Inconspicuously, secretly,

extend, impart, introduce, advance,

finale, finish, ending, shutting,

ambiguously, covertly, furtively,

propose; (n) proposal, proposition.

postscript, conclusion

unclearly, invisibly, questionably,

ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold,

opera: (n) opera house, bouffe,

surprisingly

take

drama, or movie script, opera

occasion: (n, v) cause; (n) case, event,

offered: (adj) presented, accessible,

bouffe, operetta, theater, script,

juncture, episode, incident; (v) bring

existing, obtainable, available,

dramatic work, dramatic

about, create, beget, make, induce

ready, on hand, to be had,

composition, theatre

occasional: (adj) accidental, irregular,

unsolicited

opportunity: (n) chance, opening,

incidental, infrequent, episodic,

offering: (n, v) gift, grant; (n)

luck, occasion, crack, room, event,

intermittent, fortuitous,

oblation, contribution, donation,

time, circumstance, shot, alternative.

adventitious, contingent, rare, odd.

presentation, offer, present,

ANTONYMS: (n) past, disaster

ANTONYMS: (adj) frequent,

endowment, gratuity, bestowal

opposite: (adj, n) contrary,

recurrent, addicted, regular,

officer: (n) police officer,

contradictory, opponent; (adj)

common, continuous

administrator, constable,

adverse, different, opposing, hostile,

occasionally: (adv) now and then,

commander, military officer,

diametric, opposed; (adj, pron)

from time to time, accidentally,

bureaucrat, official, officeholder,

other; (adj, adv) counter.

every so often, now and again,

executive, agent, employee.

ANTONYMS: (adj) allied, alternate,

sometimes, irregularly,

ANTONYM: (n) underling

identical, like, same, parallel; (n)

uncommonly, casually, every now

official: (adj) formal, standard,

sameness, alikeness, confirmation

and then, fortuitously.

regular, functional; (n) minister,

opposition: (n) conflict, contrary,

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contrariety, opposite, hostility,

primordial, early; (n) archetype.

subservient, weak

enemy, opponent, antagonism,

ANTONYMS: (adj) hackneyed,

overcoat: (n) greatcoat, coat, cloak,

competition, contradiction; (n, prep)

derivative, copied, banal, corny,

robe, topcoat, surcoat, coating,

antithesis. ANTONYMS: (n) ally,

resulting; (n) counterfeit, imitation,

overcoating, capote, chesterfield,

support, acceptance, approval,

replica, fake, copy

gown

backing, encouragement,

originality: (n) novelty, imagination,

overcome: (v) crush, subdue, beat,

inclination, goodwill, ease,

ingenuity, initiative, freshness,

vanquish, overpower, master,

agreement, cooperation

newness, invention, creativity,

defeat, hurdle, get over, overwhelm;

opulence: (n) fortune, wealth, luxury,

heterodoxy, innovation; (adj, n)

(adj) beaten. ANTONYMS: (v) fail,

exuberance, comfort, luxuriousness,

individuality. ANTONYMS: (n)

lose, comfort, protect, resist,

prosperity, wealthiness, plenty; (adj,

normality, unoriginality

surrender, capitulate; (adj)

n) riches, affluence. ANTONYMS:

ornament: (n) decoration, adornment,

unimpressed

(n) poverty, paucity, shabbiness,

embellishment, decor; (v) beautify,

overwhelmed: (adj) beaten,

austerity

decorate, deck, embellish, adorn; (n,

overpowered, vanquished,

orange: (n) orangeness, orange tree,

v) garnish, dress. ANTONYM: (v)

dumbfounded, inundated, flooded,

Methyl orange, bergamot, red and

strip

overthrown, engulfed, conquered,

yellow, lemon, marmalade orange,

ostrich: (n) Struthio Camelus, ratite,

bewildered; (v) overborne.

orange river; (adj, n) reddish yellow;

flightless bird; (adj) camel bird, doe,

ANTONYM: (adj) unimpressed

(adj) amber, ocher

greyhound, hare, gazelle, antelope,

owed: (adj) due, outstanding, unpaid,

order: (n, v) command, direct, decree,

eagle, courser

payable, deserved, fitting; (v) ought,

dictate, sort, rank, array,

others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave,

behoove, owned, possessed; (n)

commission, charge; (n) instruction,

LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission

aught. ANTONYM: (adj) paid

edict. ANTONYMS: (n, v) request;

ottoman: (n) hassock, footstool,

oxford: (n) Oxford university, boot

(n) mayhem, confusion, chaos, mess,

footrest, fauteuil, Osmanli, settle,

paid: (adj, v) compensated; (adj)

anarchy, disorderliness, disarray; (v)

Turk, Ottomite, woolsack, fag, pouf

salaried, paying, nonrecreational,

disturb, deregulate, supply

ought: (n, v) need; (v) had better,

profitable, remunerated,

orders: (n) holy orders, information,

should, have, possessed, owned,

remunerative, mercenary, settled,

preparation, remit, briefing,

owed, behoove; (n) aught, zero,

prepaid, apaid. ANTONYMS: (adj)

guidelines

duty

owing, due, unprofitable; (adv)

ordinary: (adj, n, v) customary, usual;

ourselves: (pron) myself, herself,

voluntary

(adj) middling, mediocre, average,

itself, oneself, themselves, yourself;

painful: (adj) hard, difficult, sharp,

normal, everyday; (adj, n) familiar,

(n) me, yourselves, usself

harrowing, grievous, afflictive, bad,

accustomed, habitual; (adj, v)

outburst: (n) explosion, spurt,

irritating; (adj, v) distressing, harsh,

general. ANTONYMS: (adj)

eruption, fit, burst, flash, effusion,

bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) content,

unusual, strange, peculiar,

gush, ebullition, blast, rage

heartwarming, soothing,

outstanding, incredible, special,

outrageous: (adj) inordinate,

comfortable, bearable, agreeable,

famous, distinguished, abnormal,

atrocious, ridiculous, monstrous,

effortless, dull, slight, wonderful,

particular, exotic

offensive, gross, excessive,

happy

organ: (n) instrument, member, limb,

extravagant, absurd,

pains: (n) nisus, labor, trouble, effort,

apparatus, harmonium, agency,

unconscionable; (adj, v) furious.

exertion, labour, pain, care, struggle,

part, mechanism, medium, means,

ANTONYMS: (adj) acceptable,

attempt, strain

journal

reasonable, normal, credible, good,

painters: (n) painter

organization: (n) establishment,

honorable, lovely, complimentary,

painting: (n) portrait, likeness,

arrangement, formation,

appealing, commendable, admirable

colouring, depiction, icon,

administration, constitution,

outside: (adv) outdoors, alfresco, out

illumination, image, design, coat,

association, structure, system,

of doors; (n, prep) exterior; (adj,

drawing, house painting

institution, form, business.

prep) external; (adj) outdoor,

pair: (n, v) match; (adj, n) brace; (n)

ANTONYMS: (n) chaos, disorder,

foreign, outer, extraneous, remote,

duet, duo, dyad; (v) join, mate, link,

disorderliness

outward. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n,

copulate, equate, marry

organize: (n, v) arrange, regulate; (v)

prep) inside; (adj) indoor, internal,

palace: (n) castle, mansion, hall,

establish, coordinate, fix, constitute,

likely, strong; (prep) in, within;

alcazar, chateau, palazzo, house,

devise, direct, institute, form, make.

(adv) indoors; (adj, n) interior

palaces, regime, fortress, serai

ANTONYMS: (v) jumble, disturb,

oven: (n) furnace, stove, fireplace,

pallor: (n) pallidness, wanness,

cancel, demobilize, disarrange,

hearth, broiler, heater, bakery,

complexion, achromasia, lividity,

disband, dismiss

range, kitchen appliance, boiler,

lividness, luridness, pale, skin color,

organs: (n) offal, haslet, giblet,

coke oven chamber

whiteness, sallowness.

chitlins, chitlings, chitterlings,

overbearing: (adj) dictatorial,

ANTONYMS: (n) rosiness,

insides, tongue, variety meat,

domineering, arrogant, imperious,

coloration, bloom

sweetbread, tripe

oppressive, despotic, authoritarian,

pantomime: (n, v) gesture; (n) dumb

original: (adj) primitive, native,

supercilious, dogmatic, disdainful,

show, mummery, acting, playacting,

authentic, primary, new,

lordly. ANTONYMS: (adj) meek,

performing, playing, pantomimist;

indigenous, aboriginal, primeval,

straightforward, modest, reasonable,

(v) mimic, roleplay, playact

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pantry: (n) buttery, store, basement,

part, constituently, in part, sidely,

lenient, meek, persistent.

kitchen, stowage, scullery, store

moderately, halfway, incompletely,

ANTONYMS: (adj) intolerant,

cupboard, covey, storeroom,

relatively. ANTONYMS: (adv)

annoyed, eager, harsh

stomach, stillroom

completely, wholly, entirely; (adj)

patriarch: (n) forefather,

papa: (n) father, pa, daddy, Dada,

fully

paterfamilias, father, head, chief, old

sire, pappa, pop, old man,

partner: (n) copartner, pal,

man, antediluvian, head of

paterfamilias, cardinal, high priest

collaborator, colleague; (adj, n)

household, elder, founder, senior.

paper: (n) article, newspaper,

associate, fellow, accomplice,

ANTONYM: (n) matriarch

discourse, newsprint, publication,

companion, comrade, mate, ally.

pauperize: (v) impoverish, pauperise,

journal, essay, periodical, report,

ANTONYMS: (n) superior, enemy

break, fold, reduce, ruin, bust, bleed

magazine, certificate

parts: (n) faculty, nous, quick parts,

pause: (n, v) halt, interruption,

papers: (n) paper, documents,

sagacity, wit, surroundings; (adj)

adjournment, delay, respite, stop;

document, credentials,

ingenuity, cleverness, capacity, turn,

(adj, n, v) rest; (n) intermission, gap;

identification, newspaper,

talents

(adj, v) discontinue; (v) hesitate.

credential, inclosure, copyright,

party: (n) company, band, group,

ANTONYMS: (n) decisiveness,

confession, charter

assembly, crew, association,

continuation, start; (v) proceed

pardon: (v) excuse, condone, forgive,

gathering, crowd, clique, meeting,

peal: (n) ding, noise, clang, dingdong,

acquit, spare; (n) amnesty,

celebration

blast; (v) chime, knell, toll, echo;

forgiveness, grace; (adj, v) justify,

pass: (adj, n, v) run; (v) flow, give,

(adj, n) swell; (n, v) bang

exonerate, exculpate. ANTONYMS:

deliver, lead, happen, overtake,

pebble: (n) boulder, crystal, flint,

(n, v) blame; (v) punish, castigate,

proceed; (adj, v) move; (n, v) offer,

rock, scree, cobblestone, calculus,

condemn, convict; (n) intolerance

live. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, make,

crag, granite, pebblestone; (adj)

parent: (n, v) father; (n) mother,

take, veto; (n) failing, rejection,

quartz

begetter, ancestor, origin, genitor,

exclusion

pedantic: (adj) affected, donnish,

source; (v) foster, rear, nurture,

passed: (adj) accepted, approved,

learned, bookish, formal, scholastic,

bring up

legal, gone

scholarly, didactic, full of

parental: (adj) paternal, motherly,

passion: (n) affection, fire, fervor,

affectation, fussy; (adj, v) pompous.

parent, enatic, enate, agnatic, agnate.

love, feeling, anger, enthusiasm,

ANTONYMS: (adj) basic, dilettante

ANTONYM: (adj) filial

heat, craving, desire; (n, v) ardor.

pedestal: (n) bottom, foot,

park: (v) deposit, locate, set, place,

ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, hate,

groundwork, plinth, footstall, basis,

put; (n) parking lot, common,

serenity, meekness, hatred, doubt,

bed, pillar, dais, stand, platform

parkland, green, arena, orchard

dislike, calmness, moderation

peering: (adj) nosy, prying, snoopy

parrot: (n, v) mimic; (n) popinjay,

past: (n) history, yesterday; (adj, adv,

penknife: (adj, n) blade; (n)

poll, parakeet, macaw, copycat,

prep) beyond; (adj) former, bygone,

switchblade, pocketknife, clasp

cockateel, Amazon, cockatiel,

old, prior, over, gone by; (adv)

knife, pocket knife, carving knife,

cockatoo; (v) ape

before; (adv, pref) along.

stiletto; (adj) cutlery, edge tool,

part: (adj, n) constituent; (n) piece,

ANTONYMS: (adj, n) future,

whittle, razor

article, section; (v) break, disjoin,

present; (prep) within; (adj) current,

pennies: (n) change

divide, divorce; (n, v) branch,

contemporary, modern, upcoming,

penniless: (adj) indigent, needy,

division, character. ANTONYMS:

following, subsequent, later; (n)

poor, destitute, moneyless, broke,

(n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite,

prospect

miserable, impoverished, insolvent,

meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly

patent: (adj) overt, evident, apparent,

penurious, hard up. ANTONYMS:

parted: (adj) divided, separate,

manifest, plain, clear, conspicuous,

(adj) solvent, wealthy, affluent

distributed, separated, divisible,

open, palpable, explicit; (n) letters

pennilessness: (n) impecuniousness,

disunited, compounder, compound,

patent. ANTONYMS: (adj)

impoverishment, penuriousness,

dividable

inconspicuous, obscure, subtle,

need

particular: (n) detail, item; (adj)

unobtrusive, veiled, ambiguous,

penny: (n) change, coin, centime,

fastidious, fussy, finicky, exact,

furtive, questionable

copper, groat, subunit, money, mite,

individual, careful, definite, delicate,

pathos: (v) emotion, inspiration,

doit, small change, denomination

detailed. ANTONYMS: (adj)

impression, affection; (n) poignancy,

percentage: (n) share, cut, portion,

careless, easy, vague, ordinary,

pity, ruth, commiseration, grief,

piece, percent, ration, proportion,

collective, generalized, slapdash,

poignance, sympathy

lot, allotment, profit, interest

universal, strong, normal,

patience: (n) endurance, fortitude,

perfect: (adj, n, v) consummate,

indeterminate

longanimity, equanimity, tolerance,

complete; (adj, n) absolute, full,

particularly: (adj, adv) specially,

resignation, restraint, composure,

entire; (adj) exact, utter, thorough,

only; (adv) peculiarly, specifically,

sufferance; (n, v) moderation,

faultless, integral, exquisite.

individually, expressly, separately,

calmness. ANTONYMS: (n)

ANTONYMS: (adj) flawed, faulty,

curiously, markedly, unusually,

impatience, eagerness, intolerance,

wrong, inferior, misshapen,

definitely. ANTONYMS: (adv)

annoyance

incorrect, defective, used, everyday,

slightly, generally, vaguely,

patient: (adj) forbearing, passive,

unhappy, partial

somewhat, unexceptionally

calm, enduring, resigned,

perfectly: (adj, adv) entirely; (adv)

partly: (adj) half, semi, quasi; (adv)

uncomplaining, tolerant, stoical,

fully, thoroughly, consummately,

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utterly, flawlessly, absolutely,

acerbity; (adj) petulant, flippancy

ANTONYMS: (adj) quiet, dull, soft,

purely, totally, faultlessly, wholly.

pharisaic: (adj) sanctimonious,

hot

ANTONYMS: (adv) badly,

pietistic, self-righteous, pietistical,

pigeon: (n) dove, gull, gudgeon,

imperfectly, incorrectly, wrong,

pious, Pharisean

cully, ringdove, victim, cushat,

inaccurately, partially, partly,

philosophic: (v) platonic, staid,

gobemouche, cull; (v) bilk, mulct

poorly, unpleasantly, wrongly

stayed, stoical; (adj) thoughtful,

pillar: (n) brace, mainstay, post,

perforce: (n) on compulsion; (adv)

rational, patient, learned, ideologic,

obelisk, foundation, pier,

needs

ideological. ANTONYM: (adj)

monument, stanchion, backbone,

performance: (n) discharge,

nonphilosophical

buttress; (adj, n) tower

execution, fulfillment, observance,

philosophy: (n) ethics, logic, theory,

pinched: (adj) haggard, drawn,

accomplishment, operation,

ideology, literalism, monism,

emaciated, cadaverous, narrow,

implementation; (n, v) action,

metaphysics, etiology, esthetics,

penurious, thin, penniless,

achievement, deed, efficiency.

axiology; (adj, n) stoicism

adenoidal; (adj, n) necessitous; (n)

ANTONYM: (n) omission

phonetic: (adj) vocal, phonic,

distressed. ANTONYM: (adj)

perfunctorily: (adv) superficially,

outspoken, spoken; (adj, v) oral; (v)

relaxed

automatically, carelessly, as a

lingual, unwritten; (n) phonetics

pipes: (n) musette, tubing, tubes,

formality, involuntarily, quickly,

phonetically: (adv) vocally

pipe, tube

hastily, unthinkingly, passingly,

phonetician: (n) linguist

pitch: (n, v) fling, cast, degree, dip,

automaticly, fleetingly. ANTONYM:

phonetics: (adj, n) phonics; (adj)

tilt, lurch, toss, throw, slant; (v)

(adv) thoroughly

phonography, phonetic; (n)

chuck, hurl

perhaps: (adv) mayhap, perchance,

phonology

piteous: (adj) miserable, pitiful,

peradventure, possibly, probably,

phonograph: (n) gramophone, record

pathetic, doleful, lamentable, abject,

conceivably, by chance, haply, if,

player, jukebox, nickelodeon,

compassionate, unfortunate, poor,

presumably; (n) might. ANTONYM:

microphone, mechanical recorder,

paltry, pitiable

(adv) certainly

acoustic gramophone, megaphone;

pitfall: (n) mesh, trap, noose,

period: (n) dot, epoch, era, point,

(v) phonorganon, electronic devices

ambush, decoy, gin, snare,

duration, generation, day,

physique: (n) figure, form,

difficulty, booby trap, peril, danger

conclusion, cycle, length, stage

constitution, shape, body, habitus,

pitiably: (adv) pathetically, pitifully,

perplexed: (adj) confused, puzzled,

frame, person, size, appearance;

miserably, piteously, lamentably,

baffled, confounded, doubtful,

(adj, n) muscle

wretchedly, patheticly, tragically,

distracted, disconcerted; (adj, v)

piano: (adj) soft, gentle, indulgent,

tragicly, sadly, deplorably

intricate, complicated, lost,

lax; (n) grand piano, pianissimo,

pitman: (n) mineworker, miner, coal

involved. ANTONYMS: (adj)

softness, upright piano, mechanical

miner, connecting rod, shaft

unperplexed, assured, clear,

piano; (adv) quietly, gently

repairer, sir Isaac pitman

knowing

pick: (n) alternative, best, option,

pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n)

person: (n) individual, human, man,

selection, choice; (adj, n) cream,

mercy, commiseration, condolence,

mortal, character, soul, human

elite; (adj, v) select; (v) opt, harvest,

sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v)

being, being, creature, body; (n, v)

gather. ANTONYMS: (v) reject,

sympathize, compassionate, feel

party

refuse

sorry for. ANTONYMS: (n) blame,

personal: (adj) own, particular,

picked: (adj) select, chosen, best,

cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy

human, intimate, peculiar, private,

recherche, rare, priceless, preferred,

pitying: (adj) sympathetic, merciful,

direct, proper, subjective, physical;

pointed, elected, named; (v) choose

pity, pityingly, gloomy, meritless,

(n) person. ANTONYMS: (adj)

picking: (n) option, selection,

pitiful, sorry, sorry for, humane,

public, general, detached, collective,

alternative, gathering, collection,

dreary

common, orthodox, formal,

choice, harvesting, leavings,

place: (n, v) post, order; (v) fix, lay,

impersonal, outermost, external,

collecting, indefinite quantity; (v)

arrange, locate, install; (adj, n, v)

typical

choose

rank, station; (n) domicile, office.

persons: (n) folk, public, society,

pickpocket: (n) cutpurse, thief, dip,

ANTONYMS: (v) remove, divest,

world

robber, burglar, shoplifter,

lift, dismantle

persuade: (v) convince, coax, assure,

inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic

placed: (adj) situated, laid, set,

allure, entice, influence, induce,

inclination, miscreant, nipper

positioned, arranged, fixed, sited,

cajole, argue, exhort, lure.

pictures: (n) cinema, movie, movie

collocate, determined, dictated,

ANTONYMS: (v) discourage,

theater, footage, motion picture,

hardened

dissuade, deter, restrain, force

movie house

places: (n) chairs, seating, spaces

persuaded: (adj) sure, satisfied, easily

piece: (n) fragment, division, part,

plainly: (adv) evidently, manifestly,

affected, impressible, positive,

article, lump, hunk, composition,

clearly, distinctly, openly, obviously,

delicate, sensible, intelligent, certain,

component, opus; (n, v) patch,

patently, overtly, definitely; (adj,

in no doubt, definite. ANTONYMS:

portion. ANTONYMS: (n) whole,

adv) frankly, honestly.

(adj) unsure, uncertain

chunk; (v) disassemble

ANTONYMS: (adv) imperceptibly,

petulance: (n) touchiness, testiness,

piercing: (adj, n) sharp, cutting; (adj,

vaguely, obscurely, figuratively,

tetchiness, crossness, choler,

v) keen, penetrating, biting, bitter,

unclearly, politely, incoherently,

fretfulness, peevishness, temper,

harsh, shrill; (adj) high, raw, loud.

implicitly, finely, ambiguously,

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covertly

fix, fettle, quandary, dilemma, case,

poor: (adj) bad, miserable, piteous,

plants: (n) flora, vegetation, trees,

guarantee; (n, v) engage, promise;

destitute, pitiful, insufficient,

industrial equipment, afforestation,

(v) covenant

penniless, pathetic; (adj, v) meager;

animals, birds, flora and fauna,

plinth: (n) footstall, pedestal, dado,

(adj, n) paltry, mean. ANTONYMS:

foliage, natural world, plantation

shank, zocle, support, wainscot,

(adj) wealthy, excellent, privileged,

plate: (v) gild, cover, coat; (n, v)

socle, skirting board, stand, dais

admirable, good, adequate,

sheet, dish, leaf; (n) home plate,

plot: (n, v) plan, intrigue, cabal, plat,

satisfactory, outstanding, favorable,

home, engraving, lamella, disc

scheme, design, chart; (n) lot, patch,

dignified, comfortable

play: (n, v) act, frolic, pastime, game,

graph; (v) conspire

poorer: (adj) lesser, substandard,

sport, exercise, joke, bet, wager; (v)

plug: (n) stopper, bung, hack; (n, v)

subordinate, of inferior quality, not

enact; (adj, v) perform.

hype, jade; (v) close, advertise,

as good as, lower, junior, minor.

ANTONYMS: (n) tightness; (v)

block, occlude, obstruct, promote.

ANTONYMS: (adj) superior, higher

avoid, leave, real

ANTONYMS: (v) open, oppose,

pops: (n) man, father, senior

player: (n) musician, participant,

understate

popular: (adj) general, current,

actor, contestant, performer,

pneumonia: (adj) pertussis, necrosis,

fashionable, democratic, customary,

instrumentalist, histrion, thespian,

pyrosis, rubeola, ringworm, rachitis,

plain, known, pop, celebrated; (adj,

actress, artiste, competitor.

quinsy, pyaemia, psora; (n)

v) favorite; (n) folk. ANTONYMS:

ANTONYM: (n) spectator

pneumonitis, pneumony

(adj) unpopular, aristocratic,

playing: (n) personation, pitching,

pocket: (v) take, appropriate, steal,

disliked, companionless, out,

performing, hamming, golfing,

lift, catch; (n, v) sack, pouch; (n)

unknown, unpleasant, minority,

byplay, enactment, bowling,

cavity, hole, hollow; (adj) digest.

forgettable, highbrow,

playacting, portrayal; (adj) playful

ANTONYM: (v) return

unfashionable

pleasant: (adj) jolly, amiable,

poet: (n) singer, songster, elegist,

popularize: (v) disseminate,

agreeable, acceptable, nice,

author, Gilbert, maker, lyricist,

popularise, vulgarize, make things

charming, kindly, facetious, joyful,

muse, versifier; (adj) poet laureate,

pleasant, sweeten, propagate,

pretty; (adj, v) pleasing.

Shakespearean

generalize, pass around, promote,

ANTONYMS: (adj) disgusting,

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

clear up, vulgarise

horrible, repugnant, nasty,

style, poetics, epos, poems, stanza,

pore: (n) stoma, interstice,

gruesome, unwelcome, harsh,

doggerel, tuneful Nine

emunctory, gully hole; (v) speculate,

shocking, disagreeable, foul, terrible

point: (n, v) grade, head, nib, level,

meditate, contemplate, concentrate,

please: (v) delight, charm, amuse,

aim, degree; (n) peak, article, dot;

centre, engulf, engross

entertain, oblige, enchant, enrapture;

(adj, n) edge; (v) direct. ANTONYM:

porridge: (v) oatmeal, hasty pudding,

(adj, v) gratify, enjoy, like; (adj) glad.

(n) middle

mince pie, oyster, pineapple, mango;

ANTONYMS: (v) displease, annoy,

points: (n) turnout, handicap,

(n) burgoo, pap, plash, loblolly,

irritate, anger, distress, sicken,

interest, percentage, brownie points,

podge

disappoint, dissatisfy, sadden, repel,

commendation, credit, eight points,

portico: (n) portal, arcade, entrance,

appall

share, terms

veranda, corridor, mouth, lips, inlet,

pleased: (adj) contented, glad,

police: (v) guard, watch, patrol; (n)

chops, balcony, orifice

delighted, content, joyful, thankful,

law, constabulary, policeman,

portrait: (n) effigy, image, likeness,

gratified, appreciative, overjoyed,

bobby, police force, gendarmery,

icon, delineation, depiction, figure,

cheerful; (adj, v) elated.

law enforcement, gendarmerie

portraiture, picture, photograph,

ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy,

policeman: (adj) patrolman; (n)

painting

annoyed, angry, worried, ashamed,

officer, police officer, cop, fuzz,

portraiture: (n) depiction,

disappointed, frustrated, sad,

constable, police constable, trooper,

description, delineation, picture,

unsatisfied, ungrateful,

detective, inspector; (adj, n)

characterization, likeness, portrayal,

uncomplimentary

watchman

imagery, representation; (v) genre,

pleasure: (n) fun, enjoyment,

politely: (adv) kindly, civilly,

high art

delectation, joy, comfort, happiness,

respectfully, properly, graciously,

pose: (n, v) position, masquerade,

mirth, inclination; (n, v)

urbanely, elegantly, gallantly,

posture; (v) attitudinize, place,

contentment, content; (adj, n, v)

genteelly, refinedly, considerately.

perplex, impersonate, lay; (n)

gratification. ANTONYMS: (n)

ANTONYMS: (adv) rudely,

affectation, bearing, airs

irritation, nuisance, boredom, ache,

brusquely, discourteously,

poser: (n) riddle, puzzle, model,

displeasure, dissatisfaction, misery,

disrespectfully, uncooperatively,

mystery, enigma, problem, poseur,

pain, sadness, worry, anguish

disagreeably

supporter, challenge, crossword,

plenty: (adj, n) affluence, opulence;

politics: (n) government, policy,

mannequin

(n) many, much, plenteousness,

geopolitics, political sympathies,

position: (n, v) grade, locate, fix, lay,

copiousness, plenitude, exuberance,

political relation, thought,

post, set, rank; (v) arrange; (n)

galore; (adj, adv) enough; (adj)

profession, sentiment, governance,

attitude, condition, placement.

adequate. ANTONYMS: (adj)

governing; (n, v) diplomacy

ANTONYM: (v) dismiss

insufficient, inadequate; (n) scarcity,

polytechnic: (n) engineering school,

positive: (adj, v) absolute, sure; (adj,

insufficiency; (adv) insufficiently

tech, polytechnic institute; (adj)

n) actual; (adj) affirmative,

plight: (n) condition, predicament,

polytechnical

confident, direct, incontrovertible,

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Pygmalion

peremptory, plus, explicit, definite.

moderation, calmness, meekness,

conclusion, postscript

ANTONYMS: (adj) uncertain,

inferiority, feebleness, ease

prefer: (v) pick, elevate, like, elect,

derogatory, unsure, pessimistic, sad,

powers: (n) authority, capacity,

opt, advance, favor, want, select,

downbeat, destructive, neutral,

strength, administration

promote, favour. ANTONYMS: (v)

disheartened, uncomplimentary,

practically: (adv) usefully, nearly,

reject, refuse

useless

pragmatically, almost, effectively,

preference: (n) predilection, option,

positively: (adv) absolutely,

functionally, conveniently, about,

liking, choice, election, preferment,

definitely, decidedly, unequivocally,

much, in reality, as a matter of fact.

precedence, penchant, fondness,

expressly, emphatically,

ANTONYMS: (adv) theoretically,

partiality, alternative. ANTONYMS:

categorically, clearly, confidently;

unrealistically, foolishly,

(n) indifference, coercion, antipathy

(adv, int) surely; (adj, adv) really.

romantically, irrationally, barely,

prejudice: (n, v) harm, hurt, damage;

ANTONYMS: (adv) disapprovingly,

awkwardly, unreasonably,

(v) influence, predispose, injure; (n)

pessimistically, uncertainly,

recklessly

disadvantage, partiality,

doubtfully, inauspiciously, ill

practice: (n, v) exercise, drill,

preconceived notion, discrimination,

possibility: (n) opportunity, chance,

discipline, use; (n) fashion,

preconception. ANTONYMS: (n)

likelihood, opening, probability,

convention, habitude, habit,

tolerance, fairness, impartiality,

expectancy, potential, eventuality,

experience, form, observance.

justice, broadmindedness; (v)

occasion, odds, prospect.

ANTONYMS: (n) theory,

enhance

ANTONYM: (n) impossibility

innovation; (v) perform

preoccupied: (adj) absorbed,

possible: (adj) imaginable, likely,

practise: (v) execute, practice,

abstracted, thoughtful, lost, rapt,

feasible, practicable, earthly, maybe,

perform, exercise, drill, do, rehearse,

distracted, faraway, inattentive,

probable, practical, potential,

learn, take, work out, read

deep in thought, engrossed, pensive.

tolerable, thinkable. ANTONYMS:

pram: (n) pushchair, carriage, baby

ANTONYMS: (adj) alert, carefree,

(adj) unlikely, compulsory, actual,

carriage, bassinet, stroller, baby

uninterested

implausible, unrealistic,

buggy, rig, cart, flatboat, go-cart,

prepare: (n, v) arrange, form, plan,

unattainable

buggy

make; (v) dress, set, lay, devise,

possibly: (adv) probably, perhaps,

pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave,

groom, equip; (adj, v) coach.

peradventure, likely, perchance,

invite, plead, beseech, appeal,

ANTONYM: (v) perform

may, might, or, mayhap,

importune, adjure, invoke.

prepared: (adj) willing, disposed,

conceivably, potentially.

ANTONYM: (v) reject

fitted, fain, finished, ready, ripe,

ANTONYMS: (adv) impossibly,

preach: (v) lecture, exhort, moralize,

primed, competent, inclined,

definitely, certainly, indeed,

advocate, sermonize, urge, hold

efficient. ANTONYMS: (adj)

implausibly

forth, admonish, evangelize,

spontaneous, unarmed, reluctant,

post: (n, v) place, position, stake,

prophesy, moralise

unwilling

station; (n) office, function, pillar,

preacher: (n) missionary, parson,

presence: (n) front, manner, mien,

attitude; (v) locate, enter, lay

lecturer, clergyman, evangelist,

bearing, carriage, figure, air,

pound: (n, v) pen, hammer, thump;

pastor, priest, sermonizer, revivalist,

comportment, demeanor, company;

(v) palpitate, grind, maul, crush,

gospeler, preachers

(n, v) attendance. ANTONYMS: (n)

bang, flap, mash, buffet

precaution: (n) foresight, care,

absence, nonattendance

pour: (v) gush, shed, decant, scatter,

prevention, discretion, anticipation,

present: (adj, n, v) gift, grant; (n, v)

stream, flow, pelt, discharge, teem,

caution, circumspection, prudence,

donation, display; (adj, v) confer,