ANT: Inaction, rest, repose, cessation, suspension, quiet, immobility, inertia, quiescence.

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KEY: Action. [See ACT].

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KEY: Active.

SYN: Nimble, agile, lively, sprightly, brisk, quick, expert, dexterous, supple, wide-awake, prompt, busy, industrial, diligent.

ANT: Slow, inactive, Indolent, sluggish, heavy.

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KEY: Activity.

SYN: Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness, alertness, celerity, rapidity.

ANT: Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, heaviness, sluggishness, lassitude.

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KEY: Actor.

SYN: Doer, worker, agent, performer, principal, player, tragedian, comedian.

ANT: [See AGENT].

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KEY: Actual.

SYN: Developed, positive, unquestionable, demonstrable, certain, real, authentic.

ANT: Potential, undeveloped, hypothetical, supposition, possible, virtual, theoretical, fabulous, fictitious, unreal.

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KEY: Actually.

SYN: Verity, truly, decidedly, assuredly, positively.

ANT: Potentially, hypothetically, theoretically.

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KEY: Actuate.

SYN: Urge, instigate, stir, induce, influence, incline, dispose, incite, impel, prompt, drive.

ANT: Deter, discourage, retard, inhibit, hinder, prevent, impede, dissuade.

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KEY: Acuity.

SYN: Pointedness, acylation, acumination.

ANT: Bluntness, hebetude, obtuseness.

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KEY: Aculeated.

SYN: Armed, spinous, acuminated, punctuous.

ANT: Unarmed, blunt, obtuse, stingless, pointless.

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KEY: acumen.

SYN: Point, penetrativeness, sharpness, discernment, talent, sagacity.

ANT: Bluntness, obtuseness, stupidity, dulness, indiscernment, hebetude.

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KEY: Acute.

SYN: Pointed, penetrating, sagacious, perspicacious, keen, astute, piercing, sharp, shrewd, keen-sighted, severe, distressing.

ANT: Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, undiscerning, heavy, chronic, stolid.

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KEY: Acutely.

SYN: Sharply, deeply, painfully, poignantly, intensely.

ANT: Bluntly, obtusely, stupidly, stolidly, pleasantly.

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KEY: Adage.

SYN: Maxim, saying, motto, saw, apothegm, aphorism, byword, proverb, dictum.

ANT: Discourse, disquisition, yarn, harangue.

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KEY: Adapt.

SYN: Fit, accommodate, suit, adjust, conform, admeasure, harmonize, attune.

ANT: Misfit, misconform, misapply.

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KEY: Adaptation.

SYN: Accommodation, adjustment, admeasurement, conformity, coincidence.

ANT: Inconformity, incongruity, incompatibility, disharmony, misfit, malformation, mismeasurement.

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KEY: Add.

SYN: Adduce, adjoin, increase, extend, enlarge, sum up, cast up, subjoin, amplify, annex.

ANT: Deduct, subtract, dissever, abstract.

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KEY: Addendum.

SYN: Acquisition, improvement, supplement, complement, desideratum, concomitant, annexation, appendage.

ANT: Surplusage, detriment, deterioration, detraction, drawback.

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KEY: Addicted.

SYN: Given, accustomed, prone, inclined, disposed, habituated.

ANT: Unaddicted, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, averse, free.

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KEY: additament.

SYN: Adjunct, annexation, supplement, addition, acquisition, increase, augmentation, accession.

ANT: Deduction, detraction, drawback, decrement, deterioration.

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KEY: Addition.

SYN: Accession, enlargement, increase, extension, accretion, appendage.

ANT: [See ADDITAMENT].

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KEY: Address \n.\

SYN: Tact, manners.

ANT: Awkwardness, unmannerliness.

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KEY: Address \v.\

SYN: Accost, greet, salute, approach, apostrophize, appeal, hail, woo, court.

ANT: Elude, avoid, shun, ignore, pass.

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KEY: Adduce.

SYN: Allege, apply, cite, advance, offer, introduce, produce, add, import, name, mention, quote.

ANT: Retract, except, withdraw, deduct, deduce, suppress.

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KEY: Adept.

SYN: Expert, adroit, handy, master, performer, professor, artist.

ANT: Awkward, clumsy, inexpert, tyro, novice, lubber, blunderer.