ANT: Obscure, undecipherable, illwritten, illegible, cabalistic, cryptographic.

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KEY: Legitimate.

SYN: Allowable, normal, fair, licit, real, genuine, fairly deduced, lawfully begotten.

ANT: Illegitimate, unallowable, unfair, illicit.

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KEY: Leisure.

SYN: Freedom, vacation, opportunity, convenience, ease, quiet, retirement, spare time, unoccupied time.

ANT: Constraint, employment, occupation, distraction, labor, bustle, toil, business, absorption, engagement.

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KEY: Leisurely.

SYN: Easy, deliberate, sauntering.

ANT: Eager, hurried, precipitate, rapid, expeditious.

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KEY: Lend.

SYN: Advance, loan, grant, afford, present.

ANT: Resume, retract, appropriate, retain, withhold, refuse.

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KEY: Lengthen.

SYN: Elongate, stretch out, prolong, [See EXTEND].

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KEY: Lengthy.

SYN: Diffuse, prolix, tedious, long-drawn, verbose.

ANT: Concise, compendious, curt, short, brief, laconic, compact, condensed, succinct.

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KEY: Lenient, [See MILD and KIND].

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KEY: Lenitive.

SYN: Palliative, initiative, soothing.

ANT: Inflammatory, exaggerative, provocative, aggravating, Irritant, exasperating.

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KEY: Lenity, [See KINDNESS].

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KEY: Lentous, [See GELATINOUS].

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KEY: Lessen, [See DIMINISH].

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KEY: Lesson.

SYN: Precept, warning, instruction, lecture, homily, information.

ANT: misinstruction, misguidance, misinformation.

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KEY: Let.

SYN: Permit, allow, suffer.

ANT: Prevent, hinder.

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KEY: Let \v.\

SYN: Hinder, [See ABOVE].

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KEY: Lethal, Deadly, mortal, fatal, poisonous, venomous.

ANT: Invigorative, remedial, sanative, wholesome, restorative, vivifying, vital, genial.

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KEY: Lethargy.

SYN: Drowsiness, torpor, oblivion, stupor, swoon, trance.

ANT: Vigilance, alertness, liveness, mindfulness, wakefulness, alacrity, activity, life.

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KEY: Letter.

SYN: Epistle, note, communication, message, missive.

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KEY: Lettered, [See EAST].

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KEY: Level \n.\

SYN: Plane, surface, floor, equality, aim, platform, ground, coordinateness, horizontally.

ANT: Unevenness, acclivity, declivity, inequality, inco-ordinateness, verticality.

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KEY: Level \v.\

SYN: Plane, smooth, roll, flatten, equalize, raze.

ANT: Roughen, furrow, disequalize, graduate.

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KEY: Level \a.\ Horizontal, plain, flat, even, smooth.

ANT: Rough, uneven, broken, rolling.

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KEY: Levigate.

SYN: Comminute, triturate, pulverize, smooth, polish, plane.

ANT: Compound, amalgamate, indent, roughen, batter.

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KEY: Levity.

SYN: Lightness, frivolity, inconstancy, flightiness, vanity, thoughtlessness.

ANT: Earnestness, gravity, seriousness.

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KEY: Levy.

SYN: Raise, impose, muster, exact.

ANT: Forego, surrender, reimburse, repay, liquidate.

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KEY: Liable, [See AMENABLE].

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KEY: Libel.

SYN: Defamation, detraction, traducement, calumny, slander, defamatory publication, lampoon.

ANT: Retraction, vindication, apology, eulogy, panegyric, puff, advocacy, encomium.

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KEY: Libellous.

SYN: Defamatory, calumnious.

ANT: Laudatory, eulogistic.

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KEY: Liberal.

SYN: Free, gentle, refined, polished, generous, bountiful, catholic, enlarged, copious, ample, profuse, large, handsome, munificent, abundant, noble-minded, bounteous, tolerant, plentiful.

ANT: Churlish, low, mean, boorish, ungenerous, illiberal, grasping, niggardly, avaricious, greedy, gainful, narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, contracted, scanty, inadequate.

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KEY: Liberate, [See CONFINE].

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KEY: Libertine.

SYN: Rake, debauchee.

ANT: Ascetic, anchorite, recluse, hermit, puritan, saint.

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KEY: Liberty.

SYN: Freedom, leave, independence, permission, privilege, license, franchise, immunity, insult, impropriety, volition, voluntariness, exemption.

ANT: Slavery, servitude, restraint, constraint, submission, dependence, obligation, compulsion, deference, respect, considerateness, necessity, fatality, predestination.