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temperament, disposition, characteristic, essence, individualism, public figure. ANTONYM: (n) nobody personally: (adv) privately, in person, intimately, directly, specially, confidentially, secretly, self, oneself, subjectively, particularly. ANTONYMS: (adv) impersonally, indirectly, objectively, collectively, distantly, generally, universally

perspiration: (n) diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudor, sweating, extravasation, secretion, exertion, exudation, effort, lather, water persuade: (v) convince, coax, assure, allure, entice, influence, induce, cajole, argue, exhort, lure. ANTONYMS: (v) discourage, dissuade, deter, restrain, force perturbed: (adj) disturbed, agitated, hot and bothered, confused, uneasy, concerned, worried, unsettled, troubled, upset, distraught. ANTONYMS: (adj) untroubled, relaxed

petal: (n) corolla, flower, valve, petal of marguerite, flower petal, floral leaf

petit: (adj) small, insignificant petticoat: (adj, n) female; (n) underskirt, skirt, she, woman, her, crinoline, wife, undergarment, apron; (adj) petty

petulant: (adj) irritable, peevish, cross, testy, irascible, cranky, fractious, fretful, pettish, touchy, choleric. ANTONYMS: (adj) easygoing, amiable, calm, affable, cheerful

petulantly: (adv) testily, impatiently, sulkily, querulously, pettishly, irritably, snappishly, morosely, tetchily, crossly, sullenly. ANTONYMS: (adv) calmly, lightly phantom: (n, v) apparition, phantasm, vision, phantasma; (n) spectre, specter, appearance, shade, shadow, wraith, spirit

pheasant: (n) monal, afropavo, peafowl, wildfowl, bird of Juno, golden pheasant, monaul, phasianid, Argus pheasant, Argus phenomenon: (n) appearance, marvel, miracle, incident, wonder, prodigy, phenomena, development, occurrence, happening, apparition philanthropic: (adj) benevolent, charitable, humanitarian, humane, kind, eleemosynary, generous, beneficent, kindly, munificent, good.

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ANTONYMS: (adj) selfish, miserly, nasty, mean

philanthropist: (n) humanitarian, donor, benefactor, philanthrope, altruist, patron, socialist, utilitarian, presenter, cosmopolite, amicus humani generis

philanthropy: (n) charity, generosity, humanity, kindness, philanthropic gift, beneficence, altruism, charitableness, humanitarianism, largesse, gift. ANTONYMS: (n) nastiness, selfishness

philistine: (n) lowbrow, bourgeois, cockney, pleb, boor, snooks; (adj, n) barbarian; (adj) die-hard, nonintellectual, pragmatic, reactionary

philosophic: (v) platonic, staid, stayed, stoical; (adj) thoughtful, rational, patient, learned, ideologic, ideological. ANTONYM: (adj) nonphilosophical

philosophy: (n) ethics, logic, theory, ideology, literalism, monism, metaphysics, etiology, esthetics, axiology; (adj, n) stoicism

phrase: (v) formulate, couch, put, articulate; (n) expression, idiom, diction, speech, passage, locution; (n, v) word

physiology: (n) organic chemistry, natural history, myology, bionomy, botany, bodily property, biological science, biology

piano: (adj) soft, gentle, indulgent, lax; (n) grand piano, pianissimo, softness, upright piano, mechanical piano; (adv) quietly, gently

piazza: (n) plaza, square, mall, circus, cloister, arcade, court, crescent, porch, space, veranda

picking: (n) option, selection, alternative, gathering, collection, choice, harvesting, leavings, collecting, indefinite quantity; (v) choose

pictured: (adj) envisioned, portrayed, graphic, delineate, delineated, impictured, unreal, visualised, visualized, impressed

picturesque: (adj, v) pictorial; (adj) beautiful, striking, colorful, idyllic, scenic, vivid, quaint, lovely, romantic, colourful. ANTONYMS: (adj) drab, dull, ugly, unattractive, modern

pierced: (adj) punctured, perforate, penetrated, cut, cleft

pierre: (n) capital of south Dakota piers: (n) jetties

pigeon: (n) dove, gull, gudgeon,

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cully, ringdove, victim, cushat, gobemouche, cull; (v) bilk, mulct pigeons: (n) order Columbiformes, Columbiformes

pile: (n, v) heap, stack, mass, pack, jam; (n) congeries, mound, bunch, accumulation; (v) amass; (adj, n) nap. ANTONYM: (v) unload

piled: (adj) heaped, dense, aggregate, collective, concentrated, cumulous piles: (adj, n) hemorrhoids, heaps, lots, loads, plenty; (n) hemorrhoid, stacks, haemorrhoid, tons; (adj) heartburn, hernia

pilgrim: (n) hadji, passenger, journeyer, palmer, traveler, wanderer, conventual, monk, mendicant, lay brother, hajji pillow: (v) rest, breathe, lie, not move; (adj) wadding; (n) throw pillow, Wanger, bed pillow, feather bed, long pillow, padding

pink: (n) rose, crimson, gillyflower, paragon; (v) knock, gore, impale, stab, spike, spear; (adj) flower pins: (v) feet, legs, pegs, trotters pipe: (n) conduit, duct, flue, passage, pipage; (n, v) channel, cry; (v) squeak, sing, peep, screech

pipes: (n) musette, tubing, tubes, pipe, tube

pistol: (n) firearm, gun, gat, revolver, rod, Captain Bobadil, derringer, spray gun, shooter, drawcansir, Thraso

piteous: (adj) miserable, pitiful, pathetic, doleful, lamentable, abject, compassionate, unfortunate, poor, paltry, pitiable

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 placard: (n) sign, card, poster, advertisement, notice, handbill, posting, broadside, tablet; (v) advertise, post

placid: (adj) calm, composed, easygoing, equable, gentle, quiet, pacific, tranquil, cool, peaceable; (adj, v) peaceful. ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, energetic, stormy, frenetic, excitable, agitated, unstable, bothered, harsh, boisterous placing: (n) placement, arrangement, disposition, installation, allocation, ordering, disposal, borrowing, composition

plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict, hassle, annoy, badger, pester,

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disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj, n, v) bother. ANTONYM: (v) comfort

plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, intelligible, apparent, manifest, obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate, unclear, multicolored, mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned plaintively: (adv) piteously, sorrowfully, mournfully, pitifully, ruefully, grievously, lugubriously, pathetically, woefully, lamentingly, wistfully

plaited: (adj) woven, folded, plicated plasterwork: (n) pargeting, stuccowork, plaster of Paris, plaster, adhesive plaster, cataplasm

plates: (n) dishes, tableware, flake powder, dishware, dinner service platform: (n) dais, stand, stage, rostrum, quay, pulpit, plan, landing, ambo; (adj, n) floor; (n, v) program platinum: (n) platina, blonde, atomic number, noble metal

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 pleasantly: (adv) pleasingly, nicely, cheerily, enjoyably, agreeably, delightfully, sunnily, genially, gratifyingly, kindly; (adv, v) happily. ANTONYMS: (adv) disagreeably, offensively, awfully, discordantly, dreadfully, shockingly, unkindly, irritably, harshly, curtly, nastily

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

pleasures: (n) pleasure plenitude: (n) plenty, fullness, plentitude, abundance, lot,

opulence, amplitude, exuberance, luxuriance, glut, luxury

plot: (n, v) plan, intrigue, cabal, plat, scheme, design, chart; (n) lot, patch, graph; (v) conspire

ploughman: (n) rustic, farm worker,

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farmhand, plower, fieldhand plucked: (v) ploughed; (adj) pulled, unfeathered, featherless, moulting, pilled

plucking: (n) harvesting, rip out poaching: (n) trespass, illicit fishing, cooking, cookery, contraband; (adj) raiding

pocket: (v) take, appropriate, steal, lift, catch; (n, v) sack, pouch; (n) cavity, hole, hollow; (adj) digest. ANTONYM: (v) return

poem: (n) lay, lyric, verse, rhyme, ballad, chant, epic, ode, ballade, elegy, epos

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

poignant: (adj, v) acrid, biting, harsh, painful, penetrating, brisk; (adj) acute, cutting, moving, affecting; (adj, n) piquant. ANTONYMS: (adj) unemotional, cheerful, emotionless pointing: (n) punctuation, indication, scoring

poison: (adj, v) contaminate, taint; (n, v) envenom, drug, empoison; (adj) toxic, poisonous; (v) defile, intoxicate; (n) bane, venom. ANTONYMS: (n) cure; (v) clean poisoned: (adj, v) tainted; (v) peccant, morbid, tabid; (adj) venenate, made virulent, rabid, resentful, sour, mangy, leprous

poisoning: (n) intoxication, gassing, corruption, carbon monoxide poisoning, defoedation, discoloration, ergotism, caffeinism, alkali poisoning, Malathion poisoning, cyanide poisoning poisonous: (adj) toxic, mortal, venomous, noxious, malicious, fatal, baneful, poison, lethal, viperous, mephitic. ANTONYMS: (adj) harmless, benevolent, edible, kindhearted

poland: (n) Polska

policeman: (adj) patrolman; (n) officer, police officer, cop, fuzz, constable, police constable, trooper, detective, inspector; (adj, n) watchman

polished: (adj) glossy, cultured, finished, refined, smooth, lustrous, genteel, courtly; (adj, v) courteous, civil, polite. ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, coarse, shoddy, unpolished, amateur, awkward, unsophisticated

polite: (adj) cultured, gentle, courtly, civil, refined, proper, genteel, kind, attentive, friendly, complaisant.

ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, discourteous, boorish, improper, abusive, common, authoritative, disobedient, uncivilized, uncivil, curt

politician: (n) legislator, politico, lawgiver, political leader, mayor, pol, nominee, campaigner, governor, statemonger, tactician polo: (n) curling, golf, croquet, water polo, tipcat, Marco Polo

pomp: (n) grandeur, parade, ostentation, show, ceremony, glory, luxury, pageantry, magnificence, state, splendor. ANTONYMS: (n) understatement, modesty pompous: (adj) grand, arrogant, ostentatious, affected, pretentious, overblown, showy, inflated, majestic, lordly; (adj, prep) bloated. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, straightforward, unceremonious, quiet, unassuming, natural, deferential, relaxed, meek

pontus: (n) Pontos

popping: (n) pop, blowing, cratering, dad, Dada, flaring, pa, papa, pappa; (adj) joyful, busy

porcelain: (v) ceramics, crockery, pottery, ceramic ware; (n) earthenware, magnetism, figurines, purslane, collectibles, bone China portico: (n) portal, arcade, entrance, veranda, corridor, mouth, lips, inlet, chops, balcony, orifice

portrait: (n) effigy, image, likeness, icon, delineation, depiction, figure, portraiture, picture, photograph, painting

pose: (n, v) position, masquerade, posture; (v) attitudinize, place, perplex, impersonate, lay; (n) affectation, bearing, airs posing: (n) pretense, pose, movement, pretentiousness, pretension, posturing, move, motion, airs, acting, sitting. ANTONYM: (n) honesty

possess: (adj, v) own; (v) hold, wield, occupy, bear, keep, enjoy, contain, retain, to have, maintain. ANTONYMS: (v) lack, remove possessed: (adj) mad, obsessed, frantic, hysterical, furious, fanatical, infatuated, insane; (v) ought, owed, behoove. ANTONYM: (adj) uninterested

possession: (n) occupation, ownership, keeping, goods,

substance, tenure, property, grasp, estate, domain; (n, v) acquisition. ANTONYMS: (n) vacancy, sale poured: (adj) concrete

pouring: (adj) gushing, teeming, flowing profusely, burbling, burbly;

(n) casting, affusion, downpour, effusion, tapping, baptism. ANTONYM: (adj) light 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 powder: (n, v) dust; (v) grind, crush, pound, comminute, pulverize, sprinkle, pulverise; (n) gunpowder, pollen, explosive

powdered: (adj) powdery, fine, crushed, milled, ground, broken up, finer, minced, pulverised; (n) punctated, milk

practise: (v) execute, practice, perform, exercise, drill, do, rehearse, learn, take, work out, read practising: (adj) practicing, churchgoing

praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter, celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend, compliment, honor, glory, acclaim;

(n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n) criticism, disparagement; (v) reprimand, disparage, reproach, scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise, denigrate, sully

praised: (adj) bepuffed, popular, renowned

prate: (n, v) gossip, chatter, prattle, tattle; (v) jabber, gab, chat, natter, clack, palaver, gabble

pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave, invite, plead, beseech, appeal, importune, adjure, invoke. ANTONYM: (v) reject

prayer: (n) invocation, plea, entreaty, appeal, orison, request, suit, litany, devotion, supplication, asking praying: (n) prayer

preach: (v) lecture, exhort, moralize, advocate, sermonize, urge, hold forth, admonish, evangelize, prophesy, moralise

preceding: (adj, adv) anterior, earlier; (adj) foregoing, former, previous, prior, past, precedent, prevenient; (adv) forward; (prep) before. ANTONYMS: (adj) following, succeeding, next, present

precious: (adj, n) beloved; (adj) valuable, costly, cherished,

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invaluable, expensive, golden, choice, inestimable, exquisite; (n) darling. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheap, hated, shabby

precipice: (n) abyss, chasm, escarpment, gulf, steep, crag, verge, brink, abysm, ravine, drop

precis: (n) outline, epitome, synopsis, abridgment, summarization, schema, rundown, apercu, lineation, foreshadowing; (v) summarize 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 precision: (n) accuracy, correctness, exactness, accurateness, preciseness, fidelity, nicety, delicacy, truth, exactitude; (adj) precise. ANTONYMS: (n) vagueness, inaccuracy, ambiguity, imprecision, clumsiness, impreciseness, neglect, messiness, incorrectness, faintness, carelessness

preferred: (adj) favorite, chosen, pet, select, favourite, selected, choice, preferable, singled out, favoured, golden

prefix: (n, v) preface; (n) preamble, foreword, introduction, area code, prelude, proem, proemium, prolepsis; (v) attach, prepose prejudiced: (adj) biased, partisan, bigoted, jaundiced, interested, opinionated, narrow, intolerant, colored, inequitable, subjective. ANTONYMS: (adj) unbiased, broadminded, balanced, impartial, unprejudiced, objective, just, tolerant

prelude: (n) preliminary, preface, introduction, beginning, overture, preamble, foreword, inception, opening, proem, prolusion. ANTONYMS: (n) postscript, conclusion, ending

premature: (adj) untimely, early, immature, inopportune, forward, previous, rash, unripe; (n) precocity, precociousness, prematurity. ANTONYMS: (adj) overdue, timely, late

preoccupied: (adj) absorbed, abstracted, thoughtful, lost, rapt, distracted, faraway, inattentive, deep in thought, engrossed, pensive. ANTONYMS: (adj) alert, carefree, uninterested

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provision, training, readiness, practice, homework, formulation, planning, prep, instruction, drill presentation: (n) exhibition, donation, performance, introduction, display, demonstration, offer, exposition, appearance, gift, exposure presentiment: (n) premonition, hunch, apprehension, feeling, foreboding, anticipation, intuition, boding, suspicion; (v) augury; (n, v) omen

preserved: (adj) kept, conserved, whole, pickled, condite, safe. ANTONYM: (adj) fresh preserves: (n) conserve, jam, chowchow, conserves, jelly,

marmalade, canned food, confiture, European federation of importers of dried fruit, preserved food, apple butter

presiding: (adj) president, dominant, administrative

pressed: (adj) compact, urgent, printed, pressing, press, stamped, pushed, impelled, incited, bound, driven

pressing: (adj, v) exigent, importunate, important; (adj) imperative, immediate, imperious, instant, critical, insistent; (n) dishing, press. ANTONYM: (adj) mild

pretend: (adv, v) assume; (adj, v) sham, counterfeit, fake, play; (v) dissimulate, dissemble, make believe, imagine, affect, act. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) real; (adj) genuine, natural, sincere pretending: (n, v) pretense; (n) affectation, appearance, acting, pretence, mannerism, dissembling, pretension, deception, deceit; (adv) pretendingly

prevented: (adj) disallowed, barred, banned. ANTONYM: (adj) legitimate

pride: (n) arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, lordliness, assumption, insolence, disdain, hauteur; (n, v) boast; (v) plume. ANTONYMS: (n) modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace, shame, baseness

priest: (adj, n) clergyman, divine; (n) minister, ecclesiastic, churchman, pastor, celebrant, parson, cleric, presbyter, chaplain

prig: (v) pilfer, filch, steal, rob, purloin, thieve; (n) nim, snob, old maid, pedant, filcher

prim: (adj) stiff, prudish, precise,

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priggish, neat, ceremonious, mincing, squeamish, prissy, decorous, demure. ANTONYMS: (adj) relaxed, brash, uninhibited, informal, improper, lax primarily: (adv) chiefly, mainly, originally, essentially, basically,

firstly, above all, largely, especially, primitively, initially. ANTONYMS: (adv) superficially, finally, lastly, partially

primitive: (adj, v) primeval, primary; (adj) original, archaic, crude, first, early, antediluvian, aboriginal, primordial, primal. ANTONYMS: (adj) civilized, recent, complicated, factual, advanced

principal: (adj, n) chief, master, cardinal, primary, leading, capital, prime, main; (adj) grand; (n) manager, leader. ANTONYMS: (adj) secondary, subordinate, peripheral, trivial, marginal, side

privilege: (n) liberty, prerogative, immunity, freedom, grant, franchise, exemption, concession, claim; (n, v) license, permit. ANTONYM: (n) insult

probable: (adj) likely, plausible, possible, potential, presumable, feasible, hopeful, convincing, believable, to be expected, specious. ANTONYMS: (adj) improbable, implausible, unbelievable proceeded: (v) proceed, yode procession: (n) march, convoy, cortege, cavalcade, file, string, pageant, series, sequence, progress, column

procuring: (v) procure producing: (n) production, output, making, birth, childbirth; (adj) fertile, generating, procreant; (v) produced, to produce; (adv) yieldingly

profanation: (n) blasphemy, sacrilege, violation, outrage, abuse, prostitution, curse, pollution, violence, dissent; (adj) profanity profession: (n) employment, declaration, occupation, affirmation, calling, career, vocation, job, position, assertion, assurance. ANTONYM: (n) denial

profligacy: (n) debauchery, dissipation, licentiousness, prodigality, dissolution, depravity, debauch, corruption, improvidence, dissoluteness, vice. ANTONYMS:

(n) economy, decency, parsimony profusely: (adv) lavishly, copiously, extravagantly, bountifully,

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generously, plentifully, galore, prodigally, richly, excessively, amply. ANTONYMS: (adv) meagerly, stingily, thinly proletariat: (n) labor, working class, labour, mob, masses, labor force, proletarian, populace, trash, rabble, middle class

prolonged: (adj) lengthy, chronic, extended, elongated, lengthened, continuous, continued, expanded, sustained; (adj, v) protracted, lingering. ANTONYMS: (adj) quick, short, temporary

prolonging: (adj) delaying, continuing; (n) continuation, perseverance

prophet: (n) augur, oracle, vaticinator, seer, predictor, diviner, forecaster, visionary, foreteller, priest, clairvoyant

proportions: (n) size, magnitude, capacity, scope, figure, confines, acreage

propose: (v) bid, nominate, design, plan, proffer, move, intend, mean, aim, suggest; (n, v) advance.

ANTONYMS: (v) reject, improvise, oppose

proposing: (adj) prosy, proponent, making proposals

prose: (n) style, writing, euphuism, commonplace, prose writer, rap; (adj) prosaic, maunder, palaver, prate, prosy. ANTONYMS: (n) poetry, verse

prospects: (n) perspective, forecast, circumstances, odds, expectation, possibilities, prediction, projection, scenario, diagnosis

protege: (n) creature, protegee, puppet, ward, hireling, mercenary proud: (adj) lofty, disdainful, haughty, exalted, egotistical, gallant, pompous, lordly, majestic, overbearing; (adj, v) dignified. ANTONYMS: (adj) humble, modest, ashamed, embarrassed, sorrowful, disappointed, miserable

proverbs: (n) proverb

provoked: (adj, prep) exasperated, inflamed; (adj) irritated, aggravated, infuriated, indignant, irate, huffy, hot, excited; (adv) up in arms. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, gratuitous, pleased

prow: (n) bow, stem, fore, beak, nose, obeisance, forepart, curtain call, bowknot, bowing, arc

prudence: (n) foresight, economy, frugality, caution, care, forethought, providence, circumspection,

judgment, deliberation; (adj, n) wisdom. ANTONYMS: (n) imprudence, profligacy, generosity, hindsight, recklessness, extravagance

prying: (adj) inquisitive, meddlesome, nosy, inquiring, nosey, intrusive, busy, snoopy; (n) nosiness, curiosity; (adj, n) meddling. ANTONYMS: (adj) apathetic; (n) apathy

psychical: (adj) mental, psychological, paranormal, psychal psychological: (adj) mental, psychic, psychical, cerebral, intellectual, inner, psychologic, subconscious, subjective, mind, emotional. ANTONYM: (adj) physical psychology: (n) psychics, neuropsychology, behaviourism, associationism, configurationism, behaviorism, functionalism, psychological science, mentality, physiological psychology, physchometrika

publicly: (adv) overtly, publically, in public, generally, communally, commonly, socially, stately, vulgarly, plainly, usually. ANTONYMS: (adv) privately, secretly, informally

pulling: (n) pull, drawing, traction, haulage, actuation, clout, deracination, draughts, extirpation; (adj) attracting, tractive

pulse: (n, v) throb; (n) pulsation, impulse, heartbeat, legume, rhythm, pounding, cadence; (v) pulsate, palpitate, pound

punctuality: (n) accuracy, precision, nicety, exactitude, truth, fidelity, exactness, promptitude, steadiness; (adj) rigor, mathematical precision. ANTONYM: (n) tardiness punishment: (n) correction, penance, chastisement, fine, judgement, rebuke, retribution, reward, castigation, execution; (adj, n) penalty. ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion, exoneration, reward puppet: (adj, n) doll; (n) pawn, instrument, tool, creature, marionette, dolly, fantoccini, hireling, protege, mammet

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

purely: (adv) utterly, merely, completely, perfectly, just, fairly, unmixedly, absolutely, virtuously, clearly; (adj, adv) simply. ANTONYMS: (adv) artificially, indecently, immorally, partly purification: (n) defecation, purge, refinement, catharsis, purgation, purging, refining, cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, rectification. ANTONYMS: (n) debasement, dirtying, contamination

purify: (adj, v) clear, cleanse; (v) purge, disinfect, refine, distill, sanctify, clarify, depurate, lustrate, chasten. ANTONYMS: (v) pollute, dilute, soil, cloud, desecrate puritan: (adj) blue, puritanic, puritanical, Methodist, formalist, religionist; (n) precisian, devotee, sanyasi, yogi; (v) coquette puritanism: (n) precisianism, bibliolatry, hyperorthodoxy, austerity, Sabbatarianism

purity: (n) holiness, cleanness, cleanliness, virtue, honor, perfection, pureness, sanctity, chastity, elegance; (adj, n) clearness. ANTONYMS: (n) coarseness, impurity, contamination, clutter, dirtiness, corruption, mustiness purple: (adj) violet, lilac, imperial, regal, royal; (adj, n) empurpled; (v) empurple; (n) magenta, purpleness, ermine, pall

pursuit: (n) quest, hunt, search, persecution, chase, career, interest, job, business, performance, employment

pushing: (adj) enterprising, pushy, pushful, ambitious, officious, adventurous; (n) push, propulsion, thrusting, actuation; (v) meddlesome

puts: (n) stocks, securities, preferred stock, common stock, bonds puzzled: (adj) bewildered, confused, baffled, nonplussed, doubtful, bemused, at a loss, curious, mystified, nonplused, dazed. ANTONYM: (adj) clear

pyramid: (n) pile, mass, heap, lump, prism, congeries, stack, pyramis; (adj) spire, steeple; (v) raise

quail: (v) cringe, cower, wince, funk, shrink, recoil, blench; (n, v) quake;

(n) bobwhite, partridge, quiver qualities: (n) character, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, quality, role, self, part, traits, individuality

quarrel: (adj, n, v) dispute; (n, v) fight, feud, brawl, row, altercation,

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argue, conflict, squabble; (n) dissension, difference. ANTONYMS: (n) agreement, reconciliation, acceptance, concord, consensus; (v) agree

quarrelling: (adj) at variance, in dispute, in disagreement, in conflict;

(n) dissension

quay: (n) dock, jetty, pier, embankment, platform, port, berth, harbour, harbor, basin, waterfront querulously: (adv) peevishly, fretfully, discontentedly, testily, whiningly, grumpily, dissatisfiedly, petulantly, quarrelsomely, cantankerously, crossly questioning: (adj) inquisitive, curious, suspicious, quizzical, doubting; (n) question, inquiry, query, examination, interrogation, enquiry. ANTONYMS: (adj) illogical, certain, credulous quicken: (v) accelerate, hasten, hurry, dispatch, animate, expedite, advance, enliven, precipitate; (n, v) forward, speed. ANTONYMS: (v) decelerate, delay

quickened: (adj) hasty, rapid, passionate, intoxicated quickening: (n) hurrying, hastening, speedup; (v) hasten, lively, flowing, having life, ignited, laving; (adj) bracing, moving

quit: (adj, n, v) leave; (v) go, drop, break, cease, give up, depart, end, discontinue; (adj, v) discharge; (n, v) part. ANTONYMS: (v) stay, occupy, enter, maintain, start, come, arrive quiver: (adj, n, v) shudder, shiver, tremble, shake; (v) flicker, flutter, vibrate; (n, v) palpitate, quaver; (n) vibration, tremor

quivering: (adj, n) trembling, tremor, quaking, trepidation; (n) palpitation, quiver, vibration; (adj) flutter, quavering, shivering, tremulous. ANTONYM: (adj) steady quotation: (n) extract, mention, reference, passage, excerpt, quote, value, example, price, worth, cost radiance: (n) gleam, glory, brilliance, luster, lustre, beam, brightness, effulgence, sparkle, light; (adj, n) brilliancy. ANTONYMS: (n) darkness, gloominess

radical: (adj) basic, exhaustive, extreme, primary, drastic, primordial; (adj, n) revolutionary, base, ultra; (n) basis, foundation. ANTONYMS: (adj) conventional, minor, cauline, modest, mainstream, reactionary; (n) traditionalist,

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conformist; (adj, n) conservative 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

ragged: (adj, n) shabby; (adj) seedy, worn, hoarse, jagged, scruffy, torn, untidy, unkempt; (adj, v) threadbare; (n) harsh. ANTONYMS: (adj) smart, elegant, smooth, new, even

railings: (n) railing, fencing, paling, inclosure, lattice, enclosure raiment: (n, v) dress, garb, apparel, garment, clothes; (n) costume, attire, clothing, array, habit; (v) clothe rainbow: (n) tortoise shell, tulip, sunbow, spectrum, peacock, dream, chimera; (adj) multicolored, motley, kaleidoscopic, colorful

raising: (n) bringing up, nurture, elevation, lift, raise, culture, heave, ascent, ascension, upbringing, rearing

rang: (n) rung

rank: (n, v) range, order, place, position, grade, class, line, file; (v) arrange, classify; (n) gradation. ANTONYMS: (adj) sparse, pleasant, clean

rapid: (adj, v) fast, swift, prompt, fleet; (adj) speedy, agile, hasty, cursory, expeditious, sudden; (adv) quickly. ANTONYMS: (adj) slow, gradual, considered, leisurely, thorough, lengthy, protracted, sluggish

rapt: (adj) engrossed, intent, ecstatic, preoccupied, spellbound, captive, enthralled, attentive, fixed, enwrapped; (v) engrossed in. ANTONYMS: (adj) detached, inattentive, uninterested, bored rascally: (adj) dirty, contemptible, abject, mean, mischievous, scoundrelly, roguish, scabby, scurvy, shabby, paltry

rash: (adj, n) foolhardy, hasty, precipitate, eruption; (adj) imprudent, reckless, impetuous, heedless, audacious, sudden; (adj, adv) thoughtless. ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, careful, sensible, wise, considered, deliberate, prudent, modest, slow, responsible, patient

rational: (adj, n) reasonable, just; (adj) intelligent, sane, judicious, logical, mental, sound, sober, wise,