ANT: Loss, disappointment, defeat, frustration, inferiority, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, drawback.

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KEY: Advent.

SYN: Approach, arrival, accession, coming.

ANT: Departure, exit, exodus, retirement, relinquishment, quittance.

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KEY: Adventitious.

SYN: Extrinsic, redundant, superfluous, adscititious irregular, casual, imported.

ANT: Regular, proper, pertinent, essential, appropriate, necessary, Intrinsic.

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KEY: Adventure.

SYN: Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance.

ANT: Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course.

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KEY: Adventurous.

SYN: Bold, brave, daring, enterprising, courageous, gallant, fearless, venturesome, rash, chivalrous, hazardous.

ANT: Timid, unenterprising, inadventurous, cowardly, nervous, hesitating, cautious.

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KEY: Adversary.

SYN: Antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant.

ANT: Accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally, accomplice.

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KEY: Adverse.

SYN: Opposed to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite, conflicting, contrary, unfavorable.

ANT: Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky.

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KEY: Adversity.

SYN: Ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow.

ANT: Good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement.

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KEY: Advert to.

SYN: Refer to, allude to, notice, remark, glance at, regard, touch upon, hint at.

ANT: Ignore, pass, drop, omit, overlook.

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KEY: Advertent.

SYN: Attentive, regardful, mindful, watchful, thoughtful, observant, considerate.

ANT: Inattentive, inadvertent, casual, thoughtless, heedless, inobservant, inconsiderate.

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KEY: Advertise.

SYN: Publish, inform, advise, circulate, announce, notify, proclaim, promulge.

ANT: Suppress, hush, conceal, ignore, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misinform.

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KEY: Advice, [See ADVISE].

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KEY: Advise.

SYN: Admonish, warn, deliberate, counsel, persuade, urge, prompt, instigate, incite, instruct, acquaint, inform.

ANT: Dissuade, deter, expostulate, remonstrate, prohibit, inhibit, restrain.

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KEY: Advisable.

SYN: Politic, judicious, expedient, desirable, wise, prudent, beneficial, profitable.

ANT: inadvisable, impolitic, Injudicious, inexpedient, undesirable, unprofitable.

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KEY: Advocate \n.\

SYN: Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer, defender, maintainer.

ANT: Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer.

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KEY: Advocate \v.\ [See NOUN.]

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KEY: Afar.

SYN: Abroad, away, aloof.

ANT: Near, at home, close.

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KEY: affable.

SYN: Courteous, accessible, condescending, conversible, gracious, sociable, gentle, complaisant, urbane, polite, easy, approachable.

ANT: Exclusive, discourteous, distant, inaccessible, unapproachable, inconversible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious.

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KEY: Affair.

SYN: Matter, business, concern, subject, topic, transaction.

ANT: Detail, item, point, feature, circumstance.

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KEY: Affect.

SYN: Like, desire, favor, seek, assume, move, influence, concern, interest, feign, pretend.

ANT: Dislike, eschew, shun, repel, repudiate.

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KEY: Affectation.

SYN: Pretence, artifice, hypocrisy, assumption, simulation, mannerism, euphuism, airs.

ANT: Genuineness, naturalness, un affectedness, simplicity, artlessness.

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KEY: affectibility.

SYN: Sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility, excitability, irritability, nervousness.

ANT: Insensibility, insensateness, hebetude, unimpressibleness, callousness.

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KEY: Affection.

SYN: Influence, condition, state, inclination, bent, mood, humor, feeling, love, desire, propensity.