj) stricture, middle slender: (adj, v) lean, meager; (adj) disliked, loathed, not accepted, constriction, neck, wasp. unloved, scorned, reviled, out of little, thin, fine, lithe, slight, delicate, wives: (n) woman.
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PRINCESS. What's your will, sir? What's your will? COSTARD. I have a letter from Monsieur Berowne to one Lady Rosaline.% PRINCESS. O! thy letter, thy letter; he's a good friend of mine. Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve; Break up this capon. BOYET. I am bound to serve. This letter is mistook; it importeth none here. It is writ to Jaquenetta. PRINCESS. We will read it, I swear. Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear. BOYET. 'By heaven, that thou art fair is most infallible; true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenelophon, and he it was that might rightly say, Veni, vidi, vici; which to anatomize in the vulgar-- O base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, he came, saw, and overcame: he came, one; saw, two; overcame, three. Who came? the king: Why did he come? to see: Why did he see? to overcome: To whom came he? to the beggar: What saw he? the beggar. Who overcame he? the beggar. The conclusion is victory; on whose side? the king's; the captive is enriched: on whose side? the beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial: on whose side? the king's, no, on both in one, or one in both. I am the king, for so stands the comparison; thou the beggar, for so witnesseth thy lowliness. Shall I command thy love? I may: Shall I enforce thy love? I could: Shall I entreat thy love? I will. What shalt thou exchange for
Thesaurus anatomize: (n, v) analyze; (v) dissect, resolve, anatomise, decompose, sift, analyse, parse, cut up, dismember; (n) winnow. beggar: (n) mendicant, mumper, pauper, tramp, sponger, joker, poor man, cadger, bloke; (v) beg, pauperize. ANTONYM: (n) giver. capon: (n) chicken, volaille, stot, poulet, steer, gelding, ox, rooster, fowl, hen, pullet. commiseration: (n) pity, compassion,
sympathy, condolence, ruth, mercy, commiserate, bowels, consolation, fellow feeling, acknowledgement. entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject. heroical: (adj) bold, desperate, grand, epic. lowliness: (n) humility, humbleness, meekness, weakness, lowlihood, resignation.
magnanimous: (adj) generous, great, noble, bountiful, exalted, big, handsome, lofty, large, charitable, considerate. ANTONYMS: (adj) miserly, unforgiving, petty. nuptial: (adj, n) bridal, marriage; (adj) marital, matrimonial, spousal, connubial, hymeneal, conjugal, wedding, married; (n) matrimony. vassal: (n) feudatory, liegeman, liege, serf, helot, dependent, subject, liege subject, follower, bondman, homager.
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rags? robes; for tittles? titles; for thyself? -me. Thus, expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot, my eyes on thy picture, and my heart on thy every part. Thine in the dearest design of industry, DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO. 'Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar 'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey; Submissive fall his princely feet before, And he from forage will incline to play. But if thou strive, poor soul, what are thou then? Food for his rage, repasture for his den.' PRINCESS. What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter? What vane? What weathercock? Did you ever hear better? BOYET. I am much deceiv'd but I remember the style.% PRINCESS. Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile. BOYET. This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court; A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport To the Prince and his book-mates. PRINCESS. Thou fellow, a word. Who gave thee this letter? COSTARD. I told you; my lord. PRINCESS. To whom shouldst thou give it?
Thesaurus erewhile: (adv, n) whilom; (adj) beforehand, ere, afore, yet, theretofore; (adv) over, time was, formerly, whilere, erst. feet: (v) legs, pegs, pins, trotters; (n) foots, ft, fete, meter, rescue. forage: (v) search, scrounge, prey, plunder, hunt, rummage, gut, spoil, despoil, scour; (n) pasture. incline: (v) cant, dispose, bend; (n, v) slope, bias, dip, tilt; (n) ascent, gradient, grade, inclination.
ANTONYMS: (v) indispose, level; (n) irreverent, impious, sacrilegious, unholy; (adj, v) foul. ANTONYMS: hollow, descent. plume: (n) feather, plumage, quill, (adj) devout, sacred, moral, religious, panache, aigrette, crest, feathering; reverent. (v) pride, pluck, dress, preen. robes: (n) garb, fine clothes, costume, princely: (adj, v) August, grand, great, best clothes. lordly, dignified, stately; (adj) vane: (adj) weathercock; (n) weather generous, munificent, majestic, vane, fan blade, cairn, staff, fan, post, magnificent, gorgeous. ANTONYM: beacon, hand, pointer, impeller. (adj) ungenerous. weathercock: (n) vane, weather vane, profane: (v) desecrate, abuse, violate, hand, flagstaff, cairn, pointer, post, defile, outrage, debauch; (adj) staff; (adj) chameleon, moon, Proteus.
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COSTARD. From my lord to my lady.% PRINCESS. From which lord to which lady? COSTARD. From my Lord Berowne, a good master of mine, To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline. PRINCESS. Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away. Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day. [Exeunt PRINCESS and TRAIN.] BOYET. Who is the suitor? who is the suitor? ROSALINE. Shall I teach you to know? BOYET. Ay, my continent of beauty. ROSALINE. Why, she that bears the bow. Finely put off! BOYET. My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry, Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry. Finely put on! ROSALINE. Well then, I am the shooter. BOYET. And who is your deer?
Thesaurus bears: (n) fissiped, badgers, Carnivora, fallacious, untrue, misleading, order Carnivora. confused, improper, error. continent: (adj) chaste, celibate, ANTONYMS: (adj) accurate, wise, abstemious, pure, temperate, right. abstinent, sober, austere; (n) land, shooter: (n) marksman, gunman, peninsula, delta. ANTONYMS: (adj) sharpshooter, shot, hired gun, taw, impure, unchaste. hit man, gunslinger, hackbut, pistol, deer: (n) caribou, buck, fawn, stag, shooting iron. suitor: (n) plaintiff, suer, admirer, reynard, brocket, cervid, ruminant, roe, roebuck, hart. beau, candidate, complainant, mistaken: (adj) wrong, erroneous, gallant, boyfriend, applicant, petitioner; (n, v) wooer. false, misguided, inaccurate,
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. teach: (v) enlighten, educate, instruct, coach, indoctrinate, drill, learn, lecture, school; (adj, v) guide, show.
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ROSALINE. If we choose by the horns, yourself: come not near. Finely put on indeed! MARIA. You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes at the brow.% BOYET. But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now? ROSALINE. Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy, as touching the hit it? BOYET. So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a woman when Queen Guinever of Britain was a little wench, as touching the hit it. ROSALINE. Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it, Thou canst not hit it, my good man. BOYET. An I cannot, cannot, cannot, An I cannot, another can. [Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE.] COSTARD. By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it! MARIA. A mark marvellous well shot; for they both did hit it. BOYET. A mark! O! mark but that mark; A mark, says my lady! Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be. MARIA. Wide o' the bow-hand! I' faith, your hand is out.
Thesaurus marvellous: (adj) fantastic, disgusting, horrible, repugnant, heartbreaking, emotionless, extraordinary, terrific, tremendous, nasty, gruesome, unwelcome, harsh, unemotional, impassive. wondrous, marvelous, wonderful, shocking, disagreeable, foul, terrible. troth: (n) faith, engagement, betrothal, prick: (n, v) puncture, stab, cock, tall, miraculous, improbable, plight, vow, loyalty, espousal, twinge, spur, bite; (v) impale, pierce, thumping. fidelity, truth, verity, veracity. mete: (v) measure, allot, share, detail, needle; (n) Dick, pricking. wrangle: (adj, n, v) squabble; (n, v) cast, billet, distribute, allocate, assign; touching: (adj, v) affecting; (adj) quarrel, dispute, brawl, debate, (n) boundary, border. poignant, pitiful, pathetic, adjacent, bicker, contest, row, altercation, fight, pleasant: (adj) jolly, amiable, adjoining, emotional; (n) touch, argue. ANTONYMS: (v) agree; (n) agreeable, acceptable, nice, charming, contact; (prep) concerning, about. peace. kindly, facetious, joyful, pretty; (adj, ANTONYMS: (adj) unaffecting, v) pleasing. ANTONYMS: (adj) everyday, heartwarming, unmoving,
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COSTARD. Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.% BOYET. An' if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in. COSTARD. Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin. MARIA. Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul. COSTARD. She's too hard for you at pricks, sir; challenge her to bowl. BOYET. I fear too much rubbing. Good-night, my good owl. [Exeunt BOYET and MARIA.] COSTARD. By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown! Lord, Lord! how the ladies and I have put him down! O' my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit! When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it were, so fit. Armado, o' the one side, O! a most dainty man! To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan! To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a' will swear! And his page o' t'other side, that handful of wit! Ah! heavens, it is a most pathetical nit. [Shouting within.] Sola, sola! [Exit running.]
SCENE II. THE SAME.
Thesaurus cleaving: (adj) adapted, coherent, sphere, space, skies, area, vault of scabrously. rubbing: (n) friction, abrasion, accordant. heaven. greasily: (adv) slimily, fatly, lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference per grinding, detrition, rub, grip, oleaginously, smoothly, unctuously, second, chops, porch, portal, portico, resistance, chafe, sweat, travail, massage. ANTONYM: (n) fattily, dirtily, slickly, grossly, propylon, snout, door, orifice. nearer: (adj) adjacent, narre, hither; slipperily, richly. smoothness. handful: (n) smattering, armful, (adv) more rapidly, sooner, quicker, smoothly: (adv) easily, evenly, calmly, mouthful, capful, containerful, lump; nigher, NER, faster, earlier, Neer. swimmingly, sleekly, fluently, flatly, (adj) thimbleful, company, several, obscenely: (adv) salaciously, softly, quietly, oily; (adj, adv) readily. ANTONYMS: (adv) unevenly, maniple, strong. indecently, smuttily, bawdily, heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, immorally, repugnantly, ribaldly, harshly, abrasively, awkwardly, welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial nastily, impurely, pornographically, huskily, hesitantly.
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[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL.] NATHANIEL. Very reverent sport, truly; and done in the testimony of a good conscience.% HOLOFERNES. The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven; and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth. NATHANIEL. Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I assure ye it was a buck of the first head. HOLOFERNES. Sir Nathaniel, haud credo. DULL. Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket. HOLOFERNES. Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of explication; facere, as it were, replication, or rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his inclination,--after his undressed, unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather, unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion,--to insert again my haud credo for a deer. DULL. I sthe deer was not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket. HOLOFERNES. Twice sod simplicity, bis coctus! O! thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! NATHANIEL. Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred of a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is
Thesaurus anon: (adv) directly, immediately, early, readily, soon, instantly, again, forthwith, promptly, shortly, rath. credo: (n) faith, belief, gospel, doctrine, persuasion, ism, dogma, principle, thinking, testament, statement of belief. dainties: (n) delicacies, food, cates. explication: (n) exposition, construction, description, elucidation, definition, clarification, annotation, solution, account, reading,
interpretation. insinuation: (n) hint, innuendo, suggestion, implication, reference, intimation, accusation, indication, sarcasm, attribution, imputation. pricket: (n) candlestick, deer, cervid. reverent: (adj, v) pious, devout, religious; (adj) respectful, holy, deferential, godly, reverential, worshipful, pietistic; (v) devotional. ANTONYMS: (adj) blasphemous, disrespectful, impious, irreverent.
sanguis: (n) blood. unconfirmed: (v) unascertained; (adj) unofficial, baseless, restricted, void, speculative, unproven, tentative, restrictive, questionable, doubtful. ANTONYMS: (adj) confirmed, conclusive, definite, unrestricted. unpolished: (adj) uncouth, awkward, coarse, rustic, rude, uncivilized, unfinished, crude, inelegant, unrefined, unboiled. ANTONYM: (adj) refined.
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only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts: And such barren plants are set before us that we thankful should be, Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that do fructify in us more than he; For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool, So, were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school. But, omne bene, say I; being of an old Father's mind: Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.% DULL. You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit, What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five weeks old as yet? HOLOFERNES. Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull. DULL. What is Dictynna? NATHANIEL. A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon. HOLOFERNES. The moon was a month old when Adam was no more, And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score. The allusion holds in the exchange. DULL. 'Tis true, indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange. HOLOFERNES. God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds in the exchange. DULL. And I say the pollusion holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that 'twas a pricket that the Princess killed. HOLOFERNES. Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? And, to humour the ignorant, I have call'd the deer the Princess killed, a pricket.
Thesaurus allusion: (n) innuendo, reference, cue, suggestion, mention, intimation, pointer, insinuation, implication, indication, clue. brook: (v) endure, abide, stomach, stand, tolerate, digest, suffer, support, undergo; (n, v) creek; (n) stream. ANTONYMS: (v) spurn, resist, reject, prohibit. collusion: (n) plot, intrigue, complicity, cahoot, agreement, agreed simulation, circumvention,
deceit, trick, cabal, conspiracy. unadvised, unwise, impolitic, hasty, epitaph: (n) memorial, lettering, tactless, inadvisable. ANTONYMS: (adj) thoughtful, tactful, judicious, inscription, commemoration, epitaphic, legend. guarded. fructify: (adj, v) flower, bloom; (v) set, vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited, fatten, fertilize, bear, pup, improve, fruitless, idle, empty, abortive, mature; (adj) blow, blossom. ineffectual, unproductive, goodman: (n) benny Goodman, the narcissistic; (adj, v) useless. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful, king of swing, Benjamin David Goodman, man of the house. possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful, indiscreet: (adj) careless, imprudent, humble, useful, responsible, incautious, ill-advised, rash, worthwhile, effective.
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NATHANIEL. Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall please you to abrogate scurrility.% HOLOFERNES. I will something affect the letter; for it argues facility. The preyful Princess pierc'd and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket; Some say a sore; but not a sore till now made sore with shooting. The dogs did yell; put l to sore, then sorel jumps from thicketOr pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting. If sore be sore, then l to sore makes fifty sores one sore l! Of one sore I an hundred make, by adding but one more l. NATHANIEL. A rare talent! DULL. [Aside] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws him with a talent. HOLOFERNES. This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it. NATHANIEL. Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may my parishioners; for their sons are
Thesaurus abrogate: (adj, v) abolish, nullify, annul; (v) repeal, revoke, rescind, quash, invalidate, void, vacate, undo. ANTONYMS: (v) fix, establish, sanction, approve, institute, legalize, support. argues: (v) argue. begot: (v) beget. claw: (n) chela, unguis, nipper, talon, hook; (v) clapperclaw, lacerate, tear, scratch, rip, clutch. ANTONYM: (v) mend.
claws: (v) tentacle, tenaculum, unguis, hook, fangs, teeth; (n) clutches, jaws. jumps: (n) fit, nervousness, tension, anxiety, jitters. mater: (n) mother, ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mammary gland, Massachusetts, mom, Master of Arts, momma, am. mellowing: (adj) aging, mellowed, high, easygoing; (n) ripening, biological process. nourished: (adj) fostered.
parishioners: (n) people attending worship, worshippers. ventricle: (n) maw, chamber, venter, stomach, paunch, heart ventricle, heart, gizzard, crop, cavum, bodily cavity. womb: (n) belly, nursery, nest, intestines, guts, vitals, bowels, chitterings, cradle, entrails, viscera. yell: (n, v) cry, roar, scream, howl, call, bellow, whoop, shriek, outcry; (v) bawl, holler.
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well tutored by you, and their daughters profit very greatly under you: you are a good member of the commonwealth.% HOLOFERNES. Mehercle! if their sons be ingenious, they shall want no instruction; if their daughters be capable, I will put it to them; but, vir sapit qui pauca loquitur. A soul feminine saluteth us. [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD.] JAQUENETTA. God give you good morrow, Master parson. HOLOFERNES. Master parson, quasi pers-on. And if one should be pierced, which is the one? COSTARD. Marry, Master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead. HOLOFERNES. Piercing a hogshead! A good lustre or conceit in a turf of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough for a swine; 'tis pretty; it is well. JAQUENETTA. Good Master parson [Giving a letter to NATHANIEL.], be so good as read me this letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me from Don Armado: I beseech you read it. HOLOFERNES. 'Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra Ruminat,' and so forth. Ah! good old Mantuan. I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice: --Venetia, Venetia, Chi non ti vede, non ti pretia. Old Mantuan! old Mantuan! Who understandeth thee not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa. Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather as Horace says in his-- What, my soul, verses? NATHANIEL. Ay, sir, and very learned.
Thesaurus conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfesteem, pride, assumption, egotism, fancy, haughtiness, conception, caprice, quip. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, timidity, selflessness, humbleness, reserve. hogshead: (n) cask, barrel, vat. lustre: (n) brilliance, gloss, brilliancy, grandeur, splendour, effulgence, splendor, shininess, shine, sheen, brightness. morrow: (n) morning, future, mean
solar day, day. parson: (n) cleric, clergyman, rector, pastor, curate, preacher, ecclesiastic, divine, priest, vicar, father. piercing: (adj, n) sharp, cutting; (adj, v) keen, penetrating, biting, bitter, harsh, shrill; (adj) high, raw, loud. ANTONYMS: (adj) quiet, dull, soft, hot. quasi: (adv) nearly, almost, partly, practically, just as; (adj) mock, ostensible, similar, pseudo; (n) semi.
schoolmaster: (n) master, preceptor, pedagogue, headmaster, dominie, teacher, principal, educator, head, Lutjanus apodus, housemaster. swine: (n) hog, boar, beast, sow, Eohyus, babiroussa, babirussa, barrow, brute, razorback, grunter. tutored: (adj) educated, schooled, taught. umbra: (adj, n) shadow, shade; (adj) umbratile; (n) soul, penumbra, spirit.
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HOLOFERNES. Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine.% NATHANIEL. If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love? Ah! never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd; Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed. Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes, Where all those pleasures live that art would comprehend: If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice. Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend; All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder; Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire. Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder, Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire. Celestial as thou art, O! pardon love this wrong, That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue. HOLOFERNES. You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret. Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso but for smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing: so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper, the 'tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin, was this directed to you? JAQUENETTA. Ay, sir; from one Monsieur Berowne, one of the strange queen's lords. HOLOFERNES. I will overglance the superscript: 'To the snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of the letter, for the nomination of the party writing to the person written unto: 'Your
Thesaurus cadence: (n) beat, tempo, measure, rhythm, cadency, descent, time; (n, v) pace; (v) gait, step, rate. canzonet: (n) carol, lay, ballad, canzonette, recitative, solfeggio, recitativo, ditty, roundelay, song, sonnet. caret: (n) mark, hawkbill. celestial: (adj) ethereal, divine, supernal, angelic, holy, sacred, astronomical, unworldly, superlunary, from on high; (n)
heaven. ANTONYMS: (adj) balmy, sweet, spicy, scented, mundane, secular, terrestrial, mortal. odorant, ambrosial, malodorous, elegancy: (n) elegance, refinement. redolent, unsavory. hound: (v) bloodhound, chase, hunt, poesy: (n) poetry, verse, poem, rhyme, follow, badger, course, bait, pursue; epos, song, tuneful Nine, strain, lay, (n) greyhound, blackguard, cad. Parnassus, poetics. ANTONYM: (v) soothe. ratified: (adj) sanctioned, legal, oaks: (n) beech family, Castanopsis, canonical, canonic. superscript: (n) grapheme, Nothofagus, Lithocarpus, genus Quercus, Genera Castanea, family superordinate, master, graphic Fagaceae, Fagus, Fagaceae, chestnuts. symbol, lake superior. ANTONYMS: odoriferous: (adj) odorous, aromatic, (adj, n) subscript; (adj) adscript.
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Ladyship's in all desired employment, Berowne.'--Sir Nathaniel, this Berowne is one of the votaries with the king; and here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen's, which, accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the king; it may concern much. Stay not thy compliment; I forgive thy duty. Adieu.% JAQUENETTA. Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life! COSTARD. Have with thee, my girl. [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA.] NATHANIEL. Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very religiously; and, as a certain Father saith-HOLOFERNES. Sir, tell not me of the Father; I do fear colourable colours. But to return to the verses: did they please you, Sir Nathaniel? NATHANIEL. Marvellous well for the pen. HOLOFERNES. I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where I will prove those verses to be very unlearned, neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention. I beseech your society. NATHANIEL. And thank you too; for society,--saith the text,--is the happiness of life. HOLOFERNES. And certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.
Thesaurus certes: (adv) certainly, verily, truly, precisely; (adj) doubtless, to a certainty, to be sure, flagrante delicto, sure enough, of course, no doubt. concludes: (adj) ended, concluded. dine: (v) feed, lunch, breakfast, dining, meal, give, have supper, take tea, grub, consume, entertain. ANTONYM: (v) abstain. gratify: (v) delight, please, appease, accommodate, satisfy, amuse, suit, indulge, cater; (n, v) humor; (adj)
contented. ANTONYMS: (v) savouring: (n) relishing, degustation, dissatisfy, displease, disappoint. tasting. infallibly: (adv) unerringly, sequent: (adj) subsequent, consequent, unfailingly, inerrably, assuredly, successive, serial, sequential, certainly, firmly. following, ensuant, resulting, religiously: (adv) conscientiously, resultant, chronological; (n) sequel. unlearned: (adj) ignorant, spiritually, devoutly, reverently, sacredly, holy, Godly, scrupulously, unenlightened, illiterate, uninformed, devotedly, morally, devotionally. unlettered, unread, uninstructed, repast: (n) feast, food, banquet, dinner, unconditioned, nescient, innate, unknowing. ANTONYMS: (adj) lunch, refection, collation, luncheon, spread, potluck, eating. conditioned, cultured, educated.
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[To DULL] Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at their game, and we will to our recreation.% [Exeunt.]
SCENE III. THE SAME. [Enter BEROWNE, with a paper.] BEROWNE. The king he is hunting the deer: I am coursing myself: they have pitched a toil: I am tolling in a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! a foul word! Well, sit thee down, sorrow! for so they say the fool said, and so say I, and I am the fool: well proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep: well proved again o' my side. I will not love; if I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O! but her eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By heaven, I do love; and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme, and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my sonnets already; the clown bore it, the fool sent it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care a pin if the other three were in. Here comes one with a paper; God give him grace to groan! [Gets up into a tree.] [Enter the KING, with a paper.] KING. Ay me! BEROWNE. [Aside.]
Thesaurus clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor, harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic, comic, acrobat; (v) antic. coursing: (v) chase, shooting, fishing, hunting, steeple chase, race; (n, v) hunt. defile: (adj, v) debauch, pollute, stain, sully; (v) corrupt, contaminate, foul, taint, tarnish, infect; (n, v) soil. ANTONYMS: (v) purify, consecrate, conserve, honor, respect, sanctify, cleanse, praise.
fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown, idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v) deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull. ANTONYM: (n) savant. hunting: (n, v) chase; (v) battue; (n) exploration, pursuit, search, ducking, beagling, coursing, frisking, venery, shooting. invite: (v) tempt, allure, bid, call, entice, ask, summon, attract, receive, solicit; (n) invitation. ANTONYMS: (v) elect, repel.
pitched: (adj) oblique, thrown, slanting, at an angle, leaning; (v) fixed, pight, determined. ANTONYM: (adj) level. toil: (n, v) labor, work, drudge, sweat, drudgery, grind, labour, travail; (v) plod; (n) effort, exertion. ANTONYMS: (n) pastime, entertainment, fun, relaxation; (v) laze, neglect. tolling: (n) kneel, passing bell, clangor, pealing.
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Shot, %by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid; thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap. In faith, secrets! KING. ‘So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows; Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright Through the transparent bosom of the deep, As doth thy face through tears of mine give light. Thou shin'st in every tear that I do weep: No drop but as a coach doth carry thee; So ridest thou triumphing in my woe. Do but behold the tears that swell in me, And they thy glory through my grief will show: But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep My tears for glasses, and still make me weep. O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel No thought can think nor tongue of mortal tell. How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper: Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here? [Steps aside.] What, Longaville! and reading! Listen, ear. [Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper.] BEROWNE. Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear! LONGAVILLE. Ay me! I am forsworn. BEROWNE. Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.
Thesaurus behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook. bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; (v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority. drops: (n) tear. likeness: (n) resemblance, copy, effigy, image, affinity, similarity,
correspondence, facsimile; (adj, n) smote: (v) smite. swell: (n, v) rise, heave, increase, figure, form, semblance. ANTONYMS: (n) difference, wave, billow; (v) enlarge, expand, puff, grow, bloat; (adj, n) dandy. diversity, dissimilarity, unlikeness, ANTONYMS: (v) deflate, desiccate, contrast. mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, shrink, compress, concentrate, wane; deathly, earthly; (n) man, individual, (n, v) decline; (adj) bad, horrible, creature, person, human being, body. shabby, awful. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) immortal; (adj) triumphing: (n) boast, gloriation; (v) eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect, triumphal, celebrating victory, spiritual. exultant. perjure: (v) forswear, perjured.
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KING. In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame! BEROWNE. One drunkard loves another of the name.% LONGAVILLE. Am I the first that have been perjur'd so? BEROWNE. I could put thee in comfort: not by two that I know; Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society, The shape of love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity. LONGAVILLE. I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move. O sweet Maria, empress of my love! These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. BEROWNE. O! rimes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose: Disfigure not his slop. LONGAVILLE. This same shall go. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument, Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. A woman I forswore; but I will prove, Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; Thy grace being gain'd, cures all disgrace in me. Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is: Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, Exhal'st this vapour-vow; in thee it is:
Thesaurus drunkard: (n) alcoholic, drinker, vapour: (n) vapor, evaporation, gas, sultana, infanta, queen, princess, boozer, dipsomaniac, rummy, noble, monarch, lady, ruler, vaporization, vaporisation, boiling, inebriate, toper, sot, bibber, lush, emperess. clouding, mist, fog, damp, smoke. heavenly: (adj) celestial, blissful, wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light, imbiber. earthly: (adj, n) terrestrial; (adj) carnal, ethereal, delightful, angelic, blessed, licentious, unchaste, lewd, debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; (n, worldly, conceivable, human, geotic, elysian, holy, unearthly, godlike, sacred. ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly, v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. ANTONYMS: secular, terrene, temporal, telluric, sublunary. ANTONYMS: (adj) (adj) moral, wise, nice, kind, gentle, miserable, infernal, hellish, spiritual, divine, ethereal, immortal, unappealing, dreadful, turbulent. decent, clean, careful, observant, slop: (v) spill, splash, slosh, smudge; impossible, improbable, justifiable, involuntary. (adj, n) filth; (n) pigwash, slops; (n, v) inconceivable, celestial. empress: (n) emperor, margravine, swill; (adj) dabble, dirt, soil.
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If broken, then it is no fault of mine: If by me broke, what fool is not so wise To lose an oath to win a paradise! BEROWNE. This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity; A green goose a goddess; pure, pure idolatry. God amend us, God amend! We are much out o' the way.% LONGAVILLE. By whom shall I send this?--Company! Stay. [Steps aside.] BEROWNE. All hid, all hid; an old infant play. Like a demigod here sit I in the sky, And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'er-eye. More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish. [Enter DUMAINE, with a paper.] Dumain transformed: four woodcocks in a dish! DUMAINE. O most divine Kate! BEROWNE. O most profane coxcomb! DUMAINE. By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye! BEROWNE. By earth, she is but corporal; there you lie. DUMAINE. Her amber hairs for foul hath amber quoted. BEROWNE. An amber-colour'd raven was well noted.
Thesaurus amber: (n) yellow, yellowness, sergeant. ANTONYMS: (adj) mental, inamorata. heedfully: (adv) advertently, carefully, electrum, ambergris, gold, brown, intangible, cerebral. electron, gum; (adj) chromatic. coxcomb: (n) cockscomb, fop, beau, attentively, thoughtfully, warily, amend: (adj, v) improve; (v) dandy, exquisite, dude, blood, buck, observantly, kindly, awarely, ameliorate, rectify, better, fix, reform, comb, crest, sheik. watchfully, cautiously, regardfully. ANTONYM: (adv) unwittingly. alter, correct, emend, revise, redress. demigod: (adj, n) hero; (n) daemon, ANTONYMS: (v) corrupt, damage, raven: (v) guttle, feed, devour, gulp, Ubermensch, Adonis, leader, harry, eat; (n) crow, plunder; (adj) debase, impair, reduce, mar, blemish, divinity, seraph, undergod, black, jet; (n, v) gorge. maintain, leave. superman, heroine, God. corporal: (adj) bodily, carnal, physical, goddess: (n) divinity, God, beauty, woodcocks: (n) snipes, Scolopacidae, nymph; (adj, n) idol; (adj) duck, animal, somatic, bodied, collective, tattlers, dowitchers, curlews, embodied; (adv) fleshly; (n) noncom, darling, angel, Dulcinea, ladylove, godwits.
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DUMAINE. As upright as the cedar.% BEROWNE. Stoop, I say; Her shoulder is with child. DUMAINE. As fair as day. BEROWNE. Ay, as some days; but then no sun must shine. DUMAINE. O! that I had my wish. LONGAVILLE. And I had mine! KING. And I mine too, good Lord! BEROWNE. Amen, so I had mine. Is not that a good word? DUMAINE. I would forget her; but a fever she Reigns in my blood, and will remember'd be. BEROWNE. A fever in your blood! Why, then incision Would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision! DUMAINE. Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ. BEROWNE. Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit. DUMAINE. On a day, alack the day!
Thesaurus amen: (adj) right, correct; (n) Amon; (adv) positively, yes. fever: (n) malaria, delirium, pyrexia, heat, frenzy, feverishness, febricity, Bilious typhoid fever, Levant fever, Hectic infantile fever, Typhoid fever. forget: (v) leave, miss, blank out, bury, to forget, overlook, neglect, ignore, fail, unlearn, abandon. ANTONYMS: (v) mind, attend. misprision: (v) evasion, arriere pensee, suppression, white lie; (n)
misdemeanor, misfeasance, contempt. saucers: (n) tableware, plates, cups, dishware. shine: (n, v) light, sheen, flash, glitter, sparkle, polish, rub; (v) burnish, gleam, blaze; (n) radiance. shoulder: (v) carry, push, hold, jostle, sustain, support, assume, accept; (n, v) elbow; (n) back, flange. upright: (adj) perpendicular, erect, fair, good, righteous, just, virtuous,
true, honorable, plumb; (adj, n) vertical. ANTONYMS: (adj) prone, disreputable, degenerate, hanging, unwholesome, dishonest, dishonorable, lying, horizontal, falling; (adv) horizontally. vary: (v) alter, change, modify, diversify, diverge, alternate, deviate, modulate, depart, disagree; (adj, v) differ. ANTONYMS: (v) conform, remain, stay, agree, concur, leave, maintain, standardize, specialize.
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Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen, 'gan passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow; Air, would I might triumph so! But, alack! my hand is sworn Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn; Vow, alack! for youth unmeet, Youth so apt to pluck a sweet. Do not call it sin in me, That I am forsworn for thee; Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. This will I send, and something else more plain, That shall express my true love's fasting pain. O! would the King, Berowne and Longaville Were lovers too. Ill, to example ill, Would from my forehead wipe a perjur'd note; For none offend where all alike do dote. %
LONGAVILLE. [Advancing.] Dumain, thy love is far from charity, That in love's grief desir'st society; You may look pale, but I should blush, I know, To be o'erheard and taken napping so.
Thesaurus blush: (n, v) glow, color; (v) redden, penance; (v) calorie counting. gather, pick, fleece, grab; (n) grit, crimson; (n) red, bloom, rosiness, napping: (adj) asleep, unthinking, courage, boldness; (n, v) pull. ruddiness, redness; (adj) bashful; ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice, unready, snoozing, slumbering, (adv) blushingly. ANTONYMS: (v) gutlessness; (v) undercharge. sleeping, off guard, off your guard, blanch, pale, blench; (n) paleness. off his guard, off her guard, careless. quoth: (v) quod. dote: (adj, v) drivel; (v) maturate, fond, ANTONYM: (adj) awake. unseen: (adj, v) unknown; (adj) doat; (adj) ramble, wander, rave, offend: (v) irritate, affront, insult, invisible, concealed, hidden, unobserved, secret, veiled, latent; (v) trifle. contravene, injure, disgust, infringe, fasting: (n) abstinence, white sheet, unheeded, unperceived; (n) spiritual displease, abuse, wound, anger. ANTONYMS: (v) please, delight, world. ANTONYMS: (adj) seen, shrift, sackcloth and ashes, maceration, lustration, flagellation, praise, attract. visible, open, famous, noticeable. watching one's weight, hunger strike, pluck: (adj, n) nerve; (v) cull, jerk,
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KING. [Advancing.] Come, sir, you blush; as his, your case is such. You chide at him, offending twice as much: You do not love Maria; Longaville Did never sonnet for her sake compile; Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart His loving bosom, to keep down his heart. I have been closely shrouded in this bush, And mark'd you both, and for you both did blush. I heard your guilty rimes, observ'd your fashion, Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion: Ay me! says one. O Jove! the other cries; One, her hairs were gold; crystal the other's eyes: [To LONGAVILLE] You would for paradise break faith and troth; [To DUMAIN] And Jove, for your love would infringe an oath. What will Berowne say when that he shall hear Faith infringed which such zeal did swear? How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit! How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it! For all the wealth that ever I did see, I would not have him know so much by me.% BEROWNE. Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy. [Descends from the tree.] Ah! good my liege, I pray thee pardon me: Good heart! what grace hast thou thus to reprove These worms for loving, that art most in love? Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears There is no certain princess that appears:
Thesaurus chide: (n, v) censure, reprimand, blame; (v) rebuke, admonish, chasten, lecture, scold, reproach, chastise, reprove. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, laud, commend, compliment, approve. hairs: (n) hair. infringe: (v) violate, break, impinge, contravene, disobey, intrude, entrench, trespass, invade, infract, pirate. ANTONYMS: (v) uphold, comply, honor.
offending: (adj) opprobrious, criminal, aberrant, guilty, delinquent, antisocial, scurrilous, errant. reek: (n, v) stink, Pong; (adj, n, v) smoke; (n) stench, fetor, malodor, malodour; (v) fumigate, exhale, emit; (adj, n) vapor. ANTONYM: (n) perfume. shrouded: (adj) hidden, covered, veiled, cloaked, secret, wearing a veil, unseen, ulterior, masked, enclosed, misty.
sonnet: (n) ode, verse, poem, elegy, canzonet, eclogue, lay, Anacreontic, poesy, quatorzain; (v) poetize. wreathed: (adj) ringed, serpentine, coiled, circular, circinate, bent, annulate, tortile, torqued, surrounded, curled. zeal: (adj, n) eagerness; (n) fervor, enthusiasm, devotion, passion, vehemence, fire, fervency, heat, fervour, ardour. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, lethargy, patience.
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You'll %not be perjur'd; 'tis a hateful thing: Tush! none but minstrels like of sonneting. But are you not asham'd? nay, are you not, All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot? You found his mote; the king your mote did see; But I a beam do find in each of three. O! what a scene of foolery have I seen, Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow, and of teen; O me! with what strict patience have I sat, To see a king transformed to a gnat; To see great Hercules whipping a gig, And profound Solomon to tune a jig, And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys, And critic Timon laugh at idle toys! Where lies thy grief, O! tell me, good Dumaine? And, gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain? And where my liege's? all about the breast: A caudle, ho! KING. Too bitter is thy jest. Are we betrayed thus to thy over-view? BEROWNE. Not you by me, but I betray'd by you. I that am honest; I that hold it sin To break the vow I am engaged in; I am betrayed by keeping company With men like men, men of inconstancy. When shall you see me write a thing in rime? Or groan for Joan? or spend a minute's time In pruning me? When shall you hear that I Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,
Thesaurus beam: (n) ray, timber, balance beam; mote: (adj, n) molecule, speck, atom, despicable, repulsive, distasteful, (n, v) blaze, glow, flash, smile; (adj, v) foul; (adj, v) odious, obnoxious. corpuscle, particle, dot; (n) grain, jot, shine; (v) grin, air, radiate. ANTONYMS: (adj) delightful, kind, iota, must; (adj) dust. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scowl; (v) pruning: (n) cutting, clipping, prune, nice, benign, desirable. darken, dim, dull, frown; (n) idle: (adj) lazy, indolent, inactive, free, shearing, trimming, trim, bearing darkness. unfounded, fruitless, baseless, units. foolery: (n) folly, tomfoolery, whipping: (n) flagellation, beating, groundless, frivolous, empty, disengaged. ANTONYMS: (adj) foolishness, buffoonery, clowning, thrashing, licking, lashing, flogging, inanity, romp, gambol, frolic, active, employed, industrious, overcasting, debacle, slaughter, overlocking; (adj) snappy. imbecility, lunacy. energetic, meaningful, productive, hateful: (adj) disgusting, execrable, worthwhile, diligent; (v) change, run, nasty, abominable, hideous, work.
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A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, A leg, a limb?-KING. Soft! whither away so fast? A true man or a thief that gallops so? BEROWNE. I post from love; good lover, let me go.% [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD.] JAQUENETTA. God bless the king! KING. What present hast thou there? COSTARD. Some certain treason. KING. What makes treason here? COSTARD. Nay, it makes nothing, sir. KING. If it mar nothing neither, The treason and you go in peace away together. JAQUENETTA. I beseech your Grace, let this letter be read; Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said. KING. Berowne, read it over. [Giving the letter to him.] Where hadst thou it?
Thesaurus breast: (n) boob, udder, tit, titty, chest, amorist, man. knocker, mammilla, bust, pap, heart; peace: (adj, n) calm, quiet; (n) (n, v) front. harmony, hush, repose, ease, amity, brow: (n) peak, brink, brows, height, agreement, rest, pacification, order. ANTONYMS: (n) noise, chaos, summit, forehead, eyebrow, edge, crown, brim, border. ANTONYM: (n) conflict, uproar, commotion, trough. agitation, war, distress, suffering, gait: (n, v) pace, step, tread, footstep, disruption, turbulence. rate, stride, action; (n) walk, carriage, post: (n, v) place, position, stake, station; (n) office, function, pillar, movement, velocity. lover: (n) dear, darling, fan, devotee, attitude; (v) locate, enter, lay. thief: (n) burglar, bandit, pirate, beau, buff, love, admirer, beloved,
plunderer, filcher, stealer, pickpocket, pilferer, crook, brigand, despoiler. treason: (n) treachery, perfidy, high treason, sabotage, lese majesty, traitorousness, subversiveness, duplicity; (adj, n) disloyalty, sedition, prodition. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity. whither: (adv) hither, thither, whereunto, whereto, for.
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JAQUENETTA. Of Costard.% KING. Where hadst thou it? COSTARD. Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio. [BEROWNE tears the letter.] KING. How now! What is in you? Why dost thou tear it? BEROWNE. A toy, my liege, a toy: your Grace needs not fear it. LONGAVILLE. It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it. DUMAINE. [Picking up the pieces.] It is Berowne's writing, and here is his name. BEROWNE. [To COSTARD.] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, you were born to do me shame. Guilty, my lord, guilty; I confess, I confess. KING. What? BEROWNE. That you three fools lack’d me fool to make up the mess; He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I, Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die. O! dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more. DUMAINE. Now the number is even.
Thesaurus deserve: (v) rate, warrant, gain, earn, numskull, muttonhead, to deserve, demand, justify, bear; (n, hammerhead, addlehead, dullhead, v) reward; (n) richly deserve, worth. Caretta caretta. dismiss: (v) cashier, disband, cast, number: (n, v) amount, figure; (v) discard, brush aside, can, bounce, calculate, total, aggregate, enumerate, cast off, cease, dispatch; (n, v) drop. come; (n) score, act, volume, issue. ANTONYMS: (v) employ, welcome, passion: (n) affection, fire, fervor, love, signal, remember, recall, mobilize, feeling, anger, enthusiasm, heat, craving, desire; (n, v) ardor. maintain, keep, hold, engage, ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, hate, contract. loggerhead: (n) blockhead, bonehead, serenity, meekness, hatred, doubt, dunce, knucklehead, beetlehead, dislike, calmness, moderation.
tear: (n, v) rip, break, split, rupture, crack, run, slit; (v) pull, rend, lacerate; (adj, v) rush. ANTONYMS: (v) wait, mend, idle, fix, amble, dawdle. tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily function, bodily process, body process, lacerations. whoreson: (n) illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, mother fucker, dickhead, anus, arse, arsehole, son of a bitch, sob, shit.
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BEROWNE. True, true, we are four. Will these turtles be gone? KING. Hence, sirs; away! COSTARD. Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.% [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA.] BEROWNE. Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O! let us embrace! As true we are as flesh and blood can be: The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face; Young blood doth not obey an old decree: We cannot cross the cause why we were born, Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn. KING. What! Did these rent lines show some love of thine? BEROWNE. ’Did they?’ quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline That, like a rude and savage man of Inde At the first op’ning of the gorgeous east, Bows not his vassal head and, strucken blind, Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? What peremptory eagle-sighted eye Dares look upon the heaven of her brow, That is not blinded by her majesty? KING. What zeal, what fury hath inspir’d thee now? My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon; She, an attending star, scarce seen a light.
Thesaurus gorgeous: (adj) luxurious, gaudy, savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious; good, conformable, tame, attractive, brilliant, wonderful, acquiescent, dutiful, meek, biddable, (adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel, glorious, gay, florid, palatial, dressy; amenable, subservient. ANTONYMS: bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n) (adj, v) rich. ANTONYMS: (adj) ugly, (adj) defiant, assertive, rebellious, brute; (n) vandal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unattractive, detestable, shabby. crooked, intractable, naughty, wild, civilized, gentle, nice. majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient, resistant. nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, peremptory: (adj) imperious, infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. magnificence, stateliness, greatness, commanding, dictatorial, ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, king, royalty, highness. overbearing, decisive, magisterial; ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, (adj, v) authoritative, dogmatic, flat, common, adequate, strong, usual, absolute; (v) decided. ANTONYM: simplicity. extensive. obedient: (adj) submissive, compliant, (adj) polite. sirs: (n) gentlemen, messieurs.
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BEROWNE. My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Berowne. O! but for my love, day would turn to night. Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,-Fie, painted rhetoric! O! she needs it not: To things of sale a seller's praise belongs; She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot. A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn, Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye: Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. O! 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine! KING. By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.% BEROWNE. Is ebony like her? O wood divine! A wife of such wood were felicity. O! who can give an oath? Where is a book? That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack, If that she learn not of her eye to look. No face is fair that is not full so black. KING. O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the school of night; And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well. BEROWNE. Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
Thesaurus badge: (n) sign, emblem, insignia, medal, token, plaque, symbol, logo, indication, identification, characteristic. blot: (n, v) spot, blemish, smudge, mark, slur, taint, shame; (v) tarnish, blob; (n) blotch; (adj, n) fault. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, grace, soak, wet, beautify, improve, enhance. crutch: (n, v) support; (n) staff, groin, stick, prop, ankle, stilt, crutches,
resembling: (adj, prep) like; (adj) zigzag, sickle, scythe. ebony: (adj, n) sable; (adj) black, dark, analogous, parallel, similar, jet, soot, raven, smut, sloe; (n) jet conformable, approximate, semblative, other, probable; (prep) black, coal black, wood. hermit: (n) anchorite, ascetic, solitary, similar to, reminiscent of. ANTONYM: (prep) unlike. anchoret, eremite, monk, troglodyte, solitaire, loner, caveman, cave man. tempt: (adj, v) attract, allure; (v) entice, infancy: (n) babyhood, cradle, decoy, charm, inveigle, invite, coax, beginning, birth, genesis, minority, seduce, fascinate, attempt. ANTONYMS: (v) discourage, appall, early childhood, youth, nonage, adolescence, early days. ANTONYM: repel. (n) maturity. wants: (n) need, necessities.
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O! if in black my lady's brows be deck'd, It mourns that painting and usurping hair Should ravish doters with a false aspect; And therefore is she born to make black fair. Her favour turns the fashion of the days, For native blood is counted painting now; And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise, Paints itself black, to imitate her brow.% DUMAINE. To look like her are chimney-sweepers black. LONGAVILLE. And since her time are colliers counted bright. KING. And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack. DUMAINE. Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. BEROWNE. Your mistresses dare never come in rain, For fear their colours should be wash'd away. KING. 'Twere good yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain, I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day. BEROWNE. I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here. KING. No devil will fright thee then so much as she. DUMAINE. I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.
Thesaurus brows: (n) brow. colours: (n) banner, ensign, emblem, colour, colouring, standard, flag, color, tone. crack: (n, v) chink, fracture, split, fissure, crevice, burst, snap, breach, clap, check; (n) cleft. ANTONYMS: (n, v) mend; (v) set, misunderstand, misinterpret, fix, compose; (adj) mediocre, lowly, inferior, deficient. devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub,
deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. Last Judgment. ANTONYM: (n) angel. imitate: (n, v) duplicate; (v) forge, ape, dispraise: (n) disparagement, emulate, follow, feign, counterfeit, disapproval, deprecation, detraction, mimic, mock, assume, act. usurping: (adj) encroaching. blame, denigration, condemnation, animadversion; (v) disparage, vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; (adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ignoble, criticize, reprehend. doomsday: (n) Judgment Day, crack of evil, sorry, revolting, offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) attractive, kind, doom, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, day of judgement, nice, lovely, lovable, gentle, domesday, remote future, honorable, good, delightful, millennium, last day, last judgement, admirable, noble.
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LONGAVILLE. Look, here's thy love: [Showing his shoe.] my foot and her face see.% BEROWNE. O! if the streets were paved with thine eyes, Her feet were much too dainty for such tread. DUMAINE. O vile! Then, as she goes, what upward lies The street should see as she walk'd over head. KING. But what of this? Are we not all in love? BEROWNE. Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn. KING. Then leave this chat; and, good Berowne, now prove Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn. DUMAINE. Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil. LONGAVILLE. O! some authority how to proceed; Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil. DUMAINE. Some salve for perjury. BEROWNE. O, 'tis more than need. Have at you, then, affection's men-at-arms: Consider what you first did swear unto, To fast, to study, and to see no woman; Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.
Thesaurus cheat: (n, v) trick, con, fake, sham; (n) fraud, bilk, impostor; (v) defraud, beguile, betray, fleece. ANTONYMS: (v) support, repay, help, contribute, aid. flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney, compliment, adulation, taffy, palaver, praise, gloze, sweet talk, sycophancy, soft soap. ANTONYMS: (n) insult, offense. kingly: (adj, adv) stately; (adj) August, noble, regal, imperial, sovereign,
majestic, royal; (adv) royally, majestically, regally. lawful: (adj) legal, just, rightful, constitutional, true, right, justifiable, licit, regular; (n, v) allowable; (adj, v) permissible. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlawful, prohibited, unconstitutional. paved: (adj) cobbled. perjury: (v) mendacity; (n) bearing false witness, lying under oath, false evidence, violation, lie, infringement,
infraction, falsehood, offense, offence. streets: (n) street. thereby: (adv) whereby, hereby. tricks: (n) actions, behavior, thing, clowning around, fooling, magic, plunder, possession, activities. upward: (adv) upwards, upwardly, aloft; (adj) overhead, rising, upper, increasing, open, vertical, mounting, upright. ANTONYMS: (adj) descending, downward; (adv) down.
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Say, %can you fast? Your stomachs are too young, And abstinence engenders maladies. And where that you you have vow'd to study, lords, In that each of you have forsworn his book, Can you still dream, and pore, and thereon look? For when would you, my lord, or you, or you, Have found the ground of study's excellence Without the beauty of a woman's face? From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Now, for not looking on a woman's face, You have in that forsworn the use of eyes, And study too, the causer of your vow; For where is author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is: Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes, Do we not likewise see our learning there? O! we have made a vow to study, lords, And in that vow we have forsworn our books: For when would you, my liege, or you, or you, In leaden contemplation have found out Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with? Other slow arts entirely keep the brain; And therefore, finding barren practisers,
Thesaurus abstinence: (n) temperance, abstention, forbearance, sobriety, chastity, soberness, celibacy, teetotalism, fast, abstinency, restraint. ANTONYMS: (n) excess, intoxication, revelry, intemperance, drunkenness, dissipation, extravagance, wantonness. adjunct: (n) addendum, addition, appendage, extra, attachment, adjutant, increment, coadjutor; (adj, n) assistant; (adj) auxiliary,
appurtenant. ANTONYMS: (n) hardworking, ponderous, steady; (n) lessening, detriment. persistence, grind, donkeywork, leaden: (adj) heavy, gray, sluggish, drudgery, walking. ANTONYMS: (adj) dilettante, rapid. grey, inert, torpid, grave, languid, sinewy: (adj) muscular, brawny, wiry, drab, burdensome, livid. ANTONYM: (adj) bright. beefy, tough, powerful, tendinous, nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile, brisk, strong, robust, stringy, fibrous. ANTONYM: (adj) stout. spry, alert, expeditious, energetic, clever, lithe; (adj, v) light. thereon: (adv) on that, thereupon, ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy, afterward, at once, early, stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit. immediately, therefore. plodding: (adj) slow, stodgy, heavy,
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Scarce %show a harvest of their heavy toil; But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd: Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails: Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste. For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O! then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,
Thesaurus aught: (n) nil, zero, anything, ought, cypher, nix, cipher, naught, null, zip; (adj) any. doctrine: (n) creed, philosophy, belief, dogma, credo, conviction, lesson, canon, faith, gospel, school. drowsy: (adj, n) sleepy; (adj) lazy, comatose, somnolent, slow, lethargic, sluggish, dull, indolent, soporific, listless. ANTONYMS: (adj) energetic, awake, lively, vigorous, vivacious, refreshed.
eagle: (n) bird of Jove, colors, double eagle, oriflamme, oriflamb, raptor, labarum, emblem, flag, dibs, streamer. harvest: (n, v) fruit; (v) gain, glean, gather, amass, get, reap, pick; (n) ingathering, profit, produce. lute: (n) harp, glue, solder, luting, gum, mortar, plaster, stucco, paste, size, wafer. nourish: (v) foster, keep, bring up, nurture, sustain, aliment, cherish,
feed, maintain, cultivate; (n, v) cradle. ANTONYMS: (v) starve, sap. sparkle: (n, v) flicker, flash, shimmer, spark, shine, blaze, fizz, gleam, glitter; (v) blink, glare. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, dullness, lifelessness. theft: (n) stealing, larceny, thievery, burglary, embezzlement, thieving, peculation, defalcation, depredation, latrociny, misappropriation. ANTONYM: (n) return. trees: (n) foliage.
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Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men, Or for men's sake, the authors of these women; Or women's sake, by whom we men are men, Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves, Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths. It is religion to be thus forsworn; For charity itself fulfils the law; And who can sever love from charity? KING. Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field! BEROWNE. Advance your standards, and upon them, lords; Pell-mell, down with them! be first advis'd, In conflict that you get the sun of them.% LONGAVILLE. Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France? KING. And win them too; therefore let us devise Some entertainment for them in their tents. BEROWNE. First, from the park let us conduct them thither; Then homeward every man attach the hand Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon We will with some strange pastime solace them, Such as the shortness of the time can shape; For revels, dances, masks, and merry hours, Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.
Thesaurus attach: (v) append, adhere, add, affix, bind, link, associate, assign, nail, apply, annex. ANTONYMS: (v) undo, separate, unfasten, disconnect, free, deflect, dissociate, loosen, quit, take, unscrew. homeward: (adj) oriented, orientated. pastime: (n) game, avocation, entertainment, recreation, hobby, distraction, interest, fun, pursuit, amusement, sideline. revels: (adj) carousing; (n) festivities,
partying. shortage, conciseness, gruffness, saint: (v) canonize; (n) holy man, curtailment, short, shortcoming. ANTONYMS: (n) tallness, height, evangelist, apostle, jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack, holy person, longness, wordiness, courtesy. ideal, apotheosis; (adj) sacred. solace: (n) consolation, relief, balm, sever: (n, v) part, cut; (v) break, detach, solacement; (v) console, allay, relieve, recreate; (n, v) ease, cheer, support. cut off, separate, rupture, rend, ANTONYMS: (n) distress, grief. disconnect, crack, divorce. ANTONYMS: (v) join, associate, strewing: (n) scatter, spreading, establish, initiate, unite, mend. spread, sprinkling, sprinkle, shortness: (n) lack, abruptness, dispersion. tents: (n) encampment. brusqueness, curtness, briefness,
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KING. Away, away! No time shall be omitted, That will betime, and may by us be fitted.% BEROWNE. Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn; And justice always whirls in equal measure: Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn; If so, our copper buys no better treasure. [Exeunt.]
Thesaurus cockle: (v) ruffle, pucker, rumple, crinkle, ripple, undulate, crumple, coax, cocker; (n, v) fold; (n) wheat nematode. copper: (n) brass, bull, cop, Cu, constable, gold, fuzz, pig, cent, bobby, coin. 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, confirm. ANTONYMS: (v) refute, inconsistent, unlike, dissimilar, undermine. discriminating, diverse; (v) differ, treasure: (n) gem, fortune, riches, funds; (n, v) hoard, prize, store; (v) disproportion. justice: (adj, n) equity, right, integrity, cherish, appreciate; (adj, n) jewel, honesty; (n) judge, impartiality, precious stone. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, disparage, scorn, neglect; (n) judicature, jurist, morality, justness; (adj) just. ANTONYMS: (n) dud, poverty. unfairness, wickedness. prove: (v) attest, manifest, evidence, establish, show, examine, verify, essay, check, corroborate; (adj, v)
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ACT V
SCENE I. THE KING OF NAVARRE'S PARK.% [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL.] HOLOFERNES. Satis quod sufficit. NATHANIEL. I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. I did converse this quondam day with a companion of the king's who is intituled, nominated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado. HOLOFERNES. Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. NATHANIEL. A most singular and choice epithet.
Thesaurus audacious: (adj) brash, arrogant, barefaced, bold, daring, impudent, intrepid, brave, shameless, enterprising, insolent. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, timid, cautious, polite, reserved, meek, humble, fearful, discreet, respectful. epithet: (n) name, cognomen, appellation, denomination, nickname, moniker, sobriquet, title, picture, byname, byword. majestical: (adj) stately, exalted,
elevated. ribaldry, rude reproach, foul peregrinate: (v) wander, roam, invective; (n) detraction, billingsgate, meander, ramble, traverse. sibilation. quod: (n) bilboes, Bastille, prison, sententious: (adj) pithy, concise, stocks. laconic, brief, aphoristic, short, terse, quondam: (adj) former, late, pristine, pointed, compact, compressed, previous, old, past, bygone, pregnant. prevenient; (adv) once, sometime; (n) spruce: (adj) dapper, neat, natty, whilom. jaunty, trim, rakish, stylish, dashing, reasons: (n) proof. snappy; (adj, v) tidy; (adj, n) bright. scurrility: (n, v) invective, contumely, ANTONYMS: (adj) untidy, messy, abuse, opprobrium, reproach; (v) unkempt.
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[Draws out his table-book.] HOLOFERNES. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and pointdevise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det when he should pronounce debt,--d, e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf; half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebour, neigh abbreviated ne. This is abhominable, which he would call abominable,--it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.% NATHANIEL. Laus Deo, bone intelligo. HOLOFERNES. Bone? bone for bene: Priscian a little scratch'd; 'twill serve. [Enter ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD.] NATHANIEL. Videsne quis venit? HOLOFERNES. Video, et gaudeo. ARMADO. [To MOTH] Chirrah! HOLOFERNES. Quare chirrah, not sirrah? ARMADO. Men of peace, well encountered. HOLOFERNES. Most military sir, salutation.
Thesaurus abbreviated: (adj) short, abridged, abbreviate, condensed, truncated, brief, compendious, cut, truncate, concise, reduced. abhor: (v) hate, detest, abominate, execrate, despise, dislike, nauseate, disdain, scorn, resent, dread. ANTONYMS: (v) adore, approve, like, cherish, embrace, relish, treasure, admire. cauf: (v) hencoop. domine: (n) dominie, dominus,
clergyman, a clergyman, dominee. interpellation, pax. neigh: (n, v) whicker, nicker; (v) exult, staple: (n, v) nail, pin, tack; (n) raw material, material, stuff; (adj, n) basic; crow, crow over, triumph, utter, (adj) fundamental, central, main; (v) hinny, let loose, let out, wigher. orthography: (n) spelling, ideography, hook. ANTONYMS: (v) undo; (adj) boustrophedon, cuneiform, minor. verbosity: (n) prolixity, wordiness, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, writing, writing system, syllabic, syllabary, verboseness, circumlocution, scriptural. pleonasm, prolixness, rhetoric, salutation: (n, v) salute; (n) reception, loquacity, style, expressive style, repetitiousness. ANTONYM: (n) hail, hello, welcome, address, compliment, hullo, recognition, terseness.
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MOTH. [Aside to COSTARD.] They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.% COSTARD. O! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word, for thou are not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus; thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon. MOTH. Peace! the peal begins. ARMADO. [To HOLOFERNES.] Monsieur, are you not lettered? MOTH. Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt backward with the horn on his head? HOLOFERNES. Ba, pueritia, with a horn added. MOTH. Ba! most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning. HOLOFERNES. Quis, quis, thou consonant? MOTH. The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I. HOLOFERNES. I will repeat them,--a, e, i,-MOTH. The sheep; the other two concludes it,--o, u.
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ARMADO. Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and home! It rejoiceth my intellect: true wit! MOTH. Offered by a child to an old man; which is wit-old.% HOLOFERNES. What is the figure? What is the figure? MOTH. Horns. HOLOFERNES. Thou disputes like an infant; go, whip thy gig. MOTH. Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about your infamy circum circa. A gig of a cuckold's horn. COSTARD. An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread. Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou half-penny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O! an the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my bastard, what a joyful father wouldst thou make me. Go to; thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers' ends, as they say. HOLOFERNES. O, I smell false Latin! 'dunghill' for unguem. ARMADO. Arts-man, praeambula; we will be singled from the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the charge-house on the top of the mountain? HOLOFERNES. Or mons, the hill. ARMADO. At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.
Thesaurus barbarous: (adj) barbaric, savage, gothic, brutal, heathen, truculent, rude, fell, ferocious, fierce, uncivilized. ANTONYMS: (adj) nice, cultured, civilized, sophisticated, refined, humane. circa: (adv) about, approximately, around, nearly, roughly, by, almost, close to. ANTONYM: (prep) precisely. dunghill: (adj) base, craven, jakes, sink, recreant, privy; (n) unsanitariness, laystall, mixen,
ANTONYMS: (n) fame, virtue, honor, muckheap, muckhill. educate: (v) instruct, civilize, train, obscurity, pride. joyful: (adj) gay, glad, elated, cheerful, cultivate, coach, bring up, drill, discipline, breed, rear, nurture. gleeful, cheery, delighted, joyous, gingerbread: (adj) bedizened, extra, jolly, blissful, blithe. ANTONYMS: fancy; (v) flimsy, unsubstantial, (adj) miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, insubstantial; (n) ornament, trim, despairing, unpleasant, staid, sorry, embellishment, frill, garnish. disappointed, depressed, heavy. infamy: (n) dishonor, disrepute, mons: (n) adipose tissue, fat, fatty ignominy, notoriety, shame, tissue, mons pubis. opprobrium, reproach, stain, discredit, baseness; (adj, n) pollution.
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HOLOFERNES. I do, sans question.% ARMADO. Sir, it is the King's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion, in the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. HOLOFERNES. The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable, congruent, and measurable, for the afternoon. The word is well culled, chose, sweet, and apt, I do assure you, sir; I do assure. ARMADO. Sir, the King is a noble gentleman, and my familiar, I do assure ye, very good friend. For what is inward between us, let it pass: I do beseech thee, remember thy courtsy; I beseech thee, apparel thy head: and among other importunate and most serious designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let that pass: for I must tell thee it will please his Grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder, and with his royal finger thus dally with my excrement, with my mustachio: but, sweet heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no fable: some certain special honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of travel, that hath seen the world: but let that pass. The very all of all is, but, sweet heart, I do implore secrecy, that the King would have me present the princess, sweet chuck, with some delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or firework. Now, understanding that the curate and your sweet self are good at such eruptions and sudden breaking-out of mirth, as it were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to crave your assistance. HOLOFERNES. Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies. Sir Nathaniel, as concerning some entertainment of time, some show in the posterior of this day, to be rendered by our assistance, the King's command, and this most
Thesaurus antic: (n, v) clown; (n) prank, jest, lark, ask, conjure, crave, pray, importune, pomp, splendor, bluster, state, show. romp, joke, trick, jester; (adj) ANTONYM: (n) unpretentiousness. appeal, plead, solicit. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, grant, reject. posteriors: (n) buttock, croup, rump, ludicrous, fantastical, fantastic. apparel: (n, v) garb, attire, garment, importunate: (adj) annoying, exigent, tail, loin, dorsum, breech, backside array, vesture; (n) clothing, finery, pressing, insistent, bothersome, scut. costume, clothes; (v) adorn, clothe. sans: (adj) without, devoid, minus, pestiferous, pestilent, instant, culled: (adj) preferred, assorted. obdurate, demanding, pleading. short, in need. dally: (v) flirt, act, linger, trifle, toy, ANTONYM: (adj) feeble. withal: (adv) nevertheless, mustachio: (n) moustache, coquette, hesitate, play, dawdle, notwithstanding, however, even so, waste time, lag. ANTONYMS: (v) all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) moustachio. ostentation: (n) affectation, bravado, likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, hurry, rush, hasten, lead. implore: (v) beg, beseech, supplicate, parade, showiness, flourish, vanity, enough.
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gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before the princess, I say none so fit as to present the Nine Worthies.% NATHANIEL. Where will you find men worthy enough to present them? HOLOFERNES. Joshua, yourself; myself, Alexander; this gallant gentleman, Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the page, Hercules,-ARMADO. Pardon, sir; error: he is not quantity enough for that Worthy's thumb; he is not so big as the end of his club. HOLOFERNES. Shall I have audience? He shall present Hercules in minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a snake; and I will have an apology for that purpose. MOTH. An excellent device! So, if any of the audience hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules; now thou crushest the snake!' That is the way to make an offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it. ARMADO. For the rest of the Worthies?-HOLOFERNES. I will play three myself. MOTH. Thrice-worthy gentleman! ARMADO. Shall I tell you a thing? HOLOFERNES. We attend.
Thesaurus apology: (n, v) excuse; (n) amends, regret, defense, justification, reason, explanation, vindication, alibi, acknowledgment; (v) apologize. ANTONYMS: (n) blame, reprehension, accusation, shamelessness, epitome. 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.
hiss: (v) fizz, spit, whiz, whisper, whoosh; (n) buzz, jeer, hissing, ridicule; (n, v) hoot, taunt. limb: (n) arm, branch, member, bough, extremity, offshoot, part, leg, wing, appendage, edge. snake: (n) serpent, ophidian, viper, constrictor, hydra, elapid; (v) wind, twist, curl, weave; (n, v) sneak. strangling: (n) strangle, throttling, strangulation, asphyxiation, execution.
thumb: (v) feel, flip, handle, leaf, touch, flick, hitch, riff; (n) pollex, bull nose, forefinger. 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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ARMADO. We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I beseech you, follow.% HOLOFERNES. Via, goodman Dull! Thou has spoken no word all this while. DULL. Nor understood none neither, sir. HOLOFERNES. Allons! we will employ thee. DULL. I'll make one in a dance, or so, or I will play On the tabor to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay. HOLOFERNES. Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away. [Exeunt.]
SCENE II. THE SAME. BEFORE THE PRINCESS'S PAVILION. [Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE and MARIA.] PRINCESS. Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart, If fairings come thus plentifully in. A lady wall'd about with diamonds! Look you what I have from the loving king. ROSALINE. Madam, came nothing else along with that? PRINCESS. Nothing but this! Yes, as much love in rime As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper
Thesaurus dance: (v) caper, bop, to dance, cavort, crooked. play, skip, to show courage, step; (n, plentifully: (adv) plenteously, v) hop, jump, shake. bountifully, bounteously, fadge: (adj) square; (v) fay. abundantly, profusely, richly, fully, hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades. liberally, opulently, amply, honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere, prolifically. ANTONYM: (adv) good, equitable, artless, heartfelt, meagerly. spoken: (adj) verbal, expressed, guileless, frank, forthright, faithful. ANTONYMS: (adj) lying, misleading, speaking, speak, unwritten, vocal, guarded, corrupt, disloyal, voiced, talk, said, informal, conversational. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwholesome, discourteous, disreputable, fictional, crafty, written, unspoken, tacit, formal,
silent. tabor: (n) drum, tympan, TABOURINE, taborin, tabret, taborine, membranophone. understood: (adj) tacit, implicit, implied, silent, assumed, accepted, appreciated, unstated, undeclared; (v) of course, admitted. ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, spoken, written, explained.
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Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.% ROSALINE. That was the way to make his godhead wax; For he hath been five thousand years a boy. KATHARINE. Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. ROSALINE. You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister. KATHARINE. He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy; And so she died: had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died; And so may you, for a light heart lives long. ROSALINE. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? KATHARINE. A light condition in a beauty dark. ROSALINE. We need more light to find your meaning out. KATHARINE. You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff; Therefore I'll darkly end the argument. ROSALINE. Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark. KATHARINE. So do not you; for you are a light wench.
Thesaurus darkly: (adv) murkily, dimly, obscurely, duskily, somberly, shadily, mistily, secretly, dismally, heavily, overcastly. ANTONYM: (adv) openly. fain: (adj) willing, prepared, ready, favorable, heart and soul, prone; (adv) gladly, lief, readily, willingly; (v) optative. gallows: (n) gibbet, gallous, gallowsbitts, hanging, noose, scaffold, halter, tree, rope, gallowstree, bough.
godhead: (adj, n) divinity, the Deity; prudent. ANTONYMS: (adj) foolish, (n) godhood, godship, churchman, gullible, naive, soft, candid, dim, ecclesiastic, almighty, cleric, creator, innocent, guileless, obtuse, divine; (adj) God. indiscriminate. grandam: (n) grandmother, grannam. stirring: (adj) lively, exciting, alive, seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk, rousing, spirited, touching, thrilling, stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark, active; (n) agitation; (v) eventful, imprint, signet; (adj) conclude. brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressing, ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal. boring, inactive, dull, conciliatory, shrewd: (adj) sharp, astute, keen, asleep, uninspiring, unimpressive; (n) piercing, clever, cunning, bright; (adj, suppression. v) sagacious, knowing, crafty,
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ROSALINE. Indeed, I weigh not you; and therefore light.% KATHARINE. You weigh me not? O! that's you care not for me. ROSALINE. Great reason; for 'past cure is still past care.' PRINCESS. Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd. But, Rosaline, you have a favour too: Who sent it? and what is it? ROSALINE. I would you knew. An if my face were but as fair as yours, My favour were as great: be witness this. Nay, I have verses too, I thank Berowne; The numbers true, and, were the numbering too, I were the fairest goddess on the ground: I am compar'd to twenty thousand fairs. O! he hath drawn my picture in his letter. PRINCESS. Anything like? ROSALINE. Much in the letters; nothing in the praise. PRINCESS. Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion. KATHARINE. Fair as a text B in a copy-book. ROSALINE. 'Ware pencils! how! let me not die your debtor,
Thesaurus conclusion: (n) end, close, result, twenty: (adj) vigesimal; (n) large exacerbate. favour: (n) relief, goodness, assistance, integer, twenty dollar bill. termination, sequel, completion, office, favoritism, benignity; (v) weigh: (v) press, study, measure, cessation, dissolution, finish, finale; (n, v) closing. ANTONYMS: (n) choose, prefer, privilege, facilitate, matter, consider, count, deliberate, contemplate, assess; (n, v) balance, beginning, opening, preface, approve. numbering: (n) counting, poise. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, inauguration, foreword, launch, commencement, head. enumeration, list, numeration, neglect. cure: (n, v) correct, medicine, help; (n) reckoning, listing, determination of witness: (n, v) testimony, attest, evidence; (n) bystander, eyewitness, antidote, salve, therapy, treatment; the thread count, number coding. (v) treat, pickle, preserve, restore. text: (n) copy, matter, theme, script, onlooker, observer; (v) observe, ANTONYMS: (n) poison; (v) injure, notice, see, view. ANTONYMS: (v) subject, words, document, lyric, hurt, harm, wound, damage, textbook, manuscript, book. deny, participate, refute.
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My red dominical, my golden letter: O, that your face were not so full of O's! KATHARINE. A pox of that jest! and beshrew all shrows! PRINCESS. But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumaine? KATHARINE. Madam, this glove.% PRINCESS. Did he not send you twain? KATHARINE. Yes, madam; and, moreover, Some thousand verses of a faithful lover; A huge translation of hypocrisy, Vilely compil'd, profound simplicity. MARIA. This, and these pearl, to me sent Longaville; The letter is too long by half a mile. PRINCESS. I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart The chain were longer and the letter short? MARIA. Ay, or I would these hands might never part. PRINCESS. We are wise girls to mock our lovers so. ROSALINE. They are worse fools to purchase mocking so. That same Berowne I'll torture ere I go. O that I knew he were but in by th' week!
Thesaurus beshrew: (v) curse, damn, imprecate, mock: (adj, v) counterfeit; (n, v) excruciation, grief; (v) rack, excruciate. ANTONYMS: (n) relief, bedamn, anathemize, anathematize, ridicule, jeer, gibe, laugh at, flout; execrate, maledict; (adj) shrew. (adj, n, v) burlesque, sham; (v) mimic, alleviation, content, ecstasy, joy, ANTONYM: (v) bless. ape, taunt. ANTONYMS: (adj) real, pleasure; (v) relieve, alleviate. faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct, natural; (v) praise, applaud, respect, translation: (n) displacement, exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing, approve. transformation, version, dependable, devoted, sound, devout; pearl: (adj, n) jewel; (n) gem, bead, interpretation, rendition, paraphrase, (adj, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) dewdrop, ivory, bone; (adj) brilliant, metamorphosis, conversion, shift, mistranslation; (v) transmission. unreliable, false, inaccurate, flower, bijou, satin etched, ruby. ANTONYM: (n) dud. twain: (n) pair, brace, dyad, deuce, unfaithful, unrealistic, faithless, torture: (n, v) pain, distress, agonize, perfidious, backstabbing, cheating, twosome, duo, straddle, bitstock, afflict; (n) agony, anguish, suffering, inexact, loose. coupling, braces, yoke.
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How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek, And wait the season, and observe the times, And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rimes, And shape his service wholly to my hests, And make him proud to make me proud that jests! So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state That he should be my fool, and I his fate.% PRINCESS. None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd, As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd, Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool. ROSALINE. The blood of youth burns not with such excess As gravity's revolt to wantonness. MARIA. Folly in fools bears not so strong a note As fool'ry in the wise when wit doth dote; Since all the power thereof it doth apply To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. [Enter BOYET.] PRINCESS. Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face. BOYET. O! I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her Grace? PRINCESS. Thy news, Boyet? BOYET. Prepare, madam, prepare!-Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are
Thesaurus bootless: (adj) futile, useless, vain, idle, inefficacious, inutile, unavailing, sleeveless, abortive, ineffective, feckless. fawn: (v) crawl, creep, grovel, cringe, cower, crouch, bootlick, kowtow, blandish, flatter; (n) deer. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, despise, ignore, domineer. folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity, craziness, density, freak; (adj, n)
irrationality, trifling. ANTONYM: (n) thereof: (adv) thence, therefrom, therefore, hence; (adj) casual, sense. mirth: (adj, n) merriment, jollity; (n) intelligence, observer, occasional, amusement, happiness, delight, joy, prearranged, premeditated, hilarity, cheerfulness, festivity, fortuitous. gladness, exhilaration. ANTONYMS: wantonness: (n) lust, unrestraint, (n) gloom, sadness, misery. licentiousness, sexual immorality, revolt: (n, v) mutiny, rebellion, immorality, lasciviousness, insurrection; (v) sicken, nauseate, unconstraint, voluptuousness, rebel, repel, repulse, offend; (adj, v) wickedness, lasciviency, sybaritism. shock; (n) uprising. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYM: (n) restraint. attraction; (v) please, delight.
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Against your peace: Love doth approach disguis'd, Armed in arguments; you'll be surpris'd: Muster your wits; stand in your own defence; Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.% PRINCESS. Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they That charge their breath against us? Say, scout, say. BOYET. Under the cool shade of a sycamore I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour; When, lo, to interrupt my purpos'd rest, Toward that shade I might behold addrest The king and his companions: warily I stole into a neighbour thicket by, And overheard what you shall overhear; That, by and by, disguis'd they will be here. Their herald is a pretty knavish page, That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage: Action and accent did they teach him there; 'Thus must thou speak' and 'thus thy body bear,' And ever and anon they made a doubt Presence majestical would put him out; 'For' quoth the King 'an angel shalt thou see; Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.' The boy replied 'An angel is not evil; I should have fear'd her had she been a devil.' With that all laugh'd, and clapp'd him on the shoulder, Making the bold wag by their praises bolder. One rubb'd his elbow, thus, and fleer'd, and swore A better speech was never spoke before. Another with his finger and his thumb
Thesaurus companions: (n) circle, entourage, interrupt: (v) disturb, break, hinder, shade: (n, v) screen, tinge, shadow, tint, color, cloud; (n) ghost, hue, people. intermit, stop, cut, break in, arrest, elbow: (n, v) poke, nudge, jolt; (n) check; (n, v) suspend; (adj, v) pause. blind, conceal, tone. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (v) cheer, respect, (n) brightness, glare; (v) brighten, cubitus, elbow joint, angle, articulation; (v) jostle, push, shove, restore. clarify, expose. knavish: (adj) tricky, dishonest, crafty, stole: (n) wrap, stolen, scarf, stolon, crowd. herald: (n) forerunner, courier, sly, roguish, guileful, foxy, dodgy, stealing, robe, alb, tunicle, surplice, messenger; (v) declare, foretell, cunning, false, corrupt. alba, cassock. thicket: (n) brake, coppice, brush, announce, bode, proclaim, introduce, scout: (n, v) spy; (n) lookout, foreshadow; (n, v) augur. pathfinder, talent scout, picket, grove, spinney, bush, brushwood, ANTONYMS: (v) follow; (n) patrol, detective; (v) explore, cluster, underbrush, undergrowth, successor. reconnoiter, reconnoitre, investigate. underwood.
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Cried 'Via! we will do't, come what will come.' The third he caper'd, and cried 'All goes well.' The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he fell. With that they all did tumble on the ground, With such a zealous laughter, so profound, That in this spleen ridiculous appears, To check their folly, passion's solemn tears.% PRINCESS. But what, but what, come they to visit us? BOYET. They do, they do, and are apparell'd thus, Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess. Their purpose is to parley, court, and dance; And every one his love-feat will advance Unto his several mistress; which they'll know By favours several which they did bestow. PRINCESS. And will they so? The gallants shall be task'd: For, ladies, we will every one be mask'd; And not a man of them shall have the grace, Despite of suit, to see a lady's face. Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear, And then the king will court thee for his dear; Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine, So shall Berowne take me for Rosaline. And change you favours too; so shall your loves Woo contrary, deceiv'd by these removes. ROSALINE. Come on, then, wear the favours most in sight. KATHARINE. But, in this changing, what is your intent?
Thesaurus bestow: (v) give, confer, grant, impart, amusing, comic. ANTONYMS: (adj) contribute, donate, apply, award; reasonable, inspiring, ordinary, (adj, v) accord, allow, present. sensitive, acceptable, generous, ANTONYMS: (v) deprive, refuse, normal, possible, impressive, sane, withhold, retrieve, withdraw. worthwhile. intent: (n) idea, intention, design, solemn: (adj, n, v) serious; (adj, v) spirit, meaning, import, goal, sober, important, sedate, devout, purpose; (adj, n) attentive; (adj) formal, demure; (adj) heavy, dignified, sacred; (adj, n) earnest. absorbed, engrossed. ridiculous: (adj) foolish, preposterous, ANTONYMS: (adj) frivolous, funny, laughable, ludicrous, inane, cheerful, unceremonious, funny, nonsensical, comical, farcical, playful, flippant, relaxed.
tumble: (n, v) drop, jumble, stumble, plunge, slip, spill, downfall; (v) crumble, collapse, topple, confuse. 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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PRINCESS. The effect of my intent is to cross theirs; They do it but in mocking merriment; And mock for mock is only my intent. Their several counsels they unbosom shall To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal Upon the next occasion that we meet With visages display'd to talk and greet.% ROSALINE. But shall we dance, if they desire us to't? PRINCESS. No, to the death, we will not move a foot, Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace; But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face. BOYET. Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart, And quite divorce his memory from his part. PRINCESS. Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out. There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown, To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own: So shall we stay, mocking intended game, And they well mock'd, depart away with shame. [Trumpet sounds within.] BOYET. The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come. [The LADIES mask.] [Enter BLACKAMOORS with music; MOTH, the KING, BEROWNE, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAINE in Russian habits, and masked.]
Thesaurus contempt: (n, v) scorn; (v) despise; (n) disrespect, derision, mockery, disregard, ridicule, shame, slight, reproach, discourtesy. ANTONYMS: (n) approval, admiration, regard, honor, esteem. 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.
habits: (n) behavior, decorum, pratique. kill: (n, v) assassinate, destroy; (v) erase, annihilate, eliminate, extinguish, finish, blast, decimate, execute, eradicate. ANTONYMS: (v) revitalize, revive; (n) hunter. render: (v) interpret, explain, give, offer, furnish, pay, construe, return, provide, impart, translate. sport: (n, v) play, pastime, jest, diversion, romp, joke, disport,
gambol; (n) fun, amusement, recreation. ANTONYMS: (n) work; (v) conceal. trumpet: (n) horn, cornet, bugle, clarion, trump, brass, trombone; (v) proclaim, promulgate, show off, blare. unbosom: (v) relieve, unveil, save, salve, allay, assuage, remedy, unbreast, palliate, let off, free.
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MOTH. 'All hail, the richest heauties on the earth!' BOYET. Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.% MOTH. 'A holy parcel of the fairest dames [The LADIES turn their backs to him.] That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views! BEROWNE. 'Their eyes,' villain, 'their eyes.' MOTH. 'That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views! Out'-BOYET. True; 'out,' indeed. MOTH. 'Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe Not to behold'-BEROWNE. 'Once to behold,' rogue. MOTH. 'Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes--with your sun-beamed eyes'-BOYET. They will not answer to that epithet; You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.' MOTH. They do not mark me, and that brings me out.
Thesaurus hail: (v) address, cry, acclaim, characterize, distinguish. applaud, summon, accost, fall, cheer, ANTONYM: (n) enhancement. salute; (n, v) call; (n) greeting. parcel: (n) bale, pack, bundle, package, ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, criticize. packet, section, division, batch; (n, v) holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly, portion; (v) distribute, apportion. rich: (adj, n) copious, luxurious; (adj) religious, blessed, hallowed, spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv) productive, fruitful, full, deep, saintly; (adv) sacredly. ANTONYMS: prolific, opulent, fat, affluent; (adj, v) (adj) irreligious, unholy. fertile. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, mark: (adj, n, v) notice; (n, v) brand, impoverished, destitute, broke, light, score, heed, label, blemish; (n) sign, plain, lean, delicate, infertile, weak, impression, character; (v) barren.
rogue: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, imp, miscreant, crook, cheat, impostor, swindler, cad, villain, scoundrel. spirits: (n) alcohol, booze, humor, frame of mind, liqueur, strong drink, hard drink; (adj) cheer, geniality, good humor; (v) wine. turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil, round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout; (v) revolve. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, Miss, stagnation; (v) unbend.
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BEROWNE. Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue.% [Exit MOTH.] ROSALINE. What would these strangers? Know their minds, Boyet. If they do speak our language, 'tis our will That some plain man recount their purposes: Know what they would. BOYET. What would you with the princess? BEROWNE. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. ROSALINE. What would they, say they? BOYET. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. ROSALINE. Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone. BOYET. She says you have it, and you may be gone. KING. Say to her we have measur'd many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass. BOYET. They say that they have measur'd many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. ROSALINE. It is not so. Ask them how many inches
Thesaurus gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind, measurement, estimate, degree, beat, count, report, convey. benchmark, quantity, meter; (n, v) speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v) affable, balmy, mild, feeble, compassionate; (adj, adv) calm; (adj, v) act. ANTONYMS: (v) guess, estimate. converse, say, deliver, articulate, tame. ANTONYMS: (adj) harsh, loud, plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n) fierce, caustic, violent, rough, intelligible, apparent, manifest, language. obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, strangers: (n) stranger. hardhearted, abrupt, heavy, steep, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) visitation: (v) visit, examination; (n) sheer. grass: (v) denounce, betray; (n) forage, elaborate, unclear, multicolored, tribulation, calamity, annoyance, cannabis, hay, pasture, fink, sward, mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, misfortune, irritation, infliction, pasturage; (adj, n) green, marijuana. confused, fussy, obscure, patterned. inspection, test, ordeal. ANTONYM: (n) patriot. recount: (v) tell, recite, relate, describe, measure: (n) amount, criterion, extent, enumerate, inform, detail, rehearse,
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Is in one mile? If they have measured many, The measure then of one is easily told.% BOYET. If to come hither you have measur'd miles, And many miles, the Princess bids you tell How many inches doth fill up one mile. BEROWNE. Tell her we measure them by weary steps. BOYET. She hears herself. ROSALINE. How many weary steps Of many weary miles you have o'ergone Are number'd in the travel of one mile? BEROWNE. We number nothing that we spend for you; Our duty is so rich, so infinite, That we may do it still without accompt. Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face, That we, like savages, may worship it. ROSALINE. My face is but a moon, and clouded too. KING. Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do! Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine, Those clouds remov'd, upon our watery eyne. ROSALINE. O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter; Thou now requests'st but moonshine in the water.
Thesaurus blessed: (adj) happy, holy, cursed, sacred, damned, hallowed, blasted, fortunate, saintly, lucky, divine. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlucky, condemned, damned, disapproved, unhappy, unholy, secular. clouded: (adj, n) cloudy; (adj) gloomy, dark, overcast, obscure, blurred, foggy, misty, hazy, bleary; (v) cymophanous. ANTONYM: (adj) clear. hears: (v) hear.
moonshine: (adj, n) moonlight, rubbish; (adj) moonbeam, bosh, moonglade; (n) bootleg, moon, rot, all talk, corn liquor, nonsense. petitioner: (n) applicant, claimant, complainant, supplicant, plaintiff, suppliant, pursuer, requester, suitor, suer, lover. sunshine: (n) sunlight, sun, day, light, fair weather, gladness, shine, glee, sunbeam, delight, brightness. watery: (adj) moist, diluted, wet,
dilute, washy, thin, damp, fluid, aqueous, weak, insipid. ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, solid, dry, soft, dehydrated, lively, dark, clear, thick, hard. weary: (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, tire out; (adj) tired, exhausted, fatigued, aweary, beat, languid; (n, v) jade, bore. ANTONYMS: (adj) energetic, fresh, lively, untiring, hopeful, refreshed; (v) refresh, enliven, energize, activate, rally.
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KING. Then in our measure do but vouchsafe one change. Thou bid'st me beg; this begging is not strange.% ROSALINE. Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon. [Music plays.] Not yet! No dance! thus change I like the moon. KING. Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged? ROSALINE. You took the moon at full; but now she's chang'd. KING. Yet still she is the moon, and I the man. The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it. ROSALINE. Our ears vouchsafe it. KING. But your legs should do it. ROSALINE. Since you are strangers, and come here by chance, We'll not be nice: take hands; we will not dance. KING. Why take we hands then? ROSALINE. Only to part friends. Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends. KING. More measure of this measure: be not nice.
Thesaurus begging: (n) mendicancy, request, legs: (v) pegs, trotters, pins; (n) plea; (v) asking, beg; (adj) beseeching, patience, pedestal, stamina. moon: (adj) lunar; (n) month, entreating, mendicant, imploring, suppliant, vagabond. moonshine, satellite, moonlight, luck, ears: (n) antenna. lunar month, GHURRY, epoch, orb of ends: (n) tops, crook, band, bend, night; (v) daydream. motion: (n) action, movement, bind, limits, clippings, curve, trimmings, boundaries. gesticulation, play, exercise, passage; estranged: (adj) disaffected, separated, (n, v) wave, sign, signal; (v) beckon, gesticulate. ANTONYMS: (n) inertia, confused, bitter, anomic, neurotic, lonely, homeless, friendless, foreign, motionlessness, inactivity, stillness; (v) dismiss. factious.
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. vouchsafe: (v) grant, condescend, allow, confer, stoop, give, please, bestow; (n, v) accord; (adv) have the goodness, will you.
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ROSALINE. We can afford no more at such a price.% KING. Price you yourselves? what buys your company? ROSALINE. Your absence only. KING. That can never be. ROSALINE. Then cannot we be bought: and so adieu; Twice to your visor, and half once to you! KING. If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat. ROSALINE. In private then. KING. I am best pleas'd with that. [They converse apart.] BEROWNE. White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee. PRINCESS. Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three. BEROWNE. Nay, then, two treys, an if you grow so nice, Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice! There's half a dozen sweets. PRINCESS. Seventh sweet, adieu: Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.
Thesaurus chat: (n, v) converse, talk, chatter, chitchat, confab, prattle; (n) conversation, causerie, gab; (v) confabulate, chaffer. converse: (n, v) chat, discourse, argue; (v) confer, confabulate, speak; (n) conversation, colloquy, contrast; (adj, n) opposite; (adj) counter. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) equal; (adj) similar, complementary; (n) similarity. 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. dozen: (adj, n) XII; (n) dozens, boxcars. honey: (n) dear, love, beloved, nectar, sweetheart, dearest, duck, molasses, sugar, baby; (v) sweeten. sugar: (n) darling, saccharide, carbohydrate, love, beloved, jaggary;
(adj, n) dear; (v) saccharify, sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate. sweets: (n) confectionery, julep, grocery, confiture, instantaneous sweet. visor: (n) eyeshade, peak, vizor, disguise, bill, vizard, shade, screen, armor plating, armor plate, head loupe. wort: (n) malt, herb, beer wort. yourselves: (pron) themselves, myself, herself.
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BEROWNE. One word in secret.% PRINCESS. Let it not be sweet. BEROWNE. Thou griev'st my gall. PRINCESS. Gall! bitter. BEROWNE. Therefore meet. [They converse apart.] DUMAINE. Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word? MARIA. Name it. DUMAINE. Fair lady,-MARIA. Say you so? Fair lord, Take that for your fair lady. DUMAINE. Please it you, As much in private, and I'll bid adieu. [They converse apart.] KATHARINE. What, was your visord made without a tongue? LONGAVILLE. I know the reason, lady, why you ask.
Thesaurus bitter: (adj, v) acrimonious, acrid; (adj) partial, mismatched, unwarranted, private: (adj) clandestine, personal, sharp, acid, malicious, caustic, foul, imbalanced, prejudiced, poor. secret, individual, hidden, inner, gall: (v) fret, chafe, irritate, irk, exclusive, intimate, esoteric; (adj, v) virulent, sour, resentful, keen, acerbic. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, provoke; (adj, n, v) anger; (n) covert, close. ANTONYMS: (adj) charitable, hot, sugary, kind, bitterness, cheek, audacity, acerbity, official, nationalized, community, acrimony. ANTONYM: (v) please. wonderful, warm, pleasant, nice, communal, shared, civic, state, open, meet: (v) find, converge, assemble, agreeable, gentle. external, commercial, collective. fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet, word: (n) news, tidings, password, gather, fulfill, congregate, answer, cross, confront, intersect; (adv, v) reasonable, dispassionate, average, expression, report, vocable, fine, impartial; (adj, v) bright; (adj, encounter. ANTONYMS: (v) diverge, statement, term; (v) formulate, adv) clean; (n) blonde. ANTONYMS: disperse, separate, part, leave, differ, phrase; (n, v) advice. (adj) biased, unjust, exceptional, dark, disband.
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KATHARINE. O! for your reason! quickly, sir; I long.% LONGAVILLE. You have a double tongue within your mask, And would afford my speechless visor half. KATHARINE. 'Veal' quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf? LONGAVILLE. A calf, fair lady! KATHARINE. No, a fair lord calf. LONGAVILLE. Let's part the word. KATHARINE. No, I'll not be your half. Take all and wean it; it may prove an ox. LONGAVILLE. Look how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks! Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so. KATHARINE. Then die a calf, before your horns do grow. LONGAVILLE. One word in private with you ere I die. KATHARINE. Bleat softly, then; the butcher hears you cry. [They converse apart.] BOYET. The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible,
Thesaurus bleat: (v) blat, kvetch, gripe, moan, whimper, cry, blate, quetch, utter, emit; (n) baaing. butcher: (v) slaughter, kill, murder, slay; (n, v) massacre, botch; (n) assassin, bungler, slaughterer, meatman, murderer. ANTONYMS: (v) develop, create, grow, build. butt: (v) bunt, abut; (n) extremity, stump, grip, stub, rump, cask, rear, tail; (n, v) edge. calf: (n) calves, calfskin, sura, foal,
shorthorn, pup, kitten, colt, leather, roughly, loudly, clearly, harshly, kid, box calf. forte, severely, strongly, heavily, chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, convincingly, brightly. speechless: (adj) silent, mute, dumb, modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, severe, continent, spotless, decent. dumbfounded, voiceless, quiet, ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, tongueless, tacit, noiseless, mum, lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, wordless. ANTONYMS: (adj) dirty, defiled, impure, tainted. loquacious, eloquent, talkative. softly: (adv) quietly, mildly, lightly, wean: (v) alienate, disaffect, extricate, tenderly, delicately, gently, soft, spane, raise, loose, free, disentangle, detach, deprive; (n) weanling. quiet, silently, kindly, slowly. ANTONYMS: (adv) hoarsely,
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Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen, Above the sense of sense; so sensible Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings, Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.% ROSALINE. Not one word more, my maids; break off, break off. BEROWNE. By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff! KING. Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits. PRINCESS. Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits. [Exeunt KING, LORDS, Music, and Attendants.] Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? BOYET. Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out. ROSALINE. Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat. PRINCESS. O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout! Will they not, think you, hang themselves to-night? Or ever, but in vizors, show their faces? This pert Berowne was out of countenance quite. ROSALINE. O! They were all in lamentable cases! The King was weeping-ripe for a good word. PRINCESS. Berowne did swear himself out of all suit.
Thesaurus breed: (n) variety, race, kind, ancestry, wintry, glacial, arctic, icy, freezing, sort, order, species; (v) engender, stiff, congealed, iced. ANTONYMS: (adj) moving, hot, warm, boiling, multiply, beget, bear. ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, eradicate, ignore, kill, fluid, liquid, melted, unfrozen, neglect, quell. thawed, tropical, soft. countenance: (n) aspect, expression, lamentable: (adj) grievous, pitiful, brow, complexion; (n, v) face, distressing, sad, dismal, sorrowful, sanction, support, favor; (v) allow, piteous, unfortunate, lugubrious; (adj, tolerate, uphold. ANTONYMS: (v) v) pitiable, mournful. ANTONYMS: (adj) laudable, fortunate. reject, oppose, discourage, pert: (adj) impertinent, bold, disapprove, prohibit. frozen: (adj) cold, frosty, frigid, impudent, insolent, forward, fresh,
brazen, saucy, malapert, irreverent, cheeky. ANTONYM: (adj) listless. scoff: (n, v) gibe, flout, deride, jibe; (n) mockery, hoot, jeering; (v) mock, ridicule, sneer, scorn. ANTONYMS: (v) approve, nibble. swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, avow, depone, depose, aver. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute, deny, compliment.
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MARIA. Dumaine was at my service, and his sword: 'No point' quoth I; my servant straight was mute.% KATHARINE. Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart; And trow you what he call'd me? PRINCESS. Qualm, perhaps. KATHARINE. Yes, in good faith. PRINCESS. Go, sickness as thou art! ROSALINE. Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps. But will you hear? The king is my love sworn. PRINCESS. And quick Berowne hath plighted faith to me. KATHARINE. And Longaville was for my service born. MARIA. Dumaine is mine, as sure as bark on tree. BOYET. Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear: Immediately they will again be here In their own shapes; for it can never be They will digest this harsh indignity. PRINCESS. Will they return?
Thesaurus bark: (n, v) skin, yelp, snarl, cry, rind, shout; (v) growl, roar; (n) bay, peel, crust. ANTONYMS: (n, v) whisper. digest: (n) resume, compilation, epitome, compendium, condensation, collection; (v) stomach, absorb, summarize, apprehend; (adj) brook. ANTONYMS: (v) misinterpret, lengthen, expand, enlarge, elaborate, misunderstand, avoid, succumb, misapprehend, detail, reject. 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. indignity: (n) dishonor, contumely, humiliation, contempt, outrage, disdain, offence, disgrace, degradation; (n, v) insult, abuse. ANTONYMS: (n) honor, glory, pride. plighted: (adj) intended, engaged.
servant: (n) manservant, domestic, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey, retainer, boy, footman, flunky, menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master, mistress. sickness: (n, v) disease, indisposition, malady, disorder, distemper, ailment; (n) complaint, qualm, nausea, disgust, queasiness. trow: (adj) opine, weet, be of opinion, conceive; (v) believe, possess.
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BOYET. They will, they will, God knows, And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows; Therefore, change favours; and, when they repair, Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.% PRINCESS. How blow? how blow? Speak to be understood. BOYET. Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud: Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown. PRINCESS. Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do If they return in their own shapes to woo? ROSALINE. Good madam, if by me you'll be advis'd, Let's mock them still, as well known as disguis'd. Let us complain to them what fools were here, Disguis'd like Muscovites, in shapeless gear; And wonder what they were, and to what end Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd, And their rough carriage so ridiculous, Should be presented at our tent to us. BOYET. Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand. PRINCESS. Whip to our tents, as roes run over land. [Exeunt PRINCESS, ROSALINE, KATHARINE, and MARIA.] [Re-enter the KING, BEROWNE, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAINE in their proper habits.]
Thesaurus avaunt: (n, v) vaunt, boast; (v) melt away, go, vanish, disappear, dissolve, fade, pass. commixture: (n) admixture, blend, mixing, mix, combination, composite, compound, commixtion, confection, compounding, fusion. damask: (n) fabric, napery, purple, magenta, red, fancier, cloth. lame: (adj) crippled, disabled, halting, feeble, halt, weak, paralytic; (adj, n) game; (adj, v) paralyze, maim,
becripple. perplexity: (n) confusion, dilemma, bewilderment, maze, labyrinth, embarrassment, quandary, complication, enigma; (adj, n) difficulty, distress. ANTONYM: (n) understanding. prologue: (n) preface, introduction, preamble, foreword, Prolog, overture, proem, preliminary, beginning, prolegomena, opening. ANTONYMS: (n) conclusion,
postscript. shapeless: (adj) amorphous, misshapen, unformed, unstructured, nebulous, inchoate, unshapely, indistinct, uncrystallized, embryonic, vague. ANTONYMS: (adj) distinct, defined, tailored. vilely: (adv) dirtily, wickedly, meanly, foully, disgustingly, grossly, sordidly, worthlessly, infamously, nauseatingly, revoltingly.
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KING. Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess? BOYET. Gone to her tent. Please it your Majesty Command me any service to her thither? KING. That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.% BOYET. I will; and so will she, I know, my lord. [Exit.] BEROWNE. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease, And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, Have not the grace to grace it with such show. This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve; Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve: He can carve too, and lisp: why this is he That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice In honourable terms; nay, he can sing A mean most meanly; and in ushering Mend him who can: the ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. This is the flower that smiles on every one, To show his teeth as white as whales-bone; And consciences that will not die in debt Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.
Thesaurus carve: (v) cut up, cut, mold, incise, venerable, glorious, honorable, shape, inscribe, engrave, whittle, distinguished, above-board, good, slash, hew; (n) carving. worthy, right, noble. grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, lisp: (v) enunciate, mince, enounce, embellish, beautify, decorate, breathe, lipse. embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) meanly: (adv) poorly, nastily, elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. averagely, humbly, ungenerously, ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, tightly, rudely, stingily, awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, parsimoniously, scurvily, mediocrely. heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, ANTONYMS: (adv) generously, demean. sympathetically, compassionately, honourable: (adj) estimable, reverend, genially, respectfully, pleasantly,
affluently. pedlar: (n) chapman, hawker, huckster, packman, cadger, seller, coster, costermonger, vender, vendor, street vendor. pigeons: (n) order Columbiformes, Columbiformes. pins: (v) feet, legs, pegs, trotters. tent: (n) awning, marquee, pavilion, canopy, collapsible shelter, tabernacle, attention, pack tent, parasol, pop tent; (n, v) camp.
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KING. A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart, That put Armado's page out of his part! [Re-enter the PRINCESS, ushered by BOYET; ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, and Attendants.] BEROWNE. See where it comes! Behaviour, what wert thou, Till this man show'd thee? and what art thou now? KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive.% KING. Construe my speeches better, if you may. PRINCESS. Then wish me better: I will give you leave. KING. We came to visit you, and purpose now To lead you to our court; vouchsafe it then. PRINCESS. This field shall hold me, and so hold your vow: Nor God, nor I, delights in perjur'd men. KING. Rebuke me not for that which you provoke: The virtue of your eye must break my oath. PRINCESS. You nickname virtue: vice you should have spoke; For virtue's office never breaks men's troth. Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure
Thesaurus blister: (adj, n) boil; (v) scorch, swell, homage, celebrity, accolade, reproach, chide, blame, reproof, scald, vesicate; (n) bulla, bubble, reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, lecture, check; (v) castigate, berate; abscess, pimple, pustule; (adj, v) celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, (n) admonition. ANTONYMS: (n, v) v) dishonor; (v) disrespect. praise, compliment; (v) commend, burn. breaks: (n) lot, destiny, opportunity, maiden: (n) maid, girl, demoiselle, acknowledge, approve; (n) approval. damosel, wench, fille, lass, miss; (adj) vice: (adj, n) imperfection, defect, chance. construe: (v) read, interpret, expound, first, initiatory, unmarried. blemish, failing, frailty; (n) nickname: (v) dub, nick; (n) sobriquet, corruption, sin, evil, immorality, clarify, define, illuminate, infer, explain, account for, analyse, take. alias, moniker, cognomen, pet name, iniquity, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (v) complicate, surname, appellation, soubriquet, asset, strength, propriety, virtue, confuse, obscure, speculate. family name. righteousness, goodness, good, honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, rebuke: (n, v) reprimand, rebuff, honesty; (adj) chief.
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As the unsullied lily, I protest, A world of torments though I should endure, I would not yield to be your house's guest; So much I hate a breaking cause to be Of heavenly oaths, vowed with integrity.% KING. O! you have liv'd in desolation here, Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame. PRINCESS. Not so, my lord; it is not so, I swear; We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game. A mess of Russians left us but of late. KING. How, madam! Russians? PRINCESS. Ay, in truth, my lord; Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. ROSALINE. Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord: My lady, to the manner of the days, In courtesy gives undeserving praise. We four indeed confronted were with four In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour, And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord, They did not bless us with one happy word. I dare not call them fools; but this I think, When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink. BEROWNE. This jest is dry to me. Fair gentle sweet, Your wit makes wise things foolish:when we greet,
Thesaurus apace: (adj, adv) speedily, quickly; (adv) fast, rapidly, hastily, soon, promptly; (adj) forthwith, immediately, incontinently, shortly. ANTONYM: (adv) slowly. courtship: (n) courting, wooing, love, bundling, the soft impeachment, prayer, entreaty, gallantry, addresses, cause, affection. 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. thirsty: (adj) eager, arid, parched, avid, keen, athirst, greedy, absorbent, ambitious; (v) craving, hungry. ANTONYMS: (adj) quenched, satisfied, disinterested, wet. undeserving: (adj) disgraceful, worthless, unworthy of, degrading, immeritous, indign, mean, not worthy, unbecoming, undeserving of.
ANTONYM: (adj) deserving. unsullied: (adj) unstained, unblemished, unspotted, immaculate, pure, innocent, spotless, chaste, stainless, guiltless, unsoiled. ANTONYMS: (adj) blemished, tainted, corrupt, old. unvisited: (adj) unwelcome, off the beaten path, uninvited. vowed: (v) promised, named, benempt.
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With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye, By light we lose light: your capacity Is of that nature that to your huge store Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor.% ROSALINE. This proves you wise and rich, for in my eyeBEROWNE. I am a fool, and full of poverty. ROSALINE. But that you take what doth to you belong, It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue. BEROWNE. O! am yours, and all that I possess. ROSALINE. All the fool mine? BEROWNE. I cannot give you less. ROSALINE. Which of the visors was it that you wore? BEROWNE. Where? when? what visor? why demand you this? ROSALINE. There, then, that visor; that superfluous case That hid the worse,and show'd the better face. KING. We are descried: they'll mock us now downright. DUMAINE. Let us confess, and turn it to a jest.
Thesaurus downright: (adj, n) absolute; (adj, v) easygoing. sheer, clear; (adj) dead, blunt, candid, foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy, plain; (adv) absolutely, thoroughly, dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly. wholly, decidedly. ANTONYMS: (adj) semi, limited, incomplete, ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible, questionable, slight; (adv) hardly. shrewd, prudent, visionary, fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, diplomatic, levelheaded, sane, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, rational, mature, judicious. fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, v) possess: (adj, v) own; (v) hold, wield, fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) occupy, bear, keep, enjoy, contain, calm, passionless, dispassionate, retain, to have, maintain. indifferent, placid, gentle, cool; (adv) ANTONYMS: (v) lack, remove.
snatch: (n, v) pinch, snap, catch, grip; (v) abduct, clutch, kidnap, seize, jerk, capture, pluck. ANTONYM: (v) release. superfluous: (adj, v) spare; (adj) needless, extra, excess, excessive, unnecessary, surplus, pointless, superabundant, supernumerary, supererogatory. ANTONYMS: (adj) indispensable, important, essential, basic, pertinent.
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PRINCESS. Amaz'd, my lord? Why looks your Highness sad? ROSALINE. Help! hold his brows! he'll swound. Why look you pale? Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.% BEROWNE. Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury. Can any face of brass hold longer out?-Here stand I, lady; dart thy skill at me; Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout; Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance; Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit; And I will wish thee never more to dance, Nor never more in Russian habit wait. O! never will I trust to speeches penn'd, Nor to the motion of a school-boy's tongue, Nor never come in visor to my friend, Nor woo in rime, like a blind harper's song. Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer-flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: I do forswear them; and I here protest, By this white glove,--how white the hand, God knows!-- Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes; And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!-My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. ROSALINE. Sans 'sans,' I pray you.
Thesaurus affectation: (n) pretension, feint, pose, display, airs, affectedness, ostentation, show, pretense, mannerism, sham. ANTONYMS: (n) artlessness, honesty, modesty. confound: (v) bewilder, baffle, nonplus, perplex, astonish, puzzle, amaze, astound, mistake; (adj, v) confuse, stupefy. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, clarify, comfort, lose, distinguish; (n) understanding. flout: (n, v) deride, jeer, gibe, taunt,
scoff, mock, sneer; (v) defy, scorn, drab, leaden, livid, pearly, dingy, jest, scout. ANTONYMS: (v) observe, brunette, bay, russety. silken: (adj) glossy, silk, sleek, soft, notice. forswear: (v) abjure, renounce, satiny, satin, shiny, smooth, slick, downy, mild. ANTONYMS: (adj) disavow, disclaim, recant, perjure, retract, disown, give up, relinquish, coarse, dull, rough. taffeta: (n) taffety, textile, material, discountenance. maggot: (n) larva, crotchet, conceit, cloth, fabric. freak, chimera, quirk, fad, capriccio; wooing: (n) courting, suit, bundling, (adj, n) worm; (adj) mite, emmet. suit of clothes, the soft impeachment, pieces: (n) debris, trash. entreaty, prayer, cause, causa, case; russet: (adj, n) auburn; (adj) tan, dun, (adj) amatory.
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BEROWNE. Yet I have a trick Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick; I'll leave it by degrees. Soft! let us see: Write 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three; They are infected; in their hearts it lies; They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes: These lords are visited; you are not free, For the Lord's tokens on you do I see.% PRINCESS. No, they are free that gave these tokens to us. BEROWNE. Our states are forfeit; seek not to undo us. ROSALINE. It is not so. For how can this be true, That you stand forfeit, being those that sue? BEROWNE. Peace! for I will not have to do with you. ROSALINE. Nor shall not, if I do as I intend. BEROWNE. Speak for yourselves: my wit is at an end. KING. Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression Some fair excuse. PRINCESS. The fairest is confession. Were not you here but even now, disguis'd? KING. Madam, I was.
Thesaurus 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. infected: (adj) diseased, dirty, impure, tainted, festering, corrupt, unclean, morbid, stained, spoiled, soiled. ANTONYM: (adj) healthy. plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict, hassle, annoy, badger, pester, disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj, n, v)
bother. ANTONYM: (v) comfort. proper, decent, exact, clean, gentle, rage: (adj, n, v) fume, bluster; (adj, n) inoffensive. wrath, indignation, frenzy, mania; (n) tokens: (n) decorations, discriminating passion, anger, craze, exasperation; marks, indications, indicia, insignia, (n, v) storm. ANTONYMS: (n) signs, appearances, badges. undo: (v) loosen, open, annul, cancel, gentleness, composure, calm, equanimity, pleasure, serenity. separate, disentangle, untie, unfold, rude: (adj, n) rough, impudent, coarse, reverse, disconnect, nullify. abrupt, bold; (adj) blunt, ANTONYMS: (v) attach, close, do, discourteous, impolite, brutal, crude, wrap, tangle, validate, knot, lock, mean. ANTONYMS: (adj) polite, permit, unite, approve. refined, courteous, chivalrous, civil,
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PRINCESS. And were you well advis'd? KING. I was, fair madam.% PRINCESS. When you then were here, What did you whisper in your lady's ear? KING. That more than all the world I did respect her. PRINCESS. When she shall challenge this, you will reject her. KING. Upon mine honour, no. PRINCESS. Peace! peace! forbear; Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. KING. Despise me when I break this oath of mine. PRINCESS. I will; and therefore keep it. Rosaline, What did the Russian whisper in your ear? ROSALINE. Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear As precious eyesight, and did value me Above this world; adding thereto, moreover, That he would wed me, or else die my lover. PRINCESS. God give thee joy of him! The noble lord Most honourably doth uphold his word.
Thesaurus despise: (v) disdain, loathe, depreciate, abhor, dislike, detest, slight, hate; (n, v) contemn; (n) contempt, deride. ANTONYMS: (v) respect, love, adore, appreciate, cherish, like, praise, accept. honourably: (adv) uprightly, worthily, honestly, creditably, commendably. precious: (adj, n) beloved; (adj) valuable, costly, cherished, invaluable, expensive, golden, choice, inestimable, exquisite; (n) darling.
ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap, hated, uphold: (n, v) support; (v) preserve, shabby. defend, maintain, continue, endorse, reject: (v) deny, decline, disapprove, confirm, countenance, bolster, encourage, back. ANTONYMS: (v) eliminate, dismiss, exclude, rebuff, discard, repel, ignore; (n) cull. infringe, discontinue, weaken, ANTONYMS: (v) approve, choose, contradict, endanger, abandon, select, grant, acknowledge, agree, oppose, quit, undermine, end. pass, welcome, propose, prefer, keep. whisper: (n, v) murmur, hum, thereto: (adv) thereunto, moreover; mumble, suggestion, hint, inkling; (v) (adj) likeness, accurate, coincidence, breathe, hiss; (n) rustle, trace, breath. ANTONYM: (n) information. correct, correctness, deportment, detail, exact, expected.
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KING. What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth, I never swore this lady such an oath.% ROSALINE. By heaven, you did; and, to confirm it plain, You gave me this: but take it, sir, again. KING. My faith and this the princess I did give; I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve. PRINCESS. Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear; And Lord Berowne, I thank him, is my dear. What, will you have me, or your pearl again? BEROWNE. Neither of either; I remit both twain. I see the trick on't: here was a consent, Knowing aforehand of our merriment, To dash it like a Christmas comedy. Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick, That smiles his cheek in years, and knows the trick To make my lady laugh when she's dispos'd, Told our intents before; which once disclos'd, The ladies did change favours, and then we, Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of she. Now, to our perjury to add more terror, We are again forsworn, in will and error. Much upon this it is: [To BOYET.] and might not you Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue? Do not you know my lady's foot by the squire, And laugh upon the apple of her eye?
Thesaurus aforehand: (adj) theretofore, erewhile, ere; (adv) beforehand. apple: (n) Malus pumila, pome, earth, city, world, orchard apple tree; (v) apple slump, ball; (adj) green. dash: (adj, n, v) rush; (n, v) touch, sprint, strike, splash, jog; (v) dart, break; (n) tinge, beat; (adj, n) animation. ANTONYMS: (v) dawdle, inspirit, languish, saunter, encourage, linger; (n) stagnation, languor, listlessness, mass, dullness.
jewel: (n) gemstone, darling, diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure, ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou, precious stone; (adj) brilliant. 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. remit: (adj, v) relax, acquit, loose, loosen; (v) defer, dispatch, pardon,
forgive, mitigate, forward; (adj) exempt. ANTONYM: (v) receive. sleeve: (n) arm, liner, cover, cuff, wristband, collar, socket, skin, sheath; (v) plexus, skein. 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.
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And stand between her back, sir, and the fire, Holding a trencher, jesting merrily? You put our page out: go, you are allow'd; Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud. You leer upon me, do you? There's an eye Wounds like a leaden sword.% BOYET. Full merrily Hath this brave manage, this career, been run. BEROWNE. Lo! he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done. [Enter COSTARD] Welcome, pure wit! thou part'st a fair fray. COSTARD. O Lord, sir, they would know Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no? BEROWNE. What, are there but three? COSTARD. No, sir; but it is vara fine, For every one pursents three. BEROWNE. And three times thrice is nine. COSTARD. Not so, sir; under correction, sir, I hope it is not so. You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir; we know what we know: I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,-BEROWNE. Is not nine.
Thesaurus assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch; (v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, affirm, promise, ascertain; (adj, v) ensure. ANTONYMS: (v) alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve, undermine. 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. gaberdine, sark, dust coat, overalls, fray: (n) conflict, action, fight, combat, dress, blouse, smicket, coverall. disturbance, fracas, scrap; (n, v) tilting: (adj) slanting, leaning, sloping, affray, broil; (v) rub, fret. oblique, lopsided, fighting; (n) single jesting: (adj) jocular, jocose, facetious, wheel tilting, shearing, overturning. humorous, playful; (n) banter, trencher: (n) dish, platter, chopping humor, comedy, pleasantry, fun, board, porringer, potager, ditch joke. ANTONYM: (n) tragedy. digger, saucer, calabash, crucible. leer: (n, v) glance; (n) grin, wink, vara: (v) jornada, handbreadth, arpent, smirk, look, gaze, nudge, shrug, tip linear unit. the wink; (v) simper, ogle. smock: (n) duster, shirt, chemise,
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COSTARD. Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.% BEROWNE. By Jove, I always took three threes for nine. COSTARD. O Lord, sir! it were pity you should get your living by reckoning, sir. BEROWNE. How much is it? COSTARD. O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors, sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir. BEROWNE. Art thou one of the Worthies? COSTARD. It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the Great; for mine own part, I know not the degree of the Worthy; but I am to stand for him. BEROWNE. Go, bid them prepare. COSTARD. We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take some care. [Exit COSTARD.] KING. Berowne, they will shame us; let them not approach. BEROWNE. We are shame-proof, my lord, and 'tis some policy To have one show worse than the king's and his company.
Thesaurus degree: (n) extent, level, condition, title, rank, academic degree, place, caliber, status, stair; (adj, n) order. finely: (adv) delicately, beautifully, magnificently, splendidly, exquisitely, rarely, excellently, lovely, slightly, nicely, bravely. ANTONYMS: (adv) roughly, coarsely, intensely, poorly. mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n) excavation, pit, fund, land mine, vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my,
delve. 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. pleased: (adj) contented, glad, delighted, content, joyful, thankful, gratified, appreciative, overjoyed, cheerful; (adj, v) elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, annoyed, angry,
worried, ashamed, disappointed, frustrated, sad, unsatisfied, ungrateful, uncomplimentary. prepare: (n, v) arrange, form, plan, make; (v) dress, set, lay, devise, groom, equip; (adj, v) coach. ANTONYM: (v) perform. worse: (adj) worser, subordinate, waur, worsened, warre, unrelieved, minor, lesser, junior, poorer; (n) badness. ANTONYMS: (adj) improved, healthier, higher.
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KING. I say they shall not come.% PRINCESS. Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now. That sport best pleases that doth least know how; Where zeal strives to content, and the contents Die in the zeal of those which it presents; Their form confounded makes most form in mirth, When great things labouring perish in their birth. BEROWNE. A right description of our sport, my lord. [Enter ARMADO.] ARMADO. Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words. [Converses apart with the KING, and delivers a paper to him.] PRINCESS. Doth this man serve God? BEROWNE. Why ask you? PRINCESS. He speaks not like a man of God his making. ARMADO. That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for, I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical; too-too vain, too-too vain: but we will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra. I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement! [Exit.] KING. Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He presents Hector of Troy;
Thesaurus brace: (n, v) prop, strengthen, support, invigorate; (n) strut, pair, duo, bitstock, tie; (v) clamp, bolster. ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, sedate, loosen, flex. confounded: (adj) bemused, accursed, execrable, baffled, cursed, befuddled, confused, puzzled, aghast, perplexed; (adj, v) abashed. exceeding: (prep) beyond, more than, greater than; (adj) excessive, transcendent, extraordinary,
exceptional, prodigious, surpassing, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass, Olympian; (v) exceed. ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) expense: (n) disbursement, survive, live, appear. too-too: (adj) ultra, unreasonable, expenditure, price, outlay, amount, toll, fee, payment, costs; (n, v) charge, mincing, immoderate, exaggerated, detriment. ANTONYM: (n) income. inordinate, utmost; (adv) overly. labouring: (adj) drudging, work, utter: (v) say, state, speak, breathe, working, busy, toiling. articulate, deliver, voice, pronounce; monarch: (n) sovereign, lord, emperor, (adj, n, v) express, declare; (adj, v) tell. ANTONYMS: (adj) qualified, ruler, czar, despot, autocrat, tsar, tzar, Danaus Plexippus; (adj) prince. incomplete, uncertain, rather, slight; perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, (v) conceal, hide, block.
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the swain, Pompey the Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page, Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive, These four will change habits and present the other five.% BEROWNE. There is five in the first show. KING. You are deceived, 'tis not so. BEROWNE. The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy:-Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein. KING. The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain. [Enter COSTARD, armed for POMPEY.] COSTARD. 'I Pompey am'-BEROWNE. You lie, you are not he. COSTARD. 'I Pompey am'-BOYET. With libbard's head on knee. BEROWNE. Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends with thee. COSTARD. 'I Pompey am, Pompey surnam'd the Big'-DUMAINE. 'The Great.'
Thesaurus amain: (adv) hastily, with full force. braggart: (n) boaster, braggadocio, blowhard, bragger, vaunter, egoist; (v) magniloquent, Thrasonic; (adj) boastful, vainglorious, braggy. curate: (n) rector, clergyman, minister, chaplain, pastor, Stipendiary curate, priest, vicar, incumbent, reverend, canon. deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided. knee: (n) bracket, articulation, joint, kneel, knee joint, genu, articulatio
genus, scythe, zigzag, sickle, bend. mocker: (n) derider, mockingbird, scoffer, flouter, oscine, banterer, tease, mock, teaser, jester, joker. page: (n) footboy, waiter, attendant, boy, note, bellhop, pageboy, folio, varlet; (v) paginate, summon. sail: (n, v) cruise, float, voyage, sheet; (v) navigate, run, glide, drift, cross, sweep, travel. ANTONYM: (v) struggle. thrive: (adj, v) prosper; (v) flourish,
grow, advance, blossom, succeed, increase, bloom, get ahead, boom; (adj) luxuriate. ANTONYMS: (v) deteriorate, fail, languish, struggle, decrease. throw: (n, v) cast, pitch, push; (v) shed, hurl, heave, chuck, flip, pass, hurtle; (n) shot. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, help, receive, clarify, encourage. vein: (n) vena, strain, nervure, mine, temper, blood vessel, tone; (adj, n) mood, humor, strip, frame of mind.
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COSTARD. It is 'Great,' sir; 'Pompey surnam'd the Great, That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make my foe to sweat: And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance, And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France. If your ladyship would say 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done.% PRINCESS. Great thanks, great Pompey. COSTARD. 'Tis not so much worth; but I hope I was perfect. I made a little fault in 'Great.' BEROWNE. My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy. [Enter SIR NATHANIEL armed, for ALEXANDER.] NATHANIEL. 'When in the world I liv'd, I was the world's commander; By east, west, north, and south, I spread my conquering might: My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander'-BOYET. Your nose says, no, you are not; for it stands to right. BEROWNE. Your nose smells 'no' in this, most tender-smelling knight. PRINCESS. The conqueror is dismay'd. Proceed, good Alexander. NATHANIEL. 'When in the world I liv'd, I was the world's commander;'-BOYET. Most true; 'tis right, you were so, Alisander.
Thesaurus conquering: (adj) triumphant, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub. lass: (n) girl, lassie, damsel, young winning, overcoming, glorious, proud, successful; (n) conquest, woman, young girl, fille, miss, Jeune seizure, reverse, subjection, fille, bobbysocker, bobbysoxer, subjugation. woman. conqueror: (n) champion, winner, proceed: (v) move, advance, originate, subjugator, vanquisher, hero, ensue, flow, issue, arise, emanate; superior, defeater, subduer, invader, (adj, v) pass, run, extend. colonist, Alexander. ANTONYM: (n) ANTONYMS: (v) discontinue, recede, loser. regress, return, retreat. knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, scutcheon: (n) arms, shield, buckler, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, esquire, order, finger plate, a shield,
protection, protective covering. shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover, guard, safeguard, buffer; (v) preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n) protection. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, exposure; (v) endanger, attack, reveal. travelling: (n) travel, peregrination, riding, commuting, aviation, driving, commutation, seafaring, junketing, circumnavigation, journey.
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BEROWNE. Pompey the Great,-COSTARD. Your servant, and Costard.% BEROWNE. Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander. COSTARD. [To Sir Nathaniel.] O! sir, you have overthrown Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of the painted cloth for this; your lion, that holds his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror, and afeard to speak! Run away for shame, Alisander. [Nathaniel retires.] There, an't shall please you: a foolish mild man; an honest man, look you, and soon dashed! He is a marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good bowler; but for Alisander,--alas! you see how 'tis--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort. PRINCESS. Stand aside, good Pompey. [Enter HOLOFERNES armed, for JUDAS; and MOTH armed, for HERCULES.] HOLOFERNES. 'Great Hercules is presented by this imp, Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis; And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp, Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus. Quoniam he seemeth in minority, Ergo I come with this apology.' Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.--[MOTH retires.] 'Judas I am.'--
Thesaurus afeard: (adj) afraid. babe: (n) infant, baby, chick, sweetie, suckling, nursling, child, newborn, chit, girl, darling. ANTONYMS: (n) grownup, adult, adolescent. bowler: (n) bowler hat, boller, player, participant, lid, cricketer, hat, chapeau, batsman, plug hat. dashed: (v) ashamed, cut up, sunk; (adj) broken, done for, dejected, discouraged, dotted. lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj)
worthy, great card, tiger; (n) Leo, cat, dejected, cast down, dissolute, king of beasts, curiosity, luminary, doomed, flooded, discomfit, mat. pompey: (n) Portsmouth, naval base, spectacle. neighbour: (adj) neighboring, Pompey the great. neighbouring, neighborly, adjacent, scraped: (adj) scratched, worn out, contiguous; (v) abut, populate, worn, threadbare, frayed, hurt, adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n) skinned, damaged, raw. strangle: (v) smother, stifle, neighbourhood. ninth: (adv) ninthly; (n) common asphyxiate, scrag, tighten, repress, constrict, pinch, strangulate; (adj, v) fraction. overthrown: (adj) overcome, throttle; (n) strangling. conquered, battered, overpowered,
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DUMAINE. A Judas! HOLOFERNES. Not Iscariot, sir. 'Judas I am, ycliped Maccabaeus.' DUMAINE. Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas.% BEROWNE. A kissing traitor. How art thou prov'd Judas? HOLOFERNES. 'Judas I am.'-DUMAINE. The more shame for you, Judas. HOLOFERNES. What mean you, sir? BOYET. To make Judas hang himself. HOLOFERNES. Begin, sir; you are my elder. BEROWNE. Well follow'd: Judas was hanged on an elder. HOLOFERNES. I will not be put out of countenance. BEROWNE. Because thou hast no face. HOLOFERNES. What is this? BOYET. A cittern-head.
Thesaurus begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate, become, enter, rise, originate, undertake, create, dawn, set out. ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease, terminate, die, delay, complete, conclude. elder: (adj) older, big, adult; (n) dean, doyen, patriarch, ancient, boss, elderberry, superior, presbyter. ANTONYMS: (n) youngster, minor, child, inferior; (adj) youngest, younger, little.
hang: (adj, n, v) suspend; (v) dangle, fondling, arousal, foreplay, necking; (adj) embracing, adhering closely, depend, drape, float, fall, hover, append, string up; (n, v) delay; (adj) billing, clinging, interosculant. traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, hung. himself: (pron) herself, themselves, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, yourself, itself; (adj) myself; (n) deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) yourselves. insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: judas: (n) betrayer, spyhole, Judah, (n) loyalist, patriot. peephole, St Jude, snake in the grass, serpent, saint Jude, Judas Iscariot, conspirator, cockatrice. kissing: (n) hugging, cuddling,
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DUMAINE. The head of a bodkin.% BEROWNE. A death's face in a ring. LONGAVILLE. The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen. BOYET. The pommel of Caesar's falchion. DUMAINE. The carved-bone face on a flask. BEROWNE. Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch. DUMAINE. Ay, and in a brooch of lead. BEROWNE. Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer. And now, forward; for we have put thee in countenance. HOLOFERNES. You have put me out of countenance. BEROWNE. False: we have given thee faces. HOLOFERNES. But you have outfaced them all. BEROWNE. An thou wert a lion we would do so. BOYET. Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go. And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?
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DUMAINE. For the latter end of his name.% BEROWNE. For the ass to the Jude? give it him:--Jud-as, away! HOLOFERNES. This is not generous, not gentle, not humble. BOYET. A light for Monsieur Judas! It grows dark, he may stumble. PRINCESS. Alas! poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited. [Enter ARMADO armed, for HECTOR.] BEROWNE. Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms. DUMAINE. Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry. KING. Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this. BOYET. But is this Hector? DUMAINE. I think Hector was not so clean-timber'd. LONGAVILLE. His leg is too big for Hector's. DUMAINE. More calf, certain. BOYET. No; he is best indued in the small. BEROWNE. This cannot be Hector.
Thesaurus alas: (adv) unluckily, regrettably, bluster, bullyrag, tyrannize, swagger, n, v) abase; (adj) base, lowly, sadly, unhappily, sorry to say; (n) oh; ballyrag; (adj) hectic, Amazon, unassuming, docile, low. (int) lackaday. ANTONYM: (adv) dictate; (n) Captain Bobadil. ANTONYMS: (adj) impressive, ANTONYM: (v) encourage. luckily. arrogant, haughty, imposing, generous: (adj) ample, abundant, hide: (n, v) cover, disguise, shelter, conceited, pompous, snooty, copious, benevolent, bountiful, kind, veil; (adj, v) obscure; (n) fur, fell, coat; overbearing, presumptuous, proud, charitable, flush, fair, liberal; (adj, n) (v) bury, mask; (adj, n, v) darken. exalted. free. ANTONYMS: (adj) meager, ANTONYMS: (v) show, expose, latter: (adj) later, last, terminal, recent, tightfisted, miserly, measly, mean, express, divulge, unearth, amplify, posterior, final, following, the latter, small, ungenerous, avaricious, advertise, clarify. past, other, eventual. ANTONYMS: humble: (v) demean, humiliate, (adj) prior, earlier. greedy, petty, pitiful. hector: (adj, v) domineer; (v) browbeat, mortify; (n, v) disgrace, debase; (adj,
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DUMAINE. He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces.% ARMADO. 'The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, Gave Hector a gift,'-DUMAINE. A gilt nutmeg. BEROWNE. A lemon. LONGAVILLE. Stuck with cloves. DUMAINE. No, cloven. ARMADO. Peace! 'The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion; A man so breath'd that certain he would fight ye, From morn till night, out of his pavilion. I am that flower,'-DUMAINE. That mint. LONGAVILLE. That columbine. ARMADO. Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue. LONGAVILLE. I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector.
Thesaurus cloven: (adj) bisulcate, cleaved, divided. cloves: (n) mace, nutmeg, oregano, cinnamon. columbine: (n) buffo, buffoon, clown harlequin, aquilege, farceur, blue columbine, pantomimist, pantaloon, honeysuckle, grimacer, genus Aquilegia. gilt: (n) gilding, plating, money, decoration; (adj) aureate, golden, gold, florid; (v) tesselated, ornate,
rich. impressionist, miniaturist, dauber, lemon: (n) lemon yellow, gamboge, halser, Felis concolor, guy, cable, citrus Limon, automobile, citron, hawser. rein: (n) bridle, curb, restraint, check, sapidity, yellowness, tang, corn, strap; (v) leash, harness, contain, rule, crumb, clunker. morn: (n) dawn, daybreak, forenoon, rein in, confine. stuck: (adj) stranded, jammed, period, prime, aurora, a, amount of delayed, fast; (adj, adv) aground; (n) time, break of dawn, break of day, stuck ware, thrust, sticking; (v) break of the day. nutmeg: (n) Myristica, muscat, mace, sticked, fasten, attach. ANTONYMS: nutmeg tree; (adj) meaningless. (adj) unstuck, loose. painter: (n) artist, colorist, landscapist,
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DUMAINE. Ay, and Hector's a greyhound.% ARMADO. The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the buried; when he breathed, he was a man. But I will forward with my device. [To the PRINCESS.] Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing. PRINCESS. Speak, brave Hector; we are much delighted. ARMADO. I do adore thy sweet Grace's slipper. BOYET. [Aside to DUMAIN.] Loves her by the foot. DUMAINE. [Aside to BOYET.] He may not by the yard. ARMADO. 'This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,'-COSTARD. The party is gone; Fellow Hector, she is gone; she is two months on her way. ARMADO. What meanest thou? COSTARD. Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor wench is cast away: she's quick; the child brags in her belly already; 'tis yours. ARMADO. Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? Thou shalt die.
Thesaurus adore: (v) worship, idolize, admire, delighted: (adj) glad, cheerful, blissful, glorify, cherish, appreciate; (n, v) jubilant, happy, overjoyed, joyful, honor; (adj) adoring, worshipping, captivated, pleasant; (adj, v) pleased, worshiping; (adv) adoringly. elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) shocked, ANTONYMS: (v) detest, despise, unhappy, sorrowful, depressed, condemn, loathe, disrespect, abhor, melancholy, miserable, desolate, scorn. sorry, sad, down. belly: (n) stomach, inside, pregnancy, rotten: (adj, v) decayed, musty; (adj) maw, bowels, intestines, waist, foul, poor, fetid, lousy, putrid, off, ill, corporation; (v) balloon, swell, bloat. shabby, wretched. ANTONYMS: (adj) breathed: (adj) unvoiced, inaudible, fresh, superior, unrotten, good, breathing, aphonic. incorruptible, honest, lovely, fair,
great, respectful. royalty: (n) regality, payment, kingship, royal line, royal house, royal family, fee, tax, nobility, loyalty, majesty. slipper: (n) mule, sandal, pump, boot, carpet slipper, bootee, slider, patten, scuffs, slipshoe, vertical synchronized slipper. surmounted: (adj) beaten.
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COSTARD. Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is quick by him, and hanged for Pompey that is dead by him.% DUMAINE. Most rare Pompey! BOYET. Renowned Pompey! BEROWNE. Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey! Pompey the Huge! DUMAINE. Hector trembles. BEROWNE. Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! Stir them on! stir them on! DUMAINE. Hector will challenge him. BEROWNE. Ay, if a' have no more man's blood in his belly than will sup a flea. ARMADO. By the north pole, I do challenge thee. COSTARD. I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man: I'll slash; I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you, let me borrow my arms again. DUMAINE. Room for the incensed Worthies! COSTARD. I'll do it in my shirt. DUMAINE. Most resolute Pompey!
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ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, cut down. ANTONYMS: (v) raise, anonymous, undistinguished. upgrade. resolute: (adj, n) constant, firm, fixed, stir: (adj, n, v) move, bustle; (v) rouse, steady; (adj, v) determined; (adj) arouse, affect, agitate, inspire; (adj, n) movement; (n) commotion, inflexible, brave, adamant, dogged, unbending, courageous. excitement, disturbance. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, uncertain, ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, retire, uncommitted, timid, fickle, feeble, stultify, bore, steady, stifle, suppress; indecisive, flexible, flippant, hesitant, (n) quiet, peace; (n, v) calm. trembles: (n) animal disease, undecided. slash: (n, v) gash, rip, slice, tear, split, nervousness. wound; (v) reduce, hack, clip, hew,
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MOTH. Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? What mean you? You will lose your reputation.% ARMADO. Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me; I will not combat in my shirt. DUMAINE. You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge. ARMADO. Sweet bloods, I both may and will. BEROWNE. What reason have you for 't? ARMADO. The naked truth of it is: I have no shirt; I go woolward for penance. BOYET. True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of linen; since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but a dish-clout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next his heart for a favour. [Enter MONSIEUR MARCADÉ, a messenger.] MARCADÉ. God save you, madam! PRINCESS. Welcome, Marcadé; But that thou interrupt'st our merriment. MARCADÉ. I am sorry, madam; for the news I bring Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father-PRINCESS. Dead, for my life!
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covered, concealed, hidden, dressed. none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever. shirt: (n) Jersey, chemise, blouse, hair shirt, dress shirt, evening shirt, polo shirt. soldiers: (n) military, troop, force, the military, troops, defense force, military service, militia, soldiery, Territorial Army, armed forces.
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MARCADÉ. Even so: my tale is told.% BEROWNE. Worthies away! the scene begins to cloud. ARMADO. For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier. [Exeunt WORTHIES.] KING. How fares your Majesty? PRINCESS. Boyet, prepare: I will away to-night. KING. Madam, not so: I do beseech you stay. PRINCESS. Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords, For all your fair endeavours; and entreat, Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide The liberal opposition of our spirits, If over-boldly we have borne ourselves In the converse of breath; your gentleness Was guilty of it. Farewell, worthy lord! A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. Excuse me so, coming so short of thanks For my great suit so easily obtain'd. KING. The extreme parts of time extremely forms All causes to the purpose of his speed,
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And often at his very loose decides That which long process could not arbitrate: And though the mourning brow of progeny Forbid the smiling courtesy of love The holy suit which fain it would convince; Yet, since love's argument was first on foot, Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it From what it purpos'd; since, to wail friends lost Is not by much so wholesome-profitable As to rejoice at friends but newly found.% PRINCESS. I understand you not: my griefs are double. BEROWNE. Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief; And by these badges understand the king. For your fair sakes have we neglected time, Play'd foul play with our oaths. Your beauty, ladies, Hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humours Even to the opposed end of our intents; And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous,-As love is full of unbefitting strains; All wanton as a child, skipping and vain; Form'd by the eye, and, therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects, as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance: Which parti-coated presence of loose love Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes, Have misbecom'd our oaths and gravities, Those heavenly eyes that look into these faults Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,
Thesaurus fashioning: (n) devising, cartography, wound. ANTONYM: (v) seal. making, cartographic, cartographical, rejoice: (v) cheer, gladden, triumph, mapmaking. revel, jubilate, gratify, gloat, please; justle: (v) fib, stave, tilt, tussle, hurtle, (n, v) delight, glory, joy. crowd; (n) elbow, shove, shoulder. ANTONYMS: (v) lament, mourn, mourning: (n) lament, lamentation, complain. bereavement, gloom, woe, memorial, skipping: (n) jumping, leaping, sorrowfulness, sadness, sorrow; (adj) absenteeism; (adv) skippingly, grieving; (v) lamenting. leapingly. pierce: (n, v) cut, prick, stick; (v) smiling: (adv) smilingly; (adj) bright, perforate, bore, enter, thrust, cheerful, jolly, joyful, of good cheer, puncture, penetrate; (adj, v) stab, twinkly, fair, sunny; (n) grinning,
grin. ANTONYMS: (adj) sad, gloomy. unbefitting: (adj) inappropriate, inopportune, unmeet, unsuitable, timeless, mal a propos, intrusive, inauspicious, infelicitous; (adj, v) unfit; (prep) beneath. ANTONYM: (adj) befitting. wail: (n, v) howl, cry, lament, moan, scream, bellow, whine; (v) ululate, weep, whimper, mewl. ANTONYMS: (v) whimper, laugh.
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Our love being yours, the error that love makes Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false, By being once false for ever to be true To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you: And even that falsehood, in itself a sin, Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.% PRINCESS. We have receiv'd your letters, full of love; Your favours, the ambassadors of love; And, in our maiden council, rated them At courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy, As bombast and as lining to the time; But more devout than this in our respects Have we not been; and therefore met your loves In their own fashion, like a merriment. DUMAINE. Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest. LONGAVILLE. So did our looks. ROSALINE. We did not quote them so. KING. Now, at the latest minute of the hour, Grant us your loves. PRINCESS. A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in. No, no, my lord, your Grace is perjur'd much, Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this: If for my love,--as there is no such cause,--
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falsehood: (n) fable, fabrication, deception, untruth, lie, fib, fiction, invention, dishonesty; (adj, n) deceit, falsity. ANTONYMS: (n) fact, honesty, reality. guiltiness: (n) culpability, criminality, complicity, criminalness, fault, blame, guilty conscience, status, guilt feelings, collusion, blameworthiness. ANTONYM: (n) innocence. likewise: (adv) besides, in addition, furthermore, alike, moreover, further,
too, similarly; (adj, adv) as well, equally; (adj) even. lining: (n) liner, backing, bushing, insulation, covering, coating, bearing lining, babbitting, inside, protection, cladding. quote: (adj, n, v) cite; (n, v) mention, adduce, excerpt, extract; (n) quotation, citation, quotation mark, inverted comma; (v) name; (adj, v) exemplify. rated: (adj) specified.
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You will do aught, this shall you do for me: Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed To some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world; There stay until the twelve celestial signs Have brought about the annual reckoning. If this austere insociable life Change not your offer made in heat of blood, If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds, Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love, But that it bear this trial, and last love, Then, at the expiration of the year, Come, challenge me, challenge me by these deserts; And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine, I will be thine; and, till that instant, shut My woeful self up in a mournful house, Raining the tears of lamentation For the remembrance of my father's death. If this thou do deny, let our hands part, Neither intitled in the other's heart.% KING. If this, or more than this, I would deny, To flatter up these powers of mine with rest, The sudden hand of death close up mine eye! Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast. BEROWNE. And what to me, my love? and what to me? ROSALINE. You must he purged too, your sins are rack'd; You are attaint with faults and perjury; Therefore, if you my favour mean to get,
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cheerless, wretched, abject. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, hopeful, fine. gaudy: (adj) flashy, loud, showy, garish, flamboyant, tasteless, colorful, tacky, brassy, tawdry, florid. ANTONYMS: (adj) tasteful, restrained, muted, drab, modest, dull, quality. mournful: (adj) sad, miserable, melancholy, funereal, dolorous, dark, pensive, gloomy, lugubrious,
lamentable; (adj, n) plaintive. ANTONYMS: (adj) joyful, happy, emotionless. pleasures: (n) pleasure. twelve: (adj, n) dozen, XII; (n) boxcars, large integer. woeful: (adj) sad, lamentable, sorrowful, pitiful, wretched, pitiable, doleful, woebegone, deplorable, piteous, regrettable. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, joyful, glad, praiseworthy, laudable.
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A twelvemonth shall you spend, and never rest, But seek the weary beds of people sick.% DUMAINE. But what to me, my love? but what to me? KATHARINE. A wife! A beard, fair health, and honesty; With three-fold love I wish you all these three. DUMAINE. O! shall I say I thank you, gentle wife? KATHARINE. No so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day I'll mark no words that smooth-fac'd wooers say. Come when the King doth to my lady come; Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some. DUMAINE. I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then. KATHARINE. Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again. LONGAVILLE. What says Maria? MARIA. At the twelvemonth's end I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend. LONGAVILLE. I'll stay with patience; but the time is long. MARIA. The liker you; few taller are so young. BEROWNE. Studies my lady? mistress, look on me;
Thesaurus gown: (n) robe, clothing, cassock, vestment, wrapper, overclothes, outerwear, uniform, tunic, clothes; (v) clothe. patience: (n) endurance, fortitude, longanimity, equanimity, tolerance, resignation, restraint, composure, sufferance; (n, v) moderation, calmness. ANTONYMS: (n) impatience, eagerness, intolerance, annoyance. seek: (n, v) ask, inquire; (v) hunt,
endeavor, attempt, look, aspire, year, financial year, common year, pursue, beg, quest, explore. amount of time, time period, period ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant. of time, bissextile year, class, yr, serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, period. wish: (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) want, hope, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate, function, do; (n, v) officiate. need, inclination, longing, aspiration, spend: (v) expend, exhaust, squander, aim; (v) like, choose; (n) pleasure. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, hate; (n) pay out, blow, deplete, pass, wear, lead; (adj, v) waste; (n) outlay. hatred, coercion, disinclination, ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, earn, aversion. hoard, keep. twelvemonth: (n) calendar year, civil
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Behold the window of my heart, mine eye, What humble suit attends thy answer there. Impose some service on me for thy love.% ROSALINE. Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Berowne, Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks; Full of comparisons and wounding flouts, Which you on all estates will execute That lie within the mercy of your wit: To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, And therewithal to win me, if you please,-Without the which I am not to be won,-You shall this twelvemonth term, from day to day, Visit the speechless sick, and still converse With groaning wretches; and your task shall be, With all the fierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained impotent to smile. BEROWNE. To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. ROSALINE. Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose influence is begot of that loose grace Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
Thesaurus choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle, distressed, displeased, sore, grieved, back up, clog up, gag, suffocate, foul, miserable, injured, wounded, worried, upset. ANTONYM: (adj) strangle, smother, obstruct. ANTONYMS: (v) free, open, release, unaffected. replete: (adj) fraught, profuse, unblock. groaning: (adj) moaning, groaningly, excessive, inordinate, exuberant, overmuch, satisfied; (v) fill, take, inarticulate. impotent: (adj) helpless, feeble, frail, satiate, cloy. ANTONYM: (adj) fragile, inadequate, weak, barren, hungry. slack, ineffective, incapable, unable. sickly: (adj, adv) poorly; (n) invalid; ANTONYMS: (adj) able, powerful. (adj) sick, ailing, pale, sallow, pained: (adj) offended, aggrieved, indisposed, morbid, diseased; (adj, n,
v) infirm; (adj, v) faint. ANTONYMS: (adj) healthy, bitter, robust. therewithal: (adv) therewith. throat: (n) orifice, pharynx, gorge, mouth, muzzle, nozzle, sucker, shaft, quarl, throat depth, nostril. weed: (n) grass, marijuana, pot, plant, fireweed, smoke, ganja; (v) eliminate, hoe, plow; (adj) pick. wormwood: (n) absinthe, mugwort, bitterness, old man, Mexican tea, common wormwood, absinth, gall.
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And I will have you and that fault withal; But if they will not, throw away that spirit, And I shall find you empty of that fault, Right joyful of your reformation.% BEROWNE. A twelvemonth! well, befall what will befall, I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital. PRINCESS. [To the King.] Ay, sweet my lord; and so I take my leave. KING. No, madam; we will bring you on your way. BEROWNE. Our wooing doth not end like an old play: Jack hath not Jill; these ladies' courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy. KING. Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day, And then 'twill end. BEROWNE. That's too long for a play. [Enter ARMADO.] ARMADO. Sweet Majesty, vouchsafe me,-PRINCESS. Was not that not Hector? DUMAINE. The worthy knight of Troy.
Thesaurus bring: (v) convey, get, take, bear, carry, put, conduct, return, reduce, set, bring in. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, free, leave, lose, remove, avoid. comedy: (n) play, humor, drollery, show, clowning, drama, wittiness, slapstick, jesting, interlude, hilarity. ANTONYMS: (n) melodrama, seriousness, solemnity. empty: (adj, v) clear, discharge, destitute, void; (adj) hollow, bare, blank, barren, abandoned; (v)
deplete, pour. ANTONYMS: (adj) hospital: (n) clinic, sanitarium, crowded, meaningful, packed, institution, home, asylum, hospice, occupied, inhabited, swarming, lazaret, health facility, lazaretto, brimming, laden, filled, cultivated; spital, foundling hospital. (v) fill. king: (n) mogul, sovereign, chief, fault: (adj, n, v) deficiency; (n) error, crown, tycoon, baron, ruler, magnate, majesty, rex, power. ANTONYM: (n) blot, delinquency, flaw, break, blunder; (adj, n) failing, blemish; (n, queen. v) blame, crime. ANTONYMS: (n) lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, strength, virtue, capability, master, God, seignior, nobility, innocence, perfection, credit, ease; (v) Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n) praise, absolve. lady.
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ARMADO. I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am a votary: I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the plough for her sweet love three yeasr. But, most esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that the two learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the end of our show.% KING. Call them forth quickly; we will do so. ARMADO. Holla! approach. [Enter HOLOFERNES, NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD, and others.] This side is Hiems, Winter; this Ver, the Spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he: Cuckoo;
Thesaurus bleach: (adj, v) whiten, blanch, decolorize, wash out; (v) decolor, fade, white, decolourize; (n) bleaching agent, whitener, blanching agent. ANTONYMS: (v) melanize, yellow, blacken, contaminate, dye. cuckoo: (n) nut, fathead, goose, jackass, zany, goof, ani, coucal; (v) chirrup, cheep, chirp. esteemed: (adj) dear, reputable, respected, honorable, noble, honored, prestigious, important, distinguished,
August, respect. ANTONYM: (adj) disreputable. greatness: (n) excellence, dimension, dignity, bulk, size, enormousness, bigness, enormity, grandness, magnitude, fame. ANTONYMS: (n) obscurity, austerity, commonness, mildness, moderation, simplicity. larks: (n) family Alaudidae. pied: (adj) mottled, piebald, multicolored, motley, mixed, multicoloured, colorful, varicoloured,
multicolour, varicolored, particoloured. ANTONYMS: (adj) limited, plain. plough: (v) hoe, manure, delve, dibble, dig, dress the ground, cultivate, turn over, rake, weed, to plough. rooks: (n) etc, robins, order Passeriformes, Passeriformes. votary: (n) disciple, devotee, follower, lover, amateur, bacchant, bacchante, supporter, partisan, votarist, solicitant.
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Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl: Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who--a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl: Tu-who; Tu-whit, to-who--a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.% ARMADO. The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. we this way.
You that way:
[Exeunt.]
Thesaurus aloud: (adv) loud, out loud, strong, Decapoda, Decapoda, Crustacea, out, audibly, hard, forte. sexually transmitted disease, returns, ANTONYMS: (adv) softly, inaudibly, barnacles, venereal disease. greasy: (adj) fatty, dirty, oily, tallowy, quietly. brooding: (adj) pondering, thoughtful, slick, sebaceous, unclean, unctuous, contemplative, hatching, meditative, slippery, adipose, oleaginous. pensive, wistful; (v) brewing, ANTONYM: (adj) lean. batching; (n) chick management, keel: (n) foot, hoof, carina, root, fin parturition. ANTONYMS: (adj) keel; (v) careen, cool, pitch, tumble, shallow, cheerful. droop, flag. coughing: (n) coughs, breathing out. nail: (n, v) arrest, capture; (v) catch, crabs: (n) pediculosis pubis, order collar, apprehend, hook, strike, hit,
fasten, nab; (adj, n) pin. ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, detach. nightly: (adv) every night, by night; (n) night; (adj) nocturnal. ANTONYM: (adj) daily. pail: (n) bucketful, jug, tub, pailful, cannikin, pails, skeel, tankard, pot, pipkin, vessel. roasted: (adj) fried, baked. staring: (adj) conspicuous, garish, agaze, vivid, noisy, showy, fixed, opened, glassy; (adv) staringly.
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GLOSSARY abbreviated: (adj) short, abridged, abbreviate, condensed, truncated, brief, compendious, cut, truncate, concise, reduced abhor: (v) hate, detest, abominate, execrate, despise, dislike, nauseate, disdain, scorn, resent, dread. ANTONYMS: (v) adore, approve, like, cherish, embrace, relish, treasure, admire abortive: (adj) fruitless, useless, futile, unsuccessful, vain, ineffective, disastrous, idle, rudimental, embryonic, premature. ANTONYMS: (adj) successful, complete, productive, fruitful, efficient, effectual, consummated, effective 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 abroad: (adj, adv) overseas, away; (adv) afield, forth, beyond seas, yonder, farther, at large, further; (adj) foreign, out. ANTONYMS: (adj) remaining, nearby abrogate: (adj, v) abolish, nullify, annul; (v) repeal, revoke, rescind, quash, invalidate, void, vacate, undo. ANTONYMS: (v) fix, establish, sanction, approve, institute, legalize, support absence: (n) absenteeism, deficiency, lack, default, dearth, want, nonattendance, scarcity, paucity, shortage, privation. ANTONYMS: (n) attendance, existence, fulfillment, inclusion, occurrence, abundance, glut, confirmation, supply, excess abstinence: (n) temperance, abstention, forbearance, sobriety, chastity, soberness, celibacy,
teetotalism, fast, abstinency, restraint. ANTONYMS: (n) excess, intoxication, revelry, intemperance, drunkenness, dissipation, extravagance, wantonness accent: (v) emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accentuate; (n) dialect, emphasis, idiom, importance, speech, articulation, pronunciation. ANTONYMS: (v) attenuate, downplay, hide, ignore, lessen, minimize, slight accidentally: (adv) incidentally, casually, fortuitously, by chance, coincidentally, adventitiously, unintentionally, contingently, haphazardly, occasionally, inadvertently. ANTONYMS: (adv) deliberately, knowingly, purposely, unfortunately, correctly acquainted: (adj) knowledgeable, informed, aware, cognizant, conversant, hand and glove, intimate, thick; (adv) abreast; (v) inform, acquaint action: (n, v) achievement, deed; (n) battle, play, performance, movement, accomplishment, agency, activity, fight, effect. ANTONYMS: (n) inaction, inactivity, inactiveness, ambush, stillness acute: (adj, n, v) sharp; (adj) incisive, intense, penetrating, keen, severe, critical; (adj, v) high, shrewd; (adj, n) strong, smart. ANTONYMS: (adj) obtuse, insignificant, stupid, unimportant, moderate, blunt, slow, slight, mild, minor, imperceptive adam: (n) ecstasy, x; (adj) sin added: (adj) additional, further, extra, more, supplementary, accessorial, adscititious, supplemental, ancillary, other, new. ANTONYM: (adj) subtracted adding: (n) addition, calculation, reckoning
adieu: (int, n) farewell; (n) vale, valediction, goodbye, leave, cheerio, adios, bye, so long, parting; (int) bon voyage. ANTONYM: (n) greeting adjunct: (n) addendum, addition, appendage, extra, attachment, adjutant, increment, coadjutor; (adj, n) assistant; (adj) auxiliary, appurtenant. ANTONYMS: (n) lessening, detriment admire: (v) revere, look up to, idolize, appreciate, adore, wonder, praise, worship, admiring, esteem, honor. ANTONYMS: (v) despise, loathe, scorn, hate, condemn, abhor, disrespect, detest, disregard, disapprove, deprecate admired: (adj) respected, admirable, estimable, favorite, pet, beloved, honored, August, loved, accepted, popular. ANTONYM: (adj) disreputable admittance: (n) access, accession, introduction, door, matriculation, inlet, permit, entrance, entree, entry, input adore: (v) worship, idolize, admire, glorify, cherish, appreciate; (n, v) honor; (adj) adoring, worshipping, worshiping; (adv) adoringly. ANTONYMS: (v) detest, despise, condemn, loathe, disrespect, abhor, scorn advance: (v) accelerate, proceed, encourage, lend; (adv, v) further; (adj, v) promote; (n, v) rise, approach, raise, offer; (n) improvement. ANTONYMS: (v) recede, demote, regress, delay, retard, prevent, reverse; (n) deterioration, recession; (n, v) decrease, downgrade afeard: (adj) afraid affect: (v) move, impress, pretend, act, strike, fake, feign, stir, dispose; (n) sentiment; (n, v) regard affectation: (n) pretension, feint,
138 pose, display, airs, affectedness, ostentation, show, pretense, mannerism, sham. ANTONYMS: (n) artlessness, honesty, modesty affected: (adj) unnatural, pretentious, stilted, pompous, pedantic, studied, feigned, pretended, factitious, exaggerated, strained. ANTONYMS: (adj) unchanged, natural, genuine, calm, modest, unswayed, untouched, untroubled, unmoved; (adv) modestly affection: (n) charity, attachment, fondness, heart, love, disease, nature, feeling, affectionateness, tenderness, kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) disgust, neglect, malice, loathing, dislike, detachment, coldness, roughness affliction: (n, v) adversity; (n) distress, regret, martyrdom, torment, curse, trial, bane, misadventure, sorrow, agony. ANTONYMS: (n) gift, godsend, solace, blessing afford: (v) offer, yield, provide, give, supply, get, furnish, impart, deliver, originate, sustain. ANTONYM: (v) withhold aforehand: (adj) theretofore, erewhile, ere; (adv) beforehand aforesaid: (adj) aforenamed, said, foregoing, above-mentioned, same, preceding, former, foresaid afternoon: (n) Pm, farewell, greeting, P, salutation, in the afternoon, daytime, noon, postmeridian, midday, daylight. ANTONYMS: (n) morning, nighttime 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 agate: (n) calcedony, heliotrope, carnelian, gagate, achate, chalcedony aged: (adj) senile, elderly, older, hoary, ripe, venerable, ancient, senior, decrepit, antique, antiquated. ANTONYMS: (adj) youthful, new, fresh, green, unripe, unseasoned, smooth ages: (n) time out of mind, time immemorial, coon's age, blue moon, month of Sundays agony: (n) torture, suffering, torment, distress, misery, passion, pain, grief,
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notwithstanding; (prep) in spite of, even though, however; (adv, conj) though; (conj) whereas; (adv) even, tho, when, anyway, tho' always: (adv) continuously, whenever, permanently, ever, usually, eternally, unceasingly; (adj) perpetual, still, eternal; (adj, adv) without exception. ANTONYMS: (adv) erratically, intermittently, temporarily amain: (adv) hastily, with full force ambassador: (n) emissary, minister, messenger, envoy, agent, delegate, representative, embassador, herald, ambassadress, deputy ambassadors: (n) ambassador amber: (n) yellow, yellowness, electrum, ambergris, gold, brown, electron, gum; (adj) chromatic ambitious: (adj) eager, difficult, energetic, competitive, desirous, grandiose, enterprising, pushy, challenging; (adj, v) aspiring, vaulting. ANTONYMS: (adj) fulfilled, undemanding, unambitious, slothful, simple, satisfied, lazy, humble, facile, easy, content amen: (adj) right, correct; (n) Amon; (adv) positively, yes amend: (adj, v) improve; (v) ameliorate, rectify, better, fix, reform, alter, correct, emend, revise, redress. ANTONYMS: (v) corrupt, damage, debase, impair, reduce, mar, blemish, maintain, leave among: (prep) between, amidst, mid, in, amongst, in the middle of, inter, in the midst of, with, within, middle. ANTONYM: (prep) outside amount: (n, v) number, total; (n) aggregate, sum, measure, price, volume, extent, degree, figure, quantum. ANTONYM: (n) moderation anatomize: (n, v) analyze; (v) dissect, resolve, anatomise, decompose, sift, analyse, parse, cut up, dismember; (n) winnow 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,
William Shakespeare serenity, goodwill, forbearance; (n, v) calm animal: (adj, n) brute; (n) beast, organism, living thing, being, fauna; (adj, adv) fleshly; (adj) bodily, carnal, corporeal, physical. ANTONYMS: (adj) refined, mineral, genteel, mental, rational, intellectual, vegetable, delicate, factual, spiritual; (n) plant annual: (adj, v) yearly; (n) yearbook, magazine, ephemeris, flora, annals, periodical; (adj, n) annuary; (adj) anniversary, etesian, yearlong. ANTONYMS: (adj) biennial, perennial anointed: (adj) hallowed, divine, greasy; (v) anoint 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 answers: (n) replies; (adj) answering antic: (n, v) clown; (n) prank, jest, lark, romp, joke, trick, jester; (adj) ludicrous, fantastical, fantastic antony: (n) Mark Antony, Marcus Antonius, Anthony, Antonius, mark Anthony anything: (adv) any, somewhat; (n) thing, aught, everything, something, any part; (adj) whatsoever; (pron) suchlike apace: (adj, adv) speedily, quickly; (adv) fast, rapidly, hastily, soon, promptly; (adj) forthwith, immediately, incontinently, shortly. ANTONYM: (adv) slowly apart: (adj, adv) aloof; (adv) aside, asunder, especially; (adj) alone, distant, detached, isolated, only; (adj, v) separate; (v) segregate. ANTONYMS: (adv) adjoining, near, surrounded; (adj) connected, nearby apollo: (adj) Aphrodite, Hyperion, narcissus, peri, houri; (n) aurora, Terpsichore, Euterpe, Phoebus Apollo, Orpheus, orb of day 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 appertaining: (adj) appertinent apple: (n) Malus pumila, pome, earth, city, world, orchard apple tree; (v) apple slump, ball; (adj) green apprehended: (adj) arrested, seized, understood, under arrest, in custody, detained, appreciated, comprehended 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 argues: (v) argue argument: (n) proof, debate, matter, controversy, hassle, independent variable, contention, difference, justification, discussion, fight. ANTONYMS: (n) harmony, concord, accord, consensus, accusation, defense arguments: (n) reasons, argument, contention, advice, opinion, influence, point of view, urging, wiles aright: (adv) correctly, right, well, true, not Amis, satisfactorily, favorably, justly, exactly, rightly, properly armed: (n) arms, arming; (adj, v) armed to the teeth; (adj) equipped, military, fitted, aggressive, prepared, violent, forcible, weaponed. ANTONYMS: (adj) unarmed, unprotected, armless, unprepared, peaceful 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 arrest: (n, v) halt, check, catch, capture, hold, collar; (n) apprehension, custody; (v) apprehend, retard, inhibit.
139 ANTONYMS: (n, v) discharge; (v) liberate, promote, forward, encourage, activate, advance, prompt, help; (n) freeing, liberation article: (n) thing, object, chapter, feature, commodity, composition, ware, entity, discourse, essay, column arts: (n) humanities, liberal arts, craft, fine arts, philosophy, chronology, classicism, classicistic, historical, history, humanistic discipline aside: (adv) apart, away, beside, alongside, in reserve, off, abreast; (adj, adv) by; (n) digression, divagation, parenthesis. ANTONYMS: (adv) erectly, uprightly, vertically aspect: (n) look, surface, view, prospect, expression, side, manner, bearing, vista, feature; (n, v) regard assist: (n, v) aid, help, support; (v) abet, serve, contribute, boost, relieve, encourage, to help, facilitate. ANTONYMS: (n, v) impede, oppose; (v) thwart, disrupt, hamper, hurt, stop, worsen, shun; (n) hindrance, counteract assistance: (n) support, relief, boost, encouragement, remedy, help, service, hand, backing; (n, v) assist; (v) succor. ANTONYMS: (n) impediment, impeding, obstruction, detriment, disservice, meanness, opposition assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch; (v) secure, persuade, satisfy, reassure, affirm, promise, ascertain; (adj, v) ensure. ANTONYMS: (v) alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve, undermine attach: (v) append, adhere, add, affix, bind, link, associate, assign, nail, apply, annex. ANTONYMS: (v) undo, separate, unfasten, disconnect, free, deflect, dissociate, loosen, quit, take, unscrew attainder: (n) cancellation, attainture, civil death, attaintment; (adj) taint attaint: (v) dishonor, disgrace, condemn, defile, befoul, maculate, foul, dishonour, shame, convict, profane attempted: (adj) unsuccessful attend: (n, v) tend, escort, nurse, conduct; (v) assist, serve, minister, aid, look, partake, follow. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, leave, ignore, disregard, desert, abandon attendants: (n) entourage, followers, retinue, tendance, persons present, suite
140 attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, nursing, care, appearing, observation; (adj) concomitant, attendant, ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, inattention attention: (n) mind, heed, notice, alertness, care, advertency, aid, consideration, ear, attentiveness, precision. ANTONYMS: (n) neglect, negligence, thoughtlessness, abandonment, abstraction, discourtesy, disregard, oversight, indifference, insensibility, carelessness audacious: (adj) brash, arrogant, barefaced, bold, daring, impudent, intrepid, brave, shameless, enterprising, insolent. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, timid, cautious, polite, reserved, meek, humble, fearful, discreet, respectful audience: (n) hearing, attendance, house, listener, meeting, turnout, hearer, spectators, gallery, following; (n, v) auditory aught: (n) nil, zero, anything, ought, cypher, nix, cipher, naught, null, zip; (adj) any 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 author: (n) writer, producer, founder, creator, inventor, parent, originator, architect, maker; (v) compose, create. ANTONYM: (n) reader 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 avaunt: (n, v) vaunt, boast; (v) melt away, go, vanish, disappear, dissolve, fade, pass avoid: (v) shun, parry, avert, escape, evade, ward off, duck, circumvent, prevent, ignore; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS: (v) associate, tackle, face, validate, participate, invite, seek, embrace, court, permit, encourage away: (adj, adv) abroad, absent; (adj, adv, int) out; (adj) distant; (adv) aside, aloof, afar, way, by, forth;
Love's Labour's Lost (adv, int) off. ANTONYMS: (adj) adjacent, neighboring, nearby, near, close; (adv) intermittently, haltingly, discontinuously, in babe: (n) infant, baby, chick, sweetie, suckling, nursling, child, newborn, chit, girl, darling. ANTONYMS: (n) grownup, adult, adolescent 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 badge: (n) sign, emblem, insignia, medal, token, plaque, symbol, logo, indication, identification, characteristic 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 bankrupt: (v) ruin, break, impoverish, deprive; (adj) broke, destitute, poor, impoverished; (n) bankruptcy, failure, insolvency. ANTONYMS: (adj) rich, profiting, flourishing, wealthy; (v) enrich banquet: (v) junket, revel, regale; (n) party, celebration, carousal, treat, entertainment, spread, dinner, reception. ANTONYM: (n) snack barbarism: (n) atrocity, barbarousness, barbarity, cruelty, savagery, Gothicism, vandalism, uncivilizedness, heathenism, vulgarism, savageness. ANTONYMS: (n) civility, nicety barbarous: (adj) barbaric, savage, gothic, brutal, heathen, truculent, rude, fell, ferocious, fierce, uncivilized. ANTONYMS: (adj) nice, cultured, civilized, sophisticated, refined, humane bargain: (adj, n, v) cheap; (n, v) covenant, deal; (n) agreement, treaty, arrangement, buy, chaffer; (v) exchange, stipulate, agree. ANTONYM: (adj) inflated bark: (n, v) skin, yelp, snarl, cry, rind, shout; (v) growl, roar; (n) bay, peel, crust. ANTONYMS: (n, v) whisper barren: (adj, n) sterile; (adj) infertile, deserted, arid, void, dry, stark, meagre, fruitless, abortive; (n) waste. ANTONYMS: (adj) productive, lush, fruitful, developing, growing, profitable,
rewarding, rich, sheltered, humid, populous 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 bastard: (adj, n) illegitimate, fake; (adj) spurious, phony, misbegotten, bastardly, adulterine, impure; (n) whoreson, love child, illegitimate child. ANTONYM: (adj) fathered bate: (v) abate, curtail, discount, deduct, dequantitate, douse, contain, drench, detract; (n) battue, bath beadle: (n) verger, catchpoll, almoner, functionary, sacristan, sexton, janitor, Suisse, tipstaff, officer, George Wells beadle 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 bearer: (n) holder, carrier, messenger, porter, courier, envoy, traveller, griever, hamal, lamenter, mourner bearing: (n, v) demeanor; (n) manner, direction, deportment, conduct, attitude, aspect, approach, appearance, respect, air. ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, irrelevance; (adj) nonbearing bears: (n) fissiped, badgers, Carnivora, order Carnivora beasts: (n) stock 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 beauteous: (adj) pretty, lovely, fair, comely, good-looking, handsome, stunning beautiful: (adj) attractive, good-
William Shakespeare looking, bright, neat, beauteous, pleasant, picturesque, fine, pretty, lovely; (n) beauty. ANTONYMS: (adj) unattractive, homely, grotesque, plain, repulsive, awkward, ordinary, dull 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 becoming: (adj, v) seemly, proper, befitting; (adj) decorous, decent, adequate, apposite, due, agreeable, fit, relevant. ANTONYMS: (adj) inappropriate, unattractive, unflattering, improper, unbefitting, unsuitable, ugly, unseemly bedrid: (adj) bedfast, infirm, ill, sicker, sick befall: (v) bechance, become, happen, fall, arise, come about, occur, betide, chance, transpire, pass 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 begging: (n) mendicancy, request, plea; (v) asking, beg; (adj) beseeching, entreating, mendicant, imploring, suppliant, vagabond begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate, become, enter, rise, originate, undertake, create, dawn, set out. ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease, terminate, die, delay, complete, conclude begot: (v) beget 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 behaviour: (n) behavior, action,
bearing, activity, act, dealing, deed, character, proceeding, moral conduct, conduct behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, regard, perceive, observe, look, consider, discern, descry, watch. ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, ignore, overlook believe: (n) belief, believing; (v) assume, conceive, consider, reckon, guess, accredit, to believe, understand; (n, v) trust. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, doubt, question, suspect, reject, discredit, deny, despair belike: (adv) probably, likely, presumably, perhaps, believably, in all probability belly: (n) stomach, inside, pregnancy, maw, bowels, intestines, waist, corporation; (v) balloon, swell, bloat belonging: (adj) appertaining, appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n) household, family, appendage, appurtenance, intimacy, commodity, closeness. ANTONYM: (n) antipathy 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 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 beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, offer, grant, reject beshrew: (v) curse, damn, imprecate, bedamn, anathemize, anathematize, execrate, maledict; (adj) shrew. ANTONYM: (v) bless beside: (adv) on, abreast, aside, closely, nearly; (prep) about; (adv, prep) besides; (adj) adjacent; (n) while, at; (adj, prep) near besiege: (v) beset, beleaguer, surround, blockade, attack, compass, hem in, press, importune, assail, bombard. ANTONYMS: (v) help, please besieged: (adj) enclosed, under pressure, under attack, targeted, struggling, stressed, under fire, fraught, embattled, careworn, harassed best: (adj, n) supreme, most, elite;
141 (adj) superior, great, leading, choice, superlative; (v) beat, outdo; (adj, n, v) top. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) worst; (v) lose, surrender; (adj) minimum, lowest, least, inferior, incorrect, fewest; (n) loser; (adv) insincerely bestow: (v) give, confer, grant, impart, contribute, donate, apply, award; (adj, v) accord, allow, present. 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 bias: (n, v) prejudice, bent, slant, influence, twist; (adj, n) partiality; (n) penchant, drift, turn, favor, slope. ANTONYMS: (n) neutrality, fairness, tolerance, justice, justness, broadmindedness bide: (v) abide, await, endure, bear, remain, last, dwell; (adj, v) tarry, wait; (adj) tolerate, stand. ANTONYMS: (v) go, move, hurry birds: (n) aves, class Aves, Craniata, flora and fauna, natural world, nature, subphylum Craniata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata, amphibians 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 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, optimistic, merry, light, angelic, ivory, bright bleach: (adj, v) whiten, blanch,
142 decolorize, wash out; (v) decolor, fade, white, decolourize; (n) bleaching agent, whitener, blanching agent. ANTONYMS: (v) melanize, yellow, blacken, contaminate, dye bleat: (v) blat, kvetch, gripe, moan, whimper, cry, blate, quetch, utter, emit; (n) baaing 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 blind: (n) curtain, shutter, veil, drape, awning, trick; (v) bedazzle, dazzle, daze; (adj) sightless; (adj, v) obscure. ANTONYMS: (adj) sighted, uncovered, understanding, sharp, seeing, revealed, quick, perceptive, open, controlled, cautious blinded: (adj) blindfolded, blinder, blindly, reckless, unsighted, blindfold, dizzy blister: (adj, n) boil; (v) scorch, swell, scald, vesicate; (n) bulla, bubble, abscess, pimple, pustule; (adj, v) burn blood: (n) birth, gore, nature, origin, kindred, lineage, descent, family, beau, pedigree; (adj) juice blossom: (adj, n, v) flower, blow; (n, v) bud; (n) blooming, heyday, efflorescence; (v) prosper, flourish, thrive, progress, unfold. ANTONYMS: (v) wither, deteriorate, struggle, shrivel, shrink, fade, die; (n) withering blot: (n, v) spot, blemish, smudge, mark, slur, taint, shame; (v) tarnish, blob; (n) blotch; (adj, n) fault. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, grace, soak, wet, beautify, improve, enhance 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,
Love's Labour's Lost conserve, store, stillness, inhale, come, arrive; (n) luck, comfort, caress blown: (adj) puffy, panting, swollen, winded, inflated, moving, high, haughty lofty, late; (v) puffing and blowing; (n) blowen blue: (adj) depressed, down, gloomy, low, spicy, livid, naughty, sapphire, sad, downhearted, downcast. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, happy, joyous, refined, moral, decent, upbeat, joyful, gay, cheerful, cheery blunt: (adj, v) dull, deaden; (adj) bluff, plain, direct, forthright, frank, candid, outspoken, round, abrupt. ANTONYMS: (v) hone, sharpen, point, accentuate, needle; (adj) devious, pointed, thoughtful, polite, guarded, gentle 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 blushing: (adj) rosy, coy, blushful, flushed, red, shy, bashful, overmodest, ruddy; (adv) blushingly, ablush. ANTONYM: (adj) pale board: (v) get on, lodge; (n) panel, bench, meal, office, sign, court, plank, embark; (n, v) table. ANTONYMS: (v) disembark, dislodge, leave, evict, detrain, deplane, dismount boast: (v) bluster, brag, blow, crow, gasconade, show off, rodomontade, exult; (n, v) vaunt, pride; (n) arrogance. ANTONYMS: (n) deprecation; (v) downplay, lack bodkin: (n) awl, poniard, broach, stylet, hairpin, interloper, intruder, bradawl, piercer, spit, stiletto body: (n) cadaver, corpse, organization, cluster, set, carcass, figure, consistency, aggregate, association; (adj, n) mass. ANTONYMS: (n) handful, mind, minority, soul, few 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 bombast: (adj, n) rant, fustian, jargon; (n) grandiloquence, blah, Bombyx; (v) rodomontade, fine talking, tall talk, heroics; (adj) prose run mad bone: (n) framework, os, skeleton,
anatomy, ivory, astragal, true middlings; (adj, n, v) cartilage; (v) swot, gristle, prepare bones: (n) bone, frame, corpse, dry bones, framework, maraca, physician, finger cymbals, tymbal, wreck, timbrel book: (v) order, reserve, inscribe, apply, write; (n) account book, pamphlet, journal, volume; (n, v) list, record. ANTONYMS: (v) free, exonerate books: (n) notebook, account, ledger, literature, accountancy bootless: (adj) futile, useless, vain, idle, inefficacious, inutile, unavailing, sleeveless, abortive, ineffective, feckless bore: (v) dig, tire, pierce, tap, annoy, perforate; (n, v) bother, plague; (n) auger, well, gimlet. ANTONYMS: (v) fascinate, excite, hypnotize, engage, entertain, stimulate; (n) charmer, exciter, excitement, pleasure born: (adj) native, natural, congenital, inbred, inborn, innate, inherent, untutored; (v) be born, to be born, arise. ANTONYMS: (adj) learned, unborn, acquired, trained borne: (adj) weak, wanting, spoony, soft, sappy, shallow, little, limited borrow: (v) adopt, lend, appropriate, to borrow, assume, take, accept, acquire, plagiarize, cadge, get. ANTONYMS: (v) give, invent, loan, originate, return bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; (v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority 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 bowl: (n) basin, plate, hollow, stadium, container, arena, depression, porringer; (v) hurl, toss, troll bowler: (n) bowler hat, boller, player, participant, lid, cricketer, hat, chapeau, batsman, plug hat brace: (n, v) prop, strengthen, support, invigorate; (n) strut, pair, duo, bitstock, tie; (v) clamp, bolster. ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, sedate, loosen, flex
William Shakespeare braggart: (n) boaster, braggadocio, blowhard, bragger, vaunter, egoist; (v) magniloquent, Thrasonic; (adj) boastful, vainglorious, braggy bran: (adj) farina, sporule, flour, paddy, rice, meal; (n) stubble, cellulose, roughage, fiber, bren branch: (n, v) fork; (n) wing, jump, affiliate, ramus, member, stem, limb, agency, stick, subdivision. ANTONYMS: (n) composite, trunk; (v) converge, merge brass: (n, v) face; (adj, n) boldness; (n) nerve, cheek, administration, audaciousness, insolence, arrogance; (adj) bronze; (v) assurance, impudence 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 brawl: (n, v) fight, quarrel, affray, clash, dispute; (adj, n, v) row; (adj, n) disturbance, tumult; (n) altercation, strife; (v) bicker brawling: (adj) quarrelsome, blatant, noisy, boisterous, active, belligerent, bawling, disorderly, pugnacious; (n) affray brazen: (adj) audacious, impudent, brassy, insolent, bold, brash, impertinent, blatant, flagrant, forward, saucy. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, abashed, prudish, reserved, quiet, discreet, respectful, ashamed, veiled, modest 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 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 breaks: (n) lot, destiny, opportunity, chance breast: (n) boob, udder, tit, titty,
chest, knocker, mammilla, bust, pap, heart; (n, v) front 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 breathed: (adj) unvoiced, inaudible, breathing, aphonic breed: (n) variety, race, kind, ancestry, sort, order, species; (v) engender, multiply, beget, bear. ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, eradicate, ignore, kill, neglect, quell 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 bring: (v) convey, get, take, bear, carry, put, conduct, return, reduce, set, bring in. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, free, leave, lose, remove, avoid britain: (n) England, British, UK, Great Britain, English, British Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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 brooding: (adj) pondering, thoughtful, contemplative, hatching, meditative, pensive, wistful; (v) brewing, batching; (n) chick management, parturition. ANTONYMS: (adj) shallow, cheerful brook: (v) endure, abide, stomach, stand, tolerate, digest, suffer, support, undergo; (n, v) creek; (n) stream. ANTONYMS: (v) spurn, resist, reject, prohibit brow: (n) peak, brink, brows, height, summit, forehead, eyebrow, edge,
143 crown, brim, border. ANTONYM: (n) trough brows: (n) brow bruise: (n, v) hurt, wound; (v) crush, pound, mash, contuse, grind, bray; (n) contusion, hematoma; (adj, n) buffet buck: (n) dollar, stag, beau, boar, greenback, exquisite, fop, clam, hart; (v) charge; (n, v) buck jump. ANTONYMS: (v) conform, surrender; (n) female, girl bullet: (n) shot, round, pellet, slug, projectile, missile, stone, carcass, delivery, grenade, sphere 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 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 butcher: (v) slaughter, kill, murder, slay; (n, v) massacre, botch; (n) assassin, bungler, slaughterer, meatman, murderer. ANTONYMS: (v) develop, create, grow, build butt: (v) bunt, abut; (n) extremity, stump, grip, stub, rump, cask, rear, tail; (n, v) edge buttonhole: (v) accost, solicit, besiege, intercept, harangue, detain, lobby; (n) bouquet, button hole, posy, bunch cadence: (n) beat, tempo, measure, rhythm, cadency, descent, time; (n, v) pace; (v) gait, step, rate calf: (n) calves, calfskin, sura, foal, shorthorn, pup, kitten, colt, leather, kid, box calf 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 came: (v) arrive, come canary: (n, v) fink, snitch, tattletale; (n) informer, singer, canary bird, canary yellow, yellowness, warbler, vocalist, squealer cannon: (n) clash, carom, gun, shank,
144 basilisk, gun of position, carambole, carronade, culverin, field piece, howitzer canon: (n) rule, regulation, principle, doctrine, law, formula, standard, statute, code, act, criterion canzonet: (n) carol, lay, ballad, canzonette, recitative, solfeggio, recitativo, ditty, roundelay, song, sonnet 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 capacity: (adj, n) capability, talent, endowment; (n) aptitude, capacitance, function, intelligence, dimension, authority, faculty; (n, v) might. ANTONYMS: (n) incapability, incapableness, incapacity, incompetence capon: (n) chicken, volaille, stot, poulet, steer, gelding, ox, rooster, fowl, hen, pullet captivated: (adj) spellbound, charmed, enchanted, absorbed, enthralled, engrossed, rapt, enamored, delighted, beguiled, infatuated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unenthusiastic, bored captive: (n) convict, prisoner of war, slave, detainee, jailbird, gaolbird; (adj) confined, imprisoned, rapt, jailed, amoroso. ANTONYMS: (adj) free, uninterested, unconfined, liberated, emancipated, disillusioned; (n) guard, captor 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 career: (adj, n) job; (n) calling, profession, vocation, occupation, work, trade; (v) speed, dash; (n, v) course; (adj) occupational. ANTONYMS: (n) entertainment, hobby, sideline, avocation caret: (n) mark, hawkbill carnation: (n) crimson, gillyflower, pink, scarlet, red, carmine, clove pink, dianthus caryophyllus, rose du Barry, couleur de rose, vermilion carriage: (n) attitude, conveyance, cab, air, walk, position, mien,
Love's Labour's Lost shipping; (n, v) transport, behavior, port 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 carrying: (n) transport, conveyance, carriage, transportation, haulage, hauling, shipping; (adj) bearing, gerent; (v) convey, bring carve: (v) cut up, cut, mold, incise, shape, inscribe, engrave, whittle, slash, hew; (n) carving case: (n) example, box, bin, cover, jacket, shell, bag, affair, briefcase, business; (adj, n) eccentric cast: (n, v) throw, stamp, form, fling, shape, figure; (v) shed, pitch, chuck; (n) casting, appearance. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, receive, subtract, reject, take, gather, catch, retain, keep catastrophe: (n) disaster, adversity, tragedy, cataclysm, misfortune, bale, denouement, misery, misadventure, woe, finale. ANTONYMS: (n) joy, miracle, wonder, success cauf: (v) hencoop 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 cedar: (n) true cedar, pahautea, kawaka, deodar, cedar tree celestial: (adj) ethereal, divine, supernal, angelic, holy, sacred, astronomical, unworldly, superlunary, from on high; (n) heaven. ANTONYMS: (adj) mundane, secular, terrestrial, mortal cerberus: (n) beadle, bokadam 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, undecided certes: (adv) certainly, verily, truly, precisely; (adj) doubtless, to a certainty, to be sure, flagrante
delicto, sure enough, of course, no doubt chain: (n) network, rope, cable, band, catena, range; (adj, n, v) tether; (v) bind, fetter; (adj, v) tie; (n, v) handcuff. ANTONYMS: (v) emancipate, liberate, unchain, detach challenge: (n, v) defy, dare, brave; (n) defiance, protest, contest; (v) dispute, ask, provoke, impeach, demur. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, answer, avoid, prove, accept, bolster, stifle, correspond; (n) yield, pushover, acquiesce 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 changing: (adj) unsettled, shifting, variable, dynamic, moving, choppy, uncertain, various, varying, inconstant, fickle. ANTONYMS: (adj) usual, fixed 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 charity: (n) dole, favor, aid, liberality, generosity, kindness, alms, mercy, virtue; (v) almsgiving; (adj, n) brotherly love. ANTONYMS: (n) intolerance, meanness, unkindness, cruelty, malice, stinginess, cheapness, nastiness, inhumanity charles: (n) Jacques Charles, prince Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Charles river 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 chat: (n, v) converse, talk, chatter, chitchat, confab, prattle; (n) conversation, causerie, gab; (v) confabulate, chaffer cheat: (n, v) trick, con, fake, sham; (n) fraud, bilk, impostor; (v) defraud, beguile, betray, fleece. ANTONYMS: (v) support, repay, help, contribute, aid check: (n, v) control, bridle, arrest, curb, stop, limit, block, halt, bar; (v) agree, restrain. ANTONYMS: (v) help, hurry, allow, disagree,
William Shakespeare 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 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 child: (n) baby, babe, bairn, infant, kid, toddler, tot, girl, brat, juvenile, minor. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, parent 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 choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle, back up, clog up, gag, suffocate, foul, strangle, smother, obstruct. ANTONYMS: (v) free, open, release, unblock choler: (n) anger, bile, resentment, rage, madness, dander, spleen, petulance, indignation, irritability, ire choose: (v) adopt, elect, select, pick, prefer, take, appoint, assign, decide, excerpt; (n) picking. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, waver, decline, forgo, spurn, dislike, elect chose: (v) choose, opt, decide; (n) thing christmas: (n) Yuletide, Yule, Xmas, Christmastide, Christmas Day, advent, Easter, Epiphany, Allhallowmas, Christmastime, jewel chuck: (n, v) fling; (v) ditch, toss, pitch, throw, throw away, discard, vomit, abandon, hurl; (n) chow. ANTONYMS: (v) continue, endure, maintain
cipher: (n) zero, nothing, number, nil, nobody, null; (n, v) figure, cypher, code; (v) calculate; (adj, n) nonentity. ANTONYMS: (n) infinity; (v) encode, decode, code, scramble circa: (adv) about, approximately, around, nearly, roughly, by, almost, close to. ANTONYM: (prep) precisely civil: (adj) courteous, civic, gracious, affable, obliging, municipal, mannerly, public, civilised, courtly, domestic. ANTONYMS: (adj) abrupt, impolite, critical, unrefined, sidereal, uncivil, unkind, barbaric, discourteous, private claw: (n) chela, unguis, nipper, talon, hook; (v) clapperclaw, lacerate, tear, scratch, rip, clutch. ANTONYM: (v) mend claws: (v) tentacle, tenaculum, unguis, hook, fangs, teeth; (n) clutches, jaws cleaving: (adj) adapted, coherent, accordant climbing: (n) climb, ascension, mounting, mountain climbing, mountaineering, rock climbing, acclivity; (v) ascending, uprise, arise; (adj) scandent clocks: (n) alfilaria, alfileria, storksbill, pin clover, redstem storksbill, pin grass, filaria, filaree close: (n, v) end, stop, finish; (adj, adv, prep) nearby; (adj, adv) adjacent, tight; (adj, v) compact, approximate; (adj) accurate; (adv, prep) by; (n) conclusion. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) open; (n, v) start; (adj) distant, airy, loose, fresh, far, inaccurate, unfamiliar; (v) begin, unlock closely: (adv) nearly, narrowly, intimately, strictly, exactly, thickly, firmly, securely, confidentially, solidly, familiarly. ANTONYMS: (adv) loosely, thoughtlessly, heedlessly, carelessly, approximately, inconveniently, sparsely, casually, lightly, inaccurately cloth: (n) drapery, fabric, clothes, clothing, rag, stuff, linen, tapestry, silk, flannel; (v) napkin cloud: (n, v) mist, blur; (v) becloud, obscure, eclipse, blacken, taint, befog, overshadow; (adj, n) swarm; (n) haze. ANTONYMS: (v) clear, refine, accentuate, illuminate, explain, clarify, unveil clouded: (adj, n) cloudy; (adj) gloomy, dark, overcast, obscure,
145 blurred, foggy, misty, hazy, bleary; (v) cymophanous. ANTONYM: (adj) clear clouds: (n) exhaust, fumes, gas, smoke, vapors clout: (n, v) cuff, punch, slap, swipe, knock, smack, whack, strike, crack; (n) authority, control cloven: (adj) bisulcate, cleaved, divided cloves: (n) mace, nutmeg, oregano, cinnamon clown: (n) fool, joker, jester, boor, harlequin, joke, comedian, rustic, comic, acrobat; (v) antic club: (n) association, society, stick, bat, circle, Billy, meeting, baton, gang; (v) bludgeon, beat coach: (adj, v) prime; (n) trainer, teacher, instructor, stagecoach, charabanc, carriage, autobus, bus; (v) train, educate. ANTONYMS: (v) listen, learn; (n) pupil, student coast: (n) shore, bank, seaside, beach, seashore, waterside, brink; (n, v) slide, glide; (adj) coastal; (v) drift. ANTONYMS: (v) bump, lurch, struggle; (n) inland, Midlands cockle: (v) ruffle, pucker, rumple, crinkle, ripple, undulate, crumple, coax, cocker; (n, v) fold; (n) wheat nematode coin: (v) invent, mint, originate, create, strike, cast; (n, v) forge; (n) specie, money, penny, piece collusion: (n) plot, intrigue, complicity, cahoot, agreement, agreed simulation, circumvention, deceit, trick, cabal, conspiracy 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 colt: (n) novice, filly, foal, calf, horse, beginner, kitten, pup, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn columbine: (n) buffo, buffoon, clown harlequin, aquilege, farceur, blue columbine, pantomimist, pantaloon, honeysuckle, grimacer, genus Aquilegia combat: (n, v) fight, clash, encounter, conflict, war; (n) contest, action, brawl, fighting, fray, hostility. ANTONYMS: (n) peace; (v) cooperate, agree, pacify, surrender, compromise, favor comedy: (n) play, humor, drollery,
146 show, clowning, drama, wittiness, slapstick, jesting, interlude, hilarity. ANTONYMS: (n) melodrama, seriousness, solemnity 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 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 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 commiseration: (n) pity, compassion, sympathy, condolence, ruth, mercy, commiserate, bowels, consolation, fellow feeling, acknowledgement commixture: (n) admixture, blend, mixing, mix, combination, composite, compound, commixtion, confection, compounding, fusion 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 commonwealth: (n) nation, state, country, body politic, province, society, kingdom, community, land, republic, power companion: (adj, n) associate; (n) colleague, buddy, mate, peer, chum, partner, fellow, comrade, assistant, brother. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, adversary companions: (n) circle, entourage, people company: (adj, n) society, business; (n) band, association, collection,
Love's Labour's Lost cohort, brigade, troop, club, partnership; (v) accompany. ANTONYMS: (n) isolation, enmity, host, hostess, absence comparison: (n) collation, likeness, compare, resemblance, correspondence, metaphor, comparing, similarity, contrast, parallel; (n, prep) connection. ANTONYMS: (n) difference, contrast complain: (v) bemoan, protest, whine, squawk, bewail, beef, grudge, accuse, carp, plain, complaint. ANTONYMS: (v) praise, applaud, cheer, recommend, rejoice, laud, approve, agree, accept complete: (adj, v) perfect, consummate; (adj, n) absolute, stark; (v) achieve, finish, accomplish, execute; (adj, n, v) close; (adj) whole, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfinished, partial, abridged, sketchy, shortened, lacking, qualified, narrow, missing; (v) neglect, start complexion: (n, v) tint; (n) cast, character, appearance, look, hue, aspect, flush, glow, dye, fashion compliment: (n, v) praise, honor; (v) laud, flattery, applaud, greet, adulation, congratulate, belaud; (n) eulogy, tribute. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, reproach, disparagement; (n, v) slander, libel; (v) criticize, denounce, disparage, denigrate, complain, belittle compliments: (n) respects, commendation, wish, greetings, salutation, respect, applause, flattery, acclamation, regards, approbation comprehend: (v) grasp, catch, see, comprise, appreciate, feel, sense, apperceive, read; (adj, v) understand; (n, v) embrace. ANTONYMS: (v) mistake, misapprehend, exclude, misunderstand, misconceive conceit: (n) pretension, vanity, selfesteem, pride, assumption, egotism, fancy, haughtiness, conception, caprice, quip. ANTONYMS: (n) humility, timidity, selflessness, humbleness, reserve conceive: (v) think, imagine, comprehend, design, apprehend, realize, discover, cogitate, appreciate, invent, catch. ANTONYMS: (v) destroy, doubt, misunderstand, question, ruin concern: (adj, n, v) worry; (n, v) interest, care, affect, regard, trouble,
bother; (n) affair, attention, matter, anxiety. ANTONYMS: (n) reassurance, negligence, unresponsiveness, calmness, coldness, detachment, pleasure, confidence, recklessness, serenity, thoughtlessness concerning: (adj, prep) regarding, with regard to, with reference to, in relation to; (prep) respecting, as regards, of, touching, relating to; (adj) as to, relevant concludes: (adj) ended, concluded conclusion: (n) end, close, result, termination, sequel, completion, cessation, dissolution, finish, finale; (n, v) closing. ANTONYMS: (n) beginning, opening, preface, inauguration, foreword, launch, commencement, head condign: (v) merited, deserved, richly deserved; (adj) suitable, opportune, just, due, rightful, right, proper, apt condition: (n) position, status, provision, standing, clause, circumstances, term, predicament, rank; (n, v) aspect; (v) provide. ANTONYMS: (v) disqualify; (n) option conduct: (v) bring, direct, carry, show; (n, v) act, administration, manage, administer, carriage, bearing; (adj, v) acquit. ANTONYMS: (v) mismanage, leave, follow conference: (n) meeting, colloquy, council, interview, consultation, negotiation, talk, discussion, congress, sitting, session confess: (adj, v) own, allow, admit, avow; (v) concede, profess, recognize, divulge, disclose, reveal, receive. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide, dispute, conceal, repress, harbor 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 confirm: (v) corroborate, verify, approve, validate, bear out, prove, clinch, assert, demonstrate, authenticate; (adj, v) establish. ANTONYMS: (v) contradict, deny, weaken, cancel, void, veto, undermine, repudiate, question, open, negate conflict: (adj, n, v) clash; (n) combat,
William Shakespeare battle, contention, dispute, struggle, antagonism, strife, scuffle; (n, v) contest, encounter. ANTONYMS: (n) accord, peace, harmony, ease, amity, calm, consent; (v) agree, concur, match, harmonize confound: (v) bewilder, baffle, nonplus, perplex, astonish, puzzle, amaze, astound, mistake; (adj, v) confuse, stupefy. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, clarify, comfort, lose, distinguish; (n) understanding confounded: (adj) bemused, accursed, execrable, baffled, cursed, befuddled, confused, puzzled, aghast, perplexed; (adj, v) abashed congratulate: (v) compliment, felicitate, preen, pride, celebrate, applaud, joy, salute, commemorate, approve; (n) congratulation. ANTONYMS: (v) commiserate, slur, disparage, belittle, condemn, boo congruent: (adj) similar, harmonious, appropriate, consentaneous, compatible, fitting, coinciding, relevant, matching, felicitous, apposite. ANTONYMS: (adj) unharmonious, incongruous, incompatible, discordant, disagreeable, disagreeing conquering: (adj) triumphant, winning, overcoming, glorious, proud, successful; (n) conquest, seizure, reverse, subjection, subjugation conqueror: (n) champion, winner, subjugator, vanquisher, hero, superior, defeater, subduer, invader, colonist, Alexander. ANTONYM: (n) loser conscience: (n) moral sense, Conscience money, sense of right and wrong, scruple, intention, tender conscience, small voice, principles, morals, morality, inward monitor. ANTONYM: (n) indifference consonant: (adj, v) accordant, concordant; (adj) conformable, congenial, congruous, agreeable, compatible, harmonious, consentaneous, sympathetic, corresponding. ANTONYMS: (adj) discordant, dissonant, incompatible, inconsonant, incongruent; (n) vowel consort: (n, v) associate, husband; (n) companion; (v) agree, affiliate, assort, accord, mix, keep company, socialize, group. ANTONYMS: (v) disagree, estrange, differ, dissociate, avoid; (n) foe, rival, antagonist, enemy
constable: (n) police officer, policeman, alderman, burgomaster, Petty constable, portreeve, alguazil, gendarme, tipstaff, peon, patrolman construe: (v) read, interpret, expound, clarify, define, illuminate, infer, explain, account for, analyse, take. ANTONYMS: (v) complicate, confuse, obscure, speculate contain: (v) comprehend, include, accommodate, curb, restrict, carry, bear, admit, restrain, embrace, take. ANTONYMS: (v) express, vent, release, omit, lack, except, encourage, eliminate, unleash, broaden, free contemplation: (n) consideration, reflection, thought, attention, cogitation, musing, introspection, speculation, animus, deliberation; (n, v) study contemplative: (adj, v) reflective, pensive, wistful, meditative, introspective; (adj) broody, brooding, speculative, ruminative, musing; (v) museful. ANTONYMS: (adj) shallow, vacuous, blank, thoughtless, disregarding, unreflective, satisfied 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 contents: (n) substance, content, matter, inside, subject matter, list, volume, synopsis, conspectus, cargo, catalogue continent: (adj) chaste, celibate, abstemious, pure, temperate, abstinent, sober, austere; (n) land, peninsula, delta. ANTONYMS: (adj) impure, unchaste continual: (adj, adv) constant; (adj) ceaseless, incessant, endless, continuous, frequent, everlasting, uninterrupted, perpetual, unrelenting, perennial. ANTONYMS: (adj) sporadic, temporary, occasional, finite, inconstant, infrequent, ending, ceasing, halting, rare, acute
147 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 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 converse: (n, v) chat, discourse, argue; (v) confer, confabulate, speak; (n) conversation, colloquy, contrast; (adj, n) opposite; (adj) counter. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) equal; (adj) similar, complementary; (n) similarity 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 copper: (n) brass, bull, cop, Cu, constable, gold, fuzz, pig, cent, bobby, coin cormorant: (adj) avid, gastronome, covetous, avaricious; (n) Phalacrocorax carbo, corvorant, scarf corn: (n) clavus, cereals, Zea Mays, callus, wheat, Indian corn, callosity, grain; (v) feed, keep; (adj, n) commonplace corner: (n) bend, angle, nook, dilemma, recess, hole, coign, predicament, niche; (n, v) turn; (adj) angular. ANTONYMS: (v) free; (n) solution corporal: (adj) bodily, carnal, physical, animal, somatic, bodied, collective, embodied; (adv) fleshly; (n) noncom, sergeant. ANTONYMS: (adj) mental, intangible, cerebral correction: (n) amendment, adjustment, alteration, chastisement, discipline, redress, castigation, modification, punishment, improvement, emendation. ANTONYMS: (n) fabrication, reward, award, persuasion coughing: (n) coughs, breathing out council: (n) assembly, congress, convocation, convention, consultation, synod, meeting,
148 legislature, diet, committee, 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 countenance: (n) aspect, expression, brow, complexion; (n, v) face, sanction, support, favor; (v) allow, tolerate, uphold. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, oppose, discourage, disapprove, prohibit country: (n) nation, home, land, place, area, territory, commonwealth, soil, kingdom, realm; (adj) rustic. ANTONYMS: (adj) urban, metropolitan; (adj, n) city; (n) metropolis coursing: (v) chase, shooting, fishing, hunting, steeple chase, race; (n, v) hunt court: (n) forum, bar, close, field, tribunal, passage, judicatory, judge; (v) romance, attract; (n, v) invite. ANTONYMS: (v) shun, reject, ignore, spurn, disregard, discourage 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 courtship: (n) courting, wooing, love, bundling, the soft impeachment, prayer, entreaty, gallantry, addresses, cause, affection coxcomb: (n) cockscomb, fop, beau, dandy, exquisite, dude, blood, buck, comb, crest, sheik crab: (n) cancer, grouch, Phthirius pubis, decapod, rowing, crosspatch, crayfish, grumbler, grump, sourpuss; (v) gripe crabs: (n) pediculosis pubis, order Decapoda, Decapoda, Crustacea, sexually transmitted disease, returns, barnacles, venereal disease crack: (n, v) chink, fracture, split, fissure, crevice, burst, snap, breach, clap, check; (n) cleft. ANTONYMS: (n, v) mend; (v) set, misunderstand, misinterpret, fix, compose; (adj) mediocre, lowly, inferior, deficient
Love's Labour's Lost crave: (v) covet, ask, want, beseech, implore, wish, long, entreat, desire, fancy, claim. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, spurn, loathe, hate, detest, grant craving: (n) appetite, addiction, appetence, eagerness, hankering, yen, hunger; (n, v) desire, appetency; (adj, n) longing; (adj) eager. ANTONYMS: (n) disgust, hatred, distaste, repulsion, aversion, apathy, disinclination; (adj) unconcerned, disinterested 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 credo: (n) faith, belief, gospel, doctrine, persuasion, ism, dogma, principle, thinking, testament, statement of belief crest: (n, v) crown, top, peak, climax; (n) summit, brow, cockscomb, acme, pinnacle, zenith; (v) cap. ANTONYMS: (n) base, bottom, nadir, trough critic: (n, v) judge; (n) commentator, censor, reviewer, evaluator, pundit, appraiser, critique, criticiser, censurer; (adj) critical. ANTONYMS: (n) advocate, backer, champion, fan cross: (adj) crabby, angry, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous; (v) intersect, cover, thwart, baffle; (adj, v) traverse; (n) crisscross. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, cheerful, happy; (v) uncross, assist, separate, remain, help, stay, unmix, aid crossed: (adj) crossbred, mixed, hybrid, interbred, decussated, intercrossed; (v) matted, disconcerted dashed, unhinged, frustrated 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 crutch: (n, v) support; (n) staff, groin, stick, prop, ankle, stilt, crutches, zigzag, sickle, scythe crystal: (adj) clear, bright, translucent, pebble, crag, stone; (n) watch glass, quartz, gem, vitrite; (adj, n) rock. ANTONYMS: (adj) foggy, murky cuckoo: (n) nut, fathead, goose, jackass, zany, goof, ani, coucal; (v)
chirrup, cheep, chirp culled: (adj) preferred, assorted 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 curate: (n) rector, clergyman, minister, chaplain, pastor, Stipendiary curate, priest, vicar, incumbent, reverend, canon 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 curst: (adj) darned, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, maledict, everlasting, damnable, damn, accursed curtsy: (n, v) bob, curtsey; (adj, n, v) courtesy, kowtow; (v) nod, kneel, bow submission, recognize; (n) obeisance; (adj) salaam, kotow 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 dainties: (n) delicacies, food, cates dainty: (adj, v) nice; (adj, n, v) delicacy; (adj) fastidious, savory, tasteful, squeamish, particular, mincing, refined; (adj, n) tidbit; (n) luxury. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, vulgar, rough, inelegant, harsh, gross, awkward, accepting, heavy, careless, thick dally: (v) flirt, act, linger, trifle, toy, coquette, hesitate, play, dawdle, waste time, lag. ANTONYMS: (v) hurry, rush, hasten, lead damask: (n) fabric, napery, purple, magenta, red, fancier, cloth damosel: (n) damozel, damsel, demoiselle, damoiselle, maid, maiden damsel: (n) demoiselle, damosel, damozel, damoiselle, wench, maiden, maid, girl, nymph, unmarried woman, virgin dance: (v) caper, bop, to dance,
William Shakespeare cavort, play, skip, to show courage, step; (n, v) hop, jump, shake dancing: (n) choreography, Terpsichore, saltation, break dancing, ceremonial dance, galloping, hoofing, Pavan; (adj) morrice; (adv) adance; (v) saltant 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 dark: (adj) dismal, black, cheerless, obscure, dim, mysterious, murky, gloomy; (n) evening, night, shadow. 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 dart: (n, v) dash, run, flit; (v) bound, flash, shoot, rush, race, gallop; (adj, n) arrow, rocket. ANTONYMS: (v) plod, trudge, slog, linger, dawdle, dally, delay, amble; (n) tonic dash: (adj, n, v) rush; (n, v) touch, sprint, strike, splash, jog; (v) dart, break; (n) tinge, beat; (adj, n) animation. ANTONYMS: (v) dawdle, inspirit, languish, saunter, encourage, linger; (n) stagnation, languor, listlessness, mass, dullness dashed: (v) ashamed, cut up, sunk; (adj) broken, done for, dejected, discouraged, dotted daughter: (n) child, son, maiden, young woman, daughterly, lass, unmarried woman, damsel, miss, missy, virgin days: (n) period, life, time, age, existence, generation, years, being, era, living, lifetime dazzling: (adj) brilliant, blinding, splendid, glaring, vivid, stunning,
dazzlingly, striking, sparkling, fulgent, resplendent. ANTONYMS: (adj) dim, ugly, uninspired, unremarkable, unexceptional, gradual, abysmal, humdrum, dark 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 deadly: (adj, adv) deathly; (adj) baneful, lethal, fatal, destructive, mortal, pernicious, virulent, toxic; (adv) lifelessly, lethally. ANTONYMS: (adj) interesting, uplifting, readable, mild, healthy, healthful, benign, innocuous, exciting 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 death: (n) expiration, end, close, exit, fate, mortality, departure, cessation, decease, dissolution; (adj) quietus. ANTONYMS: (n) existence, delivery, living, nascency, being, survival, life, beginning deceived: (adj) mistaken, misguided decrepit: (adj) infirm, senile, feeble, effete, seedy, worn, dilapidated, shabby, old, rickety, frail. ANTONYMS: (adj) fit, strong, sound, robust, powerful, healthy, hearty, sturdy 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 defend: (n, v) guard, shield, advocate; (v) justify, protect, assert, support, maintain, champion, apologize, shelter. ANTONYMS: (v)
149 prosecute, abandon, endanger, surrender, renounce, oppose, forsake, assault, contradict, destroy, expose defile: (adj, v) debauch, pollute, stain, sully; (v) corrupt, contaminate, foul, taint, tarnish, infect; (n, v) soil. ANTONYMS: (v) purify, consecrate, conserve, honor, respect, sanctify, cleanse, praise define: (v) characterize, explain, clarify, bound, name, interpret, limit, construe, restrict, circumscribe, outline. ANTONYMS: (v) obscure, confuse, confound, conceal, tangle deformed: (adj) distorted, misshapen, bent, malformed, ugly, crippled, contorted, warped, shapeless, twisted, deform. ANTONYMS: (adj) beautiful, flawless, unflawed, perfect, straight degree: (n) extent, level, condition, title, rank, academic degree, place, caliber, status, stair; (adj, n) order degrees: (n) degree, temperature, compass rose, cardinal points delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement, rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish, amuse, please, captivate, transport, enrapture. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, dismay, dissatisfaction, sadness, nuisance, discontent; (v) depress, displease, sadden, irk; (n, v) bore delighted: (adj) glad, cheerful, blissful, jubilant, happy, overjoyed, joyful, captivated, pleasant; (adj, v) pleased, elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) shocked, unhappy, sorrowful, depressed, melancholy, miserable, desolate, sorry, sad, down delightful: (adj) delicious, delectable, charming, pleasing, grateful, blissful, amiable, adorable, lovely, nice, gorgeous. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, unwelcome, hateful, miserable, unhappy, unappealing, horrific, horrible, disagreeable, depressing, annoying 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 demand: (v) ask, require, ask for, beg; (n, v) need, request, command, appeal, requisition, sale; (n) requirement. ANTONYMS: (v) grant, offer, obviate, give, eliminate,
150 cede, beg, present, request; (n) response, plea demigod: (adj, n) hero; (n) daemon, Ubermensch, Adonis, leader, divinity, seraph, undergod, superman, heroine, God demonstration: (n) parade, presentation, argument, display, manifestation, exhibition, evidence, show, demo, testimony; (n, v) exposition. ANTONYM: (n) concealment 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 depart: (v) go, deviate, decease, diverge, start, stray, wander, leave, die, vary, part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, arrive, enter, come, abide, conform, continue, remain, appear, converge, return dependents: (n) clientele deputy: (n) surrogate, agent, delegate, alternate, ambassador, vicar, representative, attorney, assistant; (adj, n) substitute, replacement description: (n) account, type, picture, depiction, explanation, brand, delineation, story, recital, report; (adj, n) kind deserve: (v) rate, warrant, gain, earn, to deserve, demand, justify, bear; (n, v) reward; (n) richly deserve, worth 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 desires: (n) requirements, needs desolation: (n) devastation, misery, destruction, depression, grief, wretchedness, bleakness, loneliness, waste, ruin; (adj, n) desertion. ANTONYMS: (n) ecstasy, joy, productiveness, fertileness,
Love's Labour's Lost fecundity, cheer, fruitfulness, preservation, hopefulness, cheerfulness despise: (v) disdain, loathe, depreciate, abhor, dislike, detest, slight, hate; (n, v) contemn; (n) contempt, deride. ANTONYMS: (v) respect, love, adore, appreciate, cherish, like, praise, accept detested: (adj) despised, unpopular, disliked, loathed, not accepted, unloved, scorned, reviled, out of favor, not liked device: (n) emblem, apparatus, appliance, artifice, trick, figure, contraption, invention, gimmick, equipment, plan devil: (n) fiend, demon, ghost, monster, Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, deuce, daemon; (v) torment, rag. ANTONYM: (n) angel devils: (n) unclean spirits devise: (v) contrive, conceive, invent, plan, create, concoct, design, arrange, frame, formulate, excogitate devised: (adj) invented, trumped up, formulated, fabulous 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 devouring: (adv) devouringly; (adj) esurient, edacious, avid, greedy, voraginous, ravenous; (n) fire devout: (adj) pious, devoted, saintly, heartfelt, holy, dear, devotional, hearty, earnest; (adj, v) pure; (adj, n) godly. ANTONYMS: (adj) irreligious, agnostic, impious, irreverent, unbelieving, undevout, unholy, atheistic, secular, uncommitted dialogue: (n, v) talk; (n) colloquy, conversation, interview, interlocution, chat, conference, discussion, dialog, talks, communication dick: (n) cock, bloke, Peter, creature, hombre, shaft, prick, investigator, pecker, gumshoe, tool digest: (n) resume, compilation, epitome, compendium, condensation, collection; (v) stomach, absorb, summarize, apprehend; (adj) brook. ANTONYMS: (v) misinterpret,
lengthen, expand, enlarge, elaborate, misunderstand, avoid, succumb, misapprehend, detail, reject dignity: (n) degree, prestige, glory, decorum, face, distinction, honor, majesty, eminence, solemnity; (adj, n) decency. ANTONYMS: (n) lowliness, indecency, impropriety, simplicity, cheerfulness, austerity digression: (n, v) deviation, diversion; (n) departure, aside, excursion, divagation, aberrance, deflection, deflexion, divergence, difference. ANTONYMS: (n) consistency, uniformity, regularity dine: (v) feed, lunch, breakfast, dining, meal, give, have supper, take tea, grub, consume, entertain. ANTONYM: (v) abstain dinner: (n) banquet, lunch, dinner party, meal, party, beanfeast, spread; (v) tiffin, dejeuner, bever; (adj) dinnerly directed: (adj) oriented, manageable, destined, concentrating, intent, formal, absorbed, prescript, focussed; (v) instruct; (adv) under disclosed: (adj) exposed, open, unconcealed, out of the closet, naked, manifest, discovered, ascertained, detailed discourse: (n, v) address, lecture, sermon, converse, harangue, chat; (n) talk, colloquy, conversation, discussion, homily discretion: (n) circumspection, prudence, delicacy, diplomacy, calculation, free will, discernment, discreetness, tact, confidentiality, choice. ANTONYMS: (n) tactlessness, rashness, indiscretion, foolishness, vulgarity, openness, clumsiness 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 dish: (n) basin, disk, plate, meal, platter, food, saucer, beauty, meat, repast; (n, v) hollow dismiss: (v) cashier, disband, cast, discard, brush aside, can, bounce, cast off, cease, dispatch; (n, v) drop. ANTONYMS: (v) employ, welcome, signal, remember, recall, mobilize, maintain, keep, hold, engage, contract dispensation: (n) allotment, release, disposal, assignment, division,
William Shakespeare freedom, distribution, exemption, license, allocation, apportionment. ANTONYM: (n) prohibition dispense: (v) allot, deal, administer, assign, deal out, apportion, dole out, give, issue, diffuse, furnish. ANTONYMS: (v) prohibit, receive, withhold dispraise: (n) disparagement, disapproval, deprecation, detraction, blame, denigration, condemnation, animadversion; (v) disparage, criticize, reprehend 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 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 doctrine: (n) creed, philosophy, belief, dogma, credo, conviction, lesson, canon, faith, gospel, school dogs: (n) foxes, Canidae, Carnivora, cats, family Canidae, forceps, order Carnivora, bears; (adj) dogging dominator: (n) boss domine: (n) dominie, dominus, clergyman, a clergyman, dominee domineering: (adj) dictatorial, overbearing, autocratic, arbitrary, dominant, lordly, imperious, commanding, masterful, bossy, authoritative. ANTONYMS: (adj) subservient, yielding, meek, surrendering, weak, libertarian, reasonable 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 doomsday: (n) Judgment Day, crack of doom, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, day of judgement, domesday, remote future,
millennium, last day, last judgement, Last Judgment 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 doublet: (n) pair, couple, waistcoat, CHUDDER, barbe, gabardine, double, jacket, jubbah, oilskins, camisole doubt: (n, v) suspicion, question, query, dispute; (n) disbelief, misgiving, incertitude, apprehension, uncertainty; (adj, n) skepticism; (v) suspect. ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, confidence, conclusiveness, belief, certitude, faith, approval; (v) accept, believe, consider, swallow downright: (adj, n) absolute; (adj, v) sheer, clear; (adj) dead, blunt, candid, plain; (adv) absolutely, thoroughly, wholly, decidedly. ANTONYMS: (adj) semi, limited, incomplete, questionable, slight; (adv) hardly dowry: (n) dot, inheritance, gift, alimony, dowery, portion, jointure, grant, share, endowment, heritage dozen: (adj, n) XII; (n) dozens, boxcars drawing: (n) draft, delineation, picture, plan, cartoon, depiction, draught, draw, draftsmanship, painting, image drawn: (adj) careworn, worn, drew, pinched, gaunt, taut, tired, cadaverous, thin, tense, withdraw. ANTONYMS: (adj) rested, robust, refreshed, hale, fresh, vigorous, carefree dread: (n, v) apprehension, fear, panic; (n) anxiety, awe, consternation, alarm, trepidation, dismay, foreboding, terror. ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasing, welcomed, pleasant; (v) welcome, want; (n) reassurance, fearlessness, confidence, security, ease, calm 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,
151 fair dream: (n) aspiration, ambition, reverie, desire, fantasy, figment, nightmare; (n, v) vision, sleep; (v) muse, imagine. ANTONYMS: (n) alertness, nightmare drink: (n, v) beverage, draught, swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion, intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib, swig. ANTONYMS: (v) regurgitate, sip, abstain 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 drops: (n) tear drowsy: (adj, n) sleepy; (adj) lazy, comatose, somnolent, slow, lethargic, sluggish, dull, indolent, soporific, listless. ANTONYMS: (adj) energetic, awake, lively, vigorous, vivacious, refreshed drum: (adj, n) barrel; (n) cask, tympan, cylinder, timbrel, tambour, tambourine; (v) beat, roll, bone up, ram drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto, drunken, inebriated; (adj, n) inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac, drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS: (adj) straight, clearheaded; (n) teetotaler drunkard: (n) alcoholic, drinker, boozer, dipsomaniac, rummy, inebriate, toper, sot, bibber, lush, imbiber duke: (n) lord, prince, hand, nobleman, fist, chief; (v) pass, box, deliver dull: (adj) dreary, dense, sluggish, dismal, slack, torpid; (adj, v) blunt, stupid; (v) deaden, dampen; (adj, n) cold. ANTONYMS: (adj) lively, sharp, stimulating, exciting, lustrous, interesting, exhilarating, varied, glossy, glittery, luminous dunghill: (adj) base, craven, jakes, sink, recreant, privy; (n) unsanitariness, laystall, mixen, muckheap, muckhill durance: (n) captivity, dure, incarceration, imprisonment, immurement, duress dutchman: (n) Netherlander, mynheer, make up piece; (adj) dago, tenderfoot, slant, wop, greaser, Polak, mick, easterner duty: (n) function, commitment, obligation, chore, assignment, office,
152 dues, job, responsibility, must; (n, v) charge. ANTONYMS: (n) disobedience, option each: (adv) apiece, either, individually; (adj) every, various, singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone, an, anybody, everyone eagle: (n) bird of Jove, colors, double eagle, oriflamme, oriflamb, raptor, labarum, emblem, flag, dibs, streamer 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 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 east: (n) orient, e, Levant, easting, east side, EST, cardinal compass point; (adj) eastern; (adv) eastwards. ANTONYM: (adj) west 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 eaten: (v) eat ebony: (adj, n) sable; (adj) black, dark, jet, soot, raven, smut, sloe; (n) jet black, coal black, wood 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 edict: (n) act, command, writ, declaration, ruling, rule, regulation, directive, order, dictate, law educate: (v) instruct, civilize, train, cultivate, coach, bring up, drill, discipline, breed, rear, nurture effect: (n, prep) consequence; (v) accomplish, achieve, bring about,
Love's Labour's Lost create, complete, cause, do; (n) product, sequel; (n, v) result. ANTONYMS: (n) reason, cause; (v) impede, fail either: (adj) whatever; (adv) too, also, neither, besides, likewise; (n) or; (det) any; (conj) other elbow: (n, v) poke, nudge, jolt; (n) cubitus, elbow joint, angle, articulation; (v) jostle, push, shove, crowd elder: (adj) older, big, adult; (n) dean, doyen, patriarch, ancient, boss, elderberry, superior, presbyter. ANTONYMS: (n) youngster, minor, child, inferior; (adj) youngest, younger, little elegancy: (n) elegance, refinement else: (adv) besides, yet, to boot, in addition, moreover; (pron) another; (n) or; (adj) different, other, further, additional employ: (v) use, apply, exploit, consume, wield, hire, engage, exercise, work, busy, utilize. ANTONYMS: (v) fire, dismiss, can, ignore, misuse, sack, underuse; (n) unemployment employment: (n, v) business, employ, use, trade, calling, profession; (adj, n) work, career; (n) occupation, duty, service empress: (n) emperor, margravine, sultana, infanta, queen, princess, noble, monarch, lady, ruler, emperess empty: (adj, v) clear, discharge, destitute, void; (adj) hollow, bare, blank, barren, abandoned; (v) deplete, pour. ANTONYMS: (adj) crowded, meaningful, packed, occupied, inhabited, swarming, brimming, laden, filled, cultivated; (v) fill enchanted: (adj) bewitched, delighted, charmed, fascinated, rapt, spellbound, blissful, happy, enamored, possessed; (v) entranced. ANTONYMS: (adj) disenchanted, unhappy enchanting: (adj) captivating, delightful, fascinating, bewitching, lovely, alluring, magical, glamorous, adorable; (adj, v) charming, engaging. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, revolting, repulsive, repellent, foul, everyday, dull, disenchanting, annoying, uninteresting, despicable 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 endeavour: (n) attempt, effort, pains, trial, try, enterprise, striving, contribution, braving; (v) exert, strive ended: (adj) concluded, finished, over, done, completed, closed, through, terminated, consummate, all over; (adj, v) past ending: (n) conclusion, end, closure, close, completion, finish, termination, dissolution, death; (adj, n) closing, last. ANTONYMS: (n) beginning, middle, commencement, inauguration, kickoff, prelude, establishment; (adj) first 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 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 enfranchise: (v) emancipate, free, deliver, absolve, acquit; (n) empower, charter, license, privilege, warrant, liberation. ANTONYM: (v) disenfranchise engaged: (adj) occupied, betrothed, employed, affianced, engrossed, reserved, absorbed, working, pledged, involved, committed. ANTONYMS: (adj) free, unengaged, unemployed, uncommitted, unattached, single, detached, idle enigma: (adj, n) mystery, riddle; (n) puzzle, secret, perplexity, poser, question, problem, closed book, nut to crack, logogriph. ANTONYMS: (n) clearness, explanation enjoined: (adj) lawful enjoy: (v) hold, have, relish, bask, appreciate, own, rejoice, revel, love, experience; (adj, v) like. ANTONYMS: (v) need, suffer, loathe, lack, hate, detest, despise, want enlargement: (n) magnification, amplification, expansion, increase, dilation, addition, development,
William Shakespeare distension, distention, growth, extension. ANTONYMS: (n) contraction, decrease, lessening, shrinkage, deterioration, drop, erosion 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 enriched: (adj) educated enrolled: (adj) listed, conscript 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 entertainment: (n) distraction, diversion, enjoyment, show, pleasure, recreation, fun, reception, pastime; (adj, n) party; (n, v) regalement. ANTONYMS: (n) job, boredom, discomfort entire: (adj, n) absolute, complete; (adj) total, all, integral, whole, utter, perfect, clean, undivided, unbroken. ANTONYMS: (adj) incomplete, limited, part, unfinished, narrow, imperfect entirely: (adv) fully, absolutely, utterly, wholly, altogether, all, thoroughly, perfectly, clean, solely; (adj, adv) completely. ANTONYMS: (adv) partially, incompletely, unenthusiastically, hardly, slightly, somewhat entitle: (v) dub, style, designate, christen, empower, term, baptize, authorize; (n, v) title, name, denominate. ANTONYMS: (v) disqualify, debar entreat: (v) beg, beseech, ask, implore, pray, adjure, appeal, request, conjure, crave, bid. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, reject envious: (adj) covetous, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, begrudge, greedy, resentful, grudging, green, begrudging, enviable. ANTONYMS: (adj) fulfilled, satisfied, undesirous, contented epilogue: (n) epilog, ending, afterword, end, close, closing, conclusion, finale, peroration, speech, sequel. ANTONYMS: (n) foreword, preface, prelude, prologue, introduction
epitaph: (n) memorial, lettering, inscription, commemoration, epitaphic, legend epithet: (n) name, cognomen, appellation, denomination, nickname, moniker, sobriquet, title, picture, byname, byword 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 erewhile: (adv, n) whilom; (adj) beforehand, ere, afore, yet, theretofore; (adv) over, time was, formerly, whilere, erst error: (n) blunder, fault, mistake, delusion, lapse, oversight, miss, guilt, crime, defect; (adj, n) wrong. ANTONYMS: (n) correctness, fact, accuracy established: (adj, v) conventional, regular, set, settled; (adj) accepted, firm, fixed, decided, standard, secure, confirmed. ANTONYMS: (adj) debatable, unestablished, unconventional, unusual, unknown, rare, new, innovative, changing, temporary, unorthodox esteemed: (adj) dear, reputable, respected, honorable, noble, honored, prestigious, important, distinguished, August, respect. ANTONYM: (adj) disreputable estimation: (n) deference, assessment, calculation, approximation, appraisal, attention; (n, v) esteem, consideration, regard, reputation, credit. ANTONYMS: (n) calculation, disbelief, doubt estranged: (adj) disaffected, separated, confused, bitter, anomic, neurotic, lonely, homeless, friendless, foreign, factious eternal: (adj) constant, perpetual, ceaseless, everlasting, lasting, continual, aeonian, immortal, boundless, deathless, enduring. ANTONYMS: (adj) mortal, finite, brief, ephemeral, fleeting, terminable, ending, fragile, inconstant eunuch: (n) eunuchate, gelding, man, adult male event: (n) effect, case, consequence, occurrence, incident, result, contingency, product, fact, happening, circumstance.
153 ANTONYM: (n) insignificancy ever: (adj, adv) always, continually; (adj) constantly, still, forever; (adv) never, e'er, before, once, perpetually; (n) Evers. ANTONYM: (adv) erratically 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 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 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 exceedingly: (adj, adv) very, highly; (adv) too, exceptionally, overly, surpassingly, extraordinarily, greatly, awfully, terrifically, eminently. ANTONYMS: (adv) slightly, hardly, insufficiently, somewhat excel: (v) top, surpass, cap, outdo, pass, eclipse, beat, transcend, lead, outshine; (adj, v) better. ANTONYMS: (v) flunk, trail 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 exchange: (n, v) barter, interchange, swap, counterchange, switch, substitute; (n) commutation; (v) commute, alternate, alter, convert. ANTONYMS: (n) holding, keeping; (v) keep excrement: (adj, n) faeces; (n) dirt, evacuation, excretion, dung, ordure, excreta, urine, body waste, droppings; (adj) feces excuse: (n, v) pardon, palliate; (v)
154 absolve, exculpate, condone, acquit, justify, forgive; (n) alibi, pretext, evasion. ANTONYMS: (v) blame, accuse, chide, discipline, include, reprimand, castigate; (n) accusation 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 expecting: (adj) pregnant, confident, with child, heavy, hopeful; (n) family way expense: (n) disbursement, expenditure, price, outlay, amount, toll, fee, payment, costs; (n, v) charge, detriment. ANTONYM: (n) income experience: (v) endure, suffer, examine, meet, live, know, receive; (adj, v) see; (n) event, episode, happening. ANTONYMS: (n) inexperience, greenness, naivete, inability, ignorance expiration: (n) ending, end, conclusion, finish, close, exhalation, termination, exit, death, lapse, expiry. ANTONYM: (n) beginning explication: (n) exposition, construction, description, elucidation, definition, clarification, annotation, solution, account, reading, interpretation 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 expressly: (adv) specially, particularly, distinctly, specifically, explicitly, especially, utterly, clearly, precisely, telly, exactly. ANTONYMS: (adv) ambiguously, conditionally, implicitly, indirectly, vaguely extemporal: (adj) extemporaneous extravagant: (adj) wasteful, luxurious, prodigal, exaggerated, profligate, costly, expensive, lavish, immoderate, profuse, undue. ANTONYMS: (adj) restrained, frugal, parsimonious, plain, stingy, understated, thrifty, reasonable, moderate, cautious, tasteful 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,
Love's Labour's Lost conventional, ordinary, normal, insignificant extremely: (adv) enormously, excessively, greatly, extraordinarily, utterly, severely, hugely, intensely, desperately; (adj, adv) highly, very. ANTONYMS: (adv) quite, fairly, slightly, moderately, unremarkably, sensibly, hardly, somewhat, commonly, reasonably, insufficiently eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby blues, guard, propensity, eyen eyesight: (n) sight, seeing, discernment, vision power, ability to make discerning judgments, view, sightedness, optics, beholding fable: (n) legend, fiction, tale, story, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, myth, anecdote; (adj, n) apologue, parable. ANTONYMS: (n) fact, history 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 facility: (n) dexterity, ease, adroitness, readiness, artifice, faculty, skill, aptitude, installation; (adj, n) competence, proficiency. ANTONYMS: (n) awkwardness, maladroitness, ineptness, inconvenience, hardship, difficulty, effort, hesitancy fadge: (adj) square; (v) fay 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 faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct, exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing, dependable, devoted, sound, devout; (adj, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) unreliable, false, inaccurate, unfaithful, unrealistic,
faithless, perfidious, backstabbing, cheating, inexact, loose faithfully: (adv) exactly, accurately, sincerely, staunchly, precisely, truly, authentically, dutifully, literally, steadfastly, truely. ANTONYMS: (adv) unfaithfully, approximately, falsely, insincerely, carelessly, inaccurately falchion: (n) sword, blade, steel, saber, scimitar, cutlass, faulchion, fauchion, broadsword 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 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 falsehood: (n) fable, fabrication, deception, untruth, lie, fib, fiction, invention, dishonesty; (adj, n) deceit, falsity. ANTONYMS: (n) fact, honesty, reality 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 fanatical: (adj, v) bigoted, besotted; (adj, n) rabid; (adj) extreme, fanatic, zealous, immoderate, mad, avid; (v) impassioned, confined. ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, unenthusiastic, uninterested, disinterested, reasonable,
William Shakespeare uncommitted, apathetic, tolerant 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 fantastical: (adj, v) fanciful; (adj) antic, chimerical, unusual, beautiful, unreal, strange, grotesque, odd, extraordinary; (v) fancy 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 farthing: (n) craps, faro, ante, chuck, doit, small change; (adj) bulrush, pinch of snuff, peppercorn, old son, jot fashion: (n) mode, craze, fad, manner, method, way; (n, v) cut, construct, style; (v) contrive, make. ANTONYM: (v) destroy fashioning: (n) devising, cartography, making, cartographic, cartographical, mapmaking fast: (adj, v) firm; (adj) dissolute, instant, agile, staunch, quick, hurried, fixed, rapid; (adv) soon, hard. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, loosely, sluggishly; (n) binge; (adj) sluggish, loose, unattached, plodding; (adj, adv) leisurely; (v) gorge, eat fasting: (n) abstinence, white sheet, shrift, sackcloth and ashes, maceration, lustration, flagellation, watching one's weight, hunger strike, penance; (v) calorie counting fasts: (adv) quickly fate: (n, v) doom; (n) chance, luck, fatality, fortune, kismet, allotment, portion, lot; (v) destine, designate. ANTONYMS: (n) will, design, choice, accident, chance father: (n) dad, begetter, creator, abba, patriarch, beginner, founder, padre; (n, v) sire; (v) engender, generate. ANTONYMS: (n) disciple, follower 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 fawn: (v) crawl, creep, grovel, cringe, cower, crouch, bootlick, kowtow, blandish, flatter; (n) deer. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, despise, ignore, domineer 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 feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) feed, eat. ANTONYMS: (v) abstain, starve; (n) snack 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 feeling: (n) affection, feel, emotion, sensitivity, mood, hunch, opinion, belief, impression, atmosphere; (adj, n) sentiment. ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, overtone, insensibility, certainty, insensitivity, hatred, trust; (adj) unfeeling feet: (v) legs, pegs, pins, trotters; (n) foots, ft, fete, meter, rescue fell: (v) cut, chop, bring down, drop, cut down; (adj) barbarous, cruel; (adj, v) prostrate, floor, knock down; (n) skin. ANTONYMS: (v) construct, erect, raise, build 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
155 fellowship: (n) community, company, companionship, communion, camaraderie, society, comradeship, association, body; (adj, n) familiarity, acquaintance. ANTONYMS: (n) unsociability, unfriendliness, hostility female: (n) woman, girl, she, wife, hen, spouse, squaw; (adj) feminine, distaff, pistillate, not male. ANTONYMS: (adj) masculine, manly, androgynous, manlike; (n) man, boy feminine: (adj) effeminate, womanly, maidenly, delicate, not male, pistillate, wifely, mild; (n) girl, lady, gender. ANTONYMS: (adj) male, unwomanly, neuter fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, get, attract; (adj, n) feint fever: (n) malaria, delirium, pyrexia, heat, frenzy, feverishness, febricity, Bilious typhoid fever, Levant fever, Hectic infantile fever, Typhoid fever field: (n) area, battlefield, ground, place, domain, discipline, range, realm, battleground, section, compass fields: (n) field, domains, plain, notification fields, rotation, alternation of crops, grounds fierce: (adj) bitter, acute, cruel, ferocious, brutal, grim, nasty, intense, ardent; (adj, v) savage, furious. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, mild, calm, quiet, tame, docile, weak, peaceful, pleasant 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 fifth: (n) interval, twenty percent, common fraction, fifth part; (adv) fifthly; (v) decimate fifty: (adj, n) l; (n) half a hundred, fifty dollar bill, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre fight: (n, v) battle, dispute, contest, quarrel, engagement, feud, squabble, argue, struggle, clash; (adj, n, v) brawl. 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)
156 estimate figures: (n) statistics, numbers, information, facts, poll fill: (v) block, clog, stuff, line, charge, execute, accomplish, complete, brim, fulfill; (n) crowd. ANTONYMS: (v) empty, free, deplete, unpack, unload, notch, deflate, desert find: (v) catch, detect, encounter, come across, feel, attain, ascertain; (n) detection, disclosure, search, discovery. ANTONYMS: (v) misplace, search, fail; (n) loss finding: (n) detection, judgment, determination, discovery, verdict, ruling, breakthrough, resolution, doom, decree, find 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 finely: (adv) delicately, beautifully, magnificently, splendidly, exquisitely, rarely, excellently, lovely, slightly, nicely, bravely. ANTONYMS: (adv) roughly, coarsely, intensely, poorly finer: (adj) superior, advanced, bigger, higher, more, greater finger: (v) feel, handle, touch, thumb, indicate, point; (n) digit, dactyl, forefinger, pointer; (n, v) hand. ANTONYM: (v) clear finish: (n, v) close, complete, consummate; (v) achieve, execute, discontinue, cease, accomplish, determine; (n) conclusion, death. ANTONYMS: (n) beginning, opening, inception, middle, creation; (v) begin, continue, sustain, save, renew, conserve fire: (v) eject, dismiss, kindle, ignite; (n, v) discharge, blaze, flame, explode; (n) ardor, conflagration, fervor. ANTONYMS: (v) hire, defuse, deflate, employ, dampen, detain; (n) laziness firework: (n) pyrotechny, squib, pyrotechnics, cracker, firecracker, sparkler, pyrotechnic, skyrocket, banger, crackers, explosive device first-born: (adj) older fitted: (adj) capable, efficient, competent, able, finished, qualified, trained, primed, outfitted, initiated; (adj, v) convenient five: (n) fives, quintuplet, quint, Phoebe, basketball team, fin, squad, ace, digit; (adj, n) v; (adj) quinary
Love's Labour's Lost fixed: (adj, v) determined, durable; (adj, adv, v) stable; (adj) definite, intent, fast, determinate, certain, set; (adj, adv, n) steady; (adj, n, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) flexible, separate, adaptable, adjustable, changeable, movable, variable, compliant, temporary, removable, portable fixing: (n) fixation, fix, adjustment, repair, mending, altering, emasculation, castration, furniture, fastener, fitting flask: (n) bottle, flasket, container, cask, ampulla, carafe, decanter, jar, flagon, vacuum flask, vial flatter: (v) fawn, adulate, wheedle, cajole, soap, kowtow, blandish, grovel, butter up; (n, v) court; (n) caress. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, disparage, criticize, discourage flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney, compliment, adulation, taffy, palaver, praise, gloze, sweet talk, sycophancy, soft soap. ANTONYMS: (n) insult, offense flaw: (n, v) crevice, blemish, crack; (adj, n) fault, blot, blunder; (n) chink, demerit, cranny, break, chap. ANTONYMS: (n) strength, perfection flea: (n) chamois, chigger, chigoe, insect, frog, chigoe flea, epizoon, goat, ectoparasite, chinch, dog flea flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, frame, person, mankind, humanity, meat flint: (adj) stone, pebble, fossil, granite, marble; (n) quartz, silica, flint river, gunflint, crystal, crag 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 flout: (n, v) deride, jeer, gibe, taunt, scoff, mock, sneer; (v) defy, scorn, jest, scout. ANTONYMS: (v) observe, notice flow: (n, v) stream, course, flux, surge, run, jet; (n) current, discharge; (v) float, emanate, well. ANTONYMS: (n) drought; (v) trickle flower: (n, v) blossom, blow; (v) effloresce, flourish; (adj, n) prime; (n) efflorescence, elite, cream, bouquet, floret, florescence. ANTONYMS: (n) residue; (v) wither flowers: (n) analecta, anthology
folded: (adj) plaited, pleated, doubled, artful, braided, corrugated, doubled over, fluted folk: (n) family, common people, nationality, nation, country, clan, tribe, race, persons, man; (adj) popular follow: (v) chase, adopt, adhere, succeed, accompany, abide by, comprehend, ensue, track; (adj, v) catch, grasp. ANTONYMS: (v) guide, lead, head, disobey, deny, ignore, misunderstand, predate, exceed, defy, break following: (adj) consequent, ensuing, subsequent, consecutive, succeeding; (adj, v) consequential; (n) entourage, pursuit, followers; (adv) under, after. ANTONYMS: (adj) leading, previous, alternate, earlier; (n) nonbelievers folly: (n) fatuity, foolishness, silliness, tomfoolery, nonsense, stupidity, craziness, density, freak; (adj, n) irrationality, trifling. ANTONYM: (n) sense 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 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 forage: (v) search, scrounge, prey, plunder, hunt, rummage, gut, spoil, despoil, scour; (n) pasture forbear: (v) refrain, desist, help, tolerate, abide, eschew, endure, relinquish; (n) predecessor, progenitor, forebear forbid: (v) prohibit, ban, disallow, bar, obstruct, exclude, deny, avert, frustrate, to prohibit, enjoin. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, let, approve, authorize, stand forbidden: (adj) banned, taboo, illegal, prohibited, contraband, illicit, verboten, proscribed, outlawed, illegitimate; (adj, adv) offlimits. ANTONYMS: (adj) allowed,
William Shakespeare permitted, permissible, legal, open force: (n, v) drive, squeeze, pressure, thrust; (n) energy, strength, agency; (v) coerce, push, press, compel. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, ineffectiveness, inertia, apathy, moderation; (v) request, wheedle, pull, push, restrain, prevent forehead: (n) brow, front, foreland, lineament, mut, phiz, physiognomy, visage, eyebrow, skull; (adv) foremost forester: (n) ranger, arboriculturist, granger, sodbuster, husbandman, foster, foot, timberman, tree farmer, lumberjack, Forster 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 forget: (v) leave, miss, blank out, bury, to forget, overlook, neglect, ignore, fail, unlearn, abandon. ANTONYMS: (v) mind, attend forgive: (v) absolve, excuse, acquit, remit, pardon, justify, to forgive, exonerate, overlook, clear, to excuse. ANTONYMS: (v) condemn, punish, castigate forlorn: (adj) hopeless, desolate, despairing, unhappy, miserable, deserted, disconsolate, downcast, cheerless, wretched, abject. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, hopeful, fine form: (n, v) make, fashion, design, build, arrange, shape; (adj, n) figure; (v) establish, constitute, do; (n) ceremony. ANTONYMS: (v) deform, destroy forswear: (v) abjure, renounce, disavow, disclaim, recant, perjure, retract, disown, give up, relinquish, discountenance forsworn: (adj) perjured, untrue forth: (adv) away, along, onward, ahead, before, on, off, on the high road, on the road, on the way, under way 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
fostering: (n) breeding, rearing, nurturing, nurture, fosterage, encouragement, bringing up, promotion, development, elevation, education 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 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 fourth: (adv) fourthly; (n) interval, third, after part, common fraction, fourth part, quartern, second; (adj) quaternary framed: (adj) counterfeit, prepared, orderly, methodical, spurious. ANTONYM: (adj) unframed france: (n) Frances, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, regional operations in Germany, Anatole France frantic: (adj) desperate, crazy, excited, distraught, frenetic, distracted; (adj, v) frenzied, furious, wild, raging; (n) maniac. ANTONYMS: (adj) mellow, composed fray: (n) conflict, action, fight, combat, disturbance, fracas, scrap; (n, v) affray, broil; (v) rub, fret 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 french: (adj) Gallic, Frankish, Gallican, Gallian; (v) to take French leave; (n) Frenchman, romance language, French people, Daniel Chester French, profanity, the French 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
157 friend: (adj, n) associate, comrade, companion, fellow, ally; (n) acquaintance, colleague, boyfriend, crony, brother, mate. ANTONYMS: (n) foe, stranger, rival, nemesis, adversary, antagonist friends: (n) circle, associates, connections, links, support group, acquaintances friendship: (n) association, familiarity, affection, companionship, friendliness, intimacy, company, attachment, relationship; (n, v) amity, concord. ANTONYMS: (n) hostility, animosity, antagonism, conflict, formality, rivalry, hatred, detachment, distance, isolation fright: (n, v) dismay, alarm, scare, affright; (n) awe, fear, dread, terror, horror, consternation, apprehension. ANTONYMS: (n) calm, fearlessness, courage, confidence, security frozen: (adj) cold, frosty, frigid, wintry, glacial, arctic, icy, freezing, stiff, congealed, iced. ANTONYMS: (adj) moving, hot, warm, boiling, fluid, liquid, melted, unfrozen, thawed, tropical, soft fructify: (adj, v) flower, bloom; (v) set, fatten, fertilize, bear, pup, improve, mature; (adj) blow, blossom fruitful: (adj) fertile, copious, profitable, abundant, plentiful, rich, fecund, good, fat, productive, lucrative. ANTONYMS: (adj) unproductive, barren, infertile, unfruitful, unprofitable, sterile, fruitless, destructive 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 fury: (n) anger, exasperation, force, resentment, delirium, furor, frenzy, indignation, craze; (adj, n) wrath, ferocity. ANTONYMS: (n) composure, calmness, mildness, calm, pleasure, serenity 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
158 gall: (v) fret, chafe, irritate, irk, provoke; (adj, n, v) anger; (n) bitterness, cheek, audacity, acerbity, acrimony. ANTONYM: (v) please gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, selfish gallows: (n) gibbet, gallous, gallowsbitts, hanging, noose, scaffold, halter, tree, rope, gallowstree, bough game: (n) fun, amusement, entertainment, play, diversion, prey, quarry; (v) bet, wager, gamble; (adj) fearless. ANTONYMS: (adj) reticent, unwilling; (n) hunter gamester: (n) sportsman, player, reveler, dicer, hazarder garden: (v) farm, cultivate, tend; (n) field, bed, plantation, orchard, grove, grounds, park; (adj) gardenly gate: (n) door, mouth, entry, doorway, port, exit, goal, barrier, approach, inlet, threshold gates: (n) bill Gates gaudy: (adj) flashy, loud, showy, garish, flamboyant, tasteless, colorful, tacky, brassy, tawdry, florid. ANTONYMS: (adj) tasteful, restrained, muted, drab, modest, dull, quality gave: (v) deliver, allow, allot, provide, furnish, impart, administer; (n) gives gaze: (n, v) stare, regard, look, behold; (v) gape, see, contemplate, face, pry, view, glance. ANTONYMS: (v) glance, peek geese: (n) ducks, goose, game birds, order Anseriformes, wildfowl, birds, Anatidae, Anseriformes, family Anatidae gelded: (adj) emasculated, cut, castrated, cut down, gashed, down 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 generous: (adj) ample, abundant, copious, benevolent, bountiful, kind, charitable, flush, fair, liberal; (adj, n) free. ANTONYMS: (adj) meager, tightfisted, miserly, measly, mean, small, ungenerous, avaricious, greedy, petty, pitiful gentle: (adj) easy, friendly, soft, kind,
Love's Labour's Lost 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 german: (n) German language, Jerry, Teuton, Hun, Yiddish, High German; (adj) Teutonic, Germanic; (adj, n) Alman 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 gilt: (n) gilding, plating, money, decoration; (adj) aureate, golden, gold, florid; (v) tesselated, ornate, rich gingerbread: (adj) bedizened, extra, fancy; (v) flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial; (n) ornament, trim, embellishment, frill, garnish girl: (n) damsel, gal, lady, young woman, maid, lass, fille, wench, daughter, bride, virgin. ANTONYMS: (n) son, boy give: (v) extend, commit, donate, endow, contribute, dispense, deliver, convey, grant; (adj, v) bestow, accord. ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, take, withhold, retain, receive, keep, get, hide, conceal, starve, withstand given: (adj) apt, disposed, prone, specified, liable, inclined, granted, fixed, conditional; (n) assumption, particular. ANTONYMS: (adj) taken, unwilling gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, accord giving: (n) endowment, donation, presentation, bestowal, disposal; (adj) liberal, generous, charitable, bighearted, big, humanitarian. ANTONYMS: (adj) nasty, tightfisted, malevolent, mean, stiff, stingy glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay, blithe, delighted, festive, content, delightful, genial, bright, willing. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, apologetic, dismayed, unwilling, disappointed, sorry glasses: (n) spectacles, eyeglasses, glass, specs, spectacle, eyeglass,
barnacles, lens, pair of glasses, mirror, goggles glorious: (adj) distinguished, beautiful, bright, celebrated, brilliant, eminent, magnificent, super, great, splendid; (adj, v) illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj) sorrowful, despicable, horrible, shameful, lowly glory: (n) celebrity, brightness, honor, distinction, glorification, eclat, dignity; (n, v) halo, pride; (v) exult, boast. ANTONYMS: (v) blasphemy, lament, profanity; (n) dishonor, disrepute, ugliness, blame, criticism 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 goddess: (n) divinity, God, beauty, nymph; (adj, n) idol; (adj) duck, darling, angel, Dulcinea, ladylove, inamorata godfather: (n) godchild, supporter, patron, godparent, godmother, gangster, executive; (v) christen godhead: (adj, n) divinity, the Deity; (n) godhood, godship, churchman, ecclesiastic, almighty, cleric, creator, divine; (adj) God 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 golden: (adj) aureate, fortunate, gilded, auspicious, gold, gilt, lucky, advantageous, fair, favorable, favored. ANTONYM: (adj) inauspicious 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 goodman: (n) benny Goodman, the king of swing, Benjamin David Goodman, man of the house goose: (n) goof, fathead, cuckoo, barnacle, fool, jackass, brent, brant, goosecap; (n, v) spur; (v) serpent gorgeous: (adj) luxurious, gaudy, attractive, brilliant, wonderful,
William Shakespeare glorious, gay, florid, palatial, dressy; (adj, v) rich. ANTONYMS: (adj) ugly, unattractive, detestable, shabby 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 grandam: (n) grandmother, grannam grandfather: (n) gramps, grandad, grandpapa, grandpa, grandsire, granddaddy, ancestor, father's father, paternal grandfather, father, forefather grandmother: (n) grandma, granny, crone, grannie, grandam, mother, dam, grandmamma, father's mother, paternal grandmother, hag 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 grapple: (n, v) grip, clasp, tackle, grasp; (v) fight, contend, grab, struggle; (adj, n, v) lock; (adj, n) hook; (n) grappling grass: (v) denounce, betray; (n) forage, cannabis, hay, pasture, fink, sward, pasturage; (adj, n) green, marijuana. ANTONYM: (n) patriot gratify: (v) delight, please, appease, accommodate, satisfy, amuse, suit, indulge, cater; (n, v) humor; (adj) contented. ANTONYMS: (v) dissatisfy, displease, disappoint graze: (n, v) browse, scrape, touch; (v) rub, chafe, eat, shave, brush, crop, crease; (n) cut. ANTONYM: (v) smooth
greasily: (adv) slimily, fatly, oleaginously, smoothly, unctuously, fattily, dirtily, slickly, grossly, slipperily, richly greasy: (adj) fatty, dirty, oily, tallowy, slick, sebaceous, unclean, unctuous, slippery, adipose, oleaginous. ANTONYM: (adj) lean 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 green: (adj) callow, immature, young, jealous, youthful, emerald, crude, juvenile, gullible, inexperienced; (adj, v) raw. ANTONYMS: (adj) ripe, urban, withering, sophisticated, seasoned, old, arid, mature, limp, artificial greet: (n, v) receive; (v) address, acknowledge, hail, welcome, cry, salute, bid, weep, meet, recognize greyhound: (adj) race horse, gazelle, courser, eagle; (n) grayhound 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 grim: (adj) austere, glum, cheerless, dour, ghastly, dreary, forbidding, dark, dire, hard, dismal. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, bright, funny, kindly, hospitable, pleasant,
159 promising, simple, wonderful groan: (n, v) grumble, murmur, cry, sigh, mutter, squeak, rumble, scrape; (v) howl, complain; (n) complaint groaning: (adj) moaning, groaningly, inarticulate 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 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 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 guerdon: (n) compensation, remuneration, recompense, meed, reguerdon, premium, prize, due, requital, consideration; (v) remunerate guest: (n) caller, visitor, customer, alien, foreigner, client, invite, foreign, company, guests, houseguest guided: (adj) conducted, directed, led guiltiness: (n) culpability, criminality, complicity, criminalness, fault, blame, guilty conscience, status, guilt feelings, collusion, blameworthiness. ANTONYM: (n) innocence guilty: (adj) culpable, faulty, wicked, hangdog, criminal, chargeable, sinful, blameworthy; (n) guilt, culprit; (adj, v) condemned. ANTONYMS: (adj) blameless, aggressive, proud habit: (n) clothing, practice, dress, garb, attire, convention, character, ritual, addiction, clothes; (n, v) use. ANTONYM: (n) innovation habits: (n) behavior, decorum, pratique hackney: (n) hireling, carriage, grubber, taxicab, equipage, drudger; (adj) trite hail: (v) address, cry, acclaim, applaud, summon, accost, fall, cheer, salute; (n, v) call; (n) greeting. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, criticize hair: (n) coat, coma, haircloth, pile, locks, filament, fleece, fur,
160 hairbreadth, down, forelock hairs: (n) hair half: (adj) moiety, part, short, defective; (n) semi, mediety, halve, division, piece, first half; (adv) partly. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) all; (adj) fully, complete halfpenny: (adj) feather, bulrush, old son, jot, pinch of snuff, peppercorn, rap; (n) bawbee, doit, farthing hall: (n) mansion, vestibule, lobby, foyer, auditorium, court, entrance hall, anteroom, concourse; (n, v) corridor, passage hand: (v) give, pass, commit, bestow, afford, communicate, consign; (n) deal, worker, aid, applause. ANTONYMS: (n) boss, foot; (v) take handful: (n) smattering, armful, mouthful, capful, containerful, lump; (adj) thimbleful, company, several, maniple, strong hands: (n) custody, keeping, personnel, safekeeping, hold, shift, workforce, men, manpower, guardianship, full complement hang: (adj, n, v) suspend; (v) dangle, depend, drape, float, fall, hover, append, string up; (n, v) delay; (adj) hung 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 harbour: (n, v) harbor; (v) conceal, entertain, cherish, contain, bear, shield; (n) anchorage, pier, sanctuary, haven 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,
Love's Labour's Lost 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 harvest: (n, v) fruit; (v) gain, glean, gather, amass, get, reap, pick; (n) ingathering, profit, produce haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch, rush; (n) celerity, expedition, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay, patience, forethought, caution 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 hateful: (adj) disgusting, execrable, nasty, abominable, hideous, despicable, repulsive, distasteful, foul; (adj, v) odious, obnoxious. ANTONYMS: (adj) delightful, kind, nice, benign, desirable haunted: (adj) ghostly, ghostlike, phantom, taken up, preoccupied, possessed, unearthly, magical, mad, infatuated, concerned having: (n) estate, possession, acceptance, enjoyment 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 health: (n) condition, fitness, welfare, pledge, strength, form, hygiene, sanitation, salubrity, shape; (adj) sanitary 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, sound; (adj, n) audience hearken: (v) hark, harken, attend, listen, hear, heed, list, listen in, listen to, regard, look out hears: (v) hear heart: (adj, n) core, gist, marrow; (n) spirit, center, essence, basis, kernel, crux, breast, hub. ANTONYMS: (n) body, surface 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 heavily: (adv) seriously, weightily, severely, ponderously, hard, firmly, thickly, grievously, sadly, strongly, compactly. ANTONYMS: (adv) gently, nimbly, briskly, sparsely, thinly, slightly heaving: (v) tremor, twitter; (adj) swelling, full, full up, jammed; (n) murmur, forcing out, groan, grumble, mutter. ANTONYM: (adj) deserted 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 hector: (adj, v) domineer; (v) browbeat, bluster, bullyrag, tyrannize, swagger, ballyrag; (adj) hectic, Amazon, dictate; (n) Captain Bobadil. ANTONYM: (v) encourage heedfully: (adv) advertently, carefully, attentively, thoughtfully, warily, observantly, kindly, awarely, watchfully, cautiously, regardfully. ANTONYM: (adv) unwittingly heir: (n) beneficiary, successor, offspring, inheritor, heiress,
William Shakespeare receiver, progeny, heritor, descendant, scion, issue. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, donor heirs: (n) family, posterity, issue held: (adj) absorbed, confined, kept, apprehended, seized, supposed, reputed, tenable, thought, trapped; (v) detain 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 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 hercules: (adj, n) atlas; (n) atlantes, Caryatides, Samson, Alcides, giant, Goliath, Herakles, Cyclops, Persides; (adj) superman hereby: (adv) thereby, whereby heresy: (n) paganism, heathenism, false doctrine, nonconformity, revisionism, unbelief, orientation, apostasy, fallacy, schism, dissent hereupon: (adv) immediately, whereupon, thereupon hermit: (n) anchorite, ascetic, solitary, anchoret, eremite, monk, troglodyte, solitaire, loner, caveman, cave man heroical: (adj) bold, desperate, grand, epic herself: (adj) oneself, self, himself, myself, yourself, yourselves, themselves, ourselves, itself 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 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 highest: (adj, n) most; (adj) best, chief, foremost, first, supreme, topmost, extreme, utmost, top,
uppermost. ANTONYMS: (adj) bottom, minor highness: (n) excellency, altitude, loftiness, nobility, greatness, eminence, size, stateliness, majesty, high, grandeur hill: (n, v) gradient, bank, ascent, acclivity, rise; (n) mound, elevation, embankment, hillock, knoll, mountain. ANTONYMS: (n) valley, hollow 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 hiss: (v) fizz, spit, whiz, whisper, whoosh; (n) buzz, jeer, hissing, ridicule; (n, v) hoot, taunt hither: (adv) here, whither, hitherward, thither hogshead: (n) cask, barrel, vat 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) 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 homeward: (adj) oriented, orientated 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 honey: (n) dear, love, beloved, nectar,
161 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 honourably: (adv) uprightly, worthily, honestly, creditably, commendably honours: (n) first, honors, degree, academic degree hope: (n, v) trust, desire; (n) aspiration, faith, belief, expectation, confidence, expectancy, anticipation; (v) confide, anticipate. ANTONYMS: (n) reality, past, pessimism, distrust, independence horn: (n) car horn, antler, klaxon, cornet, French horn, ivory, foghorn, cornu, alarm, trumpet, arm horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin, junk, charger, knight, pony, rider, trestle, eohippus, dog hospital: (n) clinic, sanitarium, institution, home, asylum, hospice, lazaret, health facility, lazaretto, spital, foundling hospital hound: (v) bloodhound, chase, hunt, follow, badger, course, bait, pursue; (n) greyhound, blackguard, cad. ANTONYM: (v) soothe hour: (n) clock, o'clock, hours, time, hr, term, nonce, moment, occasion, dawn, dusk hours: (n) period, duty period; (adv) o'clock house: (adj, n, v) family; (adj, n) home; (v) accommodate; (n) dwelling, firm, abode, domicile, edifice, habitation, housing; (n, v) lodge. ANTONYM: (adj) public huge: (adj) vast, immense, large, gigantic, enormous, extensive, great, colossal, elephantine, major, considerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) insignificant, miniature, small, affordable, compact, measly, minor, minute, slight, slim 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
162 humorous: (adj) comical, funny, comic, droll, playful, hilarious, jocose, farcical, jocular; (adj, n) facetious, witty. ANTONYMS: (adj) serious, tragic, humorless, dull humour: (n) fun, wit, witticism, body fluid, temper, mood, amiability, drollery, disposition; (adj) humorous; (v) gratify hundred: (adj) a hundred, one hundred, many; (adj, n) c; (n) cent, centred, riding, lathe, soke, tithing, carbon hunt: (n, v) search; (v) course, follow, hound, rummage, forage, prey, dog, go after, persecute; (n) battue. ANTONYMS: (v) find, precede hunting: (n, v) chase; (v) battue; (n) exploration, pursuit, search, ducking, beagling, coursing, frisking, venery, shooting ideas: (n) idea, thoughts, thought, thinking, principles, philosophy, information, imaginings, data, content, communication 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 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, polite illustrate: (v) elucidate, explain, demonstrate, explicate, describe, depict, clarify, represent, decorate, expound, embellish illustrious: (adj, n) glorious, celebrated, excellent, grand; (adj) famous, bright, eminent, famed, distinguished, brilliant, well-known. ANTONYMS: (adj) unknown, obscure, ordinary, undistinguished, lowly imitate: (n, v) duplicate; (v) forge, ape, emulate, follow, feign, counterfeit, mimic, mock, assume, act
Love's Labour's Lost immaculate: (adj) clear, clean, flawless, faultless, pure, spotless, perfect, blameless, neat, guiltless, impeccable. ANTONYMS: (adj) blameworthy, blemished, damaged, flawed, grubby, soiled, tainted, untidy, messy, imperfect impart: (v) give, convey, disclose, communicate, announce, grant, reveal, hand, bestow, divulge, confer. ANTONYMS: (v) withhold, withdraw impatient: (adj) eager, anxious, petulant, fidgety, vexed, keen, edgy, quick, avid, irritable, fretful. ANTONYMS: (adj) patient, enduring, unenthusiastic, calm, happy, relaxed, slow imperator: (n) anointed king, king, crowned head, imperium, protector, stadholder, judge, president, majesty implore: (v) beg, beseech, supplicate, ask, conjure, crave, pray, importune, appeal, plead, solicit. ANTONYMS: (v) demand, grant, reject import: (n, v) matter, sense, denote; (n) meaning, effect, connotation, implication, moment, significance, value; (v) imply. ANTONYMS: (n, v) export; (n) insignificance, inconsequence, triviality importunate: (adj) annoying, exigent, pressing, insistent, bothersome, pestiferous, pestilent, instant, obdurate, demanding, pleading. ANTONYM: (adj) feeble impose: (v) dictate, prescribe, enforce, exact, charge, clamp, deceive, enjoin, burden, set, lay. ANTONYM: (v) revoke impossible: (adj) unimaginable, insufferable, unbelievable, hopeless, impracticable, impractical, inconceivable, unlikely, unthinkable, unable, ridiculous. ANTONYMS: (adj) feasible, achievable, manageable, bearable, attainable, on, tolerable, probable, hopeful, easy, consistent impotent: (adj) helpless, feeble, frail, fragile, inadequate, weak, barren, slack, ineffective, incapable, unable. ANTONYMS: (adj) able, powerful imprisonment: (n) captivity, confinement, incarceration, durance, detention, arrest, immurement, internment, duress; (adj, n) bondage; (v) imprison. ANTONYMS: (n) release, freedom incensed: (adj) angry, exasperated, enraged, indignant, irate, infuriated,
irritated, mad, livid, angered, aggravated. ANTONYM: (adj) pleased incline: (v) cant, dispose, bend; (n, v) slope, bias, dip, tilt; (n) ascent, gradient, grade, inclination. ANTONYMS: (v) indispose, level; (n) hollow, descent inconsiderate: (adj) headlong, unadvised, unthinking, unkind, indiscreet, negligent, tactless, incautious, imprudent, heedless; (adj, adv) thoughtless. ANTONYMS: (adj) thoughtful, considerate, altruism, altruistic, caring, cautious, constructive, gentle, polite, tactful 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 indignity: (n) dishonor, contumely, humiliation, contempt, outrage, disdain, offence, disgrace, degradation; (n, v) insult, abuse. ANTONYMS: (n) honor, glory, pride indiscreet: (adj) careless, imprudent, incautious, ill-advised, rash, unadvised, unwise, impolitic, hasty, tactless, inadvisable. ANTONYMS: (adj) thoughtful, tactful, judicious, guarded infallible: (adj) sure, inevitable, positive, inerrable, unfailing, absolute, confident, definite, dependable; (adj, v) unerring; (n) sterling. ANTONYMS: (adj) fallible, faulty infallibly: (adv) unerringly, unfailingly, inerrably, assuredly, certainly, firmly infamy: (n) dishonor, disrepute, ignominy, notoriety, shame, opprobrium, reproach, stain, discredit, baseness; (adj, n) pollution. ANTONYMS: (n) fame, virtue, honor, obscurity, pride infancy: (n) babyhood, cradle, beginning, birth, genesis, minority, early childhood, youth, nonage, adolescence, early days. ANTONYM: (n) maturity infant: (n) child, babe, minor, nursling, youngster, chick, toddler, suckling, kid, pappoose; (adj, n) juvenile infants: (n) brood infected: (adj) diseased, dirty, impure, tainted, festering, corrupt,
William Shakespeare unclean, morbid, stained, spoiled, soiled. ANTONYM: (adj) healthy influence: (v) determine, affect, incline, dispose, direct, govern, persuade; (n) authority, domination; (n, v) control, effect. ANTONYMS: (n) powerlessness, repulsion, feebleness, weakness infringe: (v) violate, break, impinge, contravene, disobey, intrude, entrench, trespass, invade, infract, pirate. ANTONYMS: (v) uphold, comply, honor 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 insert: (v) enter, put, introduce, enclose, interject, inject, implant, graft, plant, inclose, put in. ANTONYMS: (v) erase, eject, delete insinuation: (n) hint, innuendo, suggestion, implication, reference, intimation, accusation, indication, sarcasm, attribution, imputation 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 instruction: (n) charge, direction, education, guidance, prescription, guideline, teaching, information, injunction; (n, v) advice, counsel. ANTONYM: (n) plea 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 intellect: (n) mind, intelligence, understanding, reason, brains, head, intellectual, apprehension, psyche, genius, brainpower. ANTONYM: (n) stupidity intend: (v) destine, design, mean, aim, determine, denote, contemplate, plan, purpose, consider, believe. ANTONYM: (v) improvise intended: (adj) deliberate, calculated, destined, knowing, meant, planned, premeditated, prospective, willful, designed; (adj, v) voluntary.
ANTONYMS: (adj) accidental, involuntary, unintended, spontaneous, unconscious intent: (n) idea, intention, design, spirit, meaning, import, goal, purpose; (adj, n) attentive; (adj) absorbed, engrossed interim: (adj) transitory, acting, provisional, impermanent, transient; (n) interval, interlude, pause, while, lag; (adv) meantime. ANTONYM: (adj) permanent interrupt: (v) disturb, break, hinder, intermit, stop, cut, break in, arrest, check; (n, v) suspend; (adj, v) pause. ANTONYMS: (v) cheer, respect, restore intimation: (n) hint, inkling, implication, insinuation, suggestion, clue, allusion, indication, cue, notice, innuendo invention: (n) fabrication, conception, fiction, imagination, creation, discovery, device, innovation, excogitation, artifice; (n, v) forgery. ANTONYM: (n) truth invite: (v) tempt, allure, bid, call, entice, ask, summon, attract, receive, solicit; (n) invitation. ANTONYMS: (v) elect, repel invocation: (v) entreaty, obsecration, solicitation; (n) prayer, implementation, intercession, petition, rogation, benediction, apostrophe; (n, v) supplication inward: (adj) inner, intrinsic, internal, interior, intestine, inherent, domestic; (adv) inwardly, inwards, in; (n) innards. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) outward; (adj) outgoing, external item: (n) detail, article, entry, point, thing, subject, object, affair, event, part, particular itself: (adj) herself, self, oneself, personally, myself, themselves, yourself jangling: (n) janglery; (adj) harsh, dissonant, discordant, strident, cacophonic, cacophonous jest: (n) gag, gibe, quip, game; (n, v) jape; (v) banter, jeer, deride, gird, sneer, clown jesting: (adj) jocular, jocose, facetious, humorous, playful; (n) banter, humor, comedy, pleasantry, fun, joke. ANTONYM: (n) tragedy jewel: (n) gemstone, darling, diamond, jewelry, trinket, treasure, ornament, idol; (adj, n) bijou, precious stone; (adj) brilliant jewels: (n) jewelry, gems, wealth,
163 hoops, Perrie, riches, studs, fortune, fineness, earrings, decoration joint: (n) seam, articulation, hinge, connection; (n, v) join; (adj) mutual, communal, common, collective, cooperative; (v) articulate. ANTONYMS: (adj) individual, unilateral, private, separate, solitary jove: (n) Jovian, Jovinianist, thunderer joyful: (adj) gay, glad, elated, cheerful, gleeful, cheery, delighted, joyous, jolly, blissful, blithe. ANTONYMS: (adj) miserable, sorrowful, unhappy, despairing, unpleasant, staid, sorry, disappointed, depressed, heavy judas: (n) betrayer, spyhole, Judah, peephole, St Jude, snake in the grass, serpent, saint Jude, Judas Iscariot, conspirator, cockatrice jude: (n) St Jude, Judas Iscariot, saint Jude, epistle of Jude, Judas judgment: (n, v) decision, belief, discernment, condemnation, sense, discrimination; (n) determination, discretion, opinion, assessment, adjudication. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, request, tastelessness jumps: (n) fit, nervousness, tension, anxiety, jitters justice: (adj, n) equity, right, integrity, honesty; (n) judge, impartiality, judicature, jurist, morality, justness; (adj) just. ANTONYMS: (n) unfairness, wickedness justle: (v) fib, stave, tilt, tussle, hurtle, crowd; (n) elbow, shove, shoulder keel: (n) foot, hoof, carina, root, fin keel; (v) careen, cool, pitch, tumble, droop, flag keen: (adj, v) eager, fresh, biting, brisk, avid; (adj) sharp, intense, intelligent, enthusiastic, exquisite, piercing. ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, apathetic, unenthusiastic, blunt, unwilling, reluctant, passive, stupid, unconcerned, lukewarm, disinterested 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 keeper: (n) curator, guardian, guard, warden, janitor, jailer, gaoler, warder, caretaker, sentry, conservator
164 keeping: (n) care, conservation, charge, guardianship, maintenance, holding, observance, storage, conformation, consistency, conformity 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 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 kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace, touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate, love kissing: (n) hugging, cuddling, fondling, arousal, foreplay, necking; (adj) embracing, adhering closely, billing, clinging, interosculant knave: (n) cheat, jack, blackguard, crook, rascal, villain, cad, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, varlet knavish: (adj) tricky, dishonest, crafty, sly, roguish, guileful, foxy, dodgy, cunning, false, corrupt knee: (n) bracket, articulation, joint, kneel, knee joint, genu, articulatio genus, scythe, zigzag, sickle, bend knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, wist knife: (adj, n) blade; (adj) cutlery, edge tool; (v) stab; (n) sword, cleaver, whittle, cutter, tongue, pocketknife, chopper knight: (n) horseman, horse, chevalier, banneret, warrior, steed, knighthood, rider, heroin, h; (v) dub knowing: (adj, v) canny, crafty, wise; (adj, n) clever; (adj) conscious, aware, ingenious, intelligent, bright, conversant, smart. ANTONYMS: (adj) naive, uncomprehending, unconscious knowledge: (n) information, comprehension, science, lore, understanding, intelligence, grasp, erudition, acquaintance; (n, v)
Love's Labour's Lost 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 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 lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. ANTONYM: (n) Lord ladyship: (n) madam lamb: (n) sheep, lambkin, dear, hogget, kid, mutton, inexperienced person, honey, white meat, pork; (adj) naive lame: (adj) crippled, disabled, halting, feeble, halt, weak, paralytic; (adj, n) game; (adj, v) paralyze, maim, becripple lamentable: (adj) grievous, pitiful, distressing, sad, dismal, sorrowful, piteous, unfortunate, lugubrious; (adj, v) pitiable, mournful. ANTONYMS: (adj) laudable, fortunate 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 large: (adj) ample, generous, considerable, broad, handsome, high, bulky, heavy, capacious, roomy; (adj, n) extensive. ANTONYMS: (adj) small, cramped, insignificant, narrow, microscopic, compact, tiny, thin, short, slim, paltry larks: (n) family Alaudidae 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 latest: (adj) last, fresh, modern, new, current, hot, ultimate, contemporary, newest, stylish; (adj, n) vogue. ANTONYM: (adj) first latin: (n) romancer, romance language; (adj) classical, emotional latter: (adj) later, last, terminal, recent, posterior, final, following, the latter, past, other, eventual. ANTONYMS: (adj) prior, earlier laugh: (n, v) joke, giggle, chortle, titter, snicker; (v) smile; (n) jest, gag, jape, laughter, cackle. ANTONYM: (v) weep laughing: (adj) merry, smiling, laughable, jolly, gay, lighthearted, frolicsome, playful, pleased, dizzy; (adv) laughingly. ANTONYM: (adj) serious 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 laws: (n) Pentateuch, Torah 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 leaf: (n) page, folio, foliage, petal, frond, leafage, slip, verdure, leaflet; (n, v) sheet; (v) leave lean: (adj, v) gaunt; (adj) emaciated, thin, bony, lank; (n, v) bend, tilt, slant, list, careen; (n) inclination. ANTONYMS: (adj) plump, rich, chubby, greasy, stout; (v) straighten, repel leap: (n, v) bound, spring, bounce, caper, dive, vault, lunge; (v) dance, hop, start; (n) curvet. ANTONYMS: (n, v) plummet; (v) surface, drop, hesitate; (n) slump
William Shakespeare 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 learning: (n, v) erudition, enlightenment; (n) acquisition, education, culture, scholarship, wisdom, acquirement, letter, literature; (v) learn 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 leer: (n, v) glance; (n) grin, wink, smirk, look, gaze, nudge, shrug, tip the wink; (v) simper, ogle left: (adj) gone, absent, port, odd, remaining, larboard, gauche, sinister; (n) left hand, left wing, mitt. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n) right; (adj) remaining, center, starboard, present legs: (v) pegs, trotters, pins; (n) patience, pedestal, stamina lemon: (n) lemon yellow, gamboge, citrus Limon, automobile, citron, sapidity, yellowness, tang, corn, crumb, clunker lend: (v) grant, give, advance, impart, bestow, contribute, borrow, bring, add, confer; (n) lending 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 lettered: (adj, v) erudite; (adj) learned, educated, enlightened, literate, knowledgeable, scholarly, knowing, literary; (v) instructed, leaned
letters: (n) erudition, literature, correspondence, lore, script, scholarship, post, print, mail, letter, polite literature liable: (adj) answerable, accountable, disposed, apt, responsible, inclined, exposed, likely, subject, culpable, vulnerable. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwilling, innocent, unlikely, disinclined, impervious liberal: (adj) bountiful, handsome, benevolent, large, abundant, big, kind, broad, charitable, tolerant; (adj, n) free. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) conservative; (adj) totalitarian, oppressive, intolerant, reactionary, proactive, miserly, rigid, insufficient, stingy, tightfisted liberty: (adj, n) freedom, franchise; (n) license, leave, independence, autonomy, emancipation, latitude, permission, scope, release. ANTONYMS: (n) slavery, domination, constraint, suppression, dependence 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 lieu: (n) office, position, locality, stead, behalf, part, role, berth, station, site, seat life: (adj, n) animation; (n) energy, spirit, activity, dash, enthusiasm, being, biography, existence, exuberance, live. 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 lightly: (adv) slightly, airily, thinly, easily, gently, light, fairly, weakly, flimsily, delicately, wantonly. ANTONYMS: (adv) seriously, heavily, thickly, sturdily, angrily, hard, harshly, densely, brightly, awkwardly lightning: (n) levin, electricity, thunderbolt, Leven, ignis fatuus, heat lightning, forked lightning, fetter, dart, chain lightning; (adj) wind lights: (n) illumination, burn, lung,
165 spacing material likeness: (n) resemblance, copy, effigy, image, affinity, similarity, correspondence, facsimile; (adj, n) figure, form, semblance. ANTONYMS: (n) difference, diversity, dissimilarity, unlikeness, contrast likewise: (adv) besides, in addition, furthermore, alike, moreover, further, too, similarly; (adj, adv) as well, equally; (adj) even lily: (adj) chalk, tiger lily, snow, paper, effeminate, milk; (n) daffodil, kentan, martagon, leopard lily, ivory limb: (n) arm, branch, member, bough, extremity, offshoot, part, leg, wing, appendage, edge 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 linen: (n) fabric, flax, lingerie, doily, doyley, doyly, cambric, underwear, underclothes, hemp; (v) muslin lines: (n) cavesson, jaquima, hackamore, headstall, ribbons, words, contour, shape, position, piece, part lining: (n) liner, backing, bushing, insulation, covering, coating, bearing lining, babbitting, inside, protection, cladding lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj) worthy, great card, tiger; (n) Leo, cat, king of beasts, curiosity, luminary, spectacle lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference per second, chops, porch, portal, portico, propylon, snout, door, orifice lisp: (v) enunciate, mince, enounce, breathe, lipse listen: (v) hear, heed, hearken, attend, harken, list, listening, eavesdrop, mind, concentrate, pay attention 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, active, dwell, stay; (n, v) subsist; (v) exist, be, abide, endure. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, inactive, silent, dummy, blank, recorded; (v) die, perish, expire
166 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 lodge: (n, v) cabin, place, house; (adj, v) live, dwell, reside, inhabit; (n) cottage; (v) quarter, accommodate, fix. ANTONYMS: (v) dislodge, evict lodging: (n) abode, apartment, accommodation, housing, hostel, residence, quarter, home, lodgement, address, hospice lofty: (adj, v) high, elevated; (adj) exalted, eminent, arrogant, grand, tall, haughty, great, distinguished, majestic. ANTONYMS: (adj) short, lowly, base, modest, deferential, humble loggerhead: (n) blockhead, bonehead, dunce, knucklehead, beetlehead, numskull, muttonhead, hammerhead, addlehead, dullhead, Caretta caretta 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 look: (n, v) gaze, aspect, figure; (adj, v) seem; (v) appear, expect; (n) appearance, expression, view, glance, guise. ANTONYMS: (v) back, study; (n) perusal looking: (n) face, sensing, aspect, approximation, appearance, watching, outlook; (v) look at, examine; (adv) about; (adj) superficial looks: (n) aspect, countenance, expression, manner, complexion, fashion, costume, garb loose: (adj, v) lax, dissolute; (adj, n) limp, liberal, licentious; (adj) light, vague; (v) disengage, relax, release, liberate. ANTONYMS: (adj) dense, close, taut, compressed, strict, compact, wedged, secure, strong, similar; (v) confine lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, master, God, seignior, nobility, Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n) lady lose: (v) drop, forfeit, mislay, miss, sacrifice, fall behind, fail, to lose, forget, clear, hurt. ANTONYMS: (v) find, secure, recover, earn, obtain,
Love's Labour's Lost acquire, get, win, beat, keep, succeed losing: (v) lose; (n) loss; (adv) losingly, behind; (adj) unbeneficial. ANTONYM: (adj) lucrative lost: (adj, v) forlorn, extinct, gone, missing, helpless; (adj) hopeless, bewildered, forgotten, disoriented, broken; (n) loss. ANTONYMS: (adj) present, found, existing, won, saved, aware 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 lovely: (adj) beautiful, charming, lovable, enchanting, delightful, handsome, alluring, elegant, endearing, gorgeous; (adv) comely. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, hideous, ugly, unattractive, horrifying, horrid, unappealing, repellent, detestable, dreadful, awkward 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, 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 lowliness: (n) humility, humbleness, meekness, weakness, lowlihood, resignation low-spirited: (adj) downcast, depressed, melancholy, dejected, despondent, downhearted, down in the mouth, sad lunatic: (n) madman, maniac, bedlamite; (adj) insane, foolish, moonstruck, mad, mental, deranged, idiotic; (adj, n) madcap. ANTONYM: (adj) sensible lungs: (v) air pump, air blower,
ventilator, punkah; (n) blowpipe, organ lustre: (n) brilliance, gloss, brilliancy, grandeur, splendour, effulgence, splendor, shininess, shine, sheen, brightness lute: (n) harp, glue, solder, luting, gum, mortar, plaster, stucco, paste, size, wafer maculate: (v) foul, soil, befoul, contaminate, attaint, sully, tarnish; (adj) impure, stain, unclean, stipple madam: (n) dame, lady, ma'am, gentlewoman, missis, Mrs, brothel keeper, madames, signora, female, bawd maggot: (n) larva, crotchet, conceit, freak, chimera, quirk, fad, capriccio; (adj, n) worm; (adj) mite, emmet magnanimous: (adj) generous, great, noble, bountiful, exalted, big, handsome, lofty, large, charitable, considerate. ANTONYMS: (adj) miserly, unforgiving, petty magnificent: (adj) imposing, brilliant, splendid, grandiose, superb, elegant; (adj, n) grand, excellent, gorgeous, illustrious, glorious. ANTONYMS: (adj) awful, ridiculous, unimpressive, humble, inglorious, modest, meager, unattractive, boring, unexceptional, humdrum 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 mail: (n, v) armor, shield; (v) send, get off, remit, habergeon; (n) hauberk, coat of mail, chain mail, mailing; (adj) postal. ANTONYM: (v) keep maintained: (adj) kept up, preserved, repaired, serviced, serviceable, safe, fixed majestical: (adj) stately, exalted, elevated majesty: (adj, n) grandeur, splendor, nobility; (n) dignity, loftiness, magnificence, stateliness, greatness, king, royalty, highness. ANTONYMS: (n) austerity, simplicity making: (n) creation, construction, production, fabrication, manufacture, cartography, devising, fashioning, manufacturing, formation; (v) to make. ANTONYMS: (n) undoing, destruction
William Shakespeare manage: (n, v) direct, govern, guide; (v) do, administer, cope, accomplish, deal, work, arrange, lead. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, bungle manager: (n) head, executive, coach, leader, administrator, superior, boss, governor, supervisor, chief, handler. ANTONYMS: (n) worker, inferior, subordinate manner: (adj, n) kind; (n) bearing, demeanor, method, form, appearance, carriage, way; (n, v) custom, style, habit maria: (n) Calophyllum longifolium, tree, part, region, female horse mark: (adj, n, v) notice; (n, v) brand, score, heed, label, blemish; (n) sign, impression, character; (v) characterize, distinguish. ANTONYM: (n) enhancement market: (n) fair, emporium, marketplace, bazaar, grocery store; (n, v) shop, trade; (v) demand, sell, commercialize, exchange marking: (n) earmark, crisscross, brand, marker, maculation, grading, stamping, authentication, lineation, cairn, cross 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 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 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 mask: (n, v) cover, veil, hide, conceal, disguise, screen, camouflage; (v) dissemble; (n) guise, blind, curtain. ANTONYMS: (v) unmask, enhance,
reinforce, reveal, expose, amplify masked: (adj) cloaked, covert, concealed, hidden, covered, camouflaged, secret, veiled, incognito, draped, furtive. ANTONYM: (adj) overt master: (n) captain, instructor, lord; (v) control, conquer, command, dominate, defeat; (adj, n) original, head, ace. ANTONYMS: (n) underling, servant, novice, amateur mater: (n) mother, ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mammary gland, Massachusetts, mom, Master of Arts, momma, am matter: (n) business, substance, issue, material, affair, concern, incident, article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n) import meal: (n) repast, farina, flour, feed, banquet, dinner, luncheon, supper, refection, collation; (n, v) spread 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 meanest: (adj) last, least meaning: (n) intent, gist, implication, design, essence, consequence, significance, content, intention, connotation, aim. ANTONYM: (n) triviality meanly: (adv) poorly, nastily, averagely, humbly, ungenerously, tightly, rudely, stingily, parsimoniously, scurvily, mediocrely. ANTONYMS: (adv) generously, sympathetically, compassionately, genially, respectfully, pleasantly, affluently 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 measurable: (adj) mensurable, computable, quantifiable, finite, gaugeable, perceptible, sensible, temperate, mathematical, calculable; (adj, v) fathomable. ANTONYMS: (adj) immeasurable, undetectable, imperceptible measure: (n) amount, criterion, extent, measurement, estimate, degree, beat, benchmark, quantity, meter; (n, v) act. ANTONYMS: (v)
167 guess, estimate measured: (adj) careful, moderate, calculated, temperate, reasonable, regular, rhythmic, metrical, sober, rhythmical, leisurely. ANTONYMS: (adj) rushed, unmeasured, fast, hurried, rapid, rash, thoughtless meed: (n, v) compensation; (v) wage, hire; (n) prize, remuneration, recompense, guerdon, pay, dole, pittance, reguerdon meekly: (adv) humbly, submissively, tamely, compliantly, obediently, docilely, peacefully, lowly, modestly, placidly, kindly. ANTONYMS: (adv) haughtily, harshly, wildly, arrogantly, assertively, brashly 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 mellowing: (adj) aging, mellowed, high, easygoing; (n) ripening, biological process member: (n) limb, supporter, extremity, portion, phallus, personnel, appendage, employee, section, fellow, constituent. ANTONYMS: (n) nonmember, observer, skeptic, whole, opponent memory: (n) memento, reminiscence, remembrance, recollection, recall, commemoration, anamnesis, storage, retrospect; (adj, n) posthumous fame; (v) mind 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 mercury: (n) Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver, metal, messenger, spirit, comet, Hermes, terrestrial planet, hectogram, iris mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, harshness, unkindness, severity, mercilessness,
168 ruthlessness, impatience, inhumanity mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare, simple, pure; (n) loch, tarn, boundary, absolute; (n, v) downright; (adv) merely; (adj, v) clear merriment: (n) fun, amusement, cheerfulness, hilarity, glee, jollity, frolic, gaiety, happiness, festivity; (adj, n) mirth. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, gloom, seriousness, despondency, boredom merriness: (n) humorousness, jocoseness, liveliness, merriment, vivacity, cheerfulness, happiness, mirth, exuberance, jocularity, levity merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful, glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome, lighthearted, festive; (adj, n) convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj) gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight mess: (n) jumble, clutter, hodgepodge, jam, difficulty, confusion, disorder, chaos; (v) soil, botch; (adj, n) scrape. ANTONYMS: (n) success, space, neatness, ease message: (n) communication, information, errand, letter, mission, dispatch, statement, word, lesson, significance, note 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 mete: (v) measure, allot, share, detail, cast, billet, distribute, allocate, assign; (n) boundary, border methinks: (adv) meseems might: (n) power, energy, ability, influence, strength, puissance, vehemence, intensity; (v) may, can, could. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, feebleness, meekness mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand, intense, high, big, forcible, strong, large, great; (adj, adv) powerful. ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny, weak, insignificant mild: (adj, n) kindly, gracious; (adj) easy, lenient, benign, docile, humble, clement, sweet, balmy, delicate. ANTONYMS: (adj) extreme, pungent, spicy, sharp, severe, scathing, incisive, hot, powerful, great, passionate mile: (n) MI, nautical mile, land mile,
Love's Labour's Lost knot, Swedish mile, international nautical mile, Admiralty mile, air mile, geographical mile, Roman mile; (v) furlong miles: (adj) far 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 mill: (n) manufactory, grinder, factory, machine, plant, gristmill, foundry, engine, gin; (v) crush; (n, v) notch 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 minnow: (adj) midge, fly, gnat, insect, animalcule, worm, mite, monad, shrimp; (n) mummichog, Minny minority: (n) nonage, infancy, inferiority, adolescence, tender age, subordinacy, teens, youth, legal status, legal immaturity, early childhood. ANTONYM: (adj) mainstream minstrelsy: (n) orchestra, prowess, troupe, company, glee, art, merriment, lay, joy, ballad, gayety mint: (n) fortune, pile, heap, mass, peck, lot, peppermint; (v) invent, manufacture, strike, stamp 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 mire: (n, v) bog, muck; (n) filth, marsh, quagmire, dirt, sludge, clay; (adj, n, v) mud; (v) involve, bog down mirth: (adj, n) merriment, jollity; (n) amusement, happiness, delight, joy, hilarity, cheerfulness, festivity, gladness, exhilaration. ANTONYMS: (n) gloom, sadness, misery
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 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 mocker: (n) derider, mockingbird, scoffer, flouter, oscine, banterer, tease, mock, teaser, jester, joker mocking: (adj) derisive, ironic, jeering, mock, quizzical, sarcastic, taunting, derisory, teasing, sardonic, sneering. ANTONYMS: (adj) respectful, approving, complimentary, sympathetic; (n) praise moderately: (adv) abstemiously, quietly, modestly, pretty, temperately, soberly, slightly, calmly, mildly, reasonably, restrainedly. ANTONYMS: (adv) very, unreasonably, massively, immoderately, absolutely, excessively, completely, hugely, severely, wholly 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 mons: (n) adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue, mons pubis monster: (n) beast, fiend, devil, freak, brute, demon, ogre, leviathan, behemoth, monstrosity; (adj) huge month: (n) calendar month, months, lunation, minute, hour, day, period, quarter, quinquennium, year, moonshine moon: (adj) lunar; (n) month,
William Shakespeare moonshine, satellite, moonlight, luck, lunar month, GHURRY, epoch, orb of night; (v) daydream moonshine: (adj, n) moonlight, rubbish; (adj) moonbeam, bosh, moonglade; (n) bootleg, moon, rot, all talk, corn liquor, nonsense 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 morn: (n) dawn, daybreak, forenoon, period, prime, aurora, a, amount of time, break of dawn, break of day, break of the day morning: (n) dawn, sunrise, morn, forenoon, daylight, first light, am, dayspring, aurora, cockcrow, dawning. ANTONYMS: (n) sunset, nighttime, nightfall morrow: (n) morning, future, mean solar day, day mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, deathly, earthly; (n) man, individual, creature, person, human being, body. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) immortal; (adj) eternal, heavenly, mild, perfect, spiritual mote: (adj, n) molecule, speck, atom, corpuscle, particle, dot; (n) grain, jot, iota, must; (adj) dust moth: (n) gelechiid, bombycid, geometrid, helminth, lasiocampid, lymantriid, arctiid, moth and rust, moths, worm-eaten, lasiocampid moth 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 mountain: (n, v) mound; (n) heap, height, peak, mountain range, stack, pile, mass, Ben, volcano, bundle mounted: (adj) equestrian, mounting, mounts, set, firm, affixed, decorated. ANTONYM: (adj) unmounted mounting: (n, v) mount; (adj, n) climbing; (n) ascent, setting, climb, frame, assembly, chassis, framework, ascension; (adj, adv) rising mournful: (adj) sad, miserable, melancholy, funereal, dolorous, dark, pensive, gloomy, lugubrious,
lamentable; (adj, n) plaintive. ANTONYMS: (adj) joyful, happy, emotionless mourning: (n) lament, lamentation, bereavement, gloom, woe, memorial, sorrowfulness, sadness, sorrow; (adj) grieving; (v) lamenting mouse: (v) sneak, creep, steal, snoop, seek; (n) track, hunt, field mouse, fieldmouse, trace; (adj) small fry 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 multitude: (n) flock, horde, crowd, host, throng, concourse, mob, masses, mass, herd, swarm. ANTONYM: (n) trickle murderer: (n) assassin, cutthroat, killer, manslayer, murderess, executioner, thug, liquidator; (v) butcher; (n, v) slayer, terrorist music: (n) melody, chorus, musical, sound, composition, monody, folk music, medicine, euphony, drumming, ballet mustachio: (n) moustache, moustachio mute: (adj) dumb, silent, inarticulate, dummy, tongueless; (v) muffle, dampen, deaden, hush; (adj, v) quiet, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj) talkative, speaking, spoken; (v) amplify mutton: (n) lamb, em, mouton, mut, sheep, pork, red meat, white meat, beef, area unit; (v) pilot bread myself: (pron) me, itself, herself, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) I, yourselves; (adv) in person, for myself, in my opinion. ANTONYMS: (adv) universally, generally nail: (n, v) arrest, capture; (v) catch, collar, apprehend, hook, strike, hit, fasten, nab; (adj, n) pin. ANTONYMS: (v) unfasten, detach naked: (adj, v) bare; (adj) nude, exposed, open, barren, raw, bleak, unclothed, defenseless, au naturel, defenceless. ANTONYMS: (adj)
169 covered, concealed, hidden, dressed name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize, list, enumerate, identify, cite, mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n) epithet. ANTONYMS: (n) nobody, indecency napping: (adj) asleep, unthinking, unready, snoozing, slumbering, sleeping, off guard, off your guard, off his guard, off her guard, careless. ANTONYM: (adj) awake 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 nature: (n) disposition, essence, quality, creation, breed, temperament, type, attribute; (adj, n) character, class, manner 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 nearer: (adj) adjacent, narre, hither; (adv) more rapidly, sooner, quicker, nigher, NER, faster, earlier, Neer necessity: (n) demand, need, lack, exigency, essential, compulsion, emergency, distress, must, constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS: (n) inessential, treat, unimportance, luxury neck: (n) cervix, nape, neckband, neckline, isthmus; (v) make out, pet, love, cut; (adj) stricture, middle constriction 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 needless: (adj, v) unnecessary, superfluous; (adj) futile, dispensable, bootless, excessive, preventable, meaningless, pointless, wanton, unavailing. ANTONYMS: (adj) essential, worthwhile,
170 inevitable, justifiable needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully, indispensably, by necessity, inescapably, of necessity, ineluctably; (n) must, requirement, necessity; (adj) needed ne'er: (adv) never, certainly not neglected: (adj) dilapidated, disregarded, ignored, deserted, derelict, forsaken, obsolete, antiquated, antique, shabby, unnoticed. ANTONYM: (adj) salubrious negligent: (adj) neglectful, heedless, forgetful, reckless, inattentive, inadvertent, indifferent, slow, lax, untidy; (adj, v) remiss. ANTONYMS: (adj) strict, diligent, conscientious, careful, dutiful, prompt, prudent, responsible, sensible, cautious neigh: (n, v) whicker, nicker; (v) exult, crow, crow over, triumph, utter, hinny, let loose, let out, wigher neighbour: (adj) neighboring, neighbouring, neighborly, adjacent, contiguous; (v) abut, populate, adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n) neighbourhood neither: (conj) either, no-one, not either, nor, nother nestor: (n) old parr, senator, Solomon, shining light, preadamite, oracle, monitor, Magnus Apollo, solon, magi, luminary never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always, not ever, by no means, at all times, not at all, not, NE. ANTONYMS: (adv) always, forever newly: (adv) freshly, recently, lately, new, late, novelly, unusedly, anew, fresh; (adj, adv) afresh; (adj) recent 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 nickname: (v) dub, nick; (n)
Love's Labour's Lost sobriquet, alias, moniker, cognomen, pet name, surname, appellation, soubriquet, family name night: (n) dark, dusk, darkness, gloaming, twilight, nighttime, Nox, eventide, period; (adj) nocturnal, gloomy. ANTONYMS: (n) day, light, sunrise nightly: (adv) every night, by night; (n) night; (adj) nocturnal. ANTONYM: (adj) daily nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile, brisk, spry, alert, expeditious, energetic, clever, lithe; (adj, v) light. ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy, stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit nine: (n) niner, club, ball club, baseball club, ennead, Nina from Carolina, three times three, ten, nightspot, clubhouse, queen ninth: (adv) ninthly; (n) common fraction 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 noise: (n, v) clatter, echo; (n) clamor, hubbub, racket, sound, disturbance, uproar, din, buzz, clang. ANTONYMS: (n) silence, quiet, quietness, sense nominate: (n, v) appoint, designate, name, call; (v) constitute, establish, make, institute, assign; (n) entitle, nomination nominated: (adj) named, appointive, selected, nominal, listed, elected, designated, chosen, voted, nominative nomination: (v) nominate; (n) assignment, naming, designation, candidature, candidacy, return, constitution, selection, proposal, recommendation none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever north: (adv) northwards, northerly, northward, in the north; (n) n, union, compass north, due north, magnetic north, norther; (adj) northbound northern: (adj) northerly, boreal, arctic, hyperborean, frigid, septentrional, most northern; (n) norther. ANTONYM: (adj) southern nose: (n) hooter, neb, nozzle,
proboscis, honker, bow, odour; (v) wind, pry, scent; (n, v) sniff note: (n, v) comment, mind, remark, mention, heed, mark, look, report; (n) indication, annotation; (v) detect. ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) disgrace, invoice noted: (adj) famous, illustrious, glorious, conspicuous, well-known, known, celebrated, eminent, famed, renowned; (adj, v) notorious nothing: (adv, n) naught; (adj, n) nil, null; (n) nobody, cipher, nihil, nonentity, trifle, nix, aught, cypher. ANTONYMS: (pron) anything, everything, some; (n) all notice: (n, v) note, mind, regard; (n) advertisement, information, declaration, attention; (adj, v) look, attend; (v) find, detect. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, overlook, Miss; (n) ignorance, inattention, appointment, unconsciousness nought: (adj, n) nil, naught, zero; (n) cipher, cypher, nobody, aught, nix, null, nada; (adj) no nourish: (v) foster, keep, bring up, nurture, sustain, aliment, cherish, feed, maintain, cultivate; (n, v) cradle. ANTONYMS: (v) starve, sap nourished: (adj) fostered nourishment: (n) food, alimentation, meal, meat, diet, feeding, nutrition, repast, sustenance, edible, fuel number: (n, v) amount, figure; (v) calculate, total, aggregate, enumerate, come; (n) score, act, volume, issue numbering: (n) counting, enumeration, list, numeration, reckoning, listing, determination of the thread count, number coding numbers: (n) rhyme, verse, measure, Numbers pool, meter, assonance, foot, crambo, strain; (adj) a quantity, sight nuptial: (adj, n) bridal, marriage; (adj) marital, matrimonial, spousal, connubial, hymeneal, conjugal, wedding, married; (n) matrimony nutmeg: (n) Myristica, muscat, mace, nutmeg tree; (adj) meaningless oaks: (n) beech family, Castanopsis, Nothofagus, Lithocarpus, genus Quercus, Genera Castanea, family Fagaceae, Fagus, Fagaceae, chestnuts oath: (n) expletive, malediction, imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, swearing, pledge, assurance, asseveration; (v) swear obedient: (adj) submissive,
William Shakespeare 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 objects: (n) things, stuff, matter, material, substance obscene: (adj) indecent, dirty, gross, coarse, filthy, lewd, licentious, nasty, foul, ribald, bawdy. ANTONYMS: (adj) pure, moral, decent obscenely: (adv) salaciously, indecently, smuttily, bawdily, immorally, repugnantly, ribaldly, nastily, impurely, pornographically, scabrously obscure: (adj, n) cloudy, dark; (adj) gloomy, mysterious, incomprehensible, hidden, ambiguous, concealed; (adj, v) darken, muddy; (v) hide. ANTONYMS: (adj) clear, noticeable, simple, obvious, distinct, mainstream, famous, definite, overt, plain; (v) reveal observation: (adj, n) observance; (n) remark, comment, attention, contemplation, perception, conception; (n, v) inspection, notice, note, consideration. ANTONYMS: (n) disregard, omission, neglect 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 occasion: (n, v) cause; (n) case, event, juncture, episode, incident; (v) bring about, create, beget, make, induce odds: (n) likelihood, probability, possibility, chance, advantage, likeliness, chances, disparity, prospect; (v) dissension; (adj) odd. ANTONYM: (n) unlikelihood odoriferous: (adj) odorous, aromatic, balmy, sweet, spicy, scented, odorant, ambrosial, malodorous, redolent, unsavory
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 offending: (adj) opprobrious, criminal, aberrant, guilty, delinquent, antisocial, scurrilous, errant 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 opinion: (adj, n, v) judgment, feeling, notion; (n) idea, belief, conjecture, advice, guess, impression, view; (n, v) meaning opposed: (adj) conflicting, hostile, contrary, antagonistic, adverse, contrasted, repugnant, averse, irreconcilable, incompatible; (adj, v) opposing. ANTONYMS: (adj) sympathetic, compatible, unopposed, similar, favorable, eager, agreeable, inclined, friendly opposition: (n) conflict, contrary, contrariety, opposite, hostility, enemy, opponent, antagonism, competition, contradiction; (n, prep) antithesis. ANTONYMS: (n) ally,
171 support, acceptance, approval, backing, encouragement, inclination, goodwill, ease, agreement, cooperation oracle: (n) prophet, divination, vaticinator, diviner, revelation, seer, sibyl, Solomon, soothsayer, vision, authority ornaments: (n) stuff, trim, ornamentation, equipments, dress, disposition, custom, curios, condition, clothing, gaudery orthography: (n) spelling, ideography, boustrophedon, cuneiform, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, writing, writing system, syllabic, syllabary, scriptural ostentation: (n) affectation, bravado, parade, showiness, flourish, vanity, pomp, splendor, bluster, state, show. ANTONYM: (n) unpretentiousness others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave, LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission ounce: (n) crumb, modicum, atom, morsel, bit, Oz, apothecaries' ounce, shred, little, a few; (adj, n) grain 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 outwear: (v) wear, outlast, beat, survive, surpass, surmount, deplete, hold out, wear out, outmatch, outstrip overcome: (v) crush, subdue, beat, vanquish, overpower, master, defeat, hurdle, get over, overwhelm; (adj) beaten. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, comfort, protect, resist, surrender, capitulate; (adj) unimpressed overthrown: (adj) overcome, conquered, battered, overpowered, dejected, cast down, dissolute, doomed, flooded, discomfit, mat packet: (n) bundle, bale, container, parcel, pack, wad, carton, mail boat, wrap, deck, envelope page: (n) footboy, waiter, attendant, boy, note, bellhop, pageboy, folio, varlet; (v) paginate, summon pageant: (n) spectacle, ostentation, ceremony, pomp, representation, exhibition, procession, pageantry, cavalcade, parade, scene paid: (adj, v) compensated; (adj) salaried, paying, nonrecreational,
172 profitable, remunerated, remunerative, mercenary, settled, prepaid, apaid. ANTONYMS: (adj) owing, due, unprofitable; (adv) voluntary pail: (n) bucketful, jug, tub, pailful, cannikin, pails, skeel, tankard, pot, pipkin, vessel pain: (n, v) hurt, afflict, ache, bother, torment, trouble, grieve, anguish; (n) ill, agony, nuisance. ANTONYMS: (v) encourage, cheer; (n) joy, peace, content, balm, ecstasy pained: (adj) offended, aggrieved, distressed, displeased, sore, grieved, miserable, injured, wounded, worried, upset. ANTONYM: (adj) unaffected painful: (adj) hard, difficult, sharp, harrowing, grievous, afflictive, bad, irritating; (adj, v) distressing, harsh, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) content, heartwarming, soothing, comfortable, bearable, agreeable, effortless, dull, slight, wonderful, happy painfully: (adv) sorely, grievously, distressingly, severely, tenderly, badly, agonizingly, laboriously, sadly, bitterly, poignantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) easily, tolerably paint: (n, v) color, tint; (v) daub, coat, decorate, varnish, depict, enamel, lacquer, apply; (n) painting painted: (adj) colored, dyed, coloured, motley, stained, tinted, variegated, particoloured, delineated, graphic; (v) depaint. ANTONYM: (adj) unpainted painter: (n) artist, colorist, landscapist, impressionist, miniaturist, dauber, halser, Felis concolor, guy, cable, hawser painting: (n) portrait, likeness, colouring, depiction, icon, illumination, image, design, coat, drawing, house painting paints: (n) colors 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 palm: (n) medal, decoration, prize, palm tree, victory, thenar, laurel wreath; (v) filch, cabbage, rob; (adj) totipalmate paper: (n) article, newspaper, discourse, newsprint, publication, journal, essay, periodical, report,
Love's Labour's Lost magazine, certificate papers: (n) paper, documents, document, credentials, identification, newspaper, credential, inclosure, copyright, confession, charter paradise: (n) Elysium, bliss, Eden, Zion, promised land, Garden of Eden, Elysian Fields, ecstasy, nirvana, Valhalla, utopia. ANTONYM: (n) misery paradox: (n) incongruity, contradiction, ambiguity, inconsistency, puzzle, figure of speech, phenomenon, paradoxy, opposite, irony, equivocation parcel: (n) bale, pack, bundle, package, packet, section, division, batch; (n, v) portion; (v) distribute, apportion 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 parish: (n) community, congregation, county, region, province, township, borough, church, grazing land, area, arrondissement parishioners: (n) people attending worship, worshippers park: (v) deposit, locate, set, place, put; (n) parking lot, common, parkland, green, arena, orchard parley: (v) negotiate, converse, confer, consult; (n, v) talk, treat; (n) conversation, interview, colloquy, meeting, consultation 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, division, character. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite, meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly 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
passado: (n) cut, lunge, pass, thrust; (v) passade passage: (n, v) course, journey; (n) gangway, corridor, hall, channel, entry, way, entrance, lobby, duct. ANTONYMS: (n) rejection, room passing: (adj) transient, ephemeral, momentary, cursory, brief; (n) overtaking, departure, expiration, decease, passage, death. ANTONYMS: (adj) lasting, thorough, intended, lengthy, long; (n) birth, failing 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 passionate: (adj, v) ardent, impetuous; (adj) hot, excited, burning, angry, fervent, fierce, animated, earnest; (adj, adv) fiery. ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, mild, passionless, unenthusiastic, cold, calm, halfhearted, cool, lukewarm, weak, uninterested 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 pastime: (n) game, avocation, entertainment, recreation, hobby, distraction, interest, fun, pursuit, amusement, sideline pasture: (v) graze, browse, crop; (n) grass, grazing land, pasturage, field, ley, lea; (n, v) feed, forage patch: (v) piece; (n) plot, fleck, darn, blot, freckle, bed, maculation, field; (n, v) botch, repair patience: (n) endurance, fortitude, longanimity, equanimity, tolerance, resignation, restraint, composure, sufferance; (n, v) moderation, calmness. ANTONYMS: (n) impatience, eagerness, intolerance, annoyance paved: (adj) cobbled pavilion: (n) marquee, kiosk, tent, porch, pergola, gazebo, hall, canopy, booth, place, rus in urbe payment: (n) compensation, charge, cost, defrayal, bonus, recompense, remuneration, expense, installment, deposit, outlay. ANTONYMS: (n) default, penalty, addition
William Shakespeare 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 peal: (n) ding, noise, clang, dingdong, blast; (v) chime, knell, toll, echo; (adj, n) swell; (n, v) bang pearl: (adj, n) jewel; (n) gem, bead, dewdrop, ivory, bone; (adj) brilliant, flower, bijou, satin etched, ruby. ANTONYM: (n) dud peck: (n, v) nibble; (v) beak, pick, kiss, pick up; (n) pile, plenty, mass, slew, lot, mint pedant: (n) doctrinaire, scholastic, bookworm, purist, pettifogger, precisian, prig, martinet, stickler, mannerist, intellectual. ANTONYM: (n) dilettante pedlar: (n) chapman, hawker, huckster, packman, cadger, seller, coster, costermonger, vender, vendor, street vendor peeping: (n) cheeping, tweeting, chirping; (adj) inquisitive penalty: (n) fine, forfeit, forfeiture, amercement, penalization, penance, handicap, sentence, castigation; (n, v) condemnation, judgment. ANTONYMS: (n) advantage, prize penance: (n) atonement, sacrament, confession, compunction, penalty, expiation, remorse, repentance, punishment, reparation, hair shirt penny: (n) change, coin, centime, copper, groat, subunit, money, mite, doit, small change, denomination pennyworth: (n) bargain pent: (adj) narrow, shut up, confined, cramped perchance: (adv) maybe, possibly, by chance, peradventure, accidentally, incidentally, mayhap, chance, haphazard, probably, haply peregrinate: (v) wander, roam, meander, ramble, traverse peremptory: (adj) imperious, commanding, dictatorial, overbearing, decisive, magisterial; (adj, v) authoritative, dogmatic, flat, absolute; (v) decided. ANTONYM: (adj) polite perhaps: (adv) mayhap, perchance, peradventure, possibly, probably, conceivably, by chance, haply, if, presumably; (n) might. ANTONYM: (adv) certainly perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease, go, fade, decay, depart, fall,
pass, ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v) survive, live, appear perjure: (v) forswear, perjured perjury: (v) mendacity; (n) bearing false witness, lying under oath, false evidence, violation, lie, infringement, infraction, falsehood, offense, offence pernicious: (adj) detrimental, evil, bad, injurious, fatal, noxious, deadly, baneful, mischievous, mortal, malign. ANTONYMS: (adj) favorable, pleasant, harmless perplexity: (n) confusion, dilemma, bewilderment, maze, labyrinth, embarrassment, quandary, complication, enigma; (adj, n) difficulty, distress. ANTONYM: (n) understanding person: (n) individual, human, man, mortal, character, soul, human being, being, creature, body; (n, v) party personal: (adj) own, particular, human, intimate, peculiar, private, direct, proper, subjective, physical; (n) person. ANTONYMS: (adj) public, general, detached, collective, common, orthodox, formal, impersonal, outermost, external, typical persons: (n) folk, public, society, world pert: (adj) impertinent, bold, impudent, insolent, forward, fresh, brazen, saucy, malapert, irreverent, cheeky. ANTONYM: (adj) listless petitioner: (n) applicant, claimant, complainant, supplicant, plaintiff, suppliant, pursuer, requester, suitor, suer, lover philosophy: (n) ethics, logic, theory, ideology, literalism, monism, metaphysics, etiology, esthetics, axiology; (adj, n) stoicism phoebe: (n) quintet, quint, Phoebe bird, Phebe, fins, quintuplet, v, pentad, Louvre, louver, Little Phoebe physic: (n) medicine, aperient, cathartic, medication, healing, medicament, drug; (n, v) cure, doctor, remedy; (v) heal pick: (n) alternative, best, option, selection, choice; (adj, n) cream, elite; (adj, v) select; (v) opt, harvest, gather. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, refuse picked: (adj) select, chosen, best, recherche, rare, priceless, preferred, pointed, elected, named; (v) choose picture: (v) describe, draw, imagine,
173 depict; (n, v) photograph, paint, fancy; (n) effigy, drawing, likeness, depiction piece: (n) fragment, division, part, article, lump, hunk, composition, component, opus; (n, v) patch, portion. ANTONYMS: (n) whole, chunk; (v) disassemble pieces: (n) debris, trash pied: (adj) mottled, piebald, multicolored, motley, mixed, multicoloured, colorful, varicoloured, multicolour, varicolored, particoloured. ANTONYMS: (adj) limited, plain pierce: (n, v) cut, prick, stick; (v) perforate, bore, enter, thrust, puncture, penetrate; (adj, v) stab, wound. ANTONYM: (v) seal pierced: (adj) punctured, perforate, penetrated, cut, cleft piercing: (adj, n) sharp, cutting; (adj, v) keen, penetrating, biting, bitter, harsh, shrill; (adj) high, raw, loud. ANTONYMS: (adj) quiet, dull, soft, hot pigeons: (n) order Columbiformes, Columbiformes pine: (v) languish, long, ache, droop, flag, crave, fade; (n) fir; (n, v) yearn, sink; (adj) peak pins: (v) feet, legs, pegs, trotters pipe: (n) conduit, duct, flue, passage, pipage; (n, v) channel, cry; (v) squeak, sing, peep, screech pitch: (n, v) fling, cast, degree, dip, tilt, lurch, toss, throw, slant; (v) chuck, hurl pitched: (adj) oblique, thrown, slanting, at an angle, leaning; (v) fixed, pight, determined. ANTONYM: (adj) level 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 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.
174 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 plantain: (n) fleawort, common plantain, hoary plantain, plantain tree, ribwort, buckthorn, banana tree plants: (n) flora, vegetation, trees, industrial equipment, afforestation, animals, birds, flora and fauna, foliage, natural world, plantation play: (n, v) act, frolic, pastime, game, sport, exercise, joke, bet, wager; (v) enact; (adj, v) perform. ANTONYMS: (n) tightness; (v) avoid, leave, real playing: (n) personation, pitching, performing, hamming, golfing, byplay, enactment, bowling, playacting, portrayal; (adj) playful plea: (n) defense, answer, apology, pretext, appeal, defence, petition, claim, allegation, adjuration, call. ANTONYMS: (n) instruction, accusation, response pleasant: (adj) jolly, amiable, agreeable, acceptable, nice, charming, kindly, facetious, joyful, pretty; (adj, v) pleasing. ANTONYMS: (adj) disgusting, horrible, repugnant, nasty, gruesome, unwelcome, harsh, shocking, disagreeable, foul, terrible 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 pleased: (adj) contented, glad, delighted, content, joyful, thankful, gratified, appreciative, overjoyed, cheerful; (adj, v) elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, annoyed, angry, worried, ashamed, disappointed, frustrated, sad, unsatisfied, ungrateful, uncomplimentary pleasing: (adj, n) acceptable; (adj) amiable, lovable, amusing, attractive, gratifying, lovely, pleasant, charming, delightful, inviting. ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, unwelcome, infuriating, disappointing, straight, hurtful, maddening, displeasing, discordant,
Love's Labour's Lost harsh, frustrating 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 pleasures: (n) pleasure plentifully: (adv) plenteously, bountifully, bounteously, abundantly, profusely, richly, fully, liberally, opulently, amply, prolifically. ANTONYM: (adv) meagerly plighted: (adj) intended, engaged plodding: (adj) slow, stodgy, heavy, hardworking, ponderous, steady; (n) persistence, grind, donkeywork, drudgery, walking. ANTONYMS: (adj) dilettante, rapid plough: (v) hoe, manure, delve, dibble, dig, dress the ground, cultivate, turn over, rake, weed, to plough 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 pocket: (v) take, appropriate, steal, lift, catch; (n, v) sack, pouch; (n) cavity, hole, hollow; (adj) digest. ANTONYM: (v) return poesy: (n) poetry, verse, poem, rhyme, epos, song, tuneful Nine, strain, lay, Parnassus, poetics poet: (n) singer, songster, elegist, author, Gilbert, maker, lyricist, muse, versifier; (adj) poet laureate, Shakespearean poetry: (n) verse, poesy, song, rhyme, style, poetics, epos, poems, stanza, doggerel, tuneful Nine point: (n, v) grade, head, nib, level, aim, degree; (n) peak, article, dot; (adj, n) edge; (v) direct. ANTONYM: (n) middle pole: (n) picket, bar, magnetic pole, mast, rod, terminal, post, support, axle, beam, axis pommel: (v) beat, pummel, defeat, biff, club, drub, bang, batter, maul; (n) saddlebow; (adj) bullet pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, ostentation, show, ceremony, glory, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n)
understatement, modesty pompey: (n) Portsmouth, naval base, Pompey the great pompion: (n) pumpkin 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 pore: (n) stoma, interstice, emunctory, gully hole; (v) speculate, meditate, contemplate, concentrate, centre, engulf, engross porridge: (v) oatmeal, hasty pudding, mince pie, oyster, pineapple, mango; (n) burgoo, pap, plash, loblolly, podge porter: (n) doorkeeper, carrier, gatekeeper, doorman, caretaker, ostiary, commissionaire, redcap, labourer, conveyer, concierge possess: (adj, v) own; (v) hold, wield, occupy, bear, keep, enjoy, contain, retain, to have, maintain. ANTONYMS: (v) lack, remove possibly: (adv) probably, perhaps, peradventure, likely, perchance, may, might, or, mayhap, conceivably, potentially. ANTONYMS: (adv) impossibly, definitely, certainly, indeed, implausibly post: (n, v) place, position, stake, station; (n) office, function, pillar, attitude; (v) locate, enter, lay posterior: (adj, n) rear; (n) backside, buttocks, bottom, behind, latter, rump, can; (adj) later, following, subsequent. ANTONYMS: (adj) anterior, forward, front, previous, earlier posteriors: (n) buttock, croup, rump, tail, loin, dorsum, breech, backside scut pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter, stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem, infuse; (n, v) overflow. ANTONYMS: (v) drizzle, trickle poverty: (n, v) lack, destitution, penury, need, indigence, want; (adj, n) distress; (n) pauperism, impoverishment, squalor, deprivation. ANTONYMS: (n) wealth, riches, affluence, smartness, luxury, prosperity, fertility, surplus power: (n, v) might, ability, influence, dominion, faculty; (n) potency, energy, control, authority, domination, strength. ANTONYMS:
William Shakespeare (n) powerlessness, helplessness, weakness, inability, subjugation, moderation, calmness, meekness, inferiority, feebleness, ease powers: (n) authority, capacity, strength, administration 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 pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, invite, plead, beseech, appeal, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject precedence: (n) lead, advantage, anteriority, pas, antecedency, preference, precession, superiority, supremacy; (adj, n) priority; (adj) rank precedent: (n) example, prototype, case, case in point, instance, rule, original; (adj, n) antecedent; (adj) preceding, foregoing, anterior precious: (adj, n) beloved; (adj) valuable, costly, cherished, invaluable, expensive, golden, choice, inestimable, exquisite; (n) darling. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap, hated, shabby precise: (adj, v) accurate, careful, close; (adj) correct, definite, minute, particular, delicate, neat, certain, clear. ANTONYMS: (adj) imprecise, inaccurate, vague, rough, careless, rushed, approximate, clumsy, unscientific, wrong, slapdash 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 prepare: (n, v) arrange, form, plan, make; (v) dress, set, lay, devise, groom, equip; (adj, v) coach. ANTONYM: (v) perform preposterous: (adj) absurd, irrational, ludicrous, nonsensical, foolish, ridiculous, laughable, derisory,
monstrous, inconsistent; (adj, v) extravagant. ANTONYMS: (adj) sensible, reasonable, impressive, plausible 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 presented: (adj) conferred, offered, given, presenting, existing, accessible, obtainable, to be had, on hand pretty: (adj) fair, graceful, lovely, handsome, attractive, charming, good-looking, picturesque, dainty; (n) nice; (adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adj) plain, unattractive, modern, inelegant; (adv) extremely 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 pricket: (n) candlestick, deer, cervid pride: (n) arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, lordliness, assumption, insolence, disdain, hauteur; (n, v) boast; (v) plume. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace, shame, baseness prince: (n) lord, potentate, sovereign, duke, king, chief, maharaja, maharajah, ruler, magnate, archduke princely: (adj, v) August, grand, great, lordly, dignified, stately; (adj) generous, munificent, majestic, magnificent, gorgeous. ANTONYM: (adj) ungenerous princess: (n) queen, duchess, begum, czarina, maharani, monarch, archduchess, lady, patrician, maharanee, mopsey print: (n, v) mark, impress, photograph; (n) impression, engraving, printing, picture, lettering, copy; (v) issue, engrave
175 prison: (n) calaboose, confinement, lockup, penitentiary, jug, chokey, college, prison house, limbo, confine, custody prisoner: (n) captive, hostage, jailbird, accused, con, gaolbird, criminal, detainee, inmate, defendant, unfortunate 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 proceed: (v) move, advance, originate, ensue, flow, issue, arise, emanate; (adj, v) pass, run, extend. ANTONYMS: (v) discontinue, recede, regress, return, retreat proceeded: (v) proceed, yode 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 proclaimed: (adj) announced, indictive, declared publicly proclamation: (n) announcement, decree, edict, annunciation, notice, statement, promulgation, report, publication, manifesto, propagation prodigal: (adj) extravagant, improvident, generous, lavish, wasteful, excessive, exuberant, liberal, profuse, dissipated; (adj, n) profligate. ANTONYMS: (adj) economical, cautious prodigally: (adv) profligately, profusely, generously, extravagantly, liberally, wastefully, unsparingly, bountifully, bounteously, thriftlessly, improvidently produce: (n, v) effect, gain, make, cause; (v) bring, present, procreate, bring about, generate, breed, construct. ANTONYMS: (v) dampen, consume, halt profane: (v) desecrate, abuse, violate, defile, outrage, debauch; (adj) irreverent, impious, sacrilegious,
176 unholy; (adj, v) foul. ANTONYMS: (adj) devout, sacred, moral, religious, reverent profit: (n, v) gain, produce, net, increase, help; (adj, n, v) benefit, advantage; (n) account, earnings, lucre; (adj, n) good. ANTONYMS: (n) loss, detriment, insignificance profound: (adj) abstruse, intense, heavy, important, sound, bottomless, grave, obscure, utter, abysmal; (adj, v) solid. ANTONYMS: (adj) shallow, trivial, lightweight, stupid, simple, mild, facile, slight, insignificant, prosaic progression: (n) advance, headway, chain, course, train, development, series, sequence; (n, v) improvement, advancement, furtherance. ANTONYM: (n) decay prologue: (n) preface, introduction, preamble, foreword, Prolog, overture, proem, preliminary, beginning, prolegomena, opening. ANTONYMS: (n) conclusion, postscript promised: (adj) pledged, affianced, betrothed, busy, devoted, employed, greatly interested, intended, involved; (v) benempt, named prompting: (n) stimulation, instigation, prompt, influence, inducement, provocation, hint, invitation, leading question, suggestion; (v) to prompt pronounce: (v) articulate, declare, affirm, say, assert, express, vocalize, proclaim; (n, v) allege; (adj, v) deliver, utter. ANTONYM: (v) mumble 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 prose: (n) style, writing, euphuism, commonplace, prose writer, rap; (adj) prosaic, maunder, palaver, prate, prosy. ANTONYMS: (n) poetry, verse prosperity: (n) affluence, wealth, success, flourish, good fortune, fortune, welfare, opulence, abundance, good, prosperousness. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, fruitlessness, hardship, insufficiency protest: (n) demonstration, objection, complaint, challenge, question; (v) assert, object, complain,
Love's Labour's Lost remonstrate, demur; (n, v) moan. ANTONYMS: (n, v) support, praise; (n) approval, acceptance; (v) approve, agree protestation: (n) protest, objection, declaration, outcry, complaint, claim, demur, dissent, opposition, statement, affirmation 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 proved: (adj) tried, established, tested, qualified, genuine, demonstrable, apparent, confirmed, reliable, faithful pruning: (n) cutting, clipping, prune, shearing, trimming, trim, bearing units public: (n) folk, people, populace; (adj) national, overt, civic, communal, popular; (adj, v) general, open; (adj, n) community. ANTONYMS: (adj) private, confidential, personal, individual, privileged, restricted, unknown, home, secret punishment: (n) correction, penance, chastisement, fine, judgement, rebuke, retribution, reward, castigation, execution; (adj, n) penalty. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, exoneration, reward pupil: (n) learner, student, scholar, disciple, apprentice, trainee, schoolchild, novice, adherent, tyro, collegian. ANTONYM: (n) expert purblind: (adj) obtuse, opaque, dim, dumb, myopic, nearsighted, dense, dull, blinding, visually impaired; (v) shortsighted purchase: (v) obtain, get, procure, bribe; (n) acquisition, leverage, bargain, acquirement, grip, buying; (n, v) contract. ANTONYMS: (v) sell, lose; (n) loss, sale purchased: (adj) boughten, not homemade; (prep) bribed pure: (adj) absolute, natural, faultless, innocent, immaculate, perfect, good, clean; (adj, n) chaste, genuine; (adj, v) mere. ANTONYMS: (adj) contaminated, dishonored, diluted, tainted, wicked, practical, polluted,
flawed, marred, unsaturated, unchaste purgation: (n) purification, abreaction, katharsis, lustration, cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, clearing, purging, purge, colonic 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 quantity: (n) amount, quantum, extent, measure, sum, multitude, total, portion, heap, degree, deal quasi: (adv) nearly, almost, partly, practically, just as; (adj) mock, ostensible, similar, pseudo; (n) semi 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, 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 quiet: (adj, adv, v) still; (adj, n, v) lull, hush, pacify, compose, appease, assuage; (adj, v) moderate, cool; (adj, adv) gentle, motionless. ANTONYMS: (adj) noisy, talkative, vociferous, active, oratorical, fierce, vocal, unquiet, busy, disordered; (n) noise quite: (adj, adv) altogether, fully, sheer, just; (adv) all, absolutely, completely, entirely, exactly, enough, well. ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly, slightly, insufficiently, partially quod: (n) bilboes, Bastille, prison, stocks quondam: (adj) former, late, pristine, previous, old, past, bygone,
William Shakespeare prevenient; (adv) once, sometime; (n) whilom quote: (adj, n, v) cite; (n, v) mention, adduce, excerpt, extract; (n) quotation, citation, quotation mark, inverted comma; (v) name; (adj, v) exemplify quoth: (v) quod rabbit: (n) cony, hare, lapin, bunny, cottontail, leporide, shuttle, coward; (adj) milch cow, seed plot, warren rage: (adj, n, v) fume, bluster; (adj, n) wrath, indignation, frenzy, mania; (n) passion, anger, craze, exasperation; (n, v) storm. ANTONYMS: (n) gentleness, composure, calm, equanimity, pleasure, serenity rags: (adj) refuse, rubble, scourings, sweepings, trash, waste; (n) clothing, tatter, orts, odds and ends, dress ransom: (v) redeem, repair, extricate; (n, v) rescue, blackmail, repurchase; (n) deliverance, ransom money, assessment, benevolence, excise rapier: (n) bilbo, brand, blade, foil, glaive, whinyard, saber, Glave, steel, cimeter, broadsword rare: (adj) uncommon, thin, unusual, seldom, scarce, precious, exceptional, infrequent, few, choice, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) common, frequent, usual, plentiful, commonplace, recurrent rated: (adj) specified rather: (adv) a little, enough, fairly, pretty, moderately, considerably, very, relatively, kind of, instead, kinda. ANTONYMS: (adv) extremely, absolutely; (adj) complete ratified: (adj) sanctioned, legal, canonical, canonic rational: (adj, n) reasonable, just; (adj) intelligent, sane, judicious, logical, mental, sound, sober, wise, practical. ANTONYMS: (adj) illogical, anxious, biased, untenable, unreasonable, unrealistic, unconvincing, physical, intuitive, foolish, delirious raven: (v) guttle, feed, devour, gulp, harry, eat; (n) crow, plunder; (adj) black, jet; (n, v) gorge ravish: (v) charm, enrapture, rape, violate, delight, captivate, defile, deflower, force, transport, enchant. ANTONYM: (v) disenchant rays: (n) light, sunlight, Selachii, dogfishes, elasmobranch, Elasmobranchii, emission, daylight, sunshine, selachian, subclass
Elasmobranchii 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 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 rebuke: (n, v) reprimand, rebuff, reproach, chide, blame, reproof, lecture, check; (v) castigate, berate; (n) admonition. ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise, compliment; (v) commend, acknowledge, approve; (n) approval receive: (v) get, admit, assume, have, welcome, bear, obtain, adopt, make, greet, embrace. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, disburse, lose, mail, present, spend, dispatch recompense: (n, v) pay, redress; (n) compensation, amends, atonement, payment, consideration, indemnification, indemnity; (v) compensate, reimburse. ANTONYMS: (v) penalize, receive; (n) penalty recount: (v) tell, recite, relate, describe, enumerate, inform, detail, rehearse, count, report, convey recreation: (n) amusement, distraction, pastime, play, diversion, merriment, leisure, fun, game, frolic, sport reek: (n, v) stink, Pong; (adj, n, v) smoke; (n) stench, fetor, malodor, malodour; (v) fumigate, exhale, emit; (adj, n) vapor. ANTONYM: (n) perfume refined: (adj) delicate, cultured, graceful, polite, gentle, urbane, courteous, courtly, cultivated; (adj, n) polished, pure. ANTONYMS: (adj) unrefined, raw, uncouth, rough, careless, crude, brute, boorish, plain, lowly, inelegant reformation: (n) correction, amendment, improvement, redress, reclamation, rectification, conversion, innovation, repair, renewal, reassembly regards: (v) regard, esteem, respect, consideration, honor, motive; (adj) abord, devoir; (n) greeting, relation, duty
177 rein: (n) bridle, curb, restraint, check, strap; (v) leash, harness, contain, rule, rein in, confine reject: (v) deny, decline, disapprove, eliminate, dismiss, exclude, rebuff, discard, repel, ignore; (n) cull. ANTONYMS: (v) approve, choose, select, grant, acknowledge, agree, pass, welcome, propose, prefer, keep rejoice: (v) cheer, gladden, triumph, revel, jubilate, gratify, gloat, please; (n, v) delight, glory, joy. ANTONYMS: (v) lament, mourn, complain religion: (n) piety, faith, creed, cult, sect, denomination, church, devotion, paganism, persuasion, holiness religiously: (adv) conscientiously, spiritually, devoutly, reverently, sacredly, holy, Godly, scrupulously, devotedly, morally, devotionally remains: (n) debris, corpse, relic, carcass, body, rest, clay, vestige; (adj, n) remainder, remnant; (n, v) trace 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 remit: (adj, v) relax, acquit, loose, loosen; (v) defer, dispatch, pardon, forgive, mitigate, forward; (adj) exempt. ANTONYM: (v) receive remuneration: (n, v) compensation, restitution; (n) recompense, pay, reward, earnings, wage, payment, salary, fee, consideration render: (v) interpret, explain, give, offer, furnish, pay, construe, return, provide, impart, translate renowned: (adj, n) illustrious, glorious; (adj) famous, famed, notable, noted, eminent, distinguished, great, notorious, well-known. ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, anonymous, undistinguished rent: (n, v) breach, fissure, lease, let; (adj, n) cleft; (n) crevice, tear, crack, break; (v) charter, engage repast: (n) feast, food, banquet, dinner, lunch, refection, collation, luncheon, spread, potluck, eating repay: (v) recompense, reward, pay,
178 reimburse, compensate, refund, render, requite, remunerate, return, redeem. ANTONYM: (v) penalize repeat: (v) copy, recapitulate, reduplicate, reiterate, rehearse, return, say, double, renew, iterate, duplicate replete: (adj) fraught, profuse, excessive, inordinate, exuberant, overmuch, satisfied; (v) fill, take, satiate, cloy. ANTONYM: (adj) hungry replication: (n) repetition, rejoinder, replica, answer, riposte, copy, copying, pleading, duplication, replicate, reply reply: (n) echo, response, reaction, repay; (n, v) return, rejoinder; (v) respond, react, rejoin, retort, counter. ANTONYMS: (n, v) question; (v) interrogate, ignore report: (n, v) account, gossip, name, record; (n) description, notice, recital, story, notification; (v) describe, recount reprehend: (n, v) chide, blame, censure, reprimand; (v) upbraid, criticize, condemn, charge, reproach, decry; (n) dispraise represented: (adj) delineate, depicted, representing, drawn, painted, pictured, diagrammatic reprobate: (adj, n) profligate, miscreant; (adj) depraved, immoral, corrupt, dissolute; (v) censure, condemn, reproach; (adj, v) perverted; (n) scoundrel reputation: (n) name, prestige, distinction, face, celebrity, credit, character; (n, v) honor, esteem, report; (adj, n) renown. ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, dishonor, obscurity repute: (n, v) reputation, report, esteem, respect, honor; (n) name, character, celebrity, standing; (v) count, regard as requests: (n) desires, requirements, needs, wants resembling: (adj, prep) like; (adj) analogous, parallel, similar, conformable, approximate, semblative, other, probable; (prep) similar to, reminiscent of. ANTONYM: (prep) unlike resolute: (adj, n) constant, firm, fixed, steady; (adj, v) determined; (adj) inflexible, brave, adamant, dogged, unbending, courageous. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, uncertain, uncommitted, timid, fickle, feeble, indecisive, flexible, flippant,
Love's Labour's Lost hesitant, undecided resolve: (n, v) purpose; (v) determine, solve, decide, dissolve, decompose, settle; (n) determination, firmness, decision, resolution. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, irresoluteness, vacillation, cowardice, flexibility, indecisiveness, indifference; (v) aggravate, complicate, exacerbate, waver 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 restrained: (adj) reserved, quiet, modest, temperate, discreet, limited, reasonable, subdued, unemotional, reticent, guarded. ANTONYMS: (adj) unrestrained, open, flashy, immoral, ostentatious, wild, loud, theatrical, outgoing, extravagant, emotional return: (v) recur, reimburse, restore; (n, v) pay, restitution, recompense, refund, restoration, render, retort; (n) proceeds. ANTONYMS: (n) departure, confiscation, abolition, recovery, loss, disappearance, penalty; (v) keep, depart, take, remove revels: (adj) carousing; (n) festivities, partying reverent: (adj, v) pious, devout, religious; (adj) respectful, holy, deferential, godly, reverential, worshipful, pietistic; (v) devotional. ANTONYMS: (adj) blasphemous, disrespectful, impious, irreverent revolt: (n, v) mutiny, rebellion, insurrection; (v) sicken, nauseate, rebel, repel, repulse, offend; (adj, v) shock; (n) uprising. ANTONYMS: (n) attraction; (v) please, delight rewarded: (v) crowned, honored, excessive, consummated; (adj) salaried, pleased, paid, happy, satisfied, remunerated, content. ANTONYM: (adj) frustrated rewarding: (adj) worthwhile,
gratifying, pleasing, beneficial, fulfilling, successful, productive, remunerative, gainful, advantageous, fruitful. ANTONYMS: (adj) unrewarding, unprofitable, disappointing, fruitless, frustrating, unhelpful rhetoric: (n) oratory, eloquence, grandiosity, rant, empty talk, elocution, flourish, declamation, grandiloquence, bombast, palaver rhyme: (n) poetry, verse, poem, song, alliteration, numbers, rhythm; (n, v) rime, measure; (v) poetize, versify riband: (n) ribbon, fascia, band, ribband, spill, slip, shred, strip, wreath, medal, list ribs: (n) dinner, chest, bosom 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 riddle: (n) mystery, conundrum, puzzle, problem, poser; (n, v) screen, sieve; (v) puncture, strain, filter, sift. ANTONYM: (n) explanation rider: (n) horseman, appendix, passenger, equestrian, supplement, codicil, provision, clause, addition, condition, corollary ridiculous: (adj) foolish, preposterous, funny, laughable, ludicrous, inane, nonsensical, comical, farcical, amusing, comic. ANTONYMS: (adj) reasonable, inspiring, ordinary, sensitive, acceptable, generous, normal, possible, impressive, sane, worthwhile 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 rime: (n, v) rhyme; (n) hoarfrost, hoar, cleft, rift, chink, crack, assonance, alliteration, consonance; (v) alliterate ring: (n, v) encircle, peal, call, loop, jingle; (v) resound, echo, reverberate; (n) gang, band, rim ripe: (adj) adult, ready, advanced, prepared, good, grown, perfect, matured, finished, consummate; (adj, v) mellow. ANTONYMS: (adj) green, unripe, immature, dry, poisonous, young, unsuitable, sweet
William Shakespeare roasted: (adj) fried, baked robes: (n) garb, fine clothes, costume, best clothes rogue: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, imp, miscreant, crook, cheat, impostor, swindler, cad, villain, scoundrel roman: (adj) Romanist, Romish, classical, apostolic, popish, papist, papistic; (n) Catholic, Roman type, reglet, Romanesque rome: (n) Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italy roof: (n, v) top, cover, shelter; (n) crown, housing, ceiling, dome, house, household, back, covering rooks: (n) etc, robins, order Passeriformes, Passeriformes room: (n) chamber, occasion, house, apartment, opportunity, hall, opening, compartment, expanse, extent; (v) board. ANTONYM: (n) walkway 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 royal: (adj, adv) regal, majestic; (adj) imperial, magnificent, kingly, noble, brilliant, sovereign, purple, August, princely royalty: (n) regality, payment, kingship, royal line, royal house, royal family, fee, tax, nobility, loyalty, majesty rubbing: (n) friction, abrasion, grinding, detrition, rub, grip, resistance, chafe, sweat, travail, massage. ANTONYM: (n) smoothness 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 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 russet: (adj, n) auburn; (adj) tan, dun,
drab, leaden, livid, pearly, dingy, brunette, bay, russety rust: (v) corrode, eat, oxidise, tarnish, oxidize, gnaw; (n) decay, corrosion, fungus, oxidation; (adj) rusty 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 safe: (adj) reliable, cautious, good, dependable, sound, harmless, innocuous, correct, innocent, inoffensive; (n) closet. ANTONYMS: (adj) dangerous, risky, unprotected, vulnerable, hurt, insecure, harmful, reckless, unreliable, toxic, injured safely: (adv) surely, safe, certainly, cautiously, soundly, strongly, sure, steadily, harmlessly, unharmedly, unhurtly. ANTONYMS: (adv) harmfully, hazardously, loosely sail: (n, v) cruise, float, voyage, sheet; (v) navigate, run, glide, drift, cross, sweep, travel. ANTONYM: (v) struggle saint: (v) canonize; (n) holy man, evangelist, apostle, jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack, holy person, ideal, apotheosis; (adj) sacred sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive, ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n) object, account, design, purpose, saki sale: (n) fair, disposal, sales, sales event, bazaar, market, demand, marketing, saloon, vend, vendition. ANTONYMS: (n) acquisition, purchase salt: (adj) salty, saline, briny, brackish, pungent; (v) cure, pickle; (n) salinity, common salt, alkali; (adj, n) spice salutation: (n, v) salute; (n) reception, hail, hello, welcome, address, compliment, hullo, recognition, interpellation, pax salve: (n) ointment, balm, unguent, liniment, oil; (v) relieve, salvage, assuage, heal, soothe, appease same: (adj) identical, equal, like, corresponding, equivalent, similar, uniform, even, consistent, matching; (adv) equally. ANTONYMS: (adj) different, varying, another, unlike, other, varied samson: (adj) Hercules, atlas, Antaeus, superman; (n) Samson post, strapper, dogshit, bullshit, bull, bruiser, bunk
179 sanguis: (n) blood sans: (adj) without, devoid, minus, short, in need satisfied: (adj) happy, content, full, pleased, confident, complacent, persuaded, fulfilled; (adj, v) certain, sure; (v) convinced. ANTONYMS: (adj) frustrated, anxious, disgruntled, hungry, insistent, pensive, unsure, dissatisfied, ashamed satisfy: (v) please, persuade, meet, satiate, indulge, sate, appease; (adj, v) content, fill, suffice, do. ANTONYMS: (v) intensify, displease, disappoint, disgruntle, frustrate saturday: (n) sat, sabbath, day of rest saucers: (n) tableware, plates, cups, dishware saucy: (adj, n) pert; (adj) bold, impudent, audacious, insolent, fresh, forward, impertinent, flippant, rude, brazen. ANTONYM: (adj) respectful savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious; (adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel, bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n) brute; (n) vandal. ANTONYMS: (adj) civilized, gentle, nice save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, keep, maintain, preserve, free, protect, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) except; (adj, v) economize. ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander, use, abandon, endanger, capture, asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy savouring: (n) relishing, degustation, tasting saying: (adj, n, v) maxim; (n) axiom, adage, phrase, dictum, idiom, byword, aphorism, expression; (n, v) saw, proverb scarce: (adj) rare, insufficient, deficient, infrequent, uncommon, scant, scanty, few, sparse; (adv) just, barely. ANTONYMS: (adj) plentiful, common, adequate, strong, usual, extensive scene: (n, v) aspect, view, outlook, lookout; (n) background, display, spectacle, picture, environment, panorama, perspective schedule: (n, v) register, program; (n) agenda, catalog, calendar, catalogue, table, inventory, roll, index; (v) book. ANTONYM: (v) cancel scholar: (n) learner, academic, student, pundit, apprentice, intellectual, brain, exhibitioner, academician, professor, disciple. ANTONYM: (n) teacher
180 school: (v) educate, instruct, train, coach; (n) class, sect, shoal, college, herd, training, teaching schoolmaster: (n) master, preceptor, pedagogue, headmaster, dominie, teacher, principal, educator, head, Lutjanus apodus, housemaster scoff: (n, v) gibe, flout, deride, jibe; (n) mockery, hoot, jeering; (v) mock, ridicule, sneer, scorn. ANTONYMS: (v) approve, nibble 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 scout: (n, v) spy; (n) lookout, pathfinder, talent scout, picket, patrol, detective; (v) explore, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, investigate scraped: (adj) scratched, worn out, worn, threadbare, frayed, hurt, skinned, damaged, raw scraps: (n) garbage, odds and ends, scrap, bits, food waste, leftover, trash, waste, oddments, leftovers, residue scurrility: (n, v) invective, contumely, abuse, opprobrium, reproach; (v) ribaldry, rude reproach, foul invective; (n) detraction, billingsgate, sibilation scutcheon: (n) arms, shield, buckler, esquire, order, finger plate, a shield, protection, protective covering seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk, stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark, imprint, signet; (adj) conclude. ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal 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 secrecy: (adj, n, v) privacy; (n) concealment, silence, confidentiality, darkness, seclusion, retirement, mystery, secretiveness, privateness, mum secret: (adj, v) mysterious, hidden, covert, secluded, confidential; (adj) concealed, furtive, occult, obscure; (adj, n) privacy, secrecy. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) known, public; (adj) open, overt, apparent,
Love's Labour's Lost unrestricted, external, visible, outermost, transparent, blatant secrets: (n) secrecy seduced: (adj) profaned, infatuated, fascinated seeing: (prep) because; (adj) Seely, considering; (n) sight, vision, beholding, fusion, visual sense; (v) conceive, comprehend, perceive seek: (n, v) ask, inquire; (v) hunt, endeavor, attempt, look, aspire, pursue, beg, quest, explore. ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant seeking: (n) hunt, pursuit, hunting, effort, pursuance; (adj) searching, zetetic; (prep) looking for seem: (v) appear, feel, seeming, loom, expect, show, beseem, sound, glitter, glisten, gleam seen: (adj) visible, clad, beseen, accomplished, discovered, appearing; (v) observe, perceive, conceive, comprehend, understand 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, being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; (adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally self-same: (adj) uniform, twin 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 senior: (adj) older, old, major, elderly, aged; (n) head, dean, doyen, commander, ruler; (adj, n) superior. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) junior; (adj) subordinate, younger; (n) inferior 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 senses: (adj) sober senses, sound mind; (n) reason, mind, conception, consciousness, judgment, faculties, mother wit, right mind, sanity sensible: (adj) aware, sagacious, prudent, rational, judicious, perceptible, sane, wise, intelligent,
appreciable, sage. ANTONYMS: (adj) ludicrous, crazy, unreasonable, stupid, silly, ridiculous, reckless, idiotic, outrageous, imprudent, mad sensibly: (adv) sanely, intelligently, rationally, pragmatically, realistically, cleverly, politically, perceptibly, soundly, noticeably, wisely. ANTONYMS: (adv) foolishly, ludicrously, ridiculously, unreasonably, illogically, madly, irrationally, hastily, stupidly, irresponsibly, immaturely 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 sententious: (adj) pithy, concise, laconic, brief, aphoristic, short, terse, pointed, compact, compressed, pregnant sequel: (n) sequence, result, issue, aftermath, continuation, continuance, outcome, consequence, ending, upshot, outgrowth. ANTONYM: (n) prelude 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 servant: (n) manservant, domestic, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey, retainer, boy, footman, flunky, menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master, mistress 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,
William Shakespeare scope, mounting, set sever: (n, v) part, cut; (v) break, detach, cut off, separate, rupture, rend, disconnect, crack, divorce. ANTONYMS: (v) join, associate, establish, initiate, unite, mend several: (adj, v) diverse, divers, sundry; (adj, n) a few, some; (adj) various, individual, different, particular, special, numerous. ANTONYMS: (adj) joint, all, none shade: (n, v) screen, tinge, shadow, tint, color, cloud; (n) ghost, hue, blind, conceal, tone. ANTONYMS: (n) brightness, glare; (v) brighten, clarify, expose shake: (n, v) jolt, beat, jar, quiver, wave; (v) agitate, excite, disturb; (adv, v) brandish; (adj, v) quake, totter. ANTONYMS: (v) soothe, steady shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require, bequeath, leave shallow: (adj) superficial, low, cursory, petty, little, sketchy, flimsy, frivolous, simple, surface, perfunctory. 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 shape: (n, v) cast, mold, fashion, mould, model, make, design; (n) pattern, figure; (v) determine, influence shapeless: (adj) amorphous, misshapen, unformed, unstructured, nebulous, inchoate, unshapely, indistinct, uncrystallized, embryonic, vague. ANTONYMS: (adj) distinct, defined, tailored 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 sheep: (n) goat, ram, tup, ewe, cattle, follower, Bovidae, stock, simple, simpleton, family Bovidae sheet: (n) board, leaf, paper, film, bed sheet, canvas, coat, coating, cover, plane, newspaper shepherd: (n) clergyman, sheepman, minister, herdsman, sheepherder, priest, presbyter; (v) lead, conduct,
guide, guard shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover, guard, safeguard, buffer; (v) preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n) protection. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, exposure; (v) endanger, attack, reveal shin: (v) clamber, shinny, make unintelligible, abrade, bark, beat; (n) tibia, shinbone, leg, alphabetic character, body part shine: (n, v) light, sheen, flash, glitter, sparkle, polish, rub; (v) burnish, gleam, blaze; (n) radiance shining: (adj, v) brilliant; (adj) lustrous, radiant, glossy, luminous, glorious, glowing; (adj, n) lucid, resplendent, clear; (v) shine. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, pale, blemished ship: (v) send, forward, transport, send off, consign, carry, transfer, move; (n) boat, craft; (n, v) ferry. ANTONYM: (v) keep shirt: (n) Jersey, chemise, blouse, hair shirt, dress shirt, evening shirt, polo shirt shoe: (n) horseshoe, sandal, shoes, moccasin, footgear, footwear, skid, flippers, anklet, flipper, track shoe shoot: (v) discharge, flash, drive, dart, dash, send, photograph; (n) scion, branch; (n, v) sprout, hunt. ANTONYM: (v) trickle shooter: (n) marksman, gunman, sharpshooter, shot, hired gun, taw, hit man, gunslinger, hackbut, pistol, shooting iron shooting: (v) shoot, hunting, coursing; (n) gunfire, killing, gunshot, shot, murder; (adj) sharp, acute, piercing shop: (n) business, booth, boutique, factory, plant, emporium, workshop, market; (v) betray, purchase, grass. ANTONYM: (v) boycott 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 shortness: (n) lack, abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, briefness, shortage, conciseness, gruffness, curtailment, short, shortcoming. ANTONYMS: (n) tallness, height, longness, wordiness, courtesy shot: (n) injection, gunshot, go, fling,
181 shoot, crack, ball, picture, bang, jab, discharge shoulder: (v) carry, push, hold, jostle, sustain, support, assume, accept; (n, v) elbow; (n) back, flange 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 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 shrouded: (adj) hidden, covered, veiled, cloaked, secret, wearing a veil, unseen, ulterior, masked, enclosed, misty shut: (v) seal, bar, fasten, obstruct, lock, exclude; (adj) closed, cut; (n) shutting, end, finish. ANTONYMS: (v) admit, undo 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 side: (n) rim, faction, brink, direction, hand, aspect, margin; (adj, n) part; (n, v) party, border, face. ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, central, major, primary; (n) back, front, center, middle; (v) straddle sigh: (n, v) groan, suspire, murmur; (v) breathe, languish, pine; (n) breath, wail, whimper, whine, suspiration sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show, aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, see; (n) view, prospect, scene sign: (n, v) mark, motion, gesture; (n) portent, indication, manifestation,
182 imprint, presage, brand, poster; (v) indicate. ANTONYMS: (n) successor; (v) dismiss significant: (adj) material, grave, meaningful, pregnant, relevant, emphatic, indicative; (adj, v) considerable, momentous, influential, serious. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor, unimportant, small, trivial, dubious, hidden, immaterial, irrelevant, meaningless, secretive, nonsignificant signify: (n, v) intend, mark; (adj, n, v) import; (v) imply, indicate, denote, point, stand for, express, intimate, matter signior: (n) don, man, Mr, adult male, signor signs: (n) situation, indications, signage, appearances, cipher, cryptogram, discriminating marks, indicia, secret code, secret language, symbols silent: (adj, adv) motionless; (adj) dumb, tacit, mute, noiseless, reserved, placid, reticent, mum, taciturn, hush. ANTONYMS: (adj) spoken, talkative, loud, explicit, open, live, forthcoming, verbal, audible, talking, moving silk: (adj) silky, down, silken, velure, velvet; (n) silks, satin, cloth, animal fiber, fabric, dental floss silken: (adj) glossy, silk, sleek, soft, satiny, satin, shiny, smooth, slick, downy, mild. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, dull, rough silly: (adj) ridiculous, absurd, childish, fatuous, irrational, frivolous, idiotic, preposterous, unreasonable; (adj, n) fool; (n) imbecile. ANTONYMS: (adj) mature, wise, rational, clever, advisable, profound, reasonable, responsible, significant silver: (n) money, gold, bullion, precious Metals; (adj) silvery, argent, white, silvern, gray, neutral tint; (v) plate 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 simplicity: (n) plainness, simpleness, easiness, ease, clarity, austerity, gullibility, severity, artlessness, ignorance; (adj, n) inexperience.
Love's Labour's Lost ANTONYMS: (n) difficulty, complexity, ambiguity, magnificence, sophistication, dishonesty, clutter, warmth 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 sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone, intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch; (n, v) twitter, squeak singing: (v) sing; (n) chanting, caroling, crooning, hymnody, humming, intonation, scat, psalmody, harmonization; (adj) cantabile. ANTONYM: (adj) silent 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 singular: (adj, n) extraordinary; (adj) odd, individual, particular, peculiar, phenomenal, rare, queer, single, quaint, exceptional. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, normal, together, usual, customary sirs: (n) gentlemen, messieurs sister: (n) nurse, nun, brother, sisters, older sister, mate, twin, pair, fellow companion, double, match. ANTONYM: (n) brother sitting: (n) session, seat, seance, meeting, seating, conference, posing; (adj) seated, inactive; (v) incubation, batching. ANTONYMS: (adj) standing, active situate: (v) place, locate, put, lay, position, posit, deposit, lodge, localize, post; (adj, v) set sixth: (n) common fraction, interval, musical interval, simple fraction skilfully: (adv) skillfully, adroitly, cunningly, proficiently, deftly, adeptly, expertly, handily, artfully, goodly, ably 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
skipping: (n) jumping, leaping, absenteeism; (adv) skippingly, leapingly slash: (n, v) gash, rip, slice, tear, split, wound; (v) reduce, hack, clip, hew, cut down. ANTONYMS: (v) raise, upgrade 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, slumber, catnap; (adj, n, v) lie; (v) hibernate, nod; (n) dream; (adj, v) lodge. ANTONYMS: (v) awaken; (n) alertness, agitation sleeve: (n) arm, liner, cover, cuff, wristband, collar, socket, skin, sheath; (v) plexus, skein slender: (adj, v) lean, meager; (adj) little, thin, fine, lithe, slight, delicate, lissom, flimsy, faint. ANTONYMS: (adj) stocky, fat, wide, considerable, short, substantial, good, adequate, stout, thick slight: (adj, adv) light; (adj) thin, flimsy, slender, fragile, petty, little; (adv, n, v) neglect; (n, v) insult, scorn; (v) ignore. ANTONYMS: (adj) considerable, major, obvious, thickset, severe, wide, fat, intense, heavy, likely; (v) acknowledge slipper: (n) mule, sandal, pump, boot, carpet slipper, bootee, slider, patten, scuffs, slipshoe, vertical synchronized slipper slop: (v) spill, splash, slosh, smudge; (adj, n) filth; (n) pigwash, slops; (n, v) swill; (adj) dabble, dirt, soil 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 small: (adj) little, narrow, slight, minor, inadequate, petty, fine, insignificant, light, remote; (adj, v) low. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) big; (adj) sizeable, colossal, considerable, enormous, great, huge, bulky, major, giant, important smaller: (adj) littler, inferior, lesser, less, little, shorter, lower, littlest, subordinate smallest: (adj) least, minimal, littlest, lowest, last, first, negligible, smallest number of, bottom, littler. ANTONYM: (adj) maximum
William Shakespeare smell: (n, v) odor, scent, savor, perfume, stink, stench; (v) nose; (n) fragrance, bouquet, savour, odour smelling: (n) smell, flavor, scent, olfactory modality, sensing, sense of smell; (adj) redolent, scented, odorous, stinking, rotten smile: (n) grin, grinning, smiling, luck, facial expression; (v) laugh, beam, chuckle, simper; (n, v) grimace; (adv) smilingly. ANTONYMS: (n, v) scowl; (v) glower smiling: (adv) smilingly; (adj) bright, cheerful, jolly, joyful, of good cheer, twinkly, fair, sunny; (n) grinning, grin. ANTONYMS: (adj) sad, gloomy smock: (n) duster, shirt, chemise, gaberdine, sark, dust coat, overalls, dress, blouse, smicket, coverall smoke: (n) fumes, cigarette, cigar, smog, fog; (n, v) reek, fumigate, puff; (v) exhale, cure; (adj) tobacco smoothly: (adv) easily, evenly, calmly, swimmingly, sleekly, fluently, flatly, softly, quietly, oily; (adj, adv) readily. ANTONYMS: (adv) unevenly, harshly, abrasively, awkwardly, huskily, hesitantly smote: (v) smite snake: (n) serpent, ophidian, viper, constrictor, hydra, elapid; (v) wind, twist, curl, weave; (n, v) sneak snap: (v) bite, nip, snarl; (adj, v) break; (n, v) photograph, fracture, clack, go; (n) pushover, picnic, catch. ANTONYMS: (adj) roundabout, considered snatch: (n, v) pinch, snap, catch, grip; (v) abduct, clutch, kidnap, seize, jerk, capture, pluck. ANTONYM: (v) release snip: (n, v) cut; (v) slice, crop, trim, nip, prune, pare, pinch, lop, sever; (n) clipping snow: (n) cocaine, precipitation, snowfall, bark, barque; (v) overwhelm, beguile, hoodwink, bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false society: (n) club, public, community, companionship, company, fraternity, association, corporation, fellowship, circle, people soft: (adj, adv) easy, quiet; (adj) limp, light, balmy, delicate, slack, loose, smooth; (adj, v) feeble; (adj, adv, v) low. ANTONYMS: (adj) hard, firm, harsh, loud, hoarse, stiff, rough, solid, strong, shrill, alcoholic softly: (adv) quietly, mildly, lightly,
tenderly, delicately, gently, soft, quiet, silently, kindly, slowly. ANTONYMS: (adv) hoarsely, roughly, loudly, clearly, harshly, forte, severely, strongly, heavily, convincingly, brightly soil: (adj, n) dirt; (adj, v) smudge; (v) pollute, dirty, contaminate, mire; (n, v) grime; (n) land, dust, earth; (adj, n, v) blot. ANTONYMS: (v) wash, cleanse, purify; (n) sea sola: (n) shola solace: (n) consolation, relief, balm, solacement; (v) console, allay, relieve, recreate; (n, v) ease, cheer, support. ANTONYMS: (n) distress, grief 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 sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) single, singular, one, exclusive, individual, only, alone, solitary. ANTONYM: (adj) common 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 solomon: (n) solon, shining light, Magnus Apollo, magi, luminary, esprit fort, authority, Nestor 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 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,
183 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 sore: (adj, n, v) hurt; (adj) sensitive, angry, grievous, raw; (n) injury, lesion, cut, boil; (v) acute; (adj, v) sharp. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, healthy, pleased, comfortable 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 sort: (adj, n, v) class; (n, v) type, group, rank; (n) variety, breed, assortment, form, pattern; (adj, n) manner, description 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 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 south: (n) confederacy, due south, Dixie, Dixieland, s, souther, south side; (adv) in the south, southwards; (adj) southern, polar sovereign: (n) ruler, king, lord, emperor; (adj) independent, autonomous, imperial, royal, free, regal; (adj, n) prince. ANTONYMS: (adj) dependent, ineffective, useless
184 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 spain: (n) spains, Espana 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 speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v) converse, say, deliver, articulate, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n) language speaks: (n) talks 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 specialties: (n) specialty, specialities speech: (n) lecture, expression, language, conversation, sermon, diction, communication; (n, v) delivery, discourse, say, saying speechless: (adj) silent, mute, dumb, dumbfounded, voiceless, quiet, tongueless, tacit, noiseless, mum, wordless. ANTONYMS: (adj) loquacious, eloquent, talkative spend: (v) expend, exhaust, squander, pay out, blow, deplete, pass, wear, lead; (adj, v) waste; (n) outlay. ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, earn, hoard, keep spending: (n) expense, outlay, disbursement, outgo, expenses, disbursal, outgoings, expenditures, use, expending, pay. ANTONYMS: (n) income, conservation spent: (adj, v) prostrate; (adj) fatigued, expended, finished, gone, dead, played out, effete, jaded, tired; (v) spend. ANTONYM: (adj) energetic sphinx: (adj) phoenix, hydra; (n) monitor, Tiresias, statue, enigma, mythical monster, Cassandra,
Love's Labour's Lost Minotaur, mystery, mythical creature 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 spit: (v) drizzle, expectorate, sprinkle, spew, drool, spike, spatter; (n) broach, saliva, cape; (n, v) skewer spite: (n) malice, grudge, hatred, malevolence, rancour, venom, rancor, maliciousness, ill will, animosity; (n, v) pique. ANTONYMS: (v) please; (n) benevolence, goodwill, love, affection, harmony spleen: (n) spite, anger, resentment, rage, lien, malice, bitterness, rancour, huff, grudge, rancor. ANTONYM: (n) affection 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 spread: (n, v) scatter, stretch, increase; (adj, n, v) reach; (v) disperse, expand, propagate, disseminate, diffuse, circulate; (adj, v) extend. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, gather, collect, fold, prevent, regress, shrink, specialize, concentrate; (n) decline; (n, v) decrease spring: (n, v) leap, bound, hop, fountain, skip, caper, bounce, dive, dance; (n) source; (v) originate spruce: (adj) dapper, neat, natty, jaunty, trim, rakish, stylish, dashing, snappy; (adj, v) tidy; (adj, n) bright. ANTONYMS: (adj) untidy, messy, unkempt spur: (n) inducement, incentive, impulse, stimulus; (n, v) prod, prick, incite, prompt; (v) provoke, impel, animate. ANTONYMS: (n) discouragement, disincentive,
deterrent; (v) calm, delay, inhibit staff: (n) club, pole, post, employees, personnel, faculty, mace; (v) crutch, prop; (n, v) rod, stick stain: (n, v) spot, blemish, tarnish, blot, dye, smear, disgrace, mark, soil, dirt, defile. ANTONYMS: (v) enhance, dignify, clean stairs: (n) stair, ladder, staircase, stairway, flight of steps, flight, steps, flight of stairs, escalator, companionway, backstairs 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 standards: (n) norm, moral code, morality, morals, normalization, principles, religion, normalisation stands: (n) bleachers, stood, grandstand, standing, stop, covered stand, standpoint, stall, sales booth, reviewing stand, rack staple: (n, v) nail, pin, tack; (n) raw material, material, stuff; (adj, n) basic; (adj) fundamental, central, main; (v) hook. ANTONYMS: (v) undo; (adj) minor 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 staring: (adj) conspicuous, garish, agaze, vivid, noisy, showy, fixed, opened, glassy; (adv) staringly stars: (n) heavenly bodies, fate starve: (v) fast, crave, lust, hunger, thirst, perish, be hungry, deprive, benumb; (adj, v) pinch; (adj) gripe. ANTONYMS: (v) feed, eat state: (n) nation, position, kingdom, status, country; (n, v) say, show, place; (adj) national; (v) express, expound. ANTONYMS: (adj) 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 staying: (n) stays, arrest; (adj) continual, old, left steep: (adj, v) immerse, soak; (v) douse, dip, imbue, saturate; (adj, adv) excessive; (adj, n) abrupt; (adj) sheer, outrageous, exorbitant. ANTONYMS: (adj) gradual, undulating, inexpensive, flat,
William Shakespeare lenient, reasonable, cheap; (v) dip step: (n) stage, degree, rank, level, gait, gradation, footprint; (n, v) walk, measure, stride; (v) tread steps: (n) step, stairs, staircase, stairway, flight, stepladder, scale, backstairs, companionway, escalator, stair 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 stirring: (adj) lively, exciting, alive, rousing, spirited, touching, thrilling, active; (n) agitation; (v) eventful, brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) depressing, boring, inactive, dull, conciliatory, asleep, uninspiring, unimpressive; (n) suppression stole: (n) wrap, stolen, scarf, stolon, stealing, robe, alb, tunicle, surplice, alba, cassock stolen: (adj) stealed, stole, stealing, steal, steals, furtive, stealthy, secret, taken, misbegotten, sly 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 stops: (n) Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, boodle, halts, stop, stoppages, stopped, stopping, card game, moolah 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 strangle: (v) smother, stifle, asphyxiate, scrag, tighten, repress, constrict, pinch, strangulate; (adj, v) throttle; (n) strangling strangling: (n) strangle, throttling, strangulation, asphyxiation, execution street: (n) road, avenue, way, highway, route, lane, neighborhood, path, track, boulevard, Main Street streets: (n) 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 strewing: (n) scatter, spreading, spread, sprinkling, sprinkle, dispersion strict: (adj) severe, stern, rigid, correct, austere, rigorous, harsh, scrupulous; (adj, v) exact, accurate, precise. ANTONYMS: (adj) lenient, lax, free, negligent, imprecise, flexible, relaxed, loose, gentle, inaccurate, liberal strike: (n, v) hit, beat, bang, knock, assault, slap, clap, rap, smash; (v) impress, move. ANTONYMS: (n) defense; (v) extinguish, defend 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 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 stubborn: (adj) contrary, hard, intractable, perverse, rigid, determined, persistent, refractory, tenacious, obdurate, inveterate. ANTONYMS: (adj) compliant, irresolute, flexible, amenable, docile,
185 easygoing, malleable, agreeable, accommodating, cooperative, feeble stuck: (adj) stranded, jammed, delayed, fast; (adj, adv) aground; (n) stuck ware, thrust, sticking; (v) sticked, fasten, attach. ANTONYMS: (adj) unstuck, loose student: (n) scholar, learner, disciple, pupil, apprentice, schoolboy, collegian, novice, pundit, savant, trainee. ANTONYM: (n) expert studied: (adj) deliberate, calculated, conscious, premeditated, affected, elaborate, learned, intended, designed, willful; (v) advised. ANTONYMS: (adj) spontaneous, unstudied, casual study: (n, v) examine, review, survey, research; (v) learn, check, contemplate, ponder, inquire; (n) consideration, learning. ANTONYMS: (n) neglect; (v) skim stuff: (v) fill, jam, pack, ram, squeeze, pad; (n) material, cloth, matter, gear; (n, v) force. ANTONYMS: (v) starve, unpack, empty stumble: (adj, n, v) slip; (n, v) lurch, fall, err, stagger; (adj, v) blunder, flounder, fumble; (n) misstep; (v) hit, falter style: (n, v) name, call, entitle, cut; (adj, n) manner, sort, kind; (n) form, pattern, method, mode. ANTONYMS: (n) clumsiness, tastelessness, coarseness, crudeness subdue: (adj, n, v) conquer; (v) overpower, crush, defeat, quell, quash, suppress, restrain; (n, v) reduce; (adj, v) repress; (adv, v) control. ANTONYMS: (v) incite, enliven, resist, submit subject: (n) matter, citizen, motif, question, issue, affair, point, national; (adj, v) exposed; (adj, n) dependent, inferior. ANTONYMS: (n) foreigner, resolution; (adj) impervious subscribe: (v) confirm, sign, contribute, ratify, subscribe to, underwrite, agree, buy, donate, endorse, accept sudden: (adj) precipitous, quick, abrupt, hasty, rash, unexpected, steep, unforeseen, drastic, immediate, swift. ANTONYMS: (adj) considered, slow, gentle, leisurely, protracted, sensible, smooth suddenly: (adj, adv) quickly, rapidly, immediately, presto; (adv) hastily, short, all at once, sudden, sharply, unexpectedly, instantly.
186 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 sugar: (n) darling, saccharide, carbohydrate, love, beloved, jaggary; (adj, n) dear; (v) saccharify, sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate suit: (adj, v) fit, please; (adj, n, v) correspond; (n) lawsuit, plea, action, case; (v) adapt, accommodate, become; (n, v) answer. ANTONYM: (v) clash suitor: (n) plaintiff, suer, admirer, beau, candidate, complainant, gallant, boyfriend, applicant, petitioner; (n, v) wooer summer: (n) summertime, joist, rafter, beam, scaffold, season, skeleton, corner stone, lintel, transom, girder. ANTONYM: (n) winter summon: (v) assemble, convene, demand, ask, invoke, evoke, invite, muster, page, rally, convoke. ANTONYM: (v) disband 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 superscript: (n) grapheme, superordinate, master, graphic symbol, lake superior. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) subscript; (adj) adscript supervise: (v) manage, superintend, run, oversee, monitor, direct, check, control, conduct, handle, inspect supper: (n) meal, tea, lunch, repast, reception, mealtime, siesta, social affair; (v) dejeuner, bever, whet 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;
Love's Labour's Lost (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, guarantee, earnest, guaranty, guarantor, certainty, assurance, sponsor, bail surmounted: (adj) beaten surrender: (v) concede, abandon, give up, capitulate, submit, deliver; (adj, n) resignation; (n, v) resign, render, release; (n) capitulation. ANTONYMS: (v) conquer, appropriate, persevere, subdue, enforce; (n, v) fight, win; (n) capture, confrontation, conquest, victory suspicious: (adj) questionable, distrustful, shady, queer, doubtful, dubious, incredulous, fishy, funny, jealous, mistrustful. ANTONYMS: (adj) gullible, trustworthy, aggressive, aboveboard, certain, unsuspecting, unquestionable, believable, straight, palpable, innocent swain: (n) boyfriend, fellow, love, rustic, flame, hind, man; (adj, n) lover, sweetheart, admirer; (adj) suitor swallowed: (adj) engulfed, gulped, inundated, overcome, overwhelmed, flooded, overpowered, enclosed swear: (v) declare, assure, assert, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise, avow, depone, depose, aver. ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute, deny, compliment 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 sweets: (n) confectionery, julep, grocery, confiture, instantaneous sweet swell: (n, v) rise, heave, increase, wave, billow; (v) enlarge, expand, puff, grow, bloat; (adj, n) dandy. ANTONYMS: (v) deflate, desiccate,
shrink, compress, concentrate, wane; (n, v) decline; (adj) bad, horrible, shabby, awful swift: (adj, adv, v) fast; (adj) quick, fleet, speedy, alert, nimble, hasty, prompt, sudden, hurried; (adj, v) rapid. ANTONYMS: (adj) considered, leisurely, sluggish, gradual, delayed, clumsy swine: (n) hog, boar, beast, sow, Eohyus, babiroussa, babirussa, barrow, brute, razorback, grunter 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 table: (n) board, schedule, chart, stand, list, desk, plateau, platen; (v) defer, shelve, postpone. ANTONYMS: (v) decide, vote, withdraw tabor: (n) drum, tympan, TABOURINE, taborin, tabret, taborine, membranophone taffeta: (n) taffety, textile, material, cloth, fabric 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 tale: (n) account, narrative, narration, recital, fib, fable, report, fiction, lie, relation, yarn. ANTONYM: (n) fact talent: (n) genius, ability, aptitude, capacity, skill, knack, flair, capability; (n, v) endowment, faculty; (adj, n) cleverness. ANTONYMS: (n) incapacity, lack, stupidity, incompetence, ineptness, drawback talk: (n, v) discourse, gossip, converse, lecture, chatter, chat, address; (v) articulate, speak, prattle; (n) language. ANTONYMS: (v) refuse; (n) silence tapster: (n) barman, barkeeper, tapper, barkeep, skinker, mixologist, phone tapper, publican task: (n) job, assignment, duty, labor, commission, charge, enterprise, project, stint, occupation; (n, v) exercise tasks: (n) farm duties, household
William Shakespeare tasks, odd Jobs, errands taste: (n, v) relish, sample, smack, touch; (n) flavor, liking, penchant, morsel, bit, drop, fondness. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, tastelessness, disinclination, hate, lot, coarseness, uncouthness; (v) abstain, refrain taught: (adj) instructed, educated, schooled, instruct, well-bred, scholarly, provided; (v) firm, fast, close, taut tawny: (n) tan, buff; (adj, n) brown, auburn; (adj) luteous, golden, sallow, russet, chestnut, creamy, moderately black teach: (v) enlighten, educate, instruct, coach, indoctrinate, drill, learn, lecture, school; (adj, v) guide, show teacher: (n) instructor, master, coach, preceptor, educator, mentor, tutor, missionary, guide, trainer, pedagogue. ANTONYM: (n) pupil tear: (n, v) rip, break, split, rupture, crack, run, slit; (v) pull, rend, lacerate; (adj, v) rush. ANTONYMS: (v) wait, mend, idle, fix, amble, dawdle tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily function, bodily process, body process, lacerations 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 telling: (adj, v) significant; (adj) revealing, emphatic, impressive, effectual, effective, pregnant, cogent; (n) relation, recounting, notice. ANTONYMS: (adj) secretive, unimportant, insignificant, hidden tempt: (adj, v) attract, allure; (v) entice, decoy, charm, inveigle, invite, coax, seduce, fascinate, attempt. ANTONYMS: (v) discourage, appall, repel 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 term: (n, v) name, call, title, style, designate; (n) period, expression, boundary, spell, time, limit terms: (n) conditions, provision, stipulation, terminology, price, proposition, lemma, cost, footing, damage, specifications terra: (n) mother Earth, terra firma testimony: (n, v) attestation, witness; (n) declaration, proof, evidence, testimonial, confirmation, statement, affidavit, affirmation, profession text: (n) copy, matter, theme, script, subject, words, document, lyric, textbook, manuscript, book 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) 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 thereby: (adv) whereby, hereby therefore: (adv) thence, so, hence, accordingly, as a result, thus, for that reason; (conj) since, because, then, ergo thereof: (adv) thence, therefrom, therefore, hence; (adj) casual, intelligence, observer, occasional, prearranged, premeditated, fortuitous thereon: (adv) on that, thereupon, afterward, at once, early,
187 immediately, therefore thereto: (adv) thereunto, moreover; (adj) likeness, accurate, coincidence, correct, correctness, deportment, detail, exact, expected thereupon: (adv) hereupon, next, then, immediately, therefore, therewith, in the sequel, close upon, upon which, whereupon, accordingly therewithal: (adv) therewith thicket: (n) brake, coppice, brush, grove, spinney, bush, brushwood, cluster, underbrush, undergrowth, underwood thief: (n) burglar, bandit, pirate, plunderer, filcher, stealer, pickpocket, pilferer, crook, brigand, despoiler thin: (adj) tenuous, flimsy, light, fine, emaciated; (adj, v) lean, gaunt, slight, sheer, meager, dilute. ANTONYMS: (adj) fat, concentrated, chubby, plump, wide, heavy, broad, strong, resonant, solid; (v) thicken 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 third: (n) second, tierce, three, third part, terzetto, hot corner, third base; (adv) thirdly; (adj) triple, thrid, tertial thirsty: (adj) eager, arid, parched, avid, keen, athirst, greedy, absorbent, ambitious; (v) craving, hungry. ANTONYMS: (adj) quenched, satisfied, disinterested, wet thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that point, in that respect, at that place, in that location; (adj) further, ulterior, remoter, succeeding, more distant thorough: (adj) complete, full, profound, exhaustive, absolute, good, comprehensive, detailed, extensive, sweeping, careful. ANTONYMS: (adj) partial, sketchy, careless, slack, imperfect, sloppy, rushed, restricted, inadequate, halfhearted, dense thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one thousand, gramme, gram, gm, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage though: (adj, conj) however; (conj) still, notwithstanding, nevertheless,
188 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 thread: (n) screw thread, yarn, rope, wire, twine, ligature; (adj, n, v) line, file; (n, v) string together; (adj, v) range; (v) penetrate threshold: (n) brink, beginning, outset, entrance, entry, doorsill, doorstep, doorway, edge, vestibule, border. ANTONYM: (n) end 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 throat: (n) orifice, pharynx, gorge, mouth, muzzle, nozzle, sucker, shaft, quarl, throat depth, nostril throw: (n, v) cast, pitch, push; (v) shed, hurl, heave, chuck, flip, pass, hurtle; (n) shot. ANTONYMS: (v) explain, help, receive, clarify, encourage thrust: (n, v) poke, stab, jab, drive, shove, force, punch, boost, cast, dig; (v) ram. ANTONYM: (n) inertia thumb: (v) feel, flip, handle, leaf, touch, flick, hitch, riff; (n) pollex, bull nose, forefinger thus: (adv) then, so, consequently, hence, thence, accordingly, as a result, ergo, thusly, for that reason, as till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to tilting: (adj) slanting, leaning, sloping, oblique, lopsided, fighting; (n) single wheel tilting, shearing, overturning times: (n) present time, modern times, contemporary world, multiplication, time, period, era,
Love's Labour's Lost many years duration, epoch, present, arithmetic operation timon: (n) Diogenes, egotist, man hater, misanthrope, misanthropist tire: (n, v) bore, jade; (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, harass, fag, weary, wear, pall, prostrate; (n) tyre. ANTONYMS: (v) interest, invigorate, energize tired: (adj, v) fatigued, weary, exhausted, stale; (adj) threadbare, commonplace, trite, banal, haggard, stock, jaded. ANTONYMS: (adj) invigorated, alert, refreshed, energetic, original, strong, awake, energized, lively, rested, relaxed 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 toil: (n, v) labor, work, drudge, sweat, drudgery, grind, labour, travail; (v) plod; (n) effort, exertion. ANTONYMS: (n) pastime, entertainment, fun, relaxation; (v) laze, neglect tokens: (n) decorations, discriminating marks, indications, indicia, insignia, signs, appearances, badges told: (v) related, narrated; (adj) numbered, oral, spoken, legendary, verbal, manifest tolling: (n) kneel, passing bell, clangor, pealing tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, dialect, clapper, glossa, natural language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) flowing took: (adj) taken; (v) receive too-too: (adj) ultra, unreasonable, mincing, immoderate, exaggerated, inordinate, utmost; (adv) overly torn: (adj, prep) lacerated, rent, mangled; (adj) ripped, tattered, blasted, lacerate, shabby, goddamned, infernal, made uninhabitable. ANTONYMS: (adj) pristine, sure, resolute, healed, decided, mended 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 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 touching: (adj, v) affecting; (adj) poignant, pitiful, pathetic, adjacent, adjoining, emotional; (n) touch, contact; (prep) concerning, about. ANTONYMS: (adj) unaffecting, everyday, heartwarming, unmoving, heartbreaking, emotionless, unemotional, impassive tough: (adj) difficult, strong, arduous, rugged, severe, stout, laborious, sturdy; (adj, v) tenacious; (n) bully, rowdy. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, easy, flimsy, soft, lightweight, simple, feeble, gentle, kind, fragile, facile town: (adj) municipal, urban; (n) borough, township, village, burgh, burg, municipality, townspeople, metropolis; (adj, n) community. ANTONYMS: (adj) country, private train: (v) aim, exercise, direct, educate, tame, prepare, school; (n, v) coach, trail, tail; (n) chain. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, forget; (n) head traitor: (n) betrayer, conspirator, Judas, renegade, rat, quisling, deserter, cheat, collaborationist; (adj) insurgent, mutineer. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalist, patriot transformed: (adj) changed, malformed, rehabilitated, bewitched, misshapen, distorted, reformed transgressing: (n) violation translation: (n) displacement, transformation, version, interpretation, rendition, paraphrase, metamorphosis, conversion, shift, mistranslation; (v) transmission transparent: (adj) diaphanous, obvious, plain, limpid, sheer, filmy, gauzy, pellucid; (adj, n) lucid, luminous, bright. ANTONYMS: (adj) solid, unclear, cloudy, thick, vague, subtle, questionable, hidden, robust, heavy, furtive 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
William Shakespeare traveller: (n) passenger, tourist, wanderer, voyager, wayfarer, mover, itinerant, courier, entrant, swimmer, outlander travelling: (n) travel, peregrination, riding, commuting, aviation, driving, commutation, seafaring, junketing, circumnavigation, journey tread: (n, v) pace, walk, rate, march, tramp; (n) gait, stride, footstep, footfall, track; (v) trample treason: (n) treachery, perfidy, high treason, sabotage, lese majesty, traitorousness, subversiveness, duplicity; (adj, n) disloyalty, sedition, prodition. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity treasure: (n) gem, fortune, riches, funds; (n, v) hoard, prize, store; (v) cherish, appreciate; (adj, n) jewel, precious stone. ANTONYMS: (v) dislike, disparage, scorn, neglect; (n) dud, poverty tree: (n) gallows, gibbet, stem, pedigree, kurchee, quandong, poon, platan, lemonwood, lancewood, lacebark trees: (n) foliage trembles: (n) animal disease, nervousness trencher: (n) dish, platter, chopping board, porringer, potager, ditch digger, saucer, calabash, crucible 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 trip: (n, v) journey, excursion, tour, expedition, travel, jaunt; (adj, n, v) slip, stumble, blunder; (n) flight; (adj, v) fall. ANTONYMS: (n) correction; (v) correct triumph: (v) exult, prevail, crow, rejoice, succeed; (n, v) glory, win, joy; (n) victory, conquest, exultation. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, sorrow, unhappiness, dud, sadness,
loss, flop; (v) fail, lose, forfeit triumphing: (n) boast, gloriation; (v) triumphal, celebrating victory, exultant troth: (n) faith, engagement, betrothal, plight, vow, loyalty, espousal, fidelity, truth, verity, veracity trow: (adj) opine, weet, be of opinion, conceive; (v) believe, possess troy: (n) city, Ilion, ilium, metropolis, system of weights, troy weight truant: (n) deserter, hooky player, nonattender, fugitive, wrongdoer, idler, absentee, absenter, offender; (v) shirk; (adj) AWOL 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 trumpet: (n) horn, cornet, bugle, clarion, trump, brass, trombone; (v) proclaim, promulgate, show off, blare 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 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 tumble: (n, v) drop, jumble, stumble, plunge, slip, spill, downfall; (v) crumble, collapse, topple, confuse tune: (n) song, strain, air, harmony, note, concord; (v) adjust, regulate, string, tune up; (n, v) chant. ANTONYMS: (n) silence; (v) untune turf: (n) sward, greensward, ground, grass, field, peat, lawn, green, divot, Corso, race course turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil,
189 round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout; (v) revolve. ANTONYMS: (n) failure, Miss, stagnation; (v) unbend turning: (n) turn, revolution, bend, rotation, deviation, gyration, conversion, veering; (adj) rotating, revolving, rotary tutored: (adj) educated, schooled, taught twain: (n) pair, brace, dyad, deuce, twosome, duo, straddle, bitstock, coupling, braces, yoke twelve: (adj, n) dozen, XII; (n) boxcars, large integer twelvemonth: (n) calendar year, civil year, financial year, common year, amount of time, time period, period of time, bissextile year, class, yr, period twenty: (adj) vigesimal; (n) large integer, twenty dollar bill twice: (adv) doubly, bis, two times, in two ways, once more; (adj) twenty twill: (adj, v) curl, wrinkle; (adj) corded, crisp; (v) braid, plexus, felt, plat, plait, mesh; (n) cloth umbra: (adj, n) shadow, shade; (adj) umbratile; (n) soul, penumbra, spirit umpire: (n, v) judge; (n) arbitrator, arbiter, mediator, ump, justice, moderator, intermediary; (v) arbitrate, adjudicate, mediate unbefitting: (adj) inappropriate, inopportune, unmeet, unsuitable, timeless, mal a propos, intrusive, inauspicious, infelicitous; (adj, v) unfit; (prep) beneath. ANTONYM: (adj) befitting unbosom: (v) relieve, unveil, save, salve, allay, assuage, remedy, unbreast, palliate, let off, free unconfirmed: (v) unascertained; (adj) unofficial, baseless, restricted, void, speculative, unproven, tentative, restrictive, questionable, doubtful. ANTONYMS: (adj) confirmed, conclusive, definite, unrestricted 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 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 understanding: (n, v) intellect, reason, intelligence, appreciation,
190 sense, apprehension, discernment, judgment; (n) comprehension, sympathy, deal. ANTONYMS: (n) bewilderment, disbelief, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, mistake, indifference, incomprehension, foolishness, emotion; (adj) intolerant, unfeeling 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 undeserving: (adj) disgraceful, worthless, unworthy of, degrading, immeritous, indign, mean, not worthy, unbecoming, undeserving of. ANTONYM: (adj) deserving 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 undressed: (adj) naked, unclad, unclothed, bare, raw, stripped, unattired, unappareled, crude, rough, disrobed. ANTONYMS: (adj) covered, decent uneducated: (adj) illiterate, unschooled, uninstructed, rude, unlearned, uninformed, uncultivated, untaught, unread, uncivilized, unenlightened. ANTONYMS: (adj) trained, literate, learned, intelligent, informed 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 universal: (adj) general, global, ecumenical, international, common, worldwide, public, ubiquitous, comprehensive, widespread, oecumenical. ANTONYMS: (adj) local, specific, idiosyncratic, confined, isolated, narrow, rare unlearned: (adj) ignorant, unenlightened, illiterate, uninformed, unlettered, unread, uninstructed, unconditioned,
Love's Labour's Lost 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 unlettered: (adj) uneducated, ignorant, unlearned, analphabetic, unenlightened, uninformed, unread, nescient, uninstructed, uncultivated, untaught unlike: (adj) dissimilar, different, diverse, unequal, disparate, distinct, separate, unalike, opposite, heterogeneous, not similar. ANTONYMS: (adj) like, alike, same unlock: (v) open, unfasten, disclose, unbar, reveal, free, release, disengage, unbolt, unclose, withdraw. ANTONYMS: (v) fasten, lock, close unmask: (v) uncloak, expose, reveal, debunk, uncover, unfold, unkennel, detect, disclose, unseal, bare. ANTONYMS: (v) mask, conceal unpolished: (adj) uncouth, awkward, coarse, rustic, rude, uncivilized, unfinished, crude, inelegant, unrefined, unboiled. ANTONYM: (adj) refined unseen: (adj, v) unknown; (adj) invisible, concealed, hidden, unobserved, secret, veiled, latent; (v) unheeded, unperceived; (n) spiritual world. ANTONYMS: (adj) seen, visible, open, famous, noticeable unsullied: (adj) unstained, unblemished, unspotted, immaculate, pure, innocent, spotless, chaste, stainless, guiltless, unsoiled. ANTONYMS: (adj) blemished, tainted, corrupt, old until: (prep, v) to; (conj, prep) unto; (adj) up to; (adv) so far, yet, before, meanwhile; (prep) pending, while, during, awaiting unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) towards, before untrained: (adj) unskilled, uneducated, inexperienced, green, raw, inexpert, new, unseasoned, unhabituated, untaught; (v) undisciplined. ANTONYMS: (adj) trained, expert, professional, prepared, accomplished, experienced, mature, educated, competent unvisited: (adj) unwelcome, off the beaten path, uninvited uphold: (n, v) support; (v) preserve, defend, maintain, continue, endorse,
confirm, countenance, bolster, encourage, back. ANTONYMS: (v) infringe, discontinue, weaken, contradict, endanger, abandon, oppose, quit, undermine, end upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up, onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at upright: (adj) perpendicular, erect, fair, good, righteous, just, virtuous, true, honorable, plumb; (adj, n) vertical. ANTONYMS: (adj) prone, disreputable, degenerate, hanging, unwholesome, dishonest, dishonorable, lying, horizontal, falling; (adv) horizontally uprising: (n) insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, insurgency, revolution, outbreak, sedition, disturbance, ascent; (adj, n) rising. ANTONYMS: (n) peace; (adj) content upward: (adv) upwards, upwardly, aloft; (adj) overhead, rising, upper, increasing, open, vertical, mounting, upright. ANTONYMS: (adj) descending, downward; (adv) down usurping: (adj) encroaching utter: (v) say, state, speak, breathe, articulate, deliver, voice, pronounce; (adj, n, v) express, declare; (adj, v) tell. ANTONYMS: (adj) qualified, incomplete, uncertain, rather, slight; (v) conceal, hide, block 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 valour: (n) valor, valiancy, valiance, heroism, courage, bravery, valorousness, prowess, daring, pluck, spirit value: (adj, n, v) price; (n) cost, importance, consequence; (n, v) rate, appraise, measure; (v) appreciate, evaluate, esteem, assess. ANTONYMS: (n) disadvantage, futility, uselessness, insignificance, detriment, inefficiency, inferiority; (v) scorn, disregard, disrespect, hate valued: (adj) precious, appreciated, respected, dear, prized, priced,
William Shakespeare treasured, value, esteemed, loved, beloved vane: (adj) weathercock; (n) weather vane, fan blade, cairn, staff, fan, post, beacon, hand, pointer, impeller vapour: (n) vapor, evaporation, gas, vaporization, vaporisation, boiling, clouding, mist, fog, damp, smoke vara: (v) jornada, handbreadth, arpent, linear unit varied: (adj) mixed, various, diverse, assorted, different, sundry, diversified, heterogeneous, manifold, motley, many. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, homogeneous, uniform, same, unvaried, similar, like, conservative, unchanged, limited varnish: (n, v) gloss, coat, paint, veneer, palliate; (n) lacquer, cover; (adv, v) color; (v) gild, furbish, whitewash. ANTONYM: (n) middle vary: (v) alter, change, modify, diversify, diverge, alternate, deviate, modulate, depart, disagree; (adj, v) differ. ANTONYMS: (v) conform, remain, stay, agree, concur, leave, maintain, standardize, specialize vassal: (n) feudatory, liegeman, liege, serf, helot, dependent, subject, liege subject, follower, bondman, homager veal: (n) calf, venison, veau, animal protein, beef, calves' feet, chicken, ham, lamb, meat, mutton vein: (n) vena, strain, nervure, mine, temper, blood vessel, tone; (adj, n) mood, humor, strip, frame of mind velvet: (adj) velvety, down; (n) profit, gain, velour, velours, revenue, prosperity, receipts, satin, wealth ventricle: (n) maw, chamber, venter, stomach, paunch, heart ventricle, heart, gizzard, crop, cavum, bodily cavity venue: (n) locale, site, place, locus, location, scene, station, seat, whereabouts, situation, surroundings venus: (adj) the Graces; (n) Urania, narcissus, terrestrial planet, Adonis, peri, solar system, Hyperion, houri, Hebe, genus Venus verbosity: (n) prolixity, wordiness, verboseness, circumlocution, pleonasm, prolixness, rhetoric, loquacity, style, expressive style, repetitiousness. ANTONYM: (n) terseness verse: (n) rhyme, poem, stanza, poesy, strain, measure, song, paragraph, clause, couplet, vertex
vessel: (n) ship, pot, jar, duct, vas, boat, craft, container, bowl, barrel, canal vice: (adj, n) imperfection, defect, blemish, failing, frailty; (n) corruption, sin, evil, immorality, iniquity, depravity. ANTONYMS: (n) asset, strength, propriety, virtue, righteousness, goodness, good, honesty; (adj) chief vicegerent: (n) lieutenant, surrogate, representative, delegate victory: (n) conquest, success, mastery, superiority, subjugation, win, laugher, achievement, checkmate, expugnation, fall. ANTONYMS: (n) defeat, loss, beating, failure, overthrow, forfeit video: (n) picture, TV, telecasting, film, movie, videotape, image, telly, component; (n, v) tape; (v) record vigour: (n) force, strength, vigor, energy, power, potency, vim, vitality, athleticism, verve, intensity 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 vilely: (adv) dirtily, wickedly, meanly, foully, disgustingly, grossly, sordidly, worthlessly, infamously, nauseatingly, revoltingly villain: (n) rascal, scoundrel, rogue, knave, miscreant, criminal, bandit, crook, reprobate, varlet, rapscallion. ANTONYMS: (n) heroine, hero villainy: (n) evil, infamy, crime, villany, misdeed, baseness, enormity, atrocity, evildoing, evilness, injustice 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 virtuous: (adj) upright, pure,
191 righteous, good, moral, just, honorable, honest, respectable, decent, pious. ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sinful, corrupt, impure, unethical, decadent, degenerate, irreverent visit: (v) frequent, attend, call, view, gossip, jaw, inspect, haunt; (n, v) tour, chat; (n) sojourn visitation: (v) visit, examination; (n) tribulation, calamity, annoyance, misfortune, irritation, infliction, inspection, test, ordeal visor: (n) eyeshade, peak, vizor, disguise, bill, vizard, shade, screen, armor plating, armor plate, head loupe voice: (n) speech, vox; (v) enunciate, pronounce, speak, say, vocalize, express, utter, articulate; (n, v) sound. ANTONYMS: (v) devoice, block voluble: (adj) loquacious, glib, talkative, garrulous, eloquent, flowing, chatty, conversational, articulate, flippant, wordy. ANTONYMS: (adj) taciturn, uncommunicative, gentle, reticent votary: (n) disciple, devotee, follower, lover, amateur, bacchant, bacchante, supporter, partisan, votarist, solicitant vouchsafe: (v) grant, condescend, allow, confer, stoop, give, please, bestow; (n, v) accord; (adv) have the goodness, will you vowed: (v) promised, named, benempt vulgar: (adj) rude, coarse, plebeian, nasty, common, foul, indecent, gross, unrefined; (adj, n) low, vile. ANTONYMS: (adj) refined, sophisticated, tasteful, polite, aesthetic, muted, fashionable, decent, artistic, pleasant, clean wail: (n, v) howl, cry, lament, moan, scream, bellow, whine; (v) ululate, weep, whimper, mewl. ANTONYMS: (v) whimper, laugh waist: (n) waistline, shank, middle, belly, isthmus, hourglass, undersurface; (adj) stricture, middle constriction, neck, wasp wait: (n, v) pause, hold, stop; (v) expect, anticipate, stay, await, lurk, ambush, remain; (adj, v) tarry. ANTONYMS: (n) act, continuation, doing; (v) interrupt, leave, begin, depart, continue; (intj) hurry walk: (adj, n, v) step; (n, v) gait, ramble, march, pace, hike, course, saunter, stroll, roam; (n) path.
192 ANTONYMS: (v) run, ride, stride wall: (n, v) fence, bar; (n) barrier, rampart, bulwark, cliff, earthwork, fortification, screen, rail, fencing 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 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 wantonness: (n) lust, unrestraint, licentiousness, sexual immorality, immorality, lasciviousness, unconstraint, voluptuousness, wickedness, lasciviency, sybaritism. ANTONYM: (n) restraint wants: (n) need, necessities ward: (n) charge, protection, custody, care, quarter, neighborhood, district, defense, keep; (adj, v) shelter; (v) protect warrant: (n, v) permit, vouch, license, assure, sanction, empower; (n) authority, authorization, security; (v) justify, ensure. ANTONYMS: (n) break; (v) debar watch: (n, v) view, sentinel, clock, wake, regard, care; (v) observe, look, see; (n) sentry; (adj, n) surveillance. ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, overlook, harm, hurt, glance water: (n) urine, sea, lake, ocean, moisture, juice, river; (n, v) wet; (v) moisten, soak, dampen. ANTONYMS: (v) dehydrate, dry watery: (adj) moist, diluted, wet, dilute, washy, thin, damp, fluid, aqueous, weak, insipid. ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, solid, dry, soft, dehydrated, lively, dark, clear, thick, hard wave: (v) flap, undulate, swing, flourish; (n, v) gesture, billow, flutter, swell, motion, curl; (n) surge ways: (n) behavior, process, shipway, slipway, means, childbearing, conduct, construction, demeanor, direction, traveling wayward: (adj) contrary, disobedient, obstinate, stubborn, intractable, unruly, capricious; (adj, n) freakish, crotchety, wanton, fanciful. ANTONYMS: (adj) controllable,
Love's Labour's Lost good, manageable, biddable 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 wean: (v) alienate, disaffect, extricate, spane, raise, loose, free, disentangle, detach, deprive; (n) weanling 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 weary: (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust, tire out; (adj) tired, exhausted, fatigued, aweary, beat, languid; (n, v) jade, bore. ANTONYMS: (adj) energetic, fresh, lively, untiring, hopeful, refreshed; (v) refresh, enliven, energize, activate, rally weather: (v) survive, withstand, resist, brave, stand, brave out, wear; (n) climate, atmospheric condition, downfall, inclemency. ANTONYMS: (v) succumb, reject weathercock: (n) vane, weather vane, hand, flagstaff, cairn, pointer, post, staff; (adj) chameleon, moon, Proteus wedded: (adj, v) marital, connubial, matrimonial, conjugal, wed; (adj) nuptial, bridal. ANTONYMS: (adj) unmarried, unattached weed: (n) grass, marijuana, pot, plant, fireweed, smoke, ganja; (v) eliminate, hoe, plow; (adj) pick weeds: (n) viduity, mourning band, garment, cypress, widowhood, dress; (adj) willow week: (n) period, minute, second, hour, rag, day, calendar week, year, sevennight, Wyke, workweek weigh: (v) press, study, measure, matter, consider, count, deliberate, contemplate, assess; (n, v) balance, poise. ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, neglect 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 welkin: (n) sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sky, vault of heaven, celestial sphere, heaven, orbit, sphere of influence, surface wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab west: (n) due west, w, the occident, watt, geographic region, tungsten, New world; (adv) westwards; (v) to the west, south, north east 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 while: (adv, conj) whereas, as, although; (n) time, spell, period, moment, interval; (adv) when; (conj) though; (prep) during whining: (adj) whimpering, whiny, sniveling pitiful, Snively, tearful, whiney, singing, peevish; (v) fretful, lamenting; (n) sniveling whip: (n, v) lash, strap, goad; (v) flog, flagellate, beat, punish, thrash, trounce, stir, wallop. 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) 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,
William Shakespeare intact, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) incomplete, broken, partial, imperfect, unhealthy, deficient, destroyed, fractional, impaired, half, sick wholesome: (adj) healthy, beneficial, salubrious, healthful, salutary, sound, good, nutritious, nourishing, pure, hale. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwholesome, unhealthy, impure, indecent, sordid, warped, tainted, decadent, deadly, unsavory wholly: (adj, adv) totally, entirely, altogether, quite, exclusively, perfectly, solely; (adv, pref) all; (adv) fully, utterly, absolutely. ANTONYMS: (adv) partially, inclusively, hardly, incompletely, slightly whoreson: (n) illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, mother fucker, dickhead, anus, arse, arsehole, son of a bitch, sob, shit wide: (adj) broad, spacious, roomy, extensive, comprehensive, large, vast, ample, capacious, open, sweeping. ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, restricted, skinny, straight, cramped, minute wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, married woman, spouse, consort, helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, viscountess wight: (n) human, soul, person, fellow, brute, someone, somebody, puppet, Isle of Wight, gaffer, elf wild: (adj, n, v) waste, desert; (adj, v) fierce, violent, reckless, raging; (adj) boisterous, untamed, stormy, rude, desolate. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, orderly, manageable, sane, domestic, cultivated, tame, restrained, mild, sensible, passive willing: (adj, adv) disposed; (adj) spontaneous, voluntary, ready, amenable, inclined, prepared, enthusiastic, unforced, obliging; (adj, v) consenting. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwilling, reluctant, compulsory, disagreeable, unprepared, forced, unenthusiastic, unhelpful willingly: (adv) readily, voluntarily, cheerfully, spontaneously, helpfully, disposedly, actively, openly, obligingly, eagerly; (adj, adv) freely. ANTONYMS: (adv) grudgingly, reluctantly, uncooperatively, unenthusiastically 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 wink: (n, v) twinkle, blink, flash; (n) instant, twinkling, trice; (v) sparkle, nictitate, flicker, nictate, leer winter: (n) wintertime, season, time of year, hiems, frost, chill; (adj) wintery, wintry; (v) spend. ANTONYM: (n) heat wipe: (n, v) rub; (v) mop, clean, towel, brush, scour, scrub, clear, dry, wash; (adj) sponge. ANTONYM: (v) dirty wisdom: (n) judiciousness, knowledge, sapience, sagacity, sense, prudence, discernment, insight, learning, depth, reasonableness. ANTONYMS: (n) 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 withal: (adv) nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, even so, all the same, nonetheless, with; (adj) likewise; (n) sufficiency, adequacy, enough withdraw: (v) retire, remove, retract, retreat, abandon, pull out, disengage, draw, cancel, leave, recede. ANTONYMS: (v) propose, give, advance, extend, offer, deposit, remain, engage, allow, permit, stay wither: (v) shrink, wilt, contract, shrivel, languish, droop, dry, waste, wane, atrophy, decay. ANTONYMS: (v) swell, strengthen, grow, blossom, flourish 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
193 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 wits: (n) intellect, mind, wit, brains, common sense, presence, percipience, observation, mother wit, right mind, judgment witty: (adj, v) smart, clever, sharp, brilliant; (adj) amusing, funny, facetious, jocular, intelligent, quick, comic. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, unamusing, unfunny, thick wives: (n) woman woeful: (adj) sad, lamentable, sorrowful, pitiful, wretched, pitiable, doleful, woebegone, deplorable, piteous, regrettable. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, joyful, glad, praiseworthy, laudable woman: (n) girl, female, lady, dame, madam, mistress, matron, maid, gentlewoman, Donna, petticoat. ANTONYMS: (n) man, gentleman womb: (n) belly, nursery, nest, intestines, guts, vitals, bowels, chitterings, cradle, entrails, viscera 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 wont: (adj, n) use, custom, usage; (n) practice, tradition, cleanliness, assuetude, assuefaction, convention, rut; (v) practise wood: (n) timber, tree, grove, lumber, jungle, coppice, walnut, linden, larch, guaiac; (adj, n) woods woodcocks: (n) snipes, Scolopacidae, tattlers, dowitchers, curlews, godwits 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,
194 text, fracas, argument; (n, v) altercation, squabble, tiff, dispute, quarrel working: (adj) practical, active, busy, in action, in force; (n) operation, play, agency, movement; (adj, n) running, functioning. ANTONYMS: (adj) passive, unemployed, inoperative, inactive, idle, ineffective world: (n) cosmos, nature, creation, earth, public, sphere, society, realm, globe, macrocosm; (adj) global wormwood: (n) absinthe, mugwort, bitterness, old man, Mexican tea, common wormwood, absinth, gall 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 worship: (n) adoration, veneration, adulation, cult, homage; (n, v) reverence, respect, honor, revere, adore, glorify. ANTONYMS: (v) disrespect, dishonor, despise, deprecate, scorn; (n) disdain, disparagement, contempt, detestation worst: (v) whip, trounce, defeat, overcome, vanquish, pip, rack up; (adj, v) best, rout; (adj) floor, lick. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) best; (adj) highest, first, secondary wort: (n) malt, herb, beer wort worth: (adj, n) value, dignity; (n) cost, virtue, price, importance, excellence, quality, import, goodness, benefit. ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, disadvantage, hopelessness, detriment, disgrace, inferiority, 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,
Love's Labour's Lost despicable; (n) nobody wounding: (n) wound, injury; (adj) hurtful, spiteful, traumatic, grievous, offensive, stabbing, inflicting wounds, impertinent, harmful. ANTONYMS: (adj) harmless, complimentary, kind, polite, sympathetic wrangle: (adj, n, v) squabble; (n, v) quarrel, dispute, brawl, debate, bicker, contest, row, altercation, fight, argue. ANTONYMS: (v) agree; (n) peace wreathed: (adj) ringed, serpentine, coiled, circular, circinate, bent, annulate, tortile, torqued, surrounded, curled 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 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 writing: (n) script, print, composition, lettering, document, autograph, paper, record, inscription, authorship, handwriting written: (adj) registered, clerical, conscript, enrolled, literal, hard-andfast, on paper; (n) examination. ANTONYMS: (adj) verbal, unscripted, unwritten 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 yard: (n) court, courtyard, garden, backyard, barnyard, grounds, farmyard, quadrangle, close, enclosure, junkyard yell: (n, v) cry, roar, scream, howl, call, bellow, whoop, shriek, outcry; (v) bawl, holler yellow: (adv) cowardly; (adj) amber, xanthous, chickenhearted, fearful, chicken, craven, spineless; (n) coward, saffron, maize. ANTONYMS: (adj) bold, brave, confident yield: (n, v) produce, return, allow,
give; (v) surrender, concede, submit, give up, grant, cede; (n) output. ANTONYMS: (v) persevere, survive, stand, withstand, repel, reject, prevent, withhold, acquire, oppose, veto yielding: (adj, v) flexible, pliable, supple, tractable, pliant; (adj) compliant, submissive, soft, obedient, docile; (n) submission. ANTONYMS: (adj) hard, firm, inflexible, solid, rigid, obstinate, stiff, stubborn, unyielding, rebellious 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 zeal: (adj, n) eagerness; (n) fervor, enthusiasm, devotion, passion, vehemence, fire, fervency, heat, fervour, ardour. ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, lethargy, patience 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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