Imperfect, deficient; (n) original

dayspring, aurora, cockcrow,

conservatory, menagerie, deposit,

modern: (adj) new, fashionable, late,

dawning. ANTONYMS: (n) sunset,

Louvre, landmark, treasury

advanced, current, latest, recent,

nighttime, nightfall

music: (n) melody, chorus, musical,

novel, present, contemporary,

morris: (n) Robert Morris,

sound, composition, monody, folk

stylish. ANTONYMS: (adj) ancient,

Gouverneur Morris, Esther Hobart

music, medicine, euphony,

antiquated, traditional, prehistoric,

Mcquigg slack Morris, William

drumming, ballet

conservative, neurotic, primordial,

Morris, Esther Morris

musical: (adj) harmonious, melodic,

past, stale, dated

mortals: (n) people

sweet, canorous, tuneful, dulcet,

modulation: (n) accent, inflection,

mostly: (adv) generally, chiefly, for

mellifluous, pleasing, lyrical; (n)

transition, passage, change,

the most part, ordinarily, in general,

musical comedy, music.

variation, am, regulation,

above all, mainly, primarily,

ANTONYMS: (adj) unmusical,

conditioning, suspension,

principally, more often than not, by

grating, harsh, inharmonious,

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unmelodious

abnormally, affectedly, shyly

beebread, fruit crush, fruit juice,

muttered: (adj) garbled, incoherent,

nature: (n) disposition, essence,

goody, kickshaw, liquid, bitterweed

broken, inarticulate

quality, creation, breed,

need: (adj, n, v) lack, want; (n, v)

myself: (pron) me, itself, herself,

temperament, type, attribute; (adj,

demand, desire, deficiency, must,

oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) I,

n) character, class, manner

destitution; (n) necessity,

yourselves; (adv) in person, for

naughty: (adj) mischievous, impish,

requirement; (v) require, claim.

myself, in my opinion.

blue, improper, disobedient,

ANTONYMS: (v) obviate, dislike,

ANTONYMS: (adv) universally,

insubordinate, wicked, evil, lewd,

have; (n) option, luxury, glut,

generally

dark, unruly. ANTONYMS: (adj)

unimportance, affluence, prosperity

mysterious: (adj) inscrutable,

decent, behaved, obedient, clean

needed: (adj) essential, required,

incomprehensible, deep, eerie,

navvy: (n) laborer, labourer, galley

requisite, needful, indispensable,

inexplicable, obscure, abstruse, dark,

slave, Demiurgus, drudge, hack,

wanted, needing, needs, wanting,

cryptic, secret, arcane. ANTONYMS:

hewers of wood and drawers of

desired, want. ANTONYM: (adj)

(adj) known, apparent, normal,

water, manual laborer, hacker, peon;

optional

open, explicable, facile, obvious,

(v) pavior

needlework: (n) stitchery, sewing,

simple, legible, familiar, transparent

near: (adj, adv, v) close, at hand; (adv,

needlecraft, stitching, knitwork,

nagging: (adj) critical, troublesome,

prep) by, around, towards; (adj, v)

crochet, crocheting, knit, knitting,

niggling, captious, vexatious,

familiar, adjoining, approximate;

fancywork, creation

bothersome, demanding, moaning,

(adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv)

needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully,

uneasy; (n) torment

almost; (adj) imminent.

indispensably, by necessity,

nailed: (adj) fixed, tight, stationary,

ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, far,

inescapably, of necessity,

stable, secure, decided, firm,

further, actual, exact; (v) leave

ineluctably; (n) must, requirement,

immobile

nearer: (adj) adjacent, narre, hither;

necessity; (adj) needed

name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize,

(adv) more rapidly, sooner, quicker,

neglected: (adj) dilapidated,

list, enumerate, identify, cite,

nigher, NER, faster, earlier, Neer

disregarded, ignored, deserted,

mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n)

nearest: (adj) proximate, immediate,

derelict, forsaken, obsolete,

epithet. ANTONYMS: (n) nobody,

close, near, next, adjoining, intimate,

antiquated, antique, shabby,

indecency

direct, adjacent; (adj, adv) nighest;

unnoticed. ANTONYM: (adj)

names: (n) calumny, defamation,

(adv) fore. ANTONYM: (adj) distant

salubrious

hatchet job

nearly: (adv) closely, intimately,

neighborhood: (n) vicinity, district,

napkin: (n) diaper, cloth,

nighly, virtually; (adj, adv, prep)

area, community, locality, place,

handkerchief, serviette, table

about, just about; (adj, adv) near, all

quarter, environs, section; (adj)

napkin, nappy, dinner napkin,

but, close, most; (adv, prep)

neighboring, local

duster, malkin, maukin; (v) sudary

approximately

neither: (conj) either, no-one, not

nark: (v) provoke, displease, annoy,

neatness: (n) trimness, dexterity,

either, nor, nother

irritate, rile, frustrate, get, harry,

orderliness, tidiness, spruceness,

nerve: (n) cheek, audacity, boldness,

exasperate; (n) informer, narc

cleanliness, precision, compactness,

brass, impudence, heart, mettle,

native: (adj, n) aboriginal, natural;

purity, cleanness, elegance.

daring, courage, face, fortitude.

(adj) inherent, inborn, innate,

ANTONYMS: (n) untidiness,

ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice,

congenital, inbred, indigenous,

largeness, clumsiness, disorder,

timidity, reticence, respect

domestic; (n) autochthon, aborigine.

inelegance, clutter, chaos, messiness

nervous: (adj) anxious, excitable,

ANTONYMS: (n) stranger, migrant,

necessary: (adj, n, v) requisite; (adj, v)

afraid, uneasy, shy, fearful,

foreigner; (adj) foreign, learned,

important; (adj) inevitable,

apprehensive, firm; (adj, v) tense;

acquired, nonnative, overseas,

compulsory, mandatory,

(adj, adv) cowardly, excited.

adopted; (adj, n) immigrant,

fundamental, main, indispensable;

ANTONYMS: (adj) brave, relaxed,

imported

(n) necessity, demand; (adj, n) basic.

bold, composed, confident, fearless,

natural: (adj) inherent, innate,

ANTONYMS: (adj) optional,

untroubled, unflappable, still,

unaffected, instinctive, artless,

surplus, needless, unjustified,

unconcerned, carefree

congenital, inborn, normal, intrinsic,

dispensable, possible, unimportant,

nest: (n) den, lair, hole, burrow,

essential, native. ANTONYMS: (adj)

voluntary, nonessential,

home, beehive; (adj) brood, hive,

affected, refined, false, cultivated,

inappropriate; (n) inessential

litter; (adj, n) herd; (v) embed

unnatural, paranormal,

necessity: (n) demand, need, lack,

never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always,

supernatural, abnormal, forced,

exigency, essential, compulsion,

not ever, by no means, at all times,

exceptional, strained

emergency, distress, must,

not at all, not, NE. ANTONYMS:

naturally: (adv, int) of course; (adv)

constraint, necessary. ANTONYMS:

(adv) always, forever

spontaneously, unaffectedly,

(n) inessential, treat, unimportance,

nevertheless: (adv, conj, prep)

natively, openly, essentially, course,

luxury

however, although; (adv, conj) but,

by nature, understandably,

neck: (n) cervix, nape, neckband,

yet, even; (adv) all the same, even

normally; (adj, adv) innately.

neckline, isthmus; (v) make out, pet,

so, though, anyway, anyhow; (adj,

ANTONYMS: (adv) artificially,

love, cut; (adj) stricture, middle

adv) still

surprisingly, uncharacteristically,

constriction

news: (n) advice, message,

pretentiously, unusually,

nectar: (n) delicacy, secretion, juice,

information, intelligence, tidings,

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story, report, notice,

notable, somebody; (pron) everyone,

appointment, unconsciousness

communication, gossip; (adj) new

anyone, everybody

noticed: (adj) noted

newspaper: (n) magazine, paper,

noise: (n, v) clatter, echo; (n) clamor,

notion: (n) belief, idea, impression,

gazette, news, periodical, print,

hubbub, racket, sound, disturbance,

fancy, image, imagination, opinion,

publisher, press, publication,

uproar, din, buzz, clang.

conception, concept; (adj, n, v)

newsprint, weekly

ANTONYMS: (n) silence, quiet,

judgment; (n, v) caprice.

newspapers: (n) press, papers, the

quietness, sense

ANTONYMS: (n) trust, certainty,

media, journalists, reporters

nomenclature: (n) language,

fact, reality

next: (adj) nearest, adjacent,

classification, appellation,

notions: (n) belief, thinking, thought,

contiguous, following, future,

denomination, linguistic

sundries, opinion, concept, ideas,

coming, ensuing, after; (adv, conj)

communication, linguistic process,

ribbon, philosophy, odds and ends;

then, afterward; (adj, v) subsequent.

locution, lyric, markup language; (v)

(adj) irrational

ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) previous,

name

notorious: (adj, v) notable; (adj)

previously, preceding; (adj)

none: (n) nought, naught, nobody,

known, infamous, illustrious,

outgoing, distant; (adv) before

zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither,

disreputable, flagrant, egregious,

nice: (adj) fastidious, dainty, fine,

any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever

prominent, celebrated, noted; (adj,

good, lovely, kind, likable, delicious,

nonsense: (n) bosh, absurdity,

n) errant. ANTONYMS: (adj)

difficult, precise; (adj, n) neat.

humbug, balderdash, foolishness,

anonymous, reputable, famous

ANTONYMS: (adj) horrible, nasty,

drivel, folderol, baloney, falderal,

nowhere: (n) obscurity, limbo; (adv)

unlikable, rough, mean, loathsome,

jargon, claptrap. ANTONYMS: (n)

not anywhere, nowhither, without,

approximate, unsavory, unfriendly,

sense, wisdom, substance, fact

not anywhither; (adj) tiresome,

inelegant, bad

north: (adv) northwards, northerly,

vapid, uninteresting, tasteless,

nice-looking: (adj) neat, attractive,

northward, in the north; (n) n,

prosaic

handsome

union, compass north, due north,

nuisance: (adj, n) annoyance; (n)

nicely: (adv) daintily, pleasantly,

magnetic north, norther; (adj)

harassment, irritation, pain, pest,

finely, deliciously, kindly, delicately,

northbound

hassle, inconvenience, mischief,

correctly, exactly, pleasingly,

nose: (n) hooter, neb, nozzle,

irritant, plague, pain in the neck.

elegantly, skillfully. ANTONYMS:

proboscis, honker, bow, odour; (v)

ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure, help,

(adv) badly, unattractively,

wind, pry, scent; (n, v) sniff

delight, blessing, balm, advantage,

inelegantly, cruelly

notable: (adj) conspicuous,

satisfaction, ease

niceness: (n) politeness, subtlety,

celebrated, illustrious, eminent,

number: (n, v) amount, figure; (v)

courtesy, daintiness, amiability,

memorable, extraordinary,

calculate, total, aggregate,

delicacy, pleasantness, sweetness,

renowned, famous, remarkable; (n)

enumerate, come; (n) score, act,

nicety, congeniality, elegance.

luminary, celebrity. ANTONYMS:

volume, issue

ANTONYM: (n) impoliteness

(adj) ordinary, unknown, obscure,

nurse: (n, v) nourish, nurture; (v)

nigh: (adj, adv, prep) near; (adj, adv)

unimpressive, undistinguished; (n)

look after, entertain, attend, cherish,

close, nearly, almost, nearby, most,

nobody, nonentity

lactate, harbor, foster, cultivate,

all but, about, adjacent; (prep) by;

note: (n, v) comment, mind, remark,

cradle

(adj) approximate

mention, heed, mark, look, report;

nursing: (n) attention, tending, care,

night: (n) dark, dusk, darkness,

(n) indication, annotation; (v) detect.

breast feeding, treatment, nurture,

gloaming, twilight, nighttime, Nox,

ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n)

suckling, nurse, feeding, treat,

eventide, period; (adj) nocturnal,

disgrace, invoice

rearing

gloomy. ANTONYMS: (n) day,

notebook: (n) book, exercise book,

oath: (n) expletive, malediction,

light, sunrise

exercise-book, jotter, books, laptop,